Former FBI Director James Comey is under fire for a photo he posted on Instagram Thursday that showed seashells on a beach arranged to form the numbers “8647,” which many are interpreting as a call to eliminate (or assassinate) President Trump.
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Speed Read
Friday, May 16
⏳ SPEED READ
🚨NATION
📌 Supreme Court blocks Trump effort to deport Venezuelan migrants under Alien Enemies Act (USA TODAY)
📌 Trump says US will set new tariff rates for countries, skirting negotiations (POLITICO)
📌 Florida becomes second state to ban fluoride from water (MO NEWS)
📌 Trump administration fires nearly 600 contractors at Voice of America (GUARDIAN)
📌 10 inmates escape from Orleans Parish jail in Louisiana (NBC)
🌎 AROUND THE WORLD
📌 Russia and Ukraine far apart on ceasefire in first meeting in 3 years (AXIOS)
📌 Trump wraps momentous Middle East trip with economic deals, Syria sanctions relief, and warning to Iran (FOX)
📌 Pope Leo XIV affirms family is based on union between a man and a woman, unborn has inherent dignity (AP)
📌 ICC prosecutor Karim Khan on leave from position amid sexual misconduct probe (J-POST)
📱BUSINESS, SCIENCE & TECH
📌 Americans’ optimism about the economy is at a near-record low (CNN)
📌 US cable giants Charter and Cox pursue $34.5 billion merger (ABC)
📌 Musk’s AI chatbot was giving users off-topic and false responses about “white genocide” in South Africa (AXIOS)
📌 No NJ Transit trains running as engineers strike for first time since 1983 (NBC)
🎬 SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT
📌 Trump slams Taylor Swift, Bruce Springsteen in Truth Social posts (MO NEWS)
📌 DHS says it’s in beginning stages of ‘vetting process’ for immigrant reality TV show (CNN)
📌 Cassie Ventura finishes testimony in Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ trial (YAHOO)
📌 Yuval Raphael, a Hamas attack survivor, is representing Israel at Eurovision (NPR)
Featured Interview
One-on-one with Secretary of State Antony Blinken & White House National Securty Council Spokesman Admiral John Kirby
As the Israel-Hamas war continues, Mo News heads to Washington to interview two key national security leaders about the conflict, the US role and other top chanllenges for the US.