## Emails show FBI Director Kash Patel’s Hawaii trip included ‘VIP snorkel’ at a Pearl Harbor memorial

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The sunken battleship entombs more than 900 sailors and Marines at Pearl Harbor.

The FBI did not disclose the snorkeling session or that Patel had returned to Hawaii for two days after his initial stopover on the island.

Marine archaeologists and crews from the National Park Service make occasional dives at the memorial to survey the condition of the wreck.

Other dives have been conducted to inter the remains of Arizona survivors who wanted to rest eternally with their former shipmates.

Patel defended the trip as recently as this week as “purposely planned” in connection with a cybercrime investigation involving the Italian authorities.

The snorkeling session happened one day after Patel stopped in Wellington to open the FBI’s first standalone office in New Zealand. »

### Israel says it will sue New York Times over article on sexual abuse of Palestinian prisoners

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Mark Stephens, an expert in international media law, called the idea of Israel suing the Times “ludicrous”.

It is not the first time Israeli officials have threatened to sue the Times.

“I’m actually looking at whether a country can sue the New York Times,” Netanyahu said at the time. »

### Developers of Party Animals announce an AI video contest - game gets a review bomb

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Party Animals developers Recreate Games recently announced an AI video contest and it went down like a lead balloon.

With all the well reported issues and concerns surrounding AI / Generative AI, you would think it would be an absolute given that announcing an AI contest would be a thoroughly idiotic idea - but apparently not.

In a post on X/Twitter, the official Party Animals account invited people to win a share of $75,000 to "bring your ideas to life with AI". »

### Russian ship with stolen grain, which was not accepted in Israel, arrives in Turkey

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According to her, on May 13, the vessel Panormitis (IMO:9445021) arrived in the Turkish port of Iskenderun.

“The vessel was not accepted in Israel due to Ukraine’s appeal regarding the origin of the grain from the occupied territories.

Ukraine also sent Israel a package of documents for the arrest of the Russian ship with the stolen Ukrainian grain. »

### Trump Wouldn’t Actually Pardon Ghislaine Maxwell ... Right?

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The plan is still in preliminary discussions but, if carried out, would expand Trump’s already wide use of the pardon power.

... Trump has been determined to put his imprint on the national celebration, known as the semiquincentennial.

After the Supreme Court declined to hear Maxwell’s appeal, Trump was asked last year whether he was considering a pardon. »

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