A contributing writer for the far-left publication Drop Site News called for “wiping out” Israel and urged his followers to not make Israelis “feel safe.”
Palestinian journalist Abubaker Abed, a self-described “accidental war correspondent” whose work is published by Drop Site, took to social media Monday with a post calling for the complete elimination of the Jewish state.
“Wiping out Israel off the planet is not enough revenge. Israelis mustn’t feel safe anymore. Haunt them and go after them where they go. These terrorist parasites must be removed from our planet,” Abed posted on Instagram.
Drop Site contributor Abubaker Abed told his Instagram followers called Israelis “terrorist parasites” who “must be removed from our planet.”(Screenshot/Instagram)
Drop Site co-founder Ryan Grim directed Fox News Digital to a statement saying Abed’s message does not represent the organization’s editorial position but stopped short of condemning the anti-Israel rhetoric.
“We also are never going to police the language of anyone who survived a genocide,” Grim wrote on X.
Abed called for “wiping out Israel off the planet.”(Photo by Ahmad Gharabli/AFP via Getty Images)
Drop Site, primarily known for its anti-Israel coverage of the Gaza war, bills itself as a “a non-aligned, investigative news organization dedicated to exposing the crimes of the powerful — particularly in overt and secret conflicts where the U.S. government is playing a key role.”
It has money from the George Soros-funded Open Society Foundations, which gave Drop Site a $250,000 grant in 2024 to establish a Middle East desk, according to a listing on Open Society’s website. The Washington Free Beacon also reported Soros money was funneled to Drop Site through the Social Security Works Education Fund.
MEXICO CITY — Environmentalist groups accused Mexico’s government of lying about the origins of a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, something authorities promptly denied.
Mexico’s government reported that 800 tons of hydrocarbon-laden waste have spilled into the ocean. The government said the spill started in March and the sources were a ship anchored off the coastal state of Veracruz and two sites from which oil naturally flows.
On Monday, a group of 17 organizations — including Greenpeace Mexico, the Mexican Alliance Against Fracking and the Mexican Center for Environmental Rights, or CEMDA — contradicted that claim and said that satellite images they captured show that the root of the spill was actually a pipeline from Mexico’s state-run oil company, Pemex, and that a large oil slick appeared in early February.
“All this lack of information is causing massive economic and environmental damage. So far no one has been held accountable,” Margarita Campuzano, spokesperson for CEMDA, said Tuesday.
Images from February circulated by the activists match images obtained by The Associated Press on Tuesday through Copernicus, the European climate agency. The photos show a boat floating over a sea clouded with what the groups say is oil, which appears to be streaming out of a platform.
The groups said that the boat in the images is Árbol Grande, which specializes in pipeline repair — implying that the government knew about the spill before it had reported and “hid it.”
Pemex called the information and images circulated by the groups “inaccurate” and said the Árbol Grande boat permanently traverses the Gulf of Mexico, “carrying out preventive inspections of platforms and specialized spill response operations.”
Campuzano called for greater transparency and more aggressive investigations by authorities.
“They’re trying to dilute their responsibility when technology makes it very easy to know where this occurred and who is responsible,” she said.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum on Tuesday denied the accusations during her morning press briefing and said that up until now, “no leak has been reported” in state oil infrastructure and that such natural seeps in the Gulf have happened in the past.
She said the government was investigating with scientists if the spill was “due to these natural seeps in the area, which have been reported on many occasions and are well-documented in scientific literature, or a leak from one of the facilities.”
Sheinbaum said that it was more probable that the spill came from the natural seeps, and added that teams were hard at work cleaning up the spill and mitigating the effects.
While government officials recognized the impacts on turtles, birds and fish, and the spread to protected ecosystems, they also insisted that it had not caused “severe environmental damage.”
The accusations come as environmental groups in the United States have also raised alarm after the Trump administration exempted oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico from the Endangered Species Act, saying environmentalists’ lawsuits threatened to hobble domestic energy supplies during the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran.
Critics said the move could harm marine life and also doom a rare whale species.
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Associated Press writer Teresa de Miguel in Mexico City contributed to this report.
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Jamie Dimon is defending capitalism in its hour of need.
In an interview with “CBS Evening News” anchor Tony Dokoupil, the JPMorgan Chase CEO rejects critiques of the country’s economic system as no longer benefiting a mass of Americans as “dead wrong.” Dimon acknowledged that capitalism has its drawbacks, but said it has helped lift “billions” out of poverty.
His remarks come as millions of Americans struggle with the high cost of living and with some polls showing a decline in positive views of capitalism. A recent CBS News poll also found that most Americans think it is harder to buy a home, raise a family and get a good job than it was for past generations.
Dimon spoke with Dokoupil following the launch of JPMorgan Chase’s new “American Dream” initiative, which will funnel tens of billions of dollars into local communities to support small businesses, affordable housing and job growth.
“Some people are selfish. Some are self-centered. Some are this. Some are that,” said Dimon, who is widely regarded as America’s most prominent banking industry CEO. “That’s true in a communist society or in a capitalist society. Some businesses do bad things, and it’s not because of capitalism.”
“Bad policy”
Still, while Dimon described the U.S. as a “prosperous nation” and said that Americans are better off than they were in the past, he acknowledged that the bottom third of income earners have seen less progress.
“Their incomes didn’t really go up very much,” he said. “They struggle more.”
The recent CBS News poll shows that 62% of Americans think opportunities are increasing for wealthy people, versus 16% who said the same for the middle class. Experts say such sentiments reflect the emergence of a so-called “K-shaped”economy in the U.S., which describes the divergent fortunes of wealthier people and those lower down the ladder.
Dimon blamed part of the affordability challenges many Americans face on “bad policy” that has failed to ignite economic growth, which he said has averaged around 2% for the last two decades.
“Had it been 3%, we [would have had] $20,000 per person more GDP. That would’ve paid for an awful lot,” he said, adding that growth is “what creates everything — capital formation, capital, R&D, investment, productivity.”
A need for affordable housing
To rev up economic activity, Dimon supports creating more affordable housing and boosting investment in local school districts.
Achieving those goals won’t be easy. To shore up the nation’s affordable housing supply, the JPMorgan CEO said the U.S. would need to rework the rules that dictate mortgage rates and remove barriers that make it more difficult and expensive to build homes.
“The reason we’re not building more affordable housing is because of local zoning requirements and mortgage origination — mortgage rules that made it so expensive to get a mortgage. We could reduce the cost of that mortgage,” he said.
Mortgage rates now stand at 6.38%, up 0.4 percentage points since the Iran war started on February 28. Meanwhile, the cost to build multifamily housing in states such as California is twice as much as in other states due to higher development fees and longer permitting processes, according to a report released last year by RAND, a nonpartisan research organization.
President Trump has called for a ban on institutional investors’ ability to buy single-family homes. But Dimon is skeptical that the proposal would have much of an impact.
“I hate to tell you this, it’s basically irrelevant…” he told CBS News. “Only 1% of the homes are owned by what you would call large companies. … I don’t think it’s gonna change any calculus.”
JPMorgan Chase prediction market?
Dimon also said JPMorgan Chase is assessing the growing demand for prediction markets, telling CBS News that “it’s possible one day we’ll do something like that.”
Still, JPMorgan Chase would draw the line at allowing customers to bet on sports and politics, as prediction markets do.
“There’s a bunch of stuff we won’t do. And obviously, we have strict rules around insider information,” Dimon said.
Asked by Dokoupil whether prediction markets are more for investing or gambling, Dimon said the platforms can be used for both purposes.
“I think for the most part, it’s more like gambling,” Dimon said. “But there are areas where you could say, ‘No, it’s investing.’ You are deeply knowledgeable. You’re taking the other side of a bet. And you think … you know better than the other person.”
AI will bring “huge benefits for society” — and risks
Dimon also touched on how he envisions artificial intelligence will reshape society. He predicts the technology could help develop treatments for disease, shrink the work week to three and a half days, and improve road and aviation safety, among other benefits.
“AI’s gonna cure cancers. It’s gonna come up with better materials. It’ll stop a lot of car crashes,” he said.
While the technology will improve people’s lives, AI could also disrupt parts of the job market, added Dimon, who stressed the importance of the public and private sectors joining forces to develop policies to address issues caused by AI.
“I do think AI in the long run will create huge benefits for society,” he said. “If it causes problems in the short run, let’s be prepared.”
Pain at the pump
With the Iran war entering its fifth week, Dimon admitted he is unsure if the conflict would tip the U.S. into a recession, saying that “what’s more important to the future of the world is that the war successfully conclude.”
He acknowledged that higher gas prices, which on Tuesday hit $4 a gallon for the first time since 2022, are “very unfortunate” and will cause hardship for many Americans.
“The gas prices are gonna hurt some folks,” he said, adding that “the sooner it gets properly resolved, the better.”
The PGA Tour also issued its first comment on Woods following the golfer’s statement.
“Tiger Woods is a legend of our sport whose impact extends far beyond his achievements on the course,” it said.
“But above all else, Tiger is a person, and our focus is on his health and well‑being. Tiger continues to have our full support as he takes this important step.”
The golf body’s CEO, Brian Rolapp, added: “Tiger Woods is one of the most influential figures the sports world has ever known.
“Over the last year, I have come to deeply appreciate Tiger not only for his impact on the game, but for his friendship and the perspective he has shared with me as I joined the golf industry.
“My thoughts are with him and his family as he takes this step, for which he has my full respect and support.”
Last week’s accident was the latest in a string of incidents that have littered Woods’ recent years.
His marriage ended – as did lucrative sponsorship deals – after he struck a fire hydrant, a tree and several hedges outside his home in a 2009 incident which sparked accusations of extramarital affairs.
Then in 2017 he was sentenced to a year’s probation after pleading guilty to reckless driving. That came after police officers found Woods slumped at the wheel of his car near his home. A toxicology report found he had several legal medications in his system and marijuana’s active ingredient.
In 2021, Woods survived a serious accident which left him with extensive injuries. He has had multiple surgeries since, and played only a limited schedule.
Last week, he competed in the TGL indoor golf league – his first competitive golf for more than a year – following more back surgery and an Achilles injury.
The Iran war is not only disrupting the global energy market but is also threatening the world’s supply of helium and aluminum, key materials used in products such as semiconductor chips, medical equipment and other everyday goods.
Qatar, which accounts for roughly one-third of the world’s helium supply, stopped producing helium this month following Iranian strikes on two liquid natural gas (LNG) facilities owned by state-run QatarEnergy.
Helium is a byproduct of natural gas processing, and attacks on Qatar’s liquefied natural gas facilities mean it could take years to rebuild production lines. Earlier this month, QatarEnergy told Reuters that the attacks wiped out 17% of the country’s LNG export capacity, and that repairs could take three to five years.
Those complications could add to the strains on the global economy beyond the impact of higher oil and gas prices, which so far have drawn the lion’s share of attention from consumers, businesses and economists. The helium shortage has largely been overlooked because the effects of oil supply constraints have been so acute and immediate, with the average price of gasoline on Tuesday hitting $4 a gallon for the first time since August 2022.
“We were so focused on gas supply that we didn’t see the helium shortage,” Vidya Mani, a global supply chain expert and associate professor of business administration at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, told CBS News.
Only a handful of countries produce helium, which means that a disruption from one of those nations can destabilize the global market. The United States is the biggest producer, accounting for 81 million cubic meters last year. Qatar, Algeria and Russia are the other major producers, but Russian supplies are banned under U.S. and European Union sanctions.
Semiconductors and helium
Because helium is highly effective at transferring heat, making it ideal for rapid cooling, it’s essential for manufacturing semiconductors. Chipmakers use it to cool wafers — the discs of silicon printed with tiny electronic circuits.
Helium is used during the etching process, when material that’s been deposited on a wafer is scraped away to form transistor structures, said Jacob Feldgoise, an analyst at Georgetown University’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology.
“Helium is an essential component of semiconductor manufacturing, and a significant proportion of it comes from Gulf countries,” Mani said. “Imagine not having chips to power laptops, iPhones and small appliances? Everything with circuitry runs on one, and all of those will be hurt if we don’t get helium soon.”
The medical industry also relies on helium to cool superconducting magnets powering magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI, machines. And the space industry uses helium to purge rocket fuel tanks, a demand that is expected to grow because of more frequent launches by companies like SpaceX and Blue Origin.
Impact on iPhones, AI
Mani said manufacturers that use helium tend to store no more than two months’ worth of supplies of the gas. If those resources start to run low, “You’re going to see a much wider impact,” she said.
Helium suppliers are already telling their U.S.-based customers, including semiconductor chip and electronics manufacturers, to expect shortages and price hikes, industry experts said.
“They are already receiving ‘force majeure’ and allocations letters,” Cliff Cain of Pulsar Helium, a helium exploration and development company, told CBS News. “The effects are already being felt.”
He added, “Everything from vehicle chips to iPhones will definitely be affected.”
Because there’s no way to boost supplies of helium in the near term, a global helium shortage will crimp chip manufacturing, he added. That could interfere with building out AI data centers and curtail companies’ investment plans, according to Oxford Economics.
“Semiconductor manufacturers have already indicated that they will not be able to meet their 2030 manufacturing goals,” Cain said. “We have resources here, but it’s not going to make up for the 33% disruption globally.”
Yvette Connor, risk advisory leader at CohnReznick, a business advisory firm, said American AI companies’ growth could be blunted by a chip shortage related to helium constraints. “It could potentially slow their velocity, not their capability,” she told CBS News.
Aluminum hits a 4-year high
A prolonged conflict in Iran could also lead to shortages of nitrogen and aluminum, potentially driving up food and packaging costs for U.S. consumers, according to supply chain experts.
Roughly 9% of the world’s aluminum supply is produced by Gulf countries, and local disruptions are already having an impact, according to Stephen Hare and Sebastian Tillet of Oxford Economics. Aluminum prices this week touched a four-year high.
“Disruptions in the region are reducing available supply, while rising energy costs are increasing production costs across the global cost curve. Together, this is tightening market conditions and pushing aluminum prices higher,” Hare and Tillet told CBS News.
An aluminum shortage would have a direct impact on consumer goods packaging costs in the near term, Mani said. It’s also used extensively in the automobile and electronics sectors, which can “expect to see a crunch,” she said.
Importantly, benefits were seen early in the clinical trial, before significant weight loss occurred, suggesting the drug works directly on the heart and blood vessels, not just through weight loss, says NICE (the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence).
Reports of pet scams have surged in recent months, according to data from a major bank.
Santander UK, whose “scamtracker” tracks authorised push payment (APP) scams, said that between January and March nearly £160,000 was stolen from customers responding to listings on social media and online selling platforms offering pets for sale.
This compared with a total of £29,735 reported stolen due to pet scams reported in the fourth quarter of 2025.
The bank’s data indicates that women and customers aged 46-plus are particularly likely to be targeted.
Common tactics used by scammers include asking for money upfront as a deposit, requesting funds to cover delivery of a pet, or money to cover vet bills and immunisations.
Claims received by the bank have involved a range of animals, from desirable breeds of cats and dogs, such as miniature dachshunds and cockapoo puppies, to parrots, reptiles, fish and horses.
In total, more than £3.4 million was stolen via purchase scams in the first quarter 2026, Santander said, with pet-related scams being the second biggest scam in terms of losses after vehicle scams.
Chris Ainsley, head of fraud risk management at Santander UK said: “If 2026 is the year you plan to welcome a furry, feathered or even scaly companion into your home, it’s vital to do your homework.
“Always research the seller carefully and choose reputable sources. Taking these steps won’t just protect your finances – it also helps ensure your new pet has come from a safe, and responsible environment.”
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Those with a greater number of siblings may find it easier to cope when a parent dies, a new study suggests.
Researchers in Finland observed a reduction in the purchase of medication for anxiety and depression among those with more brothers and sisters in the year preceding and following a parent’s death.
The correlation was particularly pronounced in women.
The analysis also indicated a higher likelihood of seeking medication when a person’s mother passed away than when a father died.
Experts scrutinised the buying patterns of drugs such as antidepressants, sedatives, sleeping pills, and anti-anxiety medications over a six-year period, encompassing three years before and three years after a parent’s death.
The study focused on patients aged between 35 and 55, who had between zero and three siblings.
Your siblings could be key to helping you navigate the loss of a parent (iStock/PeopleImages)
It looked at over 1.3 million people, among whom 12.5 per cent had lost their mother.
Another group included more than one million people, of whom 23 per cent had experienced the death of their father.
A key finding was that fewer siblings correlated with an increased propensity to purchase mental health medication, especially in the year after a mother’s death.
For only children whose mothers had died, the probability of buying medication was 5.1 percentage points higher compared to only children who had not experienced such a loss in the same year.
This figure contrasts with 4.3 percentage points for those with one sibling, 3.5 percentage points for individuals with two siblings, and 2.6 percentage points for those with three siblings.
Similarly, in the year before a mother’s death, only children were 2.8 percentage points more likely to purchase drugs, compared to 2.2 per cent for those with one sibling, 2 per cent for two siblings, and 1 per cent for three siblings.
The prevalence of drug purchases was highest among women following their mother’s death.
Women who have lost their mother are most likely to buy medication for anxiety and depression (Getty Images)
A 6.8 percentage point difference was noted between female only children who lost their mother and those who did not. This difference was 6.1 percentage points for women with one sibling, 4.7 per cent for those with two, and 3.9 per cent for those with three siblings.
Researchers propose that these gender disparities in purchasing habits “may reflect gendered differences in treatment seeking”.
Published in the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, the study also revealed that drug purchases varied depending on the cause of death.
Deaths attributed to dementia were linked to a higher number of drug purchases, irrespective of sibling count. The most significant difference was observed among siblings who lost a parent to cancer, with purchases increasing in the year prior, particularly for those with fewer brothers or sisters.
Researchers emphasised the need for further studies to explore sibling interactions before and after parental death “to unravel mechanisms driving these associations and to assess other health conditions”.
They concluded by noting: “Considering the shrinking kinship networks in many ageing societies, children may face increasing strain as their parents near the end of their lives.”
And despite Kennedy’s pledge to end what he claimed was a “war” on protein and saturated fats, the AHA says people should still choose low-fat or fat-free dairy products and replaced saturated fats with sources of unsaturated fats, such as nuts, avocados and seeds.
The new guidance is aimed at lowering Americans’ risk of cardiovascular disease and other chronic health conditions, the AHA, which is supported by 30,000 scientific, medical and healthcare professionals, said.
More than half of American adults have some type of cardiovascular disease, and the condition is responsible for 900,000 deaths in the U.S. each year.
New guidelines from the American Heart Association break with the Trump administration on several points – and pinpoint the steps to follow for a healthier heart (AFP via Getty Images)
That’s why people should start following a heart-healthy diet at age 1, the AHA’s guidance says.
“Cardiovascular disease begins early in life; even prenatal factors can contribute to increased risk in children as they grow. So, it’s important that healthy eating patterns are adopted in childhood and continue throughout the entire lifespan,” Alice Lichtenstein, a senior scientist at Tufts University’s Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center, explained in a statement.
“The best way to do that is for adults to role model heart healthy eating patterns inside and outside the home.”
Over half of U.S. adults and 60 percent of children have unhealthy diets, that contribute to the country’s high rates of obesity and other diseases.
What else?
Beyond focusing on plant protein sources and choosing unsaturated fats and non-fat dairy, what other steps do heart doctors want Americans to prioritize?
Well, people should limit how much they eat, balancing calories with how active they are in their life, the AHA advises.
The guidance does not include specific recommended daily amounts for any of the foods they say to rely on, with the exception of what percentage of saturated fats to consume.
People should help to keep saturated fat to 10 percent or less of their total daily calories, the AHA says. That’s updated from 6 percent earlier this year.
The guidance also says that people should consume meals with a wide variety of fruits and vegetables – even if they’re canned.
“Include different colors, textures and types of produce, and remember, even canned and frozen can be nutritious and affordable,” they say.
People should also eat foods made with whole grains, such as whole wheat bread or brown rice. Refined grains are lower in gut healthy fiber and key vitamins and minerals.
And minimizing any foods that are extremely salty or sugary are also crucial, the AHA says. These foods can raise blood pressure, leaving you at risk for cardiovascular disease, heart attack and stroke.
Lastly, people should make sure to avoid or limit the intake of alcohol and ultraprocessed foods, the AHA notes.
“You want to strive for progress rather than perfection,” noted Lichtenstein. “Every time you choose to make a swap for a healthier alternative, you’re making a step toward a healthier life.”
The Trump administration, directed by Health Sec. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., had said its updated dietary guidelines would ‘minimize conflicts of interest.’ But the new guidance was informed by people with ties to the meat and dairy industries (AFP via Getty Images)
MAHA’s ties to meat and dairy industries
Previous AHA guidance, released in 2021, isn’t that different from this year’s release, instructing people to keep a healthy weight, eat plant protein sources, low-fat dairy and fewer saturated fats.
A report from the 2025 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee – which included two of the new AHA guidance’s authors – also recommended that Americans eat less red meat.
“Evidence indicates that when reducing butter, processed and unprocessed red meat, and dairy, substitution or replacement with a wide range of plant-based food sources, including plant-based protein foods (e.g., beans, peas, and lentils), whole grains, vegetables, or monounsaturated fatty acid (MUFA)- and PUFA-rich vegetable oils and spreads, is associated with cardiovascular disease risk reduction,” the authors wrote.
The Trump administration previously said that updated dietary guidelines would have “improvements to ensure transparency and minimize conflicts of interest.”
But the new guidance was informed by people with ties to the meat and dairy industries.
This isn’t the first time experts and physicians have broken with Trump health leaders in the last year and a half.
The American Academy of Pediatrics released its own child vaccine schedule in February after the Trump administration dropped shots from its schedule.
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon revealed that his bank is considering offering prediction market services to its customers.
“It’s possible one day we’ll do something like that,” Dimon said in an interview with “CBS Evening News” anchor Tony Dokoupil, speaking about services such as Kalshi and Polymarket, which allow people to make bets on everything from the outcomes of sporting events to elections.
Dimon added, “We’re not gonna be in sports. We’re not gonna be in politics. There’s a bunch of stuff we won’t do. And obviously, we have strict rules around insider information.”
Dokoupil asked: Is a prediction market more like gambling, or is it more like investing?
“I think for the most part, it’s more like gambling,” Dimon said. “But there are areas where you could say, ‘No, it’s investing.’ You are deeply knowledgeable. You’re taking the other side of a bet. And you think … you know better than the other person.”
Dimon said he’s generally not against gambling. “People have been gambling forever … every country I’ve ever been in, people gamble,” he said.
“I’m against it if it’s an addiction that ruins your life type thing,” he said. “I’m a little bit of a libertarian. You have the right to do what you want, the way you want. You know, just take care of yourself.”
