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Red commercial vessel transiting open water under a gray sky — illustrative imagery for the contested Gulf shipping environment after Sunday's drone strikes and Trump's rejection of Iran's ceasefire reply 'Totally unacceptable': Trump rejects Iran's peace reply as drones hit Gulf shipping

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'Totally unacceptable': Trump rejects Iran's peace reply as drones hit Gulf shipping

President Donald Trump on Sunday rejected Iran's Pakistan-routed reply to Washington's 14-point ceasefire proposal in a one-line social-media post — 'TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE!' — even as US ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz told ABC the administration is still giving diplomacy 'every chance we possibly can before going back to hostilities.' The rebuff lands the same day a drone ignited a fire on a vessel near Qatar, the United Arab Emirates shot down two drones over its airspace and blamed Tehran, and Iran's new supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei convened military commanders for 'decisive directives' on confronting the West.

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Actors Matt Damon and Ben Affleck at a press event in Austin in March 2023 (file photo from Wikimedia Commons; it does not depict the premiere of 'The Rip' or the officers named in the lawsuit).

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Miami officers sue Affleck and Damon over Netflix film

Two sergeants allege the crime drama 'The Rip' used real details from their 2016 narcotics case to portray them as corrupt officers who stole drug money and murdered a federal agent.

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Every war fought under each U.S. president

From Washington's Whiskey Rebellion to Trump's 2025 Iran strikes, the constitutional tension between presidential command and congressional war powers has shaped 235 years of American conflict.

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Bank of America agrees to $2.25 million settlement over 7-Eleven ATM balance inquiry fees

A proposed class deal in federal court in Southern California would end litigation over allegations that Bank of America assessed more than one out-of-network balance inquiry fee during a single visit to FCTI-operated ATMs in 7-Eleven stores between May 2018 and November 2021, with a $2.25 million fund and a June 2026 claim deadline for many former accountholders.

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Google now defaults new accounts to 5GB free storage unless a phone number is verified

Reporting on fresh Google Account sign-ups says users who complete registration without linking and verifying a phone number see a 5GB shared cap across Gmail, Drive, and Photos—while adding a number can unlock the familiar 15GB pool at no charge, in a shift Google’s own help pages began wording as “up to 15GB” around March 2026.

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Health

Africa CDC confirms Ebola outbreak in DRC’s Ituri province

Africa CDC said on 15 May 2026 it is monitoring a confirmed Ebola virus disease outbreak in Ituri, with INRB finding virus in 13 of 20 samples—preliminarily suggesting a non-Zaire ebolavirus while sequencing continues—and tallies of about 246 suspected cases and 65 deaths, mainly around Mongwalu and Rwampara.

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The Artemis III SLS core stage inside Kennedy Space Center’s Vehicle Assembly Building in late April 2026 as teams prepare Moon rocket assembly; NASA photograph.

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NASA recasts Artemis III as a 2027 Earth-orbit docking dress rehearsal

Agency materials now describe Artemis III as a crewed low Earth orbit mission in mid-2027 that will launch four astronauts on SLS and Orion, use a non-propulsive upper-stage spacer instead of the interim cryogenic propulsion stage, and rehearse rendezvous and docking with commercial lunar lander pathfinders before the first South Pole landing moves to Artemis IV in early 2028.

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