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28,000 pounds

The amount of cocaine the U.S. Coast Guard seized from the hulls of quasi-submarines and other light craft caught running drugs off the coasts of Central and South America between January and March. The drugs, presumably bound for the United States, had a street value of over $400 million.

$10 billion

The price Yahoo’s board of directors is asking for the company’s core internet business, including its search and advertising properties. The troubled tech company put itself up for sale in March.

43%

The proportion of the 22 million Americans with federal student loans who weren’t making their payments as of Jan. 1, according to the Education Department.

16,800 gallons

The amount of oil that spilled from a leak in TransCanada’s Keystone pipeline in South Dakota. The company, which fixed the leak a few days after its discovery in early April, said it had not observed any “significant impacts to the environment.”

44

The number of children the West African terrorist group Boko Haram used to carry out suicide bomb attacks in 2015, according to UNICEF. Most were girls.

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