1. Trump announces U.S. Steel, Nippon ‘partnership’  The Washington Post
2. President Trump says Nippon Steel and US Steel to enter into ‘partnership’  CNN
3. Trump clears Nippon merger with US Steel  CNBC
4. Trump touts 'partnership' in steel deal with Nippon: 'US Steel will REMAIN in America'  Fox Business
5. Trump approves 'planned partnership' between U.S. Steel and Japan's Nippon Steel  Post-Gazette

1. Billy Joel cancels shows due to a brain disorder. Here’s what to know.  The Washington Post
2. What is Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus, the Disorder Billy Joel Was Diagnosed With?  The New York Times
3. Billy Joel cancels all concerts through 2026, including NYC shows, due to normal pressure hydrocephalus diagnosis  ABC7 New York
4. Billy Joel Cancels All Concerts After Brain Disorder Diagnosis  Rolling Stone
5. Billy Joel's much-hyped Utah return canceled after new medical diagnosis  KSL News

1. Trump’s E.U. Tariff Threat Could Cause Economic Damage Beyond Europe  The New York Times
2. ‘I’m not looking for a deal’: Trump revives global trade war  Politico
3. Trump threatens 50% tariffs on EU and 25% penalties on smart phones as his trade war intensifies  AP News
4. Trade Between the U.S. and EU Is Massive. We Break It Down.  WSJ
5. Wall Street's reaction to Trump's latest tariff threats may show stocks are range-bound  CNBC

1. Stephen A. Smith Incensed After Knicks Fall Down 2-0 in Eastern Conference Finals  Sports Illustrated
2. Pacers hold off late charge, put Knicks in 2-0 hole  ESPN
3. After Game 1 collapse, Knicks once again must prove they were made for this moment  The New York Times
4. How the Pacers pulled off a comeback never seen before in NBA history  NBC News
5. Tyrese Haliburton’s Girlfriend Trolled Knicks With Perfect One-Liner in Social Media Post  Sports Illustrated

1. Inn Fire: Mono County fire closes highway, evacuations ordered  KCRA
2. Brush Fire Near Popular California Lake Prompts Evacuations  The New York Times
3. U.S. 395 expected to remain closed between Lee Vining and SR 167 due to 640-acre Inn Fire  KTVN
4. 540-acre fire evacuates Calif. mountain town, shuts down Highway 395  SFGATE
5. Inn, Mono County  YubaNet

1. Immigrant arrests at courthouses signal new tactic in Trump’s deportation push  The Washington Post
2. ICE ending migrants' court cases in order to arrest and move to deport them  CBS News
3. ICE agents deploy new tactic: arresting people as they leave mandatory court hearings  USA Today
4. ICE agents at Seattle courthouse arrest people whose deportation hearings are dismissed  KUOW
5. ICE takes people into custody in San Diego as they leave immigration court  inewsource

1. Kyiv comes under large-scale Russian drone and missile attack with explosions heard throughout city  AP News
2. Ukraine war briefing: Multiple injuries as Russia attacks Kyiv with drones and missiles  The Guardian
3. Kyiv mayor says Russian drones, missiles trigger fires, injure eight  Reuters
4. IDF says drone strike targeted armed gunmen spotted near aid trucks in central Gaza  The Times of Israel
5. Russia said it's fighting off a massive long-range drone attack across the country  Business Insider

1. Knicks vs. Pacers score: Game 2 live updates as Jalen Brunson tries to even series against Indiana at MSG  CBS Sports
2. Pacers 138-135 Knicks (May 21, 2025) Final Score  ESPN
3. Knicks, Pacers acknowledge Game 3 stakes as Eastern Conference Finals momentum swings  Yahoo Sports
4. Knicks vs. Pacers Game 2 schedule, odds, game times, NBA playoff updates: Where to watch, stream series  CBS Sports
5. Celebs at Knicks vs. Pacers: Russell Wilson, Ciara at Game 2. See stars at Madison Square Garden  USA Today

1. White House slashing staff in major overhaul of National Security Council, officials say  AP News
2. More than 100 National Security Council staffers put on administrative leave  CNN
3. Scoop: Trump, Rubio take aim at National Security Council's "Deep State"  Axios
4. White House dismisses scores of National Security Council staff  The Washington Post
5. Trump's National Security Council trimmed in restructuring, sources say  CBS News

1. San Diego airport experienced glitches before fatal plane crash  BBC
2. San Diego County officials identify three victims of the Murphy Canyon plane crash  fox5sandiego.com
3. Montgomery Field Airport weather instruments not functioning properly at time of plane crash  KPBS
4. Dave Shapiro, groundbreaking music executive, dies in San Diego plane crash at 42  AP News
5. Six people in San Diego plane crash confirmed dead  The Guardian

1. 'Love Is Blind' Colleen Reed and Matt Bolton Split After Four Years of Marriage  tmz.com
2. Love Is Blind's Colleen Reed and Matt Bolton Announce Their Split After Nearly 4 Years of Marriage  People.com
3. Love Is Blind couple shock fans with divorce announcement after secretly separating  Daily Mail
4. Love Is Blind's Colleen Reed and Matt Bolton Break Up After 4 Years  E! Online
5. Are ‘Love Is Blind’ Season 3 Couple Matt Bolton & Colleen Reed Still Together?  TV Insider

The NSC has traditionally played a pivotal role in advising the president for his biggest diplomatic and security decisions. But in Trump's second term, it has seen its influence shrink.

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1. This Week in Sean “Diddy” Combs’ Trial: Freezer Meat, DNA Evidence and Kompromat  The Hollywood Reporter
2. Key moments from the second week of Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ sex trafficking trial  AP News
3. May 22, 2025 - Day 9 of testimony in the Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs trial  CNN
4. Kid Cudi testifies about car fire and 'Marvel supervillain' meeting at Diddy's trial  NBC News
5. Testimonies from Diddy's former assistant, Cassie's mother, and others reveal harrowing new information  Business Insider

1. Four major partners exit Paul, Weiss after Trump deal  Politico
2. Karen Dunn and Other Top Lawyers Depart Paul Weiss to Start Firm  The New York Times
3. Top Paul Weiss Litigators Leave to Start Their Own Firm  WSJ
4. Top Democratic Lawyer, 3 Others Leave Paul Weiss To Start New Firm: Reports  Newsweek
5. Paul Weiss Loses Four Senior Litigators in Trump-Deal Fallout  Bloomberg.com

1. SpaceX completes 450th Falcon booster landing during Friday Starlink mission  Spaceflight Now
2. SpaceX launches Starlink satellites from Space Force base in California, lands on ship at sea (video)  Space
3. SpaceX may kick off Memorial Day weekend with rocket launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida  Florida Today
4. Launch Roundup: SpaceX delays start of new Starlink shell; China, Russia also launch  NASASpaceFlight.com -
5. SpaceX sends up more Starlink satellites from California  Yahoo

1. Trump executive order targeting Jenner law firm unconstitutional, judge rules  NBC News
2. Trump’s Campaign Against Elite Law Firms Suffers Another Defeat in Court  WSJ
3. Judge strikes down Trump’s sanctions against Jenner & Block law firm  The Washington Post
4. Republican-Appointed Judge Warns Trump Over 'Doubly' Violating Constitution  Newsweek
5. Judge permanently blocks enforcement of Trump order against Jenner & Block  The Boston Globe

1. Emotions were on full display during final episode of ESPN’s ‘Around the Horn’  New York Post
2. Confessions of ESPN’s worst ‘Around the Horn’ participant of all time - The Athletic  The New York Times
3. What's next for ESPN's Tony Reali after 'Around The Horn?': 'More smiles to come'  USA Today
4. Tim Cowlishaw goes ‘Around the Horn’ one final time as beloved ESPN studio show signs off  Dallas News
5. Behind the Scenes of Around the Horn’s Final Days  Front Office Sports

1. This Beautiful BMW Wagon Is Actually Going Into Production  Motor1.com
2. View Photos of the BMW Concept Speedtop  Car and Driver
3. The BMW Concept Speedtop Is a Gorgeous Shooting Brake. It's Also Forbidden Fruit for Americans  Road & Track
4. The stunning new BMW Speedtop is a £500k V8 shooting brake spun off an M8  Top Gear
5. BMW Speedtop Stuns In Exclusive Photos  BMW BLOG

1. Inside Trump’s big-spender meme coin dinner: Presidential seal and food that looked ‘worse than Spirit Airlines’  The Independent
2. Who Won a Seat at Trump’s Crypto Dinner?  The New York Times
3. Trump Used Presidential Seal At Meme Coin Dinner—Despite White House Saying He Was There On ‘Personal Time’  Forbes
4. At Trump's $148 million meme coin dinner, 'the food sucked' and security was lax, attendee says  CNBC
5. Exclusive | A Crypto Billionaire Who Feared Arrest in the U.S. Returns for Dinner With Trump  WSJ

1. Canada's New Leverage With Trump: Golden Dome  Newser
2. Bad news for Trump’s Golden Dome: He can’t build it without Canada  Politico
3. The plan to protect America by shooting down missiles mid-air  The Economist
4. Golden Dome: An aerospace engineer explains the proposed nationwide missile defense system  The Conversation
5. Trump's Golden Dome plan could launch new era of weapons in space  Reuters

1. I/O versus io: Google and OpenAI can’t stop messing with each other  The Verge
2. Microsoft Is Rolling Out AI Agents. Developers Are Finding Coding Errors.  Barron's
3. Microsoft's and Google's dueling developer conferences reveal opposite AI strategies—and a big weakness for one company  Fortune
4. This Week in AI: The Agentic Web, AI-Native Devices and Search Tools  PYMNTS.com
5. Microsoft Chooses Anthropic as Model Provider to Power GitHub’s New AI Coding Tools  The Information

1. Trump tells Apple to build iPhones in U.S. or pay 25% tariff  Axios
2. Trump threatens 25% tariff on Apple and says Samsung and other tech companies could be next  CNN
3. Donald Trump expands tariff threat to Apple, says 'Okay to go to India, but you're not going to sell in US without tariffs'  Times of India
4. Why Making an iPhone in the U.S. Would Be So Difficult  The New York Times
5. 'Little, little screws' one of many hurdles to US-made iPhones  Reuters

1. Microsoft dumps AI into Notepad as 'Copilot all the things' mania takes hold in Redmond  theregister.com
2. Paint, Snipping Tool, and Notepad updates with new features begin rolling out to Windows Insiders  Windows Blog
3. In 3.5 years, Notepad.exe has gone from “barely maintained” to “it writes for you”  Ars Technica
4. Microsoft is putting AI actions into the Windows File Explorer  The Verge
5. Microsoft Notepad can now write for you using generative AI  The Verge

1. Scientists discover new bacterium on Chinese space station  Semafor
2. Unknown strain of bacteria found on China's Tiangong Space Station — and it's developing resistance to space  Live Science
3. China reports Tiangong space-station microbe discovery for first time, naming bacterium ‘Niallia tiangongensis’  Global Times
4. The Prototype: New Bacteria Discovered On Chinese Space Station  Forbes
5. Unknown Species of Bacteria Discovered in China's Space Station  ScienceAlert

1. 'Fit and healthy' stepdad told he had constipation...two weeks later he was dead - and thousands more could be  Daily Mail
2. Man, 68, Gets Treated for Constipation and Dies a Month Later: 'He Didn't Get to Enjoy One Day of Retirement'  People.com
3. 'GP gave stepdad laxatives, but we knew something was very wrong'  The Mirror
4. 'I'm running the Edinburgh marathon for my stepfather who died of cancer last year'  Edinburgh News
5. 'Fit and healthy' dad dies two weeks on from cancer diagnosis after doctors dismissed symptoms as 'constipation'  UNILAD

Explosions heard across capital and fires ignited while Russia and Ukraine begin largest prisoner swap of war. What we know on day 1,186

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Kyiv came under heavy drone and missile attack by Russian forces overnight into Saturday, triggering fires and injuring at least eight people, the Ukrainian capital’s mayor said. Explosions and machine-gun fire were heard throughout the city and many Kyiv residents took shelter in underground subway stations. Debris fell in at least four districts, said the Kyiv military administration, with six people requiring medical care. Pictures posted online showed smoke billowing from the top of one block of flats and flames leaping from part of another as emergency crews trained water on it.

Russia and Ukraine on Friday began a major, complicated exchange of military prisoners of war and civilians, write Peter Beaumont and Pjotr Sauer. Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Ukraine’s president, said the first phase brought home 390 Ukrainians, with further releases expected over the weekend. Russia’s defence ministry said it received the same number from Ukraine.

Ukraine should focus on fighting a “hi-tech war of survival” that minimises losses of its personnel and not expect to recapture Russian-occupied territory, according to Valerii Zaluzhnyi, the former head of Ukraine’s armed forces. Zaluzhnyi, who is the Ukrainian ambassador to the UK, said Ukraine should be “using a minimum of economic means to achieve maximum benefit … Ukraine is not capable of another war in terms of demography and economy, and we shouldn’t even entertain the thought.” Peter Beaumont reports that Ukraine’s military has announce the expansion of a “drone wall” or “drone line” to counter Russian forces.

A €150bn (£126bn/$170bn) loans programme to rearm Europe was finalised this week. Member states can request EU-backed loans under the €150bn security action for Europe (Safe) scheme, which was approved on Wednesday. It is part of an €800bn rearmament plan drawn up after Donald Trump interrupted US military aid to Ukraine. Once the loans agreement is rubber-stamped next week, EU member states have six months to draw up plans for defence projects. “Member states will take those loans …. and will use them for joint procurement together with Ukraine and for Ukrainian needs,” Andrius Kubilius, the EU’s defence commissioner, told the Guardian’s Jennifer Rankin.

Russia’s foreign minister said it would send Ukraine its terms for a peace settlement once their prisoner swap was complete. Sergei Lavrov didn’t say what those terms would be and the Kremlin has shown no sign of walking back its maximalist demands.

Ukraine’s military general staff said it hit a Russian battery-manufacturing facility in the Lipetsk region which it said supplied Russia’s missile and bomb manufacturers. It struck the Energiya plant in the city of Yelets, it said on Telegram on Friday. “The shutdown of Energiya may leave some of the Russian occupiers’ military equipment and weapons without critical batteries.”

A Russian military court in the western city of Ryazan has jailed a Russian-Italian man for 29 years after finding him guilty of terrorism-related charges and blowing up a freight train in 2023 at Ukraine’s behest, Russian state media reported. The RIA news agency cited Ruslan Sidiki’s lawyer as saying his client had partially admitted his guilt. Russian-language news outlets have in the past reported that Sidiki admitted his actions but denied intent to harm anyone or acting on anyone else’s orders. He viewed his actions as sabotage rather than terrorism and himself as a prisoner of war, those reports said.

Defense secretary’s move outlined in memo seemingly punishes media for reporting on leaks inside department

Defense secretary Pete Hegseth moved on Friday to dramatically curtail press access inside the Pentagon, seemingly punishing the news media for reporting on leaks of classified and unclassified information in recent weeks.

The changes, announced in a two-page memo issued by Hegseth, effectively boxed credentialed reporters into one corner on one floor of the building that houses the press office and spaces used by news organizations.

Three were employees of Sound Talent Group, including founder, listed as plane’s owner and had a pilot’s license

Six people on board a small plane that crashed in San Diego on Thursday morning were confirmed dead, officials said, as authorities worked to ascertain their identities and investigate the cause of the incident.

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said at a press conference Friday afternoon that local authorities were the entity in charge of releasing the names of the victims.

Hannah Gutierrez-Reed paroled after 18 months from facility in New Mexico to her home in Bullhead City, Arizona

The armorer convicted in the fatal 2021 shooting involving Alec Baldwin on the set of the film Rust was released Friday from a New Mexico prison.

Hannah Gutierrez-Reed was paroled to her home in Bullhead City, Arizona. She was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in March 2024 for the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, who was killed when Baldwin discharged a prop gun loaded with a live round during a rehearsal. Director Joel Souza was also injured.

SES warns the ‘worst impacts that people feel are often after the event’ as areas reel from ‘devastating’ floods

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An estimated 10,000 properties may have been damaged in record-breaking flooding in New South Wales and thousands remain isolated, as communities begin to clean up after “devastating” impacts.

Flood waters have begun to subside in some areas and weather conditions have improved on the mid-north coast, where severe weather warnings were cancelled on Friday night.

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Rafał Trzaskowski, from the governing pro-EU coalition, faces Eurosceptic populist rightwing historian Karol Nawrocki ahead of run-off

Polish presidential candidates offered different visions of Poland and its relations with Ukraine in a televised debate ahead of next week’s run-off, which remains on a knife-edge.

During a head-to-head debate lasting two hours, the centrist Warsaw mayor Rafał Trzaskowski, from prime minister Donald Tusk’s governing pro-European coalition, faced the Eurosceptic historian Karol Nawrocki, backed by the populist rightwing Law and Justice party (PiS).

In New Zealand only a handful of farms produce pearls from abalone, known as pāua, but the molluscs need delicate conditions to survive

Roger Beattie was diving off the Chatham Islands, about 800km east of New Zealand, when he saw his first pāua pearl. Beattie was familiar with pāua, the Māori word for abalone, and their iridescent shells of shimmering purples and greens. But the pearl that had formed inside was unlike anything he had ever seen, gleaming with layers of the pāua’s natural colours.

“I just thought ‘heck, that would make amazing jewellery,’” Beattie says.

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has signed up to Xi Jinping’s vision of a multi-polar world, as Beijing expands its influence in Latin America

Few world leaders can say they’ve been hugged by Xi Jinping, China’s typically reserved president. Last year, an embrace between Xi and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, seemed to sum up the cosy – if at times slightly awkward – relationship between China and Russia.

Now Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, can count himself among the hallowed few to have broken the handshake barrier with Chinese leader. Stepping off the stage after giving a speech in Beijing earlier this month, Lula shook Xi’s hand, but the moment swiftly melted into something more affectionate.