SOMNIA - Spotlight on Military News and International Affairs

BBC News
Trump administration considers suspending habeas corpus

NPR News
Federal judge appears likely to temporarily halt Trump's sweeping government overhaul

The Guardian
White House to take choice of Pentagon chief of staff out of Hegseth’s hands

The Associated Press
Pentagon orders military to pull all library books on diversity

The Hill
Maher on doll talk: Trump ‘losing an imaginary negotiation with children’

Breaking Defense
AFSOC gets first Skyraider II close-support planes

Breaking Defense
Joint Chiefs Chairman Caine has an ‘algorithm’ for US ‘winning’

Reuters News Agency
Trump says he's OK with taxing the rich but warns of political fallout - More

Politico
Trump administration to revive National Space Council

Politico
Trump has sat for only 12 ‘daily’ intelligence briefings since taking office

NBC News
Trump administration halts research to help babies with heart defects

Politico
The MAGA backlash to Trump’s MAHA surgeon general pick

MSNBC News
Ivanka Trump’s fresh produce venture at odds with cuts to local food programs

CBS News
Second radar outage for Newark Airport in 2 weeks leaves more flyers stranded - More

The Guardian
AI firms warned to calculate threat of super intelligence or risk it escaping human control

MSNBC News
Trump’s trade ‘deal’ with the U.K. won’t save American consumers from his tariff chaos

The Cut
Ivanka Trump Is Going MAHA

The Guardian
First Sea Lord suspended pending investigation

BBC News
How will Pope Leo lead? His first days may yield clues.

BBC News
MAGA says Pope Leo may be American, but he's not 'America first'

CBC News
Foreigners have flocked to 'welcoming' Portugal. Why is it expelling migrants now?

The Guardian
Zelenskyy and European leaders hold ‘fruitful’ phone call with Trump

NBC News
Trump envoy relied on Kremlin interpreter in meetings with Putin to end war in Ukraine

CBC Radio
Journalist Ekaterina Barabash describes her harrowing escape from Russia

NBC News
Soviet Kosmos 482 spacecraft crashes into Earth - More

Goats and Soda
Why this U.S. ambassador cried at a press conference — and is being called a hero

NBC News
In Syria, the search is on for the remains of Americans killed by ISIS a decade ago

NPR News
Investigating One of the Deadliest Moments of the War in Gaza

Agence France-Presse
Hamas releases video of two Israeli hostages alive in Gaza

The Guardian
UK Lawyers for Israel condemned over claim war may reduce obesity in Gaza

Agence France-Presse
Swords, orbs and fist-bumps: US presidents in Saudi

Reuters News Agency
Iran to send Russia launchers for short-range missiles, sources say

France 24
Remembering Sétif, the VE Day colonial massacres that ‘lost Algeria’ for France

MSNBC News
Trump welcomes white South Africans to the U.S. while other immigrants get the boot - More

Reuters News Agency
World Central Kitchen halts work in Gaza as supplies run out

NBC News
India accuses Pakistan of violating ceasefire deal hours after it was announced - More

The Guardian
Chinese and US officials meet in Geneva for ‘de-escalation’ trade talks

Army Times
How a soldier’s relentless charge broke Japan’s line on Okinawa

BBC News
Mexico sues Google over 'Gulf of America' name change - More

The Associated Press
Today in History: 12 May

This Day in Aviation
12 May

Agence France-Presse
Emmanuel Macron et Donald Tusk scellent une alliance franco-polonaise face à la Russie

France 24
À Kiev, les alliés de l'Ukraine pressent Moscou d'accepter un cessez-le-feu sous peine de sanctions

France 24
Ce que l'on sait du satellite soviétique lancé en 1972 sur le point de s'écraser sur Terre

Agence France-Presse
RDC : au moins 104 morts dans des inondations dans l'Est

Agence France-Presse
Gaza : le Hamas diffuse une vidéo de deux otages israéliens en vie

Agence France-Presse
Afghanistan : 14 personnes arrêtées pour avoir joué de la musique

Agence France-Presse
L'Inde et le Pakistan s'accusent mutuellement de violer le cessez-le-feu conclu samedi

France 24
Guerre commerciale : la Chine et les États-Unis négocient à Genève pour faire baisser la tension

Agence France-Presse
« Golfe d'Amérique » : le Mexique poursuit Google pour avoir repris l'appellation de Trump

International Commentary

Patrick Wintour | The Guardian
Are we heading for another world war – or has it already started?

Ryan Teague Beckwith | MSNBC News
Trump’s latest idea is just to pay off everybody to do what he wants

Nathan Heller | The New Yorker
Donald Trump and the Favoritism Grift

Rachael Bade | Politico
Trump Is Already Obsessed With the Midterms

Amie Parnes | The Hill
Trump’s tariffs threaten to become his Achilles’ heel

David Remnick | The New Yorker
Trump Voters Are in for a Rude Awakening

Desi Lydic | The Daily Show
Trump Renames Persian Gulf, Teases a “Big Announcement”

John Mac Ghlionn | The Hill
Mark Zuckerberg is building a new surveillance state

Kathy Lette | The Guardian
Buck up, Michelle Obama – nothing is more fabulous than an empty nest

Gaby Hinsliff | The Guardian
Britain hasn’t agreed a trade deal with the US – it’s ended a hostage negotiation

Isaac Chotiner | The New Yorker
The Dynamics Behind the India-Pakistan Clash

Jason BurkeThe Guardian
If India and Pakistan’s ceasefire holds, the coming weeks will see a new battle: of narratives

Edgar Feuchtwanger with Astrid Probst | The Guardian
I was Hitler’s neighbour: ‘If he’d known we were Jewish, we’d have been sent to Dachau’