Ali

Baba

May 19, 2026

Plan

OPEN.

FIRE.

Sesame

Three people were killed when two suspects opened fire at the Islamic Center of San Diego on Monday morning in an attack that sparked widespread shock and condemnation.

Police swarmed the center after receiving calls of an active shooter and found a crime scene that expanded across several blocks in the area.

According to police, officers arrived within four minutes of the first report. Authorities said two males, 17 and 19 years old, arrived at the center and opened fire.

When officers arrived around 11:45 a.m., they found three adults dead in front of the center, San Diego Police Chief Scott Wahl said. One of those was the center’s security guard, whose actions saved lives, Wahl said.

As officers searched the center, going door to door looking for a gunman, police received additional calls about gunfire several blocks away.

About a half-mile south of the center, a landscaper reported being shot at, though he wasn’t hit. Down another street, officers eventually found the two suspects dead, apparently from self-inflicted gunshot wounds, Wahl said.

Now, police are trying to determine what led up to the shooting, which is being investigated as a hate crime.

A law enforcement source not authorized to speak about the ongoing investigation told The Times that investigators found anti-Islamic writings inside the vehicle where the gunmen’s bodies were found.

The official also said investigators have located a suicide note linked to one of the suspects that refers to racial pride, and hate speech was also found inside the vehicle.

Los Angeles Times | May 18,2026

So be it,

neutrality?

iron-ore,

(whore)

smell-of,

(money)

“But we’re now four months into the US oil blockade, and the past week has been really, really grim. Much of the country has been enduring blackouts of up to 22, 23 hours for a while now. That’s really hitting in Havana.

You saw on Wednesday night people out on the street banging their pans, making a lot of noise, shouting, turn the power on. You saw them burning piles of trash that have not been collected. This is expressing real, real suffering now because people, you’ve got to understand it’s now getting very hot in the Caribbean.

We’re now into May. The temperatures are rising. People are finding it very difficult to sleep because if they don’t have power, they don’t have fans, their children aren’t sleeping.

They’re not sleeping. Worse still, because of the economic crisis, a lot of, about 40% of the population really have no access to money and food is becoming expensive. They bring home the food, they put it in their fridges and then there’s no power.

The food goes off. So people are really, really struggling, especially people with small children. I live in an extremely privileged position compared to the majority of Cubans.

I live right next to the US embassy, which means they tend to keep the power on with me a little more. But I haven’t had power for probably 16 hours at this stage. Probably why I’m a bit red faced.

But you but for the majority of Cubans, it’s a parlous situation. You just quickly just to add to that, we have for over the last week, you’re having this enormous amount of stress put on Cuban people by the news. The US is releasing quite threatening language constantly day after day.

So people don’t know when it’s going to end. People have no idea what the end game is, where they might land. And that is putting people under an enormous amount of mental pressure.

And we’re seeing huge spikes and people taking psychotropic drugs and things like that. So people are really suffering.”

Telegraph,

autograph,

(air-raid

shelter)

“Today, President Trump withdrew a lawsuit he had filed that sought billions of dollars from the IRS. He’s also dropping two other claims against the government over the search of his Mar-a-Lago estate and about the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. That comes alongside the announcement for an unusual settlement fund.

The government’s quote anti-weaponization fund will receive nearly $1.8 billion, specifically $1.776 billion. The money is for compensating people who claim they were victimized by the Justice Department. I’m joined now by our Ryan Barber, who covers the Justice Department.

Ryan, what do we know about how this fund will work and who’s eligible for a payout?

Right now, there are just so many questions that are looming over this fund and the actual execution of it. What we do have so far is a memo that is a little bit over a page long that certainly talks about the size, that talks about a commission of people who will be deciding who is worthy of one of these payouts. But we don’t know how transparent this will be and how readily any payouts will be released.

“What’s unusual about the creation of this fund?

To get into what’s unusual about this fund, you really actually have to go back to the lawsuit that put us in motion. Trump filed a lawsuit against the IRS seeking more than $10 billion, based upon when he was included in a leak of tax return information involving several of the wealthiest people in America. The lawsuit itself immediately raised ethics concerns because you have the head of a government in his own personal capacity suing the government he leads.”

Keep,

(the)

world,

runnin’

The prosecutor’s office at the International Criminal Court in The Hague (ICC) reportedly submitted a secret request last month for an arrest warrant against Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, according to Middle East Eye.

The request reportedly concerns suspicions of war crimes and crimes against humanity allegedly committed against Palestinians in the West Bank. The charges against Smotrich reportedly include “forcible transfer of population,” “transfer of Israeli population to an occupied territory,” as well as offenses of “persecution” and “apartheid.”

If approved by ICC judges, the arrest warrant would reportedly be the first-ever issued by an international court for the crime of “apartheid.”

Middle East Eye reported that last week, an additional hearing examined the possibility of filing requests for arrest warrants against National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and other senior officials. However, no formal requests have been submitted in their cases so far.

A source from the ICC prosecutor’s office did not deny to Middle East Eye that a request exists against Smotrich, but said that under the court’s new procedures, requests for arrest warrants are classified as confidential. The source added that “the prosecutor’s office cannot respond to questions regarding alleged requests for arrest warrants.”

Court spokeswoman Oriane Meyer, however, told Reuters on Sunday that the court “denies that new arrest warrants have been issued in the Palestinian case.”

The Jerusalem Post | May 18, 2026