Notices by Steve Herman (w7voa@journa.host), page 18

Boeing Starliner now looking to launch on Saturday. https://starlinerupdates.com/

Lava is flowing toward Grindavik following the latest volcanic eruption in Iceland. https://www.ruv.is/english/2024-05-29-eruption-on-reykjanes-peninsula-413853

@Beachbum I don't post opinions (except rarely about ham radio). If you're referring to the Democrats fundraising off the Trump verdict, the DCCC also quickly sent out e-mail appeals.

"I'M A POLITICAL PRISONER," declares a fundraising ad on the RNC/MAGA webpage shortly after the Republican Party's presumptive nominee for president is convicted of 34 felony counts.

The Biden-Harris re-election campaign is also fundraising off of Trump's guilty verdict.

“You gave this matter the attention that it deserved and I thank you for that," Judge Merchan tells the Trump hush money jury which just convicted the former president on all 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree.

Sentencing for convicted felon Donald Trump is set for July 11.

"Today is a shameful day in American history. Democrats cheered as they convicted the leader of the opposing party on ridiculous charges, predicated on the testimony of a disbarred, convicted felon. This was a purely political exercise, not a legal one," reacts House Speaker Mike Johnson in a statement immediately after the Trump convictions.

For the first time in American history, a former president is a convicted felon. The 34 convictions in the hush money case are certain to be appealed by Donald Trump's legal team.

Trump guilty on all 34 counts.

In NYC hush money case, the verdict is being read. Donald J. Trump GUILTY on counts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 so far.

A DIA report, using open-source imagery for analysis, confirms Russia fired on Ukraine ballistic missiles produced in North Korea. DPRK missile debris was found throughout Ukraine, including from short-range missiles in Kharkiv on Jan 2, reports my VOA News colleague Carla Babb at the Pentagon.

Negro League statistics will officially become part of Major League Baseball's historical records tomorrow. https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/columnist/bob-nightengale/2024/05/28/negro-leagues-statistics-officially-incorporated-into-major-league-record-book/73882293007/

In the first criminal trial of a former US president, the Trump hush money case is now in the hands of a NYC jury to render a verdict after 70 minutes of instructions to the panel from the judge.

For years South Korean groups have been sending balloons north with pamphlets, USB sticks and radios. Now North Korea retaliates by floating balloons south with payloads of animal excrement. https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2024-05-29/national/northKorea/North-Korea-flies-150-fecesfilled-balloons-across-border-to-the-South/2057086

Tourists have literally punched holes in a Japanese town’s plan to prevent them from becoming nuisances in their quest to take photos of Mount Fuji. https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/15283511

Update: Seven people injured and two missing after a natural gas explosion blew off the facade of a bank in Youngstown, Ohio. https://www.wtae.com/article/natural-gas-explosion-youngstown-ohio/60928561

There’s been an explosion in an office building containing a bank branch in downtown Youngstown in Ohio. There are casualties. https://www.wkbn.com/news/local-news/gas-explosion-in-youngstown-ohio/crews-respond-to-downtown-youngstown-for-report-of-explosion/

Trump asks judge in classified documents case to sanction the special counsel for “improperly” requesting a gag order be imposed on the former president. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.648653/gov.uscourts.flsd.648653.583.0_1.pdf

Update: More than 2,000 people feared buried under the rubble after PNG landslide. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-27/png-landslide-enga-kaokalam-shovels-bare-hands-relief-efforts/103896404