In Case You Missed It … This Week in News

A lot happened in the world this week – Make sure you didn’t miss it with Liberty Nation GenZ’s weekly news roundup!

Sunday, May 10, 2026

Putin Says Russia-Ukraine War ‘Coming to an End’

Russian President Vladimir Putin told reporters on Saturday that he thinks the war between Russia and Ukraine is winding down. “I think the matter is coming to an end,” Putin said after vowing to win in Ukraine during Moscow’s Victory Day parade. The Russian leader also said he’d be willing to negotiate new security arrangements with Europe.

Experts Warn Iran Has Enough Plutonium for 200+ Nuclear Bombs

Nuclear weapons experts are warning the Trump administration that a deal must be struck soon with Iran to prevent any attempt to use plutonium to build an atomic bomb. Fox News reported that Henry Sokoski of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center warned that Iran had enough plutonium for more than 200 bombs.

Arizona Sheriff Reports Progress in Nancy Guthrie Case – But No Details

Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos told the press on Saturday that there has been progress in the search for Nancy Guthrie, who was last seen on January 31. Fox News reporters approached the sheriff outside his office and asked if they were close to solving the case. “We are,” he replied.

Monday, May 11, 2026

Trump Calls Iran Peace Proposal Response ‘Totally Unacceptable’

President Donald Trump on Sunday expressed his frustration with Iran’s response to a US peace proposal to end the war between the two nations. “I have just read the response from Iran’s so-called ‘representatives.’ I don’t like it – totally unacceptable,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post. In an earlier post, he lashed out at Iran for delaying the process. “Iran has been playing games with the United States, and the rest of the world, for 47 years (delay, delay, delay), and then finally hit ‘pay dirt’ when Barack Hussein Obama became president. He was not only good to them, he was great, actually going to their side, jettisoning Israel, and all other allies, and giving Iran a major and very powerful new lease on life,” he wrote. “For 47 years the Iranians have been ‘tapping’ us along, keeping us waiting, killing our people with their roadside bombs, destroying protests, and recently wiping out 42,000 innocent, unarmed protestors, and laughing at our now great again country. They will be laughing no longer.”

Netanyahu: Time to End US Financial Support of Israel

Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the time is ripe to end long-standing financial support of Israel by the United States. “I want to draw down to zero the American financial support – the financial component of the military cooperation that we have – because we receive $3.8 billion per year. And I think it’s time we weaned ourselves from the remaining military support,” Netanyahu told CBS News in an interview that aired Sunday. When asked what the timeline was for such a move, Netanyahu replied, “Let’s start now and do it over the next decade.”

Trump Vows to Field ‘Election Integrity Army’ For Midterms

President Donald Trump on Sunday promised Republicans will amass an “election integrity army” to act in all 50 states during the crucial midterm elections this November.

Hegseth Blasts Mark Kelly For ‘Blabbing’ About Arms Stockpiles

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on Sunday suggested Democrat Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) may have violated his oath of office with comments he made to CBS News Sunday about the state of the US weapons arsenal due to the Iran war following a classified briefing he received on the matter.

Tuesday, May 12, 2026

Trump: Iran Ceasefire ‘On Life Support’

President Donald Trump on Monday said a ceasefire with Iran is “on life support” as the Iranians refuse to go along with negotiated peace provisions they had agreed to regarding the handing over of stockpiles of enriched uranium.

Iran Parliament Speaker: US Taxpayers Suffer as War Drags On

The speaker of Iran’s parliament on Monday urged the US to accept the Middle East nation’s peace proposal to end the conflict between the two countries. President Donald Trump has already rejected the offering as a “piece of garbage.”

Supreme Court Clears Way for Alabama Congressional Redistricting

The US Supreme Court on Monday “cleared the way for Alabama officials to redraw their congressional map, weeks after striking down Louisiana’s second black-majority congressional district,” The Washington Examiner reports.

California Mayor Admits to Acting as Chinese Spy

The mayor of Arcadia, California, has resigned after “admitting to acting as an illegal foreign agent of China in a federal plea deal unsealed on Monday,” The New York Post reports.

Wednesday, May 13, 2026

Phone Data: 42% Drop in Canadian Visits to US Last Year

A study by the University of Toronto “suggests a roughly 42% reduction in visits to US cities by residents of Canada last year. The drop – much steeper than official border crossing statistics suggest – is largely attributed to mounting political and trade tension between the two countries,” CBS News reports.

Report: Saudi Arabia Launched Covert Attacks on Iran

Saudi Arabia “launched numerous, unpublicized strikes on Iran in retaliation for attacks carried out in the kingdom during the Middle East war, two Western officials briefed on the matter and two Iranian officials said,” Reuters reports.

Thursday, May 14, 2026

White House Defers $1.3 Billion in Medicaid Payments to California

The Trump administration announced on Wednesday that it is withholding $1.3 billion in Medicaid payments to California because the state refuses to take action against the rampant fraud plaguing the program.

US Hopes to Convince China to Take ‘Active Role’ in Iran

While en route to China on Wednesday as part of President Donald Trump’s visit to the Asian superpower, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that US officials will try to convince the Chinese to take a “more active role” in bringing the war in Iran to an end.

CIA Whistleblower Says Fauci Involved in COVID Origins Cover-Up

A CIA whistleblower “appeared publicly for the first time Wednesday to testify to a Senate panel that Dr. Anthony Fauci improperly ‘influenced’ intelligence analyses about the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic – to downplay findings that it most likely resulted from a laboratory accident in China,” The New York Post reports.