Thursday, May 15th

⏳ SPEED READ

🚨NATION

📌 Trump highlights potential pay raise for troops, discusses military reforms during Qatar speech (FOX)

📌 Trump to meet South African president amid deteriorating relations (NPR)

📌 Missouri lawmakers approve referendum to repeal abortion-rights amendment (GUARDIAN)

📌 Jake Tapper acknowledges he didn’t sufficiently cover Biden’s decline (MO NEWS)

📌 Harvard Magna Carta ‘copy’ now believed to be genuine (BBC)

📌 After Qatar gift to Trump, Kristi Noem also eyes a fancy new private jet (THE HILL)

🌎 AROUND THE WORLD

📌 Trump says “nothing’s gonna happen” on Ukraine until he meets with Putin (MO NEWS)

📌 U.S. presented Iran with nuclear deal proposal (AXIOS)

📌 Trump’s pledge to the Middle East: No more ‘lectures on how to live’ (NYT)

📌 Mexican beauty influencer shot dead during TikTok livestream (BBC)

📌 United Kingdom says it’s talking with countries to set up migrant return hubs for rejected asylum seekers (AP)

📱BUSINESS, SCIENCE & TECH

📌 Walmart warns it will raise prices because of tariffs (CNN)

📌 More than 1,200 Starbucks employees have gone on strike to protest a new dress code policy (USA TODAY)

📌 British team set to begin Mt. Everest trek tomorrow using controversial Xenon gas (YAHOO)

📌 US drug overdose deaths fell by nearly 27% last year, reaching lowest levels since 2019 (ABC)

🎬 SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT

📌 Bruce Springsteen calls Trump administration “corrupt, incompetent and treasonous” in concert (POLITICO)

📌 Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey adaptation will be the first feature film to be shot entirely on iMax film cameras (HOLLYWOOD REPORTER)

📌 Chris Brown arrested over alleged bottle attack (BBC)

📌 Smokey Robinson is under criminal investigation after housekeepers accuse him of sexual assault (NBC)