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Video: Trump says U.S. had 'very good talks with Iran' in last 24 hours

U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday told reporters that the U.S. has had very good talks with Iran in the last 24 hours, adding that it was very possible that Washington and Tehran would make a deal.

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BBC News

Hantavirus-hit cruise ship on way to Canary Islands after three evacuated

BBC News - 8 minutes ago

A British man is among three evacuees sent to the Netherlands after displaying symptoms while aboard the MV Hondius.

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BBC News

Shell profits rise as Iran war pushes oil prices higher

BBC News - 1 hour ago

The energy giant reports profits of $6.92bn for the first three months of the year.

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Lancaster Online

Judge releases note cellmate says he found after Epstein’s suspected suicide attempt

Lancaster Online - 1 hour ago

A note Jeffrey Epstein’s former cellmate claimed he found after the financier’s first jail suicide attempt has been made public after it had been sealed and locked in a courthouse

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Politics News

Huffington Post

Iran reviewing US proposal as Trump pressures Tehran for agreement on deal to end war - The Boston Globe

Boston Globe - 9 minutes ago

A fragile cease-fire between the US and Iran has largely held since April 8.

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Huffington Post

Jeffrey Epstein’s Alleged Suicide Note Just Went Public

Huffington Post - 52 minutes ago

The note, discovered by Epstein's cellmate in July, was unsealed in response to a petition from The New York Times.

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Evening Standard

Who should I vote for in the local elections? Spotlight on Hackney

Evening Standard - 2 minutes ago

Residents across Hackney are voting in two elections on Thursday, May 7

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The Mercury News

California governor candidates tangle over immigration, homelessness in tense debate

NBC News - 6 hours ago

Wednesday’s faceoff was the last one scheduled before the June 2 all-party primary.

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Business News

BBC News

Shell profits rise as Iran war pushes oil prices higher

BBC News - 8 minutes ago

The energy giant reports profits of $6.92bn for the first three months of the year.

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Los Angeles Times

The U.S.-China AI gap has closed — and Silicon Valley is starting to notice

Los Angeles Times - 9 hours ago

More than a year after the Chinese AI chatbot DeepSeek, a main rival to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, stunned the world with its own advanced AI model, China has become a testing ground for mass use of AI tools

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NPR

Oil Prices Waver as Market Weighs Chances of U.S.-Iran Deal | OilPrice.com

OilPrice.com - 11 minutes ago

Oil prices fell again as hopes for a U.S.-Iran agreement outweighed lingering concerns over the Strait of Hormuz blockage and tightening inventories.

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Times of India

Space analytics firm HawkEye raises $416 million in US IPO

Channel NewsAsia - 9 hours ago

May 6 : Space analytics firm HawkEye 360 has raised $416 million in its U.S. initial public offering, the company said on Wednesday.The Herndon, Virginia-based firm sold 16 million shares priced at $26 apiece in the IPO, giving it a valuation of roughly $2.42 billion. It had targeted a price range of $24 to $

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Technology

Breitbart

Woke AI Giants Combine Forces: Anthropic Commits $200 Billion to Google Cloud Services

Breitbart - 15 hours ago

Anthropic, the AI giant President Donald Trump has described as "leftwing nut jobs" has agreed to spend $200 billion with leftist giant Google over the next five years for cloud computing services.

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ABC News

Former OpenAI board member says Elon Musk offered her sperm donations

BBC News - 13 hours ago

Shivon Zilis is the mother of four of Musk's children. That relationship began as she advised OpenAI.

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CBS News

iPhone owners could get up to $95 from Apple settlement. Here's what to know.

CBS News - 14 hours ago

A proposed $250 million settlement would compensate millions of consumers who bought the iPhone 16, iPhone 15 Pro or iPhone 15 Pro Max.

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NBC News

Meta on trial in New Mexico in landmark case over alleged harm to children

NBC News - 15 hours ago

A judge will decide whether Meta's platforms are a "public nuisance" under state law.

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Sports Headlines

New York Daily News

Mike Brown questions Game 2 officiating as Knicks get into foul trouble again: 'Not sure what's a bump'

New York Post - 5 hours ago

Mike Brown was prescient. Then he was critical.

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Channel NewsAsia

Steel and stardust carry PSG to second straight Champions League final

Channel NewsAsia - 16 minutes ago

PARIS, May 7 : Paris St Germain were supposed to have moved beyond the era of glittering individuals and galactico excess, but their march to a second straight Champions League final suggests they may simply have entered a new version of it.This PSG side, no longer revolving around celebrity status, is built

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Chicago Tribune

Cubs walk off Reds — of course — for third straight night and 14th straight win at home

Chicago Sun-Times - 5 hours ago

This time, the can’t-lose Cubs needed 10 innings to beat the Reds 7-6 on a wild, weird, not entirely wonderful Wednesday at Wrigley Field.

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Lancaster Online

Jonathan Tannenwald: Where's the money from your exorbitant World Cup tickets going? To FIFA's $14 billion in revenue.

Lancaster Online - 20 minutes ago

VANCOUVER, B.C. — If you’re new to soccer, or at least to the circus of a World Cup, you should know that FIFA officials don’t talk to the media very

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Entertainment News

CBS News

How Ted Turner transformed the media you consume

CBS News - 30 minutes ago

Ted Turner, who died on Wednesday at age 87, was a global media titan. Amol Sharma, a financial editor for The Wall Street Journal, joins CBS News with more insight.

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UPI

'The Bear' to return for fifth and final season in June - UPI.com

UPI - 28 minutes ago

"The Bear" Season 5, starring Jeremy Allen White and Ayo Edebiri, got a June premiere date following the release of a surprise prequel episode.

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ABC News

‘The Book of Mormon’ Cancels Performances Through May 17 After Fire

Hollywood Reporter - 10 hours ago

However, the production said performances are "anticipated to resume" in the coming weeks.

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Daily Express

Call the Midwife fans can watch 'binge-worthy' period drama for free

WalesOnline - 14 hours ago

Call the Midwife fans can now watch The Royal for free on ITVX - a similar period medical drama set in the 1960s that is available to stream now.

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Odd/Weird News

New York Post

23 hantavirus cruise passengers returned home to 'all corners,' including to the US — and one is already sick

New York Post - 10 hours ago

Nearly two dozen MV Hondius passengers ditched the voyage almost two weeks ago – including a European man who tested positive for the deadly hantavirus at home Wednesday, new reports reveal.

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New York Post

Exclusive | Disney cruise ship staffers among 28 arrested in massive child porn operation

New York Post - 3 hours ago

U.S. Customs and Border Protection boarded five cruise ships, including a Disney cruise docked in San Diego, between April 23 and 25 as part of ongoing Child Sexual Exploitation Material enforcement...

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Daily Express

Do yuo lkie wrod jmubels? Scientist explains why humans are so good at reading scrambled letters

New York Post - 1 day ago

“Aoccdrnig to a rseearch at Cmabridge Uinervtisy, it deos not mttaer in what oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae.”

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New York Post

Dem candidates make stunning debate pledges that'll infuriate most Californians

New York Post - 2 hours ago

Democrats competing to be governor of California said Wednesday evening that they would sign a bill to complete the state's troubled high-speed rail project.

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