 | | | | | | Hello, these are your top stories for Friday, May 16, 2025.
Get up-to-date news any time on our website. | | |  | | | | May 15 , 2025 at 06:09:19 p.m. EDT • : | | The Weeknd's new movie is not quite a music video, and not quite a movie. Instead, it's arcane, obtuse and boring — a hopelessly pointless therapy assignment serving no one but Abel Tesfaye himself. | | Read more | |  | | | | May 15 , 2025 at 12:15:54 p.m. EDT • : | | R&B singer Cassie was forced under cross-examination Thursday to read aloud explicit messages with her former boyfriend Sean (Diddy) Combs, some of which expressed enthusiasm for sex with other men at Combs's behest that she previously testified she "hated doing." | | Read more | |  | | | | May 15 , 2025 at 11:02:53 a.m. EDT • : | | Canadian chanteuse Céline Dion surprised fans and competitors alike with a message of love and gratitude at this year's Eurovision Song Contest, a competition she says was "life-changing" for her and helped launch her to global superstardom. | | Read more | | |  | | | | May 14 , 2025 at 10:22:12 a.m. EDT • : | | The R&B singer Cassie testified Wednesday that her ex-boyfriend Sean (Diddy) Combs kept her in a cycle of abuse and exploitation by threatening to release videos of her in multi-day, drug-fuelled sex parties he orchestrated and called "freak-offs." | | Read more | |  | | | | May 14 , 2025 at 04:00:00 p.m. EDT • : | | While not the series' best movie, Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning is solidly middle-of-the-pack — and as always, the set pieces are reliably thrilling. But beyond Tom Cruise's seemingly boundless appetite for grabbing onto the outside of airplanes, this is a film aware of the mythos he's created. | | Read more | | | |  | | | May 14 , 2025 at 04:00:00 a.m. EDT • : | | | Read more | | | | |  | | | May 13 , 2025 at 11:29:01 a.m. EDT • : | | | Read more | | | | |  | | | May 13 , 2025 at 05:18:23 a.m. EDT • : | | | Read more | | | | |  | | | May 13 , 2025 at 09:21:46 a.m. EDT • : | | | Read more | | | | |  | | | May 9 , 2025 at 09:50:27 p.m. EDT • : | | | Read more | | | | Enjoying this newsletter? You may also like CBC News Morning Brief, the news you need to know to start the day. Delivered weekday mornings. Sign up here | | |  | That's all for now. Check cbc.ca/news throughout the day for the most recent headlines. | | | | | | |
