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Fri, 22 May 2026 14:40:37 EDT
Hundreds of Jan. 6 defendants prepare to seek compensation from Trump’s Anti-Weaponization Fund
Hundreds of people prosecuted for crimes related to the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol in 2021 plan to seek compensation from the U.S. government once a new taxpayer-funded anti-weaponization program is up and running.

Sat, 23 May 2026 02:04:46 EDT
Gas explosion at coal mine in China kills 82 people, state media reports
Official news agency Xinhua said the accident at Changzhi city's Liushenyu coal mine happened on Friday evening and 247 workers were trapped underground.

Fri, 22 May 2026 21:10:00 EDT
Trump administration tells green card applicants to apply from abroad
Foreigners in the U.S. who want a green card will need to leave and apply in their home country, the Trump administration announced Friday, in a surprise change to a longstanding policy that sowed confusion and concern among aid groups, immigration...

Fri, 22 May 2026 22:37:57 EDT
40,000 people under evacuation orders in California amid chemical tank leak
Authorities in Southern California on Friday were racing to figure out how to prevent the explosion of a storage tank that has been leaking a hazardous chemical used to make plastic parts, as some 40,000 people were under evacuation orders in the are...

Fri, 22 May 2026 21:17:10 EDT
Explosion at Staten Island dry dock leaves 1 dead, 36 injured
An explosion at a dry dock in New York City's Staten Island killed one person and injured 36 others on ‌Friday, as the blast occurred while firefighters were on the scene responding to a fire and attempting to ​rescue two people who were trapped,...

Fri, 22 May 2026 19:16:08 EDT
Yves Sakila's death is being called Ireland's 'George Floyd moment'
Yves Sakila, a 35-year-old Congolese-born man, died last Friday after he was restrained outside a department store in Dublin, Ireland, by security guards.

Fri, 22 May 2026 16:40:00 EDT
Thousands protest Raúl Castro indictment outside U.S. Embassy in Havana
Thousands of Cubans gathered on Friday before the U.S. embassy in Havana to protest a U.S. decision to indict ‌former president Raúl Castro over the downing of two civilian airplanes 30 years ago.

Fri, 22 May 2026 15:53:58 EDT
Ebola survivor calls for compassion as fear, unrest spread during outbreak
Dr. Kent Brantly became critically ill with Ebola while on medical mission work during the 2014 outbreak. The U.S. physician survived, and is now watching with concern at the speed and spread of the current outbreak — which has no approved treatmen...

Fri, 22 May 2026 16:05:06 EDT
Tulsi Gabbard steps down as U.S. intel chief, citing husband's cancer diagnosis
Tulsi Gabbard resigned as U.S. President Donald Trump's director of national intelligence on Friday, saying she needed to step away as her husband battles cancer. She is the fourth cabinet official to depart during Trump's second term, all of them wo...

Fri, 22 May 2026 09:08:51 EDT
Canadian Gaza flotilla activist says he was beaten for days in Israeli detention
A Montreal activist released from Israeli custody after being detained along with hundreds of others on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla said he was beaten, abused for days and stabbed in the hand by a prison guard, as Ottawa calls for accountability over t...

Fri, 22 May 2026 18:47:45 EDT
911 audio reveals NASCAR's Kyle Busch was short of breath, coughing up blood day before death
NASCAR driver Kyle Busch experienced shortness of breath, felt he was overheating and was coughing up blood the day before his death, according to a 911 call obtained Friday by The Associated Press.

Fri, 22 May 2026 13:20:17 EDT
Putin vows revenge after Ukraine attack kills at least 6, wounds dozens at student dorm
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday ordered his military ‌to prepare options to retaliate against Ukraine after he accused Kyiv of carrying out a deadly drone attack on a student dorm that he said killed six and wounded dozens of young peopl...

Fri, 22 May 2026 04:00:00 EDT
How Trump and his family keep profiting from his presidency
U.S. President Donald Trump and his family members have earned at least $2 billion from business ventures and investments that have benefitted from his past 16 months in the White House, according to research by watchdog groups and media outlets.

Fri, 22 May 2026 12:16:24 EDT
U.S. states paying to compensate people fired, jailed for negative Charlie Kirk posts
The zeal of some Republican officials and activists to punish those who made disparaging comments about Charlie Kirk after his September killing is coming back to haunt them.

Fri, 22 May 2026 04:00:00 EDT
Ukraine makes some battlefield gains, but 'grey zone' along front is getting bigger
Ukraine has been recapturing some territory and in other areas are stalling Russian forces, but drones have made it much harder to determine just who controls what in the volatile grey zone.

Fri, 22 May 2026 07:54:52 EDT
U.S. surprises, confuses NATO with about-face on troop deployment to Poland
U.S. President Donald Trump surprised NATO allies by pledging to send an additional 5,000 troops to ‌Poland, only hours before the alliance's foreign ministers met in Sweden on Friday amid deep divisions over the Iran war.

Fri, 22 May 2026 04:00:00 EDT
This Ebola outbreak is particularly worrying. That doesn't mean it's a threat to Canadians
The deadly Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is concerning for a number of complicated factors, but there's no reason for Canadians to panic, say people who have worked in the region. The UN says there are 148 suspected deaths and ne...

Thu, 21 May 2026 18:48:23 EDT
Democrats' autopsy of 2024 U.S. election blames Harris and 'identity politics' for loss
Kamala Harris "wrote off rural America" during the 2024 presidential campaign and failed to attack Donald Trump with sufficient "negative firepower," according to a long-awaited post-election autopsy released Thursday by the Democratic National Commi...

Thu, 21 May 2026 16:29:13 EDT
Trump maintains pressure on Cuba as Rubio says diplomacy unlikely to resolve issues
U.S. President Donald Trump and America's top diplomat on Thursday again raised the spectre of U.S. military intervention in Cuba, a renewed threat that takes on greater weight a day after the administration announced criminal charges against the isl...

Thu, 21 May 2026 16:13:54 EDT
Gunmen kill at least 25 in separate attacks in Honduras, police say
Gunmen opened fire in two separate attacks Thursday on the Honduran coast, killing at least 25 people, including six police officers, police said.

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