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Jury to decide fate of Musk's blockbuster suit against OpenAI

Deliberations begin Monday in the blockbuster trial pitting Elon Musk against AI giant OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman, whom Musk accuses of abandoning the company's founding mission.Musk claims Altman and co-founder Greg Brockman improperly used a $38 million donation he had intended to sustain OpenAI as a research lab devoted to developing AI for the benefit of humanity.

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'Call Her Daddy' Podcast Host Alex Cooper Pregnant With First Child

Earlier this year, Cooper told guest Jennette McCurdy that “something changed” when she reached her 30s.

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White House mass prayer event seeks to reclaim US Christian roots

President Donald Trump and top cabinet officials addressed thousands of Americans at a mass prayer rally in Washington on Sunday -- an event critics saw as an overt display of Christian nationalism undermining the separation of church and state.While previous administrations and presidents have regularly held and attended faith-based gatherings, Sunday's event is still unusual for its scale and the presence of top cabinet officials. 

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International dive group joins Maldives search for missing Italians

An international dive safety group sent experts to the Maldives on Sunday to join a multinational recovery effort after five Italians and a rescue diver died in the Indian Ocean tourist destination's deadliest diving disaster, an official said.A rescue diver from the Maldivian National Defence Force also died in hospital on Saturday from decompression-related complications after surfacing during the search, which was later suspended.

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Democrat Can’t Believe Pharmacist Colleague Is Defending RFK Jr.

Rep. Jake Auchincloss accused Kennedy of leading an "anti-vax crusade" during a heated back-and-forth with GOP Rep. Buddy Carter.

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Lebanon says Israeli strikes kill 7 as Hezbollah condemns talks

Israeli strikes killed seven people in Lebanon on Sunday, including an Islamic Jihad commander, Lebanese authorities and state media said, despite a fragile ceasefire as Hezbollah called US-brokered talks between the two countries a "dead end"."The direct negotiations that the authorities in Lebanon have conducted with the Israeli enemy have... led them down a dead-end path that will result in nothing but one concession after another," Hezbollah lawmaker Hussein Hajj Hassan said on Sunday.

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Attorney General Claims There’s A ‘Ton Of Evidence’ 2020 Election Was Rigged – Then Provides No Evidence

Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo asked Todd Blanche why the Department of Justice hasn't made any of this "evidence" public yet.

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Ukrainian drifters keep racing as war reshapes their scene

STORY: In parking lots on the outskirts of Kyiv, 31-year-old Alex spends his nights drifting through clouds of tire smoke. :: Archive Alex spent nearly a decade in Russian captivity as a civilian detainee before being released in a prisoner exchange last May. “I spent 10 years living with negative emotions, and now I’m finally trying to let them out. And it’s working, thanks to this one (taps the car). I want to keep driving, change the engine and compete in drifting competitions. There’s something to strive for.” Late-night drifting gatherings in Kyiv draw drivers and spectators who film spinning cars on their phones as engines echo across darkened lots. :: Russian Defense Ministry / February 2, 2022 Participants say the scene offers a brief escape from the pressures of life during Russia's war in Ukraine. Since Moscow's full-scale invasion in February 2022, Ukrainians have endured frequent air attacks, economic hardship and tighter wartime restrictions. Drivers say the war has transformed their community. Many enthusiasts have left Ukraine, while others have given up the hobby due to ongoing hardships said Matviy, a 22-year-old drifter. “Since the war began, everything has become much harder, especially drifting. It’s not so legal. Fuel prices and spare parts have become much more expensive. There are also stricter measures from the police, military and so on.” Still, those who remain say the group is close-knit, with drivers helping each other keep cars running and events alive. The war's intensity shows no sign of easing. :: Krasnogorsk, Russia / May 17, 2026 On Sunday, Russian officials said at least four people were killed after Ukraine launched its biggest overnight drone attack on Moscow in more than a year. Kyiv said the strikes targeted Russian energy and military infrastructure. :: Ryazan, Russia / May 15, 2026 Ukraine has stepped up long-range drone attacks as Russia continues missile and drone strikes on Ukrainian cities. :: Kyiv, Ukraine / May 14, 2026 As the conflict grinds on, Alex and other drivers say the gatherings offer a rare space to focus on something beyond the war.

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Italian PM meets victims of Modena car incident

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on Sunday visited people wounded by a driver with a history of mental health problems who ran over several pedestrians in northern city of Modena.Meloni cancelled a planned visit to Cyprus to go to Modena, a government source said.

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Canadian cruise passenger confirmed positive for hantavirus

A Canadian who was aboard the cruise ship MV Hondius has tested positive for the Andes hantavirus, public health officials said Sunday."The overall risk to the general population in Canada from the Andes hantavirus outbreak linked to the MV Hondius cruise ship remains low at this time," the agency stressed.

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Lindsey Graham Has Ruthless Reminder For Republicans Who Cross Trump

"This is the party of Donald Trump," he warned after one GOP colleague's historic defeat.

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Democratic Senator Argues Kash Patel Has ‘Weaponized The FBI’

Sen. Chris Van Hollen said the FBI director needs to be fired “for a whole host of reasons.”

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Kyiv residents protest 'dangerous' civil code, call for LGBTQ rights

A few hundred people gathered in Kyiv on Sunday for a rare wartime protest against a new civil code debated in parliament, which critics say entrenches discrimination, including against LGBTQ communities. "This civil code is a disgrace, it should be withdrawn or stopped," said Viktor Pylypenko, a veteran and LGBTQ activist.

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Uh Oh – Trump Wrote Another Genocidal Post

The president falling back on his pattern of threatening to wipe out an entire civilization comes as diplomatic talks break down over the Iran war.

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Taiwan's leader says island will not be 'traded away'

Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te said on Sunday that Taiwan will never be "traded away" as he pressed the United States to keep selling weapons to the island democracy to maintain regional peace."The United States' continued arms sales to Taiwan and deepening of Taiwan-US security cooperation are not only necessary but also key elements in maintaining regional peace and stability," Lai said in a statement on Facebook.

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Adam Driver Is Coy When Asked About Lena Dunham's Claims He Was Verbally Aggressive

Lena Dunham, the creator of "Girls," wrote in her newest memoir that her co-star Adam Driver once hurled a chair at a wall.

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Video shows seaplane making emergency landing on Phoenix street

STORY: :: Video shows a seaplane making an emergency landing on a Phoenix street :: Phoenix, Arizona / April 12, 2026 :: @aqvius & @montadria_me via Instagram :: The footage released this week shows the incident from April :: Local news reported a federal investigation into the incident is ongoing :: Three people aboard the plane were unharmed The video shows the plane flying over the city as it began to lose altitude. It goes onto show the plane's hard landing and the three passengers emerging uninjured.   According to a local news report, the video was filmed by a camera mounted on the plane's wing. Reuters confirmed the location from the buildings, roads layout and signs seen in the video, which matched file and satellite imagery of the area. Coordinates: 33.513812, -112.065002. The date was verified from the metadata on the original file.  Channel 12 News in Phoenix reported that the plane was flying smoothly until the engine made a noise and smoke started filling the cockpit over the city. Pilot Make Tragarz scanned for a landing area, and settled on an empty street.  The news report stated that an National Transportation Safety Board investigation is ongoing, but early findings suggest that the engine exhaust tailpipe separated from the manifold. The passengers told Channel 12 that the video would be used in future pilot training. 

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Large-scale Ukrainian drone barrage kills four in Russia

A wave of almost 600 Ukrainian drones attacked Russia overnight killing four people, authorities said on Sunday, as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called the barrage an "entirely justified" retribution for Moscow's own pummelling of Ukraine. Air defences shot down 556 drones overnight across the country, Russia's defence ministry said, with another 30 drones intercepted after dawn in one of the largest Ukrainian barrages of the ongoing conflict so far. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Kyiv's attack on Russia -- days after a massive drone and missile bombardment of the Ukrainian capital killed at least 24 people -- was "entirely justified". "Our responses to Russia's prolongation of the war and its attacks on our cities and communities are entirely justified. This time, Ukrainian long-range sanctions reached the Moscow region, and we are clearly telling the Russians: their state must end its war." On Saturday night, AFP journalists were granted rare access to an undisclosed location where Ukraine launched its long-range drones from, in what turned out to be one of the largest pummelling of Russia during the conflict. Battalion members prepared the plane-like drones before they whooshed towards Russia, leaving trails of sparks and flames behind. The Ukrainian defence ministry said that Moscow and the surrounding region "have experienced the largest-scale attack since the full-scale invasion began" in February 2022. Ukraine's priority "remains the consistent build-up in the use of long-range strike capabilities to the fullest extent possible against a wide range of military targets," Commander of Ukraine's Unmanned Forces, Robert Brovdi, told AFP in a recent exclusive interview before the strikes. In Russia's capital region, "a woman was killed as a result of a UAV hitting a private house," governor Andrey Vorobyov posted on Telegram, adding that the early morning attack also claimed the lives of two men. One of the victims was an Indian citizen working in Russia, the Indian embassy in Moscow said in a statement. Within the capital, one of the strikes wounded construction workers at a job site near an oil and gas refinery, Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said. "Refinery production has not been disrupted. Three residential buildings were damaged," he added. While the capital region is often subjected to drone attacks, the city of Moscow, around 400 kilometres (250 miles) from the Ukrainian border, is less frequently targeted. "The hit was so powerful that it almost knocked me out (of bed), and I weigh a lot. I opened my window and saw smoke rising," Konstantin, a 39-year-old resident of the area where a high-rise was damaged in the Putilkovo neighbourhood, outside Moscow, told AFP on the site. In the Belgorod region which borders Ukraine, one man was killed overnight in a drone attack on a lorry, regional authorities said. The Ukrainian air force said meanwhile it had intercepted 279 Russian drones out of a total of 287 launched. - Refinery, oil depot hit - Diplomatic efforts to end the conflict have been at a standstill, with Kyiv unwilling to accept Moscow's maximalist demands for territory in the eastern Donbas region, saying it would be tantamount to surrender. While the United States has pushed for both sides to come to the negotiating table, the talks have noticeably stalled since Washington's attention turned to the US-Israeli war on Iran in late February. After the expiration of a US-brokered three-day truce on Tuesday to mark the anniversary of victory over Nazi Germany in World War II -- which both sides accused the other of violating -- Moscow and Kyiv have returned to trading attacks. In response to daily bombardments by the Russian military for more than four years, Ukraine has regularly struck within Russia. Kyiv frequently claims long-range strikes that it says target oil processing facilities in a bid to dent the oil revenues that fund Russia's war chest. The latest attack on Sunday hit "the Moscow Oil Refinery, the Solnechnogorsk oil depot, and several microelectronics manufacturing facilities for the first time", Ukraine's defence ministry said on social media. Ukraine's General Staff said that among the targets hit was a plant in the Moscow region "which specialises in the production of high-tech products and microchips for high-precision weapons". "The war is returning to where it came from," the ministry added. The war has cost hundreds of thousands of lives and forced millions to flee their homes, making it Europe's deadliest conflict since World War II. bur-mmp/pdw

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Pope Leo calls for usage of AI to respect 'truth of humankind'

STORY: :: Vatican City / May 17, 2026 :: Pope Leo appeals for use of AI to respect the truth of humankind and to preserve human voices and faces "In this age of artificial intelligence, I encourage everyone to commit to promoting forms of communication that always respect the truth of humankind, towards which every technological innovation should be directed." The first U.S. pontiff, in the context of talking about the Catholic 'Laudato Si' movement which promotes ecological conservation, also mentioned the importance of committing to preserving the environment and decried how "progress in this area has been greatly slowed down" due to recent wars. Pope Leo, whom this month marked a year leading the 1.4-billion-member Catholic Church on May 8, has been ramping up his schedule and also speaking up more forcefully against global conflicts, attracting the ire of U.S. President Donald Trump after criticizing the Iran war. Pope Leo will travel to France from September 25 to 28, the Vatican announced on Saturday, and will visit the Paris headquarters of UNESCO, which is facing budget shortfalls after the United States withdrew from the agency last year.

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WHO declares international emergency as Ebola outbreak kills more than 80 in DR Congo

The World Health Organization declared an international health emergency on Sunday over an outbreak of an Ebola strain in the Democratic Republic of Congo that has killed more than 80 and for which there is no vaccine. Fears of further spread grew when a laboratory on Sunday confirmed a case in the major eastern DRC city of Goma, which is controlled by the Rwanda-backed M23 militia. A total of 88 deaths and 336 suspected cases of the highly contagious haemorrhagic fever have so far been reported, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC Africa) said in an update on Saturday.  "A positive case in Goma has been confirmed by tests carried out by the laboratory. It involves the wife of a man who died of Ebola in Bunia, who travelled to Goma after her husband’s death whilst already infected," Professor Jean-Jacques Muyembe, director of the Congolese National Institute for Biomedical Research (INRB), told AFP. WHO director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus expressed deep disquiet as the reported cases rise. "I determine that the epidemic constitutes a public health emergency of international concern," Ghebreyesus posted to X, albeit adding that as yet it "does not meet the criteria of pandemic emergency" as defined by existing international health regulations (IHR). As things stand therefore, the Geneva-based WHO has declared its second-highest level of alert under IHR -- a pandemic being the highest -- with the global health body warning the scale of the current outbreak remains unclear. "There are significant uncertainties to the true number of infected persons and geographic spread," the WHO noted. Medical aid group Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said it was preparing a "large-scale response", calling the rapid spread of the outbreak "extremely concerning". "The Bundibugyo strain has no vaccine, no specific treatment," DR Congo's Health Minister Samuel-Roger Kamba said. "This strain has a very high fatality rate, which can reach 50 percent." - Patient zero - The strain -- first identified in 2007 -- has also killed a Congolese national in neighbouring Uganda, officials said Saturday. Vaccines are only available for the Zaire strain, which was identified in 1976 and has a higher fatality rate of 60-90 percent. Health officials had confirmed the latest outbreak Friday in Ituri province in northeastern DRC, bordering Uganda and South Sudan, according to CDC Africa. "We've been seeing people die for the past two weeks," said Isaac Nyakulinda, a local civil society representative contacted by AFP by phone. "There is nowhere to isolate the sick. They are dying at home and their bodies are being handled by their family members." According to Kamba, patient zero was a nurse who reported to a health facility in Ituri's provincial capital Bunia on April 24, with symptoms suggesting Ebola. Symptoms of the disease include fever, haemorrhaging and vomiting. "The number of cases and deaths we are seeing in such a short timeframe, combined with the spread across several health zones and now across the border, is extremely concerning," says Trish Newport, MSF Emergency Programme Manager, which is mobilising medical and support staff to the area. Large-scale transport of medical equipment is a challenge in the DRC, a country of more than 100 million people which is four times the size of France but has poor communications infrastructure. - High risk of spread - It is the 17th Ebola outbreak to hit the DRC, and officials warned of a high risk of spread.  With the outbreak largely concentrated in difficult to access areas few samples have been lab tested. But the WHO said the high positivity rate of initial samples, the confirmation of cases in two countries, and the increasing reports of suspected cases "all point towards a potentially much larger outbreak than what is currently being detected and reported, with significant local and regional risk of spread". The previous outbreak of Ebola was last August in the region, with at least 34 people dying before it was declared eradicated in December. The disease, over the past 50 years, has killed around 15,000 people in Africa, despite advances in vaccines and treatment.  Nearly 2,300 people died in the deadliest outbreak in the DRC between 2018 and 2020. Ebola, believed to have originated in bats, can cause severe bleeding and organ failure. Outbreaks over the past half century have seen a mortality rate among those affected of between 25 percent and 90 percent, according to WHO The virus spreads from person to person through bodily fluids or exposure to the blood of an infected persons, who become contagious only once they display symptoms. The incubation period can last up to 21 days. burs-pdw/ceg/cw/rmb

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Bulgaria's 'Bangaranga' wins Eurovision, with Israel second

Bulgaria won the Eurovision Song Contest on Sunday with Dara's catchy floor-filler "Bangaranga" sweeping the 70th edition of the world's biggest live televised music event and pushing into second place Israel, whose participation had triggered a major boycott. Bulgaria had missed the last three editions of the glitzy extravaganza but took the crown in Vienna for the first time ever, overtaking Israel at the very end as the points came in, with Romania finishing third. Singer Darina Yotova, known as Dara, was not among the favourites going into Eurovision week but the 27-year-old gained traction following a strong performance in the semi-finals, with her highly choreographed dance routines. "Everything is possible: Bulgaria just won Eurovision!" Dara told a news conference. "I really like breaking rules. I'm really good with following my rules -- not anybody else's. "We wanted to give to the audience something new and fresh, something that is not expected." - 'Magnificent story' - Eurovision highlighted that "the song ended up winning both sets of scores, which is the first time the juries and the public have chosen the same winner in almost 10 years, since Kyiv 2017". Bulgarian Prime Minister Rumen Radev hailed "a young artist who, thanks to her talent and professionalism, has managed to rise above all the complexities and prejudices surrounding the voting process. "Bulgaria is looking forward to welcoming Europe and the world for Eurovision 2027!" he added on social media. And on Sunday afternoon at Sofia airport, several hundred people turned out to welcome Dara home. "I'm proud of Dara's success!" said 72-year-old Boyko Karakolev, carrying a large Bulgarian flag fixed to the end of a fishing rod. "It's going to give some visibility to the country." Around 10,000 glammed-up fans filled the Wiener Stadthalle arena in the Austrian capital to watch Saturday's showpiece final of Eurovision, where, as always, the razzmatazz didn't escape the geopolitics in the background. Spain, the Netherlands, Ireland, Iceland and Slovenia staged the biggest political boycott in Eurovision history over Israel's participation, citing the war in Gaza. And it looked as though Noam Bettan was going to win the contest for Israel with his song "Michelle" following a big score in the televoting from the public around Europe. But as Bulgaria's televote points were revealed, Dara ultimately won by a comfortable margin. Bulgaria finished with 516 points, ahead of Israel on 343, Romania on 296, Australia on 287, Italy with 281 and Finland on 279. - Israel second, again - It was the second year in a row that Israel had finished runners-up. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called Bettam to congratulate him, saying "everyone is really really proud of you", the leader's office said. Fan Shlomit Shabat, 35, told AFP in Tel Aviv that it was "good and noble" that Israel had finished second "despite all the antisemitism against us". Johannes Pietsch, known as JJ, who won Eurovision 2025 for Austria with his song "Wasted Love", handed over the winner's trophy to Dara. "Bangaranga, it's a feeling that everybody has got in themselves," Dara said earlier Sunday as the votes were coming in. "It's the moment that you choose to lead through love and not fear, and this is a special energy that I know everybody has got in themselves." Some 166 million viewers watched the contest on television last year when it was hosted in Basel. Hundreds of pro-Palestinian demonstrators marched past on Saturday chanting "boycott Eurovision" and carrying banners reading "Don't celebrate genocide". Spanish public broadcaster RTVE -- traditionally one of Eurovision's major backers -- not only boycotted but refused to screen the show. burs-pdw/jj

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Sen. Van Hollen Says FBI Can Only Function Properly If Kash Patel Leaves

The Maryland Democrat sparred with the director over reports of his alleged excessive drinking and erratic behavior.

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Fujimori and Sanchez advance to Peru runoff: official results

Right-wing candidate Keiko Fujimori and leftist Roberto Sanchez will face off in Peru's presidential runoff on June 7, according to the final vote count released Sunday.The upcoming runoff is expected to mirror the deeply polarized second round of 2021, when Fujimori faced leftist candidate Pedro Castillo, who went on to serve as president before being ousted in December 2022.

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Kamala Harris' Stepdaughter Addresses Her Stances On SSRIs: 'They Have Saved My Life'

An old video from Ella Emhoff has gotten the wrong kind of attention from the MAHA movement.

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WHO declares global health emergency over Ebola outbreak

STORY: The WHO says the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda is a "public health emergency of international concern" - and poses a risk to neighboring countries. The outbreak caused by the Bundibugyo virus is "extraordinary", the UN health agency said on Sunday, as there are no approved specific therapeutics or vaccines, unlike for previous Ebola-Zaire strains. It comes a day after the DRC reported at least 80 suspected Ebola deaths and nearly 250 suspected cases in its Ituri province. This is the 17th outbreak in the country, where the disease was first identified in 1976. :: June 2019 Neighboring Uganda has reported at least two apparently unrelated cases, including one death, involving people who had traveled from the DRC. The WHO warned that the number of people infected could be much larger, given the high positivity rate of the initial samples and the growing number of suspected cases being reported. But, it said, the current outbreak does not amount to a pandemic. :: March 2019 The highly contagious virus causes fever, body aches, vomiting and diarrhea. It spreads through direct contact with contaminated materials or bodily fluids, or people who have died from the disease. The WHO says people infected have to isolate and their contacts should not travel. The health agency is urging countries not to close their borders or restrict travel, as this could lead to people making informal border crossings that are not monitored. The global emergency status aims to beef up international public health measures, cooperation and funding to contain a major outbreak.

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South Korea to pursue all options to avoid Samsung strike

STORY: :: April 2026 South Korea's government has vowed to try everything to avoid a major labor strike at Samsung Electronics - the country's biggest employer. The looming industrial action at the tech giant could involve tens of thousands of workers. It has sparked economic worries, rattled foreign investors and threatened global supply chains. Prime Minister Kim Min-seok said on Sunday, just one day of suspension at Samsung's semiconductor factory could incur direct losses of up to some $667 million. After an emergency meeting with ministers, Kim told a news briefing that his administration would take action to protect the nation's economy. "The government will have no choice but to pursue all possible options, including emergency arbitration,” he said. :: May 13, 2026 Pay talks broke down this week, as Samsung and its union struggled to find a compromise over bonus payouts. The world's largest memory chip maker has reaped huge profits from a global memory shortage. It has offered generous bonuses to staff. But a proposal to give its memory chip employees at least six times more than other workers in its logic chip design and manufacturing businesses has caused upset. Their union is threatening to stage the largest strike in the conglomerate's history from May 21, for 18 days. :: May 16, 2026 Chairman Jay Y. Lee has apologized to "customers around the world" over the issue. An emergency arbitration order can be invoked by the labor minister if a dispute is deemed likely to harm the economy or daily life. It would ban industrial action for 30 days while a government body conducts mediation and arbitration. The union says it will not be pressured into a pay deal that is not favorable to its members.

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Around 10 'new' victims in France's Epstein probe: prosecutor

Around 10 "new" suspected victims have come forward in a French probe into the network of late US sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, a prosecutor said Sunday.Top Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau said around 20 suspected victims had made themselves known after she in February urged potential victims to speak up.

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Shock threat by billionaire Bollore's Canal+ group rocks French cinema

The head of France's biggest film producer, Canal+, said Sunday that the group would no longer work with 600 industry professionals who signed a petition against right-wing billionaire owner Vincent Bollore. "I will no longer work with and I no longer want Canal to work with the people who signed that petition," he added.

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'Message for friends and foes': Libyan National Army conducts grand exercises

The Libyan National Army (LNA), commanded by Marshall Khalifa Haftar and controlling southern and eastern Libya, is conducting what officers describe as its biggest military exercise yet -- and a message for both friends and foes.General Abdallah Noureddine, another senior commander supervising operations near the village of El Ezzeiat, told AFP the manoeuvres were "a message for our friends and our foes".

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I'm An Introvert Who Spent Years Trying To Make Friends. With 1 Change, I Suddenly Had Dozens.

"Making friends and growing professional networks feels more important than ever considering the loneliness crisis our country is facing."

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'Toxic' males Trump, Putin, Netanyahu to blame for wars, says star Bardem

Spanish superstar Javier Bardem, who is winning rave reviews for his latest film role, slammed the "toxic masculinity" of Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday which he said was responsible for their wars. "That problem also goes to Mr Trump and Mr Putin and Mr Netanyahu," Bardem, 57, said, referring to the US, Russian and Israeli leaders. 

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Ukraine launches a deadly attack on Moscow, its biggest in a year

STORY: :: A residential building in the Moscow region is hit, as Ukraine launches its largest attack on Russia's capital in a year    :: Krasnogorsk, Russia / May 17, 2026 :: A drone was seen flying over the capital area, with officials reporting several people killed in the Ukrainian strikes :: Khimki, Russia / Released May 17, 2026 At least three people died in the Moscow region and one in the Belgorod region, Russian authorities said on Sunday. Air defenses destroyed 81 drones headed for Moscow since midnight, TASS reported, citing Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, making it the largest attack on the capital in over a year.  The location of the drone seen on social media was verified as Khimki, Russia by the shopping mall, buildings, electricity poles and road, which matched satellite imagery and file imagery. The date when the videos were filmed could not be verified.

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WHO declares international emergency as Ebola outbreak kills more than 80 in DR Congo

The World Health Organization declared an international health emergency on Sunday over an outbreak of an Ebola strain in the Democratic Republic of Congo that has killed more than 80 and for which there is no vaccine."I determine that the epidemic constitutes a public health emergency of international concern," Ghebreyesus posted to X, albeit adding that as yet it "does not meet the criteria of pandemic emergency" as defined by existing international health regulations (IHR).

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The 1 Underrated Skill Parents Need To Start Teaching Their Sons

Strategies for parents who want to help their sons cope with feelings of anger in a productive way.

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6 Of The Most Passive-Aggressive Phrases You’re Probably Using (But Shouldn’t Be)

Plus, the sneaky reason we communicate this way in the first place.

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Katie Miller Has A Problem With 'Hate Has No Home Here' Signs — And The Reason Is Wild

The conservative podcast host says the phrase marks the most intolerant people in America.

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Democrats Think They Found The Missing Ingredient For A Wave Election

The gutting of the VRA and subsequent targeting of Black politicians could spark a turnout surge.

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Bulgaria's 'Bangaranga' wins Eurovision, with Israel second

Bulgaria won the Eurovision Song Contest on Sunday with Dara's catchy floor-filler "Bangaranga" sweeping the 70th edition of the world's biggest live televised music event and pushing into second place Israel, whose participation had triggered a major boycott.Spain, the Netherlands, Ireland, Iceland and Slovenia staged the biggest political boycott in Eurovision history over Israel's participation, citing the war in Gaza.

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Eurovision song contest winner speaks about what her song "Bangaranga" means

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Bolivian police clash with protesters blocking roads

Bolivian police and soldiers clashed Saturday with protesters blocking roads into La Paz to press for wage increases and other demands.Now Paz is under pressure from all sides, with roads into the city blocked for the past two weeks.

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Senate Parliamentarian Rules Against Trump Ballroom Funding

The ruling is a setback for Republicans but they can try again.

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Venezuela expels Maduro ally Alex Saab to US again

Former Venezuelan industry minister Alex Saab, a close ally of deposed president Nicolas Maduro, was expelled to the United States on Saturday for a second time, Venezuelan officials said.Maduro appointed Saab to his cabinet the following year, but shortly after the US captured Maduro in a Caracas raid this past January, interim president Delcy Rodriguez dismissed him from all his posts.

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Dara: dancing to victory at Eurovision

Already a household name in her native Bulgaria, pop singer Dara secured her place on the international stage by winning Eurovision with her infectious song "Bangaranga", which aims to show "everything is possible"."You already hold first place in the heart of all of Bulgaria!

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AP catches up with fans watching Eurovision final at Vienna's Volksoper

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