| By Derek Caney (@stax920)
An EgyptAir flight carrying 66 passengers from Paris to Cairo disappeared from radar over the Mediterranean Sea. Airline execs and Egyptian aviation officials believe the plane crashed, but they can't rule out any cause for the crash, including terrorism. You can follow all the action on our liveblog.
Two Chinese fighter jets intercepted a U.S. military reconnaissance plane over the South China Sea. The incident took place in international airspace as the maritime patrol aircraft carried out "a routine U.S. patrol," a Pentagon statement said. Chinese authorities haven't commented yet. The incident comes a week after China scrambled fighter jets as a U.S. Navy ship sailed close to a disputed reef in the South China Sea.
German drug giant Bayer made an unsolicited bid for Monsanto, the world's biggest seed company. We don't know the price, but Monsanto's market cap is $42 billion. Monsanto's stock has fallen 23 percent in the last 15 months, as high inventories and low commodity prices spur M&A activity in the agrichemicals sector. Monsanto, itself, tried to buy Swiss rival Syngenta, before giving up last August. Monsanto also approached Bayer earlier this year to buy its crop science unit.
Around the country - Donald Trump named 11 judges he would consider, if elected, to replace the late Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court. He picked eight men and three women, all white and all conservative. He vetted all of them very carefully – especially Texas State Supreme Court Justice Don Willett, who referred to him as "Darth Trump" on Twitter.
 As an aside, we at Reuters News Now aren't experts at judges who tweet, but if Don Willett isn't the funniest jurist on Twitter, he certainly needs to be in the running. - University of Wisconsin suspended the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, after a member said he was subjected to racial, homophobic and anti-semetic slurs. He also said he was choked for five seconds before others intervened. Brotherhood.
- The NAACP has filed a federal lawsuit against Michigan and its governor on behalf of the residents and businesses in Flint, where high levels of lead in the drinking water has created a health crisis. The suit accuses city and state officials as well as two engineering firms of failing to detect the problems or properly treat the water.
Where are the tasty waves? 
A paddle boarder makes his way to the water as the space shuttle fuel tank ET-94 arrives by barge for its eventual placement at the California Science Center in Marina del Rey, California, U.S., May 18, 2016. REUTERS/Gene Blevins
Around the world - Japanese atomic bomb survivors say an apology from President Barack Obama for the bombing of Hiroshima would be welcome, but their priority is on ridding the world of all nuclear weapons forever.
Digit of the day: 1
That's the number of members of parliament Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau elbowed during an altercation. He was rushing across the floor to hurry one member to his seat when his elbow appeared to strike another in the chest. He was very sorry, but he still got two minutes for elbowing. The opposition party did not score on the power play.
- Jihadi militants in Syria are mobilizing again for all-out war against President Bashar al-Assad, taking advantage of the collapse of peace talks to eclipse nationalist rival insurgents that signed on to a faltering truce.
Around Wall Street - The economy could be ready for another interest rate increase in June, according to the minutes from the Federal Reserve's April policy meeting. Officials want to see signs that economic growth was picking up in the second quarter and that employment and inflation were firming.
- The hackers who stole $81 million from Bangladesh's central bank infiltrated a bank official's computer to make the transactions through the SWIFT global messaging system, Bangladesh Ambassador John Gomes said at a Philippine Senate inquiry. Gomes said the hackers were neither in the Philippines nor in Bangladesh, but he had no other information.
- The head of China's industry and technology regulator stressed security for Chinese users in a meeting with Apple chief Tim Cook in Beijing. China's ruling Communist Party is trying to promote its domestic technology as more secure. The nation also wants to rely less on foreign technology. And Cook? He wants to sell more stuff in China.
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