Biggest news you missed this weekend

France’s Emmanuel Macron beats Marine Le Pen in presidential runoff

The European political establishment breathed a heavy sigh of relief Sunday, as French voters easily elected pragmatic centrist Emmanuel Macron as president over right-wing challenger Marine Le Pen, who threatened to upend Europe’s existing order, according polling agency projections. Le Pen threatened to curb immigration, particularly for Muslims, pull France out of the European Union and return the country to the French franc — moves that would have caused political and economic upheaval in Europe and around the world. Macron, 39, is a former investment banker and economy minister who strongly supports the European Union. He is France's youngest ever president. Here's why former secretary of State Condoleezza Rice warns against feeling reassured by Le Pen's defeat.

North Korea seizes another American citizen as crisis heats up

North Korea announced Sunday it detained another American over the weekend, raising to four the number of U.S. citizens being held by the communist nation's authoritarian regime. Kim Hak-song had worked at the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology, the same school where American Tony Kim had worked prior to being arrested at Pyongyang International Airport two weeks ago, North Korea's state-run KCNA news agency said Sunday. Relations between the U.S. and North Korea have grown more strained in recent months as Pyongyang conducts nuclear and ballistic missile tests in defiance of international bans.

Ferguson protester featured in iconic photo dies

He is a compelling presence in an American flag T-shirt, hair flying as smoke and flames race behind him on an electric summer night. One hand grasps a small bag of chips, the other a tear gas canister, poised for flight. The powerful image, taken four days after a white police officer fatally shot unarmed black teen Michael Brown, captured the flash point that was Ferguson., Mo., in August 2014. Now, the man featured in the photo, which was part of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's Pulitzer Prize-winning photo coverage of the Ferguson protests, has died. The St. Louis County medical examiner’s office says Edward Crawford Jr.’s death on Thursday was reported as a suspected suicide.

Always Dreaming wins Kentucky Derby on sloppy track

In big money race after big money race, the combination of trainer Todd Pletcher and jockey John Velazquez has been powerful across the country for nearly two decades. Now, their partnership has claimed the ultimate prize. Always Dreaming, who didn’t break his maiden until Jan. 25 but showed his talent in Florida this spring with a series of stunning performances, delivered a powerful victory in the 143rd Kentucky Derby on Saturday, splashing through the Churchill Downs stretch 2 3/4 lengths in front of 33-to-1 longshot Lookin At Lee. Though it was the second Derby victory for both Pletcher and Velazquez, winning it as a team was a long time coming.

Five Boko Haram commanders released in deal that freed 82 schoolgirls

Five commanders of the Islamic extremist group Boko Haram were released in exchange for 82 Nigerian schoolgirls freed this weekend after more than three years in captivity, authorities said Sunday. Boko Haram, which means "Western Education Is Forbidden," was founded almost two decades ago and in recent years declared solidarity with the Islamic State. The group made international headlines in 2014 when it kidnapped almost 300 female students, many of them Christian, from a government school in the Borno state. The mass abductions sparked international outcry and prompted the social media campaign #BringBackOurGirls.

Olympic champion bobsledder Steven Holcomb found dead at 37

Olympic champion bobsledder Steven Holcomb was found dead in his room at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Lake Placid, N.Y., the U.S. Olympic Committee announced Saturday. He was 37. Holcomb won an Olympic gold medal at the 2010 Vancouver Games, piloting the "Night Train" to victory in the four-man bobsled competition. It was the first U.S. gold medal in the event since 1948. In 2008, Holcomb had experimental eye surgery to correct a disorder called keratoconus, which distorts vision and often leads to blindness. Before the corrective surgery, Holcomb battled depression, and in his 2012 book, But Now I See: My Journey from Blindness to Olympic Gold, he revealed that he attempted suicide in 2007.

'SNL' razzes 'Morning Joe' lovebirds and Trump, too

Late-night comedy visited morning political TV Saturday, as the hosts of MSNBC's Morning Joe got the Saturday Night Live satire treatment. President Trump (Alec Baldwin) made an appearance, too, although it was by phone and under an alias. The opening sketch of Saturday's Chris Pine-hosted episode homed in on longtime Joe hosts Joe Scarborough (Alex Moffat) and Mika Brzezinski (Kate McKinnon), who confirmed their engagement Thursday. The Joe sketch featured a call-in from a White House employee who said his name was John Miller, an alias reportedly assumed by Trump years ago when calling New York news organizations to talk up guess who's accomplishments. "I'm sort of new here," Miller/Trump said, before butchering the pronunciation and meaning of Cinco de Mayo: "the day all Mexicans eat a sinkful of mayonnaise."