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FILE - In this April 19, 2021, file image from video, defense attorney Eric Nelson, left, and defendant, former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, speak to Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill after the judge has put the trial into the hands of the jury' in the trial of Chauvin, in the May 25, 2020, death of George Floyd at the Hennepin County Courthouse in Minneapolis, Minn. In a ruling May 12, 2021, Judge Cahill finds aggravating factors in death of George Floyd, paving way for tougher sentence for Chauvin.(Court TV via AP, Pool File)

Ruling paves way for longer sentence in George Floyd's death

Mississippi River bridge at Memphis closed to fix crack
Transportation officers and police block an Interstate 40 onramp to the bridge over the Mississippi River near downtown Memphis, Tenn., on Tuesday, May 11, 2021. The Arkansas Department of Transportation tweeted on Tuesday that it found a crack during a routine inspection of the bridge. (AP Photo/Adrian Sainz)
88-year-old artist finishes year of pandemic 'daily doodles'
Artist Robert Seaman holds up the 365th daily doodle sketch in his room at an assisted living facility Monday, May 10, 2021, in Westmoreland, N.H. Seaman, who moved into the facility weeks before the COVID-19 pandemic shutdown his outside world in 2020, recently completed his 365th daily sketch, or what he calls his
Stocks open lower, bond yields rise after inflation report
A man wearing a protective mask stands in front of an electronic stock board showing Japan's Nikkei 225 index at a securities firm Wednesday, May 12, 2021, in Tokyo. Asian stock markets retreated Wednesday as investors looked ahead to U.S. data they worry will show inflation is picking up. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
Consumer prices shot up 0.8% in April as worries escalate
Groceries are shown at a checkout counter, Friday, April 16, 2021, at a grocery store in Surfside, Fla. U.S. consumer prices surge 0.8% in April, pushing the rise in inflation over the past year to the fastest rate in more than a decade, an acceleration that has stirred worries about rising inflation. The Labor Department reported Wednesday, May 12, that the price consumers pay for their purchases of everything from food and clothes to new cars rose at a faster pace than last month's 0.6% rise. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
Jay-Z, Foo Fighters and Go-Go's in Rock Hall on first try
This combination photo shows, from left, Dave Grohl of the band Foo Fighters, Jay-Z and the Go-Go's. Foo Fighters, Jay-Z and the Go-Go's will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, along with Tina Turner, Carole King and Todd Rundgren. The ceremony, to be held at the Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse in Cleveland, will be simulcast on SiriusXM and air later on HBO. (AP Photo)
The U.S. Embassy and the National flag are seen in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, May 11, 2021. Under Kremlin orders, the U.S. Embassy has stopped employing Russians, leaving Russian businessmen, lovers and exchange students adrift because they can't get visas and American parents unable to register their newborns as citizens. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Kremlin-imposed cuts at US Embassy leave thousands adrift

This June 2020 selfie photo shows Bill Mathis of Romeo, Mich., in one of the rooms where he taught high school English. It was his dream job, the one he referenced in a childhood journal he still keeps:

Public service in the US: Increasingly thankless, exhausting

FILE - In this April 21, 2021, file photo, visitors attend the Shanghai Auto Show in Shanghai. The United Nations has responded to the rebounding Chinese and U.S. economies by revising its global economic forecast upward to 5.4% for 2021. But it warned that surging COVID-19 cases and inadequate availability of vaccines in many countries threaten a broad-based recovery. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

UN raises global economic forecast to 5.4% growth in 2021

Dr. Katarzyna Ferry, left, looks over at dog named Wendy who is being treated for a flare-up of Addison's disease, Monday, April 12, 2021, at the Veterinary Specialty Hospital of Palm Beach Gardens in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. Forced to stay at home due to the pandemic, Americans adopted nearly 12 million pets last year meaning the average vet clinic saw nearly 400 new patients last year. Veterinarian offices across the country are experiencing unprecedented demand, adding extra staff and extending hours to fill in the gaps.

COVID-19 pet boom has veterinarians backlogged, burned out

FILE - In this March 30, 2021, file photo, young unaccompanied migrants, watch television inside a playpen at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection facility, the main detention center for unaccompanied children in the Rio Grande Valley, in Donna, Texas. The number of unaccompanied children encountered on the U.S. border with Mexico in April 2021 eased from an all-time high a month earlier, while more adults were found coming without families, authorities said Tuesday., May 11, 2021. Authorities encountered 17,171 children traveling alone, down 9% from 18,960 in March, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, but still well above the previous high of 11,475 reported in May 2019 by the Border Patrol, which began publishing numbers in 2009. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills, Pool, File)

Number of children traveling alone at border eases in April

FILE - This combo of booking photos provided by the Glynn County, Ga., Detention Center, shows from left, Travis McMichael, his father Gregory McMichael, and William

Judge asked to OK evidence of Ahmaud Arbery's past troubles

Europe

FILE - In this Friday, March 26, 2021 file photo, a person walks past a temporarily closed clothes shop on Regent Street in central London, where non-essential shops are closed during England's third coronavirus lockdown. The British economy contracted by 1.5% in the first quarter of 2021, a relatively modest contraction given that the country was in the midst of a strict lockdown to combat a second wave of the coronavirus. The Office for National Statistics also said Wednesday May 12, 2021, that the economy even managed to grow by 2.1% in March when the country began easing some restrictions. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File)

UK economy showed resilience ahead of big lockdown easing

Slovakia plans to keeping using AstraZeneca despite pause
UK's Johnson urged to bring forward inquiry into pandemic
Germany maps path to reaching 'net zero' emissions by 2045
Danes mull new probe of 1990 ferry fire that killed 159
Amazon wins EU court fight over $300 million tax ruling
French court orders trial in 2009 crash of Rio-Paris flight
UK government plan to toughen voter ID rules draws criticism
Germany eases travel rules for vaccinated as vacations loom

Middle East

An Israeli soldier stands guard next to an Iron Dome air defense system as smoke rises from an oil tank on fire after it was hit by a rocket fired from Gaza Strip, near the town of Ashkelon, Israel, Wednesday, May 12, 2021. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

The Latest: Hamas confirms Israel killed senior commander

Escalating Mideast violence bears hallmarks of 2014 Gaza war
FM says Iran ready for closer ties with rival Saudi Arabia
Hard-liner Ahmadinejad again seeks to be Iran's president
Israel, Hamas escalate heavy fighting with no end in sight
The Latest: UN Security Council calls 2nd emergency meeting
Turkish FM in Saudi Arabia to mend ties amid regional shifts
Youngest Dubai DJ scratches her way to fame in world contest
Registration opens for hopefuls in Iran's presidential vote

Asia

In this photo released by Department of Corrections, COVID-19 prisoners sit inside a field hospital set up at Medical Correctional Institution to treat COVID-19 inmates, in Bangkok, Thailand, on May 8, 2021. Almost 3,000 inmates incarcerated at two prisons in Thailand's capital Bangkok have tested positive for COVID-19, the Corrections Department said Wednesday, May 12, 2021 as the Southeast Asian nation battles a virulent third wave of the coronavirus. (Department of Corrections, Thailand via AP)

COVID-19 infections surge among prisoners in Bangkok

Chris Tang, commissioner of the Hong Kong Police Force, speaks during a press conference in Hong Kong, Wednesday, May 12, 2021. A top Hong Kong national security officer was reportedly caught up in a raid on an unlicensed massage business, and will face a police force investigation into the alleged misconduct. Hong Kong's Director of National Security Frederic Choi has since been put on leave after the incident, according to Tang. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

Top Hong Kong national security officer under investigation

Children play with water toys at a public square in Aksu in western China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, Tuesday, April 20, 2021. Xinjiang in far western China had the sharpest known decline in birthrates between 2017 and 2019 of any territory in recent history, according to a new analysis by an Australian think tank. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Drop in Xinjiang birthrate largest in recent history: report

FILE - In this Sept. 8, 2020, file photo, former Nissan Motor Co.'s executive Greg Kelly speaks during an interview in Tokyo. Kelly, on trial in Japan on charges related to former Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn's compensation, asserted his innocence Wednesday, May 12, 2021, testifying he had always acted legally and in the

American tells Japan court he worked for Nissan's interests

FILE - In this Feb. 24, 2021, file photo, people walk past posters to promote the Olympic Games scheduled to start in the summer in Tokyo. Frustration is mounting over Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga's request that people cooperate while he pushes to hold the Olympics in just over two months. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara, File)

Frustration in Japan as leader pushes Olympics despite virus

FILE - In this Nov. 9, 2020, file photo, people walk by a SoftBank shop in Tokyo. Japanese technology conglomerate SoftBank Group Corp. returned to profitability for the fiscal year that ended in March, boosted by the strong performance of its sprawling investments as stock prices surged, reported Wednesday, May 12, 2021. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara, File)

Japan's SoftBank returns to profit on global stock boom

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Science

Scientists race to study variants in India as cases explode
FILE - In this April 12, 2021, file photo, health worker collects nasal swab samples at a COVID-19 testing center in Hyderabad, India. The World Health Organization said Monday, May 10, that a worrisome variant was first detected in India may spread more easily. Scientists are still trying to figure out if it resulted in the terrifying surge of infections in the nation, and looking to see if this could this happen elsewhere. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A., File)
Beyond vaccines, UNESCO wants more global science shared
FILE - In this Nov.4, 2017 file photo, the logo of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) is seen during the 39th session of the General Conference at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris. While the U.S. president is calling for suspending patents on COVID-19 vaccines, experts at UNESCO are quietly working on a more ambitious plan: a new global system for sharing scientific knowledge that would outlast the current pandemic. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena, File)
The Latest: N Korea again claims no coronavirus infections
In this Saturday, April 24, 2021, photo, a clothing shop clerk wearing a protective mask waits for customers at the Ramadan bazaar in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin announced Monday that the whole country will be placed under a near lockdown for about a month but all economic sectors will be allowed to operate. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)
NASA spacecraft begins 2-year trip home with asteroid rubble
FILE - This illustration provided by NASA depicts the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft at the asteroid Bennu. On Monday, May 10, 2021, the robotic explorer fired its engines, headed back to Earth with samples it collected from the asteroid, nearly 200 million miles away. (Conceptual Image Lab/Goddard Space Flight Center/NASA via AP)
New White House panel aims to separate science, politics
FILE - In this Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2019, file photo, President Donald Trump talks with reporters after receiving a briefing on Hurricane Dorian in the Oval Office of the White House, in Washington. A new 46-person federal scientific integrity task force with members from dozens of government agencies will meet for the first time Friday, May 14, 2021. During Sharpiegate, NOAA reprimanded some meteorologists for tweeting that Alabama was not threatened by the hurricane, contradicting the president, who said Alabama was in danger. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
China defends handling of rocket that fell to Earth
FILE - In this April 29, 2021, file photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, a Long March 5B rocket carrying a module for a Chinese space station lifts off from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in Wenchang in southern China's Hainan Province. China's government defended its handling of a rocket booster that burned up over the Indian Ocean and said Monday, May 10, 2021 it was unfairly being held to different standards than the U.S. and other space programs. (Ju Zhenhua/Xinhua via AP, File)

Technology

Amazon wins EU court fight over $300 million tax ruling
FILE - In this Feb. 19, 2013 file photo, the internet trader Amazon logo is seen behind barbed wire at the company's logistic center in Rheinberg, Germany. A European Union court annulled Wednesday, May 12, 2021 a ruling by the European Commission that a tax deal between the Luxembourg government and Amazon amounted to illegal state support. The Commission's decision related to Luxembourg's tax treatment of two companies in the Amazon group, Amazon EU and Amazon Europe Holding Technologies. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, File)
Army of fake fans boosts China's messaging on Twitter
(AP Illustration/Peter Hamlin)
Emergency program to give people $50 off internet bill
FILE - In this Friday June 5, 2020, file photo, fourth-grader Sammiayah Thompson, left, and her brother, third-grader Nehemiah Thompson, work outside in their yard on laptops provided by their school system for distant learning in Hartford, Conn. Americans can begin applying for $50 off their internet bill on Wednesday, May 12, 2021, as part of an emergency government program to keep people connected during the pandemic. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill, File)
Gas stations report shortages as pipeline shutdown drags on
A customer helps pumping gas at Costco, as other wait in line, on Tuesday, May 11, 2021, in Charlotte, N.C. Colonial Pipeline, which delivers about 45% of the fuel consumed on the East Coast, halted operations last week after revealing a cyberattack that it said had affected some of its systems. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)
Ransomware gang threatens release of DC police records
FILE - In this April 2, 2021, file photo, Washington Metropolitan Police Department chief Robert Contee speaks during a news conference in Washington. Political hand-wringing in Washington over Russia's hacking of federal agencies and meddling in U.S. politics has mostly overshadowed a worsening digital scourge with a far broader wallop: crippling and dispiriting extortionary ransomware attacks by cybercriminal mafias. All the while, ransomware gangsters have become more brazen and cocky as they put more and more lives and livelihoods at risk. This week, one syndicate threatened to make available to local criminal gangs data they say they stole from the Washington, D.C., metro police on informants. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
German watchdog bans Facebook from processing WhatsApp data
FILE - This Friday, March 10, 2017 file photo shows the WhatsApp communications app on a smartphone, in New York. A German privacy regulator banned Facebook on Tuesday May 11, 2021, from gathering data on WhatsApp users, citing an update to its privacy policy that breaches stringent European data protection rules by allowing access to a lot more information on the chat app's users. (AP Photo/Patrick Sison, File)