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🔵 Virginia GOP Scandal
Citizen Frank
May 05, 2025
Good evening. It’s Sunday, May 4.
Virginia Republicans are splintering over GOP Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s call for the party’s lieutenant-governor nominee to step aside — after the hopeful was accused of posting gay porn on Tumblr.
Youngkin asked embattled candidate John Reid, a radio host in the Richmond area, to withdraw as the nominee upon learning of the images of naked men posted on an account using Reid’s Instagram handle last month.
Reid has denied the account is his and refused to step aside — leaving party faithful scrambling to unify about six months out from the state’s bellwether 2025 off-year election.
Xi Jinping will join Vladimir Putin in Moscow for commemorations of the Allied victory against Nazi Germany, the Kremlin said.
The visit, due to take place from May 7 to 10, coincides with heightened tensions between China and the US over severe US trade tariffs and Putin’s order for a three-day truce in Ukraine.
Moscow and Beijing declared a “no limits partnership” weeks before the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. The two countries have since expanded their trade and military ties in an alliance that has worried the West.
President Trump called on his administration to reopen and expand Alcatraz so authorities could send the “dregs of society” to the notorious California prison more than six decades after it closed.
The commander in chief announced Sunday that he was directing the Bureau of Prisons and other federal agencies to get the massive island facility off the San Francisco bay — which has long been the lore of Hollywood — back up and running again to lock away homegrown, repeat criminals.
“For too long, America has been plagued by vicious, violent, and repeat Criminal Offenders, the dregs of society, who will never contribute anything other than Misery and Suffering,” he wrote on Truth Social.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu indicated that Israel will respond to the Houthis after the Yemeni rebel group launched a missile at the country’s main airport on Sunday.
The Houthis, a rebel group in Yemen that has disrupted commercial shipping routes and has the backing of Iran, launched a hypersonic ballistic missile at Ben-Gurion International Airport earlier Sunday, an attack that disrupted flights and caused panic among passengers.
The missile landed in the airport’s vicinity after the Israel Defense Forces failed to shoot it down, leaving a plume of smoke.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said Saturday she declined President Trump’s offer for US troops to crack down on the fentanyl produced by cartels in her country.
The world leaders spoke recently by phone when Trump broached the topic of making American military service members available for operations inside Mexico, where traffickers concoct the deadly synthetic opioid using precursor chemicals imported primarily from China.
“I told him, ‘No, President Trump, our territory is inviolable, our sovereignty is inviolable, our sovereignty is not for sale,’” Sheinbaum revealed during an event.
Thirty-two people were rescued from a sinking yacht off Miami Beach this weekend, officials say.
The rescue happened around 5 p.m. Saturday near Flagler Monument Island, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.
The small man-made island houses a 110 foot-tall obelisk monument that was built decades ago to honor Henry Flagler, a key developer of Florida’s east coast. Monument island is near the luxury Hibiscus, Star and Palm islands, where many famous celebrities live.
Brazilian police said on Sunday that they had foiled a bomb plot against a packed Lady Gaga concert in Rio de Janeiro a day earlier.
Two people were arrested in raids carried out across several states.
“The suspects were recruiting participants, including minors, to carry out coordinated attacks using improvised explosives and Molotov cocktails,” the police said in a statement.
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