World
Hantavirus risk map shows Southwest leads US cases
The CDC has tracked 890 cases since 1993, with New Mexico, Colorado, and Arizona accounting for the highest concentrations as a cruise ship outbreak raises new questions.
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Culture
"Six-seven" chant sweeps from drill rap to papal gesture
Dictionary.com crowned the nonsense phrase its 2025 Word of the Year after it migrated from a Philadelphia rap track to classrooms, video games, and Vatican City.
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World
Sadia Moalim stays jailed in Mogadishu amid speech-charge abuse row
Rights groups cite Penal Code articles while relatives told Kaab TV she was stripped in a disciplinary cell after a hunger interview.
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World
Caminhos Seguros raids spanned Salvador towers and inland Serrinha
Headlines zeroed in on a luxury Corredor da Vitória tower while police tallies the same day still listed warrants inland and across other Salvador districts.
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Politics
Bulgarian parliament elects Radev as prime minister
The former president's Progressive Bulgaria coalition won an outright majority in April, ending five years of political instability that saw eight elections.
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World
El Niño set to return with potentially record intensity
NOAA places the odds at 96 percent for a winter El Niño, with some forecast models pointing to the strongest event in more than a century.
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World
Baghaei defends Iran reply as Trump slams counterproposal
Tehran's spokesman said diplomacy was in good faith while naming Pakistan mediator; Trump had already called Iran's written answer unacceptable online.
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World
Switzerland delays imputed rental value abolition to 2029
Swiss homeowners face a longer wait for tax relief after the Federal Council bowed to cantonal pressure and pushed the reform back by a year.
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Politics
Thaksin leaves Klong Prem on parole with monitor until September
Thaksin won parole after serving two-thirds of a one-year term as allies cheered, yet electronic monitoring and probation rules continue through September.
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World
JTAC sets UK terror threat at severe after Golders Green stabbing
The Home Office said the rise from substantial reflected wider Islamist and extreme right-wing risk, not the north London attack alone.
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Politics
14th Amendment sits at center of citizenship and election fights
Ratified in 1868 to secure rights for formerly enslaved people, the amendment's citizenship and insurrection clauses are now the subject of Supreme Court battles and political debate.
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Tech
Apple says iPhone 17 is its most popular lineup ever
The iPhone 17 family drove Apple to record quarterly revenue of $111.2 billion, though supply constraints limited sales of the A19 chip-powered lineup.
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Tech
Jeep Recon arrives as 650-hp electric off-roader
The 2026 Recon pairs Wrangler-inspired removable doors with dual-motor power, though its 230-mile range and $65,000 price raise questions in a cooling EV market.
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World
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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Politics
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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Tech
2027 Bolt EV pairs NACS fast charging with 262 EPA miles
Chevrolet listed LT at $27,600 and RS at $31,600 beside a $28,995 FAQ figure and limited-run copy, so buyers must expand footnotes before signing.
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Politics
Highway account gap nears $21 billion in FY2026 as HTF cash runs low
Fuel taxes feeding the trust fund have not risen since 1993, while CBO expects the highway account to run out of cash in fiscal 2028.
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World
Shadow-fleet tankers kept crossing UK waters after Starmer cleared boardings
Starmer cleared UK forces to board sanctioned shadow-fleet ships, yet AIS checks published 12 May found many listed tankers in the Channel without public boarding.
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Tech
CLA 250+ EV pairs 800 V hardware with up to 792 km WLTP
Mercedes-Benz AG's technical press material quotes a 200 kW rear-drive pack and 85 kWh usable battery, while UK brochures list EAER miles and on-the-road prices.
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Tech
IONIQ 6 N pairs 478 kW boost with 84 kWh pack for 2026
Hyundai’s factory sheet lists WLTP range, charging times, and N hardware, while U.S. pages stress 641 hp and scarce dealer allocation.
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Sports
LeBron James Lakers trade rumors: what is real, what is noise, and what comes next
After the Lakers’ 2026 Western Conference semifinal exit to Oklahoma City, LeBron James faces a player option and free-agency math that has reopened familiar speculation about trades, short contracts elsewhere, or retirement—while reporting tied to team and league sources describes mutual interest in another Los Angeles deal if the salary cap puzzle can be solved alongside other free agents such as Austin Reaves.
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Markets
Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square files a new ~$2.1bn Microsoft stake, arguing Azure and M365 are mispriced against AI noise
A Form 13F-HR filed 15 May 2026 for holdings as of 31 March 2026 shows Pershing Square Capital Management with about 5.65 million Microsoft shares worth roughly $2.09 billion, a new megacap line alongside sharply trimmed Alphabet; in a same-day post on X, Ackman framed Microsoft as a “highly compelling valuation” at about 21 times forward earnings, defended the OpenAI partnership economics against “overblown” exclusivity fears, and said buying began in February after weakness following Microsoft’s fiscal Q2 2026 results.
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Business
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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Business
Elon Musk and Sam Altman face off in OpenAI charitable-trust trial
A nine-person federal jury in Oakland, California, is weighing whether OpenAI and its leaders unjustly enriched themselves and breached a charitable trust when the ChatGPT maker moved from a nonprofit-only posture toward a capped-profit structure, with Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers splitting liability and remedies into separate phases and pretrial filings discussing disgorgement theories on the order of $134 billion.
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World
Trump says US and Nigerian forces eliminated ISIS deputy Abu-Bilal al-Minuki
In a 16 May 2026 Truth Social post, Donald Trump claimed American and Nigerian troops carried out a complex strike that killed Abu-Bilal al-Minuki—calling him ISIS’s global second-in-command—while thanking Abuja; U.S. legal designations have listed the same figure under the spelling al-Mainuki as a senior ISIS leadership official.
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Science
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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Science
SpaceX CRS-34 mission launches to International Space Station
A Falcon 9 lifted NASA’s 34th Commercial Resupply Services flight from Cape Canaveral’s SLC-40 at 6:05 p.m. EDT on 15 May 2026, sending a Cargo Dragon with nearly 6,500 pounds of supplies and experiments toward an autonomous Harmony forward-port docking targeted for the morning of 17 May.
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Entertainment
Drake debuts Iceman, Habibti, and Maid of Honour albums
The Toronto rapper dropped three full-length projects at once on 15 May 2026—Iceman, Habibti, and Maid of Honour—after teasing the rollout through his Iceman livestream series, marking his first major solo album cycle since 2023’s For All the Dogs.
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World
Modi in Abu Dhabi: UAE talks stress Hormuz energy risk and deeper India–Gulf ties
Prime Minister Narendra Modi met President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan on 15 May 2026 in Abu Dhabi on the first leg of a five-country tour, with reporting from the capital describing a focus on energy security after Strait of Hormuz disruption, new energy-sector agreements, and condemnation of Iran’s strikes on the UAE.
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World
Seven killed in Gaza on Nakba Day as Israel says strikes targeted Hamas’s Gaza military chief
Gaza medics said Israeli airstrikes on 15 May 2026 killed at least seven Palestinians, including three women and a child, and wounded dozens, while Israel’s prime minister and defence minister said the operation aimed at Izz al-Din al-Haddad—Hamas’s armed wing chief in the Strip—with neither side confirming his fate.
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Science
NASA’s Psyche spacecraft closes in on Mars for gravity-assist flyby
On May 15, 2026, NASA’s Psyche probe is set to pass roughly 2,800 miles above Mars at about 12,300 mph, using the planet’s gravity to bend and accelerate its trajectory toward metal-rich asteroid Psyche while teams calibrate cameras and other instruments ahead of a late-2029 arrival.
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World
UAE to accelerate second West–East oil pipeline to bypass Strait of Hormuz
Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed has instructed ADNOC to speed up a second West–East crude line to Fujairah—aimed at doubling export capacity around the Strait of Hormuz chokepoint—with CNBC reporting a 2027 in-service target as Gulf volumes and tanker routing remain stressed by the wider Iran–Israel conflict.
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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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Health
Antidepressants in pregnancy do not raise children’s risk of autism or ADHD, major review finds
A systematic review and meta-analysis in The Lancet Psychiatry synthesising 37 studies and tens of millions of pregnancies concludes that, after accounting for parental mental health, genetics, and family history, in utero antidepressant exposure shows little to no causal signal for autism or ADHD—while flagging residual questions about older tricyclics.
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Sports
NFL releases 2026 regular season schedule: Week 1 slate and full 32-team calendars
The league unveiled the full 2026 regular season on Thursday 14 May 2026—including a Wednesday Super Bowl rematch in Seattle, a Thursday opener in Melbourne, and all 18 weeks for every franchise, with several international and holiday showcases already fixed.
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Science
New giant sauropod dinosaur species discovered in Thailand
Palaeontologists have named Nagatitan chaiyaphumensis—a euhelopodid titanosauriform from the Lower Cretaceous Khok Kruat Formation of Chaiyaphum—based on a partial skeleton accessioned at Sirindhorn Museum; body-mass equations yield roughly 27 tonnes and ~27 m of length, making it the largest dinosaur documented from Southeast Asia.
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Technology
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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Technology
Fragnesia: new Linux kernel flaw enables local root via ESP-in-TCP page-cache abuse
Security researchers have disclosed Fragnesia—a high-severity local privilege escalation tied to the kernel’s XFRM ESP-in-TCP path—tracked as CVE-2026-46300 in vendor advisories. It belongs to the Dirty Frag family, can corrupt read-only cached file pages without touching disk, and has prompted emergency module-blocking guidance until patched kernels ship.
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Sports
Thomas Frank and Ange Postecoglou: how two eras collided in Tottenham’s turbulent 2025–26 season
They never stood in opposing technical areas for a Premier League north-west London derby in this chapter—Ange Postecoglou had already left Tottenham Hotspur by the time Thomas Frank arrived from Brentford—but the two managers have still gone “head to head” in the only arenas that mattered late in the campaign: results tables, clean-sheet columns, punditry sofas, and the club’s bruised sense of identity. A goalless New Year’s Day return for Frank at the Gtech Community Stadium against Keith Andrews’s Brentford froze the narrative at 0-0; six weeks later Spurs sacked Frank amid a relegation scrap, and Postecoglou used a television appearance the same day to question whether the club ever matched its “To Dare Is To Do” motto with wage ambition and risk.
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Sports
Thomas Frank and Ange Postecoglou go head to head again—this time on rival World Cup TV
When Tottenham Hotspur sacked Thomas Frank on 12 February 2026, Ange Postecoglou was live on The Overlap with a blunt diagnosis of the club’s identity, spending, and the “major pivot” Frank had inherited. Three months later the two former Spurs head coaches are set to duel for ratings instead of points: Frank joins the BBC’s World Cup analysis roster while Postecoglou signs with ITV for the 104-match tournament across the United States, Canada, and Mexico—reopening a north London narrative that already mixed empathy, blame, and competing ideas of what “To Dare Is To Do” actually requires.
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World
Women Against State Pension Inequality (WASPI): what the campaign wants and why ministers keep rejecting compensation
Roughly 3.6 million women born in the 1950s saw their UK state pension age rise faster than many expected as laws passed in the 1990s and 2010s equalised women’s retirement age with men’s. The campaign group Women Against State Pension Inequality argues official notice came too late; in 2024 the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman found maladministration and suggested payments of £1,000–£2,950 each. After a brief review triggered by newly surfaced documents, the Labour government told Parliament on 29 January 2026 it would still not pay compensation—citing fairness, cost of up to £10.3 billion, and its reading that most women already knew ages were rising.
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Politics
Alex Murdaugh’s murder convictions overturned by South Carolina Supreme Court
In a unanimous May 13, 2026 ruling, the state’s highest court vacated Richard Alexander “Alex” Murdaugh’s 2023 double-murder convictions—faulting Colleton County Clerk of Court Rebecca “Becky” Hill’s jury communications and sharply limiting how financial-crime evidence may shape a retrial—while prosecutors vowed to try the killings again and stressed Murdaugh remains imprisoned for massive fraud sentences.
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Business
Airlines worldwide cancel flights and raise fees as jet fuel costs spike amid Middle East supply shock
Jet fuel benchmarks have roughly doubled since the start of 2026 as the Iran war and Strait of Hormuz disruption squeeze Middle East refinery exports. European carriers that import about a third of their jet fuel from the region are slashing summer capacity—Lufthansa Group alone announced 20,000 flight cuts through fall—while energy officials warn replenishment windows are tight. In North America, majors have largely avoided Europe-scale cancellations so far but are passing costs through higher fares, checked-bag fees of roughly $45 for many domestic first bags, fuel surcharges on some international tickets, and ancillary trims such as Delta ending complimentary snacks on the shortest hops.
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World
British teen Alex Batty, found in France after six years missing, says he is ready to talk to the mother who abducted him
Alex Batty was eleven when his grandmother reported him missing from Oldham in 2017 after a holiday to Spain with his mother Melanie Batty and grandfather David Batty turned into years off-grid across Spain and France. He surfaced near Toulouse in December 2023; Greater Manchester Police later closed a child-abduction probe without charges. In a BBC Three documentary released on iPlayer in 2026, Batty—now twenty and a new father—describes texting Melanie for the first time since his return, wrestling with anger over lost schooling, and asking why “such drastic measures” seemed necessary to her.
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World
Bodies of three women recovered from sea off Brighton in major emergency response
Sussex Police and HM Coastguard led a large multi-agency operation off Brighton’s seafront on the morning of May 13, 2026, after emergency calls around 5:45am BST about three women in the water near Madeira Drive. All three were recovered from the sea and pronounced dead at the scene; authorities described a “tragic incident,” appealed for public restraint around speculation, and said inquiries to establish identities and circumstances were moving quickly.
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World
Trump and Xi to meet in Beijing: The key issues shaping the China summit
With Chinese state media confirming a May 13–15, 2026 state visit by U.S. President Donald Trump, the Xi Jinping meeting will sit atop parallel ministerial trade talks in Seoul, unfinished implementation from last autumn’s Busan truce, and acute geopolitical stress over the Middle East and Taiwan—this guide separates what is on the public record from what remains negotiation space.
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World
Son of Kouri Richins, Utah author convicted of murder, reveals new details about night his father died
In a prosecutors’ memo filed ahead of sentencing, Richins’ middle son—now 11—disputed his mother’s account of sleeping in his room when Eric Richins died in March 2022, recalling an early bedtime without a bath, a locked parents’ door, and a blaring TV before the 911 call, CBS News and Utah outlets reported.
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Business
France’s minimum wage (Smic) to rise by about 2.4% on 1 June 2026, Labour Minister Farandou announces
Jean-Pierre Farandou, Minister of Labour and Solidarity, confirmed on 13 May 2026 that France’s statutory hourly minimum—the Salaire minimum de croissance (Smic)—will be revalued by roughly 2.41% from 1 June after annual consumer prices for the poorest households’ basket crossed the 2% trigger. For a full-time Smic worker the move adds about €44 gross per month (just under €35 net), lifting monthly net pay from €1,443 to about €1,478 on the figures circulated by the government. The increase is automatic under French law, not an extra political “coup de pouce,” and lands as unions demand larger hikes and the budget ministry counts the fiscal ripple through employer social-contribution reliefs.
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Politics
Trump administration picks detention industry veteran David Venturella to lead ICE
The Department of Homeland Security is elevating David Venturella—an ICE alumnus who later spent more than a decade at GEO Group and most recently supervised detention contracts—to become Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s next acting director on June 1, 2026, succeeding Todd Lyons amid a sprawling enforcement and detention build-out.
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World
Trump turns Taiwan arms sales into bargaining chip with China
As Donald Trump flew to meet Xi Jinping in Beijing in May 2026, the president openly said he would discuss U.S. arms sales to Taiwan—adding that Xi “would like us not to”—while a roughly $14 billion package remained in limbo and bipartisan senators warned that American support for Taiwan must not be traded away.
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