China Says One-fifth Of Its Farmland Is Polluted

Dear Amy: I am a very active 66-year-old woman. I hate being idle. My mostly amazing husband doesn’t mind idle time. This would be OK, except he resents my constant coming and going. After retiring from a stressful corporate job, I have two part-time jobs; one that takes about eight hours during the week and the other four hours on the weekend. I also enjoy fitness, riding horses, playing with our grandson, and socializing during the day. I let my husband know years ago that I would hardly be home when I retired.

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI has raised $6 billion to accelerate its challenge to his former allies at OpenAI. The Series B round, announced in a blog post on May 26, comes less than a year after xAI’s debut and marks one of the bigger investments in the nascent field of developing AI tools.

Moon Alert: Avoid shopping or making important decisions from 3:45 p.m. to 5 p.m. EDT today (12:45 p.m. to 2 p.m. PDT). After that, the Moon moves from Capricorn into Aquarius. It’s Memorial Day. Happy Birthday for Monday, May 27, 2024: You are perceptive, creative and energetic. You are also gentle and philosophical.

Thai activist-turned-lawmaker Chonthicha “Lookkate” Jangrew—a prominent figure of the country’s pro-democracy movement and a member of the Move Forward Party that galvanized the public during last year’s parliamentary elections—was sentenced on Monday to two years in prison for royal defamation related to her involvement in a 2021 demonstration. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Lookkate, who was recently included in TIME’s list of Next Generation Leaders, which published in print also on Monday, denies the charge and has filed an appeal.

Here's an example of why I think TikTok is not going away anytime soon. Short user-submitted video mashups have made TikTok the 4th largest social media platform in the world. You combine a few disparate elements to make what I think is better than the individual parts. In this case, the wonderful Swedish swing dancers Nils Andrén & Bianca Locatelli who in their original video were dancing to a slow blues by B.

Grayson Murray’s parents said Sunday their 30-year-old son took his own life, just one day after he withdrew from a PGA Tour event. The family asked for privacy and that people honor Murray by being kind to one another. “If that becomes his legacy, we could ask for nothing else,” Eric and Terry Murray said in a statement released by the PGA Tour. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Murray, a two-time PGA Tour winner, spoke in January after winning the Sony Open in Honolulu about turning the corner in his life, his golf and battles with alcoholism and mental health.