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Maryland Department of Natural Resource officers' body camera video shows the confusion and shock following the Baltimore Key Bridge collapse on March 26, 2024.

CNN senior political commentator Van Jones argued that young people are not just frustrated over violence in Gaza, but their increasingly dismal economic prospects in recent years.

In a dramatic shift, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has revised its data pertaining to the number of Palestinian casualties in the seven-month-old Gaza war.

The popular streaming service Roku has bought the rights to a package of MLB games that will air Sunday mornings, beginning with Red Sox-Cardinals this Sunday.

Amber Lohr kept her cool and thought first to protect her students, despite blood soaking her thick sweatshirt, her husband said.

The couple, who started dating in October 2023, looked every bit in love as they sang and danced to Swift's songs alongside Travis Kelce.

Trump will headline Beverly Hills and Newport Beach events. Biden will attend a downtown L.A. fundraiser with former President Obama, actors George Clooney and Julia Roberts.

"He said, 'Absolutely. Do it. Take care of it.’' Cohen, recalled Trump telling him after learning that Daniels was shopping her story around about an alleged tryst.

The tariff on electric vehicles from China is currently 25%.

AAA is expecting a nearly 5% bump in airline travel and a 4% increase in drivers this Memorial Day weekend.

Fox via Getty ImagesA crew member on 9-1-1 died early Saturday in a car accident along the California highway after working a 14-hour overnight shift.Rico Priem, a 66-year-old grip, was identified as the crash victim, according to Variety, citing the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner. He was driving home from set when his Toyota Highlander swerved off the 57 Freeway, went up an embankment, and flipped onto its roof, according to the California Highway Patrol. He was pronounced dead at the scene.“We are fully committed to the safety and the well-being of all our members and express our heartfelt condolences to the member’s family,” IATSE, the crew union that represented Priem, said in a statement. “Workers have a reasonable expectation that they can get to work and come home safely. No one should be put in unsafe circumstances while trying to earn a living.”Read more at The Daily Beast.

For at least this turn, Houser will serve as a sixth starter during a turn through the rotation that does not contain an off day.

The forms to apply for financial aid were released three months late this year, and one estimate shows over 25% of schools still haven't sent out aid packages.

U.S. and Pakistani officials have held talks regarding expanding cooperation in tackling security threats by the Pakistani Taliban and an affiliate of the Islamic State group.

Nearly two weeks after what is traditionally "College Decision Day," millions of students are still unable to commit to a school. That's largely because of computer glitches in the Department of Education's newly overhauled financial aid system. Meg Oliver has details.

A 16-year-old boy carrying a gun opened the back door of a packed church, but was immediately confronted by and escorted away by parishioners.

Drew Bledsoe opened up about the moment he first met Gisele Bündchen.

Prince William, out of the public eye until recently caring for wife Kate, congratulated TV presenter and kids' advocate Floella Benjamin at the BAFTA TV Awards.

In celebration of Asian American and Pacific Islander heritage month, Nancy Chen has the story of an inspiring maestro who's breaking barriers while hitting all the right notes.

Ontario maker of yogurt-covered pretzels sold at Smart & Final and Gelson's stores issues recall after finding that the coating contained salmonella.

A day of national mourning was interrupted by hecklers who blamed government officials for failing to secure the release of hostages still being held by Hamas.

TV talking heads — reading word for word off their prompters — are dissecting, excoriating Donald: liar, narcissist, etc., etc., blah, blah.

A quick-thinking church congregation worked together to prevent a mass shooting in Louisiana over the weekend. The church was packed with dozens of kids about to take part in a sacred rite of passage. Omar Villafranca reports.

Tens of millions of Americans are gearing up for the upcoming Memorial Day weekend. Nearly 50 million people are expected to travel 50 miles or more this year, making it the busiest Memorial Day weekend in almost 20 years, according to AAA. Kris Van Cleave has more.

Former USMNT star Eric Wynalda was reportedly named in a battery report with Las Vegas police following an altercation at his son's soccer match while coaching.

Tom Brady's broadcasting debut for Fox Sports has been revealed.

"My integrity and my character will always come before crowns," Stephanie Skinner told The Post after turning down the Miss Teen USA title in the wake of scandal.

Donald J. Trump’s former bulldog told jurors about his work: threatening enemies, cleaning up problems and burying embarrassing stories.

A Florida man was sentenced to 3 1/2 years in federal prison for assisting two Orange County men in making a Molotov cocktail used to attack a Costa Mesa Planned Parenthood in 2022.

An illegal alien charged in connection with the death of a three-month-old had been deported under Donald Trump, a report details. The post Report: Illegal Alien Charged in Death of Three-Month-Old Was Deported Under Donald Trump appeared first on Breitbart.

Iowa women’s basketball will look very different next season, and not just because Caitlin Clark won’t be donning a Hawkeyes jersey. 

Residents in New York City are on edge following a string of unprovoked attacks, including two high-profile incidents in the last week. A tourist in Times Square was stabbed over Mother's Day weekend while an award-winning actor was punched in the face by a stranger just days earlier. Nikki Battiste reports on what the NYPD is doing to keep the Big Apple safe.

Engineers set off controlled explosions in the wreckage of the Francis Scott Key Bridge on Monday to help free the massive cargo ship that crashed into it nearly seven weeks ago. Nicole Sganga has the sights and sounds.

Israel is again fighting Hamas in northern Gaza months after saying the militants had been largely removed from that area. The fighting continued in southern Gaza as well, worsening the struggle to find food and shelter for hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians. Ramy Inocencio reports.

Protests took place across thirteen different countries, including the U.S., the U.K, Brazil, Germany, Australia, and Norway.

Donald Trump came face-to-face with his former personal attorney Michael Cohen, who testified Monday in the former president's New York criminal trial. The one-time fixer and inside man detailed how Trump personally approved the so-called "hush money" payouts to hide stories he believed would hurt his 2016 run for the White House. Robert Costa was inside the courthouse for the riveting testimony.

Campuses across the nation bristle with leftist protesters screeching for intifada; powerful Democrats co-sign the ugliest and most open Jew-hate.

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President Biden signed a bill banning Russian uranium imports, a move aimed at punishing Moscow for its war in Ukraine and boosting the U.S. nuclear industry.

Argentina's biggest creditor, the International Monetary Fund, agreed to release the next portion of loans due under a bailout program; $792 million will soon be available to the country's government.

The Issue: The refusal of various New York politicians to condemn President Biden’s abandonment of Israel. It’s truly a rude awakening for New York’s Jews to find themselves abandoned by representatives whom they thought were pro-Israel, especially Sen. Chuck Schumer (“NYC Dems AWOL on Israel,” Editorial, May 11). Another New York Dem who’s gone silent...

Tennessee has one of the country's most restrictive abortion bans, but the state faces a lawsuit aiming to partially block it.

The House Oversight Committee announced Monday it will move forward with contempt of Congress charges against Attorney General Merrick Garland over his refusal to comply with a subpoena for audio recordings of President Biden’s interview with former Special Counsel Robert Hur. 

For a man who created a show about nothing, Seinfeld offered lot of meaningful principles. Too bad the most self-serious members of Duke's audience missed his advice.

Anna Moneymaker/Getty ImagesFormer Donald Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani has turned to social media in order to keep spreading the false conspiracy theories about the 2020 presidential election that got him kicked off the air at New York City radio station WABC last week.Monday marked the relaunch of The Rudy Giuliani Show on YouTube after his suspension. “The mayor will host the show online until further notice,” spokesperson Ted Goodman told The Daily Beast.Although Giuliani insisted on X that he’d been “FIRED for refusing to give in” and stop airing the Big Lie, WABC owner John Catsimatidis clarified that no official decision has been made on the former mayor’s future at the station.Read more at The Daily Beast.

This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here.For the first time in 221 years, two different groups of cicadas are emerging simultaneously and screaming from the treetops. More after these three stories from The Atlantic: This is the next smartphone evolution. Russell Berman: Attack a Democrat charged with corruption? Republicans wouldn’t dare. The fad diet to end all fad diets Spring AwakeningThe first thing to know about cicadas is that, not unlike flowers, the insects come in annual and periodical varieties. Among the annual cicadas are the dog-day cicada, that emerald-green bug you might associate with steamy summer evenings on the porch—the type you can always hear but almost never see. Periodical cicadas, on the other hand, are the bugs of legend. They make a synchronized mass appearance either every 13 or every 17 years in various parts of the country. And they are so plentiful and so loud when they come that they cannot be ignored.Across the country, billions of these periodical cicadas, categorized by region and year as “broods,” are crawling up out of the ground to see the light of day. The first to begin emerging this spring were the members of the Great Southern Brood—the largest of all periodical-cicada groups—which came out in many states across the southeastern United States. Another big group, the Northern Illinois Brood, is now tunneling up not only in Illinois but also in Iowa, Wisconsin, and Indiana. Although the two broods won’t overlap much geographically, such a simultaneous emergence is rare: The previous double brood occurred during Thomas Jefferson’s first term as president.The cicadas we’re starting to see waited years for this moment. Now they’re here, ready to do what they do best: sing a little, mate, and die. But for humans, their extraordinary showing can provoke deep thoughts about the cycle of life and, well, the meaning of it all. At least, it does for Matt Kasson, an associate professor at West Virginia University who is studying a fungus that infects cicadas.“So often, there’s these amazing things happening kind of hidden in plain sight, and we take it for granted,” he told me. “When you see the cicadas emerge, you not only are faced with them, but you have to think about all the time that they spent underground and what was happening in your own life. They give you a new perspective.”The lifestyle of a cicada is a wonder. After a clutch of cicada eggs hatch, inside a small slit in a tree branch, the babies will bravely drop to the ground and delve deep into the earth. A cicada will spend most of its life underground, as a secretive burrow-dweller, sucking sap from maple and oak trees and generally minding its own business. The little nymph knows when to come aboveground only because, according to scientific speculation, she can track the changing sap cycles of a tree.“A maple tree in the fall loses its leaves and goes dormant, and that changes the sap flow in a tree,” Kasson said. The cicada nymphs clock this. “So they keep a kind of chalkboard in their head where they are able to tally how many years they’ve been down there.” Occasionally, a cicada will make a mistake in that mental arithmetic (relatable!), coming up four years too early or too late. Unfortunately, it’s a fatal error. “They don’t have anybody to mate with,” Kasson said, “so it’s kind of a dead end for them.”The emergence we’re seeing now goes like this: Billions of nymphs climb out of their holes, attach themselves to a tree or some other structure, and undergo an incomplete metamorphosis process that transforms them into flying adults. The process involves shedding their exuvia, the name of those ghostly brown shells you’ll find stuck to tree bark every spring. Over the next few weeks, adult males will “sing” to attract females, in a sometimes deafening cacophony. After mating, females will lay their eggs in tree branches and then die, and the whole process will start over.This spring is a very good time to be a bird—or basically any other predator in these cicada hot spots. It’ll be a feeding frenzy out there, which means that the bird population will probably spike, thanks to the increased food source. And animals aren’t the only ones that will benefit. “When all these cicadas die, they are turned back into soil as a huge influx of nitrogen, so they act as a fertilizer for the plants as well,” Kasson said.Although this year’s double broods mostly aren’t expected to appear in the same place, residents of one particular state should gird themselves for a Big Bug Explosion. Researchers predict that, somewhere in central Illinois, cicadas from both the Great Southern Brood and the Northern Illinois Brood will both be coming up together. It’ll be loud in Springfield this summer.Even if you’re not lucky enough to experience a Midwestern cicada-geddon, chances are you live somewhere near one of the emerging broods. If you can’t hear them now, you should be able to soon. Go out and listen. Appreciate that new perspective.Related: Cicadas could make outdoor dining a nightmare. (From 2021) Unfortunately, some cicadas taste like nature’s Gushers. (From 2021) Today’s News Michael Cohen, Donald Trump’s former lawyer, finished his first day of testimony in Trump’s New York criminal trial. Cohen alleged that Trump was concerned about his presidential-election prospects in 2016 and ordered Cohen to pay hush money to the adult-film actor Stormy Daniels. Jury selection began in Senator Bob Menendez’s federal criminal trial. The former chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is charged with accepting bribes from businessmen in exchange for political favors aiding the governments of Egypt and Qatar. Russian President Vladimir Putin announced yesterday that he is replacing his minister of defense with Andrei R. Belousov, an economist and one of Putin’s close advisers. Dispatches The Trump Trials: The hush-money criminal case against Donald Trump cuts to the core of who he is, George T. Conway III writes. The Wonder Reader: One thing you quickly learn when speaking with a child: They’re natural philosophers, Isabel Fattal writes. Explore all of our newsletters here.Evening Read Julian Ward / Gallery Stock Why Do So Many Parents Think Kids Need Their Own Bedroom?By Annie Midori Atherton Whenever I contemplate whether to have a second child, I inevitably start worrying about housing. For me and my husband to grow our family and stay in our two-bedroom rental in Seattle, our kids would have to share a room. He did it growing up, and it would be more affordable than getting a bigger place. But I struggle to wrap my head around the idea. I grew up in a three-bedroom home near where we live now; I had my own room, as did most of my friends. Even though housing prices have skyrocketed, I still want to give my children this privilege. When I ask my husband what it was like to share a room as a kid, he shrugs. He didn’t consider it that big a deal. But many parents I’ve talked with who live in metro areas with high costs of living feel the same as I do. Some are stretching their budgets to afford a house with more bedrooms; others are reluctant to grow their families without having more space. As I mull this over, I wonder: Why do so many of us prioritize giving kids their own room? Read the full article.More From The Atlantic America’s worst time zone Our once-abundant Earth Should the hawthorn be saved? A family story about colonialism and its aftereffects Culture Break Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. Listen. Are the relationships we establish through our screens authentic? In the first episode of How to Know What’s Real, Megan Garber and Andrea Valdez explore the surprising ways a connection can be both real and imaginary—at the same time.Have a laugh. Conan O’Brien’s true gift lies in his combination of an entertainer’s desperate desire to be liked and an antagonistic streak, Vikram Murthi writes.Play our daily crossword.P.S.So many readers wrote in with friendship wisdom after I asked for tips on making—and keeping—friends as an adult. I wanted to share two of my favorite pieces of advice here.From Maxwell, a reminder that less is more: “I don’t consider anyone a true friend unless we can go years without contact and at any time pick up right back where we left off,” he wrote. “By that guideline, I’ve been lucky to keep one or two timeless friends with beautiful souls from each school and workplace, and that has honestly been plenty.”From Bonnie, a practical tip: “I send real notes and cards with postage stamps to all my friends throughout the year. Trader Joe’s 99 cents brings a flood of happiness,” she said. “I keep a log of everyone’s birthday. A week before, there is a note on my calendar to mail—NOT EMAIL OR TEXT—a real birthday card with a note.”Stephanie Bai contributed to this newsletter.When you buy a book using a link in this newsletter, we receive a commission. Thank you for supporting The Atlantic.

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The White House faced blowback Monday over a Washington Post report claiming it had offered further assistance in locating Hamas leaders if it curbs its plans in Rafah.