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"value": "# Battered by war and economic crisis, Lebanon holds first local elections in almost 10 years\n\nBy Ali Sharafeddine and Kareem Chehayeb \nMay 4th, 2025 12:21 PM\n\n---\n\nHARET HREIK, Lebanon (AP) — Lebanese voted Sunday in the country's first local elections in almost a decade, months after a U.S.-brokered ceasefire ended a war between Israel and Hezbollah.\n\nThe first round of voting, which is taking place by region, was in the Mount Lebanon districts including Beirut's battered southern suburbs, where Hezbollah headquarters are located and much of their leadership including veteran leader Hassan Nasrallah were killed in Israeli airstrikes during the 14-month war.\n\nThe polls for mayors and municipal councils, though not as significant as Lebanon's parliamentary election set for 2026, are a barometer of how much the devastating war that left over 4,000 people dead and entire neighborhoods destroyed has impacted support for politicians and parties, especially in the south where Hezbollah and allies are strong.\n\nHezbollah and fellow Shitte party the Amal Movement are expected to win most votes for municipal councils and mayors in Beirut's southern suburbs.\n\nFlags of the parties and members wearing green and yellow paraphernalia were present outside the polling stations, assisting supporters wanting to cast their vote for the parties' candidates.\n\nThe voting also took place in public schools near the wreckage of buildings destroyed in Israeli airstrikes. Lebanon's cash-strapped government has been scrambling to secure international funds for the reconstruction, which the World Bank estimates at over $11 billion.\n\nMunicipal elections were supposed to have taken place years ago but the government had postponed them three times, including once over budgetary constraints.\n\nVoters said they were especially concerned with rebuilding their homes and livelihoods.\n\nMohammad Awali, a candidate running for the Haret Hreik municipality, said his local council \"has a great responsibility, especially given the extensive destruction that occurred in our area.\""
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"value": "# Battered by war and economic crisis, Lebanon holds first local elections in almost 10 years\n\nBy Ali Sharafeddine and Kareem Chehayeb \nMay 4th, 2025 12:21 PM\n\n---\n\nHARET HREIK, Lebanon (AP) — Lebanese voted Sunday in the country's first local elections in almost a decade, months after a U.S.-brokered ceasefire ended a war between Israel and Hezbollah.\n\nThe first round of voting, which is taking place by region, was in the Mount Lebanon districts including Beirut's battered southern suburbs, where Hezbollah headquarters are located and much of their leadership including veteran leader Hassan Nasrallah were killed in Israeli airstrikes during the 14-month war.\n\nThe polls for mayors and municipal councils, though not as significant as Lebanon's parliamentary election set for 2026, are a barometer of how much the devastating war that left over 4,000 people dead and entire neighborhoods destroyed has impacted support for politicians and parties, especially in the south where Hezbollah and allies are strong.\n\nHezbollah and fellow Shitte party the Amal Movement are expected to win most votes for municipal councils and mayors in Beirut's southern suburbs.\n\nFlags of the parties and members wearing green and yellow paraphernalia were present outside the polling stations, assisting supporters wanting to cast their vote for the parties' candidates.\n\nThe voting also took place in public schools near the wreckage of buildings destroyed in Israeli airstrikes. Lebanon's cash-strapped government has been scrambling to secure international funds for the reconstruction, which the World Bank estimates at over $11 billion.\n\nMunicipal elections were supposed to have taken place years ago but the government had postponed them three times, including once over budgetary constraints.\n\nVoters said they were especially concerned with rebuilding their homes and livelihoods.\n\nMohammad Awali, a candidate running for the Haret Hreik municipality, said his local council \"has a great responsibility, especially given the extensive destruction that occurred in our area.\""
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"value": "# The EU seeks to halt Russian gas imports by the end of 2027 and ban new contracts already this year\n\nBy Lorne Cook and Sam Mcneil \nMay 6th, 2025 06:14 PM\n\n---\n\nBRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union should halt imports of Russian natural gas by the end of 2027 to deprive President Vladimir Putin of revenue that helps fuel his war on Ukraine, the bloc's executive branch said Tuesday.\n\nUnder a detailed plan to be presented next month, the European Commission would seek to ban new gas contracts with Russia by the end of this year and phase out existing ones still in use in the 27-nation EU by the end of 2027.\n\n\"Putin has shown that he doesn't mind weaponizing gas,\" EU Energy Commissioner Dan Jørgensen said as he outlined the plan. \"We do not want to fill up his war chest and support his war economy because who knows which countries will be next.\"\n\nJørgensen said the EU had completely cut coal purchases from Russia and drastically lowered oil and gas imports since the war on Ukraine began in 2022, but that 1.8 billion euros ($2 billion) in energy revenue still reached Moscow every month last year.\n\n\"I am a little bit embarrassed that last year we still paid 23 billion euros ($26 billion) to Russia whilst they are in war with our friends in Ukraine,\" Jørgensen told reporters in Strasbourg, France.\n\nThe EU says it has cut gas imports from 45% to 19%, and oil from 27% to 3%, of its prewar levels. But that still makes it Russia's biggest gas client, with pipelines in operation across the Black Sea, Belarus, and Turkey, according to the Energy and Clean Air think tank.\n\nTen countries continue to import energy from Russia. Those that still take its gas via pipelines include Greece, Hungary and Slovakia. Austria, Poland and the Baltic countries – Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania – have phased out their imports.\n\nHungary and Slovakia – whose leaders are considered to be Putin's closest allies in Europe – have blocked EU military assistance to Ukraine, and are sure to oppose the commission's gas plans.\n\nHowever, the EU's executive branch appears determined not to let them veto the plan and is ready to propose a system that would only have to be endorsed by about two-thirds of the 27 member countries, and possibly by the European Parliament.\n\nJørgensen said that by the end of this year, each country would be required to submit plans showing how they intend to stop imports of Russian energy and that existing spot market contracts would be banned, measures that would eliminate one-third of imports.\n\nHe conceded that the plan would face challenges but said that it would be introduced \"in a gradual, coordinated way,\" with EU support being provided if needed to those countries that are hardest hit.\n\n\"Russia is a threat to all of us. Therefore, we must act,\" Jørgensen said.\n\n___\n\nMcNeil contributed to this report from Barcelona, Spain."
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"value": "# The EU seeks to halt Russian gas imports by the end of 2027 and ban new contracts already this year\n\nBy Lorne Cook and Sam Mcneil \nMay 6th, 2025 06:14 PM\n\n---\n\nBRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union should halt imports of Russian natural gas by the end of 2027 to deprive President Vladimir Putin of revenue that helps fuel his war on Ukraine, the bloc's executive branch said Tuesday.\n\nUnder a detailed plan to be presented next month, the European Commission would seek to ban new gas contracts with Russia by the end of this year and phase out existing ones still in use in the 27-nation EU by the end of 2027.\n\n\"Putin has shown that he doesn't mind weaponizing gas,\" EU Energy Commissioner Dan Jørgensen said as he outlined the plan. \"We do not want to fill up his war chest and support his war economy because who knows which countries will be next.\"\n\nJørgensen said the EU had completely cut coal purchases from Russia and drastically lowered oil and gas imports since the war on Ukraine began in 2022, but that 1.8 billion euros ($2 billion) in energy revenue still reached Moscow every month last year.\n\n\"I am a little bit embarrassed that last year we still paid 23 billion euros ($26 billion) to Russia whilst they are in war with our friends in Ukraine,\" Jørgensen told reporters in Strasbourg, France.\n\nThe EU says it has cut gas imports from 45% to 19%, and oil from 27% to 3%, of its prewar levels. But that still makes it Russia's biggest gas client, with pipelines in operation across the Black Sea, Belarus, and Turkey, according to the Energy and Clean Air think tank.\n\nTen countries continue to import energy from Russia. Those that still take its gas via pipelines include Greece, Hungary and Slovakia. Austria, Poland and the Baltic countries – Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania – have phased out their imports.\n\nHungary and Slovakia – whose leaders are considered to be Putin's closest allies in Europe – have blocked EU military assistance to Ukraine, and are sure to oppose the commission's gas plans.\n\nHowever, the EU's executive branch appears determined not to let them veto the plan and is ready to propose a system that would only have to be endorsed by about two-thirds of the 27 member countries, and possibly by the European Parliament.\n\nJørgensen said that by the end of this year, each country would be required to submit plans showing how they intend to stop imports of Russian energy and that existing spot market contracts would be banned, measures that would eliminate one-third of imports.\n\nHe conceded that the plan would face challenges but said that it would be introduced \"in a gradual, coordinated way,\" with EU support being provided if needed to those countries that are hardest hit.\n\n\"Russia is a threat to all of us. Therefore, we must act,\" Jørgensen said."
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"value": "# Aston Villa officials unhappy with Premier League fixture change, citing 'prejudice'\n\nBy Steve Douglas \nMay 6th, 2025 01:01 PM\n\n---\n\nAston Villa officials have expressed their unhappiness with the Premier League for bringing forward a match against Tottenham by two days to help Spurs maximize preparation time for a potential appearance in the Europa League final.\n\nThe match was due to be played on Sunday, May 18, but will now take place on Friday, May 16 — five days before the title match in the Europa League in Bilbao, Spain.\n\nTottenham leads Bodø/Glimt 3-1 from the first leg of the semifinals, with the return match on Thursday in Norway.\n\nThe fixture rearrangement gives Villa — a team chasing Champions League qualification — two fewer days to prepare for Tottenham, which might also choose to play a stronger lineup now there is more time to recover for a possible European final.\n\nIt also will affect travel and logistical arrangements for some Villa fans.\n\nMonchi, president of football operations at Villa, took to X to say the change in match date \"is not what we wanted\" and represented \"the least damaging alternative.\"\n\n\"Our fans didn't deserve (it),\" he wrote on the social network site, \"but we tried hard to keep the match to protect the most important for us: YOU and OUR TEAM.\"\n\nDamian Vidagany, Villa director of football operations, went further in a long post on X, saying there was a \"clear prejudice\" toward Villa fans and bemoaning the fact that his club \"didn't feel this support\" over its last two European campaigns — in the Europa Conference League last season and the Champions League this season.\n\n\"European football is not only demanding for English clubs just on the verge of the finals,\" Vidagany wrote.\n\nVilla is in seventh place in the Premier League and in a battle with five other teams to secure the remaining four Champions League qualification spots on offer. Liverpool, the already crowned champion, has already qualified.\n\nWhile it is commonplace in other countries, there has been no precedent for the Premier League moving games to benefit clubs playing in Europe.\n\nManchester United is also in the Europa League semifinals and holds a 3-0 lead over Athletic Bilbao from the first leg in Spain last week.\n\nUnited will be playing a Premier League game on Friday, May 16, too — against Chelsea. So United and Tottenham would have the same amount of preparation time should they both reach the Europa League final.\n\n___\n\nAP soccer: https://apnews.com/hub/soccer"
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"value": "# Aston Villa officials unhappy with Premier League fixture change, citing 'prejudice'\n\nBy Steve Douglas \nMay 6th, 2025 01:01 PM\n\n---\n\nAston Villa officials have expressed their unhappiness with the Premier League for bringing forward a match against Tottenham by two days to help Spurs maximize preparation time for a potential appearance in the Europa League final.\n\nThe match was due to be played on Sunday, May 18, but will now take place on Friday, May 16 — five days before the title match in the Europa League in Bilbao, Spain.\n\nTottenham leads Bodø/Glimt 3-1 from the first leg of the semifinals, with the return match on Thursday in Norway.\n\nThe fixture rearrangement gives Villa — a team chasing Champions League qualification — two fewer days to prepare for Tottenham, which might also choose to play a stronger lineup now there is more time to recover for a possible European final.\n\nIt also will affect travel and logistical arrangements for some Villa fans.\n\nMonchi, president of football operations at Villa, took to X to say the change in match date \"is not what we wanted\" and represented \"the least damaging alternative.\"\n\n\"Our fans didn't deserve (it),\" he wrote on the social network site, \"but we tried hard to keep the match to protect the most important for us: YOU and OUR TEAM.\"\n\nDamian Vidagany, Villa director of football operations, went further in a long post on X, saying there was a \"clear prejudice\" toward Villa fans and bemoaning the fact that his club \"didn't feel this support\" over its last two European campaigns — in the Europa Conference League last season and the Champions League this season.\n\n\"European football is not only demanding for English clubs just on the verge of the finals,\" Vidagany wrote.\n\nVilla is in seventh place in the Premier League and in a battle with five other teams to secure the remaining four Champions League qualification spots on offer. Liverpool, the already crowned champion, has already qualified.\n\nWhile it is commonplace in other countries, there has been no precedent for the Premier League moving games to benefit clubs playing in Europe.\n\nManchester United is also in the Europa League semifinals and holds a 3-0 lead over Athletic Bilbao from the first leg in Spain last week.\n\nUnited will be playing a Premier League game on Friday, May 16, too — against Chelsea. So United and Tottenham would have the same amount of preparation time should they both reach the Europa League final."
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"value": "# Lando Norris beats teammate Oscar Piastri in eventful sprint race at rainy Miami Grand Prix\n\nBy Jenna Fryer \nMay 3rd, 2025 05:39 PM\n\n---\n\nMIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — Lando Norris beat McLaren Racing teammate Oscar Piastri to win the sprint race held Saturday ahead of qualifying for the Miami Grand Prix.\n\n\"My luck in Miami seems pretty good at this minute,\" said Norris, who will try to defend last year's Miami victory on Sunday.\n\nThe 18-lap sprint was eventful even before it started as heavy rain drenched the course and Charles Leclerc crashed in the wet conditions driving his Ferrari out to the grid for the start of the race. He wasn't able to compete in the sprint as Ferrari worked to repair his car in time for qualifying.\n\nThe start of the race was then delayed because drivers said the rain made conditions too dangerous and visibility was a concern. And when it finally went green, with 18-year-old Kimi Antonelli leading the standing start as the youngest pole-winner in F1 history, his time out front was brief. Piastri beat the Mercedes driver into the first turn and Antonelli drove off the track and slipped to fourth.\n\nHe was later hit in the pits by Max Verstappen, who received a 10-second penalty for an unsafe release. Antonelli finished 11th and Verstappen, who had been running third, finished 17th and failed to earn any points for the event.\n\nThe race ended under yellow because Liam Lawson ran into Fernando Alonso, causing Alonso to crash with three laps remaining. The safety prevented Piastri from trying to reclaim the lead from teammate Norris, who won the Miami Grand Prix last year for his first career F1 victory.\n\n\"I don't think I'm going to be buying a lottery ticket around this place,\" Piastri said. \"I feel like I did everything right so a bit disappointed to come in second.\"\n\nLewis Hamilton finished third for Ferrari. He moved ahead of Verstappen before Verstappen served his penalty.\n\n\"I'm so happy with that, it's been a tough year so far,\" said Hamilton, who is in his first season driving for Ferrari. \"I never thought it would rain in Miami, it's the first time we've all been in the wet here, and what a race it provided us.\"\n\nAlex Albon finished fourth for Williams and was followed by George Russell of Mercedes.\n\nAlonso, Carlos Sainz Jr., and Leclerc did not complete the race.\n\n___\n\nAP auto racing: https://apnews.com/hub/auto-racing"
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"value": "# Lando Norris beats teammate Oscar Piastri in eventful sprint race at rainy Miami Grand Prix\n\nBy Jenna Fryer \nMay 3rd, 2025 05:39 PM\n\n---\n\nMIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — Lando Norris beat McLaren Racing teammate Oscar Piastri to win the sprint race held Saturday ahead of qualifying for the Miami Grand Prix.\n\n\"My luck in Miami seems pretty good at this minute,\" said Norris, who will try to defend last year's Miami victory on Sunday.\n\nThe 18-lap sprint was eventful even before it started as heavy rain drenched the course and Charles Leclerc crashed in the wet conditions driving his Ferrari out to the grid for the start of the race. He wasn't able to compete in the sprint as Ferrari worked to repair his car in time for qualifying.\n\nThe start of the race was then delayed because drivers said the rain made conditions too dangerous and visibility was a concern. And when it finally went green, with 18-year-old Kimi Antonelli leading the standing start as the youngest pole-winner in F1 history, his time out front was brief. Piastri beat the Mercedes driver into the first turn and Antonelli drove off the track and slipped to fourth.\n\nHe was later hit in the pits by Max Verstappen, who received a 10-second penalty for an unsafe release. Antonelli finished 11th and Verstappen, who had been running third, finished 17th and failed to earn any points for the event.\n\nThe race ended under yellow because Liam Lawson ran into Fernando Alonso, causing Alonso to crash with three laps remaining. The safety prevented Piastri from trying to reclaim the lead from teammate Norris, who won the Miami Grand Prix last year for his first career F1 victory.\n\n\"I don't think I'm going to be buying a lottery ticket around this place,\" Piastri said. \"I feel like I did everything right so a bit disappointed to come in second.\"\n\nLewis Hamilton finished third for Ferrari. He moved ahead of Verstappen before Verstappen served his penalty.\n\n\"I'm so happy with that, it's been a tough year so far,\" said Hamilton, who is in his first season driving for Ferrari. \"I never thought it would rain in Miami, it's the first time we've all been in the wet here, and what a race it provided us.\"\n\nAlex Albon finished fourth for Williams and was followed by George Russell of Mercedes.\n\nAlonso, Carlos Sainz Jr., and Leclerc did not complete the race."
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"value": "# Baby seal stabbed on Oregon coast prompts search for suspect\n\nMay 7th, 2025 05:29 PM\n\n---\n\nNESKOWIN, Ore. (AP) — The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is searching for the person who stabbed a baby seal multiple times on a beach in Oregon.\n\nThe seal survived the March attack in a cove in the small town of Neskowin, which sits along the Pacific Ocean, NOAA said Monday. The administration's marine stranding team was able to move it to a more secluded beach in Washington state last month.\n\nIts wounds were healing, it had grown to about 300 pounds and there were no signs that the stabbing was going to have \"lasting effects,\" Michael Milstein, a spokesperson for NOAA Fisheries West Coast region, said in an email.\n\nThe agency's law enforcement office, which is investigating the attack, was searching for a \"person of interest\" spotted by a witness. Officials were also looking for the owner of a vehicle seen in a parking lot near the cove behind a condominium building that may be connected with the Sunday evening attack, according to NOAA.\n\nOfficials are asking anyone with information on the person of interest, vehicle owner or attack to call NOAA's enforcement hotline.\n\nIn the spring and summer, juvenile elephant seals will often drag themselves onto Oregon's beaches to spend weeks shedding their hair and skin, according to Oregon State University's Marine Mammal Institute. Adult elephant seals are rarely seen in the state.\n\nThe seal that was stabbed likely left its mother very recently and was on its own to learn to hunt, Milstein said. Once it had grown a bit more, it would have likely made its way back to breeding areas around the Channel Islands off Southern California\n\nThe federal Marine Mammal Protection Act prohibits harassing, harming, killing or feeding wild elephant seals and other marine mammals. Violators can face criminal penalties of up to $100,000 in fines and up to 1 year in jail."
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"value": "# Baby seal stabbed on Oregon coast prompts search for suspect\n\nMay 7th, 2025 05:29 PM\n\n---\n\nNESKOWIN, Ore. (AP) — The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is searching for the person who stabbed a baby seal multiple times on a beach in Oregon.\n\nThe seal survived the March attack in a cove in the small town of Neskowin, which sits along the Pacific Ocean, NOAA said Monday. The administration's marine stranding team was able to move it to a more secluded beach in Washington state last month.\n\nIts wounds were healing, it had grown to about 300 pounds and there were no signs that the stabbing was going to have \"lasting effects,\" Michael Milstein, a spokesperson for NOAA Fisheries West Coast region, said in an email.\n\nThe agency's law enforcement office, which is investigating the attack, was searching for a \"person of interest\" spotted by a witness. Officials were also looking for the owner of a vehicle seen in a parking lot near the cove behind a condominium building that may be connected with the Sunday evening attack, according to NOAA.\n\nOfficials are asking anyone with information on the person of interest, vehicle owner or attack to call NOAA's enforcement hotline.\n\nIn the spring and summer, juvenile elephant seals will often drag themselves onto Oregon's beaches to spend weeks shedding their hair and skin, according to Oregon State University's Marine Mammal Institute. Adult elephant seals are rarely seen in the state.\n\nThe seal that was stabbed likely left its mother very recently and was on its own to learn to hunt, Milstein said. Once it had grown a bit more, it would have likely made its way back to breeding areas around the Channel Islands off Southern California\n\nThe federal Marine Mammal Protection Act prohibits harassing, harming, killing or feeding wild elephant seals and other marine mammals. Violators can face criminal penalties of up to $100,000 in fines and up to 1 year in jail."
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"value": "# Storm forward Katie Lou Samuelson expected to miss 2025 season with ACL tear\n\nBy Andrew Destin \nMay 3rd, 2025 08:40 PM\n\n---\n\nSEATTLE (AP) — Seattle Storm forward Katie Lou Samuelson is expected to miss the 2025 WNBA season due to a torn anterior cruciate ligament in her right knee, the team announced Saturday.\n\nSamuelson, 27, suffered the injury during practice on Thursday, the team said.\n\nThe UConn graduate has dealt with other injuries in her basketball career, including a broken foot, an ankle injury and a back injury.\n\nSamuelson signed a one-year deal with the Storm in February, which marked her return to the franchise she played with during the 2021 season. The former No. 4 overall pick has averaged 5.9 points and 2.5 rebounds per game during her WNBA career.\n\n___\n\nAP WNBA: https://apnews.com/hub/wnba-basketball"
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"value": "# Storm forward Katie Lou Samuelson expected to miss 2025 season with ACL tear\n\nBy Andrew Destin \nMay 3rd, 2025 08:40 PM\n\n---\n\nSEATTLE (AP) — Seattle Storm forward Katie Lou Samuelson is expected to miss the 2025 WNBA season due to a torn anterior cruciate ligament in her right knee, the team announced Saturday.\n\nSamuelson, 27, suffered the injury during practice on Thursday, the team said.\n\nThe UConn graduate has dealt with other injuries in her basketball career, including a broken foot, an ankle injury and a back injury.\n\nSamuelson signed a one-year deal with the Storm in February, which marked her return to the franchise she played with during the 2021 season. The former No. 4 overall pick has averaged 5.9 points and 2.5 rebounds per game during her WNBA career."
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"value": "# Tyrese Haliburton's father will not attend his son's Pacers games for the foreseeable future\n\nBy Michael Marot \nMay 2nd, 2025 05:24 PM\n\n---\n\nINDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana Pacers star Tyrese Haliburton has grown accustomed to the postgame meetings with his dad.\n\nHe also understands why those won't be in person anytime soon.\n\nThe Pacers announced Friday that Haliburton's father, John, will not be attending the team's games for the foreseeable future after he ran onto the court Tuesday and confronted two-time league MVP Giannis Antetokounmpo moments after Indiana eliminated Milwaukee 4-1 on Haliburton's last-second layup.\n\n\"Growing up I think, like every other kid, if your dad claps too loud at a choir concert or whatever the case may be, you might be a little embarrassed,\" the younger Haliburton said Friday. \"That's what it was at one point in my life, but it's gotten to the point now where my dad is who he is and I love him for who he is and so does everybody who knows him.\"\n\nHaliburton also acknowledged again, as he did shortly after Tuesday night's 119-118 overtime victory, that his father's reaction was wrong and chalked it up to be overly excited. Antetokounmpo thought initially it was a random fan on the court and called John Haliburton's actions \"very, very disrespectful.\"\n\nIt was the second straight year the Pacers eliminated the Bucks in the first round of the NBA playoffs, and this time, it came courtesy of Haliburton blowing past Antetokounmpo for the game winner with 1.3 seconds to go. They'll open the Eastern Conference semifinals Sunday at Cleveland.\n\nHaliburton was too busy celebrating to see his father get in Antetokounmpo's face, sparking a postgame melee in which players from the two teams had to be separated. It wasn't until he was in the locker room that he saw the replay. When he emerged to speak with reporters, Haliburton said he'd already spoken with his father and would again.\n\nEarly Wednesday morning, John Haliburton posted an apology on his social media account.\n\n\"I sincerely apologize to Giannis, the Milwaukee Bucks and the Pacers organization for my actions following tonight's game,\" he wrote. \"This was not a good reflection on our sport or my son and I will not make that mistake again.\"\n\nThe Pacers apparently decided not to give him a chance to make the same error anytime soon. How long John Haliburton stays away — or whether he'll be seated that close to the court again if he is allowed to return — remains unclear.\n\nBut it hasn't changed Haliburton's opinion about his father.\n\n\"This is the last time I'll address this (situation) at all, but I understand the decision made by our organization and the league,\" Haliburton said. \"I've spoken on it many times, my father was in the wrong. But at the end of the day, it's my dad. So I'm not going to ridicule him by any means. ... I love him dearly.\"\n\nAnd as for those postgame meetings, well, Tyrese Haliburton still expects them to happen.\n\n\"He's going to sit at home and watch the game and he'll be just fine. We talk every day, it's going to be totally fine,\" the younger Haliburton said. \"So this is just one thing and we're not defined by one thing that happens in our life. I'm not. We all make mistakes, and we move on, but he'll be fine. He'll watch at home, and I'll be getting texts at halftime and calls after the game.\"\n\n___\n\nAP NBA: https://apnews.com/hub/NBA"
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"value": "# Protesters in Haiti demand new government as they condemn violent gangs\n\nBy Evens Sanon and Dánica Coto \nMay 4th, 2025 05:55 PM\n\n---\n\nPORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Dozens of protesters marched up the hills of Haiti's capital on Sunday demanding an end to persistent gang violence as they called on the country's prime minister and transitional presidential council to resign.\n\nIt's the latest protest to reflect growing anger and frustration over a surge in violence as gangs try to seize full control of Port-au-Prince.\n\n\"The only thing the Haitian people are asking for is security,\" said Eric Jean, a 42-year-old bus driver with a large Haitian flag tied around his neck. \"We're losing more neighborhoods, more people are dying, more people are fleeing their homes.\"\n\nAlso joining the protest was Marc Étienne, who blamed gangs for raiding his small business and leaving him homeless. The 39-year-old now lives in a squalid, makeshift camp like tens of thousands of others forced to flee their homes after gangs razed their communities.\n\nÉtienne called for a new government as he blamed the current leaders for the ongoing violence and an increase in the number of children joining gangs.\n\n\"Haiti cannot be run among friends,\" he said. \"The city is dying because the (council) is not doing anything to make it better.\"\n\n## A vow to fight gangs\n\nSunday's demonstration comes a day after hundreds of people gathered in Port-au-Prince to honor several community leaders killed in recent clashes with gangs.\n\n\"Freedom or death!\" the mourners shouted on Saturday as the leaders of the Canapé-Vert neighborhood entered a small stadium where the memorial was held.\n\nVideos posted on social media showed the leaders carrying automatic weapons and wearing black T-shirts emblazoned with pictures of those killed. Many wore balaclavas to cover their faces and protect themselves from possible retaliation by gangs.\n\nClad in white, the mourners raised their fists and clutched hands in the air as a man on stage roared in Haitian Creole, \"The blood is not going to be shed in vain! The fight is what?\"\n\n\"Just beginning!\" the crowd answered in unison.\n\nThe unidentified man on stage said the community would never forget the slain leaders as he condemned gang violence. \"People are dying, and they don't even know why they're dying,\" he said.\n\nCanapé-Vert is one of the few neighborhoods that has yet to fall to gangs that control at least 85% of the capital. It also is known for having one of Port-au-Prince's most powerful neighborhood organizations, led in part by frustrated police officers.\n\nIn early April, Canapé-Vert leaders organized a large protest that became violent as they, too, demanded that Haiti's prime minister and its transitional presidential council resign.\n\n## Attacks of 'indiscriminate and brutal nature'\n\nSunday's demonstration and other recent protests have decried the country's spiraling crisis, with more than 1,600 people killed and another 580 injured from January to March.\n\nIn mid-March, hundreds of people armed with sticks and machetes, accompanied by members of an armed environmental brigade, successfully ousted more than 100 suspected gang members that had seized control of a Catholic school, according to a new report issued by the U.N. political mission in Haiti.\n\nBut the ouster is only one of a handful of successful fights against powerful gangs backed by certain politicians and some of Haiti's elite.\n\nLast year, more than 5,600 people across Haiti were killed, according to the U.N.\n\nGang violence also has left more than one million people homeless in recent years.\n\nGunmen in recent months have targeted once peaceful neighborhoods in Port-au-Prince that would give them easy access to Pétion-Ville, a residential area where banks, embassies and other institutions are located.\n\nIn a February attack on Delmas 30, gunmen \"indiscriminately fired on the population in the neighborhood, killing 21 men and injuring eight others,\" according to the U.N. report.\n\nIn a separate attack on a nearby neighborhood where the French embassy is located, at least 30 people were killed, many of whom were traveling in small colorful buses known as tap taps, according to the report.\n\nOther victims include at least 15 people who were family members of police officers.\n\nGangs also have attacked multiple communities in Haiti's central Artibonite region, killing adults and small children as they fled.\n\n\"The indiscriminate and brutal nature of some of these attacks shows the gang's strategy to spread panic and reduce the resistance of the local population,\" according to the BINUH report.\n\nMeanwhile, Haiti's National Police, bolstered by a U.N.-backed mission led by Kenyan police, has struggled in its fight against gangs as the mission remains underfunded and understaffed, with only 1,000 personnel of the 2,500 envisioned.\n\nIn a push to crack down on gangs, the U.S. government on Friday officially designated Viv Ansanm, a powerful gang coalition, and Gran Grif, the largest gang to operate in Haiti's central region, as foreign terror organizations.\n\nCritics warn the move could affect aid organizations working in Haiti at a critical time, since many are forced to negotiate with gangs to supply people with basic goods including food and water.\n\n___\n\nCoto reported from San Juan, Puerto Rico."
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"value": "# Protesters in Haiti demand new government as they condemn violent gangs\n\nBy Evens Sanon and Dánica Coto \nMay 4th, 2025 05:55 PM\n\n---\n\nPORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Dozens of protesters marched up the hills of Haiti's capital on Sunday demanding an end to persistent gang violence as they called on the country's prime minister and transitional presidential council to resign.\n\nIt's the latest protest to reflect growing anger and frustration over a surge in violence as gangs try to seize full control of Port-au-Prince.\n\n\"The only thing the Haitian people are asking for is security,\" said Eric Jean, a 42-year-old bus driver with a large Haitian flag tied around his neck. \"We're losing more neighborhoods, more people are dying, more people are fleeing their homes.\"\n\nAlso joining the protest was Marc Étienne, who blamed gangs for raiding his small business and leaving him homeless. The 39-year-old now lives in a squalid, makeshift camp like tens of thousands of others forced to flee their homes after gangs razed their communities.\n\nÉtienne called for a new government as he blamed the current leaders for the ongoing violence and an increase in the number of children joining gangs.\n\n\"Haiti cannot be run among friends,\" he said. \"The city is dying because the (council) is not doing anything to make it better.\"\n\n## A vow to fight gangs\n\nSunday's demonstration comes a day after hundreds of people gathered in Port-au-Prince to honor several community leaders killed in recent clashes with gangs.\n\n\"Freedom or death!\" the mourners shouted on Saturday as the leaders of the Canapé-Vert neighborhood entered a small stadium where the memorial was held.\n\nVideos posted on social media showed the leaders carrying automatic weapons and wearing black T-shirts emblazoned with pictures of those killed. Many wore balaclavas to cover their faces and protect themselves from possible retaliation by gangs.\n\nClad in white, the mourners raised their fists and clutched hands in the air as a man on stage roared in Haitian Creole, \"The blood is not going to be shed in vain! The fight is what?\"\n\n\"Just beginning!\" the crowd answered in unison.\n\nThe unidentified man on stage said the community would never forget the slain leaders as he condemned gang violence. \"People are dying, and they don't even know why they're dying,\" he said.\n\nCanapé-Vert is one of the few neighborhoods that has yet to fall to gangs that control at least 85% of the capital. It also is known for having one of Port-au-Prince's most powerful neighborhood organizations, led in part by frustrated police officers.\n\nIn early April, Canapé-Vert leaders organized a large protest that became violent as they, too, demanded that Haiti's prime minister and its transitional presidential council resign.\n\n## Attacks of 'indiscriminate and brutal nature'\n\nSunday's demonstration and other recent protests have decried the country's spiraling crisis, with more than 1,600 people killed and another 580 injured from January to March.\n\nIn mid-March, hundreds of people armed with sticks and machetes, accompanied by members of an armed environmental brigade, successfully ousted more than 100 suspected gang members that had seized control of a Catholic school, according to a new report issued by the U.N. political mission in Haiti.\n\nBut the ouster is only one of a handful of successful fights against powerful gangs backed by certain politicians and some of Haiti's elite.\n\nLast year, more than 5,600 people across Haiti were killed, according to the U.N.\n\nGang violence also has left more than one million people homeless in recent years.\n\nGunmen in recent months have targeted once peaceful neighborhoods in Port-au-Prince that would give them easy access to Pétion-Ville, a residential area where banks, embassies and other institutions are located.\n\nIn a February attack on Delmas 30, gunmen \"indiscriminately fired on the population in the neighborhood, killing 21 men and injuring eight others,\" according to the U.N. report.\n\nIn a separate attack on a nearby neighborhood where the French embassy is located, at least 30 people were killed, many of whom were traveling in small colorful buses known as tap taps, according to the report.\n\nOther victims include at least 15 people who were family members of police officers.\n\nGangs also have attacked multiple communities in Haiti's central Artibonite region, killing adults and small children as they fled.\n\n\"The indiscriminate and brutal nature of some of these attacks shows the gang's strategy to spread panic and reduce the resistance of the local population,\" according to the BINUH report.\n\nMeanwhile, Haiti's National Police, bolstered by a U.N.-backed mission led by Kenyan police, has struggled in its fight against gangs as the mission remains underfunded and understaffed, with only 1,000 personnel of the 2,500 envisioned.\n\nIn a push to crack down on gangs, the U.S. government on Friday officially designated Viv Ansanm, a powerful gang coalition, and Gran Grif, the largest gang to operate in Haiti's central region, as foreign terror organizations.\n\nCritics warn the move could affect aid organizations working in Haiti at a critical time, since many are forced to negotiate with gangs to supply people with basic goods including food and water."
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"value": "# Trump administration asks Supreme Court to strip legal protections from 350,000 Venezuelan migrants\n\nBy Mark Sherman and Lindsay Whitehurst \nMay 1st, 2025 08:46 PM\n\n---\n\nWASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration on Thursday asked the Supreme Court to strip temporary legal protections from 350,000 Venezuelans, potentially exposing them to being deported.\n\nThe Justice Department asked the high court to put on hold a ruling from a federal judge in San Francisco that kept in place Temporary Protected Status for the Venezuelans that would have otherwise expired last month.\n\nThe status allows people already in the United States to live and work legally because their native countries are deemed unsafe for return due to natural disaster or civil strife.\n\nA federal appeals court had earlier rejected the administration's request.\n\nPresident Donald Trump's administration has moved aggressively to withdraw various protections that have allowed immigrants to remain in the country, including ending TPS for a total of 600,000 Venezuelans and 500,000 Haitians. TPS is granted in 18-month increments.\n\nThe emergency appeal to the high court came the same day a federal judge in Texas ruled illegal the administration's efforts to deport Venezuelans under an 18th-century wartime law. The cases are not related.\n\nThe protections had been set to expire April 7, but U.S. District Judge Edward Chen ordered a pause on those plans. He found that the expiration threatened to severely disrupt the lives of hundreds of thousands of people and could cost billions in lost economic activity.\n\nChen, who was appointed to the bench by Democratic President Barack Obama, found the government hadn't shown any harm caused by keeping the program alive.\n\nBut Solicitor General D. John Sauer wrote on behalf of the administration that Chen's order impermissibly interferes with the administration's power over immigration and foreign affairs.\n\nIn addition, Sauer told the justices, people affected by ending the protected status might have other legal options to try to remain in the country because the \"decision to terminate TPS is not equivalent to a final removal order.\"\n\nCongress created TPS in 1990 to prevent deportations to countries suffering from natural disasters or civil strife."
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"value": "# Trump administration asks Supreme Court to strip legal protections from 350,000 Venezuelan migrants\n\nBy Mark Sherman and Lindsay Whitehurst \nMay 1st, 2025 08:46 PM\n\n---\n\nWASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration on Thursday asked the Supreme Court to strip temporary legal protections from 350,000 Venezuelans, potentially exposing them to being deported.\n\nThe Justice Department asked the high court to put on hold a ruling from a federal judge in San Francisco that kept in place Temporary Protected Status for the Venezuelans that would have otherwise expired last month.\n\nThe status allows people already in the United States to live and work legally because their native countries are deemed unsafe for return due to natural disaster or civil strife.\n\nA federal appeals court had earlier rejected the administration's request.\n\nPresident Donald Trump's administration has moved aggressively to withdraw various protections that have allowed immigrants to remain in the country, including ending TPS for a total of 600,000 Venezuelans and 500,000 Haitians. TPS is granted in 18-month increments.\n\nThe emergency appeal to the high court came the same day a federal judge in Texas ruled illegal the administration's efforts to deport Venezuelans under an 18th-century wartime law. The cases are not related.\n\nThe protections had been set to expire April 7, but U.S. District Judge Edward Chen ordered a pause on those plans. He found that the expiration threatened to severely disrupt the lives of hundreds of thousands of people and could cost billions in lost economic activity.\n\nChen, who was appointed to the bench by Democratic President Barack Obama, found the government hadn't shown any harm caused by keeping the program alive.\n\nBut Solicitor General D. John Sauer wrote on behalf of the administration that Chen's order impermissibly interferes with the administration's power over immigration and foreign affairs.\n\nIn addition, Sauer told the justices, people affected by ending the protected status might have other legal options to try to remain in the country because the \"decision to terminate TPS is not equivalent to a final removal order.\"\n\nCongress created TPS in 1990 to prevent deportations to countries suffering from natural disasters or civil strife."
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"value": "# Mackenzie Hughes, Cristobal Del Solar share Myrtle Beach lead\n\nMay 10th, 2025 12:07 AM\n\n---\n\nMYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (AP) — Mackenzie Hughes of Canada shot a 2-under 69 in windy conditions Friday for a share of the second-round lead with Cristobal Del Solar of Chile in the Myrtle Beach Classic.\n\nA stroke ahead after an opening 63, Hughes had four birdies and two bogeys in his afternoon round at the Dunes Golf and Beach Club.\n\n\"I'm in a good spot going into the weekend.\" Hughes said. \"There's a bunch of guys there with a chance. Nothing changes tomorrow. Just keep doing my thing and see where it puts me.\"\n\nDel Solar rebounded from a bogey on the par-4 eighth with a closing birdie on the par-3 ninth. He shot a 67 in the afternoon to join Hughes at 10-under 132.\n\n\"I've been putting in the work, playing good golf, feeling more comfortable,\" Del Solar said. \"Happy to be where I am.\"\n\nThe winner of the PGA Tour event — held opposite a signature event at the Truist Championship this week — gets a spot in the PGA Championship if not already eligible. That's not the case for Hughes, the two-time tour winner who already is in the field next week at Quail Hollow.\n\nNick Watney, the 44-year-old player who hasn't won in 13 years, was a stroke back after a 67. Danny Walker (67) also was a shot back along with Harry Higgs (66), Will Chandler (69) and Davis Shore (66). ___\n\nAP golf: https://apnews.com/hub/golf"
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"value": "# Mackenzie Hughes, Cristobal Del Solar share Myrtle Beach lead\n\nMay 10th, 2025 12:07 AM\n\n---\n\nMYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (AP) — Mackenzie Hughes of Canada shot a 2-under 69 in windy conditions Friday for a share of the second-round lead with Cristobal Del Solar of Chile in the Myrtle Beach Classic.\n\nA stroke ahead after an opening 63, Hughes had four birdies and two bogeys in his afternoon round at the Dunes Golf and Beach Club.\n\n\"I'm in a good spot going into the weekend.\" Hughes said. \"There's a bunch of guys there with a chance. Nothing changes tomorrow. Just keep doing my thing and see where it puts me.\"\n\nDel Solar rebounded from a bogey on the par-4 eighth with a closing birdie on the par-3 ninth. He shot a 67 in the afternoon to join Hughes at 10-under 132.\n\n\"I've been putting in the work, playing good golf, feeling more comfortable,\" Del Solar said. \"Happy to be where I am.\"\n\nThe winner of the PGA Tour event — held opposite a signature event at the Truist Championship this week — gets a spot in the PGA Championship if not already eligible. That's not the case for Hughes, the two-time tour winner who already is in the field next week at Quail Hollow.\n\nNick Watney, the 44-year-old player who hasn't won in 13 years, was a stroke back after a 67. Danny Walker (67) also was a shot back along with Harry Higgs (66), Will Chandler (69) and Davis Shore (66)."
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"value": "# FIFA's Infantino plans Saudi visit during President Trump's tour as soccer world gathers in Paraguay\n\nBy Graham Dunbar \nMay 8th, 2025 07:59 PM\n\n---\n\nGENEVA (AP) — FIFA President Gianni Infantino will go to Saudi Arabia next week during U.S. President Donald Trump's state visit while the soccer body's 211 member federations gather at their annual Congress being held in Paraguay.\n\nIt is unprecedented in modern times for a FIFA president to skip any part of the days-long congress program, where FIFA voters in soccer's six continental bodies caucus ahead of the main meeting often called the sport's parliament.\n\n\"The FIFA president has accepted invitations to attend a series of important events with world leaders, where FIFA World Cups will also be discussed,\" soccer's governing body said in a statement.\n\nInfantino also is expected to visit Qatar, the 2022 World Cup host which also is on the U.S. president's Middle East tour schedule.\n\nInfantino's close ties to Trump during the president's first term have grown stronger in about 10 meetings together since December, including Tuesday at the White House with a task force to oversee federal plans for the 2026 World Cup being co-hosted by the United States, Canada and Mexico.\n\nThe FIFA leader also meets regularly with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, whose kingdom will host the men's World Cup in 2034. Infantino helped steer those hosting rights to Saudi Arabia in an uncontested vote last December.\n\nInfantino is expected to return from the Middle East in time for the FIFA Congress on Thursday, the last meeting of all FIFA members before they come to the 2026 World Cup. It also is their first meeting together since before the online votes six months ago that confirmed the Saudi bid for 2034 and sent the 2030 edition to Spain, Portugal and Morocco plus single games in Paraguay, Argentina and Uruguay.\n\nHe had been due Tuesday in the Paraguayan capital Asuncion to chair an in-person meeting of FIFA's ruling council.\n\nIt is now moved up four days for an online session Friday that clears Infantino's schedule for the kind of geopolitical trip he has seemed to relish detailing on his Instagram account.\n\nInfantino and FIFA have consistently said he needs to maintain good relations with the Trump administration to ensure the 48-team, six-week tournament is safe and successful. FIFA voters chose the North American bid in 2018 when it was backed by then-President Trump.\n\nHowever, there were no formal meetings for Infantino with President Joe Biden during his four-year term that ended in January. They did pose for a photograph together in 2022 at a G20 meeting in Bali, Indonesia.\n\nInfantino has forged close political and financial ties for FIFA with Saudi Arabia and its crown prince since before the 2018 World Cup in Russia.\n\nIn Riyadh on Tuesday, when FIFA delegates are in Paraguay, Infantino is expected to attend a Saudi-U.S. investment forum where World Cup projects are on the agenda.\n\nSaudi Arabia is spending hundreds of billions of dollars on stadiums plus huge city and transport upgrades ahead of the tournament.\n\nInfantino attended a similar conference in Miami Beach in February, when he sat with Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, Elon Musk and Saudi officials. They included the kingdom's ambassador to the U.S., Princess Reema Bandar Al-Saud and the governor of its sovereign wealth fund, Yasir Al-Rumayyan.\n\nSoccer officials have privately expressed concern about Infantino's increasing focus on global politics as much as the sport FIFA runs.\n\nEuropean soccer body UEFA said Thursday \"we were informed about the (Council) meeting being rescheduled\" to this week.\n\n\"However, we prefer not to comment on the reasons and suggest directing any queries to FIFA,\" UEFA said.\n\nPresident Trump is visiting Saudi Arabia plus Qatar and Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, in what was originally planned as the first overseas trip since he took office for a second time in January.\n\n___\n\nAP soccer: https://apnews.com/hub/soccer"
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"value": "# FIFA's Infantino plans Saudi visit during President Trump's tour as soccer world gathers in Paraguay\n\nBy Graham Dunbar \nMay 8th, 2025 07:59 PM\n\n---\n\nGENEVA (AP) — FIFA President Gianni Infantino will go to Saudi Arabia next week during U.S. President Donald Trump's state visit while the soccer body's 211 member federations gather at their annual Congress being held in Paraguay.\n\nIt is unprecedented in modern times for a FIFA president to skip any part of the days-long congress program, where FIFA voters in soccer's six continental bodies caucus ahead of the main meeting often called the sport's parliament.\n\n\"The FIFA president has accepted invitations to attend a series of important events with world leaders, where FIFA World Cups will also be discussed,\" soccer's governing body said in a statement.\n\nInfantino also is expected to visit Qatar, the 2022 World Cup host which also is on the U.S. president's Middle East tour schedule.\n\nInfantino's close ties to Trump during the president's first term have grown stronger in about 10 meetings together since December, including Tuesday at the White House with a task force to oversee federal plans for the 2026 World Cup being co-hosted by the United States, Canada and Mexico.\n\nThe FIFA leader also meets regularly with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, whose kingdom will host the men's World Cup in 2034. Infantino helped steer those hosting rights to Saudi Arabia in an uncontested vote last December.\n\nInfantino is expected to return from the Middle East in time for the FIFA Congress on Thursday, the last meeting of all FIFA members before they come to the 2026 World Cup. It also is their first meeting together since before the online votes six months ago that confirmed the Saudi bid for 2034 and sent the 2030 edition to Spain, Portugal and Morocco plus single games in Paraguay, Argentina and Uruguay.\n\nHe had been due Tuesday in the Paraguayan capital Asuncion to chair an in-person meeting of FIFA's ruling council.\n\nIt is now moved up four days for an online session Friday that clears Infantino's schedule for the kind of geopolitical trip he has seemed to relish detailing on his Instagram account.\n\nInfantino and FIFA have consistently said he needs to maintain good relations with the Trump administration to ensure the 48-team, six-week tournament is safe and successful. FIFA voters chose the North American bid in 2018 when it was backed by then-President Trump.\n\nHowever, there were no formal meetings for Infantino with President Joe Biden during his four-year term that ended in January. They did pose for a photograph together in 2022 at a G20 meeting in Bali, Indonesia.\n\nInfantino has forged close political and financial ties for FIFA with Saudi Arabia and its crown prince since before the 2018 World Cup in Russia.\n\nIn Riyadh on Tuesday, when FIFA delegates are in Paraguay, Infantino is expected to attend a Saudi-U.S. investment forum where World Cup projects are on the agenda.\n\nSaudi Arabia is spending hundreds of billions of dollars on stadiums plus huge city and transport upgrades ahead of the tournament.\n\nInfantino attended a similar conference in Miami Beach in February, when he sat with Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, Elon Musk and Saudi officials. They included the kingdom's ambassador to the U.S., Princess Reema Bandar Al-Saud and the governor of its sovereign wealth fund, Yasir Al-Rumayyan.\n\nSoccer officials have privately expressed concern about Infantino's increasing focus on global politics as much as the sport FIFA runs.\n\nEuropean soccer body UEFA said Thursday \"we were informed about the (Council) meeting being rescheduled\" to this week.\n\n\"However, we prefer not to comment on the reasons and suggest directing any queries to FIFA,\" UEFA said.\n\nPresident Trump is visiting Saudi Arabia plus Qatar and Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, in what was originally planned as the first overseas trip since he took office for a second time in January."
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"value": "# Man who fell from 21-foot-wall at Pirates game takes first steps since accident\n\nMay 6th, 2025 12:28 AM\n\n---\n\nPITTSBURGH (AP) — The 20-year-old man who fell from the top of a 21-foot-high wall onto the warning track at PNC Park during a Pittsburgh Pirates game last week took his first steps Monday but still has \"a long way to go\" in his recovery.\n\nKavan Markwood slipped off a railing and onto the field during the seventh inning of Pittsburgh's 4-3 win over the Chicago Cubs last Wednesday.\n\nJennifer Phillips, the organizer of a GoFundMe page for Markwood, said in an update Monday that his recovery is \"a slow slow process, but seeing him up and moving was a huge win and definitely lifted everyone's spirits.\"\n\nMarkwood was admitted to the trauma center at Allegheny General Hospital in critical condition after the accident.\n\n\"He still has a long way to go — he's dealing with a broken neck, clavicle, and back so there are plenty of obstacles ahead,\" wrote Phillips, who once taught Markwood. \"But he's showing real strength, and we're staying hopeful for a smooth recovery. This will also require plenty of rest and following instructions from the great doctors, nurses and staff at the hospital.\"\n\nAs of Monday night, the GoFundMe had raised nearly $41,000, more than 90% towards its initial goal of $45,000.\n\nPittsburgh Public Safety, which includes Pittsburgh Police and EMS, has labeled the incident an accident.\n\n___\n\nAP MLB: https://apnews.com/hub/mlb"
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"value": "# Man who fell from 21-foot-wall at Pirates game takes first steps since accident\n\nMay 6th, 2025 12:28 AM\n\n---\n\nPITTSBURGH (AP) — The 20-year-old man who fell from the top of a 21-foot-high wall onto the warning track at PNC Park during a Pittsburgh Pirates game last week took his first steps Monday but still has \"a long way to go\" in his recovery.\n\nKavan Markwood slipped off a railing and onto the field during the seventh inning of Pittsburgh's 4-3 win over the Chicago Cubs last Wednesday.\n\nJennifer Phillips, the organizer of a GoFundMe page for Markwood, said in an update Monday that his recovery is \"a slow slow process, but seeing him up and moving was a huge win and definitely lifted everyone's spirits.\"\n\nMarkwood was admitted to the trauma center at Allegheny General Hospital in critical condition after the accident.\n\n\"He still has a long way to go — he's dealing with a broken neck, clavicle, and back so there are plenty of obstacles ahead,\" wrote Phillips, who once taught Markwood. \"But he's showing real strength, and we're staying hopeful for a smooth recovery. This will also require plenty of rest and following instructions from the great doctors, nurses and staff at the hospital.\"\n\nAs of Monday night, the GoFundMe had raised nearly $41,000, more than 90% towards its initial goal of $45,000.\n\nPittsburgh Public Safety, which includes Pittsburgh Police and EMS, has labeled the incident an accident."
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"value": "# Coco Gauff routs Iga Swiatek to reach Madrid final against No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka\n\nBy Tales Azzoni \nMay 1st, 2025 03:54 PM\n\n---\n\nMADRID (AP) — Coco Gauff overpowered defending champion Iga Swiatek 6-1, 6-1 to reach the Madrid Open singles final for the first time Thursday.\n\nGauff broke Swiatek's serve three times in the first set and twice in the second to cruise to a 64-minute semifinal victory over the second-ranked Swiatek at the clay-court tournament.\n\nGauff will face top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka, who defeated Elina Svitolina 6-3, 7-5 to reach the Madrid final for the fourth time in her career.\n\nIt was Gauff's first win over Swiatek on clay.\n\n\"The mentality that I had in the whole match was aggressive,\" the fourth-ranked Gauff said. \"Maybe it wasn't her best level today, but I think I forced her into some awkward positions.\"\n\nSwiatek had recovered from losing the first set 0-6 to Madison Keys on Wednesday.\n\n\"I couldn't really get my level up,\" the four-time French Open champion said. \"Coco played good, but I think it's on me that I didn't really move well, I wasn't ready to play back the shots with heaviness, and with that kind of game. It was pretty bad.\"\n\nThe last time Swiatek won only two or fewer games in a match — on any surface — was a 6-0, 6-2 loss to Jelena Ostapenko in Birmingham in 2019.\n\n\"For me,\" Gauff added, \"it was just making sure my level stayed the same. In the second, I raised it.\"\n\n## Sabalenka reaches 3rd straight final\n\nSabalenka returned to the final after ending Svitolina's unbeaten run on clay this year — she was 9-0 on the surface in 2025, without losing a set.\n\nSabalenka won the title in Madrid in 2021 and 2023, and was runner-up to Swiatek last year.\n\nGauff is 5-4 against Sabalenka and won their only prior meeting on clay, in Rome in 2021. The American also won their most recent meeting, at the 2024 WTA Finals in Riyadh.\n\nBy beating Svitolina, Sabalenka became the first player to obtain 30 main-draw wins at WTA events in 2025.\n\n## Men's quarterfinals\n\nIn the men's quarterfinals, Casper Ruud advanced by defeating Daniil Medvedev 6-3, 7-5 to become the first player born in 1990 or later to reach 30 tour-level semifinals on clay.\n\nThe 15th-ranked Norwegian had been 0-3 against Medvedev in his career.\n\n\"I looked at our stats last night and saw he beat me on grass, outdoor hard and indoor hard. The last surface was clay so I thought, 'please don't make it 4-0,'\" Ruud said. \"I tried to use the surface to my advantage. I thought the level was pretty good from both players, I was impressed with Daniil's ability to produce power here on clay.\"\n\nRuud will next face Francisco Cerundolo, who rallied to defeat teenager Jakub Mensik 3-6, 7-6 (5), 6-2.\n\nCerundolo had beaten top-seeded Alexander Zverev in the previous round.\n\nIn another quarterfinal, fifth-ranked Jack Draper defeated Matteo Arnaldi 6-0, 6-4. Arnaldi had beaten Novak Djokovic in the second round. Draper will enter the top 5 in the rankings for the first time thanks to his run in Madrid. He will face 10th-seeded Lorenzo Musetti, who beat Gabriel Diallo 6-4, 6-3.\n\n___\n\nAP tennis: https://apnews.com/hub/tennis"
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"value": "# Coco Gauff routs Iga Swiatek to reach Madrid final against No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka\n\nBy Tales Azzoni \nMay 1st, 2025 03:54 PM\n\n---\n\nMADRID (AP) — Coco Gauff overpowered defending champion Iga Swiatek 6-1, 6-1 to reach the Madrid Open singles final for the first time Thursday.\n\nGauff broke Swiatek's serve three times in the first set and twice in the second to cruise to a 64-minute semifinal victory over the second-ranked Swiatek at the clay-court tournament.\n\nGauff will face top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka, who defeated Elina Svitolina 6-3, 7-5 to reach the Madrid final for the fourth time in her career.\n\nIt was Gauff's first win over Swiatek on clay.\n\n\"The mentality that I had in the whole match was aggressive,\" the fourth-ranked Gauff said. \"Maybe it wasn't her best level today, but I think I forced her into some awkward positions.\"\n\nSwiatek had recovered from losing the first set 0-6 to Madison Keys on Wednesday.\n\n\"I couldn't really get my level up,\" the four-time French Open champion said. \"Coco played good, but I think it's on me that I didn't really move well, I wasn't ready to play back the shots with heaviness, and with that kind of game. It was pretty bad.\"\n\nThe last time Swiatek won only two or fewer games in a match — on any surface — was a 6-0, 6-2 loss to Jelena Ostapenko in Birmingham in 2019.\n\n\"For me,\" Gauff added, \"it was just making sure my level stayed the same. In the second, I raised it.\"\n\n## Sabalenka reaches 3rd straight final\n\nSabalenka returned to the final after ending Svitolina's unbeaten run on clay this year — she was 9-0 on the surface in 2025, without losing a set.\n\nSabalenka won the title in Madrid in 2021 and 2023, and was runner-up to Swiatek last year.\n\nGauff is 5-4 against Sabalenka and won their only prior meeting on clay, in Rome in 2021. The American also won their most recent meeting, at the 2024 WTA Finals in Riyadh.\n\nBy beating Svitolina, Sabalenka became the first player to obtain 30 main-draw wins at WTA events in 2025.\n\n## Men's quarterfinals\n\nIn the men's quarterfinals, Casper Ruud advanced by defeating Daniil Medvedev 6-3, 7-5 to become the first player born in 1990 or later to reach 30 tour-level semifinals on clay.\n\nThe 15th-ranked Norwegian had been 0-3 against Medvedev in his career.\n\n\"I looked at our stats last night and saw he beat me on grass, outdoor hard and indoor hard. The last surface was clay so I thought, 'please don't make it 4-0,'\" Ruud said. \"I tried to use the surface to my advantage. I thought the level was pretty good from both players, I was impressed with Daniil's ability to produce power here on clay.\"\n\nRuud will next face Francisco Cerundolo, who rallied to defeat teenager Jakub Mensik 3-6, 7-6 (5), 6-2.\n\nCerundolo had beaten top-seeded Alexander Zverev in the previous round.\n\nIn another quarterfinal, fifth-ranked Jack Draper defeated Matteo Arnaldi 6-0, 6-4. Arnaldi had beaten Novak Djokovic in the second round. Draper will enter the top 5 in the rankings for the first time thanks to his run in Madrid. He will face 10th-seeded Lorenzo Musetti, who beat Gabriel Diallo 6-4, 6-3."
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"value": "# Reds rookie Tyler Callihan breaks his forearm trying for catch on inside-the-park homer\n\nBy Bill Trocchi \nMay 6th, 2025 12:50 AM\n\n---\n\nATLANTA (AP) — Cincinnati Reds rookie left fielder Tyler Callihan broke his left forearm while attempting a sliding catch on a play that turned into an inside-the-park home run Monday night in a 4-0 loss to the Atlanta Braves.\n\nReds manager Terry Francona said Callihan will be sent back to Cincinnati on Tuesday for surgery to set the arm.\n\n\"He's such a good kid, you feel terrible for him,\" Francona said.\n\nWith two outs in the third inning, Callihan was chasing down a flyball from Matt Olson and briefly made the grab before crashing hard into the padded wall in foul territory along the left-field line. After he hit the wall, the ball fell out of Callihan's glove as he rolled onto his back in pain and grabbed his left arm.\n\nReds fielders momentarily stopped, unsure if Callihan made the catch or if the ball was foul. Austin Riley scored from first base and Olson circled the bases at half speed, not sure of the ruling.\n\n\"There's no good way to explain it,\" Francona said. \"The kid is running full blast trying to do everything he can to save runs.\"\n\nReds athletic trainers tended to Callihan, who walked back to the dugout and clubhouse holding his left arm.\n\nThe play was reviewed and replay confirmed the ball was touched in fair territory and Callihan did not have control of it long enough to constitute a catch.\n\nLater in the game, the Reds announced that Callihan has a broken left forearm. He was playing in his fourth major league game after making his debut last week.\n\n\"I hate it for the kid,\" Braves manager Brian Snitker said. \"He's just laying it out there for his club. ... Hopefully it is something they can set and heal good and he can get on with his career.\"\n\nOlson's home run gave the Braves a 4-0 lead. Atlanta pitcher AJ Smith-Shawver took a no-hitter into the eighth inning before Santiago Espinal led off with a clean single for Cincinnati's lone hit.\n\n___\n\nAP MLB: https://apnews.com/hub/mlb"
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"value": "# Reds rookie Tyler Callihan breaks his forearm trying for catch on inside-the-park homer\n\nBy Bill Trocchi \nMay 6th, 2025 12:50 AM\n\n---\n\nATLANTA (AP) — Cincinnati Reds rookie left fielder Tyler Callihan broke his left forearm while attempting a sliding catch on a play that turned into an inside-the-park home run Monday night in a 4-0 loss to the Atlanta Braves.\n\nReds manager Terry Francona said Callihan will be sent back to Cincinnati on Tuesday for surgery to set the arm.\n\n\"He's such a good kid, you feel terrible for him,\" Francona said.\n\nWith two outs in the third inning, Callihan was chasing down a flyball from Matt Olson and briefly made the grab before crashing hard into the padded wall in foul territory along the left-field line. After he hit the wall, the ball fell out of Callihan's glove as he rolled onto his back in pain and grabbed his left arm.\n\nReds fielders momentarily stopped, unsure if Callihan made the catch or if the ball was foul. Austin Riley scored from first base and Olson circled the bases at half speed, not sure of the ruling.\n\n\"There's no good way to explain it,\" Francona said. \"The kid is running full blast trying to do everything he can to save runs.\"\n\nReds athletic trainers tended to Callihan, who walked back to the dugout and clubhouse holding his left arm.\n\nThe play was reviewed and replay confirmed the ball was touched in fair territory and Callihan did not have control of it long enough to constitute a catch.\n\nLater in the game, the Reds announced that Callihan has a broken left forearm. He was playing in his fourth major league game after making his debut last week.\n\n\"I hate it for the kid,\" Braves manager Brian Snitker said. \"He's just laying it out there for his club. ... Hopefully it is something they can set and heal good and he can get on with his career.\"\n\nOlson's home run gave the Braves a 4-0 lead. Atlanta pitcher AJ Smith-Shawver took a no-hitter into the eighth inning before Santiago Espinal led off with a clean single for Cincinnati's lone hit."
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"value": "# DC's Hispanic community fighting fear as ICE crackdown rumors swirl\n\nBy Ashraf Khalil, Jacquelyn Martin, and Nathan Ellgren \nMay 8th, 2025 07:51 PM\n\n---\n\nWASHINGTON (AP) — Word spread, and fast — as it does in so many moments of rumor and fear.\n\nEarly Tuesday morning, dozens of concerned parents and staff members gathered outside of Mundo Verde, one of Washington's most prominent bilingual schools, bracing for a crackdown.\n\nA flurry of rumors and unconfirmed media reports had fueled fears that agents of Immigration and Customs Enforcement would be descending on area schools that were known to have large Hispanic immigrant populations.\n\nThe group tensed up as a black SUV slowly cruised past the school twice, then parked up the block. \"I think it's happening,\" one parent said.\n\nThe man who emerged turned out to be a television news cameraman. People laughed in relief — for the moment.\n\n## Washington's sanctuary city status in limbo\n\nIt was a rare moment of levity in the middle of several days of tension and fear as Washington's Hispanic community waits for President Donald Trump's pledge of an immigration crackdown to take shape in the nation's capital. It mirrors, in some ways, similar fears around the country.\n\nThe reports of a crackdown on bilingual schools in the District turned out to be a false alarm that day — but only partially false. While the schools were on high alert, ICE agents reportedly raided several local restaurants, including Millie's in northwest Washington. On Wednesday, staffers at Millie's were reluctant to discuss the incident, with one manager — who did not give a name — saying the restaurant had been descended upon by \"fascists.\"\n\nStaff at Millie's referred all questions to owner Bo Blair, who did not respond to an emailed request for comment. ICE also did not immediately respond to a request for details on what establishments had been raided and whether anyone had been detained.\n\nThe ambient fear among Washington's robust Hispanic community, though, remains. It is exacerbated by concerns that the city government will not help them. Washington, D.C., declared itself a sanctuary city in 2020 via the Sanctuary Values Act. Among the most prominent aspects of that declaration is a \"prohibition on cooperation with federal immigration agencies\" by city officials and agencies.\n\nBut Mayor Muriel Bowser has publicly distanced herself from that status ever since Trump was elected to a second term. Bowser has worked hard to maintain a positive relationship with Trump and with congressional Republicans, who hold significant power over the District of Columbia.\n\nIn February, she publicly characterized the sanctuary city designation as \"an expression of our values,\" but not a binding legal concept. The city and its agencies, she said, would not hinder or defy any federal immigration enforcement efforts.\n\n\"I think it's misleading to suggest to anyone that … this is a place where you can violate immigration laws,\" Bowser said. \"The city is not an immigration enforcement agency. No city is. The federal government is.\"\n\n## How the community prepares for ICE raids\n\nWashington's Hispanic community, and the schools and charities that serve it, have spent months quietly preparing for the worst-case scenario.\n\n\"My community is really scared,\" said one senior official at a local bilingual school, speaking on condition of anonymity to protect her students, parents and staff. \"We have a whole crisis management plan if ICE was to come to the door.\"\n\nThat plan includes posting \"private property\" signs all around the school perimeter and running special trainings for staff members on how to handle the arrival of ICE agents. Parents have been advised to sign \"custody agreements\" stipulating who would be authorized to take care of their children if they were suddenly detained. The administrator estimated that as much as 35% of the school's student body \"could be undocumented.\"\n\nIn February, a collection of bilingual charter schools hosted a \"Know Your Rights\" training session for parents conducted by an immigration attorney. Dozens of families attended, although many were afraid to attend in person and participated via Zoom.\n\nThe attorney, speaking on condition of anonymity to protect her clients, said requests for \"Know Your Rights\" training sessions have surged in the past six months, \"Anybody who was anything less than a full citizen is going, 'Oh my God, what does this mean for me?'\"\n\nThe attorney said that \"managing this culture of fear\" has become a steadily increasing part of her job. And for clients who are undocumented, \"I don't really have advice for them other than to just stay off the radar.\"\n\nAt Mundo Verde this week, parents set up tables on the sidewalk so they could work on their laptops and stay all day, just in case. Another school, Oyster-Adams Bilingual School, established a volunteer escort network to help bring students safely to and from the school building.\n\nRio Sigala, a Mundo Verde parent, praised the immediate rallying of physical support from the school's non-Hispanic parents and community.\n\n\"As a Latina, seeing how many parents are out here in solidarity makes you feel less alone,\" Sigala said. \"You walk around kind of scared and to see everyone come out, it feels hopeful.\""
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"value": "# DC's Hispanic community fighting fear as ICE crackdown rumors swirl\n\nBy Ashraf Khalil, Jacquelyn Martin, and Nathan Ellgren \nMay 8th, 2025 07:51 PM\n\n---\n\nWASHINGTON (AP) — Word spread, and fast — as it does in so many moments of rumor and fear.\n\nEarly Tuesday morning, dozens of concerned parents and staff members gathered outside of Mundo Verde, one of Washington's most prominent bilingual schools, bracing for a crackdown.\n\nA flurry of rumors and unconfirmed media reports had fueled fears that agents of Immigration and Customs Enforcement would be descending on area schools that were known to have large Hispanic immigrant populations.\n\nThe group tensed up as a black SUV slowly cruised past the school twice, then parked up the block. \"I think it's happening,\" one parent said.\n\nThe man who emerged turned out to be a television news cameraman. People laughed in relief — for the moment.\n\n## Washington's sanctuary city status in limbo\n\nIt was a rare moment of levity in the middle of several days of tension and fear as Washington's Hispanic community waits for President Donald Trump's pledge of an immigration crackdown to take shape in the nation's capital. It mirrors, in some ways, similar fears around the country.\n\nThe reports of a crackdown on bilingual schools in the District turned out to be a false alarm that day — but only partially false. While the schools were on high alert, ICE agents reportedly raided several local restaurants, including Millie's in northwest Washington. On Wednesday, staffers at Millie's were reluctant to discuss the incident, with one manager — who did not give a name — saying the restaurant had been descended upon by \"fascists.\"\n\nStaff at Millie's referred all questions to owner Bo Blair, who did not respond to an emailed request for comment. ICE also did not immediately respond to a request for details on what establishments had been raided and whether anyone had been detained.\n\nThe ambient fear among Washington's robust Hispanic community, though, remains. It is exacerbated by concerns that the city government will not help them. Washington, D.C., declared itself a sanctuary city in 2020 via the Sanctuary Values Act. Among the most prominent aspects of that declaration is a \"prohibition on cooperation with federal immigration agencies\" by city officials and agencies.\n\nBut Mayor Muriel Bowser has publicly distanced herself from that status ever since Trump was elected to a second term. Bowser has worked hard to maintain a positive relationship with Trump and with congressional Republicans, who hold significant power over the District of Columbia.\n\nIn February, she publicly characterized the sanctuary city designation as \"an expression of our values,\" but not a binding legal concept. The city and its agencies, she said, would not hinder or defy any federal immigration enforcement efforts.\n\n\"I think it's misleading to suggest to anyone that … this is a place where you can violate immigration laws,\" Bowser said. \"The city is not an immigration enforcement agency. No city is. The federal government is.\"\n\n## How the community prepares for ICE raids\n\nWashington's Hispanic community, and the schools and charities that serve it, have spent months quietly preparing for the worst-case scenario.\n\n\"My community is really scared,\" said one senior official at a local bilingual school, speaking on condition of anonymity to protect her students, parents and staff. \"We have a whole crisis management plan if ICE was to come to the door.\"\n\nThat plan includes posting \"private property\" signs all around the school perimeter and running special trainings for staff members on how to handle the arrival of ICE agents. Parents have been advised to sign \"custody agreements\" stipulating who would be authorized to take care of their children if they were suddenly detained. The administrator estimated that as much as 35% of the school's student body \"could be undocumented.\"\n\nIn February, a collection of bilingual charter schools hosted a \"Know Your Rights\" training session for parents conducted by an immigration attorney. Dozens of families attended, although many were afraid to attend in person and participated via Zoom.\n\nThe attorney, speaking on condition of anonymity to protect her clients, said requests for \"Know Your Rights\" training sessions have surged in the past six months, \"Anybody who was anything less than a full citizen is going, 'Oh my God, what does this mean for me?'\"\n\nThe attorney said that \"managing this culture of fear\" has become a steadily increasing part of her job. And for clients who are undocumented, \"I don't really have advice for them other than to just stay off the radar.\"\n\nAt Mundo Verde this week, parents set up tables on the sidewalk so they could work on their laptops and stay all day, just in case. Another school, Oyster-Adams Bilingual School, established a volunteer escort network to help bring students safely to and from the school building.\n\nRio Sigala, a Mundo Verde parent, praised the immediate rallying of physical support from the school's non-Hispanic parents and community.\n\n\"As a Latina, seeing how many parents are out here in solidarity makes you feel less alone,\" Sigala said. \"You walk around kind of scared and to see everyone come out, it feels hopeful.\""
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"value": "# American curlers Thiesse and Dropkin earn spot in Milan-Cortina Olympic mixed doubles field\n\nBy The Associated Press \nMay 3rd, 2025 04:16 PM\n\n---\n\nAmericans Cory Thiesse and Korey Dropkin clinched a berth in the 2026 Olympic mixed doubles curling competition when they beat Canada 8-4 at the world championships in Fredericton, New Brunswick, on Saturday to earn a fifth-place finish that was enough for a spot in Milan-Cortina.\n\n\"While we're disappointed to have not finished on the podium, we were beyond thrilled to make the playoffs and secure our spot at the Olympics!\" Thiesse said. \"It's a dream come true for both of us.\"\n\nIt will be the first Olympics for Dropkin, who was runner-up to five-time Olympian and 2018 gold medalist John Shuster at the U.S. men's trials for each of the last two Winter Games. Thiesse was an alternate for Nina Roth's women's team in Pyeongchang in 2018.\n\n\"We work so hard for this, and it's rewarding to see hard work pay off,\" Thiesse said. \"Honored and excited to be representing the USA in Cortina!\"\n\nThiesse and Dropkin won the U.S. mixed doubles trials this winter to earn the right to represent the country at the world championships in Canada. But the Americans needed to finish at least fifth in Fredericton to qualify for the Olympics.\n\nAfter beating Canada on Saturday, Thiesse and Dropkin had to wait out Scotland's 9-6 win over Australia in another placement match to clinch a spot in Italy.\n\n\"It was such a strong field here and we're proud of the way we played against some of the best teams in the world,\" Thiesse said.\n\nThe U.S. Olympic trials for the men's and women's curling teams are in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, in November.\n\n___\n\nAP sports: https://apnews.com/hub/sports"
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"value": "# American curlers Thiesse and Dropkin earn spot in Milan-Cortina Olympic mixed doubles field\n\nBy The Associated Press \nMay 3rd, 2025 04:16 PM\n\n---\n\nAmericans Cory Thiesse and Korey Dropkin clinched a berth in the 2026 Olympic mixed doubles curling competition when they beat Canada 8-4 at the world championships in Fredericton, New Brunswick, on Saturday to earn a fifth-place finish that was enough for a spot in Milan-Cortina.\n\n\"While we're disappointed to have not finished on the podium, we were beyond thrilled to make the playoffs and secure our spot at the Olympics!\" Thiesse said. \"It's a dream come true for both of us.\"\n\nIt will be the first Olympics for Dropkin, who was runner-up to five-time Olympian and 2018 gold medalist John Shuster at the U.S. men's trials for each of the last two Winter Games. Thiesse was an alternate for Nina Roth's women's team in Pyeongchang in 2018.\n\n\"We work so hard for this, and it's rewarding to see hard work pay off,\" Thiesse said. \"Honored and excited to be representing the USA in Cortina!\"\n\nThiesse and Dropkin won the U.S. mixed doubles trials this winter to earn the right to represent the country at the world championships in Canada. But the Americans needed to finish at least fifth in Fredericton to qualify for the Olympics.\n\nAfter beating Canada on Saturday, Thiesse and Dropkin had to wait out Scotland's 9-6 win over Australia in another placement match to clinch a spot in Italy.\n\n\"It was such a strong field here and we're proud of the way we played against some of the best teams in the world,\" Thiesse said.\n\nThe U.S. Olympic trials for the men's and women's curling teams are in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, in November."
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"value": "# Ravens draft pick Mike Green says he was open with teams about sexual assault allegations\n\nBy Noah Trister \nMay 4th, 2025 09:38 PM\n\n---\n\nOWINGS MILLS, Md. (AP) — Mike Green has been open about the fact that he's faced multiple sexual assault allegations, but when it comes to details, he wasn't discussing it further at rookie camp this weekend.\n\nGreen was available to Baltimore-area reporters Sunday for the first time since the Ravens drafted the edge rusher in the second round the previous week. The allegations that likely hurt his draft stock were, as expected, a significant topic.\n\n\"Every team asked me, and I've been completely open about everything,\" Green said. \"It's something that I had to go through, and I got through it.\"\n\nGreen played at Virginia and then at Marshall. He said at the NFL scouting combine that he transferred after being accused of sexual assault for a second time. Green told reporters at the combine that he also was accused of sexual assault in high school. He said he was never charged and insisted he did nothing wrong.\n\nHe was asked Sunday how he ended up facing two separate allegations.\n\n\"I'm just focused right now on moving forward with my career at the Ravens,\" he said. \"I'm blessed to be here. It's an honor.\"\n\nThe Ravens said after drafting Green that they did their \"due diligence\" on him.\n\nBaltimore also drafted kicker Tyler Loop in the sixth round, underscoring how uncertain Justin Tucker's future is. The Baltimore Banner has reported that over a dozen massage therapists have accused Tucker of inappropriate sexual behavior. The NFL has said it would investigate.\n\nTucker has maintained he did not act inappropriately while receiving professional bodywork treatment.\n\n\"From the standpoint of the investigation and all that, we don't know anything. We haven't been given any information — as it should be. It's all done the way it's done,\" coach John Harbaugh said. \"So you can't make any decisions based on that. Every decision we make has to be based on football.\n\n\"There's a lot of layers to that,\" Harbaugh continued. \"You've got a rookie kicker in here. You took him in the sixth round, early in the sixth round. He's a talented guy. Just from a football standpoint — salary cap, all the different things that you just take into consideration — whatever we decide to do over the next few weeks will be based on football.\"\n\n___\n\nAP NFL: https://apnews.com/hub/NFL"
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"value": "# Ravens draft pick Mike Green says he was open with teams about sexual assault allegations\n\nBy Noah Trister \nMay 4th, 2025 09:38 PM\n\n---\n\nOWINGS MILLS, Md. (AP) — Mike Green has been open about the fact that he's faced multiple sexual assault allegations, but when it comes to details, he wasn't discussing it further at rookie camp this weekend.\n\nGreen was available to Baltimore-area reporters Sunday for the first time since the Ravens drafted the edge rusher in the second round the previous week. The allegations that likely hurt his draft stock were, as expected, a significant topic.\n\n\"Every team asked me, and I've been completely open about everything,\" Green said. \"It's something that I had to go through, and I got through it.\"\n\nGreen played at Virginia and then at Marshall. He said at the NFL scouting combine that he transferred after being accused of sexual assault for a second time. Green told reporters at the combine that he also was accused of sexual assault in high school. He said he was never charged and insisted he did nothing wrong.\n\nHe was asked Sunday how he ended up facing two separate allegations.\n\n\"I'm just focused right now on moving forward with my career at the Ravens,\" he said. \"I'm blessed to be here. It's an honor.\"\n\nThe Ravens said after drafting Green that they did their \"due diligence\" on him.\n\nBaltimore also drafted kicker Tyler Loop in the sixth round, underscoring how uncertain Justin Tucker's future is. The Baltimore Banner has reported that over a dozen massage therapists have accused Tucker of inappropriate sexual behavior. The NFL has said it would investigate.\n\nTucker has maintained he did not act inappropriately while receiving professional bodywork treatment.\n\n\"From the standpoint of the investigation and all that, we don't know anything. We haven't been given any information — as it should be. It's all done the way it's done,\" coach John Harbaugh said. \"So you can't make any decisions based on that. Every decision we make has to be based on football.\n\n\"There's a lot of layers to that,\" Harbaugh continued. \"You've got a rookie kicker in here. You took him in the sixth round, early in the sixth round. He's a talented guy. Just from a football standpoint — salary cap, all the different things that you just take into consideration — whatever we decide to do over the next few weeks will be based on football.\""
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"value": "# What is the traditional Sunday blessing that popes deliver in St. Peter's Square?\n\nBy Giovanna Dell'Orto \nMay 11th, 2025 05:13 AM\n\n---\n\nVATICAN CITY (AP) — For thousands of Catholic pilgrims in Rome, it's the unmissable Vatican appointment: the midday Sunday blessing the pope delivers from a window overlooking St. Peter's Square.\n\nThe new pope, Leo XIV, is scheduled to deliver his first such prayer on Sunday from the loggia where he first appeared in public after being elected three days ago. His most recent predecessors delivered Sunday blessings, including their first, from a window in the Apostolic Palace overlooking the square.\n\nHere is a look at the history, meaning and memorable moments from Sunday blessings of popes past.\n\n## The history of the pope's Sunday blessing\n\nIn 1954, which he had declared a special year of veneration to the Virgin Mary, Pope Pius XII started reciting in public a traditional Catholic midday prayer to her. He first delivered it from the pope's summer residence, just outside Rome, at Castel Gandolfo.\n\nBack at the Vatican, he kept it up from a window facing St. Peter's Square at the Apostolic Palace, the 16th-century building where the papal apartments are. Pope Francis broke with tradition by living at a Vatican guest house instead, but still maintained the Sunday prayer tradition from the palace.\n\nIt's become a chance for ordinary faithful to see the pope relatively up close. Especially since the papacy of St. John Paul II – from 1978 to 2005 – popes have added short messages touching on different topics of the day.\n\nWhen a pope misses the weekly occasion, as Francis did earlier this year during his hospitalization, it makes global news.\n\nThe Vatican announced Leo would deliver his first such prayer on Sunday, which is coincidentally Mother's Day in Italy and the United States, among other countries.\n\n## The prayer to Mary\n\nThe Angelus is the short prayer to Mary that many Catholics recite daily.\n\nOften prayed before Mass, but traditionally accompanied by the tolling of bells at dawn, midday and early evening, it references the moment when the Gospels say the Archangel Gabriel told Mary she would become the mother of God, and she accepted.\n\n\"Angelus\" is Latin for angel, and the prayer's first verse is \"The Angel of the Lord declared unto Mary.\" The faithful then answer, \"And she conceived of the Holy Spirit,\" followed by a Hail Mary and a few more verses and prayers.\n\nThis \"annunciation\" scene is so pivotal in Christian dogma that it's been represented by some of the most celebrated painters for centuries. Some artists have also portrayed the faithful reciting the Angelus, a practice that is believed to have started in the Middle Ages.\n\nDuring Eastertime – the current liturgical season, spanning 50 days from Easter Sunday to Pentecost – the prayer is substituted with another devotion to Mary, the Regina Coeli (also spelled Caeli, Latin for \"Queen of Heaven\") that encourages rejoicing in Christ's resurrection.\n\n## Memorable Sunday prayer moments\n\nLooking frail, St. John Paul II appeared at his hospital window for his last Angelus prayer less than three weeks before he died in 2005. He didn't speak, only blessing the crowd with an olive branch. An archbishop delivered his message, with the trademark exhortation to young people not to be afraid to follow Jesus.\n\nTens of thousands of people packed St. Peter's Square when Pope Benedict XVI gave his final Sunday prayer in 2013 before becoming the first pope in 600 years to resign. They cheered him on as he reassured the faithful he wasn't abandoning the church, but rather turning to prayer because of his advancing age.\n\nAt his first Angelus in 2013, Francis introduced a key motif of his papacy: mercy. \"A bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just,\" he told the crowd.\n\nMore recently, Francis used the Sunday blessings to call for peace, especially in Ukraine and Gaza. But he also would close his blessings with the down-to-earth phrase: \"Have a good lunch.\"\n\n___\n\nAssociated Press religion coverage receives support through the AP's collaboration with The Conversation US, with funding from Lilly Endowment Inc. The AP is solely responsible for this content."
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"value": "# What is the traditional Sunday blessing that popes deliver in St. Peter's Square?\n\nBy Giovanna Dell'Orto \nMay 11th, 2025 05:13 AM\n\n---\n\nVATICAN CITY (AP) — For thousands of Catholic pilgrims in Rome, it's the unmissable Vatican appointment: the midday Sunday blessing the pope delivers from a window overlooking St. Peter's Square.\n\nThe new pope, Leo XIV, is scheduled to deliver his first such prayer on Sunday from the loggia where he first appeared in public after being elected three days ago. His most recent predecessors delivered Sunday blessings, including their first, from a window in the Apostolic Palace overlooking the square.\n\nHere is a look at the history, meaning and memorable moments from Sunday blessings of popes past.\n\n## The history of the pope's Sunday blessing\n\nIn 1954, which he had declared a special year of veneration to the Virgin Mary, Pope Pius XII started reciting in public a traditional Catholic midday prayer to her. He first delivered it from the pope's summer residence, just outside Rome, at Castel Gandolfo.\n\nBack at the Vatican, he kept it up from a window facing St. Peter's Square at the Apostolic Palace, the 16th-century building where the papal apartments are. Pope Francis broke with tradition by living at a Vatican guest house instead, but still maintained the Sunday prayer tradition from the palace.\n\nIt's become a chance for ordinary faithful to see the pope relatively up close. Especially since the papacy of St. John Paul II – from 1978 to 2005 – popes have added short messages touching on different topics of the day.\n\nWhen a pope misses the weekly occasion, as Francis did earlier this year during his hospitalization, it makes global news.\n\nThe Vatican announced Leo would deliver his first such prayer on Sunday, which is coincidentally Mother's Day in Italy and the United States, among other countries.\n\n## The prayer to Mary\n\nThe Angelus is the short prayer to Mary that many Catholics recite daily.\n\nOften prayed before Mass, but traditionally accompanied by the tolling of bells at dawn, midday and early evening, it references the moment when the Gospels say the Archangel Gabriel told Mary she would become the mother of God, and she accepted.\n\n\"Angelus\" is Latin for angel, and the prayer's first verse is \"The Angel of the Lord declared unto Mary.\" The faithful then answer, \"And she conceived of the Holy Spirit,\" followed by a Hail Mary and a few more verses and prayers.\n\nThis \"annunciation\" scene is so pivotal in Christian dogma that it's been represented by some of the most celebrated painters for centuries. Some artists have also portrayed the faithful reciting the Angelus, a practice that is believed to have started in the Middle Ages.\n\nDuring Eastertime – the current liturgical season, spanning 50 days from Easter Sunday to Pentecost – the prayer is substituted with another devotion to Mary, the Regina Coeli (also spelled Caeli, Latin for \"Queen of Heaven\") that encourages rejoicing in Christ's resurrection.\n\n## Memorable Sunday prayer moments\n\nLooking frail, St. John Paul II appeared at his hospital window for his last Angelus prayer less than three weeks before he died in 2005. He didn't speak, only blessing the crowd with an olive branch. An archbishop delivered his message, with the trademark exhortation to young people not to be afraid to follow Jesus.\n\nTens of thousands of people packed St. Peter's Square when Pope Benedict XVI gave his final Sunday prayer in 2013 before becoming the first pope in 600 years to resign. They cheered him on as he reassured the faithful he wasn't abandoning the church, but rather turning to prayer because of his advancing age.\n\nAt his first Angelus in 2013, Francis introduced a key motif of his papacy: mercy. \"A bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just,\" he told the crowd.\n\nMore recently, Francis used the Sunday blessings to call for peace, especially in Ukraine and Gaza. But he also would close his blessings with the down-to-earth phrase: \"Have a good lunch.\""
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"value": "# Must-win matches shake up the playoff race in Super Rugby Pacific\n\nBy Steve Mcmorran \nMay 4th, 2025 02:43 AM\n\n---\n\nWELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — In a weekend of must-win matches in Super Rugby Pacific, some teams achieved and others stumbled in the six-team playoff race.\n\nThe defending champion Blues were at the top of the must-win category, having begun to lose touch with sixth place when they were beaten a week ago by the Queensland Reds. It was the seventh loss of the season for the Auckland-based team.\n\nThey had to win Friday against the sixth-place Western Force, and they did 40-19 in a match which was closer than the margin indicated. The Blues' victory depended a great deal on their scrum dominance.\n\nThe win lifted the Blues to sixth overnight before they were displaced from that position when Moana Pasifika beat the Dunedin-based Highlanders 34-29 on Sunday. The Blues dropped back to seventh while the Perth-based Force dropped to eighth, based on points differential.\n\nCoach \"Stern\" Vern Cotter had made clear his displeasure after the Blues' loss to the Reds left their season dangling by a thread with matches remaining against the Force, the Fijian Drua in Fiji, Moana Pasifika and the New South Wales Waratahs.\n\n\"It's never really nice when your coach is questioning your attitude,\" Blues captain Patrick Tuipulotu said. \"But I think that's what we needed — a bit of a wake-up call.\"\n\nMoana Pasifika posted its fifth win of the season in another must-win match to move into playoffs contention. But they have a tough finish against the Blues, Crusaders and Hurricanes.\n\nThe Wellington-based Hurricanes needed to back up last week's performance against the Canberra-based Brumbies, when they became the first New Zealand team to win in Australia this season. That win lifted them into the top six but into a very tight struggle to hold onto a playoffs place.\n\nThey produced another upset, beating the top of the table Chiefs 35-17 with the help of four second-half tries by winger Bailyn Sullivan who replaced Kini Naholo at halftime. Naholo, who has scored eight tries this season, had a serious knee injury.\n\nThe Hurricanes moved up to fifth place after Round 12, two points clear of Moana Pasifika and four ahead of the Blues.\n\nThe Chiefs remained atop the standings in a points tie with the Christchurch-based Crusaders, who couldn't take advantage of the Chiefs' loss because of a weekend bye.\n\nThe Brumbies stayed in third place after a 40-17 win over the Waratahs, who dropped to eighth place, still only a point out of sixth. The Queensland Reds stayed in fourth, despite an upset 36-33 loss to the Fijian Drua.\n\n## Hometown Heroes\n\nThe Fijian Drua maintained an outstanding home record when they beat the fourth-placed Reds in Suva on Saturday.\n\nThe win echoed the Drua's 41-17 win over the Reds in 2023 and 28-19 win in 2024.\n\nSo far this season the Drua have won three of five home matches but haven't yet managed to win away from home and are at the bottom of the table.\n\nOver the last three years, the Drua have had 19 home matches and won 14. That includes victories over the Crusaders, Waratahs and Melbourne Force. But the Reds especially have struggled in Fiji.\n\nThe Drua sealed their win with a 79th minute try on Saturday to replacement Isikeli Rabitu, dealing a blow to the Reds in their first match since their head coach Les Kiss was named to succeed Joe Schmidt as Wallabies coach.\n\n## Beale is back\n\nFormer Wallabies utility Kurtley Beale scored a try to mark his return to rugby after a 10 months break, for the Western Force against the Blues.\n\nThe 36-year-old Beale didn't shirk contact in his first match since sustaining a ruptured Achilles in a Sydney club game.\n\nHe played at fullback and turned in a solid 72 minutes before being substituted. Beale had a number of neat touches before crossing in the left corner for a second-half try.\n\n\"It's good to be back but disappointed in the end,\" he said. \"The game's changing. It's getting fitter, faster, stronger.\n\n\"But I enjoy the challenge. I love the unpredictability of the game.\"\n\n___\n\nAP rugby: https://apnews.com/hub/rugby"
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"value": "# Must-win matches shake up the playoff race in Super Rugby Pacific\n\nBy Steve Mcmorran \nMay 4th, 2025 02:43 AM\n\n---\n\nWELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — In a weekend of must-win matches in Super Rugby Pacific, some teams achieved and others stumbled in the six-team playoff race.\n\nThe defending champion Blues were at the top of the must-win category, having begun to lose touch with sixth place when they were beaten a week ago by the Queensland Reds. It was the seventh loss of the season for the Auckland-based team.\n\nThey had to win Friday against the sixth-place Western Force, and they did 40-19 in a match which was closer than the margin indicated. The Blues' victory depended a great deal on their scrum dominance.\n\nThe win lifted the Blues to sixth overnight before they were displaced from that position when Moana Pasifika beat the Dunedin-based Highlanders 34-29 on Sunday. The Blues dropped back to seventh while the Perth-based Force dropped to eighth, based on points differential.\n\nCoach \"Stern\" Vern Cotter had made clear his displeasure after the Blues' loss to the Reds left their season dangling by a thread with matches remaining against the Force, the Fijian Drua in Fiji, Moana Pasifika and the New South Wales Waratahs.\n\n\"It's never really nice when your coach is questioning your attitude,\" Blues captain Patrick Tuipulotu said. \"But I think that's what we needed — a bit of a wake-up call.\"\n\nMoana Pasifika posted its fifth win of the season in another must-win match to move into playoffs contention. But they have a tough finish against the Blues, Crusaders and Hurricanes.\n\nThe Wellington-based Hurricanes needed to back up last week's performance against the Canberra-based Brumbies, when they became the first New Zealand team to win in Australia this season. That win lifted them into the top six but into a very tight struggle to hold onto a playoffs place.\n\nThey produced another upset, beating the top of the table Chiefs 35-17 with the help of four second-half tries by winger Bailyn Sullivan who replaced Kini Naholo at halftime. Naholo, who has scored eight tries this season, had a serious knee injury.\n\nThe Hurricanes moved up to fifth place after Round 12, two points clear of Moana Pasifika and four ahead of the Blues.\n\nThe Chiefs remained atop the standings in a points tie with the Christchurch-based Crusaders, who couldn't take advantage of the Chiefs' loss because of a weekend bye.\n\nThe Brumbies stayed in third place after a 40-17 win over the Waratahs, who dropped to eighth place, still only a point out of sixth. The Queensland Reds stayed in fourth, despite an upset 36-33 loss to the Fijian Drua.\n\n## Hometown Heroes\n\nThe Fijian Drua maintained an outstanding home record when they beat the fourth-placed Reds in Suva on Saturday.\n\nThe win echoed the Drua's 41-17 win over the Reds in 2023 and 28-19 win in 2024.\n\nSo far this season the Drua have won three of five home matches but haven't yet managed to win away from home and are at the bottom of the table.\n\nOver the last three years, the Drua have had 19 home matches and won 14. That includes victories over the Crusaders, Waratahs and Melbourne Force. But the Reds especially have struggled in Fiji.\n\nThe Drua sealed their win with a 79th minute try on Saturday to replacement Isikeli Rabitu, dealing a blow to the Reds in their first match since their head coach Les Kiss was named to succeed Joe Schmidt as Wallabies coach.\n\n## Beale is back\n\nFormer Wallabies utility Kurtley Beale scored a try to mark his return to rugby after a 10 months break, for the Western Force against the Blues.\n\nThe 36-year-old Beale didn't shirk contact in his first match since sustaining a ruptured Achilles in a Sydney club game.\n\nHe played at fullback and turned in a solid 72 minutes before being substituted. Beale had a number of neat touches before crossing in the left corner for a second-half try.\n\n\"It's good to be back but disappointed in the end,\" he said. \"The game's changing. It's getting fitter, faster, stronger.\n\n\"But I enjoy the challenge. I love the unpredictability of the game.\""
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"value": "# Bill Gates meets Indonesian leader to discuss health and sustainable development initiatives\n\nBy Niniek Karmini and Achmad Ibrahim \nMay 7th, 2025 02:29 AM\n\n---\n\nJAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Bill Gates was in Indonesia on Wednesday to discuss health and sustainable development initiatives with the leader of the world's fourth most populous country.\n\nGates met President Prabowo Subianto at the colonial-style Merdeka palace in Jakarta to discuss global health, nutrition, financial inclusion and public digital infrastructure, Indonesia's presidential office said in a statement ahead of the meeting.\n\nThe co-founder of Microsoft and Gates Foundation praised Indonesia's adoption of vaccines like Rotavirus for diarrhea and Pneumococcus for pneumonia and the country's efforts in reducing child mortality.\n\nHe said ten million children under the age of five worldwide died when his foundation launched in 2000, with 90% of the deaths due to diarrhea, pneumonia or malaria. That number has now been cut in half to below five million, Gates said.\n\n\"It's been an amazing time period. And there's many new tools coming,\" he told the meeting, which was also attended by prominent Indonesian businesspeople and philanthropists.\n\nGates' foundation is currently developing a tuberculosis vaccine that's planned to be tested in Indonesia, Subianto said.\n\n\"This is crucial because TB is still a deadly disease in the country,\" he said.\n\nGates said that because rich countries don't have tuberculosis, \"it just doesn't get hardly any money for diagnostics or drugs or vaccines.\"\n\nGates has granted more than $159 million to Indonesia since 2009. Much of it was allocated to the health sector, especially for vaccine procurement, Subianto said. Thanks to the funds, Subianto said Biofarma, a state-run pharmaceutical company, now can produce two billion doses of its polio vaccine every year, benefiting more than 900 million people in 42 countries.\n\nThe Gates Foundation is also planning to roll out a micronutrient supplement for pregnant women in Indonesia in coming months.\n\nSubianto said that Gates will receive Indonesia's highest honor in New York during the U.N. General Assembly in September for his services to the country.\n\nDuring his first in-person visit to the Indonesian capital, Gates is also scheduled to visit a primary school in eastern Jakarta where more than 500 students were taking part of the program.\n\nThe United Nations Children's Fund estimates that one in 12 Indonesian children younger than 5 suffers from low weight, while one in five is shorter than normal. Both conditions are caused by malnourishment.\n\nIndonesia launched an ambitious project this year to fight malnutrition that aims to feed nearly 90 million children and pregnant women. The program is expected to cost 450 trillion rupiah ($28 billion) through 2029.\n\nCritics question whether it is affordable. Investors and analysts have questioned the burden on state finances and the economy, and the project's ties with the interests of industrial lobby groups."
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"value": "# Despite goats and a dog, Pedersen makes it 2 wins out of 3 at Giro to take back pink jersey\n\nMay 11th, 2025 03:47 PM\n\n---\n\nVLORE, Albania (AP) — Even goats and a dog couldn't distract Mads Pedersen.\n\nThe third stage of the Giro d'Italia all went to plan for Pedersen, who won a bunch sprint to reclaim the leader's pink jersey with his second victory in this year's race.\n\nPedersen, who rides for Lidl-Trek, edged Corbin Strong by half a wheel at the end of the hilly 160-kilometer (99-mile) leg that started and finished in the Albanian coastal city of Vlore.\n\nOrluis Aula was third.\n\nPedersen also won the opening stage on Friday but had seen pre-race favorite Primoz Roglic take the pink jersey from him on Saturday.\n\nPedersen has moved back into pink, ahead of two more sprint stages back in Italy. The Danish cyclist has a nine-second lead over Roglic and is 14 seconds ahead of Mathias Vacek.\n\n\"Wow, to have two stage victories already and now back in the pink, that's exactly what we wanted today,\" Pedersen said. \"This was the plan this morning.\n\n\"We wanted to put a good pace on the long climb, to control it for ourselves and give me a chance to breathe there so I didn't need to go over the limit. Everyone from the team did a super amazing job on the climb and before. And then it was about controlling as far as we could.\"\n\n## Debut goat\n\nPedersen's plan almost didn't go to plan, though, as a dog raced across the road in the finale, narrowly avoiding the surging, Lidl-Trek-driven peloton, with just over 2 kilometers remaining.\n\nEarlier, several goats scampered across the road, with riders having to swerve to avoid them and New Zealand cyclist Dion Smith almost ending up in a ditch.\n\n\"First time for a goat for me,\" Smith said with a laugh.\n\n\"I didn't have too much time to think but I could see it 10 seconds before, the policeman trying to keep them all in and then one or two started coming across and I don't know which way I was going to go, but luckily I stayed up.\"\n\n## Race leaving Albania\n\nIt was the last of three stages in Albania before the peloton makes the short transfer across the Adriatic to the Italian region of Puglia, where the race will resume on Tuesday after a rest day.\n\nThe fourth stage travels through much of the heel of Italy along a mostly flat, 189-kilometer route from the UNESCO World Heritage site of Alberobello to Lecce. It should end in another bunch sprint.\n\nThe race ends in Rome on June 1.\n\n___\n\nAP cycling: https://apnews.com/hub/cycling"
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"value": "# Despite goats and a dog, Pedersen makes it 2 wins out of 3 at Giro to take back pink jersey\n\nMay 11th, 2025 03:47 PM\n\n---\n\nVLORE, Albania (AP) — Even goats and a dog couldn't distract Mads Pedersen.\n\nThe third stage of the Giro d'Italia all went to plan for Pedersen, who won a bunch sprint to reclaim the leader's pink jersey with his second victory in this year's race.\n\nPedersen, who rides for Lidl-Trek, edged Corbin Strong by half a wheel at the end of the hilly 160-kilometer (99-mile) leg that started and finished in the Albanian coastal city of Vlore.\n\nOrluis Aula was third.\n\nPedersen also won the opening stage on Friday but had seen pre-race favorite Primoz Roglic take the pink jersey from him on Saturday.\n\nPedersen has moved back into pink, ahead of two more sprint stages back in Italy. The Danish cyclist has a nine-second lead over Roglic and is 14 seconds ahead of Mathias Vacek.\n\n\"Wow, to have two stage victories already and now back in the pink, that's exactly what we wanted today,\" Pedersen said. \"This was the plan this morning.\n\n\"We wanted to put a good pace on the long climb, to control it for ourselves and give me a chance to breathe there so I didn't need to go over the limit. Everyone from the team did a super amazing job on the climb and before. And then it was about controlling as far as we could.\"\n\n## Debut goat\n\nPedersen's plan almost didn't go to plan, though, as a dog raced across the road in the finale, narrowly avoiding the surging, Lidl-Trek-driven peloton, with just over 2 kilometers remaining.\n\nEarlier, several goats scampered across the road, with riders having to swerve to avoid them and New Zealand cyclist Dion Smith almost ending up in a ditch.\n\n\"First time for a goat for me,\" Smith said with a laugh.\n\n\"I didn't have too much time to think but I could see it 10 seconds before, the policeman trying to keep them all in and then one or two started coming across and I don't know which way I was going to go, but luckily I stayed up.\"\n\n## Race leaving Albania\n\nIt was the last of three stages in Albania before the peloton makes the short transfer across the Adriatic to the Italian region of Puglia, where the race will resume on Tuesday after a rest day.\n\nThe fourth stage travels through much of the heel of Italy along a mostly flat, 189-kilometer route from the UNESCO World Heritage site of Alberobello to Lecce. It should end in another bunch sprint.\n\nThe race ends in Rome on June 1."
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"value": "# Scripps National Spelling Bee tweaks its tiebreaker rules\n\nBy Ben Nuckols \nMay 6th, 2025 05:14 PM\n\n---\n\nWASHINGTON (AP) — The Scripps National Spelling Bee won't be so quick to force spellers into a lightning-round tiebreaker to decide a champion this year, a shift that follows criticism of the abrupt ending to last year's competition.\n\nScripps has eliminated its requirement that the tiebreaker known as a \"spell-off\" be used when the bee finals are nearing the end of their two-hour broadcast window and a champion has not been decided. Instead, judges will have more discretion to let the bee play out, even if it runs into overtime.\n\n\"We don't have those constraints in place that will force us into a spell-off situation based on time. It takes a lot of pressure off of that moment,\" Corrie Loeffler, the bee's executive director, told The Associated Press. \"We can keep going with regular competition, rather than saying, 'It's 9:50, we're going to a spell-off.'\"\n\nLast year, the top two spellers were tossed into the spell-off without even competing head-to-head in the traditional spelling bee format, a move that rankled former champions and other bee aficionados. Bruhat Soma, who said afterward that he practiced the tiebreaker every day for six months, easily defeated Faizan Zaki.\n\nFaizan returns for another crack at the title in this year's bee, which begins May 27.\n\n\"Once you reach a certain point in the finals, the drama is really in watching the spellers take on the dictionary word by word,\" said Scott Remer, a prolific spelling coach who works with Faizan. \"Traditionally, the idea behind the spelling bee has been that you use the information you're given, you gather the clues, you process the information, you think about the word, and then you take all of that synthesis of information and you provide a spelling. The spell-off obviously tests a different set of skills.\"\n\nThe spell-off was first used in 2022. Harini Logan beat Vikram Raju during that contest, but only after the pair had a traditional, lengthy duel in which each misspelled four words. Dev Shah didn't need a spell-off to win two years ago, and he was outspoken about the 2024 edition, saying, \"I don't think it was a good bee.\"\n\nThere was no tiebreaker throughout most of the 2010s, and the bee had co-champions in three straight years from 2014-16. Then came the infamous 2019 bee, which ended in an eight-way tie when Scripps ran out of words difficult enough to challenge an unusually strong group of competitors.\n\nThe 2020 bee was canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic, and it returned the next year under new leaders who made it clear they wanted a sole champion.\n\nAnother rule change has already proven popular among the spelling community: the return of a written test during the preliminary rounds.\n\nSpellers who spell one word correctly and get one multiple-choice vocabulary question right on stage will then sit for a 40-question written test at the end of the first day. Results of that test will be used to pare the field to about 100 quarterfinalists — and Scripps will also use the test scores to gauge the strength of the remaining spellers and inform the difficulty of words used in subsequent rounds.\n\nCurrent and former spellers say the written test is a fairer way to move the competition along than doing everything at the microphone during lengthy rounds with wild variations in word difficulty.\n\n\"I think having a written test as well as oral rounds allows for a better snapshot of a speller's holistic skills,\" Shah said.\n\nDuring the 2010s, a written test reduced the field to about 50 spellers, making it even higher-stakes. Scripps editorial director Molly Becker believes this version, with a \"gentler cut,\" strikes the right balance.\n\n\"We've heard from spellers that we like the fairness of the test because they're all being examined on the same exact words,\" Becker said. \"Also, the primary driver for bringing back the test is that the program can continue to grow with the number of spellers.\"\n\n___\n\nBen Nuckols has covered the Scripps National Spelling Bee since 2012. Follow his work here."
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"value": "# Scripps National Spelling Bee tweaks its tiebreaker rules\n\nBy Ben Nuckols \nMay 6th, 2025 05:14 PM\n\n---\n\nWASHINGTON (AP) — The Scripps National Spelling Bee won't be so quick to force spellers into a lightning-round tiebreaker to decide a champion this year, a shift that follows criticism of the abrupt ending to last year's competition.\n\nScripps has eliminated its requirement that the tiebreaker known as a \"spell-off\" be used when the bee finals are nearing the end of their two-hour broadcast window and a champion has not been decided. Instead, judges will have more discretion to let the bee play out, even if it runs into overtime.\n\n\"We don't have those constraints in place that will force us into a spell-off situation based on time. It takes a lot of pressure off of that moment,\" Corrie Loeffler, the bee's executive director, told The Associated Press. \"We can keep going with regular competition, rather than saying, 'It's 9:50, we're going to a spell-off.'\"\n\nLast year, the top two spellers were tossed into the spell-off without even competing head-to-head in the traditional spelling bee format, a move that rankled former champions and other bee aficionados. Bruhat Soma, who said afterward that he practiced the tiebreaker every day for six months, easily defeated Faizan Zaki.\n\nFaizan returns for another crack at the title in this year's bee, which begins May 27.\n\n\"Once you reach a certain point in the finals, the drama is really in watching the spellers take on the dictionary word by word,\" said Scott Remer, a prolific spelling coach who works with Faizan. \"Traditionally, the idea behind the spelling bee has been that you use the information you're given, you gather the clues, you process the information, you think about the word, and then you take all of that synthesis of information and you provide a spelling. The spell-off obviously tests a different set of skills.\"\n\nThe spell-off was first used in 2022. Harini Logan beat Vikram Raju during that contest, but only after the pair had a traditional, lengthy duel in which each misspelled four words. Dev Shah didn't need a spell-off to win two years ago, and he was outspoken about the 2024 edition, saying, \"I don't think it was a good bee.\"\n\nThere was no tiebreaker throughout most of the 2010s, and the bee had co-champions in three straight years from 2014-16. Then came the infamous 2019 bee, which ended in an eight-way tie when Scripps ran out of words difficult enough to challenge an unusually strong group of competitors.\n\nThe 2020 bee was canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic, and it returned the next year under new leaders who made it clear they wanted a sole champion.\n\nAnother rule change has already proven popular among the spelling community: the return of a written test during the preliminary rounds.\n\nSpellers who spell one word correctly and get one multiple-choice vocabulary question right on stage will then sit for a 40-question written test at the end of the first day. Results of that test will be used to pare the field to about 100 quarterfinalists — and Scripps will also use the test scores to gauge the strength of the remaining spellers and inform the difficulty of words used in subsequent rounds.\n\nCurrent and former spellers say the written test is a fairer way to move the competition along than doing everything at the microphone during lengthy rounds with wild variations in word difficulty.\n\n\"I think having a written test as well as oral rounds allows for a better snapshot of a speller's holistic skills,\" Shah said.\n\nDuring the 2010s, a written test reduced the field to about 50 spellers, making it even higher-stakes. Scripps editorial director Molly Becker believes this version, with a \"gentler cut,\" strikes the right balance.\n\n\"We've heard from spellers that we like the fairness of the test because they're all being examined on the same exact words,\" Becker said. \"Also, the primary driver for bringing back the test is that the program can continue to grow with the number of spellers.\""
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"value": "# Trump blasts Mexico's Sheinbaum for rejecting offer to send US troops into Mexico to fight cartels\n\nBy Aamer Madhani \nMay 5th, 2025 12:33 AM\n\n---\n\nWEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump on Sunday said Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum rejected his proposal to send U.S. troops to Mexico to help thwart the illegal drug trade because she is fearful of the country's powerful cartels.\n\nThe comments by Trump came a day after Sheinbaum confirmed that Trump pressed her in a call last month to accept a bigger role for the U.S. military in combating drug cartels in Mexico.\n\nTrump said it was \"true\" that he proposed sending the troops to Mexico and lashed into Sheinbaum for dismissing the idea.\n\n\"Well she's so afraid of the cartels she can't walk, so you know that's the reason,\" Trump said in comments to reporters aboard Air Force One on Sunday. \"And I think she's a lovely woman. The president of Mexico is a lovely woman, but she is so afraid of the cartels that she can't even think straight.\"\n\nThe U.S. military presence along the southern border with Mexico has increased steadily in recent months, following Trump's order in January to increase the army's role in stemming the flow of migrants.\n\nThe U.S. Northern Command has surged troops and equipment to the border, increased manned surveillance flights to monitor fentanyl trafficking along the border and sought expanded authority for U.S. Special Forces to work closely with Mexican forces conducting operations against cartels.\n\nBut Sheinbaum said that U.S. troops operating inside Mexico was going too far.\n\n\"He said, 'How can we help you fight drug trafficking? I propose that the United States military come in and help you.' And you know what I said to him? 'No, President Trump,'\" she said on Saturday. \"Sovereignty is not for sale. Sovereignty is loved and defended.\"\n\nShe added that she told Trump their two countries \"can work together, but you in your territory and us in ours.\"\n\nTrump in February designated as \"foreign terrorist organizations\" many gangs and cartels smuggling drugs into the U.S. , restricting their movements and lending law enforcement more resources to act against them.\n\nBut Sheinbaum's stance — and Trump's response — suggest that U.S. pressure for unilateral military intervention could create tension between the two leaders after cooperation on immigration and trade in the early going of Trump's second term.\n\nTrump said the U.S. military is needed to stem the scourge of fentanyl in the United States.\n\n\"They are bad news,\" Trump said of the cartels. \"If Mexico wanted help with the cartels we would be honored to go in and do it. I told her that. I would be honored to go in and do it. The cartels are trying to destroy our country.\"\n\nThe White House has also linked its efforts to reduce the flow of fentanyl to Trump's tariff plan, saying he wants to hold Mexico, Canada, and China accountable for stemming the flow of the drug into the U.S."
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"value": "# Trump blasts Mexico's Sheinbaum for rejecting offer to send US troops into Mexico to fight cartels\n\nBy Aamer Madhani \nMay 5th, 2025 12:33 AM\n\n---\n\nWEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump on Sunday said Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum rejected his proposal to send U.S. troops to Mexico to help thwart the illegal drug trade because she is fearful of the country's powerful cartels.\n\nThe comments by Trump came a day after Sheinbaum confirmed that Trump pressed her in a call last month to accept a bigger role for the U.S. military in combating drug cartels in Mexico.\n\nTrump said it was \"true\" that he proposed sending the troops to Mexico and lashed into Sheinbaum for dismissing the idea.\n\n\"Well she's so afraid of the cartels she can't walk, so you know that's the reason,\" Trump said in comments to reporters aboard Air Force One on Sunday. \"And I think she's a lovely woman. The president of Mexico is a lovely woman, but she is so afraid of the cartels that she can't even think straight.\"\n\nThe U.S. military presence along the southern border with Mexico has increased steadily in recent months, following Trump's order in January to increase the army's role in stemming the flow of migrants.\n\nThe U.S. Northern Command has surged troops and equipment to the border, increased manned surveillance flights to monitor fentanyl trafficking along the border and sought expanded authority for U.S. Special Forces to work closely with Mexican forces conducting operations against cartels.\n\nBut Sheinbaum said that U.S. troops operating inside Mexico was going too far.\n\n\"He said, 'How can we help you fight drug trafficking? I propose that the United States military come in and help you.' And you know what I said to him? 'No, President Trump,'\" she said on Saturday. \"Sovereignty is not for sale. Sovereignty is loved and defended.\"\n\nShe added that she told Trump their two countries \"can work together, but you in your territory and us in ours.\"\n\nTrump in February designated as \"foreign terrorist organizations\" many gangs and cartels smuggling drugs into the U.S. , restricting their movements and lending law enforcement more resources to act against them.\n\nBut Sheinbaum's stance — and Trump's response — suggest that U.S. pressure for unilateral military intervention could create tension between the two leaders after cooperation on immigration and trade in the early going of Trump's second term.\n\nTrump said the U.S. military is needed to stem the scourge of fentanyl in the United States.\n\n\"They are bad news,\" Trump said of the cartels. \"If Mexico wanted help with the cartels we would be honored to go in and do it. I told her that. I would be honored to go in and do it. The cartels are trying to destroy our country.\"\n\nThe White House has also linked its efforts to reduce the flow of fentanyl to Trump's tariff plan, saying he wants to hold Mexico, Canada, and China accountable for stemming the flow of the drug into the U.S."
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"value": "# Europe's human rights watchdog urges Greece to end summary deportation of migrants\n\nBy Derek Gatopoulos \nMay 6th, 2025 11:59 AM\n\n---\n\nATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece was urged Tuesday to implement stronger legal safeguards at its borders and adopt a \"zero-tolerance approach to summary returns\" as reports of illegal deportations of migrants continue despite mounting international criticism.\n\nMichael O'Flaherty, the Council of Europe's commissioner for human rights, issued the recommendations following a visit to Greece in February.\n\n\"The commissioner is concerned about the allegations received during his visit regarding persistent practices of summary returns — also referred to as 'pushbacks' or 'informal forced returns' — at both land and maritime borders,\" the Council of Europe memorandum said.\n\n\"Returning people without carrying out an individual identification procedure prevents member states from establishing whether they may be sending them back to human rights abuses,\" it added.\n\nIt said O'Flaherty noted that the number of allegations had dropped in recent months.\n\nAthens has consistently denied the pushback allegations, maintaining that its border control measures comply with international law.\n\nIn a written response to the commissioner, the Greek Police said its officers are involved only in the \"lawful prevention of illegal border crossings while migrants are still in Turkish territory and have not yet reached Greece.\"\n\nThe pushback allegations gained legal significance after the European Court of Human Rights ruled against Greece in January, finding that Athens had violated European human rights conventions by systematically expelling migrants without due process.\n\nThe Greek government is tightening its migration policies. Migration Minister Makis Voridis has announced plans to extend the maximum detention period for rejected asylum seekers from 18 month to 24 months.\n\n\"The illegal migrant whose asylum application is rejected and who nevertheless does not leave for his country will face a much more unfavorable institutional environment than exists today — essentially to encourage voluntary departure,\" Voridis told the Action 24 TV news channel.\n\nOn Tuesday, the coast guard reported rescuing 158 migrants from three dinghies south of the island of Crete, with assistance from nearby commercial vessels and Frontex, the European Union's border protection agency.\n\nFounded in 1949 and headquartered in Strasbourg, France, the Council of Europe is an international organization dedicated to promoting human rights, democracy, and the rule of law. It has 46 member states."
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"value": "# Europe's human rights watchdog urges Greece to end summary deportation of migrants\n\nBy Derek Gatopoulos \nMay 6th, 2025 11:59 AM\n\n---\n\nATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece was urged Tuesday to implement stronger legal safeguards at its borders and adopt a \"zero-tolerance approach to summary returns\" as reports of illegal deportations of migrants continue despite mounting international criticism.\n\nMichael O'Flaherty, the Council of Europe's commissioner for human rights, issued the recommendations following a visit to Greece in February.\n\n\"The commissioner is concerned about the allegations received during his visit regarding persistent practices of summary returns — also referred to as 'pushbacks' or 'informal forced returns' — at both land and maritime borders,\" the Council of Europe memorandum said.\n\n\"Returning people without carrying out an individual identification procedure prevents member states from establishing whether they may be sending them back to human rights abuses,\" it added.\n\nIt said O'Flaherty noted that the number of allegations had dropped in recent months.\n\nAthens has consistently denied the pushback allegations, maintaining that its border control measures comply with international law.\n\nIn a written response to the commissioner, the Greek Police said its officers are involved only in the \"lawful prevention of illegal border crossings while migrants are still in Turkish territory and have not yet reached Greece.\"\n\nThe pushback allegations gained legal significance after the European Court of Human Rights ruled against Greece in January, finding that Athens had violated European human rights conventions by systematically expelling migrants without due process.\n\nThe Greek government is tightening its migration policies. Migration Minister Makis Voridis has announced plans to extend the maximum detention period for rejected asylum seekers from 18 month to 24 months.\n\n\"The illegal migrant whose asylum application is rejected and who nevertheless does not leave for his country will face a much more unfavorable institutional environment than exists today — essentially to encourage voluntary departure,\" Voridis told the Action 24 TV news channel.\n\nOn Tuesday, the coast guard reported rescuing 158 migrants from three dinghies south of the island of Crete, with assistance from nearby commercial vessels and Frontex, the European Union's border protection agency.\n\nFounded in 1949 and headquartered in Strasbourg, France, the Council of Europe is an international organization dedicated to promoting human rights, democracy, and the rule of law. It has 46 member states."
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"value": "# What to know ahead of Sean 'Diddy' Combs trial\n\nBy Larry Neumeister \nMay 3rd, 2025 04:11 AM\n\n---\n\nNEW YORK (AP) — Hip-hop impresario Sean \"Diddy\" Combs once presided like a prince over his White Parties in the Hamptons, attracting A-list celebrities, gossip columnists and photographers. But at a trial starting Monday, prosecutors will cast the entertainer as a criminal sexual deviant who exploited his fame to abuse women at gatherings held far out of public view.\n\nFor over two decades, prosecutors allege, the Bad Boy Records founder used the power and prestige he'd gained in building a hip-hop empire to destroy young lives.\n\nHe faces an indictment that includes descriptions of \"Freak Offs,\" drugged-up orgies in which women were forced to have sex with male sex workers while Combs filmed them.\n\nNumerous witnesses have come forward to accuse Combs of terrorizing people into silence by choking, hitting, kicking and dragging them, often by the hair, prosecutors say. Once, the indictment alleges, he even dangled someone from a balcony.\n\nCombs' lawyers contend prosecutors are trying to police consensual sexual activity.\n\nAnd while Combs, 55, has acknowledged one episode of violence — the caught-on-camera beating of his former girlfriend, R&B singer Cassie — his lawyers say other allegations are false.\n\nJury selection is scheduled to begin Monday at a federal courthouse in Manhattan. Testimony will likely start the following week.\n\nIf convicted on all charges, which include racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking, and transporting people across state lines to engage in prostitution, Combs faces a possible sentence of decades in prison.\n\n## Investigation followed Cassie lawsuit\n\nAlthough dozens of men and women have alleged in lawsuits that Combs abused them, this trial will highlight the claims of four women.\n\nOne of them is Cassie, who filed a lawsuit in late 2023 saying Combs had subjected her to years of abuse, including beatings and rape after they met in 2005.\n\nThe Associated Press does not typically name people who say they have been sexually abused unless they come forward publicly, as Cassie, whose legal name is Casandra Ventura, did.\n\nHer lawsuit, which offered the first public account of the Freak Offs described in the indictment, was settled in a day. Four months later, though, federal investigators raided Combs homes in Los Angeles and Miami and confronted him at a private airport in Florida, seizing 96 electronic devices. They also found three AR-15-style rifles with defaced serial numbers.\n\nThe three-time Grammy winner was indicted last September. He has since been held in a federal jail in Brooklyn after judges ruled that he would be a threat to intimidate witnesses and victims if released.\n\nThe 17-page indictment against Combs accuses him of using employees of his business endeavors — including record labels, a recording studio, an apparel line, an alcoholic spirits company, a marketing agency, a television network and a media company — to facilitate his crimes through acts that included kidnapping, arson and bribery.\n\nProsecutors plan to show jurors travel records, text messages and emails, hotel records and videos to supplement testimony and support their claims about what they call \"Freak Off activity.\"\n\nJurors will also see security camera video showing Combs punching, kicking and then dragging Cassie in the hallway of a Los Angeles hotel in 2016.\n\nAfter the video aired on CNN last year, Combs apologized, saying, \"I take full responsibility for my actions in that video. I was disgusted then when I did it. I'm disgusted now.\"\n\n## Defense says Freak Offs were consensual\n\nCombs' attorney, Marc Agnifilo, said at a bail hearing that Combs wrote \"a very large check\" to Cassie after she filed her lawsuit. The lawyer said the payout motivated others to come forward with false claims.\n\nAgnifilo said Combs was \"not a perfect person\" and that there had been drug use and toxic relationships, but he said the rapper was undergoing therapy before his arrest.\n\nHe said Cassie and Combs were in a 10-year relationship that was \"very loving at times\" and sometimes chose to bring a third person into their intimacy.\n\n\"That was their thing,\" he said. \"It was a sought-after, special part of their relationship.\"\n\nThe trial is not Combs' first. In 2001, he was acquitted of bringing an illegal handgun into a crowded Manhattan dance club where three people were wounded by gunfire. A rapper in Combs' entourage, Jamal Barrow, who performed under the name Shyne, was convicted in the shooting and served nearly nine years in prison.\n\nAt a pretrial conference Thursday, Combs confirmed to a judge that he turned down a plea offer that would have carried a lesser penalty than what he might face if he is convicted at his upcoming trial.\n\nJust before he left the courtroom after the hearing, he defiantly shook his fist in the air."
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"value": "# Utah dropping beach volleyball and cites its change in conferences as a factor\n\nMay 2nd, 2025 06:32 PM\n\n---\n\nSALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah has decided to drop beach volleyball as a varsity sport after eight years in part because of conference realignment.\n\nUtah introduced beach volleyball — an Olympic sport since 1996 — in 2017, when the Utes competed in the Pac-12 Conference. The Pac-12 had nine beach volleyball programs at the time but most of those schools have since left for the Big Ten, ACC and Big 12.\n\nUtah is now in the Big 12, which has just three other beach volleyball programs and no automatic qualifying spot for the NCAA Tournament for its league champion.\n\n\"This was an extremely difficult decision,\" athletics director Mark Harlan said this week. \"We looked at the landscape of intercollegiate beach volleyball and the future opportunities of our student-athletes.\"\n\nCalling beach volleyball's growth at the college level \"stunted,\" Harlan noted that just 12 power conference schools sponsor such teams \"with little evidence of the sport expanding at this time.\"\n\nHarlan said the Utah athletic department would \"work closely with each of our impacted student-athletes to provide them with all of the support they need\" and honor the scholarships of those who decide to complete their education at Utah.\n\n\"Should a current or incoming student-athlete elect to pursue their sport at another school, Utah will do all that it can to facilitate the process,\" Harlan said, adding that scholarship funds which had been dedicated to the beach volleyball program will be redirected to our other women's sports.\n\nUtah will now sponsor 19 intercollegiate sport programs in the coming academic year.\n\n___\n\nAP sports: https://apnews.com/sports"
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"value": "# Utah dropping beach volleyball and cites its change in conferences as a factor\n\nMay 2nd, 2025 06:32 PM\n\n---\n\nSALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah has decided to drop beach volleyball as a varsity sport after eight years in part because of conference realignment.\n\nUtah introduced beach volleyball — an Olympic sport since 1996 — in 2017, when the Utes competed in the Pac-12 Conference. The Pac-12 had nine beach volleyball programs at the time but most of those schools have since left for the Big Ten, ACC and Big 12.\n\nUtah is now in the Big 12, which has just three other beach volleyball programs and no automatic qualifying spot for the NCAA Tournament for its league champion.\n\n\"This was an extremely difficult decision,\" athletics director Mark Harlan said this week. \"We looked at the landscape of intercollegiate beach volleyball and the future opportunities of our student-athletes.\"\n\nCalling beach volleyball's growth at the college level \"stunted,\" Harlan noted that just 12 power conference schools sponsor such teams \"with little evidence of the sport expanding at this time.\"\n\nHarlan said the Utah athletic department would \"work closely with each of our impacted student-athletes to provide them with all of the support they need\" and honor the scholarships of those who decide to complete their education at Utah.\n\n\"Should a current or incoming student-athlete elect to pursue their sport at another school, Utah will do all that it can to facilitate the process,\" Harlan said, adding that scholarship funds which had been dedicated to the beach volleyball program will be redirected to our other women's sports.\n\nUtah will now sponsor 19 intercollegiate sport programs in the coming academic year."
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"value": "# What to know about a lawsuit filed over a Florida deputy's shooting of a US airman\n\nMay 6th, 2025 04:01 AM\n\n---\n\nFORT WALTON BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Prominent civil rights attorney Ben Crump filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday against a former Florida sheriff's deputy and others for the May 2024 shooting death of 23-year-old U.S. Senior Airman Roger Fortson.\n\nFormer Okaloosa County Sheriff's Deputy Eddie Duran shot and killed Fortson, who was Black, at the door of Fortson's apartment. Duran has pleaded not guilty to manslaughter. That criminal case is pending.\n\nCrump outlined the lawsuit during a news conference Tuesday afternoon with Fortson family members in Fort Walton Beach, Florida.\n\n## What is the lawsuit about?\n\nCrump says his lawsuit contends that Duran used \"excessive and unconstitutional deadly force\" in the shooting. It also outlines what it calls failures of training and supervision at the sheriff's office and claim the apartment complex where Fortson was shot provided \"misleading, unverified information\" that led to the violent response.\n\n## How did the shooting unfold?\n\nAuthorities say Duran had been directed to Fortson's Fort Walton Beach apartment in response to a domestic disturbance report that turned out to be false. After repeated knocking, Fortson opened the door while holding his handgun at his side, pointed down. Authorities say Duran shot him multiple times before telling Fortson to drop the gun.\n\n## Who is Eddie Duran?\n\nDuran, 39, began his law enforcement career as a military police officer in the Army. An Oklahoma police department hired him in 2015 after his military discharge. He joined the Okaloosa County sheriff's office in 2019, resigned two years later and then rejoined the sheriff's office in 2023.\n\nOkaloosa Sheriff Eric Aden fired Duran after Fortson's death because an internal investigation concluded Duran's life was not in danger when he opened fire.\n\nDuran identifies as Hispanic, according to his voter registration.\n\n## Who was Roger Fortson?\n\nFortson grew up in Atlanta and joined the Air Force in 2019, the year he graduated from high school.\n\nThe apartment complex where Fortson lived is about 8 miles (13 kilometers) from Hurlburt Field. He was assigned to the 4th Special Operations Squadron as a special missions aviator, where one of his roles was to load a gunship's 30 mm and 105 mm weapons.\n\nHis death was one of a growing list of killings of Black people by law enforcement in their own homes. It also renewed debate over Florida's \"stand your ground\" law.\n\n## What is the status of the criminal case against Duran?\n\nThe case is in the pretrial hearing phase, with a hearing on motions set for May 20. Duran is out of jail on bond.\n\n## Who is Ben Crump?\n\nCrump, 55, is a well-known Black attorney based in Tallahassee, Florida, who has worked on numerous high-profile civil right cases and wrongful death lawsuits. His cases have included those involving other Black people who have been killed by law enforcement, including Breonna Taylor, George Floyd and Michael Brown."
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"value": "# What to know about a lawsuit filed over a Florida deputy's shooting of a US airman\n\nMay 6th, 2025 04:01 AM\n\n---\n\nFORT WALTON BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Prominent civil rights attorney Ben Crump filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday against a former Florida sheriff's deputy and others for the May 2024 shooting death of 23-year-old U.S. Senior Airman Roger Fortson.\n\nFormer Okaloosa County Sheriff's Deputy Eddie Duran shot and killed Fortson, who was Black, at the door of Fortson's apartment. Duran has pleaded not guilty to manslaughter. That criminal case is pending.\n\nCrump outlined the lawsuit during a news conference Tuesday afternoon with Fortson family members in Fort Walton Beach, Florida.\n\n## What is the lawsuit about?\n\nCrump says his lawsuit contends that Duran used \"excessive and unconstitutional deadly force\" in the shooting. It also outlines what it calls failures of training and supervision at the sheriff's office and claim the apartment complex where Fortson was shot provided \"misleading, unverified information\" that led to the violent response.\n\n## How did the shooting unfold?\n\nAuthorities say Duran had been directed to Fortson's Fort Walton Beach apartment in response to a domestic disturbance report that turned out to be false. After repeated knocking, Fortson opened the door while holding his handgun at his side, pointed down. Authorities say Duran shot him multiple times before telling Fortson to drop the gun.\n\n## Who is Eddie Duran?\n\nDuran, 39, began his law enforcement career as a military police officer in the Army. An Oklahoma police department hired him in 2015 after his military discharge. He joined the Okaloosa County sheriff's office in 2019, resigned two years later and then rejoined the sheriff's office in 2023.\n\nOkaloosa Sheriff Eric Aden fired Duran after Fortson's death because an internal investigation concluded Duran's life was not in danger when he opened fire.\n\nDuran identifies as Hispanic, according to his voter registration.\n\n## Who was Roger Fortson?\n\nFortson grew up in Atlanta and joined the Air Force in 2019, the year he graduated from high school.\n\nThe apartment complex where Fortson lived is about 8 miles (13 kilometers) from Hurlburt Field. He was assigned to the 4th Special Operations Squadron as a special missions aviator, where one of his roles was to load a gunship's 30 mm and 105 mm weapons.\n\nHis death was one of a growing list of killings of Black people by law enforcement in their own homes. It also renewed debate over Florida's \"stand your ground\" law.\n\n## What is the status of the criminal case against Duran?\n\nThe case is in the pretrial hearing phase, with a hearing on motions set for May 20. Duran is out of jail on bond.\n\n## Who is Ben Crump?\n\nCrump, 55, is a well-known Black attorney based in Tallahassee, Florida, who has worked on numerous high-profile civil right cases and wrongful death lawsuits. His cases have included those involving other Black people who have been killed by law enforcement, including Breonna Taylor, George Floyd and Michael Brown."
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"value": "# Appeals court upholds New York law shifting local elections to even-numbered years\n\nMay 8th, 2025 03:16 PM\n\n---\n\nALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A mid-level appeals court in New York has upheld a law that shifts many local elections to even-numbered years — a policy meant to align county and town elections with statewide and federal races but that has led to pushback from Republicans.\n\nDemocrats argue that the law, which was approved two years ago, would result in increased turnout in local races. Republicans sued to block it, saying it violates the state constitution and that it could give Democrats a partisan advantage in higher-turnout election years.\n\nOn Wednesday, a panel of appeals court judges ruled that the law can take effect and that there is no need to delay its implementation until the 2027 election cycle. The decision overturned a lower court's ruling last year that struck down the law.\n\nNew York City elections aren't affected by the law."
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"value": "# Appeals court upholds New York law shifting local elections to even-numbered years\n\nMay 8th, 2025 03:16 PM\n\n---\n\nALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A mid-level appeals court in New York has upheld a law that shifts many local elections to even-numbered years — a policy meant to align county and town elections with statewide and federal races but that has led to pushback from Republicans.\n\nDemocrats argue that the law, which was approved two years ago, would result in increased turnout in local races. Republicans sued to block it, saying it violates the state constitution and that it could give Democrats a partisan advantage in higher-turnout election years.\n\nOn Wednesday, a panel of appeals court judges ruled that the law can take effect and that there is no need to delay its implementation until the 2027 election cycle. The decision overturned a lower court's ruling last year that struck down the law.\n\nNew York City elections aren't affected by the law."
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"value": "# Drug companies to pay Hawaii $700 million to settle Plavix blood thinner lawsuit\n\nMay 10th, 2025 02:23 AM\n\n---\n\nHONOLULU (AP) — Pharmaceutical companies have agreed to pay Hawaii $700 million to settle its lawsuit over the efficacy and safety of the blood thinner Plavix, the state attorney general's office announced Friday.\n\nA court ruling last year ordered Bristol Myers Squibb Company and three U.S.-based subsidiaries of French pharmaceutical company Sanofi to pay a combined $916 million.\n\nBut before an appeal was decided, a settlement was reached for the lower amount, the attorney general's office said.\n\nIn a joint statement, the companies said they \"are pleased to resolve this litigation, and to continue their companies' focus on discovering, developing, and delivering innovative medicines to patients.\"\n\n\"Plavix has helped millions of people with cardiovascular disease around the world for nearly 30 years and it continues to be endorsed as a first-line therapy by leading treatment guidelines across the globe,\" the statement added.\n\nFirst Circuit Court Judge James Ashford found that there was a risk that about 30% of patients, particularly non-Caucasians, might have a \"diminished response\" to Plavix but the companies did not update their labels, Attorney General Anne Lopez said last year.\n\nNeither company has admitted wrongdoing.\n\nGov. Josh Green called it a \"landmark settlement\" and a \"major victory\" for the state.\n\nThe settlement divides the $700 million equally between Bristol Myers Squibb and Sanofi, with the funds to be paid by wire transfer by June 9, the attorney general's office said."
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"value": "# Drug companies to pay Hawaii $700 million to settle Plavix blood thinner lawsuit\n\nMay 10th, 2025 02:23 AM\n\n---\n\nHONOLULU (AP) — Pharmaceutical companies have agreed to pay Hawaii $700 million to settle its lawsuit over the efficacy and safety of the blood thinner Plavix, the state attorney general's office announced Friday.\n\nA court ruling last year ordered Bristol Myers Squibb Company and three U.S.-based subsidiaries of French pharmaceutical company Sanofi to pay a combined $916 million.\n\nBut before an appeal was decided, a settlement was reached for the lower amount, the attorney general's office said.\n\nIn a joint statement, the companies said they \"are pleased to resolve this litigation, and to continue their companies' focus on discovering, developing, and delivering innovative medicines to patients.\"\n\n\"Plavix has helped millions of people with cardiovascular disease around the world for nearly 30 years and it continues to be endorsed as a first-line therapy by leading treatment guidelines across the globe,\" the statement added.\n\nFirst Circuit Court Judge James Ashford found that there was a risk that about 30% of patients, particularly non-Caucasians, might have a \"diminished response\" to Plavix but the companies did not update their labels, Attorney General Anne Lopez said last year.\n\nNeither company has admitted wrongdoing.\n\nGov. Josh Green called it a \"landmark settlement\" and a \"major victory\" for the state.\n\nThe settlement divides the $700 million equally between Bristol Myers Squibb and Sanofi, with the funds to be paid by wire transfer by June 9, the attorney general's office said."
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"value": "# Bureau of Prisons freezes some hiring amid Trump cuts\n\nBy Michael R. Sisak \nMay 8th, 2025 06:06 PM\n\n---\n\nThe Trump administration is halting some hiring at the federal Bureau of Prisons, the crisis-plagued agency where chronic understaffing has led to long overtime shifts and the use of prison nurses, teachers, cooks and other workers to guard inmates.\n\nThe move, which coincides with President Donald Trump's aggressive campaign to cut the cost and size of the federal government, was announced Thursday by the agency's newly appointed director, William K. Marshall III. Some union officials characterized the move as a \"hiring freeze,\" though the agency denied that, saying some positions would continue to be filled.\n\nThe Bureau of Prisons will maintain current staffing levels at least through the end of the fiscal year, Sept 30, Marshall wrote in an email to staff titled \"Staffing and Hiring Decisions.\" The agency will still work to fill critical positions, such as correctional officers and medical clinicians, and will honor job offers that are currently pending on an accelerated timeline.\n\nThe change comes days after Trump ordered the Bureau of Prisons to reopen Alcatraz, the fabled former penitentiary in San Francisco Bay that last held inmates more than six decades ago.\n\nThe dilapidated facility, now a popular museum and tourist attraction, will likely cost hundreds of millions of dollars to rebuild at a time when the federal prison system is facing a $3 billion repair backlog and myriad other woes. Marshall said this week that the cash-strapped agency will conduct \"an immediate assessment to determine our needs and the next steps\" on Trump's Alcatraz directive.\n\nSince mid-March, 11 federal prison inmates have died. Last week, an inmate in Miami tested positive for tuberculosis, while others were diagnosed with COVID-19. In February, a Bureau of Prisons official told Congress that more than 4,000 beds within the system — the equivalent of at least two full prisons — are unusable because of dangers like leaking or failing roofs, mold, asbestos or lead.\n\nIn his announcement Thursday, Marshall told employees that changing the Bureau of Prisons' hiring practices are necessary to \"avoid more extreme measures\" as it navigates budgetary challenges. The plan will \"maintain stability and protect the livelihood of our workforce to the fullest extent possible,\" he wrote.\n\nThe hiring freeze is likely to exacerbate a staffing crisis at the agency, which has more than 4,000 unfilled positions, union officials said. The administration previously eliminated some pay bonuses that were credited with retaining and attracting new staff. In one example of staffing problems, a federal jail in Brooklyn had more than 150 vacancies despite a hiring surge that increased staffing by about 20%. Before that, the facility was operating at about 55% of full staffing, according to court filings.\n\n\"We're already severely understaffed, they took our retention pay, they have been literally stripping all the things away from us that matter,\" said Aaron McGlothin, union president at the federal prison in Mendota, California. \"Freezing an already severely understaffed agency will lead to tragic consequences, we are tired of doing more with less.\"\n\nTrump suspended hiring across many parts of the federal bureaucracy when he took office in January, but initially spared the Bureau of Prisons and other law enforcement agencies. At the same time the administration and billionaire Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency cut probationary workers and offered buyouts to hundreds of thousands of workers across the government.\n\nTrump previously imposed a hiring freeze at the Bureau of Prisons during his first term, in 2017. That freeze was blamed for accelerating the glut of vacancies and overtime spending — a trend that has continued for years as the agency has struggled to hire and retain employees. Some correctional officers have been pressed into duty for 16-hour shifts and 80-hour weeks.\n\n\"Staff are mentally and physically exhausted from the do more with less directives,\" McGlothin said, noting a wave of retirements in the wake of Trump's actions. \"Nothing ever good comes from these situations and I pray no one is injured or killed over these senseless decisions.\"\n\nAn ongoing investigation from The Associated Press has uncovered deep, previously unreported flaws within the Bureau of Prisons, an agency with more than 30,000 employees, 158,000 inmates, 122 facilities and an annual budget of about $8 billion.\n\nAP reporting has revealed rampant misconduct, including staff-on-inmate sexual abuse, dozens of escapes, chronic violence, deaths and severe staffing shortages that have hampered responses to emergencies, including inmate assaults and suicides.\n\nIn December, the agency announced it was permanently closing its women's prison in Dublin, California, in the wake of rampant sexual abuse by employees, including the warden. It addition, it idled six prison camps across the country, moves it said were done to address \"significant challenges, including a critical staffing shortage, crumbling infrastructure and limited budgetary resources.\""
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"value": "# Bureau of Prisons freezes some hiring amid Trump cuts\n\nBy Michael R. Sisak \nMay 8th, 2025 06:06 PM\n\n---\n\nThe Trump administration is halting some hiring at the federal Bureau of Prisons, the crisis-plagued agency where chronic understaffing has led to long overtime shifts and the use of prison nurses, teachers, cooks and other workers to guard inmates.\n\nThe move, which coincides with President Donald Trump's aggressive campaign to cut the cost and size of the federal government, was announced Thursday by the agency's newly appointed director, William K. Marshall III. Some union officials characterized the move as a \"hiring freeze,\" though the agency denied that, saying some positions would continue to be filled.\n\nThe Bureau of Prisons will maintain current staffing levels at least through the end of the fiscal year, Sept 30, Marshall wrote in an email to staff titled \"Staffing and Hiring Decisions.\" The agency will still work to fill critical positions, such as correctional officers and medical clinicians, and will honor job offers that are currently pending on an accelerated timeline.\n\nThe change comes days after Trump ordered the Bureau of Prisons to reopen Alcatraz, the fabled former penitentiary in San Francisco Bay that last held inmates more than six decades ago.\n\nThe dilapidated facility, now a popular museum and tourist attraction, will likely cost hundreds of millions of dollars to rebuild at a time when the federal prison system is facing a $3 billion repair backlog and myriad other woes. Marshall said this week that the cash-strapped agency will conduct \"an immediate assessment to determine our needs and the next steps\" on Trump's Alcatraz directive.\n\nSince mid-March, 11 federal prison inmates have died. Last week, an inmate in Miami tested positive for tuberculosis, while others were diagnosed with COVID-19. In February, a Bureau of Prisons official told Congress that more than 4,000 beds within the system — the equivalent of at least two full prisons — are unusable because of dangers like leaking or failing roofs, mold, asbestos or lead.\n\nIn his announcement Thursday, Marshall told employees that changing the Bureau of Prisons' hiring practices are necessary to \"avoid more extreme measures\" as it navigates budgetary challenges. The plan will \"maintain stability and protect the livelihood of our workforce to the fullest extent possible,\" he wrote.\n\nThe hiring freeze is likely to exacerbate a staffing crisis at the agency, which has more than 4,000 unfilled positions, union officials said. The administration previously eliminated some pay bonuses that were credited with retaining and attracting new staff. In one example of staffing problems, a federal jail in Brooklyn had more than 150 vacancies despite a hiring surge that increased staffing by about 20%. Before that, the facility was operating at about 55% of full staffing, according to court filings.\n\n\"We're already severely understaffed, they took our retention pay, they have been literally stripping all the things away from us that matter,\" said Aaron McGlothin, union president at the federal prison in Mendota, California. \"Freezing an already severely understaffed agency will lead to tragic consequences, we are tired of doing more with less.\"\n\nTrump suspended hiring across many parts of the federal bureaucracy when he took office in January, but initially spared the Bureau of Prisons and other law enforcement agencies. At the same time the administration and billionaire Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency cut probationary workers and offered buyouts to hundreds of thousands of workers across the government.\n\nTrump previously imposed a hiring freeze at the Bureau of Prisons during his first term, in 2017. That freeze was blamed for accelerating the glut of vacancies and overtime spending — a trend that has continued for years as the agency has struggled to hire and retain employees. Some correctional officers have been pressed into duty for 16-hour shifts and 80-hour weeks.\n\n\"Staff are mentally and physically exhausted from the do more with less directives,\" McGlothin said, noting a wave of retirements in the wake of Trump's actions. \"Nothing ever good comes from these situations and I pray no one is injured or killed over these senseless decisions.\"\n\nAn ongoing investigation from The Associated Press has uncovered deep, previously unreported flaws within the Bureau of Prisons, an agency with more than 30,000 employees, 158,000 inmates, 122 facilities and an annual budget of about $8 billion.\n\nAP reporting has revealed rampant misconduct, including staff-on-inmate sexual abuse, dozens of escapes, chronic violence, deaths and severe staffing shortages that have hampered responses to emergencies, including inmate assaults and suicides.\n\nIn December, the agency announced it was permanently closing its women's prison in Dublin, California, in the wake of rampant sexual abuse by employees, including the warden. It addition, it idled six prison camps across the country, moves it said were done to address \"significant challenges, including a critical staffing shortage, crumbling infrastructure and limited budgetary resources.\""
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"value": "# Judge sets dates for Menendez brothers' resentencing hearings\n\nBy Jaimie Ding \nMay 9th, 2025 04:12 AM\n\n---\n\nLOS ANGELES (AP) — Resentencing hearings for Erik and Lyle Menendez will move forward next week after a series of delays.\n\nThe brothers were sentenced in 1996 to life in prison without the possibility of parole for fatally shooting their entertainment executive father, Jose Menendez, and mother, Kitty Menendez, in their Beverly Hills home. The brothers were 18 and 21 at the time of the killings. Defense attorneys argued the brothers acted out of self-defense after years of sexual abuse by their father, while prosecutors said the brothers killed their parents for a multimillion-dollar inheritance.\n\nLA County Superior Court Judge Michael Jesic on Friday set the hearings for next Tuesday and Wednesday.\n\nThe hearing was supposed to be about the defense attorneys' request to remove the Los Angeles district attorney's office from the case, but defense attorneys withdrew their motion. Prosecutors, meanwhile, tried again to withdraw the resentencing petition set under the prior district attorney. Jesic rejected their efforts.\n\nHere's what to know:\n\n## Resentencing hearings on May 13 and 14\n\nNext week, the judge will hear arguments on the crucial question: Have Erik and Lyle Menendez been rehabilitated during 30 years in prison?\n\nThe brothers' attorneys say yes.\n\nSince their conviction, the brothers have gotten an education, participated in self-help classes and started various support groups for their fellow inmates.\n\nThe extended Menendez family, with the exception of an uncle who died last month, has said they fully forgive the brothers for what they did and want them to be freed. Their cousins have said the brothers worked hard over the decades to better themselves and give back to the prison community.\n\nDefense attorney Mark Geragos said he plans to call seven family members to testify at the hearings.\n\nIf the brothers are resentenced, they could become immediately eligible for parole. The state parole board would ultimately rule on whether to release them from prison.\n\n## LA prosecutors oppose the brothers' resentencing\n\nFormer LA County District Attorney George Gascón had opened the door to possible freedom for the brothers in October by requesting their sentences be reduced to 50 years with the possibility of parole. His office said the case would've been handled differently today due to modern understandings of sexual abuse and trauma, and the brothers' rehabilitation during their 30 years in prison.\n\nBut current district attorney Nathan Hochman reversed course and opposed the brothers' resentencing.\n\nHe's argued the brothers have not taken full responsibility for their crimes because they have not admitted to lies told during their trials.\n\n\"They're not ready\" to be resentenced, Hochman told the judge Friday.\n\nThe state parole board made available last month the preliminary results of risk assessments for Erik and Lyle Menendez conducted by a forensic psychologist. While the reports have not been made public, Hochman cited them as the reason why he could not support resentencing.\n\nAccording to Hochman, the reports said the brothers had recently broken prison rules by smuggling cellphones inside, which he argued demonstrated an inability to regulate their own behavior. It came to the conclusion that they were \"moderately more likely\" to engage in violence in the community, Hochman said.\n\nBut Jesic disagreed.\n\n\"I don't see anything new,\" he said. \"He's (Erik Menendez) had cellphones throughout the time he's been in custody.\"\n\nGeragos had filed a motion to remove the case from Hochman's office, arguing that Hochman has a bias against the brothers. But he withdrew that motion Friday. Hochman has said he has done nothing wrong and simply disagrees with the defense attorneys and their arguments as to why the brothers should be resentenced.\n\n## Clemency from go\n\nThe Menendez brothers are still waiting for the full results of a state parole board risk assessment ordered by Gov. Gavin Newsom 's office. The final hearing, scheduled for June 13, will influence whether Newsom grants the brothers clemency.\n\nWhile parts of the risk assessment were disclosed in court Friday that could be unfavorable to the brothers' case, Geragos emphasized they were only one component of the parole board's evaluation, not meant to be made public and could still change."
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"value": "# Judge sets dates for Menendez brothers' resentencing hearings\n\nBy Jaimie Ding \nMay 9th, 2025 04:12 AM\n\n---\n\nLOS ANGELES (AP) — Resentencing hearings for Erik and Lyle Menendez will move forward next week after a series of delays.\n\nThe brothers were sentenced in 1996 to life in prison without the possibility of parole for fatally shooting their entertainment executive father, Jose Menendez, and mother, Kitty Menendez, in their Beverly Hills home. The brothers were 18 and 21 at the time of the killings. Defense attorneys argued the brothers acted out of self-defense after years of sexual abuse by their father, while prosecutors said the brothers killed their parents for a multimillion-dollar inheritance.\n\nLA County Superior Court Judge Michael Jesic on Friday set the hearings for next Tuesday and Wednesday.\n\nThe hearing was supposed to be about the defense attorneys' request to remove the Los Angeles district attorney's office from the case, but defense attorneys withdrew their motion. Prosecutors, meanwhile, tried again to withdraw the resentencing petition set under the prior district attorney. Jesic rejected their efforts.\n\nHere's what to know:\n\n## Resentencing hearings on May 13 and 14\n\nNext week, the judge will hear arguments on the crucial question: Have Erik and Lyle Menendez been rehabilitated during 30 years in prison?\n\nThe brothers' attorneys say yes.\n\nSince their conviction, the brothers have gotten an education, participated in self-help classes and started various support groups for their fellow inmates.\n\nThe extended Menendez family, with the exception of an uncle who died last month, has said they fully forgive the brothers for what they did and want them to be freed. Their cousins have said the brothers worked hard over the decades to better themselves and give back to the prison community.\n\nDefense attorney Mark Geragos said he plans to call seven family members to testify at the hearings.\n\nIf the brothers are resentenced, they could become immediately eligible for parole. The state parole board would ultimately rule on whether to release them from prison.\n\n## LA prosecutors oppose the brothers' resentencing\n\nFormer LA County District Attorney George Gascón had opened the door to possible freedom for the brothers in October by requesting their sentences be reduced to 50 years with the possibility of parole. His office said the case would've been handled differently today due to modern understandings of sexual abuse and trauma, and the brothers' rehabilitation during their 30 years in prison.\n\nBut current district attorney Nathan Hochman reversed course and opposed the brothers' resentencing.\n\nHe's argued the brothers have not taken full responsibility for their crimes because they have not admitted to lies told during their trials.\n\n\"They're not ready\" to be resentenced, Hochman told the judge Friday.\n\nThe state parole board made available last month the preliminary results of risk assessments for Erik and Lyle Menendez conducted by a forensic psychologist. While the reports have not been made public, Hochman cited them as the reason why he could not support resentencing.\n\nAccording to Hochman, the reports said the brothers had recently broken prison rules by smuggling cellphones inside, which he argued demonstrated an inability to regulate their own behavior. It came to the conclusion that they were \"moderately more likely\" to engage in violence in the community, Hochman said.\n\nBut Jesic disagreed.\n\n\"I don't see anything new,\" he said. \"He's (Erik Menendez) had cellphones throughout the time he's been in custody.\"\n\nGeragos had filed a motion to remove the case from Hochman's office, arguing that Hochman has a bias against the brothers. But he withdrew that motion Friday. Hochman has said he has done nothing wrong and simply disagrees with the defense attorneys and their arguments as to why the brothers should be resentenced.\n\n## Clemency from go\n\nThe Menendez brothers are still waiting for the full results of a state parole board risk assessment ordered by Gov. Gavin Newsom 's office. The final hearing, scheduled for June 13, will influence whether Newsom grants the brothers clemency.\n\nWhile parts of the risk assessment were disclosed in court Friday that could be unfavorable to the brothers' case, Geragos emphasized they were only one component of the parole board's evaluation, not meant to be made public and could still change."
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"value": "# Nationals' Michael Soroka cruises through 5 vs. Guardians, then falls apart in return from IL\n\nBy Ben Nuckols \nMay 7th, 2025 02:54 PM\n\n---\n\nWASHINGTON (AP) — Michael Soroka came off the injured list and, for five innings, resembled the phenom who was an All-Star at age 21.\n\nThen it all fell apart in the sixth.\n\nMaking his second start for the Washington Nationals and first since he strained his right biceps on March 31, Soroka cruised through five frames against the Cleveland Guardians on Wednesday, striking out eight as the Nationals built a 3-0 lead.\n\nHis third time through the Guardians' batting order wasn't so smooth. Soroka loaded the bases in the sixth with nobody out and then fell behind to Carlos Santana, who lined a 2-1 slider to right field for a bases-clearing double. Santana came in to score against reliever Jorge Lopez, leaving Soroka with a line of four runs allowed in five innings. Cleveland ultimately scored eight runs in the sixth and won 8-6.\n\n\"The only pitch I really, really want back is that one to Santana,\" Soroka said. \"I just threw it about 6 inches too high and he's a good hitter. He made me pay.\"\n\nSoroka was reinstated from the 15-day IL before the game. He gave up an identical four runs in five innings during his Washington debut, a 5-2 loss to the Toronto Blue Jays.\n\nBefore the ugly end to Wednesday's outing, Soroka dominated the Guardians with a sharp slider and 96 mph fastball — the swing-and-miss stuff that led the Nationals to sign him to a $9 million, one-year deal in the offseason.\n\n\"As a whole, we got it in the zone early, let them know that I was throwing all pitches for strikes,\" Soroka said. \"That's ultimately where I'm at my best.\"\n\nAn All-Star with Atlanta during his first full season in 2019, the 27-year-old Soroka has been limited by injuries since. He tore his right Achilles tendon on a routine fielding play in 2020, then injured the same tendon while walking into Atlanta's ballpark the following year. He missed the 2021 and 2022 seasons.\n\n\"We've got to keep him healthy, right?\" manager Dave Martinez said. \"But I think he's going to give us a lot of innings, keep us in games just like he did today.\"\n\nSoroka hasn't won in the majors since 2023. Last year for the Chicago White Sox, he went 0-10 with a 4.74 ERA in 25 appearances, including nine starts.\n\nWashington optioned right-hander Eduardo Salazar to Triple-A Rochester to make room for Soroka. Salazar is 0-1 with a 9.77 ERA in 17 appearances this season.\n\n___\n\nAP MLB: https://apnews.com/hub/mlb"
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"value": "# Nationals' Michael Soroka cruises through 5 vs. Guardians, then falls apart in return from IL\n\nBy Ben Nuckols \nMay 7th, 2025 02:54 PM\n\n---\n\nWASHINGTON (AP) — Michael Soroka came off the injured list and, for five innings, resembled the phenom who was an All-Star at age 21.\n\nThen it all fell apart in the sixth.\n\nMaking his second start for the Washington Nationals and first since he strained his right biceps on March 31, Soroka cruised through five frames against the Cleveland Guardians on Wednesday, striking out eight as the Nationals built a 3-0 lead.\n\nHis third time through the Guardians' batting order wasn't so smooth. Soroka loaded the bases in the sixth with nobody out and then fell behind to Carlos Santana, who lined a 2-1 slider to right field for a bases-clearing double. Santana came in to score against reliever Jorge Lopez, leaving Soroka with a line of four runs allowed in five innings. Cleveland ultimately scored eight runs in the sixth and won 8-6.\n\n\"The only pitch I really, really want back is that one to Santana,\" Soroka said. \"I just threw it about 6 inches too high and he's a good hitter. He made me pay.\"\n\nSoroka was reinstated from the 15-day IL before the game. He gave up an identical four runs in five innings during his Washington debut, a 5-2 loss to the Toronto Blue Jays.\n\nBefore the ugly end to Wednesday's outing, Soroka dominated the Guardians with a sharp slider and 96 mph fastball — the swing-and-miss stuff that led the Nationals to sign him to a $9 million, one-year deal in the offseason.\n\n\"As a whole, we got it in the zone early, let them know that I was throwing all pitches for strikes,\" Soroka said. \"That's ultimately where I'm at my best.\"\n\nAn All-Star with Atlanta during his first full season in 2019, the 27-year-old Soroka has been limited by injuries since. He tore his right Achilles tendon on a routine fielding play in 2020, then injured the same tendon while walking into Atlanta's ballpark the following year. He missed the 2021 and 2022 seasons.\n\n\"We've got to keep him healthy, right?\" manager Dave Martinez said. \"But I think he's going to give us a lot of innings, keep us in games just like he did today.\"\n\nSoroka hasn't won in the majors since 2023. Last year for the Chicago White Sox, he went 0-10 with a 4.74 ERA in 25 appearances, including nine starts.\n\nWashington optioned right-hander Eduardo Salazar to Triple-A Rochester to make room for Soroka. Salazar is 0-1 with a 9.77 ERA in 17 appearances this season."
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"value": "# Gauff taking a lot of positives from her performance in Madrid despite loss to Sabalenka in final\n\nBy Tales Azzoni \nMay 4th, 2025 08:02 PM\n\n---\n\nMADRID (AP) — Coco Gauff got past the disappointment of losing the Madrid Open final to Aryna Sabalenka and was celebrating a solid week that will make her the top-ranked American woman on Monday.\n\nThe 21-year-old Gauff is set to reach No. 3 in the world, moving past countrywoman Jessica Pegula.\n\n\"Overall there's a lot of positives to take,\" Gauff said. \"Obviously disappointed with maybe how I played (in the final). I feel like I could have showed up better. But I went from an 0-6 set in the first round and made it to the final, so happy with that. Obviously hoping for more next time.\"\n\nGauff lost in straight sets — 6-3, 7-6 (3) — to the top-ranked Sabalenka on Saturday. She had started her campaign by rallying to a 0-6, 6-2, 7-5 victory over Dayana Yastremska, then picked up straight-set wins over Ann Li, Belinda Bencic, Mirra Andreeva and second-ranked Iga Swiatek in the semifinals. Gauff overpowered Swiatek in a commanding 6-1, 6-1 victory.\n\n\"Speaking on the week as a whole, on the ground I think today was like the only day where I felt really tested, and obviously in my first round, too,\" Gauff said after the final. \"So there's a lot of positives to take, and I think especially coming maybe from the last few weeks where I didn't feel as confident on the ground, I think it is a step in the right direction, and just trying to look at the positives of it all. I don't like losing, first final loss since the French Open, so it's a feeling that I know I don't like.\"\n\nIt was only the second loss in a WTA tour final for Gauff, with the other coming against Swiatek at the 2022 French Open.\n\n\"I hate losing a lot, and especially in finals, because it's like you're so close,\" Gauff said. \"But obviously if I can lose this and go a few more finals undefeated I'll take that. Each time it's a learning experience, and maybe I needed to feel this loss again to be motivated again, even more motivated for the next one.\"\n\nThe 2023 U.S. Open champion squandered a set point at 5-4 in the second set in the final against Sabalenka in Madrid. She lost 17 points in a row at one stage in the first set on the Caja Magica center court. Gauff had four more winners than Sabalenka, but also seven more unforced errors.\n\n\"My first serve has been such a weapon this week, so just wish I could have served better (in the final),\" Gauff said.\n\n___\n\nAP tennis: https://apnews.com/hub/tennis"
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"value": "# Gauff taking a lot of positives from her performance in Madrid despite loss to Sabalenka in final\n\nBy Tales Azzoni \nMay 4th, 2025 08:02 PM\n\n---\n\nMADRID (AP) — Coco Gauff got past the disappointment of losing the Madrid Open final to Aryna Sabalenka and was celebrating a solid week that will make her the top-ranked American woman on Monday.\n\nThe 21-year-old Gauff is set to reach No. 3 in the world, moving past countrywoman Jessica Pegula.\n\n\"Overall there's a lot of positives to take,\" Gauff said. \"Obviously disappointed with maybe how I played (in the final). I feel like I could have showed up better. But I went from an 0-6 set in the first round and made it to the final, so happy with that. Obviously hoping for more next time.\"\n\nGauff lost in straight sets — 6-3, 7-6 (3) — to the top-ranked Sabalenka on Saturday. She had started her campaign by rallying to a 0-6, 6-2, 7-5 victory over Dayana Yastremska, then picked up straight-set wins over Ann Li, Belinda Bencic, Mirra Andreeva and second-ranked Iga Swiatek in the semifinals. Gauff overpowered Swiatek in a commanding 6-1, 6-1 victory.\n\n\"Speaking on the week as a whole, on the ground I think today was like the only day where I felt really tested, and obviously in my first round, too,\" Gauff said after the final. \"So there's a lot of positives to take, and I think especially coming maybe from the last few weeks where I didn't feel as confident on the ground, I think it is a step in the right direction, and just trying to look at the positives of it all. I don't like losing, first final loss since the French Open, so it's a feeling that I know I don't like.\"\n\nIt was only the second loss in a WTA tour final for Gauff, with the other coming against Swiatek at the 2022 French Open.\n\n\"I hate losing a lot, and especially in finals, because it's like you're so close,\" Gauff said. \"But obviously if I can lose this and go a few more finals undefeated I'll take that. Each time it's a learning experience, and maybe I needed to feel this loss again to be motivated again, even more motivated for the next one.\"\n\nThe 2023 U.S. Open champion squandered a set point at 5-4 in the second set in the final against Sabalenka in Madrid. She lost 17 points in a row at one stage in the first set on the Caja Magica center court. Gauff had four more winners than Sabalenka, but also seven more unforced errors.\n\n\"My first serve has been such a weapon this week, so just wish I could have served better (in the final),\" Gauff said."
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"value": "# Pope Leo XIV was known as Padre Prevost in Chiclayo, Peru\n\nBy Regina Garcia Cano and Franklin Briceño \nMay 9th, 2025 07:36 PM\n\n---\n\nCHICLAYO, Peru (AP) — The people of northern Peru call him el obispo. Sometimes he is also Padre Prevost. Maybe when the shock wears off, they will get used to his new title, Pope Leo XIV.\n\nWaiters, taxi drivers, teachers and others — faithful or otherwise — saw the Rev. Robert Prevost around their communities for 20 years, eating ceviche, singing Christmas songs and partaking in everyday activities. But he also walked through flooded streets to reach the needy and drove to remote villages to hand out blankets. Many sat a few feet away from him while he delivered succinct sermons.\n\nThey can all now say they know the pope.\n\n\"He's a very simple man,\" said Alejandro Bazalar, whose feet Leo washed during a Holy Week ceremony in the city of Chiclayo, where Leo lived for nine years. \"We Chiclayanos never imagined that God's representative on Earth would live among us.\"\n\nChiclayo, with more than 800,000 people, plays a vital role as the main commercial hub of Peru's northern Pacific coast, with highways linking it to the Andes mountains and Amazon region. The two-story homes near its main square are painted in shades of cream or white and the narrow streets are jammed at midday. Low-income neighborhoods rise a few miles away.\n\nLeo, 69 and born in the United States, arrived in the city in 2014, serving as administrator and then bishop until his predecessor, Pope Francis, summoned him to Rome in 2023. After he was introduced to the world as Leo XIV, he introduced Chiclayo to the world.\n\n\"Greetings ... to all of you, and in particular, to my beloved diocese of Chiclayo in Peru, where a faithful people have accompanied their bishop, shared their faith,\" he said Thursday in Spanish, standing on the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica for his first speech as the leader of the Catholic church.\n\nRicardo Ulloque on Friday remembered Leo singing into a microphone \"I wanna wish you a merry Christmas\" – the verse in José Feliciano's bilingual song \"Feliz Navidad\" – accompanied by a small band during a youth gathering in 2017.\n\nWaiter Alonso Alarcón recalled the time Leo visited a restaurant and ate ceviche, Peru's staple dish of lemon-marinated fish. And cab driver Hugo Pérez said he saw the pope several times driving around Chiclayo, 9 miles (14 kilometers) from the coast.\n\nThe Rev. Jorge Millán, a priest who lived with Leo and other brothers in Chiclayo, said the new pope had a \"mathematical mindset, he was orderly and punctual.\" He washed his own dishes, he said, and liked to fix cars, searching YouTube for solutions when he was stumped.\n\nThe front pages of Friday's newspapers in Peru showed the newly elected pope. In the capital, Lima, street vendors were already selling T-shirts with photos and memes of Leo, including one that read \"the pope is Peruvian.\"\n\nLeo's time in Chiclayo was the third period he lived in Peru. Ordained in 1982, he was sent to work in a mission in the northern part of the country, near the border with Ecuador, between 1985 and 1986. He returned in 1988 and remained in the region until he returned to the U.S. in 1999.\n\nThe Chicago native became a Peruvian citizen in 2015. He would often tell Peruvians that he had \"come from Chicago to Chiclayo; the only difference is a few letters.\"\n\nPeruvian President Dina Boluarte on Thursday said Leo's election was a \"historic moment\" for Peru and the U.S.\n\n\"He chose to be one of us, to live among us, and to carry in his heart the faith, culture, and dreams of this nation,\" she said in a video message in which she also recalled that Leo chose to become a Peruvian citizen \"as an expression of his profound love for Peru.\"\n\nOnce or twice a month, Millán said, Prevost played tennis at the Jockey Club in Chiclayo, and when Peru qualified for the 2018 World Cup in Russia, he cheered on his adopted country's victory from a couch with other priests.\n\nIn the city of Chulucanas, about 270 kilometers north of Chiclayo, Mildred Camacho, 28, remembers Leo in a more personal way — he is her godfather, she said.\n\nWhen he left for Rome, Camacho said, the two kept in touch, and he even sent her a photo showing him working with then-Pope Francis.\n\n\"When I saw he was elected,\" she said, \"I ran to my father shouting, 'Daddy, my godfather has become the pope!'\"\n\n___\n\nGarcia Cano reported from Mexico City."
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"value": "# Pope Leo XIV was known as Padre Prevost in Chiclayo, Peru\n\nBy Regina Garcia Cano and Franklin Briceño \nMay 9th, 2025 07:36 PM\n\n---\n\nCHICLAYO, Peru (AP) — The people of northern Peru call him el obispo. Sometimes he is also Padre Prevost. Maybe when the shock wears off, they will get used to his new title, Pope Leo XIV.\n\nWaiters, taxi drivers, teachers and others — faithful or otherwise — saw the Rev. Robert Prevost around their communities for 20 years, eating ceviche, singing Christmas songs and partaking in everyday activities. But he also walked through flooded streets to reach the needy and drove to remote villages to hand out blankets. Many sat a few feet away from him while he delivered succinct sermons.\n\nThey can all now say they know the pope.\n\n\"He's a very simple man,\" said Alejandro Bazalar, whose feet Leo washed during a Holy Week ceremony in the city of Chiclayo, where Leo lived for nine years. \"We Chiclayanos never imagined that God's representative on Earth would live among us.\"\n\nChiclayo, with more than 800,000 people, plays a vital role as the main commercial hub of Peru's northern Pacific coast, with highways linking it to the Andes mountains and Amazon region. The two-story homes near its main square are painted in shades of cream or white and the narrow streets are jammed at midday. Low-income neighborhoods rise a few miles away.\n\nLeo, 69 and born in the United States, arrived in the city in 2014, serving as administrator and then bishop until his predecessor, Pope Francis, summoned him to Rome in 2023. After he was introduced to the world as Leo XIV, he introduced Chiclayo to the world.\n\n\"Greetings ... to all of you, and in particular, to my beloved diocese of Chiclayo in Peru, where a faithful people have accompanied their bishop, shared their faith,\" he said Thursday in Spanish, standing on the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica for his first speech as the leader of the Catholic church.\n\nRicardo Ulloque on Friday remembered Leo singing into a microphone \"I wanna wish you a merry Christmas\" – the verse in José Feliciano's bilingual song \"Feliz Navidad\" – accompanied by a small band during a youth gathering in 2017.\n\nWaiter Alonso Alarcón recalled the time Leo visited a restaurant and ate ceviche, Peru's staple dish of lemon-marinated fish. And cab driver Hugo Pérez said he saw the pope several times driving around Chiclayo, 9 miles (14 kilometers) from the coast.\n\nThe Rev. Jorge Millán, a priest who lived with Leo and other brothers in Chiclayo, said the new pope had a \"mathematical mindset, he was orderly and punctual.\" He washed his own dishes, he said, and liked to fix cars, searching YouTube for solutions when he was stumped.\n\nThe front pages of Friday's newspapers in Peru showed the newly elected pope. In the capital, Lima, street vendors were already selling T-shirts with photos and memes of Leo, including one that read \"the pope is Peruvian.\"\n\nLeo's time in Chiclayo was the third period he lived in Peru. Ordained in 1982, he was sent to work in a mission in the northern part of the country, near the border with Ecuador, between 1985 and 1986. He returned in 1988 and remained in the region until he returned to the U.S. in 1999.\n\nThe Chicago native became a Peruvian citizen in 2015. He would often tell Peruvians that he had \"come from Chicago to Chiclayo; the only difference is a few letters.\"\n\nPeruvian President Dina Boluarte on Thursday said Leo's election was a \"historic moment\" for Peru and the U.S.\n\n\"He chose to be one of us, to live among us, and to carry in his heart the faith, culture, and dreams of this nation,\" she said in a video message in which she also recalled that Leo chose to become a Peruvian citizen \"as an expression of his profound love for Peru.\"\n\nOnce or twice a month, Millán said, Prevost played tennis at the Jockey Club in Chiclayo, and when Peru qualified for the 2018 World Cup in Russia, he cheered on his adopted country's victory from a couch with other priests.\n\nIn the city of Chulucanas, about 270 kilometers north of Chiclayo, Mildred Camacho, 28, remembers Leo in a more personal way — he is her godfather, she said.\n\nWhen he left for Rome, Camacho said, the two kept in touch, and he even sent her a photo showing him working with then-Pope Francis.\n\n\"When I saw he was elected,\" she said, \"I ran to my father shouting, 'Daddy, my godfather has become the pope!'\""
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"value": "# University of Alabama student from Iran faces deportation\n\nBy Safiyah Riddle \nMay 3rd, 2025 04:06 AM\n\n---\n\nTUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — Sama Ebrahimi Bajgani and her fiance, Alireza Doroudi, had just spent an evening celebrating the Persian new year at the University of Alabama when seven armed immigration officers came to their apartment before dawn and arrested Doroudi.\n\nIn a moment, the young couple's life was upended.\n\n\"I was living a normal life until that night. After that nothing is just normal,\" Bajgani said.\n\nDetails about Doroudi's detention spread through the small Iranian community in Tuscaloosa, where Bajgani and Doroudi are doctoral students. Other Iranian students say they have been informally advised by faculty to \"lay low\" and \"be invisible\" — instilling fear among a once vibrant cohort.\n\nDoroudi is among students across the U.S. who have been detained in recent weeks as part of President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown. Bajgani said the couple does not know why Doroudi — who has no criminal record or public political views — faces deportation, adding that Trump's recent visit to the school made her feel like the university was \"ignorant of our crisis.\"\n\nOne Iranian civil engineering student and close friend to Doroudi said he has lost over 10 pounds (4.5 kilograms) due to stress and depression in the six weeks since Doroudi was detained.\n\n\"It's like all of us are waiting for our turn. It could be every knock, every email could be deportation,\" said the student, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of concerns about losing his legal status.\n\nHe now avoids unnecessary trips outside. When he was in a car crash last month, he begged the other driver not to call the police, even though he wasn't at fault, because he didn't want to draw attention to himself.\n\n## 'I stayed with their permission'\n\nBajgani said Doroudi, 32, is an ambitious mechanical engineering student from Shiraz, Iran.\n\nHe entered the United States legally in January 2023 on a student visa. Bajgani said he often worked 60-hour weeks while still making time to run errands for loved ones.\n\n\"If someone like him doesn't get to the place he deserves, there is nothing called the American dream,\" she said.\n\nDoroudi's visa was revoked in June 2023, but the embassy didn't provide a reason and ignored his inquiries, Bajgani said. The university told him he could stay as long as he remained a student but that would not be allowed to reenter the U.S. if he left, she said.\n\nHe was operating under that guidance when immigration officers came to the couple's door in March.\n\nThe University of Alabama didn't comment on Doroudi's case, but said it offers resources to help immigrants on campus comply with federal law. It also offers guidance to students whose visas are revoked.\n\n\"Our international students are valued members of our campus community,\" university spokesperson Monica Watts said in a statement.\n\nDoroudi told Bajgani he spent three days in a county jail, sleeping on a tile floor and feeling panicked.\n\nHe is now in a Louisiana immigration detention facility over 300 miles (480 kilometers) from Tuscaloosa while he awaits a deportation hearing scheduled for next week. At least one other high-profile international student is there.\n\n\"I didn't deserve this. If they had just sent me a letter asking me to appear in court, I would've come, because I didn't do anything illegal. I stayed with their permission,\" Doroudi said in a letter he dictated to Bajgani over the phone to provide his perspective to others. \"What was the reason for throwing me in jail?\"\n\n## Trump's immigration crackdown\n\nMore than 1,000 international students across the U.S. have had their visas or legal status revoked since late March, according to an Associated Press review of university statements and correspondence with school officials. They included some who protested Israel's war in Gaza. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has since reversed those revocations, including those of four University of Alabama students.\n\n\"University staff closely monitors changes that could affect them and has communicated updates related to new protocols and procedures,\" Watts said.\n\nA Louisiana judge who denied Doroudi bond in mid-April said he didn't sufficiently prove that he wasn't a national security threat, Doroudi's lawyer, David Rozas said. Rozas said he was \"flabbergasted\" because the government hasn't presented evidence that Doroudi is a threat, though that is what the Department of Homeland Security has alleged.\n\n## A familiar sense of fear\n\nInternational students make up over 13% of the statewide University of Alabama graduate program, according to the school's website. Over 100 Iranian students attend the university, according to an estimate from the Iranian Student Association.\n\nEvery year, many gather for a picnic to celebrate Sizdah Bedar, the thirteenth day of the Persian new year, which begins with spring.\n\nThis year, the typically festive holiday \"felt like a funeral service,\" one Iranian doctoral student said. At one point, silence fell over the group as a police car passed.\n\n\"It's becoming too hard to be living here, to be yourself and thrive,\" said the student, who spoke on condition of anonymity because she fears retaliation.\n\nShe has criticized the Iranian regime since arriving in the United States over five years ago, so she suspects she is no longer safe in her home country. Now, she has those same doubts in Alabama.\n\n\"All of a sudden it feels like we're returning back to Iran again,\" she said.\n\n____\n\nRiddle is a corps member for The Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues."
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Bajgani said the couple does not know why Doroudi — who has no criminal record or public political views — faces deportation, adding that Trump's recent visit to the school made her feel like the university was \"ignorant of our crisis.\"\n\nOne Iranian civil engineering student and close friend to Doroudi said he has lost over 10 pounds (4.5 kilograms) due to stress and depression in the six weeks since Doroudi was detained.\n\n\"It's like all of us are waiting for our turn. It could be every knock, every email could be deportation,\" said the student, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of concerns about losing his legal status.\n\nHe now avoids unnecessary trips outside. When he was in a car crash last month, he begged the other driver not to call the police, even though he wasn't at fault, because he didn't want to draw attention to himself.\n\n## 'I stayed with their permission'\n\nBajgani said Doroudi, 32, is an ambitious mechanical engineering student from Shiraz, Iran.\n\nHe entered the United States legally in January 2023 on a student visa. Bajgani said he often worked 60-hour weeks while still making time to run errands for loved ones.\n\n\"If someone like him doesn't get to the place he deserves, there is nothing called the American dream,\" she said.\n\nDoroudi's visa was revoked in June 2023, but the embassy didn't provide a reason and ignored his inquiries, Bajgani said. The university told him he could stay as long as he remained a student but that would not be allowed to reenter the U.S. if he left, she said.\n\nHe was operating under that guidance when immigration officers came to the couple's door in March.\n\nThe University of Alabama didn't comment on Doroudi's case, but said it offers resources to help immigrants on campus comply with federal law. It also offers guidance to students whose visas are revoked.\n\n\"Our international students are valued members of our campus community,\" university spokesperson Monica Watts said in a statement.\n\nDoroudi told Bajgani he spent three days in a county jail, sleeping on a tile floor and feeling panicked.\n\nHe is now in a Louisiana immigration detention facility over 300 miles (480 kilometers) from Tuscaloosa while he awaits a deportation hearing scheduled for next week. At least one other high-profile international student is there.\n\n\"I didn't deserve this. If they had just sent me a letter asking me to appear in court, I would've come, because I didn't do anything illegal. I stayed with their permission,\" Doroudi said in a letter he dictated to Bajgani over the phone to provide his perspective to others. \"What was the reason for throwing me in jail?\"\n\n## Trump's immigration crackdown\n\nMore than 1,000 international students across the U.S. have had their visas or legal status revoked since late March, according to an Associated Press review of university statements and correspondence with school officials. They included some who protested Israel's war in Gaza. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has since reversed those revocations, including those of four University of Alabama students.\n\n\"University staff closely monitors changes that could affect them and has communicated updates related to new protocols and procedures,\" Watts said.\n\nA Louisiana judge who denied Doroudi bond in mid-April said he didn't sufficiently prove that he wasn't a national security threat, Doroudi's lawyer, David Rozas said. Rozas said he was \"flabbergasted\" because the government hasn't presented evidence that Doroudi is a threat, though that is what the Department of Homeland Security has alleged.\n\n## A familiar sense of fear\n\nInternational students make up over 13% of the statewide University of Alabama graduate program, according to the school's website. Over 100 Iranian students attend the university, according to an estimate from the Iranian Student Association.\n\nEvery year, many gather for a picnic to celebrate Sizdah Bedar, the thirteenth day of the Persian new year, which begins with spring.\n\nThis year, the typically festive holiday \"felt like a funeral service,\" one Iranian doctoral student said. At one point, silence fell over the group as a police car passed.\n\n\"It's becoming too hard to be living here, to be yourself and thrive,\" said the student, who spoke on condition of anonymity because she fears retaliation.\n\nShe has criticized the Iranian regime since arriving in the United States over five years ago, so she suspects she is no longer safe in her home country. Now, she has those same doubts in Alabama.\n\n\"All of a sudden it feels like we're returning back to Iran again,\" she said."
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"value": "# Pope Leo XIV celebrates first Mass as Francis' successor\n\nBy Nicole Winfield \nMay 9th, 2025 05:00 AM\n\n---\n\nVATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV said Friday that his election was both a cross to bear and a blessing as he celebrated his first Mass and details began to emerge of how votes swiftly coalesced to make him history's first American pope.\n\nFreed from their conclave, cardinals began describing the hours leading up to the final ballot Thursday afternoon that brought Leo past the two-thirds majority needed. Many marveled that the Chicago-born Augustinian missionary Robert Prevost reached the threshold so quickly, given the vast diversity of voters and the traditional taboo against a U.S. pope because of the secular power the country wields.\n\n\"It is a miracle of the Holy Spirit,\" said Cardinal Fernando Natalio Chomalí Garib, archbishop of Santiago, Chile. He noted that 133 men who barely knew one another from 70 countries came to an agreement in just over 24 hours. A miracle, he said, \"and also an example for all our countries where nobody comes to an agreement.\"\n\nLeo presided over his first Mass before those same cardinal electors Friday morning, speaking off-the-cuff in English in the Sistine Chapel. He acknowledged the great responsibility they had placed on him before delivering a brief but dense homily in Italian on the need to joyfully spread Christianity in a world that often mocks it.\n\n\"You have called me to carry that cross and to be blessed with that mission, and I know I can rely on each and every one of you to walk with me as we continue as a church, as a community, as friends of Jesus, as believers, to announce the good news, to announce the Gospel,\" he said.\n\nLeo on Saturday meets with cardinals formally. On Sunday, he is set to deliver his first noon blessing from the loggia of St. Peter's Basilica while his formal installation Mass was set for May 18.\n\n## The Americans share some details\n\nThere seemed to be mixed messages coming from a briefing with American cardinals who saw one of their own become the 267th pope. Before they arrived, the auditorium at the U.S. seminary up the hill from the Vatican blasted \"Born in the U.S.A.\" and \"American Pie.\"\n\nBut more conservative cardinals seemed to distance Leo from both his citizenship and the political polemics of the Trump administration back home. They pointed to the decades Prevost spent as a missionary in Peru and said, regardless, he has a new identity now.\n\n\"Where he comes from is sort of now a thing of the past,\" said New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan, who had been President Donald Trump's pick for pope. \"Robert Francis Prevost is no longer around. It's now Pope Leo.\"\n\nBut Cardinal Joseph Tobin, an old friend of Prevost's who repeatedly called him \"Bob,\" said he expected the pope would be true to himself. He said that was the advice conveyed to all the electors by the retired preacher of the papal household, Cardinal Raniero Cantalamessa, who delivered a meditation in the Sistine Chapel before they took their first vote.\n\nTobin revealed that he had warned Prevost of his real chances of winning in the days before the voting began. But Tobin recounted the moment when saw it had sunk in for Prevost himself: Tobin had just cast his ballot before Michelangelo's \"The Last Judgment'\" and was returning to his seat when he saw Prevost.\n\n\"And he had his head in his hands,\" Tobin said. \"And I was praying for him because I couldn't imagine what happens to a human being when you're facing something like that.\"\n\n\"And then when he accepted it, it was like he was made for it,\" Tobin said.\n\n## A papal Mass\n\nThe cardinals urged the public and faithful to give Leo time to get used to his new role before trying to understand what kind of pope he will be.\n\nBut some clues were already apparent. Two women delivered the readings of Scripture at the start of Leo's Mass, perhaps an indication of an intention to continue Francis' focus on expanding women's role in the church. As a cardinal, Leo put into practice one of Francis' most revolutionary reforms by having three women serve on the Vatican board that vets bishop nominations.\n\nSpeaking in near-perfect Italian, Leo lamented that the Christian faith in many parts of the world is \"considered absurd,\" mocked or opposed in the face of temptations such as money, success and power. He complained that in many places Jesus is misunderstood, \"reduced to a kind of charismatic leader or superman.\"\n\n\"This is true not only among nonbelievers but also among many baptized Christians, who thus end up living, at this level, in a state of practical atheism,\" he said. \"A lack of faith is often tragically accompanied by the loss of meaning in life, the neglect of mercy, appalling violations of human dignity, the crisis of the family and so many other wounds that afflict our society.\"\n\nThe cardinals applauded as the Mass concluded. Leo was seen wearing simple black shoes — eschewing, as Francis did, the red loafers of the papacy preferred by some traditionalist popes.\n\nIn another signal he might break with tradition, Leo spent his first night as pontiff in his residence in the Sant'Uffizio Palace, and not the Apostolic Palace where popes traditionally reside, Vatican News reported. Francis chose to live in an apartment in the Santa Maria guesthouse.\n\n## How did it happen? English helped\n\nCardinals revealed that they got to know Prevost during the preconclave discussions, not because he made some showstopping speech like Pope Francis did in 2013. Then, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio spoke about the need for the church to go to the \"existential peripheries\" to find wounded souls and was elected a short time later.\n\n\"It wasn't that he got up and made some overwhelmingly convincing speech that just wowed the body,\" said Cardinal Wilton Gregory, the retired archbishop of Washington, D.C.\n\nThis time, Prevost made an impression with his manner, in small groups. Although Italian had always been the primary language of past conclaves, this time English seemed to prevail, participants said.\n\nGerman Cardinal Reinhard Marx, a close adviser of Francis, said he took note of the man who would become pope — an American with deep experience in Latin America, strong linguistic and cultural fluency, and a history of leadership as superior of the Augustinians.\n\n\"That convinced me to say this could be a possibility,\" Marx told reporters Friday. \"I can tell you, I'm very happy.\"\n\nMarx also recalled meeting the future pope last year and being struck by his temperament.\n\n\"We had a very good conversation,\" he said. \"I realized he's a man who listens, takes arguments seriously, weighs them. You can't just place him into one camp — he really tries to build bridges. I liked that very much.\"\n\n___\n\nVanessa Gera and Pietro de Cristofaro contributed.\n\n___\n\nAssociated Press religion coverage receives support through the AP's collaboration with The Conversation US, with funding from Lilly Endowment Inc. The AP is solely responsible for this content."
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"value": "# Pope Leo XIV celebrates first Mass as Francis' successor\n\nBy Nicole Winfield \nMay 9th, 2025 05:00 AM\n\n---\n\nVATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV said Friday that his election was both a cross to bear and a blessing as he celebrated his first Mass and details began to emerge of how votes swiftly coalesced to make him history's first American pope.\n\nFreed from their conclave, cardinals began describing the hours leading up to the final ballot Thursday afternoon that brought Leo past the two-thirds majority needed. Many marveled that the Chicago-born Augustinian missionary Robert Prevost reached the threshold so quickly, given the vast diversity of voters and the traditional taboo against a U.S. pope because of the secular power the country wields.\n\n\"It is a miracle of the Holy Spirit,\" said Cardinal Fernando Natalio Chomalí Garib, archbishop of Santiago, Chile. He noted that 133 men who barely knew one another from 70 countries came to an agreement in just over 24 hours. A miracle, he said, \"and also an example for all our countries where nobody comes to an agreement.\"\n\nLeo presided over his first Mass before those same cardinal electors Friday morning, speaking off-the-cuff in English in the Sistine Chapel. He acknowledged the great responsibility they had placed on him before delivering a brief but dense homily in Italian on the need to joyfully spread Christianity in a world that often mocks it.\n\n\"You have called me to carry that cross and to be blessed with that mission, and I know I can rely on each and every one of you to walk with me as we continue as a church, as a community, as friends of Jesus, as believers, to announce the good news, to announce the Gospel,\" he said.\n\nLeo on Saturday meets with cardinals formally. On Sunday, he is set to deliver his first noon blessing from the loggia of St. Peter's Basilica while his formal installation Mass was set for May 18.\n\n## The Americans share some details\n\nThere seemed to be mixed messages coming from a briefing with American cardinals who saw one of their own become the 267th pope. Before they arrived, the auditorium at the U.S. seminary up the hill from the Vatican blasted \"Born in the U.S.A.\" and \"American Pie.\"\n\nBut more conservative cardinals seemed to distance Leo from both his citizenship and the political polemics of the Trump administration back home. They pointed to the decades Prevost spent as a missionary in Peru and said, regardless, he has a new identity now.\n\n\"Where he comes from is sort of now a thing of the past,\" said New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan, who had been President Donald Trump's pick for pope. \"Robert Francis Prevost is no longer around. It's now Pope Leo.\"\n\nBut Cardinal Joseph Tobin, an old friend of Prevost's who repeatedly called him \"Bob,\" said he expected the pope would be true to himself. He said that was the advice conveyed to all the electors by the retired preacher of the papal household, Cardinal Raniero Cantalamessa, who delivered a meditation in the Sistine Chapel before they took their first vote.\n\nTobin revealed that he had warned Prevost of his real chances of winning in the days before the voting began. But Tobin recounted the moment when saw it had sunk in for Prevost himself: Tobin had just cast his ballot before Michelangelo's \"The Last Judgment'\" and was returning to his seat when he saw Prevost.\n\n\"And he had his head in his hands,\" Tobin said. \"And I was praying for him because I couldn't imagine what happens to a human being when you're facing something like that.\"\n\n\"And then when he accepted it, it was like he was made for it,\" Tobin said.\n\n## A papal Mass\n\nThe cardinals urged the public and faithful to give Leo time to get used to his new role before trying to understand what kind of pope he will be.\n\nBut some clues were already apparent. Two women delivered the readings of Scripture at the start of Leo's Mass, perhaps an indication of an intention to continue Francis' focus on expanding women's role in the church. As a cardinal, Leo put into practice one of Francis' most revolutionary reforms by having three women serve on the Vatican board that vets bishop nominations.\n\nSpeaking in near-perfect Italian, Leo lamented that the Christian faith in many parts of the world is \"considered absurd,\" mocked or opposed in the face of temptations such as money, success and power. He complained that in many places Jesus is misunderstood, \"reduced to a kind of charismatic leader or superman.\"\n\n\"This is true not only among nonbelievers but also among many baptized Christians, who thus end up living, at this level, in a state of practical atheism,\" he said. \"A lack of faith is often tragically accompanied by the loss of meaning in life, the neglect of mercy, appalling violations of human dignity, the crisis of the family and so many other wounds that afflict our society.\"\n\nThe cardinals applauded as the Mass concluded. Leo was seen wearing simple black shoes — eschewing, as Francis did, the red loafers of the papacy preferred by some traditionalist popes.\n\nIn another signal he might break with tradition, Leo spent his first night as pontiff in his residence in the Sant'Uffizio Palace, and not the Apostolic Palace where popes traditionally reside, Vatican News reported. Francis chose to live in an apartment in the Santa Maria guesthouse.\n\n## How did it happen? English helped\n\nCardinals revealed that they got to know Prevost during the preconclave discussions, not because he made some showstopping speech like Pope Francis did in 2013. Then, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio spoke about the need for the church to go to the \"existential peripheries\" to find wounded souls and was elected a short time later.\n\n\"It wasn't that he got up and made some overwhelmingly convincing speech that just wowed the body,\" said Cardinal Wilton Gregory, the retired archbishop of Washington, D.C.\n\nThis time, Prevost made an impression with his manner, in small groups. Although Italian had always been the primary language of past conclaves, this time English seemed to prevail, participants said.\n\nGerman Cardinal Reinhard Marx, a close adviser of Francis, said he took note of the man who would become pope — an American with deep experience in Latin America, strong linguistic and cultural fluency, and a history of leadership as superior of the Augustinians.\n\n\"That convinced me to say this could be a possibility,\" Marx told reporters Friday. \"I can tell you, I'm very happy.\"\n\nMarx also recalled meeting the future pope last year and being struck by his temperament.\n\n\"We had a very good conversation,\" he said. \"I realized he's a man who listens, takes arguments seriously, weighs them. You can't just place him into one camp — he really tries to build bridges. I liked that very much.\""
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"value": "# Lord earns 1st MLB win as Nationals beat Phillies 4-2 to prevent sweep\n\nMay 2nd, 2025 01:48 AM\n\n---\n\nPHILADELPHIA (AP) — Luis Garcia Jr. singled, doubled and drove in a run, Brad Lord pitched effectively into the sixth inning for his first major league win and the Washington Nationals avoided a three-game sweep with a 4-2 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies on Thursday night.\n\nNathaniel Lowe also drove in a run for Washington, which had lost three in a row overall.\n\nLord (1-3) allowed two runs and six hits in five-plus innings. The rookie right-hander struck out four and walked one.\n\nJose A. Ferrer fanned three in two scoreless innings of relief, and Kyle Finnegan got three outs for his 10th save.\n\nTrea Turner had three hits for Philadelphia, which had won four straight.\n\nAlec Bohm's RBI single in the fifth put the Phillies in front 1-0 before the Nationals scored all their runs in the sixth off Taijuan Walker (1-3) with some help from the Phillies.\n\nLowe's RBI single tied it at 1, and the Nationals went in front when Bryce Harper couldn't field Keibert Ruiz's hard-hit grounder at first base. Lowe scored on the error, and Ruiz reached third. Garcia's single plated Ruiz, and the Nationals tallied their final run on a double steal, with Garcia scoring from third and Dylan Crews going from first to second.\n\n## Key moment\n\nWalker cruised through five scoreless innings, allowing one hit, before an adventurous sixth. After a leadoff double by CJ Abrams, James Wood hit a hard liner off Walker's leg. Walker stayed in the game but wasn't as effective from that point forward. He didn't make it through the inning, though only one of the four runs the Nationals scored against him was earned.\n\n## Key stat\n\nPhiladelphia slugger Kyle Schwarber has reached base safely in 37 consecutive games after extending his streak with an eighth-inning walk.\n\n## Up next\n\nNationals: Open a three-game series at Cincinnati on Friday night. Washington LHP Mitchell Parker (3-1, 2.65 ERA) opposes Reds RHP Hunter Greene (3-2, 2.70).\n\nPhillies: Begin a three-game series against Arizona on Friday night. Philadelphia LHP Jesús Luzardo (3-0, 1.73 ERA) faces Diamondbacks RHP Merrill Kelly (3-1, 4.41)."
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"value": "# X gives in to Turkey's request, restricts jailed mayor's account\n\nBy Suzan Fraser \nMay 8th, 2025 07:39 AM\n\n---\n\nANKARA, Turkey (AP) — The social media platform X said Thursday it has blocked access to jailed Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu 's account in Turkey, complying with a Turkish court order — the latest measure targeting a key rival of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.\n\nHowever, Elon Musk's X said that while the company abided by the order, it disagrees with it and is legally challenging it. It said X complied to avoid severe punishments, such as the throttling of the whole platform in Turkey.\n\n\"X has been and will continue to object to removal orders including government requests in courts to protect users when those requests do not align with principles of free expression, due process, or other local laws,\" the company said on its Global Government Affairs account.\n\nThe statement said X maintains that \"keeping the platform accessible in (Turkey) is vital to supporting freedom of expression and access to information.\"\n\nImamoglu, seen as the main opposition challenger to Erdogan's 22-year rule, was arrested on March 19 and jailed on corruption charges. He was nominated as his Republican People's Party, or CHP's presidential candidate while in custody.\n\nHis arrest has been widely viewed as politically motivated although the government insists Turkey's judiciary is independent and free of political influence. It triggered widespread demonstrations calling for his release and an end to Turkey's democratic backsliding under Erdogan.\n\nAccording to Engelli Web, a website that that tracks and reports internet censorship in Turkey, X restricted Imamoglu's account in Turkey complying with a legal request by Turkish authorities who cited national security and public order concerns.\n\nA notice that appears on Imamoglu's account, which has 9.7 million followers, says it has been \"withheld in TR in response to a legal demand.\" The account remains accessible outside of Turkey.\n\nGonenc Gurkaynak, a lawyer representing X in Turkey, said he had filed an appeal on behalf of the platform against the decision blocking the account. He said he had submitted a 27-page petition and hundreds of pages of supporting documents to the court.\n\nThe Turkish presidency's Center for Countering Disinformation said the court decision followed an investigation into a post by Imamoglu on X, which prosecutors assessed to be an incitement to commit a crime.\n\nAuthorities also ruled that because Imamoglu is currently detained, his account is not directly managed by him and therefore poses a threat to public order.\n\nOn Thursday, CHP's leader Ozgur Ozel welcomed X's decision to challenge the court order but said the platform should have resisted complying with it.\n\n\"X should not impose this restriction, which contradicts universal freedoms and the company's own principles,\" he said and urged Imamoglu's supporters to follow the mayor's international account and re-share his posts.\n\nOzel also criticized Erdogan's administration saying that \"there probably is no other government that uses its judicial power so unfairly against its opponent.\"\n\nDespite his detention, Imamoglu had remained active on social media.\n\nSupporters criticized the restriction as an assault on free speech in Turkey. They showed solidarity with the mayor by replacing their profile pictures with Imamoglu's image."
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"value": "# X gives in to Turkey's request, restricts jailed mayor's account\n\nBy Suzan Fraser \nMay 8th, 2025 07:39 AM\n\n---\n\nANKARA, Turkey (AP) — The social media platform X said Thursday it has blocked access to jailed Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu 's account in Turkey, complying with a Turkish court order — the latest measure targeting a key rival of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.\n\nHowever, Elon Musk's X said that while the company abided by the order, it disagrees with it and is legally challenging it. It said X complied to avoid severe punishments, such as the throttling of the whole platform in Turkey.\n\n\"X has been and will continue to object to removal orders including government requests in courts to protect users when those requests do not align with principles of free expression, due process, or other local laws,\" the company said on its Global Government Affairs account.\n\nThe statement said X maintains that \"keeping the platform accessible in (Turkey) is vital to supporting freedom of expression and access to information.\"\n\nImamoglu, seen as the main opposition challenger to Erdogan's 22-year rule, was arrested on March 19 and jailed on corruption charges. He was nominated as his Republican People's Party, or CHP's presidential candidate while in custody.\n\nHis arrest has been widely viewed as politically motivated although the government insists Turkey's judiciary is independent and free of political influence. It triggered widespread demonstrations calling for his release and an end to Turkey's democratic backsliding under Erdogan.\n\nAccording to Engelli Web, a website that that tracks and reports internet censorship in Turkey, X restricted Imamoglu's account in Turkey complying with a legal request by Turkish authorities who cited national security and public order concerns.\n\nA notice that appears on Imamoglu's account, which has 9.7 million followers, says it has been \"withheld in TR in response to a legal demand.\" The account remains accessible outside of Turkey.\n\nGonenc Gurkaynak, a lawyer representing X in Turkey, said he had filed an appeal on behalf of the platform against the decision blocking the account. He said he had submitted a 27-page petition and hundreds of pages of supporting documents to the court.\n\nThe Turkish presidency's Center for Countering Disinformation said the court decision followed an investigation into a post by Imamoglu on X, which prosecutors assessed to be an incitement to commit a crime.\n\nAuthorities also ruled that because Imamoglu is currently detained, his account is not directly managed by him and therefore poses a threat to public order.\n\nOn Thursday, CHP's leader Ozgur Ozel welcomed X's decision to challenge the court order but said the platform should have resisted complying with it.\n\n\"X should not impose this restriction, which contradicts universal freedoms and the company's own principles,\" he said and urged Imamoglu's supporters to follow the mayor's international account and re-share his posts.\n\nOzel also criticized Erdogan's administration saying that \"there probably is no other government that uses its judicial power so unfairly against its opponent.\"\n\nDespite his detention, Imamoglu had remained active on social media.\n\nSupporters criticized the restriction as an assault on free speech in Turkey. They showed solidarity with the mayor by replacing their profile pictures with Imamoglu's image."
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"value": "# Marner scores tiebreaking goal as Maple Leafs beat Panthers 4-3 for 2-0 series lead\n\nMay 8th, 2025 02:27 AM\n\n---\n\nTORONTO (AP) — Mitch Marner has experienced a whirlwind stretch — both at home and the rink. Joseph Woll waited patiently and prepared for a chance he wasn't sure he'd get.\n\nThey both came through for the Toronto Maple Leafs in Game 2 of their second-round playoff series.\n\nMarner scored the tiebreaking goal in the third period and Woll made 25 saves in place of the injured Anthony Stolarz as the Maple Leafs beat the Florida Panthers 4-3 on Wednesday night to take a 2-0 series lead.\n\n\"A really exciting time in my house,\" said Marner, who became a father for the first time during the weekend. \"(And) pretty special feeling tonight.\"\n\nWoll was pressed into service after Stolarz exited midway through Monday's opener — a 5-4 Toronto victory — following an elbow to the head from Panthers center Sam Bennett, Woll started for the first time since April 17.\n\n\"It's been something I've had to focus on and come up with a plan to stay ready,\" Woll said. \"It's a different challenge than playing every night, but a challenge nonetheless.\"\n\nWoll, who entered with a .950 save percentage in his four previous playoff starts, also performed well when called upon in both the 2023 and 2024 postseasons because of injury.\n\n\"Calm and cool,\" Maple Leafs coach Craig Berube said. \"On his toes and fighting through traffic. Very impressed.\"\n\nMax Pacioretty and Max Domi each had a goal and an assist, William Nylander also scored and Morgan Rielly added two assists for the Maple Leafs.\n\nAnton Lundell had a goal and an assist, and Aleksander Barkov and Brad Marchand also scored for the defending Stanley Cup champion Panthers. Sergei Bobrovsky finished with 16 saves.\n\n\"Lots of stuff that we like about our game that we think we can improve,\" Panthers coach Paul Maurice said. \"We'll take a look at it and get better.\"\n\nThe best-of-seven matchup between Atlantic Division heavyweights now shifts to South Florida, with Game 3 set for Friday.\n\nTrailing 3-2 after two periods, Florida tied it got even at 5:33 of the third when Lundell shoveled his third goal of the playoffs past Woll.\n\nToronto regained the lead just 17 seconds later when Marner fired a shot from the boards that found its way through traffic past a surprised Bobrovsky.\n\nMarner, who turned 28 on Monday, has added an \"M\" to his equipment since he and wife Stephanie welcomed their son Miles on Sunday morning.\n\n\"Just calmness,\" he said of what looking down and seeing that initial does for him. \"I try to stay calm as much as I can throughout games. It's always a roller-coaster ride. There's always stuff going on, stuff you can't predict happening. I'm trying to play for him.\"\n\nWoll made a huge stop on Mackie Samoskevich with 9:59 left in regulation, and Maple Leafs defenseman Jake McCabe swatted a loose puck out of the crease with under six minutes to go. The Panthers continued to press and Sam Reinhart hit the post with just over three minutes left before the Maple Leafs held on late.\n\nFlorida, which beat Toronto in five games two years ago at the same stage of the playoffs, went ahead 2-1 just 15 seconds into the middle period when Marchand — a Maple Leafs playoff nemesis as a member of the Boston Bruins — took a pass from Lundell down low off a turnover by Rielly and roofed his first of the playoffs.\n\nToronto tied it at 4:18 when Pacioretty chipped a puck past Panthers defenseman Seth Jones before finding Nylander in front for him to bury his sixth, and the forward's seventh point in three games.\n\n\"They're very good on the rush,\" Marchand said. \"It seemed like every time we gave them the opportunity to get above us, they created something or capitalized on it.\"\n\nThe Maple Leafs took a 3-2 lead with 2:51 remaining in the second when Domi took a pass from Steven Lorentz on a 2-on-1 and one-timed his second over a sprawling Bobrovsky.\n\nToronto got nothing from two power plays inside the game's first 10 minutes before Florida struck 5 seconds into its first man advantage when Barkov fired past Woll for his second at 10:58.\n\nThe Maple Leafs got their third power play of the period when Dmitry Kulikov was whistled for delay of game for shooting the puck out of play. Toronto again didn't get much going until the second unit took the ice and Rielly fired a shot from the point late in the man advantage that Pacioretty — a healthy scratch to start the postseason before scoring the series-clinching goal against Ottawa in the first round — tipped it upstairs for his second with 1:41 left before the first intermission.\n\nThe Panthers had defenseman Aaron Ekblad back following a two-game suspension for a forearm to the chin of Tampa Bay Lightning forward Brandon Hagel in the first round.\n\n___\n\nAP NHL playoffs: https://apnews.com/hub/stanley-cup and https://apnews.com/hub/nhl"
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"value": "# Europe launches a drive to attract scientists and researchers after Trump freezes US funding\n\nBy Catherine Gaschka and Lorne Cook \nMay 5th, 2025 11:17 AM\n\n---\n\nPARIS (AP) — The European Union launched a drive on Monday to attract scientists and researchers to Europe with offers of grants and new policy plans, after the Trump administration froze U.S. government funding linked to diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.\n\n\"A few years ago, no one would have imagined that one of the biggest democracies in the world would cancel research programs under the pretext that the word diversity was in this program,\" French President Emmanuel Macron said at the \"Choose Europe for Science\" event in Paris.\n\n\"No one would have thought that one of the biggest democracies in the world would delete with a stroke the ability of one researcher or another to obtain visas,\" Macron said. \"But here we are.\"\n\nTaking the same stage at the Sorbonne University, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said that the EU's executive branch would set up a \"super grant\" program aimed at offering \"a longer-term perspective to the very best\" in the field.\n\nShe said that 500 million euros ($566 million) will be put forward in 2025-2027 \"to make Europe a magnet for researchers.\" It would be injected into the European Research Council, which already has a budget of more than 16 billion euros ($18 billion) for 2021-2027.\n\nVon der Leyen said that the 27-nation EU intends \"to enshrine freedom of scientific research into law\" with a new legal act. As \"the threats rise across the world, Europe will not compromise on its principles,\" she said.\n\nThe White House responded by describing DEI as \"an inherently discriminatory policy.\"\n\n\"If the European Union wants to embrace policies that divide, rather than focus on real scientific discovery, they should not be surprised when U.S. innovation continues to outpace Europe,\" said spokesperson Anna Kelly. \"America will continue to attract and cultivate the best talent in science, research, and beyond.\"\n\nMacron said that the French government would also soon make new proposals to beef up investment in science and research.\n\nLast month, hundreds of university researchers in the United States had National Science Foundation funding canceled to comply with U.S. President Donald Trump's order to end support to research on diversity, equity and inclusion, as well as the study of misinformation.\n\nMore than 380 grant projects have been cut so far, including work to combat internet censorship in China and Iran and a project consulting with Indigenous communities to understand environmental changes in Alaska's Arctic region.\n\nSome terminated grants that sought to broaden the diversity of people studying science, technology and engineering. Scientists, researchers and doctors have taken to the streets in protest.\n\nWhile not mentioning the Trump administration by name, von der Leyen said that it was \"a gigantic miscalculation\" to undermine free and open research.\n\n\"We can all agree that science has no passport, no gender, no ethnicity, no political party,\" she said. \"We believe that diversity is an asset of humanity and the lifeblood of science. It is one of the most valuable global assets and it must be protected.\"\n\nVon der Leyen's drive to promote opportunities in Europe in the field of science and take advantage of U.S. policy shifts dovetails with the way that she has played up the potential for trade deals with other countries since Trump took office in January and sparked a tariff war last month.\n\nThe former German defense minister, and trained doctor, vowed that the EU would also address some of the roadblocks that scientists and researchers face, notably excessive red tape and access to businesses.\n\nMacron said that science and research must not \"be based on the diktats of the few.\"\n\nMacron said that Europe \"must become a refuge\" for scientists and researchers, and he said to those who feel under threat elsewhere: \"The message is simple. If you like freedom, come and help us to remain free, to do research here, to help us become better, to invest in our future.\"\n\n___\n\nLorne Cook reported from Brussels. Associated Press writer Chris Megerian contributed from Washington."
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"value": "# Europe launches a drive to attract scientists and researchers after Trump freezes US funding\n\nBy Catherine Gaschka and Lorne Cook \nMay 5th, 2025 11:17 AM\n\n---\n\nPARIS (AP) — The European Union launched a drive on Monday to attract scientists and researchers to Europe with offers of grants and new policy plans, after the Trump administration froze U.S. government funding linked to diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.\n\n\"A few years ago, no one would have imagined that one of the biggest democracies in the world would cancel research programs under the pretext that the word diversity was in this program,\" French President Emmanuel Macron said at the \"Choose Europe for Science\" event in Paris.\n\n\"No one would have thought that one of the biggest democracies in the world would delete with a stroke the ability of one researcher or another to obtain visas,\" Macron said. \"But here we are.\"\n\nTaking the same stage at the Sorbonne University, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said that the EU's executive branch would set up a \"super grant\" program aimed at offering \"a longer-term perspective to the very best\" in the field.\n\nShe said that 500 million euros ($566 million) will be put forward in 2025-2027 \"to make Europe a magnet for researchers.\" It would be injected into the European Research Council, which already has a budget of more than 16 billion euros ($18 billion) for 2021-2027.\n\nVon der Leyen said that the 27-nation EU intends \"to enshrine freedom of scientific research into law\" with a new legal act. As \"the threats rise across the world, Europe will not compromise on its principles,\" she said.\n\nThe White House responded by describing DEI as \"an inherently discriminatory policy.\"\n\n\"If the European Union wants to embrace policies that divide, rather than focus on real scientific discovery, they should not be surprised when U.S. innovation continues to outpace Europe,\" said spokesperson Anna Kelly. \"America will continue to attract and cultivate the best talent in science, research, and beyond.\"\n\nMacron said that the French government would also soon make new proposals to beef up investment in science and research.\n\nLast month, hundreds of university researchers in the United States had National Science Foundation funding canceled to comply with U.S. President Donald Trump's order to end support to research on diversity, equity and inclusion, as well as the study of misinformation.\n\nMore than 380 grant projects have been cut so far, including work to combat internet censorship in China and Iran and a project consulting with Indigenous communities to understand environmental changes in Alaska's Arctic region.\n\nSome terminated grants that sought to broaden the diversity of people studying science, technology and engineering. Scientists, researchers and doctors have taken to the streets in protest.\n\nWhile not mentioning the Trump administration by name, von der Leyen said that it was \"a gigantic miscalculation\" to undermine free and open research.\n\n\"We can all agree that science has no passport, no gender, no ethnicity, no political party,\" she said. \"We believe that diversity is an asset of humanity and the lifeblood of science. It is one of the most valuable global assets and it must be protected.\"\n\nVon der Leyen's drive to promote opportunities in Europe in the field of science and take advantage of U.S. policy shifts dovetails with the way that she has played up the potential for trade deals with other countries since Trump took office in January and sparked a tariff war last month.\n\nThe former German defense minister, and trained doctor, vowed that the EU would also address some of the roadblocks that scientists and researchers face, notably excessive red tape and access to businesses.\n\nMacron said that science and research must not \"be based on the diktats of the few.\"\n\nMacron said that Europe \"must become a refuge\" for scientists and researchers, and he said to those who feel under threat elsewhere: \"The message is simple. If you like freedom, come and help us to remain free, to do research here, to help us become better, to invest in our future.\""
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"value": "# Bail for Wisconsin school shooter's father facing 3 felonies set at $20K\n\nBy Todd Richmond \nMay 9th, 2025 07:13 PM\n\n---\n\nMADISON, Wis. (AP) — The father of a 15-year-old girl who killed a fellow student and a teacher at a private school in Wisconsin had his bail set at $20,000 on Friday at his first court appearance on charges that he allowed her access to guns.\n\nProsecutors charged Jeffrey Rupnow, 42, on Thursday with two felony counts of intentionally giving a dangerous weapon to a minor causing death and one felony count of contributing to the delinquency of a child. Rupnow would face up to 18 years in prison if convicted on all counts.\n\nJeffrey Rupnow's daughter, Natalie Rupnow, opened fire at her school, Abundant Life Christian School, in Madison in December. She killed teacher Erin Michelle West and 14-year-old student Rubi Bergara and injured six others before she killed herself.\n\nJeffrey Rupnow's attorney, Bruce Davey, said in court that his client would not be able to post $20,000 in bail, saying \"he's not a wealthy man.\" Davey noted that he has no prior criminal history, cooperated with the investigation, has lived in the area his whole life and needs to work at his job to pay his bills and keep his house.\n\n\"There's no reason to hold him in jail,\" Davey said. Davey asked for him to be released on a signature bond, which requires the posting of no money.\n\nDane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne had asked for $100,000, noting the seriousness of the shooting and the pending charges. He mentioned that a victim from the shooting was in the courtroom. He did not name the victim. The proceedings were held in a jail courtroom and viewable only via a Zoom teleconference. The victim was not visible on camera.\n\n\"This is unprecedented and we do have two deceased,\" Ozanne said. \"We have multiple gunshot victims. It's the defendants actions, inactions, that contributed to this incident.\"\n\nCourt Commissioner Scott McAndrew said he did not want to set a cash bail so high that Rupnow could not pay it but wasn't comfortable with a signature bond given the seriousness of the offenses.\n\nHe ordered that if Rupnow posts $20,000 and is released, he will be fitted with a GPS monitoring device, not be allowed to have contact with anyone at Abundant Life Christian School, purchase or possess firearms or go to the block where the school is located. He said the cash amount could be reviewed later and set a status hearing for June 9.\n\nMcAndrew did not allow reporters into the courtroom, telling them through bailiffs that they could watch the proceeding on Zoom.\n\nAsked outside the courtroom after the proceeding had ended whether the cash bail was high enough, Ozanne said the commissioner made his decision and his office will move forward. He then stepped into an elevator and left.\n\nDavey told reporters he did not think the bail amount was fair. Rupnow has been free since the shooting and has not caused any problems, he said.\n\nRupnow's mother was also turned away at the courtroom door and had to listen to the Zoom teleconference by holding her cellphone next to her ear in the lobby. She declined to comment on the case.\n\nAccording to a criminal complaint, Jeffrey Rupnow told investigators his daughter was struggling to cope with her parents' divorce in 2022.\n\nHe bought the two handguns she brought into the school for her as a way to bond with her, he told investigators. He added that he told her the access code to the safe where he stored her guns in case she ever needed them, the complaint said. Rupnow also told investigators he wasn't sure whether he put one of the guns back in the safe after his daughter cleaned it the day before the school attack.\n\nInvestigators found writings in Natalie Rupnow's room saying she hated people who smoked marijuana and drank as much as they can like her father. She also wrote that her mother wasn't in her life, that she admired a number of school shooters and that she obtained her guns \"by lies, manipulation, and my fathers stupidity.\"\n\nJeffrey Rupnow sent a message to police in the days after the shooting saying the biggest mistake he made was teaching his daughter how to handle guns safely. He urged police to warn people to change their gun safe combinations every two to three months because \"kids are smart and they will figure it out.\"\n\nRupnow is the latest in a line of parents of school shooters who have been held criminally liable for their children's actions in recent years.\n\n___\n\nAssociated Press writer Scott Bauer contributed to this report."
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"value": "# Bail for Wisconsin school shooter's father facing 3 felonies set at $20K\n\nBy Todd Richmond \nMay 9th, 2025 07:13 PM\n\n---\n\nMADISON, Wis. (AP) — The father of a 15-year-old girl who killed a fellow student and a teacher at a private school in Wisconsin had his bail set at $20,000 on Friday at his first court appearance on charges that he allowed her access to guns.\n\nProsecutors charged Jeffrey Rupnow, 42, on Thursday with two felony counts of intentionally giving a dangerous weapon to a minor causing death and one felony count of contributing to the delinquency of a child. Rupnow would face up to 18 years in prison if convicted on all counts.\n\nJeffrey Rupnow's daughter, Natalie Rupnow, opened fire at her school, Abundant Life Christian School, in Madison in December. She killed teacher Erin Michelle West and 14-year-old student Rubi Bergara and injured six others before she killed herself.\n\nJeffrey Rupnow's attorney, Bruce Davey, said in court that his client would not be able to post $20,000 in bail, saying \"he's not a wealthy man.\" Davey noted that he has no prior criminal history, cooperated with the investigation, has lived in the area his whole life and needs to work at his job to pay his bills and keep his house.\n\n\"There's no reason to hold him in jail,\" Davey said. Davey asked for him to be released on a signature bond, which requires the posting of no money.\n\nDane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne had asked for $100,000, noting the seriousness of the shooting and the pending charges. He mentioned that a victim from the shooting was in the courtroom. He did not name the victim. The proceedings were held in a jail courtroom and viewable only via a Zoom teleconference. The victim was not visible on camera.\n\n\"This is unprecedented and we do have two deceased,\" Ozanne said. \"We have multiple gunshot victims. It's the defendants actions, inactions, that contributed to this incident.\"\n\nCourt Commissioner Scott McAndrew said he did not want to set a cash bail so high that Rupnow could not pay it but wasn't comfortable with a signature bond given the seriousness of the offenses.\n\nHe ordered that if Rupnow posts $20,000 and is released, he will be fitted with a GPS monitoring device, not be allowed to have contact with anyone at Abundant Life Christian School, purchase or possess firearms or go to the block where the school is located. He said the cash amount could be reviewed later and set a status hearing for June 9.\n\nMcAndrew did not allow reporters into the courtroom, telling them through bailiffs that they could watch the proceeding on Zoom.\n\nAsked outside the courtroom after the proceeding had ended whether the cash bail was high enough, Ozanne said the commissioner made his decision and his office will move forward. He then stepped into an elevator and left.\n\nDavey told reporters he did not think the bail amount was fair. Rupnow has been free since the shooting and has not caused any problems, he said.\n\nRupnow's mother was also turned away at the courtroom door and had to listen to the Zoom teleconference by holding her cellphone next to her ear in the lobby. She declined to comment on the case.\n\nAccording to a criminal complaint, Jeffrey Rupnow told investigators his daughter was struggling to cope with her parents' divorce in 2022.\n\nHe bought the two handguns she brought into the school for her as a way to bond with her, he told investigators. He added that he told her the access code to the safe where he stored her guns in case she ever needed them, the complaint said. Rupnow also told investigators he wasn't sure whether he put one of the guns back in the safe after his daughter cleaned it the day before the school attack.\n\nInvestigators found writings in Natalie Rupnow's room saying she hated people who smoked marijuana and drank as much as they can like her father. She also wrote that her mother wasn't in her life, that she admired a number of school shooters and that she obtained her guns \"by lies, manipulation, and my fathers stupidity.\"\n\nJeffrey Rupnow sent a message to police in the days after the shooting saying the biggest mistake he made was teaching his daughter how to handle guns safely. He urged police to warn people to change their gun safe combinations every two to three months because \"kids are smart and they will figure it out.\"\n\nRupnow is the latest in a line of parents of school shooters who have been held criminally liable for their children's actions in recent years."
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"value": "# Celtics in trouble down 2-0 against Knicks and say they 'have to win' Game 3 on Saturday\n\nBy Brian Mahoney \nMay 9th, 2025 07:59 PM\n\n---\n\nWhen the Boston Celtics left New York last month, they had just finished a season sweep of the Knicks that made it seem as if a postseason meeting would be a simple step on their climb back to the NBA Finals.\n\nNow it's looking like the one that could trip them up.\n\nIn more trouble than they faced at any time last year, the defending NBA champions take a 2-0 deficit into Game 3 on Saturday at Madison Square Garden, where ticket prices are soaring as fans hope to be in the building to see the Knicks try to close in on their first Eastern Conference finals appearance in 25 years.\n\n\"We have to go into Saturday's game and win the game,\" Celtics coach Joe Mazzulla said. \"That's just the way it is. We have to win.\"\n\nThe Golden State Warriors and Minnesota Timberwolves are tied 1-1 in the other series that resumes Saturday in San Francisco, and they have the prime-time spot on ABC's schedule.\n\nBut with Stephen Curry on the sidelines and the Celtics on the ropes, the afternoon appetizer has become the main event.\n\nBoston lost only three games all last postseason. Lose a third straight in this series, and the Celtics would need the biggest comeback in league history to continue their title defense. No NBA team has overcome a 3-0 deficit to win a series.\n\n\"The mentality is 0-0. Don't even focus on that,\" Knicks All-Star Jalen Brunson said. \"Just focus on the next play, next quarter and don't look ahead. Don't look at anything, just try to focus on the task at hand and be present.\"\n\nThe Celtics should probably be no worse than tied. They had 20-point leads in the second half of both games in Boston, but both ended with Mikal Bridges making a steal to preserve a Knicks victory.\n\nThere hasn't been the same drama in the West series. Minnesota raced to a 13-0 lead and never trailed in its 117-93 victory Thursday, after Golden State led comfortably most of the way in Game 1 even after Curry was lost to a hamstring injury.\n\n\"I think both teams are really committed to defense,\" Timberwolves coach Chris Finch said. \"We for sure have to take all of the easy baskets out of the game. I think we'll try to figure out a few other things that they're doing, as you do in a series as it goes along. Of course, defense is going to be huge.\"\n\nThe Celtics' problem has been their offense. They are 25 for 100 from 3-point range in the series and have averaged just 16.5 points in the fourth quarter. All-Star Jayson Tatum has missed 30 of his 42 shot attempts.\n\n\"I take full ownership on the way that I've played in this series and can't sugarcoat anything,\" Tatum said. \"I need to be better and I expect to be a lot better.\"\n\n## Boston Celtics at New York Knicks\n\nWhen/Where to Watch: Game 3, 3:30 p.m. EDT (ABC)\n\nSeries: Knicks lead, 2-0\n\nBetMGM says: Celtics by 5.5\n\nWhat to Know: The Knicks blew a 2-0 lead in this same round last year, when the Indiana Pacers came back to beat them in seven games. That is the most recent of the 28 times an NBA team has come back from a 2-0 deficit to win a seven-game series. Five of those came after the team lost the first two games at home, with the Celtics pulling off one of those comebacks in 2017 against Chicago. Boston went 33-8 on the road in the regular season.\n\n## Minnesota Timberwolves at Golden State Warriors\n\nWhen/Where to Watch: Game 3, 8:30 p.m. EDT (ABC)\n\nSeries: Tied, 1-1.\n\nBetMGM Sportsbook: Timberwolves by 5.5.\n\nWhat to Know: Draymond Green's temper is something to watch as the series shifts to San Francisco's Chase Center for the next two games, given the Golden State forward was hit with his fifth technical foul of these playoffs and is two shy of an automatic suspension. Minnesota missed its initial 16 3-point attempts in Game 1 and finished 5 of 29, but the Wolves bounced back to shoot 50.6% overall and 16 for 37 on 3s in Game 2. Warriors coach Steve Kerr's rotation went 14 deep as he tried various combinations to see who could fill the void with Curry out. Forward Jonathan Kuminga, whose role had diminished down the stretch and didn't play against Memphis in the play-in game or the regular-season finale, made his first eight shots and scored 18 points on 8-for-11 shooting in 26 minutes. He will surely be needed again along with Trayce Jackson-Davis after he made all six of his field goals and had 15 points and six rebounds.\n\n___\n\nAP Sports Writers Dave Campbell in Minneapolis and Janie McCauley in San Francisco contributed to this report."
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"value": "# Celtics in trouble down 2-0 against Knicks and say they 'have to win' Game 3 on Saturday\n\nBy Brian Mahoney \nMay 9th, 2025 07:59 PM\n\n---\n\nWhen the Boston Celtics left New York last month, they had just finished a season sweep of the Knicks that made it seem as if a postseason meeting would be a simple step on their climb back to the NBA Finals.\n\nNow it's looking like the one that could trip them up.\n\nIn more trouble than they faced at any time last year, the defending NBA champions take a 2-0 deficit into Game 3 on Saturday at Madison Square Garden, where ticket prices are soaring as fans hope to be in the building to see the Knicks try to close in on their first Eastern Conference finals appearance in 25 years.\n\n\"We have to go into Saturday's game and win the game,\" Celtics coach Joe Mazzulla said. \"That's just the way it is. We have to win.\"\n\nThe Golden State Warriors and Minnesota Timberwolves are tied 1-1 in the other series that resumes Saturday in San Francisco, and they have the prime-time spot on ABC's schedule.\n\nBut with Stephen Curry on the sidelines and the Celtics on the ropes, the afternoon appetizer has become the main event.\n\nBoston lost only three games all last postseason. Lose a third straight in this series, and the Celtics would need the biggest comeback in league history to continue their title defense. No NBA team has overcome a 3-0 deficit to win a series.\n\n\"The mentality is 0-0. Don't even focus on that,\" Knicks All-Star Jalen Brunson said. \"Just focus on the next play, next quarter and don't look ahead. Don't look at anything, just try to focus on the task at hand and be present.\"\n\nThe Celtics should probably be no worse than tied. They had 20-point leads in the second half of both games in Boston, but both ended with Mikal Bridges making a steal to preserve a Knicks victory.\n\nThere hasn't been the same drama in the West series. Minnesota raced to a 13-0 lead and never trailed in its 117-93 victory Thursday, after Golden State led comfortably most of the way in Game 1 even after Curry was lost to a hamstring injury.\n\n\"I think both teams are really committed to defense,\" Timberwolves coach Chris Finch said. \"We for sure have to take all of the easy baskets out of the game. I think we'll try to figure out a few other things that they're doing, as you do in a series as it goes along. Of course, defense is going to be huge.\"\n\nThe Celtics' problem has been their offense. They are 25 for 100 from 3-point range in the series and have averaged just 16.5 points in the fourth quarter. All-Star Jayson Tatum has missed 30 of his 42 shot attempts.\n\n\"I take full ownership on the way that I've played in this series and can't sugarcoat anything,\" Tatum said. \"I need to be better and I expect to be a lot better.\"\n\n## Boston Celtics at New York Knicks\n\nWhen/Where to Watch: Game 3, 3:30 p.m. EDT (ABC)\n\nSeries: Knicks lead, 2-0\n\nBetMGM says: Celtics by 5.5\n\nWhat to Know: The Knicks blew a 2-0 lead in this same round last year, when the Indiana Pacers came back to beat them in seven games. That is the most recent of the 28 times an NBA team has come back from a 2-0 deficit to win a seven-game series. Five of those came after the team lost the first two games at home, with the Celtics pulling off one of those comebacks in 2017 against Chicago. Boston went 33-8 on the road in the regular season.\n\n## Minnesota Timberwolves at Golden State Warriors\n\nWhen/Where to Watch: Game 3, 8:30 p.m. EDT (ABC)\n\nSeries: Tied, 1-1.\n\nBetMGM Sportsbook: Timberwolves by 5.5.\n\nWhat to Know: Draymond Green's temper is something to watch as the series shifts to San Francisco's Chase Center for the next two games, given the Golden State forward was hit with his fifth technical foul of these playoffs and is two shy of an automatic suspension. Minnesota missed its initial 16 3-point attempts in Game 1 and finished 5 of 29, but the Wolves bounced back to shoot 50.6% overall and 16 for 37 on 3s in Game 2. Warriors coach Steve Kerr's rotation went 14 deep as he tried various combinations to see who could fill the void with Curry out. Forward Jonathan Kuminga, whose role had diminished down the stretch and didn't play against Memphis in the play-in game or the regular-season finale, made his first eight shots and scored 18 points on 8-for-11 shooting in 26 minutes. He will surely be needed again along with Trayce Jackson-Davis after he made all six of his field goals and had 15 points and six rebounds."
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"value": "# GOP centrists decry deep cuts to Medicaid and other programs in Trump budget\n\nBy Lisa Mascaro and Kevin Freking \nMay 8th, 2025 11:30 AM\n\n---\n\nWASHINGTON (AP) — When it comes to Medicaid, Rep. Juan Ciscomani is telling fellow Republicans he won't support steep cuts that could hit thousands of residents in his Arizona district — \"my neighbors, people my kids go to school with\" — who depend on it.\n\nRepublican Rep. Don Bacon, who represents the liberal-leaning \"blue dot\" of Omaha, Nebraska, is trying to protect several Biden-era green energy tax breaks. He's warning colleagues that \"you can't pull the rug out from under\" businesses that have already sunk millions of dollars into renewable developments in Nebraska and beyond.\n\nAnd for Republican Rep. Nick LaLota of New York, it's simple: \"No Salt. No Deal. For Real.\" He wants to revive — and bump up — what's known as the SALT deduction, which allows taxpayers to write off a portion of their state and local taxes. Capping the deduction at $10,000 hurt many of his Long Island constituents.\n\n\"Governing is a negotiation, right?\" said Rep. Nicole Malliotakis of New York, another Republican who is also involved in the talks. \"I think everybody is going to have to give a little.\"\n\nAs GOP leaders draft President Donald Trump's \"big, beautiful bill\" of some $4.5 trillion in tax breaks and $1.5 trillion in spending cuts by Memorial Day, dozens of Republicans from contested congressional districts have positioned themselves at the center of the negotiating table.\n\nWhile it's often the most conservative members of the House Freedom Caucus driving the legislative agenda — and they are demanding as much as $2 trillion in cuts — it's the more centrist-leaning conservatives who could sink the bill. They have been hauled into meetings with Trump at the White House, some have journeyed to his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, and many are huddling almost daily with House Speaker Mike Johnson.\n\nAnd they are not satisfied, yet.\n\n\"To get everybody politically and policy-wise on the same page is going to require more conversations,\" said LaLota, who is among five Republicans pledging to withhold their support unless changes to the SALT deduction are included.\n\n## Republicans wrestle with what to put in — and what to leave out\n\nDiving into the gritty details of the massive package, the GOP leaders are running into the stubborn reality that not all the ideas from their menu of potential tax breaks and spending cuts are popular with voters back home.\n\nMoreover, their work of compiling the big package is not happening in a vacuum. It comes amid growing economic unease rippling across the country as Trump has fired thousands of federal workers, including some of their own constituents, and as his trade war sparks concerns of empty store shelves and higher prices.\n\nBrendan Buck, a former adviser to an earlier House speaker, Paul Ryan, warned in an op-ed Wednesday that all the party's energy is being poured into one bill, with questionable returns.\n\n\"Many Republicans are hoping that the tax bill can blunt the economic damage caused by the Trump tariffs,\" Buck wrote in The New York Times, \"but that is highly unlikely.\"\n\nDemocrats are ready for the fight, warning that Trump and his fellow Republicans are ripping away health care and driving the economy into the ditch — all to retain tax breaks approved during Trump's first term that are expiring at year's end.\n\n\"What we see from Donald Trump and the Republicans is they are actually crashing the economy in real time,\" said House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries of New York.\n\n\"Why,\" the Democratic leader asked, \"are Republicans jumping through hoops\" to try to reduce Medicaid and food stamps used by millions of Americans?\n\n\"It's all in service of enacting massive tax breaks for their millionaire donors like Elon Musk,\" he said.\n\n## GOP leaders search for consensus\n\nJohnson has projected a calm confidence, insisting that House Republicans are on track to deliver on Trump's agenda.\n\nThe speaker's office has become a waystation with a revolving door of Republicans privately laboring to piece together the massive package.\n\nSo far, GOP leaders have signaled they are walking away from some, but not all, of the steep Medicaid cuts. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has said the proposals could result in millions of people losing their coverage.\n\nInstead, what appears to still be on the table are tougher work requirements for those receiving Medicaid and food stamp assistance and more frequent eligibility tests for beneficiaries.\n\nThat's not enough for the conservatives, who also number in the dozens and are insisting on deeper reductions.\n\n## Centrists drawing red lines\n\nCiscomani, in his second term, signed onto a letter with Bacon and others warning House Republican leadership he cannot support a bill that includes \"any reduction in Medicaid coverage for vulnerable populations.\"\n\n\"Our point is that we understand the need for reform,\" Ciscomani said. \"But anything that goes beyond that and starts jeopardizing rural hospitals in my district and their existence overall, then we're running into an area where it will be very difficult to move forward. I think it's very important they know that.\"\n\nBacon, Ciscomani and others joined on a separate letter raising concerns about eliminating clean-energy tax credits, including those passed under President Joe Biden, a Democrat.\n\n\"Go with a scalpel. Go pick out some things,\" Bacon told The Associated Press. He and the others warned that companies are already investing millions of dollars from the Inflation Reduction Act's incentives to green energy.\n\n\"You just can't do a wholesale throw it out,\" Bacon said.\n\n## Democrats track the vote with an eye on next year's midterms\n\nDemocrats are also applying political pressure in Ciscomani's district and beyond.\n\nAs Republicans decline to hold town halls on the advice of their leaders, Democrats are stepping in to warn constituents about what could happen to programs they rely on for health coverage and to put food on the table.\n\nDemocratic Sens. Mark Kelly of Arizona and Cory Booker of New Jersey visited Ciscomani's Tucson-based district last month to offer harsh condemnations.\n\nKelly asked how many in the room were represented by Ciscomani, and then he warned about how scores of residents in the district could lose their health care coverage.\n\n\"And for what? It is so Donald Trump could give a big, giant tax cut to the wealthiest Americans. It is not fair,\" Kelly said.\n\nBooker, fresh off his 25-hour speech on the Senate floor, was even more pointed, saying just three House Republicans have to change their mind to upend the GOP's effort in the House, with its narrow majority.\n\n\"I believe one of them has to be in this district right here,\" Booker said. \"Either he changes his mind or this district changes congresspeople. It's as simple as that.\"\n\n___\n\nAssociated Press writer Leah Askarinam contributed to this report."
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"value": "# GOP centrists decry deep cuts to Medicaid and other programs in Trump budget\n\nBy Lisa Mascaro and Kevin Freking \nMay 8th, 2025 11:30 AM\n\n---\n\nWASHINGTON (AP) — When it comes to Medicaid, Rep. Juan Ciscomani is telling fellow Republicans he won't support steep cuts that could hit thousands of residents in his Arizona district — \"my neighbors, people my kids go to school with\" — who depend on it.\n\nRepublican Rep. Don Bacon, who represents the liberal-leaning \"blue dot\" of Omaha, Nebraska, is trying to protect several Biden-era green energy tax breaks. He's warning colleagues that \"you can't pull the rug out from under\" businesses that have already sunk millions of dollars into renewable developments in Nebraska and beyond.\n\nAnd for Republican Rep. Nick LaLota of New York, it's simple: \"No Salt. No Deal. For Real.\" He wants to revive — and bump up — what's known as the SALT deduction, which allows taxpayers to write off a portion of their state and local taxes. Capping the deduction at $10,000 hurt many of his Long Island constituents.\n\n\"Governing is a negotiation, right?\" said Rep. Nicole Malliotakis of New York, another Republican who is also involved in the talks. \"I think everybody is going to have to give a little.\"\n\nAs GOP leaders draft President Donald Trump's \"big, beautiful bill\" of some $4.5 trillion in tax breaks and $1.5 trillion in spending cuts by Memorial Day, dozens of Republicans from contested congressional districts have positioned themselves at the center of the negotiating table.\n\nWhile it's often the most conservative members of the House Freedom Caucus driving the legislative agenda — and they are demanding as much as $2 trillion in cuts — it's the more centrist-leaning conservatives who could sink the bill. They have been hauled into meetings with Trump at the White House, some have journeyed to his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, and many are huddling almost daily with House Speaker Mike Johnson.\n\nAnd they are not satisfied, yet.\n\n\"To get everybody politically and policy-wise on the same page is going to require more conversations,\" said LaLota, who is among five Republicans pledging to withhold their support unless changes to the SALT deduction are included.\n\n## Republicans wrestle with what to put in — and what to leave out\n\nDiving into the gritty details of the massive package, the GOP leaders are running into the stubborn reality that not all the ideas from their menu of potential tax breaks and spending cuts are popular with voters back home.\n\nMoreover, their work of compiling the big package is not happening in a vacuum. It comes amid growing economic unease rippling across the country as Trump has fired thousands of federal workers, including some of their own constituents, and as his trade war sparks concerns of empty store shelves and higher prices.\n\nBrendan Buck, a former adviser to an earlier House speaker, Paul Ryan, warned in an op-ed Wednesday that all the party's energy is being poured into one bill, with questionable returns.\n\n\"Many Republicans are hoping that the tax bill can blunt the economic damage caused by the Trump tariffs,\" Buck wrote in The New York Times, \"but that is highly unlikely.\"\n\nDemocrats are ready for the fight, warning that Trump and his fellow Republicans are ripping away health care and driving the economy into the ditch — all to retain tax breaks approved during Trump's first term that are expiring at year's end.\n\n\"What we see from Donald Trump and the Republicans is they are actually crashing the economy in real time,\" said House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries of New York.\n\n\"Why,\" the Democratic leader asked, \"are Republicans jumping through hoops\" to try to reduce Medicaid and food stamps used by millions of Americans?\n\n\"It's all in service of enacting massive tax breaks for their millionaire donors like Elon Musk,\" he said.\n\n## GOP leaders search for consensus\n\nJohnson has projected a calm confidence, insisting that House Republicans are on track to deliver on Trump's agenda.\n\nThe speaker's office has become a waystation with a revolving door of Republicans privately laboring to piece together the massive package.\n\nSo far, GOP leaders have signaled they are walking away from some, but not all, of the steep Medicaid cuts. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has said the proposals could result in millions of people losing their coverage.\n\nInstead, what appears to still be on the table are tougher work requirements for those receiving Medicaid and food stamp assistance and more frequent eligibility tests for beneficiaries.\n\nThat's not enough for the conservatives, who also number in the dozens and are insisting on deeper reductions.\n\n## Centrists drawing red lines\n\nCiscomani, in his second term, signed onto a letter with Bacon and others warning House Republican leadership he cannot support a bill that includes \"any reduction in Medicaid coverage for vulnerable populations.\"\n\n\"Our point is that we understand the need for reform,\" Ciscomani said. \"But anything that goes beyond that and starts jeopardizing rural hospitals in my district and their existence overall, then we're running into an area where it will be very difficult to move forward. I think it's very important they know that.\"\n\nBacon, Ciscomani and others joined on a separate letter raising concerns about eliminating clean-energy tax credits, including those passed under President Joe Biden, a Democrat.\n\n\"Go with a scalpel. Go pick out some things,\" Bacon told The Associated Press. He and the others warned that companies are already investing millions of dollars from the Inflation Reduction Act's incentives to green energy.\n\n\"You just can't do a wholesale throw it out,\" Bacon said.\n\n## Democrats track the vote with an eye on next year's midterms\n\nDemocrats are also applying political pressure in Ciscomani's district and beyond.\n\nAs Republicans decline to hold town halls on the advice of their leaders, Democrats are stepping in to warn constituents about what could happen to programs they rely on for health coverage and to put food on the table.\n\nDemocratic Sens. Mark Kelly of Arizona and Cory Booker of New Jersey visited Ciscomani's Tucson-based district last month to offer harsh condemnations.\n\nKelly asked how many in the room were represented by Ciscomani, and then he warned about how scores of residents in the district could lose their health care coverage.\n\n\"And for what? It is so Donald Trump could give a big, giant tax cut to the wealthiest Americans. It is not fair,\" Kelly said.\n\nBooker, fresh off his 25-hour speech on the Senate floor, was even more pointed, saying just three House Republicans have to change their mind to upend the GOP's effort in the House, with its narrow majority.\n\n\"I believe one of them has to be in this district right here,\" Booker said. \"Either he changes his mind or this district changes congresspeople. It's as simple as that.\""
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I saved the day,\" Hield said. \"He's still Robin.\"\n\nButler was willing to concede that interim role to Hield with Curry out, but not without reminding Hield the Warriors had to burn a timeout in the first minute of the game because the shorts he was wearing didn't match the team uniform.\n\n\"That's not real Robin and/or Batman like,\" Butler said, turning to Hield as they shared a table for their joint postgame interview.\n\nButler pitched in 20 points, 11 rebounds, eight assists and sound defense. Hield hit five 3-pointers among his 24 points to go with eight rebounds and no turnovers for a team-leading plus-22 rating. Both of them will have to keep that up now that the Warriors have ruled Curry out for at least the next three games.\n\nTwo of the newest players to the team have also developed a unique odd-couple bond, with Butler constantly needling the softer-spoken Hield with his wry sense of humor. They clearly get on each other's nerves at times, to the point of shouting at each other in one of the huddles during a timeout on Tuesday.\n\nSince Butler arrived in a trade with Miami, the Warriors are 29-11. Hield was acquired from Philadelphia last summer.\n\n\"They have an incredible relationship. Y'all don't get to see everything, but there's times where they really go at it. That's just the nature of the game we play,\" teammate Draymond Green said. \"They have a great dynamic, both of them playing great basketball for us.\"\n\nThe Warriors, who were the last team to advance to the second round after finally beating second-seeded Houston in that seven-game series on Sunday, took a much-needed day off on Wednesday. They'll need to bring their intensity back for Game 2 on Thursday, when the Wolves are bound to be fired up from the way they flailed through Game 1.\n\nCoach Chris Finch sounded irritated on Wednesday for a number of reasons, including what he described as football-like contact by the Warriors against Rudy Gobert that went uncalled and prevented the big man from grabbing several rebounds. The Wolves sent in multiple video clips to the league to plead their case.\n\n\"They look like pulling guards and linemen out there just taking shots at Rudy,\" Finch said.\n\nWarriors center Kevon Looney was one of those guys jockeying for position in the paint with the 7-foot-1 Gobert.\n\n\"Last series, I feel like was way worse than anything I did last game,\" Looney said, recalling the physical tone of the first round against the Rockets as he smiled. \"It's the playoffs. I'm going to grab and push until they call it.\"\n\nNot to be outdone by Finch's gamesmanship, Warriors coach Steve Kerr offered his own measured take on the officiating.\n\n\"I think they could've called a foul six, seven straight possessions with them guarding Steph, so I've got my complaints, too,\" Kerr said. \"Trust me, we all do, and this is how it works in the playoffs.\"\n\nThe Timberwolves had practice after a sobering film session for admonishment and dissection of the many deficiencies that were on display throughout the previous night. Finch was particularly pointed in his commentary, starting with star Anthony Edwards for his decision-making with the ball and adrift first-half performance.\n\n\"We didn't look at all like ourselves. The game plan discipline was really poor,\" Finch said. \"Our resiliency was poor. Physicality was also poor.\"\n\nEdwards had 22 of his 23 points in the second half after missing his first 10 shots from the floor. The fifth-year guard, who moved into second place on the franchise's career list for postseason games played behind Kevin Garnett, has never shied from constructive criticism.\n\n\"We're lucky. Our guys will take it,\" Finch said. \"If you want the ball in your hands or you want to be in the center of the action or you want to be playing all the minutes, then you're going to be on that film.\"\n\n## Golden State Warriors at Minnesota Timberwolves\n\nWhen/Where to Watch: Game 2, 8:30 p.m. EDT (TNT)\n\nSeries: Warriors lead 1-0.\n\nBetMGM says: Timberwolves by 10.5.\n\nWhat to Know: Including their series-clinching win over the Los Angeles Lakers a week ago, the Wolves have missed 64 of their last 76 attempts from 3-point range over the last two games. \"Just keep shooting. That's the name of the game,\" Edwards said. \"We can't worry about the last shot. Take the next one and shoot it with confidence.\" The Warriors had a 51-41 edge in rebounding in Game 1.\n\n___\n\nAP NBA: https://apnews.com/hub/NBA"
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"value": "# Warriors will rely on the Jimmy-Buddy show to help stay afloat vs. Wolves with Curry out\n\nBy Dave Campbell \nMay 7th, 2025 10:40 PM\n\n---\n\nMINNEAPOLIS (AP) — With the superhero of the Golden State Warriors out for the rest of the game, the sidekicks stepped up.\n\nJimmy Butler and Buddy Hield have become quite the sideshow, on and off the court.\n\nWhen Stephen Curry went down with a strained left hamstring early in the opener of this second-round series against Minnesota, Butler and Hield delivered the both-ends-of-the-floor production necessary to fend off the Timberwolves for a 99-88 victory.\n\n\"I'm Batman. I saved the day,\" Hield said. \"He's still Robin.\"\n\nButler was willing to concede that interim role to Hield with Curry out, but not without reminding Hield the Warriors had to burn a timeout in the first minute of the game because the shorts he was wearing didn't match the team uniform.\n\n\"That's not real Robin and/or Batman like,\" Butler said, turning to Hield as they shared a table for their joint postgame interview.\n\nButler pitched in 20 points, 11 rebounds, eight assists and sound defense. Hield hit five 3-pointers among his 24 points to go with eight rebounds and no turnovers for a team-leading plus-22 rating. Both of them will have to keep that up now that the Warriors have ruled Curry out for at least the next three games.\n\nTwo of the newest players to the team have also developed a unique odd-couple bond, with Butler constantly needling the softer-spoken Hield with his wry sense of humor. They clearly get on each other's nerves at times, to the point of shouting at each other in one of the huddles during a timeout on Tuesday.\n\nSince Butler arrived in a trade with Miami, the Warriors are 29-11. Hield was acquired from Philadelphia last summer.\n\n\"They have an incredible relationship. Y'all don't get to see everything, but there's times where they really go at it. That's just the nature of the game we play,\" teammate Draymond Green said. \"They have a great dynamic, both of them playing great basketball for us.\"\n\nThe Warriors, who were the last team to advance to the second round after finally beating second-seeded Houston in that seven-game series on Sunday, took a much-needed day off on Wednesday. They'll need to bring their intensity back for Game 2 on Thursday, when the Wolves are bound to be fired up from the way they flailed through Game 1.\n\nCoach Chris Finch sounded irritated on Wednesday for a number of reasons, including what he described as football-like contact by the Warriors against Rudy Gobert that went uncalled and prevented the big man from grabbing several rebounds. The Wolves sent in multiple video clips to the league to plead their case.\n\n\"They look like pulling guards and linemen out there just taking shots at Rudy,\" Finch said.\n\nWarriors center Kevon Looney was one of those guys jockeying for position in the paint with the 7-foot-1 Gobert.\n\n\"Last series, I feel like was way worse than anything I did last game,\" Looney said, recalling the physical tone of the first round against the Rockets as he smiled. \"It's the playoffs. I'm going to grab and push until they call it.\"\n\nNot to be outdone by Finch's gamesmanship, Warriors coach Steve Kerr offered his own measured take on the officiating.\n\n\"I think they could've called a foul six, seven straight possessions with them guarding Steph, so I've got my complaints, too,\" Kerr said. \"Trust me, we all do, and this is how it works in the playoffs.\"\n\nThe Timberwolves had practice after a sobering film session for admonishment and dissection of the many deficiencies that were on display throughout the previous night. Finch was particularly pointed in his commentary, starting with star Anthony Edwards for his decision-making with the ball and adrift first-half performance.\n\n\"We didn't look at all like ourselves. The game plan discipline was really poor,\" Finch said. \"Our resiliency was poor. Physicality was also poor.\"\n\nEdwards had 22 of his 23 points in the second half after missing his first 10 shots from the floor. The fifth-year guard, who moved into second place on the franchise's career list for postseason games played behind Kevin Garnett, has never shied from constructive criticism.\n\n\"We're lucky. Our guys will take it,\" Finch said. \"If you want the ball in your hands or you want to be in the center of the action or you want to be playing all the minutes, then you're going to be on that film.\"\n\n## Golden State Warriors at Minnesota Timberwolves\n\nWhen/Where to Watch: Game 2, 8:30 p.m. EDT (TNT)\n\nSeries: Warriors lead 1-0.\n\nBetMGM says: Timberwolves by 10.5.\n\nWhat to Know: Including their series-clinching win over the Los Angeles Lakers a week ago, the Wolves have missed 64 of their last 76 attempts from 3-point range over the last two games. \"Just keep shooting. That's the name of the game,\" Edwards said. \"We can't worry about the last shot. Take the next one and shoot it with confidence.\" The Warriors had a 51-41 edge in rebounding in Game 1."
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"value": "# New report shows NYC helicopter breaking apart in midair before crash that killed 6\n\nBy Philip Marcelo \nMay 7th, 2025 08:21 PM\n\n---\n\nNEW YORK (AP) — Federal officials on Wednesday released images of a doomed New York City sightseeing helicopter as it broke apart in midair last month, killing six people.\n\nThe series of still photographs taken from surveillance camera video shows the fuselage, containing the engine and rotors, separating from the helicopter's tail. The rotor blades and the transmission then detach from the cabin that's carrying the passengers and the pilot.\n\nThe images were included in the preliminary report about the flight released by the National Transportation Safety Board.\n\n\"Several witnesses described hearing several loud 'bangs' emanating from the helicopter before it broke up and descended into the river,\" the report says.\n\nJustin Green, an aviation lawyer and former Marine helicopter pilot, said the sequence of images shows the helicopter yawing severely and the tail boom failing, suggesting it was most likely struck by the aircraft's main rotor blades during flight.\n\n\"It's clear that some mechanical issue precipitated the breakup,\" he said.\n\nThe initial report, which runs about six pages, does not address the initial cause of the breakup. That, Green said, will likely be determined by a forensic examination of the wreckage itself, including the rotor blades, the engine and transmission.\n\n\"A tail strike could be caused by a pilot not handling a loss of power emergency and allowing the rotor rpm to decay, which makes the rotors flap up and down more and that can cause a strike,\" he said.\n\nThe aircraft, a Bell 206L-4 built in 2004, also appeared to be fairly old and well used, according to Green.\n\nAt the time of the crash, the helicopter had operated about 50 hours since its last inspection on Feb. 27, according to the NTSB report. The helicopter's airframe accrued nearly 13,000 total hours of operation, and the engine accrued more than 23,000 hours.\n\nFederal Aviation Administration records also show the aircraft had a maintenance issue last September involving its transmission assembly.\n\n\"The NTSB will be looking at the overhaul and maintenance records to make sure everything is up to date,\" Green said.\n\nThe NTSB said previously that the aircraft, operated by tour company New York Helicopter, was not equipped with any video or data recording devices.\n\nBut on Wednesday, it said photos taken beforehand show that the pilot, Seankese Johnson, was wearing computer-augmented sunglasses, which would have had video and audio recording capability. The glasses have not been recovered.\n\nJohnson, a 36-year-old former Navy SEAL, received his commercial pilot's license in 2023 and had logged 790 hours of flight time, the NTSB report said.\n\nBut he didn't appear to be particularly experienced flying a Bell 206L-4, observed Al Yurman, a retired NTSB investigator. The agency said in its report Johnson had fewer than 50 hours of flight in that type of aircraft.\n\n\"It's quite sophisticated for that type of work,\" Yurman said. \"I would prefer to have someone more experienced, but we'll know more when the full report comes out.\"\n\nThe report said Johnson worked a \"10 days on/10 days off schedule\" and the April 10 flight was his first day back after 10 days off. The flight was also the eighth that day for the pilot and the helicopter.\n\nThe aircraft was on a typical tour, departing from the downtown heliport by Wall Street around 3 p.m. and flying north along the Manhattan skyline before heading south toward the Statue of Liberty.\n\nLess than 18 minutes into the flight, witnesses saw the tail and main rotor break away and smoke pouring from the spinning helicopter.\n\nIn recent years New York Helicopter, the tour company, went through bankruptcy and faced ongoing lawsuits over alleged debts.\n\nThe company has said it is cooperating with authorities in the investigation. No one answered the phone at its office or responded to an email seeking comment on Wednesday.\n\nThe crash was among a recent string of aircraft disasters and close calls that left some people worried about the safety of flying in the U.S. It also revived concerns about the popular and costly aerial tours over New York City.\n\nFive commercial sightseeing helicopters have gone down in the rivers around Manhattan since 2005 as a result of mechanical failure, pilot error or collision, killing 20 people.\n\nThe April 10 crash killed a prominent family from Barcelona, Spain: Agustín Escobar, 49; Mercè Camprubí Montal, 39; and their children Victor, 4, Mercedes, 8, and Agustin, 10.\n\nOfficials have said Escobar, global CEO of rail infrastructure at Siemens Mobility, was in the New York area on business.\n\nMontal, who worked for Siemens Energy and was the granddaughter of a former president of the famous Barcelona FC soccer club, flew in with their children to meet him."
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"value": "# New report shows NYC helicopter breaking apart in midair before crash that killed 6\n\nBy Philip Marcelo \nMay 7th, 2025 08:21 PM\n\n---\n\nNEW YORK (AP) — Federal officials on Wednesday released images of a doomed New York City sightseeing helicopter as it broke apart in midair last month, killing six people.\n\nThe series of still photographs taken from surveillance camera video shows the fuselage, containing the engine and rotors, separating from the helicopter's tail. The rotor blades and the transmission then detach from the cabin that's carrying the passengers and the pilot.\n\nThe images were included in the preliminary report about the flight released by the National Transportation Safety Board.\n\n\"Several witnesses described hearing several loud 'bangs' emanating from the helicopter before it broke up and descended into the river,\" the report says.\n\nJustin Green, an aviation lawyer and former Marine helicopter pilot, said the sequence of images shows the helicopter yawing severely and the tail boom failing, suggesting it was most likely struck by the aircraft's main rotor blades during flight.\n\n\"It's clear that some mechanical issue precipitated the breakup,\" he said.\n\nThe initial report, which runs about six pages, does not address the initial cause of the breakup. That, Green said, will likely be determined by a forensic examination of the wreckage itself, including the rotor blades, the engine and transmission.\n\n\"A tail strike could be caused by a pilot not handling a loss of power emergency and allowing the rotor rpm to decay, which makes the rotors flap up and down more and that can cause a strike,\" he said.\n\nThe aircraft, a Bell 206L-4 built in 2004, also appeared to be fairly old and well used, according to Green.\n\nAt the time of the crash, the helicopter had operated about 50 hours since its last inspection on Feb. 27, according to the NTSB report. The helicopter's airframe accrued nearly 13,000 total hours of operation, and the engine accrued more than 23,000 hours.\n\nFederal Aviation Administration records also show the aircraft had a maintenance issue last September involving its transmission assembly.\n\n\"The NTSB will be looking at the overhaul and maintenance records to make sure everything is up to date,\" Green said.\n\nThe NTSB said previously that the aircraft, operated by tour company New York Helicopter, was not equipped with any video or data recording devices.\n\nBut on Wednesday, it said photos taken beforehand show that the pilot, Seankese Johnson, was wearing computer-augmented sunglasses, which would have had video and audio recording capability. The glasses have not been recovered.\n\nJohnson, a 36-year-old former Navy SEAL, received his commercial pilot's license in 2023 and had logged 790 hours of flight time, the NTSB report said.\n\nBut he didn't appear to be particularly experienced flying a Bell 206L-4, observed Al Yurman, a retired NTSB investigator. The agency said in its report Johnson had fewer than 50 hours of flight in that type of aircraft.\n\n\"It's quite sophisticated for that type of work,\" Yurman said. \"I would prefer to have someone more experienced, but we'll know more when the full report comes out.\"\n\nThe report said Johnson worked a \"10 days on/10 days off schedule\" and the April 10 flight was his first day back after 10 days off. The flight was also the eighth that day for the pilot and the helicopter.\n\nThe aircraft was on a typical tour, departing from the downtown heliport by Wall Street around 3 p.m. and flying north along the Manhattan skyline before heading south toward the Statue of Liberty.\n\nLess than 18 minutes into the flight, witnesses saw the tail and main rotor break away and smoke pouring from the spinning helicopter.\n\nIn recent years New York Helicopter, the tour company, went through bankruptcy and faced ongoing lawsuits over alleged debts.\n\nThe company has said it is cooperating with authorities in the investigation. No one answered the phone at its office or responded to an email seeking comment on Wednesday.\n\nThe crash was among a recent string of aircraft disasters and close calls that left some people worried about the safety of flying in the U.S. It also revived concerns about the popular and costly aerial tours over New York City.\n\nFive commercial sightseeing helicopters have gone down in the rivers around Manhattan since 2005 as a result of mechanical failure, pilot error or collision, killing 20 people.\n\nThe April 10 crash killed a prominent family from Barcelona, Spain: Agustín Escobar, 49; Mercè Camprubí Montal, 39; and their children Victor, 4, Mercedes, 8, and Agustin, 10.\n\nOfficials have said Escobar, global CEO of rail infrastructure at Siemens Mobility, was in the New York area on business.\n\nMontal, who worked for Siemens Energy and was the granddaughter of a former president of the famous Barcelona FC soccer club, flew in with their children to meet him."
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"value": "# Arts community reels from Trump administration's cuts in federal programs\n\nBy Hillel Italie \nMay 12th, 2025 02:31 PM\n\n---\n\nNEW YORK (AP) — Poet Marie Howe, one of this year's winners of the Pulitzer Prize, says being a writer is often less a career than a vocation. You rely on teaching and other outside work and seek support from foundations or from a government agency, like the National Endowment for the Arts.\n\n\"Everybody applies for an NEA grant, year after after year, and if you get it, it's like wow — it's huge,\" says Howe, a Pulitzer winner for \"New and Selected Poems\" and a former NEA creative writing fellow. \"It's not just the money. It's also deep encouragement. I just felt so grateful. It made a big, big difference. It gives you courage. It says to you, 'Go on, keep doing it.'\"\n\nBehind so many award-winning careers, high-profile productions, beloved institutions and in-depth research projects there is often a quieter story of early support from the government — the grants from the NEA or National Endowment for the Humanities that enable a writer to complete a book, a community theater to stage a play, a scholar to access archival documents or a museum to organize an exhibit.\n\nFor decades, there has been a nationwide artistic and cultural infrastructure receiving bipartisan support, including through the first administration of Donald Trump.\n\nNow that is changing — and drastically.\n\n## The new administration is taking a hard line\n\nSince returning to office in January, the president has alleged that federal agencies and institutions such as the NEA, NEH, PBS, the Kennedy Center and the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) were advancing a \"woke agenda\" that undermined traditional values.\n\nTrump has ousted leaders, cut or eliminated programs and dramatically shifted priorities: At the same time the NEH and NEA were forcing out staff members and canceling grants, they announced a multimillion-dollar initiative to support statues for Trump's proposed \"National Garden of American Heroes,\" from George Washington to Shirley Temple.\n\n\"All future awards will, among other things, be merit-based, awarded to projects that do not promote extreme ideologies based upon race or gender, and that help to instill an understanding of the founding principles and ideals that make America an exceptional country,\" reads a statement on the NEH website.\n\nIndividuals and organizations across the country, and across virtually every art form, now find themselves without money they had budgeted for or even spent, anticipating they would be reimbursed.\n\nElectric Literature, McSweeney's and n+1 are among dozens of literary publications that received notices their grants have been rescinded. Philadelphia's Rosenbach Museum & Library had to halt a project to create an online catalog after losing a near-$250,000 grant from the IMLS. The Stuttering Association for the Young, which manages a summer music camp, has a $35,000 gap.\n\n\"Our fundraising allows kids to attend our summer camp at a greatly reduced cost so the lost funds make it harder to fulfill that commitment,\" says the association's director, Russell Krumnow, who added that \"we planned our programming and made decisions with those funds in mind.\"\n\n\"Government money ought to be consistent. It ought to be reliable,\" says Talia Corren, co-executive director of the New York-based Alliance of Resident Theatres, which assists hundreds of nonprofit theater companies. \"You need to make decisions based on that money.\"\n\n## Institutions have a history of more than a half century\n\nThe NEA, NEH and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting were among the institutions established 60 years ago, during the height of President Lyndon Johnson's \"Great Society\" domestic programs. At various times, they have faced criticism for supporting provocative artists, such as photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in the 1980s. But they have endured, in part, because of their perceived economic benefits, distributed through as many congressional districts as possible.\n\nArts advocates contend that, like other forms of federal aid, the importance of an NEA or NEH grant isn't just the initial money, but the \"ripple\" or \"mutliplier\" effect. Government backing often carries the kind of prestige that makes a given organization more desirable to private donors.\n\nThe millions of dollars channeled through state arts and humanities councils in turn support local projects. Funding for a theater production helps generate jobs for the cast and crew, brings in business for neighboring restaurants and bars and parking garages and spending money for the babysitter hired by parents having a night out.\n\nActor Jane Alexander was just beginning her stage career when the endowment helped fund the 1967 Arena Stage production of Howard Sackler's drama about boxer Jack Johnson, \"The Great White Hope,\" which starred Alexander and James Earl Jones and eventually won the Pulitzer Prize. Alexander, who headed the NEA in the 1990s, remembered how Arena co-founder Zelda Fichandler worried that the endowment might hurt business by supporting other theaters in Washington.\n\n\"And I remember my late husband (Robert Alexander) who was artistic director of the Living Stage Theatre Company at the time, saying to her, 'No, it doesn't work that way. A rising tide floats all boats,\" she says.\n\nIn the short term, organizations are seeking donations from the general public and philanthropists are attempting to fill in fiscal holes. The Mellon Foundation recently announced an \"emergency\" $15 million fund for state humanities councils. At the Portland Playhouse in Oregon, artistic director Brian Weaver says that donors stepped in after the theater lost a $25,000 NEA grant just a day before they were to open a production of \"Joe Turner's Come and Gone,\"\n\nBut Weaver and others say private fundraising alone isn't a long-term solution, if only because individuals incur \"donor fatigue\" and philanthropists change their minds. Jane Alexander remembers when the Arena theater in Washington founded a repertory company, supported in part by the Rockefeller Foundation.\n\n\"It was like the National Theatre in Britain,\" she says. '\"We felt so proud that we can have a repertory company of 30 players rotating players through the season. It was very, very exciting. And we had, you know, voice lessons, we had fencing lessons. We were going to become the great company. And guess what happened? Rockefeller's priorities changed.\""
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"value": "# Arts community reels from Trump administration's cuts in federal programs\n\nBy Hillel Italie \nMay 12th, 2025 02:31 PM\n\n---\n\nNEW YORK (AP) — Poet Marie Howe, one of this year's winners of the Pulitzer Prize, says being a writer is often less a career than a vocation. You rely on teaching and other outside work and seek support from foundations or from a government agency, like the National Endowment for the Arts.\n\n\"Everybody applies for an NEA grant, year after after year, and if you get it, it's like wow — it's huge,\" says Howe, a Pulitzer winner for \"New and Selected Poems\" and a former NEA creative writing fellow. \"It's not just the money. It's also deep encouragement. I just felt so grateful. It made a big, big difference. It gives you courage. It says to you, 'Go on, keep doing it.'\"\n\nBehind so many award-winning careers, high-profile productions, beloved institutions and in-depth research projects there is often a quieter story of early support from the government — the grants from the NEA or National Endowment for the Humanities that enable a writer to complete a book, a community theater to stage a play, a scholar to access archival documents or a museum to organize an exhibit.\n\nFor decades, there has been a nationwide artistic and cultural infrastructure receiving bipartisan support, including through the first administration of Donald Trump.\n\nNow that is changing — and drastically.\n\n## The new administration is taking a hard line\n\nSince returning to office in January, the president has alleged that federal agencies and institutions such as the NEA, NEH, PBS, the Kennedy Center and the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) were advancing a \"woke agenda\" that undermined traditional values.\n\nTrump has ousted leaders, cut or eliminated programs and dramatically shifted priorities: At the same time the NEH and NEA were forcing out staff members and canceling grants, they announced a multimillion-dollar initiative to support statues for Trump's proposed \"National Garden of American Heroes,\" from George Washington to Shirley Temple.\n\n\"All future awards will, among other things, be merit-based, awarded to projects that do not promote extreme ideologies based upon race or gender, and that help to instill an understanding of the founding principles and ideals that make America an exceptional country,\" reads a statement on the NEH website.\n\nIndividuals and organizations across the country, and across virtually every art form, now find themselves without money they had budgeted for or even spent, anticipating they would be reimbursed.\n\nElectric Literature, McSweeney's and n+1 are among dozens of literary publications that received notices their grants have been rescinded. Philadelphia's Rosenbach Museum & Library had to halt a project to create an online catalog after losing a near-$250,000 grant from the IMLS. The Stuttering Association for the Young, which manages a summer music camp, has a $35,000 gap.\n\n\"Our fundraising allows kids to attend our summer camp at a greatly reduced cost so the lost funds make it harder to fulfill that commitment,\" says the association's director, Russell Krumnow, who added that \"we planned our programming and made decisions with those funds in mind.\"\n\n\"Government money ought to be consistent. It ought to be reliable,\" says Talia Corren, co-executive director of the New York-based Alliance of Resident Theatres, which assists hundreds of nonprofit theater companies. \"You need to make decisions based on that money.\"\n\n## Institutions have a history of more than a half century\n\nThe NEA, NEH and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting were among the institutions established 60 years ago, during the height of President Lyndon Johnson's \"Great Society\" domestic programs. At various times, they have faced criticism for supporting provocative artists, such as photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in the 1980s. But they have endured, in part, because of their perceived economic benefits, distributed through as many congressional districts as possible.\n\nArts advocates contend that, like other forms of federal aid, the importance of an NEA or NEH grant isn't just the initial money, but the \"ripple\" or \"mutliplier\" effect. Government backing often carries the kind of prestige that makes a given organization more desirable to private donors.\n\nThe millions of dollars channeled through state arts and humanities councils in turn support local projects. Funding for a theater production helps generate jobs for the cast and crew, brings in business for neighboring restaurants and bars and parking garages and spending money for the babysitter hired by parents having a night out.\n\nActor Jane Alexander was just beginning her stage career when the endowment helped fund the 1967 Arena Stage production of Howard Sackler's drama about boxer Jack Johnson, \"The Great White Hope,\" which starred Alexander and James Earl Jones and eventually won the Pulitzer Prize. Alexander, who headed the NEA in the 1990s, remembered how Arena co-founder Zelda Fichandler worried that the endowment might hurt business by supporting other theaters in Washington.\n\n\"And I remember my late husband (Robert Alexander) who was artistic director of the Living Stage Theatre Company at the time, saying to her, 'No, it doesn't work that way. A rising tide floats all boats,\" she says.\n\nIn the short term, organizations are seeking donations from the general public and philanthropists are attempting to fill in fiscal holes. The Mellon Foundation recently announced an \"emergency\" $15 million fund for state humanities councils. At the Portland Playhouse in Oregon, artistic director Brian Weaver says that donors stepped in after the theater lost a $25,000 NEA grant just a day before they were to open a production of \"Joe Turner's Come and Gone,\"\n\nBut Weaver and others say private fundraising alone isn't a long-term solution, if only because individuals incur \"donor fatigue\" and philanthropists change their minds. Jane Alexander remembers when the Arena theater in Washington founded a repertory company, supported in part by the Rockefeller Foundation.\n\n\"It was like the National Theatre in Britain,\" she says. '\"We felt so proud that we can have a repertory company of 30 players rotating players through the season. It was very, very exciting. And we had, you know, voice lessons, we had fencing lessons. We were going to become the great company. And guess what happened? Rockefeller's priorities changed.\""
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"value": "# Victor Scott II robs Juan Soto, has go-ahead double as Cardinals beat Mets 5-4 to sweep twinbill\n\nBy Warren Mayes \nMay 5th, 2025 01:29 AM\n\n---\n\nST. LOUIS (AP) — Victor Scott II robbed Juan Soto of a three-run homer and later hit a tiebreaking double, leading the St. Louis Cardinals to 5-4 victory over the New York Mets for a doubleheader sweep on Sunday night.\n\nThe Cardinals won the opener 6-5.\n\nThe nightcap was tied at 4-all in the fourth inning when Soto drove a fastball to straightaway center. Scott ran back to the wall and leaped, and his glove was over the fence when he snatched the ball, preventing it from landing on the grass.\n\nIn the sixth, Scott's two-out double off Max Kranick (2-1) scored Yohel Pozo from first base.\n\nComing off two of three losses to Arizona, the NL East-leading Mets have dropped consecutive series for the first time this year.\n\nAlec Burleson hit a two-run homer and rookie Michael McGreevy pitched 5 2/3 innings of scoreless relief for the Cardinals.\n\nMcGreevy (1-0) was recalled Saturday from Triple-A Memphis. He struck out five and gave up one hit and one walk in first appearance in the majors this season. Last year, McGreevy went 3-0 with a 1.96 ERA in four appearances, three of them starts.\n\nMets starter Tylor Megill allowed four runs in five innings.\n\nBurleson's first homer this season came with one out in the second. He belted a 0-1 fastball into the right-field bullpen for a 2-0 lead.\n\nStarling Marte had two hits and two RBIs for the Mets.\n\n## Key moment\n\nThe Mets sent nine to the plate in the third against Andre Pallante, scoring four runs. McGreevy inherited the bases loaded and retired two batters. St. Louis tied it in the bottom half on singles by Nolan Arenado and Willson Contreras.\n\n## Key stat\n\nBurleson has hit safely in nine of his last 10 starts against the Mets. He is hitting .333 (12 for 36) with three homers and eight RBIs.\n\n## Up next\n\nMets: Begin a series at Arizona with Griffin Canning (4-1, 2.61 ERA) on the mound Monday.\n\nCardinals: At Pittsburgh on Monday with Miles Mikolas (1-2, 4.66) facing the Pirates' Carmen Mlodzinski (1-3, 6.58).\n\n___\n\nAP MLB: https://apnews.com/hub/mlb"
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"value": "# Victor Scott II robs Juan Soto, has go-ahead double as Cardinals beat Mets 5-4 to sweep twinbill\n\nBy Warren Mayes \nMay 5th, 2025 01:29 AM\n\n---\n\nST. LOUIS (AP) — Victor Scott II robbed Juan Soto of a three-run homer and later hit a tiebreaking double, leading the St. Louis Cardinals to 5-4 victory over the New York Mets for a doubleheader sweep on Sunday night.\n\nThe Cardinals won the opener 6-5.\n\nThe nightcap was tied at 4-all in the fourth inning when Soto drove a fastball to straightaway center. Scott ran back to the wall and leaped, and his glove was over the fence when he snatched the ball, preventing it from landing on the grass.\n\nIn the sixth, Scott's two-out double off Max Kranick (2-1) scored Yohel Pozo from first base.\n\nComing off two of three losses to Arizona, the NL East-leading Mets have dropped consecutive series for the first time this year.\n\nAlec Burleson hit a two-run homer and rookie Michael McGreevy pitched 5 2/3 innings of scoreless relief for the Cardinals.\n\nMcGreevy (1-0) was recalled Saturday from Triple-A Memphis. He struck out five and gave up one hit and one walk in first appearance in the majors this season. Last year, McGreevy went 3-0 with a 1.96 ERA in four appearances, three of them starts.\n\nMets starter Tylor Megill allowed four runs in five innings.\n\nBurleson's first homer this season came with one out in the second. He belted a 0-1 fastball into the right-field bullpen for a 2-0 lead.\n\nStarling Marte had two hits and two RBIs for the Mets.\n\n## Key moment\n\nThe Mets sent nine to the plate in the third against Andre Pallante, scoring four runs. McGreevy inherited the bases loaded and retired two batters. St. Louis tied it in the bottom half on singles by Nolan Arenado and Willson Contreras.\n\n## Key stat\n\nBurleson has hit safely in nine of his last 10 starts against the Mets. He is hitting .333 (12 for 36) with three homers and eight RBIs.\n\n## Up next\n\nMets: Begin a series at Arizona with Griffin Canning (4-1, 2.61 ERA) on the mound Monday.\n\nCardinals: At Pittsburgh on Monday with Miles Mikolas (1-2, 4.66) facing the Pirates' Carmen Mlodzinski (1-3, 6.58)."
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"value": "# AP Analysis: Iran talks tough with US while seeking nuclear deal\n\nBy Jon Gambrell \nMay 5th, 2025 01:20 PM\n\n---\n\nDUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran is talking tough — while still wanting to talk more with the United States over a possible nuclear deal.\n\nIn the last days, Tehran has backed an attack by Yemen's Houthi rebels that slipped through Israel's missile defenses to strike near Ben-Gurion International Airport. It aired footage of its own ballistic missile test while defense minister called out threats by U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth against the Islamic Republic. And an organization linked to its paramilitary Revolutionary Guard unveiled a new mural with a map of Israel overlaid by possible missile targets in the shape of a Yemeni jambiyya, an ornamental dagger worn by Yemeni men.\n\nBut all the while, Iran maintains it wants to reach a nuclear deal with the U.S. after talks scheduled to take place last weekend in Rome didn't happen. That's even as Trump administration officials continue to insist that Tehran must give up all its ability to enrich uranium in order to receive sanction relief — something Iran repeatedly has said is a nonstarter for the negotiations.\n\n## Israel-Hamas war changes equation for Iran\n\nAll this together can feel contradictory. But this is the position where Iran now finds itself after having been ascendant in the Mideast with its self-described \"Axis of Resistance,\" countries and militant groups finding common cause against Israel and the U.S.\n\nThat changed with the attack by the Palestinian militant group Hamas on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, which killed some 1,200 people and saw 250 others taken hostage back to the Gaza Strip. Israel launched a devastating war on Hamas in Gaza that rages on even today — and may be further escalating after Israel approved plans Monday to capture the entire Gaza Strip and remain there for an unspecified amount of time. Israel's war has killed more than 52,000 people in Gaza, many of them women and children, according to Palestinian health officials, who do not distinguish between combatants and civilians in their count.\n\nIn the course of the war, Hamas, Lebanon's Hezbollah and other Iran-backed militants have been beaten back by Israeli attacks. Syrian President Bashar Assad, long backed by Iran, saw his family's over 50-year rule end in December as rebels swept the country.\n\nThat's left Iran with just Yemen's Houthi rebels, though they too now face an intensified campaign of strikes by the Trump administration.\n\n## Iran carefully applauds Houthi strike on Israel\n\nThe strike Sunday on Ben-Gurion repeatedly earned highlights in Iranian state media. However, Iran's Foreign Ministry made a point to insist that the attack had \"been an independent decision\" by the group.\n\nExpert opinion varies on just how much influence Iran wields over the Houthis. However, Tehran has been instrumental in arming the Houthis over Yemen's decadelong war in spite of a United Nations arms embargo.\n\n\"The Yemeni people, out of their human feelings and religious solidarity with the Palestinians, and also to defend themselves in the face of continuous aggression by America, have taken some measures,\" Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei said Monday.\n\nMeanwhile, Iranian Defense Minister Gen. Aziz Nasirzadeh called out comments by his American counterpart who had warned that Iran would \"pay the CONSEQUENCE\" for arming the Houthis with weapons.\n\n\"I advise the American threatening officials, especially the newcomer defense minister of the country, to read the history of Iran in the recent four decades,\" the general said. \"If they read, they will notice that they should not speak to Iran using the language of threats.\"\n\nIran has not, however, responded to Israeli airstrikes targeting its air defenses and ballistic missile program in October.\n\n## Nuclear deal remains a top Iranian priority\n\nBut getting to a new nuclear deal with the U.S., which could see Tehran limit its enrichment and stockpile of uranium in exchange for the lifting of economic sanctions, remains a priority for Iran. Its troubled rial currency, once over 1 million to $1, has strengthened dramatically on just the talks alone to 840,000 to $1.\n\nThe two sides still appear a long way from any deal, however, even as time ticks away. Iranian media broadly described a two-month deadline imposed by President Donald Trump in his initial letter sent to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Trump said he wrote the letter on March 5, which made it to Iran via an Emirati diplomat on March 12.\n\nMeanwhile, the U.S. campaign on Yemen and Israel's escalation in Gaza continues to squeeze Tehran.\n\nThat's on top of American officials including Trump threatening sanctions on anyone who buys Iranian crude oil, as well as following a new, harder line saying Iran shouldn't be able to enrich uranium at all. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who strongly encouraged Trump to unilaterally withdraw American in 2018 from Iran's nuclear deal with world powers, also has been pushing for the same.\n\nIran likely has been trying to get messages to America despite last weekend's planned talks in Rome being postponed. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi flew to Islamabad to meet his Pakistani counterpart, Ishaq Dar. A readout from Pakistan's Foreign Ministry acknowledged the men discussed the nuclear negotiations.\n\nAraghchi got a colder reception from Kaja Kallas, the foreign policy chief of the European Union. While European nations have had warmer ties to Iran in the past, Tehran's arming of Russia in its war on Ukraine has angered many in the EU.\n\nI called on Iran to stop military support to Russia and raised concerns over detained EU citizens and human rights,\" Kallas wrote Monday on the social platform X. \"EU-Iran ties hinge on progress in all areas.\"\n\n___\n\nAssociated Press writers Nasser Karimi and Amir Vahdat in Tehran, Iran, and Riazat Butt in Islamabad contributed to this report.\n\n___\n\nEDITOR'S NOTE — Jon Gambrell, the news director for the Gulf and Iran for The Associated Press, has reported from each of the Gulf Cooperation Council countries, Iran and other locations across the Mideast and wider world since joining the AP in 2006."
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"value": "# AP Analysis: Iran talks tough with US while seeking nuclear deal\n\nBy Jon Gambrell \nMay 5th, 2025 01:20 PM\n\n---\n\nDUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran is talking tough — while still wanting to talk more with the United States over a possible nuclear deal.\n\nIn the last days, Tehran has backed an attack by Yemen's Houthi rebels that slipped through Israel's missile defenses to strike near Ben-Gurion International Airport. It aired footage of its own ballistic missile test while defense minister called out threats by U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth against the Islamic Republic. And an organization linked to its paramilitary Revolutionary Guard unveiled a new mural with a map of Israel overlaid by possible missile targets in the shape of a Yemeni jambiyya, an ornamental dagger worn by Yemeni men.\n\nBut all the while, Iran maintains it wants to reach a nuclear deal with the U.S. after talks scheduled to take place last weekend in Rome didn't happen. That's even as Trump administration officials continue to insist that Tehran must give up all its ability to enrich uranium in order to receive sanction relief — something Iran repeatedly has said is a nonstarter for the negotiations.\n\n## Israel-Hamas war changes equation for Iran\n\nAll this together can feel contradictory. But this is the position where Iran now finds itself after having been ascendant in the Mideast with its self-described \"Axis of Resistance,\" countries and militant groups finding common cause against Israel and the U.S.\n\nThat changed with the attack by the Palestinian militant group Hamas on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, which killed some 1,200 people and saw 250 others taken hostage back to the Gaza Strip. Israel launched a devastating war on Hamas in Gaza that rages on even today — and may be further escalating after Israel approved plans Monday to capture the entire Gaza Strip and remain there for an unspecified amount of time. Israel's war has killed more than 52,000 people in Gaza, many of them women and children, according to Palestinian health officials, who do not distinguish between combatants and civilians in their count.\n\nIn the course of the war, Hamas, Lebanon's Hezbollah and other Iran-backed militants have been beaten back by Israeli attacks. Syrian President Bashar Assad, long backed by Iran, saw his family's over 50-year rule end in December as rebels swept the country.\n\nThat's left Iran with just Yemen's Houthi rebels, though they too now face an intensified campaign of strikes by the Trump administration.\n\n## Iran carefully applauds Houthi strike on Israel\n\nThe strike Sunday on Ben-Gurion repeatedly earned highlights in Iranian state media. However, Iran's Foreign Ministry made a point to insist that the attack had \"been an independent decision\" by the group.\n\nExpert opinion varies on just how much influence Iran wields over the Houthis. However, Tehran has been instrumental in arming the Houthis over Yemen's decadelong war in spite of a United Nations arms embargo.\n\n\"The Yemeni people, out of their human feelings and religious solidarity with the Palestinians, and also to defend themselves in the face of continuous aggression by America, have taken some measures,\" Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei said Monday.\n\nMeanwhile, Iranian Defense Minister Gen. Aziz Nasirzadeh called out comments by his American counterpart who had warned that Iran would \"pay the CONSEQUENCE\" for arming the Houthis with weapons.\n\n\"I advise the American threatening officials, especially the newcomer defense minister of the country, to read the history of Iran in the recent four decades,\" the general said. \"If they read, they will notice that they should not speak to Iran using the language of threats.\"\n\nIran has not, however, responded to Israeli airstrikes targeting its air defenses and ballistic missile program in October.\n\n## Nuclear deal remains a top Iranian priority\n\nBut getting to a new nuclear deal with the U.S., which could see Tehran limit its enrichment and stockpile of uranium in exchange for the lifting of economic sanctions, remains a priority for Iran. Its troubled rial currency, once over 1 million to $1, has strengthened dramatically on just the talks alone to 840,000 to $1.\n\nThe two sides still appear a long way from any deal, however, even as time ticks away. Iranian media broadly described a two-month deadline imposed by President Donald Trump in his initial letter sent to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Trump said he wrote the letter on March 5, which made it to Iran via an Emirati diplomat on March 12.\n\nMeanwhile, the U.S. campaign on Yemen and Israel's escalation in Gaza continues to squeeze Tehran.\n\nThat's on top of American officials including Trump threatening sanctions on anyone who buys Iranian crude oil, as well as following a new, harder line saying Iran shouldn't be able to enrich uranium at all. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who strongly encouraged Trump to unilaterally withdraw American in 2018 from Iran's nuclear deal with world powers, also has been pushing for the same.\n\nIran likely has been trying to get messages to America despite last weekend's planned talks in Rome being postponed. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi flew to Islamabad to meet his Pakistani counterpart, Ishaq Dar. A readout from Pakistan's Foreign Ministry acknowledged the men discussed the nuclear negotiations.\n\nAraghchi got a colder reception from Kaja Kallas, the foreign policy chief of the European Union. While European nations have had warmer ties to Iran in the past, Tehran's arming of Russia in its war on Ukraine has angered many in the EU.\n\nI called on Iran to stop military support to Russia and raised concerns over detained EU citizens and human rights,\" Kallas wrote Monday on the social platform X. \"EU-Iran ties hinge on progress in all areas.\""
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"value": "# US ice dancers Alex and Maia Shibutani return to competition with an eye on 2026 Olympics\n\nBy Dave Skretta \nMay 1st, 2025 01:57 PM\n\n---\n\nThe Shib Sibs are making a comeback with an eye on more Olympic figure skating medals.\n\nThe popular brother-sister ice dance team of Alex and Maia Shibutani announced Thursday they will return to competition this season in the hopes of making the loaded American squad for the next year's Milan-Cortina Games.\n\nThe 34-year-old Alex and the 30-year-old Maia have skated together most of their lives, and for a long stretch were the dominant U.S. ice dancers. They are three-time world medalists and two-time Olympians, finishing ninth at the 2014 Sochi Games and third at the 2018 Pyeongchang Games, where they also were part of the American squad that won a team bronze medal.\n\nThe Shibutanis stepped away from competition after those Olympics, choosing to focus on school and other interests. They've authored four children's books and worked as choreographers and ambassadors for diversity and representation, and two years ago, they were inducted into U.S. Figure Skating's hall of fame.\n\nThey extended their hiatus when Maia Shibutani was diagnosed with a malignant tumor on her kidney in 2019. She underwent surgery to remove the mass, and additional treatment resulted in a long, painful recovery.\n\n\"These past seven years have challenged and inspired us in ways we never expected,\" Maia Shibutani said. \"I'm so happy and grateful to be healthy and in a position to make the decision to return to the sport I love in this way.\"\n\nThe Shibutanis continued to skate in exhibitions over the years, and they remained close to the Olympic movement, albeit in a different way. Last summer, Alex Shibutani worked as a photographer and Maia Shibutani did media work at the Paris Olympics, where U.S. figure skaters were finally awarded their team gold medals from the 2022 Beijing Games.\n\nAlex Shibutani also is a member of the athletes' commission for the organizing committee for the 2028 Los Angeles Games.\n\nNow, the Shibutanis hope to be on the next American squad headed to the Olympics.\n\nThey will be training with longtime coach Marina Zoueva and Massimo Scali, who recently helped Alysa Liu return from her own brief retirement to win the first women's world title for a U.S. figure skater in nearly two decades.\n\nIt won't be easy for the Shibutanis to make the team for the Milano-Cortina Games. Madison Chock and Evan Bates just won their third consecutive ice dance world title and will be prohibitive favorites to stand atop the Olympic podium, while Christina Carreira and Anthony Ponomarenko were fifth at worlds and Caroline Green and Michael Parsons were ninth.\n\nThe U.S. has qualified the maximum three ice dance teams for the Winter Games, which means someone will be left out.\n\n\"As Olympic medalists and U.S. Figure Skating hall-of-famers, it's incredibly exciting to have Maia and Alex return to competition next season,\" said Justin Dillon, the senior director of athlete high performance for U.S. Figure Skating.\n\n\"They are strong ambassadors for the sport, both on and off the ice. Their comeback adds to the excitement surrounding Team USA after a very successful year and makes the team stronger as we look toward the Olympic season.\"\n\n___\n\nAP sports: https://apnews.com/hub/sports"
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"value": "# US ice dancers Alex and Maia Shibutani return to competition with an eye on 2026 Olympics\n\nBy Dave Skretta \nMay 1st, 2025 01:57 PM\n\n---\n\nThe Shib Sibs are making a comeback with an eye on more Olympic figure skating medals.\n\nThe popular brother-sister ice dance team of Alex and Maia Shibutani announced Thursday they will return to competition this season in the hopes of making the loaded American squad for the next year's Milan-Cortina Games.\n\nThe 34-year-old Alex and the 30-year-old Maia have skated together most of their lives, and for a long stretch were the dominant U.S. ice dancers. They are three-time world medalists and two-time Olympians, finishing ninth at the 2014 Sochi Games and third at the 2018 Pyeongchang Games, where they also were part of the American squad that won a team bronze medal.\n\nThe Shibutanis stepped away from competition after those Olympics, choosing to focus on school and other interests. They've authored four children's books and worked as choreographers and ambassadors for diversity and representation, and two years ago, they were inducted into U.S. Figure Skating's hall of fame.\n\nThey extended their hiatus when Maia Shibutani was diagnosed with a malignant tumor on her kidney in 2019. She underwent surgery to remove the mass, and additional treatment resulted in a long, painful recovery.\n\n\"These past seven years have challenged and inspired us in ways we never expected,\" Maia Shibutani said. \"I'm so happy and grateful to be healthy and in a position to make the decision to return to the sport I love in this way.\"\n\nThe Shibutanis continued to skate in exhibitions over the years, and they remained close to the Olympic movement, albeit in a different way. Last summer, Alex Shibutani worked as a photographer and Maia Shibutani did media work at the Paris Olympics, where U.S. figure skaters were finally awarded their team gold medals from the 2022 Beijing Games.\n\nAlex Shibutani also is a member of the athletes' commission for the organizing committee for the 2028 Los Angeles Games.\n\nNow, the Shibutanis hope to be on the next American squad headed to the Olympics.\n\nThey will be training with longtime coach Marina Zoueva and Massimo Scali, who recently helped Alysa Liu return from her own brief retirement to win the first women's world title for a U.S. figure skater in nearly two decades.\n\nIt won't be easy for the Shibutanis to make the team for the Milano-Cortina Games. Madison Chock and Evan Bates just won their third consecutive ice dance world title and will be prohibitive favorites to stand atop the Olympic podium, while Christina Carreira and Anthony Ponomarenko were fifth at worlds and Caroline Green and Michael Parsons were ninth.\n\nThe U.S. has qualified the maximum three ice dance teams for the Winter Games, which means someone will be left out.\n\n\"As Olympic medalists and U.S. Figure Skating hall-of-famers, it's incredibly exciting to have Maia and Alex return to competition next season,\" said Justin Dillon, the senior director of athlete high performance for U.S. Figure Skating.\n\n\"They are strong ambassadors for the sport, both on and off the ice. Their comeback adds to the excitement surrounding Team USA after a very successful year and makes the team stronger as we look toward the Olympic season.\""
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"value": "# Nottingham Forest draws at Crystal Palace as Champions League hopes fade\n\nMay 5th, 2025 09:27 PM\n\n---\n\nLONDON (AP) — Nottingham Forest drew with Crystal Palace 1-1 in the Premier League on Monday and saw its Champions League hopes fade.\n\nNuno Espírito Santo's men have spent most of the year in the league top three but a run of one win in four has dropped them behind Chelsea, Newcastle and a resurgent Manchester City.\n\nA win at Selhurst Park would have brought them equal with Chelsea and Newcastle but one point means it stays in sixth, with the top five qualifying for next season's Champions League.\n\nNeither team was able to take control of a sometimes scrappy match that saw eight names go in the referee's book.\n\nPalace took the lead with a penalty kick after an hour. After a video review, Matz Sels was adjudged to have felled Tyrick Mitchell and Eberechi Eze made no mistake from the spot.\n\nForest bounced right back within four minutes, Murillo doing enough to deflect a goal-bound shot from Neco Williams away from the keeper.\n\nEze hitting the woodwork in the dying seconds and Eddie Nketiah having a goal disallowed for offside in stoppage time meant FA Cup finalist Palace has not won any of its last five league games.\n\n\"We were unlucky in a few situations, hitting the post, the offside call, but they fought, and many situations we created,\" Palace coach Oliver Glasner said. \"It's not easy against a team like Forest, so overall I'm really pleased with the performance today.\"\n\n___\n\nAP soccer: https://apnews.com/hub/soccer"
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"value": "# Nottingham Forest draws at Crystal Palace as Champions League hopes fade\n\nMay 5th, 2025 09:27 PM\n\n---\n\nLONDON (AP) — Nottingham Forest drew with Crystal Palace 1-1 in the Premier League on Monday and saw its Champions League hopes fade.\n\nNuno Espírito Santo's men have spent most of the year in the league top three but a run of one win in four has dropped them behind Chelsea, Newcastle and a resurgent Manchester City.\n\nA win at Selhurst Park would have brought them equal with Chelsea and Newcastle but one point means it stays in sixth, with the top five qualifying for next season's Champions League.\n\nNeither team was able to take control of a sometimes scrappy match that saw eight names go in the referee's book.\n\nPalace took the lead with a penalty kick after an hour. After a video review, Matz Sels was adjudged to have felled Tyrick Mitchell and Eberechi Eze made no mistake from the spot.\n\nForest bounced right back within four minutes, Murillo doing enough to deflect a goal-bound shot from Neco Williams away from the keeper.\n\nEze hitting the woodwork in the dying seconds and Eddie Nketiah having a goal disallowed for offside in stoppage time meant FA Cup finalist Palace has not won any of its last five league games.\n\n\"We were unlucky in a few situations, hitting the post, the offside call, but they fought, and many situations we created,\" Palace coach Oliver Glasner said. \"It's not easy against a team like Forest, so overall I'm really pleased with the performance today.\""
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"value": "# Canada shuts out Slovenia to open hockey worlds , Sweden downs Austria, Switzerland tops Denmark\n\nMay 10th, 2025 01:47 PM\n\n---\n\nSTOCKHOLM (AP) — Canada opened the ice hockey world championship by shutting out newcomer Slovenia 4-0 on Saturday.\n\nBo Horvat scored two power-play goals, Nathan MacKinnon had a goal and two assists and Noah Dobson also scored on a power play. Dylan Garand made 11 saves for Canada in the Group A game in the Swedish capital.\n\nHorvat opened the scoring 7:22 into the opening period with a one-timed shot from the left circle.\n\nCanada added three more goals in the middle period when it outshot Slovenia 22-3.\n\nMacKinnon doubled the advantage 3:41 into the frame with a shot in between the pads of goalie Lukas Horak. MacKinnon opted to join Canada after his Colorado Avalanche were knocked out of the NHL playoffs in the first round.\n\nHorvat added his second with 6:22 to go and Dobson made it 4-0 with 3:05 remaining in the second.\n\nCanada is the most successful nation at the tournament with 28 titles but finished fourth last year.\n\nWith MacKinnon and captain Sidney Crosby together at the worlds after 10 years, Canada is a clear favorite to win for the third time in the last five years.\n\n## Sweden comeback against Austria\n\nLast year's bronze medalist Sweden had to rally late to top Austria 4-2 in Stockholm.\n\nMika Zibanejad scored twice and Jonas Brodin and Alexander Wennberg had a goal each for the Swedes.\n\nTrailing 2-1, they came back late in the final period.\n\nSweden pulled goalie Samuel Ersson for an extra attacker 2:55 before the final whistle and Brodin tied it at 2-2 with a slap shot from the blue line with 2:19 remaining.\n\nZibanejad netted the winner from the slot 12 seconds later for his second. Wennberg added one more into an empty net.\n\nAfter losing to Finland 2-1 on Friday, Austria produced another decent performance against a title favorite.\n\nZibanejad tied it at 1-1 after Benjamin Baumgarten put the Austrians up in the middle period but Marco Kasper restored a one-goal advantage for Austria 2:26 into the final period.\n\n## Swiss top Denmark\n\nLast year's runner up Switzerland rebounded from a 5-4 overtime defeat to the Czech Republic by beating host Denmark 5-2 in the Danish city of Herning.\n\nCaptain Nico Hischier and Tyler Moy netted twice and added an assist each, and Damien Riat also had one goal for the Swiss.\n\nDenmark got goals from Oscar Moelgaard and Joachim Blichfeld in their second straight defeat.\n\nEarlier in Herning, Germany routed another newcomer Hungary 6-1 in Group B after Kazakhstan beat Norway 2-1.\n\nAlso in Stockholm, Latvia beat France 4-1 in their opening game.\n\n___\n\nAP sports: https://apnews.com/sports"
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"value": "# Canada shuts out Slovenia to open hockey worlds , Sweden downs Austria, Switzerland tops Denmark\n\nMay 10th, 2025 01:47 PM\n\n---\n\nSTOCKHOLM (AP) — Canada opened the ice hockey world championship by shutting out newcomer Slovenia 4-0 on Saturday.\n\nBo Horvat scored two power-play goals, Nathan MacKinnon had a goal and two assists and Noah Dobson also scored on a power play. Dylan Garand made 11 saves for Canada in the Group A game in the Swedish capital.\n\nHorvat opened the scoring 7:22 into the opening period with a one-timed shot from the left circle.\n\nCanada added three more goals in the middle period when it outshot Slovenia 22-3.\n\nMacKinnon doubled the advantage 3:41 into the frame with a shot in between the pads of goalie Lukas Horak. MacKinnon opted to join Canada after his Colorado Avalanche were knocked out of the NHL playoffs in the first round.\n\nHorvat added his second with 6:22 to go and Dobson made it 4-0 with 3:05 remaining in the second.\n\nCanada is the most successful nation at the tournament with 28 titles but finished fourth last year.\n\nWith MacKinnon and captain Sidney Crosby together at the worlds after 10 years, Canada is a clear favorite to win for the third time in the last five years.\n\n## Sweden comeback against Austria\n\nLast year's bronze medalist Sweden had to rally late to top Austria 4-2 in Stockholm.\n\nMika Zibanejad scored twice and Jonas Brodin and Alexander Wennberg had a goal each for the Swedes.\n\nTrailing 2-1, they came back late in the final period.\n\nSweden pulled goalie Samuel Ersson for an extra attacker 2:55 before the final whistle and Brodin tied it at 2-2 with a slap shot from the blue line with 2:19 remaining.\n\nZibanejad netted the winner from the slot 12 seconds later for his second. Wennberg added one more into an empty net.\n\nAfter losing to Finland 2-1 on Friday, Austria produced another decent performance against a title favorite.\n\nZibanejad tied it at 1-1 after Benjamin Baumgarten put the Austrians up in the middle period but Marco Kasper restored a one-goal advantage for Austria 2:26 into the final period.\n\n## Swiss top Denmark\n\nLast year's runner up Switzerland rebounded from a 5-4 overtime defeat to the Czech Republic by beating host Denmark 5-2 in the Danish city of Herning.\n\nCaptain Nico Hischier and Tyler Moy netted twice and added an assist each, and Damien Riat also had one goal for the Swiss.\n\nDenmark got goals from Oscar Moelgaard and Joachim Blichfeld in their second straight defeat.\n\nEarlier in Herning, Germany routed another newcomer Hungary 6-1 in Group B after Kazakhstan beat Norway 2-1.\n\nAlso in Stockholm, Latvia beat France 4-1 in their opening game."
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"value": "# This conclave will be the most geographically diverse in history\n\nBy Nicole Winfield \nMay 5th, 2025 05:16 AM\n\n---\n\nVATICAN CITY (AP) — There is no rule that cardinals electing a new pope vote a certain way according to their nationality or region. But understanding their makeup in geographic terms can help explain some of their priorities as they open the conclave Wednesday to choose a new leader of the 1.4-billion strong Catholic Church.\n\nA cardinal who heads the Vatican's liturgy office might have a very different set of concerns from the archbishop of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. A cardinal who runs a large European archdiocese with hundreds of priests likely has other priorities than the Vatican ambassador ministering to war-torn Syria or the archbishop of Managua, Nicaragua, whose church has been under siege by the government.\n\nThere are currently 135 cardinals who are under age 80 and eligible to vote in the conclave, hailing from 71 different countries in the most geographically diverse conclave in history. Already two have formally told the Holy See that they cannot attend for health reasons, bringing the number of men who will enter the Sistine Chapel down to 133.\n\n\"We must look at all five continents,\" Cardinal Luis José Rueda Aparicio, archbishop of Bogota, Colombia, said Monday as cardinals met ahead of the conclave. \"The Holy Spirit looks at them all.\"\n\nA two-thirds majority is needed to be elected pope, meaning that if the number of electors holds at 133, the winner must secure 89 votes.\n\n\"We support whoever is the best person,\" Singapore's Cardinal William Goh said. \"We don't choose a pope based on continent, based on race, based on language.\"\n\nThe countries with the most electors are: Italy (17), the United States (10), Brazil (7), France and Spain (5 each), Argentina, Canada, India, Poland and Portugal (4 each).\n\nHere is a regional breakdown of the full 135 cardinal electors, according to Vatican statistics and following the Vatican's geographic grouping.\n\nEurope: 53. (An elector who says he's skipping the conclave is from Spain, so the actual number of Europeans is expected to be 52.)\n\nAsia (including the Middle East): 23\n\nAfrica: 18. (Another elector who says he's skipping the conclave is from Kenya, so the number of Africans is expected to be 17.)\n\nSouth America: 17\n\nNorth America: 16 (of whom 10 are American, 4 are Canadian and 2 are Mexican)\n\nCentral America: 4\n\nOceania: 4 (1 each from Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and Tonga)\n\n___\n\nAssociated Press religion coverage receives support through the AP's collaboration with The Conversation US, with funding from Lilly Endowment Inc. The AP is solely responsible for this content."
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"value": "# This conclave will be the most geographically diverse in history\n\nBy Nicole Winfield \nMay 5th, 2025 05:16 AM\n\n---\n\nVATICAN CITY (AP) — There is no rule that cardinals electing a new pope vote a certain way according to their nationality or region. But understanding their makeup in geographic terms can help explain some of their priorities as they open the conclave Wednesday to choose a new leader of the 1.4-billion strong Catholic Church.\n\nA cardinal who heads the Vatican's liturgy office might have a very different set of concerns from the archbishop of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. A cardinal who runs a large European archdiocese with hundreds of priests likely has other priorities than the Vatican ambassador ministering to war-torn Syria or the archbishop of Managua, Nicaragua, whose church has been under siege by the government.\n\nThere are currently 135 cardinals who are under age 80 and eligible to vote in the conclave, hailing from 71 different countries in the most geographically diverse conclave in history. Already two have formally told the Holy See that they cannot attend for health reasons, bringing the number of men who will enter the Sistine Chapel down to 133.\n\n\"We must look at all five continents,\" Cardinal Luis José Rueda Aparicio, archbishop of Bogota, Colombia, said Monday as cardinals met ahead of the conclave. \"The Holy Spirit looks at them all.\"\n\nA two-thirds majority is needed to be elected pope, meaning that if the number of electors holds at 133, the winner must secure 89 votes.\n\n\"We support whoever is the best person,\" Singapore's Cardinal William Goh said. \"We don't choose a pope based on continent, based on race, based on language.\"\n\nThe countries with the most electors are: Italy (17), the United States (10), Brazil (7), France and Spain (5 each), Argentina, Canada, India, Poland and Portugal (4 each).\n\nHere is a regional breakdown of the full 135 cardinal electors, according to Vatican statistics and following the Vatican's geographic grouping.\n\nEurope: 53. (An elector who says he's skipping the conclave is from Spain, so the actual number of Europeans is expected to be 52.)\n\nAsia (including the Middle East): 23\n\nAfrica: 18. (Another elector who says he's skipping the conclave is from Kenya, so the number of Africans is expected to be 17.)\n\nSouth America: 17\n\nNorth America: 16 (of whom 10 are American, 4 are Canadian and 2 are Mexican)\n\nCentral America: 4\n\nOceania: 4 (1 each from Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and Tonga)"
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"value": "# Kristi Noem honor leads to unease at university in South Dakota\n\nBy Sarah Raza \nMay 5th, 2025 07:07 AM\n\n---\n\nMADISON, S.D. (AP) — Dakota State University hasn't experienced the student protests taking place at other U.S. colleges. Nestled in rural South Dakota, most of the nearly 4,000 students have been focused on their studies or job hunts, avoiding politics and partisan groups.\n\nUntil now.\n\nThe university administration decided to award an honorary doctorate to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and invited her to give a commencement speech May 10, bringing politics to the campus.\n\nIn response, students have planned a rally on graduation day opposing the former South Dakota governor and the Trump administration and expect protestors from across southeast South Dakota to join them.\n\nThey want to speak out against the federal government's immigration policies, which are being implemented with Noem's oversight, on behalf of peers who fear for their legal status. They also are expected to protest Noem's anti-LGBT actions during her time as governor.\n\nSome students and faculty also said they thought the honorary degree was too high an honor to bestow upon her.\n\nAmong DSU students, many are unsure if they should join the objections or stay quiet to avoid the kind of punishments suffered by students at more outspoken colleges.\n\n\"The atmosphere is tense,\" humanities instructor Daniel Spencer said. \"Students are afraid of making their voices heard.\"\n\nStudents studying in its renowned cybersecurity program have traditionally been hesitant to take political stances because they fear potential blowback when they later seek government and private sector jobs.\n\nDSU's location in Madison, a small town about an hour's drive northwest of Sioux Falls, also is a factor.\n\n\"Many of our students are from rural South Dakota, and there's a bit of an unwillingness to confront authority,\" Professor Emeritus Dale Droge said. \"We don't have very many students in the political sciences or history where they might be thinking about these more civil rights kind of actions.\"\n\nHundreds of international students who attend DSU and haven't yet been affected by recent DHS actions are weighing their participation options. The agency had terminated the legal status of more than 1,000 international students before reversing course and outlining a new policy for those terminations.\n\n\"I have international students coming to me from outside of the senate, across campus, who expressed to me that they don't want to get involved in any of this because they have fears of getting their visas revoked,\" said Anden Wieseler, a DSU junior and student senate vice president.\n\n## Noem's support for DSU\n\nDSU selected Noem because she was an \"unwavering champion of Dakota State\" during her time as governor, university spokesperson Andrew Sogn said in a written statement to The Associated Press.\n\nNoem, who received a political science degree from South Dakota State University, supported Dakota State's cybersecurity initiatives and helped secure millions of dollars in funding, cementing the school's standing as a national cybersecurity leader, Sogn said.\n\n\"She was asked to share remarks with DSU's graduates based on her distinguished and ground-breaking career in public service, and her many efforts to support the citizens of the state of South Dakota and the nation,\" Sogn said.\n\nNoem's office did not respond to a request for comment.\n\nDSU President José-Marie Griffiths nominated Noem to receive an honorary doctorate, though the university declined to provide details of the offer. The general faculty and student senate voted against the nomination, with only one of the 15 student senators voting in favor of the nomination, Wiesler said.\n\n## Fear of speaking out\n\n\"There is a fear among a lot of the international student body on speaking on this matter, just a result of the current political climate,\" said Tyler Sprik, a freshman and student senator. \"That's part of the reason me and several other senators have become so involved — it's because a lot of our colleagues can't.\"\n\nFaculty members also are apprehensive to share their opinions publicly. Some said the administration discouraged them from speaking to media and joining student rallies. Some cited President Donald Trump's heightened scrutiny on higher education as reason for caution.\n\nOther students said they feared reprisal from the administration and spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because they didn't want to jeopardize their jobs.\n\nSogn said that faculty members are welcome to speak with the media.\n\nSouth Dakota faculty are afforded fewer protections than in other states due to a 2020 state law outlawing faculty unions at public colleges.\n\nDroge is troubled by the reluctance to speak out.\n\n\"It is very concerning to me that we've reached a point in not just Dakota State, but in so many institutions that people are afraid to speak freely even on issues like this of free speech and principles and ethics,\" Droge said. \"These things aren't against the university in any way but it's about allowing people to speak their minds freely.\"\n\nSome faculty members also said having a high-profile figure at commencement may take attention away from the graduates.\n\n\"The biggest chatter I've heard from students and other faculty is first and foremost concern that there will be a disruption to the commencement, which we all feel is so important to the students that are there,\" said Stephen Krebsbach, a computer science professor.\n\nStill, many students are preparing for the rally.\n\n\"The students' attitude is clear. No honor for Noem. Give commencement back to the graduates and listen to us,\" Sprik said.\n\n___\n\nThis story corrects that Sogn did not address faculty protections in South Dakota."
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"value": "# Kristi Noem honor leads to unease at university in South Dakota\n\nBy Sarah Raza \nMay 5th, 2025 07:07 AM\n\n---\n\nMADISON, S.D. (AP) — Dakota State University hasn't experienced the student protests taking place at other U.S. colleges. Nestled in rural South Dakota, most of the nearly 4,000 students have been focused on their studies or job hunts, avoiding politics and partisan groups.\n\nUntil now.\n\nThe university administration decided to award an honorary doctorate to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and invited her to give a commencement speech May 10, bringing politics to the campus.\n\nIn response, students have planned a rally on graduation day opposing the former South Dakota governor and the Trump administration and expect protestors from across southeast South Dakota to join them.\n\nThey want to speak out against the federal government's immigration policies, which are being implemented with Noem's oversight, on behalf of peers who fear for their legal status. They also are expected to protest Noem's anti-LGBT actions during her time as governor.\n\nSome students and faculty also said they thought the honorary degree was too high an honor to bestow upon her.\n\nAmong DSU students, many are unsure if they should join the objections or stay quiet to avoid the kind of punishments suffered by students at more outspoken colleges.\n\n\"The atmosphere is tense,\" humanities instructor Daniel Spencer said. \"Students are afraid of making their voices heard.\"\n\nStudents studying in its renowned cybersecurity program have traditionally been hesitant to take political stances because they fear potential blowback when they later seek government and private sector jobs.\n\nDSU's location in Madison, a small town about an hour's drive northwest of Sioux Falls, also is a factor.\n\n\"Many of our students are from rural South Dakota, and there's a bit of an unwillingness to confront authority,\" Professor Emeritus Dale Droge said. \"We don't have very many students in the political sciences or history where they might be thinking about these more civil rights kind of actions.\"\n\nHundreds of international students who attend DSU and haven't yet been affected by recent DHS actions are weighing their participation options. The agency had terminated the legal status of more than 1,000 international students before reversing course and outlining a new policy for those terminations.\n\n\"I have international students coming to me from outside of the senate, across campus, who expressed to me that they don't want to get involved in any of this because they have fears of getting their visas revoked,\" said Anden Wieseler, a DSU junior and student senate vice president.\n\n## Noem's support for DSU\n\nDSU selected Noem because she was an \"unwavering champion of Dakota State\" during her time as governor, university spokesperson Andrew Sogn said in a written statement to The Associated Press.\n\nNoem, who received a political science degree from South Dakota State University, supported Dakota State's cybersecurity initiatives and helped secure millions of dollars in funding, cementing the school's standing as a national cybersecurity leader, Sogn said.\n\n\"She was asked to share remarks with DSU's graduates based on her distinguished and ground-breaking career in public service, and her many efforts to support the citizens of the state of South Dakota and the nation,\" Sogn said.\n\nNoem's office did not respond to a request for comment.\n\nDSU President José-Marie Griffiths nominated Noem to receive an honorary doctorate, though the university declined to provide details of the offer. The general faculty and student senate voted against the nomination, with only one of the 15 student senators voting in favor of the nomination, Wiesler said.\n\n## Fear of speaking out\n\n\"There is a fear among a lot of the international student body on speaking on this matter, just a result of the current political climate,\" said Tyler Sprik, a freshman and student senator. \"That's part of the reason me and several other senators have become so involved — it's because a lot of our colleagues can't.\"\n\nFaculty members also are apprehensive to share their opinions publicly. Some said the administration discouraged them from speaking to media and joining student rallies. Some cited President Donald Trump's heightened scrutiny on higher education as reason for caution.\n\nOther students said they feared reprisal from the administration and spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because they didn't want to jeopardize their jobs.\n\nSogn said that faculty members are welcome to speak with the media.\n\nSouth Dakota faculty are afforded fewer protections than in other states due to a 2020 state law outlawing faculty unions at public colleges.\n\nDroge is troubled by the reluctance to speak out.\n\n\"It is very concerning to me that we've reached a point in not just Dakota State, but in so many institutions that people are afraid to speak freely even on issues like this of free speech and principles and ethics,\" Droge said. \"These things aren't against the university in any way but it's about allowing people to speak their minds freely.\"\n\nSome faculty members also said having a high-profile figure at commencement may take attention away from the graduates.\n\n\"The biggest chatter I've heard from students and other faculty is first and foremost concern that there will be a disruption to the commencement, which we all feel is so important to the students that are there,\" said Stephen Krebsbach, a computer science professor.\n\nStill, many students are preparing for the rally.\n\n\"The students' attitude is clear. No honor for Noem. Give commencement back to the graduates and listen to us,\" Sprik said."
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"value": "# Ohtani and Freeman homer off Alcántara as Dodgers beat Marlins 7-4\n\nMay 6th, 2025 01:42 AM\n\n---\n\nMIAMI (AP) — Shohei Ohtani and Freddie Freeman homered and the Los Angeles Dodgers roughed up Sandy Alcántara again for a 7-4 win over the Miami Marlins on Monday night.\n\nMookie Betts and Teoscar Hernández each had two hits for the Dodgers, who have won eight of nine and began a 10-game road trip. Hernández left in the fourth because of tightness in his left hamstring. Manager Dave Roberts said after the game the slugger will have an MRI on Tuesday.\n\nIn his first major league start, Los Angeles' Hyeseong Kim had two hits and drove in a run.\n\nAlcántara (2-4) gave up five runs and six hits in five innings six days after the 2022 NL Cy Young Award winner was tagged for seven runs and seven hits in 2 2/3 innings against the defending World Series champions.\n\nThe Dodgers struck quickly against Alcántara on Hernández's RBI double in the first.\n\nFreeman made it 3-0 with a two-run drive in the third. The 402-foot blast over the wall in center was Freeman's 41st career homer against Miami, tying him for first by a Marlins opponent with Ryan Howard and Ryan Zimmerman.\n\nOhtani padded the lead with his two-run blast over the wall in right-center that had an exit velocity of 117.9 mph.\n\nBen Casparius (4-0) relieved Dodgers opener Jack Dreyer with one out in the second and scattered one run over four innings for the win.\n\nRookie Agustin Ramirez hit a three-run homer off Dodgers' reliever Yoendrys Gómez in the eighth that cut the Marlins' deficit to 7-4. Tanner Scott relieved Gómez and got the last two outs in the eighth before Kirby Yates closed for his first save.\n\n## Key moment\n\nKim singled to lead off the fifth for his first major league hit and scored on Ohtani's homer.\n\n## Key stat\n\nOhtani tied Hernández for the club lead in homers with nine. He now has gone deep four times at loanDepot Park in his last two games, following his three-homer performance last Sept. 19, when the star slugger became the first player to reach 50 home runs and 50 steals in a season.\n\n## Up next\n\nRHP Tony Gonsolin (1-0, 4.50 ERA) will start for the Dodgers on Tuesday, while the Marlins will go with RHP Cal Quantrill (2-3, 8.10)."
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"value": "# Israel police fire tear gas into Palestinian schoolyard in Jerusalem\n\nBy Maya Alleruzzo and Mahmoud Illean \nMay 7th, 2025 06:06 PM\n\n---\n\nIsrael has ordered six schools in East Jerusalem to close this week, throwing the educational future of 800 children of Palestinian refugees into turmoil.\n\nIn a visit to one of the schools — all run by the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, known as UNRWA — Associated Press reporters witnessed Israeli police throw tear gas into the schoolyard as a group of boys played outside.\n\nChildren sprinted away from the gas, coughing, drooling and covering their eyes. Some stripped off their clothes while others donned disposable masks.\n\nIsraeli police said the incursion into the Shuafat refugee camp came in response to stone-throwing but denied directly targeting the school. Teachers and administrators said the firing of tear gas onto schools grounds is uncommon, but Israeli operations into the camp regularly interfere with learning.\n\nTeacher Duaa Zourba ran to check on her students.\n\n\"As teachers in Shuafat, our first job has always been to ensure the protection and the safety of our kids,\" she said. \"Whenever there's a raid, we close windows. We close doors so that they don't smell very heavy tear gas.\"\n\n\"The goal,\" she said, \"is for the kids to always think of this school as a safe place, to remember that there's a place for them.\"\n\n___\n\nThis is a photo gallery curated by AP photo editors."
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"value": "# Israel police fire tear gas into Palestinian schoolyard in Jerusalem\n\nBy Maya Alleruzzo and Mahmoud Illean \nMay 7th, 2025 06:06 PM\n\n---\n\nIsrael has ordered six schools in East Jerusalem to close this week, throwing the educational future of 800 children of Palestinian refugees into turmoil.\n\nIn a visit to one of the schools — all run by the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, known as UNRWA — Associated Press reporters witnessed Israeli police throw tear gas into the schoolyard as a group of boys played outside.\n\nChildren sprinted away from the gas, coughing, drooling and covering their eyes. Some stripped off their clothes while others donned disposable masks.\n\nIsraeli police said the incursion into the Shuafat refugee camp came in response to stone-throwing but denied directly targeting the school. Teachers and administrators said the firing of tear gas onto schools grounds is uncommon, but Israeli operations into the camp regularly interfere with learning.\n\nTeacher Duaa Zourba ran to check on her students.\n\n\"As teachers in Shuafat, our first job has always been to ensure the protection and the safety of our kids,\" she said. \"Whenever there's a raid, we close windows. We close doors so that they don't smell very heavy tear gas.\"\n\n\"The goal,\" she said, \"is for the kids to always think of this school as a safe place, to remember that there's a place for them.\""
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"value": "# Golden State's Payton won't play in Game 7 against Rockets due to an illness\n\nBy Kristie Rieken \nMay 4th, 2025 11:29 PM\n\n---\n\nHOUSTON (AP) — Golden State guard Gary Payton II won't play in Game 7 of the first-round playoff series Sunday night against the Houston Rockets because of an illness.\n\nWarriors coach Steve Kerr provided details on how he was doing before the game.\n\n\"He's just sick as a dog,\" Kerr said. \"Woke up ill and didn't go to shootaround. Hasn't eaten. No way (he) can play. So it's a big blow.\"\n\nPayton came off the bench in the first five games of the series before starting Game 6. He had 16 points in Golden State's 104-93 win in Game 3.\n\nKerr was asked how his illness will impact the team's rotations Sunday night.\n\n\"We have to mix and match,\" Kerr said. \"He's obviously been an important player for us in the series. So we're actually going through it right now and trying to figure out lineup combos. But it definitely opens up the door for more minutes for several different options, but I'm not going to go into any detail.\"\n\n___\n\nAP NBA: https://apnews.com/hub/NBA"
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"value": "# Golden State's Payton won't play in Game 7 against Rockets due to an illness\n\nBy Kristie Rieken \nMay 4th, 2025 11:29 PM\n\n---\n\nHOUSTON (AP) — Golden State guard Gary Payton II won't play in Game 7 of the first-round playoff series Sunday night against the Houston Rockets because of an illness.\n\nWarriors coach Steve Kerr provided details on how he was doing before the game.\n\n\"He's just sick as a dog,\" Kerr said. \"Woke up ill and didn't go to shootaround. Hasn't eaten. No way (he) can play. So it's a big blow.\"\n\nPayton came off the bench in the first five games of the series before starting Game 6. He had 16 points in Golden State's 104-93 win in Game 3.\n\nKerr was asked how his illness will impact the team's rotations Sunday night.\n\n\"We have to mix and match,\" Kerr said. \"He's obviously been an important player for us in the series. So we're actually going through it right now and trying to figure out lineup combos. But it definitely opens up the door for more minutes for several different options, but I'm not going to go into any detail.\""
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"value": "# Austin Riley goes deep twice as the Braves hold off the Dodgers 4-3\n\nBy Charles Odum \nMay 5th, 2025 02:03 AM\n\n---\n\nATLANTA (AP) — Austin Riley hit two two-run homers, and the Atlanta Braves stopped the Los Angeles Dodgers' seven-game win streak with a 4-3 victory on Sunday night.\n\nRiley went deep in the first inning and again in the third. A pinch-hit homer by Miguel Rojas off Dylan Lee in the seventh cut the lead to 4-3.\n\nBraves closer Raisel Iglesias gave up an infield hit to Andy Pages to open the ninth. Pinch-runner Hyeseong Kim stole second base and advanced to third on Will Smith's strikeout. Iglesias struck out Rojas and Austin Barnes to earn his fifth save.\n\nThe Braves had been 0-5 against the Dodgers this season after losing the first two games of the series. Atlanta avoided being swept in the season series and snapped a string of seven consecutive losses to Los Angeles that began last season.\n\nDodgers right-hander Dustin May (1-2) trailed 2-0 before recording an out. May walked Alex Verdugo to open the game, and Riley drilled a homer 426 feet to left field.\n\nRiley added another shot, his eighth, off May in the third.\n\nAtlanta right-hander Bryce Elder (2-1) struck out six in five-plus innings. He was charged with two runs and four hits.\n\nDodgers left fielder Michael Conforto made a diving catch on Drake Baldwin's drive in the second.\n\n## Key moment\n\nRight-hander Pierce Johnson inherited runners on first and second with no outs when he took over for Elder in the sixth. He recorded three consecutive outs, including Max Muncy's run-scoring groundout.\n\n## Key stat\n\nConforto struck out looking in his two at-bats, leaving him in a 0-for-28 slump and his batting average at .141.\n\n## Up next\n\nLos Angeles continues its 10-game trip when it opens a three-game series at Miami on Monday night. Atlanta RHP AJ Smith-Shawver (1-2, 4.26 ERA) will face Cincinnati RHP Brady Singer (4-1, 3.24 ERA) in Monday night's opener of a four-game home series.\n\n___\n\nAP MLB: https://apnews.com/hub/mlb"
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"value": "# From 'conclave' to 'white smoke,' a glossary of terms used in a papal transition\n\nBy The Associated Press \nMay 7th, 2025 01:12 PM\n\n---\n\nVATICAN CITY (AP) — A change in popes — through death or resignation — is a complicated process, with centuries-old rituals involving the transition in leadership for both the spiritual head of the global Catholic Church and the Vatican's head of state.\n\nThese are the need-to-know terms — some of them in Latin — to help make sense of news in the coming days:\n\n## Who is in the College of Cardinals?\n\nThere are 252 cardinals worldwide, and as a body, they are in charge of the Holy See's affairs between popes, albeit with limits. Of them, 135 are \"cardinal electors,\" who gather in the Vatican to choose the new pope. Only 133 are participating in this conclave because two are sick. For centuries, they have chosen one of their own. The vast majority of the electors — 108 — were made cardinals by Pope Francis, according to Vatican statistics.\n\n## What is the conclave?\n\nThis is the closed-door meeting of the cardinal electors to choose the new pope in the Sistine Chapel. Its name, literally \"with a key,\" was used in the 13th century to describe the process of locking up the cardinals until the election is completed. It must begin no more than 20 days after the death or resignation of a pope. The electors are sequestered from all outsiders for the duration. The last three popes were chosen within days.\n\n## Who is the dean of the College of Cardinals?\n\nThe current dean is Italian Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re. He is the head of the College of Cardinals who informs the rest of the cardinals and the ambassadors to the Holy See of the pope's death once he learns of it from the camerlengo. He convenes the conclave and presides as the electors take their oaths. Since Re is 91, he cannot vote, so he will leave the Sistine Chapel once the conclave begins and the most senior cardinal, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, takes over.\n\n## What is St. Peter's Basilica?\n\nThe 16th century church, built over the traditional tomb of the apostle St. Peter, is one of the largest Catholic basilicas in the world and is the centerpiece of Vatican City, headquarters of the 1.4 billion-strong Catholic Church. The Renaissance masterpiece was built and decorated by some of the most illustrious architects and artists of the time. Its grottoes contain the remains of popes, and its vast, marbled interior is home to some of the Vatican's greatest treasures, including Michelangelo's Pieta sculpture and Gian Lorenzo Bernini's bronze baldacchino canopy over the main altar.\n\n## What is the Domus Santa Marta?\n\nThis Vatican guesthouse, built in 1996, specifically houses cardinals during a conclave and is used at other times as a hotel for visiting priests and Vatican officials. Pope Francis never moved out after he was elected, choosing to live in suite 201 rather than the papal apartments in the Apostolic Palace. Because there are so many electors this time and not enough room in the main building, some are being housed in an adjacent residence.\n\n## What does 'extra omnes' mean?\n\nA Latin phrase for \"all out,\" it's spoken by the master for papal liturgical celebrations, currently Italian Archbishop Diego Ravelli, to ask all those present except the cardinal electors to leave the Sistine Chapel to begin the voting process during the conclave.\n\n## What does it mean when they say, 'Habemus Papam'?\n\nThis Latin phrase translates to \"We have a pope.\" These are the words used by the \"protodeacon\" of the College of Cardinals to announce from the gallery of St. Peter's Basilica that a new pope has been elected. He then says the new pope's birth name and the name he has chosen to use as pope, also in Latin. The current protodeacon is French Cardinal Dominique Mamberti.\n\n## Who are the infirmarii?\n\nThese are the three cardinals, chosen by a random drawing from the electors, who are charged with gathering the ballots of any electors who made it to Rome but are ill during the conclave.\n\n## Who are the revisers?\n\nThese are the three cardinals, chosen by a random drawing from the electors, who are charged with reviewing the ballots during the conclave.\n\n## Who are the scrutineers?\n\nThese are the three cardinals, chosen by a random drawing from the electors, who are charged with reviewing each ballot and announcing it to the assembled conclave after each round of voting. They then tally the votes — to win the election, two-thirds of the votes are necessary — and they burn the ballots.\n\n## What does the saying 'sede vacante' mean?\n\nThis is Latin for \"vacant seat,\" the period between the pope's death or resignation and the election of a new one.\n\n## What does the text 'Universi Dominici Gregis' contain?\n\nThis Latin phrase means \"the Lord's whole flock.\" It's the Vatican constitution that regulates the processes from a pope's death until a new one is elected. St. John Paul II issued it in 1996 during his papacy, and Pope Benedict XVI twice amended it, most significantly by removing John Paul's provision that after about 12 days of balloting a simple majority could elect a new pope rather than a two-thirds majority. If the conclave lasts that long, the top two vote-getters go to a runoff, with a two-thirds majority required to win. Neither of the top two candidates casts a ballot in the runoff.\n\n## What does white or black smoke mean during a papal transition?\n\nAfter sessions of voting in the Sistine Chapel, the ballots are burned in a special furnace to indicate the outcome to the outside world. If no pope is chosen, the ballots are mixed with cartridges containing potassium perchlorate, anthracene (a component of coal tar), and sulfur to produce black smoke. If there is a winner, the burning ballots are mixed with potassium chlorate, lactose and chloroform resin to produce the white smoke. Bells usually are rung to further signal there is a new pope.\n\n___\n\nAssociated Press religion coverage receives support through the AP's collaboration with The Conversation US, with funding from Lilly Endowment Inc. The AP is solely responsible for this content."
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The vast majority of the electors — 108 — were made cardinals by Pope Francis, according to Vatican statistics.\n\n## What is the conclave?\n\nThis is the closed-door meeting of the cardinal electors to choose the new pope in the Sistine Chapel. Its name, literally \"with a key,\" was used in the 13th century to describe the process of locking up the cardinals until the election is completed. It must begin no more than 20 days after the death or resignation of a pope. The electors are sequestered from all outsiders for the duration. The last three popes were chosen within days.\n\n## Who is the dean of the College of Cardinals?\n\nThe current dean is Italian Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re. He is the head of the College of Cardinals who informs the rest of the cardinals and the ambassadors to the Holy See of the pope's death once he learns of it from the camerlengo. He convenes the conclave and presides as the electors take their oaths. Since Re is 91, he cannot vote, so he will leave the Sistine Chapel once the conclave begins and the most senior cardinal, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, takes over.\n\n## What is St. Peter's Basilica?\n\nThe 16th century church, built over the traditional tomb of the apostle St. Peter, is one of the largest Catholic basilicas in the world and is the centerpiece of Vatican City, headquarters of the 1.4 billion-strong Catholic Church. The Renaissance masterpiece was built and decorated by some of the most illustrious architects and artists of the time. Its grottoes contain the remains of popes, and its vast, marbled interior is home to some of the Vatican's greatest treasures, including Michelangelo's Pieta sculpture and Gian Lorenzo Bernini's bronze baldacchino canopy over the main altar.\n\n## What is the Domus Santa Marta?\n\nThis Vatican guesthouse, built in 1996, specifically houses cardinals during a conclave and is used at other times as a hotel for visiting priests and Vatican officials. Pope Francis never moved out after he was elected, choosing to live in suite 201 rather than the papal apartments in the Apostolic Palace. Because there are so many electors this time and not enough room in the main building, some are being housed in an adjacent residence.\n\n## What does 'extra omnes' mean?\n\nA Latin phrase for \"all out,\" it's spoken by the master for papal liturgical celebrations, currently Italian Archbishop Diego Ravelli, to ask all those present except the cardinal electors to leave the Sistine Chapel to begin the voting process during the conclave.\n\n## What does it mean when they say, 'Habemus Papam'?\n\nThis Latin phrase translates to \"We have a pope.\" These are the words used by the \"protodeacon\" of the College of Cardinals to announce from the gallery of St. Peter's Basilica that a new pope has been elected. He then says the new pope's birth name and the name he has chosen to use as pope, also in Latin. The current protodeacon is French Cardinal Dominique Mamberti.\n\n## Who are the infirmarii?\n\nThese are the three cardinals, chosen by a random drawing from the electors, who are charged with gathering the ballots of any electors who made it to Rome but are ill during the conclave.\n\n## Who are the revisers?\n\nThese are the three cardinals, chosen by a random drawing from the electors, who are charged with reviewing the ballots during the conclave.\n\n## Who are the scrutineers?\n\nThese are the three cardinals, chosen by a random drawing from the electors, who are charged with reviewing each ballot and announcing it to the assembled conclave after each round of voting. They then tally the votes — to win the election, two-thirds of the votes are necessary — and they burn the ballots.\n\n## What does the saying 'sede vacante' mean?\n\nThis is Latin for \"vacant seat,\" the period between the pope's death or resignation and the election of a new one.\n\n## What does the text 'Universi Dominici Gregis' contain?\n\nThis Latin phrase means \"the Lord's whole flock.\" It's the Vatican constitution that regulates the processes from a pope's death until a new one is elected. St. John Paul II issued it in 1996 during his papacy, and Pope Benedict XVI twice amended it, most significantly by removing John Paul's provision that after about 12 days of balloting a simple majority could elect a new pope rather than a two-thirds majority. If the conclave lasts that long, the top two vote-getters go to a runoff, with a two-thirds majority required to win. Neither of the top two candidates casts a ballot in the runoff.\n\n## What does white or black smoke mean during a papal transition?\n\nAfter sessions of voting in the Sistine Chapel, the ballots are burned in a special furnace to indicate the outcome to the outside world. If no pope is chosen, the ballots are mixed with cartridges containing potassium perchlorate, anthracene (a component of coal tar), and sulfur to produce black smoke. If there is a winner, the burning ballots are mixed with potassium chlorate, lactose and chloroform resin to produce the white smoke. Bells usually are rung to further signal there is a new pope."
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"value": "# Della Maddalena wrests welterweight championship from Belal Muhammad at UFC 315.\n\nMay 11th, 2025 04:45 AM\n\n---\n\nMONTREAL (AP) — Jack Della Maddalena beat Belal Muhammad via unanimous decision to wrest away the welterweight championship in the main event at UFC 315 on Saturday night.\n\nDella Maddalena (18-2-0) extended his fight win streak to 18 in a row with a 48-47, 48-47, 49-46 decision.\n\nThe loss ended Muhammad's 11-fight streak dating to January 2019.\n\n\"He brings the pressure, you know, I knew I had to be smart,\" the Australian said.\n\nIn the co-main event, two-time UFC flyweight champion Valentina Shevchenko (25-4-1) defended her belt against No. 2 ranked contender Manon Fiorot (12-2) of France.\n\nAll three judges scored it 48-47.\n\n\"I was expecting a hard fight, she's a good fighter,\" said the 37-year-old from Kyrgyzstan. \"I'm going to keep going. Numbers is nothing. What is more important is how you feel physically, mentally, how you perform.\"\n\nAiemann Zahabi shocked UFC Hall of Famer Jose Aldo in a featherweight main card fight, after which Aldo announced his retirement.\n\nZahabi (13-2) won by unanimous decision (29-28, 29-28, 29-28) and the Canadian has now won six straight fights.\n\nThe fight was originally scheduled to be disputed at the bantamweight division, but was changed to featherweight on Friday after both fighters checked in above the weight limit.\n\nAldo (32-10), of Brazil, announced his retirement from MMA fighting after a 21-year career.\n\n\"I don't think I have it in me anymore,\" Aldo said through a translator.\n\nSaturday's card was the first in Canada since Donald Trump was re-elected U.S. president in November. It comes amid growing political tensions between Canada and the United States, as Trump has repeatedly suggested that Canada should become the 51st U.S. state, and some of that tension spilled over.\n\nCanadian Mike Malott (12-2-1) won his fight with American Charles Radtke (10-5) by knockout 26 seconds into the second round of their welterweight bout. Malott took down Radtke with a clean left hook and would not let up, striking his opponent with repeated followup blows to seal the knockout.\n\nRadtke was met with jeers and curses from fans throughout the fight in response to comments he made to Canadian fans at a pre-fight news conference on Wednesday and the booing of \"The Star-Spangled Banner\" at Canadian sporting events in recent months.\n\nRadtke said \"when you all boo the national anthem, somebody's gonna have to pay for that.\"\n\nIn the women's flyweight division, Canadian Jasmine Jasudavicius (14-3) took down Brazilian Jessia Andrade (26-14) by submission just over halfway through the first round.\n\n\"When I was preparing for this fight, I kept on thinking about it being a quick finish,\" said Jasudavicius. \"I kept on telling myself to be ready for 15 hard minutes and everything.\"\n\nMarc-Andre Barriault (17-9) also knocked out opponent Bruno Silva (23-13) 1:27 into the opening round of their middleweight bout with an elbow struck to the side of Silva's head. Silva left the octagon on a stretcher.\n\nBenoit Saint Denis (14-3) beat Kyle Prepolec (12-8) by submission in the opening main card fight. The Frenchman took down the Canadian with an arm-triangle choke midway through the second round.\n\nPrepolec only found out less than two weeks ago he would be fighting in Montreal. The 35-year-old was called in to replace Joel Alvarez, who has a hand injury.\n\n___\n\nAP sports: https://apnews.com/sports"
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"value": "# Della Maddalena wrests welterweight championship from Belal Muhammad at UFC 315.\n\nMay 11th, 2025 04:45 AM\n\n---\n\nMONTREAL (AP) — Jack Della Maddalena beat Belal Muhammad via unanimous decision to wrest away the welterweight championship in the main event at UFC 315 on Saturday night.\n\nDella Maddalena (18-2-0) extended his fight win streak to 18 in a row with a 48-47, 48-47, 49-46 decision.\n\nThe loss ended Muhammad's 11-fight streak dating to January 2019.\n\n\"He brings the pressure, you know, I knew I had to be smart,\" the Australian said.\n\nIn the co-main event, two-time UFC flyweight champion Valentina Shevchenko (25-4-1) defended her belt against No. 2 ranked contender Manon Fiorot (12-2) of France.\n\nAll three judges scored it 48-47.\n\n\"I was expecting a hard fight, she's a good fighter,\" said the 37-year-old from Kyrgyzstan. \"I'm going to keep going. Numbers is nothing. What is more important is how you feel physically, mentally, how you perform.\"\n\nAiemann Zahabi shocked UFC Hall of Famer Jose Aldo in a featherweight main card fight, after which Aldo announced his retirement.\n\nZahabi (13-2) won by unanimous decision (29-28, 29-28, 29-28) and the Canadian has now won six straight fights.\n\nThe fight was originally scheduled to be disputed at the bantamweight division, but was changed to featherweight on Friday after both fighters checked in above the weight limit.\n\nAldo (32-10), of Brazil, announced his retirement from MMA fighting after a 21-year career.\n\n\"I don't think I have it in me anymore,\" Aldo said through a translator.\n\nSaturday's card was the first in Canada since Donald Trump was re-elected U.S. president in November. It comes amid growing political tensions between Canada and the United States, as Trump has repeatedly suggested that Canada should become the 51st U.S. state, and some of that tension spilled over.\n\nCanadian Mike Malott (12-2-1) won his fight with American Charles Radtke (10-5) by knockout 26 seconds into the second round of their welterweight bout. Malott took down Radtke with a clean left hook and would not let up, striking his opponent with repeated followup blows to seal the knockout.\n\nRadtke was met with jeers and curses from fans throughout the fight in response to comments he made to Canadian fans at a pre-fight news conference on Wednesday and the booing of \"The Star-Spangled Banner\" at Canadian sporting events in recent months.\n\nRadtke said \"when you all boo the national anthem, somebody's gonna have to pay for that.\"\n\nIn the women's flyweight division, Canadian Jasmine Jasudavicius (14-3) took down Brazilian Jessia Andrade (26-14) by submission just over halfway through the first round.\n\n\"When I was preparing for this fight, I kept on thinking about it being a quick finish,\" said Jasudavicius. \"I kept on telling myself to be ready for 15 hard minutes and everything.\"\n\nMarc-Andre Barriault (17-9) also knocked out opponent Bruno Silva (23-13) 1:27 into the opening round of their middleweight bout with an elbow struck to the side of Silva's head. Silva left the octagon on a stretcher.\n\nBenoit Saint Denis (14-3) beat Kyle Prepolec (12-8) by submission in the opening main card fight. The Frenchman took down the Canadian with an arm-triangle choke midway through the second round.\n\nPrepolec only found out less than two weeks ago he would be fighting in Montreal. The 35-year-old was called in to replace Joel Alvarez, who has a hand injury."
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"value": "# Former Supreme Court Justice David Souter dies in New Hampshire at 85\n\nBy Mark Sherman \nMay 9th, 2025 01:11 PM\n\n---\n\nWASHINGTON (AP) — Retired Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter, the ascetic bachelor and New Hampshire Republican who became a favorite of liberals during his nearly 20 years on the bench, has died. He was 85.\n\nSouter died Thursday at his home in New Hampshire, the court said in a statement Friday.\n\nHe retired from the court in June 2009, giving President Barack Obama his first Supreme Court vacancy to fill. Obama, a Democrat, chose Sonia Sotomayor, the court's first Latina justice.\n\nSouter was appointed by Republican President George H.W. Bush in 1990. He was a reliably liberal vote on abortion, church-state relations, freedom of expression and the accessibility of federal courts. Souter also dissented from the decision in Bush v. Gore in 2000, which effectively handed the presidency to George W. Bush, the son of the man who put him on the high court.\n\nWhile liberals were delighted with a justice they initially feared, conservatives turned Souter's appointment into a rallying cry, \"No more Souters,\" that fueled their successful drive to move the court more firmly to the right.\n\nIn retirement, Souter warned that ignorance of how government works could undermine American democracy.\n\n\"What I worry about is that when problems are not addressed, people will not know who is responsible. And when the problems get bad enough ... some one person will come forward and say, 'Give me total power and I will solve this problem.' That is how the Roman republic fell,\" Souter said in a 2012 interview.\n\nHis lifestyle was spare — yogurt and an apple, consumed at his desk, was a typical lunch — and he shunned Washington's social scene. He couldn't wait to leave town in early summer. As soon as the court finished its work in late June, he climbed into his Volkswagen Jetta for the drive back to the worn farmhouse where his family moved when he was 11.\n\nYet for all his reserve, Souter was beloved by colleagues, court employees and friends. He was a noted storyteller and generous with his time.\n\n\"Justice David Souter served our Court with great distinction for nearly twenty years. He brought uncommon wisdom and kindness to a lifetime of public service,\" Chief Justice John Roberts said. Souter continued hearing cases on the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for more than a decade after he left the high court, Roberts said.\n\nSotomayor recalled the kindness of the man she succeeded on the Supreme Court. \"When I arrived at the court, no one was more welcoming to me than David,\" she said in a statement. \"After his retirement, he periodically sent me notes, which I will forever treasure for their insightfulness and beautiful turns of phrase.\"\n\nWhen Bush plucked Souter from obscurity in 1990, liberal interest groups feared he would be the vote that would undo the court's Roe v. Wade ruling in favor of abortion rights. He was called a stealth nominee by some.\n\nBush White House aide John Sununu, the former conservative governor of New Hampshire, hailed his choice as a \"home run.\" And early in his time in Washington, Souter was called a moderate conservative.\n\nBut he soon joined in a ruling reaffirming women's right to an abortion, a decision from 1992 that is his most noted work on the court. Thirty years later, a more conservative court overturned that decision and the constitutional right to abortion.\n\nSouter asked precise questions during argument sessions, sometimes with a fierceness that belied his low-key manner. \"He had an unerring knack of finding the weakest link in your argument,\" veteran Supreme Court advocate Carter Phillips said.\n\nSouter was history's 105th Supreme Court justice and only its sixth bachelor.\n\nAlthough hailed by The Washington Post as the capital city's most prominently eligible single man when he moved from New Hampshire, Souter resolutely resisted the social whirl.\n\n\"I wasn't that kind of person before I moved to Washington, and, at this age, I don't see any reason to change,\" the intensely private Souter told an acquaintance.\n\nHe worked seven days a week through most of the court's term from October to early summer, staying at his Supreme Court office for more than 12 hours a day. He said he underwent an annual \"intellectual lobotomy\" at the start of each term because he had so little time to read for pleasure.\n\nSouter rented an apartment a few miles from the court and jogged alone at Fort McNair, an Army installation near his apartment building. He was once mugged while on a run, an apparently random act.\n\nSouter returned to his well-worn house in Weare, New Hampshire, for a few months each summer and was given the use of an office in a Concord courthouse.\n\nAn avid hiker, Souter spent much of his time away from work trekking through the New Hampshire mountains.\n\nWhen Souter in 2005 joined an unpopular 5-4 decision on eminent domain allowing a Connecticut city to take several waterfront homes for a private development, a group angered by the decision tried to use it to evict him from his Weare farmhouse to make way for the \"Lost Liberty Hotel.\" But Weare residents rejected the proposal.\n\nShortly after his retirement, Souter bought a 3,500-square-foot Cape Cod-style home in Hopkinton, New Hampshire. It was reported, though perhaps it was just part of Souter's lore, that he worried that the foundation of the house in Weare would give way under the weight of all the books he owned.\n\nSouter had been a federal appellate judge for just over four months when picked for the high court. He had heard but one case as a federal judge, and as a state judge previously had little chance to rule on constitutional issues.\n\nThough liberals were initially wary of his appointment, it was political conservatives who felt betrayed when, in two 1992 rulings, Souter helped forge a moderate-liberal coalition that reaffirmed the constitutional right of abortion and the court's longtime ban on officially sponsored prayers in public schools.\n\nYet as Souter biographer Tinsley Yarbrough noted, the justice did not take \"extreme positions.\"\n\nIndeed, in June 2008, Souter sided with Exxon Mobil Corp. and broke with his liberal colleagues in slashing the punitive damages the company owed Alaskan victims of the Exxon Valdez oil spill.\n\nBefore serving as a New Hampshire judge, Souter was his state's attorney general for two years. He worked on the attorney general's staff for the previous eight years, after a brief stint in private practice.\n\nSouter earned his undergraduate and law degrees from Harvard University, and a master's degree from Oxford as a Rhodes scholar.\n\n___\n\nAssociated Press writer Kathy McCormack contributed to this report from Concord, New Hampshire."
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"value": "# Former Supreme Court Justice David Souter dies in New Hampshire at 85\n\nBy Mark Sherman \nMay 9th, 2025 01:11 PM\n\n---\n\nWASHINGTON (AP) — Retired Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter, the ascetic bachelor and New Hampshire Republican who became a favorite of liberals during his nearly 20 years on the bench, has died. He was 85.\n\nSouter died Thursday at his home in New Hampshire, the court said in a statement Friday.\n\nHe retired from the court in June 2009, giving President Barack Obama his first Supreme Court vacancy to fill. Obama, a Democrat, chose Sonia Sotomayor, the court's first Latina justice.\n\nSouter was appointed by Republican President George H.W. Bush in 1990. He was a reliably liberal vote on abortion, church-state relations, freedom of expression and the accessibility of federal courts. Souter also dissented from the decision in Bush v. Gore in 2000, which effectively handed the presidency to George W. Bush, the son of the man who put him on the high court.\n\nWhile liberals were delighted with a justice they initially feared, conservatives turned Souter's appointment into a rallying cry, \"No more Souters,\" that fueled their successful drive to move the court more firmly to the right.\n\nIn retirement, Souter warned that ignorance of how government works could undermine American democracy.\n\n\"What I worry about is that when problems are not addressed, people will not know who is responsible. And when the problems get bad enough ... some one person will come forward and say, 'Give me total power and I will solve this problem.' That is how the Roman republic fell,\" Souter said in a 2012 interview.\n\nHis lifestyle was spare — yogurt and an apple, consumed at his desk, was a typical lunch — and he shunned Washington's social scene. He couldn't wait to leave town in early summer. As soon as the court finished its work in late June, he climbed into his Volkswagen Jetta for the drive back to the worn farmhouse where his family moved when he was 11.\n\nYet for all his reserve, Souter was beloved by colleagues, court employees and friends. He was a noted storyteller and generous with his time.\n\n\"Justice David Souter served our Court with great distinction for nearly twenty years. He brought uncommon wisdom and kindness to a lifetime of public service,\" Chief Justice John Roberts said. Souter continued hearing cases on the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for more than a decade after he left the high court, Roberts said.\n\nSotomayor recalled the kindness of the man she succeeded on the Supreme Court. \"When I arrived at the court, no one was more welcoming to me than David,\" she said in a statement. \"After his retirement, he periodically sent me notes, which I will forever treasure for their insightfulness and beautiful turns of phrase.\"\n\nWhen Bush plucked Souter from obscurity in 1990, liberal interest groups feared he would be the vote that would undo the court's Roe v. Wade ruling in favor of abortion rights. He was called a stealth nominee by some.\n\nBush White House aide John Sununu, the former conservative governor of New Hampshire, hailed his choice as a \"home run.\" And early in his time in Washington, Souter was called a moderate conservative.\n\nBut he soon joined in a ruling reaffirming women's right to an abortion, a decision from 1992 that is his most noted work on the court. Thirty years later, a more conservative court overturned that decision and the constitutional right to abortion.\n\nSouter asked precise questions during argument sessions, sometimes with a fierceness that belied his low-key manner. \"He had an unerring knack of finding the weakest link in your argument,\" veteran Supreme Court advocate Carter Phillips said.\n\nSouter was history's 105th Supreme Court justice and only its sixth bachelor.\n\nAlthough hailed by The Washington Post as the capital city's most prominently eligible single man when he moved from New Hampshire, Souter resolutely resisted the social whirl.\n\n\"I wasn't that kind of person before I moved to Washington, and, at this age, I don't see any reason to change,\" the intensely private Souter told an acquaintance.\n\nHe worked seven days a week through most of the court's term from October to early summer, staying at his Supreme Court office for more than 12 hours a day. He said he underwent an annual \"intellectual lobotomy\" at the start of each term because he had so little time to read for pleasure.\n\nSouter rented an apartment a few miles from the court and jogged alone at Fort McNair, an Army installation near his apartment building. He was once mugged while on a run, an apparently random act.\n\nSouter returned to his well-worn house in Weare, New Hampshire, for a few months each summer and was given the use of an office in a Concord courthouse.\n\nAn avid hiker, Souter spent much of his time away from work trekking through the New Hampshire mountains.\n\nWhen Souter in 2005 joined an unpopular 5-4 decision on eminent domain allowing a Connecticut city to take several waterfront homes for a private development, a group angered by the decision tried to use it to evict him from his Weare farmhouse to make way for the \"Lost Liberty Hotel.\" But Weare residents rejected the proposal.\n\nShortly after his retirement, Souter bought a 3,500-square-foot Cape Cod-style home in Hopkinton, New Hampshire. It was reported, though perhaps it was just part of Souter's lore, that he worried that the foundation of the house in Weare would give way under the weight of all the books he owned.\n\nSouter had been a federal appellate judge for just over four months when picked for the high court. He had heard but one case as a federal judge, and as a state judge previously had little chance to rule on constitutional issues.\n\nThough liberals were initially wary of his appointment, it was political conservatives who felt betrayed when, in two 1992 rulings, Souter helped forge a moderate-liberal coalition that reaffirmed the constitutional right of abortion and the court's longtime ban on officially sponsored prayers in public schools.\n\nYet as Souter biographer Tinsley Yarbrough noted, the justice did not take \"extreme positions.\"\n\nIndeed, in June 2008, Souter sided with Exxon Mobil Corp. and broke with his liberal colleagues in slashing the punitive damages the company owed Alaskan victims of the Exxon Valdez oil spill.\n\nBefore serving as a New Hampshire judge, Souter was his state's attorney general for two years. He worked on the attorney general's staff for the previous eight years, after a brief stint in private practice.\n\nSouter earned his undergraduate and law degrees from Harvard University, and a master's degree from Oxford as a Rhodes scholar."
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"value": "# Costa Rica looks to El Salvador in announcing new prison and tough-on-crime reforms\n\nBy Javier Cordoba \nMay 3rd, 2025 12:42 AM\n\n---\n\nSAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) — Costa Rican President Rodrigo Chaves took another step in his shift toward a tough-on-crime stance, announcing plans to build a new prison in the Central American nation modeled on the maximum security gang prison in El Salvador.\n\nWith the announcement Friday during a visit to the Reforma prison, Chaves was channeling El Salvador President Nayib Bukele who he recognized last year with Costa Rica's highest diplomatic honor for his decimation of that country's gangs.\n\nIn addition to building a new prison, Chaves said the small shops selling things inside existing prisons would be shut down. Permission for conjugal visits would be restricted and authorities would tighten the ability of families to bring food to inmates.\n\nThe restrictions were aimed at stopping drugs being brought into prisons and other illicit activities.\n\nCosta Rica continues to struggle with historically high homicide numbers.\n\nIn 2023, Costa Rica set a homicide record with 907, down somewhat in 2024 to 880. So far this year, the country is on nearly the same homicide pace as last year, according to government data.\n\nChaves spoke Friday of an \"alliance\" with El Salvador and said he was working to line up financing for the new prison.\n\nBukele built his massive new prison to hold alleged gang members among the 85,000 people arrested under his state of emergency for three years as his administration crushed the country's powerful street gangs.\n\nThat prison has received even more attention since the U.S. government shipped more than 200 Venezuelans it accused of gang ties in March. El Salvador's prisons have been criticized as legal black holes where a lack of due process makes it difficult for people to get out.\n\nBukele had visited the same Costa Rican prison last year with Chaves.\n\nRelatives of inmates saw the measures as harsh and have protested.\n\n\"They don't have privileges, they're rights, they took away their right to see their childen, the right to have a visit and to eat food from home,\" said Katherine López, the wife of an inmate."
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"value": "# Costa Rica looks to El Salvador in announcing new prison and tough-on-crime reforms\n\nBy Javier Cordoba \nMay 3rd, 2025 12:42 AM\n\n---\n\nSAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) — Costa Rican President Rodrigo Chaves took another step in his shift toward a tough-on-crime stance, announcing plans to build a new prison in the Central American nation modeled on the maximum security gang prison in El Salvador.\n\nWith the announcement Friday during a visit to the Reforma prison, Chaves was channeling El Salvador President Nayib Bukele who he recognized last year with Costa Rica's highest diplomatic honor for his decimation of that country's gangs.\n\nIn addition to building a new prison, Chaves said the small shops selling things inside existing prisons would be shut down. Permission for conjugal visits would be restricted and authorities would tighten the ability of families to bring food to inmates.\n\nThe restrictions were aimed at stopping drugs being brought into prisons and other illicit activities.\n\nCosta Rica continues to struggle with historically high homicide numbers.\n\nIn 2023, Costa Rica set a homicide record with 907, down somewhat in 2024 to 880. So far this year, the country is on nearly the same homicide pace as last year, according to government data.\n\nChaves spoke Friday of an \"alliance\" with El Salvador and said he was working to line up financing for the new prison.\n\nBukele built his massive new prison to hold alleged gang members among the 85,000 people arrested under his state of emergency for three years as his administration crushed the country's powerful street gangs.\n\nThat prison has received even more attention since the U.S. government shipped more than 200 Venezuelans it accused of gang ties in March. El Salvador's prisons have been criticized as legal black holes where a lack of due process makes it difficult for people to get out.\n\nBukele had visited the same Costa Rican prison last year with Chaves.\n\nRelatives of inmates saw the measures as harsh and have protested.\n\n\"They don't have privileges, they're rights, they took away their right to see their childen, the right to have a visit and to eat food from home,\" said Katherine López, the wife of an inmate."
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"value": "# Jeeno Thitikul plays bogey-free and no one can catch her in the Mizuho Americas Open\n\nMay 11th, 2025 07:30 PM\n\n---\n\nJERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) — Jeeno Thitikul of Thailand turned back a pair of challenges Sunday and played bogey-free over the final 27 holes at Liberty National, closing with a 3-under 69 for a four-shot victory over Celine Boutier in the Mizuho Americas Open.\n\nThitikul, who captured the Race to CME Globe and its $4 million prize to end last season, won for the first time this year and the fifth time in her LPGA Tour career.\n\nNelly Korda is still trying to win for the first time this year. She was within one shot of Thitikul until driving into the hazard on the par-4 ninth hole and taking bogey. It was a downward spiral from there, as Korda played the back nine with two bogeys and no birdies and was never a factor the rest of the way.\n\nThe final challenge came from Boutier, who was posed to catch the Thai player on the 15th hole when she hit her approach to 10 feet. Thitikul faced a tough par save from a bunker left of the green, with her foot up against the slope and having to clear another bunker to a back pin.\n\nThitikul pulled off the shot perfectly to 3 feet to save par. Boutier not only missed her birdie chance, she missed the 30-inch comeback putt and made bogey. Instead of a two-shot swing and a tie for the lead, Boutier fell three back with three holes to play.\n\nOn the 16th, Boutier missed an 8-foot birdie putt and Thitikul made her par putt from 7 feet to stay three shots behind. Thitikul all but ended the tournament with a 10-foot birdie putt on the 17th hole, and she capped off a clean par with a par save on the 18th.\n\n\"I know that a lot of putts didn't drop on the front nine, but I'm trying to do my best,\" Thitikul said. \"I was just trying to tell myself, 'Be patient, it's coming, it's coming.' That's pretty much what I told myself today.\"\n\nThitikul finished at 17-under 271 and won $450,000, pushing her over $1 million for the year and reclaiming the lead in the Race to CME Globe.\n\nBoutier shot 72 to finish second, followed by Carlota Ciganda (70) and Andrea Lee (72).\n\nThitikul didn't make many putts on the front nine, but just like the back nine on Saturday, she stayed in front by not making any bogeys. She made birdie on the opening hole, and her best work was a 6-iron to a back pin, using the slope to feed the ball down to 5 feet.\n\nIt was one of only two birdies for the round.\n\nThat's where Korda fell back. The No. 1 player in women's golf made three birdies on the front nine, the last one on the par-5 eighth hole, to get within one shot. That was the last birdie for Korda the rest of the round. She closed with a 73 to tie for fifth.\n\nThe tournament, hosted by Michelle Wie West, pairs American Junior Golf Association players with the LPGA pros. Aphrodite Deng, who lives about 20 minutes away, won the AJGA division that used the modified Stableford scoring.\n\n___\n\nAP golf: https://apnews.com/hub/golf"
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"value": "# Shaqiri inspires Basel to seal first Swiss league title since 2017\n\nMay 11th, 2025 05:08 PM\n\n---\n\nGENEVA (AP) — Inspired by Xherdan Shaqiri's return home from Major League Soccer, Basel sealed its first Swiss league title since 2017 on Sunday without playing.\n\nSecond-placed Servette's failure to win — drawing 0-0 at home to third-placed Young Boys — left Basel 11 points clear with three rounds left.\n\nThe 33-year-old Shaqiri has starred in the title run-in for his hometown club which he rejoined last August after three unremarkable seasons with Chicago Fire.\n\nShaqiri scored a hat trick in less than 10 minutes on Saturday, after Basel was reduced to 10 men, in a 5-2 win at Lugano. The second goal was an instinctive, curling and dipping shot like when he scored for Switzerland at the 2024 European Championship against Scotland.\n\n## Shaqiri the spark\n\nSeven straight wins for Basel, scoring five goals in each of the last three games, turned a tight title race involving at least five teams into a procession.\n\nShaqiri was the spark with nine goals and seven assists during the winning streak to raise his season tallies in the league to a career-best 18 goals and 20 assists.\n\nThe playmaker has now won the Swiss league in each of his four seasons with Basel, after the first three titles began when he was aged 18 in 2010. That started a Basel run of eight straight titles ending in 2017.\n\nShaqiri left Basel in 2012 to join Bayern Munich where the next season he won the first of his two Champions League winners' medals. The second came with Liverpool in 2019.\n\nBasel will enter the Champions League next season in the qualifying playoffs round in August. The Swiss league runner-up will enter in the second qualifying round in July, needing to beat three opponents to advance to the lucrative 36-team league phase.\n\nBasel is coached by former Switzerland midfielder Fabio Celestini who took over in October 2023 when the team was last in the standings.\n\n___\n\nAP soccer: https://apnews.com/hub/soccer"
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"value": "# Shaqiri inspires Basel to seal first Swiss league title since 2017\n\nMay 11th, 2025 05:08 PM\n\n---\n\nGENEVA (AP) — Inspired by Xherdan Shaqiri's return home from Major League Soccer, Basel sealed its first Swiss league title since 2017 on Sunday without playing.\n\nSecond-placed Servette's failure to win — drawing 0-0 at home to third-placed Young Boys — left Basel 11 points clear with three rounds left.\n\nThe 33-year-old Shaqiri has starred in the title run-in for his hometown club which he rejoined last August after three unremarkable seasons with Chicago Fire.\n\nShaqiri scored a hat trick in less than 10 minutes on Saturday, after Basel was reduced to 10 men, in a 5-2 win at Lugano. The second goal was an instinctive, curling and dipping shot like when he scored for Switzerland at the 2024 European Championship against Scotland.\n\n## Shaqiri the spark\n\nSeven straight wins for Basel, scoring five goals in each of the last three games, turned a tight title race involving at least five teams into a procession.\n\nShaqiri was the spark with nine goals and seven assists during the winning streak to raise his season tallies in the league to a career-best 18 goals and 20 assists.\n\nThe playmaker has now won the Swiss league in each of his four seasons with Basel, after the first three titles began when he was aged 18 in 2010. That started a Basel run of eight straight titles ending in 2017.\n\nShaqiri left Basel in 2012 to join Bayern Munich where the next season he won the first of his two Champions League winners' medals. The second came with Liverpool in 2019.\n\nBasel will enter the Champions League next season in the qualifying playoffs round in August. The Swiss league runner-up will enter in the second qualifying round in July, needing to beat three opponents to advance to the lucrative 36-team league phase.\n\nBasel is coached by former Switzerland midfielder Fabio Celestini who took over in October 2023 when the team was last in the standings."
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"value": "# Barcelona looking forward to bright Champions League future despite missing on 1st final in a decade\n\nBy Tales Azzoni \nMay 7th, 2025 11:56 AM\n\n---\n\nMADRID (AP) — It was a heartbreaking elimination for Barcelona, having come minutes away from returning to the Champions League final for the first time in a decade.\n\nThe disappointment was significant, considering how close it got to advancing and how well the team had been playing led by teenage sensation Lamine Yamal.\n\nStill, Barcelona found a way to focus on the positives following the 4-3 extra-time loss at Inter Milan in the semifinals of the Champions League on Tuesday, and the 17-year-old Yamal was making promises to bring the European trophy to the club.\n\n\"We gave everything we had, but this year it wasn't meant to be,\" Yamal said on a social media post. \"We will be back, there is no doubt about that. We won't stop until we put this club where it deserves, which is at the very top. I will fulfil my promise of bringing it to Barcelona. We won't stop until we do it.\"\n\nBarcelona recovered from a 2-0 halftime deficit on Tuesday to take the lead in the 87th minute before conceding a stoppage-time equalizer that forced extra time and led to Inter's victory.\n\n\"I am disappointed but not about the team's performance. They did everything they could and did a really good job. We are out but we will try again next season. We will try to make the fans and the club proud,\" Barcelona coach Hansi Flick said. \"We will learn from this, progress. We want to continue learning and next season we will be back.\"\n\nBarcelona has taken a huge leap forward in its first season under Flick, reaching the Champions League semifinals for the first time since 2019. It also leads the Spanish league, where it has a four-point advantage over Real Madrid ahead of the rivals' last \"clasico\" of the season on Sunday in Barcelona.\n\nThe Catalan club has been dominant against Madrid this season, outscoring its rival 12-4 in three matches. Barcelona beat Madrid 5-2 in the Spanish Super Cup final in January and 3-2 in the Copa del Rey final last month. It also won 4-0 at Madrid's Santiago Bernabeu Stadium in their first league match of the season in October.\n\n\"We have another final on Sunday and we have to stick together,\" Yamal said.\n\nA lot of the club's optimism going forward stems from the amount of young talent in the squad. In addition to Yamal, Barcelona also has the likes of Ansu Fati, Pedri, Gavi, Pau Cubarsí, Fermín López, Héctor Fort, Marc Casadó, Alejandro Balde, Pablo Torre and Marc Bernal. The oldest in that list — at 22 — are Pedri, Torre and Fati.\n\n\"We are a young side and we have to mature. We are working on it and we have to improve in defense and in other aspects,\" Flick said. \"We will continue to fight this season and the next. This game is over and now we have to pick ourselves up and look ahead as we have the clasico coming up. I will wake the team up.\"\n\nA loss on Sunday would bring Madrid back in the title race with three matches left. Madrid, the defending European champion, was eliminated by Arsenal in the Champions League quarterfinals.\n\nBarcelona last played in a Champions League final in 2015, when a team led by Lionel Messi won the club's fifth European trophy.\n\n___\n\nAP soccer: https://apnews.com/hub/soccer"
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"value": "# Barcelona looking forward to bright Champions League future despite missing on 1st final in a decade\n\nBy Tales Azzoni \nMay 7th, 2025 11:56 AM\n\n---\n\nMADRID (AP) — It was a heartbreaking elimination for Barcelona, having come minutes away from returning to the Champions League final for the first time in a decade.\n\nThe disappointment was significant, considering how close it got to advancing and how well the team had been playing led by teenage sensation Lamine Yamal.\n\nStill, Barcelona found a way to focus on the positives following the 4-3 extra-time loss at Inter Milan in the semifinals of the Champions League on Tuesday, and the 17-year-old Yamal was making promises to bring the European trophy to the club.\n\n\"We gave everything we had, but this year it wasn't meant to be,\" Yamal said on a social media post. \"We will be back, there is no doubt about that. We won't stop until we put this club where it deserves, which is at the very top. I will fulfil my promise of bringing it to Barcelona. We won't stop until we do it.\"\n\nBarcelona recovered from a 2-0 halftime deficit on Tuesday to take the lead in the 87th minute before conceding a stoppage-time equalizer that forced extra time and led to Inter's victory.\n\n\"I am disappointed but not about the team's performance. They did everything they could and did a really good job. We are out but we will try again next season. We will try to make the fans and the club proud,\" Barcelona coach Hansi Flick said. \"We will learn from this, progress. We want to continue learning and next season we will be back.\"\n\nBarcelona has taken a huge leap forward in its first season under Flick, reaching the Champions League semifinals for the first time since 2019. It also leads the Spanish league, where it has a four-point advantage over Real Madrid ahead of the rivals' last \"clasico\" of the season on Sunday in Barcelona.\n\nThe Catalan club has been dominant against Madrid this season, outscoring its rival 12-4 in three matches. Barcelona beat Madrid 5-2 in the Spanish Super Cup final in January and 3-2 in the Copa del Rey final last month. It also won 4-0 at Madrid's Santiago Bernabeu Stadium in their first league match of the season in October.\n\n\"We have another final on Sunday and we have to stick together,\" Yamal said.\n\nA lot of the club's optimism going forward stems from the amount of young talent in the squad. In addition to Yamal, Barcelona also has the likes of Ansu Fati, Pedri, Gavi, Pau Cubarsí, Fermín López, Héctor Fort, Marc Casadó, Alejandro Balde, Pablo Torre and Marc Bernal. The oldest in that list — at 22 — are Pedri, Torre and Fati.\n\n\"We are a young side and we have to mature. We are working on it and we have to improve in defense and in other aspects,\" Flick said. \"We will continue to fight this season and the next. This game is over and now we have to pick ourselves up and look ahead as we have the clasico coming up. I will wake the team up.\"\n\nA loss on Sunday would bring Madrid back in the title race with three matches left. Madrid, the defending European champion, was eliminated by Arsenal in the Champions League quarterfinals.\n\nBarcelona last played in a Champions League final in 2015, when a team led by Lionel Messi won the club's fifth European trophy."
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"value": "# Devers' homer boosts Giolito to first win since 2023 as Red Sox beat Royals 3-1\n\nBy Marc Bowman \nMay 11th, 2025 08:58 PM\n\n---\n\nKANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Rafael Devers' 440-foot homer snapped a 1-1 tie and Lucas Giolito pitched into the seventh inning for his first win since 2023 as the Boston Red Sox beat the Kansas City Royals 3-1 on Sunday.\n\nGiolito (1-1) allowed two singles and one unearned run in 6 2/3 innings to get his first win for Boston. He missed last season with a partially torn elbow ligament, and his last victory was for Cleveland on Sept. 15, 2023.\n\nDevers — again starting at designated hitter two days after Red Sox homer John Henry flew to Kansas City to meet with the disgruntled slugger over his refusal to play first base — followed up his 4-for-4 performance on Saturday with a monster homer. With one out and a runner on first in the sixth, Devers blasted Seth Lugo's first pitch to dead center, his seventh longball of the year.\n\nIn the third inning, Giolito threw wildly past third on Kyle Isbel's bunt, allowing Drew Waters to score. He faced the minimum after that.\n\nWilyer Abreu tied it in the fourth with his 10th homer, a 430-foot shot to right. Abreu had three hits, snapping an 0-for-13 slide.\n\nAroldis Chapman pitched a scoreless ninth for his sixth save.\n\nLugo (3-4) allowed three runs in six innings for his fifth straight quality start.\n\nKansas City had four hits, all singles, and lost consecutive games for the first time since a six-game skid from April 14-19.\n\n## Key moment\n\nWith two on and nobody out in the third, Giolito escaped the jam by getting two groundouts sandwiched around a strikeout of Bobby Witt Jr.\n\n## Key stat\n\nDevers has reached safely in eight of his last nine plate appearances.\n\n## Up next\n\nRed Sox RHP Tanner Houck (0-2, 6.10 ERA) opposes Tigers RHP Jackson Jobe (2-0, 4.88) at Detroit on Monday.\n\nRoyals RHP Michael Wacha (2-4, 2.98) faces the Astros at Houston on Tuesday.\n\n___\n\nAP MLB: https://apnews.com/hub/mlb"
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"value": "# Devers' homer boosts Giolito to first win since 2023 as Red Sox beat Royals 3-1\n\nBy Marc Bowman \nMay 11th, 2025 08:58 PM\n\n---\n\nKANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Rafael Devers' 440-foot homer snapped a 1-1 tie and Lucas Giolito pitched into the seventh inning for his first win since 2023 as the Boston Red Sox beat the Kansas City Royals 3-1 on Sunday.\n\nGiolito (1-1) allowed two singles and one unearned run in 6 2/3 innings to get his first win for Boston. He missed last season with a partially torn elbow ligament, and his last victory was for Cleveland on Sept. 15, 2023.\n\nDevers — again starting at designated hitter two days after Red Sox homer John Henry flew to Kansas City to meet with the disgruntled slugger over his refusal to play first base — followed up his 4-for-4 performance on Saturday with a monster homer. With one out and a runner on first in the sixth, Devers blasted Seth Lugo's first pitch to dead center, his seventh longball of the year.\n\nIn the third inning, Giolito threw wildly past third on Kyle Isbel's bunt, allowing Drew Waters to score. He faced the minimum after that.\n\nWilyer Abreu tied it in the fourth with his 10th homer, a 430-foot shot to right. Abreu had three hits, snapping an 0-for-13 slide.\n\nAroldis Chapman pitched a scoreless ninth for his sixth save.\n\nLugo (3-4) allowed three runs in six innings for his fifth straight quality start.\n\nKansas City had four hits, all singles, and lost consecutive games for the first time since a six-game skid from April 14-19.\n\n## Key moment\n\nWith two on and nobody out in the third, Giolito escaped the jam by getting two groundouts sandwiched around a strikeout of Bobby Witt Jr.\n\n## Key stat\n\nDevers has reached safely in eight of his last nine plate appearances.\n\n## Up next\n\nRed Sox RHP Tanner Houck (0-2, 6.10 ERA) opposes Tigers RHP Jackson Jobe (2-0, 4.88) at Detroit on Monday.\n\nRoyals RHP Michael Wacha (2-4, 2.98) faces the Astros at Houston on Tuesday."
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"value": "# Columbia University lays off nearly 180 after Trump pulled $400M over his antisemitism concerns\n\nBy Philip Marcelo \nMay 6th, 2025 07:57 PM\n\n---\n\nNEW YORK (AP) — Columbia University said Tuesday that it will be laying off nearly 180 staffers in response to President Donald Trump's decision to cancel $400 million in funding over the Manhattan college's handling of student protests against the war in Gaza.\n\nThose receiving non-renewal or termination notices Tuesday represent about 20% of the employees funded in some manner by the terminated federal grants, the university said in a statement Tuesday.\n\n\"We have had to make deliberate, considered decisions about the allocation of our financial resources,\" the university said. \"Those decisions also impact our greatest resource, our people. We understand this news will be hard.\"\n\nUniversity spokesperson Jessica Murphy declined to say whether more layoffs were expected, but said Columbia is taking a range of steps to create financial flexibility, including maintaining current salary levels and offering voluntary retirement incentives.\n\nResearch will also be scaled back, with some departments winding down studies and others maintaining some level of research while pursuing alternate funding.\n\nThe work impacted ranges from a project to develop an antiviral nasal spray for infectious diseases to various scientific studies on maternal mortality and morbidity, treatments for chronic illnesses such as long COVID, caring for newborns with opioid withdrawal syndrome and screenings for colorectal cancer, according to the university.\n\nThe layoffs, while expected, were \"dispiriting\" for faculty, said Marcel Agueros, secretary of Columbia's chapter of the American Association of University Professors, which has filed a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration arguing the cuts are unlawful.\n\nUniversity officials say they're working with the Trump administration in the hopes of getting the funding restored. But Agueros, an astronomy professor, said it will take years to undo the damage already inflicted.\n\n\"When there's an interruption in funding, people have to leave, new people can't be hired, some initiatives have to be put on hold, others need to be stopped, so research stops moving forward,\" he said.\n\nIn March, the Trump administration pulled the funding over what it described as the Ivy League school's failure to squelch antisemitism on campus during the Israel-Hamas war that began in October 2023.\n\nWithin weeks, Columbia capitulated to a series of demands laid out by the Republican administration as a starting point for restoring the funding.\n\nAmong the requirements was overhauling the university's student disciplinary process, banning campus protesters from wearing masks, barring demonstrations from academic buildings, adopting a new definition of antisemitism and putting the Middle Eastern studies program under the supervision of a vice provost who would have a say over curriculum and hiring.\n\nAfter Columbia announced the changes, U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon said the university was \" on the right track,\" but declined to say when or if Columbia's funding would be restored. Spokespersons for the federal education department didn't immediately respond to an email seeking comment Tuesday.\n\nColumbia was at the forefront of U.S. campus protests over the war last spring. Pro-Palestinian demonstrators set up an encampment and seized a campus building in April, leading to dozens of arrests and inspiring a wave of similar protests nationally.\n\nTrump, when he retook the White House in January, moved swiftly to cut federal money to colleges and universities he viewed as too tolerant of antisemitism."
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"value": "# Columbia University lays off nearly 180 after Trump pulled $400M over his antisemitism concerns\n\nBy Philip Marcelo \nMay 6th, 2025 07:57 PM\n\n---\n\nNEW YORK (AP) — Columbia University said Tuesday that it will be laying off nearly 180 staffers in response to President Donald Trump's decision to cancel $400 million in funding over the Manhattan college's handling of student protests against the war in Gaza.\n\nThose receiving non-renewal or termination notices Tuesday represent about 20% of the employees funded in some manner by the terminated federal grants, the university said in a statement Tuesday.\n\n\"We have had to make deliberate, considered decisions about the allocation of our financial resources,\" the university said. \"Those decisions also impact our greatest resource, our people. We understand this news will be hard.\"\n\nUniversity spokesperson Jessica Murphy declined to say whether more layoffs were expected, but said Columbia is taking a range of steps to create financial flexibility, including maintaining current salary levels and offering voluntary retirement incentives.\n\nResearch will also be scaled back, with some departments winding down studies and others maintaining some level of research while pursuing alternate funding.\n\nThe work impacted ranges from a project to develop an antiviral nasal spray for infectious diseases to various scientific studies on maternal mortality and morbidity, treatments for chronic illnesses such as long COVID, caring for newborns with opioid withdrawal syndrome and screenings for colorectal cancer, according to the university.\n\nThe layoffs, while expected, were \"dispiriting\" for faculty, said Marcel Agueros, secretary of Columbia's chapter of the American Association of University Professors, which has filed a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration arguing the cuts are unlawful.\n\nUniversity officials say they're working with the Trump administration in the hopes of getting the funding restored. But Agueros, an astronomy professor, said it will take years to undo the damage already inflicted.\n\n\"When there's an interruption in funding, people have to leave, new people can't be hired, some initiatives have to be put on hold, others need to be stopped, so research stops moving forward,\" he said.\n\nIn March, the Trump administration pulled the funding over what it described as the Ivy League school's failure to squelch antisemitism on campus during the Israel-Hamas war that began in October 2023.\n\nWithin weeks, Columbia capitulated to a series of demands laid out by the Republican administration as a starting point for restoring the funding.\n\nAmong the requirements was overhauling the university's student disciplinary process, banning campus protesters from wearing masks, barring demonstrations from academic buildings, adopting a new definition of antisemitism and putting the Middle Eastern studies program under the supervision of a vice provost who would have a say over curriculum and hiring.\n\nAfter Columbia announced the changes, U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon said the university was \" on the right track,\" but declined to say when or if Columbia's funding would be restored. Spokespersons for the federal education department didn't immediately respond to an email seeking comment Tuesday.\n\nColumbia was at the forefront of U.S. campus protests over the war last spring. Pro-Palestinian demonstrators set up an encampment and seized a campus building in April, leading to dozens of arrests and inspiring a wave of similar protests nationally.\n\nTrump, when he retook the White House in January, moved swiftly to cut federal money to colleges and universities he viewed as too tolerant of antisemitism."
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"value": "# What to know about the conclave to elect the next pope\n\nBy Vanessa Gera \nMay 7th, 2025 05:01 AM\n\n---\n\nVATICAN CITY (AP) — One hundred and thirty-three cardinals sequestered themselves behind the Vatican's medieval walls for a conclave to elect a successor to Pope Francis. Here are some things to know about the election of the 267th pontiff of the Catholic Church, which has 1.4 billion faithful across the world.\n\n## Why is the conclave being held now?\n\nThe conclave was called after Francis died on April 21 at age 88. There was a delay between his death and the conclave to allow time for a funeral, burial and a period of mourning. It was also necessary to give cardinals time to arrive in Rome from all corners of the Earth, and to let them get acquainted before entering the conclave, an ancient ritual steeped in mystery and ritual.\n\n## What happens in a conclave?\n\nA solemn day began with a Mass in St. Peter's Basilica. The cardinals walked in procession into the frescoed Sistine Chapel, chanting the meditative \"Litany of the Saints\" and the Latin hymn \"Veni Creator,\" imploring the saints and the Holy Spirit to help them pick a pope.\n\nThe cardinals are cut off from the world at the Vatican, between residences and the Sistine Chapel, where they vote in secret — and in silence — beneath Michelangelo's famed ceiling fresco of the Creation and his monumental \"Last Judgment.\"\n\nThe process — fictionalized in the 2024 political thriller \"Conclave\" — is said to be guided by the Holy Spirit, and is designed to be both contemplative and free from outside interference.\n\nTaking no chances, the Vatican is asking cardinals to hand over their phones for the duration of the conclave and is deactivating cell phone coverage at the Vatican. It is using signal jammers around the Sistine Chapel and the Domus Santa Marta hotel and adjacent residence where the cardinals will sleep, to prevent surveillance and communication with the outside world.\n\n## White or black smoke signals?\n\nThe electors cast paper ballots, and voting continues until one candidate receives a two-thirds majority, or 89 votes. After voting, ballots are burned in a special stove — black smoke signals no decision, while white smoke means a new pope has been chosen.\n\nElectors must be under 80 years old, and are more geographically diverse than ever. They represent Catholicism's growing presence in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, as well as its traditional power base in Europe.\n\n## How long does it take?\n\nThe longest conclave in history lasted nearly three years, but it's reasonable to assume that this conclave will be much, much shorter.\n\nCardinals this week said they expect a short conclave, though it will likely take at least a few rounds of voting.\n\nA first round produced darks dark smoke that rose into Wednesday's night sky, sending a disappointed crowd to disperse in all directions.\n\nFor most of the past century, it has taken between three and eight ballots to find a pope. John Paul I — the pope who reigned for 33 days — was elected on the third ballot in 1978. His successor, St. John Paul II, needed eight. Francis was elected on the fifth in 2013.\n\n## Who are the contenders?\n\nThere are no official candidates for the papacy, but some cardinals are considered \"papabile,\" or possessing the characteristics necessary to become pope.\n\nAfter John Paul II broke the Italian hold on the papacy in 1978, the field has broadened considerably, such that cardinals from far-flung countries are now seen as contenders.\n\nOf the 133 cardinals expected to vote at the conclave, 108 were appointed by Francis. They may feel a loyalty to continuing his legacy — even though the late pontiff didn't choose cardinals based on ideology, but rather for their pastoral priorities and geographical diversity.\n\n## What happens after a new pope is chosen?\n\nOnce a candidate receives the necessary votes and accepts, he chooses a papal name and enters the \"Room of Tears\" — named for the emotional weight of the responsibility ahead — to don his papal vestments.\n\nMinutes later, he is introduced to the world from the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica with the proclamation in Latin: \"Annuntio vobis gaudium magnum: Habemus Papam!\" (\"I bring you tidings of great joy: We have a pope!\")\n\nThat will be immediately followed by the revelation of his baptismal name, in Latin, followed by the papal name he has chosen.\n\n## A line that stretches back to St. Peter and Jesus\n\nEvery new pope is seen as a successor to St. Peter, the apostle believed by Catholics to have been appointed by Jesus as the head of the church. In the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus tells him, \"You are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church,\" a verse that forms the biblical basis for the papacy.\n\nAccording to tradition, Peter traveled to Rome to spread the Christian message and was martyred there during the reign of the Emperor Nero, around 64 A.D., as Christians were being persecuted. He was said to be crucified upside down at his own request, considering himself unworthy to die in the same manner as Jesus.\n\nSt. Peter's Basilica now stands over what is believed to be his tomb.\n\n## Why does the pope matter beyond the Catholic Church?\n\nThough the pope leads a religious institution, his influence extends far beyond it. Pope John Paul II played a pivotal role in supporting the Solidarity movement in his native Poland and encouraging resistance to Soviet domination in Eastern Europe. His moral leadership was credited by many with helping to hasten the end of the Cold War.\n\nPope Francis, the first pontiff from Latin America, became a prominent voice on global issues from climate change to migration and economic inequality. He called for compassion toward refugees, warned against the dangers of nationalism, and urged action to protect the planet — stances that resonated well beyond church walls, and at times put him at odds with political leaders.\n\n## A name to signal a papal direction\n\nThe first sign of the new pope's priorities will come in the name he chooses.\n\nA Francis II might signal a new pope's embrace of Francis' legacy of prioritizing the poor and marginalized; a Pius would hint at a traditionalist restoration.\n\n____\n\nAssociated Press religion coverage receives support through the AP's collaboration with The Conversation US, with funding from Lilly Endowment Inc. The AP is solely responsible for this content."
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"value": "# What to know about the conclave to elect the next pope\n\nBy Vanessa Gera \nMay 7th, 2025 05:01 AM\n\n---\n\nVATICAN CITY (AP) — One hundred and thirty-three cardinals sequestered themselves behind the Vatican's medieval walls for a conclave to elect a successor to Pope Francis. Here are some things to know about the election of the 267th pontiff of the Catholic Church, which has 1.4 billion faithful across the world.\n\n## Why is the conclave being held now?\n\nThe conclave was called after Francis died on April 21 at age 88. There was a delay between his death and the conclave to allow time for a funeral, burial and a period of mourning. It was also necessary to give cardinals time to arrive in Rome from all corners of the Earth, and to let them get acquainted before entering the conclave, an ancient ritual steeped in mystery and ritual.\n\n## What happens in a conclave?\n\nA solemn day began with a Mass in St. Peter's Basilica. The cardinals walked in procession into the frescoed Sistine Chapel, chanting the meditative \"Litany of the Saints\" and the Latin hymn \"Veni Creator,\" imploring the saints and the Holy Spirit to help them pick a pope.\n\nThe cardinals are cut off from the world at the Vatican, between residences and the Sistine Chapel, where they vote in secret — and in silence — beneath Michelangelo's famed ceiling fresco of the Creation and his monumental \"Last Judgment.\"\n\nThe process — fictionalized in the 2024 political thriller \"Conclave\" — is said to be guided by the Holy Spirit, and is designed to be both contemplative and free from outside interference.\n\nTaking no chances, the Vatican is asking cardinals to hand over their phones for the duration of the conclave and is deactivating cell phone coverage at the Vatican. It is using signal jammers around the Sistine Chapel and the Domus Santa Marta hotel and adjacent residence where the cardinals will sleep, to prevent surveillance and communication with the outside world.\n\n## White or black smoke signals?\n\nThe electors cast paper ballots, and voting continues until one candidate receives a two-thirds majority, or 89 votes. After voting, ballots are burned in a special stove — black smoke signals no decision, while white smoke means a new pope has been chosen.\n\nElectors must be under 80 years old, and are more geographically diverse than ever. They represent Catholicism's growing presence in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, as well as its traditional power base in Europe.\n\n## How long does it take?\n\nThe longest conclave in history lasted nearly three years, but it's reasonable to assume that this conclave will be much, much shorter.\n\nCardinals this week said they expect a short conclave, though it will likely take at least a few rounds of voting.\n\nA first round produced darks dark smoke that rose into Wednesday's night sky, sending a disappointed crowd to disperse in all directions.\n\nFor most of the past century, it has taken between three and eight ballots to find a pope. John Paul I — the pope who reigned for 33 days — was elected on the third ballot in 1978. His successor, St. John Paul II, needed eight. Francis was elected on the fifth in 2013.\n\n## Who are the contenders?\n\nThere are no official candidates for the papacy, but some cardinals are considered \"papabile,\" or possessing the characteristics necessary to become pope.\n\nAfter John Paul II broke the Italian hold on the papacy in 1978, the field has broadened considerably, such that cardinals from far-flung countries are now seen as contenders.\n\nOf the 133 cardinals expected to vote at the conclave, 108 were appointed by Francis. They may feel a loyalty to continuing his legacy — even though the late pontiff didn't choose cardinals based on ideology, but rather for their pastoral priorities and geographical diversity.\n\n## What happens after a new pope is chosen?\n\nOnce a candidate receives the necessary votes and accepts, he chooses a papal name and enters the \"Room of Tears\" — named for the emotional weight of the responsibility ahead — to don his papal vestments.\n\nMinutes later, he is introduced to the world from the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica with the proclamation in Latin: \"Annuntio vobis gaudium magnum: Habemus Papam!\" (\"I bring you tidings of great joy: We have a pope!\")\n\nThat will be immediately followed by the revelation of his baptismal name, in Latin, followed by the papal name he has chosen.\n\n## A line that stretches back to St. Peter and Jesus\n\nEvery new pope is seen as a successor to St. Peter, the apostle believed by Catholics to have been appointed by Jesus as the head of the church. In the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus tells him, \"You are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church,\" a verse that forms the biblical basis for the papacy.\n\nAccording to tradition, Peter traveled to Rome to spread the Christian message and was martyred there during the reign of the Emperor Nero, around 64 A.D., as Christians were being persecuted. He was said to be crucified upside down at his own request, considering himself unworthy to die in the same manner as Jesus.\n\nSt. Peter's Basilica now stands over what is believed to be his tomb.\n\n## Why does the pope matter beyond the Catholic Church?\n\nThough the pope leads a religious institution, his influence extends far beyond it. Pope John Paul II played a pivotal role in supporting the Solidarity movement in his native Poland and encouraging resistance to Soviet domination in Eastern Europe. His moral leadership was credited by many with helping to hasten the end of the Cold War.\n\nPope Francis, the first pontiff from Latin America, became a prominent voice on global issues from climate change to migration and economic inequality. He called for compassion toward refugees, warned against the dangers of nationalism, and urged action to protect the planet — stances that resonated well beyond church walls, and at times put him at odds with political leaders.\n\n## A name to signal a papal direction\n\nThe first sign of the new pope's priorities will come in the name he chooses.\n\nA Francis II might signal a new pope's embrace of Francis' legacy of prioritizing the poor and marginalized; a Pius would hint at a traditionalist restoration."
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"value": "# Plans are unclear for Kentucky Derby winner Sovereignty and others with the Preakness 2 weeks away\n\nBy Gary B. Graves \nMay 4th, 2025 07:51 PM\n\n---\n\nLOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Sovereignty's Kentucky Derby victory in the muck at Churchill Downs sparked curiosity over whether the colt can build on his signature win over a possibly drier, faster surface on the Triple Crown trail.\n\nThe question now is whether that test will come sooner or later.\n\nHall of Fame trainer Bill Mott didn't sound like someone preparing Sovereignty for a trip to Baltimore to run in the 150th Preakness Stakes on May 17 at Pimlico Race course, offering a cautious approach Sunday. He mentioned a small scrape on the horse's right front pastern, likely resulting from clipping heels with another horse coming out of the gate, but said it wasn't serious.\n\n\"The great thing about the Triple Crown is that not many horses are able to do it,\" Mott said, referring to American Pharoah in 2015 and Justify in 2018. \"I believe that he's a big, strong horse and if you're ever going to look at one and say, OK, if that's your goal and the goal of the owner, it's still in the best interest of the horse. But we're going to look long term.\"\n\nThe immediate futures for horses who finished just behind Sovereignty or skipped the Derby altogether remained muddy, as well.\n\nTwo-time Triple Crown-winning trainer Bob Baffert returned to Churchill Downs after a four-year suspension with two entries but scratched Wood Memorial winner Rodriguez, pointing him toward the Preakness rather than Citizen Bull, who finished 15th. Fellow Hall of Famer Todd Pletcher scratched his lone Derby entrant, Grande, on Friday. There's also a large group of hopefuls who earned Derby points during qualifying and could try other Triple Crown stops.\n\nThe Preakness is the shortest race at 1 3/16 mile, but its quick two-week turnaround from the 1 1/4-mile Derby often gives pause for trainers and ownership groups. With the Belmont Stakes set for June 7, five weeks after the Derby and separated three weeks from the Preakness, that race is viewed by many as a preferred option.\n\nThat final jewel of the Triple Crown, taking place at Saratoga Race Course in upstate New York for a second consecutive year, features the same distance as the Derby because of the shape of the track instead of its traditional 1 1/2-miles.\n\nRedemption might be in order for Derby runner-up Journalism, who fell short as the 3-1 favorite. Trainer Michael McCarthy said in a news release that \"We've got no complaints\" and praised his colt's effort to rally into the lead briefly before Sovereignty, the 7-1 third choice, overtook him in the stretch and won by 1 1/2 lengths.\n\n\"With a field this size in a race like this, it's all about the trip,\" McCarthy said. \"It didn't quite work out the way we hoped, but he ran a good race against a good horse.\"\n\nBaeza finished third but trainer John Shirreffs pointed to the Belmont for his California-based horse. Final Gambit charged from last to finish fourth among 19 horses, and trainer Brad Cox said, \"This gives us confidence to try a fast dirt surface in the future.\"\n\nMott and Godolphin LLC ownership group representative Michael Banahan expressed the same faith in Sovereignty for his next step.\n\nThe newest Derby champion emerged briefly on the shed row for media and onlookers, and his handlers felt good about the horse's initial condition. They plan to watch him the next few days before making a decision about the immediate part of his bright future.\n\n\"We're just doing the right thing for the horse, what he needs to do,\" Banahan said. \"He has a big year, hopefully to continue down the road here. There's an awful lot of nice races that you'd like to put on his resume, as well. So, we're just doing the right thing for him.\"\n\n___\n\nAP horse racing: https://apnews.com/hub/horse-racing"
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"value": "# Plans are unclear for Kentucky Derby winner Sovereignty and others with the Preakness 2 weeks away\n\nBy Gary B. Graves \nMay 4th, 2025 07:51 PM\n\n---\n\nLOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Sovereignty's Kentucky Derby victory in the muck at Churchill Downs sparked curiosity over whether the colt can build on his signature win over a possibly drier, faster surface on the Triple Crown trail.\n\nThe question now is whether that test will come sooner or later.\n\nHall of Fame trainer Bill Mott didn't sound like someone preparing Sovereignty for a trip to Baltimore to run in the 150th Preakness Stakes on May 17 at Pimlico Race course, offering a cautious approach Sunday. He mentioned a small scrape on the horse's right front pastern, likely resulting from clipping heels with another horse coming out of the gate, but said it wasn't serious.\n\n\"The great thing about the Triple Crown is that not many horses are able to do it,\" Mott said, referring to American Pharoah in 2015 and Justify in 2018. \"I believe that he's a big, strong horse and if you're ever going to look at one and say, OK, if that's your goal and the goal of the owner, it's still in the best interest of the horse. But we're going to look long term.\"\n\nThe immediate futures for horses who finished just behind Sovereignty or skipped the Derby altogether remained muddy, as well.\n\nTwo-time Triple Crown-winning trainer Bob Baffert returned to Churchill Downs after a four-year suspension with two entries but scratched Wood Memorial winner Rodriguez, pointing him toward the Preakness rather than Citizen Bull, who finished 15th. Fellow Hall of Famer Todd Pletcher scratched his lone Derby entrant, Grande, on Friday. There's also a large group of hopefuls who earned Derby points during qualifying and could try other Triple Crown stops.\n\nThe Preakness is the shortest race at 1 3/16 mile, but its quick two-week turnaround from the 1 1/4-mile Derby often gives pause for trainers and ownership groups. With the Belmont Stakes set for June 7, five weeks after the Derby and separated three weeks from the Preakness, that race is viewed by many as a preferred option.\n\nThat final jewel of the Triple Crown, taking place at Saratoga Race Course in upstate New York for a second consecutive year, features the same distance as the Derby because of the shape of the track instead of its traditional 1 1/2-miles.\n\nRedemption might be in order for Derby runner-up Journalism, who fell short as the 3-1 favorite. Trainer Michael McCarthy said in a news release that \"We've got no complaints\" and praised his colt's effort to rally into the lead briefly before Sovereignty, the 7-1 third choice, overtook him in the stretch and won by 1 1/2 lengths.\n\n\"With a field this size in a race like this, it's all about the trip,\" McCarthy said. \"It didn't quite work out the way we hoped, but he ran a good race against a good horse.\"\n\nBaeza finished third but trainer John Shirreffs pointed to the Belmont for his California-based horse. Final Gambit charged from last to finish fourth among 19 horses, and trainer Brad Cox said, \"This gives us confidence to try a fast dirt surface in the future.\"\n\nMott and Godolphin LLC ownership group representative Michael Banahan expressed the same faith in Sovereignty for his next step.\n\nThe newest Derby champion emerged briefly on the shed row for media and onlookers, and his handlers felt good about the horse's initial condition. They plan to watch him the next few days before making a decision about the immediate part of his bright future.\n\n\"We're just doing the right thing for the horse, what he needs to do,\" Banahan said. \"He has a big year, hopefully to continue down the road here. There's an awful lot of nice races that you'd like to put on his resume, as well. So, we're just doing the right thing for him.\""
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"value": "# Democrat Josh McLaurin announces run for Georgia lieutenant governor in 2026\n\nBy Jeff Amy \nMay 5th, 2025 12:03 PM\n\n---\n\nATLANTA (AP) — Democratic Georgia state Sen. Josh McLaurin announced Monday that he's running for lieutenant governor in 2026, saying he would make opposition to President Donald Trump's policies a key part of his campaign.\n\nBurt Jones, the current Republican lieutenant governor, is expected to run for governor next year, and could announce his candidacy within the next few weeks.\n\nMcLaurin, of Sandy Springs, scheduled a Monday news conference in Savannah to highlight the threat to Georgia's largest port that McLaurin sees from Trump's tariff policies.\n\n\"Georgia should be putting up every obstacle possible to Trump's authoritarian agenda at the state level,\" McLaurin said in a statement. \"And while we're at it, the Georgia legislature should be passing widely popular policies that Republicans have been blocking for years — Medicaid expansion, restoration of reproductive freedom, common sense gun safety legislation, and more.\"\n\nMcLaurin is a onetime roommate of now-Vice President JD Vance when both were students at Yale Law School.\n\nMcLaurin was elected to the Georgia House in 2018 and to the state Senate in 2022. He's frequently spoken out against what he sees as wrongheaded Republican policies, including delivering speeches that he called \"Trump Morning News\" attacking the Trump administration most days of the 2025 session.\n\nGeorgia's lieutenant governor presides over Senate sessions, but senators decide how much power or influence the official has. Republicans are likely to retain a majority after the 2026 elections, but McLaurin said even if he's sidelined, the office \"will be extremely useful for changing the tone of the Senate's business and shining more of a light on the extremist policies Republicans increasingly are passing.\"\n\nOn the Republican side, Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Blake Tillery of Vidalia has already announced that he's running for lieutenant governor. Senate President Pro Tem John Kennedy of Macon and Senate Majority Leader Steve Gooch of Dahlonega are also expected to join the GOP field. Other Republicans could run as well, including state Sen. Greg Dolezal of Cumming."
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"value": "# Democrat Josh McLaurin announces run for Georgia lieutenant governor in 2026\n\nBy Jeff Amy \nMay 5th, 2025 12:03 PM\n\n---\n\nATLANTA (AP) — Democratic Georgia state Sen. Josh McLaurin announced Monday that he's running for lieutenant governor in 2026, saying he would make opposition to President Donald Trump's policies a key part of his campaign.\n\nBurt Jones, the current Republican lieutenant governor, is expected to run for governor next year, and could announce his candidacy within the next few weeks.\n\nMcLaurin, of Sandy Springs, scheduled a Monday news conference in Savannah to highlight the threat to Georgia's largest port that McLaurin sees from Trump's tariff policies.\n\n\"Georgia should be putting up every obstacle possible to Trump's authoritarian agenda at the state level,\" McLaurin said in a statement. \"And while we're at it, the Georgia legislature should be passing widely popular policies that Republicans have been blocking for years — Medicaid expansion, restoration of reproductive freedom, common sense gun safety legislation, and more.\"\n\nMcLaurin is a onetime roommate of now-Vice President JD Vance when both were students at Yale Law School.\n\nMcLaurin was elected to the Georgia House in 2018 and to the state Senate in 2022. He's frequently spoken out against what he sees as wrongheaded Republican policies, including delivering speeches that he called \"Trump Morning News\" attacking the Trump administration most days of the 2025 session.\n\nGeorgia's lieutenant governor presides over Senate sessions, but senators decide how much power or influence the official has. Republicans are likely to retain a majority after the 2026 elections, but McLaurin said even if he's sidelined, the office \"will be extremely useful for changing the tone of the Senate's business and shining more of a light on the extremist policies Republicans increasingly are passing.\"\n\nOn the Republican side, Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Blake Tillery of Vidalia has already announced that he's running for lieutenant governor. Senate President Pro Tem John Kennedy of Macon and Senate Majority Leader Steve Gooch of Dahlonega are also expected to join the GOP field. Other Republicans could run as well, including state Sen. Greg Dolezal of Cumming."
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"value": "# A Philadelphia woman is the eighth person to die from the January crash of a medical plane\n\nBy Maryclaire Dale \nMay 6th, 2025 04:42 PM\n\n---\n\nPHILADELPHIA (AP) — An eighth person has died months after the crash of a medical transport plane in Philadelphia, city officials said Tuesday.\n\nDominique Goods-Burke, who was in a vehicle hit by debris when the plane crashed in northeast Philadelphia, died on April 27, the city Medical Examiner's Office confirmed. She had been out shopping with her fiance, Steven Dreuitt, who died after their vehicle was engulfed in flames on Jan. 31, and his son who suffered severe burns, according to news reports.\n\nGoods-Burke died at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, a spokesperson for the Medical Examiner's Office said. She was 34.\n\nColleagues at the cafe where she worked declined to comment on Tuesday. They told WTXF-TV, which first reported her death, that she was a beloved employee who worked as a baking supervisor.\n\n\"She was an amazing mom, she was an incredible baker, she held this place together,\" Meg Hagele, the founder of High Point Cafe, told the station.\n\nThe crash, which took place on a Friday evening near a busy intersection, killed all six people on the Learjet 55 air ambulance, including a girl who was traveling home after receiving medical treatment in Philadelphia. All six people aboard were from Mexico.\n\nOfficials said that about two dozen people were injured on the ground and more than a dozen homes were damaged or destroyed.\n\nThe National Transportation Safety Board, which is investigating the crash, said the voice recorder on the plane was not working.\n\nThe Philadelphia crash came two days after a midair collision between an American Airlines jet and an Army helicopter over the Potomac River near Washington, D.C., killed 67 people, the deadliest U.S. air disaster in a generation.\n\n___\n\nThis story was first published on May 6, 2025. It was updated on May 7, 2025 to reflect the health department's revised information on the hospital where Dominique Goods-Burke died. She died at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, not Jefferson Einstein Philadelphia Hospital."
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"value": "# Alligators, snakes, biting insects: Small plane crash survivors recall 36-hour ordeal\n\nBy Carlos Valdez and Isabel Debre \nMay 3rd, 2025 08:04 PM\n\n---\n\nLA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — It was after their tiny plane crashed into the Bolivian jungle earlier this week that their ordeal really began.\n\nAfter smashing into the ground, the aircraft flipped over into a lagoon infested with anacondas and alligators, plunging the pilot and four passengers — including a 6-year-old boy — into a harrowing 36 hours spent clinging to the plane's wreckage before being rescued Friday in the northeast of this Andean nation.\n\nThe doctor who treated the five survivors told The Associated Press on Saturday all were conscious and in stable condition, with only the young boy's 37-year-old aunt still hospitalized for an infected gash to her head. The rest were discharged and recovering from dehydration, minor chemical burns, infected cuts, bruises and insect bites all over their bodies.\n\n\"We couldn't believe it, that they weren't attacked and left for dead,\" Dr. Luis Soruco, director of the hospital where the survivors were delivered in Bolivia's tropical Beni province, said by phone after sending the pilot and two of the women home with a strong course of antibiotics.\n\nThe pilot, 27-year-old Pablo Andrés Velarde, emerged Friday to tell the story that has transfixed many Bolivians — a rare piece of uplifting news for a nation badly in need of it after years of a spiraling economic and political crisis.\n\n\"The mosquitoes wouldn't let us sleep,\" Velarde told reporters from his hospital cot in the provincial capital of Trinidad, where Dr. Soruco said he was in surprisingly good health and spirits. \"The alligators and snakes watched us all night, but they didn't come close.\"\n\nShocked that the caimans (pronounced KAY-men), a species of the alligator family native to Central and South America, didn't lunge at them, Velarde speculated it was the stench of jet fuel spilling from the wreckage that had kept the predatory reptiles at bay, although there's no scientific proof that's an effective alligator repellent.\n\nVelarde said that the five of them survived by eating ground cassava flour that one of the women had brought as a snack. They had nothing to drink — the lagoon water was filled with gasoline.\n\nThe small plane had set off Wednesday from the Bolivian village of Baures, bound for the bigger town of Trinidad farther south, where Patricia Coria Guary had a medical check-up scheduled for her 6-year-old nephew at the pediatric hospital, Dr. Soruco said. Two other women, neighbors from Baures ages 32 and 54, joined them.\n\nSuch flights are a common form of transportation in this remote Amazonian region carved with rivers. Heavy rains wash away unpaved roads this time of year.\n\nBut just 27 minutes — almost halfway — into the flight, the plane's lone engine cut out. Velarde said he reported their imminent crash over a portable radio to a colleague.\n\nHe recalled in interviews with local media that he scanned the vast emerald green canopy below him and aimed for a clearing near a lagoon.\n\n\"There was no ranch or road along the route,\" he said. \"It was just swamp.\"\n\nInstead of skidding across the shore as planned, the plane smashed into the ground and flipped upside down — injuring everyone on board and leaving Coria Guary with an especially deep cut to her forehead — before splashing into the water.\n\n\"The landing was very rough,\" Velarde said.\n\nAs the plane flooded, the five of them managed to clamber on top of the fuselage, where they stayed for two terrifying nights surrounded by caimans and anacondas and attacked by swarms of mosquitoes and other insects.\n\nThey waved shirts and sheets to no avail and screamed each time they heard the thud of propellers or revving of a boat engine. On Friday, at the sound of approaching motorboats, \"we started shining our cell phone flashlights and shouting,\" Velarde said.\n\nA group of fishermen noticed, and helped them into their canoe. They called the authorities and delivered them to an army helicopter some hours later.\n\n\"We couldn't have handled it one more night,\" Velarde said.\n\n___\n\nDeBre reported from Buenos Aires, Argentina."
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"value": "# Henry Pollock is the talk of rugby after his Lions call-up. Here's what to know about him\n\nBy Steve Douglas \nMay 9th, 2025 01:34 PM\n\n---\n\nHenry Pollock is the talk of British — and European — rugby after being selected for the British and Irish Lions at the age of 20 and after playing barely 30 minutes for England.\n\nIt's one of the more remarkable call-ups in the proud, nearly 140-year history of the Lions.\n\nHere's what you need to know about this brilliant and brash rugby prodigy:\n\n## Who is Henry Pollock?\n\nPollock is a back-row forward who plays his club rugby for Northampton Saints in England.\n\nHe is 1.88 meters (6-foot-2) tall and weighs 100 kilograms (220 pounds), according to his club.\n\n## What is his background?\n\nBorn in Banbury, a town about 70 miles (112 kilometers) northwest of London, Pollock has a sporting family.\n\nHis mother, Hester, competed in triathlon at national level. His older sister, Zoe, has represented the University of Georgia in track (400 meters and 400-meter hurdles). And his brother, Angus, is a scratch golfer. Pollock himself competed in triathlons as a teenager.\n\n\"Mum is the reason I love sport. She introduced me to fitness,\" Pollock told the BBC. \"We would wake up at 5.30 a.m. for a two-hour swim session on a Saturday and then go and do a triathlon at school. It was mad, but looking back now it made me who I am.\"\n\nPollock also was taken to mini-rugby by his father and, after impressive performances at secondary school, joined Northampton's academy set-up for the under-13 season. He moved to Stowe School, a boarding school, at the age of 13 and was coached there by a former Northampton player, Grant Seely.\n\n## His rugby career so far\n\nWhile captaining Northampton's under-18 team, Pollock made his debut for the senior team — at age 17 — in a domestic cup competition on October 2022. He crossed for two tries, becoming Northampton's youngest try-scorer in the professional era.\n\nPollock made his debut in the top-flight English Premiership in the 2023-24 season and also scored a try on his debut in the European Champions Cup, against Castres in December last year.\n\nHe has quickly become a regular in the first team and a standout, too. He scored tries in victories over Castres and Leinster in the knockout stage of the Champions Cup to help Northampton reach this month's final against Bordeaux.\n\nAll this while studying part-time for a sports management degree at Loughborough University.\n\n## Does Pollock have an international pedigree?\n\nWell, he was captain of England's under-18 team, scored a hat trick on his England under-20s debut, was player of the tournament in the 2024 Six Nations under-20 tournament, and helped England win the world under-20 championship in July.\n\nHe started this year's senior Six Nations in the England under-20s and finished it in the senior team, making his debut against Wales in the final round and scoring two tries as a 49th-minute replacement. That remains his only senior appearance for England.\n\n## What is Pollock's playing style?\n\nPollock is extremely athletic — he can squat 230 kilograms (507 pounds) for three reps, bench press 140 kilograms (309 pounds) for two and has sprinting speeds of around 10 meters per second, according to a report from Britain's Daily Telegraph — and extremely confident in his own ability.\n\nWearing with a distinctive black headband, he has celebrated tries with a swallow dive, has no issue getting in rivals' faces and winding them up — he has been known to rip scrum caps off the heads of opponents — and can lead team talks despite his inexperience.\n\nHe backs up his brashness with his displays, though, notably last weekend when outshining Leinster's back row of Caelan Doris, Josh van der Flier and Jack Conan. That's the Ireland back row and it rubber-stamped Lions coach Andy Farrell's decision to pick him to the tour of Australia.\n\n## What does Farrell say about Pollock?\n\nFarrell has been aware of Pollock's rise and is clearly impressed. Indeed, he believes this \"confident, cocky\" youngster can compete for a place on the test team.\n\n\"What do we want? Do we want a kid to show his confidence as a 23-year-old or 24-year-old instead of as a 20-year-old?\" Farrell said. \"It's just about the here and now. If he's performing against the type of quality that he has been doing, then he's ready to compete.\n\n\"I think you'll see the fight in him and I'm sure he'll push all the others that didn't realize he was coming. I'm sure that he'll relish that.\"\n\n___\n\nAP rugby: https://apnews.com/hub/rugby"
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"value": "# Henry Pollock is the talk of rugby after his Lions call-up. Here's what to know about him\n\nBy Steve Douglas \nMay 9th, 2025 01:34 PM\n\n---\n\nHenry Pollock is the talk of British — and European — rugby after being selected for the British and Irish Lions at the age of 20 and after playing barely 30 minutes for England.\n\nIt's one of the more remarkable call-ups in the proud, nearly 140-year history of the Lions.\n\nHere's what you need to know about this brilliant and brash rugby prodigy:\n\n## Who is Henry Pollock?\n\nPollock is a back-row forward who plays his club rugby for Northampton Saints in England.\n\nHe is 1.88 meters (6-foot-2) tall and weighs 100 kilograms (220 pounds), according to his club.\n\n## What is his background?\n\nBorn in Banbury, a town about 70 miles (112 kilometers) northwest of London, Pollock has a sporting family.\n\nHis mother, Hester, competed in triathlon at national level. His older sister, Zoe, has represented the University of Georgia in track (400 meters and 400-meter hurdles). And his brother, Angus, is a scratch golfer. Pollock himself competed in triathlons as a teenager.\n\n\"Mum is the reason I love sport. She introduced me to fitness,\" Pollock told the BBC. \"We would wake up at 5.30 a.m. for a two-hour swim session on a Saturday and then go and do a triathlon at school. It was mad, but looking back now it made me who I am.\"\n\nPollock also was taken to mini-rugby by his father and, after impressive performances at secondary school, joined Northampton's academy set-up for the under-13 season. He moved to Stowe School, a boarding school, at the age of 13 and was coached there by a former Northampton player, Grant Seely.\n\n## His rugby career so far\n\nWhile captaining Northampton's under-18 team, Pollock made his debut for the senior team — at age 17 — in a domestic cup competition on October 2022. He crossed for two tries, becoming Northampton's youngest try-scorer in the professional era.\n\nPollock made his debut in the top-flight English Premiership in the 2023-24 season and also scored a try on his debut in the European Champions Cup, against Castres in December last year.\n\nHe has quickly become a regular in the first team and a standout, too. He scored tries in victories over Castres and Leinster in the knockout stage of the Champions Cup to help Northampton reach this month's final against Bordeaux.\n\nAll this while studying part-time for a sports management degree at Loughborough University.\n\n## Does Pollock have an international pedigree?\n\nWell, he was captain of England's under-18 team, scored a hat trick on his England under-20s debut, was player of the tournament in the 2024 Six Nations under-20 tournament, and helped England win the world under-20 championship in July.\n\nHe started this year's senior Six Nations in the England under-20s and finished it in the senior team, making his debut against Wales in the final round and scoring two tries as a 49th-minute replacement. That remains his only senior appearance for England.\n\n## What is Pollock's playing style?\n\nPollock is extremely athletic — he can squat 230 kilograms (507 pounds) for three reps, bench press 140 kilograms (309 pounds) for two and has sprinting speeds of around 10 meters per second, according to a report from Britain's Daily Telegraph — and extremely confident in his own ability.\n\nWearing with a distinctive black headband, he has celebrated tries with a swallow dive, has no issue getting in rivals' faces and winding them up — he has been known to rip scrum caps off the heads of opponents — and can lead team talks despite his inexperience.\n\nHe backs up his brashness with his displays, though, notably last weekend when outshining Leinster's back row of Caelan Doris, Josh van der Flier and Jack Conan. That's the Ireland back row and it rubber-stamped Lions coach Andy Farrell's decision to pick him to the tour of Australia.\n\n## What does Farrell say about Pollock?\n\nFarrell has been aware of Pollock's rise and is clearly impressed. Indeed, he believes this \"confident, cocky\" youngster can compete for a place on the test team.\n\n\"What do we want? Do we want a kid to show his confidence as a 23-year-old or 24-year-old instead of as a 20-year-old?\" Farrell said. \"It's just about the here and now. If he's performing against the type of quality that he has been doing, then he's ready to compete.\n\n\"I think you'll see the fight in him and I'm sure he'll push all the others that didn't realize he was coming. I'm sure that he'll relish that.\""
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"value": "# What's in the big bill that Republicans are crafting to meet Trump's agenda\n\nBy Lisa Mascaro \nMay 6th, 2025 04:01 AM\n\n---\n\nWASHINGTON (AP) — Congress is deep into drafting President Donald Trump's big bill of tax breaks, spending cuts and beefed-up funding to halt migrants, but it's \"bumpy,\" one Republican chairman says, with much work ahead to meet House Speaker Mike Johnson's goal of passing the package out of his chamber by Memorial Day.\n\nIn fact, the tax cuts portion is still a work in progress. As are the reductions in Medicaid, food stamps and other mainstay government programs. Mostly, the Republicans, who have the majority in Congress, have made progress on parts that would increase spending, adding some $350 billion to the Pentagon and Homeland Security, including money for the U.S-Mexico border wall.\n\n\"There are some bumps in the road,\" Rep. Jason Smith of Missouri, the Republican chairman of the powerful Ways and Means tax-writing committee, acknowledged on \"Fox News Sunday.\"\n\nAll told, some 11 committees in the House are compiling their bills, and about half have finished up. They are being approved at the committee level by Republicans, on party-line votes, with Democrats opposed.\n\nBut some of the most-watched committees — Ways and Means, Energy and Commerce and Agriculture — have yet to act. Johnson himself acknowledged on Monday that his Memorial Day deadline may slip, but vowed \"our timetable is on pace.\"\n\nOnce all the committees are done, the different pieces of legislation will be rolled together at the Budget Committee into what Trump calls \"one big, beautiful bill.\"\n\nIf the House can pass the package, it next would go to the Senate, which is drafting its own version, for a final product by July 4.\n\nDemocrats say they will fight what House party leader Hakeem Jeffries calls the \"extreme Republican agenda.\"\n\nHere's a look at what's in and out, so far.\n\n## Funding for 1 million migrant deportations, 20,000 new officers and the border wall\n\nTwo of the committees handling immigration- and border security-related matters have wrapped up their legislation.\n\nCentral to the Homeland Security Committee's bill is $46.5 billion to revive construction of Trump's wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, with some 700 miles of \"primary\" wall, 900 miles of river barriers and more.\n\nIt would provide $4 billion to hire an additional 3,000 new Border Patrol agents as well as 5,000 new customs officers, and $2.1 billion for signing and retention bonuses.\n\nAll told, the Homeland Security Committee approved $69 billion in new spending.\n\nAt the same time, the Judiciary Committee, which handles interior immigration enforcement and legal proceedings, has also completed its $110 billion bill.\n\nIt would impose a $1,000 fee on migrants seeking asylum — something the nation has never done, putting it on par with few others, including Australia and Iran.\n\nAnd there are more new fees proposed on various other legal paths to entry, including a $3,500 fee for those sponsoring unaccompanied children to enter the U.S., a $2,500 penalty if sponsors of unaccompanied children skip court appearances and a $1,000 fee for individuals paroled into the U.S.\n\nOverall, the plan is to remove 1 million immigrants annually and house 100,000 people in detention centers. It calls for 10,000 more Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers and investigators.\n\n## More money for the Pentagon and Trump's 'Golden Dome'\n\nThe House Armed Services Committee was tasked with drafting legislation with $100 billion in new spending. But they did that and more, passing a bill with $150 billion for the Defense Department and national security.\n\nAmong the highlights, it would provide $25 billion for Trump's \"Golden Dome for America,\" a long-envisioned missile defense shield, $21 billion to restock the nation's ammunition arsenal, $34 billion to expand the naval fleet with more shipbuilding and some $5 billion for border security.\n\nIt also includes $9 billion for servicemember quality of life-related issues, including housing, health care and special pay.\n\n## Overhaul of the student loan repayment plans\n\nA wholesale revamping of the student loan program is the key to the Education and Workforce Committee's legislation, with $330 billion in budget cuts and savings.\n\nThe proposal would replace all existing student loan repayment plans with just two: a standard option with monthly payments spread out over 10 to 25 years depending on the amount borrowed, and a \"repayment assistance\" plan with monthly payments based on a borrower's income.\n\nThe new income-based plan is generally less generous than those it would replace. Minimum payments for the lowest-income borrowers would be higher, and forgiveness would be provided after 30 years of payments instead of 20 or 25. The new repayment plans would take hold in July 2026.\n\nAmong other changes, the bill would repeal Biden-era regulations that made it easier for borrowers to get loans canceled if their colleges defrauded them or closed suddenly.\n\n## Federal employee pension cuts\n\nThe House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform targeted federal workers' pensions for a projected $50.9 billion in deficit savings over 10 years.\n\nMost of the savings would come from requiring federal workers hired before 2014 to pay more into the retirement system. They would have to match the 4.4% salary rate paid by federal workers hired since 2014.\n\nThe committee also called for basing a retiree's annuity payment on their average top five earning years instead of the top three. And the committee's plan would eliminate a temporary, supplemental payment for newly retired federal workers who retire before they are eligible for Social Security.\n\nRepublicans argued that federal employee retirement benefits outpace those in the private sector. But critics, including Rep. Michael Turner, R-Ohio, who voted against the committee's package, said changing a worker's pension during the middle of employment is wrong.\n\nDemocrats said the change would result in less take-home pay for many middle-class Americans in the federal workforce.\n\n## More drilling, mining on public lands\n\nThe House Natural Resources Committee is set to meet Tuesday to consider its bill, which largely matches Trump's executive orders to open public lands and waters to more natural resource development.\n\nIt would allow increased leasing of public lands for drilling, mining and logging while clearing the path for more development by speeding up government approvals. Royalty rates paid by companies to extract oil, gas and coal would be cut, reversing former President Joe Biden's attempts to curb fossil fuels to help address climate change.\n\nOil and gas royalty rates would drop from 16.7% on public lands and 18.75% offshore to a uniform 12.5%. Royalties for coal would drop from 12.5% to 7%.\n\nThe measure calls for four oil and gas lease sales in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge over the next decade. It also seeks to boost the ailing coal industry with a mandate to make available for leasing 6,250 square miles of public lands — an area greater in size than Connecticut.\n\nRepublican supporters say the lost revenue would be offset by increased development. It's uncertain if companies would have an appetite for leases given the industry's precipitous decline in recent years as utilities switched to cleaner burning fuels and renewable energy.\n\n___\n\nAssociated Press writers Kevin Freking and Collin Binkley in Washington and Matthew Brown in Billings, Montana, contributed to this report."
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"value": "# What's in the big bill that Republicans are crafting to meet Trump's agenda\n\nBy Lisa Mascaro \nMay 6th, 2025 04:01 AM\n\n---\n\nWASHINGTON (AP) — Congress is deep into drafting President Donald Trump's big bill of tax breaks, spending cuts and beefed-up funding to halt migrants, but it's \"bumpy,\" one Republican chairman says, with much work ahead to meet House Speaker Mike Johnson's goal of passing the package out of his chamber by Memorial Day.\n\nIn fact, the tax cuts portion is still a work in progress. As are the reductions in Medicaid, food stamps and other mainstay government programs. Mostly, the Republicans, who have the majority in Congress, have made progress on parts that would increase spending, adding some $350 billion to the Pentagon and Homeland Security, including money for the U.S-Mexico border wall.\n\n\"There are some bumps in the road,\" Rep. Jason Smith of Missouri, the Republican chairman of the powerful Ways and Means tax-writing committee, acknowledged on \"Fox News Sunday.\"\n\nAll told, some 11 committees in the House are compiling their bills, and about half have finished up. They are being approved at the committee level by Republicans, on party-line votes, with Democrats opposed.\n\nBut some of the most-watched committees — Ways and Means, Energy and Commerce and Agriculture — have yet to act. Johnson himself acknowledged on Monday that his Memorial Day deadline may slip, but vowed \"our timetable is on pace.\"\n\nOnce all the committees are done, the different pieces of legislation will be rolled together at the Budget Committee into what Trump calls \"one big, beautiful bill.\"\n\nIf the House can pass the package, it next would go to the Senate, which is drafting its own version, for a final product by July 4.\n\nDemocrats say they will fight what House party leader Hakeem Jeffries calls the \"extreme Republican agenda.\"\n\nHere's a look at what's in and out, so far.\n\n## Funding for 1 million migrant deportations, 20,000 new officers and the border wall\n\nTwo of the committees handling immigration- and border security-related matters have wrapped up their legislation.\n\nCentral to the Homeland Security Committee's bill is $46.5 billion to revive construction of Trump's wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, with some 700 miles of \"primary\" wall, 900 miles of river barriers and more.\n\nIt would provide $4 billion to hire an additional 3,000 new Border Patrol agents as well as 5,000 new customs officers, and $2.1 billion for signing and retention bonuses.\n\nAll told, the Homeland Security Committee approved $69 billion in new spending.\n\nAt the same time, the Judiciary Committee, which handles interior immigration enforcement and legal proceedings, has also completed its $110 billion bill.\n\nIt would impose a $1,000 fee on migrants seeking asylum — something the nation has never done, putting it on par with few others, including Australia and Iran.\n\nAnd there are more new fees proposed on various other legal paths to entry, including a $3,500 fee for those sponsoring unaccompanied children to enter the U.S., a $2,500 penalty if sponsors of unaccompanied children skip court appearances and a $1,000 fee for individuals paroled into the U.S.\n\nOverall, the plan is to remove 1 million immigrants annually and house 100,000 people in detention centers. It calls for 10,000 more Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers and investigators.\n\n## More money for the Pentagon and Trump's 'Golden Dome'\n\nThe House Armed Services Committee was tasked with drafting legislation with $100 billion in new spending. But they did that and more, passing a bill with $150 billion for the Defense Department and national security.\n\nAmong the highlights, it would provide $25 billion for Trump's \"Golden Dome for America,\" a long-envisioned missile defense shield, $21 billion to restock the nation's ammunition arsenal, $34 billion to expand the naval fleet with more shipbuilding and some $5 billion for border security.\n\nIt also includes $9 billion for servicemember quality of life-related issues, including housing, health care and special pay.\n\n## Overhaul of the student loan repayment plans\n\nA wholesale revamping of the student loan program is the key to the Education and Workforce Committee's legislation, with $330 billion in budget cuts and savings.\n\nThe proposal would replace all existing student loan repayment plans with just two: a standard option with monthly payments spread out over 10 to 25 years depending on the amount borrowed, and a \"repayment assistance\" plan with monthly payments based on a borrower's income.\n\nThe new income-based plan is generally less generous than those it would replace. Minimum payments for the lowest-income borrowers would be higher, and forgiveness would be provided after 30 years of payments instead of 20 or 25. The new repayment plans would take hold in July 2026.\n\nAmong other changes, the bill would repeal Biden-era regulations that made it easier for borrowers to get loans canceled if their colleges defrauded them or closed suddenly.\n\n## Federal employee pension cuts\n\nThe House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform targeted federal workers' pensions for a projected $50.9 billion in deficit savings over 10 years.\n\nMost of the savings would come from requiring federal workers hired before 2014 to pay more into the retirement system. They would have to match the 4.4% salary rate paid by federal workers hired since 2014.\n\nThe committee also called for basing a retiree's annuity payment on their average top five earning years instead of the top three. And the committee's plan would eliminate a temporary, supplemental payment for newly retired federal workers who retire before they are eligible for Social Security.\n\nRepublicans argued that federal employee retirement benefits outpace those in the private sector. But critics, including Rep. Michael Turner, R-Ohio, who voted against the committee's package, said changing a worker's pension during the middle of employment is wrong.\n\nDemocrats said the change would result in less take-home pay for many middle-class Americans in the federal workforce.\n\n## More drilling, mining on public lands\n\nThe House Natural Resources Committee is set to meet Tuesday to consider its bill, which largely matches Trump's executive orders to open public lands and waters to more natural resource development.\n\nIt would allow increased leasing of public lands for drilling, mining and logging while clearing the path for more development by speeding up government approvals. Royalty rates paid by companies to extract oil, gas and coal would be cut, reversing former President Joe Biden's attempts to curb fossil fuels to help address climate change.\n\nOil and gas royalty rates would drop from 16.7% on public lands and 18.75% offshore to a uniform 12.5%. Royalties for coal would drop from 12.5% to 7%.\n\nThe measure calls for four oil and gas lease sales in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge over the next decade. It also seeks to boost the ailing coal industry with a mandate to make available for leasing 6,250 square miles of public lands — an area greater in size than Connecticut.\n\nRepublican supporters say the lost revenue would be offset by increased development. It's uncertain if companies would have an appetite for leases given the industry's precipitous decline in recent years as utilities switched to cleaner burning fuels and renewable energy."
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"value": "# Rockies designated hitter Kris Bryant slated for a procedure on his back Thursday in Los Angeles\n\nBy Pat Graham \nMay 8th, 2025 12:14 AM\n\n---\n\nDENVER (AP) — Colorado Rockies designated hitter Kris Bryant is scheduled to undergo a procedure on his balky back Thursday in Los Angeles.\n\nBryant's currently on the injured list with lumbar degenerative disk disease, which involves the deterioration of the spinal disks that act as cushions between the vertebrae. It's his ninth stint on the IL since 2022 due to a series of health issues.\n\nThe upcoming procedure for Bryant is referred to as an ablation, which is designed to interrupt pain signals being sent from the back to the brain.\n\n\"From what the doctors feel, it should help alleviate some discomfort,\" Rockies manager Bud Black explained before opening a three-game series against the Detroit Tigers on Wednesday night. \"He should be back in a day or two resuming activities.\"\n\nThe 33-year-old Bryant is hitting .154 this season with no homers, one RBI, 13 strikeouts.\n\nBryant has been limited to 170 games with Colorado since signing a $182 million, seven-year contract before the 2022 season. His injuries have included plantar fasciitis, a bone bruise in his foot, heel issues, a broken finger, a back strain, a lower rib contusion and back problems.\n\nHe's hit .244 with 17 homers and 61 RBIs with the Rockies. Bryant was the 2016 NL MVP as he helped the Chicago Cubs end a 108-year World Series drought.\n\n___\n\nAP MLB: https://apnews.com/MLB"
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"value": "# Rockies designated hitter Kris Bryant slated for a procedure on his back Thursday in Los Angeles\n\nBy Pat Graham \nMay 8th, 2025 12:14 AM\n\n---\n\nDENVER (AP) — Colorado Rockies designated hitter Kris Bryant is scheduled to undergo a procedure on his balky back Thursday in Los Angeles.\n\nBryant's currently on the injured list with lumbar degenerative disk disease, which involves the deterioration of the spinal disks that act as cushions between the vertebrae. It's his ninth stint on the IL since 2022 due to a series of health issues.\n\nThe upcoming procedure for Bryant is referred to as an ablation, which is designed to interrupt pain signals being sent from the back to the brain.\n\n\"From what the doctors feel, it should help alleviate some discomfort,\" Rockies manager Bud Black explained before opening a three-game series against the Detroit Tigers on Wednesday night. \"He should be back in a day or two resuming activities.\"\n\nThe 33-year-old Bryant is hitting .154 this season with no homers, one RBI, 13 strikeouts.\n\nBryant has been limited to 170 games with Colorado since signing a $182 million, seven-year contract before the 2022 season. His injuries have included plantar fasciitis, a bone bruise in his foot, heel issues, a broken finger, a back strain, a lower rib contusion and back problems.\n\nHe's hit .244 with 17 homers and 61 RBIs with the Rockies. Bryant was the 2016 NL MVP as he helped the Chicago Cubs end a 108-year World Series drought."
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"value": "# Brewers send right-hander Craig Yoho to minors while calling up Elvin Rodríguez\n\nBy Steve Megargee \nMay 3rd, 2025 09:12 PM\n\n---\n\nMILWAUKEE (AP) — Milwaukee Brewers right-hander Craig Yoho was sent to the minor leagues Saturday, two days after he walked four batters and allowed five runs in an inning of relief.\n\nThe Brewers sent Yoho to Triple-A Nashville and called up right-hander Elvin Rodríguez before their Saturday night game with the Chicago Cubs.\n\n\"Yoho is a big part of our future,\" Brewers manager Pat Murphy said. \"I really think so. I think we have something there that's pretty special. He's an incredible kid. His first taste in the big leagues, he did some good things. We need a fresh pitcher today. It's a good time for him to go down and get that command where he wants it.\"\n\nYoho, 25, possesses an outstanding changeup that had enabled him to dominate in the minor leagues. He struck out nine batters and allowed only one unearned run over 9 2/3 innings at Nashville earlier this season. Last year, he recorded 101 strikeouts over 57 2/3 innings and posted an 0.94 ERA with three minor league teams.\n\nBut he wasn't able to carry over that success to the big leagues after getting called up April 21. He had a 9.53 ERA in five relief appearances, an ERA that was inflated when he gave up five runs while recording only three outs in an 8-0 loss to the Chicago White Sox on Thursday.\n\n\"He can't just rely on a changeup for a strike,\" Murphy said. \"He's got to do more than that. So he's got to locate the heater better, and it's got to be money. He's got to be a strike-throwing machine. And the changeup comes into play a lot better.\"\n\nMurphy remains confident Yoho will make those adjustments and become a successful major league pitcher.\n\n\"He's the type of kid, I really think he'll respond,\" Murphy said. \"I do. He's just really locked in.\"\n\nRodríguez, 27, returns to the majors after going 0-2 with a 7.53 in four appearances with Milwaukee earlier this season. He also has posted a 4.82 ERA in three games with Nashville.\n\n___\n\nAP MLB: https://apnews.com/hub/mlb"
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"value": "# Brewers send right-hander Craig Yoho to minors while calling up Elvin Rodríguez\n\nBy Steve Megargee \nMay 3rd, 2025 09:12 PM\n\n---\n\nMILWAUKEE (AP) — Milwaukee Brewers right-hander Craig Yoho was sent to the minor leagues Saturday, two days after he walked four batters and allowed five runs in an inning of relief.\n\nThe Brewers sent Yoho to Triple-A Nashville and called up right-hander Elvin Rodríguez before their Saturday night game with the Chicago Cubs.\n\n\"Yoho is a big part of our future,\" Brewers manager Pat Murphy said. \"I really think so. I think we have something there that's pretty special. He's an incredible kid. His first taste in the big leagues, he did some good things. We need a fresh pitcher today. It's a good time for him to go down and get that command where he wants it.\"\n\nYoho, 25, possesses an outstanding changeup that had enabled him to dominate in the minor leagues. He struck out nine batters and allowed only one unearned run over 9 2/3 innings at Nashville earlier this season. Last year, he recorded 101 strikeouts over 57 2/3 innings and posted an 0.94 ERA with three minor league teams.\n\nBut he wasn't able to carry over that success to the big leagues after getting called up April 21. He had a 9.53 ERA in five relief appearances, an ERA that was inflated when he gave up five runs while recording only three outs in an 8-0 loss to the Chicago White Sox on Thursday.\n\n\"He can't just rely on a changeup for a strike,\" Murphy said. \"He's got to do more than that. So he's got to locate the heater better, and it's got to be money. He's got to be a strike-throwing machine. And the changeup comes into play a lot better.\"\n\nMurphy remains confident Yoho will make those adjustments and become a successful major league pitcher.\n\n\"He's the type of kid, I really think he'll respond,\" Murphy said. \"I do. He's just really locked in.\"\n\nRodríguez, 27, returns to the majors after going 0-2 with a 7.53 in four appearances with Milwaukee earlier this season. He also has posted a 4.82 ERA in three games with Nashville."
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"value": "# Janelle Monáe embraces dandyism at the Met Gala with help from an Oscar winner and tequila diamond\n\nBy Jonathan Landrum Jr. \nMay 5th, 2025 10:02 PM\n\n---\n\nJanelle Monáe embraced Black dandyism's elegance at the Met Gala in an all-star collaboration with Oscar winner Paul Tazewell and designer Thom Browne, completing her look with a sparkling ethical diamond brooch from 1800 Tequila for a finishing touch.\n\nKnown for turning heads with her gala looks, Monáe strutted the carpet in a black, red, and white pin-striped suit tailored to her frame with sharp, pointy shoulders. She topped the suit with a black top hat and wore a small black-and-gold clock over her left eye. She wore the tequila diamond brooch tucked beneath her outer jacket, ultimately revealing it on her tie — a bold statement honoring her ancestors and dandy-dressing family members while celebrating a more conscious approach to fashion jewelry.\n\nMonáe said the ensemble she revealed Monday honored her ancestors and dandy-dressing family members while celebrating a more conscious approach to fashion jewelry.\n\n\"It felt like the right statement to make in fashion,\" the Grammy-nominated performer told The Associated Press in a recent interview before the gala. She felt like she was back in art school to do a group project with Tazewell and Browne, calling the collaboration \"one of a kind.\"\n\nIn March, Tazewell made history at the Oscars, becoming the first Black man to win best costume design. Browne gave Monáe her first suit when, she says, \"nobody else would,\" and designed her 2023 Met Gala red carpet ensemble: an oversize half-black, half-white tweed suit worn over a hoop skirt that earned rave reviews.\n\n\"Just having all three of our minds together around this theme, it's honestly the most exciting thing,\" Monáe said. \"The experience of us creating this look together, putting our heads together, getting excited and dreaming up whatever we wanted to dream has been the best part of it all.\"\n\nWith Black dandyism carving its place in Met Gala history, Monáe found sentimental value in wearing the 1800 Tequila ethical diamond, a gem not mined from the earth, but crafted from the brand's Cristalino tequila, with the brooch design inspired by the crystalline bottle.\n\n\"Knowing the impact that traditional diamond mining has had on African nations, it felt important to me that this piece reflected a more conscious and considered approach to jewelry wearing,\" said Monáe, who is a part of the host committee alongside the likes of Simone Biles, Spike Lee, Ayo Edebiri and André 3000.\n\nMonáe is one of the many cultural powerhouses leading Black dandyism into the fashion spotlight at the Met Gala, as the Metropolitan Museum of Art unveils its new costume exhibit, \"Superfine: Tailoring Black Style.\" It marks the Met's first show centered exclusively on Black designers and the first in more than two decades to spotlight menswear. It's also a tribute to the rich legacy of dandyism, a style that has long carved space for radical self-expression, especially for those overlooked or misunderstood.\n\nMonáe said she was in awe of the technology used to craft the diamond from tequila. The tequila was aged for 16 months in both new American and French oak barrels before being finished in port wine casks for an additional six months.\n\n\"It gives a rare brilliance and shine,\" she said. \"I'm future focused, and I feel like this should be the future of diamond making. Something that's more ethical. Something that's safe to wear.\""
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"value": "# Guardians RHP Tanner Bibee exits against Toronto after 5 innings because of leg cramps\n\nMay 4th, 2025 07:50 PM\n\n---\n\nTORONTO (AP) — Cleveland Guardians right-hander Tanner Bibee left Sunday's start at Toronto after five innings because of cramping in both legs, but said afterward that he doesn't expect to miss any time.\n\nBibee came to the mound to warm up for the bottom of the sixth inning, but appeared to be in discomfort, lifting his legs several times and calling the trainer out of the dugout.\n\nLeft-hander Tim Herrin replaced Bibee, who earned the win in Cleveland's 5-4 victory. Bibee allowed three runs, two earned, and five hits.\n\n\"It was definitely a battle outing,\" Bibee said. \"There was a lot of adversity today. For the most part, not having my best stuff, I feel like I battled pretty well. I got through five, felt like I could have got through six.\"\n\nBibee struck out three and walked two. He left with a 4-3 lead.\n\n\"I thought Tanner, without having fastball command, pitched really well,\" manager Stephen Vogt said. \"Probably not as many strikes as he would have liked but I really liked the way he turned it around. I thought the fifth inning was his best and then, unfortunately, he had to come out.\"\n\nToronto batters had three hits with runners in scoring position against Bibee, one more than he'd allowed in his first six starts combined.\n\nBibee said after the game that he was feeling better following treatment. Vogt said he expects Bibee to make his next scheduled start.\n\n\"He'll be good to go,\" Vogt said.\n\nBibee also left a July 2024 start against Detroit after five innings because of leg cramps.\n\n\"Our medical staff is on it, Tanner is on it,\" Vogt said of the recurring problem. \"He was able to throw almost all of his pitches before it started. We're going to figure it out.\"\n\n___\n\nAP MLB: https://apnews.com/hub/mlb"
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"value": "# Guardians RHP Tanner Bibee exits against Toronto after 5 innings because of leg cramps\n\nMay 4th, 2025 07:50 PM\n\n---\n\nTORONTO (AP) — Cleveland Guardians right-hander Tanner Bibee left Sunday's start at Toronto after five innings because of cramping in both legs, but said afterward that he doesn't expect to miss any time.\n\nBibee came to the mound to warm up for the bottom of the sixth inning, but appeared to be in discomfort, lifting his legs several times and calling the trainer out of the dugout.\n\nLeft-hander Tim Herrin replaced Bibee, who earned the win in Cleveland's 5-4 victory. Bibee allowed three runs, two earned, and five hits.\n\n\"It was definitely a battle outing,\" Bibee said. \"There was a lot of adversity today. For the most part, not having my best stuff, I feel like I battled pretty well. I got through five, felt like I could have got through six.\"\n\nBibee struck out three and walked two. He left with a 4-3 lead.\n\n\"I thought Tanner, without having fastball command, pitched really well,\" manager Stephen Vogt said. \"Probably not as many strikes as he would have liked but I really liked the way he turned it around. I thought the fifth inning was his best and then, unfortunately, he had to come out.\"\n\nToronto batters had three hits with runners in scoring position against Bibee, one more than he'd allowed in his first six starts combined.\n\nBibee said after the game that he was feeling better following treatment. Vogt said he expects Bibee to make his next scheduled start.\n\n\"He'll be good to go,\" Vogt said.\n\nBibee also left a July 2024 start against Detroit after five innings because of leg cramps.\n\n\"Our medical staff is on it, Tanner is on it,\" Vogt said of the recurring problem. \"He was able to throw almost all of his pitches before it started. We're going to figure it out.\""
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"value": "# Royce Lewis is tired of being the injured guy, back with the Twins again with hope of better health\n\nBy Dave Campbell \nMay 6th, 2025 11:17 PM\n\n---\n\nMINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Royce Lewis' repeated appearances on the injured list have not made the experiences any easier.\n\nThe more he's not on the field with the Minnesota Twins, the more frustration he has felt.\n\n\"I'm tired of being the guy on the IL,\" Lewis said. \"Seems like these injury bugs, they just stick on one guy for awhile. Hopefully I got mine off.\"\n\nHis latest absence behind him, Lewis rejoined the Twins on Tuesday for the beginning of a three-game series against Baltimore. After missing the first 35 games of the season because of a moderate strain of his left hamstring that occurred while running out a ground ball in spring training, Lewis was back in the lineup batting fifth as the designated hitter.\n\n\"I've just got to play a little bit smarter. That's what some of these other guys I've seen play the game at a high level do to be able to play 162,\" said Lewis, who appeared in his 153rd regular-season game since his debut three years ago. \"If I was Bobby Witt's speed I think I'd run a lot, but I'm not there anymore with all the injuries, so it's just play smart, man, and let me get in the box, because that's where I have my most fun.\"\n\nThe Twins, who also got multi-position player Willi Castro back on Tuesday from a strained right oblique muscle that cost him 16 games, have been lacking the hitting punch and general spunk that Lewis typically provides. They lost 15 of their first 22 games.\n\n\"I just feel like I have a lot of fun in life. I take every moment and cherish it. I don't take it for granted, and this is just another day, another beautiful day,\" Lewis said, likening the sunny 81-degree afternoon to the weather in his native Southern California. \"It's just a perfect time. If feels like opening day for me, and I'm really excited for the opportunity.\"\n\nThe first overall pick in the 2017 draft was limited to 82 games last season by a severe quadriceps strain he suffered running the bases in the opener and later a groin injury. The previous two years for Lewis were tainted by recoveries from successive ACL repair surgeries.\n\nEach time he has returned, he has made an immediate impact on the lineup.\n\n\"You always expect he is going to come out and do something,\" manager Rocco Baldelli said. \"When the lights turn on, he wants to play.\"\n\n___\n\nAP MLB: https://apnews.com/hub/MLB"
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"value": "# Royce Lewis is tired of being the injured guy, back with the Twins again with hope of better health\n\nBy Dave Campbell \nMay 6th, 2025 11:17 PM\n\n---\n\nMINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Royce Lewis' repeated appearances on the injured list have not made the experiences any easier.\n\nThe more he's not on the field with the Minnesota Twins, the more frustration he has felt.\n\n\"I'm tired of being the guy on the IL,\" Lewis said. \"Seems like these injury bugs, they just stick on one guy for awhile. Hopefully I got mine off.\"\n\nHis latest absence behind him, Lewis rejoined the Twins on Tuesday for the beginning of a three-game series against Baltimore. After missing the first 35 games of the season because of a moderate strain of his left hamstring that occurred while running out a ground ball in spring training, Lewis was back in the lineup batting fifth as the designated hitter.\n\n\"I've just got to play a little bit smarter. That's what some of these other guys I've seen play the game at a high level do to be able to play 162,\" said Lewis, who appeared in his 153rd regular-season game since his debut three years ago. \"If I was Bobby Witt's speed I think I'd run a lot, but I'm not there anymore with all the injuries, so it's just play smart, man, and let me get in the box, because that's where I have my most fun.\"\n\nThe Twins, who also got multi-position player Willi Castro back on Tuesday from a strained right oblique muscle that cost him 16 games, have been lacking the hitting punch and general spunk that Lewis typically provides. They lost 15 of their first 22 games.\n\n\"I just feel like I have a lot of fun in life. I take every moment and cherish it. I don't take it for granted, and this is just another day, another beautiful day,\" Lewis said, likening the sunny 81-degree afternoon to the weather in his native Southern California. \"It's just a perfect time. If feels like opening day for me, and I'm really excited for the opportunity.\"\n\nThe first overall pick in the 2017 draft was limited to 82 games last season by a severe quadriceps strain he suffered running the bases in the opener and later a groin injury. The previous two years for Lewis were tainted by recoveries from successive ACL repair surgeries.\n\nEach time he has returned, he has made an immediate impact on the lineup.\n\n\"You always expect he is going to come out and do something,\" manager Rocco Baldelli said. \"When the lights turn on, he wants to play.\""
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"value": "# Pallante takes shutout into the 8th, and Cardinals beat Nationals 4-2 for 7th straight win\n\nBy Noah Trister \nMay 10th, 2025 10:41 PM\n\n---\n\nWASHINGTON (AP) — Andre Pallante took a shutout into the eighth inning in the second-longest outing of his career, and the St. Louis Cardinals extended their winning streak to seven with a 4-2 victory over the Washington Nationals on Saturday.\n\nRyan Helsley allowed the Nationals to load the bases in the ninth but retired CJ Abrams on a first-pitch flyball for his seventh save in nine chances.\n\nThe Cardinals couldn't quite close out a third straight shutout. Dylan Crews hit a two-run homer in the eighth for the first runs against St. Louis since the sixth inning Tuesday night against Pittsburgh. The Cardinals followed that up with a 5-0 win over the Pirates and then opened the series in Washington with a 10-0 victory.\n\nAll four runs for St. Louis came in the second inning Saturday.\n\nPallante (3-2) pitched more than seven innings for only the second time. The other was also against the Nationals, when he threw eight scoreless frames July 31, 2022. Washington finally chased the right-hander Saturday when Crews went deep with one out in the eighth.\n\nJoJo Romero made it through the rest of the eighth despite allowing a couple baserunners.\n\nTrevor Williams (2-4) allowed four runs and seven hits in six innings.\n\nSt. Louis had men on first and third with two outs in the second, and Williams couldn't escape the inning unscathed. Pedro Pagés and Victor Scott hit consecutive RBI singles, and Lars Nootbaar drove home two more runs with a double.\n\nCardinals third baseman Nolan Arenado was hit on the left hand by a pitch in the eighth. He stayed in the game.\n\n## Key moment\n\nAfter retiring the first two batters in the bottom of the ninth, Helsley allowed a single and two walks before finally getting Abrams for the final out.\n\n## Key stat\n\nThe Cardinals have won seven in a row for the first time since an eight-game run from Aug. 14-22, 2022. That streak included the last time an individual St. Louis pitcher threw a shutout — before Erick Fedde repeated the feat by going the distance against the Nationals on Friday.\n\n## Up next\n\nMiles Mikolas (1-2) was set to start for St. Louis on Sunday against Mackenzie Gore (2-3).\n\n___\n\nAP MLB: https://apnews.com/hub/mlb"
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"value": "# Pallante takes shutout into the 8th, and Cardinals beat Nationals 4-2 for 7th straight win\n\nBy Noah Trister \nMay 10th, 2025 10:41 PM\n\n---\n\nWASHINGTON (AP) — Andre Pallante took a shutout into the eighth inning in the second-longest outing of his career, and the St. Louis Cardinals extended their winning streak to seven with a 4-2 victory over the Washington Nationals on Saturday.\n\nRyan Helsley allowed the Nationals to load the bases in the ninth but retired CJ Abrams on a first-pitch flyball for his seventh save in nine chances.\n\nThe Cardinals couldn't quite close out a third straight shutout. Dylan Crews hit a two-run homer in the eighth for the first runs against St. Louis since the sixth inning Tuesday night against Pittsburgh. The Cardinals followed that up with a 5-0 win over the Pirates and then opened the series in Washington with a 10-0 victory.\n\nAll four runs for St. Louis came in the second inning Saturday.\n\nPallante (3-2) pitched more than seven innings for only the second time. The other was also against the Nationals, when he threw eight scoreless frames July 31, 2022. Washington finally chased the right-hander Saturday when Crews went deep with one out in the eighth.\n\nJoJo Romero made it through the rest of the eighth despite allowing a couple baserunners.\n\nTrevor Williams (2-4) allowed four runs and seven hits in six innings.\n\nSt. Louis had men on first and third with two outs in the second, and Williams couldn't escape the inning unscathed. Pedro Pagés and Victor Scott hit consecutive RBI singles, and Lars Nootbaar drove home two more runs with a double.\n\nCardinals third baseman Nolan Arenado was hit on the left hand by a pitch in the eighth. He stayed in the game.\n\n## Key moment\n\nAfter retiring the first two batters in the bottom of the ninth, Helsley allowed a single and two walks before finally getting Abrams for the final out.\n\n## Key stat\n\nThe Cardinals have won seven in a row for the first time since an eight-game run from Aug. 14-22, 2022. That streak included the last time an individual St. Louis pitcher threw a shutout — before Erick Fedde repeated the feat by going the distance against the Nationals on Friday.\n\n## Up next\n\nMiles Mikolas (1-2) was set to start for St. Louis on Sunday against Mackenzie Gore (2-3)."
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"value": "# Gilgeous-Alexander scores 31 as Thunder beat Nuggets 112-105 and take 3-2 lead in West semifinals\n\nBy Cliff Brunt \nMay 14th, 2025 04:27 AM\n\n---\n\nOKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 31 points, and the Oklahoma City Thunder beat the Denver Nuggets 112-105 on Tuesday night to go up 3-2 in their Western Conference semifinal series.\n\nOklahoma City overcame a 44-point, 15-rebound night from Denver's Nikola Jokic. The Thunder can clinch the series on Thursday in Denver.\n\nGilgeous-Alexander made 12 of 23 field goals and bounced back from a slow start to lead six players in double figures.\n\n\"What the great players do is they rise in the face of those challenges and adversities,\" Thunder coach Mark Daigneault said. \"And I just thought he got more and more composed as the game went on. And despite the fact that the pressure was mounting and it got hotter in there, he got cooler and just kind of settled into it, made the right plays, let the game tell him what to do.\"\n\nJokic made 17 of 25 shots. Denver's Jamal Murray scored 28 points, but he made just 10 of 27 shots. No other Denver player scored more than 13 points.\n\n\"This is a really disappointing loss,\" Denver interim coach David Adelman said. \"The guys in there should be disappointed. It's a heavy loss and we have to bounce back quickly to win Game 6 and give ourselves a chance to come back, have a game like this, but finish it.\"\n\nOklahoma City ran out to a 12-2 lead, and it looked like it might turn out like the Thunder's blowout victory in Game 2. Denver made one of its first nine shots, and that was a putback by Jokic.\n\nDenver rallied and led by 11 in the second quarter, but Oklahoma City closed strong and trailed 56-54 at halftime. Jokic had 19 points and nine rebounds before the break.\n\nMurray scored 13 points in the third quarter and Jokic added 12 to help the Nuggets take an 86-78 lead into the fourth. Still, there were missed opportunities.\n\n\"It felt like every time we had a chance to go back up 12, or get it back at 14, we wouldn't make the shot and they'd run out and make a basket or score in transition,\" Adelman said. \"So it compounded itself.\"\n\nOklahoma City's Lu Dort, who scored three total points in the first three quarters, hit a trio of 3-pointers in a two-minute span to cut Denver's lead to 92-90 midway through the fourth.\n\nJokic hit a deep fadeaway 3-pointer to tie the game at 103 before Oklahoma City closed it out. Jalen Williams' 3-pointer with 1:18 remaining gave the Thunder a 106-103 lead, and Gilgeous-Alexander's three with 48 seconds to go pushed Oklahoma City's lead to six.\n\n\"I thought we executed as well as we have in the playoffs down the stretch in a close game,\" Daigneault said.\n\n___\n\nAP NBA: https://apnews.com/hub/NBA"
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"value": "# Gilgeous-Alexander scores 31 as Thunder beat Nuggets 112-105 and take 3-2 lead in West semifinals\n\nBy Cliff Brunt \nMay 14th, 2025 04:27 AM\n\n---\n\nOKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 31 points, and the Oklahoma City Thunder beat the Denver Nuggets 112-105 on Tuesday night to go up 3-2 in their Western Conference semifinal series.\n\nOklahoma City overcame a 44-point, 15-rebound night from Denver's Nikola Jokic. The Thunder can clinch the series on Thursday in Denver.\n\nGilgeous-Alexander made 12 of 23 field goals and bounced back from a slow start to lead six players in double figures.\n\n\"What the great players do is they rise in the face of those challenges and adversities,\" Thunder coach Mark Daigneault said. \"And I just thought he got more and more composed as the game went on. And despite the fact that the pressure was mounting and it got hotter in there, he got cooler and just kind of settled into it, made the right plays, let the game tell him what to do.\"\n\nJokic made 17 of 25 shots. Denver's Jamal Murray scored 28 points, but he made just 10 of 27 shots. No other Denver player scored more than 13 points.\n\n\"This is a really disappointing loss,\" Denver interim coach David Adelman said. \"The guys in there should be disappointed. It's a heavy loss and we have to bounce back quickly to win Game 6 and give ourselves a chance to come back, have a game like this, but finish it.\"\n\nOklahoma City ran out to a 12-2 lead, and it looked like it might turn out like the Thunder's blowout victory in Game 2. Denver made one of its first nine shots, and that was a putback by Jokic.\n\nDenver rallied and led by 11 in the second quarter, but Oklahoma City closed strong and trailed 56-54 at halftime. Jokic had 19 points and nine rebounds before the break.\n\nMurray scored 13 points in the third quarter and Jokic added 12 to help the Nuggets take an 86-78 lead into the fourth. Still, there were missed opportunities.\n\n\"It felt like every time we had a chance to go back up 12, or get it back at 14, we wouldn't make the shot and they'd run out and make a basket or score in transition,\" Adelman said. \"So it compounded itself.\"\n\nOklahoma City's Lu Dort, who scored three total points in the first three quarters, hit a trio of 3-pointers in a two-minute span to cut Denver's lead to 92-90 midway through the fourth.\n\nJokic hit a deep fadeaway 3-pointer to tie the game at 103 before Oklahoma City closed it out. Jalen Williams' 3-pointer with 1:18 remaining gave the Thunder a 106-103 lead, and Gilgeous-Alexander's three with 48 seconds to go pushed Oklahoma City's lead to six.\n\n\"I thought we executed as well as we have in the playoffs down the stretch in a close game,\" Daigneault said."
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"value": "# Submarine designers in Connecticut say they'll strike on May 18 if contract deal isn't reached\n\nMay 2nd, 2025 12:10 AM\n\n---\n\nGROTON, Conn. (AP) — About 2,500 workers at Electric Boat shipyard in Connecticut plan to strike on May 18 if a tentative contract agreement is not reached with the submarine builder, the union president announced during a rally Thursday.\n\nAbout 300 union members cheered the announcement made by Bill Louis, president of the Marine Draftsmen's Association-United Auto Workers of America, Local 571, The Day of New London newspaper reported.\n\n\"We're officially putting the company on notice that if we don't have an agreement at 11:59 p.m., we strike at midnight May 18,\" Louis told the union members, most of whom are essentially responsible for designing the U.S. Navy's nuclear submarine fleet.\n\nA message was left seeking comment with an EB spokesperson in Groton.\n\nThe looming strike comes as a day after the U.S. Navy awarded EB's parent company, General Dynamics, a contract worth more than $12.4 billion for the construction of two Virginia class submarines authorized during last fiscal year. The funding also covers improved worker pay.\n\nMore than two-thirds of the union membership voted last month to authorize a strike if a deal couldn't be reached on a new contract.\n\nThe union's contract expired on April 4, but leadership has agreed to continue bargaining with EB. They've demanded higher wages over four years, the restoration of pension benefits for all members, cost of living adjustments and profit sharing with General Dynamics, EB's parent company, among other changes.\n\n\"The clock has run out on corporate greed,\" UAW President Shawn Fain told members during a rally last month. \"And I'll tell you, this is a new UAW where the membership comes first and we refuse to aim low and settle lower.\"\n\nEB's earlier now-expired offer had included a 23.3% general wage increase over the life of the contract, plus benefits and an increased retirement package.\n\nThe company has acknowledged it has been \"actively preparing a business continuity plan in the event of a work stoppage,\" adding it will \"not waver from our commitment to continue building submarines, the nation's top national security priority.\""
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"value": "# Submarine designers in Connecticut say they'll strike on May 18 if contract deal isn't reached\n\nMay 2nd, 2025 12:10 AM\n\n---\n\nGROTON, Conn. (AP) — About 2,500 workers at Electric Boat shipyard in Connecticut plan to strike on May 18 if a tentative contract agreement is not reached with the submarine builder, the union president announced during a rally Thursday.\n\nAbout 300 union members cheered the announcement made by Bill Louis, president of the Marine Draftsmen's Association-United Auto Workers of America, Local 571, The Day of New London newspaper reported.\n\n\"We're officially putting the company on notice that if we don't have an agreement at 11:59 p.m., we strike at midnight May 18,\" Louis told the union members, most of whom are essentially responsible for designing the U.S. Navy's nuclear submarine fleet.\n\nA message was left seeking comment with an EB spokesperson in Groton.\n\nThe looming strike comes as a day after the U.S. Navy awarded EB's parent company, General Dynamics, a contract worth more than $12.4 billion for the construction of two Virginia class submarines authorized during last fiscal year. The funding also covers improved worker pay.\n\nMore than two-thirds of the union membership voted last month to authorize a strike if a deal couldn't be reached on a new contract.\n\nThe union's contract expired on April 4, but leadership has agreed to continue bargaining with EB. They've demanded higher wages over four years, the restoration of pension benefits for all members, cost of living adjustments and profit sharing with General Dynamics, EB's parent company, among other changes.\n\n\"The clock has run out on corporate greed,\" UAW President Shawn Fain told members during a rally last month. \"And I'll tell you, this is a new UAW where the membership comes first and we refuse to aim low and settle lower.\"\n\nEB's earlier now-expired offer had included a 23.3% general wage increase over the life of the contract, plus benefits and an increased retirement package.\n\nThe company has acknowledged it has been \"actively preparing a business continuity plan in the event of a work stoppage,\" adding it will \"not waver from our commitment to continue building submarines, the nation's top national security priority.\""
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"value": "# Miro Heiskanen has assist in playoff return for the Stars after missing 42 games with knee injury\n\nBy Stephen Hawkins \nMay 13th, 2025 06:52 PM\n\n---\n\nDALLAS (AP) — Miro Heiskanen had an immediate impact for the Dallas Stars in these NHL playoffs, even after missing 42 games because of a knee injury.\n\nHeiskanen returned to the lineup for the first time in 3 1/2 months on Tuesday night, and had an assist as the Stars beat the Winnipeg Jets 3-1 to take a 3-1 series lead in the second-round Western Conference series.\n\n\"I thought it was a perfect night. He got 15 minutes in, made a huge play for us on the power play,\" coach Pete DeBoer said. \"You can see what he adds, just his composure and patience with the puck. It's hard not to play him more, you know, we've got to fight that urge. But talking to him after, he got through the game and he feels good. So, mission accomplished.\"\n\nHeiskanen was activated from long-term injured reserve earlier Tuesday and went through an optional morning skate. He was one of the first players on the ice for pregame warmups, drawing cheers from Stars fans, and was in the starting lineup.\n\n\"Just try to be smart, play short shifts and make simple plays at the beginning there and just try to be smart and handle the pressure well,\" Heiskanen said. \"But it's a long time between the last game, but it was fun to be back and guys helped me out there pretty well.\"\n\nMikael Granlund had a hat trick for the Stars, and got his third goal in the waning seconds of a power play with 12 1/2 minutes left in the game when Heiskanen had the primary assist.\n\nHeiskanen had missed the last 32 regular-season games and the first 10 playoff games. He injured his left knee against Vegas on Jan. 28, when he took a big hit from Golden Knights captain Mark Stone, and had surgery in February.\n\n\"That's the first time I've ever seen him not catch a guy on a breakaway, so you can tell he's been out a while,\" DeBoer said.\n\n\"It's hard for sure. You never want to miss any time. You want to be playing, but that stuff happens in this sport, and it's something you have to deal with,\" Heiskanen said of the time between games. \"But just try to stay positive and work hard, and guys did a great job to beat Colorado, and I had a chance to come back and be playing again. ... It's great to be back now.\"\n\nBefore getting hurt this season, the 25-year-old Heiskanen had 25 points (five goals, 20 assists) in his 50 regular-season games. Now in his seventh NHL season, all with the Stars, he had 62 points (16 goals) in 86 playoff games.\n\nHeiskanen was the third overall pick in the 2017 NHL draft. The native of Finland is in the fourth season of the $67.6 million, eight-year contract he signed four summers ago.\n\n___\n\nAP NHL playoffs: https://apnews.com/hub/stanley-cup and https://apnews.com/hub/nhl"
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"value": "# Miro Heiskanen has assist in playoff return for the Stars after missing 42 games with knee injury\n\nBy Stephen Hawkins \nMay 13th, 2025 06:52 PM\n\n---\n\nDALLAS (AP) — Miro Heiskanen had an immediate impact for the Dallas Stars in these NHL playoffs, even after missing 42 games because of a knee injury.\n\nHeiskanen returned to the lineup for the first time in 3 1/2 months on Tuesday night, and had an assist as the Stars beat the Winnipeg Jets 3-1 to take a 3-1 series lead in the second-round Western Conference series.\n\n\"I thought it was a perfect night. He got 15 minutes in, made a huge play for us on the power play,\" coach Pete DeBoer said. \"You can see what he adds, just his composure and patience with the puck. It's hard not to play him more, you know, we've got to fight that urge. But talking to him after, he got through the game and he feels good. So, mission accomplished.\"\n\nHeiskanen was activated from long-term injured reserve earlier Tuesday and went through an optional morning skate. He was one of the first players on the ice for pregame warmups, drawing cheers from Stars fans, and was in the starting lineup.\n\n\"Just try to be smart, play short shifts and make simple plays at the beginning there and just try to be smart and handle the pressure well,\" Heiskanen said. \"But it's a long time between the last game, but it was fun to be back and guys helped me out there pretty well.\"\n\nMikael Granlund had a hat trick for the Stars, and got his third goal in the waning seconds of a power play with 12 1/2 minutes left in the game when Heiskanen had the primary assist.\n\nHeiskanen had missed the last 32 regular-season games and the first 10 playoff games. He injured his left knee against Vegas on Jan. 28, when he took a big hit from Golden Knights captain Mark Stone, and had surgery in February.\n\n\"That's the first time I've ever seen him not catch a guy on a breakaway, so you can tell he's been out a while,\" DeBoer said.\n\n\"It's hard for sure. You never want to miss any time. You want to be playing, but that stuff happens in this sport, and it's something you have to deal with,\" Heiskanen said of the time between games. \"But just try to stay positive and work hard, and guys did a great job to beat Colorado, and I had a chance to come back and be playing again. ... It's great to be back now.\"\n\nBefore getting hurt this season, the 25-year-old Heiskanen had 25 points (five goals, 20 assists) in his 50 regular-season games. Now in his seventh NHL season, all with the Stars, he had 62 points (16 goals) in 86 playoff games.\n\nHeiskanen was the third overall pick in the 2017 NHL draft. The native of Finland is in the fourth season of the $67.6 million, eight-year contract he signed four summers ago."
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"value": "# Truck driver rescued from his cab dangling off an elevated highway in Kentucky\n\nMay 5th, 2025 06:50 PM\n\n---\n\nLOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Firefighters rescued the driver of a semi-truck after a crash left the truck's cab dangling over the side of an elevated highway in Kentucky.\n\nThe Louisville Fire Department said in a social media post that it responded Sunday morning to the crash on Interstate 65 just south of the Kennedy Bridge and found the cab hanging precariously off the interstate. The highway is elevated above 15 to 20 feet (4.6 to 6.1 meters) above Interstates 64 and 71 in the area, Capt. Donovan Sims said.\n\nA rescuer harnessed to a rope system was lowered into the cab, and video showed the rescuer and the driver then being lifted from the vehicle to safety.\n\nAuthorities said the rescue operation took about 30 minutes and no injuries were reported although the driver was taken to a hospital as a precaution.\n\nThe Louisville Metro Police Department released several 911 calls related to the accident, including a call with the truck driver, WHAS-TV reports.\n\n\"Will you guys please help me, I'm about to ... I'm about to fall down from the bridge,\" the driver said. \"I'm just hanging over the bridge, I don't want to die.\"\n\nThe driver asks the operator to stay on the phone.\n\n\"I'm really afraid to move in the truck right now,\" the driver said. \"Please help me.\"\n\nThe operator urges the driver to stay still, but assures him that lots of people are on the way to help. When the operator asks if it is the only the cab that went off the highway. The driver replies that he can't tell.\n\n\"I just see the road down beneath me, that's all I can see,\" he said.\n\nThe rescue comes a little more than a year after another truck driver was rescued from the cab of her truck, which hung over the side of the George Rogers Clark Memorial Bridge between Louisville, Kentucky, and southern Indiana."
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"value": "# Truck driver rescued from his cab dangling off an elevated highway in Kentucky\n\nMay 5th, 2025 06:50 PM\n\n---\n\nLOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Firefighters rescued the driver of a semi-truck after a crash left the truck's cab dangling over the side of an elevated highway in Kentucky.\n\nThe Louisville Fire Department said in a social media post that it responded Sunday morning to the crash on Interstate 65 just south of the Kennedy Bridge and found the cab hanging precariously off the interstate. The highway is elevated above 15 to 20 feet (4.6 to 6.1 meters) above Interstates 64 and 71 in the area, Capt. Donovan Sims said.\n\nA rescuer harnessed to a rope system was lowered into the cab, and video showed the rescuer and the driver then being lifted from the vehicle to safety.\n\nAuthorities said the rescue operation took about 30 minutes and no injuries were reported although the driver was taken to a hospital as a precaution.\n\nThe Louisville Metro Police Department released several 911 calls related to the accident, including a call with the truck driver, WHAS-TV reports.\n\n\"Will you guys please help me, I'm about to ... I'm about to fall down from the bridge,\" the driver said. \"I'm just hanging over the bridge, I don't want to die.\"\n\nThe driver asks the operator to stay on the phone.\n\n\"I'm really afraid to move in the truck right now,\" the driver said. \"Please help me.\"\n\nThe operator urges the driver to stay still, but assures him that lots of people are on the way to help. When the operator asks if it is the only the cab that went off the highway. The driver replies that he can't tell.\n\n\"I just see the road down beneath me, that's all I can see,\" he said.\n\nThe rescue comes a little more than a year after another truck driver was rescued from the cab of her truck, which hung over the side of the George Rogers Clark Memorial Bridge between Louisville, Kentucky, and southern Indiana."
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"value": "# Cavaliers coach Kenny Atkinson refuses to dwell on missed calls in Game 2 loss to Pacers\n\nMay 8th, 2025 09:56 PM\n\n---\n\nINDEPENDENCE, Ohio (AP) — Cavaliers coach Kenny Atkinson refused to blame officials for what the NBA said were three incorrect no-calls in the final minute — including one that led to Tyrese Haliburton's game-winning 3-pointer — in Indiana's 120-119 victory over Cleveland in Game 2 of an Eastern Conference semifinal series on Tuesday night.\n\nThe NBA said Wednesday in its \"Last 2-Minute Report\" on the game that two lane violations and defensive 3 seconds call were missed. The NBA releases those reports the day after games where the margin is three points or fewer at any time in the last two minutes of the fourth quarter and overtime.\n\nThe league said Haliburton should have been called for a lane violation for stepping over the plane of the free throw line before the ball touched the rim on a missed foul shot with 12.4 seconds remaining with Indiana trailing 119-117.\n\nHaliburton got the offensive rebound after it was deflected by multiple players, dribbled out to the 3-point line and made the game-winning, step-back shot from the top of the key as the Pacers rallied from a 20-point, second-half deficit to go up 2-0 in the series.\n\nHaliburton though wasn't the only player to commit a lane violation on the play. The NBA said multiple players entered the lane.\n\nAtkinson — honored as the NBA's Coach of the Year on Monday — said his bigger worries were about how the Cavs lost their lead and how Indiana scored the final eight points in 47.9 seconds to get the victory.\n\n\"I think we always have recency bias. So what happened in the last 30 seconds? It's like, how'd you lose that 20-point lead,\" Atkinson said after practice on Thursday. \"I'd say it was coaching decisions, player decisions, and then referee decisions. And we all made mistakes. And then if you put it kind of a ledger, you add all those up and that their minus-20 goes to, oh my gosh. We had plenty of decisions where we could have made it. I'm kind of there with that.\"\n\nThe NBA also said multiple players committed lane violations with 48 seconds remaining on a missed free throw by Indiana's Pascal Siakam. One of the players was Aaron Nesmith, whose dunk off the rebound got the Pacers with 118-113.\n\nCleveland's Donovan Mitchell should have been called for a 3-second violation with 15 seconds left. That would have been a technical foul where Indiana should have been awarded one free throw as well as maintaining possession of the ball.\n\nWhile Atkinson has been critical of some of the non-calls and his feeling that some of the physical play has been excessive, Pacers coach Rick Carlisle pointed out that his team has been called for nine more fouls than the Cavaliers.\n\nThe series shifts to Indianapolis for Game 3 on Friday.\n\n\"Look, we're not expecting any gifts from the refs and I don't think we got any in the first two games. I know they disagreed with some calls, it's all part of it,\" Carlisle said.\n\n___\n\nAP NBA: https://apnews.com/hub/nba"
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"value": "# Cavaliers coach Kenny Atkinson refuses to dwell on missed calls in Game 2 loss to Pacers\n\nMay 8th, 2025 09:56 PM\n\n---\n\nINDEPENDENCE, Ohio (AP) — Cavaliers coach Kenny Atkinson refused to blame officials for what the NBA said were three incorrect no-calls in the final minute — including one that led to Tyrese Haliburton's game-winning 3-pointer — in Indiana's 120-119 victory over Cleveland in Game 2 of an Eastern Conference semifinal series on Tuesday night.\n\nThe NBA said Wednesday in its \"Last 2-Minute Report\" on the game that two lane violations and defensive 3 seconds call were missed. The NBA releases those reports the day after games where the margin is three points or fewer at any time in the last two minutes of the fourth quarter and overtime.\n\nThe league said Haliburton should have been called for a lane violation for stepping over the plane of the free throw line before the ball touched the rim on a missed foul shot with 12.4 seconds remaining with Indiana trailing 119-117.\n\nHaliburton got the offensive rebound after it was deflected by multiple players, dribbled out to the 3-point line and made the game-winning, step-back shot from the top of the key as the Pacers rallied from a 20-point, second-half deficit to go up 2-0 in the series.\n\nHaliburton though wasn't the only player to commit a lane violation on the play. The NBA said multiple players entered the lane.\n\nAtkinson — honored as the NBA's Coach of the Year on Monday — said his bigger worries were about how the Cavs lost their lead and how Indiana scored the final eight points in 47.9 seconds to get the victory.\n\n\"I think we always have recency bias. So what happened in the last 30 seconds? It's like, how'd you lose that 20-point lead,\" Atkinson said after practice on Thursday. \"I'd say it was coaching decisions, player decisions, and then referee decisions. And we all made mistakes. And then if you put it kind of a ledger, you add all those up and that their minus-20 goes to, oh my gosh. We had plenty of decisions where we could have made it. I'm kind of there with that.\"\n\nThe NBA also said multiple players committed lane violations with 48 seconds remaining on a missed free throw by Indiana's Pascal Siakam. One of the players was Aaron Nesmith, whose dunk off the rebound got the Pacers with 118-113.\n\nCleveland's Donovan Mitchell should have been called for a 3-second violation with 15 seconds left. That would have been a technical foul where Indiana should have been awarded one free throw as well as maintaining possession of the ball.\n\nWhile Atkinson has been critical of some of the non-calls and his feeling that some of the physical play has been excessive, Pacers coach Rick Carlisle pointed out that his team has been called for nine more fouls than the Cavaliers.\n\nThe series shifts to Indianapolis for Game 3 on Friday.\n\n\"Look, we're not expecting any gifts from the refs and I don't think we got any in the first two games. I know they disagreed with some calls, it's all part of it,\" Carlisle said."
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"value": "# Maple Leafs goaltender Anthony Stolarz not ruled out for Game 2 against Panthers\n\nMay 6th, 2025 07:22 PM\n\n---\n\nTORONTO (AP) — Anthony Stolarz was smiling and in the building.\n\nThe Maple Leafs goaltender had taken a blow to the head, vomited on the bench and left Scotiabank Arena on a stretcher to be evaluated in a hospital on Monday night.\n\nHis presence at Toronto's practice facility in the city's west end Tuesday morning was a welcome sign. Whether or not Stolarz will play when the team's best-of-seven playoff series resumes Wednesday night is up in the air.\n\nCoach Craig Berube didn't rule out his starting goalie for Game 2 of the Leafs' second-round matchup against the Florida Panthers after Stolarz was on the receiving end of an elbow from Sam Bennett in the opener.\n\n\"He's doing well,\" said Berube, whose group earned a 5-4 victory Monday to take a 1-0 lead in a matchup of Atlantic Division rivals.\n\n\"He's here, doing good.\"\n\nThat's about all the information the veteran head coach was willing to share.\n\nIs the 31-year-old available to play Wednesday?\n\nBerube: \"We'll see. Don't know that yet.\"\n\nAnd did he suffer a concussion?\n\nBerube: \"Don't know that either.\"\n\nWhat the Leafs do know is Bennett — a Stanley Cup champion alongside Stolarz with the Panthers last season before the latter signed in Toronto — won't face any supplemental discipline from the NHL.\n\n\"I don't want to talk about it,\" Berube said. \"It's over.\"\n\nStolarz, who also took a shot off the mask early in Game 1, was knocked to the ice in the second period by Bennett, but stayed in the action for a few minutes. He eventually departed after being sick during a TV timeout.\n\n\"Tough seeing your starting goaltender go down,\" Leafs defenseman Jake McCabe said.\n\nNo stranger to entering a playoff series, backup Joseph Woll stopped 17 of 20 shots in relief as Toronto held on after building a 4-1 lead.\n\nThe 26-year-old won Games 5 and 6 of last spring's first-round loss to the Boston Bruins, but was unable to go in the finale because of a back injury.\n\nWoll, who played long stretches this season, including when Stolarz was out with a knee issue, also entered Toronto's second-round defeat to Florida in 2023, winning Game 4 to stave off elimination before a 40-save performance in a 3-2 overtime loss that sent the Panthers to the Eastern Conference final.\n\n\"We've got all the confidence in him,\" McCabe said. \"Tough spot, but he did an awesome job.\"\n\nBennett, meanwhile, spoke to reporters at Florida's downtown hotel after not being made available to reporters following Game 1. The 28-year-old said he had exchanged text messages with Stolarz.\n\n\"There's no intent,\" said Bennett, who added he didn't realize the two made contact in the moment. \"Stolie's a great friend of mine. When I hear he went to the hospital, of course, I feel bad. That's why I reached out.\"\n\nThe bruising 6-foot-1, 191-pound center, however, has a checkered past went it comes to playing near, on or over the line.\n\nThat long list of questionable plays includes him slamming Matthew Knies to the ice on a sequence that resulted in the Toronto winger getting a concussion in the 2023 series. He also appeared to sucker-punch Brad Marchand — now his Florida teammate — in last spring's second round to sideline Boston's former captain.\n\n\"I play a hard style,\" Bennett said. \"I'm just trying to play my game, I'm just trying to help our team win.\"\n\nHe also understands the anger following Stolarz's injury, but said the fact the Panthers were on the power play means he was focused on only one thing.\n\n\"I'm trying to score,\" Bennett said. \"The last thing in my mind is elbowing him in the head. There wasn't a ton of force in it.\"\n\nLeafs winger Max Pacioretty has been in the league since before Bennett was drafted fourth overall by the Calgary Flames in 2014.\n\n\"Emotional player that plays hard,\" said the 36-year-old. \"Players like that, they normally flirt with a line in terms of crossing it or playing right on that line all the time. That's what makes players like that good at their job.\"\n\nPanthers coach Paul Maurice tried to downplay the situation Monday night and again Tuesday morning.\n\n\"Most of this, for me, is tempered by the fact that Stolie is one of our guys,\" he said. \"We love that guy. If I had thought that Sam had crossed the line, I'd probably be more careful with my words.\n\n\"I just didn't think it happened.\"\n\nBerube said his team will have to stay disciplined and not seek retribution on Bennett that could result in power plays for the Panthers.\n\nSeventh on the NHL's penalty minutes list, however, Berube said the situation would have been handled differently during his playing days.\n\n\"Somebody would have done something right away,\" he said with a smile. \"Probably me, if I was out there.\"\n\n___\n\nAP NHL playoffs: https://apnews.com/hub/stanley-cup and https://apnews.com/hub/nhl"
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"value": "# Maple Leafs goaltender Anthony Stolarz not ruled out for Game 2 against Panthers\n\nMay 6th, 2025 07:22 PM\n\n---\n\nTORONTO (AP) — Anthony Stolarz was smiling and in the building.\n\nThe Maple Leafs goaltender had taken a blow to the head, vomited on the bench and left Scotiabank Arena on a stretcher to be evaluated in a hospital on Monday night.\n\nHis presence at Toronto's practice facility in the city's west end Tuesday morning was a welcome sign. Whether or not Stolarz will play when the team's best-of-seven playoff series resumes Wednesday night is up in the air.\n\nCoach Craig Berube didn't rule out his starting goalie for Game 2 of the Leafs' second-round matchup against the Florida Panthers after Stolarz was on the receiving end of an elbow from Sam Bennett in the opener.\n\n\"He's doing well,\" said Berube, whose group earned a 5-4 victory Monday to take a 1-0 lead in a matchup of Atlantic Division rivals.\n\n\"He's here, doing good.\"\n\nThat's about all the information the veteran head coach was willing to share.\n\nIs the 31-year-old available to play Wednesday?\n\nBerube: \"We'll see. Don't know that yet.\"\n\nAnd did he suffer a concussion?\n\nBerube: \"Don't know that either.\"\n\nWhat the Leafs do know is Bennett — a Stanley Cup champion alongside Stolarz with the Panthers last season before the latter signed in Toronto — won't face any supplemental discipline from the NHL.\n\n\"I don't want to talk about it,\" Berube said. \"It's over.\"\n\nStolarz, who also took a shot off the mask early in Game 1, was knocked to the ice in the second period by Bennett, but stayed in the action for a few minutes. He eventually departed after being sick during a TV timeout.\n\n\"Tough seeing your starting goaltender go down,\" Leafs defenseman Jake McCabe said.\n\nNo stranger to entering a playoff series, backup Joseph Woll stopped 17 of 20 shots in relief as Toronto held on after building a 4-1 lead.\n\nThe 26-year-old won Games 5 and 6 of last spring's first-round loss to the Boston Bruins, but was unable to go in the finale because of a back injury.\n\nWoll, who played long stretches this season, including when Stolarz was out with a knee issue, also entered Toronto's second-round defeat to Florida in 2023, winning Game 4 to stave off elimination before a 40-save performance in a 3-2 overtime loss that sent the Panthers to the Eastern Conference final.\n\n\"We've got all the confidence in him,\" McCabe said. \"Tough spot, but he did an awesome job.\"\n\nBennett, meanwhile, spoke to reporters at Florida's downtown hotel after not being made available to reporters following Game 1. The 28-year-old said he had exchanged text messages with Stolarz.\n\n\"There's no intent,\" said Bennett, who added he didn't realize the two made contact in the moment. \"Stolie's a great friend of mine. When I hear he went to the hospital, of course, I feel bad. That's why I reached out.\"\n\nThe bruising 6-foot-1, 191-pound center, however, has a checkered past went it comes to playing near, on or over the line.\n\nThat long list of questionable plays includes him slamming Matthew Knies to the ice on a sequence that resulted in the Toronto winger getting a concussion in the 2023 series. He also appeared to sucker-punch Brad Marchand — now his Florida teammate — in last spring's second round to sideline Boston's former captain.\n\n\"I play a hard style,\" Bennett said. \"I'm just trying to play my game, I'm just trying to help our team win.\"\n\nHe also understands the anger following Stolarz's injury, but said the fact the Panthers were on the power play means he was focused on only one thing.\n\n\"I'm trying to score,\" Bennett said. \"The last thing in my mind is elbowing him in the head. There wasn't a ton of force in it.\"\n\nLeafs winger Max Pacioretty has been in the league since before Bennett was drafted fourth overall by the Calgary Flames in 2014.\n\n\"Emotional player that plays hard,\" said the 36-year-old. \"Players like that, they normally flirt with a line in terms of crossing it or playing right on that line all the time. That's what makes players like that good at their job.\"\n\nPanthers coach Paul Maurice tried to downplay the situation Monday night and again Tuesday morning.\n\n\"Most of this, for me, is tempered by the fact that Stolie is one of our guys,\" he said. \"We love that guy. If I had thought that Sam had crossed the line, I'd probably be more careful with my words.\n\n\"I just didn't think it happened.\"\n\nBerube said his team will have to stay disciplined and not seek retribution on Bennett that could result in power plays for the Panthers.\n\nSeventh on the NHL's penalty minutes list, however, Berube said the situation would have been handled differently during his playing days.\n\n\"Somebody would have done something right away,\" he said with a smile. \"Probably me, if I was out there.\""
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"value": "# Reports of Trump deportation plans highlight abuse of migrants in Libya\n\nBy Renata Brito and Fatma Khaled \nMay 8th, 2025 08:49 PM\n\n---\n\nCAIRO (AP) — Reports of plans to deport migrants from the U.S. to Libya, a country with a documented history of serious human rights violations and abuse of migrants, have spotlighted the difficulties they face in the lawless North African nation.\n\nMigrants in Libya are routinely arbitrarily detained and placed in squalid detention centers where they are subjected to extortion, abuse, rape and killings.\n\nA U.N.-backed, independent fact-finding mission found evidence that crimes against humanity had been committed against migrants in Libya. Victims were subjected to enslavement, forced disappearance, torture and murder, among other crimes, the investigators found. Dead migrants have been found in mass graves across the country, while tens of thousands of others have drowned trying to escape Libya on smugglers' boats.\n\n\"It's hell on earth for migrants,\" said Tarek Megerisi, a senior policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations.\n\n\"All they will have are different forms of abuse — if they are lucky enough, they will end up on a rickety boat in the Mediterranean,\" added Megerisi, who is Libyan.\n\n## A fractured country ruled by militias\n\nLibya plunged into chaos after a 2011 NATO-backed uprising toppled and killed longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi. The country split, with rival administrations in the east and west backed by a web of rogue militias.\n\n\"Their main business model is smuggling, and people smuggling is a major part of that,\" Megerisi said.\n\nBoth the Tripoli-based government of Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah and its rival administration in eastern Libya controlled by military commander Khalifa Hifter have denied signing a deportation deal with the Trump administration.\n\nSome 800,000 migrants seeking work or who have fled war in their home countries live in Libya, according to the International Organization for Migration. Each year, thousands attempt the dangerous Mediterranean crossing from the North African country to Europe.\n\nDespite documented abuses in Libya, the European Union and Italy have for years funded, trained and equipped Libyan groups, including the coast guard, to stop migrants from reaching European shores.\n\n## Abuse and extortion in migrant detention centers\n\nMigrants intercepted at sea or elsewhere in Libya are subject to arbitrary detention and extortion in centers run by armed groups that are either affiliated with state authorities or are autonomous, said Mehdi Ben Youssef, program lead at Lawyers for Justice in Libya. Those groups extort migrants for money in exchange for release — only for them to be captured again by another armed group, detained and tortured.\n\nBen Youssef said those who could be deported from the U.S. to Libya \"would be highly exposed to cycles of crimes.\"\n\nIn detention centers, migrants are tortured and kept in \"horrific conditions,\" lacking legal representation and proper access to water and health care, Ben Youssef said. Families outside Libya are blackmailed with cellphone videos of their relatives being tortured to pay varying sums for their release — payments that often offer no real guarantee of freedom.\n\nA 2019 Associated Press investigation found that huge sums of EU funds meant to improve conditions for migrants ended up in the hands of militiamen, traffickers and coast guard members who exploited migrants in this cycle of catch and release.\n\n## Restrictions hinder groups in Libya from aiding migrants\n\nLast month, Libya's Internal Security Agency ordered 10 international aid organizations to suspend operations and close offices, accusing the groups of violating local laws by providing aid to African migrants, touting a \"replacement\" conspiracy theory and resulting in more targeting of Black migrants.\n\nThose groups were already operating in a \"highly restrictive environment\" amid numerous crackdowns on civil society, Ben Youssef said.\n\nBlack migrants, and especially non-Arabs, face abuse such as forced labor and extortion more so than migrants of other nationalities, a humanitarian worker in Libya told The AP.\n\nAttorneys said Wednesday that U.S. authorities informed some migrants of plans to deport them to Libya. That is troubling because it sends the message Libya is safe when it's not, said the worker, who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of retribution.\n\nThe worker's team, which travels to reach vulnerable communities, helps with food distribution and provides psychosocial support, has been hindered since Libya ordered aid agencies to suspend operations.\n\nLibya is \"not a safe country for migrants,\" and the order made the situation worse, said Claudia Lodesani, who heads Doctors Without Borders' programs for Libya.\n\nLibyan authorities have ordered private medical clinics collaborating with the group not to respond to migrants' health needs.\n\n\"Our organization is very concerned about the consequences these orders will have on the health of migrant people in Libya,\" Lodesani said.\n\n## More questions than answers\n\nFor now, there are still more questions than answers on whether deportations to Libya would actually take place. A U.S. judge said Wednesday that migrants can't be deported without a chance to challenge such a move in court.\n\n\"What would happen to people once they land in Libya? ... Would they be detained?\" asked Camille Le Coz, who leads the European branch of the Migration Policy Institute think tank.\n\nShe noted that Libya has a very restrictive asylum procedure, recognizing refugees from only a handful of nationalities.\n\n\"This type of operation is expensive, it's difficult to set up, and so, we can speculate that it might be to show that if you get to the U.S. you might be sent to this place that is extremely dangerous for migrant populations and that this may deter people from coming,\" Le Coz said.\n\n___\n\nBrito reported from Barcelona, Spain.\n\n___ Follow AP's global migration coverage at https://apnews.com/hub/migration"
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"value": "# Reports of Trump deportation plans highlight abuse of migrants in Libya\n\nBy Renata Brito and Fatma Khaled \nMay 8th, 2025 08:49 PM\n\n---\n\nCAIRO (AP) — Reports of plans to deport migrants from the U.S. to Libya, a country with a documented history of serious human rights violations and abuse of migrants, have spotlighted the difficulties they face in the lawless North African nation.\n\nMigrants in Libya are routinely arbitrarily detained and placed in squalid detention centers where they are subjected to extortion, abuse, rape and killings.\n\nA U.N.-backed, independent fact-finding mission found evidence that crimes against humanity had been committed against migrants in Libya. Victims were subjected to enslavement, forced disappearance, torture and murder, among other crimes, the investigators found. Dead migrants have been found in mass graves across the country, while tens of thousands of others have drowned trying to escape Libya on smugglers' boats.\n\n\"It's hell on earth for migrants,\" said Tarek Megerisi, a senior policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations.\n\n\"All they will have are different forms of abuse — if they are lucky enough, they will end up on a rickety boat in the Mediterranean,\" added Megerisi, who is Libyan.\n\n## A fractured country ruled by militias\n\nLibya plunged into chaos after a 2011 NATO-backed uprising toppled and killed longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi. The country split, with rival administrations in the east and west backed by a web of rogue militias.\n\n\"Their main business model is smuggling, and people smuggling is a major part of that,\" Megerisi said.\n\nBoth the Tripoli-based government of Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah and its rival administration in eastern Libya controlled by military commander Khalifa Hifter have denied signing a deportation deal with the Trump administration.\n\nSome 800,000 migrants seeking work or who have fled war in their home countries live in Libya, according to the International Organization for Migration. Each year, thousands attempt the dangerous Mediterranean crossing from the North African country to Europe.\n\nDespite documented abuses in Libya, the European Union and Italy have for years funded, trained and equipped Libyan groups, including the coast guard, to stop migrants from reaching European shores.\n\n## Abuse and extortion in migrant detention centers\n\nMigrants intercepted at sea or elsewhere in Libya are subject to arbitrary detention and extortion in centers run by armed groups that are either affiliated with state authorities or are autonomous, said Mehdi Ben Youssef, program lead at Lawyers for Justice in Libya. Those groups extort migrants for money in exchange for release — only for them to be captured again by another armed group, detained and tortured.\n\nBen Youssef said those who could be deported from the U.S. to Libya \"would be highly exposed to cycles of crimes.\"\n\nIn detention centers, migrants are tortured and kept in \"horrific conditions,\" lacking legal representation and proper access to water and health care, Ben Youssef said. Families outside Libya are blackmailed with cellphone videos of their relatives being tortured to pay varying sums for their release — payments that often offer no real guarantee of freedom.\n\nA 2019 Associated Press investigation found that huge sums of EU funds meant to improve conditions for migrants ended up in the hands of militiamen, traffickers and coast guard members who exploited migrants in this cycle of catch and release.\n\n## Restrictions hinder groups in Libya from aiding migrants\n\nLast month, Libya's Internal Security Agency ordered 10 international aid organizations to suspend operations and close offices, accusing the groups of violating local laws by providing aid to African migrants, touting a \"replacement\" conspiracy theory and resulting in more targeting of Black migrants.\n\nThose groups were already operating in a \"highly restrictive environment\" amid numerous crackdowns on civil society, Ben Youssef said.\n\nBlack migrants, and especially non-Arabs, face abuse such as forced labor and extortion more so than migrants of other nationalities, a humanitarian worker in Libya told The AP.\n\nAttorneys said Wednesday that U.S. authorities informed some migrants of plans to deport them to Libya. That is troubling because it sends the message Libya is safe when it's not, said the worker, who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of retribution.\n\nThe worker's team, which travels to reach vulnerable communities, helps with food distribution and provides psychosocial support, has been hindered since Libya ordered aid agencies to suspend operations.\n\nLibya is \"not a safe country for migrants,\" and the order made the situation worse, said Claudia Lodesani, who heads Doctors Without Borders' programs for Libya.\n\nLibyan authorities have ordered private medical clinics collaborating with the group not to respond to migrants' health needs.\n\n\"Our organization is very concerned about the consequences these orders will have on the health of migrant people in Libya,\" Lodesani said.\n\n## More questions than answers\n\nFor now, there are still more questions than answers on whether deportations to Libya would actually take place. A U.S. judge said Wednesday that migrants can't be deported without a chance to challenge such a move in court.\n\n\"What would happen to people once they land in Libya? ... Would they be detained?\" asked Camille Le Coz, who leads the European branch of the Migration Policy Institute think tank.\n\nShe noted that Libya has a very restrictive asylum procedure, recognizing refugees from only a handful of nationalities.\n\n\"This type of operation is expensive, it's difficult to set up, and so, we can speculate that it might be to show that if you get to the U.S. you might be sent to this place that is extremely dangerous for migrant populations and that this may deter people from coming,\" Le Coz said."
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"value": "# How the military is dealing with Hegseth's order to remove transgender troops\n\nBy Lolita C. Baldor \nMay 9th, 2025 08:37 PM\n\n---\n\nWASHINGTON (AP) — The military services scrambled Friday to nail down details and put together new guidance to start removing transgender troops from the force.\n\nDefense Secretary Pete Hegseth, in a memo released late Thursday, reinstated orders issued earlier this year that said \"expressing a false gender identity divergent from an individual's sex cannot satisfy the rigorous standards necessary for military service.\"\n\nHis new order gives active duty troops until June 6 to identify themselves as transgender and voluntarily begin to leave the service. National Guard and Reserve troops have until July 7.\n\nArmy Maj. Alivia Stehlik, who served in the infantry and is now a physical therapist, will be eligible to retire in three years but doesn't want to be forced out for being a transgender service member.\n\n\"I still have a job to do,\" she said. \"My command expects me to show up and be an officer and do my job because I'm the only person at my unit who can do what I do.\"\n\nThe military services were rushing to put out new guidance to help commanders work through the process, including what to do in more complex situations, such as if any of the troops are deployed, at sea or may require special orders or funding to meet the deadlines.\n\nHere's a look at the issue and what happens next:\n\n## What is going on with banning transgender troops?\n\nIn 2015, then-Defense Secretary Ash Carter broached the idea of lifting the ban on transgender troops and allowing them to serve openly, which raised concerns among military leaders. He set up a study, and in June 2016 announced the ban was over.\n\nReinstating that ban has long been a goal for President Donald Trump.\n\nSix months into his first term, Trump announced he was not going to allow transgender people to serve in the military \"in any capacity.\" That set off a roughly two-year struggle to hammer out the complex details of how that would work, even as legal challenges poured in.\n\nThe Pentagon eventually laid out a policy that allowed those currently serving to stay and continue with plans for hormone treatments and gender transition if they had been diagnosed with gender dysphoria. But it barred new enlistments of anyone with gender dysphoria who was taking hormones or had transitioned to another gender.\n\nGender dysphoria occurs when a person's biological sex does not match up with their gender identity.\n\nThat ban was overturned by then-President Joe Biden. When Trump took office again this year, he directed Hegseth to revise the Pentagon's policy on transgender troops.\n\nIn late February, Pentagon leaders ordered the services to set up procedures to identify troops diagnosed with or being treated for gender dysphoria by March 26. And it gave them 30 days to begin removing those troops from service.\n\nA flurry of lawsuits stalled the ban. But on Tuesday, the Supreme Court ruled that the administration could enforce the ban, while other legal challenges proceed.\n\n## How many transgender troops are there?\n\nThere are about 2.1 million active duty, Guard and Reserve troops.\n\nAccording to the Defense Department, about 1,000 service members have voluntarily identified themselves as transgender and will now begin the process of leaving the military. And while the totals are early estimates, as many as 500 of those are Army soldiers, hundreds are in the Navy and at least 50 are Marines.\n\nDefense officials say troops began to self-identify after the February order, going to their commanders and filing out forms. That process stopped in late March due to the lawsuits, but officials said Friday they were dusting off those files and figuring out how to proceed.\n\nStill, exactly how many troops may be affected is complicated, and the military services are grappling with how to identify and remove them all.\n\nDefense officials have said that 4,240 troops currently serving in active duty, the National Guard and Reserve have been diagnosed with gender dysphoria And they contend that, as of late last year, about 3,200 service members had received gender-affirming hormone therapy from 2015 to 2024, and about 1,000 received gender-affirming surgery.\n\nPreviously, however, estimates of transgender troops have hovered between 9,000 and 12,000. And they could range from people who haven't been officially diagnosed or aren't taking medication to those who are taking medication, have undergone surgery or are in the process of transitioning to their preferred gender.\n\nIn March 2018, then-Defense Secretary James Mattis released a memo with unprecedented details on the data. It said, at that time, there were 8,980 service members who identified themselves as transgender and 937 had been diagnosed with gender dysphoria.\n\n## Is military separation voluntary or not?\n\nHegseth's latest memo sets up two distinct processes, but the details remained a bit uncertain.\n\nService members who voluntarily identify themselves to commanders would likely be able to receive some type of separation pay, which could include cashing out leave time that hasn't been used or bonuses that haven't yet been paid.\n\nAfter June 6, the department will go through medical records to find any other troops who have been diagnosed with or treated for gender dysphoria and force them to leave the service. Those troops may not qualify for some of that additional pay.\n\nThe Pentagon policy, as written earlier this year, would allow for limited exemptions.\n\nThat includes transgender personnel seeking to enlist who can prove on a case-by-case basis that they directly support warfighting activities, or if an existing service member diagnosed with gender dysphoria can prove they support a specific warfighting need, never transitioned to the gender they identify with and proves over 36 months they are stable in their biological sex \"without clinically significant distress.\"\n\nIf a waiver is issued, the applicant would still face a situation where only their biological sex was recognized for bathroom facilities, sleeping quarters and even in official recognition, such as being called \"Sir\" or \"Ma'am.\"\n\n## What will it mean?\n\nOver the years, transgender troops have been serving effectively in all of the services, according to military leaders, who told Congress they were not seeing any problems. They have ranged from rank-and-file enlisted members to elite special operations forces.\n\nThe troops and activist groups argue that removing transgender service members also hurts their units and military readiness more broadly.\n\nStehlik, who has been in the military since she went to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 2004, transitioned in 2017, while serving in the Army. She said that for her and others who haven't hit their 20-year retirement milestone, being kicked out would mean a major loss of benefits, including a pension and health insurance.\n\nSarah Klimm, a transgender Marine who served for 23 years, retired just as the end of the ban was announced in 2016, so was never able to serve openly.\n\nNow a policy analyst for Minority Veterans of America, she said that in the past nine years, there haven't been any of the unit cohesion problems that some feared.\n\nKlimm said ousting members is going to hurt military readiness. \"Senior enlisted side and senior officer ranks — that's a lot of time and money put into them,\" she said. \"You don't just backfill it.\"\n\n____\n\nAssociated Press writer Geoff Mulvihill in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, contributed to this report."
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"value": "# How the military is dealing with Hegseth's order to remove transgender troops\n\nBy Lolita C. Baldor \nMay 9th, 2025 08:37 PM\n\n---\n\nWASHINGTON (AP) — The military services scrambled Friday to nail down details and put together new guidance to start removing transgender troops from the force.\n\nDefense Secretary Pete Hegseth, in a memo released late Thursday, reinstated orders issued earlier this year that said \"expressing a false gender identity divergent from an individual's sex cannot satisfy the rigorous standards necessary for military service.\"\n\nHis new order gives active duty troops until June 6 to identify themselves as transgender and voluntarily begin to leave the service. National Guard and Reserve troops have until July 7.\n\nArmy Maj. Alivia Stehlik, who served in the infantry and is now a physical therapist, will be eligible to retire in three years but doesn't want to be forced out for being a transgender service member.\n\n\"I still have a job to do,\" she said. \"My command expects me to show up and be an officer and do my job because I'm the only person at my unit who can do what I do.\"\n\nThe military services were rushing to put out new guidance to help commanders work through the process, including what to do in more complex situations, such as if any of the troops are deployed, at sea or may require special orders or funding to meet the deadlines.\n\nHere's a look at the issue and what happens next:\n\n## What is going on with banning transgender troops?\n\nIn 2015, then-Defense Secretary Ash Carter broached the idea of lifting the ban on transgender troops and allowing them to serve openly, which raised concerns among military leaders. He set up a study, and in June 2016 announced the ban was over.\n\nReinstating that ban has long been a goal for President Donald Trump.\n\nSix months into his first term, Trump announced he was not going to allow transgender people to serve in the military \"in any capacity.\" That set off a roughly two-year struggle to hammer out the complex details of how that would work, even as legal challenges poured in.\n\nThe Pentagon eventually laid out a policy that allowed those currently serving to stay and continue with plans for hormone treatments and gender transition if they had been diagnosed with gender dysphoria. But it barred new enlistments of anyone with gender dysphoria who was taking hormones or had transitioned to another gender.\n\nGender dysphoria occurs when a person's biological sex does not match up with their gender identity.\n\nThat ban was overturned by then-President Joe Biden. When Trump took office again this year, he directed Hegseth to revise the Pentagon's policy on transgender troops.\n\nIn late February, Pentagon leaders ordered the services to set up procedures to identify troops diagnosed with or being treated for gender dysphoria by March 26. And it gave them 30 days to begin removing those troops from service.\n\nA flurry of lawsuits stalled the ban. But on Tuesday, the Supreme Court ruled that the administration could enforce the ban, while other legal challenges proceed.\n\n## How many transgender troops are there?\n\nThere are about 2.1 million active duty, Guard and Reserve troops.\n\nAccording to the Defense Department, about 1,000 service members have voluntarily identified themselves as transgender and will now begin the process of leaving the military. And while the totals are early estimates, as many as 500 of those are Army soldiers, hundreds are in the Navy and at least 50 are Marines.\n\nDefense officials say troops began to self-identify after the February order, going to their commanders and filing out forms. That process stopped in late March due to the lawsuits, but officials said Friday they were dusting off those files and figuring out how to proceed.\n\nStill, exactly how many troops may be affected is complicated, and the military services are grappling with how to identify and remove them all.\n\nDefense officials have said that 4,240 troops currently serving in active duty, the National Guard and Reserve have been diagnosed with gender dysphoria And they contend that, as of late last year, about 3,200 service members had received gender-affirming hormone therapy from 2015 to 2024, and about 1,000 received gender-affirming surgery.\n\nPreviously, however, estimates of transgender troops have hovered between 9,000 and 12,000. And they could range from people who haven't been officially diagnosed or aren't taking medication to those who are taking medication, have undergone surgery or are in the process of transitioning to their preferred gender.\n\nIn March 2018, then-Defense Secretary James Mattis released a memo with unprecedented details on the data. It said, at that time, there were 8,980 service members who identified themselves as transgender and 937 had been diagnosed with gender dysphoria.\n\n## Is military separation voluntary or not?\n\nHegseth's latest memo sets up two distinct processes, but the details remained a bit uncertain.\n\nService members who voluntarily identify themselves to commanders would likely be able to receive some type of separation pay, which could include cashing out leave time that hasn't been used or bonuses that haven't yet been paid.\n\nAfter June 6, the department will go through medical records to find any other troops who have been diagnosed with or treated for gender dysphoria and force them to leave the service. Those troops may not qualify for some of that additional pay.\n\nThe Pentagon policy, as written earlier this year, would allow for limited exemptions.\n\nThat includes transgender personnel seeking to enlist who can prove on a case-by-case basis that they directly support warfighting activities, or if an existing service member diagnosed with gender dysphoria can prove they support a specific warfighting need, never transitioned to the gender they identify with and proves over 36 months they are stable in their biological sex \"without clinically significant distress.\"\n\nIf a waiver is issued, the applicant would still face a situation where only their biological sex was recognized for bathroom facilities, sleeping quarters and even in official recognition, such as being called \"Sir\" or \"Ma'am.\"\n\n## What will it mean?\n\nOver the years, transgender troops have been serving effectively in all of the services, according to military leaders, who told Congress they were not seeing any problems. They have ranged from rank-and-file enlisted members to elite special operations forces.\n\nThe troops and activist groups argue that removing transgender service members also hurts their units and military readiness more broadly.\n\nStehlik, who has been in the military since she went to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 2004, transitioned in 2017, while serving in the Army. She said that for her and others who haven't hit their 20-year retirement milestone, being kicked out would mean a major loss of benefits, including a pension and health insurance.\n\nSarah Klimm, a transgender Marine who served for 23 years, retired just as the end of the ban was announced in 2016, so was never able to serve openly.\n\nNow a policy analyst for Minority Veterans of America, she said that in the past nine years, there haven't been any of the unit cohesion problems that some feared.\n\nKlimm said ousting members is going to hurt military readiness. \"Senior enlisted side and senior officer ranks — that's a lot of time and money put into them,\" she said. \"You don't just backfill it.\""
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"value": "# 1st Egyptian drafted into the NFL, Ahmed Hassanein, takes part in Detroit Lions minicamp\n\nBy Bob Tripi \nMay 9th, 2025 06:23 PM\n\n---\n\nALLEN PARK, Mich. (AP) — Ahmed Hassanein remembers the days of learning how to play football in his half-brother's small kitchen in California.\n\nThe 6-foot-2, 267-pound former Boise State defensive end, who was the first Egyptian drafted into the NFL last month by Detroit, created a new memory Friday by taking snaps at the Lions rookie minicamp.\n\n\"I'm just so grateful, so honored to be here,\" Hassanein said. \"It's kind of like doesn't feel real. It's like I don't want to leave the field. I love it. The coaching, my teammates, just the competitiveness, it's been great. And I'm just looking forward to tomorrow and just take it day by day.\"\n\nHassanein, who was selected in the sixth round with the 196th pick, said one of the biggest moments he's had since arriving at minicamp was meeting coach Dan Campbell. When he was drafted, an exuberant Hassanein proclaimed, \" I would die for that guy. I would run through a wall for him like I ran through a wall for Coach D (Boise State coach Spencer Danielson).\"\n\nAs he came out to the practice field, the two finally met and shook hands.\n\n\"It kind of feels unreal,\" he said. \"He's an awesome guy. I'm just looking forward to learn from him off the field and on the field.\"\n\nIt is hoped that Hassanein will help fill the edge rusher hole that the Lions have opposite Aidan Hutchinson.\n\n\"I'll say about Ahmed is he's relentless,\" Lions assistant general manager Ray Agnew said Friday. \"He plays the game the way we like to play. He plays it hard. He's a second-effort rusher. He can win with hands as a rusher. ... And I think when (defensive line ) coach (Kacy) Rodgers get his hands on him to coach him up, the kid's going to be a good player for us. So we're excited about him.\"\n\nTo live up to the Lions' hopes, Hassanein knows he has a lot of work ahead of him and is ready for the challenge.\n\n\"I look for hardships,\" he said. \"I want to get better at stuff. I want to because I don't want to take the easy way out. I want to earn everything. I don't want nothing to be given to me.\"\n\nHassanein, who moved to California in 2018 from Cairo, Egypt, said he has been surprised by the outpouring of attention that he's been receiving from Egyptians.\n\n\"Man, it's being the first Egyptian you're talking about culture and teams,\" he said. \"People look out to me. I get texts all the time that people just want to be like me, inspired to be like me. I'm just so grateful and so honored that Jesus pulled me in this position. I mean, I'm gonna give it all I got.\"\n\n___\n\nAP NFL: https://apnews.com/hub/nfl"
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"value": "# 1st Egyptian drafted into the NFL, Ahmed Hassanein, takes part in Detroit Lions minicamp\n\nBy Bob Tripi \nMay 9th, 2025 06:23 PM\n\n---\n\nALLEN PARK, Mich. (AP) — Ahmed Hassanein remembers the days of learning how to play football in his half-brother's small kitchen in California.\n\nThe 6-foot-2, 267-pound former Boise State defensive end, who was the first Egyptian drafted into the NFL last month by Detroit, created a new memory Friday by taking snaps at the Lions rookie minicamp.\n\n\"I'm just so grateful, so honored to be here,\" Hassanein said. \"It's kind of like doesn't feel real. It's like I don't want to leave the field. I love it. The coaching, my teammates, just the competitiveness, it's been great. And I'm just looking forward to tomorrow and just take it day by day.\"\n\nHassanein, who was selected in the sixth round with the 196th pick, said one of the biggest moments he's had since arriving at minicamp was meeting coach Dan Campbell. When he was drafted, an exuberant Hassanein proclaimed, \" I would die for that guy. I would run through a wall for him like I ran through a wall for Coach D (Boise State coach Spencer Danielson).\"\n\nAs he came out to the practice field, the two finally met and shook hands.\n\n\"It kind of feels unreal,\" he said. \"He's an awesome guy. I'm just looking forward to learn from him off the field and on the field.\"\n\nIt is hoped that Hassanein will help fill the edge rusher hole that the Lions have opposite Aidan Hutchinson.\n\n\"I'll say about Ahmed is he's relentless,\" Lions assistant general manager Ray Agnew said Friday. \"He plays the game the way we like to play. He plays it hard. He's a second-effort rusher. He can win with hands as a rusher. ... And I think when (defensive line ) coach (Kacy) Rodgers get his hands on him to coach him up, the kid's going to be a good player for us. So we're excited about him.\"\n\nTo live up to the Lions' hopes, Hassanein knows he has a lot of work ahead of him and is ready for the challenge.\n\n\"I look for hardships,\" he said. \"I want to get better at stuff. I want to because I don't want to take the easy way out. I want to earn everything. I don't want nothing to be given to me.\"\n\nHassanein, who moved to California in 2018 from Cairo, Egypt, said he has been surprised by the outpouring of attention that he's been receiving from Egyptians.\n\n\"Man, it's being the first Egyptian you're talking about culture and teams,\" he said. \"People look out to me. I get texts all the time that people just want to be like me, inspired to be like me. I'm just so grateful and so honored that Jesus pulled me in this position. I mean, I'm gonna give it all I got.\""
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"value": "# Turkish Cypriots protest over what they say is Turkey's introduction of Islam into education system\n\nBy Menelaos Hadjicostis \nMay 2nd, 2025 07:36 PM\n\n---\n\nNICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Several thousand Turkish Cypriots took to the streets of the northern half of ethnically divided Cyprus' capital Nicosia on Friday to protest what they say is Turkey's attempt to erode their secular roots and to strengthen the hold of political Islam over their society.\n\nRain showers cleared long enough for marchers to walk along a main thoroughfare hoisting trade union banners and holding placards reading \"It won't pass\" and \"Cyprus will stay secular\" before gathering for a concert.\n\nThe protest is the latest in a series of demonstrations that leftist trade unions mounted to express their opposition to what they see as Ankara's bid to mold staunchly secular Turkish Cypriots into a more politically pliable community through the introduction of Islam into the education system.\n\nThe protest came a day before Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's visit to breakaway northern Cyprus where he will inaugurate a complex of government buildings. Erdogan reportedly said that he would publicly rebuke protesters during his visit.\n\nThe protests began last month when the right-wing Turkish Cypriot authorities lifted a ban on wearing headscarves in high schools. Teachers' trade unions, political parties and other leftist groups condemned the move as an encroachment into the strictly secular education system aimed at the eventual \"Islamization\" of Turkish Cypriot society.\n\nCyprus was split in 1974 when Turkey invaded following an Athens-backed coup aiming at union with Greece. Only Turkey recognizes a Turkish Cypriot declaration of independence in the island's northern third where it maintains more than 35,000 troops.\n\nCyprus joined the European Union in 2004, but only the Greek Cypriot south where the island's internationally recognized government is seated enjoys full benefits.\n\nU.N. Secretary-General António Guterres announced on Friday that the appointment of María Angela Holguín Cuéllar as his personal envoy on Cyprus, tasked with exploring ways to resume peace talks stalled since 2017.\n\nElma Eylem, president of the Turkish Cypriot Secondary Education Teachers' Union KTOEÖS and one of the protests' key organizers, said that the change in statute allowing the wearing of headscarves in school is evidence of a bid at \"social engineering\" to force Turkish Cypriot society into submission according to the edicts of Turkey's ruling AKP party.\n\n\"This step has been taken in the divided part of our island which has been turned into a sub-administration of Turkey, where every institution has been taken over, where our population has been reduced to a minority and our political will has been taken away, this change in the statute is a part of social engineering,\" Eylem told The Associated Press in a written response to questions.\n\nTeachers at one high school reportedly turned away a female student who showed up wearing a headscarf after the ban was lifted.\n\nEylem defended the action, saying that teachers won't allow \"political Islam to be imposed on our girls through their bodies.\"\n\n\"This issue is not a matter of freedom, headscarf or regulation. This issue is a step taken by the AKP in its efforts to deepen the political Islam domination over the Turkish Cypriot Community,\" she said.\n\nEylem also dismissed an earlier counterprotest by those in favor of allowing headscarf-wearing in high schools, saying that such demonstrations organized by Turkey in northern Cyprus \"do not reflect the will of the Turkish Cypriot community.\"\n\nThe nnion president said that a legal challenge to the lifting of the headscarf ban has been initiated at the Turkish Cypriot Constitutional Court, adding that their fight will be \"a long-term struggle.\""
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"value": "# Turkish Cypriots protest over what they say is Turkey's introduction of Islam into education system\n\nBy Menelaos Hadjicostis \nMay 2nd, 2025 07:36 PM\n\n---\n\nNICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Several thousand Turkish Cypriots took to the streets of the northern half of ethnically divided Cyprus' capital Nicosia on Friday to protest what they say is Turkey's attempt to erode their secular roots and to strengthen the hold of political Islam over their society.\n\nRain showers cleared long enough for marchers to walk along a main thoroughfare hoisting trade union banners and holding placards reading \"It won't pass\" and \"Cyprus will stay secular\" before gathering for a concert.\n\nThe protest is the latest in a series of demonstrations that leftist trade unions mounted to express their opposition to what they see as Ankara's bid to mold staunchly secular Turkish Cypriots into a more politically pliable community through the introduction of Islam into the education system.\n\nThe protest came a day before Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's visit to breakaway northern Cyprus where he will inaugurate a complex of government buildings. Erdogan reportedly said that he would publicly rebuke protesters during his visit.\n\nThe protests began last month when the right-wing Turkish Cypriot authorities lifted a ban on wearing headscarves in high schools. Teachers' trade unions, political parties and other leftist groups condemned the move as an encroachment into the strictly secular education system aimed at the eventual \"Islamization\" of Turkish Cypriot society.\n\nCyprus was split in 1974 when Turkey invaded following an Athens-backed coup aiming at union with Greece. Only Turkey recognizes a Turkish Cypriot declaration of independence in the island's northern third where it maintains more than 35,000 troops.\n\nCyprus joined the European Union in 2004, but only the Greek Cypriot south where the island's internationally recognized government is seated enjoys full benefits.\n\nU.N. Secretary-General António Guterres announced on Friday that the appointment of María Angela Holguín Cuéllar as his personal envoy on Cyprus, tasked with exploring ways to resume peace talks stalled since 2017.\n\nElma Eylem, president of the Turkish Cypriot Secondary Education Teachers' Union KTOEÖS and one of the protests' key organizers, said that the change in statute allowing the wearing of headscarves in school is evidence of a bid at \"social engineering\" to force Turkish Cypriot society into submission according to the edicts of Turkey's ruling AKP party.\n\n\"This step has been taken in the divided part of our island which has been turned into a sub-administration of Turkey, where every institution has been taken over, where our population has been reduced to a minority and our political will has been taken away, this change in the statute is a part of social engineering,\" Eylem told The Associated Press in a written response to questions.\n\nTeachers at one high school reportedly turned away a female student who showed up wearing a headscarf after the ban was lifted.\n\nEylem defended the action, saying that teachers won't allow \"political Islam to be imposed on our girls through their bodies.\"\n\n\"This issue is not a matter of freedom, headscarf or regulation. This issue is a step taken by the AKP in its efforts to deepen the political Islam domination over the Turkish Cypriot Community,\" she said.\n\nEylem also dismissed an earlier counterprotest by those in favor of allowing headscarf-wearing in high schools, saying that such demonstrations organized by Turkey in northern Cyprus \"do not reflect the will of the Turkish Cypriot community.\"\n\nThe nnion president said that a legal challenge to the lifting of the headscarf ban has been initiated at the Turkish Cypriot Constitutional Court, adding that their fight will be \"a long-term struggle.\""
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"value": "# What Trump's budget cuts could mean for the environment and climate change\n\nBy Alexa St. John \nMay 2nd, 2025 07:57 PM\n\n---\n\nPresident Donald Trump's first 100 days included a wide range of attacks on environmental and climate initiatives. His proposed budget does the same.\n\nThe document released Friday looks to curtail or cut billions of dollars for everything from drinking water, clean energy and weather satellites to national parks, emergency management and environmental justice, to name a few.\n\nThat aligns with Trump's aggressive targeting of climate policy and crackdown on diversity initiatives as he pushes fossil fuel investment. Federal agencies are racing to bolster coal power and oil and gas while blocking renewable energy sources, rolling back landmark water and air regulations and attacking scientists in federal weather work tied to climate research.\n\nThe much-anticipated plan will define the Republican president's second term, but it's important to note that Congress will ultimately decide the spending plans.\n\nThis skinny budget is a proposal, often considered a statement of the administration's values. It includes topline numbers only, regarding discretionary spending. A more detailed budget is expected soon.\n\nHere's a look at some of the environmental and climate funding at risk:\n\n## Clean water\n\nThe proposed budget looks to slash $2.46 billion in Clean and Drinking Water State Revolving Loan Funds.\n\nThe clean water funds, through federal-state partnerships, give low-cost financing to communities for water quality infrastructure including municipal wastewater facilities, decentralized wastewater treatment systems and more. The drinking water funds provide money to states and water systems to help them align with the Safe Drinking Water Act.\n\nThe plan says states should be responsible for funding their own water infrastructure projects, but would provide a decreased amount, $305 million total, to give states time to adjust.\n\n## National Parks\n\nThe administration is targeting $1.2 billion in spending cuts to the National Park Service's operations, construction, its Historic Preservation Fund, and National Recreation and Preservation grants. The budget said the reason for the cuts is because parks get \"duplicative\" state, local and private sector support.\n\nThe Service has been the subject of an aggressive downsizing effort, which could impact park hours, safety and upkeep. Millions of tourists are expected to visit national parks this summer.\n\n## Severe weather reporting and resources\n\nThe weather, oceans and fisheries agency — the parent agency to the National Weather Service — has been the subject of massive Department of Government Efficiency layoffs, impacting its crucial observations and forecasts.\n\nThe proposal outlines $1.5 billion in cuts to what it calls \"climate-dominated\" NOAA operations, research and grants, plus infrastructure and satellites. It says these are not aligned with the administration ending the Green New Deal, referring to the Democrats' moonshot plan to combat climate change and shift away from fossil fuels.\n\nThe budget says NOAA's educational grant programs have, for instance, \"funded efforts to radicalize students against markets and spread environmental alarm.\"\n\n## Environmental justice\n\nWhile environmental justice was touted under the previous administration, the Trump administration has moved to reverse those policies as part of its broader shift from DEI.\n\nFriday's proposal said it would remove $100 million in \"taxpayer funded programs that promote divisive racial discrimination and environmental justice grants that were destined to go to organizations that advance radical ideologies.\"\n\nTrump cut White House advisors who worked to ensure the federal government helped communities in heavily-polluted areas, and eliminated Biden's \"Justice40\" initiative that required 40% of the benefits from certain environmental programs go to those communities. The Department of Transportation also rescinded Biden-era memos that called on state agencies to factor social and environmental justice into infrastructure decisions.\n\nCommunities near heavy industry, ports and highways are often made up largely of Black, Latino and low-income Americans.\n\n## Biden's infrastructure law\n\nThe budget proposal seeks to repeal more than $15 billion of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, named the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, passed in 2021. The Biden administration's law looked to spur domestic manufacturing, improve roads, bridges and ports, fund cleaner drinking water and other programs.\n\nAmong other things, canceling the spending — which it calls the \"Green New Scam\" — would impact key electric vehicle tax credits that have helped boost electric vehicle uptake in the U.S.\n\n## Removing 'equity' from FEMA money\n\nThe budget proposes $646 million in cuts to Non-Disaster Federal Emergency Management Agency grant programs.\n\nFEMA is intended to provide disaster response and recovery support for states and communities impacted by storms, wildfires, floods and more. Trump has been critical of the agency, which helps fund debris removal, rebuilding efforts and first responder expenses.\n\nFEMA has already been politicized in the administration's first 100 days; for example, its Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities program was ended, and the agency's acting director canceled $188 million in grants to New York City, finding the money inconsistent with Trump administration priorities.\n\nThe budget says \"FEMA under the previous administration made 'equity' a top priority for emergency relief and declared that DEI was mandatory,\" referring to diversity, equity and inclusion. The budget looks to reduce these programs that it calls \"wasteful and woke.\"\n\n___\n\nRead more of AP's climate coverage at http://www.apnews.com/climate-and-environment.\n\n___\n\nAlexa St. John is an Associated Press climate reporter. Follow her on X: @alexa_stjohn. Reach her at [email protected].\n\n___\n\nThe Associated Press' climate and environmental coverage receives financial support from multiple private foundations. AP is solely responsible for all content. Find AP's standards for working with philanthropies, a list of supporters and funded coverage areas at AP.org."
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"value": "# What Trump's budget cuts could mean for the environment and climate change\n\nBy Alexa St. John \nMay 2nd, 2025 07:57 PM\n\n---\n\nPresident Donald Trump's first 100 days included a wide range of attacks on environmental and climate initiatives. His proposed budget does the same.\n\nThe document released Friday looks to curtail or cut billions of dollars for everything from drinking water, clean energy and weather satellites to national parks, emergency management and environmental justice, to name a few.\n\nThat aligns with Trump's aggressive targeting of climate policy and crackdown on diversity initiatives as he pushes fossil fuel investment. Federal agencies are racing to bolster coal power and oil and gas while blocking renewable energy sources, rolling back landmark water and air regulations and attacking scientists in federal weather work tied to climate research.\n\nThe much-anticipated plan will define the Republican president's second term, but it's important to note that Congress will ultimately decide the spending plans.\n\nThis skinny budget is a proposal, often considered a statement of the administration's values. It includes topline numbers only, regarding discretionary spending. A more detailed budget is expected soon.\n\nHere's a look at some of the environmental and climate funding at risk:\n\n## Clean water\n\nThe proposed budget looks to slash $2.46 billion in Clean and Drinking Water State Revolving Loan Funds.\n\nThe clean water funds, through federal-state partnerships, give low-cost financing to communities for water quality infrastructure including municipal wastewater facilities, decentralized wastewater treatment systems and more. The drinking water funds provide money to states and water systems to help them align with the Safe Drinking Water Act.\n\nThe plan says states should be responsible for funding their own water infrastructure projects, but would provide a decreased amount, $305 million total, to give states time to adjust.\n\n## National Parks\n\nThe administration is targeting $1.2 billion in spending cuts to the National Park Service's operations, construction, its Historic Preservation Fund, and National Recreation and Preservation grants. The budget said the reason for the cuts is because parks get \"duplicative\" state, local and private sector support.\n\nThe Service has been the subject of an aggressive downsizing effort, which could impact park hours, safety and upkeep. Millions of tourists are expected to visit national parks this summer.\n\n## Severe weather reporting and resources\n\nThe weather, oceans and fisheries agency — the parent agency to the National Weather Service — has been the subject of massive Department of Government Efficiency layoffs, impacting its crucial observations and forecasts.\n\nThe proposal outlines $1.5 billion in cuts to what it calls \"climate-dominated\" NOAA operations, research and grants, plus infrastructure and satellites. It says these are not aligned with the administration ending the Green New Deal, referring to the Democrats' moonshot plan to combat climate change and shift away from fossil fuels.\n\nThe budget says NOAA's educational grant programs have, for instance, \"funded efforts to radicalize students against markets and spread environmental alarm.\"\n\n## Environmental justice\n\nWhile environmental justice was touted under the previous administration, the Trump administration has moved to reverse those policies as part of its broader shift from DEI.\n\nFriday's proposal said it would remove $100 million in \"taxpayer funded programs that promote divisive racial discrimination and environmental justice grants that were destined to go to organizations that advance radical ideologies.\"\n\nTrump cut White House advisors who worked to ensure the federal government helped communities in heavily-polluted areas, and eliminated Biden's \"Justice40\" initiative that required 40% of the benefits from certain environmental programs go to those communities. The Department of Transportation also rescinded Biden-era memos that called on state agencies to factor social and environmental justice into infrastructure decisions.\n\nCommunities near heavy industry, ports and highways are often made up largely of Black, Latino and low-income Americans.\n\n## Biden's infrastructure law\n\nThe budget proposal seeks to repeal more than $15 billion of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, named the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, passed in 2021. The Biden administration's law looked to spur domestic manufacturing, improve roads, bridges and ports, fund cleaner drinking water and other programs.\n\nAmong other things, canceling the spending — which it calls the \"Green New Scam\" — would impact key electric vehicle tax credits that have helped boost electric vehicle uptake in the U.S.\n\n## Removing 'equity' from FEMA money\n\nThe budget proposes $646 million in cuts to Non-Disaster Federal Emergency Management Agency grant programs.\n\nFEMA is intended to provide disaster response and recovery support for states and communities impacted by storms, wildfires, floods and more. Trump has been critical of the agency, which helps fund debris removal, rebuilding efforts and first responder expenses.\n\nFEMA has already been politicized in the administration's first 100 days; for example, its Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities program was ended, and the agency's acting director canceled $188 million in grants to New York City, finding the money inconsistent with Trump administration priorities.\n\nThe budget says \"FEMA under the previous administration made 'equity' a top priority for emergency relief and declared that DEI was mandatory,\" referring to diversity, equity and inclusion. The budget looks to reduce these programs that it calls \"wasteful and woke.\""
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"value": "# Head of Brazil's gas giant Petrobras criticized for 'drill, baby, drill!' comment about the Amazon\n\nBy Fabiano Maisonnave \nMay 9th, 2025 05:27 PM\n\n---\n\nSAO PAULO (AP) — The head of Brazil's state-run gas and oil giant Petrobras was facing criticism on Friday after a video emerged of her saying \"Drill, baby, drill!\" when speaking about controversial oil exploration near the mouth of the Amazon River.\n\nMagda Chambriard made the remarks Tuesday during the Offshore Technology Conference, in Houston. In a video obtained by the Brazilian newspaper Valor Economico and published Friday, Chambriard is seen addressing Clécio Luís, governor of the Amazonian state of Amapa, who was in the audience.\n\n\"We do believe we will have very good surprises once we have the (environmental) license to drill. So what one wants to say to Amapa is, 'Let's drill, baby, drill!'\" Her comments prompted a round of applause, including from Luís.\n\nPetrobras did not immediately respond to an email request for comment. The company confirmed the authenticity of the video, according to Valor Economico.\n\nU.S. President Donald Trump has long used the phrase \"Drill, baby, drill!\" in expressing support for increased oil exploration and production.\n\n\"The 'let's drill, baby' rhetoric may comfort industry leaders and short-sighted policymakers, but history will remember them as the ones who buried the 1.5 C goal,\" said Natalie Unterstell, president of Talanoa, a climate policy think tank, referring to the internationally adopted aim to keep warming under 1.5 C since pre-industrial times.\n\nClimate change is caused by the release of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide. Oil, from exploration to its various uses, is a central driver of climate change.\n\nChambriard was appointed by Brazil's leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, whose environmental record in the Amazon is mixed. While he has curbed deforestation and championed the Amazonian city of Belem as the host of the U.N.'s COP30 climate summit in November, he also supports Petrobras's push to drill for offshore oil at the ecologically sensitive mouth of the Amazon River and other big projects that bring environmental impact to the world´s largest tropical forest.\n\nExploratory offshore drilling near the Amazon, whose reserves are unknown, is expected to draw scrutiny during the COP30 summit. A central push of the annual climate talks has been to reduce the use of fossil fuels such as oil, gas and coal.\n\n___\n\nThe Associated Press' climate and environmental coverage receives financial support from multiple private foundations. AP is solely responsible for all content. Find AP's standards for working with philanthropies, a list of supporters and funded coverage areas at AP.org."
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"value": "# Head of Brazil's gas giant Petrobras criticized for 'drill, baby, drill!' comment about the Amazon\n\nBy Fabiano Maisonnave \nMay 9th, 2025 05:27 PM\n\n---\n\nSAO PAULO (AP) — The head of Brazil's state-run gas and oil giant Petrobras was facing criticism on Friday after a video emerged of her saying \"Drill, baby, drill!\" when speaking about controversial oil exploration near the mouth of the Amazon River.\n\nMagda Chambriard made the remarks Tuesday during the Offshore Technology Conference, in Houston. In a video obtained by the Brazilian newspaper Valor Economico and published Friday, Chambriard is seen addressing Clécio Luís, governor of the Amazonian state of Amapa, who was in the audience.\n\n\"We do believe we will have very good surprises once we have the (environmental) license to drill. So what one wants to say to Amapa is, 'Let's drill, baby, drill!'\" Her comments prompted a round of applause, including from Luís.\n\nPetrobras did not immediately respond to an email request for comment. The company confirmed the authenticity of the video, according to Valor Economico.\n\nU.S. President Donald Trump has long used the phrase \"Drill, baby, drill!\" in expressing support for increased oil exploration and production.\n\n\"The 'let's drill, baby' rhetoric may comfort industry leaders and short-sighted policymakers, but history will remember them as the ones who buried the 1.5 C goal,\" said Natalie Unterstell, president of Talanoa, a climate policy think tank, referring to the internationally adopted aim to keep warming under 1.5 C since pre-industrial times.\n\nClimate change is caused by the release of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide. Oil, from exploration to its various uses, is a central driver of climate change.\n\nChambriard was appointed by Brazil's leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, whose environmental record in the Amazon is mixed. While he has curbed deforestation and championed the Amazonian city of Belem as the host of the U.N.'s COP30 climate summit in November, he also supports Petrobras's push to drill for offshore oil at the ecologically sensitive mouth of the Amazon River and other big projects that bring environmental impact to the world´s largest tropical forest.\n\nExploratory offshore drilling near the Amazon, whose reserves are unknown, is expected to draw scrutiny during the COP30 summit. A central push of the annual climate talks has been to reduce the use of fossil fuels such as oil, gas and coal."
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"value": "# Lance McCullers Jr. pitches 3 2/3 scoreless innings for Astros in his first appearance since 2022\n\nMay 5th, 2025 12:20 AM\n\n---\n\nCHICAGO (AP) — Thirty months after his last appearance, Lance McCullers Jr. finally made it back to the mound in a major league game.\n\nThe 31-year-old McCullers started Sunday for the Houston Astros and threw 3 2/3 scoreless innings in his first outing since Game 3 of the 2022 World Series in Philadelphia. McCullers had surgery in June 2023 to repair his right flexor tendon and to remove a bone spur. Then he was shut down after a setback last year.\n\nHe kept the Chicago White Sox off the scoreboard in his first game back, allowing three hits and three walks with four strikeouts. The Astros lost 5-4 in a game shortened to seven innings by rain.\n\n\"I was happy with the overall stuff. Physically, I felt strong through the game,\" McCullers told reporters. \"Very grateful to just be back out with the team and be an active member.\"\n\nMcCullers stranded runners on second and third in the first inning and pitched out of a bases-loaded situation in the second. After a 1-2-3 third, he got two outs in the fourth but also allowed a double and a walk. He was taken out after 87 pitches.\n\n\"A lot of foul balls, a lot of high-stress moments there, but I think he pitched out of them,\" Espada said. \"So he'll get ready for the next one.\"\n\nMcCullers is 49-32 with a 3.46 ERA in his career, which has been entirely with Houston. He went 13-5 with a 3.16 ERA in 2021, the last time he pitched anything resembling a full season.\n\nIf he can regain that level, the right-hander can obviously help the Astros.\n\n\"It has been a very long road for me. It's been a grind to get back to this point,\" McCullers said. \"I know that I have to do a better job of controlling the pitch count and getting quick outs and things like that, but from where I've come from over the last couple years, especially where I was early this offseason, I would lie to you guys if I didn't say I was pretty proud of myself.\"\n\n___\n\nAP MLB: https://apnews.com/hub/mlb"
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"value": "# Lance McCullers Jr. pitches 3 2/3 scoreless innings for Astros in his first appearance since 2022\n\nMay 5th, 2025 12:20 AM\n\n---\n\nCHICAGO (AP) — Thirty months after his last appearance, Lance McCullers Jr. finally made it back to the mound in a major league game.\n\nThe 31-year-old McCullers started Sunday for the Houston Astros and threw 3 2/3 scoreless innings in his first outing since Game 3 of the 2022 World Series in Philadelphia. McCullers had surgery in June 2023 to repair his right flexor tendon and to remove a bone spur. Then he was shut down after a setback last year.\n\nHe kept the Chicago White Sox off the scoreboard in his first game back, allowing three hits and three walks with four strikeouts. The Astros lost 5-4 in a game shortened to seven innings by rain.\n\n\"I was happy with the overall stuff. Physically, I felt strong through the game,\" McCullers told reporters. \"Very grateful to just be back out with the team and be an active member.\"\n\nMcCullers stranded runners on second and third in the first inning and pitched out of a bases-loaded situation in the second. After a 1-2-3 third, he got two outs in the fourth but also allowed a double and a walk. He was taken out after 87 pitches.\n\n\"A lot of foul balls, a lot of high-stress moments there, but I think he pitched out of them,\" Espada said. \"So he'll get ready for the next one.\"\n\nMcCullers is 49-32 with a 3.46 ERA in his career, which has been entirely with Houston. He went 13-5 with a 3.16 ERA in 2021, the last time he pitched anything resembling a full season.\n\nIf he can regain that level, the right-hander can obviously help the Astros.\n\n\"It has been a very long road for me. It's been a grind to get back to this point,\" McCullers said. \"I know that I have to do a better job of controlling the pitch count and getting quick outs and things like that, but from where I've come from over the last couple years, especially where I was early this offseason, I would lie to you guys if I didn't say I was pretty proud of myself.\""
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"value": "# Yes, New Zealand still has more sheep than people. But humans are catching up\n\nBy Charlotte Graham-Mclay \nMay 8th, 2025 07:11 AM\n\n---\n\nWELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — The vast number of sheep in New Zealand relative to the country's scant human population has long been the subject of jokes aimed at New Zealanders abroad. It's true: The country is one of a handful in the world that's still home to more sheep than people.\n\nBut humans are catching up, according to new figures released Tuesday. With a population of 23.6 million sheep and 5.3 million people, there are about 4.5 sheep for each New Zealander, government statistics agency data showed.\n\nThat's down from 22 sheep per person in 1982, when farming sheep for meat and wool was New Zealand's biggest earner. Now, years of falling wool prices prompted by a global shift to synthetic fibers have led farmers to change what they do with their land, the sector's biggest lobby group said.\n\n## A shrinking flock\n\nBy land area, New Zealand is about the size of the United Kingdom, but it has a human population 13 times smaller than the U.K. That means there's plenty of room for sheep.\n\nFor close to 150 years, the sheep industry was the backbone of New Zealand's economy and numbers boomed — peaking in 1982 when there were more than 70 million sheep and just 3.2 million people. Before \"Lord of the Rings\" brought waves of tourists to the country, images of green fields filled with placid sheep against backdrops of snow-capped mountains dominated the country's marketing abroad.\n\nBut over years of decline for global wool prices since — and despite recent rallies — the national flock has steadily diminished. Now dairy holds the biggest share of New Zealand's agriculture and horticulture-dominant export market.\n\n## Farmers try something new\n\nIn 2023, Stats NZ, a government agency, said New Zealand in 2022 dipped below five sheep per person for the first time. The national flock had lost a million more sheep in Tuesday's figures, which recorded livestock numbers as of June 2024.\n\nToby Williams, a spokesperson for sector lobby group Federated Farmers, said sheep farmers have switched to more lucrative pursuits — dairy, or the conversion of land from farming to pine forestry in order to sell carbon offsets.\n\n\"If I'm really honest, the wool industry is almost at that tipping point, if not already there, of not having a wool industry anymore,\" he said.\n\n## Measures to bolster wool\n\nThe government has drawn up measures intended to slow the decline, including an announcement in 2024 that they will place limits on the scale of farmland that can be converted to carbon forestry.\n\nNew government procurement guidelines launched in April urge the use of New Zealand wool products — such as carpets and insulation — in newly constructed or refurbished public buildings. But those measures are not expected to halt declining sheep numbers.\n\nSome sheep-farming countries are recording similar trends. New Zealand's closest neighbor Australia — the source of most of the sheep jokes about New Zealanders — is also home to more sheep than people, but the national flock is shrinking there too.\n\nThe gap is slimmer: There are about three sheep per Australian."
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"value": "# Yes, New Zealand still has more sheep than people. But humans are catching up\n\nBy Charlotte Graham-Mclay \nMay 8th, 2025 07:11 AM\n\n---\n\nWELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — The vast number of sheep in New Zealand relative to the country's scant human population has long been the subject of jokes aimed at New Zealanders abroad. It's true: The country is one of a handful in the world that's still home to more sheep than people.\n\nBut humans are catching up, according to new figures released Tuesday. With a population of 23.6 million sheep and 5.3 million people, there are about 4.5 sheep for each New Zealander, government statistics agency data showed.\n\nThat's down from 22 sheep per person in 1982, when farming sheep for meat and wool was New Zealand's biggest earner. Now, years of falling wool prices prompted by a global shift to synthetic fibers have led farmers to change what they do with their land, the sector's biggest lobby group said.\n\n## A shrinking flock\n\nBy land area, New Zealand is about the size of the United Kingdom, but it has a human population 13 times smaller than the U.K. That means there's plenty of room for sheep.\n\nFor close to 150 years, the sheep industry was the backbone of New Zealand's economy and numbers boomed — peaking in 1982 when there were more than 70 million sheep and just 3.2 million people. Before \"Lord of the Rings\" brought waves of tourists to the country, images of green fields filled with placid sheep against backdrops of snow-capped mountains dominated the country's marketing abroad.\n\nBut over years of decline for global wool prices since — and despite recent rallies — the national flock has steadily diminished. Now dairy holds the biggest share of New Zealand's agriculture and horticulture-dominant export market.\n\n## Farmers try something new\n\nIn 2023, Stats NZ, a government agency, said New Zealand in 2022 dipped below five sheep per person for the first time. The national flock had lost a million more sheep in Tuesday's figures, which recorded livestock numbers as of June 2024.\n\nToby Williams, a spokesperson for sector lobby group Federated Farmers, said sheep farmers have switched to more lucrative pursuits — dairy, or the conversion of land from farming to pine forestry in order to sell carbon offsets.\n\n\"If I'm really honest, the wool industry is almost at that tipping point, if not already there, of not having a wool industry anymore,\" he said.\n\n## Measures to bolster wool\n\nThe government has drawn up measures intended to slow the decline, including an announcement in 2024 that they will place limits on the scale of farmland that can be converted to carbon forestry.\n\nNew government procurement guidelines launched in April urge the use of New Zealand wool products — such as carpets and insulation — in newly constructed or refurbished public buildings. But those measures are not expected to halt declining sheep numbers.\n\nSome sheep-farming countries are recording similar trends. New Zealand's closest neighbor Australia — the source of most of the sheep jokes about New Zealanders — is also home to more sheep than people, but the national flock is shrinking there too.\n\nThe gap is slimmer: There are about three sheep per Australian."
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"value": "# Car ramming in Japan injures 7 schoolchildren and suspect is arrested on the scene\n\nBy Mari Yamaguchi \nMay 1st, 2025 02:22 PM\n\n---\n\nTOKYO (AP) — A man in Japan was arrested on suspicion of driving his car into seven schoolchildren who were walking home, injuring them, one seriously, police said.\n\nPolice were handling the case as attempted murder rather than reckless driving because the suspect, Yuki Yazawa, 28, told investigators that he was \"sick and tired of everything\" and on Thursday drove his car into the children to kill them, officials said.\n\nOsaka prefectural police said Yazawa was arrested at the scene and is facing charges of attempted murder.\n\nThe injured schoolchildren were aged 7 and 8 and were walking home from an elementary school nearby, police said. A 7-year-old girl suffered a broken jaw, while the other six — all boys — were slightly injured, Osaka police said.\n\nTelevision footage showed ambulances parked on a narrow back street with medics giving first aid to the children.\n\nNHK public television quoted a witness as saying that the children had fallen to the ground, screaming, and that the driver, who was silent and appeared to be in a daze, stayed in his seat until police came.\n\nViolent crimes are rare in Japan, but in recent years there have been a number of high-profile attacks involving knives or home-made explosives.\n\nIn a car attack and a knifing rampage in 2008, a man drove down his truck on a street in Tokyo's Akiharbara electronics shopping area, slammed into a crowd of people and killing three, then got out of the vehicle and stabbed four to death."
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"value": "# Car ramming in Japan injures 7 schoolchildren and suspect is arrested on the scene\n\nBy Mari Yamaguchi \nMay 1st, 2025 02:22 PM\n\n---\n\nTOKYO (AP) — A man in Japan was arrested on suspicion of driving his car into seven schoolchildren who were walking home, injuring them, one seriously, police said.\n\nPolice were handling the case as attempted murder rather than reckless driving because the suspect, Yuki Yazawa, 28, told investigators that he was \"sick and tired of everything\" and on Thursday drove his car into the children to kill them, officials said.\n\nOsaka prefectural police said Yazawa was arrested at the scene and is facing charges of attempted murder.\n\nThe injured schoolchildren were aged 7 and 8 and were walking home from an elementary school nearby, police said. A 7-year-old girl suffered a broken jaw, while the other six — all boys — were slightly injured, Osaka police said.\n\nTelevision footage showed ambulances parked on a narrow back street with medics giving first aid to the children.\n\nNHK public television quoted a witness as saying that the children had fallen to the ground, screaming, and that the driver, who was silent and appeared to be in a daze, stayed in his seat until police came.\n\nViolent crimes are rare in Japan, but in recent years there have been a number of high-profile attacks involving knives or home-made explosives.\n\nIn a car attack and a knifing rampage in 2008, a man drove down his truck on a street in Tokyo's Akiharbara electronics shopping area, slammed into a crowd of people and killing three, then got out of the vehicle and stabbed four to death."
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"value": "# Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scores 25 points and leads Thunder past Denver 92-87 to tie series 2-2\n\nBy Arnie Melendrez Stapleton \nMay 11th, 2025 10:43 PM\n\n---\n\nDENVER (AP) — The Oklahoma City Thunder beat the Denver Nuggets at their own game Sunday.\n\nThe NBA's youngest team made all the clutch plays in crunch time against an experienced squad teeming with a championship pedigree, knotting the second-round series with a 92-87 win in Game 4.\n\nShai Gilgeous-Alexander scored nine of his 25 points in the fourth quarter, pulling the top-seeded Thunder from the brink of a 3-1 deficit against a Denver team known for closing out games while winning six of its last seven playoff series — and the two tight games earlier in this series that resumes Tuesday night in Oklahoma City.\n\nAbout 36 hours after an exhausting overtime Game 3 Friday night, the early Mother's Day tip-off produced an ugly first half that featured a combined 25 points in the first quarter and ended with OKC up 42-36 at the break.\n\n\"Quick turnaround with an early game today, we made an intentional effort to use our depth today and get everybody going,\" Thunder coach Mark Daigneault said.\n\nDown by eight points early in the fourth quarter, the Thunder used an 11-0 run fueled by reserves Cason Wallace, who had a pair of 3-pointers, and Aaron Wiggins, who added another, to wrest control.\n\nWallace's second 3-pointer put Oklahoma City ahead for good at 75-73.\n\n\"I really thought the difference in the game was their bench kind of lit a fuse for them,\" Nuggets interim coach David Adelman said. \"They made 3s ... pretty incredible in a game where the two teams shoot 21 of 86 from 3.\"\n\nDenver looked poised to put the top-seeded team in the West on the cusp of elimination when Aaron Gordon's turnaround jumper made it 73-66.\n\nThis time, however, it was the Thunder who came up big down the stretch and the Nuggets who fumbled away the chance to put OKC in a 3-1 hole. Denver's many late miscues included a key five-second inbounds violation.\n\nNikola Jokic had 27 points and 13 rebounds but his three assists were a low for this playoff run and gave him 22 assists to go with 23 turnovers in this second-round series.\n\nJokic said he never thinks about fatigue so he didn't blame anything or anyone else for Denver's 31% shooting clip and 34 missed 3s. And Adelman wouldn't go so far as to say the NBA erred with the early tip-off, either.\n\n\"I don't want to say that,\" Adelman said. \"I will say that both teams were very tired coming off an unbelievably physical overtime battle late Friday night. ... I mean, both of us had super tired legs, so it was about who's going to make that final run.\"\n\nNot his team, not this time.\n\n\"We fought. We stayed the course,\" Gilgeous-Alexander said, \"... and then we closed the game.\"\n\nThe Thunder simply don't have Denver's playoff pedigree but Daigneault said his team is gaining that much-needed experience by the day.\n\n\"Every time you take punches and you get back up, you get stronger,\" he said. \"That's what we're preaching to our team. We lost a tough one the other night in overtime. We stood back up today.\"\n\n___\n\nAP NBA: https://apnews.com/hub/NBA"
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"value": "# Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scores 25 points and leads Thunder past Denver 92-87 to tie series 2-2\n\nBy Arnie Melendrez Stapleton \nMay 11th, 2025 10:43 PM\n\n---\n\nDENVER (AP) — The Oklahoma City Thunder beat the Denver Nuggets at their own game Sunday.\n\nThe NBA's youngest team made all the clutch plays in crunch time against an experienced squad teeming with a championship pedigree, knotting the second-round series with a 92-87 win in Game 4.\n\nShai Gilgeous-Alexander scored nine of his 25 points in the fourth quarter, pulling the top-seeded Thunder from the brink of a 3-1 deficit against a Denver team known for closing out games while winning six of its last seven playoff series — and the two tight games earlier in this series that resumes Tuesday night in Oklahoma City.\n\nAbout 36 hours after an exhausting overtime Game 3 Friday night, the early Mother's Day tip-off produced an ugly first half that featured a combined 25 points in the first quarter and ended with OKC up 42-36 at the break.\n\n\"Quick turnaround with an early game today, we made an intentional effort to use our depth today and get everybody going,\" Thunder coach Mark Daigneault said.\n\nDown by eight points early in the fourth quarter, the Thunder used an 11-0 run fueled by reserves Cason Wallace, who had a pair of 3-pointers, and Aaron Wiggins, who added another, to wrest control.\n\nWallace's second 3-pointer put Oklahoma City ahead for good at 75-73.\n\n\"I really thought the difference in the game was their bench kind of lit a fuse for them,\" Nuggets interim coach David Adelman said. \"They made 3s ... pretty incredible in a game where the two teams shoot 21 of 86 from 3.\"\n\nDenver looked poised to put the top-seeded team in the West on the cusp of elimination when Aaron Gordon's turnaround jumper made it 73-66.\n\nThis time, however, it was the Thunder who came up big down the stretch and the Nuggets who fumbled away the chance to put OKC in a 3-1 hole. Denver's many late miscues included a key five-second inbounds violation.\n\nNikola Jokic had 27 points and 13 rebounds but his three assists were a low for this playoff run and gave him 22 assists to go with 23 turnovers in this second-round series.\n\nJokic said he never thinks about fatigue so he didn't blame anything or anyone else for Denver's 31% shooting clip and 34 missed 3s. And Adelman wouldn't go so far as to say the NBA erred with the early tip-off, either.\n\n\"I don't want to say that,\" Adelman said. \"I will say that both teams were very tired coming off an unbelievably physical overtime battle late Friday night. ... I mean, both of us had super tired legs, so it was about who's going to make that final run.\"\n\nNot his team, not this time.\n\n\"We fought. We stayed the course,\" Gilgeous-Alexander said, \"... and then we closed the game.\"\n\nThe Thunder simply don't have Denver's playoff pedigree but Daigneault said his team is gaining that much-needed experience by the day.\n\n\"Every time you take punches and you get back up, you get stronger,\" he said. \"That's what we're preaching to our team. We lost a tough one the other night in overtime. We stood back up today.\""
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"value": "# Connor Hellebuyck makes 21 saves, Jets beat Stars 4-0 in Game 2 to tie series\n\nMay 10th, 2025 04:24 AM\n\n---\n\nWINNIPEG, Manitoba (AP) — Connor Hellebuyck made 21 saves and the Winnipeg Jets beat the Dallas Stars 4-0 on Friday night in Game 2 to tie the Western Conference second-round series.\n\nHellebuyck had his fourth career playoff shutout to help the regular-season champion Jets rebound from a 3-2 loss Wednesday night.\n\n\"There were stretches in the first round where I really liked my game, just wasn't in the results,\" Hellebuyck said. \"But, built it back better. I like where we're at. The team in front of me is playing phenomenal, so we're going to have fun. Just continue to have fun.\"\n\nGabriel Vilardi and Nikolaj Ehlers scored early goals and Adam Lowry made it 3-0 midway through the second period. Ehlers added an empty-netter with 3:40 remaining for a three-point night.\n\nGame 3 is Sunday in Dallas.\n\nHellebuyck was the star Friday night.\n\n\"It's what he does every night for us,\" said Josh Morrissey, who assisted on Vilardi's goal. \"He's an incredible goaltender. He makes very difficult saves look very easy, routinely and often. You could tell he was feeling it tonight.\"\n\nDallas coach Pete DeBoer also was impressed with Hellebuyck.\n\n\"He was good,\" DeBoer said. \"I think we can always make it more difficult on him, but he was really good.\"\n\nJake Oettinger stopped 21 shots for Dallas.\n\nVilardi opened the scoring on a power play at 3:35 of the first period.\n\nTyler Seguin was called for a double-minor for high-sticking Morrissey just 17 seconds in. Vilardi pounced on Ehlers' rebound in the crease and slid the puck in the net.\n\nEhlers followed at 7:07, and Lowry made it a three-goal lead with 8:58 left in the second.\n\n\"We would have liked to get two (wins), obviously, but we have to look at the big picture,\" Stars defenseman Cody Ceci said. \"It's a long series. It's kind of what we expected against these guys — they're a good team.\"\n\n___\n\nAP NHL playoffs: https://apnews.com/hub/stanley-cup and https://apnews.com/hub/nhl"
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"value": "# Punjab beats Lucknow to go second in IPL and Kolkata stays in top-four contention\n\nMay 4th, 2025 03:48 PM\n\n---\n\nDHARAMSALA, India (AP) — Prabhsimran Singh led the way with 91 off 48 balls as Punjab Kings beat Lucknow Super Giants by 37 runs to go second in the Indian Premier League on Sunday.\n\nSingh's fourth half-century of the season included seven sixes and six fours as Punjab scored 236-5 in 20 overs. Skipper Shreyas Iyer contributed 45 off 25 balls, hitting two sixes.\n\nLucknow's chase finished at 199-7 despite Ayush Badoni's 74 off 40 balls, and the Super Giants took a blow in its bid for a top-four place. Lucknow is now seventh after 11 games – with five wins and six losses. Punjab has 15 points from 11 games and sits between leader Royal Challengers Bengaluru and Mumbai Indians. Gujarat Titans completes the top four.\n\nEarlier, Kolkata Knight Riders beat Rajasthan Royals by one run to keep its top-four bid alive.\n\nStand-in skipper Riyan Parag smashed five sixes in one over but still finished on the losing team as Rajasthan's chase fell agonizingly short.\n\nParag hit eight sixes overall in his 45-ball 95. Rajasthan finished on 205-8 in its 20 overs with Varun Chakravarthy (2-32), Harshit Rana (2-41) and Moeen Ali (2-43) taking six wickets between them.\n\nThis was after Andre Russell's 57 not out off 25 balls propelled Kolkata to a total of 206-4.\n\nKolkata is now sixth in the points' table, with five wins in 11 games, and can still make the top four. Rajasthan is eighth with its ninth loss in 12 games, and was already eliminated along with Chennai Super Kings.\n\n## Punjab batters\n\nPunjab batters lit up its second home despite losing hard-hitting opener Priyansh Arya for one.\n\nSingh raced to 50 off 30 balls, adding 48 off 22 with Josh Inglis (30) and then another 78 off 47 balls with skipper Iyer.\n\nIt was the second partnership that really fueled Punjab's score – Singh and Iyer hit nine sixes overall between them.\n\nIyer fell against the run of play – out caught off Digvesh Rathi's leg spin – but Singh carried Punjab past 200.\n\nIt was Singh's highest score of the season and he fell nine short of a second IPL hundred. Shashank Singh hit 33 not out off 15 balls as Lucknow faced a challenging target.\n\nThe Super Giants lost both openers cheaply – Arshdeep Singh bowled Aiden Markram for 13, while Mitchell Marsh was caught for a five-ball duck.\n\nArshdeep trapped Nicholas Pooran lbw for six and Lucknow was down to 27-3 in 4.2 overs.\n\nRishabh Pant fell for 18 off 17 balls – another indifferent innings – but Badoni's half-century revived Lucknow.\n\nAbdul Samad hit 45 off 24 balls later in the innings.\n\n## Kolkata gets one-run win despite Parag's heroics\n\nOpting to bat first, Kolkata lost Sunil Narine for 11. Rahmanullah Gurbaz made an early impact with 35 off 25, including four fours and a six.\n\nHe added 56 off 33 balls with Ajinkya Rahane, who scored 30 off 24 before he was caught behind off Parag in the 13th over.\n\nKolkata was well placed at 111-3 in the 13th over. Russell added 61 off 33 balls with Angkrish Raghuvanshi (44 off 31).\n\nTheir partnership allowed Kolkata to get within sniffing distance of 200. Russell hit 50 off 22 balls with six sixes and four fours – his first half-century of the season. He also added 34 off 11 balls with Rinku Singh (19 not out), who hit two sixes.\n\nIn reply, Rajasthan lost teenage batter Vaibhav Suryavanshi (4) early. It became a double blow as Kunal Rathore fell for a five-ball duck to leave the team at 8-2 in the second over.\n\nYashasvi Jaiswal struck a calm 34 off 21 balls, with five fours and a six, to revive the innings. He added 58 off 31 balls with stand-in skipper Parag, who took charge after the opener fell in the seventh over to Moeen Ali.\n\nWhile Parag went about his business, Kolkata's spinners put Rajasthan in a bind. Chakravarthy led the way – he struck twice in the eighth over – bowling Dhruv Jurel and Wanindu Hasranga in the space of three balls, both batters out for ducks.\n\nRajasthan had lost three wickets in six deliveries when Parag found Shimron Hetmyer for company. They added 92 off 48 balls to resurrect the chase.\n\nParag scored his first half-century of the season off 27 balls and then went into power-hitting mode. He hit five successive sixes off Ali in the 13th over, and then made it six out of six, hitting his first ball of the next over from Chakravarthy for six as well.\n\nImpact sub Rana got the breakthrough, dismissing Hetmyer, but Parag's charge had put Rajasthan back in the game.\n\nShubham Dubey, impact sub for Rajasthan, scored 25 not out off 14 balls to take the chase into the final over after Rana also dismissed Parag in the 18th over.\n\nNeeding 22 off the last six balls, Dubey brought it down to three off three but then was run out on the last ball trying to take the game to a Super Over.\n\n___\n\nAP cricket: https://apnews.com/hub/cricket"
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"value": "# Punjab beats Lucknow to go second in IPL and Kolkata stays in top-four contention\n\nMay 4th, 2025 03:48 PM\n\n---\n\nDHARAMSALA, India (AP) — Prabhsimran Singh led the way with 91 off 48 balls as Punjab Kings beat Lucknow Super Giants by 37 runs to go second in the Indian Premier League on Sunday.\n\nSingh's fourth half-century of the season included seven sixes and six fours as Punjab scored 236-5 in 20 overs. Skipper Shreyas Iyer contributed 45 off 25 balls, hitting two sixes.\n\nLucknow's chase finished at 199-7 despite Ayush Badoni's 74 off 40 balls, and the Super Giants took a blow in its bid for a top-four place. Lucknow is now seventh after 11 games – with five wins and six losses. Punjab has 15 points from 11 games and sits between leader Royal Challengers Bengaluru and Mumbai Indians. Gujarat Titans completes the top four.\n\nEarlier, Kolkata Knight Riders beat Rajasthan Royals by one run to keep its top-four bid alive.\n\nStand-in skipper Riyan Parag smashed five sixes in one over but still finished on the losing team as Rajasthan's chase fell agonizingly short.\n\nParag hit eight sixes overall in his 45-ball 95. Rajasthan finished on 205-8 in its 20 overs with Varun Chakravarthy (2-32), Harshit Rana (2-41) and Moeen Ali (2-43) taking six wickets between them.\n\nThis was after Andre Russell's 57 not out off 25 balls propelled Kolkata to a total of 206-4.\n\nKolkata is now sixth in the points' table, with five wins in 11 games, and can still make the top four. Rajasthan is eighth with its ninth loss in 12 games, and was already eliminated along with Chennai Super Kings.\n\n## Punjab batters\n\nPunjab batters lit up its second home despite losing hard-hitting opener Priyansh Arya for one.\n\nSingh raced to 50 off 30 balls, adding 48 off 22 with Josh Inglis (30) and then another 78 off 47 balls with skipper Iyer.\n\nIt was the second partnership that really fueled Punjab's score – Singh and Iyer hit nine sixes overall between them.\n\nIyer fell against the run of play – out caught off Digvesh Rathi's leg spin – but Singh carried Punjab past 200.\n\nIt was Singh's highest score of the season and he fell nine short of a second IPL hundred. Shashank Singh hit 33 not out off 15 balls as Lucknow faced a challenging target.\n\nThe Super Giants lost both openers cheaply – Arshdeep Singh bowled Aiden Markram for 13, while Mitchell Marsh was caught for a five-ball duck.\n\nArshdeep trapped Nicholas Pooran lbw for six and Lucknow was down to 27-3 in 4.2 overs.\n\nRishabh Pant fell for 18 off 17 balls – another indifferent innings – but Badoni's half-century revived Lucknow.\n\nAbdul Samad hit 45 off 24 balls later in the innings.\n\n## Kolkata gets one-run win despite Parag's heroics\n\nOpting to bat first, Kolkata lost Sunil Narine for 11. Rahmanullah Gurbaz made an early impact with 35 off 25, including four fours and a six.\n\nHe added 56 off 33 balls with Ajinkya Rahane, who scored 30 off 24 before he was caught behind off Parag in the 13th over.\n\nKolkata was well placed at 111-3 in the 13th over. Russell added 61 off 33 balls with Angkrish Raghuvanshi (44 off 31).\n\nTheir partnership allowed Kolkata to get within sniffing distance of 200. Russell hit 50 off 22 balls with six sixes and four fours – his first half-century of the season. He also added 34 off 11 balls with Rinku Singh (19 not out), who hit two sixes.\n\nIn reply, Rajasthan lost teenage batter Vaibhav Suryavanshi (4) early. It became a double blow as Kunal Rathore fell for a five-ball duck to leave the team at 8-2 in the second over.\n\nYashasvi Jaiswal struck a calm 34 off 21 balls, with five fours and a six, to revive the innings. He added 58 off 31 balls with stand-in skipper Parag, who took charge after the opener fell in the seventh over to Moeen Ali.\n\nWhile Parag went about his business, Kolkata's spinners put Rajasthan in a bind. Chakravarthy led the way – he struck twice in the eighth over – bowling Dhruv Jurel and Wanindu Hasranga in the space of three balls, both batters out for ducks.\n\nRajasthan had lost three wickets in six deliveries when Parag found Shimron Hetmyer for company. They added 92 off 48 balls to resurrect the chase.\n\nParag scored his first half-century of the season off 27 balls and then went into power-hitting mode. He hit five successive sixes off Ali in the 13th over, and then made it six out of six, hitting his first ball of the next over from Chakravarthy for six as well.\n\nImpact sub Rana got the breakthrough, dismissing Hetmyer, but Parag's charge had put Rajasthan back in the game.\n\nShubham Dubey, impact sub for Rajasthan, scored 25 not out off 14 balls to take the chase into the final over after Rana also dismissed Parag in the 18th over.\n\nNeeding 22 off the last six balls, Dubey brought it down to three off three but then was run out on the last ball trying to take the game to a Super Over."
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