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🔵 India Strikes Pakistan
Citizen Frank
May 07, 2025
Good evening. It’s Tuesday, May 6.
Tensions between two nuclear powers escalated early Wednesday morning as India launched missile strikes on multiple locations in a Pakistan-controlled territory, killing at least eight people and injuring dozens, according to Pakistani security officials.
India said the “precision strike” targeted infrastructure used by militants, following last month’s deadly attack on tourists in Indian-administered Kashmir, which New Delhi blames on Pakistan-backed militants—an allegation Islamabad denies.
India’s Defense Ministry said in a statement that at least nine locations had been targeted, describing them as “sites where terrorist attacks against India have been planned.” Pakistan’s Foreign Affairs Ministry said that Indian forces carried out the missile strikes while remaining within Indian airspace.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and U.S. trade representative Jamieson Greer will meet with their Chinese counterparts in Switzerland this weekend to discuss economic and trade matters, their offices announced Tuesday.
“We have shared interests,” Bessent said later on Fox News’ “Ingraham Angle.” The current tariff war “isn’t sustainable,” said Bessent, “especially on the Chinese side. And, you know, 145 percent [tariffs], 125 percent, is the equivalent of an embargo. We don’t want to decouple, what we want is fair trade.”
Bessent and Greer will meet with their Chinese counterparts on both Saturday and Sunday, the Treasury secretary said.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed President Donald Trump to implement his ban on transgender people serving in the military.
The justices granted an emergency request from the Trump administration to lift a nationwide injunction blocking the policy while litigation continues.
The court’s brief order noted that the three liberal justices dissented.
Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, who faces a tough re-election race in 2026, has informed the White House that he will not support Ed Martin, President Trump’s choice to serve as U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, killing the nomination.
Martin is currently serving as the interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia and has coming under criticism for helping to organize the “Stop the Steal” movement after the 2020 election and for serving as defense counsel to people charged with Jan. 6-related crimes.
Tillis told reporters Tuesday morning that he will not support Martin’s nomination to remain as U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia because of his advocacy for people convicted of Jan. 6-related crimes.
President Trump hosted Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney at the White House on Tuesday for their first in-person meeting since Carney’s election victory.
The meeting was shadowed by Trump’s tariffs against Canada and his repeated musings about making the United States’s neighbor to the north the 51st state, something Carney and other Canadian officials have consistently rejected.
Here are the top takeaways from the meeting.
A manhunt is underway for three suspects involved in a stabbing late Saturday night at the University of California, Berkeley.
A University of California Police Department spokesperson told Fox News Digital that officers responded to the west parking lot of the Lawrence Hall of Science at around 11:50 p.m., where they found a young man with several stab wounds.
In a university-wide message, police said they were looking for three people in black clothing who were connected to the stabbing, according to SFGATE.
The FBI “misled the public” for years in claiming a sniper’s attempt to kill Republican congressmen at a June 2017 baseball practice was “suicide by cop”, when it was in fact domestic terrorism, according to a new congressional report released Tuesday.
The 27-page House Intelligence Committee report concludes “the FBI’s bottom line – ‘the FBI does not believe there is a nexus to terrorism’ – was based upon falsehoods, half-truths, and manipulations of the known facts.”
FBI Director Kash Patel announced in April that he had handed over to Congress long-sought bureau records related to the shooting at a ball field in northern Virginia.
Conservative leader Friedrich Merz has won a parliament vote to become Germany’s next chancellor at the second attempt.
Merz had initially fallen six votes short of the absolute majority he needed on Tuesday morning – a significant blow to his prestige and an unprecedented failure in post-war German history.
As it was a secret ballot in the 630-seat Bundestag, there was no indication who had refused to back him – whether MPs from his centre-left coalition partner or his own conservatives.
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