Putin orders Easter ceasefire, calls on Ukraine to follow

3:10 pm, April 9, 2026

Source: Kremlin

Russian President Vladimir Putin declared an “Easter ceasefire” from 4:00 p.m. on April 11 through the end of the day on April 12, the Kremlin announced on April 9.

Putin ordered Russian forces to halt combat operations across all fronts, though troops were told to remain ready to counter any provocations or aggressive actions by the opposing side.

“We proceed from the assumption that the Ukrainian side will follow the example of the Russian Federation,” the Kremlin stated.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky had earlier proposed a ceasefire for Easter. Earlier on April 9, the Kremlin had said that Putin had not yet made a final decision on a possible Easter ceasefire.

Kyiv had not commented on the Russian announcement as of the time of publication.

In 2025, Putin unilaterally declared a halt to hostilities over Easter for a day and a half.

Both sides accused each other of numerous violations, though the intensity of fighting dropped significantly during that period.

https://meduza.io/en/news/2026/04/09/putin-declares-easter-ceasefire-in-ukraine

Zelensky will break it and blame it on Russia. Zelensky doesn’t believe in God or religion.

EXCLUSIVE

Swalwell campaign denies ‘false, outrageous’ claims of inappropriate behavior

His gubernatorial campaign blasted “flailing opponents who have sadly teamed up with MAGA conspiracy theorists because they know Eric Swalwell is the frontrunner in this race.”

By MELANIE MASON04/07/2026 04:13 PM

Rep. Eric Swalwell’s campaign for governor denied on Tuesdaythat he had ever behaved inappropriately with female staffers, countering a number of left-leaning influencers and other social media accounts that have alleged without evidence that he has a record of improper behavior.

The decision by the CaliforniaDemocrat’s campaign to confront the claims is an unusually forceful move to rebut vague allegationsthat have not been vetted and published in the media or leveled by anyone claiming firsthand knowledge of the purported behavior.

“This false, outrageous rumor is being spread 27 days before an election begins by flailing opponents who have sadly teamed up with MAGA conspiracy theoristsbecause they know Eric Swalwell is the frontrunner in this race,” said Micah Beasley, a spokesperson for Swalwell’s gubernatorial campaign, in a statement to POLITICO.

The denial comes as claims of wrongdoing have crescendoed on social media,primarily from a number of left-leaning online influencers. In public posts, these influencers say they have heard accounts from people who allege Swalwell engaged in inappropriate behavioras a member of Congress toward staff and other women. POLITICO hasn’t independently confirmed allegations of wrongdoing against Swalwell.

The influencerssay a group of women have retained counsel and plan to speak out soon, but they claim some have been hesitantbecause they have signed a non-disclosure agreement.

The Swalwell campaign disputed the existence of any NDAs.

“In 13 years, no one in Eric Swalwell’s Congressional office has ever been asked to sign an NDA. Ever,” Beasley said in his statement. “In 13 years, not a single ethics complaint by any staff in his office or any other office has ever been lodged. Ever.”

A Swalwell campaign adviser, asked if the representative had ever asked anyone to sign an NDA, regardless of if they were staff, said that Swalwell has “never asked someone to personally sign an NDA,”though the campaign does have a privacy agreement to protect confidential materials.

For weeks, the campaign had not commented as the swirl of allegations percolated largely among liberal social media users.But the volume of the rumors and speculation about forthcoming accusations increased significantly in recent days, crossing over to right-leaning influencers. On Monday, the conservative news outlet the Daily Caller News Foundation published a story largely based on posts by one influencer, who is a former Democratic congressional candidate.

That escalation — combined with primary ballots dropping in less than a month and specific assertions to dispute, such as the NDAs —was the tipping point that pushed the Swalwell campaign to respond, said the campaign adviser,who was granted anonymity to discuss internal deliberations.

Swalwell, who hasemerged as a top Democratic contender= to succeed Gov. Gavin Newsom, has long faced attacks from the online right over his association with Christine Fang, a suspected Chinese intelligence operative also known as Fang Fang.

Swalwell, who was not accused of wrongdoing, cut off ties from Fang after the FBI alerted him around 2015 to concerns she was a spy. Last month, the Washington Post reportedthat FBI Director Kash Patel is pushing to release case filesfrom the decade-old probe that resulted in no criminal charges against Swalwell.

Swalwell slammed Patel’s reported plans as “laughable” and told POLITICOit was proof the Trump administration was motivated by personal vendetta against him.KEK. He’s legally not eligible to run because he never lived in CA.

Other candidates running against Swalwell in California’s open primary in June are Democrats Katie Porter, Tom Steyer, Xavier Becerra, Antonio Villaraigosa, Tony Thurmond and Betty Yee, and Republicans Steve Hilton and Chad Bianco.In recent public polls, Swalwell has been in a statistical tie with Steyer and Porter.

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/07/swalwell-campaign-denies-claims-inappropriate-behavior-00862406

Trump upends China’s lucrative sanctioned oil import scheme after Iran, Venezuela interventions

4/8/26

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For years,China relied on exploiting U.S. sanctions to import steeply discounted oil from pariah stateslike Iran and Venezuela to fuel its economy and military buildup. Now,President Donald Trump’s interventions against both Caracas and Tehran have upended this lucrative arrangement.

China is suddenly confronted with a very different strategic calculus ahead of a key meetingwith the American president in Beijing tentatively scheduled for next month.“I think it's really China that all of this is centered on a grand strategic calculus,” Brent Sadler of the Heritage Foundation’s Allison Center for National Security told the Just the News, No Noise TV show, referring to the Iran war and intervention in Venezuela.

“Before [the Venezuela operation at] Christmas last year,China was the beneficiary of a lot of cheap oil in terms of trade that it dictated. Now over 20% of its oil that it imports,it's going to have to pay a fair market price, greatly higher than what it did before,” Sadler said. “[And], oh, by the way, their foe in D.C. is the one that controls it.”

Sadler said that these moves deliver a strong message to China ahead of the likely summit between Chinese President Xi Jinping and his American counterpart.

China exploited U.S. sanctions to import cheap oil

Before the military operation against Iran and the capture of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro earlier this year,China had exploitedU.S. oil sanctions against both Iran and Venezuela tofill its strategic petroleum reserve at a discountand fuel its economy, which has been heavily dependent on foreign oil for decades.

The House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Partyrecently found that by early 2026 China had stockpiled about 1.2 billion barrels–about 109 days’ worth of regular seaborne imports–of sanctioned oil at well-below market rates.

In 2025,China imported a total of 2.6 million barrels per dayof sanctioned crude oil by sea: 1.4 million barrels per day from Russia, 852,000 from Iran, and 419,000 from Venezuela, according to a recent report from the House committee.

Before the war in Iran, imports of sanctioned barrels from these countriesaccounted for roughly 20% of China’s total oil imports. China was able to obtain oil from these countries–all of whichwere under U.S. sanctionsfor various reasons ranging from the Russian invasion of Ukraine to Iran’s illicit nuclear program–at a steeply discounted price. The committee cites estimates thatimporting sanctioned oil saved China roughly $12 billion to $15 billionin 2024 alone.

“Western sanctions on Russian, Iranian, and Venezuelan crude were designed to reduce the revenue available to hostile governments. Instead of fully removing those barrels from the market, however,the measures pushed them toward a narrower set of buyers willing to absorb the legal and financial risksof the trade—foremost among them China,” the Select Committee on the CCP concluded.

https://justthenews.com/government/diplomacy/trump-upends-chinas-lucrative-sanctioned-oil-import-scheme-after-iran

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“The result is a market in whichsanctioned exporters increasingly rely on a limited number of purchasers, while Chinese refiners benefit from access to deeply discounted crude,” the committee added in the report.

China used the “shadow fleet” to fill a large reserve

The congressional investigation found evidence that China’s exploitation of the sanctions regimeramped up in late 2025 and early 2026, aimed at obtaining cheap oil and generating leverage over the oil exporters.

Triggered by the U.S. enforcement actions against “shadow fleet”tankers in order to build pressure on Venezuela late last year, China exploited the subsequent decline in Russian crude oil prices. Russia relies heavily on the global shadow fleet to evade sanctions imposed by the U.S. following Moscow’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

China also directly sponsors at least one fleet, known as the Protean Fleet, whose 56 supertankersamount to nearly 5% of the global shadow fleet.

“By the time Chinese buyers returned to the market,Russia had no leverage left to resist their terms,” the committee said of the Chinese strategy. Afterward, China ramped up imports from Russia at a steep discount, using the proceeds to fill its massive petroleum reserves.

The committeefound the same pattern as Iranian crude oil pricesdeclined after President Trump renewed his signature “maximum pressure” campaign against the regime after he returned to office last year, the report shows.

Sanctioned oil strategy not “viable” after Iran, Venezuela interventions

However, the House committee notes thatChina’s sanctions evasion strategy may no longer be “viable” after the American interventions in Venezuela and Iran, which have interrupted shadow fleet operations and strangled shipping traffic in the Strait of Hormuz near Iran.

“Given the changing geopolitical dynamic with the ongoing conflict with Iran,the value of China's shadow fleet has greatly diminished and its ability to purchase sanctioned oil at a massive discountappears to be no longer viable,” the Select Committee on the CCP concluded.

China’s dependence on foreign oil importswas exposed by Iran’s attempts to hold the global energy market hostageby effectively blockading the Strait of Hormuz–through which 25% of the world’s seaborne oil trade transited before the conflict, the vast majority of it destined for South and East Asian markets.

https://justthenews.com/government/diplomacy/trump-upends-chinas-lucrative-sanctioned-oil-import-scheme-after-iran

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Iran, a nominal ally of Beijing, may have expected to secure Chinese backing in its war against the United States. However, after initially backing Iran’s “legitimate rights”and giving rhetorical support, China soon began demanding that Iran reopen the strait to traffic.

When the conflict broke out, China relied heavily on Iran’s crude oil exports.Data show that China bought more than 80% of Iran’s shipped oil in 2025. It imported about 1.38 million barrels per day on average last year, representing 13.4% of its total oil imports by sea.

Theconflict in the Arabian Gulf will also impact China’s Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) supply. Qatar, a Gulf monarchy from whom China imports about14% of its LNG supply, announced last month that it was temporarily suspending its production. Though China will likely be able to find alternative sources for crude oil imports,it will now be forced to do so at market prices,Just the News previously reported, undermining Beijing’s strategy to source crude at the steep discounts it was paying for sanctioned oil.

Sadler, the Heritage national security expert, told Just the Newsthat theinterventions in both Venezuela and Iran can be viewed as “strong power plays” leading up to the much-anticipated summit between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping.

President Trump has already sought to exploit the disruption of the cheap oil supply to China,offering Beijing the opportunity for a deal to purchase Venezuelan oil–now being exported under strict supervision from the United States–at fair market prices.

“China is welcome to come in and would make a great deal on oil,” Trump said last month, before the intervention in Iran.

The summit, now tentatively scheduled for May, was once delayed after Trump authorized strikes on Iran in February aimed at destroying the country’s navy and ballistic missile program. There, the Trump administration hopes tonegotiate a truce in the trade war with Beijing, possibly using China’s oil vulnerabilities as leverage.

https://justthenews.com/government/diplomacy/trump-upends-chinas-lucrative-sanctioned-oil-import-scheme-after-iran

Four "British Hikers" Caught on Golden Road After Illegally Entering U.S. from Canada: Court Records.1/3. KEK

British men Ali Mohammed Ali Abdullah, Hameed Mohammed Nagi, Ibrahim Ayyub Khan, and Mohammed Sultan Saleh werecaught illegally sneaking into the U.S. in a remote part of Maine, per court records.

Four British nationals were apprehended by U.S. Border Patrol agents in a remote stretch of Somerset County woods after illegally crossing from Canada into the United States onApril 3, federal court documents filed this week reveal.

One of themcaptured the whole thing on a GoPro camera, narrating a celebrationas the group set foot on American soil.

“I can confirm you are now on US Soil,”Mohammed Sultan Saleh narrated on video as the group crossed through thick forest just afew hundred yards from the St. Zacharie Port of Entry c!in northwestern Somerset County, according to an affidavit sworn by U.S. Border Patrol Agent Scott Hanton and filed April 7 in U.S. District Court for the District of Maine.

Another man in the group — Ali Mohammed Ali Abdullah — can be heard on the recording asking,“I’m on US Soil?”Saleh replied by showing his phone screen with GPS coordinates displayed, and declared,“Now, we are in the US. We just made it, baby.”

The bust beganwith an unlikely pair of informants: two maple sugar workersheading into Canada whospotted four menof apparent Middle Eastern appearance walking south along the Golden Road near milemarker 90 — in the wrong directionto be casual hikers.

For those unfamiliar with the Golden Road, it’s a 96-mile, primarily unpaved private logging road in Maine, stretching from Millinocket west to the Quebec border — andthere’s nothing but trees to see for 95.9 of those miles and no cell service.

The unidentifiedmaple sugar workers flagged down a U.S. Customs and Border Protection officerat the St. Zacharie Port of Entry at approximately 9:15 a.m. to alert them to thebizarre sighting.

By 9:40 a.m., the sameworkers had returned to the U.S. side with more intelligence: a third man had told them thattwo men in a gray Nissan parked on the Golden Road were asking passersby for fueland Wi-Fi sothey could contact the people they were supposed to pick up. At 10:13 a.m.,that same third man called back — the Nissan had turned up near his maple sugar shack at mile marker 80.

A Border Patrol agent and the CBP officer loaded up a marked patrol vehicle and headed south on the Golden Road. At mile marker 90, they spotted fresh footprints in the soft dirt.At mile marker 87, they found the men themselves — four individualsattempting toconceal themselves in roadside vegetation.

https://robinsonreport.substack.com/p/four-british-hikers-caught-on-golden

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Google Maps images of the area help=show just how remote a locationthe supposed British hikers had found themselves in.

“One of the four men was acting nervously,” Hanton wrote in his affidavit. “The two officers cctook the four men into custodywithout incident.”

Although theGo Pro recording would show the men indisputably entered the U.S. illegallyand intentionally, they initially claimedthey were ‘just going for a hikers.

When questioned about their citizenship, all four told agents they were British citizens.They claimed they didn’t know they had entered the United States, a claim the Go Pro recordingrevealed to be a lie.

After being transported to the Jackman Border Patrol station,the men were identifiedas Ali Mohammed Ali Abdullah, 18, of Liverpool, England; Hameed Mohammed Nagi; Ibrahim Ayyub Khan; and Mohammed Sultan Saleh — all British nationals, according to court documents.

Their stories didn’t hold up.

Abdullah declined to answer questions. Nagi claimed he was just going on a hike with the group. Saleh echoed that line —but federal agents had already found the GoPro footage on his phone, along with a series of telling Google searchesconducted April 3:“bangor from my location,” “boston from bangor,” “new york from boston,” and — critically — “is st zacharie bordercrossing still used the one near quebec golden road.”

Thatlast search would appear to put to rest any claimthat Saleh was unaware he hadcrossed an international border.

The gray Nissan the maple sugar workers had described was still sitting near mile marker 80 when agents returned — out of gas. Two men were inside.They identified themselves as U.S. citizens.

Before the driver could fully exit the vehicle,a CBP officer observed him reach under the driver’s seat. When agents checked, theyfound a loaded 9mm handgun.

The two men in the Nissan were taken to Jackman as well, in connection with what the affidavitdescribes as “a suspected alien smuggling event.” The passenger of the vehicle later admitted to investigatorsthat the driver had intended to pick up one of the four men— someone the driver said he had dropped off in the same Golden Road areaapproximately 30 days earlier, according to Homeland Security Investigations Special Agent Pierre Mathieu, who briefed Hanton.

https://robinsonreport.substack.com/p/four-british-hikers-caught-on-golden

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A forensic review of the driver’s cell phone found text messages with an individual believed to be one of the four men, discussing expected arrival times and pickup logistics, according to the court filing.

Federalprosecutors’ motion for pretrial detention adds a further wrinkle to the story.

Abdullah, identified as the lead defendant in the criminal complaints,had previously run afoul of U.S. immigration authorities. His application to extendhis U.S. visa was denied in March 2025, and he departed the country in May 2025, the motion states.

Prosecutors allege that Canadian authorities had.recorded his arrival in Canada on April 1, 2026— two days before the Maine crossing —traveling on a United Kingdom passport.

“Law enforcement authorities are attempting toascertain the purpose of his travel to Maine,” the motion states.

All four men are charged with onecount each of Entry Without Inspection, a Class B misdemeanorunder 8 U.S.C. § 1325(a)(1), which carries a maximum sentence of six months in federal prison and a $5,000 fine. The case is assigned to U.S. Magistrate Judge John C. Nivison.

Abdullah appeared before the court on April 7 and waived his right to both a preliminary hearing and a detention hearing,consenting to remain in federal custody pending trial. The court accepted his waiver and ordered him detained.

Trial is scheduled to begin June 3, 2026, before Magistrate Judge Nivison. Pretrial motions are due April 21.

The three co-defendants — Nagi, Khan, and Saleh — have related cases pending in the same district.

https://robinsonreport.substack.com/p/four-british-hikers-caught-on-golden

Rep. Roy Introduces Bill to Designate CAIR as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist Organization

April 9, 2026

Press Release

Washington, D.C. – Today, Congressman Chip Roy (R-TX) introducedthe Designating Hamas Affiliates in America Act of 2026 to designate the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist Organization, blocking its assets, prohibiting U.S. persons from interacting with the organization, and revoking its 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status.

“CAIR is not some innocent 501(c)(3) organization—they facilitate terrorism while operating under the guise of a nonprofit. This bill makes it clear: their assets must be frozen, their tax-exempt status revoked, and all Americans should be prohibited from supporting them. No organization that aids terrorism should financially benefit from it, especially on U.S. soil,” said Congressman Roy.

=="For thirty years, CAIR has exploited America's openness to serve as Hamas's most effective lobbyist on U.S. soils, Congressman Roy's legislation finally treats that threat with the seriousness it deserves — not with symbolic gestures, but with the full weight of federal law. The Middle East Forum is proud to have helped build the evidentiary foundation for this bill, and we will work to see it signed into law,” said Gregg Roman, Executive Director, Middle East Forum.

Read the full bill text here.

Read the exclusive story from The Daily Signal here.

https://roy.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-roy-introduces-bill-designate-cair-specially-designated-global-terrorist

Greece and the Christians of the Middle East

Tom Ellis09.04.2026 • 22:16

Greece – and Cyprus – are the Western countries closest to the Middle East. Having traditional ties, as well as trade relations, with most of the states in the region,Athens is concerned about the developing conflict and expresses its sincere interest in the safety of Christian populations. The interest isnot limited to the Orthodox population– it concernsall Christians, including those of other denominations, who reside in these countries.

A few hours before Orthodox Easter is celebrated,unhindered access for the Greek Orthodox to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem is of major importance, in the wake of the problems recently faced by the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem.

Not long ago, Athens reacted strongly to the violent incidents againstresidents in the primarily Greek Orthodox city of Suqaylabiyah, in western Syria.

Athens has repeatedly noted that thepeaceful course and development of Syriacan only evolve inclusively and in this context,the rights of the country’s Christian residents, who are oftentreated as “religious enemies,” must be ensured, especially by a regime and its supporters who were not renowned for the tolerance and respect they showed for Christianity.

Close relations with specific Arab countries where Christian populations– even small in number – live, as well as its special relationship with Israel, with its obviously enormous importance due to the Holy Land, enhance the role Athens can play.

A total of over half a million Christianslive in Syria, Israel, Iraq and Jordan, while in Lebanon there are estimated to be over 1.5 million. In the latter, a key piece of the Middle East puzzle,Greece has actively supported the country’s Maronite Christian president, Joseph Aoun, not only politically, but also by sending military equipment, as part of an effort to strengthen the country’s weakened armed forces, which are unable to ensure security, but also normality, in a divided and segregated state.

Another fact worth mentioning is that tens of thousands of Christians who have immigrated to the United States and Europemaintain close and family ties with their co-religionists in Syria and other countries in the region.

This intense and sincere Greek interest must also be highlighted in the US,where a large part of the populationis deeply religious, especially within the Republican Party, and feels an increased sensitivityfor the protection of Christians everywhere, especially in countries where they constitute small minorities.

Such a move will give Athens’ role – beyond the obvious humanitarian dimension – additional diplomatic and geopolitical value.

https://www.ekathimerini.com/opinion/1300530/greece-and-the-christians-of-the-middle-east/

(I love the Greeks, not only because my grandfather came from a Greek island, to the US at age 16, and he spoke no English, but because they will work their asses off for the community they serve in.)

TECH

Powell, Bessent discussed Anthropic’s Mythos AI cyber threat with major U.S. banks

PUBLISHED FRI, APR 10 20268:38 AM EDTUPDATED

KEY POINTS

• Fed Chair Jerome Powell and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent met with the heads of major U.S. banks to discuss the cyber threat of Anthropic’s new Mythos model.

• Anthropic rolled out Mythos this week in a limited capacity over concerns that hackers could exploit its capabilities.

• JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon was the only major banking CEO who could not attend the meeting.

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powelland Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent met with major U.S. bank CEOs this week to discuss the possible cyber risks raised by Anthropic’s Mythos model, CNBC confirmed Friday.

The bank heads were already in Washington, D.C., for a Financial Services Forum board meetingwhen a special gathering was called on Tuesday to discuss Mythos, according to people familiar with the matter, who askednot to be named in order to share information about a confidential matter.

The CEOs had a dinner early in the week when they were called to meet at the Treasury Department, one of the people said. JPMorgan’

s Jamie Dimon was the only major banking CEO who could not attend the meeting, they added.

Bank of America

’s Brian Moynihan, Citigroup

’s Jane Fraser, Goldman Sachs

CEO David Solomon, Morgan Stanley

’s Ted Pick and Wells Fargo

CEO Charlie Scharf were all in attendance, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the meeting.

Bloomberg and the Financial Times were the first to report the meeting with bank executives.

The Federal Reserve declined to comment to CNBC. The Treasury Department did not respond to a request for comment.

The surprise meeting betweenthe bank chiefs and the two most powerful federal monetary regulators was a signal that the advanced capabilities of AI are a top concern in the Trump administration and could threaten the foundation of the U.S. financial system.

Earlier this week,Anthropic rolled out the new artificial intelligence model, Claude Mythos Preview, in a limited capacity due to concerns thathackers could exploit its capabilities.

Banking giant JPMorgan Chase was among the initial launch partners for the cybersecurity initiative, known as Project Glasswing.Other partners include Apple

, Google

, Microsoft

and Nvidia

.

Ahead of the release,the company briefed senior U.S. government officials on the model and its “offensive and defensive cyber applications.”

An Anthropic official told CNBC that it’s been in “ongoing discussions” with the U.S. government, including the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the Center for AI Standards and Innovation, about Claude Mythos Preview’s cyber capabilities.

“The dangers of getting this wrong are obvious, but if we get it right, there is a real opportunity to create a fundamentally more secure internetand world than we had before the advent of AI-powered cyber capabilities,”CEO Dario Amodei wrote in a post on X, accompanying Glasswing’s rollout.

The Trump administration’s engagement about the Mythos model comes as Anthropic challenges the Department of Defenseover its recent labeling of the AI lab as a supply chain risk to national security.

President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegsethhave publicly lambasted the company for insisting on limits to the use of its AI technology in warand the president ordered federal departments to halt use of Anthropic’s platforms.

The DOD has continued to use Claude during the Iran war, CNBC previously reported.

This week, afederal appeals court denied the company’s request to temporarily block the blacklisting. In March, a federal judge in San Francisco granted Anthropic’s request for a preliminary injunction in a separate case.

The duel rulings mean Anthropic will remain barred from DOD contractsbut can keep working with other government agencies while each legal challenge moves forward.

Late last month, cyber stocks slumpedafterFortune discovered a draft blog post from Anthropic, which revealed the model’s advanced cyber capabilities and possible risks.

Hackers have used Anthropic’s modelsin the past to orchestrate AI-fueled attacks.

In November,the company disclosed that a Chinese group used Claude to automate a hack on government and corporate targets.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/10/powell-bessent-us-bank-ceos-anthropic-mythos-ai-cyber.html

>>24486102. Imo AI needs to be shut down, there are too many evil people that will abuse and misuse it

ECONOMY.Fear Porn

Consumer sentiment hits record low, inflation fears rise amid Iran war

PUBLISHED FRI, APR 10 202610:07

(These stock market cretins love doing things like this!)

KEY POINTS

• Consumer confidence plunged to a record low in April as fears mounted over rising energy prices and the broader impact of the Iran war,according to a University of Michigan survey.

• The drop insentiment coincided with a sharp spike in inflation expectations, with respondents seeing prices up 4.8% in a year from now, a full percentage point rise from the March reading.

Consumer confidence plunged to a record low in April as fears mounted over rising energy prices and the broader impact of the Iran war, according to a University of Michigan survey Friday.

The university’s headline index of consumer sentiment tumbled to 47.6, down 10.7% from the March surveyto its lowest on record. Current conditions and expectations indexes also saw double-digit monthly declines.

The drop in sentiment coincided with a sharp spike in inflation expectations,with respondents seeing prices up 4.8% in a year from now(fear in a year which won’t happen), a full percentage point rise from the March reading to its highest since August 2025. The one-year outlook in April 2025 was 6.5% following President Donald Trump’s “liberation day” tariff announcement.

Survey comments “show that many consumers blame the Iran conflict for unfavorable changes to the economy,” said the survey’s director, Joanne Hsu. (Bullshit)

However,Hsu also noted that most of the interviews were completed before the April 7 ceasefire. The survey, then, primarily reflects conditions from March.

“Economic expectations will likely improve after consumers gain confidencethat the supply disruptions stemming from the Iran conflict haveended and gas prices have moderated,” she said. (See they do this on purpose when their fake predictions are a year away)

The survey release came shortly after the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that its all-items consumer price index rose 0.9% in March, pushing the 12-month inflation rate to 3.3%. BLS officials said most of the increase in the headline number came from the surge in energy prices,with food inflation little changed.

Inflation expectations at the five-year window in the University of Michigan survey moved higher as well, to 3.4%, a 0.2 percentage point monthly increase though a percentage point below the level of a year ago. (Five year freaking guess, these people are evil, probably done to harm 2026 midterm for Republicans!)

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/10/consumer-sentiment-inflation-fears-iran-war.html

Anti-Israel agitator Mahmoud Khalil one step closer to deportation with immigration board ruling

Khalil's attorneys say he cannot be deported while his separate federal habeas case continues in court

April 10, 2026 12:14pm EDT

An immigration appeals board has issued a final order of removal for anti-Israel protester Mahmoud Khalil, advancing the Trump administration’s effort to deport the Columbia University graduate, according to his legal team.

The Justice Department’s Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA)ruled Thursday to deny Khalil’s bid to dismiss the case, marking a significant development in the administration’s push to deport him from the U.S.

Khalil, a 31-year-old lawful permanent resident, has been at the center of a broader federal crackdown on noncitizensinvolved in anti-Israel campus protests tied to the war in Gaza. He was the first person whose arrest became publicly known as part of the crackdown.

"In all my decades as an immigration lawyer, I have never seen such a baseless and politically motivated decision," Khalil’s lead attorney, Marc Van Der Hout, said in a statement issued by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).

The Trump administration has argued Khalil’s protest activity was "aligned with Hamas," a claim cited by the Department of Homeland Security and other officials, though authorities have not publicly detailed specific evidence linking him to the terrorist group.

Khalil has also denied allegations of antisemitism. Officials have also cited a rare foreign policy provision of U.S. immigration law,sometimes referred to as a "Rubio determination," as well as alleged issues tied to his green card application.

Despite the ruling,Khalil’s attorneys say he cannot be deported while his separate federal habeas case continues to play out in court.

After his arrest, Khalil spent 104 days in immigration detention, missing the birth of his first child before a federal judge in New Jersey ordered his release.

Khalil later suffered a setback in his federal case when a U.S. appeals panel ruled that the New Jersey judge overstepped his authorityby ordering his release. In a 2-1 decision, the panel found the case must proceed through the immigration court system before it can be challenged in federal court.

If it His lawyers are now requesting the full appeals panel reconsider that decision== and have asked one of the judges to step aside over his prior role as a Justice Department official involved in investigating student protesters.

Khalil has denied wrongdoing and said the case is an attempt to silence him.I have committed no crime. I have broken no law. The only thing I am guilty of is speaking out against the genocide in Palestine — and this administrationhas weaponized the immigration system to punish me for it," Khalil said in a statement released by the ACLU.

"My family is here. My life is here. I reject any attempt to intimidate me out of my home based on lies and ideological attacks," he said.

Khalil, a prominent organizer of anti-Israel protests at Columbia University in 2024who the Trump administration is seeking to deport, was initially arrested in 2025 at his university-owned apartment in New York City.

Homeland Security Investigations, a division of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE),told him at the time they were revoking his green card, according to his attorney, Amy Greer.He was later transferred to a detention center in Louisiana.

Khalil played a major role in protests against Israel that rocked Columbia University in 2024 andmet with school officials on behalf of Columbia University Apartheid Divest, a coalition of student groups pushing the university to divest from Israel. He completed the requirements for a Columbia master’s degree in late 2024.

Born in Syria, he is the grandson of Palestinians who were forced to leave their homeland, his lawyers said in a legal filing. His wife, a U.S. citizen, gave birth to the couple’s child while he was in detention.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/anti-israel-agitator-mahmoud-khalil-one-step-closer-deportation-immigration-board-ruling

BREAKING: Trump says US warships being reloaded to resume strikes1hour ago

'Outnumbered' panelists discuss President Donald Trump's warning that the U.S. is preparing in case peace negotiations with Iran fall apart

10:03

https://youtu.be/5iKUF-DSBU4

Fetterman: They FORGET the way Iran has behaved…

Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., discusses Democratic opposition to President Donald Trump and his actions toward Iran on ‘Jesse Watters Primetime.

He’s the only democrat that has his head screwed on correctly. (Can anyone tell me if that is the 3rd, 4Th or 5th Fetterman?)

5:05

https://youtu.be/PP2YinXosOg

Trump weighs pulling US troops from some NATO bases amid tensions: Report

Fox News senior foreign policy correspondent Gillian Turner reports on President Donald Trump’s criticism of NATO allies over the security of the Strait of Hormuz on ‘Special Report.

(What will EU do if they are invaded by their fake enemy Russia? The EU has no plan to fight anything. They are transmitting how weak they are to mid east enemies)

2:22

https://youtu.be/Erf0ZbPAQgs

Josh Seiter

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Attending a queer self defense class where trans people fight for free…

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Time to laugh

https://x.com/josh_seiter/status/2042228678612951506?s=20

>>24486295. He met one of the only sane person there

>>24486296

I don’t understand how Europe is so afraid to do their duty in NATO, but they are always saying they are going to invade and take over Russia. They seem the most pussified countries in the world. We could never trust them to fight a war of any kind.

I guess Europe thinks their talks with each other make them brave. I’d be so embarrassed if my country and the President waffle on who the enemy is, and they believe they can talk it out with countries like Iran. They are all cowards. No wonder why Merz wants to build a new Nazi regime army to defend the EU.