Wednesday, May 21

⏳ SPEED READ

🚨NATION

📌 Biden last screened for prostate cancer in 2014 (MO NEWS)

📌 Pentagon says it has accepted Qatar's gift of a luxury megajet for Trump's use (NBC)

📌 Rep. Gerry Connolly, top Democrat on the Oversight Committee, dies at 75 (NBC)

📌 Trump administration dismisses police investigations in several cities, including Minneapolis and Louisville (NPR)

📌 Over boos, Columbia University president notes Mahmoud Khalil's absence at graduation (AP)

🌎 AROUND THE WORLD

📌 China accuses U.S. of 'turning space into a warzone' with Trump's Golden Dome missile defense system (FOX) while Canada in talks with U.S. to join project (BBC)

📌 Pakistan blames India for a suspected suicide attack on school bus that killed 5 (GUARDIAN)

📌 Pope Leo XIV calls for aid to reach Gaza and an end to hostilities in his first general audience (AP)

📌 World Health Organization adopts a landmark treaty on global pandemic preparedness (DW)

📱BUSINESS, SCIENCE & TECH

📌 Target sales drop in 1st quarter as retailer warns it will slip for all of 2025 (AP)

📌 OpenAI is buying iPhone designer Jony Ive’s AI devices startup for $6.4 billion (CNBC)

📌 Person may have spread measles at Shakira's New Jersey concert, health officials warn (USA TODAY)

📌 Mysterious bacteria with ‘unique abilities’ discovered on Chinese space station (NY POST)

🎬 SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT

📌 Trump posts edited video of him hitting Springsteen with a golf ball (THE HILL)

📌 Indian author Banu Mushtaq wins International Booker Prize with short story collection (AP)

📌 George Wendt, the actor who played Norm on ‘Cheers,’ dead at 76 (USA TODAY)

📌 NFL owners decide not to ban controversial tush push play (CNN)