Every story we publish—features, explainers, and briefs—grouped by publication date, newest first. Up to 50 stories per page with a short summary under each headline.
175 stories total
Entertainment
A third contributor describes a separate allegation of a non-consensual sex act; Channel 4 pulled MAFS UK from streaming after the investigation dropped, while CPL and the broadcaster insist welfare was robust and that disputed claims had earlier been judged uncorroborated.
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World
The phrase is now political ammunition—most recently from a Labour leadership hopeful—but answering it honestly means separating rhetorical heat from official productivity modelling, from long-run polling regret, and from what voters will still tolerate if Westminster tries to reopen the 2016 choice.
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Business
A second post-mediation round at the National Labor Relations Commission in Sejong opened on Monday with the union still warning of an 18-day walkout from Thursday; talks follow an earlier collapse and a partial court injunction limiting how far pickets can disrupt safety-critical plant work.
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World
After months of U.S. rhetoric over Greenland and strained North American politics, Ottawa is deepening military procurement talks with Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden while Nuuk and Copenhagen consult Canada on adapting the Canadian Rangers model for local surveillance.
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Politics
Organizers billed the May 2026 “All Roads Lead to the South” weekend as a mass response to a fresh Supreme Court order that reopened Alabama’s congressional map fight—linking Selma’s bridge to the Capitol steps where the Voting Rights Movement once converged.
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Politics
President Donald Trump told reporters he would decide on a stalled roughly $14 billion arms package “over the next fairly short period,” after Xi Jinping warned mishandling Taiwan could bring the powers into conflict—while Washington and Taipei each insisted broader policy had not flipped overnight.
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Business
A White House fact sheet framed new agricultural purchase targets and joint trade and investment boards as the centerpiece of the Beijing meetings, while Beijing’s commerce ministry called tariff moves preliminary and still under negotiation.
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Technology
Calif still narrates seven-day lab work with Memory Integrity Enforcement on macOS 26; Apple’s catalogue page for Tahoe 26.5 now lists CVE-2026-28952 as reported by Calif.io in collaboration with Claude and Anthropic Research—a narrower confirmation than Calif’s full chain narrative but stronger than silence.
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Entertainment
In London ahead of the May 22, 2026 theatrical opening of The Mandalorian and Grogu, Pedro Pascal described Din Djarin as the longest-running role of his career, voiced gratitude, and tied any future to the joint workload of voice work and stunt performers inside the armor.
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World
Secretary (West) Sibi George told reporters some trade headlines shortened his reply as a lack of knowledge; on the ministry transcript he faulted a lack of understanding of India while defending pluralism, turnout, and minority population trends during Narendra Modi’s Netherlands stop.
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Politics
National surveys from late April 2026 put the president’s overall job rating in the mid-thirties, pair that rating with majority rejection of the Iran fight on forced-choice items, and—on one national survey—give Democrats a ten-point lead on the generic House ballot with higher reported enthusiasm.
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World
The Tiruchendur MLA opened a southern Tamil Nadu DMK event on 18 May 2026 with that verbatim collapse line, then stretched the horizon to about six months when discussing M. K. Stalin’s return, dared TVK’s Aadhav Arjuna to resign and meet her in Tiruchendur, and reopened Kolathur and swearing-in family questions.
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Markets
Brussels can count strategic barrels and model floating crude roofs, but diesel, jet, and gasoline in private tanks stay partly invisible under competition rules—while a mid-May analytical pass still describes unresolved middle-distillate deficits west of Suez even when prompt paper softens.
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World
Xinhua copy carried by RTHK pins the shock to Liunan District minutes after midnight Monday local time, eight kilometers down—while wider Chinese authority briefings cited by Indian wire aggregators add the five-figure precautionary evacuations, four hospitalizations, and cracked or partly collapsed older buildings.
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World
Two U.S. Navy EA-18G Growlers struck each other during an aerial demonstration on the second day of Gunfighter Skies at Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho. Officials said all four aviators ejected and were being evaluated as the base locked down and investigators opened a review.
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Education
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India is not treating artificial intelligence as a siloed “CS elective” for accountants: **President CA Prasanna Kumar D** told **PTI** (as carried by **The Times of India**) that **without AI, no chartered accountant can survive**, while a new **Committee for Review of Education and Training (CRET)** rewrites syllabus, **articleship**, exams, and soft skills ahead of a **December** recommendation cut-off and a **2028**-ish implementation horizon.
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Business
The withdrawn PDF, **Points of Attack: Uncovering Cyber Threats and Fraud in Loyalty Systems**, had been used to illustrate cyber risk in rewards schemes; a **14 May 2026** GPTZero investigation alleged widespread non-existent sources, broken URLs, and contradictory market-size math—after which EY took the file offline and said it was reviewing how it was published.
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Technology
Headlines that flatten the claim into “every office job disappears in eighteen months” oversell the wording: in a 12 February 2026 interview-based report, Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman tied a task-level automation window to desk-bound professional work—lawyers, accountants, project managers, marketers—not a calendar for guaranteed mass layoffs.
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Politics
With Kentucky’s 4th District Republican primary on Tuesday, President Donald Trump again blasted Representative Thomas Massie on social media while Massie—framing rival spending as an outside “buy” of the seat—said his opponents act “desperate” because he believes he leads in surveys.
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Sports
Manchester United captain Bruno Fernandes squared the 20-assist mark shared by Thierry Henry and Kevin De Bruyne when Bryan Mbeumo turned in his low cross in the 77th minute of a Sunday win over Nottingham Forest, leaving one Premier League fixture—away to Brighton on 24 May—to chase an outright record, BBC Sport reported alongside seasonal creativity statistics.
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World
Census and World Bank population lines, Pew’s partisan and trust batteries, inequality in the World Bank Gini series, and Pew’s Spring 2024 global snapshot: one country’s domestic fracture sitting next to a median foreign public that still tilts favourable—just not everywhere.
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World
National Bureau of Statistics year-end 2024 tables alongside UN World Population Prospects 2024 and World Bank fertility prints: what “demographic crisis” means in workers, elders, yuan growth lines, and housing—not cable-news slogans.
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World
Russian authorities described one of the largest nationwide Ukrainian drone barrages of the war—almost 600 airframes in a single night, they said—while Moscow’s mayor and regional governors listed civilian deaths and injuries around the capital region; President Volodymyr Zelenskyy publicly cast the campaign as justified retaliation after Russian strikes on Kyiv that officials had tied to dozens of civilian deaths days earlier.
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World
Think-tank and policy analysis of the post-2024 Labour reset describes a widening lattice of UK–EU agreements—defence industry access, sanitary and phytosanitary talks, youth and electricity files, and a path back into Erasmus+—all while ministers repeat manifesto red lines against the single market, customs union, and freedom of movement.
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Politics
With Kentucky’s Republican primary for the 4th District set for 19 May 2026, a Quantus Insights survey of likely GOP voters put Ed Gallrein narrowly ahead of incumbent Thomas Massie while Axios-tracked ad spending blew past typical House races; Massie and Representative Victoria Spartz separately denied former aide Cynthia West’s election-week allegation of a $5,000 silence payment tied to a Spartz office dispute.
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World
World Population Prospects, World Bank water briefs, and Indian household-survey tables in one place: the measurable story of the world’s largest national population colliding with monsoon hydrology, irrigation demand, and urban pipes.
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Business
A Forbes column dated 17 May 2026—“SAP Says It Is An AI Company”—captures how CEO Christian Klein is framing the Walldorf giant’s pivot; SAP’s own 12 May 2026 Sapphire press materials spell out what that means in product terms: a unified SAP Business AI Platform, SAP Autonomous Suite, Joule Work, and expanded model and cloud partnerships including Anthropic.
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World
Agency-backed outlets reported on 17 May 2026 that U.S. President Donald Trump posted a capitalised ultimatum to Tehran on Truth Social amid fragile Gulf ceasefire diplomacy, quoting him verbatim as tying speed on a deal to survival while pairing the message with a reported call to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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Politics
Published accounts tie a May 2025 Gulfstream hop to a George Strait bill at the Linc with partner Alexis Wilkins and a reported five-figure suite band. House Judiciary Democrats are demanding travel logs; executive policy still requires FBI directors to fly government metal but reimburse personal legs at coach rates.
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World
A widening U.S.–Iran war is fought with missiles and sanctions but lived through shipping insurance, food prices, refugee routes, and alliance politics from Manama to Mumbai—this is a full tour of the chessboard, not a scorecard of two capitals alone.
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World
A one-month Treasury general license that had let third countries complete purchases of Russian-origin crude already loaded on tankers ended at 12:01 a.m. Eastern on 16 May 2026; OFAC posted no follow-on extension, after the secretary had already ruled out another rollover.
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World
The Swiss Federal Intelligence Service told media in early May 2026 that it will grant access to a long-restricted dossier on SS physician Josef Mengele, reversing years of refusals after historian Gérard Wettstein challenged the blackout in court—though officials say release will still follow conditions that may leave heavy redactions.
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Education
After the 3 May 2026 NEET (UG) sitting, police and the CBI are tracing phones, money trails, and custody statements. Charges in a first information report are not trial proof; NTA PDF notices still set the rules for students.
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Politics
The parliamentarian told Republicans the East Wing security and ballroom tranche does not fit reconciliation rules as drafted. Leaders must redraft, drop the line, or build a bipartisan path—because losing the fast-track lane raises the vote bar on that money.
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Sports
Chelsea announced on 17 May 2026 that former Liverpool midfielder Xabi Alonso will take charge on a four-year contract beginning in July, with BBC Sport reporting confirmation arrived a day after the Blues lost the FA Cup final to Manchester City while ninth in the Premier League and still led on the touchline by interim Calum McFarlane for the last two league fixtures.
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World
Indian Railways field teams halted Train 12431 between Vikramgarh Alot and Lunirichha early on 17 May 2026 after flames began in the B-1 air-conditioned coach and spread to the rear luggage-cum-guard van, isolating both cars from the rake while Delhi–Mumbai corridor traffic backed up and a relief van later crashed elsewhere in Ratlam district injuring several staff, according to Times of India reporting and official statements it quoted.
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Culture
Darina Yotova, the Varna-born pop singer who performs as DARA, carried Bangaranga to victory at the 70th Eurovision Song Contest on 16 May 2026 in Vienna—516 points split 204 jury and 312 televote—giving Bulgaria its first trophy after a three-contest absence and the largest winning margin in contest history, according to the official Eurovision recap.
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World
Beijing announced a May 19–20 state visit for the Russian president—Xi and Li Qiang on the schedule, a joint declaration, and Russia–China “years of education”—immediately after Donald Trump’s May 13–15 Beijing summit, the first bilateral U.S. presidential visit to China in roughly nine years.
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Politics
Senior officials are debating whether to resolve a multibillion-dollar federal court fight the Trump family and business brought against the Internal Revenue Service—an unusual prospect when the executive branch both runs the agency and answers for it in litigation.
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Politics
Federal prosecutors unsealed a Manhattan complaint against Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood Al-Saadi, 32, alleging he steered Kata’ib Hizballah–linked violence across Europe and North America after the wider U.S.–Iran fight escalated.
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Politics
A week after Virginia’s highest court voided a voter-approved amendment, Democratic leaders asked federal justices to freeze the ruling; the application failed, leaving pre-amendment House lines in place for now.
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World
A national-defense diver died of decompression illness during a deep recovery attempt; Malé now awaits Finnish cave specialists while rough seas and a suspended vessel licence frame a widening accident probe.
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Politics
Colorado’s Democratic governor cut the former Mesa County clerk’s state term roughly in half, citing an appellate concern about sentencing and protected speech, while leaving her felony convictions intact.
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Politics
On Saturday 16 May 2026, Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, the activist widely known as Tommy Robinson, drew a large crowd to central London for the Unite the Kingdom demonstration while the Metropolitan Police ran one of its biggest recent public-order operations to keep it apart from a same-day Nakba Day march; the force estimated roughly 60,000 at Robinson’s event and said 31 people were arrested across the two protests, with senior officers warning prosecutors would pursue inflammatory chanting.
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Science
Seasonal ENSO guidance is built from ocean temperatures, wind patterns, and ensembles of physics models—expressed as shifting odds for months ahead, not a deterministic map of next week’s storms.
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Technology
A federal jury trial in Oakland pits Musk’s breach and unjust-enrichment theories against OpenAI’s account of a co-founder who left governance years before the consumer-AI boom reshaped the company’s capital stack.
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World
Berlin says a large American footprint stays in its interest, but officials treated a drawdown as foreseeable after alliance friction over the Middle East fight and transatlantic messaging.
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World
The Director-General classified Bundibugyo Ebola in the DRC and Uganda as a public health emergency of international concern—not a pandemic emergency—citing Ituri clusters, two Kampala-linked confirmations, and no licensed strain-specific vaccines or drugs; Congolese ministry data summarized by WHO had already passed early wire thresholds around 65 reported deaths before suspected-death rows reached 80 in mid-May snapshots.
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World
Federal prosecutors in Manhattan had already named Gerardo Mérida Sánchez in an April 2026 indictment alongside Sinaloa’s sitting governor and eight other Mexican officials when U.S. Marshals took him into custody after he crossed into Nogales, Arizona; he was later arraigned in New York and pleaded not guilty as Mexico’s cabinet confirmed Washington held him.
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Business
Beijing’s commerce ministry described new U.S.–China farm understandings as preliminary but pointed to reciprocal tariff reductions, beef-plant registrations, and a path to ease poultry and non-tariff hurdles.
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