🇬🇧🇮🇷⚡️ — British households will face an average energy bill increase to £1,862 per year from July, as Ofgem raised its price cap by 13% due to surging wholesale gas prices driven by the Iran war, according to Reuters.

➡️ UK wholesale gas prices are about 45% higher than when U.S. military action against Iran began on February 28, with the conflict blocking transit for one-fifth of the world's LNG.

➡️ Forecasts indicate the cap will rise further to £1,899 from October, with tensions between Iran and the U.S. still unresolved.

🇮🇱❌🇻🇦 Israeli military officials allegedly attempted to halt a Catholic Marian festival in honor of the Virgin Mary in a Christian village located in the West Bank on Friday, sources say.

Jason Jones, founder and president of the Vulnerable People Project (VPP), told the Daily Caller that VPP had witnessed an Israeli military vehicle enter the village of Taybeh in the early morning and order organizers preparing for the festival to leave the area.

“A permitted Catholic festival honoring the Blessed Virgin Mary was nearly shut down by armed military intervention before it even began,” Jones said.

VPP told the Caller that it had been stationed in Taybeh to document the festival as part of its Save West Bank Christians Campaign, following concerns that the annual celebration may have been the target of Israeli settlers encroaching on the Christian village.

Approximately 30 minutes later, another military vehicle appeared and delivered the same orders, VPP told the Caller.

The parish priest overseeing the festival, Fr. F, contacted church authorities immediately, until the matter reached Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem.

In March, Fr. Bashar Fawadleh issued an appeal saying that Israeli settlers had seized private land within the West Bank’s last entirely Christian village, including land near the village’s quarry and cement factory, EWTN News reported.

In late April, Pizzaballa and the leaders of the Catholic Church in Jerusalem sent authorities a formal complaint following encroachments by Israeli settlers on church-owned land in the West Bank.

The incident also follows criticism of Israel’s restrictions on celebrations of holy days for the Abrahamic religions at Jerusalem’s holy sites amid fears of an Iranian attack, as well as outrage after an IDF soldier decapitated a crucifix in Lebanon.

🔗 https://dailycaller.com/2026/05/29/idf-halt-catholic-marian-festival-west-bank-taybeh-pierbattista-pizzaballa/

🇾🇪⚔️🇺🇸 Rybar's map of the 26 confirmed MQ-9 Reaper MALE UCAVs shot down by the Houthis since October 7th 2023.

The Houthis use Iranian-made AD systems like the Majid AD-08, Tabas and Arman.

The MQ-9 Reaper production line closed down definitively in 2025 and are due to start being replaced by a new generation of MALE UCAVs in the next years but its unclear when.

Each Reaper that is shot down is irreplaceable and lost for good.

🔗 https://xn--r1a.website/rybar_mena/5342

🔼 🇺🇸 🕯 The S&P 500 closes at its highest level on record and posts a 9-week win streak for the first time since 2023.

This puts the S&P 500 up +20.1% since the March 30th low, adding +$11.4 TRILLION in market cap in 2 months.

📎 KobeissiLetter

🐣 🇺🇸 ⚪️ US Whites could become the highest-fertility group by 2028-29.

White fertility continues to slowly improve (1.54~1.55), while Hispanic fertility nosedived (1.86~1.79) in the latest data. Blacks (1.44~1.35) and Asians (1.14~1.11) continue to sink toward 1.0 TFR.

📎 AF Post

🐣 🇺🇸 ⚪️ Jan–Apr '26 White NH births by state sorted by Y/Y change:

🔴 Trump states (31): 378,260 births, +0.57% Y/Y
🔵 Harris states (20): 195,340 births, -3.21% Y/Y

The bottom three states, especially Oregon, likely have data issues. Numbers will increase.

📎 Smirkley

🎡 🇺🇸 🎆 The Great American State Fair | A 16-Day World's Fair on the National Mall Uniting All 56 States and Territories.

Freedom 250 is a nonpartisan organization dedicated to uniting Americans around the nation’s 250th anniversary.

The Great American State Fair is one of Freedom 250’s signature celebrations, bringing together all 50 states and 6 territories in the Nation’s capital for the first time to celebrate 250 years of our history.

This once-in-a-generation event will showcase what makes America exceptional — farmers, innovators, educators, small business owners, law enforcement officers, our strong military, and the American people who make up the fabric of this great country. From blue ribbon events and military flyovers to movie nights, the Great American State Fair will be a safe, secure, and enjoyable event for all ages — welcoming all who share our goal of commemorating this milestone in a way that uplifts and unites America.

RSVP FOR THE GREAT AMERICAN STATE FAIR HERE

https://events.freedom250.org/events/great-american-state-fair

📎 Freedom 250

🇺🇸⚡️ — A federal judge ruled that Trump’s name must be removed from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, finding that the venue cannot be renamed without approval from Congress.

U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper ordered the Trump administration to remove all signage bearing Trump’s name and eliminate references to a “Trump Kennedy Center” from official materials within 14 days.

🇺🇸⚡️ — President Trump posted an unbelievably long Truth Social rant about the recent ruling on the Kennedy Center.