Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> Tom Cruise's "Mission: Impossible—The Final Reckoning," the eighth installment in the film franchise, will premiere at the Cannes Film Festival (May 13-24) in France; Cannes is set to release its full lineup tomorrow (More)
> UEFA Champions League quarterfinals kicks off; see latest schedule and bracket (More) | Denver Nuggets fire head coach Michael Malone less than two years after Malone helped lead the Nuggets to an NBA championship (More)
> "Adolescence" hauls in over 114 million views to become Netflix's fourth most-watched English-language show ever (More)
Science & Technology
> Renewable energy provided a record 32% of global electricity in 2024, analysis finds; overall demand rose 4%, driven by heat waves and power-intensive data centers (More)
> British doctors report the first baby in the country to be born via womb donation; the 36-year-old patient received the UK's first successful uterus transplant in 2023, gave birth in February (More)
> Engineers develop brain-computer interface thin enough to fit between individual hair follicles (More) | How BCIs work (1440 Topics)
Business & Markets
> US venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz seeks to raise $20B in the largest fund in its history amid global interest in US artificial intelligence startups (More) | What is venture capital? (1440 Topics)
> President Donald Trump signs executive order to boost US coal mining, including defining coal as a "mineral" and allowing some coal-fired power plants set for retirement to remain operational to meet rising AI power demand (More)
> Justice Department shuts down its national cryptocurrency fraud unit, orders prosecutors to narrow cryptocurrency investigations to focus on crimes involving drug cartels and terrorist groups (More)
Politics & World Affairs
> US Supreme Court temporarily clears the Trump administration's firing of roughly 16,000 probationary federal workers; employees will remain on paid administrative leave as a separate lawsuit moves through the courts (More) | Federal judge says White House can’t ban Associated Press from Oval Office, Air Force One (More)
> Department of Homeland Security ends legal status for roughly 985,000 people who entered the US and registered for court appearances using a Biden-era CBP One app (More) | IRS reaches deal with Homeland Security to provide names, addresses of migrants subject to deportation orders (More)
> Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirms Ukrainian forces operating in Russia's Belgorod region (More) | Two Chinese citizens captured while fighting alongside Russian soldiers, per Zelenskyy (More) | See war updates (More)
SOURCE: 1440 NEWS
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