David Begnaud meets a man who has attended the Kentucky Derby for 79 years in a row – and his dying wish to make it there one last time....
Former ECB chief Mario Draghi says Europe can no longer rely on the US for security as Trump’s policies grow more “confrontational”...
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A jury in Chicago awarded $49.5 million to the family of a Samya Stumo, who was killed in the March 2019 crash of an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 MAX....
https://www.axios.com/2026/05/15/democrats-latino-voters-2026...
The body of US soldier Spc. Mariyah Symone Collington has been recovered after she went missing on May 2 alongside another soldier during the African Lion military drills in Morocco...
As many as 19 members of the Congressional Black Caucus -- almost a third of its membership -- are at risk of losing their seats through the 2028 cycle....
Critical minerals power everything from coffee makers to fighter jets, and China controls nearly 90% of rare earth refining. The DOMINANCE Act aims to change that....
President Trump wrapped up his whirlwind three-day trip to China Thursday after tea and lunch with Xi Jinping. ...
The Preakness Stakes will feature its biggest field in 15 years with 14 horses in the middle jewel of horse racing's Triple Crown....
As Powell steps down after more than eight years leading the Federal Reserve, economists say he helped steer the U.S. through historic shocks but misread inflation....
Phyllis Schlafly's legacy of putting babies first inspires a case against taxpayer-paid day care, arguing it undermines motherhood and the family unit....
https://www.axios.com/2026/05/15/human-vs-ai-written-articles...
Connecticut may become the first state in 50 years to roll back homeschool freedom after its Senate advanced a bill requiring background checks and government approval for families....
Under the legislation, prosecutors would have to provide written justification before obtaining an NDO and demonstrate an adverse result from notification....
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says that a Russian missile attack on a Kyiv apartment building the previous day killed 24 people, including three children...
New York man Lu Jianwang was convicted of helping run a secret Chinese government-linked police station in Manhattan used to monitor dissidents abroad....
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2026/05/15/the-u-s-stock-market-is-getting-close-to-dot-com-bubble-peak-valuations...
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Russia and Ukraine have exchanged 205 POWs with UAE mediation, the Russian Defense Ministry has said...
"It's in the toes -- how the toes are pointed, how the feet are pointed, and both of their toes were pointed towards one another as they were seated. And that's a very big thing."...
Any attempt by China to seize Taiwan by force would be a “terrible mistake,” US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has warned...
The Supreme Court on Thursday preserved women’s access to a drug used in the most common method of abortion, rejecting lower-court restrictions while a lawsuit continues....
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