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After the only hospital in town closed, a North Carolina city directs its ire at politicians ( apnews.com )

Weeds have punctured through the vacant parking lot of Martin General Hospital’s emergency room. A makeshift blue tarp covering the hospital’s sign is worn down from flapping in the wind. The hospital doors are locked, many in this county of 22,000 fear permanently....

US prisoners are being assigned dangerous jobs. But what happens if they are hurt or killed? ( apnews.com )

Blas Sanchez was nearing the end of a 20-year stretch in an Arizona prison when he was leased out to work at Hickman’s Family Farms, which sells eggs that have ended up in the supply chains of huge companies like McDonald’s, Target and Albertsons. While assigned to a machine that churns chicken droppings into compost, his...

706 people named Kyle got together in Texas. It wasn’t enough for a world record ( apnews.com )

How many people named Kyle can fit in one place? For one Texas city, not enough....

Climate change impacts millions in India. But as the country votes, some politicians skirt the issue ( apnews.com )

Almost 970 million Indians are voting in general elections amid sweltering heat and unpredictable weather extremes exacerbated by human-caused climate change, leading to loss of livelihood, forced migration and increasingly difficult living conditions for millions across the country....

Poland invests $2.5 billion into fortifying border with Russia and Belarus ( apnews.com )

Poland is investing about $2.5 billion to step up security and deterrence on its border with Russia and its ally Belarus, the prime minister said Saturday....

Islamic State claims responsibility for gun attack that killed three Spanish tourists in Afghanistan ( news.sky.com )

The terror group's affiliate in Afghanistan is a major rival of the country's Taliban government, and earlier claimed responsibility for an attack on Chinese citizens in Kabul in 2022....

'Stop threatening Taiwan', its new president William Lai tells China ( www.bbc.com )

Taiwan's newly inaugurated president William Lai has called on China to stop threatening the island and accept the existence of its democracy....

Post-Brexit trade border controls to cost UK $6 billion ( www.dw.com )

The UK's public spending watchdog said government expenditures on implementing new rules for post-Brexit imports would total some $6 billion. The report criticized "uncertainty" surrounding government plans....

EU will demand Labour’s Brexit plan involves European Court ( www.politico.eu )

Keir Starmer wants to sign a new agreement with the EU — one which would smooth disruption to trade, solve the Northern Ireland border issue, and make life simpler for farmers, all in one go....

First Black astronaut candidate, now 90, reaches space in Blue Origin flight ( www.theguardian.com )

Ex-air force captain Ed Dwight, passed over by Nasa in 1961, now oldest person to reach edge of space with Jeff Bezo’s space firm...

Marco Rubio says he would not accept 2024 election results ‘if it’s unfair’ ( www.theguardian.com )

Republican senator’s comments come as he is considered among Trump’s top candidates for vice-president...

Ukraine bombs the port where Russia's Black Sea fleet moved to after Crimea got too risky for its warships, reports say ( www.businessinsider.com )

Ukrainian drones hit Novorossiysk port, causing a fire and power outages, reports say....

Severe flooding wreaks havoc across northern Europe ( www.euronews.com )

Severe flooding caused by heavy rainfall has inundated Voeren and Liège in Belgium, as well as parts of France and Germany....

Blue Origin launches 1st crewed spaceflight since August 2022 (video) ( www.space.com )

The mission, known as NS-25, sent six people on a brief trip to suborbital space today (May 19)....

Iran arrests 260 people for spreading 'satanism and nudity' ( abcnews.go.com )

Iranian police have arrested more than 260 people, including three European citizens, on suspicion of spreading satanism, the state-run IRNA news agency reported Friday....

China sends warships for massive drill with Cambodia ( www.dw.com )

China and Cambodia will deploy their ships near the Gulf of Thailand for the naval section of their biggest ever "Golden Dragon" military drills....

Helicopter carrying Iran's president suffers a 'hard landing,' state TV says without further details ( apnews.com )

A helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi suffered a “hard landing” on Sunday, Iranian state media reported, without immediately elaborating. ...

Helicopter carrying Iran’s president suffers a ‘hard landing,’ state TV says without further details ( www.cnn.com )

A helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi suffered a “hard landing” on Sunday, Iranian state television reported, without immediately elaborating....

Two towns held hostage by drug traffickers on the southern border of Mexico: checkpoints, murders and control over phone service and food ( english.elpais.com )

When consulted by EL PAÍS, activists, members of the Federal Police and local journalists confirm that it’s impossible to enter or leave Frontera Comalapa or Chicomuselo...

Georgia president vetoes ‘foreign agent’ law ( www.politico.eu )

Governing Georgian Dream party can still force the controversial legislation through parliament....

Ireland: Tensions over refugee crisis and Dublin tent cities ( www.dw.com )

In Ireland's capital, Dublin, tent cities set up by migrants who lack temporary protected status are repeatedly cleared. The situation has been aggravated by Ireland's housing crisis and anti-migrant laws in Britain....

CNN political commentator Alice Stewart dies ( www.cnn.com )

Alice Stewart, a veteran political adviser and CNN political commentator who worked on several GOP presidential campaigns, has died. She was 58....

Trump turns trial into circus as Biden tries to focus minds on economy ( www.theguardian.com )

As a slew of Republicans went to the hush-money trial to show their fealty to their boss, the president tried to rise above it...

Rudy Giuliani indicted for role in Arizona fake-elector scheme ( www.theguardian.com )

Ex-New York mayor last of 17 defendants to be served in plot to overturn Donald Trump’s election loss to Joe Biden in 2020...

Georgia’s other Russian-style law is fueling a bitter culture war ( www.politico.eu )

Proposed restrictions on LGBTQ+ rights have proven far harder for politicans at home and abroad to unite against than the government’s “foreign agent” bill....

Virginia governor allows Confederate groups to keep tax exemptions ( www.theguardian.com )

Republican Glenn Youngkin also vetoed bills related to maintaining access to contraception, saying they were ‘not ready’...

Four minors found working at Alabama poultry plant run by firm found responsible for teen's death ( www.nbcnews.com )

Mar-Jac Poultry has denied it knowingly hired minors for its Jasper, Alabama, plant, and also argued some workers were doing jobs that are not banned by federal rules....

Six-month-old baby shot repeatedly during Arizona standoff with child’s father ( www.theguardian.com )

Police were able to rescue child, who is in hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, before house caught fire with father still in it...

Toxic ‘forever chemicals’ ubiquitous in Great Lakes basin, study finds ( www.theguardian.com )

PFAS chemicals present in air, rain, atmosphere and water in basin, which holds nearly 95% of US freshwater...

Why school segregation is getting worse ( www.vox.com )

Seventy years after the Brown decision, many students are divided by their race and socioeconomic status....

Mayoral candidate and five others killed in shooting at campaign rally in Mexico ( www.theguardian.com )

Young girl was among six people killed in gunfire in an area of Chiapas where shootings have become common and widespread...

A Black police chief in Colorado files a racial discrimination lawsuit after his firing ( www.nbcnews.com )

He claims leaders and officers in the mountain town of Leadville worked to force him from his job after an independent investigator cleared him of wrongdoing...

Jesus is their savior, Trump is their candidate. Ex-president's backers say he shares faith, values ( apnews.com )

As Donald Trump increasingly infuses his campaign with Christian trappings while coasting to a third Republican presidential nomination, his support is as strong as ever among evangelicals and other conservative Christians....

Trump, Still Stuck in 2020, Recycles His Tired Drug Test Demand ( www.thedailybeast.com )

Former President Donald Trump, who four years ago called on Joe Biden to take a drug test prior to the pair’s first debate that September, decided to make the same demand on Friday—one that Biden is sure to wave away once more....

Judge blocks Biden administration rule capping credit card late fees at $8 ( www.cnn.com )

A federal judge in Fort Worth, Texas, on Friday blocked a new Biden administration rule that would prohibit credit card companies from charging customers late fees higher than $8....

Paul Pelosi attacker sentenced to 30 years in prison ( www.bbc.com )

The man who attacked the husband of former US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi has been sentenced to 30 years in prison....

House votes to require delivery of bombs to Israel in GOP-led rebuke of Biden policies ( apnews.com )

The House delivered a rebuke to President Joe Biden Thursday for pausing a shipment of bombs to Israel, passing legislation that seeks to force the weapons transfer as Republicans worked to highlight Democratic divisions over the Israel-Hamas war....

'My ex took my children': Hope for divorced parents as Japan to allow joint child custody ( www.bbc.com )

The Japanese parliament has approved a change to a decades-old law, which will allow divorced couples to share custody of their children from 2026....