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, […]
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Federal Officials Start Investigation Into Mexican Tall Ship That Hit Brooklyn Bridge
By Jack Phillips Federal officials confirmed on May 18 that they are sending a team to investigate the Mexican Navy tall ship crash at the Brooklyn Bridge on the night of May 17, which left at least two dead. In a statement, the National Transportation Safety Board confirmed that the Cuauhtémoc tall ship struck the […]
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Pete Rose, ‘Shoeless’ Joe Jackson Reinstated by MLB and Eligible for Baseball Hall of Fame
By Rachel Acenas Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred on Tuesday announced a major change in league policy, designating Pete Rose and “Shoeless” Joe Jackson among a group of deceased players eligible for the Hall of Fame. Manfred has officially removed Rose and Jackson from the sport’s “permanent ineligibility” list. Both players were banned from […]
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Deadly Storms Rip Through Kentucky and Missouri, Leaving at Least 23 Dead, Dozens Injured
By Tom Ozimek and T.J. Muscaro Severe storms that swept across the Midwest and South on Friday killed at least 23 people and injured dozens more, with Kentucky and Missouri among the hardest hit, according to officials. In Kentucky alone, at least 14 fatalities have been confirmed, according to a May 17 statement from Kentucky […]
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Jayson Tatum Carried Off Floor With Right Leg Injury and Celtics Star Will Have MRI
By The Associated Press NEW YORK—The Boston Celtics are used to seeing Jayson Tatum get up when he goes down, like he did after a hard fall that caused a wrist injury in the first round of the playoffs. When he couldn’t get to his feet late in Game 4 of the Eastern Conference semifinals […]
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Student Loan Delinquencies Soar as Pandemic-Era Protections Expire
By Tom Ozimek Student loan delinquencies spiked in the first quarter of 2025 as the federal government resumed reporting overdue payments to credit bureaus for the first time in nearly five years, marking the end of a pandemic-era pause on repayment of student debt. The Federal Reserve Bank of New York reported on May 13 […]
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Yankees’ Pitching Ace Max Fried Finding Early Success
By Donald Laible With their ace pitcher Max Fried undefeated after eight starts with a 6–0 record, the New York Yankees couldn’t be happier. Fried’s early-season success is a welcome boost to the 2025 season, after the team’s disappointing finish last year. With the Yankees coming up short last October in the World Series against […]
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Markets Rally After US, China Announce 90-day Tariff Reductions
By Andrew Moran U.S. stocks rallied on May 12 after the United States and China agreed to temporary tariff reductions. The blue-chip Dow Jones Industrial Average soared by 1,160 points, or 2.8 percent. The index has erased most of 2025’s losses and is down by less than 1 percent. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index is […]
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Republicans Release Sweeping Tax Plan, Key Component of Trump’s Agenda
By Andrew Moran The House Ways and Means Committee, which manages taxes, released the full 389-page text of the long-awaited multi-trillion-dollar Republican tax plan on May 12. The legislation, which President Donald Trump called “the one big beautiful bill,” proposes lowering taxes by more than $4 trillion and cutting spending by $1.5 trillion over a […]
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Police Arrest Pro-Palestinian Protesters Occupying Columbia University Library
By Rachel Acenas Multiple people were arrested on May 7 during pro-Palestinian demonstrations at Columbia University in New York. Dozens of protesters stood on tables, beat drums, and unfurled pro-Palestinian banners in the reading room of Columbia University’s main library on Wednesday. Videos and photographs on social media showed protesters, most wearing masks, with banners […]
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No Pope Selected After 1st Vote at Conclave
By T.J. Muscaro The election of the Catholic Church’s next Pope is officially underway as a record-setting 133 voting cardinals from all over the world took an oath of secrecy and were locked in the Sistine Chapel on the evening of May 7. Roughly three hours later, black smoke emanated from the chimney atop the […]
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Oil Prices Sink After OPEC+ Agrees to Boost Production in June
By Andrew Moran U.S. crude oil prices fell by more than 1 percent on May 5, after eight major energy producers agreed over the weekend to accelerate production. West Texas Intermediate (WTI), a U.S. benchmark for oil prices, tumbled by 1.5 percent to below $58 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. U.S. oil […]
