18 Americans quarantined after hantavirus cruise ship outbreak

News 5 Cleveland (National News) 5/12 9:37A Kadia Tubman

All passengers aboard the cruise ship Hondius, which is at the center of a hantavirus outbreak, have been evacuated following a massive international repatriation effort. Several countries are now working to isolate and monitor passengers amid an...

Virginia representative distances herself after agreeing with radio host’s offensive comment about...

News 5 Cleveland (National News) 5/12 8:29A Kaanita Iyer

A Republican congresswoman from Virginia is defending herself amid calls for her to resign after she agreed with a radio hosts remark referring to House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries cotton-picking hands. The comment was made during Rep. Jen...

Memphis Grizzlies forward Brandon Clarke dead at age 29

News 5 Cleveland (National News) 5/12 8:19A Justin Boggs

Memphis Grizzlies forward Brandon Clarke has died at the age of 29, his agency and the club both reported on Tuesday. No cause of death was released. Clarke spent all seven of his NBA seasons in Memphis. He only appeared in two games in 2025-26,...

Strait of Hormuz tensions threaten to push gas past $5 a gallon by June

News 5 Cleveland (National News) 5/12 7:42A Justin Boggs

More than two months after the United States launched an attack on Iran, gas prices have risen more than $1.50 nationwide and experts say they could climb higher in the coming weeks. Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis at GasBuddy, said...

eBay rejects GameStop’s $56 billion offer, calling it ‘neither credible nor attractive’

News 5 Cleveland (National News) 5/12 6:53A Hanna Ziady

Online marketplace eBay has rejected an offer from GameStop to buy the company for $55.5 billion, dealing a blow to the video game retailers ambitions to create a rival to Amazon. After reviewing GameStops proposition, the eBay board had...

Survey highlights gap between SPF awareness and daily use among Americans

News 5 Cleveland (National News) 5/12 6:26A Talker Research via Scripps News

Which screen wins your attention your phone screen or sunscreen? According to a new study, Americans are four times as likely to remember to plug their phone in at night than they are to put sunscreen on daily. The poll of 2,000 U.S. adults...

Texas AG alleges Netflix spies on users, keeps them binge-watching

News 5 Cleveland (National News) 5/12 6:13A Scripps News Group

Texas is suing Netflix, accusing the streaming platform of spying on residents and collecting users' data without their knowledge or consent. State Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit alleging Netflixs service is addictive. The complaint...

CDC leader rejects claims US is ‘less safe’ amid cruise ship hantavirus cases

News 5 Cleveland (National News) 5/12 5:17A Justin Boggs

Acting Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya defended the United States response to a hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship, after one of his predecessors said actions by the Trump administration leave the country...

Small study hints that revving up immune cells might help fight HIV

News 5 Cleveland (National News) 5/12 5:08A By LAURAN NEERGAARD

WASHINGTON (AP) Scientists are tweaking a powerful cancer therapy in hopes it could fight HIV instead, by supercharging patients' own immune cells . On Tuesday, researchers said a single dose of those revved-up cells strongly suppressed HIV in...

Ship operator, employee charged in crash that caused Baltimore bridge collapse

News 5 Cleveland (National News) 5/12 4:49A AP via Scripps News Group

Federal prosecutors announced charges Tuesday in the 2024 collapse of Baltimores Francis Scott Key Bridge, accusing the Singapore-based operator of a ship and a key employee of making critical decisions that led to the disaster and the deaths of...

Supreme Court clears way for Alabama to cut majority Black district from US House map

News 5 Cleveland (National News) 5/12 3:59A AP via Scripps News Group

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday set the stage for Alabama to eliminate one of two largely Black congressional districts before this year's midterm elections, creating an opening for Republicans to gain an additional U.S. House seat in a partisan...

New pediatric guidance says kids need more recess, not less

News 5 Cleveland (National News) 5/12 3:50A AP via Scripps News Group

Recess isnt just a fun break for grade schoolers. Its crucial to good health and good grades for kids of all ages. That's the message from a leading pediatricians group, which just released the first new guidance in 13 years about this...

Iran war drives energy price spike, wages struggle to keep up with inflation

News 5 Cleveland (National News) 5/12 3:01A Justin Boggs

The prices of goods and services rose again in April, with the war in Iran continuing to push energy costs upward. The consumer price index, released Tuesday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, showed prices increased 0.6% in April. Prices are now...

Trump set for annual health check, says he feels the same as 50 years ago

News 5 Cleveland (National News) 5/12 2:16A AP via Scripps News Group

President Donald Trump is scheduled to see doctors for a medical and dental checkup this month his fourth publicized visit to medical experts since returning to office in what the White House describes as an annual physical and regular preventive...

Police memorial vigil in Cleveland remembers the fallen

News 5 Cleveland (Metro News) 5/12 2:02A Scott Noll

Dozens gathered Monday evening for the annual Police Week candlelight vigil in Downtown Cleveland, honoring those who died in the line of duty serving communities across Northeast Ohio. For Julia Sherry Ruane, its an annual tradition she wishes...