Like all good lawyers, Supreme Court justices can argue over anything — including, it turns out, how best to argue. Quiet grumbling for years over how the court conducts its oral argument sessions has increasingly slipped into public view during a series of appearances by some of the justices. “Way too long,” Chief Justice John Roberts complained recently to a conference of judges and lawyers in Pennsylvania, vowing to “look into it” over the summer.
At least 23 people have been killed and 71 injured after a suicide bomb attack near a railway station in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta on Sunday as a train was passing through. The militant organization Baloch Liberation Army (BLA), which demands independence from Pakistan’s central government, has claimed responsibility for the attack. Preliminary findings suggest the explosion was a suicide blast, police said.
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/05/24/asia/pakistan-deadly-explosion-railway-intl
Nearly 1.2 billion people worldwide had mental disorders in 2023, reflecting a 95.5% increase since 1990, a new study has found. The largest increases were in anxiety and depression, which were also the most common disorders in 2023. In third place was a residual category of personality disorders not accompanied by other mental or substance use disorders. The study, published Thursday in the journal The Lancet, also revealed how trends concerning 12 mental disorders differed by age, sex, location and sociodemographic factors among 204 countries and territories — suggesting “that we are entering an even more concerning phase of worsening mental disorder burden globally,” the authors wrote in the study.
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/05/21/health/mental-disorder-rate-worldwide-study-wellness
The small Cessna Caravan accelerates down the runway and climbs into the air, all while the pilot beside me keeps his hands off the controls. “Let’s see those jazz hands,” jokes Tim Burns, chief technology officer at startup Merlin Labs, over the airplane’s intercom from a back seat. On this flight, test pilot Matt Diamond in the left seat beside me is not controlling the airplane at all. Many of the normal tasks of piloting are instead being handled by artificial intelligence.
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/05/24/us/ai-flying-airplanes
On Christmas Day, Jade Sharpe watched as her 13-year-old daughter Kennedi Chandler took her brand-new e-bike – capable of going about 20 mph – for a spin in their Indiana neighborhood. Her parents had a plan to get Kennedi a key piece of safety gear. But they didn’t have the heart to say no when, on the unseasonably warm holiday, she asked to ride the electric bike she’d begged them for – without a helmet. Less than two hours later, the teenager hit the pavement.
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/05/24/us/e-bike-dangers-regulations