By Donald Laible Charles Frederick “Boots” Day takes great pride in having played for the Montreal Expos. Retired from professional baseball since the end of the 2021 season, Day packed away his cleats and glove after 55 years on the job. He had been serving as the bench coach on manager Andy McCauley’s staff for […]
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Trump’s Tariffs Deliver Record $23 Billion Revenue in May
By Andrew Moran U.S. tariff revenues reached an all-time high in May as President Donald Trump’s trade policies started to fill government coffers. According to the May 28 Daily Treasury Statement, revenues from “customs and certain excise taxes” climbed to a record high of $23.28 billion this month, up from $17.431 billion in April. May […]
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USDA Employee Among 6 Charged in One of the Largest Food Stamp Fraud Cases in US History
By Chase Smith A longtime U.S. Department of Agriculture employee and five others have been charged in a sprawling fraud and bribery scheme that authorities say siphoned more than $66 million from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, commonly referred to as food stamps. Federal prosecutors unsealed a superseding indictment on May 29, accusing […]
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Fever Star Caitlin Clark Out at Least 2 Weeks With Left Quad Strain
By The Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS—Indiana Fever star Caitlin Clark will miss at least two weeks after straining her left quadriceps during Saturday’s 90–88 loss to the defending WNBA champion New York Liberty. Coach Stephanie White told reporters Monday she wasn’t sure exactly when Clark was injured but was told after the game she had “something […]
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US-China Tariff Truce Triggers Cargo Stampede, Scramble to Diversify Beyond China: Analysts
By Sean Tseng When word broke on May 12 that Washington and Beijing had agreed to a 90-day tariff pause, containers quickly piled up at Shenzhen’s Yantian International Container Terminal, the port that handles more than a quarter of U.S.-bound cargo. U.S. duties dropped from 145 percent to 30 percent and China’s from 125 percent […]
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What to Know About Trump’s Battle With Watchdog Agency Over Federal Spending
By Joseph Lord The stage is set for a constitutional battle between President Donald Trump and a federal watchdog over the extent of presidential authority on spending, as Trump seeks to make sweeping federal spending and personnel cuts. Trump and administration officials want to reduce existing restrictions on the president’s impoundment power, which allows a […]
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Americans Are Expected to Set Travel Record on Memorial Day Weekend
By Jacob Burg Between trips along the nation’s highways and byways or flights high in the sky, Americans are determined to travel in what may be record numbers this year for Memorial Day weekend. Roughly 45.1 million of them are expected to travel at least 50 miles from home between May 22 and May 26 […]
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38 Attorneys General Urge Congress to Fully Fund 9/11 Health Program
By Bill Pan A bipartisan group of 39 attorneys general are calling on Congress to secure long-term funding of a health care program they call a “lifeline” for people with illnesses related to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. In a May 19 letter to congressional leaders, the attorneys general warned that the current funding […]
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Legend of Pete Rose Grows Amid Commissioner’s Latest Move
By Donald Laible Pete Rose knew his way around the village of Cooperstown, New York. As a visitor to the “Home of Baseball,” for parts of three decades, Rose, MLB’s all-time “Hit King,” was a regular fixture at 91 Main Street each July. If it was Induction Weekend, an annual right of summer for baseball […]
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DOJ to End Police Reform Agreements, Investigations Into Departments
By Jack Phillips The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has announced it will end its agreements to secure court-approved settlements with the cities of Minneapolis and Louisville after the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor five years ago. Harmeet Dhillon, the assistant attorney general for the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division, said her office will […]
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Eagles Reward Coach Nick Sirianni’s Success With a Contract Extension
By Matthew Davis Fresh off a Super Bowl win, Philadelphia Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni has a new contract extension amid an unprecedented start to an NFL coaching career. Sirianni is the first-ever coach to make the playoffs in all of his first four seasons and appear in two Super Bowls along the way. The […]
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244 Arrested in 9-Day Prostitution Sting Operation in Florida
By Jack Phillips Officials in a Florida county announced last week that 244 suspects were arrested during a multi-day operation targeting human trafficking. In a statement on May 16, Polk County Sheriff’s officials said that the suspects arrested over nine days were allegedly “involved in illegal acts related to soliciting prostitutes, offering to commit prostitution, […]
