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Rihanna departs The Carlyle Hotel prior to attending The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala celebrating the opening of "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style" on Monday, May 5, 2025, in New York. (Photo by Andy Kropa/Invision/AP)

A$AP Rocky confirms baby No. 3 with Rihanna at the 2025 Met Gala

May 5, 2025 at 7:45 p.m.

One of the biggest surprises on the day 2025 Met Gala is Rihanna's protruding belly.

American swimmer Gary Hall Jr. holds an original medal from Atlanta 1996, that melted during the wildfires in Los Angeles that destroyed his home earlier this year, while holding a replica of the Olympic medal that IOC President Thomas Bach presented to him during a ceremony at the Olympic House in Lausanne, Switzerland, Monday, May 5, 2025. (Denis Balibouse/Keystone/Reuters Pool via AP)

Olympic swim great Gary Hall Jr. awarded 10 medals to replace those destroyed in the Los Angeles fires

May 5, 2025 at 4:10 p.m.

After all of swimming great Gary Hall Jr.'s Olympic medals were destroyed in the Los Angeles fires he set an unexpected record replacing them at IOC headquarters.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaks during the Microsoft Build conference at the Seattle Convention Center Summit Building in Seattle on May 21, 2024. (Jason Redmond/Getty-AFP)

OpenAI reverses course, says nonprofit will remain in control of company

May 5, 2025 at 3:13 p.m.

The nonprofit will continue to control the company that makes ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence products.

Sovereignty, ridden by Junior Alvarado, crosses the finish line to win the 151st running of the Kentucky Derby horse race at Churchill Downs on May 3, 2025, in Louisville, Ky. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

NBC Sports’ Mike Tirico feeling fine after nut allergy knocked him off the Kentucky Derby broadcast

May 5, 2025 at 10:54 a.m.

NBC Sports host Mike Tirico said Monday he is feeling fine after having to leave the Kentucky Derby broadcast early over the weekend because of a strong reaction to a...

Residents from the Penon de Los Banos neighborhood re-enact the battle of Puebla between the Zacapoaztlas Indians and French army during Cinco de Mayo celebrations, Thursday, May 5, 2005, in Mexico City. Cinco de Mayo commemorates the victory of an ill-equipped Mexican army over French troops in Puebla on May 5, 1862. (AP Photo/ Eduardo Verdugo)

Today in History: Battle of Cinco de Mayo

May 5, 2025 at 4:00 a.m.

On May 5, 1862, Mexican troops repelled French attacks on the city of Puebla de los Ángeles in the Battle of Puebla, also known as the Battle of Cinco de Mayo.

Specialist Alex Weitzman works at his post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Friday, May 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

How the stock market made back all its losses after Donald Trump escalated the trade war

May 4, 2025 at 2:08 p.m.

It felt much longer, but the U.S. stock market needed just a few weeks to roar all the way back to where it was on President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day.”

Lady Gaga performs during her free concert on Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Saturday, May 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

Brazilian police arrest two people over plot to bomb Lady Gaga’s concert in Rio

May 4, 2025 at 11:18 a.m.

Brazilian police said on Sunday that they had thwarted a plot to detonate a bomb at Lady Gaga’ s concert in Rio de Janeiro.

Municipal workers clean up around burnt cars in the residential area following Russia’s drone attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, May 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Putin says he hopes there will be no need to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine

May 4, 2025 at 8:52 a.m.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that the need to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine had not arisen and that he hopes it will not.

On May 4, 1886, at Haymarket Square in Chicago, a labor demonstration for an 8-hour workday turned into a deadly riot when a bomb exploded, killing seven police officers and at least four civilians.

Today in History: Haymarket Square demonstration turns deadly

May 4, 2025 at 4:00 a.m.

On May 4, 1886, at Haymarket Square in Chicago, a labor demonstration for an 8-hour workday turned into a deadly riot when a bomb exploded, killing seven police officers and...

Fire goalkeeper Chris Brady grabs a loose against Cincinnati on April 19, 2025, at Soldier Field. (Geoff Stellfox/Getty Images)

Short-handed Chicago Fire battle Orlando City to a scoreless draw, running winless streak to 6

May 3, 2025 at 11:10 p.m.

The Chicago Fire played a man down for more than 50 minutes Saturday night but played to a scoreless draw with Orlando City.