President Trump has nominated former Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake to serve as the next U.S. Ambassador to Jamaica. “Jamaica is a country I know very well, full of incredible people, and if confirmed by the Senate, I look forward to strengthening the partnership between our nations, advancing America’s interests abroad, and building on the deep friendship shared by the American and Jamaican people,” Lake, who currently serves as the senior advisor to the United States Agency for Global Media (USAGM), wrote on X. “Honored to continue serving in this HISTORIC Administration!” she added. Thank you to President Trump for nominating me to serve as the next U.S. Ambassador to Jamaica. Jamaica is a country I know very well, full of incredible people, and if confirmed by the Senate, I look forward to strengthening the partnership between our nations, advancing… pic.twitter.com/pr5Ieffzvp — Kari Lake (@KariLake) May 11, 2026 Trump on Monday announced several nominations to the Senate. From The White House: Francis Brooke, of Virginia, to be Deputy Secretary of the Treasury. Cameron Hamilton, of Virginia, to be Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Department of Homeland Security. Brendan Hanrahan, of New York, to be an Assistant Secretary of State (European and Eurasian Affairs). Karen Jean Hedlund, of New York, to be a Member of the Surface Transportation Board for a term expiring December 31, 2030. Kari Lake, of Arizona, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to Jamaica. Douglas Mastriano, of Pennsylvania, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Slovak Republic. Brett Matsumoto, of Maryland, to be Commissioner of Labor Statistics, Department of Labor, for a term of four years. Douglas Ralph, of Kentucky, to be a Member of the National Mediation Board for a term expiring July 1, 2028. Barbera Thornhill, of North Carolina, to be Director of the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking, with the rank of Ambassador at Large. Nicole Saphier, of New Jersey, to be Medical Director in the Regular Corps of the Public Health Service, subject to qualifications therefor as provided by law and regulations, and to be Surgeon General of the Public Health Service for a term of four years. David Cummins, of Virginia, to be Administrator of the Transportation Security Administration for a term of five years. Heidi Semann, of Missouri, to be Inspector General, Department of Education. John Crews, of Virginia, to be a Member of the National Credit Union Administration Board for a term expiring August 2, 2031. Mastriano, a state senator in Pennsylvania, unsuccessfully ran for governor of the Keystone State in 2022. NEW – President Trump has officially announced a new set of nominations today including KARI LAKE to be Ambassador to Jamaica State Senator Doug Mastriano has been nominated to be Ambassador to Slovakia Congratulations to MAGA champions @KariLake @dougmastriano pic.twitter.com/I1lmtiSvsu — Michael Casey (@MichaelCasey_) May 11, 2026 In March, a federal judge ruled that the U.S. Agency for Global Media had to reverse its decision to lay off more than 1,000 journalists and staffers. The judge also ruled that Lake was not legally allowed to serve as head of the agency. “Lake satisfies the requirements of neither the statute nor the Constitution,” U.S. District Court Judge Royce C. Lamberth wrote in his ruling, according to NPR. He declared all of Lake’s actions to be null and void. BREAKING A federal judge has ruled that Kari Lake was not legally allowed to serve as acting CEO of the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) because her appointment violated both the Constitution’s Appointments Clause and the Federal Vacancies Reform Act. The court found that… pic.twitter.com/tUFBiz6gS7 — Yashar Ali (@yashar) March 7, 2026 NBC News has more: U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth said Tuesday that Lake “repeatedly thumbed her nose” at statutory requirements and that the Trump administration has “made no effort to defend the merits” of its downsizing decision. When reached for comment, the U.S. Agency for Global Media, which houses Voice of America, responded with a statement from the White House. “President Trump was elected to eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse across the administration, including at the Voice of America — and efforts to improve efficiency at USAGM have been a tremendous success. This will not be the final say on the matter,” Anna Kelly, a White House spokesperson, said. VOA Director Michael Abramowitz, who was put on leave alongside hundreds of his employees, praised the ruling. “We are thrilled with Judge Lamberth’s ruling and look forward to getting back to work,” Abramowitz told NBC News in a text message. “Voice of America has never been more needed. I am grateful for the resilience and dedication of VOA’s amazing workforce.” Abramowitz sued the Trump administration last year to restore the organization’s editorial independence. That lawsuit became the case that Lamberth ruled on Tuesday.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has sued Netflix for allegedly “spying on Texans, including children, and collecting users’ data without their knowledge or consent.” “For years, Netflix represented to consumers that it did not collect or share extensive user data. In reality, Netflix is a logging company that records and monetizes billions of behavioral events—and occasionally streams movies,” a press release from Paxton’s office said. “Netflix uses intentional engineering to track and log users’ viewing habits, preferences, devices, household networks, application usage, and other sensitive behavioral data. Every interaction on the platform became a data point revealing information about the user. This tracking applied to not only adults’ accounts, but also kids’ profiles,” it continued. “Netflix has built a surveillance program designed to illegally collect and profit from Texans’ personal data without their consent, and my office will do everything in our power to stop it,” Paxton said. “Netflix is not the ad-free and kid-friendly platform it claims to be. Instead, it has misled consumers while exploiting their private data to make billions. I will continue to work to protect Texas families from deceptive practices by Big Tech companies and ensure that corporations are held accountable under Texas law,” he added. BREAKING: I just sued Netflix for spying on Texas kids and consumers by illegally collecting users' data without their knowledge or consent. pic.twitter.com/iJkHyqPbuu — Attorney General Ken Paxton (@KenPaxtonTX) May 11, 2026 More from Paxton’s office: Netflix has then disclosed this information to commercial data brokers and advertising technology companies, where it was combined with data collected from other platforms to build detailed consumer profiles. Netflix users’ data is essentially shopped across Big Ad Tech’s shadowy network. The company earns billions of dollars every year from secretly selling consumer data. The company also designs its platform to be addictive. This is accomplished using features that are designed to manipulate users to take actions Netflix wants them to take. For example, the autoplay function creates a continuous stream of content intended to keep users, including children, watching for extended periods of time. “Attorney General Paxton is seeking to hold Netflix accountable under the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act (‘DTPA’). The lawsuit seeks to stop the unlawful collection and disclosure of user data, require Netflix to disable autoplay by default on kid’s profiles, and secure other injunctive relief and civil penalties,” the press release added. TEXAS AG KEN PAXTON SUES NETFLIX OVER ALLEGED ILLEGAL DATA COLLECTION Paxton accuses the streaming giant of misleading users, tracking personal data including from children, and profiting from it through advertising. The suit also challenges the autoplay feature on kids'… pic.twitter.com/Id9PPEQhlI — The Dallas Express News (@DallasExpress) May 11, 2026 Variety shared further: One of the lawsuit’s main points is that Netflix for years said it would not introduce advertising as part of its service, before launching an ad-supported plan in late 2022. The suit quotes remarks by then-CEO Reed Hastings on an earnings call in January 2020 as saying, “We don’t collect anything. We’re really focused on just making our members happy, and we’re not tied up with all that controversy around advertising.” The State of Texas’ lawsuit says: “In short, Netflix sold subscriptions to its programming as an escape from Big Tech surveillance: pay monthly, avoid tracking. Texans trusted that bargain. Netflix broke it — constructing the very data-collection system subscribers paid to escape.” The Texas AG’s lawsuit was filed May 11 in Texas District Court in Collin County.

President Donald Trump announced Sunday that five prisoners from U.S.-allied countries have been released from Belarusian and Russian detention, crediting Special Presidential Envoy John Coale and his team for getting the deal done. The released prisoners include three Polish nationals and two Moldovan nationals. Among them is Andrzej Poczobut, a Polish-Belarusian journalist and activist whose case Trump connected to a direct request from Polish President Karol Nawrocki during a September meeting at the White House. President Trump celebrates the release of prisoners from Belarus and Russiahttps://t.co/eqE5BW1PFe — RSBN

President Donald Trump told reporters at the White House on Monday that he has no regrets about withdrawing the United States from the World Health Organization. None. The question came as critics have argued the WHO withdrawal contributed to a slower American response to a recent hantavirus outbreak on a cruise vessel in the Atlantic. Trump did not take the bait. Instead, he went straight to the numbers and the record. .@POTUS says he has no regrets in pulling out of the World Health Organization: “We were paying, for let’s say 350 million people, we were paying $500M a year… and China was paying $39M a year for 1.4 billion people.” “On Covid, they were totally wrong.” pic.twitter.com/JT2JDCsiiV — Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) May 11, 2026 The United States, with roughly 350 million people, was paying about $500 million a year into the WHO. China, with 1.4 billion people, was paying about $39 million. That ratio has been a central grievance of the Trump administration since 2020, and the president clearly has no intention of letting anyone memory-hole it. “On COVID, they were totally wrong,” Trump added. He said the U.S. was not treated well by the organization despite being its largest funder by a wide margin. The withdrawal itself has been final since January. HHS and the CDC announced: The United States completed its formal withdrawal from the World Health Organization on January 22, 2026, after the one-year notice period triggered by President Trump’s January 20, 2025 executive order. The administration said the exit followed the WHO’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, its failure to adopt urgently needed reforms, and its inability to demonstrate independence from inappropriate political influence by member states. During the withdrawal process, the United States stopped funding the WHO, withdrew U.S. personnel from the organization, and began shifting work that had been routed through the WHO toward direct bilateral engagements and other international partners. The official rationale was not a vague complaint about global health cooperation. It was a specific indictment of the WHO’s COVID record, its treatment of China, its governance problems, and its refusal to change after the failures Americans watched unfold in real time. That executive order, signed in January 2025, did more than start the withdrawal clock. The White House ordered: The January 2025 order directed federal officials to pause future transfers of United States government funds, support, or resources to the WHO. It also ordered the recall and reassignment of U.S. government personnel who were working with the organization, and it ended American participation in talks over the WHO pandemic agreement and related amendments to international health regulations. The order also told the administration to identify credible and transparent United States and international partners that could assume activities previously handled through the WHO. That matters because Trump did not present the withdrawal as a retreat from disease monitoring or global health work. He presented it as a change in who America trusts with taxpayer money, American personnel, and emergency-response coordination when an international bureaucracy has already shown it can fail under pressure. Critics have tried to use the hantavirus outbreak aboard a cruise vessel in the Atlantic as evidence that the withdrawal left the United States more vulnerable to emerging infectious disease threats. Anadolu Agency reported: Trump was asked at the White House whether he regretted pulling the United States out of the WHO after critics argued the withdrawal may have contributed to a slower response to the hantavirus situation. He rejected that framing and said the country had not been treated well by the organization. He also pointed back to the WHO’s pandemic record, saying the organization had been wrong on COVID. The president emphasized the funding imbalance that has long animated his criticism of the organization. He said the United States was paying about $500 million per year while China, with a far larger population, was paying about $39 million. That contrast was the center of his answer. In Trump’s telling, the United States was expected to bankroll an institution that made bad calls, favored Beijing, and still expected American taxpayers to keep writing checks. The Trump War Room account amplified the same clip shortly after. .@POTUS on WHO: “We were paying, for let’s say 350 million people, we were paying $500M a year… and China was paying $39M a year for 1.4 billion people.” “On Covid, they were totally wrong.”pic.twitter.com/tUAI3UNH0W — Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) May 11, 2026 The pattern here is familiar. Every time a new health concern surfaces anywhere on the planet, the same voices demand the United States rejoin the WHO and resume writing the checks. Every time, they conveniently skip over the reasons the U.S. left in the first place: a lopsided funding structure that let China ride free, a catastrophic COVID response that cost millions of lives, and an institutional culture more interested in protecting Beijing’s reputation than protecting public health. President Trump was asked a direct question and gave a direct answer. No regrets. The rationale has not changed, and neither has his position.

President Donald Trump announced Sunday that five prisoners from U.S.-allied countries have been released from Belarusian and Russian detention, crediting Special Presidential Envoy John Coale and his team for getting the deal done. The released prisoners include three Polish nationals and two Moldovan nationals. Among them is Andrzej Poczobut, a Polish-Belarusian journalist and activist whose case Trump connected to a direct request from Polish President Karol Nawrocki during a September meeting at the White House. President Trump celebrates the release of prisoners from Belarus and Russiahttps://t.co/eqE5BW1PFe — RSBN