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May 14, 2026 - World

Latvian center-right Prime Minister Evika Silina has announced her resignation after losing support from the Progressives Party, her left-leaning coalition partner

May 14, 2026 - World

New Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar says his government has summoned the Russian ambassador over a massive drone attack near Hungary's border with Ukraine

May 14, 2026 - World

The Trump administration's effort to silence a United Nations expert hit a major snag, with a judge ruling it violated her right to free speech. A federal judge temporarily blocked sanctions against Italian lawyer Francesca Albanese, a UN expert on the Palestinian territories, according to reporting by the Guardian on Wednesday. U.S. District Judge Richard Leon wrote in his opinion that "Albanese has done nothing more than speak!"Albanese recommended that the International Criminal Court prosecute United States and Israeli nationals for war crimes in Gaza, The Guardian reported. Secretary of State Marco Rubio responded by sanctioning Albanese last year and barred her from entering the U.S. or banking there, according to the Guardian.Family members of Albanese with U.S. citizenship sued the Trump administration in February and alleged that the sanctions were "effectively debanking her and making it nearly impossible to meet the needs of her daily life," according to reporting by the Guardian.Leon wrote that the Trump administration wanted to regulate her speech because of the "idea or message expressed," which is protected by the First Amendment, the Guardian wrote. "It is undisputed that her recommendations have no binding effect on the ICC's actions - they are nothing more than her opinion."

May 14, 2026 - World

Vice President JD Vance just revealed something dark about President Donald Trump's war in Iran with another one of his "shameless lies," according to one analyst. During a press conference on Wednesday, Vance was asked about Trump's comments, in which he said the financial pain Americans are feeling because of the Iran war is not a top-of-mind concern for him. Vance deflected and accused the reporter of misrepresenting what Trump actually said. "Do you agree with the president that Americans' financial situation should not be a consideration in that decision-making process?" the reporter asked. "I don't think the president said that," Vance said. "I think that's a misrepresentation of what the president said." The vice president's response stunned Adam Mockler, a political commentator for the MeidasTouch Network, who responded to Vance's comments in a new reaction video. "These people lie so shamelessly, and it comes top-down from Trump," Mockler said. "He's the most shameless liar of them all, but this is some shameless BS. Listen, nobody wants Iran to have a nuclear weapon. But the reality is we are not any closer to a denuclearized Iran if that's the goal."Trump has repeatedly claimed that he won't end the war in Iran until the regime agrees to give up its nuclear weapons. That's despite Trump claiming last year that Iran's nuclear capabilities had been "completely obliterated" by a previous strike on three of the nation's nuclear facilities. Mockler suggested that Vance's comments show the administration knows they are not close to achieving their goals in Iran. "The enriched uranium is still there," he said. "The scientists have been scattered across the country, and all the blueprints have been put in the cloud. They can just rebuild whenever they want."

May 13, 2026 - World

CNN anchor Erin Burnett was stunned to see the level of uninhibited mockery China has been hurling at Trump during his visit."Trump is about to meet with Chinese leader Xi Jinping tonight, a high-stakes meeting which is being mocked across China," Burnett explained. "Beijing's strict censors are letting the ridicule go viral, which is a statement in and of itself.""America has lost its swagger. They're nothing but a paper tiger," one of those viral posts read. "The U.S. economy is in bad shape. Trump has been blustering Iran for so long.""They will look up to us from now on," read another post that Burnett shared. "Trump came to China! We won the tariff war!" read another."Trump, you're welcome to visit China and learn from us," the mockery continued."The U.S. is no longer a country that we look up to. We can now compete with them with confidence and strength," a Chinese social media user wrote."In China, political content like this never goes viral, especially when you have a head of state coming," Burnett explained. "This is because government censors want this to go viral, and by the tone of the messages, the Chinese government feels they've got the upper hand."