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New York Times
4 hours ago
- Business
- New York Times
Royals promoting top prospect Jac Caglianone to MLB: Source
The Kansas City Royals are promoting top prospect Jac Caglianone to the major leagues, a source confirmed to The Athletic on Sunday. Caglianone, 22, was the No. 6 pick in last year's draft. One of the game's top offensive talents, Caglianone has torn up the upper levels of the Royals' minor-league system this year. He finished Sunday with a slash line of .322/.389/.593 in 50 games. That includes a 15-for-47 start for Triple-A Omaha, with whom he has played 12 games. He has hit 15 home runs, tied for the third-most amongst all minor leaguers, and has struck out at a 20 percent clip (46 in 229 plate appearances). Should he keep up even an average level of production, Caglianone's arrival could be a boon for the fourth-place Royals, who have scored the third-fewest runs (194) in the majors. Jac Caglianone has his 6th Triple-A homer! This one flew 442 feet ‼️ — Omaha Storm Chasers (@OMAStormChasers) May 30, 2025 Caglianone's breakout comes on the heels of a pro debut last summer in which he hit .241 with a .690 OPS in 29 games at High A. He also hit .236 with a .749 OPS in 21 games in the Arizona Fall League. Caglianone was drafted as a first baseman out of the University of Florida, for whom he batted .355 with a 1.207 OPS and 75 homers across 165 games, but he has played in right or left field intermittently this season, with increasing frequency since moving up to Triple A on May 20. For the past two weeks, he has worked one-on-one with longtime Royals instructor Rusty Kuntz ahead of potential playing time in the roomy outfield at Kauffman Stadium. Advertisement In last week's re-ranking of MLB's top prospects, The Athletic's Keith Law slotted Caglianone at No. 13, up from No. 60 on the preseason list, saying he 'has been incredible in his first full pro season, hitting .322/.394/.553 in Double A with a strikeout rate of just 21.1 percent, more than earning a promotion to Triple A. He's made clear adjustments at the plate and he is destroying pitches in the zone, although he will still expand the zone too easily and I think if he came to the majors right now, pitchers would exploit that enough to make him struggle. I'm quite sanguine about his ability to make further adjustments and cut down enough on the chase to get to the big leagues this year. Between Caglianone and left-hander David Shields, who's looked very good in three starts so far in the lowest levels, scouting director Brian Bridges' first draft looks like a great one.'
South China Morning Post
3 days ago
- General
- South China Morning Post
Meet Marco Rubio's son Anthony Rubio: a running back for the University of Florida Gators, he made headlines with his first collegiate touchdown during the Gasparilla Bowl
Long before former Florida senator Marco Rubio lost his presidential campaign and joined Donald Trump's cabinet as secretary of state, the now controversial figure played college football and dreamed of the NFL. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks onstage in May 2023 as his family, including son Anthony Rubio, look on. Photo: @anthony_rub1o/Instagram While a career in American football didn't pan out for Rubio, his elder son and third child Anthony may come closer to making his father's dreams come true as a running back with the University of Florida Gators. Advertisement Read on to find out more about Marco Rubio's son Anthony. He has three siblings Marco and Jeanette Rubio have two daughters, Amanda and Daniella, and two sons, Anthony and Dominick. Photo: @jeanettedrubio/Instagram Anthony Rubio was born in Miami, Florida, to Marco and Jeanette Rubio . The couple met when Jeanette was 17 years old and Rubio was a 19-year-old university student. After eight years of dating, they married in 1998 in Coral Gables, Florida. Aside from Anthony, Rubio and Jeanette also share daughters Amanda and Daniella, and son Dominick. Anthony attended Belen Jesuit, an all-boys private Catholic preparatory school in Miami. Following in his father's footsteps
Gizmodo
4 days ago
- General
- Gizmodo
Two of the World's Worst Termites Hooked Up in Florida—and Now We're Screwed
A termite horror story a decade in the making is unfolding in South Florida. Two of the most destructive invasive termites on the planet are not only coexisting—they're mating. And now, scientists have confirmed that the populations are hybridized. In a new study published this month in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, researchers from the University of Florida's Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS) report that the Formosan subterranean termite and the Asian subterranean termite are crossbreeding and producing viable offspring in South Florida neighborhoods. The result is a new hybrid termite population that could cause even more environmental and structural damage than its already-devastating parents. 'Unfortunately, termite colonies are very cryptic and trying to find hybrid colonies in the field is like looking for a needle in a haystack,' said Thomas Chouvenc, a researcher at the University of Florida and lead author of the study, in a university release. 'We monitored termite activity closely for more than a decade to check for the establishment of hybrid colonies in some of the neighborhoods affected by the two termite species.' Genetic testing confirmed that the strange-looking termites first spotted in 2021 were hybrids of the aforementioned species. 'At first, I could not believe it, as I was hoping to never find it,' Chouvenc said. In October 2024, the researchers discovered a full-blown hybrid colony in a Fort Lauderdale park, which had likely been active for more than five years before being detected. Chouvenc said that there are likely many more hundreds of colonies across South Florida that have not yet been found. Both parent species are prolific breeders, capable of forming massive colonies and spreading rapidly. The fact that these hybrids are swarming—and potentially just as fertile—raises major red flags. Fort Lauderdale's status as a global boating hub may accelerate the spread. 'This may be a Florida story now, but it likely won't stay just in Florida,' Chouvenc warned. Private boats have previously been implicated in termite spread across the U.S. and internationally. Termite hybridization is not just an American problem; the phenomenon has also been observed in Taiwan, suggesting that crossbreeding between the species may be unavoidable in areas where they coexist. In the meantime, Florida's latest invasive residents are combining forces to chomp their way across the state—and beyond.
Fast Company
5 days ago
- Business
- Fast Company
Why summer internships were so hard to find this year
Fast Company spoke with four students about the challenging internship application process—and what they plan to do this summer. [Photo: Panumas/Adobe Stock] BY Listen to this Article More info 0:00 / 10:16 'Another day, another internship,' says Paige Lorbiecki, a junior at the University of Florida, straight to camera. This year, Lorbiecki documented the process of applying to summer marketing internships on TikTok. In this video from May 4, she completed another six applications, but Loribiecki says she applied to more than 100 internships in total. It took her until late May, nearly a month after her classes ended, to finally secure a content creation and social media opportunity at an interior design business. This rigamarole of applying to internships and post-grad fellowships has never been fun, but this year, many are finding the cycle exceptionally tough. College students and recent graduates all over the country are feeling the effects of an oversaturated job market and a lack of entry-level jobs. The student job platform Handshake found that internship postings on their site declined by more than 15% from 2023 to 2025. Between the Trump administration's cuts to university funding, and economic uncertainty over tariffs, many companies are tightening their hiring budgets, limiting the number of summer internships they offer, and raising the amount of experience they require. Fast Company spoke to four different college students, including Loribiecki, about their plans this summer and their insights about the agonizing application season. Their accounts have been edited for space and clarity. Subscribe to the Daily Company's trending stories delivered to you every day SIGN UP Kelly Rappaport, senior at Northwestern University: 'I've not gotten a single interview.' I fully committed to searching in November or December, and started applying here and there for media and communications industries. Depending on how busy I am each week, I'm putting out anywhere from five to 25 applications each week. I think at this point, we are all aware that the 'Easy Apply' button is as good as throwing your résumé in the garbage. But believe it or not, I've not gotten a single interview. Ballpark range, I've probably applied to 300 to 500 different jobs. That's actual, sincere job applications. I'm very exhausted, jaded, and kind of disappointed. I'm a first-generation college student, and I can't even get a first round interview or a call back or anything on all these jobs. I have a ton of things on my résumé. I've had recruiters tell me I'm over-qualified and then still not get put to the next round interview. And it's so exhausting when sometimes I see peers that, because they have connections, they are getting jobs. My dad's like a blue-collar trades worker, and my mom's worked in public schools. I certainly don't have connections outside of the Chicago area where I'm from, and so it feels like I'm kind of limited by who I know. For my Sophomore year [summer internship], I don't think I got an offer until May, and so I was kind of expecting another summer of no internships. I was very stressed, because you look at your peers and you think you need to be in one place or another. Especially as a first-generation college student, my peers are kind of my benchmark. I'm not sure where I'm supposed to be, because I don't have that model of where my parents were at. I really think unpaid internships are rather sinister. There is no other context in this country in which unpaid labor is an acceptable thing. I think there's definitely inherent privilege [at a university like Northwestern]. There's the financial security to take on an unpaid internship or an internship in an expensive location; there is the privilege of connection; the privilege of having parents who know where [the benchmark is]; who know how colleges work and how networking is. There's definitely a major disconnect there. Skyley Mitchell, senior at Stanford University: 'Slowly but surely, I started losing passion.' I study international relations, and truthfully, I didn't really have a clear, guided career path. I really wanted to focus on social impact, something along those lines, where I can help the community that I find important. So that's one of the biggest things, and that is terrible not only for the job market, but also for payment, as well. I'm also a low-income student. It puts a lot of pressure on me to provide for [my family]. So that was one of the biggest determinants for what job I want to do, and if I should follow passion or follow money. But the biggest thing about this job market is that it feels like you can do neither. People often say your first job out of college may not matter as much to your future career. But it really felt like it did, so it was really hard. And I hate writing cover letters. They're one of the worst aspects [of] applications ever, because I basically have to be fun, quirky, and relatable. It's like a dating app, but for job applications. You want to be fun and interesting. I don't know how to be fun and interesting to a job that doesn't care about me yet. I read this article before that was talking about how Gen Z is the most rejected generation ever, basically talking about how we're getting rejected on dating apps; we're getting rejected on job apps; we're getting rejected on school applications. We're just getting rejected in various aspects in life, which makes us a little jaded. And I think I really felt that for my job applications. Slowly but surely, I started losing passion about what I wanted to do. I just started doing Quick Apply on Indeed in order to get my applications out there. Coming back with rejections, it just really slowly but surely started hurting less—but not in a good way. Fortunately I have a job now, which I'm very grateful for. But the main reason why I think I was able to get it is because of my school. Stanford is very prestigious [and] has a lot of great opportunities for its students. If you get connected, there's a lot of opportunities. Paige Lorbiecki, junior at University of Florida: 'It's like a pit in your gut.' At [the University of Florida], I jumped at every opportunity. I feel like my résumé is stacked [and] my portfolio is very diverse, but all these internships are looking for something specific that I just don't have. I started applying way back in October. Some internships are super early, so I definitely started applying back then, and over winter break, I did a lot, and I still wasn't hearing anything back. It's hard because a lot of my finance friends had an internship set a year ago. So I just felt really behind. But marketing specifically is a little bit of a pushed back timeline; it's a little bit later in the year. I ended up doing close to 80 applications. Didn't really hear anything back. I had three rounds of interviews for different companies. Made it to the final interview of all of those, and ended up not getting it. I would even email them back and say 'Oh, I would love feedback so I can improve myself,' and they would just ghost me. I don't know how to improve or what I'm missing that these companies are looking for. Starting in February is when the rejections started to roll in. I have applied to a little over 100 now, and I've heard back from about 30% of them, so I'm still waiting to hear back from 70%. Half of those, I don't think I'm ever going to hear back from. It just is what it is. A lot of things are automated nowadays. If my résumé doesn't match your job description, it just automatically rejects me. I'm a little bit confused why I'm not getting those emails, and now I'm waiting around to know if these opportunities are still open for me, or is it just, like a lost cause? Should I move on? So, it's weird. I'm just assuming the worst, that it's not going to happen. Why can I not describe my feelings right now? It's like a pit in your gut. It's almost like annoyance and a little bit of anger. I feel like I hold myself to a really high standard. So when I don't achieve those goals, I'm like, 'Okay, what can I do to fix that? I've got to figure my shit out.' And it's just really frustrating that it's come to this point. I'm not going to lie, even just a nice email back would be nice enough for me. I don't care if you don't want me, but just let me know. Lauren Levinson, junior at Northwestern University: 'I've been trying to compensate.' I definitely started my internship search way later than you're supposed to. Most people start in the fall, but I was abroad, so I didn't want to do that. My first application I submitted was in January. And I mean, honestly, I just didn't submit enough applications. Most of the jobs I applied to were research jobs at Northwestern and I actually don't think the [federal] funding cuts impacted it. I don't really know what the issue was, but I didn't get any of them. One just wasn't taking more assistance. I got feedback on one of my applications, which was really nice. They said I was really qualified, but they wanted more details. They were 'You were super qualified. We thought you would have made a really great candidate. But we wanted you to say in your cover letter more about how it would have impacted your career in the future.' So [I] didn't get that one, kind of a bummer, but I'm not surprised, because it included a paid trip to Columbia. I also applied to the summer internship grant program at Northwestern to get funding for unpaid internships. Didn't get that. That one I definitely think got funding cuts, and does kind of throw a wrench into my plans. But now I'm currently doing an internship at … a nonprofit health center for Spanish-speaking immigrants. I got that internship through Northwestern, but I really love them, and I've loved my time there. I'm probably going to stay on with [them] and do a summer there, but probably similar hours to what I'm doing now, part-time, so I can keep working my restaurant job and babysitting and actually making money. Right now, they give me a stipend, so I'm hoping to continue with that system, but I'm also nervous because they don't normally pay their summer interns. I've been trying to compensate. I'm applying to fellowships for next year for 2026-2027. I have to study for the LSAT. Even if I didn't get an internship, I would still have plenty to do. The final deadline for Fast Company's Brands That Matter Awards is Friday, May 30, at 11:59 p.m. PT. Apply today. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Arden is an editorial intern at Fast Company, where she covers Gen Z, innovation, and technology. She is currently a junior at Northwestern University studying Journalism, Sociology, and Gender Studies. More
CBS News
5 days ago
- General
- CBS News
Former University of Michigan President Santa Ono gets initial approval to lead University of Florida
University of Michigan president expected to take same role in Florida University of Michigan president expected to take same role in Florida University of Michigan president expected to take same role in Florida The University of Florida's board of trustees on Tuesday approved Santa Ono to be the next leader of Florida's flagship university, though one more vote is required before it becomes official. Ono, the past president of the University of Michigan, needs approval by the governing body of the state university system before he becomes the 14th president of the University of Florida. "The energy here at the University of Florida is palpable, and I am eager to join the wonderful students, faculty and staff of the Gator Nation," Ono said in a statement. The school's board of trustees selects the president, and, per state law, the appointment is subject to confirmation by the Florida Board of Governors. Ono is set to replace Kent Fuchs, who became the school's interim president last summer after ex-U.S. Sen. Ben Sasse stepped down. Sasse left the U.S. Senate, where he had represented Nebraska, to become the university's president in 2023. Sasse announced in July that he was leaving the job to focus on his family after his wife was diagnosed with epilepsy. Soon thereafter, there were reports that Sasse hired six former staffers and two former Republican officials with salaries that outstripped comparable positions and spent over $1.3 million on private catering for lavish dinners, football tailgates, and extravagant social functions in his first year on the job. The amount was about double the spending of his predecessor, Fuchs, who was brought back to head the university temporarily. Ono was appointed the 15th president of the University of Michigan in July 2022. At that time, he agreed to a five-year term. Ono said the decision to step down was not made lightly, and he would work with the chair of the Board of Regents to "ensure a smooth and seamless transition." Before becoming Michigan's president, he served six years as president and vice-chancellor of the University of British Columbia and as president and provost of the University of Cincinnati. On May 8, Michigan named Domenico Grasso its interim president. Grasso will lead the university's search for its next president, which is set to begin in the coming weeks.
