On Tuesday, May 20, shortly after a federal election, the leader of the National Party, David Littleproud, announced that the party would be ending their century-long partnership with the Liberal Party. The two parties' coalition has previously been the dominant centre-right and right-wing party in Australian politics, opposing the centre-left Labor Party.
On May 17, 2025, Nasha Niva announced that Belarusian security forces had apprehended Maksim Lepushenka, the Belarusian-language Wikipedia sysop and only bureaucrat, on May 15, 2025. This became the latest link in a chain of detentions of Belarusian Wikipedians in recent months.
On May 20, the Mayos de Navojoa of the Mexican Pacific Winter League (MPL) announced a move to Tucson, Arizona, becoming the first professional baseball team to represent the city in over a decade. They will be playing in the Kino Sports Complex starting in the 2025-26 season, with Tucson to be the first American city to participate in the MPL.
On Thursday, the San Antonio Police Department (SAPD) announced they had arrested a 33 year-old woman and her teenager son on terrorism charges some days earlier. She had bought equipment such as ammunition and tactical gear in order to help him commit a violent attack against his school.
On Friday, May 16, 2025, ten inmates broke out of the Parish Justice Center Orleans in New Orleans in Louisiana, a state on the south-east coast of the United States. The Justice Center staff discovered the breakout during an 8:30 a.m. headcount.
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