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The statement, passed at the bishops’ annual conference in Baltimore, did not call out President Trump by name, but the context was clear. 0.900

👤 Elizabeth Dias

Simplified: The bishops' statement did not name Trump but implied criticism.

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4 months ago
America’s Roman Catholic bishops on Wednesday rebuked the Trump administration’s aggressive deportation campaign in a rare and near-unanimous statement that framed the immigration crisis in starkly mo... 0.900

👤 Elizabeth Dias

Simplified: Catholic bishops rebuked Trump administration's deportation policy in a rare statement.

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4 months ago
A version of this article appears in print on Oct. 18, 2025, Section C, Page 4 of the New York edition with the headline: In the Long Wake Of a Lost Freighter. 1.000

Simplified: A print version of this article appears on October 18, 2025.

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4 months ago
An earlier version of this article misspelled the name of a Michigan town. It is Mackinaw City, not Mackinac City. 1.000

Simplified: The article previously misspelled 'Mackinaw City'.

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4 months ago
The Fitz disaster, which ushered in widespread safety reforms, was the last major shipwreck on the lakes. 0.850

Simplified: The Fitzgerald disaster led to safety reforms and was the last major shipwreck on the Great Lakes.

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4 months ago
Tom Wiater, the president of Central Marine Logistics, which operates the Sykes, grew up in Detroit, where he was fascinated by lore of the sea, and not eager for a life of holdups at the family liquo... 0.900

Simplified: Tom Wiater is the president of Central Marine Logistics and grew up in Detroit.

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4 months ago
At twilight, we passed under the Mackinac Bridge, which connects the upper and lower peninsulas of Michigan, one of the longest suspension bridges in the Western Hemisphere. 0.900

Simplified: The Mackinac Bridge is one of the longest suspension bridges in the Western Hemisphere.

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4 months ago
And when Bacon went searching for the archives of the company (which went bankrupt in 2004), he learned that the boxes relating to the Fitz had gone missing. 0.850

Simplified: Oglebay Norton went bankrupt in 2004, and the Fitzgerald records went missing.

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4 months ago
Initially, Bacon writes, it offered victims’ families only their final paycheck, plus $750 for personal effects. 0.800

👤 Bacon

Simplified: Oglebay Norton initially offered limited compensation to victims' families.

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4 months ago
Lightfoot (who died in 2023) had ever played it with a band. 0.950

Simplified: Lightfoot died in 2023.

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4 months ago
Lightfoot’s song, which hit No. 2 on the Billboard charts, that drove it deep into cultural memory. 0.900

Simplified: Lightfoot's song reached #2 on Billboard.

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4 months ago
The wreck prompted multiple investigations and lawsuits. 0.900

Simplified: The shipwreck led to investigations and lawsuits.

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4 months ago
One computer model drawing on historic weather data, shows how frigid air coming down from Canada collided with storm system coming from the southwest, creating hurricane-like conditions that turned t... 0.800

👤 Bacon

Simplified: A computer model shows the storm created hurricane-like conditions with waves over 50 feet.

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4 months ago
The book includes a dramatic reconstruction of the storm, based in part on recent high-tech research. 0.900

Simplified: The book contains a reconstruction of the storm based on research.

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4 months ago
Next month, nearly 2,000 people are expected to gather there for the annual commemorative lighting of the beacon. 0.800

Simplified: About 2,000 people are expected at the beacon lighting next month.

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4 months ago
Hayes Scriven, the site’s manager, walked us to the edge of the 130-foot cliffs. 0.900

Simplified: Hayes Scriven walked us to the edge of 130-foot cliffs.

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4 months ago
Duluth, Minn., with its sister city of Superior, Wis., is one of the largest inland ports in the world, and, at 2,300 miles from the Atlantic via the St. Lawrence Seaway, the farthest accessible to oc... 0.900

Simplified: Duluth, Minnesota, is one of the largest inland ports and the farthest from the Atlantic Ocean via the St. Lawrence Seaway.

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4 months ago
It loaded up alongside the Fitz at an iron ore dock outside Duluth, Minn., on the unseasonably warm and sunny afternoon of Nov. 9, 1975, and was hit by the same sudden storm, with winds that whipped a... 0.900

Simplified: The Sykes loaded alongside the Fitzgerald on November 9, 1975, and was hit by the same storm.

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4 months ago
The Sykes, which turned 75 last year, is one of only a half-dozen steam-powered lake freighters remaining. 0.900

Simplified: The Sykes is 75 years old and one of the few remaining steam-powered freighters.

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4 months ago
In the Fitz’s day, there were more than 300 Great Lakes freighters on the water. Today, they are fewer than half that, including the Sykes, which I rode for a week across nearly 1,000 miles and three... 0.850

Simplified: The number of Great Lakes freighters has decreased from over 300 to less than half that number.

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4 months ago