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Elon Musk's SpaceX is moving ahead with plans to go public in what some expect will be the biggest IPO ever. CBS
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New fraud charges were unsealed Wednesday against a Minnesota daycare owner who federal prosecutors allege tried to flee the country just two days after shutting the center down. CBS
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The Department of Homeland Security is set to implement new entry restrictions beginning Thursday for foreign travelers coming to the U.S. from countries at the center of the latest Ebola outbreak. CBS
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The results bring Lilly one step closer to filing for approval of the injection, retatrutide, which works differently from existing injections and pills. CNBC
The UAE has redirected some oil exports through an existing pipeline to Fujairah, which has a maximum capacity of 1.8 million barrels per day. CNBC
The Port Authority said travelers should expect delays and cancellations, with thunderstorms expected also expected to roll in Wednesday. CNBC
An Air France flight to Detroit was rerouted to Montreal after a passenger linked to an Ebola outbreak zone boarded the flight from France "in error," officials said. FOX News

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Leroy Dean McGill was executed by lethal injection in Arizona for the 2002 murder of James Perez, whom he set on fire after dousing him with gasoline. FOX News
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President Donald Trump has said he will speak with Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te about a stalled $14 billion arms deal. UPI
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Russian warplanes repeatedly and dangerously harassed a British reconnaissance aircraft over Eastern Europe's Black Sea, Britain said Wednesday. UPI
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Vanessa Trump, the ex-wife of Donald Trump Jr., announced Wednesday that she was recently diagnosed with breast cancer. UPI
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President Donald Trump delivered the commencement address Wednesday at the Coast Guard Academy in Connecticut, telling grads to "never surrender." UPI
As sports betting and prediction market platforms gain popularity, U.S. senators weighed the need to regulate use of the platforms by minors. UPI

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May 23, 2026

     As about a dozen cases involving missing or deceased American nuclear scientists have come to light, a retired high-level FBI official says some of them fit a pattern that he considers suspicious.  The disappearances are highly suspect.

     "The missing [and] disappearance thing is suspicious inherently," said Chris Swecker, who served as assistant director of the FBI. "What they were working on would certainly, without a doubt, be a target of a hostile foreign intelligence service like Russia or China. It could be Iran, could be Pakistan."  Swecker believes the six deaths that have been widely reported don't have much in common, and he doesn't believe they're connected.

     While Swecker isn't convinced that there's a conspiracy afoot even among the missing scientists, he agrees that authorities should be looking for links in the disappearances, given the high-value, sensitive technology that they all worked with or near.  The disappearance of retired Air Force Maj. Gen. William Neil McCasland earlier this year set off the cascade of theories about the missing and dead scientists. He was the former commander of the Air Force Research Laboratory, and had connections to the Los Alamos National Laboratory, where top-secret nuclear research is conducted.

     He vanished in New Mexico after leaving his home with only a pair of boots and a handgun. He left his phone, keys and glasses behind.  "I'm just saying that ... the FBI would have interest in anything that happened to them because of what they were working on," he said. "And, in fact, [with] McCasland, the FBI showed up uninvited that very afternoon. '