Finance
Nvidia Heads Into Its May 20 Q1 FY27 Print With Wall Street Pricing In Roughly $79 Billion of Revenue and a Pivotal Read on Blackwell and China
Nvidia delivers its fiscal first-quarter results after the closing bell on Wednesday, May 20, with consensus expectations of about $78.8 billion in revenue, $1.77 in adjusted earnings per share, and roughly $73 billion in data-center sales. Investors are squarely focused on the Blackwell ramp, on management's tone about Saudi and UAE 'AI factory' orders, and on whether the company can guide above an $86 billion consensus for Q2 even with China export restrictions intact.
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World
WHO Declares Ebola a Global Health Emergency as American Doctor Tests Positive in Congo and CDC Orders Travel Screening at US Airports
An American doctor working at Nyankunde Hospital in Bunia, Democratic Republic of the Congo has tested positive for the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola and was airlifted to Germany for treatment. The Democratic Republic of the Congo Ministry of Health has now confirmed 246 suspected cases and 80 deaths in Ituri Province, prompting the World Health Organization to declare the outbreak a public health emergency of international concern and the US CDC to roll out enhanced traveler screening.
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Science
Gravitational Waves From Colliding Black Holes May Carry a Fingerprint of Dark Matter, New Study Argues
A study amplified by ScienceDaily on May 19, 2026 proposes that LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA could finally detect dark matter by measuring tiny distortions in the gravitational waves of two black holes spiraling toward each other through a dense dark-matter halo. If the dark matter is dense enough around the binary, its gravitational drag — known as dynamical friction — would shift the wave frequency in ways third-generation detectors should be able to see.
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Science
Marine Scientists Identify a Record 1,121 New Ocean Species, Including a Deep-Sea Ghost Shark and a Glass-Sponge 'Castle' Off Japan
The Nippon Foundation-Nekton Ocean Census announced on Tuesday, May 19, 2026 that researchers around the world had identified 1,121 new marine species in a single year — a 54 percent jump on the previous twelve months and the largest annual haul since the initiative began. Among the new arrivals are a deep-sea ghost shark from Australia's Coral Sea Marine Park, a community of symbiotic bristle worms living inside a 'glass castle' of crystalline sponge off Japan, and roughly 30 cm-long 'death-ball' sea sponges from the Aleutian Trench.
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Sports
Victor Wembanyama Posts Historic 41 Points and 24 Rebounds as Spurs Beat Thunder in Double-Overtime Game 1 Classic
San Antonio Spurs star Victor Wembanyama scored 41 points and grabbed 24 rebounds in 49 minutes on Monday night, May 18, 2026, as the Spurs outlasted the Oklahoma City Thunder 122-115 in double overtime to open the Western Conference Finals. Wembanyama joined Wilt Chamberlain as the only players to record at least 40 points and 20 rebounds in a Conference Finals debut, while rookie guard Dylan Harper added 24 points, 11 rebounds, six assists and seven steals.
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Finance
Palo Alto Networks Beats Q3 Earnings and Lifts Fiscal 2026 Revenue Outlook to $11.3 Billion on AI-Driven Cybersecurity Demand
Palo Alto Networks reported fiscal third-quarter results on Tuesday, May 19, 2026 with revenue of $2.59 billion and adjusted earnings of $1.03 per share, both beating Wall Street expectations. The cybersecurity giant lifted its fiscal 2026 revenue outlook to $11.3 billion, citing accelerating demand for AI-driven security products and its growing identity-protection platform.
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World
Trump-Backed Ed Gallrein Defeats Eight-Term Libertarian Thomas Massie in Kentucky GOP Primary
Voters in Kentucky's 4th Congressional District ended Rep. Thomas Massie's 14-year run in Washington on Tuesday, May 19, 2026, choosing Trump-endorsed retired Navy SEAL and farmer Ed Gallrein in the most expensive U.S. House primary in American history. Massie conceded shortly after networks called the race, and Gallrein now heads to a heavily Republican-leaning general election in November.
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Science
Six-Year-Old Norwegian Boy Pulls 1,300-Year-Old Merovingian-Era Sword From a Plowed Field on a First-Grade Field Trip
First-grader Henrik Refsnes Mørtvedt of Fredheim School in Innlandet, Norway, picked up what he thought was a strange piece of iron while exploring a recently plowed field outside Brandbu (Gran municipality) on May 11, 2026. The 'iron stick' turned out to be an almost intact single-edged sword roughly 1,300 years old, dating to the late Merovingian or earliest Viking Age (circa 700 AD). Archaeologists at Innlandet County Municipality and the Museum of Cultural History in Oslo confirmed the find this week; the sword has now been transferred to Oslo for conservation and study. The Gran district had already produced two earlier Merovingian-Viking finds in 2024 and 2025, and county archaeologists say the new sword may indicate a previously unrecognised burial or cult site beneath the field.
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Science
String Theory May Be the Unique Theory of Everything, NYU and Caltech Physicists Show in New Physical Review Letters Paper
A team of theoretical physicists led by Sebastian Mizera at the Institute for Advanced Study and Henriette Elvang at NYU has published a result in Physical Review Letters arguing that string theory emerges as the only mathematically consistent theory of everything once four very basic assumptions about high-energy particle scattering are imposed. Featured on May 18, 2026 in ScienceDaily, Phys.org and Physics World, the paper shows that the so-called S-matrix bootstrap, when constrained by unitarity, Lorentz invariance, locality and an infinite tower of stable massive states, yields exactly the Veneziano amplitude — the original birthplace of string theory in 1968 — rather than one of infinitely many possible solutions. The result is theoretical rather than experimental, but it sharply narrows what a final theory of quantum gravity can look like.
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Entertainment
John Travolta Receives Surprise Honorary Palme d'Or at 79th Cannes Film Festival — 'This Is Beyond the Oscar'
The 79th Cannes Film Festival surprised John Travolta on May 18, 2026 with an Honorary Palme d'Or for lifetime achievement, the festival's highest tribute to a single artist. Visibly emotional in the Grand Théâtre Lumière, the 72-year-old American actor wiped away tears and told the room 'this is beyond the Oscar' as a six-minute montage spanning Welcome Back, Kotter, Saturday Night Fever, Grease and Pulp Fiction played on the giant screen. Festival president Iris Knobloch presented the honour alongside Quentin Tarantino, who flew in from Los Angeles for the ceremony. Travolta becomes the third Honorary Palme recipient of this edition, after Peter Jackson on opening night and Barbra Streisand on closing night May 23.
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Finance
Home Depot Posts $41.77 Billion Q1 Revenue, Beats EPS as Mingledorff's Acquisition Opens $100 Billion HVAC Distribution Market
The Home Depot reported fiscal Q1 2026 results on Tuesday, May 19, 2026 showing total sales of $41.77 billion, up 4.8 percent year-over-year, and non-GAAP diluted earnings of $3.43 per share — 0.7 percent above the analyst consensus. Comparable sales rose in nine of the company's sixteen merchandising departments, with adjusted EBITDA of $6.07 billion at a 14.5 percent margin. CEO Ted Decker also detailed the just-closed acquisition of Atlanta-based heating-and-cooling distributor Mingledorff's, which the company said opens an addressable $100 billion HVAC distribution opportunity and expands Home Depot's total addressable market to roughly $1.2 trillion.
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World
Trump-Backed Ed Gallrein Challenges Thomas Massie in Most Expensive House Primary in U.S. History as Six States Vote May 19
Voters in Kentucky's 4th Congressional District went to the polls on Tuesday, May 19, 2026 in what national outlets are calling the most expensive House primary in American history, pitting eight-term GOP libertarian Rep. Thomas Massie against farmer and former Navy SEAL Ed Gallrein, who was recruited and endorsed by President Donald Trump after Massie broke with the White House over Iran-war authorizations and federal spending. Combined outside-group spending topped $80 million by Election Day, with the MAGA Inc. and Club for Growth Action super-PACs alone airing more than 14,000 cable spots across the Cincinnati and Lexington media markets. Five other states — Alabama, Georgia, Idaho, Oregon and Pennsylvania — also held their 2026 midterm primaries the same day.
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Science
Boosting Tristetraprolin in Elderly Mice Reverses Inflammaging Frailty, Restoring Grip Strength and Bone Density in University of Kentucky Study
A University of Kentucky College of Medicine team led by Dr. Hu Huang reports in Aging Cell that genetically locking the RNA-binding protein tristetraprolin (TTP) in a stable, active state in 22-month-old C57BL/6J mice restores grip strength, trabecular bone-volume fraction and treadmill endurance toward young-adult levels while measurably reducing systemic levels of the senescence-associated inflammatory cytokines IL-6, TNF-α and CXCL1. The paper, posted online May 16 and amplified through a ScienceDaily release on May 18, 2026, identifies TTP-driven AU-rich-element-mediated mRNA decay as the brake on chronic 'inflammaging' that progressively fails with age.
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Science
Hidden Seattle-Fault Secondary Splays Rupture About Every 350 Years and Could Shake the Metro Region Far More Often Than the Main Fault, USGS-USC Team Reports
A U.S. Geological Survey and University of Southern California team using paleoseismic trenching, airborne lidar and high-resolution aeromagnetic surveys reports in a Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America paper, amplified through a ScienceDaily release on May 18, 2026, that previously unmapped 'secondary' splay faults of the Seattle Fault Zone have ruptured every ~350 years on average over the past 2,500 years — far more frequently than the once-per-millennium recurrence on the master fault. The most recent rupture is likely a 19th-century event, leaving roughly four million people in the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue area exposed to a shallow, near-field shaking source that current seismic-hazard maps under-weight.
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Finance
Memory-Chip Stocks Slump as Seagate CEO Dave Mosley Warns AI Storage Demand Will Outrun New-Fab Build Times for 'Years'
Memory and hard-disk-drive stocks led a broad Nasdaq tech sell-off on May 19, 2026 after Seagate chief executive Dave Mosley told a Morgan Stanley investor conference that AI data-centre storage demand had moved 'so fast that any new fab takes too long' to deliver, projecting a multi-year supply gap. Seagate closed off 6.8%, Western Digital fell 5.9%, Micron Technology dropped 6.2% and SK hynix's Korea-listed shares closed down 4.4%, dragging the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index 2.7% lower and clipping 0.5% off the S&P 500.
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World
Iran's IRGC Vows to 'Resolutely Thwart' Any U.S. Aggression After Trump Says He Postponed a Strike at the Request of Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE
Hours after Iran's Supreme National Security Council rejected Trump's seven-day Hormuz-pause extension as a 'unilateral declaration,' the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps issued a separate statement on May 19, 2026 warning that any fresh U.S. strike will be 'resolutely thwarted' and reiterating that Iranian armed forces are 'fully ready' to teach any aggressor a lesson. The exchange follows President Trump's own remark from the Oval Office that he postponed a planned attack on Iran at the request of Gulf mediators in Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, and that 'serious negotiations' are now under way through those channels.
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World
Google I/O 2026 Opens at Shoreline as Sundar Pichai Unveils Gemini 4 Omni Multimodal Model and Previews Android XR Glasses
Google CEO Sundar Pichai opened the I/O 2026 developer conference at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California at 10 a.m. PT on May 19, 2026 with the headline reveal of Gemini 4 Omni — a unified multimodal foundation model that natively processes text, code, image, audio and video in a single forward pass and ships with a two-million-token native context window. The keynote also previewed the first Android XR glasses reference design (a Samsung-Qualcomm hardware platform running on-device Gemini Nano), opened a public preview of Aluminium OS for ARM-class laptops, and confirmed Gemini Intelligence as a system-level agent layer arriving across Pixel and Samsung devices in summer 2026.
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World
Iran Rejects Trump's One-Week Ceasefire Extension as 'Unilateral Declaration' as Hormuz Tanker Insurance Spikes and Brent Pushes Past $109
Iran's Supreme National Security Council on May 19, 2026 publicly rejected the seven-day ceasefire extension that U.S. President Donald Trump announced from the Oval Office the previous evening, with Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi telling state TV that 'Iran does not recognize the extension of the ceasefire, and may or may not abide by it based on national interests.' MarioNawfal first surfaced the rejection on X within minutes of the Tehran statement; Lloyd's of London war-risk premiums for VLCC tanker transits through the Strait of Hormuz jumped overnight to 0.55% of hull value, the highest since the May 8 strikes, and Brent crude pushed past $109 in pre-Asian trade before settling to $107.40 by London open.
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Science
Oxford-Reading Study in PLOS Biology Argues Bipedalism First and Brain Expansion Second Made Humans the Only Strongly Right-Handed Primate
A phylogenetic-comparative analysis of 2,025 individuals across 41 primate species, led by Thomas Püschel and Rachel Hurwitz at the University of Oxford with Chris Venditti of the University of Reading, argues in a PLOS Biology paper published on April 27 and amplified by ScienceDaily on May 17, 2026 that humans' striking ~90% right-hand preference is the product of two separate evolutionary shifts: the move to obligate bipedalism, which first raised handedness above the noise floor of other apes, and subsequent dramatic encephalisation, which biased the population preference specifically toward the right hand by way of left-hemisphere lateralisation of fine motor control.
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Science
FDA Approves AstraZeneca's Baxfendy (Baxdrostat), the First-in-Class Aldosterone Synthase Inhibitor for Hard-to-Treat Hypertension
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on May 18, 2026 granted full approval to AstraZeneca's once-daily oral tablet Baxfendy — generic name baxdrostat — making it the first aldosterone synthase inhibitor ever cleared anywhere in the world. The new mechanism selectively blocks the CYP11B2 enzyme that drives aldosterone synthesis without touching cortisol, and is indicated as add-on therapy for adults with uncontrolled or treatment-resistant hypertension. Approval rests on the 22,000-patient BaxHTN, BaxHTN-OL and BaxResist programme, in which 2 mg of baxdrostat layered on top of standard care lowered seated systolic blood pressure by an additional 9.8 mmHg at twelve weeks versus placebo.
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Entertainment
Cristian Mungiu's Norwegian Drama 'Fjord' Earns a Twelve-Minute Cannes Standing Ovation with Sebastian Stan and Renate Reinsve in Tears
Cristian Mungiu's English-language debut 'Fjord' world-premiered in the main competition of the 79th Cannes Film Festival on the night of May 18, 2026, receiving a twelve-minute standing ovation in the Grand Théâtre Lumière — the longest of the festival to date and matching Sunday night's Adèle Exarchopoulos vehicle 'Garance.' Stars Sebastian Stan and Renate Reinsve both cried openly during the bow as Mungiu, the 2007 Palme d'Or winner for '4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days,' bowed alongside cinematographer Tudor Vladimir Panduru and Neon's North American distribution team. Bookmakers immediately moved Fjord to joint second favourite for the Palme d'Or behind Pawel Pawlikowski's 'Fatherland.'
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Finance
Federal Jury Throws Out Elon Musk's Lawsuit Against Sam Altman and OpenAI on Statute-of-Limitations Grounds in Under Two Hours
A nine-member advisory jury in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in Oakland deliberated for less than two hours on May 18, 2026 before unanimously concluding that Elon Musk waited too long to sue Sam Altman and OpenAI for allegedly steering the lab away from its founding nonprofit mission. Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers adopted the jury's finding and dismissed the case, including parallel claims against Microsoft, on the ground that the three-year California statute of limitations had run before Musk filed in 2024. Musk called the verdict a 'calendar technicality' on X and vowed to appeal.
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World
Federal Prosecutors Seek a 50-Year Sentence for Aimee Bock as the Feeding Our Future Architect Faces Reckoning on May 21
Federal prosecutors in the District of Minnesota filed a sentencing memorandum on May 18, 2026 asking U.S. District Judge Nancy Brasel to impose a 50-year prison term on Aimee Bock, the Minneapolis nonprofit founder convicted in March 2026 for orchestrating the nation's largest pandemic-era food-aid fraud — a scheme that diverted roughly $250 million in federal child-nutrition meal reimbursements through more than 200 sham meal sites. Bock's lawyers are asking for time served or no more than 37 months. Sentencing is set for Thursday, May 21 in Minneapolis.
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Science
Twenty-Seven Candidate 'Tatooine' Worlds Detected as UNSW Team Reinvents the Hunt for Circumbinary Planets via Apsidal Precession
A University of New South Wales-led team has reported in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society the detection of twenty-seven new candidate circumbinary planets — worlds that orbit a pair of stars rather than just one — by tracking subtle, planet-induced 'apsidal precession' wobbles in 1,590 eclipsing binary systems observed by NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). The result, accepted on 11 March 2026 and trailed at a Star Wars Day briefing on 4 May, is roughly double the prior known catalogue of confirmed circumbinary planets and breaks a long-standing observational bias that has restricted detection almost entirely to coplanar transit geometries.
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