Watch: Met Gala sees Beyoncé’s return and a star-studded red carpet
Anna Wintour brought the glam, Beyoncé brought the fam, and Heidi Klum was... statuesque at this year's fundraiser.
Canadian fiddler sues Google after AI Overview wrongly claimed he was a sex offender
Ashley MacIsaac, who is seeking $1.5m in civil lawsuit, says inaccurate information led to concert cancellation
An acclaimed Canadian fiddle player has launched a $1.5m civil lawsuit against Google, alleging that the online giant defamed him by falsely identifying him as a sex offender in an AI-generated summary of his life and career.
Ashley MacIsaac, a three-time Juno award-winning musician, filed the claim in the Ontario superior court of justice, asserting that Google was liable for the “foreseeable republication” of its AI-generated Overview feature, which previously published defamatory claims that he had been convicted of multiple criminal offences, including the sexual assault of a woman, internet luring involving a child with the intention of sexual assaulting the child, and assault causing bodily harm.
Continue reading...Israeli strike sparks fire in northern Gaza City
Video from Gaza City shows flames rising after an Israeli strike targeted a group of civilians.
Alabama lawmakers adjourn after protests over redistricting
Alabama lawmakers adjourned their session after protesters entered the State House during protests over redistricting.
US supreme court expedites Voting Rights Act ruling so Louisiana can redraw its maps for midterms
Ketanji Brown Jackson blasted the decision, saying the court has hastened it ruling only twice before in 25 years
The US supreme court went out of its way on Monday to help Louisiana Republicans redraw their congressional maps before this year’s midterm elections by allowing a recent ruling that gutted a key part of the Voting Rights Act to take effect ahead of schedule.
The procedural move comes less than a week after the court’s landmark decision striking down Louisiana’s congressional map and gutting section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. Usually, the court waits 32 days to formally issue its judgment to the lower court. Last week, Louisiana asked the court to speed up that process, citing the urgency with which it needed to redraw its congressional maps. On Monday, the court agreed to do so.
Continue reading...Iran Update Special Report May 4, 2026 – Institute for the Study of War
Iran Update Special Report May 4, 2026 Institute for the Study of WarView Full Coverage on Google News
Alberta separatist group says it has enough signatures to trigger referendum vote on leaving Canada – Politico
- Alberta separatist group says it has enough signatures to trigger referendum vote on leaving Canada Politico
- Alberta separatists say they have enough signatures for referendum on leaving Canada Fox News
- Alberta separatists say they have enough signatures to trigger independence referendum BBC
- Alberta separatist group says it has enough signatures to trigger referendum on leaving Canada AP News
- Separatist group tries to trigger referendum on province leaving Canada Sky News
Newborn born in Nablus a day after his father was killed in Israeli raid
A Palestinian family in Nablus has welcomed a newborn whose father was shot dead by Israeli forces.
Iran war live: Washington, Tehran trade threats over Strait of Hormuz
Israeli attacks have killed 2,696 people in Lebanon since March 2, the country's Health Ministry reports.
Trump’s World Liberty Financial venture sues crypto entrepreneur for defamation
Suit alleges that Hong Kong-based Justin Sun engaged in a campaign to ‘torch’ the company’s reputation
World Liberty Financial, the crypto venture co-founded by Donald Trump and his sons, said on Monday it had filed a defamation lawsuit in Florida state court against the Hong Kong-based crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun, as a dispute escalates between the project and one of its most prominent backers.
World Liberty posted a copy of its lawsuit on X in which it accused Sun of launching a “public smear campaign”. It alleged that Sun had improperly transferred some of his WLFI tokens that come with voting and governance rights to crypto exchange Binance and, separately, that he had placed bets that WLFI would decline in market value, known as short selling. That was part of a coordinated effort to push the token’s market price down as public trading began in September, the lawsuit alleged.
Continue reading...Robots move in as waste firms struggle to find staff
Humanoid robots are being added to the automation of waste sorting.
‘Extensive brutality’: Rebel attacks reap hell on Congolese civilians – Al Jazeera
- ‘Extensive brutality’: Rebel attacks reap hell on Congolese civilians Al Jazeera
- Islamic State massacres Christians in front of their families The Telegraph
- DRC: Rampant ADF abuses against civilians ‘war crimes which the world must not continue to ignore’ – new report Amnesty International
- IS-Linked ADF Kills 60 in Eastern DRC as UN Mission Cuts Widen Security Gap SOFX
- Amnesty accuses ADF fighters of war crimes in eastern DR Congo africanews.com
‘Extensive brutality’: Rebel attacks reap hell on Congolese civilians
ISIL-linked group has tortured, killed and abducted civilians in the Democratic Republic of Congo, including children.
California seeks millions in penalties from State Farm over alleged claims violations after LA wildfires
State’s top insurance regulator says insurance company violated law while handling claims from 2025 wildfires
California is seeking millions of dollars in penalties from State Farm after an investigation found the insurance company was slow to investigate and underpaid claims from the 2025 Los Angeles-area wildfires, regulators announced on Monday.
State Farm violated the law hundreds of times in a sampling of 220 cases, the state’s insurance commissioner, Ricardo Lara, said. The maximum penalty amount allowed by law would be about $4m if State Farm is found to be “willful” in violating state law. Regulators may also temporarily suspend the company’s license, effectively prohibiting the state’s largest home insurer from writing new policies for a year in California.
Continue reading...US strikes Iranian fast boats as Iran attacks UAE oil facility
Meanwhile shipping company Maersk said one of its US-flagged commercial vessels had successfully exited the Strait of Hormuz under US military protection.
1 missing U.S. soldier jumped into water to try to save another, search continues in Morocco, officials say – CBS News
- 1 missing U.S. soldier jumped into water to try to save another, search continues in Morocco, officials say CBS News
- 2 U.S. Service Members Are Missing After Military Exercise in Morocco The New York Times
- New Details Emerge After U.S. Soldiers Fall Off Cliff The Daily Beast
- US military says two service members taking part in Morocco drills missing Al Jazeera
- 2 U.S. service members missing after military exercises in Morocco NPR
The most talked-about looks at this year’s Met Gala
The theme for 2026 Met Gala fundraiser is "Costume Art", exploring fashion as an embodied art form.
For Christians in Israel and Jerusalem, intolerance is becoming normal
Despite official framing, for Christians there is little new in last week's assault on a French nun in East Jerusalem.
Norwegian fish farms polluting fjords with waste likened to ‘raw sewage of millions of people’
Exclusive: ‘Fish sludge’ in coastal waters now has nutrient levels equivalent to those in untreated effluent of country the size of Australia, report finds
Norwegian fish farms are filling fjords and other coastal waters with nutrient pollution equivalent to the raw sewage of tens of millions of people each year, a report has found.
Norway is the largest farmed salmon producer in the world, and nutrients in fish feed are excreted directly into coastal waters. Analysis from the Sunstone Institute found that Norwegian aquaculture released 75,000 tonnes of nitrogen, 13,000 tonnes of phosphorus and 360,000 tonnes of organic carbon in 2025.
Continue reading...At Least 3 Dead After Suspected Rat-Borne Virus Outbreak On Cruise Ship – Forbes
- At Least 3 Dead After Suspected Rat-Borne Virus Outbreak On Cruise Ship Forbes
- 3 Dead in Hantavirus Outbreak Aboard Cruise Ship, W.H.O. Says The New York Times
- What to know about hantavirus after 3 died in suspected cruise ship outbreak The Washington Post
- Exclusive | Inside the deadly hantavirus-infected cruise ship, MV Hondius, where 3 passengers have died New York Post
- Evacuations planned as suspected hantavirus outbreak traps 150 on ship off Cape Verde Reuters