Todd Lyons will step down as acting head of ICE on May 31, opening a leadership transition at the center of President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown as Republicans praise his tenure and critics press for tighter restraints on the agency.[1][2][3]
Begoña Gómez, the wife of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, has been formally charged after a two-year investigation, turning a long-running political fight into a sharper test for Spain's minority government and its claims of judicial politicisation.[1][2]
Volodymyr Zelenskyy met Friedrich Merz in Berlin on Tuesday for German-Ukrainian consultations centered on military aid, reconstruction and financing, as Kyiv pressed Europe to keep support moving while U.S. attention drifts and the war grinds on.[1][2]
On Thursday, Vladimir Putin announced a 32-hour Orthodox Easter ceasefire and Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukraine would observe reciprocal steps, creating a narrow test of whether a holiday pause can interrupt a war that has repeatedly outlasted earlier truce efforts.[1][2][3][4]
Allbirds said Wednesday it will rebrand as NewBird AI, raise up to $50 million and pivot into AI compute infrastructure, sending its shares sharply higher as investors weighed whether the move is a real turnaround plan or another speculative market trade.[1][2][3]
Sweden said Wednesday a Russia-linked group tried to carry out a destructive cyberattack on a heating plant in western Sweden last year, adding to a wider European pattern of pressure on energy and water systems that officials say has grown riskier since Russia's war in Ukraine.[1][2][3]
