LOVE Island stars Whitney Adebayo and Yamen Sanders may be back together just days after breaking up.

The pair first got together in the ITV All Stars villa in South Africa in January – finishing in fifth place – but their romance barely made it to the summer.

But it appears Whitney is now at Yamen’s apartment in the US thanks to some sleuthing by eagle-eyed Love Island fans.

People watching both Yamen and Whitney’s individual Snapchat videos have come to the conclusion the two are together.

They started by noticing a “gourmet” bacon and egg sandwich that appeared in both their Snaps, with Yamen dedicating an entire video to how tasty his was. While Whitney posted a photo of their two sandwiches side by side with the caption, “11:27am feels.”

Further to that, fans noticed that the skyline in the back of Whitney’s sandwich photo appeared identical to the view from Yamen’s apartment windows.

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Then another piece of evidence the super sleuths seemed to spy was when Yamen briefly appeared in the back of one of Whitney’s videos.

In the Q&A with fans, Whitney was talking about her luggage from her flight had not arrived and she briefly scanned away from her face when Yamen was spotted.

The fans also suspected a bouquet of flowers Whitney posted a photo of may have been gifted to her from Yamen.

Some on TikTok that Yamen and Whitney have remained friends and that is why she is staying with him while in LA.

As long as Whitney Adebayo and Yamen Sanders are happy and this is not just ‘friendship flying points’…..then we are happy. I maintain this is a respected ‘friendship’, not a romantic relationship. You can still be friends with your ex……” wrote the Just Be Real TikTok account.

Speculation swirled of their break-up earlier this week after the couple were navigating a long-distance relationship.

Whitney was based in the UK while American footballer Yamen was in the US.

A source told me: “Whitney and Yamen did try and put everything into their relationship.

“But it has inevitably been tough to keep up their romance long-distance.

“Whitney has been spending more time with her girls and has been leaning on them while navigating her break-up.”

Earlier this week, Whitney was spotted on TikTok with fellow Love Island star Millie Court having a girly night in.

The pair were seen in their pyjamas clinking glasses of red wine together with the audio ‘so we’re going to heal’ playing.

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Emergency services attended Rede House on Corporation Road on Saturday (May 16) after a bike shed set on fire behind the building.

Cleveland Fire Brigade sent six vehicles to the scene at 11.06pm, with firefighters extinguishing the blaze at 11.17pm. Nobody was injured during the incident.

A spokesperson said: “We were called at 11.06pm on May 16 to reports of a fire in a bike shed. We had an appliance from Middlesbrough, Grangetown, Thornaby, and two from Stockton.

“Our incident command unit from Hartlepool also attended.

“We had two firefighters using breathing apparatus and had two officers in attendance. The fire was extinguished at 11.17pm.

“There were no casualties and our last appliance left the scene at 12.06am.”

A spokesperson for North East Ambulance Service added: “We were alerted by Cleveland Fire Service just before 11.15pm last night (16 May) to a fire in a high rise block on Corporation Road, Middlesbrough.

“A clinical team leader arrived on scene but when the fire service gave the all-clear for no patients trapped or injured, we were stood down.”

A “CONTROLLING” teenager has been accused of shooting dead his pregnant girlfriend and their unborn child.

The horror killing in Arizona also saw two others seriously wounded and fighting for their lives in intensive care.

Pregnant Rylee Montgomery, 16, died at the scene while her 17-year-old friend, also pregnant, and a 22-year-old woman were rushed to hospital.

Police have named 18-year-old Michael Sanchez, who had been in an on-again off-again relationship with Rylee, as their prime suspect.

The Buckeye Police Department ran in on the horror scene at 8:15pm on Thursday, May 14.

They said they found “three female victims suffering from gunshot wounds” on Elwood St in Buckeye.

Two men were spotted running from the horror attack before officers arrived.

“Over the next few hours, investigators worked to identify the suspected shooter as 18-year-old Michael Sanchez, who was in a romantic relationship with Montgomery”, confirmed Buckeye police in a post on Facebook.

He is now being held in Maricopa County jail on two counts of first-degree murder.

Sanchez had previously threatened violence against Rylee if she did not “kill the baby” she carried in her womb, according to the victim’s stepmother.

Rylee’s step mum, Amy, claimed on GoFundMe that Sanchez was “controlling”.

“He started off very sweet and nice to her. Once he got her pregnant in February, it was all over”, she said.

“When she broke up with him in March, he decided to point a gun at her face and told her she wasn’t allowed”.

According to Amy, he also sent her photos of himself holding a gun to his head with the message “I’ll get you”.

Rylee reported the disturbing threats to the police – and just three hours before she was killed, according to her stepmother.

The family had contacted police several times in the run up to Rylee’s death – but were largely ignored, claimed Amy.

She believes Sanchez planned to murder her daughter in cold blood.

“He took it upon himself to travel over 20 miles to where she was and shoot them all. Her friend was shot 3 times. Abby was shot in the back and nearly bled out.”

Abby – believed to be Rylee’s pregnant pal – was forced to deliver her baby boy at 25 weeks.

The identity of the third woman who was shot is unclear.

Step mum Amy also revealed that Rylee would have given birth to a baby girl whom the family have named Erica Kathleen, after Rylee’s grandmother.

At the time of the murder, Sanchez was already being watched by the police.

The 18-year-old was wearing an ankle monitor for crashing his car in a road rage incident in March.

A drone strike has targeted the United Arab Emirates’ sole nuclear power plant, sparking a fire on its perimeter.

There were no reports of injuries or radiological release, but the strike has worried locals as the Iran ceasefire remains tenuous.

No one has immediately claimed responsibility for the targeted strike, and the UAE has not blamed anyone.

It has, however, accused Iran of launching multiple drone and missile attacks in recent days as tensions have risen over the Strait of Hormuz, a vital energy waterway that Iran still has in a chokehold.

This weekend, President Donald Trump suggested hostilities could resume as diplomatic efforts aimed at a more durable peace have repeatedly faltered.

Iranian state television has also repeatedly aired segments with anchors holding Kalashnikov-style rifles in an effort to prepare the public for war – including one segment, where the anchor fired directly at the UAE flag.

The 20 billion dollar Barakah nuclear power plant was built by the UAE with the help of South Korea and went online in 2020.

It is the first and only nuclear power plant in the Arab world and can provide a quarter of all the energy needs in the country.

The UAE’s nuclear regulator said the fire did not affect plant safety and confirmed that all units are operating normally.

The Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog, said the strike caused a fire in an electrical generator and that one reactor was being powered by emergency diesel generators.

IAEA director-general Rafael Mariano Grossi expressed ‘grave concern’ about the incident and said military activity that threatens nuclear safety is unacceptable, the agency said in a statement.

Sunday’s strike marked the first time the four-reactor Barakah plant has been targeted in the war.

It is near the border with Saudi Arabia, some 140 miles west of the UAE’s capital city, Abu Dhabi.

Fighting has also heated up between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group in Lebanon despite a nominal ceasefire there.

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Riot cops were called in after missiles – including glass bottles – were launched in the direction of officers.

Two police officers have been left seriously injured following chaos in Glasgow during Celtic title celebrations.

Around 3,000 supporters flocked to the Trongate area following the club’s 3-1 Scottish Permiership victory over Hearts on Saturday afternoon. Riot cops were called in after missiles – including glass bottles – were launched in the direction of officers.

Some cops were targeted while they assisted with a medical emergency. The force has since confirmed that of the two injured officers, one cop suffered a “significant” facial injury during the carnage while the other was left severely bruised.

A total of 14 arrests have since been made – ten of which were related to Celtic fans gathering in the Trongate area following the match, while four were at the stadium itself. Three members of the public required hospital treatment.

Police say significant work remains ongoing around the disorder. Officers will be reviewing CCTV and capturing statements to identify those responsible.

Assistant Chief Constable Mark Sutherland said: “The large majority of people at the Trongate yesterday were in a celebratory mood and simply wanted to support the victory of their team. However, we once again saw significant disorder and anti-social behaviour when police responded to a medical emergency within the crowd.

“A man was found unresponsive after taking unwell and continues to receive treatment in hospital. While dealing with this, our officers came under sustained attack from missiles and bottles, which resulted in two of them being seriously injured.

“I cannot condemn this behaviour strongly enough. It is completely unacceptable. Our officers must be kept safe when doing their job. They acted bravely, courageously and with the highest degree of professionalism throughout the event.

“They took decisive action, which was entirely appropriate, to clear those intent on violence and disorder, and make arrests. The minority of individuals involved will face the most robust action from Police Scotland and partners as we move forward. If you were involved in criminality, expect us to be knocking at your door.

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“Once again, Police Scotland has been left holding the responsibility and accountability for supporters away from the stadium at the Trongate. We have strong and positive relationships with Celtic Football Club and Glasgow City Council on a day-to-day basis to keep people safe, but on this particular issue more must be done.

“Celtic FC and football authorities, working with local authorities and Police Scotland, must take greater responsibility. This cannot happen again at any future celebrations.”

Police Scotland said it is currently engaging with Heart of Midlothian FC to establish if any of their players were assaulted after fans stormed the pitch at Celtic Park. The circumstances of the incident are being reviewed.

Four further arrests were also made in the vicinity of Tynecastle Stadium in Edinburgh in connection with breach of the peace, assault and robbery offences. A Major Incident Public Portal (MIPP) has since been set up to encourage members of the public to submit information directly to officers.

Those with footage or photos of criminality from Parkhead or around the Trongate area to upload it using the online form here: https://mipp.police.uk/operation/SCOT26X10-PO1 Information can also be passed to Police Scotland via 101 quoting Operation Gristaline. Alternatively, Crimestoppers can be contacted on 0800 555 111, where anonymity can be maintained.

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The future of the Gaza Strip is hanging in the balance as Hamas prepares to elect its first political leader since the death of Yahya Sinwar, a decision which could alter the future direction of the Palestinian militant group and the wider Middle East.

Depleted but still operational after more than two years of war with Israel, Hamas has been holding a highly secretive internal ballot to decide who will run its political wing for the past several weeks. Their decision has long been delayed by Israel’s invasion and bombardment of the enclave, which has brutalised its civilian population.

There have been briefings to suggest that a new leader has now been chosen – but it is unclear if and when Hamas will formally announce the identity of their new leader.

One report in Egyptian newspaper Al Manassa states that Khalil al-Hayya, a Gaza-born close associate of Sinwar, has won the leadership after securing 65 per cent of the vote.

But Khaled Mashal, a long-serving Qatar-based member of Hamas’s politburo, who served as its leader for two decades from 1996 to 2017 – when he was succeeded by the late Ismail Haniyeh – is reported by others to have won the ballot, experts say.

Moderates against hawks – but is it that simple?

The election has been presented by Western media as a choice between a more moderate Mashal and the hawkish Al-Hayya. Zaher Jabarin, the leader of Hamas in the West Bank, was also reportedly a candidate. The trio are now based in Doha, and currently share the title of acting chairman of the Hamas political bureau.

Peace talks between Hamas and Israel appear have hit a wall, despite a ceasefire agreement in October 2025. Hundreds have been killed by Israeli fire in Gaza since the ceasefire began, and its military has continued creeping forward from the agreed “yellow line”, which was intended to demarcate the boundaries of its partial control in the strip.

Mashal, born in the West Bank, is believed to be more open to working with the Palestinian Authority (PA) and holds close diplomatic ties with Turkey and Qatar. Al-Hayya serves as the de facto leader of the Gaza Strip and is one of the group’s chief negotiators.

“[Al-Hayya] also lost two sons in the war,” says Dr Yaniv Voller, an expert in internal Palestinian politics at the University of Kent. “He is also reportedly closer to Iran, which might indicate a stronger inclination to resume the armed struggle.”

Michael Milshtein, an expert on Hamas at Tel Aviv University, said it is “far more important to continue developing the issue of control in Gaza and the matter of [military] rebuilding.”

Dr Rob Geist Pinfold, an expert on the region at King’s College London, says his understanding is that Mashal, Al-Hayya, and Jabarin have been elected into senior roles, with Mashal at the helm.

If this selection is confirmed, it would suggest the elections have served only as a “rubber stamp” for the existing balance of power, with the trio taking on “different portfolios with Mashal as the leader”.

The Western tendency to view the Hamas election as a choice between hawks and moderates, he says, does not reflect the more complex reality of Hamas’ internal politics.

“Both those groups have different reasons to be moderate or extreme. So the Doha group is the diplomats; they’re the ones who have relations with world leaders, including talking with the US, so we often see them as moderates for that reason. However, they are also prone to bombastic rhetoric, they have less of a need to worry about their domestic constituency,” he says.

The military wing in Gaza, known as the al-Qassam Brigades, are viewed as more hardline given their active role in pushing for the 7 October attacks.

“At the same time, they also have a reason to be more pragmatic in that they have a domestic constituency and domestic base to answer to, with more than 90 per cent of Gazans still under Hamas rule,” Dr Pinfold explains.

Will Hamas change its approach to controlling Gaza?

In the absence of any truly reformist candidates, there is little prospect of any kind of wholesale change in Hamas’ approach to controlling Gaza and how it projects power internationally.

There are growing concerns, however, about the possibility of the group’s influence in the West Bank increasing despite the reelection of Mahmoud Abbas as leader of Fatah. As one of the world’s oldest leaders at 90 years old, he is under mounting pressure to implement reforms and tackle accusations of corruption.

“Succession battles are beginning to take place,” says Dr Voller. “Hamas is more popular in the West Bank than it is in Gaza and the situation there seems to be spiralling toward instability, partly also because of the intensifying settler violence.”

On Thursday, Abbas reiterated pledges to reform the PA and hold long-delayed presidential and parliamentary elections during the Fatah party conference this week.

“We renew our full commitment to continuing work on implementing all the reform measures we pledged,” Abbas said, although he failed to produce a timeline for the elections.

Dr Voller says that the PA “should and could play an important role in Gaza’s reconstruction” warning that its “collapse into internal rivalries could have an even more detrimental impact on the lives of Palestinians in both Gaza and the West Bank”.

Call them mom and dad — Alex Cooper and Matt Kaplan are expecting their first baby together.

The Call Her Daddy podcast host, 31, shared pictures Sunday showing off her pregnancy bump with Kaplan, 42, as she simply wrote, “Our family.”

Cooper and Kaplan tied the knot in Mexico in April 2024 after they met on a Zoom call during the Covid-19 pandemic in July 2020.

The pregnancy announcement comes weeks after unfounded reports by the Daily Mail that they were having marital problems.

However, they walked the red carpet together at last week’s 2026 YouTube Upfront.

Both Cooper and Kaplan, a film producer, have been facing career drama in recent months.

Last month, a bombshell report accused Kaplan of berating and threatening workers at his and Cooper’s production company, Unwell Network.

Unwell Network has reportedly faced employee turnover due to a toxic work environment fostered by Kaplan, who works as the company’s the co-chief executive officer.

Cooper and Kaplan co-founded their company Trending Media in 2023, which is the parent company for the Unwell Network. Unwell includes Cooper’s lifestyle podcasts and Kaplan’s own production company, ACE Entertainment.

Kaplan is said to be running the day-to-day operations of the business while Cooper focuses on her extremely popular podcast.

Company insiders told Bloomberg that Kaplan has allegedly “earned a reputation for frequently yelling at staff members” and threatening to blacklist them from other jobs, the outlet reported.

Some employees have reportedly threatened to quit the network while working on film sets and live tours due to his behavior.

Meanwhile, Cooper has raised speculation about the working environment of her own podcast due to her apparent feud with Alix Earle.

The conflict went public last month when Cooper shared a video after Coachella weekend where she called out Earle, 25, by name.

“You guys know I don’t usually address this kind of stuff because it feels like a waste of time,” Cooper said in the video. “And honestly, it’s embarrassing to participate in this. But I am obviously seeing the videos and I’m getting tagged. I see the DMs, I see the comments. So, at this point, it just feels long overdue.”

She then paused and said, ““Alix Earle, hey girl. The passive-aggressive reposts and the ‘likes’ and the commenting on things, I gotta call you out here — you’re gonna need to get specific. Just say what you gotta say about me. There’s no NDA and no one is stopping you. Stop hiding behind other people and just say it yourself. What’s the beef?”

Earle responded with a quick comment on the video: “Okay on it!!”

Cooper’s video came days after Earle had reposted a TikTok video accusing Cooper of exploiting her podcast guests for tell-all interviews.

Earle and Cooper were previously on good terms. Earle was one of the first podcasts to launch under Unwell Network in September 2023.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Even as Democratic officials fight the effort in court, the Trump administration has run millions of voter registrations through government databases to determine their eligibility in a process that critics worry could end up purging valid voters from the rolls before the November elections.

At least 67 million registrations, primarily from Republican-controlled states, have gone through a beefed-up verification program at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and tens of thousands of those have been flagged as potential noncitizens or people who have died. Some states allow only a month for people to prove their eligibility and others suspend it immediately.

The scanning of state voter rolls at the national level is part of a broader effort by Republican President Donald Trump to federalize certain election functions and promote his messaging that elections are marred by noncitizen voting, even though instances of that are rare. Voting and civil rights advocates say the DHS system is error-prone and can mistakenly flag people who are eligible to vote.

“If a voter is wrongly removed, by the time they learn about it and correct it, they may miss their opportunity to vote in that election,” said Freda Levenson, a lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio. The group is challenging an Ohio law requiring monthly checks with the DHS system.

Voters such as 29-year-old Anthony Nel have been caught in the middle.

The native of South Africa, who became a citizen more than a decade ago, was flagged as a potential noncitizen when Texas ran its voter file through the DHS verification system. Nel’s local election office in Denton, north of Dallas, temporarily canceled his registration last fall while he was waiting for a new passport to replace an expired one.

“I’m like, ‘You should know that I’m a citizen, that the passport exists,’” he said in an interview.

States’ entire voter rolls reviewed

Trump has been trying to overhaul U.S. elections, including calling for a federal list of verified voters, and his Department of Justice has pushed states to hand over unredacted voter information for mass checks through the DHS program known as SAVE.

The Justice Department has sued states that refuse, saying the government is trying to ensure that they are complying with federal law and have accurate voter lists. States already take a number of steps to maintain the accuracy of their voter rolls.

SAVE, short for Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements, was created under an immigration law mandating that DHS help federal, state and local agencies prevent government benefits from going to noncitizens. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, an arm of DHS, said more than 1,300 agencies use it.

At least 25 states have used SAVE to check their voter rolls since April 2025, after the Trump administration significantly expanded its search abilities, and 60 million registrations were checked in a year’s time, according to Citizenship and Immigration Services. That figure does not include an additional 7.4 million registrations from North Carolina, where Republicans control the state election board, that were recently run through the system.

Citizenship and Immigration Services said in an emailed statement that it is “committed to helping eliminate voter fraud” to restore Americans’ trust in their elections.

“SAVE is one of the most important tools states have to verify voter information,” Kansas Secretary of State Scott Schwab, a Republican, recently told a U.S. House committee examining how states keep voter rolls clean.

Schwab’s endorsement is notable because he once was publicly skeptical that noncitizens represented a significant voter fraud threat.

Republicans cite hits from SAVE searches

Citizenship and Immigration Services said the 60 million voter registration checks identified about 24,000 potential noncitizens. U.S. Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon, who runs the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, said during a recent Fox News interview that those checks also identified about 350,000 people who appear to have died.

North Carolina’s State Board of Elections said its check had identified another 34,000 registered voters who are potentially deceased.

Even if all those eventually were verified as ineligible, they would represent small percentages of total registered voters. The figure for noncitizens would be about 400 for every 1 million registrations. Some 384,000 people identified as potentially deceased in about 67 million registrations is a fraction of 1%.

Some voters have been mistakenly flagged.

In Dallas, election officials recently canceled the registration of Domingo Garcia, a 68-year-old lawyer and voting rights activist, without explanation. He has been voting regularly for 50 years, most recently in the state’s March 3 primary, and suspects that officials concluded he was deceased.

“I should not have been on any lists,” he said.

False positives are popping up

Voting rights advocates have filed at least six federal lawsuits over SAVE checks, either against the Trump administration or states using the program.

Nel, a 29-year-old college administrator, is a plaintiff in one of them, filed recently in the District of Columbia against the Justice Department. It alleges an “illegal and unprecedented quest” by the administration for “millions of Americans’ confidential voter data.”

Lawyers also argue that eligible voters will be disenfranchised by hits from outdated or incomplete data.

Nel came to the United States from South Africa with his parents at age 8. His parents became citizens when he was 16, making him a citizen, as well. He said he has voted regularly since he was 18.

Yet he received a letter in October in a white envelope that looked to him like junk mail. It told him he had been identified as a potential noncitizen through a SAVE check of Texas’ 18 million voter registrations. He had 30 days to prove otherwise — a deadline he missed because of the time it took to get a new passport.

“It’s clear that this process that they’ve put into place for this doesn’t work,” he said.

Defenders say the SAVE system is a first step

Republican officials said the administration does not portray SAVE searches as foolproof. Instead, it identifies registrations that should be further investigated, they said.

In Kansas, Schwab’s office is still investigating its list of flagged registrations and has yet to disclose the number of hits of potentially ineligible voters from a SAVE check of the state’s 2 million registrations.

Once his office forwards flagged names to county officials, a state law enacted this year requires them to list the registrations as “in suspense” or “pending” until the cases are resolved. A flagged person still can vote, but the ballot is set aside for further review and might not be counted.

Texas is supposed to give people with flagged registrations 30 days to prove they are properly registered. North Carolina will require county elections boards to give people whose registrations are challenged a hearing before they can be canceled.

A new Ohio law requires local election boards to “promptly” cancel the registrations of people whom the secretary of state identifies as noncitizens during registration checks that the official is required to make at least monthly.

Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose, a Republican, said in an email that people’s voting rights are not in danger because “all they need to do to immediately restore their registration status is show proof of citizenship.”

But Levenson, the ACLU lawyer, described the approach differently.

“Shoot first and ask questions later,” she said.

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Associated Press writers Jack Dura in Bismarck, North Dakota, and Gary Robertson, in Raleigh, North Carolina, contributed to this report.

The incident took place on Lawson Street, in Seaton Carew, when the man disturbed the male suspect at about 2.40am this morning (Sunday, May 17). 

He was assaulted and left with facial injuries, leaving him in hospital. Cleveland Police said nothing was stolen during the incident.

The suspect is described as a white male, aged 30 to 40 years old, of stocky build, clean shaven, and around 5ft 6” to 5ft 8” tall. 

He was wearing a dark coloured hat and dark coloured bottoms which were tucked into his socks. 

Detective Inspector Jolene Bolton, from Cleveland Police, said: “We understand this incident would have been terrifying for the victim, and may be unsettling for others in the area. 

We would like to reassure local people that we are doing everything possible to identify and locate the suspect as soon as we can, and we would like anyone with information or CCTV footage in the area to get in touch with us. 

We will also be carrying out reassurance patrols in the local area.”

Anyone who may have information, or anyone with CCTV in the area, is asked to contact Cleveland Police on 101, quoting reference number 093313.

Footage can also be uploaded directly here. 

Crimestoppers can also be contacted anonymously online or by calling 0800 555 111.