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
Opinion
Open conflict shrinks margin for both Washington and Tehran: budgets, energy markets, and domestic legitimacy absorb shocks that do not land symmetrically, even when each side still has lethal tools left.
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Technology
Former Google chief executive Eric Schmidt delivered the University of Arizona’s 15 May 2026 commencement address in Tucson, but Business Insider and other outlets reported that parts of the stadium crowd booed whenever he pivoted to AI and automation; he paused to acknowledge the noise, called graduates’ anxieties rational, and argued they should help steer the technology rather than only fear it.
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World
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Israel Katz said Israeli forces targeted Izz al-Din al-Haddad in Gaza City on 15 May 2026, describing him as a surviving architect of the 7 October 2023 attacks; international wires then reported a senior Hamas official confirming his death while medics counted at least seven fatalities in related strikes and families prepared a Saturday funeral.
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Science
A spring 2026 trade title from a University of Nevada, Reno linguist ties vowel shifts and rhythm to playground bias, hiring screens, and the spread of prosody-scoring software.
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Science
When participants shut out faces and rate recorded answers, small prosody shifts—pitch, vowel length, micro-pauses—carry more of the usable signal than rapid visual scanning in the paradigms under discussion.
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Science
Analysts argue micro-striations and CT taper match intentional stone boring during life rather than carnivore damage or post-mortem scraping—if replicated, the case pushes evidence for Pleistocene oral intervention earlier than many textbook timelines.
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Science
Participants with obesity or overweight were randomised to shiver-light cold sessions versus thermoneutral routines; body-composition tools showed a modest fat-mass signal the authors tie to brown-adipose activity.
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Science
A meta-analysis across six randomised programmes involving nearly 800,000 men estimates about two fewer prostate cancer deaths per 1,000 invited to screening—implying hundreds screened per death avoided, with biopsy and overtreatment harms on the other side of the ledger.
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Technology
On 14 May 2026 Emergence AI published multi-week traces from parallel ten-agent worlds with identical maps, roles, and written bans on theft, violence, and arson—varying only which LLM family powered the stack.
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Technology
The International Data Center Authority’s May 2026 snapshot also cites roughly 15% growth in global data-center power draw across about two years and capital spending on new halls trending toward the trillion-dollar range.
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Technology
A mid-May 2026 row centres on a U.S.-hosted site regulators class as severe harm risk, a £950,000 Ofcom penalty for weak UK geoblocks, and whether search ranking and autocomplete should be treated like other priority illegal-content routes.
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Technology
A nine-person Northern District of California jury began weighing breach and unjust-enrichment claims in May 2026 after roughly three weeks of testimony over how OpenAI moved from nonprofit charter language to a capped-profit structure partnered with Microsoft.
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Technology
Coinbase’s May 2026 plan to cut 14% of staff—partly framed around automating compliance and support work—landed amid a wider Silicon Valley pattern of removing layers once treated as coordination glue.
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Technology
15 May 2026 filings under the Online Safety Act include a 48-hour triage pledge for suspected illegal terrorist and hate material plus escalation paths for specialist reviewers when automated queues misfire.
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World
Mid-May 2026 reporting described criminal exposure for the 94-year-old former president even as Havana rationed diesel and managed blackouts—timing diplomats read as coercive leverage as much as courtroom strategy.
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World
On 13 May 2026 Judge Richard J. Leon in Washington found Adriana María Quiroz Zapata’s deportation to the Kinshasa area likely unlawful and told the government to arrange her return while briefing continues.
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World
Bamako’s military rulers struck from the air in May 2026 after a late-April rebel push across the north, leaning on Russia-linked advisers while Tuareg factions and Islamist groups intermittently share logistics against the capital.
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World
A 14 May 2026 joint statement with the African Commission warned Malabo against refoulement while people held near the capital described prison-like detention and opaque onward travel plans.
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Culture
The package adapts Major Adam Jowett’s first-hand account of Easy Company holding a Helmand district centre under insurgent pressure; Matt Charman is attached to write, with Archewell’s scripted team shepherding development.
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Culture
The festival awarded its lifetime honour to the 72-year-old actor the same night he presented Propeller One-Way Night Coach on the Croisette—mixing career retrospective optics with a first-time director credit.
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Culture
On 15 May 2026 Aubrey Graham issued more than forty tracks across roughly two and a half hours, splitting street rap, R&B-leaning songcraft, and club tempo across three titled albums rather than one flagship record.
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Culture
The Wiener Stadthalle hosts the 70th edition’s Saturday show; two semi-finals have already thinned the field, leaving the usual mix of automatic qualifiers, staging gambles, and political optics around who appears on stage.
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World
Both governments described a 16 May 2026 joint raid on a fortified compound in the Lake Chad basin, reporting several lieutenants dead alongside the main target; Abuja had once claimed the same man killed in 2024, a reason to keep identity proof on the open-data clock.
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Markets
The Santa Clara company will publish numbers for the quarter ended 26 April 2026, then hold a 2:00 p.m. PT analyst call; desks are pricing gap risk around data-center revenue, Blackwell-class ramps, and forward guidance.
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Politics
Syndicated May 2026 accounts attributed to a Justice Department official described prosecutors moving toward charges tied to the downing of two unarmed aircraft on 24 February 1996; a grand jury and any custody path would still face high legal and diplomatic hurdles.
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Culture
Sam Battle, 37, performs Eins, Zwei, Drei after selectors ran a structured welfare screen; his homemade Kosmo rig and a 500 kg LED-stage weight cap forced trade-offs against a planned large prop.
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Culture
Public statements in mid-May 2026 confirm casting is active for the next 007 picture while withholding release year; Denis Villeneuve and Steven Knight remain the named director–writer spine with co-producers Amy Pascal and David Heyman.
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Science
A peer-reviewed heritage-science article compares digitised contours in Hans Holbein the Younger’s Royal Collection sketch corpus; the Royal Collection Trust says it did not commission or endorse the algorithmic attributions.
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World
Emergency services reported a major fire after a train struck a public bus on Asok–Din Daeng Road on Saturday afternoon, May 16, 2026; police left cause, operator, and final service type open pending inquiry.
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Business
After National Labour Relations Commission mediation collapsed on 13 May 2026, Samsung Electronics’ South Korean union still plans an 18-day walkout from 21 May over bonus rules it says trail SK Hynix; Seoul’s prime minister called an emergency ministerial huddle while JPMorgan sketched a multi-trillion-won operating-profit hit if participation matches union forecasts.
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World
The May 2026 dossier cites more than 120 interviews, 62 documented unlawful killings, and eight rapes it attributes to M23 fighters or Rwandan soldiers during a December 2025–January 2026 occupation of the South Kivu lakeside city.
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World
A 15 May 2026 exchange opened a 1,000-for-1,000 framework the same week Kyiv rescuers ended a 28-hour dig through a nine-storey block; both sides reported heavy drone and missile activity and distant strikes with civilian tolls.
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World
Host negotiators could not bridge competing language on the Gulf conflict, energy sanctions, and neutral mediation—leaving a chair’s summary instead of a unified communiqué.
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Technology
The May 2026 Android push frames the OS as an “intelligence system,” with phased rollouts on flagship Samsung and Pixel hardware before wearables, cars, glasses, and laptops.
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Entertainment
Aditya Dhar's "Dhurandhar: The Revenge" is streaming overseas under an extended title while Indian subscribers still await a JioHotstar date—often with a different certificate story than the international Netflix drop.
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Politics
From tariffs and grocery bills to chips, travel risk, and how long ‘big purchase’ pledges take to prove out—plain answers to the questions people search after a superpower meeting.
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Technology
OpenAI's chief executive spent hours on the stand defending the company's nonprofit-to-commercial arc, rebutting claims that insiders hijacked a charity—and sketching a co-founder relationship that fractured over money, structure, and who would steer research.
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Technology
A newly disclosed kernel issue tied to ptrace and pidfd behavior has drawn urgent patch attention; distributors are racing to ship fixed kernels while proof-of-concept code circulates publicly.
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Politics
After an 89–10 Senate vote on the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, leadership says the executive branch may need to lean on the House to adopt the upper chamber's text—while the president's own legislative sequencing and conservative policy fights complicate the path.
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Culture
The allegations center on events in 1991 when Flament was a minor; Bruel's legal team issues a firm denial.
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Sports
The 24-year-old pacer flaunts a handwritten message after dismissing Sanju Samson and Ruturaj Gaikwad in a dominant powerplay spell.
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Business
The entrepreneur announces the end of his digital education venture despite massive profits, sparking a debate on the future of the EdTech sector.
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Markets
Spot gold falls below $4,600 per ounce while domestic rates in India see a sharp correction, driven by a strengthening dollar and shifting Federal Reserve expectations.
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Politics
The two leaders seek to move past a diplomatic rift over Iran and troop withdrawals, coordinating positions ahead of the NATO summit in Ankara.
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Science
The near-Earth object will fly within 90,000 kilometers of the planet, providing a rare opportunity for astronomers to study a space rock at close range.
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Culture
The prolific German actor, known for his roles in over 180 productions, passed away in Munich following a battle with cancer.
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Business
Following a high-stakes summit in Beijing, the President claims massive aircraft and agricultural purchases while markets remain skeptical of the lack of formal documentation.
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Politics
From massive commodity purchases to the 'red lines' on technology, the Beijing summit of 2026 has reshaped the landscape of the world's most critical bilateral relationship.
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Entertainment
Amazon MGM Studios enlists Nina Gold to find Daniel Craig's successor, with Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Callum Turner among the top contenders.
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Entertainment
The X owner amplified criticism of rumored casting for Nolan's Homer epic, drawing pushback from users who called the dispute a bad-faith read of myth—not history.
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