White House Says US Launched War With Iran Because Trump Had a ‘Feeling’ They Were Going to Attack

41 People In US Under Monitoring For Hantavirus: CDC Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, Forty-one people are under monitoring in the United States for hantavirus, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on May 14. Most of those being monitored were at one time on board the MV Hondius, a cruise ship that experienced an outbreak of the disease after it sailed from Argentina on April 1 to remote locations such as Antarctica. Eighteen people were flown from the ship recently to medical facilities in Nebraska and Georgia for...

After "Tectonic" Serra Verde Acquisition, Canaccord Reiterates Buy, Raises Price Target To $32 On USA Rare Earth In a new note out by Canaccord, the firm reiterates its BUY rating on USA Rare Earth and raises its price target to $32 from $29, arguing that the company is rapidly emerging as a cornerstone of a Western rare earth supply chain at a time when geopolitical urgency around reducing dependence on China is intensifying. Shares are already up about 50% over the past week and currently sit around $25: The analysts frame...

Israel DM Orders IDF To Escalate Demolitions In Southern Lebanon Authored by Jason Ditz via Antiwar.com, A week after ordering the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) to prepare for a "long-term stay" in occupied southern Lebanon, Defense Minister Israel Katz has now also ordered them to escalate the rate at which they're destroying what is being framed as "Hezbollah infrastructure" across the south. The issue with this is the same as it's been throughout the war, that Israel's definition of Hezbollah infrastructure generally boils down to civilian infrastructure at large, with a particular...