The planned Iranian delegation to the negotiations in Pakistan was told not to address the nuclear issue during talks with the US, Iran International reported on Thursday, citing sources with knowledge of the matter. According to the report, the order came from officials close to Iran's Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, as the negotiation team was preparing to depart. Abbas Araghchi, Iran's Foreign Minister, said that the policy made the delegation's presence in Pakistan "basically useless," and called it a "death sentence" for the negotiations, and warned against adopting it, a source said. Iranian politician Abdolreza Davari, who personally knows Khamenei and served under former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, told The New York Times that Khamenei's form of leadership is as a "board director," appointing "board members" whom he trusts to "make all the decisions." "The generals are the board members," said Davari... According to the NYT, Khamenei's form of leadership differs sharply from that of his father, Ali Khamenei, who ruled with full authority before being killed in an IDF airstrike... Minnesota Public Schools Add Prayer Rooms, Foot-Washing Stations for Muslims: Two public schools in Minnesota have announced remodeling projects that will provide exclusive space for Muslim students to pray and to wash their feet. “This is undoubtedly for Muslim students only,” one unidentified source told Alpha News. “I cannot understand how this can be happening in this era of no religion in schools.” The way that taxpayer-funded schools have embraced Islam stands in stark contrast to the hostility they have shown to Christian students. “Big Brother is watching you” is no longer a fictional admonition. Everywhere you go, your location is recorded by phone technology, license plate readers, Uber and Lyft transactions, and cameras. Privacy? Forget about it. Your location history is in the hands of many tech companies. Can the police and other government agencies force tech companies to share that information about you? The U.S. Supreme Court took up that question on Monday. The court’s decision could have a widespread impact on your privacy. If your location history puts you within a 1-mile radius of a bank robbery with hundreds of other people, you could become a suspect, swept up in the wide net cast to find the perpetrator. Many people find the growing surveillance creepy, but law enforcement is using this technology – called geofencing – to solve crimes rapidly, including some that would go unsolved. As usual in politics, there’s a fair share of hypocrisy. Several Democratic-led cities in New York, Colorado, Illinois, Massachusetts, and Texas are terminating their contracts with Flock Safety because it has cooperated with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. They apparently think it’s OK to arrest American-born criminals using geo-searches, but not illegals. Ridiculous. The Denver City Council unanimously voted to terminate Flock Safety, but the city’s mayor, Mike Johnston, saw the light, calling it a useful crime-fighting tool. One takeaway from Monday’s hearing: Wherever you go, assume you are creating a digital and photographic record of your own movements. Privacy is a thing of the past. The issue now is using these technologies to fight crime without empowering the government to crush our personal liberties. Engines powered down, all flights were cancelled, and 17,000 people found themselves out of work in the early morning hours of Saturday as beleaguered Spirit Airlines abruptly announced it was finished — out of business with all operations ended. The low-budget carrier known for its bright yellow planes and cheap seating made the announcement at 2 a.m., reportedly cancelling 277 Saturday flights and leaving passengers with no one to talk to. The airline was unable to secure enough funding from the federal government to save it from bankruptcy. Company officials for the Michigan based company, which had operated for three decades made the announcement on its website: It is with great disappointment that on May 2, 2026, Spirit Airlines started an orderly wind-down of our operations, effective immediately. To our Guests: all flights have been cancelled, and customer service is no longer available. We are proud of the impact of our ultra-low-cost model on the industry over the last 34 years and had hoped to serve our Guests for many years to come. While President Donald Trump signaled he was favorable to saving the carrier, the idea of a bailout was met with blowback by Republicans in Congress, including Sens. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Tom Cotton (R-AR). Spirit has had a difficult time turning a profit since a dramatic decrease in travel from Covid restrictions in 2020, and its seating capacity had reportedly been cut in half by the spring of 2024. The new research, led by Anny Cazenave of the Laboratory of Space Geophysical and Oceanographic Studies in France, and undertaken by an international team of colleagues, revealed that heat absorption in ocean layers at depths greater than 2,000 meters plays a significant role in rising sea levels. According to new estimates, deep ocean heating likely contributes to nearly 0.4 millimeters of sea level rise that occurred annually between 2005 and 2022, which amounts to almost ten percent of the total increase recorded during that period. That may seem like a small amount, but in the broader context of sea level changes scientists have observed, it is significant enough that the imbalance was initially deemed an anomaly, and a concerning one. A significant finding from the new research involves the deep ocean climate system, the dynamics of which remain somewhat mysterious. Although upper layers of Earth’s oceans are well-known reservoirs for heat, the team’s new work reveals that the same can be said of deeper ocean waters, which also absorb large amounts of energy. Along with the new light it sheds on this phenomenon, the team’s discovery also raises some new questions, including what the broader causes are that drive the warming observed in the deep ocean.
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