Washington — On May 7–8 U.S. forces reported intercepting what they characterized as unprovoked Iranian attacks on three Navy destroyers transiting the Strait of Hormuz and responded with self-defense strikes; Iran's Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters countered that U.S. forces attacked two Iranian vessels and civilian areas in Hormozgan province, and...
Memphis, Tenn. State Rep. Antonio Parkinson called this week for Memphis and surrounding West Tennessee counties to secede from Tennessee and form a new state after the Tennessee GOP supermajority approved a congressional map Thursday that splits Memphis into three districts. Parkinson made the proposal during a legislative hearing and...
United States — On May 7–8 the Canvas learning management system experienced a cyberattack and widespread outage that left thousands of students and staff unable to access coursework, prompting Instructure to place the platform in maintenance mode while universities and school districts disabled access, alerted users, and assessed potential data...
WASHINGTON. The U.S. State Department announced Thursday it will begin revoking U.S. passports starting Friday for thousands of parents who owe significant unpaid child support, initially targeting those with debts of $100,000 or more—about 2,700 passport holders—based on figures provided by the Department of Health and Human Services and statements...
United States: On Thursday, May 7, 2026, communities across the country held National Day of Prayer events, with hundreds gathering at city and county courthouses, city halls, and church-led venues; organizers led worship, scripture readings, and prayers for government, families, first responders, and other institutions. In Rochester, Mayor Malik Evans and...
Washington: Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Thursday announced sanctions on Grupo de Administración Empresarial S.A. (GAESA), GAESA Executive President Ania Guillermina Lastres Morera, and Moa Nickel SA (MNSA) following President Trump’s executive order last week. Rubio said GAESA is an umbrella enterprise controlled by the Cuban military and that...
Washington — U.S. officials said three American destroyers transited the Strait of Hormuz this week and reported coming under attack, while Iran's military command accused U.S. forces of striking two Iranian vessels and carrying out airstrikes on civilian areas on May 8, escalating disputed accounts of clashes in the strategic...
NASHVILLE, Tennessee — Republican lawmakers in Tennessee are set to vote Thursday, May 7, 2026, on a new congressional map that would dismantle a majority-Black, Democratic-held district centered on Nashville and effectively erase one of the state’s few remaining Democratic seats. The proposal would split Nashville’s urban voters into three...
WASHINGTON: The US Department of Justice and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission opened an investigation this week into at least four suspicious oil-market trades reportedly placed moments before major policy announcements by US and Iranian officials. The trades, which totalled more than US$2.6 billion, were reported by ABC News, NBC...
RICHMOND, Va. — Virginia public health officials this week confirmed one traveler who returned from the MV Hondius is under monitoring after a hantavirus outbreak aboard the polar cruise ship sickened passengers and crew. The ship departed Argentina on April 1; several passengers left the vessel on April 24, and...
