Notices by Steve Herman (w7voa@journa.host), page 22

President Biden today "recorded an interview with Yahoo Finance. This interview will air this afternoon." - White House

The prime minister of Slovakia has been shot. https://spectator.sme.sk/c/23330459/slovak-premier-shot-handlova.html

(AP) — The Biden administration has told key lawmakers it is sending a new package of more than $1 billion in arms and ammunition to Israel, three congressional aides said Tuesday. https://apnews.com/article/ebe971ca8878ff430ce6458c04151585

Meta tells Workplace admins it'll shut down the enterprise communications business in 2026. https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/14/meta-is-shutting-down-workplace-its-enterprise-communications-business/

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the super PAC supporting his independent presidential candidacy are suing Meta, accusing it of blocking a campaign ad on its platforms in violation of the First Amendment. https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2024/05/13/rfk-jr-sues-meta-for-blocking-campaign-ad/

House Speaker Mike Johnson, according to his office, today will join Donald Trump in court in NYC and "will then address media outside of the ongoing sham prosecution of President Trump. Speaker Johnson will address the political persecution of the 45th President of the United States by President Biden’s weaponized Department of Justice and the left-wing Manhattan district attorney."

The Massachusetts man who received the first pig kidney transplant in the world less than two months ago has died. https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/massachusetts-general-hospital-pig-kidney-rick-slayman/

FERC approves rule changes that will make it easier to construct new high-voltage power lines, possibly bringing significantly more green energy onto US electricity grids. https://www.ferc.gov/news-events/news/ferc-takes-long-term-planning-historic-transmission-rule

CBP nets dozens of dead butterflies illegally imported from Portugal that were headed to Pennsylvania. https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/local-media-release/philadelphia-cbp-nets-60-dead-butterflies-illegally-imported-portugal

Three men have been charged under the UK National Security Act with assisting the Hong Kong intelligence service and foreign interference.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-67977207

For the first time ever, an undercover agent for China’s secret police steps out of the shadows to tell all about where he’s been and who he’s been targeting. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-13/china-spy-secret-police-agent-tells-all-four-corners/103826708

Dozens of students walked out of Duke University's commencement ceremony with ome chanting "free Palestine" to protest guest speaker Jerry Seinfeld. https://www.vanityfair.com/style/story/jerry-seinfeld-duke-students-walkout

Months after the IDF said it had destroyed Hamas' military capabilities in northern Gaza, Israeli troops are being redeployed to the area to curb the reorganization of Hamas battalions. https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-05-11/ty-article/.premium/idf-says-300-000-people-evacuated-rafah-to-humanitarian-zone-ahead-of-israeli-operation/0000018f-66a6-de93-a1af-7eae4ee70000

People should have "radios, batteries and a generator" ready in the rare case of disruptions to the power grid, advises NOAA.

"While the threat is there (to GPS) it is mitigated by the presence of all these spacecraft" able to provide precision, Rob Steenburgh of NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center says in response to my question about what a G4 or higher geomagnetic event later today would temporarily mean for navigation.

And here we are: NOAA alerts a severe (G4) geomagnetic level reached with a K-index of 8, 9- threshold at 1739 UTC.

There's the potential for larger geomagnetic threats as the current Solar Cycle 25 peaks and then on its downside in the next several years, according to NOAA experts.

Too early to know about any damage from the extreme geomagnetic storm, but this appears to be the most serious such event since the 2003 'Halloween solar storms' which cause an hour-long power outage in Sweden and blew up transformers in South Africa.

And now we've reached an extreme (G5) geomagnetic storm level, according to NOAA.
Satellite navigation (GPS) may be degraded or unavailable for days.
Radio - HF (high frequency) radio propagation may be impossible in many areas for one to two days.
Aurora - Aurora may be seen as low as Florida to southern Texas and southern California.

Warning also just issued for a solar radiation storm at the S1 level with potential for a stronger event, adds NOAA's Dahl.