1 hr ago - Friday 22 May 2026 12:19 EDT The mood inside the White House is reportedly tense as officials fear the ongoing war with Iran could push gas prices beyond the $5.02 a gallon record set under the Biden administration. Maintaining low gas prices, a poli ... (The Independent)

1 hr ago - 05/22/2026 03:09 PM EDT New York Times publisher AG Sulzberger slammed President Donald Trump’s incursions on press freedom and chastised the news outlets he accused of caving to White House pressure in a speech Thursday night. The Times has be ... (Politico)

2 hrs ago - DANVILLE — A 12-year-old boy and his parents have been cited by police after the youth was stopped for traffic violations while illegally riding an electric motorcycle, authorities said — the second time in recent months that East Bay paren ... (East Bay Times)

2 hrs ago - Politics U.S. prepares for new military strikes against Iran By James LaPorta, Jennifer Jacobs, Margaret Brennan May 22, 2026 / 6:15 PM EDT / CBS News Washington — The Trump administration was preparing Friday for a fresh round of military strik ... (CBS News)

2 hrs ago - This week, Meta laid off 8,000 employees—10 percent of the company’s staff—and reassigned another 7,000 to train AI models. Fear of the layoffs had been building around the company for weeks, compounded by the way that Meta has taken a ... (Mother Jones)

2 hrs ago - Updated 1:12 PM EDT, May 22, 2026 WASHINGTON (AP) — Seeking to reassure U.S. allies, a bipartisan group of senators is departing for a tour of Arctic nations. And this time they’re leaving the men behind. From the eight senators to their st ... (AP)

2 hrs ago - May 22nd, 2026, 3:42 pm Tulsi Gabbard resigned as President Donald Trump’s Director of National Intelligence on Friday, citing her husband’s recent diagnosis with bone cancer. While both Gabbard and Trump put out releases citing Gabbard
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2 hrs ago - Pentagon releases more UFO files: "Speechless after these observations" By Stefan Becket Updated on: May 22, 2026 / 12:59 PM EDT / CBS News Washington — The Pentagon on Friday released a new batch of 64 files related to UFOs, or UAPs, unveiling ... (CBS News)

2 hrs ago - May. 22, 2026, 5:25 PM EDT Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick donated $5 million to House Republicans shortly before appearing for closed-door testimony before the House Oversight Committee investigating ties to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey ... (MS NOW News)

3 hrs ago - Friday, May 22, 2026 5:34PM STATEN ISLAND, New York (WABC) -- More than a dozen people were injured, including firefighters, following an explosion and fire at a shipyard on Staten Island, according to the FDNY officials. It happened at 3075 Richmond ... (WABC-TV, New York, NY)

3 hrs ago - Friday 22 May 2026 12:03 EDT U.S. taxpayers’ biometric data could be kept by a third party contractor for years, under new proposals being considered by the Internal Revenue Service. The IRS and the Treasury Department are reviewing their relat ... (The Independent)

4 hrs ago - Pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil to appeal to US Supreme Court to avoid re-arrest By Nate Raymond May 22, 2026 1:51 PM EDT Updated 4 mins ago Summary * Appeals court on 6-5 vote declines to revisit ruling on Khalil's detention * Khalil's lawye ... (Reuters)

4 hrs ago - Major US social media companies including Meta’s Facebook and Instagram platforms have blocked the accounts of Saudi Arabian dissidents so they are no longer visible inside the kingdom, following orders by Saudi authorities. Those affected inclu ... (The Guardian)

4 hrs ago - Get Me to the Church on Time, sang Alfred Doolittle in the musical My Fair Lady. But for Donald Trump, attending a wedding is not simple – even when it’s that of his son. The US president will not attend Donald Trump Jr’s nuptials, he ... (The Guardian)

4 hrs ago - Updated May 22, 2026, 9:22 AM ET PUBLISHED May 22, 2026, 9:06 AM ET Iranian hackers have posed as job recruiters to target software engineers in the aviation sector as part of an elaborate espionage scheme during the US and Israeli war with Iran, cyb ... (CNN Politics)

5 hrs ago - 05/22/26 2:11 PM ET Disney is asking the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to consider whether “The View” is exempt from a statutory “equal time” requirement that applies to broadcast shows. In a recent filing with the agen ... (The Hill)

5 hrs ago - Friday 22 May 2026 13:28 EDT Donald Trump’s administration could soon force immigrants seeking a green card to leave the U.S. while they are waiting for permanent residency, a move that would upend the lives of millions of people who are current ... (The Independent)

6 hrs ago - May 22, 2026 3:02 PM EDT Updated 5 mins ago NEW YORK, May 22 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge ​dismissed an indictment against Salvadoran ‌migrant Kilmar Abrego on Friday, finding that the Trump administration would not have ​prosecuted him ... (Reuters)

6 hrs ago - Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a Democrat from Florida, said on Friday that she planned to run for re-election in a majority-minority district under the state’s newly redrawn congressional map. The map created four additional Republica ... (New York Times)

6 hrs ago - Local News Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin fires Sheri Mecklenberg as Senate Judiciary Committee counsel after Broadview Six allegations By Sara Tenenbaum May 22, 2026 / 1:11 PM CDT / CBS Chicago Illinois Senator Dick Durbin has fired former federal prosec ... (CBS News)