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Democrat Rep. Steve Cohen ending campaign after redraw of his Memphis districtMay 15, 2026 4:41 pm - WASHINGTON — Democratic Rep. Steve Cohen of Tennessee announced Friday that he is ending his bid for reelection, his career upended by the redistricting battles that are...
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Stock markets worldwide drop from records as worries about oil prices rattle the bond marketMay 15, 2026 4:15 pm - The U.S. stock market fell from its records Friday and joined a worldwide drop for stocks after higher oil prices sent a shiver through the bond market. Stocks that had been caught up in the euphoria around artificial-intelligence technology led the way lower.
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Trump weighs Taiwan arms package after summit aimed at steadying US-China tiesMay 15, 2026 4:10 pm - U.S. President Donald Trump said Friday that he has not made a decision on whether to move forward with a major arms package for Taiwan after hearing concerns about it from Chinese President Xi Jinping.
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Iran's top diplomat says a lack of trust is impeding talks to end war with the USMay 15, 2026 2:10 pm - Iran ’s foreign minister said a lack of trust is the biggest obstacle in negotiations to end the war with the U.S., saying Friday that Tehran would be open to diplomatic help, particularly from China, to help ease tensions. Meanwhile, Israel and Lebanon extended their ceasefire following talks in Washington, U.S. officials said.
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Judge declares mistrial in Harvey Weinstein’s rape retrial after jury deadlocksMay 15, 2026 12:56 pm - Harvey Weinstein ’s rape retrial ended in a mistrial Friday after the jury deadlocked in the closely watched #MeToo-era case that another jury failed to decide last year.
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A necessary ‘reset’: Suburban schools support pediatrics group’s new guidance on recessMay 15, 2026 12:44 pm - Updated recess guidelines from the Itasca-based American Academy of Pediatrics this week resonated with suburban school officials, who already embrace the break’s importance — some even for older children — in both principle and practice.
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Palestinians in Gaza mark anniversary of 1948 mass expulsion and say today's catastrophe is worseMay 15, 2026 12:09 pm - Millions of Palestinians are marking the 78th anniversary of the Nakba. That's Arabic for “catastrophe,” referring to the mass expulsion and flight of some 750,000 Palestinians from what is now Israel during the 1948 war surrounding Israel’s creation.
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‘Good for the soul’: Adults relive musical camaraderie of their youth at band camps for grown-upsMay 15, 2026 10:02 am - As a high school student in the 1970s, Lori Guess looked forward to packing up her oboe for a summer music camp in Sidney, Maine. The lakeside location and loon calls appealed to her, and it was a chance to connect with kindred spirits. Decades later, she’s still going to camp there.
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Sandra Oh, Tammy Duckworth, Kumail Nanjiani and Bowen Yang are in a HBO doc on being Asian American, Pacific IslanderMay 15, 2026 9:06 am - Director Eugene Yi has always been interested in the term Asian American and Pacific Islander and which ethnicities it includes. So Yi, who is Korean American, was beyond excited when approached to helm the new HBO documentary “The A List: 15 Stories From Asian and Pacific Diasporas,” which dropped Wednesday on HBO Max.
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Neil deGrasse Tyson takes on aliens and how we should greet them in ‘Take Me to Your Leader’May 15, 2026 8:39 am - Neil deGrasse Tyson has had a lifelong fantasy of being abducted by aliens. That’s right, he actually wants to be taken. America’s favorite astrophysicist has turned that lifelong fascination into a book, “Take Me to Your Leader: Perspectives on Your First Alien Encounter.”