A New York jury convicted former President Donald Trump on all 34 felony charges of falsifying business records related to a hush money payment. https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/31/cnbc-daily-open-trump-guilty-in-hush-money-trial.html
Residents described militia attacks on displaced people in the Sudanese city of El Fasher, amid warnings of a repeat of the brutal violence in Darfur two decades ago. https://www.wsj.com/articles/genocide-survivors-in-darfur-are-caught-in-another-brutal-battle-d729b143
Skydance Media submitted a sweetened bid for Paramount Global that Paramount directors are expected to review shortly. https://www.wsj.com/business/media/skydance-sweetens-merger-offer-for-paramount-31ff433c
Fox News host Jesse Watters unpacks former President Trump’s conviction on all 34 counts in his New York criminal trial and the politicization of the case Thursday on “Jesse Watters Primetime.” ‘ABSOLUTELY INSANE’: AMERICANS REACT TO TRUMP’S STUNNING CONVICTION IN NEW YORK TRIAL JESSE WATTERS: A Manhattan jury convicted Donald Trump of 34 felony counts.…
China’s capital city of Beijing is moving quickly in its plan for getting robotaxis running across town. https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/31/ponyai-chinas-capital-city-beijing-opens-a-robotaxi-route-to-a-train-station.html
An official gauge of China’s manufacturing activity unexpectedly slid into contraction in May, snapping a two-month run of growth as market demand shrank sharply. https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-manufacturing-activity-falls-unexpectedly-as-market-demand-shrinks-5535ad5a
South African media and research-group projections based on early results from national elections indicate the African National Congress will lose its absolute majority. https://www.wsj.com/world/africa/early-vote-count-in-south-africa-points-to-historic-rebuke-for-mandelas-party-ebc45bf3
Enough guests have complained about QR codes and scanning for food options that many restaurants are reverting back to printed menus. https://www.wsj.com/articles/restaurant-menus-qr-codes-33f777c8
Five people, including a 4-year-old, were killed during a fiery three-vehicle crash near the southern South Carolina coast, authorities said Thursday. The South Carolina Highway Patrol said a BMW was traveling south Wednesday night on a road on St. Helena Island when the driver tried to pass a Toyota pickup also traveling south. The BMW…
Three-time World Series champion Darryl Strawberry suffered a massive heart attack in March. He said his heart rate was at 40 percent at the time of his hospitalization. Strawberry credited his wife Tracy for encouraging him to go to the emergency room after he experienced some chest pains. “You just never know, if it wasn’t…