US has 1,001 measles cases and 11 states with active outbreaks (LINK) 14 May 2025.

— Two unvaccinated elementary school-aged children died from measles-related illnesses in the epicenter in West Texas, and an adult in New Mexico who was not vaccinated.

Voting technology firm Smartmatic accuses Fox News, Rupert Murdoch of destroying evidence in 2020 election defamation case (LINK) 13 May 2025.

— Rupert Murdoch was chairman of Fox Corporation during the 2020 election, and his son was CEO. The elder Murdoch stepped down in 2023 and his son became Fox Corp. chairman. A Fox spokesperson said the latest allegations from Smartmatic were a "desperate attempt to distract" from a recent evidentiary ruling that was decided in the network's favour.

— Smartmatic claimed the deleted texts were from November and December 2020, when numerous Fox hosts promoted the debunked lie that Smartmatic machines rigged that year's presidential election against President Donald Trump.

Gabbard fires the 2 top National Intelligence Council officials (LINK) 14 May 2025.

Elon Musk just hijacked Trump's Saudi visit to land a major deal: Saudi Arabia approved the use of Starlink for aviation and maritime use (LINK) 13 May 2025.

Harvard loses another $450 million in grants in escalating battle with Trump administration (LINK) 13 May 2025.

— In a letter to Harvard, a federal antisemitism task force said the university will lose grants from eight federal agencies in addition to $2.2 billion that was previously frozen by the Trump administration.

Trump fired copyright chief after she warned of AI companies violating the law (LINK) 13 May 2025.

Bill Gates tears into Elon Musk for being 'involved in the deaths of the world's poorest children' (LINK) 8 May 2025.

Federal court blocks GOP effort to overturn North Carolina supreme court election: A federal judge (appointed by President Donald Trump) has ordered the state to certify Democratic Justice Allison Riggs' victory. (LINK) 6 May 2025.

— Challenger tried to disqualify ballots from overseas military voters and U.S. citizens born abroad who voted under long-standing state law. The North Carolina Supreme Court and North Carolina Court of Appeals initially ruled that those voters must cure their ballots by providing photo ID after the fact, or their votes would not count. The federal court has now ruled that changing the rules after the election was unconstitutional.

RFK Jr. hawks bogus "vitamins" measles cure amid escalating outbreak (LINK) 3 May 2025.

Vance and Rubio criticize Germany for designating AfD as a 'right-wing extremist entity', giving authorities greater powers to monitor the party's activities (LINK) 3 May 2025.

— In February, Vance met with AfD leader Alice Weidel in Munich after delivering a contentious speech at the Munich Security Conference in which he accused European nations of failing to defend free speech, calling out Germany in particular.

— AfD is now Germany's largest opposition party, after securing over 20% of the vote in February's election, a record result and behind only the center-right CDU/CSU bloc. It remains excluded from government due to the other parties' refusal to collaborate with it due to its extremist tendencies.

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