For years, younger Americans have been more optimistic about the job market than older Americans, even through the depths of the Great Recession. But in an abrupt shift, a new poll released Monday finds young people’s confidence has plummeted over the past two years — while their elders remain more upbeat.

Sunset on the hill, taken with iPhone Xs.

Violent crime fell sharply across the largest U.S. cities in early 2026, extending a nationwide decline that began after the pandemic-era crime spike.

A suicide bomber and several gunmen detonated an explosives-laden vehicle near the post in Bannu, a district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province bordering Afghanistan, late Saturday, said senior police official Sajjad Khan.

The accusation was made by designer Ana Maria Restrepo Gutierrez, founder of the brand, who stated that in 2025, she had been contacted to develop embroidered napkins for the gala. According to the company, they spent several months working on samples and handcrafted details inspired by the event’s concept, but they never received payment or signed a formal contract.

A new report by Human Rights Watch argues that the compulsory use of Chinese as the primary language in schools in Tibet raises “serious concerns under international human rights law”.

from +972’s Sunday Recap 972 Magazine [published in Israel] May 10, 2026

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In December 2023, Israeli soldiers killed three Israeli captives in Gaza City’s Shujaiya neighbourhood despite them being shirtless, waving a white flag and posing no apparent threat.

cross-posted from : https://lemmy.zip/post/64118650

The National Transportation Safety Board on Sunday said it is gathering information about the evacuation of a Frontier Airlines plane after it hit and killed a person on the runway at Denver International Airport during takeoff.

Nobel Peace laureate and activist Narges Mohammadi has been transferred to a Tehran hospital more than a week after collapsing in prison, her foundation said Sunday.

A recent victory in a key state has put Narendra Modi at the helm of a country in which opponents hold almost no power.

A thousand little kingdoms and countries floating in the sky, impressively pink and blue!

“🥊🖕🖕🥊”

What if we stopped fantasizing about AI and focused on the truth? Thanks for sharing this piece so others can read it.

US authorities are investigating the cause of a suspected explosion aboard a boat that injured 11 people in Miami, southern Florida. Miami-Dade Fire Rescue Battalion Chief Juan Arias told reporters that emergency crews responded to reports of a “possible boat explosion” at Haulover Sandbar, a popular tourist location. Eleven people were taken to local hospitals to be treated for burns and traumatic injuries, Arias said. Officials have not revealed the cause of the explosion. The BBC has approached Miami-Dade Fire and Rescue for further details. “We saw three people fly out of the boat,” eyewitness and local boat charter Patrick Lee told the BBC’s US partner CBS News. “I just saw a lot of them with burns all over them, and I said that it’s a hot fire,” Lee added. “It is quick, but it’s high octane gasoline, and so a lot of them got burnt and it was an explosion.”

A fresh wave of attacks by jihadist fighters in central Mali killed dozens of people, local and security sources said Saturday. Friday’s attacks were claimed by the al Qaeda-linked Group for the Support of Islam and Muslims (JNIM), who had already killed at least 30 people in attacks on villages on Wednesday. One local official said the latest attacks by the armed groups had brought the toll to more than 70 in recent days. Another local official put the death toll at 80. “Our hearts are bleeding,” one local youth leader said, accusing nearby army detachments of doing nothing to help, despite multiple calls.

A bulk carrier caught fire on Sunday after being struck by an unknown projectile off the coast of Qatar, the British military has said. The UK Maritime Trade Operations Centre (UKMTO) reported a small fire on board the vessel, which was subsequently extinguished, with no casualties. The incident occurred 23 nautical miles (43 kilometres) northeast of Qatar’s capital, Doha. This attack marks the latest in a series of incidents targeting vessels in the Persian Gulf, following a fragile ceasefire between the United States and Iran. Just last Friday, the US struck two Iranian oil tankers, alleging they were attempting to breach its blockade of Iranian ports. In response, Iran’s Revolutionary Guard navy reiterated its warning on Sunday, stating that any assault on Iranian oil tankers or commercial vessels would be met with a “heavy assault” on US bases in the region or enemy ships.

Interim Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa has announced a series of government changes, including replacing his brother as head of the presidential office, the state news agency SANA reports. Al-Sharaa appointed former Homs Governor Abdul Rahman Badreddine al-Aama as secretary-general for the presidency. This appeared to be a response to accusations of nepotism, with the post previously held by al-Sharaa’s brother Maher.

The first passengers evacuated from a hantavirus-stricken cruise ship docked near Spain’s Canary Islands have been flown home. Fourteen Spanish nationals on the chartered flight from Tenerife face mandatory quarantine at a military hospital in the capital, Madrid. They were followed by French nationals taken to Paris and Britons taken to Manchester. Staff involved in the operation in Tenerife pulled white hazmat suits over the evacuees’ clothes and hosed them down on the airport tarmac. Three people have died in the outbreak on the Dutch vessel MV Hondius, including two who were confirmed to have had hantavirus. Flights for Turkish, Irish and US citizens are also planned for Sunday, with other countries also preparing repatriation flights. Spain’s Health Minister Mónica García said the operation was “proceeding normally” and that all passengers aboard the MV Hondius were asymptomatic.

My first attempt at film photography 🙂 Still learning, but I’m really happy with these.

Both Ubuntu and Fedora have made it official: support is coming soon for running local generative AI instances.

Blog post of how we accidentally recreated old facebook by adding a feed to our existing product

10 May 2026

“There are some secret form factors that I cannot tell you about,” the Qualcomm CEO said in an interview with Fortune Editor in Chief Alyson Shontell on the Titans and Disruptors of Industry podcast. “But I think we’re working with pretty much all of them.”

Spanning about 71.5 sq m, a flat-packed house will arrive move-in ready, complete with a bedroom, kitchen, independent bathroom – and even preinstalled windows.

Developers working for Google have significantly misstated how much carbon two proposed AI datacentres will contribute to the UK’s total emissions in planning documents reviewed by the Guardian.

The New York congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez answered a question about potentially running for higher office in 2028 by declaring: “My ambition is to change the country.”

A dispute about a ship full of stolen grain has lifted the veil on a geopolitical reality that has persisted for years but is rarely mentioned in western capitals or noticed by western media: the curiously friendly relationship between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Russian President Vladimir Putin.