Romania’s pro-European Union presidential candidate Nicușor Dan won the country’s presidential election Sunday, defeating his ultranationalist rival.
Day: May 18, 2025
In late April, the Trump administration told hundreds of scientists and experts that they were no longer needed to compile the next national climate assessment, a flagship report mandated by Congress to catalog the ways climate change affects the country. John Yang speaks with Elizabeth Koebele, an associate professor at the University of Nevada, Reno, who was among the recipients of that message.
On Monday, President Trump is expected to sign the bipartisan Take It Down Act, which calls for stricter penalties for posting sexually explicit images online without the subject’s consent or with harmful intent — what’s called “revenge porn.” Ali Rogin speaks with tech journalist Laurie Segall, CEO of Mostly Human Media, to learn more.
Prime minister meets with European leaders, the Ukraine president and the pope in Rome. Follow today’s news live
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Hearings begin to determine penalty for Qantas over outsourcing of ground handlers
Qantas could be forced to pay more than $120m in penalties, as the final hearings begin of what has been a years-long, costly legal process after the airline was found to have illegally outsourced 1,820 ground handlers.
Not only was it an appalling act to get rid of a loyal workforce, it was the biggest case of illegal sackings in Australian corporate history. The penalty to Qantas must reflect this and send a message to every other company in Australia that you cannot sack your workers to prevent them from using their industrial rights.
I spoke to him about my mother who would be, I’m sure, looking down from heaven with the biggest smile she’s ever had.
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Russia’s national security interests in its conflict with Ukraine revolve around several key strategic… pic.twitter.com/iDqTelrJ9S— Michael Novakhov (@mikenov) May 18, 2025