May 5 brings primaries in Ohio that will solidify competitive races for the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House, a special election in Michigan that will determine whether Democrats maintain a majority in the state Senate for the final months of the year, and primaries in Indiana where President Donald Trump has backed seven challengers to sitting Republican state senators who opposed his redistricting efforts.
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A New York City gallery has transformed 3.5 million Epstein files into nearly 3,500 printed volumes — creating what organizers call the “Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Reading Room” in Manhattan’s Tribeca neighborhood.
Workers on New York’s Long Island Rail Road are on strike, union officials said early Saturday, paralyzing the busiest commuter rail system in North America.
Labor unions representing about half the system’s workers announced the walkout after negotiations with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority ended Friday without a new contract. The five unions, which represent about half the system’s 7,000 workers, including locomotive engineers, machinists and signalmen, are legally allowed to go on strike at 12:01 a.m. Saturday.
Kevin Sexton of the National Vice President of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen said no new negotiations have been scheduled.
The strike will force the roughly 250,000 people who ride the system each weekday to find alternative routes into New York City from its Long Island suburbs or to work from home. That means more cars on traffic-choked highways and longer work commutes.
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Residents in Havana banged pots and pans overnight Thursday into Friday as prolonged power outages and fuel shortages deepened frustrations across Cuba.
One person was killed in the latest attack on Ukraine's southeastern region of Zaporizhzhia on Friday, according to State Emergency Service of Ukraine. A massive fire broke out as a result of the attack, damaging and burning several vehicles. At least three people were also reported injured following the strike, according to authorities.
Neon chief and co-founder Tom Quinn has watched the last six Palme d’Or ceremonies from the same spot: gathered with colleagues around a laptop on the breakfast tables at his Cannes hotel.
“I think we upgraded a couple years ago and connected the computer to a TV,” Quinn says. “I wouldn’t want to do it any different.”
Quinn has good reason to keep any good luck charm. In all six of those awards ceremonies, Neon has won the Palme, the prestigious top honor of the Cannes Film Festival. It’s an unparalleled streak for one of the most sought-after prizes in movies, second only to the best picture Oscar. No other studio has ever come close to anything like it.
“No one ever believes it, but we’ve never gone to Cannes thinking we were going to win the Palme d’Or,” Quinn says. “It’s been a surprise every single year.”
This year, Neon is backing more than a quarter of the 22 films in competition for the Palme. Its odds of making it seven in a row are good. Some of the most hotly anticipated titles — including Japanese filmmaker Ryusuke Hamaguchi's “All of a Sudden,” Korean auteur Na Hong-jin's “Hope” and James Gray’s “Paper Tiger” — are Neon’s.
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Out of 535 voting members of congress, 68 incumbents will not return to their seats next term. This is the highest number at this point in the calendar since President Barack Obama’s administration, according to an Associated Press analysis of congressional turnover going back to 2013.
Some are seeking other offices, while others are retiring after decades of service. A few members are departing instead of running in unfamiliar districts after their state’s leaders redrew the boundaries during an unusual flurry of redistricting.
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A small medical plane crashed in a mountain range outside Ruidoso, New Mexico, before dawn Thursday, killing all four people aboard and sparking a wildfire in the surrounding forest, officials said.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang was spotted trying some of Beijing’s delicacies. He was seen at No. 69 Fangzhuanchang Noodles, tucking into a bowl of “zhajiangmian” — a Beijing specialty that features noodles covered in a thick soybean-paste sauce mixed with vegetables and meat.
