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The sailboat used by Brian and Lynette Hooker in their travels around the Bahamas — named “Soulmate” — has been seized by U.S. Coast Guard investigators, according to two sources with knowledge of the investigation.

The boat departed Marsh Harbour in the Bahamas on Friday and it was on its way to the U.S. when the Coast Guard took it into custody Saturday.

This comes as the Coast Guard Investigative Service probe into the disappearance of Michigan mother Lynette Hooker has intensified in recent days, according to a source briefed on the investigation.

The “Soulmate” is seen before departing the Bahamas. Cindy Comtois to CBS News

CBS News has confirmed Coast Guard investigators have been actively conducting interviews with potential witnesses.

Last week, investigators released images of another sailboat and said they wanted to interview the occupants or owners of that vessel.

Lynette Hooker’s daughter, Karli Aylesworth, said in a Mother’s Day video message that she was aware that the Soulmate had left the Bahamas but she has not received any update from the Coast Guard.

“It’s the first mother day without my mom,” Aylesworth said in the video posted to social media. “It’s pretty hard right now to know that she’s not a text away anymore.”

Lynette Hooker was last seen near Aunt Pat’s Bay, near Elbow Cay and Hope Town, on the night of April 4, 2026, according to her husband who reported to local authorities that she fell overboard during their nighttime dinghy ride.

Brian Hooker has denied any wrongdoing and has not been charged with a crime. He was held for questioning by Bahamian authorities but released after five days.

After being released from custody, he traveled to the U.S to see his ailing mother, according to Brian Hooker’s Bahamian attorney. His current whereabouts are not known and his U.S. based attorney would not comment to CBS News.

Louisiana’s governor on the Supreme Court decision and his suspending of House primary elections

2026-05-10T19:00:18-0400 / https://www.cbsnews.com/news/louisiana-gov-on-supreme-court-decision-and-suspending-house-primary-elections-60-minutes-transcript/

This past week, chaos and protests broke out in statehouses as Republicans and Democrats race to draw new congressional maps. What is usually an arcane process has become an unprecedented political free-for-all.

At stake is control of Congress in November’s midterm elections. With a razor thin margin, both parties are rushing to draw new lines, hoping to tilt the House of Representatives in their favor.

Adding fuel to the fire: a landmark Supreme Court decision 11 days ago found a congressional map in Louisiana was unconstitutional. The court said legislators relied too heavily on race to draw the lines. And that’s where we went. Louisiana’s Republican governor and his party are already moving to carve out new districts and many Black voters we met fear their district will be wiped off the map.

Town hall pastor: I just don’t understand why there is nobody able to stop this train. You see all the wrong. You see– it’s– it’s racist. You know it.

This past Monday, it was a packed house at the Galilee Baptist church, the spiritual anchor to the west side of Shreveport, where for many, the memories of Jim Crow run deep.

One by one, the constituents lined up with questions about the fate of their congressional district. Their Democratic congressman, Cleo Fields, didn’t have many answers.

Rep. Cleo Fields: Sometimes you get a setback to be set up. I mean, don’t underestimate that power of the vote. That’s what they are tryin’ to take away.

Congressman Fields has served the people of Louisiana for most of his life. First elected to the House of Representatives in 1992, he lost, then won again in never ending redistricting battles. Now, he could be facing another loss.

Cecilia Vega: You believe this will not be your seat when and if this map is redrawn.

Rep. Cleo Fields: I think it’s highly unlikely.

Cecilia Vega: You have said this is not about you, your job, the seat that you hold personally.

Rep. Cleo Fields: I’m just occupying the seat, and that’s one of the things people get confused with, when there’s a voting rights seat created it guarantees a Black an election. No. It doesn’t guarantee a Black anything. It just gives a Black an opportunity to win an election. And that’s why they even passed the Voting Rights Act.

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The 1965 Voting Rights Act was created to protect minority voting power. In Louisiana, which has one of the highest percentages of Black residents in the country – about 30 percent – there has never been a Black politician elected to Congress in a district where Whites are in the majority.

The recent Supreme Court ruling virtually gutted the landmark legislation, but some say it’s time has passed.

Cecilia Vega: There are conservative African Americans, who’ve spoken out in recent days and they have praised this court’s ruling and they say that there’s proof of real racial progress.

Rep. Cleo Fields: Oh, there is progress in the nation, you know. But– but– but there is not progress in the southern part of our country to the extent that you should do away with the Voting Rights Act. You– you tell those same folk to come here and run for office and get elected.

The 6th District stretches more than 200 miles from Baton Rouge to Shreveport. During oral arguments, Chief Justice John Roberts called it, quote, “a snake that… runs from one side of the state angling up to the other, picking up Black populations as it goes along.”

The case was brought by a group describing themselves as “non-African American” voters. They sued Louisiana under the 14th Amendment’s Equal Protection clause, which says the government must treat everyone equally under the law.

In its ruling, the court called the 6th District map an unconstitutional racial gerrymander.

Named after founding father Elbridge Gerry, gerrymandering is the process of redrawing political voting lines to benefit the party in power and it’s perfectly legal. Elbridge Gerry created a district resembling a salamander. Thus, “jerry- mander.”

A snake in Louisiana, was a lobster in Virginia and earmuffs in Illinois.

Rep. Cleo Fields: Yeah, it absolutely looks like a snake.

Congressman Cleo Fields acknowledges Black representation in Washington has grown in ways that once seemed impossible. This Congress has more Black members than at any point in history, 63.

Cecilia Vega: Is that not progress?

Rep. Cleo Fields: Yeah, it’s–it’s progress. But it’s not progress for Louisiana. There are people who in this state and others just will not vote for a Black person for anything. You tell me I have to jump a certain height, that’s the rule, I can work to do that. Run a certain speed, if that’s the rule, let me work at it, I can do that. But if you tell me in order to be elected to Congress you have to be White, there’s nothing I can do about that. I need help from my government.

Gov. Jeff Landry: In the United States, we get equal rights. No one gets extra rights.

This past Tuesday, we went to Baton Rouge and met Gov. Jeff Landry at the governor’s mansion.

A close ally of President Trump, he dominates Louisiana politics. The colorful, conservative, Cajun was the state’s attorney general before winning the top job in 2023.

Gov. Jeff Landry: You cannot say that we are all created equal and that, that states must treat everyone equal under the law and then allow a law to sort people based upon race.

Following the Supreme Court decision, Gov. Landry declared a state of emergency and abruptly suspended congressional house primaries right as voting was starting, ordering a do-over at a future date, leaving voters dazed and confused.

Cecilia Vega: You declared a state of emergency? What exactly is the emergency?

Gov. Jeff Landry: We’ve got the highest court in the land says the map that you have is unconstitutional, so we don’t have a map under which our voters can vote on.

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Cecilia Vega: This country has held elections during the Civil War, during two world wars, elections still went on.

Gov. Jeff Landry: We’re gonna have an election and we’re actually gonna have an election on Election Day.

Cecilia Vega: But voting was already happening. As we sit here right now, more than 45,000 ballots have been returned. What happens to those?

Gov. Jeff Landry: Oh, those ballots are discarded and– and those voters will vote again in November.

Cecilia Vega: You say that like it’s not a big deal.

Gov. Jeff Landry: Well, it’s, it’s not a big, it’s not my fault. If, if anybody has a grievance, take it to the United States Supreme Court.

Legal challenges over redistricting have consumed Louisiana, with federal courts repeatedly forcing lawmakers to redraw maps.

Gov. Jeff Landry: Our voters are tired of it. I mean, does not Louisiana deserve some clarity?

Cecilia Vega: How do you want to see this look?

Gov. Jeff Landry: I want Louisiana to be finally unshackled from the decades of litigation.

Cecilia Vega: Would it concern you if there were no African American representatives from Louisiana in Congress?

Gov. Jeff Landry: That’s a decision that the legislature’s gonna make, but I don’t believe that if, that we have to go and draw a district that guarantees us a minority representation.

Redistricting usually happens at the beginning of each decade using Census data. But last summer, President Trump pushed Texas Republicans to redraw maps in hopes of gaining five seats ahead of the midterms. California’s Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom responded by pushing a redistricting plan of his own that could give democrats in his state five additional blue seats.

Even former President Obama, who has publicly opposed gerrymandering in the past, is now pushing Democrats to fight back and pick up as many congressional seats as they can.

The political tit-for-tat has turned into a coast-to-coast gerrymandering arms race and Republicans are feeling increasingly confident following court rulings in their favor in Louisiana and Virginia.

This past week, their efforts to redraw maps led to protests at the statehouse in Tennessee and Alabama.

Stephen Vladeck: Whoever draws the maps now has no legal requirement that the map be drawn in any way to protect the political power of minority groups.

Stephen Vladeck, a Georgetown Law professor who studies the Supreme Court, predicts gerrymandering will lead to an even more polarized Congress dominated by lawmakers representing the extremes of both parties.

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Stephen Vladeck: Instead of, you know, once every ten years per the Constitution, states saying, “Oh, we gotta redraw our maps ’cause we have more data about who our people are,” now it’s, “Let’s redraw our maps whenever it’s to our partisan political advantage to do so.”

Cecilia Vega: Is the biggest difference now President Trump’s in office?

Gov. Jeff Landry: Oh, no. No. In fact, to me the president is– has– has no– it’s– he’s irrelevant in this issue right now.

Cecilia Vega: He’s been heaping praise on you for this.

Gov. Jeff Landry: Well, I’m sure that the president would like to see the House of Representatives stay in Republican control.

Cecilia Vega: I do have to ask you point blank, has the president asked you to redraw maps in order to help him in the midterms?

Gov. Jeff Landry: The president has not asked me to redraw the maps.

That job falls to the Republican super majority in Louisiana’s state legislature, which is already hard at work redrawing the maps, capitalizing on the Supreme Court’s ruling.

Cecilia Vega: Justice Alito suggested in his opinion that there’s less institutional racism today.

Gov. Jeff Landry: Well, I would agree with that.

Gov. Jeff Landry: I mean, think about it. Barack Obama was elected twice as the United States president. We’ve had a number of minorities elected. We’ve seen a rise of Republican candidates who are Black get elected. I mean, are we really tryin’ to drug up the past only to continue a failed narrative?

Cecilia Vega: What’s the failed narrative?

Gov. Jeff Landry: Well, the failed narrative is that actually that people in Louisiana are racist. That we– that basically we won’t elect Black people. I mean, I disagree with that.

But no Black candidate in Louisiana has been elected to a statewide office, such as governor or attorney general, since reconstruction. For many, Gov. Landry’s words fall flat. Pastor Timothy Hunter, Linda Scott, and Donnie Sutton have spent their lives in Shreveport and fear the future could soon resemble the past.

Pastor Timothy Hunter: The reality is, at the end of the day, it’s gonna dilute the Black vote. That’s the whole purpose. This Republican Congress is all about making America Jim Crow again. There’s no more checks and balances. Everything that was there to guard against this type of gerrymandering is destroyed. So there’s nobody to stop the train.

Cecilia Vega: Can you separate politics from race in this district?

Donnie Sutton: No, you can’t. Not in all of these Southern states.

Linda Scott: We’ve come a long ways, but not with this when it comes to race and not with the schemes that they’re putting up before us. It’s just a disgrace but we must keep pressing forward. We have to. Too many people have suffered and died for us to have these rights.

Cecilia Vega: I think a lot of African American voters in this state might say they need that protection when it comes to the ballot box.

Gov. Jeff Landry: I mean, we’d go back to Martin Luther King, right? Judge a person based upon the content of their character rather than the color of their skin.

Cecilia Vega: Black voters in Louisiana have told me that they feel like it’s true someone who looks like you who has not lived their experience does not address their concerns as well as someone who has lived their experience.

Gov. Jeff Landry: Well, how is it that a little country boy who grew up in a town that was primarily Black, not lived through those experiences?

Cecilia Vega: But I do think a lot of folks might say those experiences are not necessarily the same.

Gov. Jeff Landry: Well, you’re saying, “I should not judge a person just because the person is Black.” And I agree with that. But isn’t it the opposite that I shouldn’t be judged just because I’m White, or Hispanic or Indian. I mean here we are, after all of the different cases, after all of the rectification of the sins of the past, which certainly no one has denied and yet we’re still trying to find some sliver of discrimination in race.

Cecilia Vega: I think a lotta people would say you don’t have to try to find it. It’s there.

Gov. Jeff Landry: I would say that you find– that– that it would reside in people’s hearts, not in their laws.

Produced by Graham Messick, Michael Karzis and Ayesha Siddiqi. Associate producers: Katie Kerbstat, Alex Ortiz, Kit Ramgopal Broadcast associates: Marcos Caballero and Erin DuCharme. News associate: Paloma Vigil. Edited by Matthew Lev and Mike Levine. Assistant editor, Aisha Crespo.

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Netanyahu wants Israel “to draw down to zero the American financial support”

2026-05-10T19:00:22-0400 / https://www.cbsnews.com/news/netanyahu-us-israel-iran-60-minutes-transcript/

The ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran was tested again today by suspected Iranian drone strikes in the Persian Gulf, another spurt of hostilities in a war that has now spread from the Gulf to Lebanon, further complicating White House efforts to close a deal that would reopen the Strait of Hormuz and stabilize energy prices.

With so much at stake — and as the war stretches into its 11th week — our CBS News colleague Major Garrett spoke yesterday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. This is Netanyahu’s first U.S. broadcast interview since the war began. He was careful with his words, but if you listen closely, you can find signs of where the war, and the region, may be headed.

Major Garrett: Is the war with Iran over? And if it isn’t, who will decide when it is?

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: I think it accomplished a great deal, but it’s not over, because there’s still nuclear material, enriched– uranium that has to be taken out of– Iran. There are still– enrichment sites that have to be dismantled. There are still proxies that– Iran supports. There are ballistic missiles that they still– want to produce. Now, we’ve degraded a lot of it. But all that is still there, and there’s work to be done.

Major Garrett: How do you envision the highly enriched uranium will be removed from Iran?

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: You go in, and you take it out.

Major Garrett: With what? Special Forces from Israel, Special Forces from the United States?

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: Well, I’m not gonna talk about military means, but the pres– what President Trump has said to me, “I want to go in there.” and I think it can be done physically. That’s not the problem. If you have an agreement, and you go in, and you take it out, why not? That’s the best way.

Major Garrett: What if there isn’t an agreement? Can it be taken out by force?

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: Well, you’re gonna ask me these questions. I’m gonna dodge them. Because I’m not gonna talk about our military– possibilities, plans, or anything of the kind.

Major Garrett: And I’m just tryin’ to get at, “How long is it going to take to achieve that aim?”

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: I’m not gonna give a timetable to it, but I’m gonna say that’s a terrifically important mission.

Hours before we sat down with the prime minister, Israel targeted Iranian-backed Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon. This is the second front in the war with Iran – much more Israel’s than America’s.

Major Garrett: Is it possible, Mr. Prime Minister, that the war with Iran could end but the war with Hezbollah could continue? That these would be separate–

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: If we–

Major Garrett: –and divergent battlefields–

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: Well, they should be. They should be. B– what Iran would like to do is to say, “No, you know, if we achieve a ceasefire here, we want a ceasefire there–“

Major Garrett: They do.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: Yeah.

Major Garrett: Clearly.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: You know why? Because they want Hezbollah to stay there and continue to torture Lebanon, continue to hold its people hostage, and continue–

Major Garrett: Will you accept that?

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: No. No, we’ve said–

Major Garrett: Even if President Trump asks you to?

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: Well, look, he understands what I’m saying. I mean, we are– we want to get rid of that danger to our communities, to our cities. They rocket our cities all the time. They rocket our communities. And of course he– would you want to live like that?

Major Garrett: So this could go on?

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: Yeah, but I–

Major Garrett: Even if Iran is solved?

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: I hope– I– no. If Iran– if this regime is indeed weakened or possibly toppled, I think it’s the end of Hezbollah, it’s the end of Hamas, it’s probably the end of the Houthis, because the whole scaffolding of the terrorist proxy network that Iran built collapses if the regime in Iran collapses.

Major Garrett: Do you believe it is possible to topple the Iranian regime?

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: I think that you can’t predict when that happen. Is it possible? Yes. Is it guaranteed? No.

But in the days before the war, according to a New York Times investigation, the prime minister presented a more optimistic case to the president.

Major Garrett: And the New York Times reports as follows. Quote, “In the Situation Room on February 11, Mr. Netanyahu made a hard sell, suggesting that Iran was ripe for regime change and expressing the belief that a joint U.S.-Israeli mission could finally bring an end to the Islamic Republic.” Is that correct?

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: No. That’s actually incorrect, because–

Major Garrett: In what ways is it incorrect?

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: It’s incorrect in the sense that I said, “Oh, well, it’s guaranteed we can do it,” and so on.

Major Garrett: In the confines of that conversation–

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: Oh, yeah.

Major Garrett: –you noted the uncertainty?

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: Not only did I note it. We both agreed, you know, that there was both uncertainty and risk involved. And I remember that we– I said, and he said that the danger– there’s danger in action, in taking action. But there’s greater danger in not taking action.

Major Garrett: and continuing what the New York Times reported, quote, Mr. Netanyahu and his team outlined conditions they portrayed as pointing to certain victory, adding “the regime would be so weakened that it could not choke off the Strait of Hormuz.” Is that factually incorrect?

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: I don’t think we could quantify it exactly, but I think that– the– the problem of– the Hormuz Straits was– was understood as the fighting went on. I think that’s–

Major Garrett: It became understood?

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: It became understood.

Major Garrett: Was it misread at the beginning?

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: I think– I’m not sure it was misread. But the– you know, there’s a– great risk for Iran to do it. And it took a while for them to understand how big that risk is, which they understand now. No, I– I don’t claim– perfect foresight, and nobody had perfect foresight. Neither did the Iranians.

Also not foreseen: the degree of Iranian military retribution against neighboring Gulf states and the damage it has caused. The prime minister told us we’d be surprised how many Arab states are interested in strengthening ties with Israel.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: I now see the possibility of the expansion and the deepening of the agreements we do have to alliances with Arab states of the kind that we never even dreamed of.

Major Garrett: There is concern rising among the Gulf monarchies that it will not allow and does not want Israel to exercise strategic dominance over the Middle East. So has any of this been jeopardized?

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: I’m hearing different things. I’m hearing the fact from Arab countries, which I won’t get into.

Major Garrett: All of them?

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: No. But some of them, and I never heard that before. “Let’s strengthen our alliance with Israel,” because that in fact, deters Iran. Let’s strengthen our alliance with Israel because we can do amazing things with Israel.

Major Garrett: That was clearly the trajectory before this conflict.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: It’s more than you think now in ways that I cannot– I guess will become public, although, you know, I can’t give everything to 60 Minutes or to you in one shot. But I’m telling you that the degree of economic cooperation on energy, on AI, on quantum, the– the areas where Israel is so strong. And they see the possibility now of sharing– the fruits of these capabilities with them. And that’s happening right now.

Also happening now – or later this week – a summit between Chinese President Xi Jinping and President Trump. China is the world’s largest importer of crude oil through the Strait of Hormuz. We were curious about China’s military involvement with Iran.

Major Garrett: I’d like to ask you about what you know about China providing materially valuable military support to what remains of the Iranian regime. True?

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: China gave certain amount of support and particular components of– missile manufacturing. But I can’t say– more than that.

Major Garrett: Does that disturb you?

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: Well, I didn’t like it.

Major Garrett: ‘Cause it’s apparently doing it right now.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: Could be. Could be. I don’t want to speak for China. I don’t want to speak also–

Major Garrett: But you have eyes and ears on this–

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: –for President.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: Yeah, well, you know– but I also have a closed mouth when necessary.

American military aid to Israel has enjoyed bipartisan consensus for decades. It is now $3.8 billion per year and subject to new political scrutiny because of shifting public attitudes about Israel and foreign aid in general.

Major Garrett: Do you believe it’s time for the state of Israel to reexamine and possibly reset its financial relationship to the United States? Meaning, what the United States provides to Israel on an annual basis.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: Absolutely. And I’ve said this to President Trump. I’ve said it in– to our own people. Their jaws drop, but I said, “Look.”

Major Garrett: What do you mean? What are you saying?

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: I want to draw down to zero the American financial support, the financial component of the military cooperation that we have. Because we receive– we receive $3.8 billion a year. And I– I think that it’s time that we weaned ourselves from the remaining– military support.

Major Garrett: Can you give me a time table?

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: I said, let’s start now and do it over the next decade, over the next ten years, but I want to start now. I don’t want to wait for the next Congress. I want to start now.

Well-versed in American politics, the prime minister is keenly aware of declining support for Israel. According to a recent Pew survey, 60% of U.S. adults reported having an unfavorable view of Israel, up nearly 20 points in four years.

One of the big reasons: the war in Gaza, where according to the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry, more than 70,000 people have been killed. That includes civilians as well as Hamas terrorists.

Netanyahu attributes the reputational harm to Israel almost entirely to social media which he calls the eighth front of the war.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: This, this is yours, right? (holds phone)

Major Garrett: Uh-huh.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: You’re not immune either. Because you can penetrate this machine. You can penetrate this– this little instrument. And you can say about Major Garrett anything you want. And I can paint you as a monster. And if I say it often enough, enough people will believe it.

Major Garrett: Do you believe Israel is at risk of losing this war on that social media front? And this is particularly, I believe, important in America for younger Americans, Republican and Democrat, scrolling through images. And they would use words like barbaric in Gaza and in Lebanon.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel has gone to unbelievable lengths to get innocent civilians out of harm’s way.

We text message millions of text messages to them– make millions of phone calls to them, pamphlets, leaflets, you name it, okay?

We have seen the deterioration of the support for Israel in the United States almost– I would say, it correlates almost 100% with the geometric rise of social media. And that by itself is not what caused it. And I– I don’t believe in, you know, in censoring them or anything.

But I’ll tell you what happened. We have several countries that basically manipulated social media. And they do it in a clever way. And that’s– that’s something that has hurt us badly.

Major Garrett: Is it your belief, Mr. Prime Minister, that nothing that Israel has done tactically or strategically has made no mistakes either in Gaza or the West Bank that have in their own way contributed to this negative impression of Israel, whether it’s on social media or someplace else?

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: No, of course not. Look, it’s war. And in war, armies sometimes miss and civilians die. And these are mistakes, these are not deliberate things that happen. Israel is besieged on the media front, on the propaganda front, and we’ve not done well on the propaganda war

The International Criminal Court, which neither Israel nor the U.S. recognize, has accused the prime minister of war crimes for Israel’s conduct in Gaza, where he says he has not yet achieved one of his most important goals – disarming Hamas.

Major Garrett: Now what?

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: Somebody has to disarm them. Somebody has to then– demilitarize Gaza. I would say, disarm, demilitarize, deradicalize, because you don’t want these fanatics there.

Major Garrett: Is that Israel’s obligation? Or is that the international community’s obligation through the Board of Peace in some sort of–

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: Major, Major, find me the countries who would do it. You know, if it comes down to us, then we’ll (NOISE) have to do it, but we’ll choose the time and the circumstances in which to do it because, you know, we’ve got a few other things. But we are not going to let Hamas– ever threaten Israel again. It’ll have to be done. Could be done the hard way, could be done the easy way. I always prefer the easy way, because unlike my– caricature image, having been to war, having seen the– the tragedy of war, having experienced it in my own family– you don’t readily dispatch people, young men and sometimes young women into the battlefield.

Major Garrett: You know, though, Mr. Prime Minister, there is an impression about you that is a hunger that people perceive in you for conflict.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: That’s funny, you know, because for years, I was considered, right, before the October 7th, I was considered perhaps the most restrained prime minister in Israel’s history. I was conceived as being, you know, politically tough but militarily very restrained. Obviously, it changed on October 7th, because they were gonna annihilate us. I didn’t think it was just an attack by Hamas. I saw it as it was, an attack by the Iran axis to try to annihilate us through a noose of death. And I said in the second day of the war, I said, “We’re going to change the Middle East.” We’re going to change this condition where they’re ganging up on us thinking they’re going to wipe out the one and only Jewish state, wipe out 3,500 years of Jewish history. It’s not gonna happen, not on my watch. And I said to the Israeli citizens, “Not on your watch.”

Produced by Arden Farhi, Andy Court, Marc Lieberman and Erin Lyall. Field producer, Michal Ben-Gal. Associate producers, Jane Greeley, Meghan Lisson, Cassidy McDonald and Georgia Rosenberg. Edited by Peter M. Berman and Warren Lustig. Assistant editor, Aisha Crespo.

Trump says US helped secure release of 5 prisoners in Belarus deal, thanks Lukashenko

2026-05-10 17:19 EDT / Fox News

Andrzej Poczobut, a Sakharov Prize-winning journalist arrested in 2021, was among those freed in the deal

By Greg Wehner Fox News

Published May 10, 2026 5:19pm EDT

President Donald Trump announced Sunday that five prisoners from Poland and Moldova were released from detention in Belarus and Russia following diplomatic efforts involving the U.S., marking a rare breakthrough in negotiations with the two countries.

The release includes Polish journalist and activist Andrzej Poczobut, whose case has drawn international attention and concern from European leaders, and signals a potential opening for limited cooperation between Washington and Minsk, even as tensions with Russia remain high and broader disputes persist.

“We just secured the release of three Polish and two Moldovan prisoners from Belarusian and Russian detention,” Trump said on Truth Social. “Thanks to my Special Presidential Envoy, John Coale, we were able to push hard to make this release happen.

“My friend, President Karol Nawrocki of Poland, met with me last September and asked me to help secure Andrzej Poczobut from Belarusian prison,” he continued. “Today, Poczobut is free due to our efforts. The United States delivers for our Allies and Friends.

SECRETARY OF STATE RUBIO HAILS RELEASE OF US PRISONER IN BELARUS AS CONTROVERSY HANGS OVER NATION’S ELECTION

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko and Russian President Vladimir Putin meet during a past engagement, while President Donald Trump is shown separately, as recent prisoner negotiations signal shifting dynamics between Washington, Minsk and Moscow.(Vladimir Smirnov/AFP; Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)

“Thank you to President Aleksandr Lukashenko for his cooperation and friendship. So nice!” Trump added.

Poczobut, a correspondent for the Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza and a prominent member of Belarus’ Polish minority, had been serving an eight-year sentence in a case widely criticized as politically motivated.

He was arrested in 2021 after reporting on pro-democracy protests in Belarus, drawing international condemnation. Poczobut was later awarded the Sakharov Prize, the European Union’s top human rights honor.

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Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski addresses a joint press conference in Warsaw on Sept. 29, 2025, following a meeting of the foreign ministers of the Weimar Triangle and Ukraine.(Wojtek Radwanski/AFP)

Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski described Poczobut as both a symbol of the fight for freedom in Belarus and an example of Poland’s commitment to securing the return of its citizens.

The exchange was part of a broader series of prisoner releases negotiated with U.S. involvement, reflecting a recent thaw in relations between Washington and Minsk under Trump.

A spokesperson for Poland’s Foreign Ministry said the deal involved a multi-country arrangement, with three individuals transferred from Belarus to Poland in exchange for three sent in the opposite direction, alongside others released through separate agreements.

AMERICAN AMONG 3 DETAINEES RELEASED FROM BELARUS

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko listens during a meeting with foreign correspondents in Minsk, Belarus, on July 6, 2023.(Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP)

Those freed included Grzegorz Gawel, a Roman Catholic friar from the Carmelite order in Krakow, as well as a Belarusian national who had worked with Polish intelligence services, according to Polish officials, who did not publicly identify the individual.

Earlier this year, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko authorized the release of 250 political prisoners under an agreement with Washington that led to a partial easing of U.S. sanctions.

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Belarus, a longtime ally of Russia, has remained largely isolated from the West for years. Lukashenko, who has been in power for more than three decades, has faced repeated sanctions over human rights abuses and for allowing Russian forces to use Belarusian territory during the 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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伊媒称美国提案“过分” 伊朗不会取悦美国

2026年5月11日 07:36 / 联合早报

德黑兰有一幅巨型的特朗普漫画图，漫画配文：“所以我们为伊朗女性争取自由”（左上），“不用视频，你说什么我照做”（右下）。 （法新社）

伊朗一知情人士说，伊朗不会为了取悦美国而制定计划，只会为了维护伊朗人民的权益而制定计划。伊朗媒体称接受美国提案的过分要求，等于向美国总统特朗普“屈服”。

伊朗塔斯尼姆通讯社星期一（5月11日）引述这名知情人士说，当特朗普不满意时，“通常反而更好”。特朗普不愿面对现实，这是他屡次败给伊朗的原因。

特朗普10日在社交媒体上发文说，他刚看了伊朗“那些所谓代表”对美国和平方案的最新回应，特朗普说：“我不满意——完全不可接受。”

路透社引述伊朗国家媒体报道，伊朗通过巴基斯坦调解方正式提交给美国的最新方案，强调美国必须赔偿伊朗的战争损失，以及伊朗对霍尔木兹海峡的主权。

伊朗国家媒体指，伊朗接受特朗普的过分要求意味着向他投降。

伊朗政府运营的英语新闻电视台Press TV也称，伊朗接受美国提案等于向特朗普屈服，并指伊朗已拒绝了美国的提案。

伊朗媒体10日早前报道，伊朗向巴基斯坦调解方正式提交了对美国旨在结束战争的最新方案的回应。

伊朗塔斯尼姆通讯社同日报道，知情人士说，伊朗在最新回应中，要求美国财政部外国资产控制办公室在30天内撤销与伊朗石油销售相关的制裁。

另据《华尔街日报》早前报道，伊朗提议将部分高浓缩铀库存转移给第三国，但拒绝拆除核设施。伊朗半官方通讯社塔斯尼姆通讯社指《华尔街日报》的报道“不属实”。

美媒：一艘美国商船在波斯湾遭伊朗无人机袭击

2026年5月11日 07:42 / 联合早报

美国媒体称，一艘美国商船星期天（5月10日）在波斯湾遭到伊朗两架无人机袭击。

新华社引述福克斯新闻数码网报道，消息人士说，遇袭美国商船被其中一架无人机击中，船上有23名船员，暂无人员受伤报告。

报道说，遭遇袭击时，这艘船没有装载货物，停泊在卡塔尔多哈港附近。

英国海上贸易行动办公室10日称，根据收到的报告，一艘货船在卡塔尔首都多哈附近海域行驶时，被一枚不明飞行物击中起火。

伊朗媒体报道，在卡塔尔附近海域被击中的货船悬挂美国国旗。

Russia and Ukraine accuse each other of violating U.S.-brokered ceasefire

May 10, 2026 1:44 PM EDT / CBS/AP

Russia and Ukraine swapped accusations of breaking a U.S.-brokered ceasefire on Sunday, with both sides claiming to have suffered casualties in drone and artillery strikes over the past 24 hours.

President Trump had announced Friday that Russia and Ukraine would swap 1,000 prisoners as part of a three-day ceasefire, coinciding with the observation of Victory Day in Russia over the weekend.

On Sunday, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Russia was neither observing the truce nor “even particularly trying to,” adding there had been no calm in front line areas despite a lull in large-scale attacks and pledged that Ukraine would retaliate to any aggression shown by Moscow.

“Yesterday and today, Ukraine refrained from long-range retaliatory actions in response to the absence of large-scale Russian attacks,” Zelenskyy said in evening statement, stressing Ukraine’s increasing ability to hit targets far inside Russia.

“We will continue to respond in the same mirrorlike manner, and if the Russians decide to return to full-scale warfare, our response will be immediate and significant.”

Ivan Fedorov, head of Ukraine’s southeastern Zaporizhzhia region, said one person had been killed and three others had been injured by Russian artillery and drone attacks in the last 24 hours. Another 16 people were also wounded in attacks across other regions of Ukraine, local officials said.

Russia’s Ministry of Defense, meanwhile, accused Kyiv of committing more than 1,000 ceasefire violations, state media reported, citing a daily briefing. The ministry said Ukrainian forces had attacked civilian targets in several Russian regions and carried out strikes against Russian military positions on the front line.

Russia’s military had “responded in kind” to the ceasefire violations, the ministry said.

Two people were injured by Ukrainian shelling in the Russian-occupied part of Ukraine’s Kherson region, the area’s Moscow-installed leader Vladimir Saldo said.

Mr. Trump had said Friday that the break in fighting could be the “beginning of the end” of the war. Both Russia and Ukraine had previously announced ceasefires on different days, so the timeline of the latest three-day pause was somewhat unclear. But Mr. Trump had said the temporary ceasefire would suspend fighting from Saturday through Monday, terms to which Ukraine and Russia both appeared to agree.

Zelenskyy, who had said Russian authorities “fear drones may buzz over Red Square” during the May 9 parade in Moscow, followed up on Mr. Trump’s statement by mockingly declaring Red Square temporarily off-limits for Ukrainian strikes to allow the Russian parade to go ahead. The Kremlin shrugged off the comment as a “silly joke.”

Russian presidential aide Yuri Ushakov said on Sunday he expects U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff and Mr. Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner — who have both taken a leading role in negotiations to end the war — to visit Moscow “soon enough.”

However, he stressed that Moscow would not move from its demand that Kyiv’s troops withdraw from Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region. “Until (Ukraine) takes that step, we can hold several more rounds, dozens of rounds (of negotiations), but we’ll be stuck in the same place,” Ushakov was cited by the state news agency Tass as saying.

Previous ceasefires, most recently at Orthodox Easter, have failed to produce any tangible results amid deep mistrust between Moscow and Kyiv more than four years after Russia launched its invasion of its neighbor. U.S.-led diplomatic efforts to stop the war have also largely stalled.

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International operation disrupts “cocaine highway” across the Atlantic Ocean

May 10, 2026 / 1:06 PM EDT / CBS News

A weekslong operation to thwart drug trafficking routes from Latin America to Europe has successfully disrupted what authorities called “a major cocaine highway” in the Atlantic Ocean.

Over 12 tons of cocaine and about 9.5 metric tons of hashish were seized over the course of the operation, which lasted from April 13 to April 26, said Europol, the European Union’s law enforcement agency. Eight vessels were intercepted and 54 people were arrested overall.

The mission involved international law enforcement bureaus and was coordinated by Europol. The agency said it aimed to specifically target drug trafficking networks moving cocaine from parts of Latin America to Europe through “complex at-sea transfers,” conceived to evade detection by avoiding major ports.

In order to locate the boats carrying out these covert transfers at sea, law enforcement agents were deployed to various sites across the Atlantic, focusing on an area between Spain’s Canary Islands and Portugal’s Azores.

They were tasked with detecting, tracking and intercepting vessels suspected of drug trafficking during the two-week operation, according to Europol. After the agency warned earlier this year that trafficking networks were changing how they moved cocaine across the Atlantic, it said the results of its latest mission essentially reinforced what it already beleived to be true.

“The recent operation demonstrates the patterns Europol had identified earlier this year: criminal networks are increasingly moving cocaine offshore to reduce exposure to law enforcement at major ports,” the agency said, adding that shipments across the Atlantic “are now moved in multiple stages.”

Called “fragmented maritime routes,” the piecemeal drug transfers that authorities say traffickers are using more often essentially “fragment” the risks to all those involved, said Europol.

According to the agency, the intelligence gathered during the recent operation helped authorities gain a better understanding of how the evolving networks work — particularly in the section of ocean between the Canary islands and the Azores known to them as the “cocaine highway” because of the frequent trafficking activity there.

“Criminal networks are becoming increasingly flexible, and internationally connected. But our response is evolving fast too,” said Jean-Philippe Lecouffe, Europol’s deputy executive director of operations, in a statement. “Over a two-week operational period, law enforcement dealt a significant blow to what is known as the cocaine highway.”

Lecouffe said Europol will use the new intelligence “to build on the intelligence gathered to help identify and dismantle the criminal networks behind these trans-Atlantic operations.”