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Eurovision 20026 winner Dara reacts upon her return home in Sofia on Sunday, May 17, 2026, giving the southeast European country its first-ever victory in the competition. (AP Photo/Valentina Petrova)

Bulgaria gives its Eurovision winner Dara a grand welcome upon her return home

12:41 PM on Sunday, May 17

Hundreds of cheering fans waving Bulgarian flags have welcomed Eurovision Song Contest winner Dara upon her return home

‘Michael’ reclaims the top box office spot in its 4th weekend

10:43 AM on Sunday, May 17

The Michael Jackson biopic, “Michael,” is reclaiming the top spot in the North American box office

Farra White poses with her 1-year-old daughter, Olivia, and husband Marlon White outside their residence Thursday, May 7, 2026, in Fort Collins, Colo. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Tiny patients, big fight: NICU parents win leave in 2 states and push for more

8:05 AM on Sunday, May 17

Parents with newborns in intensive care units have long faced a difficult but overlooked plight: Any parental leave they might have does not take into account the days or even months their newborns spend in intensive care

Construction crews work on a new border wall segment on Kuuchamaa Mountain, Friday, April 24, 2026, seen from Tecate, Mexico. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

US-Mexico border wall construction is desecrating sacred sites, Indigenous leaders say

8:03 AM on Sunday, May 17

Indigenous leaders say that federal contractors are desecrating sacred Native American places and cultural sites at an unprecedented pace in the rush to build more walls on the U.S.-Mexico border

Keith Odom, a forklift driver from Aiken, S.C., looks out from his bus seat as he arrives in Montgomery, Ala., for a voting rights rally Saturday, May 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Bill Barrow)

On the voting rights trail, bus riders to Montgomery retrace old steps while fighting a new fight

7:12 AM on Sunday, May 17

The year was 1965 and Black Americans had come to Montgomery, Alabama, to demonstrate peacefully voting rights

Student Mikala Sposito welds at Washtenaw Community College on Friday, May 1, 2026, in Ann Arbor., Mich. (AP Photo/Mike Householder)

Community college student from Michigan to be 1st woman to represent US at world welding competition

6:34 AM on Sunday, May 17

A Michigan community college student will be the first female welder to represent the United States at a worldwide competition described as the Olympics of the skilled trades

3 people killed, several others injured after driver crashes into pedestrians in Oakland, California

6:08 AM on Sunday, May 17

Authorities say a driver crashed into multiple cars and pedestrians in Oakland, California, late Saturday night, killing three people

Anthony Nel poses for The Associated Press on Thursday, April 30, 2026, in Denton, Texas. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

Trump administration promotes program to check voter eligibility. Critics fear a midterm purge

6:06 AM on Sunday, May 17

The Trump administration has run the names of at least 67 million voters through government databases as it looks for noncitizens and people who've died

People walk past a mural depicting a U.S. aircraft carrier under missile attack in downtown Tehran, Iran, Sunday, May 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Drone strikes UAE nuclear plant as US and Iran signal they are prepared to resume war

5:34 AM on Sunday, May 17

A drone strike has targeted the United Arab Emirates’ sole nuclear power plant

FILE - Real Madrid's head coach Xabi Alonso looks on before the Spanish La Liga soccer match between Real Madrid and Real Betis Sevilla in Madrid, Spain, Jan. 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Pablo Garcia, File)

Xabi Alonso hired by Chelsea on 4-year deal in return to coaching after Real Madrid disappointment

3:15 AM on Sunday, May 17

Chelsea has hired Xabi Alonso as its latest manager on a four-year deal, with the former Real Madrid coach set to take over on July 1

Wes Streeting arrives at the Progress Conference at Convene in London, Saturday May 16, 2026. (Jeff Moore/PA via AP)

It's official: Wes Streeting of the Labour Party wants to be Britain's next prime minister

3:01 AM on Sunday, May 17

Wes Streeting's ambition to head the British government was one of the worst-kept secrets in U.K. politics

This photo released by Moscow Region Governor Andrei Vorobyev's official telegram channel shows a house on fire after a Ukrainian attack in Khimki, just outside Moscow, Russia, on Sunday, May 17, 2026. (Moscow Region Governor Andrei Vorobyev's official telegram channel via AP)

Ukraine conducts large-scale drone strikes on Russia, killing 4 and wounding a dozen others

2:57 AM on Sunday, May 17

Russian officials say overnight Ukrainian drone strikes killed at least four people including three near Moscow

A rare, long-lost copy of Caedmon's Hymn — the first poem ever written down in Old English — is visible in the five lines above the final line of the left page from an 8th-century manuscript copy of the Venerable Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People, at Rome's National Library, Thursday, May 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Andrea Rosa)null

Researchers stunned by a forgotten medieval book in Rome hiding the oldest English poem

12:29 AM on Sunday, May 17

Researchers in Dublin have uncovered the oldest surviving English poem in a Roman library

Bok Kongphan poses for a photo at his farm, Monday, May 4, 2026, in Waialua, Hawaii. (AP Photo/Mengshin Lin)

Hawaii’s worst flooding in 20 years leaves farmers struggling and fewer veggies at the market

11:03 PM on Saturday, May 16

Hawaii's recent catastrophic flooding has devastated local farms, leaving many farmers struggling

Passengers and crew at the hantavirus-stricken cruise ship MV Hondius after arriving at the port of Granadilla in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, Sunday, May 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

Demand for cruises appears undimmed despite hantavirus and other onboard outbreaks

5:10 PM on Saturday, May 16

Recent outbreaks of hantavirus and norovirus on cruise ships are making headlines, but they’re unlikely to dim vacationers’ growing love of cruises

FILE - Skulls of some of those who were slaughtered as they sought refuge in a church sit in glass cases, kept as a memorial to the thousands who were killed in and around the Catholic church during the 1994 genocide, in Ntarama, Rwanda, April 5, 2019. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

Rwandan genocide suspect Kabuga dies in custody in The Hague

1:13 PM on Saturday, May 16

Félicien Kabuga, accused of bankrolling the Rwandan genocide, died in a hospital in The Hague while in custody, a U.N. court said

A passenger looks at a closed off entrance to the Long Island Rail Road at Grand Central station, Saturday, May 16, 2026, in New York, on the first day of a strike after five unions representing about half the LIRR's workforce walked off the job. (AP Photo/Heather Khalifa)

North America’s largest commuter rail system remains shut a second day as Monday rush hour looms

6:11 AM on Saturday, May 16

The shutdown of North America’s largest commuter rail system has continued into a second day with no end in sight after unionized workers went on strike

U.S. Senate candidate Rep. Julia Letlow, R-La., speaks to supporters alongside her two children, Jeremiah and Jacqueline, during an election night watch party Saturday, May 16, 2026, in Baton Rouge, La. (AP Photo/Matthew Hinton)

Sen. Cassidy knocked out of Louisiana Republican primary as Trump-backed Letlow, Fleming make runoff

10:58 PM on Friday, May 15

U.S. Rep. Julia Letlow and state Treasurer John Fleming have advanced to a runoff in Louisiana’s Republican Senate primary

FILE - Health workers wearing protective suits tend to an Ebola victim kept in an isolation tent in Beni, Congo, July 13, 2019. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)

A look at major Ebola outbreaks and when the disease was first identified

11:04 AM on Friday, May 15

Health authorities say there is a new Ebola outbreak in the Central African country of Congo, with more than 300 suspected cases and at least 88 deaths

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