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Baghdad has seen a spate of deadly ISIS bombings in the last several days. On Monday alone, five blasts rocked the capital city, NPR's Alice Fordham reported.

Egypt has added a third day of voting in its presidential election. With Abdel Fattah al-Sisi relying on voter turnout to legitimize his election, the government-allied media is exhorting Egyptians to vote or be considered traitors.

In just four days, some 7,000 migrants on dozens of flimsy vessels were rescued from the Mediterranean Sea. Italian authorities are scrambling to find shelters for them.

Communication was lost with the ship Thursday and the U.S. Coast Guard concluded that it had sunk. Wednesday evening, the Coast Guard ended the search for survivors.

Asma Naeem of the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery and author and professor Laila Lalami discuss what patriotism means to them on Memorial Day weekend.

Riina, who is thought to have ordered the murders of more than 150 people, died while in a medically induced coma a day after turning 87.

Iranian television said the stampede took place in Kerman, Soleimani's hometown, where the Quds Force commander slain in a U.S. airstrike last week was to be buried.

One day after being arrested over allegations that he raped one man and sexually assaulted another, a senior British legislator says the accusations are without merit. Britain's House of Commons Deputy Speaker Nigel Evans says the claims were made by people "who until yesterday I regarded as friends."

Members of the Trump administration won't have to wait five years before lobbying the agencies where they worked. Trump had been highly critical of former President Clinton for a similar reversal.

First responders, medical workers and essential employees will now be eligible for coronavirus testing, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said during his daily briefing Saturday.