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Today, the Pentagon becomes a crossing guard at Hormuz, escorting tankers that have been stuck since the Iran war broke out. GameStop just bid $55 billion to swallow eBay whole, in the year's strangest deal so far.

A hantavirus outbreak on an Atlantic cruise ship has killed three — the disease that took Gene Hackman's wife last year. The Met Gala lights up Manhattan tonight with Beyoncé back as co-chair.

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The US is launching a tanker-escort operation Monday through the Strait of Hormuz, the first US-led convoy operation in the Gulf since the 1987-88 Tanker War. The operation involves more than 100 aircraft and 15,000 personnel; ships have been stranded since the Iran war disrupted the strait.

Roughly 20% of global oil shipments pass through Hormuz, and the stranded fleet has reached economic-emergency thresholds for several Asian importers. Insurance markets had effectively closed the corridor; the convoy is what's needed to reopen them at all.

White House framing argues the operation does not require fresh War Powers authorization because hostilities are formally "terminated" under the early-April ceasefire — a legal position Congress will test in court Wednesday. Trump has signaled the convoy will run as long as needed to clear the backlog and deter further interference.

GameStop announced an unsolicited $55.5 billion takeover offer for eBay early Monday, putting the meme stock veteran into the heart of mainstream e-commerce. The company says it has cash and friendly financing for the GameStop offer for eBay lined up if the board engages.

eBay shares jumped sharply in pre-market trade while GameStop fell on dilution worries. Activist investors pressed eBay's board to either negotiate quickly or commit to a richer counteroffer in writing.

The combination would join nostalgia retail, marketplace listings, and ticket resale into one digital storefront. Antitrust lawyers expect a long review since the merged firm would dominate secondary markets for both goods and collectibles.

Three passengers are dead and seventeen others are sick from a suspected hantavirus outbreak aboard a transatlantic cruise ship still bound for Lisbon. The captain has sealed off entire decks while crews trace the rodent-borne outbreak cabin by cabin.

WHO investigators boarded by helicopter and ordered passengers tested before any port call. The agency warned other lines to inspect rodent traps and food storage as a matter of urgency.

This is the first known hantavirus cluster on a cruise vessel and turns a usually rural pathogen into a maritime story. Public health officials are racing to figure out where the rats boarded.

Kim Aris told reporters Sunday he doubts the Myanmar junta's account that his mother, Aung San Suu Kyi, was actually transferred from prison to house arrest last week. Aris says the broadcast "proof of life" photo was taken in 2022 and he still has no current confirmation his mother is alive.

The Pentagon said two American service members are missing after an African Lion drill in Morocco's Atlas Mountains. Search teams are working overnight in a remote training zone with Moroccan and Spanish forces.

Ukrainian drones hit a major Russian oil port and three "shadow fleet" tankers Sunday, aimed at constricting the sanctions-evading export channels Moscow has relied on since 2022. Russian counterstrikes killed 10 across Ukraine in the same 24 hours; both sides are using deep-strike capability faster than ceasefire diplomats can keep up.

Former NYC mayor and longtime Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani was hospitalized in critical condition, his spokesman confirmed Sunday night. Giuliani is 81; specific medical details have not been publicly disclosed.

Federal prosecutors disclosed Sunday that a pellet recovered from a Secret Service agent's bullet-resistant vest definitively matches the gun fired by Cole Allen at the White House Correspondents' Dinner. Disclosure rebuts earlier "friendly fire" speculation and tightens the prosecution's narrative ahead of the May 12 arraignment.

A United Boeing 767 inbound from Venice clipped a light pole and struck a delivery truck on the New Jersey Turnpike during landing approach to Newark Sunday. All 231 passengers and crew were uninjured; one person in the truck was hospitalized.

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New CEO Greg Abel ruled out a Berkshire breakup Saturday at his first annual meeting in charge, framing continuity with Buffett's legacy as the operating principle. Buffett, 95, took fewer questions than usual and signaled he is comfortable with the transition.

OPEC+ announced an 188,000-barrel-per-day output increase at its first meeting since the UAE walked out last week. Modest hike is being read as Saudi Arabia signaling cohesion is intact, even after the most consequential cartel departure since the 1970s.

The heirs of late Samsung chairman Lee Kun-hee finished paying off the $8 billion inheritance tax bill that landed when he died in October 2020 — the largest in South Korean history. Family spread the payment over six years using a special tax-deferral arrangement Korean lawmakers had to draft just for the case.

UK regulators approved a new injectable form of immunotherapy this week that delivers in minutes what previously took hours of IV infusion. Thousands of NHS patients become eligible immediately; the change frees clinic chair time and significantly reduces the burden of going to a hospital.

Denmark is preparing a moratorium on new data centers as AI-driven power demand overwhelms the country's grid. Decision is part of a global wave — Ireland, Singapore, and the Netherlands have already imposed similar pauses, all citing the same cause.

Amsterdam will ban public advertising for meat and fossil fuels on transit shelters and billboards starting this summer — the first major European capital to do both at once. The move targets the Dutch capital's environmental commitments and follows tobacco and gambling restrictions enacted over the past decade.

Cade Cunningham dropped 32 points and Daniss Jenkins iced the dagger three as Detroit finished a 3-1 comeback Sunday with a Game 7 blowout of Orlando. Pistons advance to the Eastern Conference semis to face Cleveland.

Colorado beat Minnesota 9-6 in a wild Game 1 opener Sunday — only the 10th playoff game in NHL history with 15-plus combined goals. Avalanche blew a three-goal lead before recovering for the win.

Mercedes rookie Kimi Antonelli posted his strongest weekend yet, splitting the McLarens in qualifying and chasing the leaders late in the race. Paddock veterans are calling Antonelli the rising star of the season.

The 2026 Met Gala hits the Met steps Monday evening with Beyoncé back as co-chair for the first time since 2016 and Nicole Kidman among the headliners. Theme this year explores body diversity in fashion history and pairs with a new Costume Institute exhibit.

The sequel pulled in $77 million domestically and $233 million globally over its opening weekend, the strongest April-debut for any sequel-franchise film of the decade. Streep, Hathaway and Blunt all returned; Lady Gaga and Jeff Bezos make cameos.

A growing trend of only reconnecting with friends sporadically is reshaping how relationships are maintained. The shift may weaken deeper bonds as busy schedules replace consistent, everyday connection.

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What it is: The Stillaguamish Tribe in Washington is buying hundreds of acres of farmland inside its traditional territory and tearing out the levees that keep it dry, returning the parcels to wetlands they were a century ago. Goal is to restore habitat for the Chinook salmon that once filled these rivers and have since collapsed across the Pacific Northwest, with populations on the Stillaguamish system itself down roughly 90% from historical levels.

The detail: Plan reverses a century of agricultural reclamation that drained the Stillaguamish River delta to make the land viable for farming. Levees come out one section at a time, the river is allowed to flood the cleared land, and within a few seasons each parcel transitions back to the marshy tidal estuary that juvenile Chinook need to mature before heading to sea.

Why it matters: Treaty-rights litigation between tribes and the state has been hitting the same procedural wall for three decades, with court orders piling up that haven't translated into measurable recovery on the ground. Buying farmland outright and restoring it works around the political deadlock entirely — the tribe doesn't need state legislative approval or new federal action, just a willing seller and a working chainsaw.

What to watch: Several other Pacific Northwest tribes are running similar land-purchase pipelines, with the Yakama, Tulalip, and Lummi all in early stages of identifying parcels and starting negotiations. Watch Chinook return numbers in the Stillaguamish over the next four spawning cycles — if they rise, the model becomes the playbook for tribal-led salmon recovery across the entire coast, and federal grant money is likely to follow the proof.

- A South African police officer was lowered into a crocodile-infested river on a winch to recover human remains, an experience he calmly described afterward as just another shift.

- Trump told reporters he is sitting on classified UFO files and may release some glimpses of alien evidence, prompting a stampede of cable hosts toward the X-Files theme music.

- Cherie DeVaux became the first woman trainer to win the Kentucky Derby in nearly fifty years, with her family driving cross-country to watch Golden Tempo cross the wire.

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