Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> Austria wins 69th Eurovision Song Contest, with Israel and Estonia finishing second and third, respectively (More) | Listen to Austria's winning song, "Wasted Love" (More)
> Oklahoma City Thunder, Minnesota Timberwolves, Indiana Pacers, and New York Knicks advance to NBA Conference Finals; see bracket and schedule (More) | ... and NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs' second round wraps over the weekend; conference finals begin tomorrow (More)
> Journalism edges Gosger to win 150th Preakness Stakes (More) | Scottie Scheffler wins 2025 PGA Championship for his third career major title (More)
Science & Technology
> World's first human bladder transplant successfully carried out two weeks ago, doctors announced yesterday; recipient lost the majority of original organ to cancer (More)
> OpenAI introduces Codex, its first AI agent dedicated to generating production-ready software code (More) | Google I/O 2025, the company's annual developer conference, kicks off tomorrow; see preview (More) | Google 101 (More)
> Researchers discover how malaria-causing parasite hides from body's immune system; bug turns genes on and off, allowing infected cells to stick to blood vessel walls and evade antibodies (More) | Learn more about animal-to-human diseases (More)
Business & Markets
> US stock markets close higher (S&P 500 +0.7%, Dow +0.8%, Nasdaq +0.5%) despite report revealing second-lowest consumer sentiment level on record (More)
> Walmart will "eat" some tariff costs, pass some of the cost to consumers, Treasury secretary says; statement comes amid pressure from President Donald Trump for Walmart to assume tariff costs (More) | Black faith leaders plan May 25 Target boycott, pressing retailer to reestablish diversity initiatives (More)
> New Jersey Transit engineers reach deal to end three-day strike; trains to resume normal operations tomorrow (More) | See previous write-up (More)
Politics & World Affairs
> Car bomb near California fertility clinic kills one person, wounds four others; FBI identifies suspect, calls attack an act of terrorism tied to antinatalist ideology (More) | What is antinatalism? (More) | Tornadoes in Kentucky, Missouri, and Virginia kill at least 28 people (More)
> President Donald Trump to call Russian President Vladimir Putin today to discuss end to war in Ukraine (More) | Russia launches sweeping drone attack (More) | Israel launches expanded ground invasion in Gaza, with strikes killing over 100 people in 24 hours, per Gaza's Health Ministry (More)
> Polish presidential election heads to June 1 runoff, with liberal mayor slightly ahead of conservative historian (More) | Pro-West candidate wins Romania’s election, defeating populist-nationalist candidate (More) | Portugal's ruling center-right party leads in snap election, on track to fall short of majority (More)
SOURCE: 1440 NEWS
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