Homosexuality and Methodism The United Methodist Church votes 692–51 to repeal a longstanding ban on LGBTQ clergy while additionally prohibiting superintendents from forbidding a same-sex wedding.
2024 Scottish government crisis The Scottish National Party administration survives the vote of no confidence earlier this week, prompting the party to seek a replacement for outgoing First Minister Humza Yousaf.
Israel–Hamas war protests The administration of Shiraz University in Southern Iran offers free tuition to college students in the United States who have been expelled for participating in anti-Israel campus protests.
Pro-Israel counter-protestors attack the pro-Palestinian encampment at the University of California, Los Angeles, throwing objects and attempting to destroy barricades.
May Day At least 45 people are arrested and 12 police officers are injured at May Day protests in Paris. French police use tear gas and batons to disperse several protests.
Turkish police At least 217 people are detained by Turkish police during May Day rallies in Istanbul, after police fire tear gas and rubber bullets into the crowds.
Mount Horeb Middle School A student is fatally shot by police officers outside Mount Horeb Middle School in Mount Horeb, Wisconsin, United States, after the police received reports of someone carrying a weapon.
Abortion in North Carolina U.S. federal judge Catherine Eagles blocks several of North Carolina's restrictions on the abortion pill mifepristone, striking down a requirement that the drug can only be prescribed by doctors in-person, as well as a requirement for patients to have an in-person follow-up appointment.
Rwanda asylum plan Irish Taoiseach Simon Harris announces the deployment of 100 police officers to the border with Northern Ireland amid fears that thousands of migrants might flee the UK in order to avoid deportation to Rwanda. Ireland also declares the United Kingdom a "safe country" so that asylum seekers can be deported back to the UK.
International reactions to the Israel–Hamas war President Gustavo Petro announces that Colombia will suspend diplomatic relations with Israel over its actions in Gaza.
2024 Kenya floods The death toll from ongoing flooding in Kenya increases to 181, as more homes and roads are destroyed.
2024 Guangdong floods Forty-eight people are killed and 30 more injured as twenty-three vehicles fell down during a highway collapse in Meizhou, Guangdong, China.
Israel–Hamas war Amid pressure from the United States, Israel reopens the Erez-Beit Hanoun Crossing and allows aid trucks into the northern part of the Gaza Strip.
Russian invasion of Ukraine Russia displays captured NATO military vehicles and equipment at an open-air exhibition in Victory Park on Poklonnaya Hill in Moscow. Among the captured vehicles are a German Leopard 2 tank and an American M1 Abrams tank.
Two Russian ballistic missiles strike the port city of Odesa, killing three people and injuring sixteen others.