COVID-19 is no longer a global health emergency. The World Health Organization announced the official end to the global pandemic on May 5, three years after it was first declared. “It’s with great hope that I declare COVID-19 over as a global health emergency,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said during a news conference from…

April’s jobs report out Friday morning, May 5, crushed economists’ estimates. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported the economy added 253,000 jobs for the month, when around 180,000 were expected. Meanwhile, the unemployment rate edged back down to 3.4%, tying a near 70-year low. Since March 2022, the unemployment rate has stayed between 3.4% and…

The Writers Guild of America is on strike for the first time in 15 years, causing Hollywood productions to grind to a halt. The union says the transition to streaming has cut writers’ pay, while studios and producers are under pressure to cut costs as they attempt to turn a profit. Labor disputes in Tinseltown…

According to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, if the debt ceiling isn’t lifted soon, the government could default on its obligations “potentially as early as June 1.” President Joe Biden has made it clear he’ll veto any Republican proposals that would lift the debt ceiling by making drastic cuts in federal spending — which is exactly…

Iran seized another oil tanker on May 3, making it the second seizure in under one week. The seizure is adding to concerns that Iran is threatening maritime traffic in the open seas of a pivotal strait where nearly one-fifth of all crude oil passes through. Surveillance video from the U.S. Navy shows about a…

Low visibility due to a dust storm in Illinois caused a deadly highway pileup of dozens of cars. And writers in Hollywood are officially on strike. These stories and more highlight the daily rundown for Tuesday, May 2, 2023. Dust storm creates 80-car pileup A dust storm in Illinois created an 80 car pileup on…

In part one of this series on the Elk Creek mining project, Straight Arrow News discussed the significance of the minerals that this endeavor aims to collect, why they are so crucial to U.S. interests and how their supply is largely controlled by foreign adversaries, such as Russia and China. Now, here is a closer…

Most Americans believe news media in the United States is harmful, not helpful, to reducing political polarization in the country, according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research and Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights. The poll was released Monday, May 1, ahead of World Press Freedom Day on Wednesday,…

A Chinese-owned oil tanker headed to Houston, Texas was captured in the Gulf of Oman on April 27 by masked Iranian navy commandos. Iranian state media claimed they seized the Turkish-managed tanker because it had run into another Iranian vessel, but there was no evidence to support that claim. The commandos descended by ropes from…