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1 Diner + Some Shootings Special Edition
SHOOTINGS
Quote:WASHINGTON — Accused White House Correspondents’ Dinner gunman Cole Allen sent a chilling anti-President Trump manifesto to his family just before opening fire — calling himself the “Friendly Federal Assassin” and revealing he was hell-bent on killing Trump administration officials, The Post has learned.
Allen described his “targets” as including “Administration officials (not including [FBI Director Kash] Patel)… prioritized from highest-ranking to lowest” in the unhinged missive that went out about 10 minutes before the shooting Saturday night, two US officials said.
“I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes,” Allen wrote, apparently referring to the president.
“In order to minimize casualties, I will also be using buckshot rather than slugs (less penetration through walls),” he wrote before disturbingly admitting he was willing to kill everyone in the room if it meant getting to his targets.
“I would still go through most everyone here to get to the targets if it were absolutely necessary (on the basis that most people *chose* to attend a speech by a pedophile, rapist, and traitor, and are thus complicit) but I really hope it doesn’t come to that.”
Allen referred to his Christian faith several times in the document within a list of “rebuttals” to imagined objections to his actions. He also made mention of hot-button political issues like the Trump administration’s strikes on Venezuelan drug boats and the detention of illegal migrants.
“Turning the other cheek is for when you yourself are oppressed. I’m not the person raped in a detention camp. I’m not the fisherman executed without trial,” Allen wrote in the deranged document, which a relative provided to police, officials said.
“I’m not a schoolkid blown up, or a child starved, or a teenage girl abused by the many criminals in this administration. Turning the other cheek when *someone else* is oppressed is not Christian behavior; it is complicity in the oppressor’s crimes.”
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said investigators believe he traveled by train from Los Angeles to Washington, DC, via Chicago, which he speculated could have been an attempt to avoid the scrutiny associated with air travel.
Quote:The deranged teacher who allegedly opened fire at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner with the intent to kill as many members of the Trump administration as possible posted countless anti-Trump screeds on his social media before the attack.
Cole Allen, a 31-year-old CalTech grad from California, posted and reposted on BlueSky ad nauseam — apparently preferring the alternative platform over X, as he branded its owner Elon Musk a “Hitlerian figure.”
The account had the handle “Coldforce” — the same moniker Allen signed in his manifesto obtained by The Post.
Allen frequently condemned the Trump administration across his 1,000+ posts, with his complaints seemingly heating up when the US support for Ukraine waned.
He wrote that Vice President JD Vance is “a piece of sh-t” for bragging about ditching Ukraine during a Turning Point USA event at the University of Georgia on April 14.
Allen boosted several fundraisers for Ukrainian brigades and students in need of supplies on his account.
In another post, he described President Trump as “a sociopathic mob boss” solely based on references in the Epstein files.
Then, on April 8, the day the US reached a temporary ceasefire agreement with Iran, Allen claimed the deal was a surrender where Trump jumped ship.
“Trump is literally one of those villains that if you beat his ass hard enough, he’ll join your team. Don’t really have any other insights to this, it’s not really actionable cause no way schumer just canes him into acting his age, but, like, it would probably literally work on him,” he wrote.
Allen also went off when Trump shared an AI-generated photo of himself dressed like Jesus Christ.
Allen, a self-proclaimed Protestant Christian, shared several reposts calling out the Trump administration’s Christian hypocrisy and suggesting many members should be categorized as “satanic idolators.”
“i’m not sure that you can work for this admin and be *any flavor of genuine christian believer* and see trump post something like this [Trump as Jesus] without understanding, at some level, deep down, that you are f–king damned, even if you’ll never admit it to anyone,” one repost read.
Allen echoed similar beliefs in his manifesto that he sent to his friends and family before Saturday’s foiled attack. While reflecting on how Christians are called to forgive others, he claimed that the Trump administration is past the point of redemption.
Quote:The attempted attack during Saturday night’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner has surprised many who knew the shooter, including his former professor.
According to his LinkedIn, Californian gunmen Cole Allen earned a bachelor’s degree in 2017 in mechanical engineering from the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. Later, he earned a master’s degree in computer science from the California State University Dominguez Hills last May.
There were no signs Allen would commit such an act of violence, according to Bin Tang, a computer science professor at CSU Dominguez Hills.
“He was a very good student indeed, always sitting in the first row of my class, paying attention, and frequently emailing me with coursework questions,” Tang said.
“Soft-spoken, very polite, a good fellow. I am very shocked to see the news,” he added.
A 2017 television news story resurfaced on social media showing Allen in his senior year of college being interviewed. In the clip, Allen had developed a prototype for a new type of emergency brake for wheelchairs.
The 31-year-old man from Torrance was also involved in education in other ways. He reportedly worked for C2 Education, a company that offers admissions counseling and test preparation services to high school students.
Some of the students expressed shock at the news.
“He seemed like a completely average guy,” high school senior Max Harris, who said he was tutored by Allen, told the New York Times. “Like, I never would have expected anything like this from a guy like him.”
Allen sent a chilling anti-President Trump manifesto to his family just before opening fire — calling himself the “Friendly Federal Assassin” and revealing he was hell-bent on killing Trump administration officials.
He rushed through a security checkpoint before being tackled by security officials and is currently being detained.
Quote:The White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooter assembled his arsenal from two California stores in the months and years before the attack.
Cole Allen purchased a Maverick 12-gauge pump-action shotgun from Turner’s Outdoorsman in Torrance last August and a Armscor semi-automatic pistol from CAP Tactical Firearms in Lawndale in October 2023.
Allen was charged with using a firearm during a crime of violence and assault on a federal officer with a dangerous weapon after allegedly trying to storm the banquet in DC last night.
Agents revealed he was carrying a shotgun, a pistol and knives on him when he was taken down by officers just yards from President Trump.
Authorities also revealed Sunday he stored the weapons at his parents’ house in Torrance and regularly trained at a shooting range.
Turner’s Outdoorsman, which is near the suspect’s family home, bills itself as “Texas Freedom, California style” on its website.
It is a general outdoors store selling fishing gear, clothing and accessories — but also sells a wide range of pistols, rifles and shotguns.
It is managed by Jesse Sanchez, but the wider company is ran by CEO Bryan Harris. When Turner’s was asked by The Post if Allen bought a gun at the store and what protocols were conducted an employee responded they were “Unable to confirm or deny that information” and referred questions to their corporate office.
Meanwhile the pistol was bought from CAP Tactical Firearms, a family-run store run by Bill Mullen out of Lawndale.
Mullen, who established the store 10 years ago, sells rifles, handguns, ammo, tactical gear, knives, and shotguns at the modest looking store on Hawthorne Ave.
He told an LA website in 2017 he was fighting the stigma of firearms. “It is sometimes hard to remind people that not everyone who owns a firearm is a criminal,” he said.
Quote:WASHINGTON — Duck, cover, and grab the wine!
A woman was caught on camera blissfully snatching bottles of wine during the chaotic aftermath of the shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.
While throngs of reporters and other guests fled the Washington Hilton ballroom, an unknown blonde woman wearing posh black fur went straight for a table to stockpile booze.
Because the shooting took place early on during the salad portion of the marquee dinner, there was an abundance of wine left abandoned at tables across the ballroom.
The woman’s identity is not immediately clear, and it’s not apparent whether she was a journalist or some other guest.
Footage of the wine grab quickly went viral. But netizens were torn whether snatching the wine was in poor taste given what could’ve been a tragic evening if the shooter wasn’t stopped, or a fiscally prudent move given the high price tag of the swanky dinner.
“So, there you have press members STEALING wine bottles: this is who the press is! Repugnant!” one user wrote, showing a video of the wine-loving attendee.
So, there you have press members STEALING wine bottles: this is who the press is!
Repugnant! pic.twitter.com/IlLlmdciXV
— TeslaBoomerPapa (@TeslaBoomerPapa) April 26, 2026
“How shameless, after the shooting incident, journalists are stealing liquor bottles in the same hall where President Donald Trump was also present,” a different user fumed.
“How is this stealing? They were placed on the tables for dinner. They were meant to be consumed. Everything was already paid for,” another poster wrote in defense of the pilfering.
“Bro they paid $350+ a plate and the night got canceled early, free wine tax refund is fair game,” a user named Bullz wrote.
Other attendees were similarly caught exiting the ballroom with bottles of wine after chaos engulfed the marquee DC dinner.
I guess that not every single person on earth would run for their lives under such circumstances. 
Quote:Two men are believed to be behind the mass shooting near the Indiana University campus in Bloomington that left nine people injured — including five young women hit by bullets or fragments, police said Sunday.
Just before the violence erupted at a celebration over the “Little 500” college cycling race on the city’s popular strip of Kirkwood Avenue, a fight had broken out between two women in front of a Five Guys restaurant, Bloomington Police Chief Mike Diekhoff told reporters.
During the confrontation, two male suspects pulled out their handguns and fired in the dense crowd at around 12:25 a.m., with five women injured by the gunfire and bullet fragments, Diekhoff said.
The two women involved in the fight were not injured, and the motives of the male shooters remain unclear, authorities said.
The other people injured were hurt during the ensuing stampede, officials said.
No students were injured, officials said, adding that the victims were all from out of town.
The injured were identified as a 17-year-old who was hit by fragments in her foot and ankle, an 18-year-old struck in the ankle and shin, a 21-year-old hit in her shin and thighs and a 22-year-old with embedded fragments in the back of her thigh.
A 20-year-old victim suffered a direct gunshot that traveled through her body from her abdomen to her armpit, but it remains unclear which way the bullet entered and exited, Diekhoff noted.
One of the victims remained in the hospital under stable condition, with the rest treated and released Sunday, officials said.
Quote:The head of OpenAI has written a letter apologizing that his company didn’t alert law enforcement about the online behavior of a person who shot and killed eight people in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia.
In the letter posted Friday, Sam Altman expressed his deepest condolences to the entire community.
“I am deeply sorry that we did not alert law enforcement to the account that was banned in June,” Altman said.
“While I know words can never be enough, I believe an apology is necessary to recognize the harm and irreversible loss your community has suffered.”
The letter, dated Thursday, appeared on B.C. Premier David Eby’s social media and also on the local news website Tumbler RidgeLines on Friday.
On Feb. 10, police say an 18-year-old alleged shooter, identified as Jesse Van Rootselaar, killed her 39-year-old mother, Jennifer Jacobs, and 11-year-old stepbrother, Emmett Jacobs, in their northern British Columbia home before heading to the nearby Tumbler Ridge Secondary School and opening fire, killing five children and an educator before killing herself.
Twenty-five people were also injured in the attack.
After the shootings, OpenAI came forward to say that last June the company identified Van Rootselaar’s account using abuse detection efforts for “furtherance of violent activities.”
The San Francisco technology company said it considered whether to refer the account to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police but determined at the time that the account activity didn’t meet a threshold for referral to law enforcement. OpenAI banned the account in June for violating its usage policy.
At the time, Eby said it “looks like” OpenAI had the opportunity to prevent the mass shooting.
In his letter, Altman said he had spoken with Tumbler Ridge Mayor Darryl Krakowka and Eby and they “conveyed the anger, sadness and concern” felt in the community. It was agreed a public apology was warranted but time was needed for the community to grieve.
“I want to express my deepest condolences to the entire community,” Altman said. “No one should ever have to endure a tragedy like this. I cannot imagine anything worse in this world than losing a child.
“My heart remains with the victims.”
Quote:A Virginia transgender substitute teacher was arrested for allegedly plotting a chilling “murder spree” at a local school — and bragging online about having a disturbing hit list.
Hadyn Dollery, 19, was busted on school grounds Monday after posting threatening messages on Discord targeting John Champe High School in Stone Ridge, about 40 miles west of Washington, DC, according to the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office and multiple outlets.
Police said a tip on the department’s Safe2Talk app exposed the suspect’s sinister online posts.
The accused would-be attacker allegedly unleashed threats against family and friends on the messaging app, including disturbing talks of a mass killing at the school, according to a criminal complaint obtained by the Loudon Times-Mirror.
The warped teen, of Chantilly, also claimed to have a “kill list,’ the complaint said.
Dollery worked as a “non-licensed” substitute teacher for the 2025-26 school year but was later scrubbed from the district’s list after being thrown behind bars, the outlet reported.
The long-haired suspect, seen grinning in their mugshot, was charged with threats of bodily harm and is now being held without bond at the Loudoun County Adult Detention Center, cops said.
The deranged teen — who identifies as a trans woman — was booked as a male and is reportedly being housed alone, WJLA reported.
Dollery is due back in court on May 26.
Quote:A former North Carolina cop — once awarded “police officer of the month” — allegedly plotted to gun down black people at a Louisiana festival, authorities said.
Christopher Gillum, of Chapel Hill, was wanted in Orleans Parish, Louisiana, for making “terroristic threats” and tracked by authorities to a hotel in Florida where he was arrested Wednesday night, according to the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office.
Gillum had allegedly been “heading to do a mass shooting at a large festival in Louisiana,” when he was found with roughly 200 rounds of ammunition and a handgun in his hotel room on Scenic Highway 98, cops said.
Though authorities didn’t identify the festival Gillum planned to attack, the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, which routinely attracts hundreds of thousands of patrons, was slated to begin Thursday.
The ex-cop family’s had reported him missing on Tuesday — telling police he had a gun and “expressed recent threats to harm black people,” according to a bulletin from Burlington police and Lt. Clint Lyons of the Alamance County Sheriff’s Office.
But Gillum fled North Carolina before paperwork could be prepared to involuntarily commit him to psychiatric treatment, Lyons said.
He was eventually stopped by police in Okaloosa County on Wednesday, but did not “present any grounds for involuntary commitment or criminal charges,” according to police, who let Gillum drive away while telling officers he was headed to “New Orleans.”
Quote:The mother of three of the eight children massacred by deranged Army veteran dad Shamar Elkins in Louisiana still has a bullet lodged in her head and is struggling with her memory — sometimes believing her kids are still alive, according to a relative.
Christina Snow, the girlfriend of 31-year-old Shamar Elkins, was shot in the face early Sunday when the former National Guardsman went on a shooting rampage at two nearby homes in Shreveport.
Three of Snow’s children she shared with Elkins — Braylon Snow, 5, Khedarrion Snow, 6, and Sariahh Snow, 11 — were killed in their home.
Elkins fired a bullet through Snow’s nose which is lodged in her head, and doctors aren’t ready to risk surgery, according to her cousin Jamarckus Snow.
The mom is now dealing with heartbreaking memory loss about the fate of her kids.
“One day, she’ll remember they’re dead. I heard yesterday she woke up and was like, ‘I got to get my kids ready for school.’ She’ll lose memory of what happened,” he told NBC News.
“One day, she’ll know, and the next day, she’s thinking her kids is still there.”
Elkins fatally shot his seven children — the three he shared with Snow and his four daughters with his wife, Shaneiqua Pugh: Jayla Elkins, 3, Shayla Elkins, 5, Kayla Pugh, 6, and Layla Pugh, 7.
He also killed Mar’Kaydon Pugh, 10, the son of his wife’s sister, who was staying at their house.
Quote:Four men were shot and wounded by gunfire inside a notorious Queens nightclub with a track record of gun violence, cops said.
Bullets turned the dance floor inside Amadeus nightclub in Elmhurst into a bloodbath around 3:40 a.m. on Sunday, according to the NYPD.
When cops arrived, they found two 28-year-old men who’d been hit by gunfire – one who had been grazed in the head and another struck in the face, police said.
The two were taken to Elmhurst Hospital by EMS, where they were in stable condition, according to authorities.
Investigators later found two other victims who had been victims of the violence – a 25-year-old man at Elmhurst Hospital with wounds to his abdomen and arm and a 24-year-old man at Kings County Hospital with a wound to his arm.
Those two were also listed in stable condition, according to authorities.
The nightclub is no stranger to shootings, having been the site of gun violence the past few years.
A dispute inside the club became violent and led to a shooting that killed a 19-year-old man and wounded a 31-year-old woman in 2023, cops said.
And just last year, three people were wounded inside a Rolls Royce waiting just outside the club after a gunman started shooting up the car, police said.
Amadeus did not respond to The Post’s request for inquiry at time of publication.
City Council members Phil Wong and Shekar Krishnan issued a joint statement saying they were “deeply troubled by the shooting.”
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Quote:This is not the way to save a buck.
A roadkill deer was found inside a Chinese restaurant’s freezer — and this isn’t the lo mein joint’s first time running afoul of health code violations, according to reports.
The nauseating discovery was made after a Facebook user accused staff at China Queen in Louisiana of skinning a dead animal in the back outside their restaurant in a now-deleted post on Wednesday, April 22, KALB 5 reported.
Local police officers responded to the eatery and were shown a picture of a male restaurant employee with blood on his hands by a witness, the Pineville Police Department told The Post in a statement.
They later found a deer carcass inside the Chinese restaurant’s freezer, stored next to other food.
The worker told police he found the deer carcass on the side of the road around 10:00 a.m. and intended to turn it into soup.
“Officers on scene were unable to determine whether the meat was intended for personal consumption or for service to restaurant patrons,” officials told the outlet.
The incident has spurred investigations from both the Louisiana Department of Health and the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.
“While the consumption of deer is common in Louisiana, state law prohibits the possession of roadkill without prior authorization from law enforcement. Additionally, improper handling and storage of wild game can pose serious public health risks due to rapid bacterial growth,” a Pinveville Police Department spokesperson said.
Quote:A Queens doctor convicted of drugging and sexually assaulting seven women at a NYC hospital and his home — and filming the attacks — also groped a patient on life support, The Post has learned.
The 47-year-old woman, identified as “victim 2” in the case of the monster molestor, was on her death bed at New York-Presbyterian Queens Hospital in May 2022 when Dr. Zhi Alan Cheng recorded himself grabbing her breasts and genitals, according to court papers.
The sicko doc pleaded guilty in June to four counts of first-degree rape and three counts of first-degree sexual abuse, and was sentenced in August to 24 years behind bars.
“He recorded himself sexually assaulting the woman who was unconscious on a ventilator and a feeding tube and nearing the end of her life,” said lawyer Nicholas Liakas, whose namesake firm sued the Flushing hospital in 2023 on behalf of four of Cheng’s victims.
After she died, the family decided not to move forward with a lawsuit out of a desire for privacy, Liakas said.
But his firm continues to demand accountability from the hospital and for a larger investigation into the scope of the crimes.
One of the victims was a 19-year-old at the hospital for gallbladder removal, who was allegedly groped by Cheng in June 2021 after he snuck into her pediatric-ward room, according to hospital documents referenced in court records and provided by the firm.
Security footage showed “an individual in blue scrubs . . . entering the unit,” according to the records. He told the patient he was a stomach doctor and injected her IV with something, the documents said. Cheng also recorded that attack, the documents showed.
Cheng was in the room for 19 minutes. The teenager woke up feeling like “someone was twisting and pulling in her lower abdomen” and “doesn’t remember what happened to her,” according to the records.
“They did their own lineup in the hospital and they didn’t call the police,” Liakas’ law partner, Cassandra Rohme, alleged. “They covered it up.”
The teen and her mother didn’t even learn she was sexually assaulted until they were called to appear at the Queens District Attorney’s Office in April 2024.
The law firm is demanding New York-Presbyterian Queens Hospital notify all of Cheng’s patients that they may be victims.
The attorneys also want an investigation into where Cheng got the drugs he used to sedate his victims — accusing him of using “contaminated syringes diverted from other patients on his victims to render them unconscious,” according to a letter the lawyers sent asking a judge to reject Cheng’s plea agreement.
Quote:A California winery owned by Representative Ilhan Omar's husband was shut down weeks after Congressional Republicans demanded answers about the reported wealth of the Minnesota Democrat's family.
Omar, a member of the Squad of progressive Democrats and a political lightning rod, filed a 2024 financial disclosure that put her family assets at between $6 million and $30 million, a surge from the previous year that—at the top of that range—would have placed her among the wealthiest Democrats in the House.
At the heart of the wealth was a Santa Rosa, California-based winery, eStCru LLC, which was co-owned by Omar’s husband Tim Mynett. California business records show the winery shut down on April 4, two months after House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer wrote to Mynett asking for financial records.
In March, Omar revised the filing—a common practice among members of Congress—and downgraded the assets to $0 and the joint assets with her husband to under $100,000. The amended filing also shows that the congresswoman held $15,001 to $50,000 in student loan debt. Omar’s representatives blamed the discrepancy on "incomplete information from Mr. Mynett’s businesses' accountants in good faith and deference to professional judgment."
"The amended disclosure confirms what we've said all along: the Congresswoman is not a millionaire," Jacklyn Rogers, a spokesperson for Omar, told Newsweek. Rogers added that the original filing listed the assets without their respective liabilities and "significantly overstated" Mynett's net worth.
A representative for eStCru told the New York Post in February that the winery was no longer operational, and, according to the California Secretary of State's business registry portal, it was terminated on April 4.
MIDDLE EAST WAR
Quote:President Trump claimed Sunday that Iran’s oil infrastructure could explode in about three days because of mechanical issues exacerbated by the US blockade on its vessels.
“When you have, you know, lines of vast amounts of oil pouring through your system, if for any reason that line is closed because you can’t continue to put it into containers or ships, which has happened to them — they have no ships because of the blockade — what happens is that line explodes from within, both mechanically and in the earth,” Trump told Fox News’ “The Sunday Briefing.”
“It’s something that happens where it just explodes. And they say they only have about three days left before that happens. And when it explodes, you can never, regardless, you can never rebuild it the way it was.”
Experts have warned that Iran could be forced to shut down its oil fields as early as April 29 because of the US naval blockade, risking long-term damage to its crude production.
That’s because Tehran is effectively running out of storage space after it had been forced to divert its oil to onshore tanks, which can only hold so much, since its exports have been halted.
Both the Critical Threats Project at the American Enterprise Institute and Energy Aspects, a UK-based fuel analyst firm, estimated that Iran’s storage space will be up in the coming week.
“Once the tanks are filled, Iran would have to shut down its oil fields, which risks long-term damage to the fields,” said Annika Ganzeveld, the Middle East portfolio manager for the AEI’s Critical Threats Project, previously to The Post.
Sudden and long-term halts at oil-production plants risk permanent damage to a fuel reservoir and make it increasingly difficult to restart operations and reach the same level of output as before.
Such a situation would serve as a major blow to Tehran’s already weakened economy.
Quote:ISLAMABAD — Iran’s foreign minister was back in Islamabad on Sunday reportedly hoping to work on a peace plan — while President Trump said his top aides will only participate by phone at this point because Pakistan is too far to go to again.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi did the quick turnaround after leaving Pakistan’s capital without meeting with US officials Saturday, a move that prompted Trump to then swiftly cancel American negotiators’ intended trip to Islamabad.
US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner were expected to leave for Pakistan’s capital Saturday before being called off.
Trump on Sunday doubled down on his refusal to send the US negotiators back to Islamabad, telling Fox News that the 18-hour trip is too far to travel if Iran continues to refuse his nuclear demands.
“Great respect for Pakistan, because they’ve been terrific. They’ve really tried, and they’ll stay involved, but we’re going to do it by telephone, so if they want, they can call us,” Trump said of Tehran.
“But again, they know what has to be in the agreement. Very simple: they cannot have a nuclear weapon — otherwise there’s no reason to meet,” he said.
Iran has previously been willing to give up its pursuit of nuclear weapons in deals, but the major hang-up is what to do with the remaining enriched uranium in Iran, Pakistani sources said.
UKRAINE WAR
Quote:Prince Harry called on the US to “honor its international treaty obligations” to Ukraine during a surprise visit to Kyiv on Thursday.
The Duke of Sussex — who famously fled the royal family to live with wife Meagan Meghan in California — said America had an obligation to help stop Moscow’s invasion after Ukraine agreed to give up its nuclear weapons in 1994 in exchange for assurances from the US, UK and Russia.
“This is a moment for American leadership. A moment for America to show that it can honor its international treaty obligations,” Harry said.
“Not out of charity, but out of its enduring role in global security and strategic stability,” the prince added.
The address was made as part of Harry’s announced visit to the Ukrainian capital, with the king’s second son set to attend a Kyiv security conference during the two-day trip.
Harry said the US, in particular, had a “singular role in this story,” given its role in the 1994 Budapest Memorandum and its military might.
The former British royal, who has visited Ukraine in the past, said he returned to Kyiv on Thursday to highlight the struggles of the war as much of the world’s attention has shifted to the conflict in the Middle East.
“I am not here as a politician,” he told members of the Kyiv Security Forum. “I am here as a soldier who understands service, as a humanitarian who has seen the human cost of conflict, and as a friend of Ukraine who believes the world must not grow used to this war or numb to its consequences.
“Because what is happening here is not simply a war about territory,” he added. “It is a war about values. About sovereignty. About whether the principles that underpin our shared democracy still hold meaning.”
Harry also touted Ukraine as a “country bravely and successfully defending Europe’s eastern flank” at a time of heightened Russian aggression.
As part of his two-day trip to Ukraine, Harry is expected to visit the de-mining HALO Trust charity that was supported by his late mother, Princess Diana.
Quote:The European Union has approved a long-awaited $105 billion loan to Kyiv and new sanctions against Russia on Thursday — extending a lifeline that will alow Ukraine to continue to pay for the war and government operations.
The loan is set to cover two-thirds of Ukraine’s needs for the next two years, and it came after economists warned that the nation would run out of money by June if the EU failed to distribute the funds.
“This package will strengthen our army, make Ukraine more resilient, and enable us to fulfill our social obligations to Ukrainians, as set out in law,” President Volodymyr Zelensky said as he arrived in Cyprus, where he was set to meet with EU leaders.
“During meetings in Cyprus, we will also discuss with partners further sanctions pressure on Russia over this war,” he added. “The 20th package has been unblocked, and it must be followed by other sanctions steps.”
Half of the $105 billion will be disbursed to Ukraine this year, with the second half going out in 2027.
Zelensky suggested that the first half of the loan could become available as early as May.
The majority of the loan will be spent on Ukraine’s military budget, with about $20 billion going to Kyiv’s general budget, which handles civilian needs like health and education.
Ukraine is also looking to rebuild its battered energy grid and civilian infrastructure before the next winter, which will likely be a target for Moscow in the future, Zelensky said.
The approval of the loan had been delayed by months due to a veto by EU member and Russian-ally Hungary, whose Prime Minister Victor Orbán suffered a “painful” election loss earlier this month.
Quote:A Russian drone attack overnight on Ukraine’s southern city of Odesa killed an elderly married couple and wounded more than a dozen others, Ukrainian officials said on Friday.
The strike wrecked two two-storey buildings and hit another two-storey one where two people died, emergency services said.
It also wrecked apartments in a three-storey building, triggering fire, they said.
“A married couple, both aged 75, were killed in a night-time attack,” Serhiy Lysak, the head of the local military administration, said on Telegram.
Lysak said that 15 people were injured in the attack, while emergency services put the number of injured at 14.
He added that eight of those injured in the attack were treated in hospital.
Lysak posted photos of a building engulfed by fire, and another one with a gaping hole on its side, and emergency crews working inside.
Quote:At least 10 people were killed and 73 wounded across Ukraine in devastating attacks over the past day, as the war-torn country faced one of Russia’s largest bombing campaigns of the war.
Russian forces fired 47 missiles and 619 drones overnight into Saturday — including about 400 Shahed-type “kamikaze” drones, Ukraine’s Air Force said.
The strikes caused “considerable destruction” on the frontline city of Dnipro, which was hit by three waves of attacks.
Explosions were first heard around 3:30 a.m. local time, and the first barrage lasted “for more than 10 hours,” according to Dnipro Gov. Oleksandr Hanzha.
Roofs of apartment buildings collapsed from the deafening blasts, entire floors were ripped to pieces and nearly 1,500 windows were left shattered, according to local officials.
Overnight, 27 houses, two kindergartens and a medical clinic were destroyed, Dnipro Mayor Borys Filatov said.
A thick column of black smoke rose into the skyline, towering over the city Saturday morning.
As firefighters pulled four dead bodies from under the rubble, the city was hit by a double-tap strike, killing four more people during the daytime hours.
Two police officers were among those injured in the second strike, and the deputy mayor, other city officials and first responders were “almost killed,” according to Filatov.
EGYPT
Quote:It might have been mummy’s favorite bedtime story.
Archaeologists found part of Homer’s “The Iliad” stuffed inside a 1,600-year-old mummy’s abdomen — a surprising and first-of-its-kind find, experts said.
Researchers from the University of Barcelona said a papyrus fragment written in Greek was discovered during an excavation of a Roman Empire-era Egyptian tomb.
The fragment includes a section of Book Two of the ancient epic, which details the legendary Trojan War, the university said.
The fragment names the famous catalog of ships used against the city of Troy, likely placed inside the mummy’s abdomen during embalming, university researchers detailed.
The discovery, first announced this month, was uncovered by university researchers between November and December 2025 — and is the first time in recorded history that a Greek literary text has been found incorporated into a mummification ritual, scientists said.
The University of Barcelona’s Oxyrhynchus Archaeological Mission had previously documented Greek papyri tucked inside mummies in similar positions, but the text was always magical or ritualistic, according to researchers.
“It is worth noting that, since the late 19th century, a huge number of papyri have been discovered at Oxyrhynchus, including Greek literary texts of great importance,” said Professor Ignasi-Xavier Adiego, who helped lead the research campaign.
“But the real novelty is finding a literary papyrus in a funerary context,” Adiego added.
The male mummy was discovered inside Tomb 65 at the Al-Bahnasa necropolis, the site of ancient Oxyrhynchus, which sits roughly 190 miles south of Cairo.
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