Friday, May 16th

⏳ SPEED READ

🚨NATION

📌 Supreme Court blocks Trump effort to deport Venezuelan migrants under Alien Enemies Act (USA TODAY)

📌 Trump says US will set new tariff rates for countries, skirting negotiations (POLITICO)

📌 Florida becomes second state to ban fluoride from water (MO NEWS)

📌 Trump administration fires nearly 600 contractors at Voice of America (GUARDIAN)

📌 10 inmates escape from Orleans Parish jail in Louisiana (NBC)

🌎 AROUND THE WORLD

📌 Russia and Ukraine far apart on ceasefire in first meeting in 3 years (AXIOS)

📌 Trump wraps momentous Middle East trip with economic deals, Syria sanctions relief, and warning to Iran (FOX)

📌 Pope Leo XIV affirms family is based on union between a man and a woman, unborn has inherent dignity (AP)

📌 ICC prosecutor Karim Khan on leave from position amid sexual misconduct probe (J-POST)

📱BUSINESS, SCIENCE & TECH

📌 Americans’ optimism about the economy is at a near-record low (CNN)

📌 US cable giants Charter and Cox pursue $34.5 billion merger (ABC)

📌 Musk’s AI chatbot was giving users off-topic and false responses about “white genocide” in South Africa (AXIOS)

📌 No NJ Transit trains running as engineers strike for first time since 1983 (NBC)

🎬 SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT

📌 Trump slams Taylor Swift, Bruce Springsteen in Truth Social posts (MO NEWS)

📌 DHS says it’s in beginning stages of ‘vetting process’ for immigrant reality TV show (CNN)

📌 Cassie Ventura finishes testimony in Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ trial (YAHOO)

📌 Yuval Raphael, a Hamas attack survivor, is representing Israel at Eurovision (NPR)