Supercharged seaweed, condo cracks, inside a company in crisis: Catch up on the day’s stories
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👋 Welcome to 5 Things PM! A Texas mother is accused of buying ammunition and tactical gear for her son, despite repeated warnings about violent plans at his middle school. The boy’s grandmother alerted police. Here’s what else you might have missed during your busy day: 1️⃣ Toxic bloom: At least 31 million tons of supercharged seaweed are moving toward Florida and around the Caribbean, threatening a putrid invasion of idyllic beaches. As the sargassum rots on shore, it emits gases and produces an awful stench that repels tourists during the busy travel season. 2️⃣ Red flags: Hurricane preparations at the Federal Emergency Management Agency have slowed to a crawl, and the disaster relief agency “is not ready” for the June 1 start to the season, according to an internal review. The document outlines FEMA’s struggles and raises a number of concerns. 3️⃣ Company in crisis: UnitedHealth Group, one of America’s biggest corporations, is unraveling. The CEO stepped down abruptly for “personal reasons,” and then came news that the health care giant is under criminal investigation for possible Medicare fraud. 4️⃣ Buyer beware: Apartment owners at a luxury New York skyscraper are suing the building’s developers over alleged structural defects — including thousands of severe cracks on the super-skinny Park Avenue tower’s facade.
After nearly eight weeks of testimony, Massachusetts prosecutors and defense attorneys for Karen Read are presenting their closing arguments as her retrial for the death of her boyfriend, John O’Keefe, nears its end.
A federal appeals court on Friday rejected another attempt by President Donald Trump to review a $5 million judgment against him for sexually abusing and then defaming E. Jean Carroll.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Salvadoran national mistakenly deported three months ago, has pleaded not guilty to federal human trafficking charges.
A federal judge in Massachusetts on Friday blocked part of President Donald Trump’s executive order that seeks to revamp how elections are run in the United States.
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Flying home from his first visit to Paris as president, an awestruck Donald Trump told aides aboard Air Force One that the military parade he’d just witnessed was one of the most dazzling spectacles he’d ever seen.
As the Supreme Court bears down on the most contentious stretch of its annual session, the justices have been taking detours in opinions that reveal policy preferences and simmering grievances.
A bitter feud is escalating between Republican Sen. Rand Paul and Donald Trump’s top border official, injecting uncertainty into Congress’s attempt to pass the administration’s signature policy bill this month.
The fact that Israel struck Iran without any US involvement, and against the president’s publicly stated wishes, now thrusts Trump into one of the biggest tests of his young presidency.
President Donald Trump unlawfully federalized thousands of members of California’s National Guard and must return control of the troops to the state, a federal judge ruled Thursday.
Andrew Cuomo and Zohran Mamdani bitterly clashed over age and experience Thursday in the final debate before New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary, as Cuomo warned that electing the progressive state assemblyman is unprepared for the job and Mamdani hammered the former governor over scandals during his time in Albany.
On Wednesday, the Department of Homeland Security posted a striking graphic on its official X account. Uncle Sam, a symbol of American patriotism, is depicted nailing a poster to a wall that reads, “Help your country… and yourself.” Written underneath the poster is the sentence, “REPORT ALL FOREIGN INVADERS,” and the Immigration and Customs Enforcement hot line.
When the Trump Justice Department took the extraordinary step of arresting a local judge seven weeks ago, plenty feared what it could portend.