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Topics: (MSN) 'He's still the best candidate': Maine voters stand by Graham Platner despite scandals (India Times) China Approves World's First Commercial Brain Implant, Beating Neuralink to Market (GRoundNews) Fewer Americans say democracy is central to country’s identity, AP-NORC poll finds

Topics: The New York Fed says that more Americans are skipping meals because food is too expensive (Yahoo News) Silicon Valley turns transhumanism into a "secular religion" promising immortality and minds uploaded to chips (the Guardian) China: An A.I. company is working to develop technology that could predict who might become critical of the government (NYTimes)

Topics - Memorial Day weekend - The new Art - Secret Service agents exchanged gunfire with a shooter who allegedly shot at officers outside the White House. The suspect was killed, and a bystander was struck by gunfire and hospitalized. - Pope Leo XIV releases warning about the risks of artificial intelligence - Tulsi Gabbard’s resignation.

TOPICS * Ted Turner, founder of CNN and 24 hour news cycle, died last wednesday * 80% of companies using AI agents are cutting staff * Sean Duffy debuts YouTube reality show funded by Boeing, Shell, Toyota, and other companies his agency regulates * Americans more worried about running out of money than death

Topics - Pete Hegseth’s first hearings in Congress since the start of Iran war (AP) - Silicon Valley Is Bracing for a Permanent Underclass” (New York Times) - Tucker Carlson on a New York Times interview

TOPICS Michael Jackson biopic, “Michael” The man who authorities say tried to storm the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner with guns and knives has been charged with the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump. The Supreme Court will hear arguments on Monday in a case about whether law enforcement’s use of geofence searches — which collect cell phone location data from an area in which a crime occurred — violates the Fourth Amendment’s protections against unreasonable searches and seizuresb

TOPICS Looksmaxxing in 60 Minutes Anthropic announces they will not release their latest artificial intelligence modelPresident Trump signed an executive order Saturday directing the FDA to expedite review of psychedelics

TOPICS The Associated Press offers buyouts to an unspecified number of US-based journalists as it shifts focus from newspaper journalism to visual journalism and artificial intelligence The world's wildest company retreat involves 120 employees meeting in Honduras for a Survivor-style experience that included eating a dead tarantula, sitting on a fire ant hill, and a rogue porcupineOn Sunday, President Donald Trump announced that the U.S. Navy will impose a blockade on the Strait of Hormuz after peace negotiations with Iranian officials failed to produce a breakthroughFormer US Senator Ben Sasse sat down with Ross Douthat last week to talk about his impending death and our institutionsFormer US Senator Ben Sasse sat down with Ross Douthat last week to talk about his impending death and our institutions

Topics Gen Z Catholic influencers make church look cooler than ever — snapping up hundreds of thousands of social media followersArtemis II breaks Apollo 13’s distance record as humans travel farther from Earth than ever beforeEight Scientists Missing or Dead: Full List of Baffling Disappearances in the U.S.AOC hit with ethics complaint over $19K in campaign cash spent on ketamine specialist

Topics Kash Patel Reveals That The FBI Purchases Americans' Location Data After Questioning By WydenNetflix Documentary ‘Inside the Manosphere’ Exposes a Digital Pipeline to MisogynyChuck Norris, martial artist, actor, and cultural icon, died March 19 in Hawaii. He was 86. Just nine days earlier, he posted a video sparring, captioning it: "I don't age. I level up." Larry Fink’s Warning: Invest or Risk Getting Left Behind by AI

Topics - Newt Gingrich’s Nuclear ‘Detonations’ proposal in Response to Straight of Hormuz Blockade Raises Eyebrows - Protesters in Cuba attack Communist Party office amid blackout fury - Washington Square Park, once a hub for counterculture and political protests in the city, has now been overrun with social media influencers.

Topics - Today marks 150 years since Alexander Graham Bell made the first tele- phone call from his Boston lab to his assistant in a nearby room. - Harvard researchers say AI is giving workers "brain fry." - Two men who brought explosives to a protest outside New York City’s mayoral mansion said they were inspired by the Islamic State extremist group. (Gothamist) - Iran’s 88-member Assembly of Experts selected Mojtaba Khamenei as the country's next supreme leader, succeeding his father, Ali Khamenei, who was killed in an Israeli strike last month. Israel and the US have indicated they would not accept Khamenei as leader. (The Dick Cheney of Iran) - A Georgia teacher died after a good-natured prank by his students resulted in a fatal car accident.

- Colombian nationals with running a sham immigration court scheme in which they allegedly duped an untold number of "vulnerable" immigrants into handing over more than $100,000 to defendants posing as lawyers, judges and other federal officials. - Trump says Iran operations likely to last 4 to 5 weeks, but he’s prepared ‘to go far longer’ - Shia LaBeouf says he's 'scared' of gay people in post-arrest comments

Welcome to the dating recession: Why young Americans are giving up on love - Fox News Armed man shot and killed at Mar-a-Lago last weekend (NPR, AP) Meanwhile, in Afghanistan…

- Federal Aviation Administration to suddenly close the airspace over El Paso, Texas last Wednesday, in response to U.S. Customs and Border Protection using an anti-drone laser last week to combat drug cartel manned drones. - OpenAI executive Ryan Beiermeister fired in January for alleged sexual discrimination after opposing ChatGPT adult mode - Instagram Head Denies Social Media Is ‘Clinically Addictive’ - Ring, the Amazon-owned home security company, ended its partnership with a surveillance technology firm after a Super Bowl commercial generated backlash.