Democrats on the Los Angeles City Council are hoping to potentially open the door to foreigners, including illegal aliens, voting in city elections. The proposal, put forward by Councilman Hugo Soto-Martinez (D), would ask voters on the November election ballot whether the Los Angeles City charter should be amended so that the council could discuss the plan to allow foreign nationals to vote in city elections. In New York City, Democrats on the city council similarly sought to open city elections to foreign nationals, including illegal aliens. Last year, the State of New York Court of Appeals ruled that the plan is unconstitutional because the New York state constitution “makes clear what our case law has long held: Article II, section 1 restricts voting to citizens.” As fighting reignites in the Middle East and the Strait of Hormuz stays largely blocked, California drivers are staring down a brutal reality at the pump. Some in Los Angeles are already paying eight dollars a gallon, with prices poised to climb higher. The last tanker carrying Persian Gulf crude has docked at Long Beach, and no more are coming. This is not merely a temporary spike—it is the predictable consequence of decades of policy choices that left the Golden State dangerously isolated from reliable domestic energy sources. While the rest of the nation grapples with a national average around $4.45, California’s unique vulnerabilities turn inconvenience into crisis. The state imports roughly 30 percent of its foreign crude from the Persian Gulf under normal conditions. Decades of environmental mandates, refinery closures, and deliberate avoidance of pipelines have transformed California into an “energy island,” reliant on long-haul imports refined in Asia from Middle Eastern sources. When geopolitics disrupts that flow, there is no quick domestic alternative. This crisis should prompt serious reflection on energy realism. America possesses abundant domestic resources, yet blue-state governance has prioritized ideology over resilience. While military sources still insist that the ceasefire between the US and Iran is still ongoing, worrying reports have arisen of a new exchange of fire between the two countries. According to the official CENTCOM X post, the US forces intercepted unprovoked Iranian attacks and responded with self-defense strikes as U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyers transited the Strait of Hormuz to the Gulf of Oman, May 7. Iranian forces reportedly fired missiles and drones at the USS Truxtun, USS Rafael Peralta, and USS Mason as the ships transited the strait. No US assets were reportedly struck. The US military eliminated the inbound threats, and fired at the Iranian military facilities responsible for the attack. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/05/breaking-us-iran-exchange-fire-strait-hormuz/ White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt shared wonderful news on her social media, announcing the birth of her second child. Leavitt shared, “On May 1st, Viviana aka ‘Vivi’ joined our family, and our hearts instantly exploded with love. 💕” “She is perfect and healthy, and her big brother is joyfully adjusting to life with his new baby sister. We are enjoying every moment in our blissful newborn bubble.” The allegations come just days after it was reported that the FBI has launched a criminal investigation into NIH scientist Vincent Munster for smuggling deadly human pathogen samples, including monkeypox virus, from Africa in his luggage without required permits or paperwork. According to the whistleblower letter sent to taxpayer watchdog White Coat Waste, Munster, a German-born researcher long funded by Fauci’s NIAID, attempted to smuggle “dozens of vials” of viral hemorrhagic fever (VHF) samples back into the United States from Africa in January. He and two colleagues traveling with him allegedly lied to customs officials about the contents of their baggage. The whistleblower states the decisions to downplay the smuggling came directly “from the main NIH campus in Bethesda” and that senior officials are now operating in “full coverup mode.” The same letter alleges that a separate lab accident at RML, first exposed by White Coat Waste in January, involved a staffer being bitten by a macaque monkey infected with Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF), a deadly foreign virus. The monkey was being subjected to NIH’s notorious “maximum-pain” experiments with no pain mitigation whatsoever. The bite reportedly penetrated the worker’s protective suit. ...the exposed staffer was quietly “flown out” to avoid drawing attention. Both men [Munster and his colleague] were placed on administrative leave and scrubbed from the HHS directory. Munster was also a co-author on the 2018 DEFUSE proposal, the rejected blueprint for engineering coronaviruses that eerily mirrored the COVID-19 virus... Anthony Bellotti, the president and founder of WCW said: "...these Fauci-era animal labs are out of control and must be stopped." [More at the link.] https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/05/nih-whistleblower-exposes-full-coverup-mode-faucis-bat/ 
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The National Institutes of Health is allegedly scrambling to bury the recent explosive scandals at its high-security Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Hamilton, Montana, and a new whistleblower letter obtained by the White Coat Waste Project claims senior NIH officials in Bethesda are in “full coverup mode” to protect one of Dr. Anthony Fauci’s top virologists.