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The operator of a major U.S. pipeline hit by a cyberattack says it hopes to have service mostly restored by the end of the week. (May 10)

Millions of Californians would get tax rebates of up to $1,100 under a proposal unveiled Monday by Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, as part of a broader pandemic recovery plan made possible by an eye-popping $75 billion budget surplus. (May 10)

The State Department is condemning the rocket attacks that occured in Israel after Hamas militants fired numerous rockets on Monday. It also condemned the brutal attack on a girl's school in Kabul that killed dozens of people. (May 10)

Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) says he warned House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) that the rhetoric from his Republican colleagues could lead to violence prior to the January 6 US Capitol riot. CNN's Manu Raju reports.

President Joe Biden shares how his administration responded to the fallout of a ransomware attack on the Colonial Pipeline, which supplies much of the eastern United States its gasoline.

With the help of Boykin spaniels who sniff out ornate box turtles hiding in prairie grass, researchers are able to monitor turtle health. They say the turtles are sentinels of environmental and ecosystem health that also impacts humans. (May 10)

Germany's powerful Catholic progressives are openly defying a recent Holy See pronouncement that priests cannot bless same-sex unions. They are offering such blessings at services in about 100 different churches all over the country this week. The blessings at open worship services are the latest pushback from German Catholics against a document released in March by the Vatican's orthodoxy office.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo says New York will require students of the state's and New York City's public university and college systems to get vaccinated to attend in-person classes this fall. (May 10)

A new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center shows President Joe Biden with a steady approval of a majority of Americans, which is buoyed in particular by the public's broad backing for his handling of the coronavirus pandemic. (May 10)

Bangalore (India) (AFP) – Empty streets, closed shops and a busy crematorium as a stricter virus lockdown is imposed in India's tech-hub of Bangalore to tackle rising Covid-19 cases. The country is suffering from one of the worst outbreaks in the world, reporting nearly 370,000 fresh infections and more than 3,700 new deaths on Monday.

In normal times it's the last place you'd want to get puncture marks on your skin. But these are not normal times and people have been queuing to get inside the fabled Count Dracula's castle in Transylvania to get their COVID jabs. Imaginative officials came up with the idea of transforming the mythical mansion into a vaccination centre to help speed up Romania's inoculation programme.

Afghanistan has suffered its deadliest attack in a year outside a girls' school in Kabul. At least 50 people died in a bombing, mostly students, and about 100 were injured.