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78 NewsTenet stories on United States, published from 2026-05-06 through 2026-05-21. Most of this coverage sits in Politics, World, Technology, Business, and Markets. Newest first below.
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World
Federal prosecutors in Manhattan had already named Gerardo Mérida Sánchez in an April 2026 indictment alongside Sinaloa’s sitting governor and eight other Mexican officials when U.S. Marshals took him into custody after he crossed into Nogales, Arizona; he was later arraigned in New York and pleaded not guilty as Mexico’s cabinet confirmed Washington held him.
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Business
Beijing’s commerce ministry described new U.S.–China farm understandings as preliminary but pointed to reciprocal tariff reductions, beef-plant registrations, and a path to ease poultry and non-tariff hurdles.
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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
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
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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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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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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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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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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Politics
President Donald Trump's formal nomination of Kevin Warsh has reached the Senate, but confirmation politics—and an unresolved criminal probe involving Jerome Powell—could delay a clean handoff.
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Politics
The departure follows a string of high-profile exits within Trump administration immigration agencies as officials recalibrate deportation strategies.
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Sports
The NFL has unveiled the full 2026 slate for the Packers, featuring a historic Wednesday night matchup and a holiday trip to Soldier Field.
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World
The former Air Force intelligence specialist remains a fugitive after defecting to Iran in 2013 and allegedly handing over highly classified national defense information.
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Business
A Friday U.S. filing showed Omaha rebuilding a major airline position it had dumped during the pandemic, while trimming card networks, health care, and e-commerce names and bulking up Alphabet and the New York Times.
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World
The U.S. defense secretary's decision to halt the scheduled nine-month deployment caught European allies off guard and follows a separate withdrawal of 5,000 troops from Germany announced weeks earlier.
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Politics
Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi are each navigating court orders, legislative sessions, and delayed primaries as a mid-decade redistricting wave — unprecedented since the 1800s — reshapes the electoral map.
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Technology
In a workforce email tied to record Q3 FY26 results, Cisco leadership framed fewer than 5% of roles as the price of focus—while promising transition support and deeper bets on silicon, optics, security, and internal AI adoption.
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Entertainment
The country singer and TikTok star announced on May 12 that he had 'reached his limit,' halting a summer-through-November run of shows just days after the tour began.
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Business
The largest Spanish-language radio network in the U.S. filed in Delaware on May 11, with creditor backing already secured, while specialty materials company Trinseo simultaneously moved to cut $2 billion in obligations.
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Markets
The wafer-scale AI specialist opened far above its $185 offer price, touched an intraday peak, then settled with a still-sizable first-session gain—cementing 2026's most talked-about U.S. tech listing since the last megadeal era.
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World
A Washington Post investigation published in early May 2026 says it catalogued hangars, barracks, fuel sites, aircraft, and radar, communications, and air-defense assets hit across fifteen U.S. military locations in six Gulf and Levant partner states—arguing the tally dwarfs prior public U.S. disclosures while documenting how commercial imagery gaps and Iranian-published photos shaped what could be verified.
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Health
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. used a May 2026 MAHA Institute summit to launch a cross-agency action plan—Dear Colleague guidance, CMS payment clarification for deprescribing, and a summer webinar stack—while major medical societies split between welcoming research dollars and warning that overmedicalization framing could underplay access gaps.
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