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1:49 PM on Tuesday, May 19

The Cannes Film Festival is not a place that’s conducive to taking your time

12:33 PM on Tuesday, May 19

An Iranian family that’s lived in the United States for a decade is demanding their release from immigration detention after they were arrested due to a relative’s role in the 1979 U.S. Embassy hostage crisis

11:38 AM on Tuesday, May 19

Victor Wembanyama is not going to get any shorter before Game 2 of the Western Conference finals

11:08 AM on Tuesday, May 19

Two-time Wimbledon champion Carlos Alcaraz has pulled out of the grass-court Grand Slam event next month because of his lingering wrist injury

10:58 AM on Tuesday, May 19

Police in the UK are investigating two allegations of decades-old child sex abuse linked to Jeffrey Epstein

10:48 AM on Tuesday, May 19

The bond market is making noise again

10:27 AM on Tuesday, May 19

Chicago Sky forward Rickea Jackson has torn the ACL in her left knee

9:41 AM on Tuesday, May 19

A bomb outside a Defense Ministry building in the Syrian capital has killed one soldier and wounded about a dozen other people

9:18 AM on Tuesday, May 19

British police plan to ask prosecutors to consider charging 57 people and 20 organizations over the 2017 Grenfell Tower fire in London

9:05 AM on Tuesday, May 19

Both the old best and worst case future scenarios in the fight against climate change are being jettisoned by the world’s top scientists as they prepare the next series of huge United Nations reports

8:57 AM on Tuesday, May 19

The United Nations is reviewing Israel's plan to turn a former U.N. agency headquarters in east Jerusalem into a military complex

8:10 AM on Tuesday, May 19

Authorities say a NATO fighter jet shot down a Ukrainian drone over southern Estonia

6:35 AM on Tuesday, May 19

Channel 4 has pulled all episodes of “Married at First Sight UK” after three contestants claimed they were sexually assaulted by on-screen partners

5:58 AM on Tuesday, May 19

In two years, Ivory Coast teenager Yan Diomande has gone from playing at a Florida high school to facing the likes of Real Madrid, Barcelona and Bayern Munich

3:15 AM on Tuesday, May 19

Divers have recovered the bodies of two Italian divers from an underwater cave in the Maldives

1:06 AM on Tuesday, May 19

Hungary's new prime minister, Péter Magyar, is visiting Poland, a traditional ally that can offer plenty of lessons on political transformation and restoring democratic norms

9:02 PM on Monday, May 18

Russian President Vladimir Putin has arrived in China for meetings with Chinese leader Xi Jinping

8:35 PM on Monday, May 18

The Cannes Film Festival can function like a global water cooler for movies, with prevailing issues and anxieties of the industry tending to surface at the event

11:27 AM on Sunday, May 17

Aaron Rai has become the first English-born player in more than a century to capture the PGA Championship

1:06 AM on Friday, May 15

Millions of Palestinians are marking the 78th anniversary of the Nakba