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🌍 Current Events — Wednesday, May 20, 2026 at 6:30 AM

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#1Trump-Backed Gallrein Topples Thomas Massie in Record-Breaking Kentucky Primary

Former Navy SEAL Ed Gallrein, endorsed by President Trump, defeated libertarian-leaning Rep. Thomas Massie in Kentucky's 4th Congressional District with 54.4% of the vote in the most expensive House primary in U.S. history at over $32 million in ad spending. Trump-aligned groups poured $7 million and pro-Israel organizations another $9 million to unseat Massie, who had drawn Trump's ire on the Epstein files and war powers. Massie conceded on election night.

🔗 Breitbart
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#2Georgia Governor's Race Heads to GOP Runoff; Bottoms Wins Dem Nomination

Trump-endorsed Lt. Gov. Burt Jones and self-funding billionaire Rick Jackson — who has spent over $80 million of his own money — will face off in a June 16 GOP runoff after neither cleared the threshold in an eight-candidate field. On the Democratic side, former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms cruised to the nomination with 57% of the vote. The runoff winner will compete for the seat being vacated by Gov. Brian Kemp.

🔗 Fox News
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#330-Year Treasury Yields Hit 19-Year High as Bond Rout Deepens

The 30-year Treasury yield surged past 5.12%, its highest level since 2007, as investors grow increasingly worried about persistent inflation fueled by elevated oil prices tied to the Iran conflict. Brent crude continues trading above $110 a barrel amid the ongoing U.S. naval blockade of Iranian ports. Federal Reserve Governor Kevin Warsh has publicly made the supply-side case for rate cuts, but markets remain skeptical.

🔗 Breitbart
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#4Trump Calls for Senate Parliamentarian Fired Over White House Ballroom Ruling

President Trump demanded Senate Majority Leader John Thune fire Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough after she ruled that $1 billion in funding for a planned White House ballroom cannot pass through budget reconciliation with a simple majority and would instead require 60 votes. Thune declined to fire MacDonough, saying both sides routinely disagree with parliamentarian rulings. GOP leaders are now working on a legislative workaround to keep the provision in the reconciliation bill.

🔗 Breitbart
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#5WHO Declares Global Health Emergency as Ebola Spreads in Congo and Uganda

The World Health Organization declared a "public health emergency of international concern" on May 17 as a Bundibugyo ebolavirus outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo crossed into Uganda, with over 500 suspected cases and 131 fatalities. The virus has reached urban centers including Kampala and Goma, and an American medical missionary has tested positive. The CDC has invoked emergency rules to seal U.S. borders to travelers from Congo, Uganda, and South Sudan.

🔗 Fox News
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#6NATO Shoots Down Rogue Ukrainian Drone Over Baltic Airspace

NATO fighter jets on the Baltic air policing mission intercepted and shot down a Ukrainian war drone that strayed into Estonian airspace on Tuesday, prompting shelter-in-place warnings for civilians. The incident occurred during a morning of Ukrainian drone strikes on Russian cities near European borders, with airports in St. Petersburg and Pskov temporarily closed. Analysts believe the drone was likely targeting Pskov and overflew its mark.

🔗 Breitbart
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#7Ukraine Gaining Momentum as Putin Says War May Be 'Coming to an End'

Ukraine is steadily regaining battlefield momentum, achieving a series of successes that analysts say are shifting the strategic balance of the conflict, even as Russian President Putin hinted the war may be "coming to an end." A Trump-brokered three-day ceasefire earlier this month included a 1,000-prisoner swap from each side, but fighting resumed with Russia launching an 800-drone barrage across 20 Ukrainian regions. Total Russian personnel losses since February 2022 have reached approximately 1.34 million.

🔗 Newsmax
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#8James Webb Telescope Creates Most Detailed Map Ever of the Cosmic Web

Astronomers using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have produced the clearest map ever of the universe's "cosmic web" — the colossal dark matter and gas filament network connecting galaxies across space. The COSMOS-Web survey analyzed over 164,000 galaxies to trace this structure back to when the universe was just one billion years old, dramatically outperforming previous Hubble maps of the same region.

🔗 ScienceDaily
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#9150-Million-Year-Old Stegosaur Skull Found in Spain Rewrites Dinosaur Evolution

Paleontologists in Riodeva, Spain have unearthed the best-preserved stegosaur skull ever found in Europe, belonging to Dacentrurus armatus from the Late Jurassic period. Because stegosaur skulls are extremely fragile and almost never survive intact, the find allowed researchers to propose a new evolutionary group called Neostegosauria, fundamentally reshaping our understanding of how plated dinosaurs spread across the globe.

🔗 ScienceDaily
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#1010 Wild Mustangs on the Loose on I-40 in North Carolina — Owners Facing Charges

Nearly a dozen wild mustangs have been roaming free across Iredell County, North Carolina since escaping a property on May 11, with witnesses spotting horses weaving through traffic on Interstate 40 and Highway 70. Animal control officers, deputies, and state troopers have been spreading hay in cornfields trying to lure them in. Both owners have been criminally charged for failure to confine the herd; the horses were reportedly purchased from the Bureau of Land Management for $25 each.

🔗 UPI
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