Tulsi Gabbard has said she is resigning from her position as the US director of national intelligence in the Trump administration, citing her husband's recent bone cancer diagnosis.
"His strength and love have sustained me through every challenge," she wrote in her resignation letter obtained by CBS News, the BBC's US partner. "I cannot in good conscience ask him to face this fight alone while I continue in this demanding and time-consuming position."
President Donald Trump said in a social media post that Gabbard "has done an incredible job, and we will miss her".
Her resignation is effective 30 June. Aaron Lukas, the principal deputy director, will step in as acting director, Trump said.
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CBS News Radio shutting downToday is its last day.
Op-ed by William Paley's granddaughter.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/may/22/cbs-news-radio-end-major-loss
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Justin’s last rideThanks for posting that. I read the first bit and will definitely come back to finish it when I have more time.
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All of the Above (documentary film)A local (my district) high school teacher creates a class. And a documentary film about it.
All of the Above, follows the transformative journey of high school students from different faith backgrounds who come together for John Camardella’s World Religions class. The film spends significant time in the classroom, capturing the intimate dynamics of these students as they engage in deep, challenging conversations about religion and culture. As a fly on the wall, our small team documented the profound shift that occurred as these young people confronted the preconceived notions of their peers’ faiths.
The students—many of whom come from suburban, homogenous communities—begin by grappling with misunderstanding and apprehension, but over time, they develop a deeper empathy for their peers' beliefs and practices. This process of self-reflection and cross-cultural understanding extends beyond the classroom, as the students navigate their own personal growth and shifting identities. All of the Above is a powerful exploration of how education inspires change, sparks self-discovery, and fosters a more compassionate society.
More about the film:
https://www.wuwm.com/high-school-world-religions-class-milwaukee-film-fest-documentary
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Newest Google sneaky ployIf You Use Google Chrome, Your Device May Have Secretly Downloaded a 4GB AI Model
Here's how to check for the hidden file and delete it from your machine.
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2026 International Booker PrizeTaiwan Travelogue, a novel written by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ and translated by Lin King, has become the first book originally written in Mandarin Chinese to win the International Booker prize.
Yáng and King were announced as the winners of the £50,000 prize – to be split equally between them – during a ceremony at Tate Modern, London, on Tuesday evening.
The novel is presented as a translation of a rediscovered memoir, written from the perspective of a novelist who sails to Japan-occupied Taiwan in 1938 and embarks on a culinary tour in the company of an interpreter, with whom she falls in love. The book features fictional footnotes and afterwords by the book’s characters as well as “real” ones by King, which “wrap an intriguing metafictional layer around its core love story”, said judging chair and novelist Natasha Brown.
It’s the second year in a row that the Sheffield-based independent press And Other Stories has taken home the prize, following Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq, translated by Deepa Bhasthi, last year.
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Remarkable use of our tax dollarsI wondered earlier if Comey, Powell, or Kelly might apply. Don’t know about them, but Michael Cohen says he will.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/michael-cohen-anti-weaponization-fund-claim-trump-lawyer/
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A Waymo "routing problem"Empty Waymos invade Atlanta neighborhood, circle cul-de-sac for hours with no passengers
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The 2024 DNC autopsy reportFinally released. Story:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/21/democrats-2024-election-autopsy
The report:
https://democrats.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/May-20-2026.pdf
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Faunascrolling--what's visiting where you are?The waxwings are back this morning! What a sweet group of birds. They don't fight each other in the bird bath; they just all happily plotz around in the water.
Need to look them up. I assume they are migratory and just passing through our area right now.
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EbolaAn American infected with Ebola is being treated in Berlin, while another exposed to the deadly virus is being sent to Prague after the White House reportedly resisted allowing citizens to return to the US for care and monitoring.
According to The Washington Post, five people close to the Ebola response said that, over the weekend, the Trump administration resisted allowing the return of Peter Stafford, a 39-year-old surgeon working in the Democratic Republic of the Congo amid a raging Ebola outbreak. The resistance allegedly delayed Stafford’s evacuation and care, risking his health, as experts note that early treatment is critical for Ebola, which can turn deadly in days.
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EbolaMarco Rubio’s comments on Ebola show he doesn’t understand what the World Health Organization does, the agency’s chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus suggested Wednesday.
The U.S. secretary of state had claimed Tuesday night that the WHO was “a little late” to detect the deadly outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which is spreading rapidly through the war-torn country.
“We don’t replace the countries’ work, we only support them,” Tedros told reporters at WHO headquarters. “It could be from lack of understanding of how [the International Health Regulations] work and [the] responsibilities of WHO and other entities,” he said of Rubio’s comments.
The exchange marks a further deterioration in relations between the WHO and its once-largest funder after the U.S. withdrew from the United Nations global health agency in January.
But it wasn't the only message the WHO had for its former member.
The agency also pushed back on the prospect of travel bans after the U.S. on Monday closed its border to non-U.S. travelers from the Democratic Republic of Congo, South Sudan and Uganda, in an attempt to prevent the deadly Bundibugyo virus from entering its territory.
https://www.politico.eu/article/who-marco-rubio-ebola-comments-congo-outbreak-travel-bans/
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A radioactive Garden of EdenAnimals thriving in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.
Hard to believe it's been 40 years.
https://www.sciencealert.com/animals-are-thriving-in-chornobyls-human-free-zone-study-finds
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The next generation of weight loss drugsEli Lilly
on Thursday said its next-generation drug cleared a crucial late-stage trial in patients with obesity, delivering significant weight loss across doses.
The results bring Lilly one step closer to filing for approval of the weekly injection, called retatrutide, which works differently from existing shots and pills from both Lilly and Novo Nordisk. It also appears to be more effective than those options.
The highest dose of retatrutide helped patients lose 28.3% of their weight — or 70.3 pounds — on average over 80 weeks, compared with 2.2% with placebo, when evaluating only patients who stayed on the drug.
Roughly 45% of the 2,500 patients in the Phase 3 trial achieved 30% or more weight loss, Lilly said.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/21/eli-lilly-weight-loss-drug-retatrutide-clears-obesity-trial.html
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Will the World Cup be a flop?Empty rooms and Fifa cancellations - US hotels fear World Cup washout
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The truth about Trump's sanityFrom someone who has known him for decades.
https://time.com/article/2026/05/20/the-truth-about-donald-trump-s-sanity/
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Converting old oil and gas wellsAs states seek out much-needed supplies of clean, reliable energy, some are looking to an unconventional source: abandoned oil and gas wells harnessed for geothermal heat.
Millions of inactive wells are littered across the United States, the relics of earlier eras of fossil fuel production. A large number of the sites have no official owner, and many are still polluting groundwater and leaking heat-trapping methane. The country has barely scratched the surface in dealing with this problem.
Policymakers in both Republican- and Democratic-led states are exploring whether these sites could instead be converted into new wells for producing geothermal energy. The holes are already drilled in the ground, after all. And regions with widespread oil and gas development have rich subsurface data that geothermal firms need in order to determine where and how to build their carbon-free systems.
The concept is relatively new and largely untested, though scientists and startups are working to change that. States are also laying the groundwork for action by lifting regulatory hurdles and launching in-depth studies
.https://www.wired.com/story/oil-wells-second-life-clean-energy/
