Eileen Wang, the mayor of Arcadia, California, was charged with acting as an illegal foreign agent for China, the Justice Department announced on Monday. Wang agreed to plead guilty, the DOJ said.
Consumer prices climbed last month by the most in three years, but prices for electricity surged even more, highlighting an intensifying battle between utilities, consumers and power grids. Electricity prices jumped 6.1% last month compared to a year earlier, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data published on Tuesday. read more
The Trump administration cannot detain long-term immigrant residents without a bond hearing, a federal appellate court panel ruled Monday. In a 2-1 ruling, a Sixth Circuit panel said the administration cannot treat immigrants who have lived in the U.S. for years the same as it treats individuals who are picked up while attempting to enter the country.
The United States remains the largest travel market in the world and retained its position in 2025. However, it is losing ground. Last year, the U.S. experienced a slump in visitor numbers and international spending, driven in part by Canadians choosing to stay away. read more
China increasingly casts itself not as a fading civilization trying to catch up to the West but as a superpower poised to surpass it. Chinese nationalists and state-linked commentators say they have [Donald] Trump to thank. America under his rule, they say, validates Xi < [ingping]'s worldview centered on "the rise of the East and decline of the West."
Chris Hedges: America's suicidal march began long before Donald Trump. Trump and the buffoons around him are the inevitable final chapter of the decaying empire. read more
Federal prosecutors have filed criminal charges against the owner of the cargo ship Dali, two years after the vessel struck Baltimore's Key Bridge, causing its collapse and killing six people. Synergy Marine, the company that operated the ship, along with one of its employees, has been charged with conspiracy, obstruction and misconduct resulting in death, among other offences. read more
The Supreme Court on Monday removed an obstacle to Alabama's using a new congressional map in this year's election that would eliminate one of the state's two majority-Black districts. read more
Ted Lasso star Cristo Fernandez, who portrayed Mexican soccer star Dani Rojas, is now a pro player in real life after signing with the USL Championship team El Paso Locomotive. Fernandez was a youth player for the Mexican team Tecos FC at age 15 until he left due to injury.
Rex Taylor Reed, the legendary film critic whose sharp wit, uncompromising taste and distinctive prose made him one of the most recognizable voices in American cultural journalism for six decades, died in his sleep on May 12, 2026, in New York City. He was 87.
A South Korea woman who allegedly killed two men and almost a third with laced drinks had asked ChatGPT questions beforehand about how much would be fatal. There are a "growing series of high-profile criminal cases in which people are accused of using AI programs to aid violent crimes," reports NBC News.
Jason Koebler: To browse the internet today, to consume any sort of content at all, is to be bombarded with AI of all sorts. People think things that are fake are real, things that are real are fake. Much has been written about "AI psychosis," the nonspecific, nonscientific diagnosis given to people who have lost themselves to AI. Less has been said about the cognitive load of what other people's AI use is doing to the rest of us, and the insidious nature of having to navigate an internet and a world where lazy AI has infiltrated everything.
In the wake of the Supreme Court's recent decision on gerrymandering, Louisiana's governor suspended the state's primary elections, even though tens of thousands of votes had already been cast. Now he intends to toss those votes.
Steve Hilton, a Republican front-runner in the race for governor of California, recently visited the oldest operating Del Taco in the United States for what he might have thought would be an uncontroversial pit stop. "Check it out: the original Del Taco. There it is," Hilton says in a video he shared on social media last weekend from the fast-food restaurant in Barstow, Calif. "My Barstow street taco. I'm going to enjoy it."
Kotaku: CNBC reports that eBay's board wrote to Ryan Cohen on Tuesday, May 12, to make clear its categorical rejection of the silly man's ridiculous attempt to buy a company five times larger than his own with borrowed money and bad math. A letter signed by eBay's chairman of the board of directors, Paul S. Pressler, calls his offer "neither credible nor attractive."
CNBC: Prices that consumers pay for a wide range of goods and services increased at a faster-than-expected pace in April, as another burst in energy prices raised further concerns about inflation's impact on the U.S. economy. read more
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