Pope Francis was featured on the May 12 cover of Time. In his passing, the magazine noted his legacy. "An Argentine with a gift for empathy, a discomfort with opulence, and a profound love for the poor changed the face of the Catholic Church." Pope Leo XIV made the May 26 cover of Time. "Born in Chicago to a family with Italian, French, and Spanish roots, (Robert Francis) Prevost, 69, will be the first Pope from the U.S. the Catholic Church has ever seen, and only the second Pope from the Americas, after Francis who was from Argentina." The Pope holds Peruvian citizenship which he claimed as a missionary in his years serving the Latin American country. "If there has been a common theme in the federal courts' response to the fallout from President Trump's aggressive deportation policies, it is that the White House cannot rush headlong into expelling people by sidestepping the fundamental principle of due process," The New York Times, reported May 19. "In case after case, a legal bottom line is emerging: Immigrants should at least be given the opportunity to challenge their deportations, especially as Trump officials have claimed novel and extraordinary powers to remove them." "Secretary of state. Acting administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development. Acting archivist for the National Archives and Records Administration. And now interim national security adviser to President Trump. Like a Christmas tree bedecked with shiny ornaments of every shape and size, Marco Rubio, 53, has accumulated four titles." — The New York Times, May 3, 2025 "José Mujica, a former president of Uruguay, guerrilla fighter and stalwart of leftist leadership in Latin America, died." He was 89. — The New York Times, May 15, 2025 … "Johnny Rodriguez, who became the first Mexican American country music star with a string of hits, died." He was 73. — The New York Times, May 13, 2025 President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico said "her government had sued Google over the company's decision to label the Gulf of Mexico as 'Gulf of America'" — The New York Times, May 9, 2025 "Police in Brazil say they thwarted a plot to detonate a bomb at Lady Gaga's historic concert in Rio de Janeiro." — Entertainment Weekly, May 4, 2025