5 Big News Stories Overnight - Tuesday, May 12, 2026

France arrests Tunisian suspected of planning 'jihad-inspired' attack in Paris

France 24 reports:

French authorities have arrested a 27-year-old Tunisian man suspected of "plotting a violent action inspired by jihadism", the anti-terror prosecutor's office told AFP on Monday.

According to a source familiar with the case, the investigation established that the suspect was aiming to attack "a Paris museum as well as members of the Jewish community, although no specific target had been identified".

The man was arrested on May 7 after a preliminary probe was launched the day before into suspected "terrorist criminal conspiracy", the PNAT prosecutor's office said, confirming a report in Le Monde newspaper.

Besides plotting the attack in Paris, the suspect was contemplating joining "the ranks of the Islamic State terrorist organisation in Syria or Mozambique", it added.

Washington: Trump on Housing

Donald J. Trump posted:

@realDonaldTrump

As I said at my State of the Union Address on February 25th, the American Dream of Homeownership is under attack. For example, Rachel Wiggins, a mom of two, from Houston, placed bids on 20 homes, and lost all of those bids to gigantic Investment Firms that bypassed inspection, paid all cash, and turned those houses into rentals, stealing away her American Dream — She was devastated! Stories like this are why I signed an Executive Order to ban large Wall Street Investment Firms from buying up single-family homes. Also, in my speech, I called for Congress to save the American Dream of Homeownership, and ban these purchases, PERMANENTLY! Senators Bernie Moreno and Tim Scott have worked to ensure my call becomes a reality, and have a Bill which has passed the Senate with nearly 90 votes. I am asking Congress to pass that Bill, the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, which would ensure that homes are for people, not Corporations. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP

China Trip Is On

The Guardian reports:

On 20 February, a White House official confirmed that US president Donald Trump would be travelling to Beijing the following month to meet with Chinese leader Xi Jinping. Top of the agenda: the US-China trade war.

One week later, Trump approved joint strikes with Israel against Iran, starting a new war in the Middle East. Its ramifications have spread far beyond the region and caused alarm in Beijing. The presidential summit was postponed.

Now the highly anticipated meeting between Trump and Xi is expected to take place on 13-15 May in Beijing, and China’s agenda has shifted.

Beijing is keen to make sure that the sky-high tariffs that Trump announced last year – which reached as high as 145% before the two sides agreed a truce in October – do not return.

United Kingdom

The Telegraph reports:

At least three Cabinet ministers, including Shabana Mahmood, have called on Sir Keir Starmer to consider his position.

The Prime Minister is facing demands to quit after his last-ditch attempt to rescue his premiership backfired on Monday.

In the hours that followed his “reset” speech, more than 70 Labour MPs publicly demanded his resignation, including four ministerial aides who quit the Government to back the mutiny.

Then, in what is likely to be a fatal blow to Sir Keir’s premiership, it emerged on Monday evening that Ms Mahmood, the Home Secretary, was among Cabinet ministers to have joined the calls, reportedly telling the Prime Minister privately that he should consider leaving office.

Google says it likely thwarted effort by hacker group to use AI for ‘mass exploitation event’

CNBC reports:

Google’s Threat Intelligence Group said in a report on Monday that it thwarted an effort by hackers to use artificial intelligence models to “plan a mass vulnerability exploitation operation.”

GTIG said it has “high confidence” that it recorded hackers using an AI model to find and exploit a zero-day vulnerability, or a software flaw unknown to developers, creating a way to bypass two-factor authentication.

“The criminal threat actor planned to use it in a mass exploitation event but our proactive counter discovery may have prevented its use,” Google wrote in the post, without disclosing the name of the hacker group. Google said it does not believe that its homegrown Gemini model was used.

The findings underscore how hackers are using available AI tools like OpenClaw to exploit software flaws in ways that can be particularly damaging to companies, government agencies and other organizations even as cybersecurity firms pump billions of dollars into bolstering their defenses.