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May 17 2000 UTC Brief
In health and consumer alerts
Several food recalls and warnings were issued this month over salmonella concerns, with multiple products tied back to the same potentially contaminated ingredient. The usual reassuring message from the food chain, in other words, this time with extra bacteria.
On the border and in immigration
A Honduran mother was deported after pleading to stay with her two-year-old son, and weeks later the child was beaten to death in Florida. ICE then publicly blamed the mother for the boy’s killing, a sequence that is as cruel as it is indefensible.
Separately, Indigenous leaders say construction tied to Trump’s border wall is damaging sacred sites near Tecate, Mexico, including Kuuchamaa Mountain, which Kumeyaay leaders describe as central to their creation story and a healing place.
In transportation
A Long Island Rail Road strike entered its second full day, shutting down service on the nation’s busiest commuter railroad and disrupting travel for more than 300,000 daily riders. State officials and union leaders blamed each other as emergency plans rolled out for commuters.
On a Qantas flight from Melbourne to Dallas, a passenger allegedly bit a crew member and put another traveler in a chokehold, forcing the plane to divert to Tahiti. The trip was delayed by hours and, naturally, everyone involved had a worse day than planned.
In international news
A drone strike hit a nuclear power plant in the United Arab Emirates and sparked a fire at the facility, according to defense officials.
In Mexico, officials said 10 people were killed in an early-morning shooting in Tehuitzingo and gave no details yet about who carried it out or why.
In business and Washington
Canal+ chief Maxime Saada said he no longer wants to work with talent, including Juliette Binoche and Adèle Haenel, who signed an open letter against billionaire owner Vincent Bolloré. The statement adds another chapter to a long feud over Bolloré’s influence at the company.
Meanwhile, regulators and prosecutors are looking harder at suspicious betting in Washington, where prediction markets are opening up new ways for people with government access to profit from policy and political moves. The rules for insider trading were not exactly written for wagers on legislation and military operations, which has become the problem.
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