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-{"requested_url": "https://apnews.com/article/mideast-wars-iran-israel-000001978456df5ea1f7ecd768370000", "title": "These are Iran's top political and spiritual leaders", "publishing_date": "2025-06-18 19:08:33.802000+00:00", "topics": ["MIDEAST WARS", "Iran", "Israel"], "text": "# These are Iran's top political and spiritual leaders\n\nJune 18th, 2025, 07:08 PM\n\n---\n\nAfter assassinating several top Iranian military officials and nuclear scientists, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has warned that Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei could be next, and that it may topple Tehran's entire leadership.\n\nSwipe through for a look at Iran's top leaders."}
-{"requested_url": "https://apnews.com/article/stanley-cup-florida-panthers-repeat-c77a5ceeb96664d3059c154b9a8b09e6", "title": "Florida Panthers repeat as Stanley Cup champions, numbers to know", "publishing_date": "2025-06-18 10:00:07+00:00", "topics": ["Florida Panthers", "Sergei Bobrovsky", "Sam Bennett", "Brad Marchand", "Edmonton Oilers", "Corey Perry", "Mark Recchi", "Sam Reinhart", "Florida", "NHL", "Stanley Cup", "Sports", "Ted Lindsay", "Stanley Cup Finals", "Martin Brodeur", "Chris Chelios", "Alex Delvecchio", "NHL hockey"], "text": "# Florida Panthers repeat as Stanley Cup champions, numbers to know\n\nBy The Associated Press  \nJune 18th, 2025, 10:00 AM\n\n---\n\nThe Florida Panthers are back-to-back Stanley Cup champions after defeating the Edmonton Oilers in their rematch final. They needed just six games this time after a seven-game thriller a year ago.\n\nHere are the numbers to know about the repeat:\n\n3 \u2014 Teams that have won consecutive titles since the NHL salary cap era began in 2005. The Panthers join the Tampa Bay Lightning (2020-21) and the Pittsburgh Penguins (2016-17).\n\n19 \u2014 Teams in league history that have won the Cup two or more times in a row.\n\n5 \u2014 Championships by teams based in the U.S. Sun Belt over the past six years. Four of those belong to the state of Florida, and the Lightning like the Panthers made three consecutive trips to the final.\n\n32 \u2014 Years since a Canadian team last won the Cup (1993 Montreal Canadiens). Edmonton became the eighth Canadian team to lose in the final since.\n\n13 \u2014 First-period goals the Panthers scored to the Oilers' four, a plus-9 differential that is tied for the widest margin in a final (Pittsburgh outscored the Minnesota North Stars by the same margin in 1991).\n\n4 \u2014 Goaltenders since 1981-82 to win the Vezina Trophy as the league's top goalie during the regular season and also earn two Stanley Cup rings, with Sergei Bobrovsky joining Hall of Famers Patrick Roy, Dominik Hasek and Martin Brodeur.\n\n15 \u2014 Goals scored by Sam Bennett in the playoffs, leading all players. Bennett is a pending unrestricted free agent.\n\n14 \u2014 Years between Stanley Cup titles for Brad Marchand, who last won it with the Boston Bruins in 2011. Only Chris Chelios (16 years, 1986-2002) and Mark Recchi (15 years, 1991-2006) had longer gaps.\n\n5 \u2014 Losses in the final over the past six years for Corey Perry, who would have had the longest gap between titles had Edmonton won (18 years, Anaheim in 2007).\n\n2 \u2014 Teams in NHL history to have three players with five or more goals in the final, with Bennett, Marchand and Sam Reinhart putting the Panthers in the same category as the 1955 Red Wings (Alex Delvecchio, Gordie Howe and Ted Lindsay)."}
-{"requested_url": "https://apnews.com/article/travelers-championship-spaun-e8145b50ef22a525818f8d9bca1cb0cf", "title": "US Open champion JJ Spaun to get back to work at Travelers", "publishing_date": "2025-06-18 20:04:56+00:00", "topics": ["J.J. Spaun", "Golf", "Scottie Scheffler", "Keegan Bradley", "U.S. Open Mens Golf Championships", "Connecticut", "Rory McIlroy", "Los Angeles Dodgers", "Sports", "Jordan Spieth", "New York"], "text": "# US Open champion JJ Spaun to get back to work at Travelers\n\nBy Doug Ferguson  \nJune 18th, 2025, 08:04 PM\n\n---\n\nCROMWELL, Conn. (AP) \u2014 This isn't the first time J.J. Spaun has come to the Travelers Championship after a life-changing moment. Two years ago, his daughter Violet was born on a Monday and he didn't show up to the TPC River Highlands until the night before the opening round.\n\nHe might be even more wiped now. That's what winning a U.S. Open can do.\n\n\"Violet's birthday is Thursday,\" Spaun said while reminiscing. But then he stopped and his eyes widened slightly. \"Tomorrow. I don't even know what day it is.\"\n\nIt's been quite the whirlwind, and the U.S. Open champion wouldn't trade it.\n\nThe Los Angeles Dodgers \u2014 the team script is on his yardage book \u2014 are trying to arrange for him to throw out the first pitch. Shortstop Mookie Betts, who played the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am with Spaun a few years back, congratulated him. Text messages came in from U.S. Open champions Curtis Strange and Hale Irwin.\n\nSpaun slept three hours early Monday before it was off to New York, where he had a full day of media on Tuesday and then was driven to the TPC River Highlands. He slept eight hours, about as much as the previous two nights combined.\n\n\"It's been pretty hectic but also very fun,\" Spaun said Wednesday. \"It's been nice to be given the opportunity to express my feelings, my emotions. A lot of people want to hear from me. I was really grateful to have the opportunity to tell everyone about it. So I enjoyed it.\"\n\nAnd now it's back to work, which should be a fun time for the 72-man field, at least those who had to slog through 5 1/2-inch rough soaked by rain at Oakmont for a grueling week.\n\nThe Travelers Championship, the last of the $20 million signature events, is a happier occasion where the scoring is easier, even though the TPC River Highlands can still punish bad shots.\n\nThe rough is still plenty thick, just not quite as dense as it was at Oakmont. And players are not hitting into putting surfaces where the golf ball never seems to stop rolling.\n\nStill, it's a welcome relief.\n\n\"It's more just kind of getting back into the swing of things of, 'All right, actually I have a 7-iron in my hand, but I don't have to be quite as careful,' I guess,\" Jordan Spieth said. \"It's no gimme golf course, especially if we're going to see windy conditions.\n\n\"The short answer is, yeah, it's kind of nice,\" he said. \"It would be hard to play something like that (Oakmont) every single week. But at the same time, you get a lot of risk-reward on the back nine here, which can yield 3-, 4-, 5 under rounds, but you can also get in big-time trouble.\"\n\nFor Spaun, it's moving forward just four days after his dynamic finish. He was in a five-way tie for the lead on the back nine and pulled ahead with a driver onto the 17th green for a two-putt birdie and a 65-foot birdie putt for a magical finish in his two-shot victory.\n\n\"I definitely need to keep the hunger there,\" Spaun said. \"I think I will have the hunger just because I want to continue to prove myself, but not prove myself to anybody other than myself. I feel like my biggest barrier throughout my entire career is just trying not to be so hard on myself and not ruining any sort of confidence that I've built from all these experiences on my journey as a golfer.\n\n\"As long as I keep that up, I think I'll continue to play well,\" he said. \"And obviously winning the U.S. Open is going to be a huge boost to that inner ego, I guess you could say, to keep that self-belief alive and burning.\"\n\nScottie Scheffler had no trouble last year when he went from winning the Masters to winning the RBC Heritage at Harbour Town. Rory McIlroy won the British Open in 2014, had two weeks off and then won a World Golf Championship at Firestone and a PGA Championship in consecutive weeks.\n\n\"I think after winning a major championship, like the first time you come back out to the course is a bit of a circus sometimes just with all the people,\" Scheffler said. \"J.J. just achieved a lifetime goal and dream of his. It's definitely different coming to the golf course, for sure. There's a lot more people, a lot more stuff to sign, a lot of stuff that goes on.\n\n\"It's all good things. It's all stuff that's fun.\"\n\nKeegan Bradley won his first major in 2011 as a PGA Tour rookie, had a week off and then missed the cut in his next two tournaments.\n\n\"I remember coming home and going out to dinner with my friends and walking into the restaurant. I could feel that people knew who I was. I had never felt that,\" Bradley said. \"The thing I told J.J. was I hope he really enjoys this.\""}
-{"requested_url": "https://apnews.com/article/germany-berlin-river-swimmers-100-year-ban-aa0b9d111222e3acb123a04204343956", "title": "Berliners swim in the Spree River to protest 100-year ban", "publishing_date": "2025-06-17 17:55:39+00:00", "topics": ["Berlin", "Waterways", "Germany government", "JWD-evergreen", "Climate and environment", "Sports", "Lifestyle", "Entertainment", "Jan Edler", "Paris", "Water quality", "Vienna", "Climate"], "text": "# Berliners swim in the Spree River to protest 100-year ban\n\nBy Kirsten Grieshaber  \nJune 17th, 2025, 05:55 PM\n\n---\n\nBERLIN (AP) \u2014 A century after the city of Berlin banned swimming in the Spree River because it was so polluted it could make people sick, there's a push by swimmers to get back into the water.\n\nAround 200 people jumped into the slow-moving, greenish water Tuesday to show that it's not only clean enough, but also lots of fun to splash and swim in the Mitte neighborhood along the world-famous Museum Island.\n\nA group calling itself Fluss Bad Berlin, or River Pool Berlin, has been lobbying for years to open the meandering river for swimmers again.\n\n\"For 100 years now, people have not been allowed to swim in the inner-city Spree and we no longer think this is justified, because we can show that the water quality is usually good enough to go swimming during the season,\" said Jan Edler, who is on the board of Fluss Bad Berlin and helped organize Tuesday's swim-in.\n\nTo circumvent the ban, the group registered their collective swim event as an official protest.\n\nStanding on a little staircase that leads down to the Spree canal, which flows around the southern side of the island, Edler stressed that \"we want the people to use the Spree for recreation again.\"\n\nHe pointed to the fact that the river has been cleaned up thoroughly, and that the water quality has improved in the last decade and is constantly being monitored.\n\nEven city officials in the central Mitte district of Berlin say they'd be interested in introducing river swimming again in 2026.\n\n\"There are still many things that need to be clarified, but I am optimistic that it can succeed,\" district city councilor Ephraim Gothe told German news agency dpa recently.\n\nSupporters of lifting the swimming ban also point at Paris, where the Seine River was opened up for swimmers for the Olympic Games last year and will be opened this summer for Parisians. Swimming there had been banned since 1923.\n\nIn Vienna, too, water lovers can splash into the Danube River canal, in the Swiss city of Basel they can bathe in the Rhine, and in Amsterdam there are some designated areas where people can plunge into the canals.\n\nOnly in Berlin, swimming has been continuously prohibited in the Spree since May 1925, when the German capital closed all traditional river pools because the water was deemed too toxic. Some of those pools weren't only used for recreational swimming, but were a place for poor people to wash themselves if they didn't have bathrooms at home.\n\nThese days, the water is clean on most days, except when there's heavy rain, which leads to some water pollution.\n\nAllowing swimmers to dive into the river would also mean loosening the historical monument protection on some parts of the riverbanks to install easy access ways to the water and places for lifeguards.\n\nAnother problem is the busy boat traffic on the Spree that could endanger swimmers. However, for the time being, the Fluss Bad Berlin group only wants to open up nearly 2-kilometer-long (just over a mile-long) canal where there's no boat traffic.\n\nFor what it's worth, the German capital, a city of 3.9 million, could definitely need more places where people can cool off in the summer as regular outdoor pools tend to be hopelessly overcrowded on hot summer days.\n\n\"The cities are getting hotter,\" Edler said. \"It's also a question of environmental justice to create offers for people who just can't make it out of the city when it's so hot and can enjoy themselves in the countryside.\""}
-{"requested_url": "https://apnews.com/article/israel-iran-attacks-nuclear-news-06-19-2025-b508817b78ed8d2f6067c1516215cf94", "title": "Trump says he will decide on Iran attack within two weeks", "publishing_date": "2025-06-19 01:44:51+00:00", "topics": ["Donald Trump", "Israel", "Iran", "Tehran", "Iran government", "Ali Khamenei", "Tom Wurtz", "2024-2025 Mideast Wars", "Israel government", "MIDEAST WARS", "Luke Johnson", "Diplomacy", "Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf", "Abbas Araghchi", "Military and defense", "Nuclear weapons", "Politics", "War and unrest", "Medical technology", "Karoline Leavitt", "Bombings"], "text": "# Trump says he will decide on Iran attack within two weeks\n\nBy Sam Mednick, Natalie Melzer, Jon Gambrell, and Melanie Lidman  \nJune 19th, 2025, 01:44 AM\n\n---\n\nBEERSHEBA, Israel (AP) \u2014 Israel and Iran exchanged more attacks on Thursday as U.S. President Donald Trump said he would make up his mind within two weeks on whether the U.S. military will get directly involved in the conflict, seeking to keep open the door to diplomacy on Tehran's nuclear program.\n\n\"Based on the fact that there's a substantial chance of negotiations that may or may not take place with Iran in the near future, I will make my decision whether or not to go within the next two weeks,\" Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, told reporters, reading out Trump's statement.\n\nTrump has been weighing whether to attack Iran by striking its well-defended Fordo uranium enrichment facility, which is buried under a mountain and widely considered to be out of reach of all but America's \"bunker-buster\" bombs.\n\nEarlier in the day, Israel's defense minister threatened Iran's supreme leader after Iranian missiles crashed into a major hospital in southern Israel and hit residential buildings near Tel Aviv, wounding at least 240 people. As rescuers wheeled patients out of the smoldering hospital, Israeli warplanes launched their latest attack on Iran's nuclear program.\n\nIsraeli Defense Minister Israel Katz blamed Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei for Thursday's barrage and said the military \"has been instructed and knows that in order to achieve all of its goals, this man absolutely should not continue to exist.\"\n\nPrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he trusted that Trump would \"do what's best for America.\"\n\n\"I can tell you that they're already helping a lot,\" Netanyahu said from the rubble and shattered glass around the Soroka Medical Center in Israel's southern city of Beersheba.\n\nThe open conflict between Israel and Iran erupted last Friday with a surprise wave of Israeli airstrikes targeting nuclear and military sites, top generals and nuclear scientists. At least 639 people, including 263 civilians, have been killed in Iran and more than 1,300 wounded, according to a Washington-based Iranian human rights group.\n\nIran has retaliated by firing 450 missiles and 1,000 drones at Israel, according to Israeli army estimates. Most have been shot down by Israel's multitiered air defenses, but at least 24 people in Israel have been killed and hundreds wounded.\n\n## Many hospitals have transferred patients underground\n\nIsrael's Home Front Command said one of the Iranian ballistic missiles fired Thursday morning had been rigged with fragmenting cluster munitions. Rather than a conventional warhead, a cluster munition warhead carries dozens of submunitions that can explode on impact, showering small bomblets around a large area and posing major safety risks on the ground. The Israeli military did not say where that missile had been fired.\n\nAt least 80 patients and medical workers were wounded in the strike on Israel's Soroka Medical Center. The vast majority were lightly wounded, as much of the hospital building had been evacuated in recent days.\n\nIranian officials insisted that they had not sought to strike the hospital and claimed the attack hit a facility belonging to the Israeli military's elite technological unit, called C4i. The website for the Gav-Yam Negev advanced technologies park, some three kilometers (2 miles) from the hospital, said C4i had a branch campus in the area.\n\nThe Israeli army did not respond to a request for comment. An Israeli military official, speaking on condition of anonymity in line with regulations, acknowledged that there was no specific intelligence that Iran had planned to target the hospital.\n\nMany hospitals in Israel, including Soroka, had activated emergency plans in the past week. They converted parking garages to wards and transferred vulnerable patients underground. Israel also has a fortified, subterranean blood bank that kicked into action after Hamas' Oct. 7, 2023, attack ignited the ongoing war in the Gaza Strip.\n\nDoctors at Soroka said the Iranian missile struck almost immediately after air raid sirens went off, causing an explosion that could be heard from a safe room. The strike inflicted the greatest damage on an old surgery building and affected key infrastructure, including gas, water and air-conditioning systems, the medical center said.\n\nThe hospital, which provides services to around 1 million residents, had been caring for 700 patients at the time. After the strike, the hospital closed to all patients except for life-threatening cases.\n\n## Iran rejects calls to surrender or end its nuclear program\n\nIran has long maintained its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes. But it is the only non-nuclear-weapon state to enrich uranium up to 60%, a short, technical step away from weapons-grade levels of 90%.\n\nIsrael is widely believed to be the only country with a nuclear weapons program in the Middle East but has never acknowledged the existence of its arsenal.\n\nThe Israeli air campaign has targeted Iran's enrichment site at Natanz, centrifuge workshops around Tehran, a nuclear site in Isfahan and what the army assesses to be most of Iran's ballistic missile launchers. The destruction of those launchers has contributed to the steady decline in Iranian attacks since the start of the conflict.\n\nOn Thursday, anti-aircraft artillery was audible across Tehran, and witnesses in the central city of Isfahan reported seeing anti-aircraft fire after nightfall.\n\nTrump's announcement of a decision in the next two weeks opened up diplomatic options, with the apparent hope Iran would make concessions after suffering major military losses.\n\nA new diplomatic initiative seemed to be underway as Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi prepared to travel Friday to Geneva for meetings with the European Union's top diplomat, and with counterparts from the United Kingdom, France and Germany.\n\nBut at least publicly, Iran has struck a hard line.\n\nIran's supreme leader on Wednesday rejected U.S. calls for surrender and warned that any U.S. military involvement would cause \"irreparable damage to them.\"\n\nParliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf on Thursday criticized Trump for using military pressure to gain an advantage in nuclear negotiations. The latest indirect talks between Iran and the U.S., set for last Sunday, were cancelled.\n\n\"The delusional American president knows that he cannot impose peace on us by imposing war and threatening us,\" he said.\n\n## Iran agreed to redesign Arak to address nuclear concerns\n\nIsrael's military said its fighter jets targeted the Arak heavy water reactor, some 250 kilometers (155 miles) southwest of Tehran, to prevent it from being used to produce plutonium.\n\nIranian state TV said there was \"no radiation danger whatsoever\" around the Arak site, which it said had been evacuated ahead of the strike.\n\nHeavy water helps cool nuclear reactors, but it produces plutonium as a byproduct that potentially can be used in nuclear weapons. That would provide Iran another path to the bomb beyond enriched uranium, should it choose to pursue the weapon.\n\nIran had agreed under its 2015 nuclear deal with world powers to redesign the facility to alleviate proliferation concerns. That work was never completed.\n\nThe reactor became a point of contention after Trump withdrew from the deal in 2018. Ali Akbar Salehi, a high-ranking nuclear official in Iran, said in 2019 that Tehran bought extra parts to replace a portion of the reactor that it had poured concrete into under the deal.\n\nIsrael said strikes were carried out \"in order to prevent the reactor from being restored and used for nuclear weapons development.\"\n\nThe International Atomic Energy Agency has said that due to restrictions imposed by Iran on inspectors, the U.N. nuclear watchdog has lost \"continuity of knowledge\" about Iran's heavy water production \u2014 meaning it could not absolutely verify Tehran's production and stockpile."}
-{"requested_url": "https://apnews.com/article/indianapolis-columbus-1984026d5d245be21879873280586827", "title": "Triple-A International League Glance", "publishing_date": "2025-06-19 03:44:12+00:00", "topics": ["Indianapolis", "Columbus", "Norfolk", "Memphis", "Sports", "Scranton", "World Bank"], "text": "# Triple-A International League Glance\n\nBy The Associated Press  \nJune 19th, 2025, 03:44 AM\n\n---\n\n## Tuesday's Games\n\nDurham 7, Omaha 1\n\nScranton/WB 4, Louisville 3\n\nJacksonville 6, Syracuse 4\n\nWorcester 5, Buffalo 4\n\nRochester 3, Lehigh Valley 1\n\nCharlotte 6, Gwinnett 3\n\nIndianapolis 7, Columbus 2\n\nNashville 9, Iowa 0\n\nNorfolk 7, Memphis 5\n\nToledo 9, St. Paul 8, 11 innings\n\n## Wednesday's Games\n\nLouisville 8, Scranton/WB 1\n\nMemphis 10, Norfolk 7\n\nJacksonville 5, Syracuse 3\n\nBuffalo 14, Worcester 1\n\nRochester 4, Lehigh Valley 0\n\nCharlotte 9, Gwinnett 3\n\nColumbus 4, Indianapolis 3, susp. top of 4th\n\nIowa 5, Nashville 4\n\nDurham 7, Omaha 2\n\nToledo 6, St. Paul 4\n\n## Thursday's Games\n\nColumbus 4, Indianapolis 3, noon, 1st game, completion of susp. game\n\nIndianapolis at Columbus, 12:05 p.m., 2nd game\n\nScranton/WB at Louisville, 6:35 p.m.\n\nJacksonville at Syracuse, 6:35 p.m.\n\nBuffalo at Worcester, 6:45 p.m.\n\nRochester at Lehigh Valley, 6:45 p.m.\n\nGwinnett at Charlotte, 7:04 p.m.\n\nIowa at Nashville, 7:35 p.m.\n\nDurham at Omaha, 8:05 p.m.\n\nNorfolk at Memphis, 8:05 p.m.\n\nToledo at St. Paul, 8:07 p.m.\n\n## Friday's Games\n\nJacksonville at Syracuse, 6:35 p.m.\n\nBuffalo at Worcester, 6:45 p.m.\n\nGwinnett at Charlotte, 7:04 p.m.\n\nIndianapolis at Columbus, 7:05 p.m.\n\nRochester at Lehigh Valley, 7:05 p.m.\n\nScranton/WB at Louisville, 7:15 p.m.\n\nIowa at Nashville, 7:35 p.m.\n\nDurham at Omaha, 8:05 p.m.\n\nNorfolk at Memphis, 8:05 p.m.\n\nToledo at St. Paul, 8:07 p.m."}
-{"requested_url": "https://apnews.com/article/greece-folk-icon-chalkias-clarinet-epirus-new-york-13f0a5c5c7db4cdc2eef402293276861", "title": "Greece mourns folk icon Petroloukas Chalkias, a master of the mountain soundscape", "publishing_date": "2025-06-18 15:36:22+00:00", "topics": ["Athens", "Constantine Tassoulas", "Greece", "Folk and Americana", "Celebrity", "New York City", "New York City Wire", "Notable Deaths", "Arts and entertainment", "Louis Armstrong", "Entertainment"], "text": "# Greece mourns folk icon Petroloukas Chalkias, a master of the mountain soundscape\n\nBy Derek Gatopoulos and Petros Giannakouris  \nJune 18th, 2025, 03:36 PM\n\n---\n\nATHENS, Greece (AP) \u2014 Greece is honoring the late clarinetist Petroloukas Chalkias, whose hypnotic, note-bending performances over the course of more than 70 years made him a hero of mountain folk music.\n\nChalkias, who died at 90 over the weekend, lay in state Wednesday at the Athens Cathedral \u2014 a rare honor typically reserved for prime ministers and religious leaders.\n\nAs pallbearers emerged through the doors in a chapel next to the cathedral, carrying the coffin, silence descended. Mourners then clapped and shouted \"immortal\" as musicians played folk tunes. It was a solemn prelude to his funeral which will take place in the rugged highlands of Epirus, in northwest Greece, where he first took up the clarinet as a boy of 11.\n\nGreek President Constantine Tassoulas earlier this week described Chalkias as a \"legendary figure.\"\n\nEpirus' folk music, slowly unfolding and often centered around the clarinet, is steeped in improvisation, with its wanderings inviting comparisons to rural blues and jazz. It's one of the reasons that, while not so distinguished as a recording artist, Chalkias' live performances made him a household name for Greeks young and old alike.\n\nHis style evolved after settling in New York as a young man, joining a wave of musicians who emigrated along with other Greeks to escape the hardship of postwar poverty. Chalkias found an unlikely second stage: dimly-lit clubs filled with Greek emigres and curious outsiders. Among those drawn to his performances were jazz legends Benny Goodman and Louis Armstrong.\n\nMusicians paying their respects on Wednesday praised Chalkias for his generosity with his time in helping fellow artists. \"I was a young woman when I started out and I was incredibly lucky to have him support me,\" folk singer Giota Griva said. \"His influence was immense. He was an artist who will never leave us.\"\n\nBorn Petros Loukas Chalkias, the musician was the son and grandson of clarinet players. He was raised with the region's rich tradition of live music \u2014 an essential part of village festivals, celebrations, and mourning rituals.\n\nDiscouraged at first by a family wary of the musician's path, the young Chalkias fashioned his own makeshift clarinet from a hollow reed, carving its finger holes. By his early teens, his playing \u2014 raw and instinctive, but undeniably gifted \u2014 was good enough to earn him a spot on national radio.\n\nChalkias spent nearly 20 years in the US and raised a family there, but said he always intended to return to Greece. He did so in 1979, performing live across the country and reconnecting with Delvinaki, the red-roofed mountain village of his birth near Greece's border with Albania.\n\nDelvinaki bore deep scars from the devastations of World War II and the civil war that followed. Chalkias, like many of his generation, grew up with interrupted schooling and little formal training. His music was learned by ear and memory, and never performed using sheet music.\n\n\"In the hearts of all Greeks, he stands as the foremost ambassador of our folk song tradition,\" President Tassoulas, also from Epirus, said in a statement. \"Though Petros Loukas Chalkias has departed this life, his voice has not fallen silent \u2013- nor will it ever.\"\n\nChalkias died in Athens. His family did not announce the cause of his death. His funeral will be held at the Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary in Delvinaki on Thursday.\n\nHe is survived by a son and a daughter."}
-{"requested_url": "https://apnews.com/article/arizona-diamondbacks-toronto-blue-jays-justin-martinez-anthony-santander-athlete-injuries-86817d80b71944e4af4bf02bdae4415e", "title": "Diamondbacks play the Blue Jays looking to stop road slide", "publishing_date": "2025-06-19 08:01:08+00:00", "topics": ["Arizona Diamondbacks", "Toronto Blue Jays", "Justin Martinez", "Anthony Santander", "Athlete injuries", "Baseball", "MLB", "Arizona", "MLB baseball", "A.J. Puk", "Ryan Burr", "Myles Straw", "Ryne Nelson", "Bowden Francis", "Jordan Montgomery", "Nick Sandlin", "Christian Montes De Oca", "Nathan Lukes", "Kevin Gausman", "Angel Bastardo", "Cristian Mena", "Daulton Varsho", "Vladimir Guerrero Jr.", "Alek Manoah", "Ernie Clement", "Jonatan Clase", "Gabriel Moreno", "Kendall Graveman", "Josh Naylor", "Toronto", "Corbin Burnes", "Max Scherzer", "Yimi Garcia", "Sports", "Lourdes Gurriel"], "text": "# Diamondbacks play the Blue Jays looking to stop road slide\n\nBy The Associated Press  \nJune 19th, 2025, 08:01 AM\n\n---\n\nArizona Diamondbacks (36-37, fourth in the NL West) vs. Toronto Blue Jays (40-33, third in the AL East)\n\nToronto; Thursday, 3:07 p.m. EDT\n\nPITCHING PROBABLES: Diamondbacks: Ryne Nelson (3-2, 4.14 ERA, 1.14 WHIP, 41 strikeouts); Blue Jays: Kevin Gausman (5-5, 4.08 ERA, 1.06 WHIP, 80 strikeouts)\n\nBETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Blue Jays -138, Diamondbacks +116; over/under is 8 1/2 runs\n\nBOTTOM LINE: The Arizona Diamondbacks will aim to end their five-game road losing streak in a matchup with the Toronto Blue Jays.\n\nToronto has a 40-33 record overall and a 24-13 record at home. The Blue Jays have a 17-7 record in games when they did not give up a home run.\n\nArizona has a 16-19 record on the road and a 36-37 record overall. Diamondbacks hitters have a collective .441 slugging percentage to rank second in the NL.\n\nThe teams meet Thursday for the third time this season.\n\nTOP PERFORMERS: Vladimir Guerrero Jr. has 15 doubles and nine home runs for the Blue Jays. Ernie Clement is 16 for 43 with four doubles and a home run over the past 10 games.\n\nJosh Naylor has a .305 batting average to lead the Diamondbacks, and has 17 doubles, a triple and nine home runs. Lourdes Gurriel Jr. is 12 for 37 with a home run and four RBIs over the past 10 games.\n\nLAST 10 GAMES: Blue Jays: 6-4, .275 batting average, 5.38 ERA, outscored by five runs\n\nDiamondbacks: 5-5, .238 batting average, 5.31 ERA, outscored by nine runs\n\nINJURIES: Blue Jays: Myles Straw: day-to-day (ankle), Jonatan Clase: day-to-day (knee), Bowden Francis: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Nathan Lukes: 7-Day IL (neck), Daulton Varsho: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Anthony Santander: 10-Day IL (shoulder), Yimi Garcia: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Max Scherzer: 60-Day IL (thumb), Ryan Burr: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Nick Sandlin: 15-Day IL (back), Alek Manoah: 60-Day IL (elbow), Angel Bastardo: 60-Day IL (elbow)\n\nDiamondbacks: Gabriel Moreno: day-to-day (hand), Justin Martinez: 60-Day IL (elbow), Cristian Mena: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Christian Montes De Oca: 15-Day IL (elbow), Kendall Graveman: 15-Day IL (hip), Corbin Burnes: 60-Day IL (elbow), A.J. Puk: 60-Day IL (elbow), Jordan Montgomery: 60-Day IL (elbow), Blake Walston: 60-Day IL (elbow)"}
-{"requested_url": "https://apnews.com/article/guardians-giants-score-529fdc4125ee01e3589fcca44077a6cc", "title": "Schneeman hits 3-run homer power the Guardians past Verlander and the Giants, 4-2", "publishing_date": "2025-06-19 04:23:09+00:00", "topics": ["Carlos Santana", "Daniel Schneeman", "Emmanuel Clase", "Cleveland Guardians", "San Francisco Giants", "Baseball", "Ohio", "MLB", "California", "Sports", "Oliver Hirschbiegel", "Logan Allen", "MLB baseball", "Mike Yastrzemski", "Patrick Bailey", "Lane Thomas", "Jose Ramirez", "Gavin Williams", "Matt Festa", "Logan Webb", "Justin Verlander", "San Francisco", "Tim Herrin", "Heliot Ramos", "Tyler Fitzgerald", "Cade Smith"], "text": "# Schneeman hits 3-run homer power the Guardians past Verlander and the Giants, 4-2\n\nBy Michael Wagaman  \nJune 19th, 2025, 04:23 AM\n\n---\n\nSAN FRANCISCO (AP) \u2014 Daniel Schneeman hit a three-run home run to keep Justin Verlander winless in a San Francisco uniform, powering the Cleveland Guardians to a 4-2 victory over the Giants on Wednesday night.\n\nVerlander (0-4) allowed four runs (three earned) in 4 2/3 innings after being activated off the Injured List earlier in the day. The nine-time All-Star gave up seven hits and had six strikeouts in his first start since May 18.\n\nKyle Manzardo doubled twice and Jose Ramirez added an RBI-single to help the Guardians clinch their first series win in San Francisco since 2005. Heliot Ramos homered for the Giants.\n\nSchneeman's home run, his first since May 27, came on an 0-2 fastball from Verlander in the fourth. Carlos Santana reached on a fielding error by second baseman Tyler Fitzgerald and Lane Thomas singled before Schneeman's homer.\n\nLogan Allen (5-4) gave up two runs and four hits in 5 1/3 innings to get the win for the Guardians.\n\nMatt Festa and Tim Herrin each retired three batters, Cade Smith set down two and Emmanuel Clase got Patrick Bailey to strike out looking in the ninth for his 16th save.\n\n## Key moment\n\nAfter the Giants' Mike Yastrzemski drew a one-out walk in the seventh then advanced to second on a balk by Cade Smith, Smith worked out of the jam and retired Patrick Bailey and Ramos on consecutive swinging strikeouts.\n\n## Key stat\n\nThe Giants got their leadoff hitter on base in four innings and failed to score each time.\n\n## Up next\n\nGiants ace RHP Logan Webb (6-5, 2.58 ERA) was set to face Guardians RHP Gavin Williams (5-3, 3.89) in the series finale Thursday."}
-{"requested_url": "https://apnews.com/article/immigration-new-jersey-delaney-hall-escape-c93ae6138470039fa0619d2e9a9846fa", "title": "Officials arrest 1 of 2 detainees still missing from New Jersey immigration facility", "publishing_date": "2025-06-17 15:37:05+00:00", "topics": ["New Jersey", "Franklin Norberto Bautista-Reyes", "Andres Felipe Pineda-Mogollon", "New York City", "Donald Trump", "Delaney Hall", "Joel Enrique Sandoval-Lopez", "Ras Baraka", "Law enforcement", "Crime", "U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation", "Prisons", "Immigration", "New York City Wire", "New York", "Protests and demonstrations", "Andy Kim", "Politics", "Burglary", "Joan Sebastian", "U.S. Department of Homeland Security", "Amy Thoreson", "United States government", "Tricia McLaughlin"], "text": "# Officials arrest 1 of 2 detainees still missing from New Jersey immigration facility\n\nBy Mike Catalini  \nJune 17th, 2025, 03:37 PM\n\n---\n\nOne of the two detainees still missing after escaping from a New Jersey federal immigration detention center has been arrested, the FBI said Tuesday.\n\nFranklin Norberto Bautista-Reyes, from Honduras, has been taken into custody, FBI spokesperson Amy Thoreson said in an email. Andres Felipe Pineda-Mogollon, from Colombia, is still missing from Thursday night's escape, the bureau said.\n\nBautista-Reyes and Pineda-Mogollon and two other men busted out of the Delaney Hall detention center in Newark during reports of disorder there by breaking through a wall and escaping from a parking lot, according to U.S. Sen. Andy Kim, a New Jersey Democrat, and Homeland Security officials.\n\nAll four men were in the country illegally and had been charged by local police in New Jersey and New York City, federal officials said.\n\nBautista-Reyes was charged in May with aggravated assault, attempt to cause bodily injury, terroristic threats and a weapon crime. Pineda-Mogollon, from Colombia, was charged with minor larceny and burglary crimes.\n\nThe details surrounding Bautista-Reyes' capture were not immediately clear. Messages seeking information were sent to the FBI and the Homeland Security Department, which oversees Immigration and Customs Enforcement.\n\nHomeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement that they were grateful to law enforcement for apprehending the men.\n\nThe FBI on Monday had increased the reward for information leading to their arrest to $25,000 from $10,000.\n\nJoel Enrique Sandoval-Lopez, one of the other fugitives, was taken into custody in Passaic, New Jersey, on Friday, the day after the escape in nearby Newark. Then, on Sunday, Joan Sebastian Castaneda-Lozada surrendered to federal authorities in Milleville, New Jersey. Sandoval-Lopez, from Honduras, was charged with unlawful possession of a handgun in October and aggravated assault in February, officials said. Castaneda-Lozada, from Colombia, was charged with burglary, theft and conspiracy, authorities said.\n\nIt's unclear who may be representing the men. The New Jersey Office of the Public Defender declined to comment on the development.\n\nNewark Mayor Ras Baraka, a Democrat who has been critical of President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown, cited reports of a possible uprising and escape after disorder broke out at the facility Thursday night and protesters outside the center locked arms and pushed against barricades as vehicles passed through gates. Much is still unclear about what unfolded there, but later on Tuesday the FBI released details in a statement charging the four men with escape.\n\nThe men broke through an aluminum wall on the second story of the facility and dropped mattresses through an opening, giving them a place to jump, the FBI said. They used bedsheets to cover barbed wire to get over the fence, according to the bureau.\n\nGEO Group, the company that owns and operates the detention facility for the federal government, said in a statement last week that there was \"no widespread unrest\" at the facility.\n\nDelaney Hall has been the site of clashes this year between Democratic officials who say the facility needs more oversight and the Trump administration and those who run the facility.\n\nBaraka was arrested May 9, handcuffed and charged with trespassing. The charge was later dropped. But U.S. Democratic Rep. LaMonica McIver was later charged with assaulting federal officers stemming from a skirmish that happened outside the facility. She has denied the charges."}
-{"requested_url": "https://apnews.com/article/pelicans-pacers-trade-nba-draft-0b8df8b11d78f8393fc50ab213e592b0", "title": "Pelicans acquire a second 2025 first-round draft pick from the Pacers in exchange for a 2026 pick", "publishing_date": "2025-06-17 19:37:04+00:00", "topics": ["Indiana Pacers", "Pascal Siakam", "Brandon Ingram", "New Orleans Pelicans", "NBA Draft", "New Orleans", "NBA Playoffs", "NBA", "Louisiana", "Indiana", "NBA basketball", "Sports"], "text": "# Pelicans acquire a second 2025 first-round draft pick from the Pacers in exchange for a 2026 pick\n\nBy Brett Martel  \nJune 17th, 2025, 07:37 PM\n\n---\n\nNEW ORLEANS (AP) \u2014 The Indiana Pacers have agreed to trade their 23rd overall choice in next week's NBA draft to New Orleans for a 2026 first-round pick, the Pelicans announced Tuesday.\n\nThe deal gives the Pelicans two first-round picks \u2014 the seventh and 23rd overall \u2014 in the draft, raising the prospect that New Orleans could package both in a deal to move up in the first round next Wednesday.\n\nThe Pelicans also will receive the rights to Mojave King, a 2023 second-round draft choice who has played for Indiana's G League affiliate as well as overseas in Puerto Rico and New Zealand.\n\nThe Pacers are getting back a 2026 pick they had traded to the Toronto Raptors in a 2024 deal sending Pascal Siakam to Indiana. Last February, Toronto dealt that pick to New Orleans as part of a trade that sent Brandon Ingram to the Raptors.\n\nThe Pacers are the reigning Eastern Conference champions and currently trail the Oklahoma City Thunder, 3-2, in the best-of-seven NBA Finals, with Game 6 scheduled for Thursday in Indianapolis."}
-{"requested_url": "https://apnews.com/article/florida-college-athletes-nil-house-settlement-funding-7ecc2f026b894da4c75b265b554e368f", "title": "Florida officials let public universities free up millions to pay student-athletes", "publishing_date": "2025-06-18 21:46:07+00:00", "topics": ["College sports", "Florida", "Florida Gators", "Sports", "Kate Payne", "Education", "Florida state government", "Alan Levine", "Kentucky Wildcats"], "text": "# Florida officials let public universities free up millions to pay student-athletes\n\nBy Kate Payne  \nJune 18th, 2025, 09:46 PM\n\n---\n\nTALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Florida's public universities can free up $22.5 million a year to compensate student-athletes under an emergency rule approved by a state board Wednesday ahead of a landmark legal settlement allowing schools to pay their players through licensing deals.\n\nThe sprawling $2.8 billion antitrust settlement, going into effect July 1, allows schools to directly pay their pay their players for the use of their name, image and likeness. It's upending the way college sports have been run for more than a century and has sent universities across the country scrambling for new revenue streams in the hopes of gaining an edge \u2014 or at least keeping pace \u2014 in the rapidly evolving and highly competitive field of college athletics.\n\nPublic universities in Florida, which is home to some of the country's most high-profile college sports teams, will now be able to dip into the funding reserves of campus auxiliary programs like bookstores, food service, student housing and parking in order to cut checks to student-athletes. Under the policy approved Wednesday, the funds can be issued as a transfer or a loan.\n\n\"Athletic departments are already currently recruiting student-athletes for fall 2025, and they need clarity on the available funding to retain and recruit the best talent for their rosters,\" said Alan Levine, vice chair of the board of governors, which oversees Florida's state universities. \"If the universities cannot react to the settlement immediately, there will be irreparable harm to the athletic programs and to the financial welfare of our institutions.\"\n\nFlorida's emergency rule goes into effect immediately and will last 90 days, at which point the board of governors can reassess the issue.\n\nOther schools are also taking actions because of deficits in their athletic departments. Last week, University of Kentucky trustees approved a $31 million operating loan for the athletics department as it begins making direct payments to athletes.\n\nMeanwhile, Louisiana is poised to hike taxes on sports betting to pump more than $24 million into athletic departments. And Arkansas this year became the first to waive state income taxes on payments made to athletes by higher education institutions."}
-{"requested_url": "https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-flagpoles-a0928efcdcb6d1362a0e1827e96d0344", "title": "Trump installs new flagpoles on White House lawns", "publishing_date": "2025-06-18 21:38:53+00:00", "topics": ["Donald Trump", "Iran", "Mar-a-Lago", "Politics"], "text": "# Trump installs new flagpoles on White House lawns\n\nBy Chris Megerian and Darlene Superville  \nJune 18th, 2025, 09:38 PM\n\n---\n\nWASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 The American flag has long flown from a pole on the White House roof, but that's always been too small for President Donald Trump, who wants everything to be bigger and more beautiful.\n\nOn Wednesday, massive new flagpoles were erected on the North and South Lawns of the White House.\n\n\"It's such a beautiful pole,\" Trump said as workers used a crane to install the latest addition to the South Lawn. He returned to the same spot later in the day, saluting as the stars and stripes were hoisted for the first time.\n\nThe second pole, on the North Lawn, is close to Pennsylvania Avenue. The two poles are the most notable exterior modification to the White House since Trump returned to the presidency with grand ideas for remaking the building.\n\nHe's already updated the Oval Office, adding gold accents, more portraits and a copy of the Declaration of Independence. Workers have begun paving over the grass in the Rose Garden, and there are plans to construct a new ballroom somewhere on the White House grounds. The changes bring the iconic building more in line with Mar-a-Lago, Trump's private club in Florida.\n\nThe president made time to watch one of the flagpole installations despite the escalating conflict between Iran and Israel, plus questions of whether the U.S. would become directly involved.\n\n\"I love construction,\" said Trump, who made his mark as a New York real estate developer. \"I know it better than anybody.\"\n\nHe talked about how the pole went down nine feet deep for stability, and the rope would be contained inside the cylinder, unlike the one at Mar-a-Lago. When the wind blows, \"you hear that rope, banging.\"\n\n\"This is the real deal,\" he said. \"This is the best you can get. There's nothing like this.\""}