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CNBC News
Top $TRUMP holders head to crypto dinner with president - More - More

Common Dreams
Protest Planned as Trump Dines With Crypto Investors

The Associated Press
May nor'easter could bring a soggy start to Memorial Day weekend in New England

The Associated Press
RFK Jr.'s MAHA report raises concerns about vaccines, American foods and prescription drugs

NPR News
Judge blocks Trump administration from closing the Education Department - More

Reuters News Agency
Trump administration revokes Harvard's ability to enrol international students

NPR News
Raising ethics questions, top Trump meme coin investors to dine with president tonight

NBC News
Bitcoin price surges to fresh record ahead of Trump's crypto dinner

BBC News
The loud hum sparking unrest in Trump's MAGA heartlands

The Associated Press
ICE agents wait in hallways of immigration court as Trump seeks to deliver on mass arrest pledge

NPR News
No more pennies: In big change, Treasury will stop minting them

The Associated Press
Three music talent agency employees died on a plane that crashed into Navy-owned housing - More

The Associated Press
What we know about a private plane’s fatal crash into a San Diego neighborhood

The Associated Press
House Republicans pass Trump’s big bill of tax breaks and program cuts - More

NBC News
Guards shoot one person in security incident outside CIA headquarters

The Guardian
Two Israeli embassy staff shot dead in Washington DC - More - More

Reuters News Agency
Trump's Golden Dome plan could launch new era of weapons in space - More

The Associated Press
A look at the deportees on plane that headed for South Sudan from US

BBC News
Ship footage shared with BBC captures sound of Titan sub imploding

BBC News
Nike to raise prices as firms face tariffs uncertainty

BBC News
Apple iPhone designer Jony Ive joins OpenAI in $6.5bn deal

The Independent
Net migration to UK plummets by more than 400,000 in a year

France 24
France boosts security at key Jewish sites after deadly DC shooting - More - More

The Independent
Var: Hundreds without drinking water and more storms forecast in southern French region - More

Deutsche Welle
Merz hails 'new era' for German military at brigade launch

The Guardian
German troops start first permanent foreign deployment since second world war

The Guardian
Finland ‘preparing for the worst’ as Russia expands military presence near border

BBC News
Deep inside a Norwegian mountain, NATO allies train for Arctic warfare

The Independent
Zelensky reveals ‘significant’ Russian losses in Kursk and says fight continues

The Associated Press
Russian hackers target Western firms shipping aid to Ukraine

BBC News
How Trump-Ramaphosa confrontation went down in South Africa

The Associated Press
Trump’s ‘Golden Dome’ missile defense plan was inspired by Israel’s multitiered defenses

CBC News
Desperate Palestinians loot aid trucks as some enter Gaza Strip

Agence France-Presse
Israel issues evacuation warning for 14 areas of northern Gaza

BBC News
UN says 90 lorries collected aid from Gaza crossing after three-day delay

CBC News
How Gazan students and professors study and teach in a war zone

BBC News
Gazans fear shutdown of water plants as Israel widens offensive

The Guardian
How the idea for a Trump Tower in Damascus was born

The Guardian
Iran would view US as ‘participant’ in any Israeli attack on its nuclear sites

BBC News
Chagos deal paused by last-minute legal action

The Guardian
Kim Jong-un furious as North Korea warship partly ‘crushed’ in launch gone wrong

Agence France-Presse
Mexico: ‘Noah’s Ark’ of animals flees cartel violence for new home on coast

The Associated Press
Today in History: 23 May

This Day in Aviation
23 May

Agence France-Presse
Deux membres de l’ambassade israélienne tués près du musée juif de Washington - Plus

Radio-Canada
Trump affronte le président sud-africain sur des allégations non fondées de « génocide » - Plus

Agence France-Presse
Paris ne veut plus avoir à ramasser 4 à 5 millions de mégots chaque jour

Agence France-Presse
Allemagne : arrestation de cinq jeunes appartenant à une organisation terroriste d'extrême droite

France 24
La frontière Russie-Finlande, futur point chaud après la guerre en Ukraine ?

France 24
Un navire russe de la flotte « fantôme détecté » dans la Baltique

France 24
RD Congo : le ministre de la Justice soupçonné de détournement de fonds

GEO
Le porte-avions USS Harry S. Truman rentre penaud au pays, après la perte de trois Super Hornet

Radio-Canada
Le cinquième cycle de pourparlers sur le nucléaire iranien s’annonce tendu

Agence France-Presse
Israël reconnaît des tirs de sommation contre des diplomates étrangers en visite en Cisjordanie

International Commentary

Alexander Hurst | The Guardian
Volodymyr Zelenskyy has courage. Pope Francis had it too. Why are there so many cowards?

Simon Shuster | Time Magazine
Trump Discovers the War in Ukraine May Be Too Complicated to Fix

Stephanie Höppner | Deutsche Welle
Is Trump's new Golden Dome defense system realistic?

Nik Popli | Time Magazine
What Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ Will Do to the National Debt

Eric Cortellessa | Time Magazine
Inside Trump’s First 100 Days

Sanam Vakil | The Guardian
International opinion has rounded on Israel, but it’s not enough to force Netanyahu’s hand

Books

Erin Keller | The Independent
Melania Trump turns to AI to narrate audiobook in her own voice