It’s hard to pinpoint when Arsenal Football Club reached its recent version of rock bottom, but December 2019 seems as good a place as any. Unai Emery had recently been dismissed as head coach after the club’s worst run of form since 1992, the team lingered around the middle of the Premier League and a humiliating performance against Manchester City sent heads hanging all around the Emirates Stadium. As the reigning champion raced to a 3-0 first half lead, home fans flocked towards the nearest exit and the gap between the best in the business and Arsenal had never been wider.
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/05/23/sport/mikel-arteta-arsenal-premier-league-title
A gas explosion at a coal mine in northern China has killed at least 90 people, according to state media, the country’s deadliest mining disaster in more than a decade. Rescue efforts are still underway nearly a day after the blast took place, according to state broadcaster CCTV, with emergency teams descending into the Liushenyu coal mine to search for any workers trapped beneath the ground. But their attempts have been complicated by the fact the underground map provided by the coal mining company and distributed among rescue teams does not match the actual underground condition, state-run Beijing News reported. This has meant rescuers have to search all the tunnels rather than targeting a specific location.
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/05/22/china/four-dead-china-coal-mine-latam-intl
Russian President Vladimir Putin is running out of time to win his war against Ukraine, amid a stalemate on the battlefield and growing troubles at home, a European intelligence chief has told CNN. In the next four or five months, Putin “may not be able to negotiate from a position of strength anymore,” Kaupo Rosin, head of Estonia’s Foreign Intelligence Service, said in an interview at the intelligence agency’s headquarters in Tallinn. Rosin detailed a combination of economic, military and societal pressures facing Putin that could force him to the negotiating table. “Time is not in Russia’s favor,” he said.
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/05/23/europe/russia-battlefield-losses-pressure-estonia-spy-chief-intl
Palm Beach socialite and model Bettina Anderson will celebrate her marriage to President Donald Trump’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr. on a tropical island today. It won’t be the affair the bride had originally envisioned. Anderson had initially expressed interest in getting married at the White House, multiple sources told CNN. But the groom didn’t think it was appropriate, particularly given the ongoing US-Israel war with Iran, one of the sources said. President Donald Trump also told allies he didn’t think it was a good idea. The couple settled instead on a small, exclusive ceremony on an island in the Bahamas where Anderson has previously posted images of crystal blue waters and secluded beaches. There could also be a follow-up celebration at the White House later this year, a source familiar with the matter said.
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/05/23/politics/donald-trump-jr-bettina-anderson-white-house-wedding
The Trump administration will now require people seeking green cards to leave the United States during the application process — a sweeping change that could upend the lives of hundreds of thousands of people seeking the right to legally and permanently live and work in the US. In a new rule announced Friday, US immigration authorities said green card applicants would have to return to their home countries to apply for permanent visas. The abrupt policy change stands to affect a large swath of the legal US immigration population, compelling those seeking legal permanent residency to leave the country — separating families, forcing people to leave their jobs and disrupting communities in the process. Applying for a green card is a notoriously arduous process that can take several months to years to complete.
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/05/22/politics/green-card-seekers-leave-us-apply