Rudy Giuliani gets booed at Yankee Stadium on his birthday  —  Yankee fans gave Rudy Giuliani the Giancarlo Stanton treatment.  —  The former New York City mayor was at The Stadium to celebrate his 74th birthday on Memorial Day, with the PA announcer sharing the news with the crowd and wishing him a happy birthday.

Ivanka Trump Wins China Trademarks, Then Her Father Vows to Save ZTE  —  BEIJING — China this month awarded Ivanka Trump seven new trademarks across a broad collection of businesses, including books, housewares and cushions.  —  At around the same time, President Trump vowed to find …

The Latest: Trump panned for ‘tone-deaf’ Memorial Day tweet  —  The Latest on President Donald Trump honoring veterans on Memorial Day (all times local):  —  President Donald Trump is being criticized for his self-congratulatory tone in a Memorial Day tweet in which he said …

Hero climbs up outside of Paris building to save child dangling from balcony  —  Man shown scaling four floors within a few seconds to help a boy hanging in mid-air  —  Lava from Hawaii volcano covers potentially explosive well  —  Bale ready to quit Real, but are United, or anyone, ready to sign him?

Anger Spreads as Syria Leads Global Disarmament Body  —  GENEVA — The Syrian government of Bashar al-Assad has been accused of using chemical weapons, barrel bombs and torture against its own people during a seven-year civil war.  —  On Monday, it took up the rotating presidency of the United Nations-backed Conference on Disarmament.

Black Defendants Get Longer Sentences From Republican-Appointed Judges, Study Finds  —  WASHINGTON — Judges appointed by Republican presidents gave longer sentences to black defendants and shorter ones to women than judges appointed by Democrats, according to a new study that analyzed data on more than half a million defendants.

UK: You're Not Allowed to Talk about It.  About What?  Don't Ask.  — “I am in a country that is not free... I feel jealous as hell of you guys in America.  You don't know how lucky you are.”  — Carl Benjamin (aka Sargon of Akkad), YouTuber with around a million subscribers.

NFL should play ‘Negro National Anthem’ to make amends for no-kneeling policy  —  Now that the patriot police have turned what was a peaceful protest about police brutality and social injustice into a flag-waving, jingoistic shame fest, the NFL can make amends with the black players it has insulted …

Trump Pulls Conspiracy Theories From the Fringes to the Oval Office  —  WASHINGTON — As a candidate, Donald J. Trump claimed that the United States government had known in advance about the Sept. 11 attacks.  He hinted that Antonin Scalia, a Supreme Court justice who died in his sleep two years ago, had been murdered.

Trump may be the worst presidential dealmaker in modern history  —  When May began, President Trump was presiding over diplomatic negotiations that could have delivered twin triumphs for his administration.  Now, on Memorial Day, he's reaping the wreckage of talks about Iran, and the North Korea process is in limbo.

Democrats Are Running a Smart, Populist Campaign  —  Stacey Abrams and Conor Lamb are supposed to represent opposite poles of the Trump-era Democratic Party.  She is the new progressive heroine — the first black woman to win a major-party nomination for governor, who will need a surge of liberal turnout to win Georgia.

Media Double Down After New York Times Gets Busted Peddling Fake News  —  On the path to the June 12 summit with North Korea, journalists claimed President Donald Trump would not be willing to walk away from the negotiating table because he was too desperate for a win.

A pilot kidnapped a foreign student and tried to deport him back to China, police say  —  California police say they thwarted a vigilante deportation attempt last week - in which a pilot allegedly kidnapped a foreign student, took him to an airport and tried to send him “back to China.”

Donald Trump Jr: revered by the right, and building his own political base  —  Trump Jr's fanbase sees him as an authentic political figure, but many conservatives are waiting for the next shoe to drop  —  Donald Trump Jr is a man under pressure, but also in fierce demand.

Maryland police officer's death ignites a racial firestorm  —  BALTIMORE - It's hard to think of a more volatile mix: Four young black males from Baltimore City, accused in the death of a white female police officer in Baltimore County.  Authorities say three of the teenagers were breaking …

Here's How the FBI Investigation Into Russia and Trump Campaign Actually Started  —  No story is hotter across America this Memorial Day weekend than what the Federal Bureau of Investigation did—and did not do—in 2016 about Russian connections to Donald J. Trump.

Knives are too sharp and filing them down is solution to soaring violent crime, judge says  —  A judge has proposed a nationwide programme to file down the points of kitchen knives as a solution to the country's soaring knife crime epidemic.  —  Last week in his valedictory address …

What Drove a Man to Set Himself on Fire in Brooklyn?  —  Sometime before dawn on April 14, David Buckel left his small brick house on the edge of Prospect Park in Brooklyn, pulling a shopping cart.  He passed the magnolia tree in the garden, the stone sculptures he had made.

In Britain, Austerity Is Changing Everything  —  After eight years of budget cutting, Britain is looking less like the rest of Europe and more like the United States, with a shrinking welfare state and spreading poverty.  —  PRESCOT, England — A walk through this modest town in the northwest …

Massive flooding in Ellicott City leaves man missing, again destroys businesses  —  It was supposed to be a routine late-Sunday lunch over Mexican food.  But the rainstorm outside morphed into a relentless downpour, fueling what soon became a river that flooded buildings and dislodged parked cars along Main Street in Ellicott City.

EU proposes to ban plastic straws, stirs, and cotton buds  —  BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union has proposed banning plastic products like cotton buds, straws, stirs and balloon sticks when alternatives are easily available in an attempt to reduce litter spoiling beaches and ocean beds.