May 1, 2016, Penny Dreadful Season 3 Premiere
May 1, 2016,
May 1, 2016,
May 1, 2016,
May 1, 2016,
May 1 ,2016, The first cruise ship in more than a half-century bound for Havana from the United States leaves Miami, Florida, at about 4:24 p.m. EDT. Carnival Cruise Line's 704-passenger Adonia was able to set sail for the northern Caribbean country after Cuba, on April 22, loosened its policy banning Cuban-born people from traveling to the country by sea. (AP)
May 2 ,2016, Researchers report in the journal Nature the discovery of three potentially habitable, Earth-like exoplanets orbiting TRAPPIST-1, an ultracool dwarf star 40 light-years away in the constellation Aquarius. (CNN)
May 2 ,2016, Following a 2-2 draw between Chelsea F.C. and Tottenham Hotspur F.C. at Stamford Bridge, Leicester City F.C. are confirmed as champions of the Premier League for the first time in their history. Leicester City were 5000-1 outsiders at the beginning of the season. (Sky Sports)
May 2 ,2016,
May 2 ,2016,
May 2 ,2016,
May 2 ,2016, The bodies of mountaineer Alex Lowe and photographer David Bridges are found on the Himalayan mountain Shishapangma after being buried in an avalanche in 1999. (The Guardian)
May 2 ,2016, Puerto Rico defaults on a $422 million debt payment. The Governor of Puerto Rico Alejandro García Padilla calls the situation a "humanitarian crisis". This is the third time Puerto Rico has defaulted on bond payments. (CNN)
May 3 ,2016, Season 5 Premiere of Person Of Interest
May 3, 2016, Ted Cruz announces that he is withdrawing from the race for the Republican nomination, leaving Donald Trump as the presumptive nominee. (CNN)
May 3, 2016, The Rhode Island Marine Architecture Project claims to have found the wreckage of HMS Endeavour used by Royal Navy Lieutenant James Cook on his voyage to Australia, New Zealand and Tahiti between 1768 and 1771. The ship was scuttled in 1778 in Newport Harbor ahead of the Battle of Rhode Island in the American War of Independence. (AFP via ABC News Australia)
May 3, 2016, The Rhode Island Marine Architecture Project claims to have found the wreckage of HMS Endeavour used by Royal Navy Lieutenant James Cook on his voyage to Australia, New Zealand and Tahiti between 1768 and 1771. The ship was scuttled in 1778 in Newport Harbor ahead of the Battle of Rhode Island in the American War of Independence. (AFP via ABC News Australia)
May 3 ,2016, An airplane crashes on Long Island, New York, killing three people onboard. (The New York Times)
May 4 ,2016,
May 4 ,2016, Alberta Premier Rachel Notley says the wildfire has destroyed about 1,600 structures in Fort McMurray, which is in Canada's oil sands region. No major oil sands facilities are in the fire's path, though two Royal Dutch Shell mines are closing, and a Suncor Energy facility is reducing crude production. The fire is threatening the Alberta Highway 63 bridge across the Athabasca River, the sole route south. The Canadian Red Cross is encouraging people to donate funds rather than clothing. (Reuters)
May 4, 2016, Ohio Governor John Kasich suspends his campaign. He was the last Republican Party challenger to Donald Trump for the GOP presidential nomination. (VICE)
May 4, 2016, IBM allows the public to access a five-qubit quantum computer its researchers have developed in Yorktown Heights, New York. (Wired)
May 4 ,2016, Alberta Premier Rachel Notley says the wildfire has destroyed about 1,600 structures in Fort McMurray, which is in Canada's oil sands region. No major oil sands facilities are in the fire's path, though two Royal Dutch Shell mines are closing, and a Suncor Energy facility is reducing crude production. The fire is threatening the Alberta Highway 63 bridge across the Athabasca River, the sole route south. The Canadian Red Cross is encouraging people to donate funds rather than clothing. (Reuters)
May 4, 2016, Ohio Governor John Kasich suspends his campaign. He was the last Republican Party challenger to Donald Trump for the GOP presidential nomination. (VICE)
May 4, 2016, IBM allows the public to access a five-qubit quantum computer its researchers have developed in Yorktown Heights, New York. (Wired)
May 5, 2016, The western Canadian province of Alberta declares a state of emergency as devastating wildfires, fed by unseasonably hot temperatures and dry conditions, grow to five times their initial size. The mandatory evacuation order expands to include the communities of Anzac, Gregoire Lake Estates, and Fort McMurray First Nation, forcing thousands who had just resettled to move again. (CTV)
May 5, 2016,
May 5, 2016, Colorado Springs, Colorado, agrees to pay people who were sent to jail because they couldn’t afford to pay fines for minor offenses like panhandling and jaywalking. The city will pay $125 for each day the person spent behind bars, an estimated total of $103,000 for the 66 people identified. In 1971, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that people cannot be jailed if they do not have the money to pay. (AP via The Washington Post)
May 6, 2016, Release of Captain America: Civil War
May 6, 2016, SpaceX successfully lands another Falcon 9 First stage onto a floating barge for the second time. It was carrying a Japanese communications satellite JCSAT-14, which was successfully put into geostationary orbit. (Wired)
May 6, 2016, Release of Captain America: Civil War
May 6, 2016, SpaceX successfully lands another Falcon 9 First stage onto a floating barge for the second time. It was carrying a Japanese communications satellite JCSAT-14, which was successfully put into geostationary orbit. (Wired)
May 6, 2016,
May 7, 2016, Nyquist wins the 2016 Kentucky Derby, extending his race record to eight wins in eight races.(The Blood-Horse)
May 24, 2016, A court in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania finds that there is enough evidence to hold entertainer Bill Cosby on felony indecent assault charges in relation to the case of Andrea Constand v. William H. Cosby, Jr.. (CNN)
May 25, 2016, Season 2 Premiere of Wayward Pines
May 25, 2016,
May 25, 2016, In the United States, Hillary Clinton is criticized by the State Department’s inspector general for her usage of a private email server while she was secretary of state. The finding also concluded though that former secretary of state Colin Powell also had a private email server, as did former ambassador to Kenya Scott Gration. The inspector referred to the email server usage as "longstanding systemic weaknesses". (New York Times)
May 25, 2016, The Eurozone agrees to a €10.3 billion ($11.48 billion) bailout package for Greece. (The Guardian)
May 26, 2016, Archaeologists announce the discovery of a 2,400-year-old tomb which they believe to be that of Aristotle based on its grandiosity, and its location atop a hill in Stagira, the city of his birth. (UPI)
May 26, 2016, The Associated Press reports that Donald Trump has secured enough delegates to secure the Republican Party nomination for President. (AP)
May 26, 2016, Ken Starr, the president of Baylor University, is stripped of his title after an investigation revealed the university mishandled accusations of sexual assault against its football players. The university's football coach, Art Briles, is also fired. (The New York Times)
May 26, 2016, The Scripps National Spelling Bee in the United States finishes with a tie between Jairam Hathwar and Nihar Janga. This is the third successive year the event has finished in a tie. (The Guardian)
May 27, 2016, Release of X-Men Apocalypse
May 27, 2016, Release of Alice Though The Looking Glass
May 27, 2016, 42nd G7 summit: The 42nd G7 summit held at Ise-Shima in Japan's Mie Prefecture concludes with a declaration that the United Kingdom leaving the European Union would pose a "serious threat to world growth". (BBC)
-Following the summit. Barack Obama becomes the first President of the United States to visit Hiroshima, the site of the first use of nuclear weapons, while in office. (CNN)
May 27, 2016, In basketball, the Cleveland Cavaliers defeat the Toronto Raptors 113–87 in Game 6 of the Eastern Conference Finals to win the series 4–2 and advance to the NBA Finals for the second straight season. The Cavaliers await the winner of the Western Conference Finals between the Golden State Warriors and Oklahoma City Thunder. Barring misfortune, the Cavs' LeBron James will become the eighth player to appear in six consecutive Finals and the first to do so without playing for the Boston Celtics. (ESPN))
May 28, 2016,
May 28, 2016,
May 28, 2016, Bryce Dejean-Jones, a National Basketball Association player with the New Orleans Pelicans, is shot dead in Dallas, Texas, after breaking down an apartment bedroom door. (Bleacher Report)
May 29, 2016, In motor sport, rookie Alexander Rossi wins the 100th Indianapolis 500. (USA Today)
May 29, 2016, Tropical Storm Bonnie makes landfall on the East Coast of the United States, affecting mainly the city of Charleston, South Carolina. (AccuWeather)
May 29, 2016, Gary Johnson, former Governor of New Mexico, secures the nomination for the Libertarian Party in the U.S. presidential election. Johnson picks former Massachusetts governor, and former Republican, William Weld as his running mate. (Washington Post)
May 30, 2016, The Bible Emoji, a new digital translation of all 66 books of the King James Version of the Bible which replaces some words with emojis, is announced by its anonymous creator. (UPI)
May 30, 2016, In basketball, the Golden State Warriors defeat the Oklahoma City Thunder 96–88 in the deciding Game 7 of the Western Conference Finals, winning the series 4–3. The defending NBA champion Warriors advance to the NBA Finals, where they will face the Eastern Conference champion Cleveland Cavaliers for the second straight season. (ESPN))
May 31, 2016,
May 31, 2016, The U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals rules (12-3) a warrant is not required for police to obtain a person's cellphone location data from wireless carriers. (Reuters)
May 31, 2016, A recent Global Slavery Index report estimates the number of people born into servitude, trafficked for sex work, in debt bondage, or forced labour to be 45.8 million. India is reported to have the highest number at an estimated 18.4 million slaves, and North Korea the highest ratio, 4.4 percent of its population. (Reuters)
May 7, 2016, Nyquist wins the 2016 Kentucky Derby, extending his race record to eight wins in eight races.(The Blood-Horse)
May 7, 2016,
May 7, 2016,
May 7, 2016,
May 8, 2016,
May 9, 2016, A transit of Mercury occurs, visible from Africa, the Americas, Europe and most of Asia. (BBC)
May 9, 2016,
May 9, 2016,
May 9, 2016,
May 9, 2016,
May 9, 2016, The Panama Papers go online at the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists website. (BBC)
May 7, 2016,
May 7, 2016,
May 8, 2016,
May 9, 2016, A transit of Mercury occurs, visible from Africa, the Americas, Europe and most of Asia. (BBC)
May 9, 2016,
May 9, 2016,
May 9, 2016,
May 9, 2016,
May 9, 2016, The Panama Papers go online at the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists website. (BBC)
May 10, 2016, In basketball, Stephen Curry of the Golden State Warriors is named NBA MVP for the second straight season. Curry is the first player ever to receive all possible first-place votes. (ESPN)
May 10, 2016, NASA confirms that 1,284 objects discovered by its Kepler spacecraft are in fact exoplanets. (The Verge)
May 10, 2016, One person is killed and several others injured in a knife attack at the Grafing station, a station of the Munich S-Bahn system in Germany. (Sky News)
May 10, 2016, An assailant stabs six people, killing at least two, at a home and a mall in Taunton, Massachusetts. The suspect was shot and killed by an off duty deputy sheriff at the second scene. (CNN).
May 11, 2016,
May 11, 2016,
May 11, 2016, A fragment of the world's oldest ground-edge axe dated at between 45,000 and 49,000 years old is found in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. (ABC News Australia)
May 12, 2016,
May 12, 2016,
May 12, 2016, The Government of Malaysia confirms that two more pieces of debris found in South Africa and Rodrigues Island off the coast of Mauritius are "almost certainly" from Malaysia Airlines 370 that disappeared two years ago. (AP via New York Times)
May 12, 2016, Researchers from Konkoly Observatory in Budapest, Hungary, reveal that (225088) 2007 OR10 is the third largest dwarf planet in the solar system. (Gizmodo)
May 13, 2016, The United States Education and Justice Departments advise U.S. public school districts across the country to allow transgender students to use the bathrooms that match their gender identity, rather than their gender at birth. The new guidance comes as Justice and North Carolina battle in federal court over the state's new so-called bathroom bill. (AP)
May 13, 2016, Former President of Argentina Cristina Fernández is indicted on fraud charges in relation to alleged irregularities in the sale of United States dollars by the Central Bank during her term in office. (Reuters)
May 14, 2016, Ukraine's Jamala, performing the song "1944", wins the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest in Stockholm, Sweden. (BBC)
May 14, 2016, A bus crashes on U.S. Route 83 in Texas about 46 miles north of the city of Laredo resulting in eight deaths and 44 injured. (AP)
May 14, 2016,
May 14, 2016,
May 15, 2016,
May 15, 2016,
May 10, 2016, NASA confirms that 1,284 objects discovered by its Kepler spacecraft are in fact exoplanets. (The Verge)
May 10, 2016, One person is killed and several others injured in a knife attack at the Grafing station, a station of the Munich S-Bahn system in Germany. (Sky News)
May 10, 2016, An assailant stabs six people, killing at least two, at a home and a mall in Taunton, Massachusetts. The suspect was shot and killed by an off duty deputy sheriff at the second scene. (CNN).
May 11, 2016,
May 11, 2016,
May 11, 2016, A fragment of the world's oldest ground-edge axe dated at between 45,000 and 49,000 years old is found in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. (ABC News Australia)
May 12, 2016,
May 12, 2016,
May 12, 2016, The Government of Malaysia confirms that two more pieces of debris found in South Africa and Rodrigues Island off the coast of Mauritius are "almost certainly" from Malaysia Airlines 370 that disappeared two years ago. (AP via New York Times)
May 12, 2016, Researchers from Konkoly Observatory in Budapest, Hungary, reveal that (225088) 2007 OR10 is the third largest dwarf planet in the solar system. (Gizmodo)
May 13, 2016, The United States Education and Justice Departments advise U.S. public school districts across the country to allow transgender students to use the bathrooms that match their gender identity, rather than their gender at birth. The new guidance comes as Justice and North Carolina battle in federal court over the state's new so-called bathroom bill. (AP)
May 13, 2016, Former President of Argentina Cristina Fernández is indicted on fraud charges in relation to alleged irregularities in the sale of United States dollars by the Central Bank during her term in office. (Reuters)
May 14, 2016, Ukraine's Jamala, performing the song "1944", wins the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest in Stockholm, Sweden. (BBC)
May 14, 2016, A bus crashes on U.S. Route 83 in Texas about 46 miles north of the city of Laredo resulting in eight deaths and 44 injured. (AP)
May 14, 2016,
May 14, 2016,
May 15, 2016,
May 15, 2016,
May 16, 2016,
May 16, 2016, The first penis transplant in the United States is performed successfully at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in Boston, Massachusetts. Doctors call the operation "a surgical milestone". The patient, 64-year-old Thomas Manning from Halifax, Massachusetts, is the third man worldwide to have had the experimental surgery performed. (USA Today)
May 17, 2016,
May 17, 2016, The U.S. Senate passes a legislation that would allow victims of the Sept. 11 attacks to file lawsuits seeking damages from Saudi Arabia despite Saudi threats to pull billions of dollars from the U.S. economy. (LA Times)
May 18, 2016, EgyptAir Flight 804 between Paris and Cairo disappears with 56 passengers and 10 crew onboard. The plane was at 37,000 feet when it disappeared ten minutes before entering Egyptian airspace over the Mediterranean Sea. It is later reported to have crashed off the Greek island of Karpathos. Locals reported seeing a fireball. (Reuters)
May 18, 2016, Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook, met with a group of prominent U.S. conservatives, over allegations that the company censors conservative content. (Reuters).
May 18, 2016, A powerful 6.7 magnitude earthquake hits Ecuador near the town of Muisne, one person is killed. (Reuters)
May 19, 2016,
May 19, 2016, Oppenheimer Blue, a large and rare blue diamond, is sold for $57.6 million USD, the most expensive jewel ever sold at an auction. (Reuters)
May 19, 2016, A unanimous opinion of the U.S. Supreme Court finds that the constitutional guarantee of a speedy trial does not guarantee a speedy sentencing hearing. (CNS)
May 19, 2016, A new species of horned dinosaur, Machairoceratops cronusi, thought to have lived about 77 million years ago, is discovered in southern Utah. (Huffington Post)
May 19, 2016, Google receives a United States patent for an adhesive for its self-driving cars, so-called human flypaper, designed to minimize injuries in a pedestrian accident by holding the person to the car rather than being thrown after impact. (The Verge)
May 20, 2016, Release of Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising
May 20, 2016, Release of Nice Guys
May 20, 2016, Release of The Angry Birds Movie
May 20, 2016, Release of Maggie's Plan
May 20, 2016, Egyptian Armed Forces claim that passenger luggage and part of the aircraft have been found in the Mediterranean Sea 290 kilometers north of Alexandria. (CNN)
May 20, 2016, The United States Geological Survey (USGS) reports a magnitude 5.9 earthquake strikes the southern part of the Northern Territory in central Australia. No damage or injuries are reported. (The Sydney Morning Herald)
May 20, 2016, The Mexican government approves the extradition of drug boss Joaquín Guzmán to the United States following assurances that he will not face the death penalty. (Reuters)
May 21, 2016, Exaggerator wins the Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland. (Courier-Journal via USA Today)
May 21, 2016, Lake Mead in Mohave County, Arizona, the largest reservoir in the United States, drops to its lowest level in history, declining to its lowest level since it was filled in the 1930s. The reservoir serves water to the states of Arizona, Nevada and California. (WFAA)
May 22, 2016,
May 22, 2016, NASA projects that 2016 will have the warmest global temperature average on record. This year would be the third record-breaking year in a row. Per NOAA annals, April marked the 12th record warmest month in a row. (Scientific American)
May 22, 2016, British film I, Daniel Blake, directed by Ken Loach, wins the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. (The Guardian)
May 16, 2016, The first penis transplant in the United States is performed successfully at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in Boston, Massachusetts. Doctors call the operation "a surgical milestone". The patient, 64-year-old Thomas Manning from Halifax, Massachusetts, is the third man worldwide to have had the experimental surgery performed. (USA Today)
May 17, 2016,
May 17, 2016, The U.S. Senate passes a legislation that would allow victims of the Sept. 11 attacks to file lawsuits seeking damages from Saudi Arabia despite Saudi threats to pull billions of dollars from the U.S. economy. (LA Times)
May 18, 2016, EgyptAir Flight 804 between Paris and Cairo disappears with 56 passengers and 10 crew onboard. The plane was at 37,000 feet when it disappeared ten minutes before entering Egyptian airspace over the Mediterranean Sea. It is later reported to have crashed off the Greek island of Karpathos. Locals reported seeing a fireball. (Reuters)
May 18, 2016, Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook, met with a group of prominent U.S. conservatives, over allegations that the company censors conservative content. (Reuters).
May 18, 2016, A powerful 6.7 magnitude earthquake hits Ecuador near the town of Muisne, one person is killed. (Reuters)
May 19, 2016,
May 19, 2016, Oppenheimer Blue, a large and rare blue diamond, is sold for $57.6 million USD, the most expensive jewel ever sold at an auction. (Reuters)
May 19, 2016, A unanimous opinion of the U.S. Supreme Court finds that the constitutional guarantee of a speedy trial does not guarantee a speedy sentencing hearing. (CNS)
May 19, 2016, A new species of horned dinosaur, Machairoceratops cronusi, thought to have lived about 77 million years ago, is discovered in southern Utah. (Huffington Post)
May 19, 2016, Google receives a United States patent for an adhesive for its self-driving cars, so-called human flypaper, designed to minimize injuries in a pedestrian accident by holding the person to the car rather than being thrown after impact. (The Verge)
May 20, 2016, Release of Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising
May 20, 2016, Release of Nice Guys
May 20, 2016, Release of The Angry Birds Movie
May 20, 2016, Release of Maggie's Plan
May 20, 2016, Egyptian Armed Forces claim that passenger luggage and part of the aircraft have been found in the Mediterranean Sea 290 kilometers north of Alexandria. (CNN)
May 20, 2016, The United States Geological Survey (USGS) reports a magnitude 5.9 earthquake strikes the southern part of the Northern Territory in central Australia. No damage or injuries are reported. (The Sydney Morning Herald)
May 20, 2016, The Mexican government approves the extradition of drug boss Joaquín Guzmán to the United States following assurances that he will not face the death penalty. (Reuters)
May 21, 2016, Exaggerator wins the Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland. (Courier-Journal via USA Today)
May 21, 2016, Lake Mead in Mohave County, Arizona, the largest reservoir in the United States, drops to its lowest level in history, declining to its lowest level since it was filled in the 1930s. The reservoir serves water to the states of Arizona, Nevada and California. (WFAA)
May 22, 2016,
May 22, 2016, NASA projects that 2016 will have the warmest global temperature average on record. This year would be the third record-breaking year in a row. Per NOAA annals, April marked the 12th record warmest month in a row. (Scientific American)
May 22, 2016, British film I, Daniel Blake, directed by Ken Loach, wins the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. (The Guardian)
May 23, 2016, Judge Barry Williams finds Baltimore, Maryland, Police Officer Edward Nero not guilty of all charges. Nero was accused of second-degree intentional assault, two counts of misconduct in office, and reckless endangerment. Community leaders and elected officials appeal for calm. (CNN)
May 23, 2016,
May 24, 2016, Series Premiere of Preacher
May 23, 2016,
May 24, 2016, Series Premiere of Preacher
May 24, 2016, A court in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania finds that there is enough evidence to hold entertainer Bill Cosby on felony indecent assault charges in relation to the case of Andrea Constand v. William H. Cosby, Jr.. (CNN)
May 25, 2016, Season 2 Premiere of Wayward Pines
May 25, 2016,
May 25, 2016, In the United States, Hillary Clinton is criticized by the State Department’s inspector general for her usage of a private email server while she was secretary of state. The finding also concluded though that former secretary of state Colin Powell also had a private email server, as did former ambassador to Kenya Scott Gration. The inspector referred to the email server usage as "longstanding systemic weaknesses". (New York Times)
May 25, 2016, The Eurozone agrees to a €10.3 billion ($11.48 billion) bailout package for Greece. (The Guardian)
May 26, 2016, Archaeologists announce the discovery of a 2,400-year-old tomb which they believe to be that of Aristotle based on its grandiosity, and its location atop a hill in Stagira, the city of his birth. (UPI)
May 26, 2016, The Associated Press reports that Donald Trump has secured enough delegates to secure the Republican Party nomination for President. (AP)
May 26, 2016, Ken Starr, the president of Baylor University, is stripped of his title after an investigation revealed the university mishandled accusations of sexual assault against its football players. The university's football coach, Art Briles, is also fired. (The New York Times)
May 26, 2016, The Scripps National Spelling Bee in the United States finishes with a tie between Jairam Hathwar and Nihar Janga. This is the third successive year the event has finished in a tie. (The Guardian)
May 27, 2016, Release of X-Men Apocalypse
May 27, 2016, Release of Alice Though The Looking Glass
May 27, 2016, 42nd G7 summit: The 42nd G7 summit held at Ise-Shima in Japan's Mie Prefecture concludes with a declaration that the United Kingdom leaving the European Union would pose a "serious threat to world growth". (BBC)
-Following the summit. Barack Obama becomes the first President of the United States to visit Hiroshima, the site of the first use of nuclear weapons, while in office. (CNN)
May 27, 2016, In basketball, the Cleveland Cavaliers defeat the Toronto Raptors 113–87 in Game 6 of the Eastern Conference Finals to win the series 4–2 and advance to the NBA Finals for the second straight season. The Cavaliers await the winner of the Western Conference Finals between the Golden State Warriors and Oklahoma City Thunder. Barring misfortune, the Cavs' LeBron James will become the eighth player to appear in six consecutive Finals and the first to do so without playing for the Boston Celtics. (ESPN))
May 28, 2016,
May 28, 2016,
May 28, 2016, Bryce Dejean-Jones, a National Basketball Association player with the New Orleans Pelicans, is shot dead in Dallas, Texas, after breaking down an apartment bedroom door. (Bleacher Report)
May 29, 2016, In motor sport, rookie Alexander Rossi wins the 100th Indianapolis 500. (USA Today)
May 29, 2016, Tropical Storm Bonnie makes landfall on the East Coast of the United States, affecting mainly the city of Charleston, South Carolina. (AccuWeather)
May 29, 2016, Gary Johnson, former Governor of New Mexico, secures the nomination for the Libertarian Party in the U.S. presidential election. Johnson picks former Massachusetts governor, and former Republican, William Weld as his running mate. (Washington Post)
May 30, 2016, The Bible Emoji, a new digital translation of all 66 books of the King James Version of the Bible which replaces some words with emojis, is announced by its anonymous creator. (UPI)
May 30, 2016, In basketball, the Golden State Warriors defeat the Oklahoma City Thunder 96–88 in the deciding Game 7 of the Western Conference Finals, winning the series 4–3. The defending NBA champion Warriors advance to the NBA Finals, where they will face the Eastern Conference champion Cleveland Cavaliers for the second straight season. (ESPN))
May 31, 2016,
May 31, 2016, The U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals rules (12-3) a warrant is not required for police to obtain a person's cellphone location data from wireless carriers. (Reuters)
May 31, 2016, A recent Global Slavery Index report estimates the number of people born into servitude, trafficked for sex work, in debt bondage, or forced labour to be 45.8 million. India is reported to have the highest number at an estimated 18.4 million slaves, and North Korea the highest ratio, 4.4 percent of its population. (Reuters)
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