Kitchen Briefs - May 15, 2026 AM

• Israel has issued new forced orders for 4 Lebanese villages making Lebanese citizens of nearly 100 villages displaced. New attacks today have killed another 6 Lebanese
• Trump is heading back to the US. He told reporters on Air Force One that in regards to Iran’s missile launchers, “we’re hitting them like pinatas”
• Congressman Ed Case told a Senate committee that the US has lost 39 aircraft in the War in Iran while the Pentagon Chief Financial officer declined to confirm
• The Trump administration tried to bypass competitive bidding for the proposed 250-foot Triumphal Arch by leveraging an existing engineering contract
• A reporter asked Trump about US objectives in Iran and Trump told him he’s a fake guy and that what he writes is treason
• Trump is considering dropping his $10B lawsuit against the IRS and wants a $1.7B allie fund to compensate people targeted by the Biden administration
• Trump went on Hannity on Fox News and said he’s renaming Democrats to Dumocrats
• Trump also said the mission to recover highly enriched uranium from Iran is "more for public relations than it is for anything else"
• The hantavirus press conference was led by a penile implant specialist with no public healthy policy experience
• There is a new outbreak of Ebola in Congo and has killed 65 people