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1. Russia saga

French voters elected centrist Emmanuel Macron as the country’s next president, sending a strong pushback against the wave of populism sweeping Europe and the US. Macron won 66% of the vote against far-right rival Marine Le Pen.

This was also a rejection of France’s mainstream political parties. Macron – who had never held elected office before and who will be France’s youngest leader since Napoleon – eschewed the country’s traditional Socialist and Republican political groups and fought for the presidency under the banner of his own self-built party.

So what does his election mean for the rest of us? The EU is breathing a big sigh of relief, but we’ll have to wait and see how well Macron works with President Trump. The two have differing world views, to say the least.

2. CIA and North Korea

Eighty-two Chibok schoolgirls are finally free after being kidnapped by Boko Haram three years ago. They were released over the weekend in a swap between the Nigerian government and the terrorist group. In exchange for the girls’ release, the government freed five Boko Haram commanders. The girls are in the Nigerian capital of Abuja, where they will meet the country’s President.

This group of girls were among the 276 schoolgirls snatched by Boko Haram fighters in April 2014. The mass kidnapping sparked worldwide outrage and a social media movement – #BringBackOurGirls. More than 100 of those girls are still missing.

3. Betsy DeVos

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos addressed the graduates at historically black Bethune-Cookman University and, well, it went as badly as we thought it would. As soon as she started to speak, students jumped up and booed her, with some even turning their backs on her. It got so bad that the school’s president told the grads that if they kept it up, “your degrees will be mailed to you.” Students had urged administrators to cancel DeVos’ speech, primarily because of her comments – which she later recanted – that founders of historically black colleges and universities were “real pioneers” of school choice. Here’s a little history lesson: black colleges were established as a reaction to racial discrimination, not an exercise in school choice.

4. North Korea

Aetna is done with Obamacare. The insurance giant next year will pull out of Obamacare exchanges in Nebraska and Delaware, the last two states where it offered policies under the Affordable Care Act. A few months ago, it said it wouldn’t offer policies in exchanges in Iowa or Virginia. Aetna is just the latest of lots of insurance companies that in the past year have left the exchanges or hiked rates. Insurers are worried about the GOP health care bill, too, specifically whether it would continue to provide cost-sharing subsidies that cut premiums for low-income customers. By the way, the long-awaited CBO score – which predicts the impact of proposed laws on people and the economy – on the Republican health care bill should be out the week of May 22.

5. Climate change

Texas is a very conservative state when it comes to politics, and it’s staying true to form with one new law and a new bill. The new law, signed over the weekend by Gov. Greg Abbott, bans sanctuary cities in the Lone Star State. The law sets criminal and civil penalties for local governments and law enforcement agencies that don’t comply with immigration laws. Fines against local governments could hit up to $25,500 a day.

Glacier National Park in Montana might need to consider a name change one day. That’s because the park’s namesake glaciers are melting at an alarming rate. A new study says the 37 glaciers in the park have lost 85% of their size. And in a few decades, they’ll be gone. “The trend right now is that they are inexorably going into their final demise,” the study’s lead scientist says. “There is no chance they will go into rebirth.” The scientists blame climate change brought on by humans.

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Round and round

Don’t know what a fidget spinner is? Don’t worry, if you have kids they already know (and they know why schools are trying to ban them).

Nifty name

There’s a new “Justin Trudeau” in Canada. He’s not a politician (yet), but rather the newborn son of Syrian refugees who wanted to thank the Prime Minister.

That’s so Florida

An Air Force space plane woke up snoozing residents on Florida’s space coast with a sonic boom. Just another morning in the Sunshine State!

Taken in

When a Vancouver restaurant offered up a free sandwich for Liam Neeson, the actor put his “very particular set of skills” to good use.

And the winner is …

The MTV Movie and TV Awards aren’t really about the winners. But if you do care who won, here’s the list.

What’s for lunch

Here’s what’s happening later

Speaking out

Ex-Acting Attorney General Sally Yates will finally get to testify before a Senate panel this afternoon. She’ll probably say that she warned the White House about former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn’s connections to Russia weeks before he was fired.

And finally …

Hey, trying to sleep here!

A deaf cat gets kind of ticked off because he can’t figure out who woke him up from a nap. But all’s forgiven when he realizes it was just his human. (Click to view)