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May 2015

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May 29th
- U.S. economy shrank by 0.7 percent in first quarter
- Volcano eruption forces residents of tiny Japanese island to evacuate
May 27th
- Nebraska lawmakers override governor's veto, abolish death penalty
- World hunger is down by 200 million since 1990
- Loretta Lynch: Indicted FIFA officials 'corrupted the business of worldwide soccer'
- Lawyers can no longer bring food to Guantanamo Bay prisoners
- Israel launches its first airstrikes in the Gaza Strip since cease-fire
May 26th
- Cleveland officials, DOJ announce settlement restricting police use of force
- Malaysia Airlines announces plans to lay off a third of its workers
- Hundreds of people have died in India's heat wave
May 25th
- Iraq, Iran reject Defense Secretary Carter's claim that Iraqi forces 'showed no will to fight' ISIS
- Charter Communications is reportedly nearing a $55 billion deal to buy Time Warner Cable
- Bomb squad destroys pressure cooker in car near Capitol
- Ex-Israeli Premier Ehud Olmert sentenced to 8 months in prison
- Malaysia finds mass graves of suspected migrants
May 24th
- Cleveland police arrest 71 following cop's acquittal
- A Beautiful Mind mathematician John Nash killed in car crash
May 23rd
- Ireland becomes first country to legalize same-sex marriage by popular vote
- Cleveland police officer Michael Brelo acquitted in fatal 2012 shooting of two unarmed suspects
May 22nd
- Construction workers discover a live WWII bomb at a London stadium
- TLC pulls 19 Kids and Counting following molestation controversy
- Eiffel Tower closes during workers' protest
- Michael Sam signs deal with CFL's Montreal Alouettes
- Suicide attack reportedly kills 30 at Shiite mosque in Saudi Arabia
- Police say D.C. quadruple-murder suspect Daron Wint in custody
May 21st
- U.S., Cuba close in on restoring diplomatic relations
May 20th
- Waco police recover 1,000 weapons from biker brawl — including AK-47
- 5 banks to pay $5.4 billion in fines after pleading guilty to manipulating foreign currencies
May 19th
- Los Angeles votes to raise minimum wage to $15
- U.S. indicts 6 Chinese citizens for espionage
- Tennessee now has one of the longest abortion waiting periods in America
- Police arrest seven after $300 million London jewel heist
- State Department to release Hillary Clinton's emails in January 2016
May 17th
- NTSB dispels theory someone shot at derailed Amtrak train
May 16th
- U.S. Special Forces kill senior ISIS leader Abu Sayyaf
- Egyptian ex-president Mohamed Morsi sentenced to death
May 15th
- Jury sentences Tsarnaev to death for Boston Marathon bombing
- Sports Illustrated report: Bill Simmons will not appear again on any ESPN platform
- ISIS takes control of major Iraqi city of Ramadi
- Nepal says it has found missing U.S. military helicopter
May 14th
- Senate votes to begin debate on trade bill
- Eighth body pulled from wreckage of Amtrak crash, all 238 passengers accounted for
- Army chief: Burundi's coup attempt has failed
- As many as 20,000 migrants could be stranded in the Andaman Sea
May 13th
- Engineer of derailed Amtrak train identified
- House votes 338-88 to end NSA's bulk phone data collection
- Jury begins death-penalty deliberations in Tsarnaev trial
- Vatican recognizes Palestine as a state
- A Burundi army general is leading a coup against the president
- Amtrak train derails in Philadelphia, killing several passengers
May 12th
- 6.8-magnitude earthquake rattles Japan, no injuries reported
- No charges for Wisconsin cop who killed unarmed teenager
- Senate votes against advancing fast-track trade bill
- U.S. Marine helicopter goes missing in Nepal
- University of Virginia dean sues Rolling Stone over retracted rape story
- FDA recommends allowing gay men to donate blood
- Saudi-led airstrikes hit Yemen's capital hours before planned cease-fire
- 3 people shot near UC Santa Barbara, 1 suspect in custody
- Picasso's 'Women of Algiers' breaks auction record, selling for $179.3 million
May 11th
- Tom Brady gets a 4-game suspension for 'Deflategate'
- Ex-CIA official gets 42 months in prison for leaking secrets
- George Zimmerman shot, injured in road rage incident in Florida
- John Kerry, Vladimir Putin to hold talks in Russia
- New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo orders emergency measures to protect nail salon workers
May 10th
- Three arrests made after killing of Mississippi police
- Houthi rebels accept brief cease-fire in Yemen
May 9th
- North Korea claims it successfully launched submarine ballistic missile
- Study finds U.S. ranks worst in sports homophobia and discrimination
- WHO declares Liberia Ebola-free
May 8th
- Judge declares mistrial in Etan Patz murder case
- Nike promises 10,000 new jobs if U.S. approves trade deal
- ESPN parts ways with Bill Simmons
- Report: DOJ will investigate the Baltimore Police Department
May 7th
- Senate passes bill granting Congress oversight of Iran nuclear deal
- Appeals court rules NSA phone program illegal
- Exotic animals on the loose in Oklahoma after refuge hit by tornado
May 6th
- NFL's deflategate report: 'More probable than not' Patriots tampered with balls
- Baltimore mayor calls on DOJ to investigate police department
May 5th
- 7.4-magnitude quake hits Papua New Guinea
May 4th
- Carly Fiorina: 'Yes, I am running for president'
- 2 dead in Texas after shooting at police officer outside of controversial art show
May 3rd
- Italy rescues 3,690 migrants in the Mediterranean Sea
- Report: U.S.-led strikes in Syria have killed 52 civilians
May 2nd
- American Pharoah wins 141st Kentucky Derby
- Dave Goldberg, SurveyMonkey CEO and Sheryl Sandberg's husband, dies suddenly at 47
- North Korea reportedly arrests South Korean NYU student
May 1st
- Sexual assault in the U.S. military has decreased in the last 2 years
- China passes Mexico as the No. 1 source of U.S. immigrants
- Bill to overhaul Patriot Act receives bipartisan support

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