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Box Office: ‘Mandalorian and Grogu’ tops charts and ‘Obsession’ grows in second weekend

Studio estimates on Sunday say “Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu,” has made $82 million in ticket sales in the U.S. and Canada over the weekend.

Southern California chemical tank has a crack that could possibly lower risk of explosion

Authorities are bracing for the possibility that a damaged chemical tank at a facility in Southern California could leak or explode.

Newsom declares state of emergency in Orange County as failing chemical tank nears catastrophic explosion

Emergency crews launch overnight mission to neutralize a volatile chemical tank at a Southern California aerospace facility in Garden Grove as Gov. Gavin Newsom declares state of emergency.

Box Office: ‘Mandalorian and Grogu’ tops charts and ‘Obsession’ grows in second weekend

Studio estimates on Sunday say “Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu,” has made $82 million in ticket sales in the U.S. and Canada over the weekend.

Southern California chemical tank has a crack that could possibly lower risk of explosion

Authorities are bracing for the possibility that a damaged chemical tank at a facility in Southern California could leak or explode.

Newsom declares state of emergency in Orange County as failing chemical tank nears catastrophic explosion

Emergency crews launch overnight mission to neutralize a volatile chemical tank at a Southern California aerospace facility in Garden Grove as Gov. Gavin Newsom declares state of emergency.

Box Office: ‘Mandalorian and Grogu’ tops charts and ‘Obsession’ grows in second weekend

Studio estimates on Sunday say “Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu,” has made $82 million in ticket sales in the U.S. and Canada over the weekend.

Around the world

China deployed over 100 vessels near Taiwan in the wake of Trump-Xi summit, Taiwan security official claims

China deployed over 100 vessels around Taiwan after the Trump-Xi Beijing summit, Taiwan National Security Council Secretary General Joseph Wu says.

Pope calls for robust regulation of AI in manifesto that ponders the future of humanity

Pope Leo XIV has called for robust regulation of artificial intelligence and for its developers to work for the common good rather than profit.

Attacks from suspicious residents complicate the fight against a rare type of Ebola

Health workers responding to a rapidly spreading outbreak of a rare type of Ebola in eastern Congo face two threats.

Canadian teen girl charged with arson after allegedly torching American baseball team's charter bus

A Canadian teen is charged with arson after allegedly setting fire to a U.S. baseball team's charter bus during a road trip to Winnipeg, police say.

Two suspected American communist insurgents killed in clash in the Philippines

Lyle Prijoles and Kai Dana-Rene Sorem were among 19 killed in a Philippine army firefight with suspected communist insurgents tied to the New People’s Army.

Pope Leo warns AI risks becoming tool of 'domination, exclusion and death' in new encyclical

The pope unveils "Magnifica Humanitas" encyclical, warning artificial intelligence risks becoming a tool of domination unless governments set moral limits.

US arrests sister of powerful Cuban official over alleged ties to communist regime

U.S. arrests sister of Cuba's GAESA military conglomerate leader over alleged ties to the communist regime, Secretary of State Rubio announces.

Technology

Workday extends Sana AI to ITSM after HR, finance

Workday conversational AI platform Sana for Workday is now ready to talk about IT Service Management (ITSM) automation as part of the company’s broader effort to help enterprises streamline workflows, especially across HR and finance, with autonomous AI agents.

Cisco: AI traffic is radically reshaping WANs

AI agents generate up to 450% more network traffic than humans can, and they’re beginning to reshape network traffic patterns in measurable ways.

The sovereign cloud illusion

The phrase “sovereign cloud” has become one of the most overused and least scrutinized terms in enterprise technology. It sounds reassuring, especially to governments, regulated industries, and any enterprise concerned about geopolitical instability.

Startup Bolt Graphics promises 5x performance over Nvidia’s best GPU

It takes a brave company to go up against Nvidia in any market, let alone graphics performance. Intel tried and failed repeatedly, and AMD is barely hanging on. But Bolt Graphics thinks it has something in its Zeus GPU.

Forward launches Predict to take the guesswork out of network changes

Forward (formerly Forward Networks) has been building out technology for a decade to help enterprises better understand their network traffic.

Microsoft releases open-source tools to operationalize AI agent safety

Microsoft has open-sourced two new tools aimed at bringing AI safety checks much earlier into the agent development lifecycle. The tools, called Rampart and Clarity, were announced this week as part of Microsoft’s broader push to operationalize safety engineering for agentic AI.

YouTube may be building different political realities for men and women

The persuasive power of platforms like YouTube has long been apparent. It’s why the Trump campaign, for instance, bought out the masthead ad space at the top of YouTube 20 times during the 2020 election cycle, including an audacious buyout on Election Day.

Sports News

Knicks fans already paying nearly $280K for courtside NBA Finals tickets as team nears historic berth

Two courtside tickets at Madison Square Garden for the Knicks' potential NBA Finals Game 3 sold for a staggering $279,804 on the secondary market.

Garden party: New York fans invade Cleveland as Knicks try to sweep Cavaliers and make NBA Finals

The Knicks and their fans threatened to turn Game 4 of the Eastern Conference finals into a Garden party.

Tiger Woods breaks months-long silence with patriotic Memorial Day message, salute to late father

Tiger Woods breaks nearly two-month silence with a Memorial Day message honoring his father's military service and all who made the ultimate sacrifice.

Brewers' Misiorowski sets record with 57 pitches of at least 100 mph

Milwaukee’s Jacob Misiorowski threw 57 pitches at least 100 mph — the most in a single game since pitch tracking began in 2008 — while getting 12 strikeouts to match his career high Monday against the St. Louis Cardinals.

Kyle Fletcher shows up to AEW Double or Nothing, beats down Konosuke Takeshita after international title win

Konosuke Takeshita defeated Kazuchika Okada to win the AEW International Championship at Double or Nothing with Raging Fire in a highly physical bout.

New York Knicks sweep Cavaliers to reach first NBA Finals since 1999 after dominant Game 4 blowout

New York Knicks sweep the Cavaliers with a 130-93 blowout in Game 4, reaching the franchise's first NBA Finals appearance in more than 25 years.

Knicks fans already paying nearly $280K for courtside NBA Finals tickets as team nears historic berth

Two courtside tickets at Madison Square Garden for the Knicks' potential NBA Finals Game 3 sold for a staggering $279,804 on the secondary market.

Politics News

Vets torch Dem Senate hopeful who called Army ‘fat, lazy trash,’ mocked soldier shot four times

Combat veterans and GOP senators denounce Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner for calling soldiers trash and mocking a Purple Heart recipient.

Trump-backed candidates score major boost from deep-pocketed AI Super PAC in upcoming primaries

A pro-AI super PAC with over $125 million raised in 2025 is investing heavily in upcoming Senate and House primaries across multiple states.

Trump flexes MAGA muscle in Texas Senate runoff clash between Cornyn and Paxton

Texas Senate runoff pits Trump-backed Ken Paxton against Sen. John Cornyn in a high-stakes GOP battle with major midterm election implications.

Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner embraces democratic socialism at Bernie Sanders rally in Portland

Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner embraces democratic socialism at a Bernie Sanders rally, condemning U.S. support for Israel and Sen. Collins.

Rubio pushes back on India's concerns over US visa curbs, says policy must be 'America First' under Trump

Secretary of State Marco Rubio says Trump's immigration reforms are not targeted at India but applied globally during a news conference in New Delhi.

The red states racing ahead in America’s powerful wealth boom

Population shifts to low-tax Southern states could carry major political implications, strengthening Republican-leaning states ahead of 2026 midterms.

Trump will see doctors for his annual physical. What the public finds out is up to him

President Donald Trump is scheduled to get a medical exam on Tuesday, putting his health back under public scrutiny.