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Budd will face off against Beasley in North Carolina Senate contest, per AP race calls

Deepa Shivaram

Rep. Ted Budd, who has former President Donald Trump's endorsement, easily won the North Carolina GOP Senate primary, the AP reports. He will face Democrat Cheri Beasley in November.

NPR's Petra Mayer receives posthumous science fiction award

Elizabeth Blair

NPR Books Editor Petra Mayer posthumously receives the Kate Wilhelm Solstice Award from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.

Jillian Hanesworth, the poet laureate of Buffalo.

Buffalo's poet laureate calls for change

Raquel Maria Dillon

Jillian Hanesworth says what her city needs right now is honest conversations about systemic racism, the history of segregation, redlining and highway construction that hurt Black neighborhoods.

Netflix is laying off 150 employees to rein in costs amid slowing revenue growth disclosed during the streaming giant's first-quarter earnings call.

Netflix lays off 150 employees amid subscriber decline

Amina Kilpatrick

The layoffs are the latest signal of a major shift within the streaming giant as it recently reported a decline in subscribers for the first time in a decade, as well as slowing revenue growth.

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks via video during the opening ceremony for the 75th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France, on Tuesday.

Russia-Ukraine war: What happened today (May 17)

NPR Staff

A roundup of key developments and the latest in-depth coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Traffic on a hazy evening in Fresno, Calif. A new study estimates that about 50,000 lives could be saved each year if the U.S. eliminated small particles of pollution that are released from the tailpipes of cars and trucks, among other sources.

Eliminating fossil fuel air pollution would save about 50,000 lives, study finds

Rebecca Hersher

Burning oil, coal and other fossil fuels releases plumes of tiny, dangerous particles. A new study estimates that eliminating that pollution would save about 50,000 lives in the U.S. each year.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks via video during the opening of the Cannes film festival on Tuesday.

Zelenskyy urges Cannes filmmakers not to be silent

Elizabeth Blair

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy gave an impassioned speech via video at the Cannes film festival. He asked them to emulate Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator in which he mocked Hitler.

Actors Amber Heard and Johnny Depp watch the jury arrive in the courtroom at the Fairfax County Circuit Court in Fairfax, Va. on Tuesday.

Amber Heard is cross-examined about fights with Johnny Depp

The Associated Press

Johnny Depp's lawyers question the truthfulness of Amber Heard's accusation that Depp sexually assaulted her with a liquor bottle.

Authorities said David Chou, the gunman in Sunday's deadly attack at a Southern California church, was a Chinese immigrant motivated by hate for Taiwanese people.

Suspect faces multiple charges in a deadly California church shooting

The Associated Press

David Chou, the man accused of opening fire Sunday on a Taiwanese church congregation in California, was charged Tuesday with first-degree murder and five counts of attempted murder.

Dinesh D'Souza, seen here at a premiere of one of his films in 2018, has released a new film alleging voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election. Fact checkers have cast doubt on many of the film's claims.

A pro-Trump film suggests its data are so accurate, it solved a murder. That's false

Tom Dreisbach

Conservative commentator Dinesh D'Souza's new film "2,000 Mules" alleges massive voter fraud in the 2020 election, but NPR has found the filmmakers made multiple misleading and false claims.