Buccaneers Draft Miami Edge Rusher Bain At No.15

 

TAMPA, Fla. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers selected Miami edge rusher Reuben Bain Jr. with the 15th overall pick on Thursday night, aiming to address the team’s inconsistent pass rush. The pick follows Bain’s role in Miami’s run to the College Football Playoff national championship in January and comes amid local...

SpaceX IPO Keeps Musk Control, Targets Huge AI

 

San Francisco — SpaceX filed an S-1 registration statement reviewed by Reuters on 23rd April 2024 stating it will pursue an IPO this summer and seek roughly $75 billion while targeting an approximate $1.75 trillion valuation. The filing discloses the company intends to maintain 'controlled company status', allowing founders to...

Florida and Peoria Officials Tackle Housing Affordability Crisis

 

Tampa, Fla. Industry leaders, builders, realtors and elected officials met this week at the Florida Policy Project Summit to address housing affordability, reporting average Florida home prices now between $375,000 and $420,000 — roughly double pre-COVID levels — and noting rising interest rates that have increased monthly mortgage costs for...

Area high school baseball teams report recent results

 

Osage Beach — Southern Boone defeated the School of the Osage 13-0 Tuesday in a Tri-County Conference game, collecting 13 hits in five innings; Rowan Bonnot allowed two hits with five strikeouts. Southern Boone will travel to the River City Festival Friday and Saturday. On Thursday in California, the School...

DeSantis Challenges Jeffries; Virginia Court Blocks Map Referendum

 

United States. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis publicly challenged House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries this week, inviting Jeffries to campaign across Florida and offering to host him at the governor's mansion; meanwhile, Virginia voters approved a contested congressional map referendum in a Tuesday special election before legal challenges emerged. Washington. On Wednesday,...

Pittsburgh Draft First Round Sets New Attendance Record

 

PITTSBURGH — On Thursday the NFL opened its 2026 Draft in Pittsburgh, where Commissioner Roger Goodell announced an estimated 320,000 fans attended the first round, a single-day record. The league staged its main stage at Acrisure Stadium with fan programming at Point State Park as Fernando Mendoza was announced the...

Johnston's Double-Overtime Goal Gives Stars 2-1 Series Lead

 

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Early Thursday, Wyatt Johnston scored on a power-play deflection at 12:10 of the second overtime, giving the Dallas Stars a 4-3 victory over the Minnesota Wild in Game 3 and putting Dallas ahead 2-1 in their first-round Stanley Cup playoff series. The goal followed extended overtime...

Trump Reposts Savage Video Criticizing Birthright Citizenship Policy

 

Washington: On April 23, US President Donald Trump reposted a video clip of conservative radio host Michael Savage on Truth Social, amplifying Savage's critique of birthright citizenship. The Newsmax segment, The Savage Nation, included Savage's claim that some immigrants time pregnancies to gain citizenship and described countries such as China...

Pentagon and US Weigh Punishments For NATO Allies

 

Washington — The US administration in April drafted internal notes and an apparent "naughty and nice" categorization of NATO allies based on their support for US operations in the Iran war, according to reporting this week by Politico and Reuters; the documentation was prepared ahead of NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte's...

Canada law expands citizenship by descent for Americans

 

Sioux Falls, S.D. — Canada implemented changes to its citizenship-by-descent rules under Bill C-3, and the law took effect on Dec. 15, 2025; it allows individuals to claim citizenship through an unbroken line of Canadian ancestry regardless of generations, prompting thousands of Americans to explore dual citizenship and submit proof-of-citizenship...