News for May 18, 2025

Eli Portal and Rivkah Fox are launching a new Brooklyn matchmaking effort through Imo Anochi to help Jewish adults with physical disabilities find love and build families in a more inclusive way.

Baltimore County health officials warned people to stay out of waterways near the Dundalk Pumping Station after storm damage led to a sewage overflow.

Cajun and Zydeco music are drawing new, younger listeners as Joel Savoy, Wilson Savoy, and Ann Savoy help keep the traditions alive while adapting them for a modern audience.

Palmer Luckey is trying to remake the U.S. military by building Anduril into a defense products company focused on autonomous, AI-powered weapons.

Palmer Luckey and his company Anduril are building AI-powered autonomous weapons for the U.S. military, arguing they can make warfare safer for American forces and more effective as a deterrent.

China’s spying campaign against the U.S. is growing, with Xi Jinping’s government using both cyber tools and human agents to watch and pressure dissidents abroad.

The article says China, under President Xi Jinping, has built a wide spy network in the U.S. to gather intelligence, pressure dissidents, and influence events, and it shows what can happen when those efforts are exposed.

China’s Ministry of State Security is using spying, pressure, and online monitoring to recruit people in the U.S. and control Chinese nationals abroad.

Soko Hardware in San Francisco’s Japantown is marking 100 years as Philip Ashizawa carries on his family’s store and community legacy.

NJ Transit reached a tentative deal with the union representing its locomotive engineers, ending the rail strike and setting up trains to restart Tuesday.

House Republicans moved President Donald Trump’s budget package forward again after conservatives briefly stalled it over deeper spending cuts.

Joe Biden has been diagnosed with aggressive prostate cancer that has spread to his bones, and he and his family are weighing treatment options.

The FBI says a 25-year-old suspect died in a car blast outside a fertility clinic in Palm Springs, California, in what it called a targeted attack.

On “Face the Nation,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio defended the Trump administration’s positions on Russia-Ukraine talks, Venezuela, Gaza, South Africa, and Iran as President Donald Trump faces growing pressure at home and abroad.

A federal judge ordered Health and Human Services to restore a coal miner health program and reinstate layoffs it had made in West Virginia.

The FBI says a deadly bombing outside a California fertility clinic was an act of terrorism tied to Guy Edward Bartkus’s anti-natalist beliefs.

Mike Pence criticized Donald Trump’s tariffs and some foreign policy moves in a broad interview, while also praising parts of the administration.

Worcester police union leaders said officers acted properly and only moved in to keep order during a chaotic ICE arrest of a Brazilian mother and the crowd that gathered around it.

Pope Leo XIV used his inaugural Mass to call for unity, speak against poverty and abuse of the planet, and meet with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky.

Trump’s tariff policy is creating uncertainty for consumers and retailers, even as markets react more calmly.