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On January 20, 2025, Donald Trump was inaugurated as the 47th President of the United States, beginning his second term after his November 2024 election victory.

On July 21, 2023, Barbie and Oppenheimer opened on the same day and became a cultural phenomenon — proving that movies can still dominate the cultural conversation when they're done right.

At the 152nd Kentucky Derby on May 2, 2026, longshot Golden Tempo won at 24-1 odds — making trainer Cherie DeVaux the first female trainer in history to win the race.

In early 2025, Pope Francis was hospitalized with serious respiratory illness, sparking global concern about the health of the 88-year-old leader of the Catholic Church.

In the fall of 2024, back-to-back hurricanes Helene and Milton struck the southeastern United States in devastating fashion — with Helene producing catastrophic flooding in North Carolina and Milton making a direct hit on the Tampa Bay area.

Mexican singer Peso Pluma became one of the biggest artists in the world in 2023-2024, leading a wave of Regional Mexican music that broke onto the global charts and reshaped conversations about Latin music.

Across 2022 through 2025, housing affordability in the United States reached crisis levels — with home prices and rents rising dramatically faster than wages, pricing working and middle-class families out of the market.

Across 2022, 2023, 2024, and into 2025, the opioid epidemic continued to claim lives at staggering rates — with fentanyl becoming the leading driver of overdose deaths in the United States.