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Results 1 to 30Trump sent a message by targeting Bill Cassidy. In defeat, Cassidy delivered one back
2026-05-17, 05:55Louisiana Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy wanted his reelection campaign to be about the “present and the future.” President Donald Trump had other plans. Five years after Cassidy voted to convict Trump in his second impeachment, the senator lost his primary for reelection to a Trump-endorsed...
Iran eyes a new source of power deep beneath the Strait of Hormuz
2026-05-17, 05:18Emboldened by its successful wartime blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, Iran is turning to one of the hidden arteries in the global economy: subsea cables beneath the waterway that carry vast internet and financial traffic between Europe, Asia and the Persian Gulf. The Islamic Republic wants to...
Latest Ebola outbreak an emergency of international concern, WHO declares
2026-05-17, 04:32The World Health Organization on Sunday declared an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda a “public health emergency of international concern,” posing risks to neighboring countries. The WHO said the outbreak, caused by the Bundibugyo strain of the virus, does not meet the...
Senate referee rules against some Trump ballroom funding, Democrats say
2026-05-17, 03:18The push to secure federal dollars for President Donald Trump’s ballroom security just got more difficult on Capitol Hill. Senate Democrats said Saturday the provision that funds Trump’s ballroom in the GOP’s latest budget bill has been deemed out of order by the Senate parliamentarian, a major blow...
Aaron Rodgers agrees to a 1-year deal to return to the Pittsburgh Steelers, AP sources say
2026-05-17, 01:48Aaron Rodgers is running it back with the Pittsburgh Steelers. Two people with knowledge of the decision told The Associated Press that the four-time NFL MVP agreed to a one-year deal to return to Pittsburgh on Saturday, ending a protracted decision-making process. The people spoke to the AP on...
Can coffee thrive in the shadow of the city?
2026-05-17, 01:12A coffee roaster hums like an idling train in the attic of LCC Roastery, churning out freshly cooked beans at the artisan coffee seller on Hong Kong’s Lantau Island. Owner Ringo Lam is proud of the broad selection of beans on offer: a jar labeled “Ethiopia” promises a mix of “jasmine, floral,...
Napoleon Solo wins the Preakness Stakes in a come-from-behind victory
2026-05-17, 00:17Napoleon Solo won the 151st...
Rory McIlroy surges on Moving Day as a clogged PGA Championship leaderboard promises a dramatic Sunday
2026-05-16, 23:41With his own third round of the PGA Championship finished by midafternoon, Rory McIlroy got to think about how to spend the rest of his Saturday afternoon. He did not, understandably, have grand plans. “I’ll watch a little bit (of the golf) and go back to the house and put the feet up,” McIlroy...
Cubans prepare for ‘invasion’ as US escalates tensions with long-suffering island
2026-05-16, 22:47A few days ago, the manager of the building where CNN’s Havana bureau is located rapped on our door with an urgent message: She needed to know if we would be coming to work during the “imminent” US invasion. Washington’s intense pressure campaign on Cuba had already been keenly felt in day-to-day...
Protests and defeat: Chelsea fans run out of patience with club’s billionaire American owners
2026-05-16, 20:31When US billionaire businessman Todd Boehly arrived at Chelsea in May 2022, he had massive plans. “We’re all in – 100%,” he told fans, promising the BlueCo consortium would help bring in the very best players and cement the club’s long-term future at the top of the game. But almost exactly four...
Britain’s hard right on the march as tens of thousands descend on London
2026-05-16, 20:31When some 150,000 people descended on London in September for a rally organized by Tommy Robinson – an agitator who spreads anti-Muslim bigotry and has several criminal convictions – it felt like a watershed moment in British politics. “Something in our country changed,” Sadiq Khan, the mayor of...
Four bystanders tackle knife-wielding driver after car plows into crowd in Italy
2026-05-16, 19:23Shortly after a car plowed into a crowd of pedestrians in Modena, Italy on Saturday, four Italian civilians stepped in and tackled the vehicle’s driver, pulling him to the ground, according to the city’s mayor. “The madman, I don’t know what to call him, the criminal who committed this act, he got...
Timmy, the stranded humpback whale, found dead off Danish coast
2026-05-16, 18:28Timmy, the young humpback whale who was stranded for weeks in shallow waters, has been found dead just off Denmark’s coast, according to the Danish Environmental Protection Agency, just weeks after a controversial rescue effort set him free. “The stranded humpback whale near Anholt is the same whale...
As global crises multiply, scores of US diplomats say they have been forced out
2026-05-16, 16:21Amid ongoing foreign policy crises around the globe and as the Trump administration struggles to reach a deal to end the war with Iran, the State Department last week finalized the firings of nearly 250 foreign service officers in a brief, impersonal email. “Your reduction in force separation will...
Richard Glossip goes free, but his three-decade murder case goes on
2026-05-16, 15:45Freedom for Richard Glossip cost $50,000. It also cost 29 years of his life. The former death row inmate convicted of murdering the owner of the motel he managed walked out of jail Thursday for the first time since 1997, after 10% of his $500,000 bond was paid by celebrity and criminal reform...
Can Spencer Pratt ride viral videos to victory in the race for LA mayor?
2026-05-16, 15:09Spencer Pratt might be a candidate uniquely suited for the moment: An elder millennial with everywhere-all-the-time social media instincts, bluntly spelling out Los Angeles’ challenges with homelessness, crime and mismanagement and laying blame at the feet of its entrenched Democratic establishment....
Big lessons the US can learn from a country with one of the fastest-growing lifespans
2026-05-16, 14:15If you want to live a long and healthy life, you’d be better off in South Korea than the United States. In the 1980s, our country was about average in terms of life expectancy for developed nations. But since then much of the world has improved, and the United States has dropped toward the bottom of...
At least eight dead, 25 injured in train collision that sparked bus fire in Thailand
2026-05-16, 13:21At least eight people were killed and 25 others injured after a train collision triggered a fire that engulfed a...
Meet the neighbors with the most unique view of the PGA Championship
2026-05-16, 13:21Doug Siberski grew up on Boulder Creek Lane, in a house his father designed and had built back in 1961. Stanley Siberski was a dentist – for some time the only one in Newtown Square – who loved to serenade his patients with country songs. He was especially partial to Loretta Lynn and Conway Twitty....
Trump’s drive for political revenge faces a key test in Saturday’s Louisiana Senate primary
2026-05-16, 13:21President Donald Trump’s drive for political revenge faces a key test Saturday in Louisiana, where he is looking to defeat Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy five years after Cassidy voted to convict him in his second impeachment. Trump has backed Rep. Julia Letlow against Cassidy, though a second...
Kennedy, balancing MAHA and White House, says he won’t run for president in 2028
2026-05-16, 13:03Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is caught between his Make America Healthy Again supporters who want him to do more to advance their priorities, including curtailing vaccines, and a White House trying to combat President Donald Trump’s unpopularity. Protesters’ chants could...
Sicily has a ‘second Pompeii.’ But it’s covered in concrete
2026-05-16, 12:30In our roundup of travel stories this week: the Wyoming monument made famous by “alien encounters,” the rise of solo dining, and the lowdown on the “Schengen Shuffle.” Rock of ages The Sicilian village of Gibellina was destroyed by an earthquake in 1968, but its ruins were to be reborn as a...
A stillbirth and Facebook post expressing her grief landed her in prison for over 2 ...
2026-05-16, 12:30“Why would you be sorry? Why would you be sorry, Patience?” Patience Rousseau, then 26, was shivering on the doorstep of the house she was living in with her two children as the sheriff’s deputy repeated her question. The Humboldt County, Nevada, sheriff’s deputy was questioning Rousseau about a...
Religion is ‘back in fashion’ in America. Here’s why
2026-05-16, 12:30When the Rev. Fred Robinson saw the small, brick church he was asked to lead in suburban Atlanta, he couldn’t help but be excited. The parking lot had sinkholes; the bathroom flooring had rotted away, and the basement was filled with so much mold that Robinson had to don gloves and goggles just to...
Why deportations don’t tell the whole story of Trump’s crackdown
2026-05-16, 11:22ICE arrests and deportations often get most of the attention. But another side to the Trump administration’s crackdown is largely flying under the radar. “They’ve slashed legal immigration for families. They’ve slashed legal immigration for employers. … There’s basically no category you can find...
DHS says its new deportation planes are almost ready for takeoff. Critics doubt the plan ...
2026-05-16, 11:22A long-abandoned proposal at the Department of Homeland Security – one so ambitious the agency had never gone through with it before – was revived under the leadership of then-Secretary Kristi Noem. Officials spent tens of millions of taxpayer dollars to buy the department its own fleet of aircraft...
Raúl Castro remains Cuba’s power behind the throne
2026-05-16, 10:09When Raúl Castro, the brother of the late Fidel Castro, resigned in 2021 as First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba, the highest position of power on the island, it marked the end of almost six decades Castro rule. The mantle was passed to Miguel Diaz-Canel. But for many Cubans, Raúl has...
US aircraft carrier returns home after record deployment that included Iran war, Maduro capture
2026-05-16, 10:09The USS Gerald R. Ford, America’s largest and newest aircraft carrier, is set to return to port in Virginia Saturday after nearly a year at sea that included participating in the capture of former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, the Iran war, a shipboard fire, and repeated plumbing issues. It...
Dazzling photographs show nature in a new way
2026-05-16, 09:33Photographer Jon McCormack has found himself repelling into Arctic ice caves in Svalbard, Norway, diving into the frigid waters off the coast of British Columbia and hanging out of helicopter doors above southern Kenya all in search of his next great picture. But despite many grand adventures, it...
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