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2:48 PM on Wednesday, May 20

Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva signed two decrees on Wednesday to add pressure on big tech companies by making them liable for illegal content shared by its users and opening way for investigations through a government body on their response to such cases

2:01 PM on Wednesday, May 20

Neptune's mysterious, far-flung moon Nereid may be the last of the planet's original companions

1:51 PM on Wednesday, May 20

“The Boys” is airing its series finale after five seasons of death, depravity and digs at the capitalistic superhero-industrial complex

1:31 PM on Wednesday, May 20

A lawsuit filed on behalf of students and community organizations in Massachusetts argues the state is illegally maintaining schools that are racially segregated, concentrating Black and Latino students in high-poverty districts with fewer opportunities

12:36 PM on Wednesday, May 20

President Donald Trump has returned to the U.S. Coast Guard Academy to give the commencement address at the Connecticut school

12:21 PM on Wednesday, May 20

Arsenal fans in Botswana were briefly excited by the apparent announcement of a public holiday to celebrate their team's first Premier League title win in 22 years

12:12 PM on Wednesday, May 20

No movie at the Cannes Film Festival has had a longer road to get here than “Once Upon a Time in Harlem.”

11:01 AM on Wednesday, May 20

Congo’s soccer team has canceled a three-day World Cup preparation training camp and a planned farewell to fans in the capital Kinshasa because of an outbreak of Ebola in the east of the country

10:18 AM on Wednesday, May 20

Victor Wembanyama is heading back to France next season with the San Antonio Spurs

9:58 AM on Wednesday, May 20

Barney Frank has died

9:01 AM on Wednesday, May 20

Tennessee officials will pay $835,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by a man who was jailed for more than a month over a Facebook post he made about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk

7:49 AM on Wednesday, May 20

Amid a punishing drought, tariffs and the high cost of fertilizers, farming wheat has become more uncertain as farmers in western Kansas are feeling the impact in their major wheat-producing region

7:44 AM on Wednesday, May 20

The National Trust for Historic Preservation has released its annual list of the most endangered historic places in the United States

6:43 AM on Wednesday, May 20

Target, which embarked on a turnaround plan under its new CEO earlier this year, reported the biggest increase for a widely watched measure of quarterly sales in four years

5:56 AM on Wednesday, May 20

Single Gen Z women are outpacing the men of their generation when it comes to buying a home

5:27 AM on Wednesday, May 20

Lithuania's president and prime minister have been taken to safe locations after a suspected drone was detected near the country's border with Belarus

12:15 AM on Wednesday, May 20

Samsung Electronics’ labor union says it’ll hold off a planned strike and put a tentative wage deal with management to a vote

12:10 AM on Wednesday, May 20

Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin have hailed their strategic ties and energy trade during a meeting in Beijing

12:01 AM on Wednesday, May 20

Thomas Massie, a Republican congressman from Kentucky, has lost his primary bid for reelection

12:06 AM on Tuesday, May 19

The possibility that the Justice Department could indict former Cuban leader Raúl Castro is pushing U.S. relations with the communist-run island to the foreground