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🌍 Current Events — May 4, 2026 at 6:30 AM

🌍 Current Events AM5/4/2026🕐 6:30 AMWorld briefMorning

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#1Trump Declares Iran Hostilities "Terminated," Warns No Deal Without Nuclear Concessions

President Trump sent a letter to congressional leaders Friday declaring that hostilities with Iran, which began February 28, have "terminated," citing a fragile ceasefire and no recent exchange of fire. However, Trump reiterated that the U.S. blockade on Iranian ports will remain until Tehran agrees to abandon its nuclear weapons program, stating "there will never be a deal unless they agree that there will be no nuclear weapons."

🔗 Fox News
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#2Senate GOP Blocks Fifth War Powers Vote as 60-Day Deadline Passes

Senate Republicans beat back a fifth Democratic attempt to invoke the War Powers Act and force an end to U.S. military operations in Iran. The conflict officially hits the 60-day mark next week, the threshold under the War Powers Act requiring congressional authorization to continue, yet GOP leadership shows no intention of acting. Sens. Susan Collins and Rand Paul broke ranks and voted with Democrats, but the effort fell short.

🔗 Newsmax
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#4Probe Reveals 600 Groups With $2B in Revenue Behind 3,000 May Day Protests

A Fox News investigation found that roughly 600 organizations with a combined $2 billion in annual revenue mobilized over 3,000 May Day protest events in what researchers described as a "red-blue" alliance of progressive and socialist groups. The NYPD arrested agitators who attempted to chain themselves to the New York Stock Exchange, while thousands across the country skipped work and school under a "Workers Over Billionaires" banner.

🔗 Fox News
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#5Trump Launches "Project Freedom" — 15,000 Troops Deployed to Escort Ships Through Strait of Hormuz

President Trump announced Sunday that the U.S. military will begin "Project Freedom" on May 4 to guide and free commercial ships trapped in the Strait of Hormuz. CENTCOM is deploying guided-missile destroyers, more than 100 aircraft, and approximately 15,000 service members to restore freedom of navigation through the chokepoint that handles roughly a quarter of the world's seaborne oil trade. Trump warned that any interference "will be dealt with forcefully."

🔗 Breitbart
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#7Ukraine Peace Talks Frozen as Iran War Dominates U.S. Diplomatic Focus

Trilateral negotiations between the U.S., Ukraine, and Russia remain stalled, with the Iran conflict consuming most of Washington's diplomatic bandwidth. Earlier progress on a structured peace framework brokered by U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff has gone nowhere, with territorial disputes — Moscow's insistence on keeping occupied Ukrainian land — remaining the fundamental obstacle.

🔗 Fox News
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#8Trump Fires All 24 Members of the National Science Board

President Trump dismissed all 24 members of the National Science Board, the body that oversees the National Science Foundation and sets policy direction for billions of dollars in federal research funding. The move is the latest in a series of administration actions reshaping the federal scientific establishment and has drawn sharp criticism from the research community.

🔗 National Review
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#9NASA Eyes Moon's South Pole for Artemis III After Successful Lunar Flyby

Fresh off the successful Artemis II mission — which returned four astronauts from a lunar flyby on April 10, marking the first crewed trip to the moon since 1972 — NASA is already targeting the moon's south pole for the Artemis III landing mission, expected to launch next year. NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman credited the Trump administration's push to accelerate the program.

🔗 Fox News

#10Texas AG Sues Houston "Birth Tourism" Center Linked to 1,000+ Chinese National Births

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed suit against a Houston-area postpartum care center accused of facilitating the entry of Chinese nationals for the sole purpose of giving birth on U.S. soil to obtain citizenship for their children. The De'Ai Postpartum Care Center has claimed responsibility for over 1,000 American-born babies since 2008 and allegedly operates four residential properties handling up to 20 births per day, coaching women to apply for tourist visas before pregnancy to avoid detection.

🔗 Breitbart
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Kilroy’s Daily Briefings · 5/4/2026