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‘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

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

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

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

Gina Carano, of the United States, left, lifts the arm of Ronda Rousey, of the United States, after Rousey defeated Carano in their featherweight mixed martial arts fight Saturday, May 16, 2026, in Inglewood, Calif. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong )

Ronda Rousey stops Gina Carano with an armbar 17 seconds into their double comeback bout

11:17 PM on Saturday, May 16

Ronda Rousey stopped Gina Carano with her signature armbar just 17 seconds into the iconic fighters’ mixed martial arts comeback bout

FILE - Eric Pinson, manager and resident of the Lock 24 RV Park and Campground, one of two such locations he manages in the area, looks over the business' electric bills, at his home at the campground in Racine, Ohio, March 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

As electric bills rise, some states are focusing on the growing profits of utilities

11:13 PM on Saturday, May 16

The artificial intelligence boom is leading to fights in some states over growing utility profits

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

Director Steven Soderbergh poses for photographers at the photo call for the film 'John Lennon: The Last Interview' during the 79th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Saturday, May 16, 2026. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Steven Soderbergh used AI in a documentary about John Lennon. And he wants to talk about it

9:39 PM on Saturday, May 16

The day John Lennon was shot in 1980, he and Yoko Ono gave an interview to a San Francisco radio crew from their home in New York’s Dakota Apartments

Work continues on the construction of the ballroom at the White House, Saturday, May 16, 2026, in Washington, where the East Wing once stood. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)

Senate parliamentarian deals blow to $1 billion security proposal for White House

9:39 PM on Saturday, May 16

A proposal to fund $1 billion in security additions for the White House campus and the president’s new ballroom fails to meet procedural rules

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

Dara from Bulgaria reacts as she holds the trophy after winning the Grand Final of the 70th Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna, Austria, Sunday, May 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

Bulgaria wins the 70th Eurovision Song Contest with upbeat party anthem 'Bangaranga'

11:01 PM on Friday, May 15

Bulgaria has won the 70th Eurovision Song Contest with singer Dara’s party anthem “Bangaranga.”

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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