Unlock 25% off with top Groupon coupon codes, and explore deals on getaways, spa packages, memberships, and event tickets this May.https://www.wired.com/story/groupon-promo-code/
The American version of Temu abruptly began to show only “local” products days before the Trump administration was set to end a tariff loophole for small packages from China.https://www.wired.com/story/temu-local-warehouses-tariffs/
Meta’s contentious AI copyright battle is heating up—and the court may be close to a ruling.https://www.wired.com/story/meta-lawsuit-copyright-hearing-artificial-intelligence/
Hobbyist diver Dom Robinson jumped at the chance to purchase the S.S. "Almond Branch," a cargo ship that's been resting 190 feet beneath the surface of the English Channel since World War Ihttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/man-who-always-fancied-owning-a-shipwreck-buys-one-on-facebook-marketplace-for-400-180986537/
Researchers are working to unravel the hidden biology of often-persnickety seeds as they age, sleep and awakenhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/to-safeguard-threatened-plants-scientists-must-master-the-tricky-art-of-seed-banking-180986497/
The reclassification — AfD was previously designated a “suspected” extremist group — is likely to reignite debate over a political ban on the party.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/05/02/afd-germany-weidel-far-right/
The Freedom Flotilla Coalition said its vessel Conscience, carrying aid intended for Gaza, was hit by drones in waters off the coast of Malta.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/05/02/freedom-flotilla-conscience-drones-malta/
Cherry, grape and vine-ripened specialties are popular in the United States, but most of them will be subject to duties being slapped on tomatoes from Mexico.https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/05/01/tariffs-tomatoes-mexico-price/
The polls are the first broad test of voter sentiment since last summer’s general election victory by the Labour Party over the Conservatives.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/05/02/reform-uk-nigel-farage-labour-conservatives/
Since the beginning of the new administration, it seemed Russia’s needs and views of the war were being promoted by Trump officials, but the tone appears to be changing.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/05/02/russia-reaction-minerals-deal-ukraine-trump/
Barred from running for office until 2030 and facing the possibility of decades in prison, Brazil’s former president sketches out a comeback.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/05/02/jair-bolsonaro-trump-trial-brazil/
From sausage sizzles to “donkey votes,” Australian elections are never boring. This time around, there’s some added spice with President Donald Trump and his tariffs.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/05/02/australia-election-trump-tariffs/
100 days into his second term, President Donald Trump has seemingly lost interest in Gaza. Israeli air strikes resumed and the White House focus shifted to Iran.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/05/02/gaza-israel-trump-crisis-100-days/
A two-time winner of the Whitbread literary prize, she was perhaps best known for her 2004 novel “Old Filth,” about a retired English barrister.https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2025/05/01/jane-gardam-dead/
Colombia grows more coca, drug labs process more powder and smuggling vessels traverse oceans, alarming U.S. antidrug officials.https://www.wsj.com/world/americas/cocaine-colombia-industry-production-7f10201b
The beloved tree’s demise sent shock waves through the U.K. in 2023. The nation is still transfixed as two men accused of cutting it down stand trial.https://www.wsj.com/world/uk/sycamore-gap-tree-cut-down-criminal-investigation-9b52cf3a
Polymarket and Kalshi bettors seek to predict outcome of coming papal conclave.https://www.wsj.com/world/next-pope-polymarket-kalshi-bets-26bb4a4a
Israel’s Netanyahu said the strike was a warning to the Syrian government not to deploy troops to the south and to prevent violence against the Druze minority.https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/israeli-warplanes-strike-near-syrias-presidential-palace-966f3b78
Farage’s Reform UK is soaring in the polls—and doing better at the ballot box—as voters lose patience with slow economic growth and high immigration.https://www.wsj.com/world/uk/trump-with-a-pint-how-nigel-farage-is-upending-british-politics-ca0704bb
President Trump also designated May 8 as “Victory Day for World War II” to celebrate U.S. military victories.https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/trump-to-rename-veterans-day-in-tribute-to-world-war-i-victory-c1f7f6c9