News for May 3, 2025

Buffalo Trace Distillery reopened for limited tours and tastings after historic flooding shut down the Kentucky bourbon maker’s campus.

The Trump administration plans to cut thousands of jobs across U.S. spy agencies, including a major workforce reduction at the CIA.

Tariffs and economic uncertainty tied to President Donald Trump are forcing Churchill Downs to pause a major Kentucky Derby renovation and are starting to affect sales and betting around the event.

Denver Fire Station 3, the city’s oldest working firehouse, is being remembered as a key site in the history of Black firefighters and the Denver Fire Department’s slow move toward desegregation.

A major oil spill off Louisiana is raising concern that federal staffing cuts could make the United States Coast Guard and NOAA response slower and less effective.