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#1Senate Blows Past Trump's June 1 Immigration Funding Deadline

Senate Republicans departed for Memorial Day recess without passing a reconciliation package to fund immigration enforcement, missing President Trump's self-imposed June 1 deadline. The $55-billion-plus bill covering ICE, CBP, and DHS appropriations was snagged by a Senate Parliamentarian ruling that struck key provisions and by GOP infighting over a controversial "weaponization" victims fund. Senators must now regroup after the break with midterm pressure mounting.

🔗 The Daily Caller

#2Trump-Backed Paxton Crushes Cornyn in Texas Senate Runoff

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton defeated 23-year incumbent Senator John Cornyn by a landslide in the May 26 GOP Senate primary runoff, pulling roughly 62 percent of the vote just one week after Trump's full endorsement. The decisive win further cements MAGA's grip on Senate primary politics and leaves establishment Republicans scrambling to rally behind their new standard-bearer. Paxton faces Democrat James Talarico in November's general election.

🔗 Fox News

#3Trump Praised Companies Within Days of Buying Their Stock, Disclosures Show

President Trump's first-quarter financial disclosures reveal he publicly praised Apple, Thermo Fisher Scientific, and Micron on the same day or the day after purchasing their stock. The report covers more than 3,600 transactions with a cumulative value up to $750 million, reigniting ethics questions about the timing of the President's public statements. The White House maintains that Trump's holdings are independently managed by investment advisers with sole authority over all trades.

🔗 Washington Examiner

#4FBI Leads Investigation Into Deaths and Disappearances of 11 Scientists With Classified Clearances

At least 11 American scientists and researchers connected to nuclear science, space research, and classified government programs — including some tied to UAP studies — have died or vanished since 2022. The FBI is now officially spearheading a coordinated federal investigation, with White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt pledging that "no stone will be unturned." NASA has also joined the interagency coordination effort to identify any possible connections among the cases.

🔗 Fox News

#5Iran Conflict Hits Three-Month Mark as Nuclear Talks Reach "Strategic Deadlock"

The U.S.-Iran conflict launched in late February is now three months old, with a fragile ceasefire in place but negotiations going nowhere fast. Tehran claims talks have hit a "strategic deadlock" and disputes whether its enriched uranium stockpile is even on the table; Trump has rejected Iran's draft terms and made clear he will only sign a great deal, not just a good one. The administration has warned that military options remain available if diplomacy collapses.

🔗 Washington Examiner

#6U.S. June Peace Deadline for Ukraine and Russia Arrives With No Deal in Hand

The United States set June as the target for a Ukraine-Russia peace agreement — and that deadline has now arrived with no deal reached. Ukraine's Zelenskyy says his country is winning on the battlefield, pointing to a string of recent successes, while Moscow continues to demand full control of the Donetsk region and has rejected Ukraine's proposal to freeze the front lines. Washington is still pushing both parties toward the negotiating table, but the gap between the sides remains wide.

🔗 Newsmax
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#7WHO Declares Global Emergency as Ebola Outbreak Tops 1,000 Cases in Central Africa

The World Health Organization has declared an international public health emergency over a fast-spreading Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and neighboring Uganda that has now surpassed 1,000 suspected cases. The outbreak is caused by the Bundibugyo ebolavirus strain, for which there are no approved treatments or vaccines, raising the stakes significantly. The U.S. State Department raised its DRC travel advisory to Level 4 and the CDC is coordinating the evacuation of Americans exposed to the virus.

🔗 Breitbart

#8SpaceX Starship V3 Test Flight Ends in Spectacular Fireball Over the Gulf

SpaceX's twelfth Starship test flight — the first for the upgraded Version 3 system — ended dramatically when all 33 Raptor engines on the Super Heavy booster shut down prematurely, followed by the upper stage failing to complete its mission profile, resulting in an enormous fireball. Despite the explosive finish, the vehicle did successfully deploy 20 Starlink satellite simulators and two specialized camera satellites before the mishap. SpaceX is treating the data gathered as essential for refining the next iteration of the system.

🔗 Breitbart

#9NASA Chief Confirms Declassified UAP Files Capture Unexplained Military Sensor Data

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman confirmed that newly declassified UAP records released under the Trump administration's disclosure push contain documented instances of unidentified phenomena captured by U.S. military sensors. Isaacman was explicit that the files reveal no evidence of alien bodies or extraterrestrial spacecraft — but "unexplained" carries its own weight, and the ongoing release of decades of buried federal records has official Washington paying unusually close attention.

🔗 Fox News

#10Documentary Secretly Filmed America's Top UFO Journalist — Without Him Knowing

A new film called "Sleeping Dog," directed by Michael Lazovsky, was covertly shot following prominent UAP investigative journalist Jeremy Corbell for years — without his knowledge — documenting his decades-long campaign to force government transparency on unidentified aerial phenomena. The film dropped on May 31, timed almost perfectly with the government's own ongoing avalanche of declassified UAP records, and Corbell reportedly only learned he was the subject once the documentary was essentially finished. The detail that the documenter was himself documented — secretly — is hard to top for sheer irony.

🔗 Fox News
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