Suspected drug trafficker rescued from plane crash linked to politician

A suspected drug trafficker who survived a recent plane crash near Florida was allegedly found with roughly $30,000 inside a bag labeled with the name of a Bahamian politician.

Stellantis CEO Antonio Filosa is about to unveil his plan to turn the company around as the automaker's stock lags

Shares of Stellantis are off nearly 30% since Antonio Filosa, a veteran who climbed through the company ranks, was named CEO nearly a year ago.

U.S. soldier fears newly-freed wife could still be deported by ICE at any time

U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class and Afghanistan war veteran Jose Serrano told CBS News his wife, Deisy Rivera Ortega, was detained by ICE despite doing the "right thing."

Middle East crisis live: Iran’s Revolutionary Guards warns of war ‘beyond the region’ if US resumes attacks

IRGC comments come after Trump says he could strike Iran while insisting that Tehran still wants to make a deal

• Trump threatens ‘a big hit’ if Tehran does not make deal soon

The Jordanian military announced it had shot down a drone of unknown origin in its airspace on Wednesday, AFP reports.

No casualties were reported.

Russian claim that Latvia and Baltic countries plan to help Ukraine launch drones ‘totally ridiculous’, says Rutte - Europe live

Nato chief criticises Moscow when asked about Russia’s escalating rhetoric and threats against Latvia and the Baltics

In Brussels, Rutte begins by stressing the importance of Nato ministers meeting in Sweden, the alliance’s “newest ally” who joined in 2024.

“This says a great deal about how fundamentally our security environment has changed, especially when it comes to Europe. It is more dangerous, it is more contested and it makes it all the more important that Nato allies work together to safeguard our freedom and security,” he says.

Democrats make demands of U.S. Trade Representative ahead of U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement review

CNBC obtained a letter from a group of Senate Democrats to U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer laying out what they want to see in a key trade agreement.

EU agrees to implement US trade deal struck last summer

MEPs had twice frozen ratification process in protest at Trump’s threats to increase tariffs and take control of Greenland

The EU has finally agreed to implement its trade deal with the US after five hours of talks between members of the European parliament and member states in the hope of averting more tariffs threatened by Donald Trump.

It means the agreement struck last July at the US president’s Scottish golf course can now enter into force, removing import duties on most US goods entering the EU.

Former Spanish Prime Minister Zapatero is under investigation

A Spanish court is investigating former Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero for alleged influence peddling and other possible crimes tied to a government airline bailout.

Championship playoffs should restart with Wrexham replacing Southampton, says Windass

• Saints are appealing against expulsion and deduction

• Wrexham player: story ‘one of the maddest I’ve seen’

The Wrexham forward Josh Windass has called for the Championship playoffs to be started again, with his team involved, following Southampton’s expulsion.

Saints were kicked out of the post-season competition by an independent commission after admitting to a trio of spying offences, including against playoff semi-final opponents Middlesbrough earlier this month.

‘These are artifacts from history’: exhibition celebrates objects of sporting victory

At the American Museum of Natural History, an expansive range of medals, trophies and other keepsakes, showcase nearly 150 years of US sports history

“You play to win the game,” Herm Edwards, the former NFL coach, once philosophized. In sports, the ring is the thing – and if not that then a medal, cup or some other decorative keepsake imbued with the history and prestige of a championship. Fans spend years emotionally investing in shiny baubles they’ll likely never commune with beyond a fleeting glimpse at a victory parade or civic rally, even as these trophy quests shape their lives and identities. But in the end, bragging rights are the best they can hope for; the hardware itself remains out of reach.

“You’re so used to seeing that moment of winning and holding up the trophy or medal,” said Vikki Tobak, an author and cultural critic. “You realize that they really are just proxies for this road to becoming great and being excellent at what you do – and that is something we as human beings understand fully across all things and genres.”

Musk and the US government fought an AI anti-discrimination law. The arguments don’t hold up | Genevieve Smith

The justice department’s lawsuit is part of a federal effort to reframe AI consumer protections as ideological overreach

This April, the US Department of Justice joined Elon Musk’s xAI in suing the state of Colorado to kill its AI anti-discrimination law.

When the federal government sides with a billionaire against a state trying to protect its residents from AI discrimination, that’s not only a Colorado story. That’s everyone’s story.

Dr Genevieve Smith is a postdoctoral research fellow at Stanford University, founder of the Responsible AI Initiative at the UC Berkeley AI Research Lab and a member of professional faculty at the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business

The major cases the Supreme Court will decide in the coming weeks

The Supreme Court's term is set to end around the end of June, with decisions on birthright citizenship, transgender athlete bans and gun rights still to come.

Minister defends relaxing some Russian oil sanctions with Starmer set to face PMQs grilling – UK politics live

Dan Tomlinson says move is ‘time-limited’ as Tories attack ‘insane’ decision and call for more drilling in North Sea

• UK relaxes strict sanctions on Russian crude as oil costs soar

John Swinney has been sworn in as first minister of Scotland for the second time, the Press Association reports. Swinney went to the court of session this morning where he was sworn in to the role by Scotland’s most senior judge – the Lord President. He left the court just after 10am, flanked by his wife Elizabeth and teenage son Matthew.

Dan Tomlinson, the Treasury minister, has said the government would not force supermarkets to impose compulsory price caps on food items.

It’s right that the government looks across the board at what more we can do - both government levers but also talking to industry about the steps that they can take to support people with the cost of living.

Iran threatens to extend conflict ‘beyond the region’ if U.S. and Israel resume attacks

Iran's Revolutionary Guard on Wednesday threatened to extend the Middle East conflict "beyond the region" if the U.S. and Israel resume attacks against Tehran.

Germany urged to stop admiring Beijing and wake up to ‘China Shock 2.0’

‘China has already eaten much of German industry’s lunch and is preparing to start on dinner,’ thinktank says

• Business live – latest updates

Germany must stop admiring China’s success in the EU or it will sleepwalk into the kind of deindustrialisation the US experienced 25 years ago, a leading Brussels thinktank has said.

With China’s surplus with Germany having doubled between 2024 and 2025 from $12bn (£9bn) to $25bn, creating a $94bn trade imbalance, the Centre for European Reform (CER) said Europe’s largest economy risked a repeat of what happened in the US in 2001 when a sudden surge in imports permanently hollowed out towns in the American midwest.

The Spin | A little Sachin in waiting? How cricket dreams are passed down through families

Within days of new parenthood, cricket tragics often find themselves mapping out futures for their offspring in the game. I’m no different

Every cricket-loving parent will know the feeling. Not a feeling, exactly, more a tiny flicker of hope. A ridiculous, irrational hope that the gods who once reached down and gently kissed the likes of Sachin Tendulkar and Ellyse Perry might one day do the same to your little sprog.

You hold your breath the first time you wrap their chubby hands around a plastic bat. You start dreaming absurd dreams when you softly lob a tennis ball in their direction and they accidentally smoke one into the couch.

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Wanted: ball-obsessed rescue dog to save Australia’s endangered koalas from fires and floods

After a decade helping rescue koalas from bushfires and other disasters, 11-year-old detection dog Bear retired in March

Australia’s most famous koala-sniffing dog – who has helped save endangered koalas from fires and floods – has hung up his little red boots, with the search now on for his successor.

After a decade helping rescue koalas, 11-year-old detection dog Bear retired in March.

Georgia mayor who fired town’s entire police force resigns, citing family ‘health concerns’

Ron Shinnick did not mention the firing of the Cohutta police force, which was later rehired, in resignation letter

The mayor of a small town in the US state of Georgia has resigned shortly after firing his community’s entire police department, a step that the local governing council ultimately reversed – but that he nonetheless took amid a political spat pitting him and his wife against members of the force.

In a 15 May resignation letter that the Guardian reviewed, Ron Shinnick avoided mentioning his attempted termination of the Cohutta police department, word of which gained international media attention. The letter instead said Shinnick had opted to vacate the mayoral post he had held since 2014 due to “health concerns” faced by family members outside Cohutta.

The English community that brought its river back from the brink: ‘If we can get it right here, we can do it everywhere’

For 150 years, the Mease had been altered by human hands, which destroyed habitats. But in 2013, a restoration project began – and now its wetlands are abuzz with wildlife

‘A noisy river is a healthy river,” says Ruth Needham of the Trent Rivers Trust (TRT). The Mease in the Midlands must be in fine fettle, then, as it gurgles merrily along. Sunlight glints off riffles in the water and shoals of fry dart past. Needham whips out her phone to video the tiny fish: “My colleagues will be jumping for joy to see them!”

Needham has good reason to be buoyant. Last month, the Mease won the UK River prize 2026 – which was established by the River Restoration Centre in 2014 to acknowledge innovative projects – in recognition of the trust’s 13-year restoration campaign. “The prize has been a massive boost,” says Needham. “If we can get the Mease into better condition, we can improve other rivers, too.”

‘We wanted to get people to work together’ … Ruth Needham of the Trent Rivers Trust

‘He had a unique ability to be human’: late-night TV says goodbye to Stephen Colbert

The Late Show, and its much-loved host, will bid farewell this week after a controversial cancellation leaving behind a challenging TV landscape

Hugh Jackman sang a parody of Neil Diamond’s Sweet Caroline. Bette Midler performed a satirical rewrite of Wind Beneath My Wings. John Lithgow wrote and recited a poem entitled The Mighty Colbert. Jake Tapper hand delivered a painting of Colbert as Gollum from The Lord of the Rings. And Jimmy Fallon offered a pointed take on Frank Sinatra’s My Way: “And now the end is near/ And so you face the final curtain/ But Trump, he made it clear/ He wants you gone/ Of that we’re certain.”

A roll call of celebrities have paid pilgrimage to the Ed Sullivan Theatre in New York in recent months to join a long goodbye to CBS’s The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, honouring a voice that will be sorely missed from the national conversation when the lights go dark on 21 May.

Overworked and understaffed: Special ed teachers turn to AI for help

A fast-growing number of special educators nationwide are using AI to create customized education plans. Despite the risks, some research shows it could improve the quality of teachers' work.

Denver has a plan to heat and cool buildings without fossil fuels. It involves … sewage?

Like many cities, Denver's largest source of greenhouse gas emissions is its buildings. Heating and cooling skyscrapers requires a lot of fossil fuels. Now, the city is trying a surprising solution.

I believed sustainable fashion’s hype. But between Everlane and Allbirds, the letdowns keep coming | Clare Press

Sustainability promised to change the industry. With Shein reportedly acquiring Everlane, and Allbirds pivotting from eco sneakers to AI, it seems that promise was mostly marketing

It was always about the money, wasn’t it? For a while there, it seemed like the execs opining sustainability is not a trend, it’s the future actually meant it. But when yet another global brand drops its net zero goals or stops talking about DEI, you do wonder. Recent headlines include Stella McCartney adulterating her eco gloss with a sustainable capsule collection for H&M – don’t worry, she’s just “infiltrating from within” – and Lululemon being investigated for Pfas. The letdowns keep coming.

Now the internet is reeling from a report that Shein plans to acquire Everlane, the San Francisco-based sustainable basics brand built on “radical transparency”. Shein is the Chinese ultra-fast fashion giant epitomising murky supply chains and crazy-cheap landfill fashion. They release up to 10,000 styles a day, and have been making headlines of their own over secrecy and alleged links to forced Uyghur labour.

Morning news brief

A look at primary results from around the country, Trump and Vance share conflicting messages on state of Iran war, shooting at San Diego mosque being investigated as possible "hate crime."

Montana could soon ease restrictions on mining precious metals

Restrictions on mining for precious metals like gold in Montana that were put in place 30 years ago could soon be relaxed as the mining industry makes a comeback in the U.S.

Teenagers behind mass shooting in San Diego rushed at mosque ‘fully armored’

Firearms used by shooters, aged 17 and 18, in fatal rampage were registered to one of their parents

The two teenage assailants responsible for a mass shooting at the Islamic Center of San Diego, California, rushed toward the mosque “fully armored” with handguns and rifles, authorities said.

A security guard shot and struck one of the shooters, according to members of the mosque, but the attacker continued charging. The guard, Amin Abdullah, alerted administrators of the school at the Islamic Center, telling them to go into lockdown, before he was shot and killed. “If it was not for him … the carnage would be much worse,” said the imam, Taha Hassane. “He sacrificed his life.”

‘Floral buzzing’ to collect pollen as exhausting for bees as flight take-off, study shows

Vibrating flowers uses huge amounts of energy, forcing bees to choose which plants to visit and affecting which ones are pollinated

Bees use as much energy collecting pollen through “floral buzzing” as they do taking off in flight, a study shows.

Scientists have found the vibrations bumblebees use to shake pollen loose from flowers are among the most exhausting behaviours they perform, forcing bees to “carefully choose” which flowers are worth visiting.

I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning review – sweet, sad portrait of gen Z discontent and disillusion

Cannes film festival: Clio Barnard’s absorbing tale depicts five friends who grew up together in Birmingham but now face divided destinies

With warmth and heartfelt passion, and a quintet of outstanding performances from young actors shot in looming closeup for so much of the time, Clio Barnard has created an absorbing and moving social-realist picture. It’s a film whose mix of poignancy, defiance and contaminated euphoria stayed with me hours after the closing credits.

It is about five young people from Birmingham who grew up together, reaching the end of their 20s, sensing a looming crisis and on the verge of a tragedy that is mysteriously growing from within their own increasing disparity. It is adapted by screenwriter Enda Walsh from the novel of the same name by Kieran Goddard, the statically rendered pentaptych of five consciousnesses in Goddard’s book being transformed into a fraught and dynamic home town drama with a sense memory of Fellini’s I Vitelloni.

Saka calls out Arsenal critics after title win: ‘They’re not laughing at us any more’

• Lewis-Skelly takes aim at bottlers jibe

• Eze posts picture of Arsenal-branded bottle

A jubilant Bukayo Saka hit back at Arsenal’s critics by saying “they’re not laughing at us any more” as the club celebrated their first Premier League title in 22 years. Arsenal players and staff gathered at their London Colney training base to watch Manchester City draw 1-1 with Bournemouth, guaranteeing the Gunners their first championship since 2004.

There were wild scenes at Arsenal’s training ground and outside the Emirates Stadium, where thousands of supporters gathered to mark the club’s success by lighting fireworks and flares. Ian Wright, who scored 185 times for Arsenal and won the title in 1998, was mobbed by fans as he joined in on the party outside the club’s ground.

Caroline Aherne by David Scott review – portrait of a comedy maverick

A biography of the creative force behind Mrs Merton and The Royle Family focuses on the stories behind her work

From the 1990s until her tragically early death in 2016, Caroline Aherne was a fixture of British primetime television. This new study of her work reminds us of the punk spirit behind it all. Aherne was the deceptively vicious chatshow host Mrs Merton. She was the voice of Gogglebox, an expression of love for the medium she adored. She was the creator and star of The Royle Family, one of the most profound, realistic and beautiful sitcoms ever written for the British screen. She was one of the greats.

David Scott’s first book, Mancunians, offered a portrait of his city through its notable people, one of whom was Aherne. In it, Scott argued that her home city had not done nearly enough to celebrate her, and this, his second book, is an attempt to redress the balance. She is, Scott writes, his biggest influence (he is a poet and presenter) and his favourite Mancunian of all time. When the idea of writing a proper biography was put to him, he declined, repelled by the idea of “raking over someone’s private life”. This rakes over the work instead, representing a comprehensive record of her output from the perspective of a true devotee.

Charlie the Wonderdog review – pooch v puss caper beams Owen Wilson up from the wilderness

Wilson lends his drawl to a dog who gains superpowers after being abducted by aliens in this frenetic animation

In an ever more threadbare release schedule, there’s little in the way of a backup plan for any youngsters and parents shut out of The Mandalorian and Grogu. The major studios’ animation departments have already delivered the blockbusting likes of Hoppers, Goat and The Super Mario Galaxy Movie to multiplexes this spring, setting distributors scrabbling around to dig up filler material for kids’ matinee shows. If a new, Chinese-produced Tom and Jerry caper doesn’t spark undue enthusiasm, the most immediate family alternative would be this very ordinary Canadian digimation, featuring the voice of Owen Wilson as a dog with superpowers.

Co-writer and director Shea Wageman earns some points for weirdness. The titular pooch is one of a menagerie of household pets beamed up one night for alien experimentation. (This PG-rated entertainment comes perilously close to busting out the probes.) Returned home with the ability to fly and speak in a recognisably Wilsonian drawl, Charlie resolves to use his superpowers for good – becoming, if you will, Bark Kent. This indulges in more of the movies’ virulent anti-cat propaganda: neighbour’s puss Puddy (Ruairi MacDonald) breaks bad, pledging to punish his now-cowering owner, and indeed humanity entire, for failing to empty his litter tray.

Just what the doctor ordered: Brazil’s drive to ditch UPFs from hospital menus

Following the successful reduction of ultra-processed foods in schools, scientists and politicians hope to improve patient health with locally grown and freshly prepared meals

Every month a few dozen staff from some of São Paulo’s leading hospitals take time out of their busy schedules to visit food fairs where stallholders from more than 50 local farms display their produce. The aim is to strike deals that will supply the hospitals with organic vegetables, homemade bread and other locally made foods.

Started in October 2023, the fairs are part of a revolutionary scheme in São Paulo state to phase out ultra-processed foods (UPFs) from hospital menus in favour of healthier alternatives. “It’s not only cooks, nutritionists, meal planners and hospital management who attend the fairs but also nurses and doctors,” says Weruska Davi Barrios, a specialist in hospital nutrition at the University of São Paulo, the institution that has initiated the project.

Shirtless fans cheer at MLB stadiums as "Tarps Off" trend sweeps baseball world

At ballparks all across the country, groups consisting of mostly young men are joining in on the trend: Go to the section where the party is happening, take off your shirt and start twirling it above your head.

EU clears major hurdle to finalize U.S. trade pact — and sidestep Trump tariff hikes

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Wednesday welcomed a provisional agreement on legislation to remove import duties on U.S. goods.

‘A beacon of hope’: FC Chernihiv set for Ukrainian Cup final against all odds

Club are battling relegation from the second tier in a city under attack by Russian forces but are one upset away from the Europa League

A minivan with darkened windows pulls up at a gym in central Chernihiv and, once the doors have slid open, a stream of youths emerges into the daylight. Inside, Artem Rakitin sits everyone down on the rubber mat for one last pep talk. He has known most of the young men for several years, working with them here twice a week and in effect acting as a mentor. It is a kind of physical and mental training, he explains: self-discipline; resisting vices; preparing oneself, if the moment comes, to defend his country. “One of the main targets is for them not to become alcoholics, drug addicts or anything like that,” he says. “It’s to put their energy in the right places, and to support the right team.”

The team they follow is FC Chernihiv and, on Wednesday evening, the second-tier side will face Dynamo Kyiv in a Ukrainian cup final nobody could have predicted. FC Chernihiv are battling relegation but, to delirious scenes, won their semi-final against Metalist 1925 Kharkiv on penalties despite being reduced to 10 men in the fifth minute. They are one more upset from an improbable Europa League spot; it is a remarkable moment for a city, tucked in Ukraine’s north towards the Russian and Belarusian borders, that has suffered devastating losses since February 2022.

Guardian correspondent and photographer win war reporting prize

International correspondent Lorenzo Tondo and photographer Alessio Mamo awarded Ryszard Kapuściński prize, named after Polish war correspondent

• All photographs by Alessio Mamo

The Guardian international correspondent Lorenzo Tondo and Guardian photographer Alessio Mamo have been awarded the Ryszard Kapuściński prize, named after the legendary Polish war correspondent and author.

The annual award honours journalists and photographers who have distinguished themselves through their reporting from war zones and humanitarian crises. It is organised by the Italian Geographical Society in collaboration with Kapuściński’s family.

Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed review – this totally bingeable thriller will glue you to your seat

Tatiana Maslany and Murray Bartlett are brilliant in this twisty drama about a woman being blackmailed by a camboy. It’s moreish, inventive – and there’s not a single weak link in the cast

Beware the beautiful camboy. And never trust Murray Bartlett. These seem to be the main life lessons to take from Apple TV’s new 10-part series Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed and, the deeper we go into the tense and twisty mass of plot shot through with black comedy, the greater the wisdom becomes.

The beautiful camboy is called Trevor (Brandon Flynn), which I guess explains why he is trying to make it on looks alone. He is the therapist-with-benefits, used by newly divorced mother-of-one Paula (Tatiana Maslany) when she is alone in her apartment because her husband has main custody of their daughter, Hazel (Nola Wallace). There are suggestions of previous instability and erratic behaviour. These are not about to serve Paula well.

Jack Ryan: Ghost War review – Amazon’s Tom Clancy series spawns middling movie

John Krasinski continues his unconvincing run as the CIA analyst in a mostly unexciting and rather low-rent feature-length adventure

For years, author Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan character was a fixture of the multiplex, with movies providing reluctant-leading-man-of-action opportunities for Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford, Ben Affleck and Chris Pine. Most of them were hits. (Sorry, Chris!) In that context, it might seem a little low-rent that the newest character’s newest adventure, Jack Ryan: Ghost War, is actually a made-for-streaming continuation of an Amazon TV series, where John Krasinski takes over the CIA analyst role. But there are potential advantages to this approach, too: four seasons of the show can establish the character and his world, relieving the movie version of the full reboot burden. (No small thing for a familiar character who’s nonetheless been played by five different guys.) In particular, the existence of the hit show eliminates the standard waffling over what stage of Ryan’s career he should start in. Let the TV show handle the salad-days stuff, and the movie can join him mid-career without requiring several box office successes to get there.

And to its credit, Jack Ryan: Ghost War manages to stand alone quite well despite the preceding 30 episodes of set-up. (I certainly don’t remember them all with crystal clarity, and I was never lost on a plot level.) Less fortuitously, it’s more coherent than competent, especially compared with the previous movie versions. That might not seem like a fair fight, but Ghost War does position itself as some kind of movie after four seasons of serialized television; there must be some reason for this new framework, whether it’s a bigger budget, a more pulse-pounding story or a chance to put Krasinski alongside his predecessors. (He’s already played Ryan for more hours than any of them.) By the end of its 105 minutes, though, the movie seems to eliminate the most obvious possibilities, and its reason for being hangs in the air.

U.S. indicts four Chinese container manufacturers alleging pandemic-era price-fixing cartel

China International Marine Containers, Singamas Container Holdings, Shanghai Universal Logistics Equipment, and CXIC Group Containers colluded to cut container output: DOJ

I Want You to Be Happy by Jem Calder review – romance for the terminally online

What makes this love story fresh is the precise attention to the contemporary environment: the way characters live both in and out of the physical world

The opening section of I Want You to Be Happy is an excellently droll and surefooted description of a man and a woman meeting in a bar, trying to make conversation over the music and flirting vaguely. They establish that she is 23 and that he is 35. All the specifics – the name or location of the bar, the music, even the names of the couple – are for now redacted: “After a while, the twenty-three-year-old woman raised her voice and, referring to the thirty-five-year-old man, asked her short-haired friend: ‘How old do you think he is?’ The short-haired friend surveyed the thirty-five-year-old man’s face; thought for a moment. ‘Forty?’ The twenty-three-year-old woman snort-laughed. ‘He’s thirty-five.’”

Jem Calder, like his protagonists, is bang on trend. His 2022 short story collection, Reward System, was widely admired; this debut novel employs a factual and affectless prose of the sort you’d find in Sally Rooney or Vincenzo Latronico, with a fastidious attention to the surfaces of the world that suggests Nicholson Baker or Bret Easton Ellis or even early Don DeLillo humming in the background. As that opening suggests, these figures are, or could be, representative.

Walking home, she put in her earphones and streamed a new album by her favourite singer-songwriter: the album’s release having been brought to her attention via push notification earlier that day. This new album wasn’t as good as the singer-songwriter’s older ones – or else Joey wasn’t in the right mood for it – so she navigated to the singer-songwriter’s artist page and played the songs she already liked. Listening to these familiar songs, she sang along under her breath, alternately joining in with the lead or backup vocal lines wherever they required least effort.

‘Anger, curiosity and hope’: a planet of protest – in pictures

From Hong Kong to Cairo, New York to Kyiv, the world is caught up in confrontations with authoritarian power. Matthew Connors’ new photo book tells the story

AI engineer says Google unfairly sacked him after he protested against work for Israel

Exclusive: Employment tribunal claim says worker lost his job after distributing leaflets throughout London office

Google is facing a legal challenge from an AI engineer who claims he was unfairly dismissed after he protested against its work for the Israeli government, in the latest sign of growing concern about the social and ethical impacts of AI.

The engineer distributed flyers around Google DeepMind’s London offices, which read “Google provides military AI to forces committing genocide” and asking colleagues: “Is your paycheck worth this?” He also emailed colleagues about Google’s 2025 decision to drop a promise not to pursue weapons that harm people and surveillance violating international norms and urged them to unionise.

‘The door to the future of Gaza is still closed’: Trump’s reconstruction promises stall

Diplomatic impasse and lack of progress on the ground has left countries that pledged funds to Board of Peace reluctant to pay

Gaza is in a grim limbo more than seven months after Donald Trump brokered a ceasefire deal: no reconstruction is under way, the so-called Board of Peace is struggling with funding and Palestinian technocrats chosen to run the strip are sidelined in Egypt.

In a 15 May submission to the UN security council, the Board of Peace said the “principal obstacle” to realising Trump’s plan for Gaza was Hamas’s refusal to hand over its weapons and cede control of the strip – but several people familiar with the body said funding shortfalls could jeopardise the effort.

Sony 1000XX the Collexion headphones review: supreme comfort and quiet luxury for your ears

Special anniversary edition of award-winning headphones are some of the best sounding you can buy, but cost far more than top Sony noise cancellers

Sony’s latest noise-cancelling headphones are a special anniversary set made to celebrate a decade of its prized 1000X series, designed to be plusher, slimmer, more comfortable and the best sounding yet.

The original 1000X launched in 2016, igniting a fierce rivalry with the dominant Bose and its QuietComfort line, which would push noise-cancelling technology dramatically forward as each tried to outdo the other with subsequent releases.

Melbourne teenager Bianca Adler becomes youngest Australian to climb Mount Everest

The 18-year-old high school student reached the top of the world’s tallest mountain on her second attempt

An 18-year-old high school student from Melbourne became the youngest Australian to climb to the top of Mount Everest on Wednesday.

According to her Garmin data and a post on Instagram, Bianca Adler reached the 8,849 metre summit at nearly 6.30am Melbourne time, and nearly 2.30am Nepal time, with her guides, Pemba and Ngdu.

Bolivia's capital under siege as protests deepen crisis for President Paz

Bolivia's President Rodrigo Paz faces a deepening crisis as widespread protests and blockades leave the political capital under siege less than six months after he took office.

A moment that changed me: My diagnosis seemed like a death sentence – how have I survived for another 40 years?

To HIV researchers, I am an ‘elite controller’ – someone whose immune system has enabled them to live for decades without symptoms or medication. I hope that one day science will understand this tiny but lucky minority

On 21 February 1986, I was diagnosed HIV positive. I was 22. It was the day of my sister’s 21st birthday. That solemn Friday afternoon, my life changed for ever. We had planned a surprise party later that night. My sister was already seven months pregnant with my eldest niece, and I had gone to central London to find a card featuring a Black mother and child. Failing to find anything culturally appropriate, I decided to pop into the STD clinic in Chelsea to pick up my test results. I knew nothing about HIV or Aids; I’d never even heard of the acronyms until a week or so earlier.

Unsurprisingly, I didn’t end up partying with my sister that night. Celebrating the promise of new life while contemplating my imminent death proved too much. I spent the next several days hiding away in a darkened room, crying uncontrollably.

The balance of global power is shifting fast, but Britain is stuck in the same old Brexit rut | Rafael Behr

Without a reckoning about the epic strategic error of leaving the EU, there is no serious debate about the country’s future place in the world

While the Labour party was in meltdown last week, Donald Trump was visiting China. By the time Wes Streeting had sent his resignation letter to Keir Starmer, the US president had completed a two-hour bilateral meeting with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, and moved on to sightseeing.

The events unfolded in parallel, but in the competition for media and Westminster attention the superpower summit couldn’t rival manoeuvres against the prime minister. That is normal. A domestic crisis will always bump foreign events off the news agenda.

Rafael Behr is a Guardian columnist

‘A world-class producer’: English wines toast record gold medal haul

England wins highest percentage per entry at International Wine Challenge, with Kent the country’s best region

English wines won the highest percentage of gold medals per entry in a global competition, with experts describing the improvement as remarkable.

At the International Wine Challenge, English wines are winning more gold medals than ever. In 2025, the country won 10, but this year it was awarded 25.

M&S Champagne Delacourt Vintage Blanc de Blancs 2017, France

M&S Collection Barossa Valley Shiraz 2024, Australia

Exceptional Botrytis Riesling 2017, Aldi, New Zealand

Exceptional Asti NV, Aldi, Italy

Fletcher’s LBV Port 2021, Aldi, Portugal

Tesco Finest Picpoul de Pinet 2024 Les Costières de Pomerols, France

Tesco Finest Barolo 2021 Fratelli Martini Secondo Luigi, Italy

Sainsbury’s Taste the Difference Rioja Gran Reserva 2018, CVNE, Spain

Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin meet in Beijing less than a week after Trump visit

Coming so soon after US president’s visit, the optics and outcomes of meeting will be closely scrutinised

Xi Jinping welcomed the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, with pomp and pageantry as the pair kicked off talks in the Great Hall of the People on Wednesday morning, days after the Chinese leader hosted Donald Trump in the same location.

Chinese soldiers stood in position as a military band played the Russian and Chinese national anthems for the leaders in central Beijing. Children waving Russian and Chinese flags and cheered “Welcome, welcome!” in Chinese, before the pair entered the Great Hall.

Country diary: The mayhem and mystery of inland gulls | Derek Niemann

Frome, Somerset: Thirty miles from shore, they drift up the hill, dominate the church and fill the sky. But they still carry the whiff of salty air

As summer approaches, the pirates of the promenade will soon be back in the headlines again, for the chip thieves and overzealous nest defenders give gulls a bad rap. Our own unsalted birds, 30 miles from the ocean swell, offer a different take. May is the month when they are most ubiquitous, most vocal, most beguiling.

Up the combe they come, riding over the rising sun as I sit here to write and look out at the big sky. One glides before me, underwings dark, bib and belly uplit to cast an ethereal glow. A paint chart might well label this grey-tinted body hue “gull white”. Two bigger birds appear, slender wings slanting as they turn to flash a glimpse of upper, the thundercloud blue‑black of black-backed gulls. Others will follow shortly, an assorted collection of first years, second years, non-breeders, failed breeders and apprentices, their age flagged by the grey gradations of plumage.

Billy Joel condemns upcoming biopic about his early life as ‘legally and professionally misguided’

Singer-songwriter has ‘not authorised or supported’ Billy & Me, which will be based on the story of his first manager Irwin Mazur

Billy Joel has condemned an upcoming biopic titled Billy & Me, told through the eyes of his first manager, as “legally and professionally misguided”.

Billy & Me, which was announced on Tuesday, is set to tell the story of Joel’s first manager Irwin Mazur, who discovered the singer in 1966, signed him in 1970 and oversaw his career up until Joel signed with Columbia Records in 1972. His career took off with his album Piano Man one year later.

The die isn’t cast: France is pessimistic, but not doomed to far-right rule | Joseph de Weck

Apocalyptic forecasts are a national sport. But while polls point to a National Rally president in 2027, it’s still all to play for

One reassuring thing about France is its consistency down the years: trains still run mostly on time, coffee in the land of cafes remains undrinkable, and, whatever the season, the intellectual class continues to supply elegant variations on the same theme: France is always about to collapse.

The present mood feels familiar – and fatalism, of course, is a habit in France. At a recent dinner among friends in Paris I was treated to a typically balanced menu: great food and mood, paired with apocalyptic forecasts. After nine years of Emmanuel Macron’s right-leaning rule France stands at the abyss, one guy said, as he cut the head off an asparagus. The country hovers somewhere between civil war and financial bankruptcy, another added, cooling her forehead with a glass of cold white wine.

Joseph de Weck is a fellow with the Foreign Policy Research Institute

Behold! Nina Simone’s chewing gum! Inside the show celebrating extreme pop fandom

Leaves from Dolly Parton’s front garden, a Yellow Submarine cookie jar full of ashes, a branch from the tree Marc Bolan’s car hit … our writer explores Holy Pop, the exhibition where superfans are sacred

Alice Hawkins has a unique way of dealing with the unwanted attentions of Jehovah’s Witnesses seeking out converts door to door. “They come around here every Thursday,” says the photographer. “So I get my Dolly Parton book out and explain to them that Dolly is where I find my belonging, Dolly is where I find my belief.”

One presumes that does the trick, but it’s worth noting that Hawkins isn’t joking. Parton was always her favourite singer, but her obsession flowered in the wake of a friend’s suicide, which left Hawkins “a mess”. In an attempt to cheer her up, her husband suggested visiting Dollywood, the singer’s 150-acre theme park in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. “I just felt like I’d found some kind of spiritual home, like my mecca,” says the photographer. “I found some solace. When we drove home, I said to my husband, ‘I’m going to go back there and start making work. I’m going to do a project.’ It just made me feel really alive.”

‘How are we going to survive this?’ Wellington faces six-month wait to halt sewage spill

Millions of litres of sewage have been spilling into the capital city’s waters since February after the catastrophic failure of a Moa Point wastewater plant

A fix to stop millions of litres of sewage continuing to pour into the waters off the coast of New Zealand’s capital, Wellington will be in place by November, officials have said, with full repairs at the cost of NZ$53.5m by late next year.

More than 100 days since the catastrophic failure of the city’s wastewater treatment plant on 4 February, a mix of raw and partially screened human effluent is still being flushed directly into the Pacific Ocean.

Brunson stunned after Knicks’ 22-point comeback over Cavs in East finals: ‘I don’t have an answer’

• Cleveland Cavaliers 104-115 New York Knicks (OT)

• Knicks had trailed by 22 points in fourth quarter

• Brunson scores 38 points in MSG victory

Jalen Brunson sparked one of the NBA’s greatest postseason comebacks, a rally from a 22-point deficit in the fourth quarter, and finished with 38 points as New York beat the Cleveland Cavaliers 115-104 in overtime in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference finals.

After a record-setting run through the first two rounds, the Knicks were going nowhere for 40 minutes against the Cavs, trailing 93-71 with 7:52 to play. But Brunson relentlessly attacked James Harden to spark an 18-1 run, and he tied the game at 101-101 on a basket with 19 seconds remaining in regulation.

Fry off: did New Zealand invent the sausage sizzle? Australian claims hit a snag

The sausage open-sandwich is a cherished part of Australia’s culture. But its origins may be in the land of the long white cloud

A thin sausage wrapped in a slice of white bread with cooked onions on top shouldn’t work as well as it does. But walking past any school fair, open-air market or Bunnings on the weekend, if the bangers are frying, there will be a line.

Sausage sizzles are a cherished part of Australian culture. Anni Turnbull, a Powerhouse collection curator specialising in the Australian culinary archive says democracy sausages – sold outside polling booths on election day – in particular are an edible manifestation of the idea of “a fair go”.

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What to know about today's primaries in Georgia, Kentucky and more

Polls have closed for primaries in several states on Tuesday, including the most expensive House primary in history.

Trump critic Thomas Massie defeated in Kentucky Republican House primary

In biggest primary night so far this year, Democrats and Republicans vied for candidacy in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Alabama, Oregon and Idaho

• Midterm primaries – live updates

Donald Trump displayed his supremacy over the Republican party on Tuesday when voters in northern Kentucky rejected the maverick congressman Thomas Massie in favour of the US president’s hand-picked challenger.

Ed Gallrein, a retired navy Seal and farmer who was recruited into the race by Trump, defeated the seven-term incumbent in a primary election in Kentucky’s fourth congressional district in what the president’s allies framed as a test of whether dissent could still exist inside today’s Republican party.

Full steam ahead: how ‘navy curry’ conquered hearts in Japan

Thought to have been introduced by Anglo-Indian officers in the Royal Navy in the 1800s, the dish has since spiralled into a national obsession

The sailors aboard the navy vessel Hashidate know what’s for lunch long before the telltale aromas escape from the galley.

Yosuke Oyama, the ship’s chef, has been up since dawn, softening onions and occasionally stirring a pot of chicken stock that has been simmering for several hours.

Did Trump really rescue Venezuela? – podcast

Tom Phillips on life in the country four months after the US abduction of the former president Nicolás Maduro

“The last time I flew out of Venezuela was right at the start of August 2024, just after the disputed presidential election,” the Guardian’s Latin America correspondent, Tom Phillips, tells Annie Kelly.

“It was a moment of real turmoil. There was a huge wave of repression that was unfolding as Nicolás Maduro tried to silence any kind of dissent to his bogus claim to have won that election. Thousands were thrown in prison, many were going underground, and journalists were racing to get out of the country.”

Who could benefit from Trump's $1.7+ billion "anti-weaponization" fund?

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche announced the creation of the fund as part of the settlement of President Trump's lawsuit against the IRS over the leaking of his tax returns.

New video shows fiery moments engine separated from UPS plane in deadly crash

The NTSB also revealed that the crew of the crashed jet had been reassigned to it after their original plane was taken out of service.

Thailand tightens visa rules for tourists, citing crime by foreigners

Move brings an end to a 60 day visa-free stay that was agreed with 93 countries, including the UK, US and much of Europe

Thailand is drastically cutting the length of visa-free stays for tourists from more than 90 countries in an effort to curb crime involving foreign nationals, officials said on Tuesday.

Tourism is a crucial source of jobs in Thailand, and the country has struggled to return to the number of foreign arrivals recorded before the Covid pandemic. However, concerns over visitors breaking the law have led to calls for tougher immigration rules

Off-duty U.K. cop helps on-duty officer caught in Nashville scuffle

A cop from the United Kingdom was in Nashville when he happened upon a struggle between a man trying to take a police officer's gun. Tony Dokoupil has the details on what happened next.

As gas prices surge, consumers search for other savings

The national average for a gallon of gasoline has been ticking up since the start of the war with Iran. The latest average of $4.50 a gallon is an increase of over $1.50 since the war started.

Americans grappling with higher gas prices as summer kicks off

Gas prices are averaging around $4.50 per gallon nationally with Memorial Day weekend just days away. Kris Van Cleave reports.

Troops say Army ignored request for more medical support before fatal Iranian strike

Soldiers who survived a deadly Iranian drone strike in Kuwait tell CBS News the U.S. Army ignored a request for more medical support weeks before the attack. Jonah Kaplan reports.

NYC manhole cover may have been dislodged by truck before woman fatally fell in, Con Edison says

Monday night in Midtown Manhattan, a woman parked her car and fatally fell into an open manhole. Lilia Luciano has the story.

Another Trump victory: Republican Rep. Thomas Massie loses Kentucky primary

President Donald Trump had targeted Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., for opposing GOP priorities.

5/19: The Takeout with Major Garrett

Major primary elections held in multiple states; Acting AG Todd Blanche faces scrutiny at Senate hearing.

Blanche faces backlash over "anti-weaponization" fund at Senate hearing

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche took questions Tuesday on President Trump's new $1.8 billion fund designed for people who the Justice Department says "suffered weaponization and lawfare" under the Biden administration. Nikole Killion has more.

San Diego Islamic Center victims ID'd, security guard remembered as hero

A security guard who was among the victims killed in a shooting at the Islamic Center of San Diego is being hailed for his heroism and bravery during the attack.

Imam of San Diego mosque says his community has seen a rise in Islamophobia

The imam of a San Diego mosque that was targeted in Monday's shooting​ told CBS News that his community has seen a rise in "Islamophobia and anti-Muslim sentiment" in recent years.

Sheep in the Box review – a bland, baffling tale of AI children from Hirokazu Kore-eda

There’s nothing wrong with film-makers leaving their comfort zone but the Japanese director’s latest effort just doesn’t work

Hirokazu Kore-eda’s new film is a bafflingly unsatisfying and unconvincing muddle of ideas and moods; it is a futurist fable of AI-humanoid robot children, unpersuasively performed in a returning keynote of bland serenity. It is perhaps comparable to Kore-eda’s 2009 film Air Doll, a more adult story of man whose sex doll secretly comes to life.

Otone (Haruka Ayasi) – an architect who appears to work from home, with no office scenes or colleagues visible – is an educated woman married to down-to-earth Kensuke (Daigo Yamamoto), a carpenter who likes beer and playing baseball. Two years previously, their seven-year-old son, Kakeru (Rimu Kuwaki), was killed by a hit-and-run driver who has never been caught. They are approached by a company called REbirth, whose offices are huge and white with creepy logos and designs, like all sinister corporations in the movies, although the question of whether REbirth is supposed to be sinister is one of the film’s many unanswered questions.

New video shows engine falling off UPS cargo plane during 2025 Louisville crash

The NTSB released new video Tuesday showing the moment a left-side engine fell off a UPS cargo flight during takeoff before the plane crashed, killing 15 people in Kentucky last November. Kris Van Cleave reports.

Victims of San Diego Islamic Center shooting hailed as heroes

New details are coming out about the victims in Monday's shooting at the Islamic Center of San Diego. Lana Zak reports.

Multiple wildfires erupt across Southern California and western U.S.

Multiple wildfires have broken out across the western United States. Matt Gutman has the latest from California.

The story of Cuba's 1996 shootdown that could lead to Raúl Castro's indictment

Thirty years ago, a Cuban fighter jet shot down two civilian planes operated by Florida-based exile group Brothers to the Rescue, an incident that inflamed U.S.-Cuba relations.

Teen attackers in mosque shooting were wallowing in hate, investigators say

"These subjects did not discriminate in who they hated," said Mark Remily, special agent in charge of the FBI's San Diego Field Office.

De Zerbi tells Spurs to play for their ‘dignity’ in final-day relegation battle

• Defeat at Chelsea keeps last relegation place open

• Spurs need a point at home to Everton to be safe

Roberto De Zerbi has described ­Tottenham’s looming final-day relegation showdown against Everton as a more important game than last season’s Europa League final against Manchester United because the club’s dignity is at stake.

Spurs, who lost 2-1 at Chelsea on Tuesday night, need a draw at home on Sunday to ensure they stay up at West Ham’s expense. The Hammers, who are two points below them in the final relegation place and with a greatly inferior goal difference, play their final game at home against Leeds.

Kylie review – this refreshingly raw, real encounter with pop royalty will move you to tears

This affecting anti-hagiography traces the ascent of a bona fide superstar, featuring interviews with Nick Cave, Dannii, Jason Donovan – and the icon herself making a shocking cancer revelation

• News: Kylie Minogue announces she had second cancer diagnosis in 2021

Beyond the sequins, feathers and gold hotpants, the stories of the most enduring pop megastars tend to be ones of jaw-dropping grit and undimmable power. Especially when they’re women. So it is with Kylie: pint-sized seller of over 80m records, singer of two of the greatest pop bangers of all time (Can’t Get You Out of My Head and Padam Padam, obviously), and the reticent subject of this increasingly intimate and, finally, profoundly moving three-part Netflix documentary. What starts as a bog-standard run-through of Kylie’s ascent to superstardom – an excess of Pete Waterman, Neighbours clips and virulent 1990s sexism – ends with a disclosure that moves me to tears.

It comes in the final 10 minutes. It’s 2023: a euphoric high point in Kylie’s career. Padam Padam, the first single from Kylie’s 16th album, Tension, has just been released. Then the words “One More Thing” flash across a black screen. Cut to present-day Kylie arriving at the studio, singing songs from Tension with her longstanding team of British songwriters. “There’s a song called Story … ” she says to director Michael Harte (also the editor of Netflix’s Beckham), who shot the documentary over two years. Kylie, who is notoriously private, falters. Her songwriting partner of more than 25 years, Richard “Biff” Stannard, takes her hand. She starts to cry as she divulges what Story is really about: her second cancer diagnosis, in early 2021.

UK ‘built for climate that no longer exists’ and needs urgent changes to survive global heating, report warns

Landmark report calls for widespread air conditioning and says UK temperatures forecast to exceed 40C by 2050

• Britain must think like a hot country – otherwise inequalities will only grow

British homes will need air conditioning to survive predicted levels of global heating, the government’s climate advisers have warned in a report, as measures such as drawing curtains, opening windows and growing trees for shade are not likely to be enough.

Air conditioning should be installed in all care homes and hospitals within the next 10 years, and in all schools within 25 years, according to the Climate Change Committee (CCC), which published a major report on adapting to the impacts of global heating on Wednesday.

Kylie Minogue announces she had second cancer diagnosis in 2021

In new Netflix documentary, pop superstar says she ‘got through it, again’, referring back to successful treatment for breast cancer in 2005

• TV review: Kylie – this refreshingly raw, real encounter with pop royalty will move you to tears

Kylie Minogue has revealed that in early 2021 she was diagnosed with cancer for a second time, after diagnosis and successful treatment for breast cancer in 2005.

The pop star discussed the previously unannounced diagnosis in a new Netflix documentary entitled Kylie, available from today. “My second cancer diagnosis was in early 2021. I was able to keep that to myself … Not like the first time,” she said, referring to her highly publicised first treatment.

Pep Guardiola refuses to confirm expected departure from Manchester City

• Manager to speak with hierarchy before decision

• ‘The first person I have to talk to is my chairman’

Pep Guardiola refused to publicly comment on the expectation that his 10-year reign at Manchester City will come to an end despite reports in the Guardian that he has already informed his players.

“I could say I have one year of contract – the conversation we have had for many years,” he said. A 1-1 draw at Bournemouth meant City could not prevent Arsenal becoming Premier League champions. Guardiola repeated the deflection he has used throughout this season. “Always from my experience, when you [media] announce whatever you announce during a competition, it is a bad, bad result.”

Thousands under evacuation orders in southern California as wildfire threatens homes

Hundreds of firefighters continue to battle the wind-driven fire in the Simi Valley area as at least one home is destroyed

More than 17,000 people were under evacuation orders in southern California on Tuesday as a wildfire threatened suburban homes.

The wind-driven Sandy fire was reported on Monday in the hills above Simi Valley, about 30 miles (48km) north-west of Los Angeles.

Least fit people need to do more exercise than fittest to get same benefit – study

Research appears to challenge previous studies but some experts call aspects of it ‘misguided’

People who are the least fit need to do 30-50 minutes more exercise a week than the fittest to get the same reduction in cardiovascular risk, according to research.

Researchers examined data from more than 17,000 British adults taking part in the UK Biobank study. They completed a cycle test to measure their baseline cardiorespiratory fitness (estimated VO₂ max) and wore a fitness tracker for a week to record typical exercise levels.

5/19: CBS Evening News

Multiple wildfires erupt across Southern California and western U.S.; victims of San Diego Islamic Center shooting hailed as heroes.

Trump leads media tour of ballroom building site as Congress balks at $1bn price tag

President says $400m building costs to be funded by private donors, but has asked for taxpayers to cover security costs

Shouting over the banging and clanging sounds from heavy construction equipment, Donald Trump on Tuesday gave a group of reporters a closer look at the construction for the White House ballroom he’s building on the site of the former East Wing to mount a defense of the project that has hit a speed bump in Congress.

The administration has asked for $1bn from taxpayers for security additions on the White House campus, including for the ballroom. But the Senate parliamentarian ruled the proposal could not be included in a bill to fund immigrant enforcement agencies for three years, and several Republican lawmakers have balked at the price tag in an election year where voters are grappling with gasoline, grocery and other prices spurred to new heights by the Iran war and the disruption in oil supplies.

Voters want more competitive congressional districts, CBS News poll finds

But most GOP voters want candidates who'd back most or everything Trump wants.

U.S. intel assessment says military identified at least 10 mines in Strait of Hormuz

CBS News was unable to determine what type of mines were in involved in this latest assessment.

Mangione supporters should not have been given press passes, mayor says

Luigi Mangione supporters have loudly made their feelings known outside every court appearance, but several are now in court with official press passes.

International Booker prize goes to novel originally written in Mandarin Chinese for the first time

Taiwan Travelogue by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ, translated by Lin King, pulled off an ‘incredible double feat’ in succeeding as ‘both a romance and an incisive postcolonial novel’

Taiwan Travelogue, a novel written by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ and translated by Lin King, has become the first book originally written in Mandarin Chinese to win the International Booker prize.

Yáng and King were announced as the winners of the £50,000 prize – to be split equally between them – during a ceremony at Tate Modern, London, on Tuesday evening.

To browse all shortlisted titles for The International Booker prize 2026, visit guardianbookshop.com. Delivery charges may apply.

AI sparks backlash from new graduates. How deep does the disapproval go?

Many Americans are signaling disapproval of the technology amid fears that it will eclipse already competitive entry-level jobs.

Trump's past tax returns get protection from IRS enforcement under 'lawfare' fund settlement

President Trump agreed to drop his lawsuit against the IRS in exchange for a fund that can compensate allies who were targeted under the Biden administration.

Chinese execs, shipping container companies accused of price fixing during pandemic

The indictment, which was first reported by CBS News, marks the latest in a series of probes by the Justice Dept. related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Is the teen summer job a thing of the past?

A summer job was once a seasonal tradition for millions of American teenagers. No more — here's why fewer young people are expected to clock in when school ends.

Mortgage rates surge to highest level since July

Mortgage rates continued to move higher Tuesday on uncertainty over the war with Iran. They are at the highest level since last July.

Vance defends stock-trading spree in Trump financial filings: 'Come on, man'

Vice President JD Vance said at the White House on Tuesday that he and President Donald Trump both support banning congressional stock trading.

Polymarket to let users make prediction market bets on private companies

Polymarket users can now trade on private companies' valuations, IPOs and secondary market activity.