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"value": "# White House pitches sharp spending cuts in Trump budget plan\n\nBy Lisa Mascaro and Josh Boak \nMay 2nd, 2025 12:04 PM\n\n---\n\nWASHINGTON (AP) — The White House released President Donald Trump's 2026 budget proposal Friday, hoping to slash, if not zero out, spending on many government programs. It seeks a sweeping restructuring of the nation's domestic priorities, reflective of the president's first 100 days in office and sudden firing of federal workers.\n\nTrump's plan aims for steep cuts to child care, disease research, renewable energy and peacekeeping abroad, many already underway through Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, all while pumping up billions for the administration's mass deportation agenda.\n\nThe budget drafters echo Trump's promises to end \"woke programs,\" including preschool grants to states with diversity programs. And they reflect his vow to stop the \"weaponization of government\" by slashing the Internal Revenue Service, even as critics accuse him of using the levers of power to punish people and institutions he disfavors\n\nOverall, it's a sizable reduction in domestic accounts — some $163 billion, or 22.6% below current year spending, the White House said.\n\nAt the same time, the White House said it is relying on Congress to unleash $375 billion in new money for for the Homeland Security and Defense departments as part of Trump's \"big, beautiful bill\" of tax cuts and spending reductions. His goal is to repel when he calls a \"foreign invasion,\" though migrant arrivals to the U.S. are at all-time lows.\n\nHouse Speaker Mike Johnson welcomed the proposal as \"a bold blueprint that reflects the values of hardworking Americans and the commitment to American strength and prosperity.\"\n\nBudgets do not become law, but serve as a touchstone for the coming fiscal year debates. Often considered a statement of values, this first budget since Trump's return to the White House carries the added weight of defining the Republican president's second-term pursuits, alongside his party in Congress.\n\nIt comes as Trump has unilaterally imposed what could be hundreds of billions of dollars in tax increases in the form of tariffs, setting off a trade war that has consumers, CEOs and foreign leaders worried about a possible economic downturn.\n\nTrump, in an interview with NBC News' \"Meet the Press\" taped Friday, pushed back against recession talk.\n\nAsked by Meet the Press host Kristen Welker about Wall Street analysts who have expressed concerns that the chances of a recession are increasing, Trump insisted the economy will do \"fantastically.\"\n\n\"Well, you know, you say, some people on Wall Street say,\" Trump said. \"Well, I tell you something else. Some people on Wall Street say that we're going to have the greatest economy in history.\"\n\nDemocrats assailed the budget as a devastating foreshadowing of Trump's vision for the country.\n\n\"President Trump has made his priorities clear as day: he wants to outright defund programs that help working Americans,\" said Sen. Patty Murray of Washington, the top Democrat on the Appropriations Committee. This, she said, \"while he shovels massive tax breaks at billionaires like himself and raises taxes on middle-class Americans with his reckless tariffs.\"\n\nThe White House Office of Management and Budget, headed by Russell Vought, a chief architect of Project 2025 from the conservative Heritage Foundation, provided contours of a so-called skinny version of topline numbers only.\n\nIt covers only the federal government's discretionary spending, now about $1.83 trillion a year on defense and nondefense accounts. Trump's team drops that spending by $163 billion, to $1.69 trillion, a portion of the nation's nearly $7 trillion budget that includes far more programs and services.\n\nFederal budgets have been climbing steadily, as have annual deficits that are fast approaching $2 trillion, with annual interest payments on the debt almost $1 trillion. That's thanks mostly to the spike in emergency COVID-19 pandemic spending, changes in the tax code that reduced revenues and the climbing costs of Medicare, Medicaid and other programs, largely to cover health needs as people age. The nation's debt load, at $36 trillion, is ballooning.\n\n\"We need a budget that tells the full story, and it should control spending, reduce borrowing, bring deficits down,\" said Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a fiscal watchdog group.\n\nAmong some of the White House's proposed highlights:\n\nThe State Department and international programs would lose 84% of their money and receive $9.6 billion, reflecting deep cuts already underway, including to the U.S. Agency for International Development.\n\nThe Health and Human Services Department would be cut by $33.3 billion and the Education Department's spending would be reduced by $12 billion. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health would all face steep reductions.\n\nThe Defense Department would get an additional $113.3 billion and Homeland Security would receive $42.3 billion more. Much of that is contingent on Congress approving Trump's big bill. That approach drew criticism from leading defense hawks, among them the former GOP Leader, Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky.\n\nMcConnell called the proposed boost in defense money in the president's budget a \"gimmick.\"\n\n\"America cannot expect our allies to heed calls for greater annual defense spending if we are unwilling to lead by example,\" McConnell said in a blistering statement. \"Fortunately, Presidential budget requests are just that: requests. Congress will soon have an opportunity to ensure that American power – and the credibility of our commitments – are appropriately resourced.\"\n\nIt's Congress, under its constitutional powers, that decides the spending plans, approves the bills that authorize federal programs and funds them through the appropriations process. Often, that system breaks down, forcing lawmakers to pass stopgap spending bills to keep the government funded and avoid federal shutdowns.\n\nCongress is already deep into the slog of drafting Trump's big bill of tax breaks, spending cuts and bolstered funds for the administration's mass deportation effort — a package that, unlike the budget plan, would carry the force of law.\n\nVought is also expected on Capitol Hill in the weeks ahead as the Trump administration presses its case.\n\nAmong the more skilled conservative budget hands in Washington, Vought has charted a career toward this moment. He served during the first Trump administration in the same role and, for Project 2025, wrote an extensive chapter about the remaking of the federal government.\n\nVought has separately been preparing a $9 billion package that would gut current 2025 funding for the U.S. Agency for International Development and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which involves the Public Broadcasting Service and National Public Radio. Trump signed an executive order late Thursday that instructs the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and federal agencies to cease funding for PBS and NPR.\n\nVought has said that a package of so-called budget rescissions would be a first of potentially more, as the Trump administration tests the appetite in Congress for lawmakers to go on record and vote to roll back the money.\n\n___\n\nThis story has been corrected to reflect that the administration is proposing to cut the Health and Human Services budget by $33.3 billion, not $33.3 trillion."
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"value": "# White House pitches sharp spending cuts in Trump budget plan\n\nBy Lisa Mascaro and Josh Boak \nMay 2nd, 2025 12:04 PM\n\n---\n\nWASHINGTON (AP) — The White House released President Donald Trump's 2026 budget proposal Friday, hoping to slash, if not zero out, spending on many government programs. It seeks a sweeping restructuring of the nation's domestic priorities, reflective of the president's first 100 days in office and sudden firing of federal workers.\n\nTrump's plan aims for steep cuts to child care, disease research, renewable energy and peacekeeping abroad, many already underway through Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, all while pumping up billions for the administration's mass deportation agenda.\n\nThe budget drafters echo Trump's promises to end \"woke programs,\" including preschool grants to states with diversity programs. And they reflect his vow to stop the \"weaponization of government\" by slashing the Internal Revenue Service, even as critics accuse him of using the levers of power to punish people and institutions he disfavors\n\nOverall, it's a sizable reduction in domestic accounts — some $163 billion, or 22.6% below current year spending, the White House said.\n\nAt the same time, the White House said it is relying on Congress to unleash $375 billion in new money for for the Homeland Security and Defense departments as part of Trump's \"big, beautiful bill\" of tax cuts and spending reductions. His goal is to repel when he calls a \"foreign invasion,\" though migrant arrivals to the U.S. are at all-time lows.\n\nHouse Speaker Mike Johnson welcomed the proposal as \"a bold blueprint that reflects the values of hardworking Americans and the commitment to American strength and prosperity.\"\n\nBudgets do not become law, but serve as a touchstone for the coming fiscal year debates. Often considered a statement of values, this first budget since Trump's return to the White House carries the added weight of defining the Republican president's second-term pursuits, alongside his party in Congress.\n\nIt comes as Trump has unilaterally imposed what could be hundreds of billions of dollars in tax increases in the form of tariffs, setting off a trade war that has consumers, CEOs and foreign leaders worried about a possible economic downturn.\n\nTrump, in an interview with NBC News' \"Meet the Press\" taped Friday, pushed back against recession talk.\n\nAsked by Meet the Press host Kristen Welker about Wall Street analysts who have expressed concerns that the chances of a recession are increasing, Trump insisted the economy will do \"fantastically.\"\n\n\"Well, you know, you say, some people on Wall Street say,\" Trump said. \"Well, I tell you something else. Some people on Wall Street say that we're going to have the greatest economy in history.\"\n\nDemocrats assailed the budget as a devastating foreshadowing of Trump's vision for the country.\n\n\"President Trump has made his priorities clear as day: he wants to outright defund programs that help working Americans,\" said Sen. Patty Murray of Washington, the top Democrat on the Appropriations Committee. This, she said, \"while he shovels massive tax breaks at billionaires like himself and raises taxes on middle-class Americans with his reckless tariffs.\"\n\nThe White House Office of Management and Budget, headed by Russell Vought, a chief architect of Project 2025 from the conservative Heritage Foundation, provided contours of a so-called skinny version of topline numbers only.\n\nIt covers only the federal government's discretionary spending, now about $1.83 trillion a year on defense and nondefense accounts. Trump's team drops that spending by $163 billion, to $1.69 trillion, a portion of the nation's nearly $7 trillion budget that includes far more programs and services.\n\nFederal budgets have been climbing steadily, as have annual deficits that are fast approaching $2 trillion, with annual interest payments on the debt almost $1 trillion. That's thanks mostly to the spike in emergency COVID-19 pandemic spending, changes in the tax code that reduced revenues and the climbing costs of Medicare, Medicaid and other programs, largely to cover health needs as people age. The nation's debt load, at $36 trillion, is ballooning.\n\n\"We need a budget that tells the full story, and it should control spending, reduce borrowing, bring deficits down,\" said Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a fiscal watchdog group.\n\nAmong some of the White House's proposed highlights:\n\nThe State Department and international programs would lose 84% of their money and receive $9.6 billion, reflecting deep cuts already underway, including to the U.S. Agency for International Development.\n\nThe Health and Human Services Department would be cut by $33.3 billion and the Education Department's spending would be reduced by $12 billion. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health would all face steep reductions.\n\nThe Defense Department would get an additional $113.3 billion and Homeland Security would receive $42.3 billion more. Much of that is contingent on Congress approving Trump's big bill. That approach drew criticism from leading defense hawks, among them the former GOP Leader, Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky.\n\nMcConnell called the proposed boost in defense money in the president's budget a \"gimmick.\"\n\n\"America cannot expect our allies to heed calls for greater annual defense spending if we are unwilling to lead by example,\" McConnell said in a blistering statement. \"Fortunately, Presidential budget requests are just that: requests. Congress will soon have an opportunity to ensure that American power – and the credibility of our commitments – are appropriately resourced.\"\n\nIt's Congress, under its constitutional powers, that decides the spending plans, approves the bills that authorize federal programs and funds them through the appropriations process. Often, that system breaks down, forcing lawmakers to pass stopgap spending bills to keep the government funded and avoid federal shutdowns.\n\nCongress is already deep into the slog of drafting Trump's big bill of tax breaks, spending cuts and bolstered funds for the administration's mass deportation effort — a package that, unlike the budget plan, would carry the force of law.\n\nVought is also expected on Capitol Hill in the weeks ahead as the Trump administration presses its case.\n\nAmong the more skilled conservative budget hands in Washington, Vought has charted a career toward this moment. He served during the first Trump administration in the same role and, for Project 2025, wrote an extensive chapter about the remaking of the federal government.\n\nVought has separately been preparing a $9 billion package that would gut current 2025 funding for the U.S. Agency for International Development and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which involves the Public Broadcasting Service and National Public Radio. Trump signed an executive order late Thursday that instructs the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and federal agencies to cease funding for PBS and NPR.\n\nVought has said that a package of so-called budget rescissions would be a first of potentially more, as the Trump administration tests the appetite in Congress for lawmakers to go on record and vote to roll back the money."
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"value": "# Houston pitcher McCullers receives death threats directed at his children after tough start\n\nBy Kristie Rieken \nMay 11th, 2025 03:41 AM\n\n---\n\nHOUSTON (AP) — Houston pitcher Lance McCullers Jr. said he received online death threats directed at his children after his tough start Saturday night against the Cincinnati Reds.\n\nMcCullers, who was making just his second start since Game 3 of the 2022 World Series, allowed seven runs while getting just one out in Houston's 13-9 loss.\n\nAfterward, McCullers said he had received the threats on social media.\n\n\"I understand people are very passionate and people love the Astros and love sports, but threatening to find my kids and murder them is a little bit tough to deal with,\" he said. \"So just as a father I think there have been many, many threats over the years aimed at me mostly, and I think actually one or two people from other issues around baseball actually had to go to jail for things like that. But I think bringing kids into the equation, threatening to find them or next time they see us in public, they're gonna stab my kids to death, things like that, it's tough to hear as a dad.\"\n\nThe Astros said that the Houston Police Department and MLB security had been alerted to the threats.\n\nMcCullers and his wife Kara have two young daughters.\n\nA visibly upset manager Joe Espada addressed the threats at his postgame news conference and added that they were also threatening the pitcher's life.\n\n\"There are people who are threatening his life and the life of his kids because of his performance,\" Espada said. \"It is very unfortunate that we have to deal with this. After all he's done for this city, for his team, the fact that we have to talk about that in my office — I got kids too and it really drives me nuts that we have to deal with this. Very sad, very, very sad.\"\n\nMcCullers, who has had numerous injuries that have kept him off the field in the last couple of seasons, said it's difficult to have to deal with threats on top of trying to return to form on the mound.\n\n\"If you fail you fail on a very large stage (with) a lot of eyes and there's nowhere to hide,\" he said. \"At the end of the day, I just want to do my job. I just want to be a good pitcher for the Astros and I believe I'll get there, but like I said I just think that having to worry about that, worry about leaving town and leaving them and things like that or dropping her off at school, I just think … there should be some type of decency.\"\n\n___\n\nAP MLB: https://apnews.com/hub/MLB"
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"value": "# Houston pitcher McCullers receives death threats directed at his children after tough start\n\nBy Kristie Rieken \nMay 11th, 2025 03:41 AM\n\n---\n\nHOUSTON (AP) — Houston pitcher Lance McCullers Jr. said he received online death threats directed at his children after his tough start Saturday night against the Cincinnati Reds.\n\nMcCullers, who was making just his second start since Game 3 of the 2022 World Series, allowed seven runs while getting just one out in Houston's 13-9 loss.\n\nAfterward, McCullers said he had received the threats on social media.\n\n\"I understand people are very passionate and people love the Astros and love sports, but threatening to find my kids and murder them is a little bit tough to deal with,\" he said. \"So just as a father I think there have been many, many threats over the years aimed at me mostly, and I think actually one or two people from other issues around baseball actually had to go to jail for things like that. But I think bringing kids into the equation, threatening to find them or next time they see us in public, they're gonna stab my kids to death, things like that, it's tough to hear as a dad.\"\n\nThe Astros said that the Houston Police Department and MLB security had been alerted to the threats.\n\nMcCullers and his wife Kara have two young daughters.\n\nA visibly upset manager Joe Espada addressed the threats at his postgame news conference and added that they were also threatening the pitcher's life.\n\n\"There are people who are threatening his life and the life of his kids because of his performance,\" Espada said. \"It is very unfortunate that we have to deal with this. After all he's done for this city, for his team, the fact that we have to talk about that in my office — I got kids too and it really drives me nuts that we have to deal with this. Very sad, very, very sad.\"\n\nMcCullers, who has had numerous injuries that have kept him off the field in the last couple of seasons, said it's difficult to have to deal with threats on top of trying to return to form on the mound.\n\n\"If you fail you fail on a very large stage (with) a lot of eyes and there's nowhere to hide,\" he said. \"At the end of the day, I just want to do my job. I just want to be a good pitcher for the Astros and I believe I'll get there, but like I said I just think that having to worry about that, worry about leaving town and leaving them and things like that or dropping her off at school, I just think … there should be some type of decency.\""
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"value": "# Attorney says NCAA deal should resolve judge's concerns over roster limits, criticizes Saban\n\nBy Eddie Pells \nMay 5th, 2025 10:59 PM\n\n---\n\nAn attorney in the $2.8 billion legal case reshaping college sports said Monday he thinks \"the agreement we will reach with the NCAA will solve the judge's concerns\" over roster limits that have delayed final approval.\n\nSteve Berman, co-lead counsel for the plaintiffs, told The Associated Press that all is on track to file paperwork by Wednesday, which is U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken's deadline for addressing concerns that prevented her from granting approval to the deal last month.\n\nBerman said he created a chart listing the several dozen athletes who lodged objections to the agreement based on roster limits. He said he thinks almost every one will be offered a solution.\n\n\"We're still negotiating, and I'm confident that everyone who lost a roster spot will have a chance to get a spot back,\" he said.\n\nHe did not go into detail about whether those spots would be on their previous teams or new ones.\n\nNCAA vice president of external affairs Tim Buckley said the NCAA would not comment on the litigation while negotiations are ongoing.\n\nWilken looked favorably on other key components of the settlement — namely, the up to $20.5 million some schools can pay their athletes for name, image likeness (NIL) deals and the nearly $2.8 billion in back pay that will go to players who said the NCAA and five biggest conferences wrongly kept them from earning NIL money.\n\nBut she asked lawyers to rework the part of the deal that will replace scholarship limits with roster limits. It's a proposal that could make more overall scholarship money available but could cost thousands of athletes their spots on rosters in moves that began shortly after Wilken gave preliminary approval to the deal last fall.\n\nThe NCAA's first response to Wilken's request — which included the idea of \"grandfathering in\" current players to their roster spots — was to change nothing, arguing that undoing roster moves already in play would create more turmoil in an already chaotic process.\n\nWilken wasn't moved, saying in her April 24 order that \"any disruption that may occur is a problem of Defendants' and NCAA members schools' own making.\"\n\nBerman acknowledged that the objectors likely wouldn't approve of the new deal being worked on.\n\n\"But I don't think it's going to be a big deal,\" he said, because it is designed to find roster spots for virtually all the individual athletes who objected.\n\n## Attorney: Saban should stay on the sideline\n\nBerman also criticized Nick Saban after reports emerged that the retired Alabama football coach was urging President Donald Trump to undo damage he says has been caused by all the money flowing into college sports.\n\nThe Wall Street Journal reported Trump is considering an executive order that would call for some sort of structure behind NIL compensation now going toward players who are now able to move more freely between schools.\n\nBerman said he believes an executive order would be subject to lawsuits \"like there are against so many of his other orders.\"\n\n\"But here, the question is, 'Why does the president need to get involved?'\" Berman said, while outlining the financial gains players have made in the NIL era. \"Just because Nick Saban thinks he knows better and resents change? This is a coach who made more money off college football than any other coach, did absolutely nothing to make it right for these student-athletes. Why should he drive the president's thinking?\"\n\nSaban, who made more than $11 million in his last year at Alabama and who some have said should become the commissioner of college football — a position that doesn't exist — has said he isn't completely against players making money.\n\nBut he has argued for rules and laws to keep things from looking like the \"pay for play\" model that the NCAA hopes to avoid but that is often what NIL payments look like.\n\n___\n\nAP college sports: https://apnews.com/hub/college-sports"
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"value": "# Attorney says NCAA deal should resolve judge's concerns over roster limits, criticizes Saban\n\nBy Eddie Pells \nMay 5th, 2025 10:59 PM\n\n---\n\nAn attorney in the $2.8 billion legal case reshaping college sports said Monday he thinks \"the agreement we will reach with the NCAA will solve the judge's concerns\" over roster limits that have delayed final approval.\n\nSteve Berman, co-lead counsel for the plaintiffs, told The Associated Press that all is on track to file paperwork by Wednesday, which is U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken's deadline for addressing concerns that prevented her from granting approval to the deal last month.\n\nBerman said he created a chart listing the several dozen athletes who lodged objections to the agreement based on roster limits. He said he thinks almost every one will be offered a solution.\n\n\"We're still negotiating, and I'm confident that everyone who lost a roster spot will have a chance to get a spot back,\" he said.\n\nHe did not go into detail about whether those spots would be on their previous teams or new ones.\n\nNCAA vice president of external affairs Tim Buckley said the NCAA would not comment on the litigation while negotiations are ongoing.\n\nWilken looked favorably on other key components of the settlement — namely, the up to $20.5 million some schools can pay their athletes for name, image likeness (NIL) deals and the nearly $2.8 billion in back pay that will go to players who said the NCAA and five biggest conferences wrongly kept them from earning NIL money.\n\nBut she asked lawyers to rework the part of the deal that will replace scholarship limits with roster limits. It's a proposal that could make more overall scholarship money available but could cost thousands of athletes their spots on rosters in moves that began shortly after Wilken gave preliminary approval to the deal last fall.\n\nThe NCAA's first response to Wilken's request — which included the idea of \"grandfathering in\" current players to their roster spots — was to change nothing, arguing that undoing roster moves already in play would create more turmoil in an already chaotic process.\n\nWilken wasn't moved, saying in her April 24 order that \"any disruption that may occur is a problem of Defendants' and NCAA members schools' own making.\"\n\nBerman acknowledged that the objectors likely wouldn't approve of the new deal being worked on.\n\n\"But I don't think it's going to be a big deal,\" he said, because it is designed to find roster spots for virtually all the individual athletes who objected.\n\n## Attorney: Saban should stay on the sideline\n\nBerman also criticized Nick Saban after reports emerged that the retired Alabama football coach was urging President Donald Trump to undo damage he says has been caused by all the money flowing into college sports.\n\nThe Wall Street Journal reported Trump is considering an executive order that would call for some sort of structure behind NIL compensation now going toward players who are now able to move more freely between schools.\n\nBerman said he believes an executive order would be subject to lawsuits \"like there are against so many of his other orders.\"\n\n\"But here, the question is, 'Why does the president need to get involved?'\" Berman said, while outlining the financial gains players have made in the NIL era. \"Just because Nick Saban thinks he knows better and resents change? This is a coach who made more money off college football than any other coach, did absolutely nothing to make it right for these student-athletes. Why should he drive the president's thinking?\"\n\nSaban, who made more than $11 million in his last year at Alabama and who some have said should become the commissioner of college football — a position that doesn't exist — has said he isn't completely against players making money.\n\nBut he has argued for rules and laws to keep things from looking like the \"pay for play\" model that the NCAA hopes to avoid but that is often what NIL payments look like."
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"value": "# Cardinals rookie cornerback Will Johnson ready to show his talent\n\nBy David Brandt \nMay 8th, 2025 11:06 PM\n\n---\n\nTEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — Will Johnson's first few moments as a member of the Arizona Cardinals weren't the best, with the cornerback still seething because of his fall from a potential top-10 pick to the second round because of injury concerns.\n\nTwo weeks later, he's in a much better mood.\n\n\"Happy to be here, happy to get to work and happy to see what's to come,\" Johnson said.\n\nJohnson's demeanor has improved for many reasons, but mainly because his drop to the No. 47 overall selection meant he landed in Arizona. The Cardinals believe they're an up-and-coming franchise under third-year coach Jonathan Gannon after finishing with an 8-9 record last season, which was a four-win improvement over 2023.\n\nNow they're embarking on a defensive overhaul in an effort to return to the postseason for the first time since 2021. The Cardinals have made it clear that the 22-year-old Johnson is one of the centerpieces for that effort.\n\nHe'll get his first chance to reward that confidence on Friday, when the team opens rookie minicamp.\n\n\"You can tell they're trying to win,\" Johnson said. \"They've got a lot of pieces on offense and you can tell they're trying to get those same pieces on defenses to make it all come together. We've just got to get to work and prove we're great players.\"\n\nThe Cardinals used six of their seven picks during April's draft on defensive players, adding Ole Miss defensive tackle Walter Nolen III at No. 16 before grabbing Johnson, who was a vital contributor during Michigan's run to a national title in 2023.\n\nArizona also added Oregon edge rusher Jordan Burch in the third round, Ohio State linebacker Cody Simon in the fourth, Ohio State cornerback Denzel Burke in the fifth and Nevada safety Kitan Crawford in the seventh. The only offensive player taken was Texas guard Hayden Conner.\n\nThe Cardinals also spent plenty of money on the defense during free agency, adding several veteran pieces, including Josh Sweat, Calais Campbell and Dalvin Tomlinson.\n\n\"I wouldn't want to be anywhere else,\" Johnson said.\n\nThere is little concern about Johnson's ability on the field, but slightly more angst about his injury history. He played in just six games last season with the Wolverines, missing several weeks while dealing with turf toe. There was also a hamstring issue that kept him out of Michigan's pro day during the pre-draft process.\n\nBut the real red flag seems to be a knee issue that required surgery in 2023. Johnson said the injury hasn't bothered him since and has been adamant there are no lingering effects.\n\n\"It's all good,\" Johnson said. \"Ready to go.\"\n\nJohnson said he's ready to play for Gannon, a high-energy coach who as a coordinator helped lead the Philadelphia Eagles to the Super Bowl in 2022 before falling to the Kansas City Chiefs. Gannon's specialty is coaching defensive backs and the Cardinals have used lots of draft capital on the position the past few years, adding Garrett Williams in 2023, Max Melton in 2024 and now Johnson.\n\nMuch like Johnson, Williams fell to the third round in the '23 draft because of injury concerns. He was coming off a torn ACL but has quickly grown into a key contributor.\n\nWilliams, Melton and Johnson could all have a major role this fall.\n\n\"He's just very passionate about it, and you got to love someone who is passionate,\" Johnson said of Gannon. \"He cares about his players and is a player's coach. That the kind of guy I want to play for.\"\n\nJohnson called Gannon's defensive system a \"cornerback's dream\" because it gives players the opportunity to play several different styles. For a confident player who feels he was overlooked during the draft, it's just the kind of opportunity he was expecting.\n\n\"I've been able to move on, it's just motivation,\" Johnson said. \"I know there's going to be something special here, so I'm excited for it.\"\n\n___\n\nAP NFL: https://apnews.com/hub/NFL"
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"value": "# Cardinals rookie cornerback Will Johnson ready to show his talent\n\nBy David Brandt \nMay 8th, 2025 11:06 PM\n\n---\n\nTEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — Will Johnson's first few moments as a member of the Arizona Cardinals weren't the best, with the cornerback still seething because of his fall from a potential top-10 pick to the second round because of injury concerns.\n\nTwo weeks later, he's in a much better mood.\n\n\"Happy to be here, happy to get to work and happy to see what's to come,\" Johnson said.\n\nJohnson's demeanor has improved for many reasons, but mainly because his drop to the No. 47 overall selection meant he landed in Arizona. The Cardinals believe they're an up-and-coming franchise under third-year coach Jonathan Gannon after finishing with an 8-9 record last season, which was a four-win improvement over 2023.\n\nNow they're embarking on a defensive overhaul in an effort to return to the postseason for the first time since 2021. The Cardinals have made it clear that the 22-year-old Johnson is one of the centerpieces for that effort.\n\nHe'll get his first chance to reward that confidence on Friday, when the team opens rookie minicamp.\n\n\"You can tell they're trying to win,\" Johnson said. \"They've got a lot of pieces on offense and you can tell they're trying to get those same pieces on defenses to make it all come together. We've just got to get to work and prove we're great players.\"\n\nThe Cardinals used six of their seven picks during April's draft on defensive players, adding Ole Miss defensive tackle Walter Nolen III at No. 16 before grabbing Johnson, who was a vital contributor during Michigan's run to a national title in 2023.\n\nArizona also added Oregon edge rusher Jordan Burch in the third round, Ohio State linebacker Cody Simon in the fourth, Ohio State cornerback Denzel Burke in the fifth and Nevada safety Kitan Crawford in the seventh. The only offensive player taken was Texas guard Hayden Conner.\n\nThe Cardinals also spent plenty of money on the defense during free agency, adding several veteran pieces, including Josh Sweat, Calais Campbell and Dalvin Tomlinson.\n\n\"I wouldn't want to be anywhere else,\" Johnson said.\n\nThere is little concern about Johnson's ability on the field, but slightly more angst about his injury history. He played in just six games last season with the Wolverines, missing several weeks while dealing with turf toe. There was also a hamstring issue that kept him out of Michigan's pro day during the pre-draft process.\n\nBut the real red flag seems to be a knee issue that required surgery in 2023. Johnson said the injury hasn't bothered him since and has been adamant there are no lingering effects.\n\n\"It's all good,\" Johnson said. \"Ready to go.\"\n\nJohnson said he's ready to play for Gannon, a high-energy coach who as a coordinator helped lead the Philadelphia Eagles to the Super Bowl in 2022 before falling to the Kansas City Chiefs. Gannon's specialty is coaching defensive backs and the Cardinals have used lots of draft capital on the position the past few years, adding Garrett Williams in 2023, Max Melton in 2024 and now Johnson.\n\nMuch like Johnson, Williams fell to the third round in the '23 draft because of injury concerns. He was coming off a torn ACL but has quickly grown into a key contributor.\n\nWilliams, Melton and Johnson could all have a major role this fall.\n\n\"He's just very passionate about it, and you got to love someone who is passionate,\" Johnson said of Gannon. \"He cares about his players and is a player's coach. That the kind of guy I want to play for.\"\n\nJohnson called Gannon's defensive system a \"cornerback's dream\" because it gives players the opportunity to play several different styles. For a confident player who feels he was overlooked during the draft, it's just the kind of opportunity he was expecting.\n\n\"I've been able to move on, it's just motivation,\" Johnson said. \"I know there's going to be something special here, so I'm excited for it.\""
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"value": "# US suspends Mexican live cattle exports over screwworm pest\n\nMay 11th, 2025 10:23 PM\n\n---\n\nMEXICO CITY (AP) — The United States will suspend Mexican exports of live cattle for 15 days to review the joint strategy in the fight against the screwworm, Mexico's Agriculture Secretary Julio Berdegué said on social media Sunday.\n\nBerdegué said on social platform X that he had spoken with his U.S. counterpart, Brooke Rollins, who had informed him of the decision.\n\n\"We don't agree with this measure, but we're confident we'll reach an agreement sooner rather than later,\" Berdegué said.\n\nThe U.S. restricted Mexican cattle shipments in late November following the detection of the pest, but lifted the ban in February after protocols were put in place to evaluate the animals prior to entry into the country.\n\nBut there has been an \"unacceptable northward advancement\" of the screwworm, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said in a statement Sunday.\n\n\"Additional action must be taken to slow the northern progression of this deadly parasitic fly,\" the statement added.\n\nThe screwworm is a larva of the Cochliomyia hominivorax fly that can invade the tissues of any warm-blooded animal, including humans. The parasite enters animals' skin, causing severe damage and lesions that can be fatal.\n\nMexico's Health Ministry issued an epidemiological alert this month after the first human case of screwworm myiasis was confirmed on April 17 in a 77-year-old woman living in the southern state of Chiapas.\n\n____\n\nFollow AP's coverage of Latin America and the Caribbean at https://apnews.com/hub/latin-america"
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"value": "# US suspends Mexican live cattle exports over screwworm pest\n\nMay 11th, 2025 10:23 PM\n\n---\n\nMEXICO CITY (AP) — The United States will suspend Mexican exports of live cattle for 15 days to review the joint strategy in the fight against the screwworm, Mexico's Agriculture Secretary Julio Berdegué said on social media Sunday.\n\nBerdegué said on social platform X that he had spoken with his U.S. counterpart, Brooke Rollins, who had informed him of the decision.\n\n\"We don't agree with this measure, but we're confident we'll reach an agreement sooner rather than later,\" Berdegué said.\n\nThe U.S. restricted Mexican cattle shipments in late November following the detection of the pest, but lifted the ban in February after protocols were put in place to evaluate the animals prior to entry into the country.\n\nBut there has been an \"unacceptable northward advancement\" of the screwworm, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said in a statement Sunday.\n\n\"Additional action must be taken to slow the northern progression of this deadly parasitic fly,\" the statement added.\n\nThe screwworm is a larva of the Cochliomyia hominivorax fly that can invade the tissues of any warm-blooded animal, including humans. The parasite enters animals' skin, causing severe damage and lesions that can be fatal.\n\nMexico's Health Ministry issued an epidemiological alert this month after the first human case of screwworm myiasis was confirmed on April 17 in a 77-year-old woman living in the southern state of Chiapas."
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"value": "# Rwanda confirms early talks to host deported US migrants\n\nBy Ignatius Ssuuna \nMay 5th, 2025 05:45 PM\n\n---\n\nKIGALI, Rwanda (AP) — Rwanda confirmed on Monday that discussions were \"underway\" with the United States regarding a potential agreement to host deported migrants.\n\nRwanda's Foreign Minister Olivier Nduhungirehe on Sunday told state media that the talks were in the \"early stage.\" When asked by The Associated Press on Monday, he confirmed the talks.\n\nNduhungirehe did not disclose the specifics of the potential deal for Rwanda, but previous local media reports suggest that the U.S would likely fund a program to have migrants integrated into the society through stipends and job assistance initiatives.\n\nThe U.S. State Department declined to comment on a potential deal with Rwanda, but said that engagement with foreign governments is an important part of the U.S. government's policy to deter illegal migration.\n\nThis wouldn't be Rwanda's first time hosting deported migrants. The East African nation previously had an agreement with the U.K. to host migrants. Plans for the initiative, including prepared accommodations, were in the final stages but the deal collapsed after the Labour Party took office in 2024.\n\nRwanda has faced allegations of human rights abuses and is currently in the process of brokering a peace deal with the neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo where Rwanda-backed M23 rebels have been behind attacks in the mineral rich eastern Congo region.\n\nNduhungirehe told state media on Sunday that Rwanda and Congo had already submitted their respective draft proposals, which will form the basis of a final peace agreement document expected to be signed in the U.S next month.\n\nThe minister said the migrant deal between Rwanda and the U.S was consistent with Rwanda's long-standing commitment to humanitarian cooperation and the pursuit of migration solutions. ____\n\nFollow AP's Africa coverage at: https://apnews.com/hub/africa"
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"value": "# Rwanda confirms early talks to host deported US migrants\n\nBy Ignatius Ssuuna \nMay 5th, 2025 05:45 PM\n\n---\n\nKIGALI, Rwanda (AP) — Rwanda confirmed on Monday that discussions were \"underway\" with the United States regarding a potential agreement to host deported migrants.\n\nRwanda's Foreign Minister Olivier Nduhungirehe on Sunday told state media that the talks were in the \"early stage.\" When asked by The Associated Press on Monday, he confirmed the talks.\n\nNduhungirehe did not disclose the specifics of the potential deal for Rwanda, but previous local media reports suggest that the U.S would likely fund a program to have migrants integrated into the society through stipends and job assistance initiatives.\n\nThe U.S. State Department declined to comment on a potential deal with Rwanda, but said that engagement with foreign governments is an important part of the U.S. government's policy to deter illegal migration.\n\nThis wouldn't be Rwanda's first time hosting deported migrants. The East African nation previously had an agreement with the U.K. to host migrants. Plans for the initiative, including prepared accommodations, were in the final stages but the deal collapsed after the Labour Party took office in 2024.\n\nRwanda has faced allegations of human rights abuses and is currently in the process of brokering a peace deal with the neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo where Rwanda-backed M23 rebels have been behind attacks in the mineral rich eastern Congo region.\n\nNduhungirehe told state media on Sunday that Rwanda and Congo had already submitted their respective draft proposals, which will form the basis of a final peace agreement document expected to be signed in the U.S next month.\n\nThe minister said the migrant deal between Rwanda and the U.S was consistent with Rwanda's long-standing commitment to humanitarian cooperation and the pursuit of migration solutions."
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"value": "# Over 2 million Ninja-branded pressure cookers are recalled after reports of serious burn injuries\n\nBy Wyatte Grantham-Philips \nMay 1st, 2025 03:44 PM\n\n---\n\nNEW YORK (AP) — SharkNinja is recalling more than 2 million pressure cookers sold in the U.S. and Canada — after consumers reported over 100 burn injuries spanning from a hazard that can cause hot food to spew out.\n\nAccording to a recall notice published by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission on Thursday, Ninja-branded \"Foodi OP300 Series Multi-Function Pressure Cookers\" have a lid that can be opened while the cooker is in use. That can cause hot contents to escape from the product, posing serious burn risks.\n\nSharkNinja has received 106 reports of burn injuries in the U.S. — including more than 50 reports of second or third-degree burns to the face or body, per the CPSC, which adds that 26 lawsuits have been filed as a result. No additional injuries have been reported in Canada, an accompanying notice from Health Canada notes.\n\n\"The safety of our customers is a top priority for SharkNinja,\" the company said in a statement sent to The Associated Press, adding that it was conducting a recall to address related consumer reports.\n\nThose in possession of the now-recalled cookers are urged to immediately stop using the pressure-cooking function and contact Massachusetts-based SharkNinja for a free replacement lid. But you can still use the cookers' other functions, including air frying, which are not affected by the recall.\n\nTo get a new lid, \"you do not need to take your unit back to where you bought it,\" an FAQ on SharkNinja's website adds — noting that all recall replacements will be handled online.\n\nThe multiuse cookers were made in China and sold between early 2019 and the spring of 2025 at major retailers like Walmart, Costco, Sam's Club, Amazon and Target, as well as Ninjakitchen.com, for about $200. The products have the word \"Ninja\" printed on the front.\n\nConsumers can also identify if their cooker is impacted by checking its product label. Impacted model numbers are listed on Thursday's recall notices. About 1,846,400 of these cookers were sold in the U.S. and 184,240 were sold in Canada, in addition to some lids that were previously distributed as replacement parts.\n\nTo request a free replacement lid and learn more information, consumers can visit SharkNinja's recall page here."
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"value": "# Over 2 million Ninja-branded pressure cookers are recalled after reports of serious burn injuries\n\nBy Wyatte Grantham-Philips \nMay 1st, 2025 03:44 PM\n\n---\n\nNEW YORK (AP) — SharkNinja is recalling more than 2 million pressure cookers sold in the U.S. and Canada — after consumers reported over 100 burn injuries spanning from a hazard that can cause hot food to spew out.\n\nAccording to a recall notice published by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission on Thursday, Ninja-branded \"Foodi OP300 Series Multi-Function Pressure Cookers\" have a lid that can be opened while the cooker is in use. That can cause hot contents to escape from the product, posing serious burn risks.\n\nSharkNinja has received 106 reports of burn injuries in the U.S. — including more than 50 reports of second or third-degree burns to the face or body, per the CPSC, which adds that 26 lawsuits have been filed as a result. No additional injuries have been reported in Canada, an accompanying notice from Health Canada notes.\n\n\"The safety of our customers is a top priority for SharkNinja,\" the company said in a statement sent to The Associated Press, adding that it was conducting a recall to address related consumer reports.\n\nThose in possession of the now-recalled cookers are urged to immediately stop using the pressure-cooking function and contact Massachusetts-based SharkNinja for a free replacement lid. But you can still use the cookers' other functions, including air frying, which are not affected by the recall.\n\nTo get a new lid, \"you do not need to take your unit back to where you bought it,\" an FAQ on SharkNinja's website adds — noting that all recall replacements will be handled online.\n\nThe multiuse cookers were made in China and sold between early 2019 and the spring of 2025 at major retailers like Walmart, Costco, Sam's Club, Amazon and Target, as well as Ninjakitchen.com, for about $200. The products have the word \"Ninja\" printed on the front.\n\nConsumers can also identify if their cooker is impacted by checking its product label. Impacted model numbers are listed on Thursday's recall notices. About 1,846,400 of these cookers were sold in the U.S. and 184,240 were sold in Canada, in addition to some lids that were previously distributed as replacement parts.\n\nTo request a free replacement lid and learn more information, consumers can visit SharkNinja's recall page here."
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"value": "# Mississippi sets an execution date for a man who's been on death row since 1976\n\nBy Sophie Bates \nMay 1st, 2025 10:59 PM\n\n---\n\nJACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi's longest-serving death row inmate is set to be executed on June 25, the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday.\n\nRichard Gerald Jordan, 78, who was sentenced to death in 1976 for kidnapping and killing a woman, has filed multiple death sentence appeals, the most recent of which was denied in October.\n\nThe Mississippi ruling comes on the same day Army Combat veteran Jeffrey Hutchinson was scheduled to be executed in Florida. Before Thursday, 14 people had been executed in the U.S., including three in Florida.\n\nThe order did not specify the manner in which Jordan will be executed. Mississippi law allows death sentences to be carried out using lethal injection, nitrogen gas, electrocution or firing squad.\n\nAccording to Mississippi Supreme Court records, Jordan kidnapped Edwina Marter in January 1976 and shot her to death in a forest in Harrison County. He then called her husband, Charles Marter, falsely claimed she was safe and asked for $25,000.\n\nRecords show that before the killing Jordan had traveled from Louisiana to Gulfport, Mississippi and called the Gulf National Bank, where Charles Marter worked as a loan officer. After he was told Marter could speak with him, he hung up, looked up the Marters' home address and went to the house posing as an electric company employee.\n\n\"After due consideration, the Court finds Jordan has exhausted all state and federal remedies for purposes of setting an execution,\" the ruling read.\n\nMississippi's last execution was in December 2022."
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"value": "# Mississippi sets an execution date for a man who's been on death row since 1976\n\nBy Sophie Bates \nMay 1st, 2025 10:59 PM\n\n---\n\nJACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi's longest-serving death row inmate is set to be executed on June 25, the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday.\n\nRichard Gerald Jordan, 78, who was sentenced to death in 1976 for kidnapping and killing a woman, has filed multiple death sentence appeals, the most recent of which was denied in October.\n\nThe Mississippi ruling comes on the same day Army Combat veteran Jeffrey Hutchinson was scheduled to be executed in Florida. Before Thursday, 14 people had been executed in the U.S., including three in Florida.\n\nThe order did not specify the manner in which Jordan will be executed. Mississippi law allows death sentences to be carried out using lethal injection, nitrogen gas, electrocution or firing squad.\n\nAccording to Mississippi Supreme Court records, Jordan kidnapped Edwina Marter in January 1976 and shot her to death in a forest in Harrison County. He then called her husband, Charles Marter, falsely claimed she was safe and asked for $25,000.\n\nRecords show that before the killing Jordan had traveled from Louisiana to Gulfport, Mississippi and called the Gulf National Bank, where Charles Marter worked as a loan officer. After he was told Marter could speak with him, he hung up, looked up the Marters' home address and went to the house posing as an electric company employee.\n\n\"After due consideration, the Court finds Jordan has exhausted all state and federal remedies for purposes of setting an execution,\" the ruling read.\n\nMississippi's last execution was in December 2022."
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"value": "# Slot urges fans not to show negative emotions toward Alexander-Arnold when Liverpool hosts Arsenal\n\nMay 9th, 2025 09:50 AM\n\n---\n\nLIVERPOOL, England (AP) — Liverpool manager Arne Slot is urging fans to not show any negative emotions toward Trent Alexander-Arnold against Arsenal on Sunday in the team's first match since the England international's announcement he would be leaving Anfield at the end of the season.\n\nAlexander-Arnold has acknowledged his decision to leave will \"anger\" some Liverpool supporters, who might feel unhappy he has run down his contract and not allowed the club to get any money for one of its star assets.\n\nSlot said he was \"not here to tell the fans how they should react\" but doesn't want any anti-Alexander-Arnold sentiment affecting the already-crowned Premier League champion's final matches of the season.\n\n\"I think we are all disappointed,\" Slot said in a news conference Friday, \"but Trent is the first one also who said that he would prefer us as a team and us as a club not to be too much distracted by this announcement.\n\n\"So I am hoping that all the energy on Sunday goes to the players and to the support of our fans and as less as possible to Trent. Unless it is positive and then they can do whatever they want.\"\n\nSlot said Conor Bradley is likely to start ahead of Alexander-Arnold at right back against Arsenal.\n\nAnd the manager wouldn't comment directly on the possibility of Alexander-Arnold heading to Real Madrid — his widely reported next destination — ahead of the Club World Cup starting in mid-June, though he did drop a hint.\n\n\"Do you know where he is going?\" Slot said with a smile. \"He hasn't said anything about it himself — the only thing he has said is that he's going to leave the club.\n\n\"For me it's impossible to comment on where he is going and if that is a club that's going to play in the Club World Cup — you see on my smile that we both know where he is going to but it hasn't been said yet — so that's impossible for me to comment on.\"\n\n___\n\nAP soccer: https://apnews.com/hub/soccer"
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"value": "# Slot urges fans not to show negative emotions toward Alexander-Arnold when Liverpool hosts Arsenal\n\nMay 9th, 2025 09:50 AM\n\n---\n\nLIVERPOOL, England (AP) — Liverpool manager Arne Slot is urging fans to not show any negative emotions toward Trent Alexander-Arnold against Arsenal on Sunday in the team's first match since the England international's announcement he would be leaving Anfield at the end of the season.\n\nAlexander-Arnold has acknowledged his decision to leave will \"anger\" some Liverpool supporters, who might feel unhappy he has run down his contract and not allowed the club to get any money for one of its star assets.\n\nSlot said he was \"not here to tell the fans how they should react\" but doesn't want any anti-Alexander-Arnold sentiment affecting the already-crowned Premier League champion's final matches of the season.\n\n\"I think we are all disappointed,\" Slot said in a news conference Friday, \"but Trent is the first one also who said that he would prefer us as a team and us as a club not to be too much distracted by this announcement.\n\n\"So I am hoping that all the energy on Sunday goes to the players and to the support of our fans and as less as possible to Trent. Unless it is positive and then they can do whatever they want.\"\n\nSlot said Conor Bradley is likely to start ahead of Alexander-Arnold at right back against Arsenal.\n\nAnd the manager wouldn't comment directly on the possibility of Alexander-Arnold heading to Real Madrid — his widely reported next destination — ahead of the Club World Cup starting in mid-June, though he did drop a hint.\n\n\"Do you know where he is going?\" Slot said with a smile. \"He hasn't said anything about it himself — the only thing he has said is that he's going to leave the club.\n\n\"For me it's impossible to comment on where he is going and if that is a club that's going to play in the Club World Cup — you see on my smile that we both know where he is going to but it hasn't been said yet — so that's impossible for me to comment on.\""
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"value": "# Sports betting roundup: NHL and NBA playoffs finish first rounds with several Game 7s\n\nBy Ryan Hannable Of Betmgm Sportsbook \nMay 5th, 2025 02:49 PM\n\n---\n\nThe first rounds of the NHL and NBA playoffs are complete.\n\nThe weekend saw two Game 7s in the NHL, where the Dallas Stars beat the Colorado Avalanche 4-2 on Saturday and the Winnipeg Jets beat the St. Louis Blues 4-3 in double overtime on Sunday.\n\nIn the NBA, there were also two Game 7s, where the Denver Nuggets blew out the Los Angeles Clippers 120-101 on Saturday and the Golden State Warriors beat the Houston Rockets 103-89 on Sunday.\n\n## Trends of the Week\n\nAt the BetMGM online sportsbook, Denver closed as a short favorite (-2.5) in their win over the Clippers, where they led 93-66 going into the fourth quarter. The Nuggets took in 76% of the bets and 71% of the money in against-the-spread betting.\n\nOn the PGA Tour, Scottie Scheffler won his home tournament, the CJ Cup Byron Nelson, just outside of Dallas over the weekend. He finished at 31 under, winning by eight strokes. He also tied the PGA Tour scoring record for a 72-hole event. Scheffler was a massive favorite at +300 going into the event, and took in the most bets (11.8%) and most money (36%) in pre-tournament outright winner betting.\n\n## Upsets of the Week\n\nIn Game 1 of the Eastern Conference semifinals, the Indiana Pacers upset the Cleveland Cavaliers 121-112 on the road. Indiana closed as an 8.5-point underdog and took in 44% of the bets and 39% of the money in against-the-spread betting. In terms of the moneyline, the Pacers were +290 and took in 57% of the bets and 33% of the money.\n\nThe Warriors were slight underdogs (+2.5) in their Game 7 win over the Rockets. Golden State took in 64% of the money in against-the-spread betting, and 71% of the bets in moneyline betting, where they were +115.\n\nThe Blues-Jets Game 7 saw Winnipeg score two goals in the final two minutes of regulation, including one with just under three seconds remaining to force overtime, and then Adam Lowry won it at the 16:10 mark of double overtime. Going into the third period, when the Blues led 3-1, they were -1000 on the moneyline, and the Jets were +575.\n\n## Coming Up\n\nAfter just over a month of the MLB season, the Los Angeles Dodgers remain big favorites in World Series odds at +240. Los Angeles is currently 23-11 and leads the NL West by half a game over the San Diego Padres.\n\nThe New York Yankees have the second-shortest odds at +800, followed by the New York Mets at +900 and the Philadelphia Phillies at +1200.\n\n___\n\nThis column was provided to The Associated Press by BetMGM online sportsbook.\n\n___\n\nAP sports: https://apnews.com/hub/sports"
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"value": "# Sports betting roundup: NHL and NBA playoffs finish first rounds with several Game 7s\n\nBy Ryan Hannable Of Betmgm Sportsbook \nMay 5th, 2025 02:49 PM\n\n---\n\nThe first rounds of the NHL and NBA playoffs are complete.\n\nThe weekend saw two Game 7s in the NHL, where the Dallas Stars beat the Colorado Avalanche 4-2 on Saturday and the Winnipeg Jets beat the St. Louis Blues 4-3 in double overtime on Sunday.\n\nIn the NBA, there were also two Game 7s, where the Denver Nuggets blew out the Los Angeles Clippers 120-101 on Saturday and the Golden State Warriors beat the Houston Rockets 103-89 on Sunday.\n\n## Trends of the Week\n\nAt the BetMGM online sportsbook, Denver closed as a short favorite (-2.5) in their win over the Clippers, where they led 93-66 going into the fourth quarter. The Nuggets took in 76% of the bets and 71% of the money in against-the-spread betting.\n\nOn the PGA Tour, Scottie Scheffler won his home tournament, the CJ Cup Byron Nelson, just outside of Dallas over the weekend. He finished at 31 under, winning by eight strokes. He also tied the PGA Tour scoring record for a 72-hole event. Scheffler was a massive favorite at +300 going into the event, and took in the most bets (11.8%) and most money (36%) in pre-tournament outright winner betting.\n\n## Upsets of the Week\n\nIn Game 1 of the Eastern Conference semifinals, the Indiana Pacers upset the Cleveland Cavaliers 121-112 on the road. Indiana closed as an 8.5-point underdog and took in 44% of the bets and 39% of the money in against-the-spread betting. In terms of the moneyline, the Pacers were +290 and took in 57% of the bets and 33% of the money.\n\nThe Warriors were slight underdogs (+2.5) in their Game 7 win over the Rockets. Golden State took in 64% of the money in against-the-spread betting, and 71% of the bets in moneyline betting, where they were +115.\n\nThe Blues-Jets Game 7 saw Winnipeg score two goals in the final two minutes of regulation, including one with just under three seconds remaining to force overtime, and then Adam Lowry won it at the 16:10 mark of double overtime. Going into the third period, when the Blues led 3-1, they were -1000 on the moneyline, and the Jets were +575.\n\n## Coming Up\n\nAfter just over a month of the MLB season, the Los Angeles Dodgers remain big favorites in World Series odds at +240. Los Angeles is currently 23-11 and leads the NL West by half a game over the San Diego Padres.\n\nThe New York Yankees have the second-shortest odds at +800, followed by the New York Mets at +900 and the Philadelphia Phillies at +1200."
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"value": "# 115-year-old British woman, now the world's oldest, gives her recipe to long life\n\nMay 2nd, 2025 02:07 PM\n\n---\n\nLONDON (AP) — For Ethel Caterham, the trick to a long life — and in her case, it really has been — is not to argue.\n\nCaterham, who is 115, became the world's oldest living person, according to the Gerontology Research Group, after Sister Inah Canabarro, a Brazilian nun and teacher, died on Wednesday at the tender age of 116.\n\n\"Never arguing with anyone, I listen and I do what I like,\" she said from her nursing home in Surrey, southwest of London, on the secret to her longevity.\n\nShe was born on Aug. 21, 1909, in the village of Shipton Bellinger in the south of England, five years before the outbreak of World War I. She was the second youngest of eight siblings.\n\nTravel has been in her blood, it's clear. In 1927, at the age of 18, Caterham embarked on a journey to India, working as a nanny for a British family, where she stayed for three years before returning to England, according to the GRG.\n\nShe met her husband Norman, who was a major in the British army, at a dinner party in 1931, and they were stationed in Hong Kong and Gibraltar, the GRG said. They had two daughters whom they raised in the U.K. Norman died in 1976.\n\nHallmark Lakeview Luxury Care Home in Camberley, where Caterham is a resident, posted pictures of her cutting a cake and wearing a \"115\" tiara in a Facebook post on Thursday.\n\n\"Huge congratulations to Lakeview resident, Ethel on becoming the oldest person in the world! What an incredible milestone and a true testament to a life well-lived,\" it said in an accompanying statement. \"Your strength, spirit, and wisdom are an inspiration to us all. Here's to celebrating your remarkable journey!\"\n\nThe title of the oldest person ever is held by French woman Jeanne Calment, who lived to 122 years 164 days, according to Guinness World Records."
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"value": "# Sliding mitts are taking over youth baseball\n\nBy Will Graves \nMay 6th, 2025 03:20 PM\n\n---\n\nPITTSBURGH (AP) — Andrew McCutchen hasn't had the conversation with his 7-year-old son Steel yet, but the Pittsburgh Pirates star knows it's probably coming at some point.\n\nSteel, already playing in a youth baseball league, will probably come home at one point and ask his five-time All-Star father if he can have whatever hot item his teammates might be rocking during a given spring.\n\nMcCutchen plans to accommodate Steel up to a point. The oldest of McCutchen's four children is already rocking an arm sleeve, just the way dad does.\n\nYet if Steel is hoping his father will spring for a sliding mitt — a padded glove a player can slip over one of their hands to protect it should the hand get stepped on while diving head-first for a base — he probably shouldn't get his hopes up.\n\nMcCutchen, who has stolen 220 bases at the major league level, has never worn one. And he's quick to point out the next time the cleat of a fielder mashes his hand will also be the first.\n\nStill, the 38-year-old understands. Once upon a time, he was a 20-something who epitomized baseball cool, from his dreadlocks (long since shorn) to his goatee to his rope chain to the occasional skull cap he wore underneath his batting helmet, all of it designed to accentuate McCutchen's innate blend of talent and charisma.\n\n\"It's all about the drip,\" McCutchen said with a smile.\n\nEven if the \"drip\" (Gen Z slang for stylish clothes and their accessories) emphasizes fashion over function, particularly when it comes to the gloves — which look a bit like oven mitts — that are becoming just as ubiquitous in the Little Leagues as they are in the major leagues.\n\n## Safety and self-expression\n\nFormer major leaguer Scott Podsednik (career stolen base total: 309) is credited with \"inventing\" the sliding mitt during the late stages of his 11-year career.\n\nTired of having his hand stepped on, Podsednik worked with a hand therapist for a solution. The initial mitts were relatively simple. A 2009 picture of Podsednik sliding into second base shows his left hand covered in what looks like a padded modified batting glove, all wrapped in black to match the trim on his Chicago White Sox uniform.\n\nThings have gotten considerably more intricate over the years. Google \"sliding mitt designs\" and you'll find themes ranging from the American flag to an ice cream cone to aliens to a poop emoji ( yes, really ).\n\nScott McMillen, a lawyer in the Chicago area, had no plans to get into the baseball accessory business. He first took notice of sliding mitts when his son Braydon, then 10, pointed out one of his teammates had one and said basically, 'Oh hey dad, wouldn't it be nice if I had one, too.'\n\nThey headed to a local sporting goods store, where McMillen was surprised at the variety available.\n\nThat was around 2021. By early 2024, McMillen had launched \" Goat'd,\" a specialty baseball accessory company with everything from sliding mitts to batting gloves to arm sleeves to headbands and more, many of them religiously inspired.\n\nSales during their first full year? Over 1 million units.\n\n\"We were surprised at how large the marketplace is,\" McMillen said.\n\nMaybe he shouldn't have been.\n\nYouth sports have bounced back from the COVID-19 pandemic. The Aspen Institute's 2024 State of Play report noted that the participation levels in sports among children ages 6-17 were the highest they've been since 2015. Baseball's numbers have steadied following a decline. Little League International told The Associated Press last fall that more than 2 million kids played baseball or softball under its umbrella across the world, an uptick over 2019.\n\nMany of those kids are also fans of the game, some of whom may have noticed their favorite major leaguer sporting a mitt when they're on the bases. Yes, that was San Diego Padres star Fernando Tatis Jr. sliding across home plate ( feet first, by the way ) with a bright yellow mitt on his left hand in the ninth inning of a 2-1 win over Pittsburgh last weekend.\n\nIt's one of the many ways in which the game has evolved over the years. When McMillen grew up, there wasn't much swag to go around.\n\n\"We had our baseball uniform and our glove (and) everyone looked the same, everyone was the same,\" he said. \"Now, everyone wants to express themselves individually. The best way to do that without acting like a clown is to wear something that shows people who you are.\"\n\nSelf-expression, however, doesn't exactly come cheap, particularly in an era where top-of-the-line bats are $400 or more. What amounts to an entry-level sliding mitt can go for $40, but Goat'd and others have versions that can fetch double that.\n\nThat hasn't stopped sales from being brisk, and McMillen points out it's not merely a luxury item.\n\n\"We don't play football with 1940s safety equipment,\" he said. \"You feel better in the (batters) box when you have something that protects you, right? With a sliding mitt, it's also like, 'Hey this is fun. It's cool. I want to be like my fave high school player, like my favorite college player.'\"\n\nIt's becoming increasingly common for McMillen and other members of the company's staff to spot Goat'd gear at the field. In recent months, they've popped up in youth tournaments from Georgia to Las Vegas, sometimes in the back pockets of players as young as 6 or 7. McMillen can't help but shake his head to see his product become part of the time-honored tradition of kids imitating their heroes.\n\nWhich is good for business and, oh by the way, probably unnecessary.\n\n## The pressure to keep up\n\nHere's the thing: In most — if not all — youth baseball leagues, head-first slides that would require a player to stretch out their hand to secure the bag are illegal.\n\nIn Little League, for example, stealing bases for players 12-and-under is rare because the player can only take off after the ball has reached the batter. And even if they do bolt for the next base, they have to slide feet first. The only times in Little League that a baserunner can dive head-first toward a base is when they are returning to it while in a rundown or during a pick-off attempt, both of which are also rare.\n\nThat doesn't stop the players from wanting a sliding mitt. It also doesn't stop their parents from buying them, all part of the pressure to \"keep up with the Jones'\" that has practically been a part of youth sports culture since the first time somebody came to practice with a batting glove or wristbands.\n\nIt's a phenomenon Chelsea Cahill and her family have known for years. The longtime educator who lives just east of Columbus, Ohio, has spent most of the last decade shuttling her three boys from practice to games to tournaments.\n\nWhat she and her husband have learned over the years is that some trends come and go, but the pressure to have the right stuff remains.\n\n\"There's always that feeling of 'This is the next new thing' or 'This is what you've got to get,'\" Cahill said.\n\nThey appeased their sons up to a point, but only up to a point.\n\nLast summer their youngest son Braxton, then 11, and the rest of the kids on his travel team kept pestering their parents to buy sliding mitts. Entering the final tournament, the team moms decided to give in.\n\nSort of.\n\nRather than plop down that kind of money for something they didn't actually need, the moms headed to a local dollar store and bought them actual oven mitts — the kind used to pull tonight's dinner from out of the oven. Average retail price? Less than a cup of coffee at the gas station.\n\nOh, and the kids loved them, and wore them during the game. Cahill posted video of them playing with the mitts stuck in their back pocket to her TikTok account. The video is now at 12 million views and counting.\n\n\"They thought it was hilarious, but we didn't really think they would wear them for the rest of the tournament,\" Cahill said. \"We were wrong. They really embraced it!\"\n\nAmong viewers of that TikTok, by the way, were the people at Goat'd, who sent Braxton a couple of mitts as a result.\n\nThe good news is, Cahill now won't have to buy one for Braxton this spring. Yet there's also something else she has learned through the years: this time in her boys' lives is fleeting.\n\nFor proof, just look at her calendar. Her two older sons — the ones who played travel baseball just like Braxton, and asked for all the cool stuff their teammates had, just like Braxton has — gave up baseball by the time they got to high school.\n\nHer advice to parents who might be feeling the financial pinch of what it takes to play these days: relax.\n\n\"We've learned as parents is to stop taking it so seriously,\" she said. \"They're kids. Let them have fun.\"\n\n## The reality\n\nA day after hundreds of members of the Monroeville Baseball and Softball Association marched through the Pittsburgh suburb's well-appointed community park, the regular season is in full swing.\n\nAll four fields are alive with the chatter of coaches, parents and boys and girls aged anywhere from 5-12.\n\nOver on Field 1, the Rays are in the middle of their season opener. Playing first base, Josiah Jones has his glove at the ready, with a black sliding mitt noticeably sticking out of his left back pocket.\n\nPer the league rules, the Rays and the other players at the \"Bronco\" level (ages 11-12), play actual full-on baseball. They can take leads and steal bases whenever they like, though head-first slides are only allowed when returning to a base, just like in Little League.\n\nLongtime MBSA executive commissioner Josh Playssmeyer is milling about, trying to keep tabs on everything. Plassmeyer outlawed sliding mitts on his son Grant's 10-and-under tournament team, calling them a \"distraction\" because players would spend so much time fiddling with them once they got to first base, they would miss signs from the third-base coach.\n\nAbout 50 feet away, Jones settles into the box and rips a ball to left-center field. His long legs carry him past first base, and he cruises into second with an easy double.\n\nAs his teammates erupted in the dugout, Jones beamed for a brief moment. Then, as the opposing pitcher stepped onto the rubber, he took an aggressive lead off second and eyed third.\n\nHis back pocket, the one where his sliding mitt had been 30 minutes before, was empty.\n\n___\n\nAP MLB: https://apnews.com/hub/mlb"
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"value": "# Sliding mitts are taking over youth baseball\n\nBy Will Graves \nMay 6th, 2025 03:20 PM\n\n---\n\nPITTSBURGH (AP) — Andrew McCutchen hasn't had the conversation with his 7-year-old son Steel yet, but the Pittsburgh Pirates star knows it's probably coming at some point.\n\nSteel, already playing in a youth baseball league, will probably come home at one point and ask his five-time All-Star father if he can have whatever hot item his teammates might be rocking during a given spring.\n\nMcCutchen plans to accommodate Steel up to a point. The oldest of McCutchen's four children is already rocking an arm sleeve, just the way dad does.\n\nYet if Steel is hoping his father will spring for a sliding mitt — a padded glove a player can slip over one of their hands to protect it should the hand get stepped on while diving head-first for a base — he probably shouldn't get his hopes up.\n\nMcCutchen, who has stolen 220 bases at the major league level, has never worn one. And he's quick to point out the next time the cleat of a fielder mashes his hand will also be the first.\n\nStill, the 38-year-old understands. Once upon a time, he was a 20-something who epitomized baseball cool, from his dreadlocks (long since shorn) to his goatee to his rope chain to the occasional skull cap he wore underneath his batting helmet, all of it designed to accentuate McCutchen's innate blend of talent and charisma.\n\n\"It's all about the drip,\" McCutchen said with a smile.\n\nEven if the \"drip\" (Gen Z slang for stylish clothes and their accessories) emphasizes fashion over function, particularly when it comes to the gloves — which look a bit like oven mitts — that are becoming just as ubiquitous in the Little Leagues as they are in the major leagues.\n\n## Safety and self-expression\n\nFormer major leaguer Scott Podsednik (career stolen base total: 309) is credited with \"inventing\" the sliding mitt during the late stages of his 11-year career.\n\nTired of having his hand stepped on, Podsednik worked with a hand therapist for a solution. The initial mitts were relatively simple. A 2009 picture of Podsednik sliding into second base shows his left hand covered in what looks like a padded modified batting glove, all wrapped in black to match the trim on his Chicago White Sox uniform.\n\nThings have gotten considerably more intricate over the years. Google \"sliding mitt designs\" and you'll find themes ranging from the American flag to an ice cream cone to aliens to a poop emoji ( yes, really ).\n\nScott McMillen, a lawyer in the Chicago area, had no plans to get into the baseball accessory business. He first took notice of sliding mitts when his son Braydon, then 10, pointed out one of his teammates had one and said basically, 'Oh hey dad, wouldn't it be nice if I had one, too.'\n\nThey headed to a local sporting goods store, where McMillen was surprised at the variety available.\n\nThat was around 2021. By early 2024, McMillen had launched \" Goat'd,\" a specialty baseball accessory company with everything from sliding mitts to batting gloves to arm sleeves to headbands and more, many of them religiously inspired.\n\nSales during their first full year? Over 1 million units.\n\n\"We were surprised at how large the marketplace is,\" McMillen said.\n\nMaybe he shouldn't have been.\n\nYouth sports have bounced back from the COVID-19 pandemic. The Aspen Institute's 2024 State of Play report noted that the participation levels in sports among children ages 6-17 were the highest they've been since 2015. Baseball's numbers have steadied following a decline. Little League International told The Associated Press last fall that more than 2 million kids played baseball or softball under its umbrella across the world, an uptick over 2019.\n\nMany of those kids are also fans of the game, some of whom may have noticed their favorite major leaguer sporting a mitt when they're on the bases. Yes, that was San Diego Padres star Fernando Tatis Jr. sliding across home plate ( feet first, by the way ) with a bright yellow mitt on his left hand in the ninth inning of a 2-1 win over Pittsburgh last weekend.\n\nIt's one of the many ways in which the game has evolved over the years. When McMillen grew up, there wasn't much swag to go around.\n\n\"We had our baseball uniform and our glove (and) everyone looked the same, everyone was the same,\" he said. \"Now, everyone wants to express themselves individually. The best way to do that without acting like a clown is to wear something that shows people who you are.\"\n\nSelf-expression, however, doesn't exactly come cheap, particularly in an era where top-of-the-line bats are $400 or more. What amounts to an entry-level sliding mitt can go for $40, but Goat'd and others have versions that can fetch double that.\n\nThat hasn't stopped sales from being brisk, and McMillen points out it's not merely a luxury item.\n\n\"We don't play football with 1940s safety equipment,\" he said. \"You feel better in the (batters) box when you have something that protects you, right? With a sliding mitt, it's also like, 'Hey this is fun. It's cool. I want to be like my fave high school player, like my favorite college player.'\"\n\nIt's becoming increasingly common for McMillen and other members of the company's staff to spot Goat'd gear at the field. In recent months, they've popped up in youth tournaments from Georgia to Las Vegas, sometimes in the back pockets of players as young as 6 or 7. McMillen can't help but shake his head to see his product become part of the time-honored tradition of kids imitating their heroes.\n\nWhich is good for business and, oh by the way, probably unnecessary.\n\n## The pressure to keep up\n\nHere's the thing: In most — if not all — youth baseball leagues, head-first slides that would require a player to stretch out their hand to secure the bag are illegal.\n\nIn Little League, for example, stealing bases for players 12-and-under is rare because the player can only take off after the ball has reached the batter. And even if they do bolt for the next base, they have to slide feet first. The only times in Little League that a baserunner can dive head-first toward a base is when they are returning to it while in a rundown or during a pick-off attempt, both of which are also rare.\n\nThat doesn't stop the players from wanting a sliding mitt. It also doesn't stop their parents from buying them, all part of the pressure to \"keep up with the Jones'\" that has practically been a part of youth sports culture since the first time somebody came to practice with a batting glove or wristbands.\n\nIt's a phenomenon Chelsea Cahill and her family have known for years. The longtime educator who lives just east of Columbus, Ohio, has spent most of the last decade shuttling her three boys from practice to games to tournaments.\n\nWhat she and her husband have learned over the years is that some trends come and go, but the pressure to have the right stuff remains.\n\n\"There's always that feeling of 'This is the next new thing' or 'This is what you've got to get,'\" Cahill said.\n\nThey appeased their sons up to a point, but only up to a point.\n\nLast summer their youngest son Braxton, then 11, and the rest of the kids on his travel team kept pestering their parents to buy sliding mitts. Entering the final tournament, the team moms decided to give in.\n\nSort of.\n\nRather than plop down that kind of money for something they didn't actually need, the moms headed to a local dollar store and bought them actual oven mitts — the kind used to pull tonight's dinner from out of the oven. Average retail price? Less than a cup of coffee at the gas station.\n\nOh, and the kids loved them, and wore them during the game. Cahill posted video of them playing with the mitts stuck in their back pocket to her TikTok account. The video is now at 12 million views and counting.\n\n\"They thought it was hilarious, but we didn't really think they would wear them for the rest of the tournament,\" Cahill said. \"We were wrong. They really embraced it!\"\n\nAmong viewers of that TikTok, by the way, were the people at Goat'd, who sent Braxton a couple of mitts as a result.\n\nThe good news is, Cahill now won't have to buy one for Braxton this spring. Yet there's also something else she has learned through the years: this time in her boys' lives is fleeting.\n\nFor proof, just look at her calendar. Her two older sons — the ones who played travel baseball just like Braxton, and asked for all the cool stuff their teammates had, just like Braxton has — gave up baseball by the time they got to high school.\n\nHer advice to parents who might be feeling the financial pinch of what it takes to play these days: relax.\n\n\"We've learned as parents is to stop taking it so seriously,\" she said. \"They're kids. Let them have fun.\"\n\n## The reality\n\nA day after hundreds of members of the Monroeville Baseball and Softball Association marched through the Pittsburgh suburb's well-appointed community park, the regular season is in full swing.\n\nAll four fields are alive with the chatter of coaches, parents and boys and girls aged anywhere from 5-12.\n\nOver on Field 1, the Rays are in the middle of their season opener. Playing first base, Josiah Jones has his glove at the ready, with a black sliding mitt noticeably sticking out of his left back pocket.\n\nPer the league rules, the Rays and the other players at the \"Bronco\" level (ages 11-12), play actual full-on baseball. They can take leads and steal bases whenever they like, though head-first slides are only allowed when returning to a base, just like in Little League.\n\nLongtime MBSA executive commissioner Josh Playssmeyer is milling about, trying to keep tabs on everything. Plassmeyer outlawed sliding mitts on his son Grant's 10-and-under tournament team, calling them a \"distraction\" because players would spend so much time fiddling with them once they got to first base, they would miss signs from the third-base coach.\n\nAbout 50 feet away, Jones settles into the box and rips a ball to left-center field. His long legs carry him past first base, and he cruises into second with an easy double.\n\nAs his teammates erupted in the dugout, Jones beamed for a brief moment. Then, as the opposing pitcher stepped onto the rubber, he took an aggressive lead off second and eyed third.\n\nHis back pocket, the one where his sliding mitt had been 30 minutes before, was empty."
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"value": "# With help from painkillers, Ruud beats Cerundolo to reach Madrid Open final against Draper\n\nBy Tales Azzoni \nMay 2nd, 2025 05:14 PM\n\n---\n\nMADRID (AP) — With the help of painkillers, Casper Ruud overcame a rib ailment to defeat Francisco Cerundolo in straight sets and reach the Madrid Open final on Friday.\n\nRuud will face Jack Draper, who beat Lorenzo Musetti 6-3, 7-6 (4) in the other semifinal to make his third final of the year.\n\nRuud received treatment on his rib three games into the match and went on to win 6-4, 7-5 on the Caja Magica center court.\n\nThe 15th-ranked Norwegian saved 15 of the 18 break points he faced against the 21st-ranked Argentine.\n\nRuud said he felt something in his rib during the warmup, just before going out on the court. He said he \"felt it in nearly every shot, especially the serve.\"\n\n\"I wasn't sure I was going to be able to finish the match, honestly,\" Ruud said. \"I got a couple of painkillers, which is not the ideal thing, but at the same time in a situation like this, you have to do that now and then. It was easing and getting better as the match went on.\"\n\nA former world No. 2, Ruud will return to the top 10 thanks to his campaign in Madrid. He could reach No. 6 in the rankings with a win in the final.\n\nRuud — a 12-time tour champion — would also become the first Norwegian to lift an ATP 1000 trophy since the series was introduced in 1990, according to the ATP.\n\nRuud had lost two matches in a row against Cerundolo, who knocked out top-seeded Alexander Zverev earlier.\n\n## Red-hot Draper\n\nThe sixth-ranked Draper improved his record against 11th-ranked Musetti to 4-0.\n\nDraper won at Indian Wells in March. After his quarterfinal victory in Madrid, he secured a top-five debut in the rankings.\n\n\"I felt like both of us, our quality didn't really drop from the first ball,\" Draper said. \"Credit to Lorenzo, he's obviously playing so good on the clay. I played him on hard, and on grass when we were juniors, growing up with him. But on clay, he's a different beast, so to get this win on this court in this stage, semifinals, it means so much to me.\"\n\nDraper, who hasn't lost a set on his way to the final, said this time his mom brought him some extra luck.\n\n\"Seems like every match she's come to I've been terrible. So I was thinking when she said she was going to come yesterday I was like, 'Oh, I'm not sure if you should come,'\" he said. \"But no, she ended up coming, and glad she did, because tonight was a really good performance, and maybe her luck's changed when she comes to watch me play, so we'll see.\"\n\nCoco Gauff and top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka will meet in the women's final on Saturday.\n\n___\n\nAP tennis: https://apnews.com/hub/tennis"
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"value": "# With help from painkillers, Ruud beats Cerundolo to reach Madrid Open final against Draper\n\nBy Tales Azzoni \nMay 2nd, 2025 05:14 PM\n\n---\n\nMADRID (AP) — With the help of painkillers, Casper Ruud overcame a rib ailment to defeat Francisco Cerundolo in straight sets and reach the Madrid Open final on Friday.\n\nRuud will face Jack Draper, who beat Lorenzo Musetti 6-3, 7-6 (4) in the other semifinal to make his third final of the year.\n\nRuud received treatment on his rib three games into the match and went on to win 6-4, 7-5 on the Caja Magica center court.\n\nThe 15th-ranked Norwegian saved 15 of the 18 break points he faced against the 21st-ranked Argentine.\n\nRuud said he felt something in his rib during the warmup, just before going out on the court. He said he \"felt it in nearly every shot, especially the serve.\"\n\n\"I wasn't sure I was going to be able to finish the match, honestly,\" Ruud said. \"I got a couple of painkillers, which is not the ideal thing, but at the same time in a situation like this, you have to do that now and then. It was easing and getting better as the match went on.\"\n\nA former world No. 2, Ruud will return to the top 10 thanks to his campaign in Madrid. He could reach No. 6 in the rankings with a win in the final.\n\nRuud — a 12-time tour champion — would also become the first Norwegian to lift an ATP 1000 trophy since the series was introduced in 1990, according to the ATP.\n\nRuud had lost two matches in a row against Cerundolo, who knocked out top-seeded Alexander Zverev earlier.\n\n## Red-hot Draper\n\nThe sixth-ranked Draper improved his record against 11th-ranked Musetti to 4-0.\n\nDraper won at Indian Wells in March. After his quarterfinal victory in Madrid, he secured a top-five debut in the rankings.\n\n\"I felt like both of us, our quality didn't really drop from the first ball,\" Draper said. \"Credit to Lorenzo, he's obviously playing so good on the clay. I played him on hard, and on grass when we were juniors, growing up with him. But on clay, he's a different beast, so to get this win on this court in this stage, semifinals, it means so much to me.\"\n\nDraper, who hasn't lost a set on his way to the final, said this time his mom brought him some extra luck.\n\n\"Seems like every match she's come to I've been terrible. So I was thinking when she said she was going to come yesterday I was like, 'Oh, I'm not sure if you should come,'\" he said. \"But no, she ended up coming, and glad she did, because tonight was a really good performance, and maybe her luck's changed when she comes to watch me play, so we'll see.\"\n\nCoco Gauff and top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka will meet in the women's final on Saturday."
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"value": "# On 'Andor,' minor 'Star Wars' villains play major roles\n\nBy Andrew Dalton \nMay 2nd, 2025 05:24 PM\n\n---\n\nBEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — In the galaxy of \"Andor,\" \"Star Wars\" super villains are relegated to the shadows. The Disney+ series is more interested in what might be called supervisor villains: the bureaucrats, planners, schemers and petty functionaries who make tyranny possible.\n\nInstead of Darth Vader and Emperor Palpatine, we get Dedra Meero and Syril Karn, a pair of ambitious middle-managers who become an unlikely couple in their pursuit of Diego Luna's Cassian Andor.\n\n\"It's so nuanced, these villains are operating in a real gray zone, and they're representing a side of the empire that we have never seen before,\" said Kyle Soller, who plays Karn. \"You're getting a real like cogs and nuts and bolts view of how the empire machine works, from the very bottom to the upper echelons.\"\n\nIn a joint interview with Soller for The Associated Press, Denise Gough, who plays Meero, added, \"It can't just be brute force. An empire can't survive on brute force, it takes all these Machiavellian, tiny movements here, tiny movements there, ripple effects everywhere.\"\n\nGough is a 45-year-old Irish actor who is also currently starring in the thriller \"The Stolen Girl\" on Hulu. Soller is a 41-year-old Connecticut-born actor who has long lived in London with his wife, actor Phoebe Fox.\n\nTheir characters came together during Season 1 as each sought to collar the mysterious figure of Andor amid the burgeoning Rebel Alliance — Karn from the police side, Meero from the police-state side.\n\n## The Ghorman problem, and a Nazi-style solution\n\nIn Season 2, Meero and Karn each become caught up in the exploitation of the powder-keg planet of Ghorman, a previously peaceful place where the Galactic Empire needs to gouge-mine a mineral essential to building the Death Star. The process is likely to kill or displace its residents, among whom a rebellion brews.\n\nA group of imperial bureaucrats meet secretly in a conference room to plan the planet's destruction, in scenes that see the return of actor Ben Mendelsohn's Orson Krennic, the Death Star builder who was the chief antagonist of 2016's \"Rogue One.\" (\"Andor\" is a prequel.) He's a senior leader but is still a functionary subject to the mercy and whims of the dictators he serves.\n\n\"Andor\" creator Tony Gilroy said the meeting was his chance to make his version of the oft-dramatized Nazi Germany Wannsee Conference, what he calls a \"PowerPoint meeting\" of middle managers over lunch in 1942 to drily and practically plan the extermination of European Jews.\n\nKrennic singles out Meero during a lunch break, seeing a strong thinker in counterintelligence. She smartly suggests encouraging the Ghorman rebellion to become violent.\n\n\"Propaganda will only get you so far,\" Meera says, in one of the season's key lines. \"You need Ghorman rebels you can depend on to do the wrong thing.\"\n\nThe plotline pushes Karn and Meera, neither of them ideologues, out to moral cusps where it seems they may switch sides.\n\n\"You get to see how the empire is using its underlings,\" Soller said. \"No matter how high up they achieve power, they're all being used, they're all pawns, and disposable.\"\n\nGough said the difference between the two sides is that of \"a gang and a tribe.\"\n\n\"The empire is the gang and the rebellion is the tribe,\" she said. \"The tribe has heart and loyalty and all of those things, and values all of those things, and the gang makes it seem like they do, but they don't, they disperse at the first sign of trouble, and they dispense when it's no longer needed.\"\n\n## An awkward imperial romance\n\nMeero and Karn's overlapping ambitions also lead them into a romantic coupling. That had Gough worried at the end of Season 1 that they would end up in an \"insipid\" world of common couple tropes, but she said \"I couldn't have imagined how weird it would get.\"\n\n\"They've never had an example of love,\" Gough said. \"They grew up in a controlled, cultlike environment. So actually the story we're telling is how do two people, when they grow up like that, how do they function in relationships?\"\n\nThe domestic scenes between the two are both tense and awkward, especially with the large presence of Karn's tiny mother Eedy, played by the always-magnificently-odd actor Kathryn Hunter.\n\n\"You have this extraordinary meeting of these two women,\" Gough said, \"and in the bedroom is the man that they're making a deal about.\"\n\nThese moments can feel tangential, but the duo's arcs through their personal lives, their moral compromises and their final choices become an essential part of the overall story.\n\n\"I think it's going to be really profound as you layer that into 'Rogue One' and into the original trilogy as well,\" Soller said. \"You're just like, 'Oh wow I got like the complete history of the modern empire.\"\n\n## How 'Andor' is being released and when its finale will will air\n\nSeason 2 of \"Andor\" is being released on Disney+ in a novel format. The episodes drop in clusters of three each Tuesday night at 9 p.m. Eastern, 6 p.m. Pacific. The three-part series finale running May 13. Here's the whole schedule.\n\nApril 22: Episodes 1-3\n\nApril 29: Episodes 4-6\n\nMay 6: Episodes 7-9\n\nMay 13: Episodes 10-12"
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"value": "# On 'Andor,' minor 'Star Wars' villains play major roles\n\nBy Andrew Dalton \nMay 2nd, 2025 05:24 PM\n\n---\n\nBEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — In the galaxy of \"Andor,\" \"Star Wars\" super villains are relegated to the shadows. The Disney+ series is more interested in what might be called supervisor villains: the bureaucrats, planners, schemers and petty functionaries who make tyranny possible.\n\nInstead of Darth Vader and Emperor Palpatine, we get Dedra Meero and Syril Karn, a pair of ambitious middle-managers who become an unlikely couple in their pursuit of Diego Luna's Cassian Andor.\n\n\"It's so nuanced, these villains are operating in a real gray zone, and they're representing a side of the empire that we have never seen before,\" said Kyle Soller, who plays Karn. \"You're getting a real like cogs and nuts and bolts view of how the empire machine works, from the very bottom to the upper echelons.\"\n\nIn a joint interview with Soller for The Associated Press, Denise Gough, who plays Meero, added, \"It can't just be brute force. An empire can't survive on brute force, it takes all these Machiavellian, tiny movements here, tiny movements there, ripple effects everywhere.\"\n\nGough is a 45-year-old Irish actor who is also currently starring in the thriller \"The Stolen Girl\" on Hulu. Soller is a 41-year-old Connecticut-born actor who has long lived in London with his wife, actor Phoebe Fox.\n\nTheir characters came together during Season 1 as each sought to collar the mysterious figure of Andor amid the burgeoning Rebel Alliance — Karn from the police side, Meero from the police-state side.\n\n## The Ghorman problem, and a Nazi-style solution\n\nIn Season 2, Meero and Karn each become caught up in the exploitation of the powder-keg planet of Ghorman, a previously peaceful place where the Galactic Empire needs to gouge-mine a mineral essential to building the Death Star. The process is likely to kill or displace its residents, among whom a rebellion brews.\n\nA group of imperial bureaucrats meet secretly in a conference room to plan the planet's destruction, in scenes that see the return of actor Ben Mendelsohn's Orson Krennic, the Death Star builder who was the chief antagonist of 2016's \"Rogue One.\" (\"Andor\" is a prequel.) He's a senior leader but is still a functionary subject to the mercy and whims of the dictators he serves.\n\n\"Andor\" creator Tony Gilroy said the meeting was his chance to make his version of the oft-dramatized Nazi Germany Wannsee Conference, what he calls a \"PowerPoint meeting\" of middle managers over lunch in 1942 to drily and practically plan the extermination of European Jews.\n\nKrennic singles out Meero during a lunch break, seeing a strong thinker in counterintelligence. She smartly suggests encouraging the Ghorman rebellion to become violent.\n\n\"Propaganda will only get you so far,\" Meera says, in one of the season's key lines. \"You need Ghorman rebels you can depend on to do the wrong thing.\"\n\nThe plotline pushes Karn and Meera, neither of them ideologues, out to moral cusps where it seems they may switch sides.\n\n\"You get to see how the empire is using its underlings,\" Soller said. \"No matter how high up they achieve power, they're all being used, they're all pawns, and disposable.\"\n\nGough said the difference between the two sides is that of \"a gang and a tribe.\"\n\n\"The empire is the gang and the rebellion is the tribe,\" she said. \"The tribe has heart and loyalty and all of those things, and values all of those things, and the gang makes it seem like they do, but they don't, they disperse at the first sign of trouble, and they dispense when it's no longer needed.\"\n\n## An awkward imperial romance\n\nMeero and Karn's overlapping ambitions also lead them into a romantic coupling. That had Gough worried at the end of Season 1 that they would end up in an \"insipid\" world of common couple tropes, but she said \"I couldn't have imagined how weird it would get.\"\n\n\"They've never had an example of love,\" Gough said. \"They grew up in a controlled, cultlike environment. So actually the story we're telling is how do two people, when they grow up like that, how do they function in relationships?\"\n\nThe domestic scenes between the two are both tense and awkward, especially with the large presence of Karn's tiny mother Eedy, played by the always-magnificently-odd actor Kathryn Hunter.\n\n\"You have this extraordinary meeting of these two women,\" Gough said, \"and in the bedroom is the man that they're making a deal about.\"\n\nThese moments can feel tangential, but the duo's arcs through their personal lives, their moral compromises and their final choices become an essential part of the overall story.\n\n\"I think it's going to be really profound as you layer that into 'Rogue One' and into the original trilogy as well,\" Soller said. \"You're just like, 'Oh wow I got like the complete history of the modern empire.\"\n\n## How 'Andor' is being released and when its finale will will air\n\nSeason 2 of \"Andor\" is being released on Disney+ in a novel format. The episodes drop in clusters of three each Tuesday night at 9 p.m. Eastern, 6 p.m. Pacific. The three-part series finale running May 13. Here's the whole schedule.\n\nApril 22: Episodes 1-3\n\nApril 29: Episodes 4-6\n\nMay 6: Episodes 7-9\n\nMay 13: Episodes 10-12"
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"value": "# Series opener between Tigers and Rockies postponed, with doubleheader set for Thursday\n\nMay 6th, 2025 10:19 PM\n\n---\n\nDENVER (AP) — The opener of a three-game series between the AL Central-leading Detroit Tigers and the major league-worst Colorado Rockies was postponed on Tuesday because of inclement weather.\n\nIt will be made up as the second half of a traditional doubleheader on Thursday, with the postponed game starting 30 minutes after the teams' scheduled afternoon meeting.\n\nThe Tigers enter the series having won eight of 11. The Rockies (6-28) are the only team in the majors with single-digit wins.\n\nBoth teams pushed back their scheduled starters by a day, with Jackson Jobe (2-0, 3.38 ERA) set to start Wednesday night for Detroit against Colorado's Chase Dollander (2-3, 6.48).\n\nTigers ace Tarik Skubal, who had been in line to pitch Thursday, will instead have his next start pushed back to Detroit's upcoming homestand that starts Friday.\n\n___\n\nAP MLB: https://apnews.com/hub/mlb"
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"value": "# Road scholars: NBA teams finding success in 2nd round of playoffs away from home court\n\nBy Pat Graham \nMay 10th, 2025 07:57 PM\n\n---\n\nDENVER (AP) — A change of scenery has certainly served the Cleveland Cavaliers well. Because they made themselves right at home in Indy.\n\nIt's a common theme in Round 2 of the NBA playoffs, where the road squads boast a 7-3 mark so far. Nuggets interim head coach David Adelman has plenty of possible theories to explain why home court doesn't seem to provide as much of an advantage at the moment.\n\nFor Cavaliers star Donovan Mitchell, all that really matters is this — their road win Friday night over the Pacers rescued their season. After dropping the first two games at home, the East's top-seeded Cavaliers now trail the Pacers 2-1 in their best-of-seven series heading into Game 4 in Indianapolis on Sunday night.\n\n\"I know he didn't say that, (this was a must win),\" Mitchell said about coach Kenny Atkinson's message before Game 3. \"I knew it. I kind of kept that to myself, understanding going down 0-3 and playing here is tough. So yeah, this was a must-win.\"\n\nThe Nuggets hold a 2-1 series lead over the West's top-seeded Thunder thanks to stealing Game 1 in Oklahoma City. Granted, they were blown out by 43 points in Game 2 but they protected their home court Friday night with a 113-104 overtime victory.\n\n\"It's easy to say, 'Just stay in it, man,'\" said Adelman, who's the son of Hall of Fame coach Rick Adelman. \"They're coming in at 100 miles per hour, they have a great basketball team, well-coached. It just feels good to come out with a win.\"\n\nAs for homecourt advantage, David Adelman believes the 3-pointer has become the great equalizer for a road team.\n\n\"I also think that's why you see more blowouts in the playoffs, because there are teams that can get hot and make 20, 22 3s,\" Adelman explained. \"It can get out of control very quickly.\"\n\nEven more, Adelman reasoned that today's players are almost insulated from the loud noise in opposing arenas.\n\n\"Maybe it's the way they grew up, playing AAU and traveling all over the place and playing,\" Adelman said. \"They're less likely to feel as much anxiety on the road.\"\n\nThunder coach Mark Daigneault has a more simplistic approach when it comes to road games — or any games for that matter.\n\n\"If we can stay focused,\" Daigneault said, \"in a great environment on what we need to do, we have confidence we can win the game.\"\n\n## Oklahoma City at Denver Nuggets\n\nWhen/Where to Watch: Game 4, 3:30 p.m. EDT (ABC)\n\nSeries: Nuggets lead, 2-1\n\nBetMGM says: Thunder by 5.5\n\nWhat to Know: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Nikola Jokic, the frontrunners in the NBA MVP race, went a combined 15 of 47 from the floor in Game 3, including 1 of 16 from 3-point range. It would be a big surprise to see that kind of shooting display — Jokic was 8 of 25, Gilgeous-Alexander finished 7 of 22 — out of them again. The Thunder did a masterful job of rolling coverage toward Jokic, the reigning MVP. He had 16 rebounds to go with 20 points and six assists. He's yet to record a triple-double in the series after posting three in seven games against the Los Angeles Clippers in the first round. Gilgeous-Alexander was 1 of 8 in the fourth quarter and didn't take a shot in overtime. \"A few of the shots felt good, more than a few,\" said Gilgeous-Alexander, who had 18 points and 13 rebounds in nearly 45 minutes. \"They didn't go in, obviously.\"\n\n## Cleveland Cavaliers at Indiana Pacers\n\nWhen/Where to Watch: Game 3, 8 p.m. EDT (TNT/truTV)\n\nSeries: Pacers lead, 2-1.\n\nBetMGM says: Cavaliers by 4.5.\n\nWhat to Know: Cleveland played its best — and most complete — game of the series to avoid falling into the dreaded 3-0 deficit. But questions remain. All-Star guard Darius Garland was not himself after returning from a toe injury that forced him to miss the Cavs previous four games and Atkinson isn't sure if, or how much, he'll play Sunday night. Atkinson was also waiting to see how NBA Defensive Player of the Year Evan Mobley and key backup De'Andre Hunter felt after also returning from injuries. The Pacers are looking for a much better start and a much better effort than the one coach Rick Carlisle criticized Friday night. They also must figure out a way to slow down Mitchell, who has scored 33, 48 and 43 points in the first three games. On top of that, they must find a way to ignite All-Star guard Tyrese Haliburton again. He had little significant presence Friday as he finished with four points and five assists.\n\n___\n\nAP Sports Writer Mike Marot contributed to this report.\n\n___\n\nAP NBA: https://apnews.com/hub/NBA"
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"value": "# Road scholars: NBA teams finding success in 2nd round of playoffs away from home court\n\nBy Pat Graham \nMay 10th, 2025 07:57 PM\n\n---\n\nDENVER (AP) — A change of scenery has certainly served the Cleveland Cavaliers well. Because they made themselves right at home in Indy.\n\nIt's a common theme in Round 2 of the NBA playoffs, where the road squads boast a 7-3 mark so far. Nuggets interim head coach David Adelman has plenty of possible theories to explain why home court doesn't seem to provide as much of an advantage at the moment.\n\nFor Cavaliers star Donovan Mitchell, all that really matters is this — their road win Friday night over the Pacers rescued their season. After dropping the first two games at home, the East's top-seeded Cavaliers now trail the Pacers 2-1 in their best-of-seven series heading into Game 4 in Indianapolis on Sunday night.\n\n\"I know he didn't say that, (this was a must win),\" Mitchell said about coach Kenny Atkinson's message before Game 3. \"I knew it. I kind of kept that to myself, understanding going down 0-3 and playing here is tough. So yeah, this was a must-win.\"\n\nThe Nuggets hold a 2-1 series lead over the West's top-seeded Thunder thanks to stealing Game 1 in Oklahoma City. Granted, they were blown out by 43 points in Game 2 but they protected their home court Friday night with a 113-104 overtime victory.\n\n\"It's easy to say, 'Just stay in it, man,'\" said Adelman, who's the son of Hall of Fame coach Rick Adelman. \"They're coming in at 100 miles per hour, they have a great basketball team, well-coached. It just feels good to come out with a win.\"\n\nAs for homecourt advantage, David Adelman believes the 3-pointer has become the great equalizer for a road team.\n\n\"I also think that's why you see more blowouts in the playoffs, because there are teams that can get hot and make 20, 22 3s,\" Adelman explained. \"It can get out of control very quickly.\"\n\nEven more, Adelman reasoned that today's players are almost insulated from the loud noise in opposing arenas.\n\n\"Maybe it's the way they grew up, playing AAU and traveling all over the place and playing,\" Adelman said. \"They're less likely to feel as much anxiety on the road.\"\n\nThunder coach Mark Daigneault has a more simplistic approach when it comes to road games — or any games for that matter.\n\n\"If we can stay focused,\" Daigneault said, \"in a great environment on what we need to do, we have confidence we can win the game.\"\n\n## Oklahoma City at Denver Nuggets\n\nWhen/Where to Watch: Game 4, 3:30 p.m. EDT (ABC)\n\nSeries: Nuggets lead, 2-1\n\nBetMGM says: Thunder by 5.5\n\nWhat to Know: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Nikola Jokic, the frontrunners in the NBA MVP race, went a combined 15 of 47 from the floor in Game 3, including 1 of 16 from 3-point range. It would be a big surprise to see that kind of shooting display — Jokic was 8 of 25, Gilgeous-Alexander finished 7 of 22 — out of them again. The Thunder did a masterful job of rolling coverage toward Jokic, the reigning MVP. He had 16 rebounds to go with 20 points and six assists. He's yet to record a triple-double in the series after posting three in seven games against the Los Angeles Clippers in the first round. Gilgeous-Alexander was 1 of 8 in the fourth quarter and didn't take a shot in overtime. \"A few of the shots felt good, more than a few,\" said Gilgeous-Alexander, who had 18 points and 13 rebounds in nearly 45 minutes. \"They didn't go in, obviously.\"\n\n## Cleveland Cavaliers at Indiana Pacers\n\nWhen/Where to Watch: Game 3, 8 p.m. EDT (TNT/truTV)\n\nSeries: Pacers lead, 2-1.\n\nBetMGM says: Cavaliers by 4.5.\n\nWhat to Know: Cleveland played its best — and most complete — game of the series to avoid falling into the dreaded 3-0 deficit. But questions remain. All-Star guard Darius Garland was not himself after returning from a toe injury that forced him to miss the Cavs previous four games and Atkinson isn't sure if, or how much, he'll play Sunday night. Atkinson was also waiting to see how NBA Defensive Player of the Year Evan Mobley and key backup De'Andre Hunter felt after also returning from injuries. The Pacers are looking for a much better start and a much better effort than the one coach Rick Carlisle criticized Friday night. They also must figure out a way to slow down Mitchell, who has scored 33, 48 and 43 points in the first three games. On top of that, they must find a way to ignite All-Star guard Tyrese Haliburton again. He had little significant presence Friday as he finished with four points and five assists."
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"value": "# Paddack honored with soaking surprise after taking rare start into 8th inning for surging Twins\n\nBy Dave Campbell \nMay 10th, 2025 04:09 AM\n\n---\n\nMINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Chris Paddack had warned himself to watch his back if he ever pitched deep enough to be chosen for the postgame on-field interview, well aware of the widespread practice of soaking the unsuspecting player in some type of liquid.\n\nWhen his time finally came with the Minnesota Twins, Paddack forgot his own advice.\n\nAfter taking a three-hitter into the eighth inning in a 3-1 win for the Twins over the San Francisco Giants on Friday night, Paddack was the natural pick for the postgame interview with Apple TV+ following the nationally streamed broadcast.\n\nAs the lanky, long-haired right-hander spoke, some of his teammates sneaked up behind him and dumped a couple of buckets of ice water over his head.\n\n\"I kind of got locked in, blacked out,\" the 29-year-old Paddack said later, once he'd dried off inside the clubhouse. \"It's a little chilly, but it's an honor.\"\n\nAfter he picked up his first win since last June 10, having allowed just one run with six strikeouts and no walks, the Twins were eager to see where Paddack can progress from here.\n\nAcquired in a trade with the San Diego Padres the day before the 2022 season opener, Paddack made five starts before being sidelined and learning he needed Tommy John ligament replacement surgery on his elbow for the second time in his career. He made it back for a bullpen role in the 2023 playoffs, but last year a forearm injury kept him from pitching after the All-Star break.\n\nPaddack had a perfect game going until a two-out single in the sixth inning by Christian Koss. The bid for his first career shutout was spoiled with a home run by Matt Chapman with two outs in the seventh.\n\n\"He should be pretty pleased with what he was able to do out there, and it gives him something to do next outing and the outing after that, too,\" manager Rocco Baldelli said. \"It's as good of an outing as you could ever ask your starting pitcher to give you.\"\n\nPaddack's 7 1/3 innings were the fourth-most of his seven-year major league career, and he only needed 83 pitches to make it that far.\n\n\"The bullpen needed a break,\" he said. \"Those guys have been busting their tail.\"\n\nThe Twins (19-20) stretched their winning streak to six games, the longest since last June 12-18. The starting pitching that has been the most consistent area of the team during this frustrating start to the season has finally begun to impact winning. Twins starters have a collective 3.34 ERA, the fifth-best in the majors.\n\n\"We expect our starters to be not just good at what they do but to be an enormous strength for us this season,\" Baldelli said. \"We're going to lean on them. We're going to let them go out there and lead the way in many different ways. We're getting those types of outings from them all the time. That's what you want.\"\n\n___\n\nAP MLB: https://apnews.com/hub/MLB"
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"value": "# Paddack honored with soaking surprise after taking rare start into 8th inning for surging Twins\n\nBy Dave Campbell \nMay 10th, 2025 04:09 AM\n\n---\n\nMINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Chris Paddack had warned himself to watch his back if he ever pitched deep enough to be chosen for the postgame on-field interview, well aware of the widespread practice of soaking the unsuspecting player in some type of liquid.\n\nWhen his time finally came with the Minnesota Twins, Paddack forgot his own advice.\n\nAfter taking a three-hitter into the eighth inning in a 3-1 win for the Twins over the San Francisco Giants on Friday night, Paddack was the natural pick for the postgame interview with Apple TV+ following the nationally streamed broadcast.\n\nAs the lanky, long-haired right-hander spoke, some of his teammates sneaked up behind him and dumped a couple of buckets of ice water over his head.\n\n\"I kind of got locked in, blacked out,\" the 29-year-old Paddack said later, once he'd dried off inside the clubhouse. \"It's a little chilly, but it's an honor.\"\n\nAfter he picked up his first win since last June 10, having allowed just one run with six strikeouts and no walks, the Twins were eager to see where Paddack can progress from here.\n\nAcquired in a trade with the San Diego Padres the day before the 2022 season opener, Paddack made five starts before being sidelined and learning he needed Tommy John ligament replacement surgery on his elbow for the second time in his career. He made it back for a bullpen role in the 2023 playoffs, but last year a forearm injury kept him from pitching after the All-Star break.\n\nPaddack had a perfect game going until a two-out single in the sixth inning by Christian Koss. The bid for his first career shutout was spoiled with a home run by Matt Chapman with two outs in the seventh.\n\n\"He should be pretty pleased with what he was able to do out there, and it gives him something to do next outing and the outing after that, too,\" manager Rocco Baldelli said. \"It's as good of an outing as you could ever ask your starting pitcher to give you.\"\n\nPaddack's 7 1/3 innings were the fourth-most of his seven-year major league career, and he only needed 83 pitches to make it that far.\n\n\"The bullpen needed a break,\" he said. \"Those guys have been busting their tail.\"\n\nThe Twins (19-20) stretched their winning streak to six games, the longest since last June 12-18. The starting pitching that has been the most consistent area of the team during this frustrating start to the season has finally begun to impact winning. Twins starters have a collective 3.34 ERA, the fifth-best in the majors.\n\n\"We expect our starters to be not just good at what they do but to be an enormous strength for us this season,\" Baldelli said. \"We're going to lean on them. We're going to let them go out there and lead the way in many different ways. We're getting those types of outings from them all the time. That's what you want.\""
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"value": "# Australian prime minister says reducing student debt is his re-elected government's first priority\n\nBy Rod Mcguirk \nMay 9th, 2025 08:11 AM\n\n---\n\nMELBOURNE, Austalia (AP) — Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese told his government colleagues on Friday that reducing student debt would be the first legislative priority for his administration that was returned to power in the nation's first election in which the Baby Boomer generation was outnumbered by younger voters.\n\nAlbanese addressed a crowded room full of center-left Labor Party lawmakers in Parliament House for the first time since his government won an emphatic election victory on May 3.\n\nThe struggle a growing number of young Australians — particularly those burdened with student loans — face to buy their first home, due to soaring real estate prices and a lack of new housing construction was a major election issue.\n\nAlbanese said a bill to reduce student debt by 20% would be the first legislation to be introduced when Parliament resumes in late July.\n\n## Australia committed to intergenerational equity\n\n\"I think that's important, not just in itself but for what it says about our commitment to intergenerational equity,\" Albanese said.\n\nBaby Boomers are often defined as people born between World War II and 1964. Their needs have long dominated Australian election campaigns.\n\nAs vote counting continued on Friday, Labor was on track to win 88 seats in the 150-seat House of Representatives, the lower chamber where parties need a majority to form government. The party held 78 seats in the last parliament.\n\nThe conservative opposition alliance of parties was likely to claim only 41 seats.\n\nAlbanese praised the diversity of Labor's elected lawmakers and said at least 57% of them are expected to be women once the vote counting is completed. The Australian population was 50.7% female at the last census in 2021.\n\n\"I … see people of different ethnicities, different backgrounds, different experiences, different faiths. I see a diverse group of people that are truly representative of our nation,\" Albanese told his government colleagues.\n\n## Jewish and Muslim ministers dropped from Cabinet\n\nBut the government has been criticized for dropping Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus, the government's most senior Jew, and Industry and Science Minister Ed Husic, the government's most prominent Muslim, from the new Cabinet that will be sworn in on Tuesday.\n\nThe government would be the first in Australia without a Jewish minister since 2010, Dreyfus staffer Stephen Spencer said. Dreyfus is one of three Jewish lawmakers in the government.\n\nCabinet ministers are decided by party factions that are entitled to a proportion of ministerial seats that reflects their share of government lawmakers.\n\nForeign Minister Penny Wong, Defense Minister Richard Marles, Treasurer Jim Chalmers and Finance Minister Katy Gallagher have been assured they will hold their portfolios. But Albanese has yet to announce the remainder of his ministers.\n\nThe meeting of Labor lawmakers on Friday endorsed the 30 appointments to the Cabinet and junior ministries.\n\nHealth Minister Mark Bulter said Anne Aly, a junior minister, was expected to be promoted to Cabinet next week which would mean a Muslim woman replacing Husic.\n\n\"It's a tough day for Ed and for Mark,\" Bulter told Australian Broadcasting Corp.\n\n## Sydney Muslim leader calls for the prime minister to intervene\n\nSydney Muslim community leader Jamal Rifi called for Albanese to intervene to keep Husic, a Sydney lawmaker, in Cabinet.\n\n\"The prime minister needs to reflect on what sort of message he sends to all these people who worked hard in southwestern Sydney\" for the government's re-election, Rifi said. Southwest Sydney has a large Muslim population.\n\nHusic is one of the government's most vocal critics of how Israel has waged war on Hamas in Gaza.\n\nTwo weeks after the Hamas attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, Husic said: \"I feel very strongly that Palestinians are being collectively punished ... for Hamas' barbarism.\""
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"value": "# Crowds flock to celebrate the century-old Bun Festival in Hong Kong\n\nBy Chan Long Hei and Alice Fung \nMay 5th, 2025 05:17 PM\n\n---\n\nHONG KONG (AP) — Crowds flocked to the outlying Cheung Chau Island in Hong Kong to celebrate the Bun Festival, held each year in a century-old tradition to ward off evil and pray for peace and blessings.\n\nThe festivities began with a parade of children in costumes, called \"Piu Sik,\" which translates as \"floating color.\" Children dressed as legendary deities or historic characters are carried on stands above the gathered crowds, meandering through the island's narrow lanes.\n\nThe highlight of the festival comes at midnight with a \"bun-scrambling\" competition, where climbers race up a tower covered with plastic buns. Whoever gets the most buns of greatest value wins the race. Buns near the top have higher value.\n\nThe competition was suspended for decades after an accident in 1978 when a bun tower collapsed and caused injuries. The tradition resumed in 2005.\n\nLegend has it that the colorful custom began after a deadly plague devastated the island of Cheung Chau. Residents followed the local Taoist tradition of imploring the deities for help and used white steamed buns as offerings to drive away the evil spirits.\n\nNowadays, residents and visitors to the island eat the white steamed buns as part of the celebrations. They are called \"Ping On Bao\" in Cantonese, meaning \"peace\" buns, and are stamped with two red Chinese characters meaning \"peace\" and \"safety.\"\n\n—\n\nThis is a photo gallery curated by AP photo editors."
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"value": "# Several countries sending firefighting planes to Israel to help tackle major wildfire\n\nBy Melanie Lidman \nMay 1st, 2025 06:56 AM\n\n---\n\nJERUSALEM (AP) — Several countries were sending firefighting aircraft to Israel on Thursday as crews battled for a second day to extinguish a wildfire that had shut down a major highway linking Tel Aviv and Jerusalem and sent drivers scrambling from their cars.\n\nThe fire broke out around midday in the hills outside Jerusalem on Wednesday, fueled by hot, dry conditions and fanned by strong winds that quickly whipped up the flames burning through pine forests. Several communities were evacuated as a precaution as the smoke turned the skies over Jerusalem gray. Many of the country's Independence Day celebrations were cancelled as security forces were diverted toward the fire.\n\nThe fire has burned about 5,000 acres (20 square kilometers) and is the most significant Israel has seen in the past decade, according to Tal Volvovitch, a spokesperson for Israel's fire and rescue authority. She said the fire has \"miraculously\" not damaged any homes.\n\nIsrael's fire and rescue authority warned the public to stay away from parks or forests, and to be exceptionally careful while lighting barbecues. Thursday was Israel's Independence Day, which is typically marked with large family cookouts in parks and forests.\n\nAt least 12 people were treated in hospitals on Wednesday, mainly due to smoke inhalation, while another 10 people were treated in the field, Magen David Adom Ambulance services said. Twenty firefighters have been lightly injured, Volvovitch said.\n\nItaly, Croatia, Spain, France, Ukraine, and Romania were sending planes to help battle the flames, while several other countries, including North Macedonia and Cyprus, were also sending water-dropping aircrafts. Israeli authorities said 10 firefighting planes were operating on Thursday morning, with another eight aircraft to arrive during the course of the day.\n\nIsrael's fire and rescue authority lifted the evacuation order on approximately a dozen towns in the Jerusalem hills on Thursday.\n\nThree Catholic religious communities who were forced to evacuate from their properties on Wednesday were also able to return on Thursday, said Farid Jubran, the spokesperson for the Latin Patriarchate. He said their agricultural lands, including vineyards and olive trees, suffered heavy damage, and some of the buildings were damaged. But there were no injuries, and historic churches were not affected.\n\nThe main highway linking Jerusalem to Tel Aviv reopened on Thursday, a day after the flames had encroached on the road, forcing drivers to abandon their cars and flee in terror. On Thursday morning, broad swathes of burned areas were visible from the highway, while pink anti-flame retardant dusted the top of burned trees and bushes. Smoke and the smell of fire hung heavy in the air.\n\nIsrael often sees fires in the summertime, but such strong fires this early in the year are unusual. Many of Israel's forests are planted rather than natural.\n\nOne of the organizations that manages Israel's forests said that the fires had perfect conditions to spread: a winter with little rain, hot and dry weather, and exceptionally strong winds that are shifting direction constantly.\n\nAnat Gold, the director of Israel's central region for the Jewish National Fund, known by its Hebrew acronym KKL, which manages forests, plants trees, and promotes settlement in the Holy Land, said the fire was mostly contained. But she added that workers were struggling to plow buffer zones and fire breaks as the same spots ignited repeatedly in the quickly changing winds.\n\nGold said climate change, which has resulted in decreased rainfall in the region, contributed to the fire's ferocity. \"Of course when there's a series of drought years, it's a fertile ground for fires,\" she said.\n\nIn 2010, a massive forest fire burned for four days on northern Israel's Mount Carmel, claiming 44 lives and destroying around 12,000 acres, much of it woodland."
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"value": "# Cambodian court convicts prominent politician of incitement in latest legal move to stifle opponents\n\nBy Sopheng Cheang and David Rising \nMay 5th, 2025 04:45 AM\n\n---\n\nPHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — A Cambodian court on Monday convicted a prominent opposition politician of incitement and sentenced him to four years in prison, in the latest legal move to stifle criticism of the government of Prime Minister Hun Manet.\n\nRong Chhun, a top advisor to the newly formed Nation Power Party, was found guilty of inciting social unrest related to his political activity for meeting with villagers displaced by government construction projects, including the new Phnom Penh International Airport. In addition to the prison term, he was barred from running for office and from voting.\n\nThe 56-year-old had denied the incitement charge, saying all he did was post photos of himself with the villagers and comments on Facebook.\n\n\"This is not a law enforcement issue,\" Rong Chhun told reporters after the verdict. \"It's about politics.\"\n\nHe remains free for a month with the opportunity to file an appeal during that time and said he would do so.\n\nThe U.S. Embassy, which has been critical of Cambodia's human rights record, had an observer at the hearing but did not immediately respond to a request for comment.\n\nIncitement allegations are frequently used by authorities in Cambodia against opponents. Rong Chhun was already sentenced to two years for incitement in 2021, on accusations he spread false information about Cambodia's border with Vietnam after meeting with farmers in the area. He was released later the same year by an appeals court.\n\nCambodia's government has long been accused of using the judicial system to persecute critics and political opponents. It insists it promotes the rule of law under an electoral democracy, but political parties seen as mounting strong challenges to the ruling Cambodian People's Party have been dissolved by the courts or had their leaders jailed or harassed.\n\nUnder almost four decades of autocratic former Prime Minister Hun Sen, Cambodia was widely criticized for human rights abuses that included suppression of freedom of speech and association. He was succeeded in August 2023 by his American-educated son, Hun Manet, but there have been few signs of political liberalization.\n\nLate last year, the president of the Nation Power Party, Sun Chanthy, was himself convicted of inciting social disorder and sentenced to two years. Sun Chanthy had been a top leader of the former Cambodia National Rescue Party, which had been expected to present a strong challenge to Hun Sen's ruling party in 2018 elections, but was dissolved by the high court as part of a sweeping crackdown on opposition.\n\nSun Chanthy then joined the Candlelight Party, the successor to the Cambodia National Rescue Party, but it in turn was barred from competing in the 2023 general election on a technicality. He then helped form the Nation Power Party at the end of 2023, along with Rong Chhun and others.\n\nAfter his conviction Monday, Rong Chhun said he was not surprised by the verdict and vowed to continue \"actively to protect the constitution.\"\n\n\"We must hold to a path that is based on the truth,\" he said.\n\nHe urged members of the Nation Power Party to stay the course while he serves his sentence.\n\n\"Let's not lose heart,\" he said. \"We must all be strong.\"\n\n_____\n\nRising reported from Bangkok."
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"value": "# Cambodian court convicts prominent politician of incitement in latest legal move to stifle opponents\n\nBy Sopheng Cheang and David Rising \nMay 5th, 2025 04:45 AM\n\n---\n\nPHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — A Cambodian court on Monday convicted a prominent opposition politician of incitement and sentenced him to four years in prison, in the latest legal move to stifle criticism of the government of Prime Minister Hun Manet.\n\nRong Chhun, a top advisor to the newly formed Nation Power Party, was found guilty of inciting social unrest related to his political activity for meeting with villagers displaced by government construction projects, including the new Phnom Penh International Airport. In addition to the prison term, he was barred from running for office and from voting.\n\nThe 56-year-old had denied the incitement charge, saying all he did was post photos of himself with the villagers and comments on Facebook.\n\n\"This is not a law enforcement issue,\" Rong Chhun told reporters after the verdict. \"It's about politics.\"\n\nHe remains free for a month with the opportunity to file an appeal during that time and said he would do so.\n\nThe U.S. Embassy, which has been critical of Cambodia's human rights record, had an observer at the hearing but did not immediately respond to a request for comment.\n\nIncitement allegations are frequently used by authorities in Cambodia against opponents. Rong Chhun was already sentenced to two years for incitement in 2021, on accusations he spread false information about Cambodia's border with Vietnam after meeting with farmers in the area. He was released later the same year by an appeals court.\n\nCambodia's government has long been accused of using the judicial system to persecute critics and political opponents. It insists it promotes the rule of law under an electoral democracy, but political parties seen as mounting strong challenges to the ruling Cambodian People's Party have been dissolved by the courts or had their leaders jailed or harassed.\n\nUnder almost four decades of autocratic former Prime Minister Hun Sen, Cambodia was widely criticized for human rights abuses that included suppression of freedom of speech and association. He was succeeded in August 2023 by his American-educated son, Hun Manet, but there have been few signs of political liberalization.\n\nLate last year, the president of the Nation Power Party, Sun Chanthy, was himself convicted of inciting social disorder and sentenced to two years. Sun Chanthy had been a top leader of the former Cambodia National Rescue Party, which had been expected to present a strong challenge to Hun Sen's ruling party in 2018 elections, but was dissolved by the high court as part of a sweeping crackdown on opposition.\n\nSun Chanthy then joined the Candlelight Party, the successor to the Cambodia National Rescue Party, but it in turn was barred from competing in the 2023 general election on a technicality. He then helped form the Nation Power Party at the end of 2023, along with Rong Chhun and others.\n\nAfter his conviction Monday, Rong Chhun said he was not surprised by the verdict and vowed to continue \"actively to protect the constitution.\"\n\n\"We must hold to a path that is based on the truth,\" he said.\n\nHe urged members of the Nation Power Party to stay the course while he serves his sentence.\n\n\"Let's not lose heart,\" he said. \"We must all be strong.\""
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"value": "# Puerto Rico governor under fire as federal funds for solar projects stalled\n\nBy Dánica Coto \nMay 6th, 2025 10:27 PM\n\n---\n\nSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico's governor came under fire Tuesday as her pledge to support the investment of millions of federal dollars in solar projects across the U.S. territory appeared to fade.\n\nMore than a week has passed since the U.S. Department of Energy missed a deadline to finalize contracts worth $365 million that would see battery-operated solar systems installed at health clinics and public housing units in Puerto Rico.\n\nSince last month, the department has not been in communication with those awarded the grants, including the nonprofit Hispanic Federation.\n\n\"There's been deathly silence,\" said Javier Rúa Jovet, public policy director for Puerto Rico's Solar and Energy Storage Association.\n\nThe lack of communication by the federal government comes as Puerto Rico prepares for the Atlantic hurricane season, which starts June 1 and is predicted to be above average, with nine anticipated hurricanes, four of them major.\n\nPuerto Rico already struggles with chronic power outages, including two island-wide blackouts that occurred on Dec. 31 and April 17.\n\n\"There are people who really need this help immediately,\" said Frankie Miranda, president and CEO of the Hispanic Federation.\n\nUntil recently, Gov. Jenniffer González, a Republican and supporter of U.S. President Donald Trump, had backed more than $1 billion appropriated by Congress for solar projects in Puerto Rico, including the $365 million slated for public housing units and health centers, including those that provide dialysis.\n\nBut the governor's public affairs secretary, Hiram Torres Montalvo, told Radio Isla on Monday that the governor tried to defend the funds but ultimately withdrew her support for the grant. He said that González has proposed using the funds to improve the generation, transmission and distribution of power, and is focused on ensuring there's enough electricity for the summer months.\n\n\"We are extremely surprised and shocked over this development,\" Miranda said in a phone interview. \"We want the governor to reconsider her position and continue to fulfill her word.\"\n\nMiranda and others have noted that some $18 billion in federal funds is already slated for the grid.\n\nNeither Torres nor a spokeswoman for the governor returned messages seeking comment.\n\nOn Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Energy sent The Associated Press a statement saying that the agency was conducting a department-wide review of grant processes, and that it was working with Puerto Rico's governor and the White House to strengthen the island's grid and ensure that the island has \"reliable, affordable and secure energy.\"\n\n\"In the wake of recent outages that impacted families, businesses, and critical infrastructure, the Department of Energy remains focused on advancing solutions that provide urgent relief, prevent future disasters, and restore long-term reliable energy access across the island,\" the agency said.\n\nThe department did not say whether Puerto Rico's government has formally requested that the funds be reassigned.\n\nMore than 60% of energy on the island is generated by petroleum-fired power plants, 24% by natural gas, 8% by coal and 7% by renewables, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.\n\nThe push for more renewable energy comes as crews continue to rebuild Puerto Rico's power grid after Hurricane Maria hit the island in September 2017 as a powerful Category 4 storm. But the grid was already weak before the storm hit given a lack of maintenance and investment for decades."
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"value": "# Puerto Rico governor under fire as federal funds for solar projects stalled\n\nBy Dánica Coto \nMay 6th, 2025 10:27 PM\n\n---\n\nSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico's governor came under fire Tuesday as her pledge to support the investment of millions of federal dollars in solar projects across the U.S. territory appeared to fade.\n\nMore than a week has passed since the U.S. Department of Energy missed a deadline to finalize contracts worth $365 million that would see battery-operated solar systems installed at health clinics and public housing units in Puerto Rico.\n\nSince last month, the department has not been in communication with those awarded the grants, including the nonprofit Hispanic Federation.\n\n\"There's been deathly silence,\" said Javier Rúa Jovet, public policy director for Puerto Rico's Solar and Energy Storage Association.\n\nThe lack of communication by the federal government comes as Puerto Rico prepares for the Atlantic hurricane season, which starts June 1 and is predicted to be above average, with nine anticipated hurricanes, four of them major.\n\nPuerto Rico already struggles with chronic power outages, including two island-wide blackouts that occurred on Dec. 31 and April 17.\n\n\"There are people who really need this help immediately,\" said Frankie Miranda, president and CEO of the Hispanic Federation.\n\nUntil recently, Gov. Jenniffer González, a Republican and supporter of U.S. President Donald Trump, had backed more than $1 billion appropriated by Congress for solar projects in Puerto Rico, including the $365 million slated for public housing units and health centers, including those that provide dialysis.\n\nBut the governor's public affairs secretary, Hiram Torres Montalvo, told Radio Isla on Monday that the governor tried to defend the funds but ultimately withdrew her support for the grant. He said that González has proposed using the funds to improve the generation, transmission and distribution of power, and is focused on ensuring there's enough electricity for the summer months.\n\n\"We are extremely surprised and shocked over this development,\" Miranda said in a phone interview. \"We want the governor to reconsider her position and continue to fulfill her word.\"\n\nMiranda and others have noted that some $18 billion in federal funds is already slated for the grid.\n\nNeither Torres nor a spokeswoman for the governor returned messages seeking comment.\n\nOn Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Energy sent The Associated Press a statement saying that the agency was conducting a department-wide review of grant processes, and that it was working with Puerto Rico's governor and the White House to strengthen the island's grid and ensure that the island has \"reliable, affordable and secure energy.\"\n\n\"In the wake of recent outages that impacted families, businesses, and critical infrastructure, the Department of Energy remains focused on advancing solutions that provide urgent relief, prevent future disasters, and restore long-term reliable energy access across the island,\" the agency said.\n\nThe department did not say whether Puerto Rico's government has formally requested that the funds be reassigned.\n\nMore than 60% of energy on the island is generated by petroleum-fired power plants, 24% by natural gas, 8% by coal and 7% by renewables, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.\n\nThe push for more renewable energy comes as crews continue to rebuild Puerto Rico's power grid after Hurricane Maria hit the island in September 2017 as a powerful Category 4 storm. But the grid was already weak before the storm hit given a lack of maintenance and investment for decades."
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"value": "# Patriots defensive coordinator Terrell Williams misses 1st day of rookie minicamp with medical issue\n\nMay 9th, 2025 08:21 PM\n\n---\n\nFOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — New England Patriots defensive coordinator Terrell Williams has been working remotely from his home in Detroit on doctor's orders the past few weeks and was not with the team when it opened rookie minicamp Friday.\n\nWilliams did not disclose the nature of his condition during a video call with reporters.\n\n\"I had a health scare, but I also want to make it clear that I'm away from the building, but I'm not away from the team,\" Williams said. \"I'm doing good. I'm not away from the football team. Hopefully I'll be able to get back soon and just be in the building and be around everyone.\"\n\nInside linebackers coach Zak Kuhr is handling Williams' duty in his absence.\n\nVrabel hired Williams shortly after he was named Patriots' coach in January. Williams spent six years on Vrabel's staff with the Tennessee Titans.\n\n___\n\nAP NFL: https://apnews.com/hub/nfl"
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"value": "# Patriots defensive coordinator Terrell Williams misses 1st day of rookie minicamp with medical issue\n\nMay 9th, 2025 08:21 PM\n\n---\n\nFOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — New England Patriots defensive coordinator Terrell Williams has been working remotely from his home in Detroit on doctor's orders the past few weeks and was not with the team when it opened rookie minicamp Friday.\n\nWilliams did not disclose the nature of his condition during a video call with reporters.\n\n\"I had a health scare, but I also want to make it clear that I'm away from the building, but I'm not away from the team,\" Williams said. \"I'm doing good. I'm not away from the football team. Hopefully I'll be able to get back soon and just be in the building and be around everyone.\"\n\nInside linebackers coach Zak Kuhr is handling Williams' duty in his absence.\n\nVrabel hired Williams shortly after he was named Patriots' coach in January. Williams spent six years on Vrabel's staff with the Tennessee Titans."
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"value": "# Rayo Vallecano back to winning ways at Getafe's expense in Madrid derby\n\nMay 2nd, 2025 09:40 PM\n\n---\n\nMADRID (AP) — A first half header from Florian Lejeune gave Rayo Vallecano a 1-0 win over Getafe in the Madrid derby on Friday.\n\nLejeune headed home Isi Palazón's corner in the seventh minute to lift Rayo into ninth place in La Liga.\n\nIt was only the home club's second win and second clean sheet in its last 11 league games but the margin of victory could have been greater were it not for the heroics of David Soria in the Getafe goal.\n\nNeither side showed much style in a scrappy game that reflected both teams' inconsistent seasons.\n\nIt was Getafe's fourth defeat in a row and third consecutive 1-0 loss and it also suffered the blow of a late red card for captain Djené Dakonam, who was dismissed for dissent.\n\nGetafe remained in 12th place.\n\n___\n\nAP soccer: https://apnews.com/hub/soccer"
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"value": "# Machado and Bogaerts lead 8th-inning rally as Padres beat Yankees 4-3 for 6th straight win\n\nMay 6th, 2025 03:04 AM\n\n---\n\nNEW YORK (AP) — Manny Machado hit a two-run double and Xander Bogaerts followed with a two-run single in an eighth-inning comeback against Devin Williams and Luke Weaver, and the San Diego Padres rallied past the New York Yankees 4-3 on a soggy Monday night for their sixth straight win.\n\nCarlos Rodón allowed three hits in 6 2/3 scoreless innings, leaving with a 3-0 lead.\n\nSan Diego loaded the bases with two walks and a hit off Williams, who had three hitless outings after being dropped as closer but faltered in his fourth. Weaver (0-1) gave up two-out hits to Machado and Bogaerts as the Yankees lost their third game in a row.\n\nPadres manager Mike Shildt and Fernando Tatis Jr. were ejected during the rally by plate umpire Adrian Johnson. Tatis said something when he struck out swinging, a pitch after a called second strike at the bottom of the zone. Tossed for the 15th time in his managerial career, Shildt threw his lineup card and glasses while arguing.\n\nRyan Bergert (1-0) earned his first major league win with a hitless seventh and Robert Suarez struck out two in a perfect ninth for his major league-high 14th save.\n\nThe game started 28 minutes late because of rain and was interrupted by another 28-minute delay with two outs in the bottom of the fourth.\n\nTrent Grisham matched his 2024 total with his ninth home run, a two-run drive in the third off Padres starter Nick Pivetta, and Anthony Volpe hit a sacrifice fly for the Yankees after missing one game because of a left shoulder injury.\n\nCleanup hitters were 0 for 17 with six strikeouts against Pivetta this year before Paul Goldschmidt's sixth-inning single.\n\nAaron Judge walked in the first, extending his on-base streak to 31 games. He went 0 for 3, ending a 14-game hitting streak that matched his career high and dropping his big league-leading batting average to .414.\n\n## Key moment\n\nWeaver had not allowed a run in 13 previous outings this year when he entered.\n\n## Key stat\n\nRodón and Max Fried have combined to go 10-3 with a 2.03 ERA while other Yankees starters are 3-6 with a 6.02 ERA.\n\n## Up next\n\nPadres RHP Michael King (4-1) starts Tuesday against his former team, and Clarke Schmidt (0-1) goes for New York.\n\n___\n\nAP MLB: https://apnews.com/hub/mlb"
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"value": "# Summer Movies: 11 breakout actors to watch\n\nBy Lindsey Bahr \nMay 1st, 2025 04:30 PM\n\n---\n\nMany of the big movies this summer might come from familiar places — whether they're franchises, sequels or hybrid adaptations of beloved animated classics. But look closer and there are quite a few fresh faces making a splash with memorable characters new and old.\n\nThe Associated Press spoke to 10 of the actors about the roles.\n\n## Sydney Elizebeth Agudong and Maia Kealoha in \"Lilo & Stitch\"\n\nMaia Kealoha was 6 years old when she saw an advertisement for an open casting call for the new hybrid \"Lilo & Stitch\" movie and promptly told her parents that's what she wanted to do. Now 8, Kealoha, who was born on Hawaii's Big Island, is making her film debut as the spirited Lilo in Disney's new live-action adaptation, hitting theaters on May 23.\n\n\"It was so amazing,\" Kealoha said. \"I was really proud of myself.\"\n\nSydney Elizebeth Agudong, who plays Lilo's older sister and caregiver Nani, praised her young co-star.\n\n\"It was amazing building a world with her,\" Agudong, 24, said. \"It's a lot of CGI and we're working with aliens and such and she was full of imagination and creativity.\"\n\nHailing from Kaua'i, Agudong also came to the role from an open casting call. Being part of the film has been a special experience as a lifelong fan of the animated version and a proud Hawaii resident.\n\n\"Hawaii's very much like tough love and soft heart,\" Agudong said. \"We truly created a family and hopefully people can see that.\"\n\n## The Gilmore Boys in \"Happy Gilmore 2\"\n\nHappy Gilmore is a dad in the sequel coming to Netflix on July 25. The Gilmore boys, played by Ethan Cutkosky (\"Shameless\"), Conor Sherry (\"Shake Shack\"), Maxwell Jacob Friedman (a pro wrestler) and newcomer Philip Schneider, \"are just goons,\" Schneider said.\n\nAll came to the project strangers, though intimately familiar with a film they'd all grown up with. And everyone but Friedman, 29, had to prove they had a little skill on the ice.\n\n\"I looked like a goon so they just assumed I'd be fine on the rink,\" Friedman laughed.\n\nThe four actors quickly found their rhythm together on set in Jersey City playing the rambunctious, troublemaking Gilmore spawn during the four-month shoot.\n\n\"The fast pace of stupidity that we got to and what made us family was such an amazing thing,\" Cutkosky, 25, said. \"It's really hard to come by.\"\n\nFriedman added: \"In between scenes, we could like look at each other and know what we were thinking and make each other laugh without talking.\"\n\nSchneider, 24, attributed the atmosphere to their on-screen dad Adam Sandler, who made the whole set feel like a family. His genius, Schneider said, \"is that he gets people he wants to work with and just sees what happens. He trusts the chemistry.\"\n\nFor Sherry, it was helpful so early in his career to get to see how Sandler could be both a giant in the industry and so humble.\n\n\"That's the dream, right? To balance both,\" Sherry, 24, said.\n\n## Eva Victor in \"Sorry, Baby\"\n\nOne of the breakout films from Sundance was \"Sorry, Baby,\" a poignant drama that's both funny and shattering about the aftermath of a traumatic event. It's the feature debut of triple threat Eva Victor, who wrote, directed and stars as Agnes, a graduate student at a New England school.\n\n\"I wanted to make a film that was about feeling stuck when everyone around you keeps moving that really didn't center any violence,\" said Victor, 31, who uses they/she pronouns.\n\nVictor, who had a recurring role on \"Billions,\" was making short comedy videos online and writing for the satirical website Reductress when Oscar-winning \"Moonlight\" filmmaker Barry Jenkins messaged them and asked if they had any scripts. Now, that script is going to be in theaters on June 27, through A24.\n\n\"I hope the film finds people when they need it,\" Victor said.\n\n## Ben Wang in \"Karate Kid: Legends\"\n\nBen Wang didn't know he was up against some 10,000 people vying to play the new Karate Kid.\n\nThe 25-year-old actor, best known for his role on the Disney+ series \"American Born Chinese,\" learned that after the fact. But it was a stressful month of not sleeping very well while waiting to hear if he got it, he said.\n\n\"Karate Kid: Legends\" (out May 30) brings together Jackie Chan's Mr. Han and Ralph Macchio's Daniel LaRusso for this new entry, about a teenager at a new school, Wang's Li, who has to learn from both.\n\n\"It's a fun one to play,\" Wang said. \"And I get to try to kick Jackie Chan, which is new and exciting for me.\"\n\n## Nico Parker in \"How to Train Your Dragon\"\n\nNico Parker grew up with both the \"How to Train Your Dragon\" books and movies, so it was a dream come true when she got the chance to play Astrid in the new live-action adaptation (June 13).\n\n\"It's a difficult thing when there's already such a brilliant version of Astrid out there,\" Parker, 20, said. \"The main thing that I really wanted to be prevalent in everything was how driven she is and how it doesn't come easy. It takes effort and skill and determination.\"\n\nParker, the daughter of actor Thandiwe Newton and director Ol Parker, has been on sets her whole life. She was only 11 when she filmed Tim Burton's \"Dumbo.\" But this feels different, she said, because she really understands the scale and scope of being in a major franchise.\n\n\"To be older I feel as if I'm acknowledging way more what it means and doesn't mean,\" she said. \"And I get much more stressed about it.\"\n\n## Benjamin Pajak in \"The Life of Chuck\"\n\nYou can't blame filmmaker Mike Flanagan for assuming Benjamin Pajak was a skilled dancer. Pajak made his Broadway debut as Winthrop in \"The Music Man\" with Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster. But ask Pajak, now 14, and he demurs that dancing is not exactly his strong suit.\n\nBut you would never guess that to see him waltzing and sambaing across the floor (thanks to Mandy Moore's choreography) in \"The Life of Chuck\" (out June 6).\n\n\"Film is so different from theater,\" Pajak said. \"But there were just so many people kind of lifting me up and helping me throughout the process.\"\n\nOne of those was Mark Hamill, who plays his grandfather. Perhaps even more exciting than being in the movies? Sharing scenes with Luke Skywalker.\n\n## Krypto in \"Superman\"\n\nSuperman's very good boy Krypto might be a computer-generated creation, but the inspiration was a very real dog: filmmaker James Gunn's rescue Ozu. It was difficult transition to life in a home — Ozu destroyed shoes, furniture and even his laptop. Gunn, who was at work writing \"Superman,\" thought, \"How difficult would it be if Ozu had superpowers?\"\n\nThat was how Krypto came to be part of the newest \"Superman\" (out July 11), changing the story and the script. The white pup features prominently in the film's trailer. At the Puppy Bowl earlier this year, Gunn said that Krypto is lovable and mischievous and has all the powers of Superman — yes, he can fly too.\n\n___\n\nFor more coverage of this summer's upcoming films, visit https://apnews.com/hub/movies."
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"value": "# Summer Movies: 11 breakout actors to watch\n\nBy Lindsey Bahr \nMay 1st, 2025 04:30 PM\n\n---\n\nMany of the big movies this summer might come from familiar places — whether they're franchises, sequels or hybrid adaptations of beloved animated classics. But look closer and there are quite a few fresh faces making a splash with memorable characters new and old.\n\nThe Associated Press spoke to 10 of the actors about the roles.\n\n## Sydney Elizebeth Agudong and Maia Kealoha in \"Lilo & Stitch\"\n\nMaia Kealoha was 6 years old when she saw an advertisement for an open casting call for the new hybrid \"Lilo & Stitch\" movie and promptly told her parents that's what she wanted to do. Now 8, Kealoha, who was born on Hawaii's Big Island, is making her film debut as the spirited Lilo in Disney's new live-action adaptation, hitting theaters on May 23.\n\n\"It was so amazing,\" Kealoha said. \"I was really proud of myself.\"\n\nSydney Elizebeth Agudong, who plays Lilo's older sister and caregiver Nani, praised her young co-star.\n\n\"It was amazing building a world with her,\" Agudong, 24, said. \"It's a lot of CGI and we're working with aliens and such and she was full of imagination and creativity.\"\n\nHailing from Kaua'i, Agudong also came to the role from an open casting call. Being part of the film has been a special experience as a lifelong fan of the animated version and a proud Hawaii resident.\n\n\"Hawaii's very much like tough love and soft heart,\" Agudong said. \"We truly created a family and hopefully people can see that.\"\n\n## The Gilmore Boys in \"Happy Gilmore 2\"\n\nHappy Gilmore is a dad in the sequel coming to Netflix on July 25. The Gilmore boys, played by Ethan Cutkosky (\"Shameless\"), Conor Sherry (\"Shake Shack\"), Maxwell Jacob Friedman (a pro wrestler) and newcomer Philip Schneider, \"are just goons,\" Schneider said.\n\nAll came to the project strangers, though intimately familiar with a film they'd all grown up with. And everyone but Friedman, 29, had to prove they had a little skill on the ice.\n\n\"I looked like a goon so they just assumed I'd be fine on the rink,\" Friedman laughed.\n\nThe four actors quickly found their rhythm together on set in Jersey City playing the rambunctious, troublemaking Gilmore spawn during the four-month shoot.\n\n\"The fast pace of stupidity that we got to and what made us family was such an amazing thing,\" Cutkosky, 25, said. \"It's really hard to come by.\"\n\nFriedman added: \"In between scenes, we could like look at each other and know what we were thinking and make each other laugh without talking.\"\n\nSchneider, 24, attributed the atmosphere to their on-screen dad Adam Sandler, who made the whole set feel like a family. His genius, Schneider said, \"is that he gets people he wants to work with and just sees what happens. He trusts the chemistry.\"\n\nFor Sherry, it was helpful so early in his career to get to see how Sandler could be both a giant in the industry and so humble.\n\n\"That's the dream, right? To balance both,\" Sherry, 24, said.\n\n## Eva Victor in \"Sorry, Baby\"\n\nOne of the breakout films from Sundance was \"Sorry, Baby,\" a poignant drama that's both funny and shattering about the aftermath of a traumatic event. It's the feature debut of triple threat Eva Victor, who wrote, directed and stars as Agnes, a graduate student at a New England school.\n\n\"I wanted to make a film that was about feeling stuck when everyone around you keeps moving that really didn't center any violence,\" said Victor, 31, who uses they/she pronouns.\n\nVictor, who had a recurring role on \"Billions,\" was making short comedy videos online and writing for the satirical website Reductress when Oscar-winning \"Moonlight\" filmmaker Barry Jenkins messaged them and asked if they had any scripts. Now, that script is going to be in theaters on June 27, through A24.\n\n\"I hope the film finds people when they need it,\" Victor said.\n\n## Ben Wang in \"Karate Kid: Legends\"\n\nBen Wang didn't know he was up against some 10,000 people vying to play the new Karate Kid.\n\nThe 25-year-old actor, best known for his role on the Disney+ series \"American Born Chinese,\" learned that after the fact. But it was a stressful month of not sleeping very well while waiting to hear if he got it, he said.\n\n\"Karate Kid: Legends\" (out May 30) brings together Jackie Chan's Mr. Han and Ralph Macchio's Daniel LaRusso for this new entry, about a teenager at a new school, Wang's Li, who has to learn from both.\n\n\"It's a fun one to play,\" Wang said. \"And I get to try to kick Jackie Chan, which is new and exciting for me.\"\n\n## Nico Parker in \"How to Train Your Dragon\"\n\nNico Parker grew up with both the \"How to Train Your Dragon\" books and movies, so it was a dream come true when she got the chance to play Astrid in the new live-action adaptation (June 13).\n\n\"It's a difficult thing when there's already such a brilliant version of Astrid out there,\" Parker, 20, said. \"The main thing that I really wanted to be prevalent in everything was how driven she is and how it doesn't come easy. It takes effort and skill and determination.\"\n\nParker, the daughter of actor Thandiwe Newton and director Ol Parker, has been on sets her whole life. She was only 11 when she filmed Tim Burton's \"Dumbo.\" But this feels different, she said, because she really understands the scale and scope of being in a major franchise.\n\n\"To be older I feel as if I'm acknowledging way more what it means and doesn't mean,\" she said. \"And I get much more stressed about it.\"\n\n## Benjamin Pajak in \"The Life of Chuck\"\n\nYou can't blame filmmaker Mike Flanagan for assuming Benjamin Pajak was a skilled dancer. Pajak made his Broadway debut as Winthrop in \"The Music Man\" with Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster. But ask Pajak, now 14, and he demurs that dancing is not exactly his strong suit.\n\nBut you would never guess that to see him waltzing and sambaing across the floor (thanks to Mandy Moore's choreography) in \"The Life of Chuck\" (out June 6).\n\n\"Film is so different from theater,\" Pajak said. \"But there were just so many people kind of lifting me up and helping me throughout the process.\"\n\nOne of those was Mark Hamill, who plays his grandfather. Perhaps even more exciting than being in the movies? Sharing scenes with Luke Skywalker.\n\n## Krypto in \"Superman\"\n\nSuperman's very good boy Krypto might be a computer-generated creation, but the inspiration was a very real dog: filmmaker James Gunn's rescue Ozu. It was difficult transition to life in a home — Ozu destroyed shoes, furniture and even his laptop. Gunn, who was at work writing \"Superman,\" thought, \"How difficult would it be if Ozu had superpowers?\"\n\nThat was how Krypto came to be part of the newest \"Superman\" (out July 11), changing the story and the script. The white pup features prominently in the film's trailer. At the Puppy Bowl earlier this year, Gunn said that Krypto is lovable and mischievous and has all the powers of Superman — yes, he can fly too."
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"value": "# Flick says Barcelona ready to rebound from Inter loss against Madrid in clasico\n\nBy Joseph Wilson \nMay 10th, 2025 04:13 PM\n\n---\n\nBARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Hansi Flick knows there is no better painkiller for Barcelona's gut-wrenching Champions League exit to Inter Milan than beating Real Madrid in a decisive clasico.\n\n\"After the defeat in Milan, everyone knows it was not easy after that match, but I think we are doing great,\" Flick said on Saturday, a day before Barcelona hosts Madrid in a game that will go a long way to deciding the Spanish league title.\n\nBarcelona was moments away from a thrilling comeback at Inter on Tuesday before the Italian side struck a last-gasp equalizer and secured a 4-3 extra-time win. Inter will play Paris Saint-Germain in the European final.\n\nBarcelona, in turn, must refocus on its chance to complete a domestic double and leave Madrid without a major trophy this campaign.\n\nIt hosts Madrid while holding a four-point lead in La Liga over its top rival. Barcelona has won all three clasicos this season across all competitions, including a recent victory in the Copa del Rey final. Making it four of four will in itself be a great achievement for Flick in his first season in charge.\n\n\"We have spoken about that and about what we are going to do in the next two weeks,\" the German coach said. \"There are four more matches to go and of course the clasico tomorrow is for us very important for us to show again how good we can play. It is about our confidence.\"\n\n## Balde and Lewandowski will appear\n\nFlick said left back Alejandro Balde and striker Robert Lewandowski will be available for \"minutes in the second half.\"\n\nBalde missed the Inter tie with a left thigh injury. Youth player Gerard MartÃn started in his place and struggled on the defensive end.\n\nLewandowski, who leads Barcelona with 40 goals this season, was sidelined for two weeks with a left thigh injury until he played the final minutes of Barcelona's loss at Inter. Ferran Torres will most likely start in his place on Sunday.\n\n___\n\nAP soccer: https://apnews.com/hub/soccer"
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"value": "# Flick says Barcelona ready to rebound from Inter loss against Madrid in clasico\n\nBy Joseph Wilson \nMay 10th, 2025 04:13 PM\n\n---\n\nBARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Hansi Flick knows there is no better painkiller for Barcelona's gut-wrenching Champions League exit to Inter Milan than beating Real Madrid in a decisive clasico.\n\n\"After the defeat in Milan, everyone knows it was not easy after that match, but I think we are doing great,\" Flick said on Saturday, a day before Barcelona hosts Madrid in a game that will go a long way to deciding the Spanish league title.\n\nBarcelona was moments away from a thrilling comeback at Inter on Tuesday before the Italian side struck a last-gasp equalizer and secured a 4-3 extra-time win. Inter will play Paris Saint-Germain in the European final.\n\nBarcelona, in turn, must refocus on its chance to complete a domestic double and leave Madrid without a major trophy this campaign.\n\nIt hosts Madrid while holding a four-point lead in La Liga over its top rival. Barcelona has won all three clasicos this season across all competitions, including a recent victory in the Copa del Rey final. Making it four of four will in itself be a great achievement for Flick in his first season in charge.\n\n\"We have spoken about that and about what we are going to do in the next two weeks,\" the German coach said. \"There are four more matches to go and of course the clasico tomorrow is for us very important for us to show again how good we can play. It is about our confidence.\"\n\n## Balde and Lewandowski will appear\n\nFlick said left back Alejandro Balde and striker Robert Lewandowski will be available for \"minutes in the second half.\"\n\nBalde missed the Inter tie with a left thigh injury. Youth player Gerard MartÃn started in his place and struggled on the defensive end.\n\nLewandowski, who leads Barcelona with 40 goals this season, was sidelined for two weeks with a left thigh injury until he played the final minutes of Barcelona's loss at Inter. Ferran Torres will most likely start in his place on Sunday."
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"value": "# Bill overhauling Alabama's largest water utility heads to governor's desk despite local outcry\n\nMay 1st, 2025 08:55 PM\n\n---\n\nMONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama legislators passed a bill on Thursday that would strip Birmingham of control over the state's largest water board and transfer power to the governor and surrounding suburbs, reigniting a decades-long, polarizing debate.\n\nProponents of the bill point to frequent rate hikes and say that the move will prevent catastrophic events that have happened in cities like Jackson, Mississippi, or Detroit, Michigan. Opponents of the bill say that it is a power grab that diminishes the power of Black residents in Birmingham, Alabama.\n\nBirmingham city officials currently appoint six of the nine board members' seats, giving Birmingham leadership unrivaled influence over the decisions affecting the city's water. Board members approve rate hikes and manage infrastructure projects.\n\nIf signed into law, SB330 would make the board just seven people. The mayor of Birmingham and the Birmingham city council would appoint two board members, while the governor, lieutenant governor and three neighboring county commission presidents would each appoint one board member.\n\nFive counties rely on the Birmingham Water Works Board, but over 40% of the utility's 770,000 customers are concentrated in the city of Birmingham, and 91% are in Jefferson County. The new system would give more weight to Birmingham's neighboring counties that house the reservoirs that supply the system.\n\nRepublican lawmakers from the Birmingham suburbs sponsored the bill, saying that it will improve the efficiency of the system. They say aging infrastructure and lack of investment means residents pay for water that just gets leaked out of old pipes.\n\n\"So many elected officials have been getting so many complaints, and I'm sure yours have too, about the quality and the price of Birmingham water,\" said Republican Rep. Jim Carns, who represents Blount County, one of the places that will now appoint a board member.\n\nThe water board had approximately $1 billion in debt in 2023, according to the most recent financial statements, and the board has the second highest credit score, according to bond rating agencies.\n\nCarns said that the regional board would make the utility more frugal. AL.com reported that the utility has been accused of lacking transparency in recent years and has sometimes made costly errors in distributing bills. Trust in the board was further undermined in recent years after high-profile ethics scandals.\n\nMany in Alabama's vocal Democratic minority conceded that the board wasn't perfect, but they also condemned the move as a political takeover that would wrest power from Birmingham's majority Black residents and redistribute it to customers in the city's mostly white suburbs.\n\n\"Frankly the language used today was insulting, with words like competence being thrown around as if the city of Birmingham is not growing by leaps and bounds,\" Democratic Rep. Kelvin Datcher of Birmingham said after the bill passed. He questioned how the new board's composition would address any of the bill sponsor's concerns about efficiency.\n\nDemocratic legislators also took issue with the fact that they were excluded from the overall process.\n\n\"Each of us in this chamber would be rightfully concerned if outside representatives attempted to dictate how water systems operate in our districts without consulting us or even including us at the table, or, hell, even the room where this legislation was created,\" Rep. Neil Rafferty of Birmingham said.\n\nBirmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin joined Birmingham city council members for a press conference to echo those concerns.\n\n\"The ratepayers deserve to be at the forefront of this conversation, and they have not been,\" Woodfin said. \"Let's call it what it is. This is a political power grab. This is not in the best interest of our citizens.\"\n\nThe bill passed along party lines 66 to 27. It now goes to Republican Gov. Kay Ivey's desk."
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"value": "# Bill overhauling Alabama's largest water utility heads to governor's desk despite local outcry\n\nMay 1st, 2025 08:55 PM\n\n---\n\nMONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama legislators passed a bill on Thursday that would strip Birmingham of control over the state's largest water board and transfer power to the governor and surrounding suburbs, reigniting a decades-long, polarizing debate.\n\nProponents of the bill point to frequent rate hikes and say that the move will prevent catastrophic events that have happened in cities like Jackson, Mississippi, or Detroit, Michigan. Opponents of the bill say that it is a power grab that diminishes the power of Black residents in Birmingham, Alabama.\n\nBirmingham city officials currently appoint six of the nine board members' seats, giving Birmingham leadership unrivaled influence over the decisions affecting the city's water. Board members approve rate hikes and manage infrastructure projects.\n\nIf signed into law, SB330 would make the board just seven people. The mayor of Birmingham and the Birmingham city council would appoint two board members, while the governor, lieutenant governor and three neighboring county commission presidents would each appoint one board member.\n\nFive counties rely on the Birmingham Water Works Board, but over 40% of the utility's 770,000 customers are concentrated in the city of Birmingham, and 91% are in Jefferson County. The new system would give more weight to Birmingham's neighboring counties that house the reservoirs that supply the system.\n\nRepublican lawmakers from the Birmingham suburbs sponsored the bill, saying that it will improve the efficiency of the system. They say aging infrastructure and lack of investment means residents pay for water that just gets leaked out of old pipes.\n\n\"So many elected officials have been getting so many complaints, and I'm sure yours have too, about the quality and the price of Birmingham water,\" said Republican Rep. Jim Carns, who represents Blount County, one of the places that will now appoint a board member.\n\nThe water board had approximately $1 billion in debt in 2023, according to the most recent financial statements, and the board has the second highest credit score, according to bond rating agencies.\n\nCarns said that the regional board would make the utility more frugal. AL.com reported that the utility has been accused of lacking transparency in recent years and has sometimes made costly errors in distributing bills. Trust in the board was further undermined in recent years after high-profile ethics scandals.\n\nMany in Alabama's vocal Democratic minority conceded that the board wasn't perfect, but they also condemned the move as a political takeover that would wrest power from Birmingham's majority Black residents and redistribute it to customers in the city's mostly white suburbs.\n\n\"Frankly the language used today was insulting, with words like competence being thrown around as if the city of Birmingham is not growing by leaps and bounds,\" Democratic Rep. Kelvin Datcher of Birmingham said after the bill passed. He questioned how the new board's composition would address any of the bill sponsor's concerns about efficiency.\n\nDemocratic legislators also took issue with the fact that they were excluded from the overall process.\n\n\"Each of us in this chamber would be rightfully concerned if outside representatives attempted to dictate how water systems operate in our districts without consulting us or even including us at the table, or, hell, even the room where this legislation was created,\" Rep. Neil Rafferty of Birmingham said.\n\nBirmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin joined Birmingham city council members for a press conference to echo those concerns.\n\n\"The ratepayers deserve to be at the forefront of this conversation, and they have not been,\" Woodfin said. \"Let's call it what it is. This is a political power grab. This is not in the best interest of our citizens.\"\n\nThe bill passed along party lines 66 to 27. It now goes to Republican Gov. Kay Ivey's desk."
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"value": "# Amnesty International says at least 30 dead in separatist attack in southeastern Nigeria\n\nBy Dyepkazah Shibayan \nMay 10th, 2025 11:54 AM\n\n---\n\nABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — At least 30 people have been killed after gunmen attacked travelers on a major highway in the southeastern part of Nigeria, rights group Amnesty International said.\n\nThe rights group said Friday that more than 20 vehicles and trucks were set ablaze during the Thursday attack along the Okigwe-Owerri highway in Imo state. Police confirmed the attack but not the death toll.\n\nNo group has claimed responsibility for the attack, but police suspect the Eastern Security Network, the paramilitary wing of the proscribed separatist group Indigenous People of Biafra.\n\nThe secessionist campaign in southeastern Nigeria dates back to when the short-lived Republic of Biafra fought and lost a civil war from 1967 to 1970 to become independent from the West African country. An estimated 1 million people died in the conflict, many from starvation.\n\nThe rights group said \"international law requires the Nigerian government to promptly investigate unlawful killings with a view to bringing perpetrators to justice.\"\n\nOne suspect connected to the attack was killed in a joint operation by law enforcement agencies, police spokesperson Okoye Henry said in a statement.\n\n\"An intensive manhunt is ongoing to apprehend the fleeing suspects and bring them to justice,\" Henry said.\n\nTwo of the group's prominent leaders, Nnamdi Kanu and Simon Ekpa, are in custody in Nigeria and Finland, respectively.\n\nKanu is standing trial on a seven-count charge bordering on terrorism and treasonable felony. He has pleaded not guilty to the charges.\n\nThe Nigerian government said Friday it has not begun extradition proceedings but is in talks with Finnish authorities to ensure Ekpa is held accountable for his alleged actions.\n\nFor many years Nigeria — Africa's most populous nation with at least 210 million people — has been wracked by violence related to the activities of armed extremist groups."
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"value": "# Amnesty International says at least 30 dead in separatist attack in southeastern Nigeria\n\nBy Dyepkazah Shibayan \nMay 10th, 2025 11:54 AM\n\n---\n\nABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — At least 30 people have been killed after gunmen attacked travelers on a major highway in the southeastern part of Nigeria, rights group Amnesty International said.\n\nThe rights group said Friday that more than 20 vehicles and trucks were set ablaze during the Thursday attack along the Okigwe-Owerri highway in Imo state. Police confirmed the attack but not the death toll.\n\nNo group has claimed responsibility for the attack, but police suspect the Eastern Security Network, the paramilitary wing of the proscribed separatist group Indigenous People of Biafra.\n\nThe secessionist campaign in southeastern Nigeria dates back to when the short-lived Republic of Biafra fought and lost a civil war from 1967 to 1970 to become independent from the West African country. An estimated 1 million people died in the conflict, many from starvation.\n\nThe rights group said \"international law requires the Nigerian government to promptly investigate unlawful killings with a view to bringing perpetrators to justice.\"\n\nOne suspect connected to the attack was killed in a joint operation by law enforcement agencies, police spokesperson Okoye Henry said in a statement.\n\n\"An intensive manhunt is ongoing to apprehend the fleeing suspects and bring them to justice,\" Henry said.\n\nTwo of the group's prominent leaders, Nnamdi Kanu and Simon Ekpa, are in custody in Nigeria and Finland, respectively.\n\nKanu is standing trial on a seven-count charge bordering on terrorism and treasonable felony. He has pleaded not guilty to the charges.\n\nThe Nigerian government said Friday it has not begun extradition proceedings but is in talks with Finnish authorities to ensure Ekpa is held accountable for his alleged actions.\n\nFor many years Nigeria — Africa's most populous nation with at least 210 million people — has been wracked by violence related to the activities of armed extremist groups."
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"value": "# Rite Aid returns to bankruptcy protection as it seeks to sell most assets\n\nBy Tom Murphy \nMay 5th, 2025 08:48 PM\n\n---\n\nRite Aid is again seeking bankruptcy protection as the struggling drugstore chain says it will try to sell substantially all of its assets.\n\nThe company said Monday that its stores will remain open as it returns to Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings.\n\nThe company said it will work to ensure that customer prescriptions are transferred to other pharmacies as it goes through the sale process. The drugstore chain has lined up from some of its lenders $1.94 billion in new financing which help fund it through the sale and bankruptcy proceedings.\n\nThe company initially filed for bankruptcy protection in October 2023, with plans to sell parts of its business and restructure. The company ran more than 2,300 stores in 17 states before the filing.\n\nRite Aid said then that its initial voluntary Chapter 11 filing would allow it to slash debt and resolve litigation. The company sold its relatively small pharmacy benefits management business, Elixir Solutions, for around $576 million.\n\nRite Aid emerged from Chapter 11 nearly a year later as a private company. The drugstore chain said in a statement that it came out of the process stronger, \"with a rightsized store footprint, more efficient operating model, significantly less debt and additional financial resources.\"\n\nRite Aid's creditors took ownership of the chain, which shrank to 1,245 stores in 15 states, according to its website.\n\nA spokeswoman said in March that the company was \"laser focused\" on its retail pharmacies, including restocking its stores.\n\nBut in early May, empty white shelves dotted a store that sits a few miles from Rite Aid's corporate headquarters in Philadelphia. The only rolls of wrapping paper in the store were some Christmas-themed offerings that leaned next to empty shelf space beneath a sign advertising \"Great Value!\"\n\nThe location also had a limited selection of profitable beauty products and drugstore staples such as Qtips and cotton balls.\n\nRetail analyst Neil Saunders said such a look encourages shoppers not to return.\n\n\"They're actively pushing customers away,\" said Saunders, managing director of the consulting and data analysis firm GlobalData.\n\nRite Aid was attempting to turn around its business in a tough environment for drugstores. Major chains and independent pharmacies have been closing stores and struggling with several challenges.\n\nPrescription profitability has grown tight. The chains also are dealing with increased theft, court settlements over opioid prescriptions and shoppers who are drifting more to online shopping and discount retailers.\n\nWalgreens, which has more than six times as many stores as Rite Aid, agreed in March to be acquired by the private equity firm Sycamore Partners.\n\nPhiladelphia-based Rite Aid was founded in 1962 in Scranton, Pennsylvania, as Thrif D Discount Center. The company had struggled with debt, posted annual losses for several years and was cutting costs and closing stores well before its initial bankruptcy filing.\n\nRite Aid also explored sale offers.\n\nWalgreens attempted to buy it for about $9.4 billion a decade ago, when Rite Aid ran more than 4,600 stores. But the larger drugstore chain eventually scaled back its ambition and bought less than half that total to get the deal past antitrust regulators.\n\nIn 2018, Rite Aid called off a separate merger with the grocer Albertsons.\n\n___\n\nJonathan Poet contributed to this report from Philadelphia.\n\n____\n\nThe Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Science and Educational Media Group. The AP is solely responsible for all content."
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"value": "# Rite Aid returns to bankruptcy protection as it seeks to sell most assets\n\nBy Tom Murphy \nMay 5th, 2025 08:48 PM\n\n---\n\nRite Aid is again seeking bankruptcy protection as the struggling drugstore chain says it will try to sell substantially all of its assets.\n\nThe company said Monday that its stores will remain open as it returns to Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings.\n\nThe company said it will work to ensure that customer prescriptions are transferred to other pharmacies as it goes through the sale process. The drugstore chain has lined up from some of its lenders $1.94 billion in new financing which help fund it through the sale and bankruptcy proceedings.\n\nThe company initially filed for bankruptcy protection in October 2023, with plans to sell parts of its business and restructure. The company ran more than 2,300 stores in 17 states before the filing.\n\nRite Aid said then that its initial voluntary Chapter 11 filing would allow it to slash debt and resolve litigation. The company sold its relatively small pharmacy benefits management business, Elixir Solutions, for around $576 million.\n\nRite Aid emerged from Chapter 11 nearly a year later as a private company. The drugstore chain said in a statement that it came out of the process stronger, \"with a rightsized store footprint, more efficient operating model, significantly less debt and additional financial resources.\"\n\nRite Aid's creditors took ownership of the chain, which shrank to 1,245 stores in 15 states, according to its website.\n\nA spokeswoman said in March that the company was \"laser focused\" on its retail pharmacies, including restocking its stores.\n\nBut in early May, empty white shelves dotted a store that sits a few miles from Rite Aid's corporate headquarters in Philadelphia. The only rolls of wrapping paper in the store were some Christmas-themed offerings that leaned next to empty shelf space beneath a sign advertising \"Great Value!\"\n\nThe location also had a limited selection of profitable beauty products and drugstore staples such as Qtips and cotton balls.\n\nRetail analyst Neil Saunders said such a look encourages shoppers not to return.\n\n\"They're actively pushing customers away,\" said Saunders, managing director of the consulting and data analysis firm GlobalData.\n\nRite Aid was attempting to turn around its business in a tough environment for drugstores. Major chains and independent pharmacies have been closing stores and struggling with several challenges.\n\nPrescription profitability has grown tight. The chains also are dealing with increased theft, court settlements over opioid prescriptions and shoppers who are drifting more to online shopping and discount retailers.\n\nWalgreens, which has more than six times as many stores as Rite Aid, agreed in March to be acquired by the private equity firm Sycamore Partners.\n\nPhiladelphia-based Rite Aid was founded in 1962 in Scranton, Pennsylvania, as Thrif D Discount Center. The company had struggled with debt, posted annual losses for several years and was cutting costs and closing stores well before its initial bankruptcy filing.\n\nRite Aid also explored sale offers.\n\nWalgreens attempted to buy it for about $9.4 billion a decade ago, when Rite Aid ran more than 4,600 stores. But the larger drugstore chain eventually scaled back its ambition and bought less than half that total to get the deal past antitrust regulators.\n\nIn 2018, Rite Aid called off a separate merger with the grocer Albertsons."
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"value": "# Russia and Ukraine clash over ceasefire proposals as fighting rages\n\nBy Hanna Arhirova and Elise Morton \nMay 3rd, 2025 07:24 AM\n\n---\n\nKYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine and Russia are at odds over competing ceasefire proposals, as Moscow accused Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of threatening the safety of dignitaries attending Victory Day celebrations after he dismissed Russia's unilateral 72-hour ceasefire.\n\nZelenskyy instead renewed calls for a more substantial 30-day pause in hostilities, as the U.S. had initially proposed. He said the proposed ceasefire could start anytime as a meaningful step toward ending the three-year war. \"Let's be honest — you can't agree on anything serious in three, five, or seven days,\" he said.\n\nZelenskyy said that Moscow's announcement of a 72-hour ceasefire next week in Ukraine to mark Victory Day in World War II is merely an attempt to create a \"soft atmosphere\" ahead of Russia's annual celebrations. \"It looks unserious,\" he said, \"so that (Russian President Vladimir) Putin's guests on Red Square feel comfortable and safe.\"\n\n## Ukraine won't guarantee safety for visitors to Russia\n\nHe said that Ukraine cannot provide security assurances to foreign officials planning to visit Russia around May 9, warning that Moscow could stage provocations and later attempt to blame Ukraine.\n\nZelenskyy said that some governments had approached Kyiv seeking safety reassurance while their delegations are in Russia.\n\n\"Our position is very simple: we cannot take responsibility for what happens on the territory of the Russian Federation,\" he said. \"They are the ones providing your security, and we will not be offering any guarantees.\"\n\nZelenskyy said he had instructed Ukraine's Foreign Ministry to advise against visiting Russia during this period. \"We must tell those who approach us: we do not recommend visiting the Russian Federation from a security standpoint. And if you choose to do so, don't ask us — it's your personal decision.\"\n\nThe Ukrainian leader reiterated that Kyiv's military actions will remain \"mirror-like,\" responding to Russia's moves. He acknowledged that implementing a complete front-line ceasefire without robust international monitoring remains nearly impossible, but emphasized that the 30-day window offers a credible start.\n\nHe confirmed ongoing efforts to convene the next round of negotiations with the U.S. He also expressed hope that it could happen in Ukraine, saying it was a \"positive sign\" that such a gathering is under discussion despite recent personnel changes in Washington.\n\n## Russia wants Ukraine to 'de-escalate'\n\nIn response to Zelenskyy's comments, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that he had \"unequivocally threatened the world leaders who are planning to arrive in Moscow on May 9.\"\n\nDmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of Russia's Security Council, said Saturday that nobody could guarantee Kyiv's safety if Ukraine attacked Moscow celebrations on May 9.\n\n\"In the event of a real provocation on Victory Day, no one will guarantee that May 10 will come in Kyiv,\" he wrote on Telegram.\n\nKremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said that Russia expects Kyiv to take steps to de-escalate before Victory Day.\n\n\"We will, of course, expect (from) Kyiv not ambiguous, but final statements, and most importantly, actions aimed at de-escalating the conflict during the holidays,\" Peskov told journalists.\n\nRussia's ceasefire proposals, he said, were meant to \"test Kyiv's readiness to find ways for long-term sustainable peace between Russia and Ukraine.\"\n\n## Russia and Ukraine exchange drone strikes\n\nA Russian drone strike on Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city, wounded 47 people, officials said, and prompted another appeal from Zelenskyy for more decisive support from the country's allies.\n\nKharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov said drones hit 12 locations across the city late Friday, hitting residential buildings, civilian infrastructure and vehicles.\n\nThe Kharkiv Prosecutor's Office said that Russian forces used drones with thermobaric warheads. In a statement on Telegram, it said thermobaric weapons create a powerful blast wave and a hot cloud of smoke, causing large-scale destruction. The prosecutor said its use may indicate a deliberate violation of international humanitarian law.\n\n\"While the world hesitates with decisions, nearly every night in Ukraine turns into a nightmare, costing lives. Ukraine needs strengthened air defense. Strong and real decisions are needed from our partners — the United States, Europe, all our partners who seek peace,\" Zelenskyy wrote on X.\n\nRussia fired a total of 183 exploding drones and decoys overnight, Ukraine's air force said. Of those, 77 were intercepted and a further 73 lost, likely having been electronically jammed. Russia also launched two ballistic missiles.\n\nMeanwhile, Russia's Defense Ministry said its air defenses shot down 170 Ukrainian drones overnight. The ministry said eight cruise missiles and three guided missiles were also intercepted.\n\nIn southern Russia, five people, including two children, were injured in a drone strike on the Black Sea port city of Novorossiysk overnight, according to Mayor Andrey Kravchenko.\n\nThe latest wave of attacks comes after the U.S. and Ukraine on Wednesday signed an agreement granting American access to Ukraine's vast mineral resources. It finalizes a deal months in the making that could enable continued military aid to Kyiv amid concerns that President Donald Trump might scale back support in ongoing peace negotiations with Russia.\n\n___\n\nMorton reported from London. Associated Press writer Dmytro Zhyhinas contributed to this report.\n\n___\n\nFollow AP's coverage of the war in Ukraine at https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine"
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He said the proposed ceasefire could start anytime as a meaningful step toward ending the three-year war. \"Let's be honest — you can't agree on anything serious in three, five, or seven days,\" he said.\n\nZelenskyy said that Moscow's announcement of a 72-hour ceasefire next week in Ukraine to mark Victory Day in World War II is merely an attempt to create a \"soft atmosphere\" ahead of Russia's annual celebrations. \"It looks unserious,\" he said, \"so that (Russian President Vladimir) Putin's guests on Red Square feel comfortable and safe.\"\n\n## Ukraine won't guarantee safety for visitors to Russia\n\nHe said that Ukraine cannot provide security assurances to foreign officials planning to visit Russia around May 9, warning that Moscow could stage provocations and later attempt to blame Ukraine.\n\nZelenskyy said that some governments had approached Kyiv seeking safety reassurance while their delegations are in Russia.\n\n\"Our position is very simple: we cannot take responsibility for what happens on the territory of the Russian Federation,\" he said. \"They are the ones providing your security, and we will not be offering any guarantees.\"\n\nZelenskyy said he had instructed Ukraine's Foreign Ministry to advise against visiting Russia during this period. \"We must tell those who approach us: we do not recommend visiting the Russian Federation from a security standpoint. And if you choose to do so, don't ask us — it's your personal decision.\"\n\nThe Ukrainian leader reiterated that Kyiv's military actions will remain \"mirror-like,\" responding to Russia's moves. He acknowledged that implementing a complete front-line ceasefire without robust international monitoring remains nearly impossible, but emphasized that the 30-day window offers a credible start.\n\nHe confirmed ongoing efforts to convene the next round of negotiations with the U.S. He also expressed hope that it could happen in Ukraine, saying it was a \"positive sign\" that such a gathering is under discussion despite recent personnel changes in Washington.\n\n## Russia wants Ukraine to 'de-escalate'\n\nIn response to Zelenskyy's comments, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that he had \"unequivocally threatened the world leaders who are planning to arrive in Moscow on May 9.\"\n\nDmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of Russia's Security Council, said Saturday that nobody could guarantee Kyiv's safety if Ukraine attacked Moscow celebrations on May 9.\n\n\"In the event of a real provocation on Victory Day, no one will guarantee that May 10 will come in Kyiv,\" he wrote on Telegram.\n\nKremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said that Russia expects Kyiv to take steps to de-escalate before Victory Day.\n\n\"We will, of course, expect (from) Kyiv not ambiguous, but final statements, and most importantly, actions aimed at de-escalating the conflict during the holidays,\" Peskov told journalists.\n\nRussia's ceasefire proposals, he said, were meant to \"test Kyiv's readiness to find ways for long-term sustainable peace between Russia and Ukraine.\"\n\n## Russia and Ukraine exchange drone strikes\n\nA Russian drone strike on Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city, wounded 47 people, officials said, and prompted another appeal from Zelenskyy for more decisive support from the country's allies.\n\nKharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov said drones hit 12 locations across the city late Friday, hitting residential buildings, civilian infrastructure and vehicles.\n\nThe Kharkiv Prosecutor's Office said that Russian forces used drones with thermobaric warheads. In a statement on Telegram, it said thermobaric weapons create a powerful blast wave and a hot cloud of smoke, causing large-scale destruction. The prosecutor said its use may indicate a deliberate violation of international humanitarian law.\n\n\"While the world hesitates with decisions, nearly every night in Ukraine turns into a nightmare, costing lives. Ukraine needs strengthened air defense. Strong and real decisions are needed from our partners — the United States, Europe, all our partners who seek peace,\" Zelenskyy wrote on X.\n\nRussia fired a total of 183 exploding drones and decoys overnight, Ukraine's air force said. Of those, 77 were intercepted and a further 73 lost, likely having been electronically jammed. Russia also launched two ballistic missiles.\n\nMeanwhile, Russia's Defense Ministry said its air defenses shot down 170 Ukrainian drones overnight. The ministry said eight cruise missiles and three guided missiles were also intercepted.\n\nIn southern Russia, five people, including two children, were injured in a drone strike on the Black Sea port city of Novorossiysk overnight, according to Mayor Andrey Kravchenko.\n\nThe latest wave of attacks comes after the U.S. and Ukraine on Wednesday signed an agreement granting American access to Ukraine's vast mineral resources. It finalizes a deal months in the making that could enable continued military aid to Kyiv amid concerns that President Donald Trump might scale back support in ongoing peace negotiations with Russia."
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"value": "# Organic acreage is shrinking in America\n\nBy Caitlyn Daproza Of Rochester Institute Of Technology and Patrick Whittle Of The Associated Press \nMay 7th, 2025 01:01 PM\n\n---\n\nSKANEATELES, N.Y. (AP) — Farmer Jeremy Brown taps the nose of a young calf. \"I love the ones with the pink noses,\" he says.\n\nThis pink-nosed animal is just one of about 3,200 cattle at Twin Birch Dairy in Skaneateles, New York. In Brown's eyes, the cows on the farm aren't just workers: \"They're the boss, they're the queen of the barn.\"\n\nBrown, a co-owner at Twin Birch, is outspoken on the importance of sustainability in his operation. The average dairy cow emits as much as 265 pounds (120 kilograms) of methane, a potent climate-warming gas, each year. Brown says Twin Birch has worked hard to cut its planet-warming emissions through a number of environmentally sound choices.\n\n\"Ruminants are the solution, not the problem, to climate change,\" he said.\n\n___\n\nEDITOR'S NOTE: This story is a collaboration between Rochester Institute of Technology and The Associated Press.\n\n___\n\nWearing a weathered hoodie and a hat promoting a brand of cow medicine, Brown was spending a windy Friday morning artificially inseminating some of the farm's massive Jerseys and Holsteins. He stepped over an electric manure scraper used to clean the animals' barn.\n\nThe electric scraper means the dairy doesn't have to use a fuel-burning machine for that particular job. Twin Birch also recycles manure for use on crops, cools its milk with water that gets recirculated for cows to drink and grows most of its own feed.\n\nDespite all that, the farm has no desire to pursue a U.S. Department of Agriculture organic certification, Brown said. Doing so would add costs and require the farm to forego technology that makes the dairy business, and ultimately the customer's jug of milk, more affordable, he said.\n\nHe raises a question many farmers have been asking: Is organic farming just a word?\n\n## Declining enthusiasm for the organic certification\n\nAn increasing number of American farmers think so. America's certified organic acreage fell almost 11% between 2019 and 2021. Numerous farmers who implement sustainable practices told The Associated Press that they have stayed away from the certification because it's costly, doesn't do enough to combat climate change and appears to be losing cachet in the marketplace. Converting an existing farm from conventional to organic agriculture can cost tens of thousands of dollars and add labor costs.\n\nThe rules governing the National Organic Program were published in 2000, and in the years after, organic farming boomed to eventually reach more than 5 million acres. But that has been declining in recent years.\n\nAny downward trend is significant, as organic farms make up less than 1% of the country's total acreage, and organic sales are typically only a tiny share of the nationwide total.\n\nShannon Ratcliff, a farmer and co-owner of organically certified Shannon Brook Farms in Watkins Glen, New York, attributes the decline to a 2018 fraud case in Iowa involving a farmer selling grain mislabeled as certified organic. \"The whole thing went crazy — work requirements for farmers ramped up and inspection levels were higher,\" she said.\n\nIt's also just a tough business, Ratcliff said.\n\nHer co-owner, Walter Adam, also thinks younger generations' interest in farming of any kind is also declining.\n\n\"It takes six months to learn everything,\" Adam said. \"We can't find anybody as willing to work on the farm.\"\n\nAdam drives to Manhattan each week to sell their meat and eggs at markets, and spends Sunday mornings helping Ratcliff with business at the Brighton Farmers Market in Brighton, New York.\n\nFrank Mitloehner, a professor in animal science in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences at University of California Davis, said lack of flexibility and efficiency are driving farmers away from organic in an era of rising prices for farmers. He said organic standards need to be overhauled or the marketplace risks organic going away completely.\n\n\"I am in awe that so many organic farmers were able to produce that way for that long,\" he said. \"It seems that they are losing consumer base in these financially troubling times.\"\n\n## But the label still matters to some buyers\n\nStill, there are consumers determined to buy organic. Aaron Swindle, a warehouse employee at a chain supermarket, spends every Sunday morning shopping for organic groceries at the Brighton Farmers Market.\n\n\"The taste quality is different when it's growing nearby,\" Swindle said. He calls the Finger Lakes of New York a \"trifecta,\" a region that contributes dairy, produce, and meat for its residents.\n\nJohn Bolton, owner of Bolton Farms in Hilton, New York, said he has some reservations about organic certification, but he's pursuing it for his hydroponic farm, which grows produce in nutrient-rich water instead of soil. It produces greens such as kale and chard and is popular as a supplier for restaurants in western New York, and draws waves of regular customers at the Rochester Public Market on weekends.\n\nBolton doesn't use pesticides. On a chilly day this spring, he was at his greenhouse unloading 1,500 ladybugs to do the work of eliminating the operation's aphids. That's the kind of practice organic farms use to earn the certification, he said.\n\nHe said his operations aren't immune to the dangers posed by climate change. Abnormally hot days affect their greenhouse, he said: \"It's devastating to not only the people but the plants.\"\n\nBut Bolton described the organic certification as economically and environmentally beneficial to his farm. Getting the certification will carry an expense, but he is confident it will be worth the price.\n\n\"It helps with sales. And you feel good about it – you're doing the right practices,\" Bolton said.\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": "# Organic acreage is shrinking in America\n\nBy Caitlyn Daproza Of Rochester Institute Of Technology and Patrick Whittle Of The Associated Press \nMay 7th, 2025 01:01 PM\n\n---\n\nSKANEATELES, N.Y. (AP) — Farmer Jeremy Brown taps the nose of a young calf. \"I love the ones with the pink noses,\" he says.\n\nThis pink-nosed animal is just one of about 3,200 cattle at Twin Birch Dairy in Skaneateles, New York. In Brown's eyes, the cows on the farm aren't just workers: \"They're the boss, they're the queen of the barn.\"\n\nBrown, a co-owner at Twin Birch, is outspoken on the importance of sustainability in his operation. The average dairy cow emits as much as 265 pounds (120 kilograms) of methane, a potent climate-warming gas, each year. Brown says Twin Birch has worked hard to cut its planet-warming emissions through a number of environmentally sound choices.\n\n\"Ruminants are the solution, not the problem, to climate change,\" he said.\n\n___\n\nEDITOR'S NOTE: This story is a collaboration between Rochester Institute of Technology and The Associated Press.\n\n___\n\nWearing a weathered hoodie and a hat promoting a brand of cow medicine, Brown was spending a windy Friday morning artificially inseminating some of the farm's massive Jerseys and Holsteins. He stepped over an electric manure scraper used to clean the animals' barn.\n\nThe electric scraper means the dairy doesn't have to use a fuel-burning machine for that particular job. Twin Birch also recycles manure for use on crops, cools its milk with water that gets recirculated for cows to drink and grows most of its own feed.\n\nDespite all that, the farm has no desire to pursue a U.S. Department of Agriculture organic certification, Brown said. Doing so would add costs and require the farm to forego technology that makes the dairy business, and ultimately the customer's jug of milk, more affordable, he said.\n\nHe raises a question many farmers have been asking: Is organic farming just a word?\n\n## Declining enthusiasm for the organic certification\n\nAn increasing number of American farmers think so. America's certified organic acreage fell almost 11% between 2019 and 2021. Numerous farmers who implement sustainable practices told The Associated Press that they have stayed away from the certification because it's costly, doesn't do enough to combat climate change and appears to be losing cachet in the marketplace. Converting an existing farm from conventional to organic agriculture can cost tens of thousands of dollars and add labor costs.\n\nThe rules governing the National Organic Program were published in 2000, and in the years after, organic farming boomed to eventually reach more than 5 million acres. But that has been declining in recent years.\n\nAny downward trend is significant, as organic farms make up less than 1% of the country's total acreage, and organic sales are typically only a tiny share of the nationwide total.\n\nShannon Ratcliff, a farmer and co-owner of organically certified Shannon Brook Farms in Watkins Glen, New York, attributes the decline to a 2018 fraud case in Iowa involving a farmer selling grain mislabeled as certified organic. \"The whole thing went crazy — work requirements for farmers ramped up and inspection levels were higher,\" she said.\n\nIt's also just a tough business, Ratcliff said.\n\nHer co-owner, Walter Adam, also thinks younger generations' interest in farming of any kind is also declining.\n\n\"It takes six months to learn everything,\" Adam said. \"We can't find anybody as willing to work on the farm.\"\n\nAdam drives to Manhattan each week to sell their meat and eggs at markets, and spends Sunday mornings helping Ratcliff with business at the Brighton Farmers Market in Brighton, New York.\n\nFrank Mitloehner, a professor in animal science in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences at University of California Davis, said lack of flexibility and efficiency are driving farmers away from organic in an era of rising prices for farmers. He said organic standards need to be overhauled or the marketplace risks organic going away completely.\n\n\"I am in awe that so many organic farmers were able to produce that way for that long,\" he said. \"It seems that they are losing consumer base in these financially troubling times.\"\n\n## But the label still matters to some buyers\n\nStill, there are consumers determined to buy organic. Aaron Swindle, a warehouse employee at a chain supermarket, spends every Sunday morning shopping for organic groceries at the Brighton Farmers Market.\n\n\"The taste quality is different when it's growing nearby,\" Swindle said. He calls the Finger Lakes of New York a \"trifecta,\" a region that contributes dairy, produce, and meat for its residents.\n\nJohn Bolton, owner of Bolton Farms in Hilton, New York, said he has some reservations about organic certification, but he's pursuing it for his hydroponic farm, which grows produce in nutrient-rich water instead of soil. It produces greens such as kale and chard and is popular as a supplier for restaurants in western New York, and draws waves of regular customers at the Rochester Public Market on weekends.\n\nBolton doesn't use pesticides. On a chilly day this spring, he was at his greenhouse unloading 1,500 ladybugs to do the work of eliminating the operation's aphids. That's the kind of practice organic farms use to earn the certification, he said.\n\nHe said his operations aren't immune to the dangers posed by climate change. Abnormally hot days affect their greenhouse, he said: \"It's devastating to not only the people but the plants.\"\n\nBut Bolton described the organic certification as economically and environmentally beneficial to his farm. Getting the certification will carry an expense, but he is confident it will be worth the price.\n\n\"It helps with sales. And you feel good about it – you're doing the right practices,\" Bolton said."
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"value": "# Diamondbacks place reliever Justin Martinez on 15-day IL with right shoulder inflammation\n\nBy Jerry Beach \nMay 1st, 2025 05:25 PM\n\n---\n\nNEW YORK (AP) — The Arizona Diamondbacks placed reliever Justin Martinez on the 15-day injured list with right shoulder inflammation Thursday, a day after after his velocity dipped while he failed to record an out against the New York Mets.\n\nTo replace Martinez, the Diamondbacks recalled left-hander José Castillo from Triple-A Reno. Left-handed reliever A.J. Puk (left elbow inflammation) was moved to the 60-day injured list.\n\nMartinez entered with a three-run lead in the ninth inning Wednesday night, but allowed Tyrone Taylor's homer before walking Francisco Lindor and Juan Soto. Ryan Thompson got the final three outs in the 4-3 win.\n\nMartinez's fastball was clocked between 95 and 96 mph — down a couple of mph from his previous appearances against the Atlanta Braves last Friday and Saturday and down 5 mph from his peak velocity last season.\n\nMartinez, who flew back to Arizona on Thursday morning to undergo an MRI, battled right shoulder fatigue during the back half of April.\n\n\"It was clear last night, we were all watching the same thing — his stuff was down,\" Diamondbacks manager Torey Lovullo said Thursday before the series finale against the Mets. \"We're going to find out what's going on with his shoulder. He feels strongly there's nothing wrong, but we felt like, at the very least, we give him a little bit of a blow, get him healthy, get him back to full speed. That's the most important thing.\"\n\nLovullo said he didn't know who would step in as the closer for the Diamondbacks. Martinez and Puk have combined for seven of Arizona's nine saves this season.\n\n\"We miss A.J. and we're going to miss 'J-Mart' — but they're going to heal and they're going to come back and help us win games,\" Lovullo said. \"In the meantime, everybody's going to hold down the fort, keep their seats warm — hold down the fort and help us win baseball games.\"\n\n___\n\nAP MLB: https://apnews.com/hub/MLB"
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"value": "# Diamondbacks place reliever Justin Martinez on 15-day IL with right shoulder inflammation\n\nBy Jerry Beach \nMay 1st, 2025 05:25 PM\n\n---\n\nNEW YORK (AP) — The Arizona Diamondbacks placed reliever Justin Martinez on the 15-day injured list with right shoulder inflammation Thursday, a day after after his velocity dipped while he failed to record an out against the New York Mets.\n\nTo replace Martinez, the Diamondbacks recalled left-hander José Castillo from Triple-A Reno. Left-handed reliever A.J. Puk (left elbow inflammation) was moved to the 60-day injured list.\n\nMartinez entered with a three-run lead in the ninth inning Wednesday night, but allowed Tyrone Taylor's homer before walking Francisco Lindor and Juan Soto. Ryan Thompson got the final three outs in the 4-3 win.\n\nMartinez's fastball was clocked between 95 and 96 mph — down a couple of mph from his previous appearances against the Atlanta Braves last Friday and Saturday and down 5 mph from his peak velocity last season.\n\nMartinez, who flew back to Arizona on Thursday morning to undergo an MRI, battled right shoulder fatigue during the back half of April.\n\n\"It was clear last night, we were all watching the same thing — his stuff was down,\" Diamondbacks manager Torey Lovullo said Thursday before the series finale against the Mets. \"We're going to find out what's going on with his shoulder. He feels strongly there's nothing wrong, but we felt like, at the very least, we give him a little bit of a blow, get him healthy, get him back to full speed. That's the most important thing.\"\n\nLovullo said he didn't know who would step in as the closer for the Diamondbacks. Martinez and Puk have combined for seven of Arizona's nine saves this season.\n\n\"We miss A.J. and we're going to miss 'J-Mart' — but they're going to heal and they're going to come back and help us win games,\" Lovullo said. \"In the meantime, everybody's going to hold down the fort, keep their seats warm — hold down the fort and help us win baseball games.\""
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"value": "# Polish leader Tusk appeals for unity as Netherlands marks 80th anniversary of WWII liberation\n\nBy Mike Corder \nMay 5th, 2025 07:30 AM\n\n---\n\nWAGENINGEN, Netherlands (AP) — Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk made an impassioned plea for European and transatlantic unity Monday in a speech marking the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Netherlands from World War II German occupation.\n\n\"The experience gained 80 years ago tells us that only when (we) stand together can we overcome,\" Tusk said.\n\nHe added that \"in the face of the threat posed by (President Vladimir) Putin's Russia we need to deepen our European and transatlantic life, and we need genuine solidarity.\"\n\nTusk spoke at a Dutch Liberation Day ceremony where WWII veterans were given a standing ovation by crowds who lined streets to watch a military parade as modern and wartime aircraft flew overhead. Polish troops were among Allied forces who helped liberate the Netherlands.\n\nFestivities in Wageningen centered on a square outside the Hotel de Wereld, where German top brass signed papers on May 5, 1945, that formally ended the brutal five-year occupation as the war drew to a close across Europe.\n\nA small group of veterans, their chests decorated with medals and legs covered in blankets, sat on the front row watching the ceremony. More veterans took part in the parade, some saluting, others blowing kisses to the crowds. Some held tulips and other flowers.\n\nGermany finally surrendered on May 8, now known as Victory in Europe Day.\n\nLiberation Day in the Netherlands is celebrated on May 5, a day after the country observes two minutes of silence to honor its war dead.\n\nLike Tusk, Dutch Defense Minister Ruben Brekelmans used the occasion to call for renewed efforts to nurture peace.\n\n\"War and aggression are back in Europe and it is up to us to protect peace,\" he said.\n\nBrekelmans' speech was briefly disturbed by a small group of protesters who shouted \"Free free Palestine!\" Police detained five people as Brekelmans continued to address the crowd, some of whom booed at the demonstrators as they were led away.\n\nLater Monday, a smoke canister was thrown onto a festival stage in Wageningen where Tusk and his Dutch counterpart Dick Schoof were standing. There no immediate reports of arrests.\n\nOn Sunday, Dutch King Willem-Alexander and others laid wreaths at the national monument in Amsterdam, and two veterans lit a Liberation Fire in Wageningen hours later.\n\nMervyn Kersh, a 100-year-old veteran from Britain, and Nick Janicki, 101, from Canada, ignited the flame in Wageningen's central May 5 Square.\n\nThe country's southern regions were freed in 1944 but the populous western towns and cities had to wait months and endure a devastating famine known as the Hunger Winter that killed thousands.\n\nEvents across Europe marking the end of the 1939-45 war come as the traditional friendly links with the United States, whose forces helped liberate the Netherlands and much of the continent, are fraying. The European Union and the administration of President Donald Trump are now embroiled in a trade war.\n\nTusk appealed for unity at a time of global insecurity.\n\n\"Genuine solidarity between people and nations that will prevent the evil from shaping our present and future,\" he said. \"The time of Europe's carefree comfort, joyous unconcern is over. Today is the time of European mobilization around our fundamental values and our security.\""
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"value": "# Lebanon warns Hamas not to carry out any attacks from its territories\n\nBy Bassem Mroue \nMay 2nd, 2025 10:42 AM\n\n---\n\nBEIRUT (AP) — Lebanese authorities warned the Hamas group Friday that it would face the \"harshest measures\" if it carried out any attacks from Lebanon.\n\nThe warning by the Higher Defense Council, Lebanon's top military body, came weeks after several Lebanese and Palestinians were detained on suspicion of firing rockets from Lebanon into northern Israel.\n\n\"Hamas and other factions will not be allowed to endanger national stability,\" the council said. \"The safety of Lebanon's territories is above all.\"\n\n\"The harshest measures will be taken to put a complete end to any act that infringes on Lebanon's sovereignty,\" according to a statement that was read by Brig. Gen. Mohammed al-Mustafa.\n\nHamas officials did not immediately respond to requests by The Associated Press for comment.\n\nSince the Israel-Hamas war began in October 2023, the Palestinian militant group has carried out several attacks against Israel from Lebanon, where it has an armed presence. Israel has since carried out airstrikes that killed Hamas officials including one of its top military chiefs, Saleh Arouri, in Beirut.\n\nLebanese authorities are seeking to establish their authority throughout the country, mainly in the south near the border with Israel after the 14-month Israel-Hezbollah war that ended in late November with the U.S.-brokered ceasefire.\n\nAuthorities last month detained several people, including a number of Palestinians, who were allegedly involved in firing rockets toward Israel in two separate attacks in late March that triggered intense Israeli airstrikes on parts of Lebanon. Lebanon's Hezbollah group denied at the time that it was behind the firing of rockets.\n\nThe meeting of the Higher Defense Council was attended by senior officials including the country's president, prime minister, army commander and heads of security services.\n\nThe council's statement quoted Prime Minister Nawaf Salam as saying that all \"illegal weapons\" should be handed over to the state.\n\nPalestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is expected to visit Lebanon later this month.\n\nDespite the ceasefire deal with Israel in November, Israel is continuing with near-daily airstrikes on Lebanon that have left dozens of civilians and Hezbollah members dead.\n\nLebanon's state-run National News Agency reported that an Israeli drone fired three missiles Friday morning at a gas station in the southern village of Houla, wounding five people. On Thursday, Israel said it killed an official with Hezbollah's elite Radwan Force in a drone strike in south Lebanon."
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"value": "# Newark mayor Baraka arrested at immigration detention center he has been protesting\n\nBy Jake Offenhartz and Claudia Lauer \nMay 9th, 2025 07:38 PM\n\n---\n\nNewark Mayor Ras Baraka was arrested Friday at a new federal immigration detention center he has been protesting against and was held in custody for several hours.\n\nBaraka was released around 8 p.m. after being accused of trespassing and ignoring warnings to leave the Delaney Hall facility. Stepping out of an SUV with flashing emergency lights, he told waiting supporters: \"The reality is this: I didn't do anything wrong.\"\n\nThe mayor said he could not speak about his case, citing a promise he made to lawyers and the judge. But he voiced full-throated support for everyone living in his community, immigrants included.\n\n\"All of us here, every last one of us, I don't care what background you come from, what nationality, what language you speak,\" Baraka said, \"at some point we have to stop these people from causing division between us.\"\n\nBaraka, a Democrat who is running to succeed term-limited Gov. Phil Murphy, has embraced the fight with the Trump administration over illegal immigration.\n\nHe has aggressively pushed back against the construction and opening of the 1,000-bed detention center, arguing that it should not be allowed to open because of building permit issues.\n\nLinda Baraka, the mayor's wife, accused the federal government of targeting her husband.\n\n\"They didn't arrest anyone else. They didn't ask anyone else to leave. They wanted to make an example out of the mayor,\" she said, adding that she had not been allowed to see him.\n\nAlina Habba, interim U.S. attorney for New Jersey, said on the social platform X that Baraka trespassed at the detention facility, which is run by private prison operator Geo Group.\n\nHabba said Baraka had \"chosen to disregard the law.\"\n\nVideo of the incident showed that Baraka was arrested after returning to the public side of the gate to the facility.\n\n## Witnesses describe a heated argument\n\nWitnesses said the arrest came after Baraka attempted to join three members of New Jersey's congressional delegation, Reps. Robert Menendez, LaMonica McIver, and Bonnie Watson Coleman, in attempting to enter the facility.\n\nWhen federal officials blocked his entry, a heated argument broke out, according to Viri Martinez, an activist with the New Jersey Alliance for Immigrant Justice. It continued even after Baraka returned to the public side of the gates.\n\n\"There was yelling and pushing,\" Martinez said. \"Then the officers swarmed Baraka. They threw one of the organizers to the ground. They put Baraka in handcuffs and put him in an unmarked car.\"\n\nThe Department of Homeland Security said in a statement that the lawmakers had not asked for a tour of Delaney Hall, which the agency said it would have facilitated. The department said that as a bus carrying detainees was entering in the afternoon \"a group of protestors, including two members of the U.S. House of Representatives, stormed the gate and broke into the detention facility.\"\n\nWatson Coleman spokesperson Ned Cooper said the three lawmakers went there unannounced because they planned to inspect it, not take a scheduled tour.\n\n\"They arrived, explained to the guards and the officials at the facility that they were there to exercise their oversight authority,\" he said, adding that they were allowed to enter and inspect the center sometime between 3 and 4 p.m.\n\nWatson Coleman later said the DHS statement inaccurately characterized the visit.\n\n\"Contrary to a press statement put out by DHS we did not 'storm' the detention center,\" she wrote. \"The author of that press release was so unfamiliar with the facts on the ground that they didn't even correctly count the number of Representatives present. We were exercising our legal oversight function as we have done at the Elizabeth Detention Center without incident.\"\n\n## Video shows the mayor standing on the public side of the gate\n\nIn video of the altercation shared with The Associated Press, a federal official in a jacket with the logo of the Homeland Security Investigations can be heard telling Baraka he could not enter the facility because \"you are not a congress member.\"\n\nBaraka then left the secure area, rejoining protesters on the public side of the gate. Video showed him speaking through the gate to a man in a suit, who said: \"They're talking about coming back to arrest you.\"\n\n\"I'm not on their property. They can't come out on the street and arrest me,\" Baraka replied.\n\nMinutes later several ICE agents, some wearing face coverings, surrounded him and others on the public side. As protesters cried out, \"Shame,\" Baraka was dragged back through the gate in handcuffs.\n\nSeveral civil rights and immigration reform advocates, as well as government officials, condemned Baraka's arrest. New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin, whose office is defending a state law barring private immigration detention facilities, criticized the arrest during a seemingly peaceful protest and said no state or local law enforcement agencies were involved.\n\nRep. Menendez said in a statement that as members of Congress, they have the legal right to carry out oversight at DHS facilities without prior notice and have done so twice already this year. But on Friday, \"Throughout every step of this visit, ICE attempted to intimidate everyone involved and impede our ability to conduct oversight.\"\n\n## The detention center\n\nThe two-story building next to a county prison formerly operated as a halfway house.\n\nIn February, ICE awarded a 15-year contract to The Geo Group Inc. to run the detention center. Geo valued the contract at $1 billion, in an unusually long and large agreement for ICE.\n\nThe announcement was part of President Donald Trump's plans to sharply increase detention beds nationwide from a budget of about 41,000 beds this year.\n\nBaraka sued Geo soon after the deal was announced.\n\nGeo touted the Delaney Hall contract during an earnings call with shareholders Wednesday, with CEO David Donahue saying it was expected to generate more than $60 million a year in revenue. He said the facility began the intake process May 1.\n\nHall said the activation of the center and another in Michigan would increase capacity under contract with ICE from around 20,000 beds to around 23,000.\n\nDHS said in its statement that the facility has the proper permits and inspections have been cleared.\n\n___\n\nAssociated Press writer Rebecca Santana in Washington contributed."
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"value": "# Newark mayor Baraka arrested at immigration detention center he has been protesting\n\nBy Jake Offenhartz and Claudia Lauer \nMay 9th, 2025 07:38 PM\n\n---\n\nNewark Mayor Ras Baraka was arrested Friday at a new federal immigration detention center he has been protesting against and was held in custody for several hours.\n\nBaraka was released around 8 p.m. after being accused of trespassing and ignoring warnings to leave the Delaney Hall facility. Stepping out of an SUV with flashing emergency lights, he told waiting supporters: \"The reality is this: I didn't do anything wrong.\"\n\nThe mayor said he could not speak about his case, citing a promise he made to lawyers and the judge. But he voiced full-throated support for everyone living in his community, immigrants included.\n\n\"All of us here, every last one of us, I don't care what background you come from, what nationality, what language you speak,\" Baraka said, \"at some point we have to stop these people from causing division between us.\"\n\nBaraka, a Democrat who is running to succeed term-limited Gov. Phil Murphy, has embraced the fight with the Trump administration over illegal immigration.\n\nHe has aggressively pushed back against the construction and opening of the 1,000-bed detention center, arguing that it should not be allowed to open because of building permit issues.\n\nLinda Baraka, the mayor's wife, accused the federal government of targeting her husband.\n\n\"They didn't arrest anyone else. They didn't ask anyone else to leave. They wanted to make an example out of the mayor,\" she said, adding that she had not been allowed to see him.\n\nAlina Habba, interim U.S. attorney for New Jersey, said on the social platform X that Baraka trespassed at the detention facility, which is run by private prison operator Geo Group.\n\nHabba said Baraka had \"chosen to disregard the law.\"\n\nVideo of the incident showed that Baraka was arrested after returning to the public side of the gate to the facility.\n\n## Witnesses describe a heated argument\n\nWitnesses said the arrest came after Baraka attempted to join three members of New Jersey's congressional delegation, Reps. Robert Menendez, LaMonica McIver, and Bonnie Watson Coleman, in attempting to enter the facility.\n\nWhen federal officials blocked his entry, a heated argument broke out, according to Viri Martinez, an activist with the New Jersey Alliance for Immigrant Justice. It continued even after Baraka returned to the public side of the gates.\n\n\"There was yelling and pushing,\" Martinez said. \"Then the officers swarmed Baraka. They threw one of the organizers to the ground. They put Baraka in handcuffs and put him in an unmarked car.\"\n\nThe Department of Homeland Security said in a statement that the lawmakers had not asked for a tour of Delaney Hall, which the agency said it would have facilitated. The department said that as a bus carrying detainees was entering in the afternoon \"a group of protestors, including two members of the U.S. House of Representatives, stormed the gate and broke into the detention facility.\"\n\nWatson Coleman spokesperson Ned Cooper said the three lawmakers went there unannounced because they planned to inspect it, not take a scheduled tour.\n\n\"They arrived, explained to the guards and the officials at the facility that they were there to exercise their oversight authority,\" he said, adding that they were allowed to enter and inspect the center sometime between 3 and 4 p.m.\n\nWatson Coleman later said the DHS statement inaccurately characterized the visit.\n\n\"Contrary to a press statement put out by DHS we did not 'storm' the detention center,\" she wrote. \"The author of that press release was so unfamiliar with the facts on the ground that they didn't even correctly count the number of Representatives present. We were exercising our legal oversight function as we have done at the Elizabeth Detention Center without incident.\"\n\n## Video shows the mayor standing on the public side of the gate\n\nIn video of the altercation shared with The Associated Press, a federal official in a jacket with the logo of the Homeland Security Investigations can be heard telling Baraka he could not enter the facility because \"you are not a congress member.\"\n\nBaraka then left the secure area, rejoining protesters on the public side of the gate. Video showed him speaking through the gate to a man in a suit, who said: \"They're talking about coming back to arrest you.\"\n\n\"I'm not on their property. They can't come out on the street and arrest me,\" Baraka replied.\n\nMinutes later several ICE agents, some wearing face coverings, surrounded him and others on the public side. As protesters cried out, \"Shame,\" Baraka was dragged back through the gate in handcuffs.\n\nSeveral civil rights and immigration reform advocates, as well as government officials, condemned Baraka's arrest. New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin, whose office is defending a state law barring private immigration detention facilities, criticized the arrest during a seemingly peaceful protest and said no state or local law enforcement agencies were involved.\n\nRep. Menendez said in a statement that as members of Congress, they have the legal right to carry out oversight at DHS facilities without prior notice and have done so twice already this year. But on Friday, \"Throughout every step of this visit, ICE attempted to intimidate everyone involved and impede our ability to conduct oversight.\"\n\n## The detention center\n\nThe two-story building next to a county prison formerly operated as a halfway house.\n\nIn February, ICE awarded a 15-year contract to The Geo Group Inc. to run the detention center. Geo valued the contract at $1 billion, in an unusually long and large agreement for ICE.\n\nThe announcement was part of President Donald Trump's plans to sharply increase detention beds nationwide from a budget of about 41,000 beds this year.\n\nBaraka sued Geo soon after the deal was announced.\n\nGeo touted the Delaney Hall contract during an earnings call with shareholders Wednesday, with CEO David Donahue saying it was expected to generate more than $60 million a year in revenue. He said the facility began the intake process May 1.\n\nHall said the activation of the center and another in Michigan would increase capacity under contract with ICE from around 20,000 beds to around 23,000.\n\nDHS said in its statement that the facility has the proper permits and inspections have been cleared."
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"value": "# US must give migrants a chance to contest deportations to Libya, judge says\n\nBy Rebecca Santana, Lindsay Whitehurst, and Samy Magdy \nMay 7th, 2025 09:02 PM\n\n---\n\nWASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. authorities informed some migrants of plans to deport them to Libya, a country they are not from and that has a history of human rights violations, attorneys said Wednesday. A judge said they can't be deported without a chance to challenge such a move in court.\n\nThe legal scramble comes as the Trump administration is pushing forward with plans to carry out mass deportations, including efforts to send migrants to a country where they are not a citizen. The most controversial example of so-called third-country removals has been sending Venezuelans to a notorious El Salvador prison.\n\nSending deportees to Libya, a country with a documented history of migrant abuse, would mark a major escalation of the administration's push for third countries to take in people being removed from the United States.\n\nA U.S. official said earlier Wednesday there were plans to fly migrants to Libya on a military plane but did not have details on the timing of the C-17 flight. The official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss military operations.\n\nImmigration attorneys say some of their clients, including people from Vietnam, Laos and the Philippines, were told by immigration enforcement agents that they were going to be deported to Libya. Some were told they were going to Saudi Arabia, they said.\n\nImmigration and Customs Enforcement officers gathered six people who are detained in southern Texas in a room early Tuesday and told them that they needed to sign a document agreeing that they would be removed to Libya, immigration attorneys representing people from Vietnam said in a court filing, citing reports from relatives of those in detention.\n\n\"When they all refused, they were each put in a separate room and cuffed in (basically, solitary) in order to get them to sign it,\" the lawyers wrote.\n\nIn another example, a lawyer for a man from the Philippines wrote to ICE in San Antonio saying his client had learned he was going to be sent to Libya. The attorney wrote that his client \"fears being removed to Libya and must therefore be provided with an interview before any removal occurs.\"\n\n## Judge says migrants must get a chance to contest deportations\n\nThe attorneys went to court Wednesday asking U.S. District Judge Brian E. Murphy in Massachusetts to intervene. Murphy has been overseeing a lawsuit against the Trump administration over its practice of deporting people to countries where they are not citizens.\n\nHe ruled in March that even if people have otherwise exhausted their legal appeals, they can't be deported away from their homeland before getting a \"meaningful opportunity\" to argue that it would jeopardize their safety.\n\nOn Wednesday, he said any \"allegedly imminent\" removals to Libya would \"clearly violate this Court's Order.\" He also ordered the government to hand over details about the claims.\n\nIn addition to the Venezuelans sent to El Salvador, the administration has deported people to Panama and Costa Rica who were not citizens of those countries.\n\nSending someone to a country that is not their own has raised a host of questions about due process and, particularly in the case of El Salvador, whether they are going to be subject to further abuse.\n\nOutside of those three Central American nations, the Trump administration has said it's exploring other third countries for deportations. Asked Wednesday about whether Libya was one of those countries, the administration had little to say.\n\nPresident Donald Trump directed questions to the Department of Homeland Security. DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said during a news conference in Illinois that she \"can't confirm\" media reports of plans to send people to Libya.\n\nThe State Department said it does not \"discuss the details of our diplomatic communications with other governments.\"\n\n## Libya denies reports of a deportation deal\n\nThe Tripoli-based government of Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah said in a statement Wednesday that there was \"no deal or coordination\" with the U.S. to receive migrants. However, it said \"some parallel parties\" could have agreed to receive them.\n\nThat appears to refer to its rival administration in east Libya, which is controlled by powerful military commander Khalifa Hifter. Libya has been split for years between rival administrations in the east and west, each backed by armed groups and foreign governments.\n\nThe Hifter-led Libya National Army, which controls eastern and southern Libya, also released a statement, denying any deal or understanding to receive migrants from the U.S.\n\n\"There won't be any acceptance or reception of them (the migrants) on the territories secured by the Libyan Armed Forces whatever the reasons and justifications are,\" it said.\n\nAbuses against migrants in detention in Libya have been widely documented, with U.N. investigators saying they had evidence of possible crimes against humanity, including accounts of murder, torture, enslavement, extrajudicial killings and rape.\n\nMigrants have told The Associated Press about repeated beatings and torture while ransoms were demanded of their families. Their bodies showed traces of old and recent injuries, and signs of bullet and knife wounds on their backs, legs, arms and faces.\n\n___\n\nMagdy reported from Cairo. AP writers Lolita C. Baldor and Seung Min Kim in Washington and John O'Connor in Springfield, Illinois, contributed to this report."
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"value": "# US must give migrants a chance to contest deportations to Libya, judge says\n\nBy Rebecca Santana, Lindsay Whitehurst, and Samy Magdy \nMay 7th, 2025 09:02 PM\n\n---\n\nWASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. authorities informed some migrants of plans to deport them to Libya, a country they are not from and that has a history of human rights violations, attorneys said Wednesday. A judge said they can't be deported without a chance to challenge such a move in court.\n\nThe legal scramble comes as the Trump administration is pushing forward with plans to carry out mass deportations, including efforts to send migrants to a country where they are not a citizen. The most controversial example of so-called third-country removals has been sending Venezuelans to a notorious El Salvador prison.\n\nSending deportees to Libya, a country with a documented history of migrant abuse, would mark a major escalation of the administration's push for third countries to take in people being removed from the United States.\n\nA U.S. official said earlier Wednesday there were plans to fly migrants to Libya on a military plane but did not have details on the timing of the C-17 flight. The official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss military operations.\n\nImmigration attorneys say some of their clients, including people from Vietnam, Laos and the Philippines, were told by immigration enforcement agents that they were going to be deported to Libya. Some were told they were going to Saudi Arabia, they said.\n\nImmigration and Customs Enforcement officers gathered six people who are detained in southern Texas in a room early Tuesday and told them that they needed to sign a document agreeing that they would be removed to Libya, immigration attorneys representing people from Vietnam said in a court filing, citing reports from relatives of those in detention.\n\n\"When they all refused, they were each put in a separate room and cuffed in (basically, solitary) in order to get them to sign it,\" the lawyers wrote.\n\nIn another example, a lawyer for a man from the Philippines wrote to ICE in San Antonio saying his client had learned he was going to be sent to Libya. The attorney wrote that his client \"fears being removed to Libya and must therefore be provided with an interview before any removal occurs.\"\n\n## Judge says migrants must get a chance to contest deportations\n\nThe attorneys went to court Wednesday asking U.S. District Judge Brian E. Murphy in Massachusetts to intervene. Murphy has been overseeing a lawsuit against the Trump administration over its practice of deporting people to countries where they are not citizens.\n\nHe ruled in March that even if people have otherwise exhausted their legal appeals, they can't be deported away from their homeland before getting a \"meaningful opportunity\" to argue that it would jeopardize their safety.\n\nOn Wednesday, he said any \"allegedly imminent\" removals to Libya would \"clearly violate this Court's Order.\" He also ordered the government to hand over details about the claims.\n\nIn addition to the Venezuelans sent to El Salvador, the administration has deported people to Panama and Costa Rica who were not citizens of those countries.\n\nSending someone to a country that is not their own has raised a host of questions about due process and, particularly in the case of El Salvador, whether they are going to be subject to further abuse.\n\nOutside of those three Central American nations, the Trump administration has said it's exploring other third countries for deportations. Asked Wednesday about whether Libya was one of those countries, the administration had little to say.\n\nPresident Donald Trump directed questions to the Department of Homeland Security. DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said during a news conference in Illinois that she \"can't confirm\" media reports of plans to send people to Libya.\n\nThe State Department said it does not \"discuss the details of our diplomatic communications with other governments.\"\n\n## Libya denies reports of a deportation deal\n\nThe Tripoli-based government of Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah said in a statement Wednesday that there was \"no deal or coordination\" with the U.S. to receive migrants. However, it said \"some parallel parties\" could have agreed to receive them.\n\nThat appears to refer to its rival administration in east Libya, which is controlled by powerful military commander Khalifa Hifter. Libya has been split for years between rival administrations in the east and west, each backed by armed groups and foreign governments.\n\nThe Hifter-led Libya National Army, which controls eastern and southern Libya, also released a statement, denying any deal or understanding to receive migrants from the U.S.\n\n\"There won't be any acceptance or reception of them (the migrants) on the territories secured by the Libyan Armed Forces whatever the reasons and justifications are,\" it said.\n\nAbuses against migrants in detention in Libya have been widely documented, with U.N. investigators saying they had evidence of possible crimes against humanity, including accounts of murder, torture, enslavement, extrajudicial killings and rape.\n\nMigrants have told The Associated Press about repeated beatings and torture while ransoms were demanded of their families. Their bodies showed traces of old and recent injuries, and signs of bullet and knife wounds on their backs, legs, arms and faces."
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"value": "# New Kings coach Doug Christie has 'unfinished business' as he takes on the full-time role\n\nBy Josh Dubow \nMay 2nd, 2025 06:10 PM\n\n---\n\nDoug Christie's first opportunity as an NBA coach was a bit of a roller coaster.\n\nAfter being hired on an interim basis to replace the fired Mike Brown early in the season, Christie provided a quick boost to the struggling Sacramento Kings, watched star guard De'Aaron Fox get traded and then rebounded from a rough stretch in March to get into the play-in tournament only to lose the opener at home.\n\nNow Christie gets a longer chance in the role after being hired by new Kings general manager Scott Perry to be the full-time head coach of a franchise that has made the playoffs only once in the last 19 seasons.\n\n\"We have unfinished business,\" Christie said at his introductory news conference on Friday. \"That's my mindset going into it and how we're approaching it right now. This game will leave a hole in your heart. It will. It's difficult. It will take something from you. The odd thing about that is, it's the only thing that can fill that void. With that, I accept the challenge and the opportunity.\"\n\nThe Kings went 27-24 under Christie and earned the ninth seed in the Western Conference before losing to Dallas in the play-in opener.\n\nChristie has strong ties to the Kings and the Sacramento area, having played for the team during its best stretch in the early 2000s, and later served as both an announcer and assistant coach before taking over from Brown last December.\n\nPerry said he met Christie first when Christie was a player in the 1990s and got to know him better during his three-month stint as assistant general manager in 2017.\n\nPerry said he was impressed with what he saw from Christie during his \"baptism by fire\" while watching the season unfold back home and quickly settled in on him as his choice of coach.\n\n\"The more we talked, the more seamless it felt to me,\" Perry said. \"It was just a natural fit because we see the game in a lot of the same ways. ... The values and the core and the intangibles of this game of basketball, we both have a deep appreciation for and it was important for us that whoever is sitting in that head coaching seat could carry that out.\"\n\nThe Kings have made the playoffs just once since 2006, losing in the first round to Golden State in 2023 in Brown's first season as coach.\n\nSacramento has the fifth-worst record in the NBA since Vivek Ranadive took over as owner in 2013. The team has had five lead executives and nine head coaches — including interims — in that span.\n\nThe Kings hope the new team of Perry and Christie brings needed stability to the franchise. The team has a core in place led by Domantas Sabonis, DeMar DeRozan, Zach LaVine, Keegan Murray and Malik Monk.\n\nThe team likely won't have a first-round draft pick; the Kings have a 3.8% chance of moving into the top four in the lottery. Otherwise the pick will go Atlanta as part of a previous deal made for Kevin Huerter.\n\nPerry said building a title contender won't be an immediate process.\n\n\"We're both wired to win, obviously. But we're not going to skip steps either,\" he said. \"This year is really about establishing an identity and a foundation of what it means to be a Sacramento Kings basketball player. That really for us in Year 1 will be our north star or true evaluator of where we're at.\"\n\n___\n\nAP NBA: https://apnews.com/NBA"
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"value": "# New Kings coach Doug Christie has 'unfinished business' as he takes on the full-time role\n\nBy Josh Dubow \nMay 2nd, 2025 06:10 PM\n\n---\n\nDoug Christie's first opportunity as an NBA coach was a bit of a roller coaster.\n\nAfter being hired on an interim basis to replace the fired Mike Brown early in the season, Christie provided a quick boost to the struggling Sacramento Kings, watched star guard De'Aaron Fox get traded and then rebounded from a rough stretch in March to get into the play-in tournament only to lose the opener at home.\n\nNow Christie gets a longer chance in the role after being hired by new Kings general manager Scott Perry to be the full-time head coach of a franchise that has made the playoffs only once in the last 19 seasons.\n\n\"We have unfinished business,\" Christie said at his introductory news conference on Friday. \"That's my mindset going into it and how we're approaching it right now. This game will leave a hole in your heart. It will. It's difficult. It will take something from you. The odd thing about that is, it's the only thing that can fill that void. With that, I accept the challenge and the opportunity.\"\n\nThe Kings went 27-24 under Christie and earned the ninth seed in the Western Conference before losing to Dallas in the play-in opener.\n\nChristie has strong ties to the Kings and the Sacramento area, having played for the team during its best stretch in the early 2000s, and later served as both an announcer and assistant coach before taking over from Brown last December.\n\nPerry said he met Christie first when Christie was a player in the 1990s and got to know him better during his three-month stint as assistant general manager in 2017.\n\nPerry said he was impressed with what he saw from Christie during his \"baptism by fire\" while watching the season unfold back home and quickly settled in on him as his choice of coach.\n\n\"The more we talked, the more seamless it felt to me,\" Perry said. \"It was just a natural fit because we see the game in a lot of the same ways. ... The values and the core and the intangibles of this game of basketball, we both have a deep appreciation for and it was important for us that whoever is sitting in that head coaching seat could carry that out.\"\n\nThe Kings have made the playoffs just once since 2006, losing in the first round to Golden State in 2023 in Brown's first season as coach.\n\nSacramento has the fifth-worst record in the NBA since Vivek Ranadive took over as owner in 2013. The team has had five lead executives and nine head coaches — including interims — in that span.\n\nThe Kings hope the new team of Perry and Christie brings needed stability to the franchise. The team has a core in place led by Domantas Sabonis, DeMar DeRozan, Zach LaVine, Keegan Murray and Malik Monk.\n\nThe team likely won't have a first-round draft pick; the Kings have a 3.8% chance of moving into the top four in the lottery. Otherwise the pick will go Atlanta as part of a previous deal made for Kevin Huerter.\n\nPerry said building a title contender won't be an immediate process.\n\n\"We're both wired to win, obviously. But we're not going to skip steps either,\" he said. \"This year is really about establishing an identity and a foundation of what it means to be a Sacramento Kings basketball player. That really for us in Year 1 will be our north star or true evaluator of where we're at.\""
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"value": "# Singer-songwriter Lizzy McAlpine makes her Broadway debut\n\nBy Mark Kennedy \nMay 6th, 2025 04:16 PM\n\n---\n\nNEW YORK (AP) — Lizzy McAlpine is surrounded by music these days. She's making her Broadway debut in a daring stage musical, and when she retreats to her dressing room, her own songs demand attention.\n\n\"When the inspiration hits, I've got to write. I've got to have a guitar there or else I'll go crazy,\" she says. \"I just kind of have to wait for them. I can't really force a song.\"\n\nThe folk-pop singer-songwriter is following-up last year's release of her third album, \"Older,\" with a role in \"Floyd Collins,\" a musical about life, death and fame. She calls it perfect timing.\n\n\"I was starting to feel like I wanted to do something new, and this kind of came at the perfect time. It's the first and only Broadway show that I've ever auditioned for,\" she says.\n\nMcAlpine has been building a sonic reputation for raw, stripped-down tracks and intimate, deeply reflective lyrics. Her single \"Ceilings\" went viral on TikTok, and \"Older\" has been hailed by critics.\n\nBroadway made sense for a woman who grew up watching shows in New York and who has an \"ability to infuse each song with character, as if acting,\" the AP said in a review of \"Older.\"\n\n\"I feel like all of my music has musical theater in it because I have loved theater for so long,\" she says. \"I saw my first Broadway show and I was like 8, and so, it just kind of seeps into my music whether I am conscious of it or not.\"\n\n## 'In her own world'\n\n\"Floyd Collins,\" which just earned six Tony Award nominations, tells the tale of a hapless explorer who gets himself trapped in a Kentucky cave in 1925, triggering the first modern media frenzy. McAlpine plays Floyd Collins' sister, a woman who doesn't fit in.\n\n\"She is strange, definitely, but it's just because she's in her own world, and she sees the world differently than everyone else. She sees the beauty in it. She's like a sponge. She picks up everything that everyone is throwing out. She's just different. Not necessarily in a bad way,\" McAlpine says.\n\n\"It explores being a young woman in the 1920s and being misunderstood and not listened to and not heard, and that's like been a theme in my life because I'm working in the music industry. I'm surrounded by men all the time.\"\n\nMcAlpine, 25, didn't know much about \"Floyd Collins\" — it deputed off-Broadway in 1996 — but was a fan of its composer and lyricist, Adam Guettel, who created \"The Light in the Piazza,\" one of her favorite musicals.\n\n\"I saw his name and I was like, 'Oh, I love him.' So I listened to the cast recording on Spotify from the original production and immediately was just hooked,\" she says. \"It just sounded like nothing that was on Broadway now. It was just so unique, and I love that kind of stuff.\"\n\n## Broadway lured her\n\nMcAlpine, who was raised in a suburb of Philadelphia and attended the Berklee College of Music, did theater in high school. Her grandparents would take her and her siblings to Broadway every year, and her mom would sing \"Wicked\" in the car. During the pandemic, she livestreamed Broadway covers on Instagram.\n\n\"She had a kind of unaffected directness and purity and honesty in how she approached the reading of the role, to say nothing of the singing,\" says Tina Landau, who directed \"Floyd Collins\" as well as supplied the book and some lyrics.\n\n\"I really felt that there was something in how unfettered and organic and unadorned her approach to it was that was perfect for the character, because Nellie just speaks truth.\"\n\nMcAlpine remembers seeing \"My Fair Lady\" at the Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center — the same theater she graces in \"Floyd Collins.\" \"Sometimes I'm on stage and I'm just thinking about I was in the audience one time, and it is just so crazy.\"\n\nAfter the musical, she plans on another album, and the music that's coming out has been touched by the show. \"It feels like it's becoming more complex because I'm singing these songs that are so complex every day,\" she says. After that, she's open to ideas, even to more theater.\n\n\"It has to be the right thing. This felt like it came to me at the exact right time in my life, and this was the exact right show for me. And so, if something else comes along, it would have to be the exact set of circumstances.\"\n\nIf that sounds like a singer-songwriter who is taking charge of her career, McAlpine would agree. She's done, for example, with an unhealthy pace to her tours.\n\n\"I'm finally at a place in my career where I can make decisions and do things that really align with myself. There was a while there before my last album where I was kind of just being pulled along, and I was just doing things because that's how everyone does them,\" she says.\n\n\"I feel like I am now more sure of myself, and I know what I have to do to make myself feel comfortable. Even if it's outside of the norm or what other people do in the industry, I'm going to do it anyway.\""
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"value": "# Singer-songwriter Lizzy McAlpine makes her Broadway debut\n\nBy Mark Kennedy \nMay 6th, 2025 04:16 PM\n\n---\n\nNEW YORK (AP) — Lizzy McAlpine is surrounded by music these days. She's making her Broadway debut in a daring stage musical, and when she retreats to her dressing room, her own songs demand attention.\n\n\"When the inspiration hits, I've got to write. I've got to have a guitar there or else I'll go crazy,\" she says. \"I just kind of have to wait for them. I can't really force a song.\"\n\nThe folk-pop singer-songwriter is following-up last year's release of her third album, \"Older,\" with a role in \"Floyd Collins,\" a musical about life, death and fame. She calls it perfect timing.\n\n\"I was starting to feel like I wanted to do something new, and this kind of came at the perfect time. It's the first and only Broadway show that I've ever auditioned for,\" she says.\n\nMcAlpine has been building a sonic reputation for raw, stripped-down tracks and intimate, deeply reflective lyrics. Her single \"Ceilings\" went viral on TikTok, and \"Older\" has been hailed by critics.\n\nBroadway made sense for a woman who grew up watching shows in New York and who has an \"ability to infuse each song with character, as if acting,\" the AP said in a review of \"Older.\"\n\n\"I feel like all of my music has musical theater in it because I have loved theater for so long,\" she says. \"I saw my first Broadway show and I was like 8, and so, it just kind of seeps into my music whether I am conscious of it or not.\"\n\n## 'In her own world'\n\n\"Floyd Collins,\" which just earned six Tony Award nominations, tells the tale of a hapless explorer who gets himself trapped in a Kentucky cave in 1925, triggering the first modern media frenzy. McAlpine plays Floyd Collins' sister, a woman who doesn't fit in.\n\n\"She is strange, definitely, but it's just because she's in her own world, and she sees the world differently than everyone else. She sees the beauty in it. She's like a sponge. She picks up everything that everyone is throwing out. She's just different. Not necessarily in a bad way,\" McAlpine says.\n\n\"It explores being a young woman in the 1920s and being misunderstood and not listened to and not heard, and that's like been a theme in my life because I'm working in the music industry. I'm surrounded by men all the time.\"\n\nMcAlpine, 25, didn't know much about \"Floyd Collins\" — it deputed off-Broadway in 1996 — but was a fan of its composer and lyricist, Adam Guettel, who created \"The Light in the Piazza,\" one of her favorite musicals.\n\n\"I saw his name and I was like, 'Oh, I love him.' So I listened to the cast recording on Spotify from the original production and immediately was just hooked,\" she says. \"It just sounded like nothing that was on Broadway now. It was just so unique, and I love that kind of stuff.\"\n\n## Broadway lured her\n\nMcAlpine, who was raised in a suburb of Philadelphia and attended the Berklee College of Music, did theater in high school. Her grandparents would take her and her siblings to Broadway every year, and her mom would sing \"Wicked\" in the car. During the pandemic, she livestreamed Broadway covers on Instagram.\n\n\"She had a kind of unaffected directness and purity and honesty in how she approached the reading of the role, to say nothing of the singing,\" says Tina Landau, who directed \"Floyd Collins\" as well as supplied the book and some lyrics.\n\n\"I really felt that there was something in how unfettered and organic and unadorned her approach to it was that was perfect for the character, because Nellie just speaks truth.\"\n\nMcAlpine remembers seeing \"My Fair Lady\" at the Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center — the same theater she graces in \"Floyd Collins.\" \"Sometimes I'm on stage and I'm just thinking about I was in the audience one time, and it is just so crazy.\"\n\nAfter the musical, she plans on another album, and the music that's coming out has been touched by the show. \"It feels like it's becoming more complex because I'm singing these songs that are so complex every day,\" she says. After that, she's open to ideas, even to more theater.\n\n\"It has to be the right thing. This felt like it came to me at the exact right time in my life, and this was the exact right show for me. And so, if something else comes along, it would have to be the exact set of circumstances.\"\n\nIf that sounds like a singer-songwriter who is taking charge of her career, McAlpine would agree. She's done, for example, with an unhealthy pace to her tours.\n\n\"I'm finally at a place in my career where I can make decisions and do things that really align with myself. There was a while there before my last album where I was kind of just being pulled along, and I was just doing things because that's how everyone does them,\" she says.\n\n\"I feel like I am now more sure of myself, and I know what I have to do to make myself feel comfortable. Even if it's outside of the norm or what other people do in the industry, I'm going to do it anyway.\""
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"value": "# Fishermen debate what Trump order will do to American seafood\n\nBy Patrick Whittle and Robert F. Bukaty \nMay 9th, 2025 04:01 AM\n\n---\n\nSTONINGTON, Maine (AP) — Virginia Olsen has pulled lobsters from Maine's chilly Atlantic waters for decades while watching threats to the state's lifeblood industry mount.\n\nTrade imbalances with Canada, tight regulations on fisheries and offshore wind farms towering like skyscrapers on open water pose three of those threats, said Olsen, part of the fifth generation in her family to make a living in the lobster trade.\n\nThat's why she was encouraged last month when President Donald Trump signed an executive order that promises to restore American fisheries to their former glory. The order promises to shred fishing regulations, and Olsen said that will allow fishermen to do what they do best — fish.\n\nThat will make a huge difference in communities like her home of Stonington, the busiest lobster fishing port in the country, Olsen said. It's a tiny island town of winding streets, swooping gulls and mansard roof houses with an economy almost entirely dependent on commercial fishing, some three hours up the coast from Portland, Maine's biggest city.\n\nOlsen knows firsthand how much has changed over the years. Hundreds of fish and shellfish populations globally have dwindled to dangerously low levels, alarming scientists and prompting the restrictions and catch limits that Trump's order could wash away with the stroke of a pen. But she's heartened that the livelihoods of people who work the traps and cast the nets have become a priority in faraway places where they often felt their voices weren't heard.\n\n\"I do think it's time to have the conversation on what regulations that the industry does need. We're fishing different than we did 100 years ago,\" she said. \"If everything is being looked at, we should be looking at the regulations within the fishing industry.\"\n\n## A question of sustainability and competitiveness\n\nBut if fishing and lobstering interests finally have a seat at the table, the questions become how much seafood can be served there — and for how long. Trump's April 17 order, called \"Restoring American Seafood Competitiveness,\" promises an overhaul of the way America fishes, and cites a national seafood trade deficit of more than $20 billion as the reason to do it. The order calls on the federal government to reduce the regulatory burden on fishermen by later this month.\n\nIt arrives at a time when conservation groups and many marine scientists say the ocean needs more regulation, not less. One oft-cited 2020 study led by a scientist at the University of British Columbia looked at more than 1,300 fish and invertebrate populations and found that 82% were below levels that can produce maximum sustainable yields. The university said the study \"discovered global declines, some severe, of many popularly consumed species.\"\n\nTrump's order prioritizes commerce over conservation. It also calls for the development of a comprehensive seafood trade strategy and a review of existing marine monuments, which are underwater protected zones, to see if any should be opened for fishing. At least one, the Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument, has already been reopened.\n\nMany commercial fishermen and fishing trade groups lauded the order. Members of the industry, one of the oldest in the country, have long made the case that heavy regulations — many intended to protect the health of fish populations — leave the U.S. at a competitive disadvantage to the fleets of countries that don't bear the same kind of burden. That disadvantage is a big piece of why America imports more than two-thirds of its seafood, they argue.\n\n\"The president's executive order recognizes the challenges our fishing families and communities face, and we appreciate the commitment to reduce burdensome regulations and strengthen the competitiveness of American seafood,\" said Patrice McCarron, executive director of the Maine Lobstermen's Association.\n\nSome fishermen, including Maine lobsterman Don McHenan, said they're looking forward to members of the industry being able to fish in areas of the ocean that have been closed off to them for years. McHenan said he's also hopeful the pace of new regulations will slow.\n\n\"As long as they don't put any more onto us,\" McHenan said. \"We'll see — time will tell.\"\n\n## Not all fishermen are on board\n\nBut the support for deregulation is not unanimous among fishermen. Some say strong conservation laws are critical to protecting species that fishermen rely on to make a living.\n\nIn Alaska, for example, Matt Wiebe said the executive order \"terrifies\" him. A commercial fisherman with more than 50 years of experience fishing for salmon, he said the order could potentially harm the Bristol Bay sockeye salmon fishery, which has received praise from sustainability organizations for careful management of the fish supply.\n\nAbsent that management, he said the world's largest sockeye salmon fishery could go the way of the New England cod fishing business, which collapsed due in large part to overfishing and has never recovered.\n\n\"Since New England fishers lost their cod fishery due to overfishing, many other fisheries came to respect and depend on conservation efforts,\" Wiebe said. \"We fish because it's what we do, and conservation efforts mean we and our kids can fish into the future.\"\n\nThe executive order arrived at a time when America's commercial fishermen are coping with environmental challenges and the decline of some once-marketable species. Maine's historic shrimp fishery shuttered more than a decade ago, California's salmon industry is struggling through closures and the number of fish stocks on the federal overfished list has grown in recent years.\n\nThere is also the looming question of what Trump's trade war with major seafood producers such as Canada and China will mean for the U.S. industry — not to mention American consumers.\n\nTo many in Maine's lobster and fishing business, the answer is clear: Cut regulations and let them do their thing.\n\n\"We definitely feel the industry is over-regulated as a whole,\" said Dustin Delano, a fourth-generation Maine lobsterman who is also chief operating officer of the New England Fishermen's Stewardship Association. \"We hope that this will help for sure. It does seek to initiate that America-first strategy in the fishery.\"\n\n___"
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The order promises to shred fishing regulations, and Olsen said that will allow fishermen to do what they do best — fish.\n\nThat will make a huge difference in communities like her home of Stonington, the busiest lobster fishing port in the country, Olsen said. It's a tiny island town of winding streets, swooping gulls and mansard roof houses with an economy almost entirely dependent on commercial fishing, some three hours up the coast from Portland, Maine's biggest city.\n\nOlsen knows firsthand how much has changed over the years. Hundreds of fish and shellfish populations globally have dwindled to dangerously low levels, alarming scientists and prompting the restrictions and catch limits that Trump's order could wash away with the stroke of a pen. But she's heartened that the livelihoods of people who work the traps and cast the nets have become a priority in faraway places where they often felt their voices weren't heard.\n\n\"I do think it's time to have the conversation on what regulations that the industry does need. We're fishing different than we did 100 years ago,\" she said. \"If everything is being looked at, we should be looking at the regulations within the fishing industry.\"\n\n## A question of sustainability and competitiveness\n\nBut if fishing and lobstering interests finally have a seat at the table, the questions become how much seafood can be served there — and for how long. Trump's April 17 order, called \"Restoring American Seafood Competitiveness,\" promises an overhaul of the way America fishes, and cites a national seafood trade deficit of more than $20 billion as the reason to do it. The order calls on the federal government to reduce the regulatory burden on fishermen by later this month.\n\nIt arrives at a time when conservation groups and many marine scientists say the ocean needs more regulation, not less. One oft-cited 2020 study led by a scientist at the University of British Columbia looked at more than 1,300 fish and invertebrate populations and found that 82% were below levels that can produce maximum sustainable yields. The university said the study \"discovered global declines, some severe, of many popularly consumed species.\"\n\nTrump's order prioritizes commerce over conservation. It also calls for the development of a comprehensive seafood trade strategy and a review of existing marine monuments, which are underwater protected zones, to see if any should be opened for fishing. At least one, the Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument, has already been reopened.\n\nMany commercial fishermen and fishing trade groups lauded the order. Members of the industry, one of the oldest in the country, have long made the case that heavy regulations — many intended to protect the health of fish populations — leave the U.S. at a competitive disadvantage to the fleets of countries that don't bear the same kind of burden. That disadvantage is a big piece of why America imports more than two-thirds of its seafood, they argue.\n\n\"The president's executive order recognizes the challenges our fishing families and communities face, and we appreciate the commitment to reduce burdensome regulations and strengthen the competitiveness of American seafood,\" said Patrice McCarron, executive director of the Maine Lobstermen's Association.\n\nSome fishermen, including Maine lobsterman Don McHenan, said they're looking forward to members of the industry being able to fish in areas of the ocean that have been closed off to them for years. McHenan said he's also hopeful the pace of new regulations will slow.\n\n\"As long as they don't put any more onto us,\" McHenan said. \"We'll see — time will tell.\"\n\n## Not all fishermen are on board\n\nBut the support for deregulation is not unanimous among fishermen. Some say strong conservation laws are critical to protecting species that fishermen rely on to make a living.\n\nIn Alaska, for example, Matt Wiebe said the executive order \"terrifies\" him. A commercial fisherman with more than 50 years of experience fishing for salmon, he said the order could potentially harm the Bristol Bay sockeye salmon fishery, which has received praise from sustainability organizations for careful management of the fish supply.\n\nAbsent that management, he said the world's largest sockeye salmon fishery could go the way of the New England cod fishing business, which collapsed due in large part to overfishing and has never recovered.\n\n\"Since New England fishers lost their cod fishery due to overfishing, many other fisheries came to respect and depend on conservation efforts,\" Wiebe said. \"We fish because it's what we do, and conservation efforts mean we and our kids can fish into the future.\"\n\nThe executive order arrived at a time when America's commercial fishermen are coping with environmental challenges and the decline of some once-marketable species. Maine's historic shrimp fishery shuttered more than a decade ago, California's salmon industry is struggling through closures and the number of fish stocks on the federal overfished list has grown in recent years.\n\nThere is also the looming question of what Trump's trade war with major seafood producers such as Canada and China will mean for the U.S. industry — not to mention American consumers.\n\nTo many in Maine's lobster and fishing business, the answer is clear: Cut regulations and let them do their thing.\n\n\"We definitely feel the industry is over-regulated as a whole,\" said Dustin Delano, a fourth-generation Maine lobsterman who is also chief operating officer of the New England Fishermen's Stewardship Association. \"We hope that this will help for sure. It does seek to initiate that America-first strategy in the fishery.\""
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"value": "# AP WAS THERE: Journalists chronicled the Nazi surrenders and end of World War II in Europe\n\nMay 7th, 2025 09:57 AM\n\n---\n\nREIMS, France (AP) — When Allied forces brought World War II in Europe and the Holocaust to an end 80 years ago this week, AP reporters and photographers were there, chronicling the Nazis' historic defeat.\n\nHere are excerpts of AP news reports that momentous week:\n\n___\n\nEDITORS' NOTE: On May 7, 1945, AP's Edward Kennedy witnessed the German surrender in a French schoolhouse, and was the first to announce it to the Allied public, defying authorities who wanted to delay the news.\n\nThe news was broadcast unofficially over German radio, but U.S. President Harry Truman and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill had agreed to suppress news of the capitulation for a day, in order to allow Soviet leader Josef Stalin to stage a second surrender ceremony in Berlin.\n\nKennedy published anyway, angering U.S. authorities. Kennedy was called home by AP and later fired. AP issued a public apology in 2012, saying Kennedy \"did everything just right,\" because the embargo was for political reasons, not to protect the troops. \"The world needed to know,\" AP's then-President and CEO Tom Curley said. Kennedy \"stood up to power.\"\n\n___\n\nREIMS, France, May 7 (Delayed)\n\nFLASH: ALLIES OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCED GERMANS SURRENDERED UNCONDITIONALLY\n\n___\n\nThrough an iron-faced Prussian general, speaking after he had finished signing the unconditional surrender of the Nazis, Germany today pleaded for mercy for the German people. On the wall behind his back was a huge chart tabulating Allied casualties.\n\nHe was Col-Gen. (Alfred) Jodl, chief of staff of the German Army.\n\nHe was standing in a room of a red school house in Reims, where Gen. Eisenhower had his advanced headquarters. On a big wooden table in front of him lay four identical documents to which he had just affixed his signature — one each for the United States, Britain, France and Russia. ...\n\nSeventeen correspondents were present at the signing and heard Jodl's plea. After he had signed the four instruments of surrender, and after the military representatives of the four Powers had signed them, Jodl asked for permission to speak. He was told that he might.\n\nHe held himself stiffly erect. His voice was low and soft. He said: \"With this signature, the German people and armed forces are, for better or worse, delivered in the victors' hands. In this war which has lasted more than five years, both have achieved and suffered more than perhaps any other people in the world. I express the hope that the victor will treat generously with them.''\n\nHis face was expressionless. So were the faces of the American, British, Russian and French generals who represented the Allies. All had seen the German murder camps and all knew the furious cruelty of German occupying forces.\n\nJodl finished speaking and sat down. A moment passed in dead silence.\n\nThen the German representatives were taken down the hall to meet Gen. Eisenhower. ....\n\nAgain, there was a moment of heavy silence.\n\nThen Eisenhower spoke. He was brief and terse as always. His voice was cold and stern. His steel blue eyes were hard. In a few clipped sentences, he made it plain that Germany was a defeated nation and that henceforth all orders to the German people would come from the Allies. He said they would be obeyed.\n\nThen the Germans filed out. It was over.\n\nNazi Germany has ceased to exist.\n\nThe war had ended.\n\n___\n\nThe great bells of St. Peter's Basilica rang out over Rome soon after the Associated Press report that peace had come to Europe, while several Allied capitals proclaimed V-E holidays for today, and Tokyo announced continuation of \"The Sacred War.\"\n\nMany of the world's cities went wild at the news, and even neutral capitals were bedecked and filled with celebrating crowds. Masses of people gathered in front of loudspeakers and newspaper offices, which were frantically answering inquiries and rolling out extras.\n\nOnly in the unnatural calm of the European fronts was the news reported to have been taken soberly, by soldiers who had seen the fighting taper off in one sector after another for the past two weeks.\n\n___\n\nWar-scarred London burst into jubilant celebration of the end of the war in Europe today, its millions of citizens unable to wait for the government's official V-E Day proclamation tomorrow.\n\nMillions surged into the streets, from Buckingham Palace to the sedate East End.\n\nThe Picadilly Circus, Whitehall and Westminster areas filled with a laughing, shouting throng. Some old-timers said the scene eclipsed those of the 1918 armistice.\n\nPubs were jammed, Champagne was brought up from deep cellars and long-hoarded whisky and gin came out from hiding.\n\nThe great bells of Big Ben tolled the hours of the historic day.\n\n___\n\nIn Washington, crowds gathered in Lafayette Square across Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House in anticipation of an announcement by President Truman to proclaim Allied V-E Day.\n\nA dispatch from the United States 9th Army front said withdrawal of American troops toward a previously established line of demarcation between them and the Russians had begun, with the first-move evacuation of the Yanks from their bridgehead of the banks of the Elbe River. The Elbe became the temporary line between the Allied armies.\n\n___\n\nBERLIN, May 10, 1945:\n\nBy HAROLD KING, former Moscow bureau chief\n\nThis town is a city of the dead. As a metropolis, it has simply ceased to exist. Every house within miles of the center seems to have had its own bomb. …\n\nThe scene beggars description. I have seen Stalingrad; I have lived through the entire London blitz. I have seen a dozen badly damaged Russian towns, but the scene of utter destruction, desolation and death which meets the eye in Berlin as far as the eye can rove in all directions is something that almost baffles description.\n\nDozens of well-known thoroughfares, including the entire Unter den Linden from one end to the other, are wrecked beyond repair. The town is literally unrecognizable. The Alexander Platz, in the east end, where the Gestapo headquarters were, is a weird desert of rubble and gaping, smoke blackened walls. From the Brandenberg Gate, everything within a radius of two to five miles is destroyed. There does not appear to be one house in hundred which is even useful as a shelter. ...\n\nThe only people who look like human beings in the streets of what was Berlin are the Russian soldiers. There are two million inhabitants in this town, the Russian authorities told me, but they are mostly in the remoter suburbs. In the center part of the town, you only see a few ghostlike figures of women and children — few men — queuing up to pump water.\n\nIf Stalingrad, London, Guernica, Rotterdam, Coventry wanted avenging, they have had it, and no mistake about it.\n\nThe Red flag, or rather several red flags, fly on top of the Reichstag which is burned hollow. The Tiergarten opposite the Reichstag looks like a forest after a big fire. There was heavy street fighting here. ...\n\nThe population and the Red Army soldiers are attempting to clear some of the main streets.\n\nThe Russian command has already erected at all main squares and crossings huge sketch maps without which it would be impossible to find one's way about.\n\nExcept for an occasional Russian army car or horses drawing Russian army carts, there is a complete silence over the city, and the air filled with rubble dust.\n\nOne sign of life, however, are the interminable columns of displaced persons of all European nationalities who seem to be marching through Berlin in various directions, carried forward by a homing instinct more than any clear idea where they are going. These columns of freed slaves are sometimes a mile long.\n\n___\n\nFollow AP's coverage marking the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II at https://apnews.com/WorldWarII"
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Kennedy was called home by AP and later fired. AP issued a public apology in 2012, saying Kennedy \"did everything just right,\" because the embargo was for political reasons, not to protect the troops. \"The world needed to know,\" AP's then-President and CEO Tom Curley said. Kennedy \"stood up to power.\"\n\n___\n\nREIMS, France, May 7 (Delayed)\n\nFLASH: ALLIES OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCED GERMANS SURRENDERED UNCONDITIONALLY\n\n___\n\nThrough an iron-faced Prussian general, speaking after he had finished signing the unconditional surrender of the Nazis, Germany today pleaded for mercy for the German people. On the wall behind his back was a huge chart tabulating Allied casualties.\n\nHe was Col-Gen. (Alfred) Jodl, chief of staff of the German Army.\n\nHe was standing in a room of a red school house in Reims, where Gen. Eisenhower had his advanced headquarters. On a big wooden table in front of him lay four identical documents to which he had just affixed his signature — one each for the United States, Britain, France and Russia. ...\n\nSeventeen correspondents were present at the signing and heard Jodl's plea. After he had signed the four instruments of surrender, and after the military representatives of the four Powers had signed them, Jodl asked for permission to speak. He was told that he might.\n\nHe held himself stiffly erect. His voice was low and soft. He said: \"With this signature, the German people and armed forces are, for better or worse, delivered in the victors' hands. In this war which has lasted more than five years, both have achieved and suffered more than perhaps any other people in the world. I express the hope that the victor will treat generously with them.''\n\nHis face was expressionless. So were the faces of the American, British, Russian and French generals who represented the Allies. All had seen the German murder camps and all knew the furious cruelty of German occupying forces.\n\nJodl finished speaking and sat down. A moment passed in dead silence.\n\nThen the German representatives were taken down the hall to meet Gen. Eisenhower. ....\n\nAgain, there was a moment of heavy silence.\n\nThen Eisenhower spoke. He was brief and terse as always. His voice was cold and stern. His steel blue eyes were hard. In a few clipped sentences, he made it plain that Germany was a defeated nation and that henceforth all orders to the German people would come from the Allies. He said they would be obeyed.\n\nThen the Germans filed out. It was over.\n\nNazi Germany has ceased to exist.\n\nThe war had ended.\n\n___\n\nThe great bells of St. Peter's Basilica rang out over Rome soon after the Associated Press report that peace had come to Europe, while several Allied capitals proclaimed V-E holidays for today, and Tokyo announced continuation of \"The Sacred War.\"\n\nMany of the world's cities went wild at the news, and even neutral capitals were bedecked and filled with celebrating crowds. Masses of people gathered in front of loudspeakers and newspaper offices, which were frantically answering inquiries and rolling out extras.\n\nOnly in the unnatural calm of the European fronts was the news reported to have been taken soberly, by soldiers who had seen the fighting taper off in one sector after another for the past two weeks.\n\n___\n\nWar-scarred London burst into jubilant celebration of the end of the war in Europe today, its millions of citizens unable to wait for the government's official V-E Day proclamation tomorrow.\n\nMillions surged into the streets, from Buckingham Palace to the sedate East End.\n\nThe Picadilly Circus, Whitehall and Westminster areas filled with a laughing, shouting throng. Some old-timers said the scene eclipsed those of the 1918 armistice.\n\nPubs were jammed, Champagne was brought up from deep cellars and long-hoarded whisky and gin came out from hiding.\n\nThe great bells of Big Ben tolled the hours of the historic day.\n\n___\n\nIn Washington, crowds gathered in Lafayette Square across Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House in anticipation of an announcement by President Truman to proclaim Allied V-E Day.\n\nA dispatch from the United States 9th Army front said withdrawal of American troops toward a previously established line of demarcation between them and the Russians had begun, with the first-move evacuation of the Yanks from their bridgehead of the banks of the Elbe River. The Elbe became the temporary line between the Allied armies.\n\n___\n\nBERLIN, May 10, 1945:\n\nBy HAROLD KING, former Moscow bureau chief\n\nThis town is a city of the dead. As a metropolis, it has simply ceased to exist. Every house within miles of the center seems to have had its own bomb. …\n\nThe scene beggars description. I have seen Stalingrad; I have lived through the entire London blitz. I have seen a dozen badly damaged Russian towns, but the scene of utter destruction, desolation and death which meets the eye in Berlin as far as the eye can rove in all directions is something that almost baffles description.\n\nDozens of well-known thoroughfares, including the entire Unter den Linden from one end to the other, are wrecked beyond repair. The town is literally unrecognizable. The Alexander Platz, in the east end, where the Gestapo headquarters were, is a weird desert of rubble and gaping, smoke blackened walls. From the Brandenberg Gate, everything within a radius of two to five miles is destroyed. There does not appear to be one house in hundred which is even useful as a shelter. ...\n\nThe only people who look like human beings in the streets of what was Berlin are the Russian soldiers. There are two million inhabitants in this town, the Russian authorities told me, but they are mostly in the remoter suburbs. In the center part of the town, you only see a few ghostlike figures of women and children — few men — queuing up to pump water.\n\nIf Stalingrad, London, Guernica, Rotterdam, Coventry wanted avenging, they have had it, and no mistake about it.\n\nThe Red flag, or rather several red flags, fly on top of the Reichstag which is burned hollow. The Tiergarten opposite the Reichstag looks like a forest after a big fire. There was heavy street fighting here. ...\n\nThe population and the Red Army soldiers are attempting to clear some of the main streets.\n\nThe Russian command has already erected at all main squares and crossings huge sketch maps without which it would be impossible to find one's way about.\n\nExcept for an occasional Russian army car or horses drawing Russian army carts, there is a complete silence over the city, and the air filled with rubble dust.\n\nOne sign of life, however, are the interminable columns of displaced persons of all European nationalities who seem to be marching through Berlin in various directions, carried forward by a homing instinct more than any clear idea where they are going. These columns of freed slaves are sometimes a mile long."
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"value": "# Olympic rugby medalist Josaia Raisuqe of Fiji has died at 30\n\nMay 8th, 2025 12:40 PM\n\n---\n\nCASTRES, France (AP) — Josaia Raisuqe, a Paris Olympics medalist, was killed in a road crash on Thursday, his Castres rugby club said. He was 30.\n\nRaisuqe was reportedly on his way to training when his vehicle was hit by a train.\n\n\"Castres Olympique is in mourning,\" the club said in a statement on its website. \"It is with heavy hearts that we learned of the death this morning of our player Josaia Raisuqe in a road accident.\n\n\"The entire CO family is devastated by this terrible news. Josh had been a member of the club since 2021. He was a wonderful teammate, much loved by everyone, including the Castres supporters who had embraced him. We extend our sincere condolences and thoughts to his family and loved ones.\"\n\nRaisuqe appeared on the wing for the Top 14 club less than two weeks ago.\n\nHe was in the Fiji team which won the Olympic silver medal in rugby sevens in Paris last year. He scored a try against the United States in pool play and started in the final against France.\n\nHe's been playing club rugby in France since 2015, when he joined Top 14 champion Stade Francais. He also played for second-division side Nevers, and got into an infamous incident in 2021 when, overjoyed by a win, he hoisted the referee over his head after the fulltime whistle. The ref gave him a red card.\n\nThe following season, Castres deployed Raisuqe as a flanker en route to the 2022 Top 14 final.\n\n\"He was a radiant boy on and off the field, a pillar of the Fijian community we have at the club and to which we are very attached,\" Castres chairman Pierre-Yves Revol said. \"It is also difficult at this time not to mention the faith of all these (Fijian) players and of Josaia. My thoughts are with his fiancée and his entire family.\"\n\n___\n\nAP rugby: https://apnews.com/hub/rugby"
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"value": "# Olympic rugby medalist Josaia Raisuqe of Fiji has died at 30\n\nMay 8th, 2025 12:40 PM\n\n---\n\nCASTRES, France (AP) — Josaia Raisuqe, a Paris Olympics medalist, was killed in a road crash on Thursday, his Castres rugby club said. He was 30.\n\nRaisuqe was reportedly on his way to training when his vehicle was hit by a train.\n\n\"Castres Olympique is in mourning,\" the club said in a statement on its website. \"It is with heavy hearts that we learned of the death this morning of our player Josaia Raisuqe in a road accident.\n\n\"The entire CO family is devastated by this terrible news. Josh had been a member of the club since 2021. He was a wonderful teammate, much loved by everyone, including the Castres supporters who had embraced him. We extend our sincere condolences and thoughts to his family and loved ones.\"\n\nRaisuqe appeared on the wing for the Top 14 club less than two weeks ago.\n\nHe was in the Fiji team which won the Olympic silver medal in rugby sevens in Paris last year. He scored a try against the United States in pool play and started in the final against France.\n\nHe's been playing club rugby in France since 2015, when he joined Top 14 champion Stade Francais. He also played for second-division side Nevers, and got into an infamous incident in 2021 when, overjoyed by a win, he hoisted the referee over his head after the fulltime whistle. The ref gave him a red card.\n\nThe following season, Castres deployed Raisuqe as a flanker en route to the 2022 Top 14 final.\n\n\"He was a radiant boy on and off the field, a pillar of the Fijian community we have at the club and to which we are very attached,\" Castres chairman Pierre-Yves Revol said. \"It is also difficult at this time not to mention the faith of all these (Fijian) players and of Josaia. My thoughts are with his fiancée and his entire family.\""
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"value": "# Claressa Shields headlining 3rd Little Caesars Arena boxing card, facing New Zealand's Lani Daniels\n\nBy Larry Lage \nMay 7th, 2025 08:48 PM\n\n---\n\nDETROIT (AP) — Claressa Shields is giving Lani Daniels a shot at winning her belts.\n\nShields, the first undisputed heavyweight champion in women's boxing, announced on social media Wednesday that she is facing Daniels on July 26 at Little Caesars Arena.\n\nThe 30-year-old Shields improved to 16-0 by unanimously outpointing Danielle Perkins three months ago in her hometown of Flint, Michigan.\n\nDaniels, a 36-year-old from New Zealand, has the IBF light heavyweight title. She has won seven straight matches and is 11-2-2 with one knockout.\n\nShields, a two-time Olympic champion, has revived the Motor City's place in boxing. The city has a rich history in the sport that includes Joe Louis, Sugar Ray Robinson and Thomas Hearns.\n\nThe home of the Red Wings and Pistons opened in 2017, but the arena didn't have a boxing card until nearly two years ago when Shields was the headliner and beat Maricela Cornejo.\n\nShields was back at Little Caesars Arena last summer, knocking out WBC heavyweight champion Vanessa Lepage-Joanisse in front of about 12,000 fans and likely will be a big draw for a third time in July.\n\n\"Women's boxing has grown by leaps and bounds since Claressa Shields headlined the very first women's main event on a nationally televised card,\" Shields' promoter, Dmitriy Salita, said Wednesday.\n\n___\n\nFollow Larry Lage at https://apnews.com/author/larry-lage\n\n___\n\nAP Boxing: https://apnews.com/hub/boxing"
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"value": "# Claressa Shields headlining 3rd Little Caesars Arena boxing card, facing New Zealand's Lani Daniels\n\nBy Larry Lage \nMay 7th, 2025 08:48 PM\n\n---\n\nDETROIT (AP) — Claressa Shields is giving Lani Daniels a shot at winning her belts.\n\nShields, the first undisputed heavyweight champion in women's boxing, announced on social media Wednesday that she is facing Daniels on July 26 at Little Caesars Arena.\n\nThe 30-year-old Shields improved to 16-0 by unanimously outpointing Danielle Perkins three months ago in her hometown of Flint, Michigan.\n\nDaniels, a 36-year-old from New Zealand, has the IBF light heavyweight title. She has won seven straight matches and is 11-2-2 with one knockout.\n\nShields, a two-time Olympic champion, has revived the Motor City's place in boxing. The city has a rich history in the sport that includes Joe Louis, Sugar Ray Robinson and Thomas Hearns.\n\nThe home of the Red Wings and Pistons opened in 2017, but the arena didn't have a boxing card until nearly two years ago when Shields was the headliner and beat Maricela Cornejo.\n\nShields was back at Little Caesars Arena last summer, knocking out WBC heavyweight champion Vanessa Lepage-Joanisse in front of about 12,000 fans and likely will be a big draw for a third time in July.\n\n\"Women's boxing has grown by leaps and bounds since Claressa Shields headlined the very first women's main event on a nationally televised card,\" Shields' promoter, Dmitriy Salita, said Wednesday."
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"value": "# Haliburton's 3 with 1.1 seconds left gives Pacers 120-119 stunning win over Cavs and 2-0 series lead\n\nBy Joe Reedy \nMay 7th, 2025 02:02 AM\n\n---\n\nCLEVELAND (AP) — Tyrese Haliburton said he knows he's trusted to deliver in big moments.\n\nIn three straight playoff games, the Indiana Pacers guard has delivered when it has mattered most.\n\nHaliburton made a 3-pointer with 1.1 seconds remaining as the Pacers scored the final eight points in 47.9 seconds to stun the short-handed and top-seeded Cleveland Cavaliers 120-119 on Tuesday night to take a 2-0 lead in their Eastern Conference semifinals series.\n\nHaliburton scored 11 of his 19 points in the final 12 minutes. After Andrew Nembhard stole an inbounds pass by Cleveland's Max Strus with 27.5 seconds remaining, Indiana tried to find a potential tying 3-pointer before Haliburton drove inside and got fouled.\n\nHe made the first free throw, but missed the second. Haliburton got the offensive rebound and dribbled out to the 3-point line, where he made it from the top of the key.\n\n\"I was (ticked) I missed the layup because I couldn't hang onto the ball, so I backed it out. I just saw Ty Jerome, top of the key and knocked it down,\" Haliburton said. \"It's the NBA, crazier things have happened. That's just what basketball is. We don't give up and we're battle tested. We just find a way.\"\n\nAfter making a layup with 1.3 seconds remaining in overtime to help the Pacers eliminate the Milwaukee Bucks, Haliburton has continued to hit key shots against the Cavaliers.\n\nHe scored 22 points in Sunday's 121-112 victory in the series opener, including a go-ahead 3-pointer midway through the fourth quarter.\n\n\"Obviously, we got lucky. Ty hit another amazing shot to win the game,\" Indiana coach Rick Carlisle said. \"You don't see this very often, let alone twice in one week. Tyrese, he came through again. We're very fortunate.\"\n\nMyles Turner and Aaron Nesmith led No. 4 seed Indiana with 23 points apiece. It's the first time the Pacers have won the first two games of a playoff series on the road since a 1994 first-round set against Orlando.\n\nGame 3 is Friday night in Indianapolis.\n\nDonovan Mitchell scored 48 points for Cleveland, who were missing three key players, including two starters. NBA Defensive Player of the Year Evan Mobley (left ankle) and key reserve De'Andre Hunter (right thumb) were injured in Game 1, while Darius Garland (left big toe) missed his fourth straight postseason game.\n\n\"I feel like we outplayed them for the majority of the game and then towards the end we had our mental lapses. They capitalized on every single mistake that we made,\" said Jarrett Allen, who had 22 points and 12 rebounds.\n\nMitchell scored 15 points in the third quarter as the Cavaliers built a 98-81 lead late in the period. But the Pacers rallied with a 17-6 run to get back in it.\n\nCleveland looked as though it got some breathing room with 1:06 remaining when Max Strus hit a 3-pointer off an assist by Mitchell to put them up 117-110.\n\nBut the Cavs couldn't hold on again as they committed two turnovers and the Pacers had a pair of offensive rebounds that led to points in the final minute. It's the first time Cleveland dropped its first two at home in the playoffs since 1996 in the first round against the Knicks.\n\n\"It's hard to put all this in words,\" Carlisle said. \"Cleveland hit us with a hellacious punch early in the game. In the fourth, we just hung on. We maintained enough energy to get it done. Give the guys credit, they somehow found a way.\"\n\n___\n\nAP NBA: https://apnews.com/hub/nba"
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"value": "# Hendricks pitches Angels past Tigers 5-2 to snap 7-game slide\n\nMay 4th, 2025 04:25 AM\n\n---\n\nANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Kyle Hendricks pitched into the eighth inning for his first win with the Los Angeles Angels, who stopped a seven-game losing streak by defeating the Detroit Tigers 5-2 on Saturday night.\n\nLuis Rengifo and Kyren Paris each had a two-run single in a four-run sixth that made it 5-0.\n\nThe 35-year-old Hendricks (1-3) allowed one run and four hits over 7 2/3 innings in his sixth start for the Angels after spending his first 11 seasons with the Chicago Cubs. He entered with a 6.65 ERA but faced only one batter more than the minimum through seven innings.\n\nSpencer Torkelson ended Hendricks' shutout bid with his 10th home run — a one-out shot in the eighth.\n\nBrock Burke got the final out of the eighth and the first one in the ninth before giving way to Kenley Jansen with runners on second and third. Jansen, who gave up three homers and his first six runs of the season in the ninth inning Friday, finished off his seventh save by retiring Riley Greene on an RBI grounder and Colt Keith on a lineout.\n\nTravis d'Arnaud doubled and scored with two outs in the second when Kerry Carpenter and Greene collided in right-center, allowing Paris' flyball to drop. Carpenter was charged with an error.\n\nTigers starter Jack Flaherty (1-4) permitted five runs — four earned — and eight hits in 5 2/3 innings.\n\nTaylor Ward is stuck in an 0-for-26 slump for Los Angeles.\n\n## Key moment\n\nThe Angels loaded the bases with one out in the sixth against Flaherty, and Rengifo hit the first pitch up the middle to drive in two. Rengifo is 7 for 16 (.438) with runners in scoring position — tops on the team.\n\n## Key stat\n\nThe Angels scored five runs for the second time in their last 20 games and the first since April 20 against the Giants.\n\n## Up next\n\nRHP Reese Olson (3-2, 3.55 ERA) starts for the Tigers on Sunday opposite RHP Jack Kochanowicz (1-4, 5.29) as the Angels look to split the four-game series.\n\n___\n\nAP MLB: https://apnews.com/hub/mlb"
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"value": "# Hendricks pitches Angels past Tigers 5-2 to snap 7-game slide\n\nMay 4th, 2025 04:25 AM\n\n---\n\nANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Kyle Hendricks pitched into the eighth inning for his first win with the Los Angeles Angels, who stopped a seven-game losing streak by defeating the Detroit Tigers 5-2 on Saturday night.\n\nLuis Rengifo and Kyren Paris each had a two-run single in a four-run sixth that made it 5-0.\n\nThe 35-year-old Hendricks (1-3) allowed one run and four hits over 7 2/3 innings in his sixth start for the Angels after spending his first 11 seasons with the Chicago Cubs. He entered with a 6.65 ERA but faced only one batter more than the minimum through seven innings.\n\nSpencer Torkelson ended Hendricks' shutout bid with his 10th home run — a one-out shot in the eighth.\n\nBrock Burke got the final out of the eighth and the first one in the ninth before giving way to Kenley Jansen with runners on second and third. Jansen, who gave up three homers and his first six runs of the season in the ninth inning Friday, finished off his seventh save by retiring Riley Greene on an RBI grounder and Colt Keith on a lineout.\n\nTravis d'Arnaud doubled and scored with two outs in the second when Kerry Carpenter and Greene collided in right-center, allowing Paris' flyball to drop. Carpenter was charged with an error.\n\nTigers starter Jack Flaherty (1-4) permitted five runs — four earned — and eight hits in 5 2/3 innings.\n\nTaylor Ward is stuck in an 0-for-26 slump for Los Angeles.\n\n## Key moment\n\nThe Angels loaded the bases with one out in the sixth against Flaherty, and Rengifo hit the first pitch up the middle to drive in two. Rengifo is 7 for 16 (.438) with runners in scoring position — tops on the team.\n\n## Key stat\n\nThe Angels scored five runs for the second time in their last 20 games and the first since April 20 against the Giants.\n\n## Up next\n\nRHP Reese Olson (3-2, 3.55 ERA) starts for the Tigers on Sunday opposite RHP Jack Kochanowicz (1-4, 5.29) as the Angels look to split the four-game series."
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"value": "# Ohtani and Freeman homer, Sasaki earns 1st MLB win as streaking Dodgers overpower Braves 10-3\n\nBy Charles Odum \nMay 4th, 2025 05:41 AM\n\n---\n\nATLANTA (AP) — Freddie Freeman homered and drove in four runs, Shohei Ohtani also went deep and Roki Sasaki earned his first major league win as the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Atlanta Braves 10-3 on Saturday night for their seventh straight victory.\n\nThe Dodgers have won the first two games of the series to improve to 5-0 against Atlanta this year. Los Angeles' three-game sweep at home early in the season left the Braves 0-7.\n\nSasaki (1-1) allowed three runs and six hits over five innings in a game pushed back more than three hours because of rain. The 23-year-old right-hander gave up a home run to Ozzie Albies but received plenty of offensive support in his seventh big league start since arriving from Japan to much fanfare.\n\nThe Dodgers piled up 12 hits and pulled away with a four-run fourth. Freeman hit a three-run homer off Scott Blewett in the eighth.\n\nAtlanta starter Spencer Schwellenbach (1-3) lasted only 3 2/3 innings. He gave up six runs, five earned, and eight hits.\n\n## Key moment\n\nRain and lightning led to a delay of 3 hours, 6 minutes, before the first pitch. The 10:21 p.m. start was the latest in Truist Park's nine-year history. The game ended at 1:26 a.m. Sunday.\n\n## Key stat\n\nOhtani threw 35 pitches in the bullpen before the game as he continues his comeback from 2023 elbow surgery in his plan to become a two-way player again. Ohtani, who has appeared only at designated hitter this season, still has not faced hitters and has not thrown sliders. \"From what I hear he was ramping it up a little more with his velocity,\" Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said.\n\nOhtani hasn't pitched in a major league game since Aug. 23, 2023, for the Los Angeles Angels.\n\n## Up next\n\nDodgers RHP Dustin May (1-1, 3.95 ERA) faces RHP Bryce Elder (1-1, 5.33) in Sunday night's series finale.\n\n___\n\nAP MLB: https://apnews.com/hub/mlb"
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"value": "# Mobley, Garland and Hunter return from injuries to help Cavaliers beat Pacers in Game 3\n\nMay 9th, 2025 11:28 PM\n\n---\n\nINDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Cleveland Cavaliers finally had their normal rotations back Friday night.\n\nNBA Defensive Player of the Year Evan Mobley and All-Star guard Darius Garland were both in the starting lineup, and key backup De'Andre Hunter came off the bench. They made a big difference after the No. 1 seed had lost the first two games of the Eastern Conference semifinals at home.\n\nMobley helped the Cavs maintain a huge rebounding advantage while Garland and Hunter produced big moments in spurts as Cleveland pulled away from the Indiana Pacers 126-104 to cut its series deficit to 2-1.\n\n\"I knew if I was going to come out here and play, I had to be able to do certain things,\" Mobley said after finishing with 18 points, 13 rebounds, four assists, three steals and three blocks. \"I felt pretty comfortable, especially yesterday and then shootaround today, I also felt good. So I was pretty confident I could come out here and play my game.\"\n\nMobley was the most effective of the three despite spraining his left ankle so severely in Game 1, he couldn't initially put any weight on it. Four days of rest certainly helped.\n\nAnd it was certainly more than enough to help All-Star guard Donovan Mitchell put the game away late. Mitchell finished with 43 points and nine rebounds Friday after his 48-point effort Tuesday fell short of a win.\n\nGarland returned from a sprained big toe on his left foot and had mixed results. He was called for four fouls in the first half and wound up with 10 points and three assists in nearly 25 minutes.\n\n\"He's just playing through a lot of pain to get him to play this game,\" Cleveland coach Kenny Atkinson said when asked about Garland. \"But taking the 0-2 situation, I think he had to push through a lot, a lot tonight. So hopefully recovers. quickly.\"\n\nHunter had eight points and five rebounds in 20 minutes after spraining his right thumb in Game 1. He also absorbed a big collision in the second quarter that nearly knocked him to the ground, but he managed to finish the most physical of the three games.\n\nIndiana had taken advantage of Cleveland's injuries by using its depth to pull away late in Game 1 and rallying from a seven-point deficit in the final minute to take Game 2.\n\nThe Pacers had a chance to do it again late after cutting a 24-point lead to 104-93 early in the fourth quarter. But with Cleveland at full strength and the ball in Mitchell's hands, the Cavs pulled away to climb back into the series and avoid the dreaded 3-0 hole.\n\nThe big question now for Cleveland is how quickly and completely Mobley, Garland and Hunter can recover, and what they'll be able to do in Game 4 on Sunday at Indianapolis.\n\n\"Listen, if he (Garland) could get 15 to 20 minutes, we need it,\" Atkinson said. \"We need another ball-handler. He can create separation. He can create advantages. Even if it's not going to be perfect, we need him right now.\"\n\n___\n\nAP NBA: https://apnews.com/nba"
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"value": "# Mobley, Garland and Hunter return from injuries to help Cavaliers beat Pacers in Game 3\n\nMay 9th, 2025 11:28 PM\n\n---\n\nINDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Cleveland Cavaliers finally had their normal rotations back Friday night.\n\nNBA Defensive Player of the Year Evan Mobley and All-Star guard Darius Garland were both in the starting lineup, and key backup De'Andre Hunter came off the bench. They made a big difference after the No. 1 seed had lost the first two games of the Eastern Conference semifinals at home.\n\nMobley helped the Cavs maintain a huge rebounding advantage while Garland and Hunter produced big moments in spurts as Cleveland pulled away from the Indiana Pacers 126-104 to cut its series deficit to 2-1.\n\n\"I knew if I was going to come out here and play, I had to be able to do certain things,\" Mobley said after finishing with 18 points, 13 rebounds, four assists, three steals and three blocks. \"I felt pretty comfortable, especially yesterday and then shootaround today, I also felt good. So I was pretty confident I could come out here and play my game.\"\n\nMobley was the most effective of the three despite spraining his left ankle so severely in Game 1, he couldn't initially put any weight on it. Four days of rest certainly helped.\n\nAnd it was certainly more than enough to help All-Star guard Donovan Mitchell put the game away late. Mitchell finished with 43 points and nine rebounds Friday after his 48-point effort Tuesday fell short of a win.\n\nGarland returned from a sprained big toe on his left foot and had mixed results. He was called for four fouls in the first half and wound up with 10 points and three assists in nearly 25 minutes.\n\n\"He's just playing through a lot of pain to get him to play this game,\" Cleveland coach Kenny Atkinson said when asked about Garland. \"But taking the 0-2 situation, I think he had to push through a lot, a lot tonight. So hopefully recovers. quickly.\"\n\nHunter had eight points and five rebounds in 20 minutes after spraining his right thumb in Game 1. He also absorbed a big collision in the second quarter that nearly knocked him to the ground, but he managed to finish the most physical of the three games.\n\nIndiana had taken advantage of Cleveland's injuries by using its depth to pull away late in Game 1 and rallying from a seven-point deficit in the final minute to take Game 2.\n\nThe Pacers had a chance to do it again late after cutting a 24-point lead to 104-93 early in the fourth quarter. But with Cleveland at full strength and the ball in Mitchell's hands, the Cavs pulled away to climb back into the series and avoid the dreaded 3-0 hole.\n\nThe big question now for Cleveland is how quickly and completely Mobley, Garland and Hunter can recover, and what they'll be able to do in Game 4 on Sunday at Indianapolis.\n\n\"Listen, if he (Garland) could get 15 to 20 minutes, we need it,\" Atkinson said. \"We need another ball-handler. He can create separation. He can create advantages. Even if it's not going to be perfect, we need him right now.\""
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"value": "# Race for remaining Champions League spots in France remains wide open\n\nMay 4th, 2025 03:30 PM\n\n---\n\nPARIS (AP) — The race for the remaining Champions League places behind Paris Saint-Germain remains wide open in the French league after Marseille drew 1-1 at Lille on Sunday.\n\nWith two rounds of matches left, and PSG already crowned champion, second-placed Marseille missed the chance to open up a three-point gap on Monaco after goalkeeper Geronimo Rulli's blunder in the 74th minute.\n\nThe top three teams qualify for the group stage of the Champions League, with the fourth team getting a spot in the qualifying rounds. Marseille has a one-point lead over Monaco, which won 3-1 at Saint-Etienne on Saturday, with a trio of chasing teams — Nice, Lille and Strasbourg — lagging one point further back.\n\nLille striker Jonathan David intercepted Rulli's attempted pass inside the box and headed the ball toward Matias Fernandez Pardo, who shot past the goakeeper into the back of the net. Amine Gouiri had put Marseille in front in the 57th minute from Adrien Rabiot's assist at the conclusion of a fine collective move.\n\nPSG secured the French league title last month with six matches to spare but the fight for the Champions League places has not been lacking suspense. Just five points separate second-placed Marseille from seventh-placed Lyon.\n\n## Lyon's hopes dented\n\nLyon's hopes of European soccer next season took a blow as the seven-time French champions lost 2-1 against Lens.\n\nAnass Zaroury scored the winner with a superb 30-meter strike into the top corner five minutes from time, soon after Georges Mikautadze leveled for the hosts with a header.\n\nThe result left Lyon outside of the European places, six points above eighth-placed Lens.\n\nLyon enjoyed much of the possession but lacked a cutting edge and went behind when Goduine Koyalipou scored following a corner in the 21st minute.\n\n## Allevinah's first goal\n\nSubstitute Jim Allevinah scored his first goal for Angers in the French league as his club won 1-0 at Nantes to leapfrog its rival and take a big step towards survival in the top division.\n\nIn a match of few chances for both squads, Allevinah scored with a low strike in the 52nd minute. It was the first shot on target in the match.\n\nAllevinah, a Gabon international, came on after 20 minutes as a replacement for the injured Zinedine Ferhat.\n\nAngers moved to 14th place in the standings, one point above Nantes and two points above Le Havre, currently in the relegation playoff spot. Le Havre won 2-1 at Auxerre to move four points above the drop zone.\n\nPSG suffered consecutive Ligue 1 losses for the first time in more than two years when it lost 2-1 at Strasbourg on Saturday.\n\nWith the match coming between the two legs of the Champions League semifinal against Arsenal, PSG coach Luis Enrique rotated his team, making 10 changes to his staring lineup. PSG will defend a 1-0 lead from the first leg on Wednesday at the Parc des Princes against the Gunners.\n\nAlso, Brest beat last-placed Montpellier 1-0.\n\n___\n\nAP soccer: https://apnews.com/hub/soccer"
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"value": "# Race for remaining Champions League spots in France remains wide open\n\nMay 4th, 2025 03:30 PM\n\n---\n\nPARIS (AP) — The race for the remaining Champions League places behind Paris Saint-Germain remains wide open in the French league after Marseille drew 1-1 at Lille on Sunday.\n\nWith two rounds of matches left, and PSG already crowned champion, second-placed Marseille missed the chance to open up a three-point gap on Monaco after goalkeeper Geronimo Rulli's blunder in the 74th minute.\n\nThe top three teams qualify for the group stage of the Champions League, with the fourth team getting a spot in the qualifying rounds. Marseille has a one-point lead over Monaco, which won 3-1 at Saint-Etienne on Saturday, with a trio of chasing teams — Nice, Lille and Strasbourg — lagging one point further back.\n\nLille striker Jonathan David intercepted Rulli's attempted pass inside the box and headed the ball toward Matias Fernandez Pardo, who shot past the goakeeper into the back of the net. Amine Gouiri had put Marseille in front in the 57th minute from Adrien Rabiot's assist at the conclusion of a fine collective move.\n\nPSG secured the French league title last month with six matches to spare but the fight for the Champions League places has not been lacking suspense. Just five points separate second-placed Marseille from seventh-placed Lyon.\n\n## Lyon's hopes dented\n\nLyon's hopes of European soccer next season took a blow as the seven-time French champions lost 2-1 against Lens.\n\nAnass Zaroury scored the winner with a superb 30-meter strike into the top corner five minutes from time, soon after Georges Mikautadze leveled for the hosts with a header.\n\nThe result left Lyon outside of the European places, six points above eighth-placed Lens.\n\nLyon enjoyed much of the possession but lacked a cutting edge and went behind when Goduine Koyalipou scored following a corner in the 21st minute.\n\n## Allevinah's first goal\n\nSubstitute Jim Allevinah scored his first goal for Angers in the French league as his club won 1-0 at Nantes to leapfrog its rival and take a big step towards survival in the top division.\n\nIn a match of few chances for both squads, Allevinah scored with a low strike in the 52nd minute. It was the first shot on target in the match.\n\nAllevinah, a Gabon international, came on after 20 minutes as a replacement for the injured Zinedine Ferhat.\n\nAngers moved to 14th place in the standings, one point above Nantes and two points above Le Havre, currently in the relegation playoff spot. Le Havre won 2-1 at Auxerre to move four points above the drop zone.\n\nPSG suffered consecutive Ligue 1 losses for the first time in more than two years when it lost 2-1 at Strasbourg on Saturday.\n\nWith the match coming between the two legs of the Champions League semifinal against Arsenal, PSG coach Luis Enrique rotated his team, making 10 changes to his staring lineup. PSG will defend a 1-0 lead from the first leg on Wednesday at the Parc des Princes against the Gunners.\n\nAlso, Brest beat last-placed Montpellier 1-0."
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"value": "# Mrazova nets OT winner to lift Charge past Sceptres 2-1, clinch PWHL playoff berth\n\nMay 3rd, 2025 07:26 PM\n\n---\n\nTORONTO (AP) — Katerina Mrazova scored 2:52 into overtime to lift the Ottawa Charge to a 2-1 regular-season finale win over the Toronto Sceptres and a playoff berth on Saturday.\n\nBrianne Jenner also scored for Ottawa (12-2-4-12). Gwyneth Philips stopped 13 shots.\n\nThe Charge came in needing a win of any kind, or a Minnesota loss against Boston later Saturday, to secure their first postseason appearance in the PWHL. Ottawa lost 5-2 to Toronto in the regular-season finale last season needing a regulation win to secure a playoff spot.\n\nOttawa lost 3-0 to Minnesota on Wednesday with a chance to move six or seven points ahead of the Frost — with either an overtime/shootout win or a regulation win — and clinch a playoff spot.\n\nSarah Nurse scored for Toronto (12-3-6-9). Kristen Campbell made 22 saves while becoming the fourth PWHL goaltender to reach 1,000 career regular-season saves.\n\nThe Sceptres entered the day with a chance to steal first place from Montreal with a win and a New York regulation win over Montreal later Saturday. The top-seeded team entering the postseason gets its choice of opponent for the best-of-five semifinal series.\n\nBoth teams' playoff opponents will be determined Sunday.\n\n## Takeaways\n\nSceptres: Toronto struggled to get shots on net against the Charge, sometimes settling for shots from the point instead of inching closer into the offensive zone to potentially get a better opportunity.\n\nCharge: Ottawa had more offensive volume with shots on net, but didn't have many threatening chances either in regulation.\n\n## Key moment\n\nMrázová cut across in front in the slot and whipped it past Campbell to the delight of the Charge fans at Coca-Cola Coliseum.\n\n## Key stat\n\nSince the February international break, the Charge are 7-1-2-4, the league's second-best record behind the Sceptres (7-3-1-3) entering Saturday. The Ottawa offense has been leading the way in that span averaging 3.00 goals per game.\n\n___\n\nAP Women's Hockey: https://apnews.com/hub/womens-hockey"
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"value": "# Mrazova nets OT winner to lift Charge past Sceptres 2-1, clinch PWHL playoff berth\n\nMay 3rd, 2025 07:26 PM\n\n---\n\nTORONTO (AP) — Katerina Mrazova scored 2:52 into overtime to lift the Ottawa Charge to a 2-1 regular-season finale win over the Toronto Sceptres and a playoff berth on Saturday.\n\nBrianne Jenner also scored for Ottawa (12-2-4-12). Gwyneth Philips stopped 13 shots.\n\nThe Charge came in needing a win of any kind, or a Minnesota loss against Boston later Saturday, to secure their first postseason appearance in the PWHL. Ottawa lost 5-2 to Toronto in the regular-season finale last season needing a regulation win to secure a playoff spot.\n\nOttawa lost 3-0 to Minnesota on Wednesday with a chance to move six or seven points ahead of the Frost — with either an overtime/shootout win or a regulation win — and clinch a playoff spot.\n\nSarah Nurse scored for Toronto (12-3-6-9). Kristen Campbell made 22 saves while becoming the fourth PWHL goaltender to reach 1,000 career regular-season saves.\n\nThe Sceptres entered the day with a chance to steal first place from Montreal with a win and a New York regulation win over Montreal later Saturday. The top-seeded team entering the postseason gets its choice of opponent for the best-of-five semifinal series.\n\nBoth teams' playoff opponents will be determined Sunday.\n\n## Takeaways\n\nSceptres: Toronto struggled to get shots on net against the Charge, sometimes settling for shots from the point instead of inching closer into the offensive zone to potentially get a better opportunity.\n\nCharge: Ottawa had more offensive volume with shots on net, but didn't have many threatening chances either in regulation.\n\n## Key moment\n\nMrázová cut across in front in the slot and whipped it past Campbell to the delight of the Charge fans at Coca-Cola Coliseum.\n\n## Key stat\n\nSince the February international break, the Charge are 7-1-2-4, the league's second-best record behind the Sceptres (7-3-1-3) entering Saturday. The Ottawa offense has been leading the way in that span averaging 3.00 goals per game."
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"value": "# Suns promote Brian Gregory to general manager, shaking up front office after disappointing season\n\nBy David Brandt \nMay 1st, 2025 09:05 PM\n\n---\n\nPHOENIX (AP) — The Phoenix Suns promoted Brian Gregory to general manager on Thursday as part of a front office shakeup following one of the most disappointing seasons in franchise history.\n\nThe team also said that former general manager James Jones will transition to the role of senior advisor. Oronde Taliaferro was promoted to assistant general manager and Paul Rivers will add basketball operations responsibilities to his role as chief innovation officer.\n\n\"Brian has been a valuable member of our front office, playing an integral role in drafting and developing our young players,\" Phoenix Suns owner Mat Ishbia said in a statement. \"I am excited for him to step in to the role of general manager. He is a brilliant basketball mind, and he will transform and elevate our team.\"\n\nGregory joined the Suns in 2023 and was most recently the vice president of player programming. He had a major role in the Suns selecting Ryan Dunn and Oso Ighodaro in last year's draft and both had promising moments during their rookie seasons.\n\nGregory was a college basketball coach for 19 seasons at Dayton (2003-11), Georgia Tech (2011-16) and South Florida (2017-23). He was also an assistant coach at Michigan State from 1999-2003, which was when Ishbia played as a walk-on for the Spartans.\n\nThe Suns had championship aspirations this season thanks to the All-Star trio of Kevin Durant, Devin Booker and Bradley Beal but finished with a 36-46 record, missing the playoffs entirely.\n\nGregory will have several decisions to make this summer, including what to do with Durant, who is under contract for next year but also represents one of the few valuable trade chips the franchise could move.\n\n___\n\nAP NBA: https://apnews.com/nba"
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"value": "# Suns promote Brian Gregory to general manager, shaking up front office after disappointing season\n\nBy David Brandt \nMay 1st, 2025 09:05 PM\n\n---\n\nPHOENIX (AP) — The Phoenix Suns promoted Brian Gregory to general manager on Thursday as part of a front office shakeup following one of the most disappointing seasons in franchise history.\n\nThe team also said that former general manager James Jones will transition to the role of senior advisor. Oronde Taliaferro was promoted to assistant general manager and Paul Rivers will add basketball operations responsibilities to his role as chief innovation officer.\n\n\"Brian has been a valuable member of our front office, playing an integral role in drafting and developing our young players,\" Phoenix Suns owner Mat Ishbia said in a statement. \"I am excited for him to step in to the role of general manager. He is a brilliant basketball mind, and he will transform and elevate our team.\"\n\nGregory joined the Suns in 2023 and was most recently the vice president of player programming. He had a major role in the Suns selecting Ryan Dunn and Oso Ighodaro in last year's draft and both had promising moments during their rookie seasons.\n\nGregory was a college basketball coach for 19 seasons at Dayton (2003-11), Georgia Tech (2011-16) and South Florida (2017-23). He was also an assistant coach at Michigan State from 1999-2003, which was when Ishbia played as a walk-on for the Spartans.\n\nThe Suns had championship aspirations this season thanks to the All-Star trio of Kevin Durant, Devin Booker and Bradley Beal but finished with a 36-46 record, missing the playoffs entirely.\n\nGregory will have several decisions to make this summer, including what to do with Durant, who is under contract for next year but also represents one of the few valuable trade chips the franchise could move."
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"value": "# Heavy rains continue to pound Puerto Rico, flooding streets and causing 2nd death\n\nMay 4th, 2025 06:20 PM\n\n---\n\nSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Heavy rains continued to lash Puerto Rico and flash flood warnings persisted across the U.S. territory, submerging streets, stranding families and causing at least one death this weekend, authorities said on Sunday.\n\nA 44-year-old man was killed and a 43-year-old woman hospitalized when a tree fell on their car as they were driving in the northern town of Toa Baja at 8:10 p.m. local time on Saturday, police said the next day, as the fierce rains that have pounded Puerto Rico for two weeks triggered a landslide.\n\nThat brings the total death toll from the rains over the past weeks to two, after a man who tried to drive his car through floodwaters was swept away and killed last Monday.\n\nAuthorities said Saturday's landslide sent a tree crashing into a highway in Toa Baja, and onto the hood of Febus Padilla's car. The woman in the passenger seat, Yesenia DÃaz Pacheco, was in stable condition on Sunday, they said.\n\nAt least five municipalities across the island declared a state of emergency. In the the capital of San Juan, Mayor Miguel Romero Lugo visited families who had lost belongings to the flood waters and oversaw the delivery of aid that included mattresses and gas stoves.\n\nIn Vega Alta, on the northern coast of Puerto Rico, the town estimated that recent floods had already inflicted $7 million in damages.\n\nIn the central town of Cidra, local authorities reported $3 million in damages to roads, infrastructure and drainage systems and said they would tap the first $100,000 disbursement of the governor's emergency reserve funds for expenses related to the rains.\n\n\"This has been an odyssey. A daily challenge that continues to grow and shows no signs of stopping,\" said MarÃa Vega Pagán, Vega Alta's mayor, appealing to the island's governor for more resources as heavy storm runoff threatened to submerge neighborhoods along the beach. \"The municipality will not be able to afford the damage.\"\n\nIn Aguas Buenas, a mountain town outside San Juan, the rains that were forecast to continue Sunday flooded streets, opened a sinkhole and cut 26 families off from their homes.\n\nLocal authorities said they delivered groceries and non-perishable goods to the hardest-hit neighborhood there, which also was experiencing problems with water service. Officers worked to reroute traffic and close roads that quickly filled with rippling layers of murky brown water Sunday.\n\n\"These families are not only isolated, but also face precarious conditions in terms of access to basic drinking water services,\" said Mayor Karina Nieves Serrano.\n\nIn the eastern coastal city of Ceiba, water authorities said they were trying to fix a pipeline that had collapsed in a landslide. The broken pipeline led to disruptions in drinking water service and prompted the authorities to deploy trucks to supply stranded areas with water tanks.\n\n\"We are facing a critical situation that requires immediate attention,\" said José D. Sepúlveda Sánchez, a regional director in the Department of Water and Sewage.\n\nAnother ruptured water pipe caused problems in Caguas, a town south of San Juan, where operations had also stopped at the town's major water filtration plant, which cleaned the local groundwater of chemicals, toxins and bacteria.\n\nAuthorities rushing to clean the town's fresh-water reservoir said they hoped restore service in some 12 hours but asked residents to boil water even afterward."
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"value": "# Pacers build 41-point halftime lead and rout Cavaliers 129-109 for a 3-1 series lead\n\nBy Michael Marot \nMay 12th, 2025 03:04 AM\n\n---\n\nINDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Indiana Pacers spent two days looking for solutions against top-seeded Cleveland.\n\nOn Sunday, they delivered an emphatic answer.\n\nPascal Siakam scored 21 points, Myles Turner and Obi Toppin each scored 20 and the Pacers tied an NBA playoff record with a 41-point halftime lead before blowing out the Cavs 129-109 to take a 3-1 series lead.\n\nThe No. 4-seeded Pacers can close it out Tuesday in Cleveland, where they've already won twice.\n\n\"We haven't done anything yet,\" coach Rick Carlisle said after earning his 33rd playoff win with Indiana, passing Larry Bird for the most in the franchise's NBA history. \"We're going to keep approaching this like we have everything to prove. We know people don't believe in us, so we're just going to stay in the fight and keep fighting.\"\n\nThe Pacers certainly showed some resolve two days after an embarrassing 22-point loss on their home court, a game in which Cleveland dominated the glass and held two-time All-Star Tyrese Haliburton to four points and five assists.\n\nThis time, the towel-waving home crowd helped spur Indiana, right from the start of a physical, sometimes chippy game.\n\nThe Pacers built a 44-point lead before settling for an 80-39 halftime margin that matched the league's previous best since detailed play-by-play was kept, set by the Cavs in Game 2 of the 2017 Eastern Conference finals against Boston.\n\nIndiana did much of its damage without Bennedict Mathurin, one of its best scorers, who was ejected for a Flagrant 2 foul just 7 1/2 minutes into the game. And with Donovan Mitchell missing the second half because of an injured left ankle, the Cavs had no chance.\n\nDarius Garland led the Cavs with 21 points in his second game back from an injured toe. Mitchell finished with 12. Coach Kenny Atkinson said Mitchell would have an MRI exam Monday.\n\n\"Complete domination by them,\" Atkinson said briefly, before explaining at least the Cavs have two of the final three games on their home court. \"They dominated us in every facet of the game.\"\n\nIndiana wasted no time taking control quickly with early runs of 11-2 and 13-0 to build a commanding 48-23 lead with 9:24 left in the first half. They didn't stop — or back down — there, either, closing the half on a 19-2 run\n\nAaron Nesmith's buzzer-beating midrange jumper put the Pacers in another exclusive club — the 10th team in playoff history and second this week to score 80 points in the first half of a playoff game. Oklahoma City scored 87 points in Game 2 against Denver.\n\nTurner made all four of his 3-point attempts with Indianapolis 500 winners Dario Franchitti and Scott Dixon, WNBA Rookies of the Year Caitlin Clark and Aliyah Boston, and former NFL star Reggie Wayne in the crowd.\n\n\"We felt the last game, they set the tone from a physical standpoint,\" Haliburton said after finishing with 11 points, five rebounds and five assists. \"Today, we came out and set the tone from the jump, really just rode that wave.\"\n\n___\n\nAP NBA: https://apnews.com/nba"
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"value": "# Pacers build 41-point halftime lead and rout Cavaliers 129-109 for a 3-1 series lead\n\nBy Michael Marot \nMay 12th, 2025 03:04 AM\n\n---\n\nINDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Indiana Pacers spent two days looking for solutions against top-seeded Cleveland.\n\nOn Sunday, they delivered an emphatic answer.\n\nPascal Siakam scored 21 points, Myles Turner and Obi Toppin each scored 20 and the Pacers tied an NBA playoff record with a 41-point halftime lead before blowing out the Cavs 129-109 to take a 3-1 series lead.\n\nThe No. 4-seeded Pacers can close it out Tuesday in Cleveland, where they've already won twice.\n\n\"We haven't done anything yet,\" coach Rick Carlisle said after earning his 33rd playoff win with Indiana, passing Larry Bird for the most in the franchise's NBA history. \"We're going to keep approaching this like we have everything to prove. We know people don't believe in us, so we're just going to stay in the fight and keep fighting.\"\n\nThe Pacers certainly showed some resolve two days after an embarrassing 22-point loss on their home court, a game in which Cleveland dominated the glass and held two-time All-Star Tyrese Haliburton to four points and five assists.\n\nThis time, the towel-waving home crowd helped spur Indiana, right from the start of a physical, sometimes chippy game.\n\nThe Pacers built a 44-point lead before settling for an 80-39 halftime margin that matched the league's previous best since detailed play-by-play was kept, set by the Cavs in Game 2 of the 2017 Eastern Conference finals against Boston.\n\nIndiana did much of its damage without Bennedict Mathurin, one of its best scorers, who was ejected for a Flagrant 2 foul just 7 1/2 minutes into the game. And with Donovan Mitchell missing the second half because of an injured left ankle, the Cavs had no chance.\n\nDarius Garland led the Cavs with 21 points in his second game back from an injured toe. Mitchell finished with 12. Coach Kenny Atkinson said Mitchell would have an MRI exam Monday.\n\n\"Complete domination by them,\" Atkinson said briefly, before explaining at least the Cavs have two of the final three games on their home court. \"They dominated us in every facet of the game.\"\n\nIndiana wasted no time taking control quickly with early runs of 11-2 and 13-0 to build a commanding 48-23 lead with 9:24 left in the first half. They didn't stop — or back down — there, either, closing the half on a 19-2 run\n\nAaron Nesmith's buzzer-beating midrange jumper put the Pacers in another exclusive club — the 10th team in playoff history and second this week to score 80 points in the first half of a playoff game. Oklahoma City scored 87 points in Game 2 against Denver.\n\nTurner made all four of his 3-point attempts with Indianapolis 500 winners Dario Franchitti and Scott Dixon, WNBA Rookies of the Year Caitlin Clark and Aliyah Boston, and former NFL star Reggie Wayne in the crowd.\n\n\"We felt the last game, they set the tone from a physical standpoint,\" Haliburton said after finishing with 11 points, five rebounds and five assists. \"Today, we came out and set the tone from the jump, really just rode that wave.\""
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"value": "# Royals power up with team-record 7 HRs vs Orioles\n\nBy David Ginsburg \nMay 4th, 2025 10:35 PM\n\n---\n\nBALTIMORE (AP) — Taking a break from their usual small-ball style, the Kansas City Royals flexed their muscles during an unprecedented display of power.\n\nThe Royals smashed a franchise-record seven home runs Sunday in an 11-6 victory over the Baltimore Orioles. It was a surprising performance by a team that entered with a major league-low 18 homers in its first 34 games.\n\nMaikel Garcia went deep twice in his first career multihomer game. Jonathan India hit his first homer with Kansas City, and Luke Maile, Bobby Witt Jr., Vinnie Pasquantino and Michael Massey joined the fun by depositing balls over the wall at Camden Yards.\n\nRather than work runners around the bases with bunts and singles, the Royals took the slugger's route to victory.\n\n\"Pretty remarkable,\" manager Matt Quatraro said. \"We made so much how we struggled offensively. A day like that is very satisfying.\"\n\nThe Orioles hit four homers of their own in a see-saw duel, but in the end, the Royals — for a rare change — simply overpowered their foes.\n\n\"It was definitely the first game we've had like that this year, the back-and-forth slugfest,\" Quatraro said. \"Guys just had to focus, and they didn't miss their pitches. ... It was a fun game, but nerve-wracking.\"\n\nThe Royals hadn't hit as many as six homers in a game since 2020. On this day, however, the elements and the shorter fence in left field proved to be no challenge for a Kansas City team that had scored four runs or fewer in 29 of its first 34 games.\n\n\"First thing I saw when the game started with the wind was blowing out to left-center, and they had brought the fences in from last year,\" Quatraro said. \"It's a hitter's park. We know that.\"\n\nIt sure was for the Royals, who pulled away in the eighth when Witt and Pasquantino connected against Yennier Cano, who hadn't allowed a run all year. Not surprisingly, it was the first time this season that Kansas City went deep on back-to-back trips to the plate.\n\nThe Royals got homers from their leadoff hitter (India) and No. 9 hitter (Maile). For India, the trip around the bases after he cleared the left-field wall in the fifth inning was nothing short of delightful.\n\n\"It felt great,\" said India, who hit 63 homers in his first four seasons with Cincinnati before he was traded to Kansas City in November. \"I put a good swing on a good pitch. Thank goodness they have a short fence out there. I thought it was just a ball in the gap.\"\n\nOn this day, he was merely one of many Kansas City starters to hit the ball out.\n\n\"Everybody was on today,\" he said.\n\n___\n\nAP MLB: MLB ' Latest News, Stats, and Scores"
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"value": "# Mali's military government is suspending political parties' activities, state TV says\n\nMay 7th, 2025 02:07 PM\n\n---\n\nBAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Mali 's military government has suspended political party activities in the West African country \"until further notice,\" state media said Wednesday, days after the first pro-democracy rally since soldiers took power by force almost four years ago.\n\nThe decree signed by the transitional president, Gen. Assimi Goita, cites \"reasons of public order,\" national television reported. The decision, which also applies to political associations, followed a meeting of the Council of Ministers.\n\nHundreds of activists last weekend defied threats from the military government and demonstrated in the capital, Bamako, against the bill to dissolve political parties — the latest decision to restrict political activities. Police had cordoned off the area to avoid clashes with pro-military youths who tried to prevent the rally.\n\nAnother protest had been expected this week.\n\n\"I'm not surprised, I expected this because this is their way of preventing us from carrying out our activities, but we will continue to defend democracy in Mali. We are a people committed to democracy,\" Cheick Oumar Doumbia, one of the leaders of the weekend demonstration, told The Associated Press.\n\nGoita seized power following coups in 2020 and 2021. Last week, a national political conference said he should be installed as president for a renewable five-year term.\n\nOn Sunday, civil society figures, political parties and labor leaders held a press conference to call for \"a rapid and credible return to constitutional order through the organization of transparent, inclusive and peaceful elections.\" Police made them leave the scene, citing the risk of confrontation with government supporters.\n\n\"With this decision, the government has not chosen to calm the political climate in Mali, and the political parties have not yet announced their strategy for making their voices heard, but we expect confrontations with pro-democracy groups in the streets in the future,\" said Cheick Oumar Konaré, a political analyst and lawyer.\n\nThis is not the first time the military government has suspended the activities of political parties on the eve of important decisions. In April 2024, the government announced a suspension ahead of an \"inter-Malian dialogue\" that called for the transition period from a military government to be extended from two to five years.\n\nMali's military leaders have cut diplomatic ties and military cooperation with traditional Western partners and forged new partnerships with Russia.\n\nMali for more than a decade has faced attacks by armed groups linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State organization, and the threat has been growing."
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"value": "# Leeds goes to the Premier League as second-division champion\n\nBy James Robson \nMay 3rd, 2025 03:34 PM\n\n---\n\nLeeds was promoted to the Premier League as second-division champion on Saturday after Manor Solomon's dramatic winner in stoppage time.\n\nSolomon's late goal sealed a 2-1 comeback win against relegated Plymouth and saw Leeds top the Championship — edging out second-placed Burnley on goal difference.\n\nBoth teams had clinched promotion last week but fought to go up as champion.\n\nThey ended the season level on 100 points each after Burnley beat Millwall 3-1 and was promoted as runner-up.\n\nCoventry and Bristol City took the last two playoff places.\n\nCoventry beat Middlesbrough 2-0 to end the season in fifth place and Bristol City was sixth after a 2-2 draw against Preston. Third-place Sheffield United and Sunderland in fourth complete the playoffs lineup.\n\nThose four teams will compete for the third and final promotion spot.\n\nLuton Town was relegated for the second year in a row after a 5-3 loss against West Brom.\n\nLuton was a Premier League team last season, but will be playing in the third tier of English soccer next term after Hull climbed out of the relegation zone in the final game of the season with a 1-1 draw at Portsmouth.\n\n## Title drama\n\nLeeds and Burnley were neck and neck at the top of the standings going into the last round of games.\n\nAnd it looked like Burnley — relegated from the top flight last year — would clinch the title with victory against Millwall.\n\nLeeds trailed at second from bottom Plymouth in the 18th when Sam Byram put through his own net. Wilfried Gnonto leveled the game at Home Park in the 53rd, but time was running out to complete the comeback.\n\nThat was until Solomon's dramatic winner in the first minute of stoppage time.\n\n___\n\nJames Robson is at https://twitter.com/jamesalanrobson\n\n___\n\nAP soccer: https://apnews.com/hub/soccer"
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"value": "# Leeds goes to the Premier League as second-division champion\n\nBy James Robson \nMay 3rd, 2025 03:34 PM\n\n---\n\nLeeds was promoted to the Premier League as second-division champion on Saturday after Manor Solomon's dramatic winner in stoppage time.\n\nSolomon's late goal sealed a 2-1 comeback win against relegated Plymouth and saw Leeds top the Championship — edging out second-placed Burnley on goal difference.\n\nBoth teams had clinched promotion last week but fought to go up as champion.\n\nThey ended the season level on 100 points each after Burnley beat Millwall 3-1 and was promoted as runner-up.\n\nCoventry and Bristol City took the last two playoff places.\n\nCoventry beat Middlesbrough 2-0 to end the season in fifth place and Bristol City was sixth after a 2-2 draw against Preston. Third-place Sheffield United and Sunderland in fourth complete the playoffs lineup.\n\nThose four teams will compete for the third and final promotion spot.\n\nLuton Town was relegated for the second year in a row after a 5-3 loss against West Brom.\n\nLuton was a Premier League team last season, but will be playing in the third tier of English soccer next term after Hull climbed out of the relegation zone in the final game of the season with a 1-1 draw at Portsmouth.\n\n## Title drama\n\nLeeds and Burnley were neck and neck at the top of the standings going into the last round of games.\n\nAnd it looked like Burnley — relegated from the top flight last year — would clinch the title with victory against Millwall.\n\nLeeds trailed at second from bottom Plymouth in the 18th when Sam Byram put through his own net. Wilfried Gnonto leveled the game at Home Park in the 53rd, but time was running out to complete the comeback.\n\nThat was until Solomon's dramatic winner in the first minute of stoppage time."
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"value": "# Australian prime minister names new Cabinet that drops Israel critic\n\nBy Rod Mcguirk \nMay 12th, 2025 07:19 AM\n\n---\n\nMELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australia Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced his new Cabinet on Monday after former minister Ed Husic blamed his demotion on his own criticism of Israel's war in Gaza.\n\nAlbanese named the 30 lawmakers who will fill Cabinet and outer-ministry positions after his center-left Labor Party won a landslide victory in the May 3 elections.\n\nLabor has claimed 92 seats in the 150-seat House of Representatives, the lower chamber where parties need a majority to form government. As vote counting continues, Albanese said his government could hold as many as 95 seats.\n\nLabor had never held more seats since the first Parliament sat in 1901, he said.\n\n\"I'm deeply humbled by the trust that was put into my government with the election and we certainly won't take it for granted,\" Albanese told reporters at Parliament House.\n\nWhile Labor prime ministers allocate the ministerial portfolios, the party's factional leaders pick the 30 lawmakers who will get them based on the proportion of seats each faction won.\n\nThe factional leaders dropped former Industry and Science Minister Husic, who was born in Sydney to Bosnian Muslim immigrants, and former Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus, who is Jewish.\n\nHusic, who after the 2022 election became Australia's first federal minister to be sworn into office on a Quran, told Australian Broadcasting Corp. on Sunday that Albanese should have intervened to keep him and Dreyfus in Cabinet.\n\nHusic said his demotion was in part punishment for his views on how Israel has waged war in Gaza.\n\n\"I think it's been a factor in there. Would I do things differently? I don't think so,\" Husic told ABC.\n\n\"You can't celebrate diversity and then expect it to sit in a corner and be silent. You need to speak up … for the communities that you care about,\" Husic added.\n\nAlbanese did not directly answer when asked whether he had fought for either Husic or Dreyfus to remain in Cabinet.\n\n\"We have a process in the Labor Party caucus. You've been watching it for some time,\" Albanese told reporters.\n\nAlbanese said he had a \"constructive discussion\" with Husic on Monday morning.\n\n\"What I've done is to allocate portfolios. That's the system that's there. It's one that Ed and others have supported for a long period of time,\" Albanese said.\n\nBilal Rauf, an adviser to the Australian National Imams Council, called for Albanese to explain whether Husic's demotion was due to his views on Gaza.\n\n\"I think at a minimum, some explanation is warranted. We can't just leave it at explanations about factionalism,\" Rauf said.\n\n\"If Ed says that's a factor, I have no reason to discount that,\" Rauf said. \"It's hard to deny that it likely is a factor.\"\n\nAlex Ryvchin, co-chief executive officer of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, said his advocacy group had enjoyed good relations with both Dreyfus and Husic.\n\nHusic had made statements after Hamas' attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, that were \"very troublesome for the community.\"\n\n\"He levelled accusations at Israel which we fundamentally disagree with but again reasonable people will differ on these things and we wish Ed Husic all the best,\" Ryvchin said.\n\nHusic said two weeks after the Hamas attacks: \"I feel very strongly that Palestinians are being collectively punished … for Hamas' barbarism.\"\n\nHusic said on Sunday the Israeli government had \"atrociously managed this.\"\n\nEgypt-born Anne Aly has been promoted to Cabinet, making her the government's most senior Muslim. She is minister for small business, international development and multicultural affairs.\n\nAlbanese's second-term administration is the first Australian government since 2010 to have no Jewish Cabinet minister.\n\nMost of the government's most senior ministers have portfolios that are unchanged or slightly varied.\n\nDeputy Prime Minister Richard Marles remained defense minister. Home Affairs Tony Burke's portfolio has been expanded to include the Australian Federal Police and the nation's main domestic spy agency, Australian Security Intelligence Organization.\n\nTim Ayres, the former assistant trade minister, was promoted to Cabinet to take Husic's portfolio.\n\nDreyfus was replaced by Michelle Rowland, who had been communications minister in the government's first term."
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"value": "# Knicks take a 2-0 lead over the Celtics after coming from 20 down again to win 91-90\n\nBy Kyle Hightower \nMay 8th, 2025 01:42 AM\n\n---\n\nBOSTON (AP) — For the second straight game, the New York Knicks found themselves in a hole the Boston Celtics have rarely let teams out of this season.\n\nThe Knicks again found a way — almost the same way, in fact — to pull off the improbable. And now they are two wins away from knocking the defending champions out of the playoffs.\n\nMikal Bridges sealed another 20-point comeback with his second straight game-ending steal and the Knicks stunned the Celtics again Wednesday night, winning 91-90 for a 2-0 lead in the Eastern Conference semifinals.\n\n\"Just finding ways to win,\" Bridges said.\n\nJalen Brunson scored 17 points for New York and made two free throws with 12.7 seconds left for a 91-90 lead. Jayson Tatum then couldn't get to the rim and Bridges moved in to bat the ball away and recover it.\n\nBridges also scored all of his 14 points in the fourth quarter. Josh Hart had 23 points and Karl-Anthony Towns finished with 21 points and 17 rebounds for the Knicks, who will host Game 3 on Saturday.\n\n\"Going home we realize the opportunity we have. We just have to stay locked in,\" Brunson said.\n\nJaylen Brown and Derrick White scored 20 points apiece for the Celtics, who were 10 for 40 from 3-point range after going 15 for 60 in Game 1.\n\nTatum was limited to 13 points on 5-for-19 shooting for the Celtics, who went more than eight minutes without a field goal in the fourth quarter. They missed 13 consecutive shots during the stretch.\n\nTeams that win the first two games of a best-of-seven series on the road win the series 85.7% of the time. The Knicks took the opener when Bridges stole the ball away from Brown with a second left in overtime.\n\n\"Opportunity to show what we're made of,\" Brown said of a Boston team that swept New York 4-0 in the regular season.\n\n\"We've got to respond.\"\n\nKristaps Porzingis didn't start after sitting out the second half of Game 1 with an illness. He came off the bench for just the fifth time in his NBA career and finished with eight points and four rebounds in 14 minutes.\n\nAll eyes were on the Celtics' offense after they missed an NBA playoff-record 45 3-pointers in their Game 1 loss. They went 24 for 54 from 2-point range Wednesday.\n\nDespite their shooting struggles, the Celtics found some traction late in the third quarter, using a 16-6 run – keyed by their effort on the defensive end – to turn a 10-point lead into a 73-53 advantage late in the period.\n\nIt was 84-68 after Payton Pritchard's 3-pointer with 8:40 to play but the Celtics wouldn't make another basket until Tatum's driving dunk with 18.5 seconds remaining.\n\nNew York cut it to 86-82 on a floater by Hart before Towns' three-point play cut it to 86-85. Tatum missed a jumper, and Brunson made an 18-footer to put New York in front.\n\nA jumper by Brown rolled off the rim on Boston's next trip up the floor. Brunson then found a lane to the basket and dropped in a layup to make it 89-86.\n\nTatum connected on a pair of free throws and then got it back following a New York miss that rolled out of bounds with 24.2 seconds left.\n\nTrailing 89-88, Tatum pushed the ball in to the front court and drove easily past Mitchell Robinson for a dunk to put the Celtics back in front.\n\nBrunson was fouled and connected on both free throws.\n\nHart said they are going home knowing they can still play better.\n\n\"I don't even think we know what we're capable of,\" he said.\n\n___\n\nAP NBA: https://apnews.com/nba"
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"value": "# Knicks take a 2-0 lead over the Celtics after coming from 20 down again to win 91-90\n\nBy Kyle Hightower \nMay 8th, 2025 01:42 AM\n\n---\n\nBOSTON (AP) — For the second straight game, the New York Knicks found themselves in a hole the Boston Celtics have rarely let teams out of this season.\n\nThe Knicks again found a way — almost the same way, in fact — to pull off the improbable. And now they are two wins away from knocking the defending champions out of the playoffs.\n\nMikal Bridges sealed another 20-point comeback with his second straight game-ending steal and the Knicks stunned the Celtics again Wednesday night, winning 91-90 for a 2-0 lead in the Eastern Conference semifinals.\n\n\"Just finding ways to win,\" Bridges said.\n\nJalen Brunson scored 17 points for New York and made two free throws with 12.7 seconds left for a 91-90 lead. Jayson Tatum then couldn't get to the rim and Bridges moved in to bat the ball away and recover it.\n\nBridges also scored all of his 14 points in the fourth quarter. Josh Hart had 23 points and Karl-Anthony Towns finished with 21 points and 17 rebounds for the Knicks, who will host Game 3 on Saturday.\n\n\"Going home we realize the opportunity we have. We just have to stay locked in,\" Brunson said.\n\nJaylen Brown and Derrick White scored 20 points apiece for the Celtics, who were 10 for 40 from 3-point range after going 15 for 60 in Game 1.\n\nTatum was limited to 13 points on 5-for-19 shooting for the Celtics, who went more than eight minutes without a field goal in the fourth quarter. They missed 13 consecutive shots during the stretch.\n\nTeams that win the first two games of a best-of-seven series on the road win the series 85.7% of the time. The Knicks took the opener when Bridges stole the ball away from Brown with a second left in overtime.\n\n\"Opportunity to show what we're made of,\" Brown said of a Boston team that swept New York 4-0 in the regular season.\n\n\"We've got to respond.\"\n\nKristaps Porzingis didn't start after sitting out the second half of Game 1 with an illness. He came off the bench for just the fifth time in his NBA career and finished with eight points and four rebounds in 14 minutes.\n\nAll eyes were on the Celtics' offense after they missed an NBA playoff-record 45 3-pointers in their Game 1 loss. They went 24 for 54 from 2-point range Wednesday.\n\nDespite their shooting struggles, the Celtics found some traction late in the third quarter, using a 16-6 run – keyed by their effort on the defensive end – to turn a 10-point lead into a 73-53 advantage late in the period.\n\nIt was 84-68 after Payton Pritchard's 3-pointer with 8:40 to play but the Celtics wouldn't make another basket until Tatum's driving dunk with 18.5 seconds remaining.\n\nNew York cut it to 86-82 on a floater by Hart before Towns' three-point play cut it to 86-85. Tatum missed a jumper, and Brunson made an 18-footer to put New York in front.\n\nA jumper by Brown rolled off the rim on Boston's next trip up the floor. Brunson then found a lane to the basket and dropped in a layup to make it 89-86.\n\nTatum connected on a pair of free throws and then got it back following a New York miss that rolled out of bounds with 24.2 seconds left.\n\nTrailing 89-88, Tatum pushed the ball in to the front court and drove easily past Mitchell Robinson for a dunk to put the Celtics back in front.\n\nBrunson was fouled and connected on both free throws.\n\nHart said they are going home knowing they can still play better.\n\n\"I don't even think we know what we're capable of,\" he said."
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"value": "# Riley and Braves receive morale boost from long-awaited 1st win of season against powerful Dodgers\n\nBy Charles Odum \nMay 5th, 2025 03:13 AM\n\n---\n\nATLANTA (AP) — Austin Riley knows one win by Atlanta in six games against the Los Angeles Dodgers doesn't give the Braves a claim to challenge the team with baseball's best record.\n\nEven so, avoiding a season sweep with Sunday night's 4-3 win over the Dodgers was important for the Braves and their morale.\n\n\"It's huge,\" said Riley, who powered the Braves by hitting a pair of two-run homers for an early 4-0 lead.\n\n\"I think this is a really good ballclub here,\" he added. \"We've shown it at times and we've struggled at times. I think it's something you can build off of to get that confidence, knowing that we can compete with the best, and go from there.\"\n\nThe Braves opened the season with seven consecutive losses, a stretch that was capped by three losses in Los Angeles. They have remained under .500, though they climbed close at 14-15 before another three-game skid that included losses to the Dodgers in the first two games of the weekend series, including a 10-3 defeat on Saturday night that gave Los Angeles a seven-game winning streak and the best record in the majors at 23-10.\n\nIncluding losses in their last two games against the Dodgers in 2024, the Braves had lost seven straight in the series. That's why avoiding the sweep of the season series was important.\n\n\"I think it's big when you win a game like this,\" said Braves manager Brian Snitker. \"It's like you know what, we're pretty good, too. I think the club can take something away from that. We didn't win the series, but it's a big win for us. It shows us we can play, that we're a good team, too.\"\n\nRiley is hitting .292 and leads the Braves with eight homers and 24 RBIs.\n\nRiley, Marcell Ozuna, Matt Olson and other Atlanta hitters are awaiting the return of outfielder Ronald Acuña Jr. as early as this month as he continues to recover from last year's ACL surgery on his left knee.\n\nAcuña was hurt after 49 games last season. He won the National League MVP in 2023 with 41 home runs, 73 steals and a .337 batting average.\n\nWhen asked how the top of Atlanta's lineup would compare with the Dodgers' top four of Shohei Ohtani, Mookie Betts, Freddie Freeman and Teoscar Hernández when Acuña returns to the leadoff spot, Snitker said: \"We're right there.\"\n\n___\n\nAP MLB: https://apnews.com/hub/mlb"
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"value": "# Riley and Braves receive morale boost from long-awaited 1st win of season against powerful Dodgers\n\nBy Charles Odum \nMay 5th, 2025 03:13 AM\n\n---\n\nATLANTA (AP) — Austin Riley knows one win by Atlanta in six games against the Los Angeles Dodgers doesn't give the Braves a claim to challenge the team with baseball's best record.\n\nEven so, avoiding a season sweep with Sunday night's 4-3 win over the Dodgers was important for the Braves and their morale.\n\n\"It's huge,\" said Riley, who powered the Braves by hitting a pair of two-run homers for an early 4-0 lead.\n\n\"I think this is a really good ballclub here,\" he added. \"We've shown it at times and we've struggled at times. I think it's something you can build off of to get that confidence, knowing that we can compete with the best, and go from there.\"\n\nThe Braves opened the season with seven consecutive losses, a stretch that was capped by three losses in Los Angeles. They have remained under .500, though they climbed close at 14-15 before another three-game skid that included losses to the Dodgers in the first two games of the weekend series, including a 10-3 defeat on Saturday night that gave Los Angeles a seven-game winning streak and the best record in the majors at 23-10.\n\nIncluding losses in their last two games against the Dodgers in 2024, the Braves had lost seven straight in the series. That's why avoiding the sweep of the season series was important.\n\n\"I think it's big when you win a game like this,\" said Braves manager Brian Snitker. \"It's like you know what, we're pretty good, too. I think the club can take something away from that. We didn't win the series, but it's a big win for us. It shows us we can play, that we're a good team, too.\"\n\nRiley is hitting .292 and leads the Braves with eight homers and 24 RBIs.\n\nRiley, Marcell Ozuna, Matt Olson and other Atlanta hitters are awaiting the return of outfielder Ronald Acuña Jr. as early as this month as he continues to recover from last year's ACL surgery on his left knee.\n\nAcuña was hurt after 49 games last season. He won the National League MVP in 2023 with 41 home runs, 73 steals and a .337 batting average.\n\nWhen asked how the top of Atlanta's lineup would compare with the Dodgers' top four of Shohei Ohtani, Mookie Betts, Freddie Freeman and Teoscar Hernández when Acuña returns to the leadoff spot, Snitker said: \"We're right there.\""
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"value": "# CDC reports 216 child deaths this flu season, the most in 15 years\n\nBy Mike Stobbe \nMay 2nd, 2025 03:20 PM\n\n---\n\nNEW YORK (AP) — More U.S. children have died this flu season than at any time since the swine flu pandemic 15 years ago, according to a federal report released Friday.\n\nThe 216 pediatric deaths reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention eclipse the 207 reported last year. It's the most since the 2009-2010 H1N1 global flu pandemic.\n\nIt's a startlingly high number, given that the flu season is still going on. The final pediatric death tally for the 2023-2024 flu season wasn't counted until autumn.\n\n\"This number that we have now is almost certainly an undercount, and one that — when the season is declared over, and they compile all the data — it's almost certain to go up,\" said Dr. Sean O'Leary, of the American Academy of Pediatrics.\n\nThere are likely several contributors to this season's severity, but a big one is that fewer children are getting flu shots, added O'Leary, a University of Colorado pediatric infectious diseases specialist.\n\nThe flu vaccination rate for U.S. children has plummeted from about 64% five years ago to 49% this season.\n\nFlu vaccinations may not prevent people from coming down with symptoms, but research shows they are highly effective at preventing hospitalizations and deaths, O'Leary said.\n\nThe season has not only been hard on children. CDC officials have described it as \" highly severe,\" and estimate that so far there have been at least 47 million illnesses, 610,000 hospitalizations and 26,000 deaths this season.\n\nCDC officials have information about underlying conditions on nearly 5,200 adults who were hospitalized with flu this season, and 95% had at least one existing health problem. But among 2,000 hospitalized children with more detailed health information, only about 53% had an underlying condition — including asthma and obesity.\n\nThe CDC report did not say how many of the children who died were vaccinated. The agency did not make an expert available to talk about the flu season.\n\nThe good news is that flu indicators have been waning since February, and last week all 50 states were reporting low or minimal flu activity.\n\nThe season has seen more of a mix of flu strain circulating than in many other years, with two different Type A strains — H1N1 and H3N2 — causing a lot of infections. But CDC data released earlier this year suggested flu shots were doing a pretty good job at preventing deaths and hospitalizations.\n\nThe CDC continues to recommend that everyone ages 6 months and older get an annual flu vaccine.\n\nChildhood vaccinations in general have been declining, driven by online misinformation and the political schism that emerged around COVID-19 vaccines. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has also echoed some of the rhetoric of antivaccine activists since taking over as the nation's health secretary.\n\nBut there may be other reasons fewer children got flu shots this year, O'Leary said.\n\nMany pediatricians offices are understaffed and are not holding as many after-hours vaccination clinics as in the past. Also, more Americans are getting their vaccinations at pharmacies, but some drugstores don't vaccinate children, he said.\n\n\"My hope is that this season will be a bit of wake up call for folks that we actually do need to vaccinate our kids against influenza,\" O'Leary said.\n\n___\n\nThe Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Science and Educational Media Group and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The AP is solely responsible for all content."
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"value": "# CDC reports 216 child deaths this flu season, the most in 15 years\n\nBy Mike Stobbe \nMay 2nd, 2025 03:20 PM\n\n---\n\nNEW YORK (AP) — More U.S. children have died this flu season than at any time since the swine flu pandemic 15 years ago, according to a federal report released Friday.\n\nThe 216 pediatric deaths reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention eclipse the 207 reported last year. It's the most since the 2009-2010 H1N1 global flu pandemic.\n\nIt's a startlingly high number, given that the flu season is still going on. The final pediatric death tally for the 2023-2024 flu season wasn't counted until autumn.\n\n\"This number that we have now is almost certainly an undercount, and one that — when the season is declared over, and they compile all the data — it's almost certain to go up,\" said Dr. Sean O'Leary, of the American Academy of Pediatrics.\n\nThere are likely several contributors to this season's severity, but a big one is that fewer children are getting flu shots, added O'Leary, a University of Colorado pediatric infectious diseases specialist.\n\nThe flu vaccination rate for U.S. children has plummeted from about 64% five years ago to 49% this season.\n\nFlu vaccinations may not prevent people from coming down with symptoms, but research shows they are highly effective at preventing hospitalizations and deaths, O'Leary said.\n\nThe season has not only been hard on children. CDC officials have described it as \" highly severe,\" and estimate that so far there have been at least 47 million illnesses, 610,000 hospitalizations and 26,000 deaths this season.\n\nCDC officials have information about underlying conditions on nearly 5,200 adults who were hospitalized with flu this season, and 95% had at least one existing health problem. But among 2,000 hospitalized children with more detailed health information, only about 53% had an underlying condition — including asthma and obesity.\n\nThe CDC report did not say how many of the children who died were vaccinated. The agency did not make an expert available to talk about the flu season.\n\nThe good news is that flu indicators have been waning since February, and last week all 50 states were reporting low or minimal flu activity.\n\nThe season has seen more of a mix of flu strain circulating than in many other years, with two different Type A strains — H1N1 and H3N2 — causing a lot of infections. But CDC data released earlier this year suggested flu shots were doing a pretty good job at preventing deaths and hospitalizations.\n\nThe CDC continues to recommend that everyone ages 6 months and older get an annual flu vaccine.\n\nChildhood vaccinations in general have been declining, driven by online misinformation and the political schism that emerged around COVID-19 vaccines. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has also echoed some of the rhetoric of antivaccine activists since taking over as the nation's health secretary.\n\nBut there may be other reasons fewer children got flu shots this year, O'Leary said.\n\nMany pediatricians offices are understaffed and are not holding as many after-hours vaccination clinics as in the past. Also, more Americans are getting their vaccinations at pharmacies, but some drugstores don't vaccinate children, he said.\n\n\"My hope is that this season will be a bit of wake up call for folks that we actually do need to vaccinate our kids against influenza,\" O'Leary said."
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"value": "# Alabama sets a June date for its 5th execution using nitrogen gas\n\nMay 8th, 2025 11:52 PM\n\n---\n\nMONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama plans to carry out another execution by nitrogen gas and has set a June execution date for a man convicted of the 1988 killing of a woman.\n\nGregory Hunt is scheduled to be put to death June 10 for the 1988 beating death of Karen Lane. Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey on Wednesday announced the execution date following authorization by the Alabama Supreme Court.\n\nAlabama last year became the first state to carry out an execution with nitrogen gas. Nitrogen has now been used in five executions — four in Alabama and one in Louisiana. The method involves using a gas mask to force a person to breathe pure nitrogen gas, depriving them of the oxygen needed to stay alive.\n\nIf the execution goes forward, Hunt would be the sixth person put to death by the new execution method.\n\nLane was found dead on Aug. 2, 1988, in the Cordova apartment she shared with another woman. Hunt had been dating the victim, Lane, for about one month before her death, according to court records.\n\nProsecutors said Hunt broke into her apartment and killed her. A physician who performed an autopsy testified that Lane had sustained some 60 injuries, including 20 to the head.\n\nA jury in 1990 convicted Hunt of capital murder and recommended by a vote of 11-1 that he receive a death sentence.\n\nThe Alabama attorney general's office, in a motion seeking the execution date, wrote there was no doubt about his guilt and said that Hunt had admitted to his cellmate that he killed Lane. Lawyers for Hunt had asked the court to wait on an execution date. They argued that a February U.S. Supreme Court decision could be applicable to his longstanding claim that his conviction was unconstitutionally obtained by false or misleading evidence.\n\nHunt had named nitrogen as his preferred method. The selection was made before Alabama had developed procedures for using gas. Alabama also allows to choose lethal injection or the electric chair.\n\nIf the execution goes forward, it would be the third execution in Alabama this year."
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"value": "# Alabama sets a June date for its 5th execution using nitrogen gas\n\nMay 8th, 2025 11:52 PM\n\n---\n\nMONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama plans to carry out another execution by nitrogen gas and has set a June execution date for a man convicted of the 1988 killing of a woman.\n\nGregory Hunt is scheduled to be put to death June 10 for the 1988 beating death of Karen Lane. Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey on Wednesday announced the execution date following authorization by the Alabama Supreme Court.\n\nAlabama last year became the first state to carry out an execution with nitrogen gas. Nitrogen has now been used in five executions — four in Alabama and one in Louisiana. The method involves using a gas mask to force a person to breathe pure nitrogen gas, depriving them of the oxygen needed to stay alive.\n\nIf the execution goes forward, Hunt would be the sixth person put to death by the new execution method.\n\nLane was found dead on Aug. 2, 1988, in the Cordova apartment she shared with another woman. Hunt had been dating the victim, Lane, for about one month before her death, according to court records.\n\nProsecutors said Hunt broke into her apartment and killed her. A physician who performed an autopsy testified that Lane had sustained some 60 injuries, including 20 to the head.\n\nA jury in 1990 convicted Hunt of capital murder and recommended by a vote of 11-1 that he receive a death sentence.\n\nThe Alabama attorney general's office, in a motion seeking the execution date, wrote there was no doubt about his guilt and said that Hunt had admitted to his cellmate that he killed Lane. Lawyers for Hunt had asked the court to wait on an execution date. They argued that a February U.S. Supreme Court decision could be applicable to his longstanding claim that his conviction was unconstitutionally obtained by false or misleading evidence.\n\nHunt had named nitrogen as his preferred method. The selection was made before Alabama had developed procedures for using gas. Alabama also allows to choose lethal injection or the electric chair.\n\nIf the execution goes forward, it would be the third execution in Alabama this year."
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"value": "# Torrential rain fails to halt Inter's pursuit of leader Napoli as it cuts gap to 1 point\n\nBy Daniella Matar \nMay 11th, 2025 07:16 PM\n\n---\n\nMILAN (AP) — Torrential rain and hail posed several problems on Sunday but not to Inter Milan's pursuit of Serie A leader Napoli.\n\nAmid a thunderstorm and delays, Inter managed a 2-0 win at Torino to cut the gap to Napoli to just one point after Antonio Conte's side was surprisingly held 2-2 by Genoa.\n\nIf Napoli and Inter are still level after the final two rounds there will be a playoff to decide the destination of the league title.\n\n\"Undoubtedly there's disappointment at this moment,\" Conte said. \"Because we didn't deserve to draw, to drop points like this.\n\n\"But we also have to acknowledge that we had a 'bonus card' and we played that tonight, of the seven points that we needed we picked up one, so we have to win the two matches remaining now.\"\n\nInter coach Simone Inzaghi made wholesale changes to his squad following Tuesday's extraordinary 4-3 victory over Barcelona, after extra time, that sent his team into the Champions League final.\n\nThe visitors took the lead in the 14th minute with a fantastic goal as Nicola Zalewski gathered Alessandro Bastoni's long pass, with his back to goal, before turning his marker to cut inside and curl into the bottom right corner.\n\n## Rain, thunder and hail\n\nThe heavens then opened in Turin, making play increasingly more difficult, with heavy rain, thunder and hail.\n\nThe referee interrupted play shortly before the interval to discuss the situation with the two captains, before resuming to see out the half.\n\nThe halftime break lasted 30 minutes rather than the usual 15 before the second period started.\n\nIt took Inter less than five minutes to extend its advantage through Kristjan Asllani's penalty after Mehdi Taremi was brought down by Torino goalkeeper Vanja Milinkovic-Savic.\n\n## Double fumble\n\nNapoli twice fumbled a lead in a surprise result that damaged its title hopes.\n\nRomelu Lukaku and Giacomo Raspadori put Napoli ahead in each half, following precise passes from Scott McTominay.\n\nGenoa's first equalizer was somewhat fortuitous as Honest Ahanor's header bounced off the upright and then hit Alex Meret on the thigh to ricochet back into the net – going down as an own-goal by the Napoli goalkeeper.\n\nJohan Vásquez headed in a cross six minutes from time to snatch a point for Genoa and set up an even more tense finale to the season.\n\n## Relegation playoff possibility\n\nThe fight for Serie A safety could also go down to a playoff match.\n\nLecce only managed a 1-1 draw at Hellas Verona to move level on points with 18th-placed Empoli.\n\nVerona is also not safe as it is five points above those two.\n\nElsewhere, already-relegated Monza recorded its first victory since January and only its third of this season, with a 2-1 win at Udinese.\n\n___\n\nAP soccer: https://apnews.com/hub/soccer"
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"value": "# Torrential rain fails to halt Inter's pursuit of leader Napoli as it cuts gap to 1 point\n\nBy Daniella Matar \nMay 11th, 2025 07:16 PM\n\n---\n\nMILAN (AP) — Torrential rain and hail posed several problems on Sunday but not to Inter Milan's pursuit of Serie A leader Napoli.\n\nAmid a thunderstorm and delays, Inter managed a 2-0 win at Torino to cut the gap to Napoli to just one point after Antonio Conte's side was surprisingly held 2-2 by Genoa.\n\nIf Napoli and Inter are still level after the final two rounds there will be a playoff to decide the destination of the league title.\n\n\"Undoubtedly there's disappointment at this moment,\" Conte said. \"Because we didn't deserve to draw, to drop points like this.\n\n\"But we also have to acknowledge that we had a 'bonus card' and we played that tonight, of the seven points that we needed we picked up one, so we have to win the two matches remaining now.\"\n\nInter coach Simone Inzaghi made wholesale changes to his squad following Tuesday's extraordinary 4-3 victory over Barcelona, after extra time, that sent his team into the Champions League final.\n\nThe visitors took the lead in the 14th minute with a fantastic goal as Nicola Zalewski gathered Alessandro Bastoni's long pass, with his back to goal, before turning his marker to cut inside and curl into the bottom right corner.\n\n## Rain, thunder and hail\n\nThe heavens then opened in Turin, making play increasingly more difficult, with heavy rain, thunder and hail.\n\nThe referee interrupted play shortly before the interval to discuss the situation with the two captains, before resuming to see out the half.\n\nThe halftime break lasted 30 minutes rather than the usual 15 before the second period started.\n\nIt took Inter less than five minutes to extend its advantage through Kristjan Asllani's penalty after Mehdi Taremi was brought down by Torino goalkeeper Vanja Milinkovic-Savic.\n\n## Double fumble\n\nNapoli twice fumbled a lead in a surprise result that damaged its title hopes.\n\nRomelu Lukaku and Giacomo Raspadori put Napoli ahead in each half, following precise passes from Scott McTominay.\n\nGenoa's first equalizer was somewhat fortuitous as Honest Ahanor's header bounced off the upright and then hit Alex Meret on the thigh to ricochet back into the net – going down as an own-goal by the Napoli goalkeeper.\n\nJohan Vásquez headed in a cross six minutes from time to snatch a point for Genoa and set up an even more tense finale to the season.\n\n## Relegation playoff possibility\n\nThe fight for Serie A safety could also go down to a playoff match.\n\nLecce only managed a 1-1 draw at Hellas Verona to move level on points with 18th-placed Empoli.\n\nVerona is also not safe as it is five points above those two.\n\nElsewhere, already-relegated Monza recorded its first victory since January and only its third of this season, with a 2-1 win at Udinese."
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"value": "# The pope is on the line: AP is there for pontiff's call to his brother in Chicago\n\nBy Obed Lamy \nMay 9th, 2025 10:32 PM\n\n---\n\nNEW LENOX, Ill. (AP) — It was one of the most surreal phone calls I've experienced.\n\nA few hours earlier, John Prevost had watched the TV in stunned disbelief as his younger brother emerged on the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica and was named Pope Leo XIV. Journalists quickly showed up at the older brother's front door in suburban Chicago to learn everything they could about the new pontiff. I was one of them.\n\nI had arrived at Prevost's home in New Lenox in the early evening after packing up and driving three hours from Indianapolis, where I am based. After walking by other media and news equipment outside, I knocked on the door. Prevost let me come in.\n\nAs we talked, a ringing came from the basement. Prevost hurried to a tablet downstairs and I followed, my camera on.\n\n\"That might be the pope,\" he said.\n\nHe found he had a few missed phone calls from his brother. He called the pope back, using a speaker to play the audio out loud. The pope picked up.\n\nI got the shot — the new pontiff's voice speaking to his older brother, asking him why he hadn't been answering his calls. I was shaking.\n\n\"Well, first you need to know you're on the air right now,\" the older brother responded. \"This is the first time I'm hearing that this thing rang.\"\n\nThe conversation went on for just a few minutes. They talked about the news of the day and discussed making plans for the older brother to come to Rome sometime this week. They talked like regular siblings.\n\nDuring the rest of the interview, Prevost and I spoke about the new pope and the brothers' family. We talked about their childhood in Chicago and the pope's favorite food, which is steak. Prevost told me they FaceTime almost every day and they play The New York Times' game Wordle. He said the last time he had spoken with his brother was Tuesday before the conclave began.\n\nI couldn't help but replay over and over in my mind the call, a human moment from one of the world's most divine figures. The pope called his brother, and the brother called back."
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"value": "# The pope is on the line: AP is there for pontiff's call to his brother in Chicago\n\nBy Obed Lamy \nMay 9th, 2025 10:32 PM\n\n---\n\nNEW LENOX, Ill. (AP) — It was one of the most surreal phone calls I've experienced.\n\nA few hours earlier, John Prevost had watched the TV in stunned disbelief as his younger brother emerged on the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica and was named Pope Leo XIV. Journalists quickly showed up at the older brother's front door in suburban Chicago to learn everything they could about the new pontiff. I was one of them.\n\nI had arrived at Prevost's home in New Lenox in the early evening after packing up and driving three hours from Indianapolis, where I am based. After walking by other media and news equipment outside, I knocked on the door. Prevost let me come in.\n\nAs we talked, a ringing came from the basement. Prevost hurried to a tablet downstairs and I followed, my camera on.\n\n\"That might be the pope,\" he said.\n\nHe found he had a few missed phone calls from his brother. He called the pope back, using a speaker to play the audio out loud. The pope picked up.\n\nI got the shot — the new pontiff's voice speaking to his older brother, asking him why he hadn't been answering his calls. I was shaking.\n\n\"Well, first you need to know you're on the air right now,\" the older brother responded. \"This is the first time I'm hearing that this thing rang.\"\n\nThe conversation went on for just a few minutes. They talked about the news of the day and discussed making plans for the older brother to come to Rome sometime this week. They talked like regular siblings.\n\nDuring the rest of the interview, Prevost and I spoke about the new pope and the brothers' family. We talked about their childhood in Chicago and the pope's favorite food, which is steak. Prevost told me they FaceTime almost every day and they play The New York Times' game Wordle. He said the last time he had spoken with his brother was Tuesday before the conclave began.\n\nI couldn't help but replay over and over in my mind the call, a human moment from one of the world's most divine figures. The pope called his brother, and the brother called back."
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"value": "# FDA to rehire fired staffers who booked inspection trips, but other workers remain in limbo\n\nBy Matthew Perrone \nMay 1st, 2025 04:12 PM\n\n---\n\nWASHINGTON (AP) — For the second time in recent months, the Food and Drug Administration is bringing back some recently fired employees, including staffers who handle travel bookings for safety inspectors.\n\nMore than 20 of the agency's roughly 60 travel staff will be reinstated, according to two FDA staffers notified of the plan this week, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss confidential agency matters.\n\nFood scientists who test samples for bacteria and study potentially harmful chemicals also have been told they will get their jobs back, but have yet to receive any official confirmation.\n\nThe same uncertainty hangs over employees who process agency records for release to lawyers, companies and journalists under the Freedom of Information Act. About 100 of those staffers were recently eliminated, according to an agency official with direct knowledge of the situation.\n\nBut in recent days the FDA has missed multiple court-ordered deadlines to produce documents, which could result in hefty fines. That's prompted plans to bring back a significant number of those staffers.\n\nThe apparent reversals are the latest examples of the haphazard approach to agency cuts that have shrunk FDA's workforce by an estimated 20%, or about 3,500 jobs, in addition to an unspecified number of retirements, voluntary buyouts and resignations.\n\nIn February, the FDA laid off about 700 provisional employees, including food and medical device reviewers, only to rehire many of them within days after pushback from industry, Congress and other parties.\n\nThe Department of Health and Human Services hasn't detailed exactly which positions or programs were cut in the mass layoffs.\n\nFDA Commissioner Marty Makary has repeatedly said that no FDA scientists were fired as part of the reductions. But at least two dozen food scientists who worked in a San Francisco testing laboratory and a Chicago research center were let go in March.\n\nAn HHS spokesperson suggested the apparent mix-up was due to \"the fractured, outdated HR infrastructure we inherited from the Biden administration and are now actively overhauling.\" The spokesperson did not respond to specific questions about which employees are being reinstated but said the administration will \"streamline operations and fix the broken systems left to us.\"\n\nAbout 15 scientists working in FDA's Division of Food Processing Science and Technology in Chicago were told last week they be will reinstated, according to a staffer who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss confidential agency matters. But a week later there has been no written confirmation and the scientists have not returned to the office. The group's research includes studying ways to prevent harmful bacteria from growing on produce and preventing the spread of microplastics and other particles from food packaging.\n\n\"I hope Commissioner Makary continues to assess these ill-informed cuts and works to bring back impacted employees expeditiously,\" said Susan Mayne of Yale University, the FDA's former food director. \"His legacy as commissioner is on the line.\"\n\nWith more than 15,000 employees remaining across various U.S. and foreign offices, the FDA's core responsibilities are reviewing new drugs, medical products and food ingredients as well as inspecting thousands of factories.\n\nMakary has said no inspectors or medical reviewers were fired as part of the recent reductions. But current and former FDA officials note that those frontline employees are often supported by teams of administrative staff.\n\nFDA inspectors, for example, have long relied on travel bookers to coordinate trips to India and other countries that often involve visa permissions, security measures, ground transportation, tech support, translation services and other logistics. Inspectors can spend up to half the year traveling, a grueling workload that makes recruiting and retaining staff a challenge.\n\nFor a brief period last month, inspectors were told they would be booking their own travel. The FDA set up a hotline to assist with making the arrangements. Then, agency leaders developed a plan to hire an outside contractor to perform the work.\n\nOn Monday, staffers were informed that about a third of the fired staff who performed the work would be returning.\n\n___\n\nAP reporter JoNel Aleccia contributed to this report.\n\n___\n\nThe Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Science and Educational Media Group. The AP is solely responsible for all content."
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"value": "# Olympic swim great Gary Hall Jr awarded 10 medals to replace those destroyed in LA fires\n\nMay 5th, 2025 03:18 PM\n\n---\n\nLAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — After all his Olympic medals were destroyed in the Los Angeles fires, swimming great Gary Hall Jr. set an unexpected record replacing them at IOC headquarters Monday.\n\nTen Olympic medals awarded to one athlete on the same day.\n\n\"I'll do a better job of taking care of these,\" Hall Jr. quipped receiving the new set of five golds, three silvers and two bronzes earned swimming for the United States at three Summer Games from 1996 to 2004.\n\nThe originals burned four months ago at his home in the Pacific Palisades area of the city that will host the next Summer Games in 2028.\n\nReplacing them by presenting 10 at the same time was \"a unique ceremony,\" said International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach.\n\n\"I don't think that it happened ever before and I hope it will never have to happen again,\" Bach told Hall Jr. \"We hope also to give you a moment of relief and joy which will help you now in the further process to get over what you had to go through with this tragedy.\"\n\nHall Jr. spoke with emotion about being supported by family, former teammates and old Olympic rivals like Australia stars Ian Thorpe and Michael Klim.\n\n\"Having friends and family I am a very lucky man,\" he said. \"The support that I was offered from the athletic community has buoyed me through the darkest of nights.\"\n\nHe brought with him to Switzerland a deformed gold medal later recovered from the home he fled with his dog, Puddles, after grabbing his insulin medication.\n\n\"It's got some character,\" Hall Jr. said of the burned gold at the Olympic ceremony. \"The value of friends outweighs the value of objects. We live in a time of capitalism, consumerism and you realize when you lose everything, how little of it you truly need.\n\n\"Character cannot be taken away, it cannot be burned and it cannot be lost.\"\n\nThorpe was among the first people to contact Hall Jr. during the January fires.\n\n\"I don't know how he knew,\" Hall Jr. said of the surprise call from Thorpe, who was part of the Australian 4x100-meter freestyle team that took gold ahead of the U.S. at the 2000 Sydney Olympics.\n\n\"That is what this (Olympic) family is about — rivals and friends. I am just so appreciative to all of them. I can't thank the Olympic movement enough for their support through this very difficult time.\"\n\n___\n\nAP Olympics at https://apnews.com/hub/2024-paris-olympic-games"
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"value": "# Astros OF Jake Meyers matches franchise record for total bases in win over White Sox\n\nBy Matt Carlson \nMay 3rd, 2025 11:05 PM\n\n---\n\nCHICAGO (AP) — Jake Meyers felt it was his best game at the plate. At least he couldn't remember a better one.\n\nNot in the majors. Not in the minor leagues. Not in three seasons at the University of Nebraska, where he also pitched.\n\n\"Not that I can remember, not like this,\" Meyers said. \"Pretty cool.\"\n\nMeyers homered twice on his way to a career-high seven RBIs in an 8-3 victory over the Chicago White Sox on Saturday. Batting ninth in the lineup, he went 4 for 4 and scored three times while matching a franchise record with 13 total bases.\n\nThe 28-year-old Meyers began the day with a .262 batting average, no homers and six RBIs in 30 games this season.\n\n\"That was an awesome day by Jake,\" manager Joe Espada said. \"He got some good pitches to hit and he didn't miss 'em.\n\n\"I think Jake was seeing the ball well. He's a hard worker. He goes through some stretches where he misses some of his fastballs and the pitches he handles.\"\n\nMeyers set career highs with 13 homers and 61 RBIs in 148 games last season, helping Houston win the AL West. He was selected by the Astros in the 13th round of the 2017 amateur draft.\n\nHe had his big day in Chicago with Yordan Alvarez sitting out because of right hand inflammation.\n\nMeyers hit his first homer of the season on Davis Martin's first pitch of the third. He tied it at 3 with a two-run triple with two out in the fourth, capping a 10-pitch at bat.\n\nMeyers' three-run drive in the sixth off Penn Murfee put the Astros ahead to stay. Murfee, a right-hander, had just come in to face Meyers, who hits from the right side.\n\n\"It was awesome,\" Meyers said. \"It was a lot of fun.\"\n\nAn RBI double to center in the eighth gave Meyers 13 total bases. He had no idea he was near the team record, most recently accomplished by Alvarez in Philadelphia last August.\n\n\"I was just trying to keep the rhythm of the game and trying to score some more runs,\" Meyers said.\n\n___\n\nAP MLB: https://apnews.com/hub/mlb"
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"value": "# Astros OF Jake Meyers matches franchise record for total bases in win over White Sox\n\nBy Matt Carlson \nMay 3rd, 2025 11:05 PM\n\n---\n\nCHICAGO (AP) — Jake Meyers felt it was his best game at the plate. At least he couldn't remember a better one.\n\nNot in the majors. Not in the minor leagues. Not in three seasons at the University of Nebraska, where he also pitched.\n\n\"Not that I can remember, not like this,\" Meyers said. \"Pretty cool.\"\n\nMeyers homered twice on his way to a career-high seven RBIs in an 8-3 victory over the Chicago White Sox on Saturday. Batting ninth in the lineup, he went 4 for 4 and scored three times while matching a franchise record with 13 total bases.\n\nThe 28-year-old Meyers began the day with a .262 batting average, no homers and six RBIs in 30 games this season.\n\n\"That was an awesome day by Jake,\" manager Joe Espada said. \"He got some good pitches to hit and he didn't miss 'em.\n\n\"I think Jake was seeing the ball well. He's a hard worker. He goes through some stretches where he misses some of his fastballs and the pitches he handles.\"\n\nMeyers set career highs with 13 homers and 61 RBIs in 148 games last season, helping Houston win the AL West. He was selected by the Astros in the 13th round of the 2017 amateur draft.\n\nHe had his big day in Chicago with Yordan Alvarez sitting out because of right hand inflammation.\n\nMeyers hit his first homer of the season on Davis Martin's first pitch of the third. He tied it at 3 with a two-run triple with two out in the fourth, capping a 10-pitch at bat.\n\nMeyers' three-run drive in the sixth off Penn Murfee put the Astros ahead to stay. Murfee, a right-hander, had just come in to face Meyers, who hits from the right side.\n\n\"It was awesome,\" Meyers said. \"It was a lot of fun.\"\n\nAn RBI double to center in the eighth gave Meyers 13 total bases. He had no idea he was near the team record, most recently accomplished by Alvarez in Philadelphia last August.\n\n\"I was just trying to keep the rhythm of the game and trying to score some more runs,\" Meyers said."
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"value": "# Schwarber, Kepler go deep late to vault Phillies past Diamondbacks 3-2\n\nBy Anthony Sanfilippo \nMay 3rd, 2025 01:24 AM\n\n---\n\nPHILADELPHIA (AP) — Kyle Schwarber and Max Kepler hit solo homers in the seventh inning to lead the Philadelphia Phillies to a 3-2 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks on Friday night.\n\nSchwarber moved into a tie for the major league home run lead when he hit his 10th of the season off Arizona reliever Jose Castillo (0-1) to tie the game 2-2.\n\nOne out later, Kepler hit a home run into the right-field seats to put the Phillies ahead. It was his fourth homer this season and his first off a left-handed pitcher this year.\n\nSchwarber also had an RBI double in the first inning to give Philadelphia an early lead.\n\nTanner Banks (1-0) earned the win in relief by pitching a 1-2-3 seventh. Jose Alvarado pitched the ninth for his sixth save for Philadelphia.\n\nJesús Luzardo pitched 5 1/3 innings and allowed two runs on nine hits for the Phillies, who have won five of their last six.\n\nArizona starter Merrill Kelly was having an efficient and effective start, throwing just 60 pitches through five innings and allowing one run on four hits, but he appeared to injure himself while warming up in the sixth inning and had to be removed from the game.\n\nThe Diamondbacks did not announce the nature of the injury before the conclusion of the game.\n\nLuis Perdomo and Lourdes Gurriel Jr. had RBI singles for Arizona, which has lost six of its last nine.\n\n## Key moment\n\nJohan Rojas, who came into the game as a defensive replacement, made a lunging catch in center field and crashed hard into the fence, but hung on to help preserve the one-run lead in the ninth inning.\n\n## Key stat\n\nSchwarber extended his major league leading on-base streak to 38 games with his first inning double.\n\n## Up Next\n\nArizona sends RHP Brandon Pfaadt (5-1, 2.78 ERA) to the mound to face Phillies RHP Aaron Nola (0-5, 5.40) on Saturday night.\n\n___\n\nAP MLB: https://apnews.com/hub/mlb"
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"value": "# Schwarber, Kepler go deep late to vault Phillies past Diamondbacks 3-2\n\nBy Anthony Sanfilippo \nMay 3rd, 2025 01:24 AM\n\n---\n\nPHILADELPHIA (AP) — Kyle Schwarber and Max Kepler hit solo homers in the seventh inning to lead the Philadelphia Phillies to a 3-2 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks on Friday night.\n\nSchwarber moved into a tie for the major league home run lead when he hit his 10th of the season off Arizona reliever Jose Castillo (0-1) to tie the game 2-2.\n\nOne out later, Kepler hit a home run into the right-field seats to put the Phillies ahead. It was his fourth homer this season and his first off a left-handed pitcher this year.\n\nSchwarber also had an RBI double in the first inning to give Philadelphia an early lead.\n\nTanner Banks (1-0) earned the win in relief by pitching a 1-2-3 seventh. Jose Alvarado pitched the ninth for his sixth save for Philadelphia.\n\nJesús Luzardo pitched 5 1/3 innings and allowed two runs on nine hits for the Phillies, who have won five of their last six.\n\nArizona starter Merrill Kelly was having an efficient and effective start, throwing just 60 pitches through five innings and allowing one run on four hits, but he appeared to injure himself while warming up in the sixth inning and had to be removed from the game.\n\nThe Diamondbacks did not announce the nature of the injury before the conclusion of the game.\n\nLuis Perdomo and Lourdes Gurriel Jr. had RBI singles for Arizona, which has lost six of its last nine.\n\n## Key moment\n\nJohan Rojas, who came into the game as a defensive replacement, made a lunging catch in center field and crashed hard into the fence, but hung on to help preserve the one-run lead in the ninth inning.\n\n## Key stat\n\nSchwarber extended his major league leading on-base streak to 38 games with his first inning double.\n\n## Up Next\n\nArizona sends RHP Brandon Pfaadt (5-1, 2.78 ERA) to the mound to face Phillies RHP Aaron Nola (0-5, 5.40) on Saturday night."
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"value": "# Judge denies effort by US Rep Cuellar of Texas to move bribery trial to hometown of Laredo\n\nBy Juan A. Lozano \nMay 2nd, 2025 05:12 PM\n\n---\n\nHOUSTON (AP) — A judge on Friday denied an effort by lawyers for U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas to move his trial on federal bribery and conspiracy charges from Houston to his hometown of Laredo, Texas.\n\nDuring a Zoom court hearing, Chris Flood, one of Cuellar's lawyers, had argued that Houston is more than 300 miles (482 kilometers) from Laredo, where many of the alleged crimes the congressman is accused of committing took place. Flood also pushed back against claims prosecutors would face difficulties trying Cuellar in Laredo, where he is well known.\n\nFederal authorities have charged Cuellar, 69, and his wife, Imelda Cuellar, with accepting thousands of dollars in exchange for the congressman advancing the interests of an Azerbaijan-controlled energy company and a bank in Mexico. Cuellar has said he and his wife are innocent.\n\nCelia Choy, a federal prosecutor with the U.S. Justice Department, argued moving the trial would further delay it and she questioned if an unbiased jury could be picked in Cuellar's hometown.\n\nU.S. District Judge Lee Rosenthal cited the prominence Cuellar and his wife have in Laredo as well as having a larger jury pool in the Houston area as some of the reasons for not moving the trial to Laredo.\n\n\"Houston can handle this case easily, very easily,\" Rosenthal said.\n\nThe judge also denied a request by Cuellar's attorneys to push back the start of the trial. The trial for Cuellar and his wife is set to begin Sept. 22.\n\nCuellar and his wife appeared during Friday's Zoom hearing but didn't speak.\n\nSince Cuellar's indictment in April 2024, three people have pleaded guilty in connection with the case: Colin Strother, one of Cuellar's top former aides; Florencio Rendon, a Texas political and business consultant; and Irada Akhoundova, who was director of a Texas affiliate of an Azerbaijan energy company.\n\n___\n\nFollow Juan A. Lozano: https://twitter.com/juanlozano70"
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"value": "# Judge denies effort by US Rep Cuellar of Texas to move bribery trial to hometown of Laredo\n\nBy Juan A. Lozano \nMay 2nd, 2025 05:12 PM\n\n---\n\nHOUSTON (AP) — A judge on Friday denied an effort by lawyers for U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas to move his trial on federal bribery and conspiracy charges from Houston to his hometown of Laredo, Texas.\n\nDuring a Zoom court hearing, Chris Flood, one of Cuellar's lawyers, had argued that Houston is more than 300 miles (482 kilometers) from Laredo, where many of the alleged crimes the congressman is accused of committing took place. Flood also pushed back against claims prosecutors would face difficulties trying Cuellar in Laredo, where he is well known.\n\nFederal authorities have charged Cuellar, 69, and his wife, Imelda Cuellar, with accepting thousands of dollars in exchange for the congressman advancing the interests of an Azerbaijan-controlled energy company and a bank in Mexico. Cuellar has said he and his wife are innocent.\n\nCelia Choy, a federal prosecutor with the U.S. Justice Department, argued moving the trial would further delay it and she questioned if an unbiased jury could be picked in Cuellar's hometown.\n\nU.S. District Judge Lee Rosenthal cited the prominence Cuellar and his wife have in Laredo as well as having a larger jury pool in the Houston area as some of the reasons for not moving the trial to Laredo.\n\n\"Houston can handle this case easily, very easily,\" Rosenthal said.\n\nThe judge also denied a request by Cuellar's attorneys to push back the start of the trial. The trial for Cuellar and his wife is set to begin Sept. 22.\n\nCuellar and his wife appeared during Friday's Zoom hearing but didn't speak.\n\nSince Cuellar's indictment in April 2024, three people have pleaded guilty in connection with the case: Colin Strother, one of Cuellar's top former aides; Florencio Rendon, a Texas political and business consultant; and Irada Akhoundova, who was director of a Texas affiliate of an Azerbaijan energy company."
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"value": "# Maya Yoshida own goal keeps defending-champion Galaxy reeling in 1-0 loss to Sporting KC\n\nMay 5th, 2025 01:19 AM\n\n---\n\nKANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Los Angeles Galaxy defender Maya Yoshida had the only score on Sunday night, unfortunately it was an own goal that led to a 1-0 victory for Sporting Kansas City — continuing the worst start by a defending champion in league history.\n\nThe Galaxy (0-8-3) are still looking for their first victory 11 matches into the season and even a 3-0-2 record in five previous matchups with Sporting KC (3-7-1) didn't help.\n\nYoshida's own goal came in the 13th minute.\n\nJohn Pulskamp had to make one save and it came in the first half on the way to his second clean sheet in his 11th start of the season for Sporting KC. His save came just before halftime on a right-footed shot from the center of the box by John Nelson.\n\nJohn McCarthy did not have a save for the Galaxy.\n\nIt was sweet revenge for Dejan Joveljic, who came to Sporting KC in the first cash-for-player trade in league history after helping the Galaxy win their sixth MLS Cup last season. He leads the team with five goals — all at home.\n\nThe Galaxy have missed Riqui Puig, who hasn't played since suffering a knee injury in the playoffs. And Joseph Paintsil and Gabriel Pec, who combined for 50 goals contributions in the championship run, have just four so far this season.\n\nSporting KC interim coach Kerry Zavagnin and the Galaxy's Greg Vanney were teammates on the US men's national team. The two coaches represented their current teams when the two clubs squared off in the conference final of the 2000 MLS Cup — won by the then-Kansas City Wizards, who went on to beat the Chicago Fire 1-0 in the championship match.\n\nThe Galaxy travel to play the New York Red Bulls on Saturday. Sporting KC travels to play the Portland Timbers on Saturday.\n\n___\n\nAP soccer: https://apnews.com/soccer"
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"value": "# Reds put ace right-hander Hunter Greene on injured list with groin strain\n\nMay 9th, 2025 11:07 PM\n\n---\n\nHOUSTON (AP) — Reds ace Hunter Greene was placed on the 15-day injured list with a groin strain, one of six roster moves by Cincinnati ahead of Friday night's game at Houston.\n\nGreene struck out six in three scoreless innings at Atlanta on Wednesday before summoning a trainer while warming up for the fourth. An All-Star last season, the right-hander is 4-2 with a 2.36 ERA in eight starts this season.\n\nReds manager Terry Francona told reporters in Atlanta on Thursday the injury isn't \"terrible\" and \"all things considered, he's going to be OK.\"\n\nChase Petty, who was recalled from Triple-A Louisville on Friday, will take Greene's spot in the rotation and is scheduled to start Sunday's series finale at Houston.\n\nAlso Friday, the Reds activated outfielder Austin Hays, who hasn't played since April 28 because of a left hamstring strain.\n\nA left calf strain sidelined Hays for the first 16 games of the season. He is batting .365 with five homers and 13 RBIs in 13 games. Hays will hit cleanup for a Reds lineup that has produced baseball's fifth-worst batting average in May (.217).\n\n\"He's such a professional. Everything he does he does with a purpose, and he does for the right reasons,\" Francona said.\n\nThe Reds, who have lost five of six, also recalled outfielder Will Benson from Louisville and optioned outfielders Blake Dunn and Jacob Hurtubise. Dunn has gone hitless in his last 17 at-bats, dropping his average to .150, and he failed to execute a sacrifice bunt in the 11th inning of Thursday's loss to the Braves.\n\n___\n\nAP MLB: https://apnews.com/hub/mlb"
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"value": "# Jacob Wilson comes home to Los Angeles and leads Athletics' 18-hit attack in 11-1 rout of Dodgers\n\nBy Beth Harris \nMay 14th, 2025 06:35 AM\n\n---\n\nLOS ANGELES (AP) — Jacob Wilson won't forget his Dodger Stadium debut. The Athletics rookie hit a pair of two-run homers against the defending World Series champions in an 11-1 rout.\n\nGrowing up in Thousand Oaks, about 40 miles from Los Angeles, Wilson visited the ballpark as a kid. His father, Jack, was an All-Star shortstop during his major league career with Pittsburgh, Seattle and Atlanta.\n\nWilson had about 25 family and friends in the stands and they got loud.\n\n\"For them to show up and have that game was pretty special,\" he said Tuesday night.\n\nThe 23-year-old shortstop went 4 for 5 and had a career-high four RBIs, boosting his batting average to .363. His 58 hits are second in the majors behind Aaron Judge of the New York Yankees.\n\nWilson had his eighth multi-hit game in his last 12. His first four-hit game came last week against Seattle.\n\n\"We talked about his ability to put the barrel to the baseball and you saw every bit what he is capable of doing,\" A's manager Mark Kotsay said. \"This kid is off to a great start and continues to do things that in some ways, we're watching him grow up as a big leaguer right now.\"\n\nThanks to his father, Wilson already had a comfort level around the major leagues.\n\n\"He is really advanced in his approach and just the way he plays the game,\" Kotsay said. \"It definitely helps to get your feet on the ground but from the confidence standpoint you still have to have the results and have the success and he's been doing that since we drafted him.\"\n\nWilson has struck out just nine times and leads American League rookies in batting average and several other categories.\n\nHis first two-run shot in the third gave the A's a 2-0 lead. He did it again in the fifth to make it 4-1. Both homers came off Landon Knack.\n\n\"The guy's a very good player,\" Knack said. \"The guy does seem to hit everything. I got to execute a little better.\"\n\nWilson said, \"I don't hit too many homers, so to be able to get the multi-one now out of the way was pretty awesome.\"\n\nThe A's had a season-high five homers as part of their 18-hit attack.\n\n\"To be able to come here on their home field and with the talent they have on their roster, to be able to get that first win, it really just shows that we can play with the power teams in the league,\" Wilson said.\n\n___\n\nAP MLB: https://apnews.com/hub/MLB"
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"value": "# Jacob Wilson comes home to Los Angeles and leads Athletics' 18-hit attack in 11-1 rout of Dodgers\n\nBy Beth Harris \nMay 14th, 2025 06:35 AM\n\n---\n\nLOS ANGELES (AP) — Jacob Wilson won't forget his Dodger Stadium debut. The Athletics rookie hit a pair of two-run homers against the defending World Series champions in an 11-1 rout.\n\nGrowing up in Thousand Oaks, about 40 miles from Los Angeles, Wilson visited the ballpark as a kid. His father, Jack, was an All-Star shortstop during his major league career with Pittsburgh, Seattle and Atlanta.\n\nWilson had about 25 family and friends in the stands and they got loud.\n\n\"For them to show up and have that game was pretty special,\" he said Tuesday night.\n\nThe 23-year-old shortstop went 4 for 5 and had a career-high four RBIs, boosting his batting average to .363. His 58 hits are second in the majors behind Aaron Judge of the New York Yankees.\n\nWilson had his eighth multi-hit game in his last 12. His first four-hit game came last week against Seattle.\n\n\"We talked about his ability to put the barrel to the baseball and you saw every bit what he is capable of doing,\" A's manager Mark Kotsay said. \"This kid is off to a great start and continues to do things that in some ways, we're watching him grow up as a big leaguer right now.\"\n\nThanks to his father, Wilson already had a comfort level around the major leagues.\n\n\"He is really advanced in his approach and just the way he plays the game,\" Kotsay said. \"It definitely helps to get your feet on the ground but from the confidence standpoint you still have to have the results and have the success and he's been doing that since we drafted him.\"\n\nWilson has struck out just nine times and leads American League rookies in batting average and several other categories.\n\nHis first two-run shot in the third gave the A's a 2-0 lead. He did it again in the fifth to make it 4-1. Both homers came off Landon Knack.\n\n\"The guy's a very good player,\" Knack said. \"The guy does seem to hit everything. I got to execute a little better.\"\n\nWilson said, \"I don't hit too many homers, so to be able to get the multi-one now out of the way was pretty awesome.\"\n\nThe A's had a season-high five homers as part of their 18-hit attack.\n\n\"To be able to come here on their home field and with the talent they have on their roster, to be able to get that first win, it really just shows that we can play with the power teams in the league,\" Wilson said."
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"value": "# US will stop tracking the costs of extreme weather fueled by climate change\n\nBy Alexa St. John \nMay 8th, 2025 06:21 PM\n\n---\n\nThe National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will no longer track the cost of climate change-fueled weather disasters, including floods, heat waves, wildfires and more. It is the latest example of changes to the agency and the Trump administration limiting federal government resources on climate change.\n\nNOAA falls under the U.S. Department of Commerce and is tasked with daily weather forecasts, severe storm warnings and climate monitoring. It is also parent to the National Weather Service.\n\nThe agency said its National Centers for Environmental Information would no longer update its Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters database beyond 2024, and that its information — going as far back as 1980 — would be archived.\n\nFor decades, it has tracked hundreds of major events across the country, including destructive hurricanes, hail storms, droughts and freezes that have totaled trillions of dollars in damage.\n\nThe database uniquely pulls information from the Federal Emergency Management Agency's assistance data, insurance organizations, state agencies and more to estimate overall losses from individual disasters.\n\nNOAA Communications Director Kim Doster said in a statement that the change was \"in alignment with evolving priorities, statutory mandates, and staffing changes.\"\n\nScientists say these weather events are becoming increasingly more frequent, costly and severe with climate change. Experts have attributed the growing intensity of recent debilitating heat, Hurricane Milton, the Southern California wildfires and blasts of cold to climate change.\n\nAssessing the impact of weather events fueled by the planet's warming is key as insurance premiums hike, particularly in communities more prone to flooding, storms and fires. Climate change has wrought havoc on the insurance industry, and homeowners are at risk of skyrocketing rates.\n\nOne limitation is that the dataset estimated only the nation's most costly weather events.\n\nThe information is generally seen as standardized and unduplicable, given the agency's access to nonpublic data, and other private databases would be more limited in scope and likely not shared as widespread for proprietary reasons. Other datasets, however, also track death estimates from these disasters.\n\nJeff Masters, a meteorologist for Yale Climate Connections, pointed to substitutes from insurance brokers and the international disaster database as alternative sources of information.\n\nStill, \"The NOAA database is the gold standard we use to evaluate the costs of extreme weather,\" Masters said, \"and it's a major loss, since it comes at a time when we need to better understand how much climate change is increasing disaster losses.\"\n\nThese moves also don't \"change the fact that these disasters are escalating year over year,\" Kristina Dahl, vice president of science at nonprofit climate organization Climate Central. \"Extreme weather events that cause a lot of damage are one of the primary ways that the public sees that climate change is happening and is affecting people.\"\n\n\"It's critical that we highlight those events when they're happening,\" she added. \"All of these changes will make Americans less safe in the face of climate change.\"\n\nThe move, reported Thursday by CNN, is yet another of President Donald Trump's efforts to remove references to climate change and the impact of greenhouse gas emissions on the weather from the federal government's lexicon and documents.\n\nTrump has instead prioritized allies in the polluting coal, oil and gas industries, which studies say are linked or traced to climate damage.\n\nThe change also marks the administration's latest hit overall to the weather, ocean and fisheries agency.\n\nThe Trump administration fired hundreds of weather forecasters and other federal NOAA employees on probationary status in February, part of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency efforts to downsize the federal government workforce. It began a second round of more than 1,000 cuts at the agency in March, more than 10% of its workforce at the time.\n\nAt the time, insiders said massive firings and changes to the agency would risk lives and negatively impact the U.S. economy. Experts also noted fewer vital weather balloon launches under NOAA would worsen U.S. weather forecasts.\n\nMore changes to the agency are expected, which could include some of those proposed in the president's preliminary budget.\n\nThe agency's weather service also paused providing language translations of its products last month — though it resumed those translations just weeks later.\n\n___\n\nRead more of AP's climate coverage at http://www.apnews.com/climate-and-environment.\n\n___\n\nData journalist Mary Katherine Wildeman contributed from Hartford, Connecticut.\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": "# US will stop tracking the costs of extreme weather fueled by climate change\n\nBy Alexa St. John \nMay 8th, 2025 06:21 PM\n\n---\n\nThe National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will no longer track the cost of climate change-fueled weather disasters, including floods, heat waves, wildfires and more. It is the latest example of changes to the agency and the Trump administration limiting federal government resources on climate change.\n\nNOAA falls under the U.S. Department of Commerce and is tasked with daily weather forecasts, severe storm warnings and climate monitoring. It is also parent to the National Weather Service.\n\nThe agency said its National Centers for Environmental Information would no longer update its Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters database beyond 2024, and that its information — going as far back as 1980 — would be archived.\n\nFor decades, it has tracked hundreds of major events across the country, including destructive hurricanes, hail storms, droughts and freezes that have totaled trillions of dollars in damage.\n\nThe database uniquely pulls information from the Federal Emergency Management Agency's assistance data, insurance organizations, state agencies and more to estimate overall losses from individual disasters.\n\nNOAA Communications Director Kim Doster said in a statement that the change was \"in alignment with evolving priorities, statutory mandates, and staffing changes.\"\n\nScientists say these weather events are becoming increasingly more frequent, costly and severe with climate change. Experts have attributed the growing intensity of recent debilitating heat, Hurricane Milton, the Southern California wildfires and blasts of cold to climate change.\n\nAssessing the impact of weather events fueled by the planet's warming is key as insurance premiums hike, particularly in communities more prone to flooding, storms and fires. Climate change has wrought havoc on the insurance industry, and homeowners are at risk of skyrocketing rates.\n\nOne limitation is that the dataset estimated only the nation's most costly weather events.\n\nThe information is generally seen as standardized and unduplicable, given the agency's access to nonpublic data, and other private databases would be more limited in scope and likely not shared as widespread for proprietary reasons. Other datasets, however, also track death estimates from these disasters.\n\nJeff Masters, a meteorologist for Yale Climate Connections, pointed to substitutes from insurance brokers and the international disaster database as alternative sources of information.\n\nStill, \"The NOAA database is the gold standard we use to evaluate the costs of extreme weather,\" Masters said, \"and it's a major loss, since it comes at a time when we need to better understand how much climate change is increasing disaster losses.\"\n\nThese moves also don't \"change the fact that these disasters are escalating year over year,\" Kristina Dahl, vice president of science at nonprofit climate organization Climate Central. \"Extreme weather events that cause a lot of damage are one of the primary ways that the public sees that climate change is happening and is affecting people.\"\n\n\"It's critical that we highlight those events when they're happening,\" she added. \"All of these changes will make Americans less safe in the face of climate change.\"\n\nThe move, reported Thursday by CNN, is yet another of President Donald Trump's efforts to remove references to climate change and the impact of greenhouse gas emissions on the weather from the federal government's lexicon and documents.\n\nTrump has instead prioritized allies in the polluting coal, oil and gas industries, which studies say are linked or traced to climate damage.\n\nThe change also marks the administration's latest hit overall to the weather, ocean and fisheries agency.\n\nThe Trump administration fired hundreds of weather forecasters and other federal NOAA employees on probationary status in February, part of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency efforts to downsize the federal government workforce. It began a second round of more than 1,000 cuts at the agency in March, more than 10% of its workforce at the time.\n\nAt the time, insiders said massive firings and changes to the agency would risk lives and negatively impact the U.S. economy. Experts also noted fewer vital weather balloon launches under NOAA would worsen U.S. weather forecasts.\n\nMore changes to the agency are expected, which could include some of those proposed in the president's preliminary budget.\n\nThe agency's weather service also paused providing language translations of its products last month — though it resumed those translations just weeks later."
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"value": "# Jalen Milroe is cheerful but diligent as he begins his first minicamp with the Seahawks\n\nBy Andrew Destin \nMay 3rd, 2025 12:46 AM\n\n---\n\nRENTON, Wa. (AP) — For all the million-dollar smiles Jalen Milroe flashed following his first practice with the Seahawks, it's clear Seattle's third-round draft pick means business.\n\nMilroe's diligent approach stems from his being raised by military parents. His father, Quentin, served in the Marine Corps while his mother, Lola, served in the Navy. Both were on hand for the opening of the Seahawks' rookie minicamp on Friday.\n\n\"Having two military parents, you definitely emphasize determination. Grit. Goals, short-term goals and long-term goals, and understanding that it takes a team,\" Milroe said. \"I don't believe in the word self-made at all. It takes a team to accomplish what you want to accomplish. So, my team was here today at practice.\"\n\nSo, too, was Milroe's passing potential. He worked through the route tree and showed impressive touch on deep throws.\n\nMilroe, who completed 64% of his passes at Alabama with 45 touchdowns and 20 interceptions, has spent the last year and a half working on his mechanics with former NFL quarterback Jordan Palmer in San Clemente, California. Palmer has also worked with Patrick Mahomes, Josh Allen and even Seattle's new starter, Sam Darnold.\n\nMilroe has gained a better understanding of the role his lower body plays in making strong, accurate throws.\n\n\"Every quarterback is different,\" Milroe said. \"And so, doing a really deep understanding of how my body functions at the quarterback position for how I throw the ball. And so, understanding how to distribute my body when it comes to my lower-half mechanics and things like that. That's been a focus for us. And so with that, it's all about being an efficient passer.\"\n\nTight end Elijah Arroyo, a second-round pick, appreciated catching passes from Milroe.\n\n\"I can't really explain it. I'm not a quarterback,\" Arroyo said. \"But just the way he throws the ball, the way he moves. He has a chance to be an elite quarterback at the highest level.\"\n\nOdds are Milroe will do a lot more sitting than competing early in his NFL career. Darnold, after all, signed a three-year, $100.5 million contract this offseason. The Seahawks also brought in veteran backup Drew Lock.\n\nNone of that is to suggest the 22-year-old Milroe intends on coasting in his first year as a pro. He said he began studying the Seahawks' playbook the day after he was drafted.\n\n\"It was a quick turnaround for sure,\" Milroe said. \"It's definitely now, this is my job. Now I know where I'm going to be. It's a long process for sure.\"\n\nMilroe has some familiarity with having to learn new a new offensive system. He worked alongside three offensive coordinators with the Crimson Tide. Last season, Milroe operated with an entirely new coaching staff, too, after Nick Saban called it quits on as decorated a coaching career as any in college football.\n\nSeattle also has a new offensive coordinator this year. Klint Kubiak was hired in January after one season in the same position with the New Orleans Saints.\n\n\"We saw football in different lenses with each coordinator,\" Milroe said. \"You have different terminology. You have different formation adjustments.\"\n\nOne familiar thing for Milroe on his first full workday as a pro: having his parents with him.\n\n\"My parents made a joke, 'It's like your first day of class today,' and they took a bunch of pictures after practice,\" Milroe said. \"But no, it's definitely cool to be an NFL quarterback, to get my feet wet, get acclimated with everything. It was definitely a dream come true for sure.\"\n\n___\n\nAP NFL: https://apnews.com/hub/nfl"
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"value": "# Jalen Milroe is cheerful but diligent as he begins his first minicamp with the Seahawks\n\nBy Andrew Destin \nMay 3rd, 2025 12:46 AM\n\n---\n\nRENTON, Wa. (AP) — For all the million-dollar smiles Jalen Milroe flashed following his first practice with the Seahawks, it's clear Seattle's third-round draft pick means business.\n\nMilroe's diligent approach stems from his being raised by military parents. His father, Quentin, served in the Marine Corps while his mother, Lola, served in the Navy. Both were on hand for the opening of the Seahawks' rookie minicamp on Friday.\n\n\"Having two military parents, you definitely emphasize determination. Grit. Goals, short-term goals and long-term goals, and understanding that it takes a team,\" Milroe said. \"I don't believe in the word self-made at all. It takes a team to accomplish what you want to accomplish. So, my team was here today at practice.\"\n\nSo, too, was Milroe's passing potential. He worked through the route tree and showed impressive touch on deep throws.\n\nMilroe, who completed 64% of his passes at Alabama with 45 touchdowns and 20 interceptions, has spent the last year and a half working on his mechanics with former NFL quarterback Jordan Palmer in San Clemente, California. Palmer has also worked with Patrick Mahomes, Josh Allen and even Seattle's new starter, Sam Darnold.\n\nMilroe has gained a better understanding of the role his lower body plays in making strong, accurate throws.\n\n\"Every quarterback is different,\" Milroe said. \"And so, doing a really deep understanding of how my body functions at the quarterback position for how I throw the ball. And so, understanding how to distribute my body when it comes to my lower-half mechanics and things like that. That's been a focus for us. And so with that, it's all about being an efficient passer.\"\n\nTight end Elijah Arroyo, a second-round pick, appreciated catching passes from Milroe.\n\n\"I can't really explain it. I'm not a quarterback,\" Arroyo said. \"But just the way he throws the ball, the way he moves. He has a chance to be an elite quarterback at the highest level.\"\n\nOdds are Milroe will do a lot more sitting than competing early in his NFL career. Darnold, after all, signed a three-year, $100.5 million contract this offseason. The Seahawks also brought in veteran backup Drew Lock.\n\nNone of that is to suggest the 22-year-old Milroe intends on coasting in his first year as a pro. He said he began studying the Seahawks' playbook the day after he was drafted.\n\n\"It was a quick turnaround for sure,\" Milroe said. \"It's definitely now, this is my job. Now I know where I'm going to be. It's a long process for sure.\"\n\nMilroe has some familiarity with having to learn new a new offensive system. He worked alongside three offensive coordinators with the Crimson Tide. Last season, Milroe operated with an entirely new coaching staff, too, after Nick Saban called it quits on as decorated a coaching career as any in college football.\n\nSeattle also has a new offensive coordinator this year. Klint Kubiak was hired in January after one season in the same position with the New Orleans Saints.\n\n\"We saw football in different lenses with each coordinator,\" Milroe said. \"You have different terminology. You have different formation adjustments.\"\n\nOne familiar thing for Milroe on his first full workday as a pro: having his parents with him.\n\n\"My parents made a joke, 'It's like your first day of class today,' and they took a bunch of pictures after practice,\" Milroe said. \"But no, it's definitely cool to be an NFL quarterback, to get my feet wet, get acclimated with everything. It was definitely a dream come true for sure.\""
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"value": "# DeJuan Jones and Cristian Arango score goals for Earthquakes in 2-0 win over Rapids\n\nMay 11th, 2025 03:39 AM\n\n---\n\nCOMMERCE CITY, Colo. (AP) — DeJuan Jones scored his first goal of the season, Cristian Arango also scored for San Jose and the Earthquakes beat the Colorado Rapids 2-0 on Saturday night.\n\nDaniel De Sousa Britto — known simply as \"Daniel\" — had five saves for the Earthquakes.\n\nVÃtor Costa played a one-touch pass from the left side to the center of the area where a changing Jones slammed home a first-timer to open the scoring in the second minute of first-half stoppage time.\n\nArango made it 2-0 in the 67th after he deflected a pass by Colorado's Chidozie Awaziem, ran onto the loose ball and then chipped a shot over goalkeeper Zack Steffen into the net.\n\nSteffen finished with three saves.\n\nThe Rapids (4-4-4) are winless in four consecutive games.\n\nSan Jose (5-6-1), which beat Portland last time out to snap a three-game losing streak, has won back-to-back games.\n\nSteffen had 12 saves and Calvin Harris capped the scoring in the 71st minute — his only goal of the season — for Colorado in a 2-1 road win over the Earthquakes 2-1 on March 15.\n\n___\n\nAP soccer: https://apnews.com/soccer"
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"value": "# Reds right-hander Hunter Greene leaves game against Braves after only 3 innings with groin injury\n\nBy Charles Odum \nMay 8th, 2025 12:29 AM\n\n---\n\nATLANTA (AP) — Cincinnati right-hander Hunter Greene has been scheduled for tests on Thursday to determine the severity of a right groin injury that forced him to leave Wednesday night's 4-3 win over the Atlanta Braves after only three innings.\n\nGreene struck out six batters and allowed only two hits before he was unable to complete his warmup on the mound in the fourth inning. Greene threw only two warmup pitches, including a last pitch that hit the dirt, before stopping his routine.\n\n\"I felt fantastic tonight,\" Greene said. \"It sucks because the momentum was great and all my stuff felt good. In the top of the fourth, my first two warmup pitches I felt my groin grab so I just didn't feel like I would be at my best or really honestly keep my team in it continuing to throw if I stayed in. So that was the decision.\"\n\nGreene said he hopes he doesn't have to miss a start but said this is his first groin injury and he couldn't predict what Thursday's tests will show.\n\n\"I'm looking forward to going back out this week or so, however long it takes to get back out on the mound,\" Greene said. \"I'm going to put my best foot forward, making sure I put myself in the best position to get back out there. Hopefully I don't miss any starts but I don't know what the future holds on this.\"\n\nGreene immediately attracted a crowd on the mound that included the Reds infielders, a trainer and manager Terry Francona. Following a brief meeting, Greene was escorted off the field with the Reds leading 4-0.\n\nGreene was coming off a season-high 12 strikeouts, the second-highest total of his big league career, in a 6-1 win over Washington on Friday night. He threw 114 pitches in the game, the most for any pitcher in the major leagues this season.\n\nGreene said he didn't believe the high pitch count in his last start contributed to the injury.\n\n\"I don't think so,\" he said. \"I felt fantastic all the way up to that last pitch. The recovery was great this past week going into tonight. I'd be really surprised if that had any correlation to tonight. I don't think it did.\"\n\nFrancona noted Greene said he felt a grab, not a pop, in the groin.\n\n\"I don't think anything happening to him is a good thing, but I don't think it's bad,\" Francona said.\n\nGreene was sharp again against the Braves. The 25-year-old right-hander struck out the side in the second. Alex Verdugo whiffed on Greene's 101-mph fastball in the third inning to give the right-hander six strikeouts.\n\nLeft-hander Brent Suter replaced Greene on the mound.\n\n___\n\nAP MLB: https://apnews.com/hub/mlb"
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"value": "# Reds right-hander Hunter Greene leaves game against Braves after only 3 innings with groin injury\n\nBy Charles Odum \nMay 8th, 2025 12:29 AM\n\n---\n\nATLANTA (AP) — Cincinnati right-hander Hunter Greene has been scheduled for tests on Thursday to determine the severity of a right groin injury that forced him to leave Wednesday night's 4-3 win over the Atlanta Braves after only three innings.\n\nGreene struck out six batters and allowed only two hits before he was unable to complete his warmup on the mound in the fourth inning. Greene threw only two warmup pitches, including a last pitch that hit the dirt, before stopping his routine.\n\n\"I felt fantastic tonight,\" Greene said. \"It sucks because the momentum was great and all my stuff felt good. In the top of the fourth, my first two warmup pitches I felt my groin grab so I just didn't feel like I would be at my best or really honestly keep my team in it continuing to throw if I stayed in. So that was the decision.\"\n\nGreene said he hopes he doesn't have to miss a start but said this is his first groin injury and he couldn't predict what Thursday's tests will show.\n\n\"I'm looking forward to going back out this week or so, however long it takes to get back out on the mound,\" Greene said. \"I'm going to put my best foot forward, making sure I put myself in the best position to get back out there. Hopefully I don't miss any starts but I don't know what the future holds on this.\"\n\nGreene immediately attracted a crowd on the mound that included the Reds infielders, a trainer and manager Terry Francona. Following a brief meeting, Greene was escorted off the field with the Reds leading 4-0.\n\nGreene was coming off a season-high 12 strikeouts, the second-highest total of his big league career, in a 6-1 win over Washington on Friday night. He threw 114 pitches in the game, the most for any pitcher in the major leagues this season.\n\nGreene said he didn't believe the high pitch count in his last start contributed to the injury.\n\n\"I don't think so,\" he said. \"I felt fantastic all the way up to that last pitch. The recovery was great this past week going into tonight. I'd be really surprised if that had any correlation to tonight. I don't think it did.\"\n\nFrancona noted Greene said he felt a grab, not a pop, in the groin.\n\n\"I don't think anything happening to him is a good thing, but I don't think it's bad,\" Francona said.\n\nGreene was sharp again against the Braves. The 25-year-old right-hander struck out the side in the second. Alex Verdugo whiffed on Greene's 101-mph fastball in the third inning to give the right-hander six strikeouts.\n\nLeft-hander Brent Suter replaced Greene on the mound."
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"value": "# Who were the best and worst dressed at the Met Gala?\n\nBy Beatrice Dupuy and Leanne Italie \nMay 6th, 2025 07:44 PM\n\n---\n\nNEW YORK (AP) — Pinstripes. All Ways. Hats galore. Pantsuits. Gown suits. Zoot suits. Canes. A single cigar (looking at you Madonna) — and expert displays of tailoring. The Met Gala crowd, for the most part, did the Black dandy menswear theme proud at fashion's biggest party of the year.\n\n\"Those that researched the moment and pulled inspiration from history made it modern and their own. I loved it,\" said Holly Alford, assistant dean and an associate professor in the fashion and merchandising program at Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts.\n\nAmong her favorites: Colman Domingo's homage to dandy icon André Leon Talley. It was one of many that honored the towering fashion figure, a rare Black fashion editor in a largely white industry. And among others in odes to Talley, who died in 2022, were Anne Hathaway in a Carolina Herrera dress she picked specifically for him.\n\n\"We wanted André Leon Talley to look down from heaven and scream 'GLAMOUR,'\" Hathaway said on the Vogue livestream Monday night.\n\n## Inventive glamour energy of the night\n\nA glamorous night it was, and an inventive one at that amid a broad White House siege on DEI programs and protections that serve immigrants, LGBTQ+ people and myriad others. What does that have to do with fashion and the theme this year? Everything, in terms of Black power, ownership, heritage and, most importantly, freedom.\n\nWhat, exactly, was the suggested dress code? It was \"Tailored for You,\" inspired by Black dandyism through time, the subject of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's spring show at its Costume Institute.\n\nOn the blue carpet, a bit soggy from drenching rain, guests played with the fundamentals of fashion to make their looks their own with the help of designers and stylists. And many honored their heritages in special touches like the cowrie shells on the cuffs of Lewis Hamilton's Wales Bonner jacket.\n\nThe shells pay homage to Black diasporic culture, to spirituality, to memory, said Rikki Byrd, assistant professor of visual culture studies at the University of Texas at Austin and founder of the Black Fashion Archive.\n\nTessa Thompson honored Talley with a fan adorned with his image.\n\n\"It's representative of a church fan and André Leon Talley often talked about his first introduction to fashion was through his church,\" Byrd said.\n\nTeyana Taylor was a standout for Shantrelle P. Lewis, author of \"Dandy Lion: The Black Dandy and Street Style.\" With her cane, in her red velvet cape, \"she understood the assignment,\" Lewis said. Taylor's cape was emblazoned with her nickname in honor of her home turf: \"Harlem Rose.\" And she, like Swizz Beatz, donned a durag.\n\n## Some underwhelmed by how guests did\n\nLewis, who has been seminal in understanding dandyism, said the attire on the carpet was generally underwhelming.\n\n\"The lack of color, the lack of African print, even the absence of African designers. I said, 'Where is the Black dandyism?'\" she said. \"No sartorial risks were taken.\"\n\nBig risks? Perhaps. Perhaps not. Brandon Tan, fashion director for Cosmopolitan, was satisfied.\n\n\"A classic silhouette can be completely reimagined by something as simple as the color and fabrication of the textile, as seen on Henry Golding,\" he said. \"Inversely, a very classic gray wool can be totally remixed by the cut and silhouette like Walton Goggins' kilt look by Thom Browne.\"\n\n## Who missed the boat altogether?\n\nA few simply showed up in comparatively routine black tuxedos (hello James Corden) and questionable spins on the theme (Sorry, Halle Berry, but that was a lot of skin in the crotch area).\n\nCoattails of varying lengths were a huge trend amid the sea of hats and head pieces anticipated ahead of the gala that brought together A-listers from the worlds of sports, entertainment, music, art, literature, politics and more to raise money for the Costume Institute.\n\nBlack and white looks carried the night, with enough pops of color to keep it interesting.\n\n## Colman Domingo and his many fans\n\nKevin Huynh, InStyle's fashion director, also praised Domingo, who wore a huge Talley-esque collared blue cape first, then ditched the cape to reveal a pearled window-pane jacket he wore with dot accessories.\n\n\"As the undisputed king of the red carpet, his regal look was beyond appropriate for the night's theme,\" Huynh said. \"He fully embodied the spirit of dandyism in not one but two statement-making looks from Valentino, and he aced it in terms of being unapologetically bold and flawlessly fanciful.\"\n\nThat \"fearlessness and individuality,\" he said, is what the night was all about.\n\n\"After a marathon awards season run, his Met Gala red carpet reveal was well worth the wait. From the moment he stepped out of The Carlyle draped in a jewel-toned Valentino cape, it was clear that more was coming,\" said Claire Stern Milch, Elle's digital director.\n\n\"And when he finally arrived on the steps, his custom three-piece zoot suit, also designed by Alessandro Michele, was a playful and sophisticated nod to the theme,\" she added.\n\nMilch called Domingo's oversized polka dot flower on one lapel undoubtedly the highlight. The look, she said, was the \"perfect marriage of classic tailoring and avant-garde flair.\"\n\nNikki Ogunnaike, editor-in-chief of Marie Claire, noted that suiting of all kinds wasn't a huge surprise, considering the style guidance from Vogue's Anna Wintour, who puts the gala together each year.\n\n\"My favorites included Ayo Edebiri in Ferragamo, Tracee Ellis Ross in Marc Jacobs, Zendaya and Lisa in Louis Vuitton, Colman Domingo in Valentino and Mindy Kaling in Harbison, all of whom interpreted dandyism and suiting in their own unique way,\" she said.\n\n## Athletes turned out at 2025 Met Gala\n\nAthletes, meanwhile, also took the spotlight. Tailoring for them is a special craft that Tom Marchitelli, custom menswear designer and stylist, takes into consideration with all the suits he creates for NFL, NBA and Major League Baseball players.\n\n\"These guys have these superhero builds, as I like to say, and they can't walk into any store on Fifth Ave, in Rodeo, anywhere and just pick out a suit off the rack to fit them,\" he said.\n\nMarchitelli said he appreciated the clean form-fitting looks on Philadelphia Eagles players Jalen Hurts and Saquon Barkley.\n\n\"To have this many athletes showcased, I think that says a lot about how important sport is to culture, pop culture in America, how influential the athletes are,\" he said.\n\n## Black designers represented\n\nThe night's vibe was inspired by the exhibit called \"Superfine: Tailoring Black Style.\" It's the first Costume Institute show to focus exclusively on Black designers, and the first in more than 20 years devoted to menswear.\n\nBig-time Black designers and smaller brands of creatives of color were represented on the carpet. They included Sergio Hudson, LaQuan Smith and Ozwald Boateng, a former wunderkind of Savile Row.\n\n## Others who were not so much\n\nSo who are some others who blew it, or didn't even try to spin the theme?\n\nBlackpink's Lisa might have walked the line in her look by Vuitton, a gala sponsor. She went pantless with little faces on black undies to go with her matching jacket and LV logo sheer stockings.\n\nSome on social media thought the faces were Rosa Parks. They weren't, a representative told The Cut, explaining they were \"portraits of figures who have been a part of the artist's life.\"\n\nOK. So it goes. Undie portraits might not be a good idea in general.\n\nAs for Corden, The Cut posted a video of him in his mere mortal look and viewers threw some barbs, including one who called him \"James Boredon\" giving \"a total snooze fest per usual.\"\n\nOuch, James.\n\n___\n\nFor more coverage of the 2025 Met Gala, visit https://apnews.com/hub/met-gala."
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"value": "# Who were the best and worst dressed at the Met Gala?\n\nBy Beatrice Dupuy and Leanne Italie \nMay 6th, 2025 07:44 PM\n\n---\n\nNEW YORK (AP) — Pinstripes. All Ways. Hats galore. Pantsuits. Gown suits. Zoot suits. Canes. A single cigar (looking at you Madonna) — and expert displays of tailoring. The Met Gala crowd, for the most part, did the Black dandy menswear theme proud at fashion's biggest party of the year.\n\n\"Those that researched the moment and pulled inspiration from history made it modern and their own. I loved it,\" said Holly Alford, assistant dean and an associate professor in the fashion and merchandising program at Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts.\n\nAmong her favorites: Colman Domingo's homage to dandy icon André Leon Talley. It was one of many that honored the towering fashion figure, a rare Black fashion editor in a largely white industry. And among others in odes to Talley, who died in 2022, were Anne Hathaway in a Carolina Herrera dress she picked specifically for him.\n\n\"We wanted André Leon Talley to look down from heaven and scream 'GLAMOUR,'\" Hathaway said on the Vogue livestream Monday night.\n\n## Inventive glamour energy of the night\n\nA glamorous night it was, and an inventive one at that amid a broad White House siege on DEI programs and protections that serve immigrants, LGBTQ+ people and myriad others. What does that have to do with fashion and the theme this year? Everything, in terms of Black power, ownership, heritage and, most importantly, freedom.\n\nWhat, exactly, was the suggested dress code? It was \"Tailored for You,\" inspired by Black dandyism through time, the subject of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's spring show at its Costume Institute.\n\nOn the blue carpet, a bit soggy from drenching rain, guests played with the fundamentals of fashion to make their looks their own with the help of designers and stylists. And many honored their heritages in special touches like the cowrie shells on the cuffs of Lewis Hamilton's Wales Bonner jacket.\n\nThe shells pay homage to Black diasporic culture, to spirituality, to memory, said Rikki Byrd, assistant professor of visual culture studies at the University of Texas at Austin and founder of the Black Fashion Archive.\n\nTessa Thompson honored Talley with a fan adorned with his image.\n\n\"It's representative of a church fan and André Leon Talley often talked about his first introduction to fashion was through his church,\" Byrd said.\n\nTeyana Taylor was a standout for Shantrelle P. Lewis, author of \"Dandy Lion: The Black Dandy and Street Style.\" With her cane, in her red velvet cape, \"she understood the assignment,\" Lewis said. Taylor's cape was emblazoned with her nickname in honor of her home turf: \"Harlem Rose.\" And she, like Swizz Beatz, donned a durag.\n\n## Some underwhelmed by how guests did\n\nLewis, who has been seminal in understanding dandyism, said the attire on the carpet was generally underwhelming.\n\n\"The lack of color, the lack of African print, even the absence of African designers. I said, 'Where is the Black dandyism?'\" she said. \"No sartorial risks were taken.\"\n\nBig risks? Perhaps. Perhaps not. Brandon Tan, fashion director for Cosmopolitan, was satisfied.\n\n\"A classic silhouette can be completely reimagined by something as simple as the color and fabrication of the textile, as seen on Henry Golding,\" he said. \"Inversely, a very classic gray wool can be totally remixed by the cut and silhouette like Walton Goggins' kilt look by Thom Browne.\"\n\n## Who missed the boat altogether?\n\nA few simply showed up in comparatively routine black tuxedos (hello James Corden) and questionable spins on the theme (Sorry, Halle Berry, but that was a lot of skin in the crotch area).\n\nCoattails of varying lengths were a huge trend amid the sea of hats and head pieces anticipated ahead of the gala that brought together A-listers from the worlds of sports, entertainment, music, art, literature, politics and more to raise money for the Costume Institute.\n\nBlack and white looks carried the night, with enough pops of color to keep it interesting.\n\n## Colman Domingo and his many fans\n\nKevin Huynh, InStyle's fashion director, also praised Domingo, who wore a huge Talley-esque collared blue cape first, then ditched the cape to reveal a pearled window-pane jacket he wore with dot accessories.\n\n\"As the undisputed king of the red carpet, his regal look was beyond appropriate for the night's theme,\" Huynh said. \"He fully embodied the spirit of dandyism in not one but two statement-making looks from Valentino, and he aced it in terms of being unapologetically bold and flawlessly fanciful.\"\n\nThat \"fearlessness and individuality,\" he said, is what the night was all about.\n\n\"After a marathon awards season run, his Met Gala red carpet reveal was well worth the wait. From the moment he stepped out of The Carlyle draped in a jewel-toned Valentino cape, it was clear that more was coming,\" said Claire Stern Milch, Elle's digital director.\n\n\"And when he finally arrived on the steps, his custom three-piece zoot suit, also designed by Alessandro Michele, was a playful and sophisticated nod to the theme,\" she added.\n\nMilch called Domingo's oversized polka dot flower on one lapel undoubtedly the highlight. The look, she said, was the \"perfect marriage of classic tailoring and avant-garde flair.\"\n\nNikki Ogunnaike, editor-in-chief of Marie Claire, noted that suiting of all kinds wasn't a huge surprise, considering the style guidance from Vogue's Anna Wintour, who puts the gala together each year.\n\n\"My favorites included Ayo Edebiri in Ferragamo, Tracee Ellis Ross in Marc Jacobs, Zendaya and Lisa in Louis Vuitton, Colman Domingo in Valentino and Mindy Kaling in Harbison, all of whom interpreted dandyism and suiting in their own unique way,\" she said.\n\n## Athletes turned out at 2025 Met Gala\n\nAthletes, meanwhile, also took the spotlight. Tailoring for them is a special craft that Tom Marchitelli, custom menswear designer and stylist, takes into consideration with all the suits he creates for NFL, NBA and Major League Baseball players.\n\n\"These guys have these superhero builds, as I like to say, and they can't walk into any store on Fifth Ave, in Rodeo, anywhere and just pick out a suit off the rack to fit them,\" he said.\n\nMarchitelli said he appreciated the clean form-fitting looks on Philadelphia Eagles players Jalen Hurts and Saquon Barkley.\n\n\"To have this many athletes showcased, I think that says a lot about how important sport is to culture, pop culture in America, how influential the athletes are,\" he said.\n\n## Black designers represented\n\nThe night's vibe was inspired by the exhibit called \"Superfine: Tailoring Black Style.\" It's the first Costume Institute show to focus exclusively on Black designers, and the first in more than 20 years devoted to menswear.\n\nBig-time Black designers and smaller brands of creatives of color were represented on the carpet. They included Sergio Hudson, LaQuan Smith and Ozwald Boateng, a former wunderkind of Savile Row.\n\n## Others who were not so much\n\nSo who are some others who blew it, or didn't even try to spin the theme?\n\nBlackpink's Lisa might have walked the line in her look by Vuitton, a gala sponsor. She went pantless with little faces on black undies to go with her matching jacket and LV logo sheer stockings.\n\nSome on social media thought the faces were Rosa Parks. They weren't, a representative told The Cut, explaining they were \"portraits of figures who have been a part of the artist's life.\"\n\nOK. So it goes. Undie portraits might not be a good idea in general.\n\nAs for Corden, The Cut posted a video of him in his mere mortal look and viewers threw some barbs, including one who called him \"James Boredon\" giving \"a total snooze fest per usual.\"\n\nOuch, James."
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"value": "# Trump administration invokes state secrets privilege in Abrego Garcia case\n\nMay 8th, 2025 02:41 PM\n\n---\n\nWASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is invoking the \" state secrets privilege \" in an apparent attempt to avoid answering a judge's questions about its mistaken deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia to El Salvador.\n\nU.S. District Judge Paula Xinis disclosed the government's position in a two-page order on Wednesday. She set a Monday deadline for attorneys to file briefs on the issue and how it could affect Abrego Garcia's case. Xinis also scheduled a May 16 hearing in Greenbelt, Maryland, to address the matter.\n\nThe Republican administration previously invoked the same legal authority to cut off a judge's inquiry into whether it defied an order to turn around planes deporting Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador.\n\nAbrego Garcia, 29, has been imprisoned in his native El Salvador for nearly two months. His mistaken deportation has become a flash point for President Donald Trump's immigration policies and his increasing friction with the U.S. courts.\n\nTrump has said he could call El Salvador's president and have Abrego Garcia, who was living in Maryland, returned to the United States. Instead, Trump has doubled down on his claims that Abrego Garcia is a member of the MS-13 gang.\n\nPolice in Maryland had identified Abrego Garcia as an MS-13 gang member in 2019 based off his tattoos, Chicago Bulls hoodie and the word of a criminal informant. But Abrego Garcia was never charged. His lawyers say the informant claimed Abrego Garcia was in an MS-13 chapter in New York, where Abrego Garcia has never lived.\n\nThe administration has balked at telling Xinis what, if anything, it has done to facilitate Abrego Garcia's return to the U.S. The judge ruled that his lawyers can question several Trump administration officials under oath about the government's response to her orders.\n\nIn a court filing Wednesday, his lawyers said they already have conducted depositions of three officials and are \"still in the dark\" about the government's efforts to free Abrego Garcia. They are asking for permission to depose a more officials, possibly including one from the White House."
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"value": "# Ex-Colombian official sentenced to 12 years in money laundering case tied to DEA misconduct\n\nBy Joshua Goodman and Jim Mustian \nMay 8th, 2025 05:56 PM\n\n---\n\nTAMPA, Florida (AP) — A federal judge sentenced a former Colombian customs worker on Thursday to more than 12 years in prison for taking more than $1 million in bribes in a money laundering conspiracy involving a corrupt U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent.\n\nOmar Ambuila, 64, pleaded guilty on the second day of a trial this year that had been expected to shed new light on a misconduct scandal in which more than a dozen U.S. federal agents were quietly disciplined or ousted from their jobs.\n\nAmong the would-be witnesses was José Irizarry, a DEA agent now serving a 12-year prison sentence for skimming millions of dollars from money laundering stings to fund a decade's worth of luxury overseas travel, fine dining, top seats at sporting events and frat house-style debauchery.\n\nProsecutors said Ambuila deserved a harsh sentence for abusing his trust as one of the highest-ranking officials at the Colombian port of Buenaventura, a major transit point for U.S.-bound cocaine.\n\nAt one point, prosecutors said, Ambuila held himself out as a retired soccer player while buying a Lamborghini to conceal \"the corrupt nature\" of his wealth. Prosecutor Joseph Palazzo told a judge in Tampa federal court that Ambuila had made a series of \"particularly obscene purchases\" in Miami, including the luxury vehicle and rental waterfront properties.\n\n\"This is not about someone from extremely deprived or humble beginnings going down a wayward path reluctantly,\" Palazzo said. \"This was a calculated crime.\"\n\nU.S. District Court Judge Virginia M. Hernandez Covington called the corruption \"heartbreaking.\"\n\n\"This is a person who was a public official engaged in very serious misconduct,\" she said.\n\nProsecutors had previously offered Ambuila a sentence of about three years — or time served dating to his 2021 arrest — followed by deportation to Colombia. The scheme involved more than two dozen bank accounts and 30,000 audio files from wiretapped conversations. But he rejected that earlier.\n\nAmbuila's attorney, Victor D. Martinez, asked for leniency, arguing Ambuila was less culpable than Irizarry.\n\n\"Greed born from association with a corrupt DEA agent shattered Mr. Ambuila's vision for his future,\" Martinez wrote in a court filing. Ambuila, he added, \"is deeply repentant and tortures himself every day questioning his conduct and regretting his lack of moral fortitude.\"\n\nThe Internal Revenue Service and U.S. Department of Homeland Security first suspected Ambuila after his daughter posted photos of herself carrying designer handbags, taking luxury vacations to Paris and driving a $330,000 red Lamborghini.\n\nThat lavish lifestyle didn't match the 20-something University of Miami graduate's modest income as a social media influencer or that of her father, who earned about $2,000 a month.\n\nA chunk of the funds used to pay for the Lamborghini Huracan Spyder originated in an account controlled by Jhon MarÃn, whom an IRS criminal investigator described at trial as the Florida-based nephew of a \"known contraband smuggler in Colombia.\"\n\nAn Associated Press investigation previously identified Marin's uncle as Diego MarÃn, a longtime DEA informant known to investigators as Colombia's \"Contraband King\" for allegedly laundering money through imported appliances and other goods.\n\nMarÃn has not been charged in the U.S. But prosecutors in Colombia last year requested his extradition from Spain, where he was living, to face criminal charges. His attorneys declined to comment.\n\nIn Tampa federal court Thursday, Ambuila apologized to the United States and said he pleaded guilty midway through trial. \"I was thinking about my daughter and how it would impact her,\" he said. \"I was thinking I'd get a sentence of time served.\"\n\n—-\n\nMustian reported from New Orleans."
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"value": "# Elon Musk defends his work as he prepares to wind down at DOGE\n\nBy Michelle L. Price \nMay 1st, 2025 09:30 AM\n\n---\n\nWASHINGTON (AP) — Elon Musk, preparing to step back from his work leading the Department of Government Efficiency, had a request of the reporters gathered at the White House to interview him: Before he would answer any questions, he wanted someone to tell him a joke.\n\nThe tech billionaire's request in the Roosevelt Room on Wednesday underscored the surreal and idiosyncratic presence of the world's richest man at the highest echelons of American power. Over the past few months, his work of downsizing the workforce has sent shocks through the federal government and drawn intense pushback, including protests of his electric vehicle company, Tesla.\n\nMusing about his and DOGE's incongruous role in the U.S. government, he said, \"It is funny that we've got DOGE.\"\n\n\"Doesn't the absurdity of that seem, like, like, are we in a simulation here or what's going on? But, like, it was a meme coin at one point,\" he said, laughing. \"How did we get here?\"\n\nMusk, clad in all black but missing the two hats he had worn at Wednesday's earlier Cabinet meeting, defended DOGE's work as he prepares to scale back his government role and spend more time at his businesses. But he gave hazy answers about the work he'd been doing and DOGE's future, and he seemed taken aback by the intense backlash he'd encountered.\n\n\"Being attacked relentlessly is not super fun,\" he said. \"Seeing cars burning is not fun,\" he added, referring to the instances of Tesla cars being smashed or set on fire.\n\n\"In the grand scheme of things, I think we've been effective. Not as effective as I'd like. I think we could be more effective,\" Musk said. \"But we've made progress.\"\n\nDOGE's large-scale slashings have been met with dozens of lawsuits. DOGE's attempts to access sensitive government information, including Social Security data, has similarly met resistance in court. And Democrats this week unveiled an online tracker tallying the federal funds approved by Congress that DOGE has blocked, setting up a constitutional struggle between two branches of government.\n\nMusk wouldn't offer examples of anything he'd do differently, though DOGE is nowhere near its original savings goal and has overstated its progress.\n\nDOGE had sought to cut spending by $1 trillion. Musk estimates he's cut $160 billion so far and acknowledged it would be hard to get anywhere close to $1 trillion.\n\n\"It's sort of, how much pain is the Cabinet and the Congress willing to take?\" Musk said. \"It can be done, but it requires dealing with a lot of complaints.\"\n\nMusk didn't detail any of those complaints and said he has a good relationship with President Donald Trump's Cabinet. But when asked about clashes with certain members, particularly Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Musk said, \"at times, there will be some disagreements with the Cabinet.\"\n\nHe defended DOGE's attempts to access Americans' personal data, dismissing concerns about a potential \"surveillance state\" by quipping, \"Don't we already have a surveillance state?\" He said DOGE needs to access the systems in its hunt for fraud, and said, \"There has to be some way to reconcile the improper payments.\"\n\nHe said DOGE has referred cases of suspected fraud to the Justice Department, though he offered few details, including how many referrals were made. Antonio Gracias, a Musk investor working for DOGE, pointed to the indictment last week of an Iraqi man living in New York on charges he illegally voted in the 2020 election. U.S. prosecutors said DOGE assisted in the investigation.\n\nA Justice Department spokesperson said DOGE \"is working closely with DOJ to identify potential fraud.\"\n\nMusk acknowledged there were some instances in which they had to restore the jobs of government workers who, in his words, were \"accidently let go,\" like \"some people that were doing important regulatory work or taking care of national parks.\"\n\nWhen asked if he's found any areas where he'd recommended efficiencies beyond cuts, Musk veered into the nation's military strategy and said he has repeatedly recommended to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that he should be spending more money on hypersonic missiles and long-range drones instead of on crewed systems.\n\nMusk said DOGE is also working on improving connectivity for the nation's air traffic control system and reviewing plans to improve its software, but DOGE's primary goal is \"trying to stop wasteful and fraudulent spending.\"\n\nBut on other points, he was vague.\n\nWho will lead DOGE when he leaves?\n\n\"DOGE is a way of life,\" he said. \"Like Buddhism.\"\n\nWill he retain the title of senior adviser to the president?\n\n\"I guess.\"\n\nWill DOGE wrap up its work by July 2026, as originally stated?\n\n\"If the president wants us to stick to that date, we'll stick to that date.\"\n\nHow many of the roughly 100 DOGE employees will stay on the job while he winds down?\n\n\"Some will stay on. Some will not. So it's up to them. This is basically a volunteer organization.\"\n\nIs DOGE winding down?\n\n\"No, I think it will gain momentum.\"\n\nMusk struck up a friendship with Trump during the 2024 campaign and spent nearly $300 million on the election — the bulk of which went toward helping the Republican reclaim the White House. He has since become a constant presence with Trump for much of the first 100 days of the administration, regularly traveling with the president to his home in Florida on the weekends.\n\nMusk said Wednesday that he was working on DOGE seven days a week during the first months of the administration, at times sleeping in the Lincoln Bedroom at Trump's invitation.\n\nHe declined to say just how many times he had slept at the White House but said the president had implored him to try the caramel ice cream from the kitchen.\n\n\"Don't tell RFK,\" Musk joked, referring to Trump's Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.\n\nMusk described it as an \"intense period\" during which he was trying to understand and map out the federal government.\n\n\"It's a startup, effectively. A new administration is like a startup,\" he said.\n\nBut he said he is now scaling back his work on DOGE, spending one to two days a week on it, and he plans to be in Washington less.\n\n\"Now we're getting more of a rhythm so the amount of time that's necessary for me to spend here is much less,\" he said.\n\nHe also pointed to the limitation on his status as a special government employee, which means he can only work 130 days in a 365-day time period.\n\nHe said he will keep his \"tiny\" office on the second floor of the West Wing that he said has \"a view of nothing\" — a feature, he then remarked, that keeps him safe.\n\n\"It's harder to shoot me,\" he said. \"There's not a good line of sight.\"\n\n___\n\nAssociated Press writer Alanna Durkin Richer contributed to this report."
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"value": "# Elon Musk defends his work as he prepares to wind down at DOGE\n\nBy Michelle L. Price \nMay 1st, 2025 09:30 AM\n\n---\n\nWASHINGTON (AP) — Elon Musk, preparing to step back from his work leading the Department of Government Efficiency, had a request of the reporters gathered at the White House to interview him: Before he would answer any questions, he wanted someone to tell him a joke.\n\nThe tech billionaire's request in the Roosevelt Room on Wednesday underscored the surreal and idiosyncratic presence of the world's richest man at the highest echelons of American power. Over the past few months, his work of downsizing the workforce has sent shocks through the federal government and drawn intense pushback, including protests of his electric vehicle company, Tesla.\n\nMusing about his and DOGE's incongruous role in the U.S. government, he said, \"It is funny that we've got DOGE.\"\n\n\"Doesn't the absurdity of that seem, like, like, are we in a simulation here or what's going on? But, like, it was a meme coin at one point,\" he said, laughing. \"How did we get here?\"\n\nMusk, clad in all black but missing the two hats he had worn at Wednesday's earlier Cabinet meeting, defended DOGE's work as he prepares to scale back his government role and spend more time at his businesses. But he gave hazy answers about the work he'd been doing and DOGE's future, and he seemed taken aback by the intense backlash he'd encountered.\n\n\"Being attacked relentlessly is not super fun,\" he said. \"Seeing cars burning is not fun,\" he added, referring to the instances of Tesla cars being smashed or set on fire.\n\n\"In the grand scheme of things, I think we've been effective. Not as effective as I'd like. I think we could be more effective,\" Musk said. \"But we've made progress.\"\n\nDOGE's large-scale slashings have been met with dozens of lawsuits. DOGE's attempts to access sensitive government information, including Social Security data, has similarly met resistance in court. And Democrats this week unveiled an online tracker tallying the federal funds approved by Congress that DOGE has blocked, setting up a constitutional struggle between two branches of government.\n\nMusk wouldn't offer examples of anything he'd do differently, though DOGE is nowhere near its original savings goal and has overstated its progress.\n\nDOGE had sought to cut spending by $1 trillion. Musk estimates he's cut $160 billion so far and acknowledged it would be hard to get anywhere close to $1 trillion.\n\n\"It's sort of, how much pain is the Cabinet and the Congress willing to take?\" Musk said. \"It can be done, but it requires dealing with a lot of complaints.\"\n\nMusk didn't detail any of those complaints and said he has a good relationship with President Donald Trump's Cabinet. But when asked about clashes with certain members, particularly Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Musk said, \"at times, there will be some disagreements with the Cabinet.\"\n\nHe defended DOGE's attempts to access Americans' personal data, dismissing concerns about a potential \"surveillance state\" by quipping, \"Don't we already have a surveillance state?\" He said DOGE needs to access the systems in its hunt for fraud, and said, \"There has to be some way to reconcile the improper payments.\"\n\nHe said DOGE has referred cases of suspected fraud to the Justice Department, though he offered few details, including how many referrals were made. Antonio Gracias, a Musk investor working for DOGE, pointed to the indictment last week of an Iraqi man living in New York on charges he illegally voted in the 2020 election. U.S. prosecutors said DOGE assisted in the investigation.\n\nA Justice Department spokesperson said DOGE \"is working closely with DOJ to identify potential fraud.\"\n\nMusk acknowledged there were some instances in which they had to restore the jobs of government workers who, in his words, were \"accidently let go,\" like \"some people that were doing important regulatory work or taking care of national parks.\"\n\nWhen asked if he's found any areas where he'd recommended efficiencies beyond cuts, Musk veered into the nation's military strategy and said he has repeatedly recommended to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that he should be spending more money on hypersonic missiles and long-range drones instead of on crewed systems.\n\nMusk said DOGE is also working on improving connectivity for the nation's air traffic control system and reviewing plans to improve its software, but DOGE's primary goal is \"trying to stop wasteful and fraudulent spending.\"\n\nBut on other points, he was vague.\n\nWho will lead DOGE when he leaves?\n\n\"DOGE is a way of life,\" he said. \"Like Buddhism.\"\n\nWill he retain the title of senior adviser to the president?\n\n\"I guess.\"\n\nWill DOGE wrap up its work by July 2026, as originally stated?\n\n\"If the president wants us to stick to that date, we'll stick to that date.\"\n\nHow many of the roughly 100 DOGE employees will stay on the job while he winds down?\n\n\"Some will stay on. Some will not. So it's up to them. This is basically a volunteer organization.\"\n\nIs DOGE winding down?\n\n\"No, I think it will gain momentum.\"\n\nMusk struck up a friendship with Trump during the 2024 campaign and spent nearly $300 million on the election — the bulk of which went toward helping the Republican reclaim the White House. He has since become a constant presence with Trump for much of the first 100 days of the administration, regularly traveling with the president to his home in Florida on the weekends.\n\nMusk said Wednesday that he was working on DOGE seven days a week during the first months of the administration, at times sleeping in the Lincoln Bedroom at Trump's invitation.\n\nHe declined to say just how many times he had slept at the White House but said the president had implored him to try the caramel ice cream from the kitchen.\n\n\"Don't tell RFK,\" Musk joked, referring to Trump's Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.\n\nMusk described it as an \"intense period\" during which he was trying to understand and map out the federal government.\n\n\"It's a startup, effectively. A new administration is like a startup,\" he said.\n\nBut he said he is now scaling back his work on DOGE, spending one to two days a week on it, and he plans to be in Washington less.\n\n\"Now we're getting more of a rhythm so the amount of time that's necessary for me to spend here is much less,\" he said.\n\nHe also pointed to the limitation on his status as a special government employee, which means he can only work 130 days in a 365-day time period.\n\nHe said he will keep his \"tiny\" office on the second floor of the West Wing that he said has \"a view of nothing\" — a feature, he then remarked, that keeps him safe.\n\n\"It's harder to shoot me,\" he said. \"There's not a good line of sight.\""
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"value": "# Nuggets and Thunder combine for 25 points, tied for fewest in 1st quarter of NBA playoff game\n\nBy Pat Graham \nMay 11th, 2025 08:53 PM\n\n---\n\nDENVER (AP) — Maybe it was tired legs after a physical overtime game about 36 hours before. Or perhaps it had something to do with the early tipoff time Sunday.\n\nInstead of swishes, there were far more clanks by the Denver Nuggets and Oklahoma City Thunder in the first quarter of Game 4. Their slumbering offenses combined for 25 points to open the game, matching the record for the fewest in the opening quarter of an NBA playoff game in the shot clock era.\n\nThe score after 12 minutes of action: Thunder 17, Nuggets 8. The last time two teams combined for that low of a score after the opening period in the postseason was April 21, 2002, when Detroit led Toronto 16-9.\n\nPortland (14) and Utah (11) also combined for just 25 on May 20, 1999.\n\nThe teams were playing on a short turnaround after Denver's 113-104 win in overtime on Friday night. Every Nuggets starter was on the floor at least 42 minutes in that game. The Thunder had three players log more than 40 minutes.\n\nThe fatigue appeared to take a toll early — late, too — in a game the Thunder won 92-87 to even the second-round series at 2-2. Game 5 is Tuesday in Oklahoma City.\n\n\"Both teams were very tired coming off an unbelievably physical overtime battle late Friday night,\" Nuggets interim coach David Adelman explained. \"If it affected us, it surely affected them as well. Both of us had super-tired legs.\"\n\nWith so many misses, clanks and airballs, it looked straight out of a Sunday morning pickup game at the rec center. The Thunder and Nuggets combined for 8-for-44 shooting in the first quarter. That's 18.2%.\n\nIt was even worse from farther out. Denver was 0 for 14 from 3-point range, while the Thunder were 1 of 11.\n\nThings never got too much better. The combined shooting percentage of 33.5% was the worst in a playoff game in 21 years. Detroit and Indiana combined to shoot 30.8% on May 21, 2004, a game the Pistons won 72-67.\n\nBoth coaches maintained before the game the early start — just after 1:30 p.m. local time — wouldn't make much of a difference.\n\n\"It's the same time for them. It's the same rest for them,\" Thunder coach Mark Daigneault said. \"Neither team is at an advantage or disadvantage with that. We really don't think about it. It's an equal playing field today for both teams.\"\n\nBoth teams combined for more turnovers (9) than made baskets (8) in the first quarter. There were so many misses that Nikola Jokic had six rebounds in the opening frame, while Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Chet Holmgren each had five.\n\nJokic tried to put a positive spin on it.\n\n\"They scored 17 so our defense was kind of good, too,\" said Jokic, who finished with 27 points, including two 3-pointers and 11 of 14 from the free throw line, to go with with 13 rebounds.\n\nThe only game in NBA history with fewer points in a first quarter was March 31, 1954, when Syracuse led Minneapolis 13-10 after the opening period of that season's NBA Finals. The NBA voted to adopt a shot clock about three weeks later, and it was utilized in the league for the first time in the 1954-55 season.\n\n___\n\nAP Basketball Writer Tim Reynolds contributed to this report.\n\n___\n\nAP NBA: https://apnews.com/nba"
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"value": "# Nuggets and Thunder combine for 25 points, tied for fewest in 1st quarter of NBA playoff game\n\nBy Pat Graham \nMay 11th, 2025 08:53 PM\n\n---\n\nDENVER (AP) — Maybe it was tired legs after a physical overtime game about 36 hours before. Or perhaps it had something to do with the early tipoff time Sunday.\n\nInstead of swishes, there were far more clanks by the Denver Nuggets and Oklahoma City Thunder in the first quarter of Game 4. Their slumbering offenses combined for 25 points to open the game, matching the record for the fewest in the opening quarter of an NBA playoff game in the shot clock era.\n\nThe score after 12 minutes of action: Thunder 17, Nuggets 8. The last time two teams combined for that low of a score after the opening period in the postseason was April 21, 2002, when Detroit led Toronto 16-9.\n\nPortland (14) and Utah (11) also combined for just 25 on May 20, 1999.\n\nThe teams were playing on a short turnaround after Denver's 113-104 win in overtime on Friday night. Every Nuggets starter was on the floor at least 42 minutes in that game. The Thunder had three players log more than 40 minutes.\n\nThe fatigue appeared to take a toll early — late, too — in a game the Thunder won 92-87 to even the second-round series at 2-2. Game 5 is Tuesday in Oklahoma City.\n\n\"Both teams were very tired coming off an unbelievably physical overtime battle late Friday night,\" Nuggets interim coach David Adelman explained. \"If it affected us, it surely affected them as well. Both of us had super-tired legs.\"\n\nWith so many misses, clanks and airballs, it looked straight out of a Sunday morning pickup game at the rec center. The Thunder and Nuggets combined for 8-for-44 shooting in the first quarter. That's 18.2%.\n\nIt was even worse from farther out. Denver was 0 for 14 from 3-point range, while the Thunder were 1 of 11.\n\nThings never got too much better. The combined shooting percentage of 33.5% was the worst in a playoff game in 21 years. Detroit and Indiana combined to shoot 30.8% on May 21, 2004, a game the Pistons won 72-67.\n\nBoth coaches maintained before the game the early start — just after 1:30 p.m. local time — wouldn't make much of a difference.\n\n\"It's the same time for them. It's the same rest for them,\" Thunder coach Mark Daigneault said. \"Neither team is at an advantage or disadvantage with that. We really don't think about it. It's an equal playing field today for both teams.\"\n\nBoth teams combined for more turnovers (9) than made baskets (8) in the first quarter. There were so many misses that Nikola Jokic had six rebounds in the opening frame, while Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Chet Holmgren each had five.\n\nJokic tried to put a positive spin on it.\n\n\"They scored 17 so our defense was kind of good, too,\" said Jokic, who finished with 27 points, including two 3-pointers and 11 of 14 from the free throw line, to go with with 13 rebounds.\n\nThe only game in NBA history with fewer points in a first quarter was March 31, 1954, when Syracuse led Minneapolis 13-10 after the opening period of that season's NBA Finals. The NBA voted to adopt a shot clock about three weeks later, and it was utilized in the league for the first time in the 1954-55 season."
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"value": "# Dakota Johnson and Celine Song on love, dating and 'Materialists'\n\nBy Lindsey Bahr \nMay 1st, 2025 02:21 PM\n\n---\n\nBefore Celine Song was an Oscar-nominated filmmaker, she was a playwright in New York who needed day jobs to pay rent. That's how she found herself as a professional matchmaker.\n\nWhat may have begun as a purely transactional gig, a way for her to keep making her art in an expensive city, taught her more about people's wants and needs and the true contents of their hearts than she could have ever imagined.\n\n\"I always wanted to write something about it because there seemed to be a story in it that is massive and very epic in proportion,\" Song said. \"It affects every human being on Earth.\"\n\nAnd while waiting for her breakout film \"Past Lives\" to debut, she did. That film is \"Materialists,\" a modern-day New York love story starring Dakota Johnson, Pedro Pascal and Chris Evans that's heading to theaters on June 13. Johnson is the matchmaker presented with two different types of men for herself—and the internet has already started drawing battle lines. But, like \"Past Lives\" wasn't really about a love triangle, \"Materialists\" is about something more than who she ends up with.\n\nSong and Johnson spoke with The Associated Press about the film, falling in love and the modern marketplace of dating. Remarks have been edited for clarity and brevity.\n\n## AP: How did you find each other?\n\nSONG: We met up thinking that we were just going to get to know each other and be friends and I walked away from that conversation — this is just from my perspective — but I think I was still sitting there when I texted my producers and the studio being like, \"I think I've found my Lucy.\" That's how casting works for me, it's always about falling in love. It's very connected to what we talk about in the film. Like, there's no mathematical anything. It just the feeling that you get talking to someone and you're like, oh I just know.\n\nJOHNSON: I knew you had this movie that you were about to start making. I was basically told it was too late. I was like, but I really want to meet her because she's so smart, and I've seen interviews and obviously had seen \"Past Lives.\" I just wanted talk and get to know her as an artist and a person and so I went into this being like there's no chance that I'll be in this movie, but maybe she'll make another one. We just had such a good time talking, I didn't even know that I was someone she was thinking about. A few weeks later we spoke. It was very romantic.\n\n## AP: Where do we meet Lucy in life?\n\nJOHNSON: She's sort of at the top of her game in her work and is very disconnected from her heart and focused on being a perfectionist and getting people to get married. On the surface, you see her as a very transactional person and not really invested in people's souls, but she actually is and really does want the best for them. She's also on her own journey of trying to figure out what it is she wants for herself in this life, and, essentially, do you fight for the thing that you think you want, or do you fight for that thing that you know you need? Is that right, Celine?\n\nSONG: That's so good.\n\n## AP: What are you trying to say through the two men who come into her life?\n\nSONG: It was never going to be a conversation about which flavor of a person. It's actually so much more about this marketplace of dating that all of us live in if you're single, and also the marketplace that Dakota's character is navigating. She knows the math better than anyone else in the film. She's an excellent matchmaker.\n\nPedro plays somebody who is probably, in straight dating, someone of the highest possible value. Chris' character, in the spectrum in the marketplace of values of dating, is someone who is of the lowest value possible. I find them to be such adorable characters, very worthy of an adoration.\n\nLucy knows exactly where they fall in the in the stock market of men. It's actually about the way that the math around that is going to blow up.\n\nJOHNSON: Celine speaks so eloquently about the marketplace of dating and I glitch at those words because I'm like, you can't explain love that way. But that's actually how people are. Marriage used to be a business deal. It was like, my father wants your cows and my mother needs your wheat and whatever. It was a trade-off. But now there's all these books about how we expect our partner to fulfill every single aspect of our needs. And the world being dominated by social media, people don't meet in real life anymore. They don't behave normally in public.\n\nPeople are in a very strange place in evolution, and I think the difference between these two characters and these two men, sure they are different ends of the spectrum in terms of like technical value, materialistic value. But also each of them have the opposite in terms of psycho-spiritual value and emotional value and what they can offer the other person in terms of soul evolution and growth.\n\nPerhaps because she works in this world of trying to understand people and what they want, she's forced to go more inward and really interrogate herself and say, what do I really want and what is actually important in this life? Is it how much money I have or is it how truly loved I am?\n\nSONG: To me, it's about this contradiction, right? It's this thing of how we talk about what we want in our partner, when we're asked to use language to describe it, and how we literally, spiritually fall in love. The gap between those two things is terrifyingly big. To me, that's where the mystery of the film is.\n\n___\n\nFor more on this year's summer movie season, visit: https://apnews.com/hub/movies"
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"value": "# Dakota Johnson and Celine Song on love, dating and 'Materialists'\n\nBy Lindsey Bahr \nMay 1st, 2025 02:21 PM\n\n---\n\nBefore Celine Song was an Oscar-nominated filmmaker, she was a playwright in New York who needed day jobs to pay rent. That's how she found herself as a professional matchmaker.\n\nWhat may have begun as a purely transactional gig, a way for her to keep making her art in an expensive city, taught her more about people's wants and needs and the true contents of their hearts than she could have ever imagined.\n\n\"I always wanted to write something about it because there seemed to be a story in it that is massive and very epic in proportion,\" Song said. \"It affects every human being on Earth.\"\n\nAnd while waiting for her breakout film \"Past Lives\" to debut, she did. That film is \"Materialists,\" a modern-day New York love story starring Dakota Johnson, Pedro Pascal and Chris Evans that's heading to theaters on June 13. Johnson is the matchmaker presented with two different types of men for herself—and the internet has already started drawing battle lines. But, like \"Past Lives\" wasn't really about a love triangle, \"Materialists\" is about something more than who she ends up with.\n\nSong and Johnson spoke with The Associated Press about the film, falling in love and the modern marketplace of dating. Remarks have been edited for clarity and brevity.\n\n## AP: How did you find each other?\n\nSONG: We met up thinking that we were just going to get to know each other and be friends and I walked away from that conversation — this is just from my perspective — but I think I was still sitting there when I texted my producers and the studio being like, \"I think I've found my Lucy.\" That's how casting works for me, it's always about falling in love. It's very connected to what we talk about in the film. Like, there's no mathematical anything. It just the feeling that you get talking to someone and you're like, oh I just know.\n\nJOHNSON: I knew you had this movie that you were about to start making. I was basically told it was too late. I was like, but I really want to meet her because she's so smart, and I've seen interviews and obviously had seen \"Past Lives.\" I just wanted talk and get to know her as an artist and a person and so I went into this being like there's no chance that I'll be in this movie, but maybe she'll make another one. We just had such a good time talking, I didn't even know that I was someone she was thinking about. A few weeks later we spoke. It was very romantic.\n\n## AP: Where do we meet Lucy in life?\n\nJOHNSON: She's sort of at the top of her game in her work and is very disconnected from her heart and focused on being a perfectionist and getting people to get married. On the surface, you see her as a very transactional person and not really invested in people's souls, but she actually is and really does want the best for them. She's also on her own journey of trying to figure out what it is she wants for herself in this life, and, essentially, do you fight for the thing that you think you want, or do you fight for that thing that you know you need? Is that right, Celine?\n\nSONG: That's so good.\n\n## AP: What are you trying to say through the two men who come into her life?\n\nSONG: It was never going to be a conversation about which flavor of a person. It's actually so much more about this marketplace of dating that all of us live in if you're single, and also the marketplace that Dakota's character is navigating. She knows the math better than anyone else in the film. She's an excellent matchmaker.\n\nPedro plays somebody who is probably, in straight dating, someone of the highest possible value. Chris' character, in the spectrum in the marketplace of values of dating, is someone who is of the lowest value possible. I find them to be such adorable characters, very worthy of an adoration.\n\nLucy knows exactly where they fall in the in the stock market of men. It's actually about the way that the math around that is going to blow up.\n\nJOHNSON: Celine speaks so eloquently about the marketplace of dating and I glitch at those words because I'm like, you can't explain love that way. But that's actually how people are. Marriage used to be a business deal. It was like, my father wants your cows and my mother needs your wheat and whatever. It was a trade-off. But now there's all these books about how we expect our partner to fulfill every single aspect of our needs. And the world being dominated by social media, people don't meet in real life anymore. They don't behave normally in public.\n\nPeople are in a very strange place in evolution, and I think the difference between these two characters and these two men, sure they are different ends of the spectrum in terms of like technical value, materialistic value. But also each of them have the opposite in terms of psycho-spiritual value and emotional value and what they can offer the other person in terms of soul evolution and growth.\n\nPerhaps because she works in this world of trying to understand people and what they want, she's forced to go more inward and really interrogate herself and say, what do I really want and what is actually important in this life? Is it how much money I have or is it how truly loved I am?\n\nSONG: To me, it's about this contradiction, right? It's this thing of how we talk about what we want in our partner, when we're asked to use language to describe it, and how we literally, spiritually fall in love. The gap between those two things is terrifyingly big. To me, that's where the mystery of the film is."
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"value": "# Lewandowski back in Barcelona squad for Champions League semi against Inter Milan\n\nMay 5th, 2025 11:03 AM\n\n---\n\nMILAN (AP) — Barcelona is getting a boost in attack with the return of Robert Lewandowski against Inter Milan for the Champions League semifinal second leg on Tuesday.\n\nLewandowski was included in the squad on Monday for the trip to Milan after being sidelined for about two weeks because of a left thigh injury.\n\nThe striker missed four games, including last week's thrilling first leg against Inter in Barcelona, a 3-3 draw.\n\nBarcelona coach Hansi Flick said Lewandowski would start from the bench, however.\n\n\"We also spoke yesterday, everything goes on in the right way and he's good, much better than we expected and he's ready for the bench,\" Flick said on Monday.\n\n\"So it's when we need him, maybe he can come in. So, it's like that.\"\n\nThe Polish striker was injured on April 19 in a La Liga match against Celta Vigo.\n\n\"After two weeks working on his recovery and training with the squad on Sunday, he has been given the all clear to return to action,\" Barcelona said.\n\nThe 36-year-old Lewandowski is having one of his best seasons with Barcelona, having scored 40 goals in total, including 11 in the Champions League. He leads La Liga with 25 goals, one more than Real Madrid's Kylian Mbappé.\n\nFlick rested nearly all of his regular starters in the 2-1 win at Valladolid in La Liga on Saturday. With four rounds remaining, Barcelona has a four-point lead over Madrid ahead of next Sunday's clasico.\n\n___\n\nAP soccer: https://apnews.com/hub/soccer"
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"value": "# Lewandowski back in Barcelona squad for Champions League semi against Inter Milan\n\nMay 5th, 2025 11:03 AM\n\n---\n\nMILAN (AP) — Barcelona is getting a boost in attack with the return of Robert Lewandowski against Inter Milan for the Champions League semifinal second leg on Tuesday.\n\nLewandowski was included in the squad on Monday for the trip to Milan after being sidelined for about two weeks because of a left thigh injury.\n\nThe striker missed four games, including last week's thrilling first leg against Inter in Barcelona, a 3-3 draw.\n\nBarcelona coach Hansi Flick said Lewandowski would start from the bench, however.\n\n\"We also spoke yesterday, everything goes on in the right way and he's good, much better than we expected and he's ready for the bench,\" Flick said on Monday.\n\n\"So it's when we need him, maybe he can come in. So, it's like that.\"\n\nThe Polish striker was injured on April 19 in a La Liga match against Celta Vigo.\n\n\"After two weeks working on his recovery and training with the squad on Sunday, he has been given the all clear to return to action,\" Barcelona said.\n\nThe 36-year-old Lewandowski is having one of his best seasons with Barcelona, having scored 40 goals in total, including 11 in the Champions League. He leads La Liga with 25 goals, one more than Real Madrid's Kylian Mbappé.\n\nFlick rested nearly all of his regular starters in the 2-1 win at Valladolid in La Liga on Saturday. With four rounds remaining, Barcelona has a four-point lead over Madrid ahead of next Sunday's clasico."
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"value": "# Filippo Inzaghi's Pisa promoted to Serie A for first time in 34 years\n\nMay 4th, 2025 06:04 PM\n\n---\n\nPISA, Italy (AP) — Pisa was promoted to the top tier of Italian soccer on Sunday for the first time in 34 years.\n\nThere were wild celebrations in Pisa despite the team's 1-0 loss at Bari because third-placed Spezia also lost — 2-1 at Reggiana. Pisa is guaranteed second spot in Serie B and automatic promotion to the top flight, with two rounds remaining.\n\nThat means Serie A soccer will be returning to the Arena Garibaldi, which sits practically in the shadow of the leaning tower of Pisa, for the first time since the team was relegated in 1991.\n\nPisa is coached by World Cup-winning forward Filippo Inzaghi, the older brother of Inter Milan coach Simone Inzaghi.\n\nSerie B champion Sassuolo secured promotion last month and will be joined by the winner of the playoffs, which will be contested by teams that finish third to eighth.\n\n___\n\nAP soccer: https://apnews.com/hub/soccer"
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"value": "# Filippo Inzaghi's Pisa promoted to Serie A for first time in 34 years\n\nMay 4th, 2025 06:04 PM\n\n---\n\nPISA, Italy (AP) — Pisa was promoted to the top tier of Italian soccer on Sunday for the first time in 34 years.\n\nThere were wild celebrations in Pisa despite the team's 1-0 loss at Bari because third-placed Spezia also lost — 2-1 at Reggiana. Pisa is guaranteed second spot in Serie B and automatic promotion to the top flight, with two rounds remaining.\n\nThat means Serie A soccer will be returning to the Arena Garibaldi, which sits practically in the shadow of the leaning tower of Pisa, for the first time since the team was relegated in 1991.\n\nPisa is coached by World Cup-winning forward Filippo Inzaghi, the older brother of Inter Milan coach Simone Inzaghi.\n\nSerie B champion Sassuolo secured promotion last month and will be joined by the winner of the playoffs, which will be contested by teams that finish third to eighth."
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"value": "# Reds rookie Callihan is expected to miss at least 2 months after surgery for forearm fracture\n\nBy Charles Odum \nMay 6th, 2025 09:11 PM\n\n---\n\nATLANTA (AP) — Cincinnati Reds rookie left fielder Tyler Callihan is expected to miss at least two months following surgery Tuesday to repair his fractured left forearm suffered while attempting a sliding catch a night earlier.\n\nReds manager Terry Francona said Callihan will have no baseball activities for six to eight weeks but has not been ruled out for the season.\n\n\"It's actually kind of remarkable,\" Francona said, adding that \"everything came out like it was supposed to\" in the surgery, which was performed in Cincinnati.\n\nCallihan's attempted catch turned into an inside-the-park home run for Matt Olson in the Reds' 4-0 loss to the Atlanta Braves on Monday night.\n\nCallihan was playing in his fourth major league game after making his debut last week.\n\nThe Reds placed him on the 10-day injured list on Tuesday. The team optioned right-hander Yosver Zulueta to Triple-A Louisville. Outfielder Jacob Hurtubise and right-hander Lyon Richardson were recalled from Louisville.\n\nAlso, right-hander Rhett Lowder (right forearm strain) began a rehabilitation assignment.\n\nUtility player Santiago Espinal initially was listed as the Reds' starter in left field in Tuesday night's game against the Braves. Minutes before the first pitch, third baseman Noelvi Marte was scratched with discomfort in his left side and Espinal was moved to third base.\n\nSpencer Steer moved from first base to left field and Austin Wynns moved into the lineup at first base. TJ Friedl started in center field with Blake Dunn in right field.\n\n___\n\nAP MLB: https://apnews.com/hub/mlb"
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"value": "# Reds rookie Callihan is expected to miss at least 2 months after surgery for forearm fracture\n\nBy Charles Odum \nMay 6th, 2025 09:11 PM\n\n---\n\nATLANTA (AP) — Cincinnati Reds rookie left fielder Tyler Callihan is expected to miss at least two months following surgery Tuesday to repair his fractured left forearm suffered while attempting a sliding catch a night earlier.\n\nReds manager Terry Francona said Callihan will have no baseball activities for six to eight weeks but has not been ruled out for the season.\n\n\"It's actually kind of remarkable,\" Francona said, adding that \"everything came out like it was supposed to\" in the surgery, which was performed in Cincinnati.\n\nCallihan's attempted catch turned into an inside-the-park home run for Matt Olson in the Reds' 4-0 loss to the Atlanta Braves on Monday night.\n\nCallihan was playing in his fourth major league game after making his debut last week.\n\nThe Reds placed him on the 10-day injured list on Tuesday. The team optioned right-hander Yosver Zulueta to Triple-A Louisville. Outfielder Jacob Hurtubise and right-hander Lyon Richardson were recalled from Louisville.\n\nAlso, right-hander Rhett Lowder (right forearm strain) began a rehabilitation assignment.\n\nUtility player Santiago Espinal initially was listed as the Reds' starter in left field in Tuesday night's game against the Braves. Minutes before the first pitch, third baseman Noelvi Marte was scratched with discomfort in his left side and Espinal was moved to third base.\n\nSpencer Steer moved from first base to left field and Austin Wynns moved into the lineup at first base. TJ Friedl started in center field with Blake Dunn in right field."
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"value": "# Out-of-bounds plays could be reviewed only by coach challenge under NCAA rules panel recommendation\n\nBy Eric Olson \nMay 9th, 2025 06:33 PM\n\n---\n\nThe NCAA Men's Basketball Rules Committee, in an effort to enhance the flow of games, has recommended that video reviews of out-of-bounds calls can only be initiated by a coach's challenge.\n\nThe NCAA announced Friday that the committee met this week in Indianapolis and addressed concerns about lengthy disruptions, particularly near the end of games.\n\nIn addition to recommending the use of coach's challenges, points of emphasis to improve flow will include directives to address delay-of-game tactics, limit time spent at the monitor, improve game administration efficiency and reduce physicality.\n\nThe NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Panel must approve proposals before they become official. The panel is scheduled to meet June 10.\n\nUnder the coach's challenge proposal, teams must have a timeout to request a video review challenge. If the challenge is successful, teams would be allowed to have one additional challenge for the rest of the game, including overtime. If the first challenge is unsuccessful, the team loses the ability to challenge the rest of the game.\n\nOther than in the last two minutes of a game and in overtime, a coach's challenge also would be necessary to initiate a review of basket interference/goaltending and restricted arc plays. Recent data shows those reviews caused minimal game interruptions. Officials could not initiate video review on out-of-bounds calls at any point in a game.\n\nFans have complained about the disruption of game flow as the number of situations when video review can be used has increased over the last decade. Karl Hicks, committee chair and associate commissioner for basketball at the American Athletic Conference, said taking steps to improve flow was the priority of this year's meeting.\n\n\"Coach's challenges were deemed to be the most efficient way to accomplish this goal,\" Hicks said. \"Data from the NCAA tournament and membership conferences showed a substantial number of reviews were on out-of-bounds plays. The committee looked at other basketball leagues around the world to see what the best solution would be for the NCAA, and the committee agreed with the NBA coach's challenge system and its one plus one process.\"\n\nOfficials still can initiate video reviews to check for timing mistakes, scoring errors, shot-clock violations, 2-point versus 3-point field goal attempts and flagrant fouls.\n\nThe committee also recommended a modification to the continuous motion rule where an offensive player who ends his dribble going toward the basket and absorbs contact from the defense could pivot or complete the step he is on and finish his shot attempt.\n\nThe committee also asked Division I conferences to create a joint working group to provide feedback on the potential change from halves to quarters.\n\n___\n\nGet poll alerts and updates on the AP Top 25 throughout the season. Sign up here. AP college basketball: https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-college-basketball-poll and https://apnews.com/hub/college-basketball"
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"value": "# Out-of-bounds plays could be reviewed only by coach challenge under NCAA rules panel recommendation\n\nBy Eric Olson \nMay 9th, 2025 06:33 PM\n\n---\n\nThe NCAA Men's Basketball Rules Committee, in an effort to enhance the flow of games, has recommended that video reviews of out-of-bounds calls can only be initiated by a coach's challenge.\n\nThe NCAA announced Friday that the committee met this week in Indianapolis and addressed concerns about lengthy disruptions, particularly near the end of games.\n\nIn addition to recommending the use of coach's challenges, points of emphasis to improve flow will include directives to address delay-of-game tactics, limit time spent at the monitor, improve game administration efficiency and reduce physicality.\n\nThe NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Panel must approve proposals before they become official. The panel is scheduled to meet June 10.\n\nUnder the coach's challenge proposal, teams must have a timeout to request a video review challenge. If the challenge is successful, teams would be allowed to have one additional challenge for the rest of the game, including overtime. If the first challenge is unsuccessful, the team loses the ability to challenge the rest of the game.\n\nOther than in the last two minutes of a game and in overtime, a coach's challenge also would be necessary to initiate a review of basket interference/goaltending and restricted arc plays. Recent data shows those reviews caused minimal game interruptions. Officials could not initiate video review on out-of-bounds calls at any point in a game.\n\nFans have complained about the disruption of game flow as the number of situations when video review can be used has increased over the last decade. Karl Hicks, committee chair and associate commissioner for basketball at the American Athletic Conference, said taking steps to improve flow was the priority of this year's meeting.\n\n\"Coach's challenges were deemed to be the most efficient way to accomplish this goal,\" Hicks said. \"Data from the NCAA tournament and membership conferences showed a substantial number of reviews were on out-of-bounds plays. The committee looked at other basketball leagues around the world to see what the best solution would be for the NCAA, and the committee agreed with the NBA coach's challenge system and its one plus one process.\"\n\nOfficials still can initiate video reviews to check for timing mistakes, scoring errors, shot-clock violations, 2-point versus 3-point field goal attempts and flagrant fouls.\n\nThe committee also recommended a modification to the continuous motion rule where an offensive player who ends his dribble going toward the basket and absorbs contact from the defense could pivot or complete the step he is on and finish his shot attempt.\n\nThe committee also asked Division I conferences to create a joint working group to provide feedback on the potential change from halves to quarters."
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"value": "# Milan strikes twice in two minutes to beat Genoa and keep alive Champions League hopes\n\nMay 5th, 2025 08:58 PM\n\n---\n\nGENOA, Italy (AP) — AC Milan scored twice in two minutes to beat Genoa 2-1 in Serie A on Monday and keep alive its slim hopes of a place in next year's Champions League.\n\nGenoa substitute Vitinha scored a minute after taking the field to give his side the lead after 61 minutes.\n\nBut Rafael Leão levelled 15 minutes later when his powerful shot was deflected into the net, and two minutes later Genoa captain Morten Frendrup put one into his own net.\n\nAlthough Milan remained in ninth place, it closed the gap on the top four to six points. Juventus was fourth, equal on points with Roma and Lazio below it.\n\nThree rounds remain.\n\nMilan's last three games are against Bologna, Roma and bottom club Monza.\n\nGenoa has lost its last three games and sits in 13th.\n\n___\n\nAP soccer: https://apnews.com/hub/soccer"
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"value": "# Curry leaves Warriors' win vs. Wolves with hamstring strain, putting rest of series in question\n\nBy Dave Campbell \nMay 7th, 2025 02:47 AM\n\n---\n\nMINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Golden State star Stephen Curry was sidelined by a strained left hamstring early in the second quarter at Minnesota, and the Warriors were bracing for an extended absence of their sharpshooting leader after opening the series by beating the Timberwolves 99-88 on Tuesday.\n\nCurry will have an MRI on Wednesday. His status is day to day, but coach Steve Kerr acknowledged it's unlikely he'll be available to play in Game 2 on Thursday.\n\n\"He's obviously crushed, but the guys picked him up and played a great game,\" Kerr said. \"Obviously we're all concerned about Steph, but that's part of the game. Guys get hurt, and you move on. Our guys did a great job of moving on and getting a great win 48 hours after a Game 7 road win. It's an amazing group of guys. They compete. They're together.\"\n\nCurry started grabbing at the back of his left leg early in the second quarter shortly after hitting a 26-foot step-back 3-pointer. He powered through some discomfort for a bit, and after getting a 14-foot floater to fall for a 27-20 lead he started motioning to the bench that he needed to come out.\n\nOnce a timeout by the Timberwolves finally stopped the clock, Curry jogged gingerly to the locker room with 13 points in 13 minutes on 5-for-9 shooting.\n\n\"A little deflating, but we knew he did a great job of helping us build a comfortable lead,\" teammate Draymond Green said.\n\nThe 37-year-old Curry helped Golden State beat Houston in Game 7 of their first-round series two nights earlier. Going the distance after taking a 3-1 lead in that series cost Curry and the Warriors some valuable rest time, and there's only one day off between games for the first five games. There are three off days between Game 5 on May 14 and Game 6 on May 18.\n\nAfter a five-year period during which he had a hard time staying healthy, with a variety of injuries to both hands and feet, Curry played in 70 games this season after logging 74 games last season. The four-time NBA champion and 11-time All-Star averaged 24 points per game against the Rockets for the sixth-seeded Warriors.\n\nThe spirits were high for the Warriors in the aftermath of their all-hands-on-deck dismantling of the Wolves, despite the ominous departure of their most important player.\n\n\"We have the best coaching staff in the NBA. We know they'll put us in a good spot,\" said Jimmy Butler, who finished with 20 points, 11 rebounds and eight assists. \"We all want '30' back. Until then, we can all hold down the fort.\"\n\n___\n\nAP NBA: https://apnews.com/hub/NBA"
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"value": "# Curry leaves Warriors' win vs. Wolves with hamstring strain, putting rest of series in question\n\nBy Dave Campbell \nMay 7th, 2025 02:47 AM\n\n---\n\nMINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Golden State star Stephen Curry was sidelined by a strained left hamstring early in the second quarter at Minnesota, and the Warriors were bracing for an extended absence of their sharpshooting leader after opening the series by beating the Timberwolves 99-88 on Tuesday.\n\nCurry will have an MRI on Wednesday. His status is day to day, but coach Steve Kerr acknowledged it's unlikely he'll be available to play in Game 2 on Thursday.\n\n\"He's obviously crushed, but the guys picked him up and played a great game,\" Kerr said. \"Obviously we're all concerned about Steph, but that's part of the game. Guys get hurt, and you move on. Our guys did a great job of moving on and getting a great win 48 hours after a Game 7 road win. It's an amazing group of guys. They compete. They're together.\"\n\nCurry started grabbing at the back of his left leg early in the second quarter shortly after hitting a 26-foot step-back 3-pointer. He powered through some discomfort for a bit, and after getting a 14-foot floater to fall for a 27-20 lead he started motioning to the bench that he needed to come out.\n\nOnce a timeout by the Timberwolves finally stopped the clock, Curry jogged gingerly to the locker room with 13 points in 13 minutes on 5-for-9 shooting.\n\n\"A little deflating, but we knew he did a great job of helping us build a comfortable lead,\" teammate Draymond Green said.\n\nThe 37-year-old Curry helped Golden State beat Houston in Game 7 of their first-round series two nights earlier. Going the distance after taking a 3-1 lead in that series cost Curry and the Warriors some valuable rest time, and there's only one day off between games for the first five games. There are three off days between Game 5 on May 14 and Game 6 on May 18.\n\nAfter a five-year period during which he had a hard time staying healthy, with a variety of injuries to both hands and feet, Curry played in 70 games this season after logging 74 games last season. The four-time NBA champion and 11-time All-Star averaged 24 points per game against the Rockets for the sixth-seeded Warriors.\n\nThe spirits were high for the Warriors in the aftermath of their all-hands-on-deck dismantling of the Wolves, despite the ominous departure of their most important player.\n\n\"We have the best coaching staff in the NBA. We know they'll put us in a good spot,\" said Jimmy Butler, who finished with 20 points, 11 rebounds and eight assists. \"We all want '30' back. Until then, we can all hold down the fort.\""
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"value": "# Judge says Bryan Kohberger's family can attend upcoming trial in University of Idaho killings\n\nMay 7th, 2025 09:20 PM\n\n---\n\nBOISE, Idaho (AP) — Bryan Kohberger's immediate family members may attend his upcoming quadruple-murder trial in the stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students, even if they might be called to testify, a judge ruled in an order made public Thursday.\n\nWitnesses in criminal cases are sometimes excluded from attending trials to prevent them from shaping their testimony in response to what other witnesses have said or what evidence has been presented. But Judge Steven Hippler wrote that Kohberger's Sixth Amendment right to a public trial also entitles him to have his parents and siblings present if they want to attend.\n\n\"Courts recognize that having defendant's family members present at trial advances the values served by the right to public trial, i.e., ensuring fair proceedings; reminding the prosecutor and judge of their grave responsibilities; discouraging perjury; and encouraging witnesses to come forward,\" Hippler wrote.\n\nKohberger, 30, a former graduate student in criminal justice at nearby Washington State University, is charged in the stabbing deaths of Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle, Madison Mogen and Kaylee Goncalves at a rental home near campus in Moscow, Idaho, on Nov. 13, 2022.\n\nProsecutors have said they intended to seek the death penalty if Kohberger is convicted at his trial, which is set to begin in August.\n\nHippler said the court must balance Kohberger's right to a public trial with the state's interest in obtaining forthright testimony from witnesses. But, he added, there is little risk of Kohberger's family members shaping what they might say from the witness stand in response to what they observe at the trial: The scope of their proposed testimony is narrow, and they have previously given recorded interviews that will help guard against them altering what they say.\n\nHippler previously ruled that family members of the victims may attend the trial."
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"value": "# Judge says Bryan Kohberger's family can attend upcoming trial in University of Idaho killings\n\nMay 7th, 2025 09:20 PM\n\n---\n\nBOISE, Idaho (AP) — Bryan Kohberger's immediate family members may attend his upcoming quadruple-murder trial in the stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students, even if they might be called to testify, a judge ruled in an order made public Thursday.\n\nWitnesses in criminal cases are sometimes excluded from attending trials to prevent them from shaping their testimony in response to what other witnesses have said or what evidence has been presented. But Judge Steven Hippler wrote that Kohberger's Sixth Amendment right to a public trial also entitles him to have his parents and siblings present if they want to attend.\n\n\"Courts recognize that having defendant's family members present at trial advances the values served by the right to public trial, i.e., ensuring fair proceedings; reminding the prosecutor and judge of their grave responsibilities; discouraging perjury; and encouraging witnesses to come forward,\" Hippler wrote.\n\nKohberger, 30, a former graduate student in criminal justice at nearby Washington State University, is charged in the stabbing deaths of Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle, Madison Mogen and Kaylee Goncalves at a rental home near campus in Moscow, Idaho, on Nov. 13, 2022.\n\nProsecutors have said they intended to seek the death penalty if Kohberger is convicted at his trial, which is set to begin in August.\n\nHippler said the court must balance Kohberger's right to a public trial with the state's interest in obtaining forthright testimony from witnesses. But, he added, there is little risk of Kohberger's family members shaping what they might say from the witness stand in response to what they observe at the trial: The scope of their proposed testimony is narrow, and they have previously given recorded interviews that will help guard against them altering what they say.\n\nHippler previously ruled that family members of the victims may attend the trial."
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"value": "# Trump's claims tying gang to Venezuelan government contradicted by US memo\n\nBy David Klepper \nMay 6th, 2025 07:39 PM\n\n---\n\nWASHINGTON (AP) — A newly declassified U.S. intelligence assessment confirms that analysts at American spy agencies found no coordination between Tren de Aragua and the Venezuelan government, contradicting statements the Trump administration used to justify invoking the Alien Enemies Act and deporting Venezuelan immigrants.\n\nThe redacted memo from the National Intelligence Council said there was no indication that Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro or other senior government officials are directing the actions of Tren de Aragua, a gang that originated in a prison in Venezuela. That is even as some mid- to low-level Venezuelan officials may have ties to the gang for financial gain, the document says.\n\n\"While Venezuela's permissive environment enables TDA to operate, the Maduro regime probably does not have a policy of cooperating with TDA and is not directing TDA movement to and operations in the United States,\" the memo reads. \"Furthermore, most of the IC judges that intelligence indicating that regime leaders are directing or enabling TDA migration to the United States is not credible.\"\n\nTrump has invoked the Alien Enemies Act to speed the deportations of people his administration has labeled members of the gang. The 18th century wartime law was created to give the president the power to imprison or deport noncitizens in a time of war. It has been used three times, most recently when Japanese Americans were detained during World War II.\n\nTren de Aragua has been linked to a series of kidnappings, extortion and other crimes throughout the Western Hemisphere. Those activities are tied to a mass exodus of millions of Venezuelans as their country's economy unraveled over the past decade.\n\nThe National Intelligence Council helps coordinate the work of the nation's intelligence services, and its conclusions reflect the findings of individual agencies.\n\nWhile the assessment found no evidence of significant coordination between Maduro and the gang, it noted that FBI analysts had reason to believe some Venezuelan officials may have helped some gang members move to the U.S. and other countries \"to advance what they see as the Maduro regime's goal of destabilizing governments and undermining public safety,\" according to the assessment.\n\nA spokesperson for Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard rejected claims that the assessment contradicted the White House and noted that it did find some ties between mid- and low-level officials in Maduro's government and the gang.\n\nGabbard wrote on social media last month that her office, which oversees and coordinates the work of the nation's 18 intelligence agencies, \"fully supports the assessment that the foreign terrorist organization, Tren De Aragua, is acting with the support of the Maduro Regime, and thus subject to arrest, detention and removal as alien enemies of the United States.\"\n\nGabbard's spokesperson, Alexa Henning, referenced the post Tuesday in response to questions about the assessment.\n\nThe memo, which includes significant redactions, was released this week after the Freedom of the Press Foundation filed an open records request, and it was first reported by The New York Times. The Associated Press reported on the assessment's findings last month.\n\nLauren Harper, who holds the Daniel Ellsberg Chair on Government Secrecy at the foundation, said it is critical to push for government transparency, especially as the Trump administration signals it may subpoena reporters to investigate government leakers.\n\n\"The public deserves to read this document,\" Harper said of the assessment.\n\nTwo federal judges have found that Trump is improperly using the Alien Enemies Act and barred the administration from removing immigrants under it.\n\nDistrict Court Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein in New York said Tuesday that the 1798 law cannot be used against Tren de Aragua because it is not attacking the United States. \"TdA may well be engaged in narcotics trafficking, but that is a criminal matter, not an invasion or predatory incursion,\" Hellerstein wrote.\n\nDemocrats in Congress welcomed the assessment's release and questioned why Gabbard has supported Trump's justification for deportations, given her knowledge of the assessment.\n\nIn a statement, Reps. Jim Himes of Connecticut and Joaquin Castro of Texas said Gabbard needs to explain why her public comments don't match the assessment of her own agencies.\n\n\"The most basic responsibility of the director of national intelligence is to speak truth to power and, where possible, the American people,\" said the lawmakers, who both serve on the House Intelligence Committee. \"Misrepresenting intelligence in public causes grave damage.\"\n\n___\n\nAssociated Press writer Michelle L. Price in Washington contributed to this report."
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"value": "# Trump's claims tying gang to Venezuelan government contradicted by US memo\n\nBy David Klepper \nMay 6th, 2025 07:39 PM\n\n---\n\nWASHINGTON (AP) — A newly declassified U.S. intelligence assessment confirms that analysts at American spy agencies found no coordination between Tren de Aragua and the Venezuelan government, contradicting statements the Trump administration used to justify invoking the Alien Enemies Act and deporting Venezuelan immigrants.\n\nThe redacted memo from the National Intelligence Council said there was no indication that Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro or other senior government officials are directing the actions of Tren de Aragua, a gang that originated in a prison in Venezuela. That is even as some mid- to low-level Venezuelan officials may have ties to the gang for financial gain, the document says.\n\n\"While Venezuela's permissive environment enables TDA to operate, the Maduro regime probably does not have a policy of cooperating with TDA and is not directing TDA movement to and operations in the United States,\" the memo reads. \"Furthermore, most of the IC judges that intelligence indicating that regime leaders are directing or enabling TDA migration to the United States is not credible.\"\n\nTrump has invoked the Alien Enemies Act to speed the deportations of people his administration has labeled members of the gang. The 18th century wartime law was created to give the president the power to imprison or deport noncitizens in a time of war. It has been used three times, most recently when Japanese Americans were detained during World War II.\n\nTren de Aragua has been linked to a series of kidnappings, extortion and other crimes throughout the Western Hemisphere. Those activities are tied to a mass exodus of millions of Venezuelans as their country's economy unraveled over the past decade.\n\nThe National Intelligence Council helps coordinate the work of the nation's intelligence services, and its conclusions reflect the findings of individual agencies.\n\nWhile the assessment found no evidence of significant coordination between Maduro and the gang, it noted that FBI analysts had reason to believe some Venezuelan officials may have helped some gang members move to the U.S. and other countries \"to advance what they see as the Maduro regime's goal of destabilizing governments and undermining public safety,\" according to the assessment.\n\nA spokesperson for Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard rejected claims that the assessment contradicted the White House and noted that it did find some ties between mid- and low-level officials in Maduro's government and the gang.\n\nGabbard wrote on social media last month that her office, which oversees and coordinates the work of the nation's 18 intelligence agencies, \"fully supports the assessment that the foreign terrorist organization, Tren De Aragua, is acting with the support of the Maduro Regime, and thus subject to arrest, detention and removal as alien enemies of the United States.\"\n\nGabbard's spokesperson, Alexa Henning, referenced the post Tuesday in response to questions about the assessment.\n\nThe memo, which includes significant redactions, was released this week after the Freedom of the Press Foundation filed an open records request, and it was first reported by The New York Times. The Associated Press reported on the assessment's findings last month.\n\nLauren Harper, who holds the Daniel Ellsberg Chair on Government Secrecy at the foundation, said it is critical to push for government transparency, especially as the Trump administration signals it may subpoena reporters to investigate government leakers.\n\n\"The public deserves to read this document,\" Harper said of the assessment.\n\nTwo federal judges have found that Trump is improperly using the Alien Enemies Act and barred the administration from removing immigrants under it.\n\nDistrict Court Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein in New York said Tuesday that the 1798 law cannot be used against Tren de Aragua because it is not attacking the United States. \"TdA may well be engaged in narcotics trafficking, but that is a criminal matter, not an invasion or predatory incursion,\" Hellerstein wrote.\n\nDemocrats in Congress welcomed the assessment's release and questioned why Gabbard has supported Trump's justification for deportations, given her knowledge of the assessment.\n\nIn a statement, Reps. Jim Himes of Connecticut and Joaquin Castro of Texas said Gabbard needs to explain why her public comments don't match the assessment of her own agencies.\n\n\"The most basic responsibility of the director of national intelligence is to speak truth to power and, where possible, the American people,\" said the lawmakers, who both serve on the House Intelligence Committee. \"Misrepresenting intelligence in public causes grave damage.\""
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"value": "# Cam Rising announces 'medical retirement' from football because of lingering hand injury\n\nMay 7th, 2025 10:19 PM\n\n---\n\nSALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah quarterback Cam Rising is giving up football — at least for the foreseeable future — because of his struggle to recover from a hand injury early last season.\n\n\"I have been advised by two orthopedic surgeons that I will never be able to return to playing football,\" Rising wrote in a social media post on Wednesday in which he announced that he \"will be forced to medically retire from the game I love.\"\n\nRising added that he will seek a third medical opinion and proceed with recommended surgery and rehab, but stopped short of indicating that he foresees a path to playing again.\n\nRising played parts of four seasons at Utah between 2020 and 2024.\n\nHe passed for 2,493 yards and 20 touchdowns in 2021 and followed that up with 3,034 and 26 TDs in a 2022 season that landed the Utes in the Rose Bowl. But a knee injury in the bowl game sidelined Rising for all of 2023.\n\nThe Ventura, California, native's return in 2024 was shortened against Baylor in the Utes' second game of the season, when he was pushed across the sideline as he released a throw and ran into a hydration table, appearing to jam his finger on a cooler.\n\nRising tried to come back a little more than a month later, but struggled in a loss to Arizona State in October in which he was intercepted three times. He did not play again after that.\n\n___\n\nAP college football: https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-college-football-poll and https://apnews.com/hub/college-football"
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"value": "# Juan Soto hits his first homers at Citi Field with the Mets, but D-Backs win 4-2\n\nBy Jerry Beach \nMay 1st, 2025 08:22 PM\n\n---\n\nNEW YORK (AP) — Juan Soto hit his first two home runs at Citi Field as a member of the Mets on Thursday afternoon, but the Arizona Diamondbacks earned a 4-2 win to hand New York a rare home series loss.\n\nThe Diamondbacks won the final two games of the three-game series — the first time the Mets have lost back-to-back contests at Citi Field since July 27-28, when they fell to the Atlanta Braves.\n\nNew York, which is 13-3 at Citi Field this season, had its franchise-record streak of 10 straight home series wins snapped.\n\nZac Gallen (2-4) allowed only two hits over six innings. He didn't allow a runner past first base until Soto's opposite field 391-foot blast with one out in the sixth.\n\nSoto then hit a 399-foot shot to almost the same area of left-centerfield off Kevin Ginkel in the eighth.\n\nSoto entered Thursday batting .241 with four doubles, 10 walks and eight strikeouts in his first 15 home games since signing a 15-year deal worth $765 million last December. He had 12 homers in 35 games at Citi Field as a visiting player.\n\nGinkel wriggled out of a second-and-third jam in the eighth before Shelby Miller recorded his first save with a 1-2-3 ninth.\n\nGeraldo Perdomo and Tim Tawa each homered for the Diamondbacks, who also received RBIs from Alek Thomas and Eugenio Suárez.\n\nMets starter Kodai Senga (3-2) gave up one run over four innings.\n\n## Key moment\n\nGinkel struck out Mark Vientos and Brandon Nimmo to strand two and preserve a 3-2 lead in the eighth.\n\n## Key stat\n\nThe Mets hadn't lost a series at home since Aug. 13-15, when the then-Oakland Athletics took two of three.\n\n## Up next\n\nRHP Merrill Kelly (3-1, 4.41 ERA) starts for the Diamondbacks against the Philadelphia Phillies on Friday, when Mets RHP Clay Holmes (3-1, 2.64) takes the mound against the St. Louis Cardinals.\n\n___\n\nAP MLB: https://apnews.com/hub/mlb"
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"value": "# Alex Bregman, Wilyer Abreu carry Red Sox past Rangers, 6-4\n\nBy Ken Powtak \nMay 8th, 2025 01:44 AM\n\n---\n\nBOSTON (AP) — Alex Bregman hit a tiebreaking two-run single and had a solo homer, Wilyer Abreu added two solo shots and the Boston Red Sox beat the Texas Rangers 6-4 on Wednesday night to snap a three-game losing streak.\n\nBregman and Abreu each drove in three runs for Boston, which was 1-4 against the Rangers this season before pulling out the victory.\n\nAdolis GarcÃa and Josh Jung each hit a solo homer for the Rangers, who have dropped eight of 11.\n\nAbreu hit his second of the game deep into the seats in right in the eighth, making it 6-3.\n\nBrennan Bernardino (2-1) worked a perfect inning of relief for the victory and Aroldis Chapman got the final three outs for his fifth save despite allowing Jung's homer.\n\nJacob Webb (2-2) took the loss, giving up two runs in 2/3 of an inning.\n\nTrailing 2-1, Bregman and Abreu went deep one batter apart in the fourth.\n\nGarcÃa's homer over the Green Monster gave the Rangers a 2-1 lead in the top of the inning.\n\nBolstered by the hiring of Bret Boone as the team's new hitting coach after struggling offensively, the Rangers won the series opener Tuesday.\n\n## Key moment\n\nWith runners on second and third with two outs and the score tied at 3, Rangers manager Bruce Bochy elected to pitch to Bregman, who delivered the go-ahead hit to left against Robert Garcia.\n\n## Key stat\n\nIt was the third multihomer game of Abreu's career and all of them have come against Texas.\n\n## Up next\n\nRangers RHP Jack Leiter (2-1, 4.58 ERA) is slated to face Red Sox RHP Brayan Bello (2-0, 2.55) in the series finale on Thursday.\n\n___\n\nAP MLB: https://apnews.com/hub/mlb"
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"value": "# Alex Bregman, Wilyer Abreu carry Red Sox past Rangers, 6-4\n\nBy Ken Powtak \nMay 8th, 2025 01:44 AM\n\n---\n\nBOSTON (AP) — Alex Bregman hit a tiebreaking two-run single and had a solo homer, Wilyer Abreu added two solo shots and the Boston Red Sox beat the Texas Rangers 6-4 on Wednesday night to snap a three-game losing streak.\n\nBregman and Abreu each drove in three runs for Boston, which was 1-4 against the Rangers this season before pulling out the victory.\n\nAdolis GarcÃa and Josh Jung each hit a solo homer for the Rangers, who have dropped eight of 11.\n\nAbreu hit his second of the game deep into the seats in right in the eighth, making it 6-3.\n\nBrennan Bernardino (2-1) worked a perfect inning of relief for the victory and Aroldis Chapman got the final three outs for his fifth save despite allowing Jung's homer.\n\nJacob Webb (2-2) took the loss, giving up two runs in 2/3 of an inning.\n\nTrailing 2-1, Bregman and Abreu went deep one batter apart in the fourth.\n\nGarcÃa's homer over the Green Monster gave the Rangers a 2-1 lead in the top of the inning.\n\nBolstered by the hiring of Bret Boone as the team's new hitting coach after struggling offensively, the Rangers won the series opener Tuesday.\n\n## Key moment\n\nWith runners on second and third with two outs and the score tied at 3, Rangers manager Bruce Bochy elected to pitch to Bregman, who delivered the go-ahead hit to left against Robert Garcia.\n\n## Key stat\n\nIt was the third multihomer game of Abreu's career and all of them have come against Texas.\n\n## Up next\n\nRangers RHP Jack Leiter (2-1, 4.58 ERA) is slated to face Red Sox RHP Brayan Bello (2-0, 2.55) in the series finale on Thursday."
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"value": "# New coalition government will lead Cayman Islands after tight election race\n\nMay 2nd, 2025 02:21 PM\n\n---\n\nSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The Cayman Islands will be led by a new coalition government after no single party clinched a majority following a general election this week.\n\nAndré Ebanks will be the new premier of the wealthy British territory, according to a government statement late Thursday.\n\nHe'll lead a coalition of three independent candidates and two new political parties — the Cayman Islands National Party, founded by a former manager at Ernst & Young, and The Caymanian Community Party, established by Ebanks and other members of the dissolved United People's Movement.\n\nThe two parties won four seats each in Wednesday's parliamentary election. Meanwhile, the People's Progressive Movement won seven seats, but was three short of a majority.\n\nThe territory's Parliament has a total of 21 seats, two of which are appointed.\n\nEbanks has pledged to stabilize the territory's finances and address what he described as a cost of living crisis.\n\nDuring the election, voters also approved in a referendum decriminalizing the possession and consumption of small amounts of marijuana and creating a national lottery. But they rejected a proposal to develop cruise berthing infrastructure, which environmentalists have opposed."
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"value": "# New coalition government will lead Cayman Islands after tight election race\n\nMay 2nd, 2025 02:21 PM\n\n---\n\nSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The Cayman Islands will be led by a new coalition government after no single party clinched a majority following a general election this week.\n\nAndré Ebanks will be the new premier of the wealthy British territory, according to a government statement late Thursday.\n\nHe'll lead a coalition of three independent candidates and two new political parties — the Cayman Islands National Party, founded by a former manager at Ernst & Young, and The Caymanian Community Party, established by Ebanks and other members of the dissolved United People's Movement.\n\nThe two parties won four seats each in Wednesday's parliamentary election. Meanwhile, the People's Progressive Movement won seven seats, but was three short of a majority.\n\nThe territory's Parliament has a total of 21 seats, two of which are appointed.\n\nEbanks has pledged to stabilize the territory's finances and address what he described as a cost of living crisis.\n\nDuring the election, voters also approved in a referendum decriminalizing the possession and consumption of small amounts of marijuana and creating a national lottery. But they rejected a proposal to develop cruise berthing infrastructure, which environmentalists have opposed."
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"value": "# 'Caught By the Tides' review: History's sweep in Jia Zhangke's film\n\nBy Jake Coyle \nMay 7th, 2025 02:09 PM\n\n---\n\nJia Zhangke's \"Caught by the Tides\" is less than two hours long and yet contains nearly a quarter-century of time's relentless march forward.\n\nFew films course with history the way it does in the Chinese master's latest, an epic collage that spans 21 years. Jia undertook the film during the pandemic, assembling a mix of fiction and documentary, including images from his earlier films as well as newly shot scenes.\n\nThat might sound like a mishmash kind of moviemaking. But for Jia, the preeminent cinematic chronicler of 21st century China, it's a remarkably cohesive, even profound vessel for capturing what has most interested him as a filmmaker: the tidal wave-sized currents of technological progress and social transmutation that wash over a lifetime.\n\nThe high-speed upheavals of modern China are, of course, a fitting setting for such interests. Jia's films are often most expressed in their surroundings — in vistas of infrastructure that dwarf his protagonists. Fans of Jia will recognize some from his previous films. For me, there's never been a more moving backdrop from him than the rubble and mass displacement of the Three Gorges Dam project (seen here, as in his 2008 film \"Still Life\").\n\n\"Caught by the Tides\" is ostensibly about Qiaoqiao (Zhao Tao, Jia's wife and muse) and her lover Bin (Li Zhubin), whom she searches for years after a row sent them in different directions. But in \"Caught by the Tides,\" these characters are more like life rafts bobbing in expansive waters, making their way aimlessly.\n\nThe poetry of \"Caught by the Tides\" comes from a grander arc. In one of the film's opening scenes, shot on grainy digital film, women in a Datong city room laugh together, singing old, half-remembered songs. The film's final scenes, set more than two decades later in the southern city of Zhuhai, are more crisply photographed and depict a more impersonal world of smartphones, robots and QR codes. For a moment, Jia even adopts the perspective of a surveillance camera.\n\nAnother moment: a shot, from pre-digital times, drifting down a street with men looking back at us, smoking and mildly curious. Cut then to what might be the same street years later, where a woman parades as a model in front of a sprawling shopping mall.\n\nIn \"Caught by the Tides,\" these changes go unexplained and unspoken. But the evolutions they chart are deeply familiar to anyone who has lived through even some of these years, in China or elsewhere. We see how people once moved differently, spoke differently and sang differently. Progress and loss exist together as one. Zhao and Li age through the film, leaving them weathered, too, by time. A song late in the film goes: \"I can't grasp the warmth we once shared.\"\n\n\"Caught by the Tides,\" a Sideshow and Janus Films release, is unrated by the Motion Picture Association. In Mandarin. Running time: 116 minutes. Three and a half stars out of four."
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"value": "# 'Caught By the Tides' review: History's sweep in Jia Zhangke's film\n\nBy Jake Coyle \nMay 7th, 2025 02:09 PM\n\n---\n\nJia Zhangke's \"Caught by the Tides\" is less than two hours long and yet contains nearly a quarter-century of time's relentless march forward.\n\nFew films course with history the way it does in the Chinese master's latest, an epic collage that spans 21 years. Jia undertook the film during the pandemic, assembling a mix of fiction and documentary, including images from his earlier films as well as newly shot scenes.\n\nThat might sound like a mishmash kind of moviemaking. But for Jia, the preeminent cinematic chronicler of 21st century China, it's a remarkably cohesive, even profound vessel for capturing what has most interested him as a filmmaker: the tidal wave-sized currents of technological progress and social transmutation that wash over a lifetime.\n\nThe high-speed upheavals of modern China are, of course, a fitting setting for such interests. Jia's films are often most expressed in their surroundings — in vistas of infrastructure that dwarf his protagonists. Fans of Jia will recognize some from his previous films. For me, there's never been a more moving backdrop from him than the rubble and mass displacement of the Three Gorges Dam project (seen here, as in his 2008 film \"Still Life\").\n\n\"Caught by the Tides\" is ostensibly about Qiaoqiao (Zhao Tao, Jia's wife and muse) and her lover Bin (Li Zhubin), whom she searches for years after a row sent them in different directions. But in \"Caught by the Tides,\" these characters are more like life rafts bobbing in expansive waters, making their way aimlessly.\n\nThe poetry of \"Caught by the Tides\" comes from a grander arc. In one of the film's opening scenes, shot on grainy digital film, women in a Datong city room laugh together, singing old, half-remembered songs. The film's final scenes, set more than two decades later in the southern city of Zhuhai, are more crisply photographed and depict a more impersonal world of smartphones, robots and QR codes. For a moment, Jia even adopts the perspective of a surveillance camera.\n\nAnother moment: a shot, from pre-digital times, drifting down a street with men looking back at us, smoking and mildly curious. Cut then to what might be the same street years later, where a woman parades as a model in front of a sprawling shopping mall.\n\nIn \"Caught by the Tides,\" these changes go unexplained and unspoken. But the evolutions they chart are deeply familiar to anyone who has lived through even some of these years, in China or elsewhere. We see how people once moved differently, spoke differently and sang differently. Progress and loss exist together as one. Zhao and Li age through the film, leaving them weathered, too, by time. A song late in the film goes: \"I can't grasp the warmth we once shared.\"\n\n\"Caught by the Tides,\" a Sideshow and Janus Films release, is unrated by the Motion Picture Association. In Mandarin. Running time: 116 minutes. Three and a half stars out of four."
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"value": "# Former Australian test cricketer Stuart MacGill is spared jail time over supplying cocaine\n\nMay 9th, 2025 01:36 AM\n\n---\n\nSYDNEY (AP) — Former Australian test bowler Stuart MacGill was spared jail time and given a community service order when he appeared in court on Friday for sentencing over supplying cocaine.\n\nMacGill was convicted of supplying drugs for a deal between his regular supplier and his brother-in-law in April 2021. He appeared at Downing Centre District Court where a statement from former test captain Steve Waugh supported his former colleague.\n\nMacGill was sentenced to an intensive corrections order of one year and 10 months. MacGill must complete 495 hours of community service work and undergo drug testing as part of the order, in lieu of a prison term.\n\nThe former legspinner, who began using cocaine after he retired from cricket, was found guilty in March of supplying an indictable quantity of the drug.\n\nA jury determined the 54-year-old MacGill knew about the deal between his regular dealer and his brother-in-law but was oblivious to the fact a one-kilogram (2.2-pound) brick was changing hands. He was acquitted of taking part in a large commercial drug supply.\n\nHis role in the lucrative cocaine deal led to his alleged violent kidnapping days later. He was shoved into the back of a car by several men and taken to an abandoned building in Sydney's western suburbs, where he was assaulted and threatened before being released.\n\nSix days later, MacGill went to police but denied any involvement in the drug deal. He was arrested in 2023.\n\nJudge Nicole Noman said Friday that MacGill played an indispensable role setting up the cocaine deal.\n\n\"His role was essential to bring the parties together and for the transaction to occur,\" she said. \"The offender's colossal lapse of judgment has been causative of a very public fall from grace.\"\n\nMacGill's international career from 1988 to 2008 which featured 208 wickets in 44 test matches was largely overshadowed by fellow Australian leg-spinner Shane Warne, who is second on the list of all-time leading wicket takers in test cricket.\n\n___\n\nAP cricket: https://apnews.com/hub/cricket"
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"value": "# Former Australian test cricketer Stuart MacGill is spared jail time over supplying cocaine\n\nMay 9th, 2025 01:36 AM\n\n---\n\nSYDNEY (AP) — Former Australian test bowler Stuart MacGill was spared jail time and given a community service order when he appeared in court on Friday for sentencing over supplying cocaine.\n\nMacGill was convicted of supplying drugs for a deal between his regular supplier and his brother-in-law in April 2021. He appeared at Downing Centre District Court where a statement from former test captain Steve Waugh supported his former colleague.\n\nMacGill was sentenced to an intensive corrections order of one year and 10 months. MacGill must complete 495 hours of community service work and undergo drug testing as part of the order, in lieu of a prison term.\n\nThe former legspinner, who began using cocaine after he retired from cricket, was found guilty in March of supplying an indictable quantity of the drug.\n\nA jury determined the 54-year-old MacGill knew about the deal between his regular dealer and his brother-in-law but was oblivious to the fact a one-kilogram (2.2-pound) brick was changing hands. He was acquitted of taking part in a large commercial drug supply.\n\nHis role in the lucrative cocaine deal led to his alleged violent kidnapping days later. He was shoved into the back of a car by several men and taken to an abandoned building in Sydney's western suburbs, where he was assaulted and threatened before being released.\n\nSix days later, MacGill went to police but denied any involvement in the drug deal. He was arrested in 2023.\n\nJudge Nicole Noman said Friday that MacGill played an indispensable role setting up the cocaine deal.\n\n\"His role was essential to bring the parties together and for the transaction to occur,\" she said. \"The offender's colossal lapse of judgment has been causative of a very public fall from grace.\"\n\nMacGill's international career from 1988 to 2008 which featured 208 wickets in 44 test matches was largely overshadowed by fellow Australian leg-spinner Shane Warne, who is second on the list of all-time leading wicket takers in test cricket."
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"value": "# Toy maker Mattel says US price increases are in store due to tariffs\n\nBy Anne D'Innocenzio \nMay 5th, 2025 09:31 PM\n\n---\n\nNEW YORK (AP) — Mattel Inc., the maker of Barbie dolls, Hot Wheels cars and other popular toys, said Monday that it would have to raise prices for some products sold in the U.S. \"where necessary\" to offset higher costs related to President Donald Trump's tariffs.\n\nThe El Segundo, California-based company said the increases are necessary even though it is speeding up its plans to diversify its manufacturing base away from China. Trump imposed a 145% tariff on most Chinese-made products.\n\nCompany executives told analysts on a conference call that China currently accounts for 40% of Mattel's global production. The company plans to move roughly 500 products this year from manufacturers in China to sources in other countries, compared to 280 products last year.\n\nFor some highly sought after toys, Mattel said it would enlist factories in more than one country. To prevent possible shortages, the company said it was focusing on getting products to stores without interruptions.\n\nThe company said that even with price increases it expects 40% to 50% of its toys will cost customers $20 or less.\n\n\"The diversified and flexible supply chain in global commercial organizations are clear advantages to Mattel in this period of uncertainty,\" CEO and Chairman Ynon Kreiz told analysts.\n\nCiting the ongoing uncertainty surrounding the president's trade policies, however, Mattel withdrew its annual earnings forecast on Monday. The company said it would be \"difficult to predict\" consumer spending and the company's U.S. sales for the remainder of the year without more information.\n\nMattel reported larger-than expected first-quarter sales but also a wider loss. Mattel said sales rose 2% to $827 million for the quarter that ended March 31.\n\nThe company's loss expanded to $40.3 million, or 12 cents per share, in the quarter. That compares with a loss of $28.3 million, or 8 cents per share, in the year-ago period.\n\nAnalysts expected a loss of 10 cents on sales of $786.1 million for the first quarter, according to FactSet.\n\nMattel's shares were down less than 1% in after markets trading."
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"value": "# Toy maker Mattel says US price increases are in store due to tariffs\n\nBy Anne D'Innocenzio \nMay 5th, 2025 09:31 PM\n\n---\n\nNEW YORK (AP) — Mattel Inc., the maker of Barbie dolls, Hot Wheels cars and other popular toys, said Monday that it would have to raise prices for some products sold in the U.S. \"where necessary\" to offset higher costs related to President Donald Trump's tariffs.\n\nThe El Segundo, California-based company said the increases are necessary even though it is speeding up its plans to diversify its manufacturing base away from China. Trump imposed a 145% tariff on most Chinese-made products.\n\nCompany executives told analysts on a conference call that China currently accounts for 40% of Mattel's global production. The company plans to move roughly 500 products this year from manufacturers in China to sources in other countries, compared to 280 products last year.\n\nFor some highly sought after toys, Mattel said it would enlist factories in more than one country. To prevent possible shortages, the company said it was focusing on getting products to stores without interruptions.\n\nThe company said that even with price increases it expects 40% to 50% of its toys will cost customers $20 or less.\n\n\"The diversified and flexible supply chain in global commercial organizations are clear advantages to Mattel in this period of uncertainty,\" CEO and Chairman Ynon Kreiz told analysts.\n\nCiting the ongoing uncertainty surrounding the president's trade policies, however, Mattel withdrew its annual earnings forecast on Monday. The company said it would be \"difficult to predict\" consumer spending and the company's U.S. sales for the remainder of the year without more information.\n\nMattel reported larger-than expected first-quarter sales but also a wider loss. Mattel said sales rose 2% to $827 million for the quarter that ended March 31.\n\nThe company's loss expanded to $40.3 million, or 12 cents per share, in the quarter. That compares with a loss of $28.3 million, or 8 cents per share, in the year-ago period.\n\nAnalysts expected a loss of 10 cents on sales of $786.1 million for the first quarter, according to FactSet.\n\nMattel's shares were down less than 1% in after markets trading."
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"value": "# How Putin uses the USSR's victory in World War II to rally support for him and the war in Ukraine\n\nBy The Associated Press \nMay 8th, 2025 04:07 AM\n\n---\n\nHardly any other country marks the end of World War II with the same fanfare and fervor as Russia, for which the victory over Nazi Germany 80 years ago remains a source of immense pride and a defining moment of history.\n\nVictory Day, celebrated on May 9, is Russia's most important secular holiday, reflecting its wartime sacrifice. But it's also used by the Kremlin to bolster patriotism and regain the superpower prestige it lost when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991.\n\nPresident Vladimir Putin, who has ruled Russia for 25 of those 80 years, has turned Victory Day into a key pillar of his tenure and has tried to use it to justify his 3-year-old invasion of Ukraine.\n\nHe has also sought to underline the failure of Western efforts to isolate Moscow by inviting Chinese President Xi Jinping and other leaders to the festivities, which this year have been overshadowed by reports of Ukrainian drone attacks targeting Moscow and severe disruptions at the capital's airports, as well as cellphone internet outages on Wednesday.\n\nA look at why Victory Day is so important for Russia and Putin:\n\n## The Soviet sacrifice of World War II\n\nThe Soviet Union lost a staggering 27 million people in what it calls the Great Patriotic War from 1941-45. That sacrifice left a deep scar in the national psyche.\n\nNazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, and quickly overran the western part of the country. They got as close as 30 kilometers (under 19 miles) from Moscow by October of that year, but the Red Army rebounded and routed the invaders.\n\nSoviet troops dealt crushing defeats to Germany in 1943 in Stalingrad and Kursk. and then drove the Nazi forces back across the western Soviet Union all the way to Berlin.\n\nPutin has noted that every seventh Soviet citizen was killed, while the United Kingdom lost one out of every 127 and the United States one out of 320.\n\n\"The Soviet Union and the Red Army, no matter what anyone is trying to prove today, made the main and crucial contribution to the defeat of Nazism,\" Putin wrote in 2020.\n\n## A Putin family story from World War II\n\nPutin is deeply emotional to the history of World War II, saying \"we will always remember the high price the Soviet people paid for the victory.\"\n\nHe often invokes stories from his parents, Vladimir and Maria, in the war, and the death of his 2-year-old brother, Viktor, known as \"Vitya,\" during the 2 1/2-year Nazi siege of his home of Leningrad, now called St. Petersburg.\n\n\"It was the place where my mother miraculously managed to survive,\" Putin wrote. \"My father, despite being exempt from active duty, volunteered to defend his hometown.\"\n\nHe also recalled in a magazine article how his father talked about a scouting mission behind Nazi lines when his comrades were killed and he survived by hiding in a swamp and breathing through a reed while German soldiers walked a few steps away.\n\nPutin's father was badly wounded. After leaving the hospital, he walked home on crutches to see morgue workers taking his wife's body away for burial.\n\n\"He came up to her and it seemed to him that she was breathing, and he said to the orderlies, 'She's still alive!'\" Putin's father recounted to his son.\n\nThe morgue workers replied, \"She'll die on the way, she won't survive.\" But Putin said his father pushed them away with crutches and forced them to carry her back to their apartment.\n\n## World War II's role in Kremlin policies\n\nPutin's emphasis on World War II history reflects not only his desire to showcase Russia's military might but also his effort to rally the country behind his agenda.\n\nWorld War II is a rare event in the nation's divisive history under Communist rule that is revered by all political groups, and the Kremlin has used that sentiment to encourage national pride and underline Russia's position as a global power.\n\nVictory Day parades are a massive show of its armed forces, with thousands of troops and scores of heavy equipment, including mobile launchers carrying nuclear-capable intercontinental ballistic missiles, rolling across Red Square, and flyovers of dozens of warplanes. Military parades, fireworks and other festivities are held in cities across the country.\n\nAuthorities also encourage May 9 demonstrations featuring what is known as the \"Immortal Regiment,\" in which people carry photos of relatives who fought in World War II. Putin joined those rallies for several years, carrying a picture of his father.\n\n## Using World War II to justify the invasion of Ukraine\n\nWhen Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, Putin declared it was aimed at the \"demilitarization\" and \"denazification\" of its neighbor, falsely alleging that neo-Nazi groups were shaping Ukraine's politics under President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who is Jewish. The claims were vehemently dismissed by Kyiv and its Western allies.\n\nPutin tried to cast Ukraine's veneration of some of its nationalist leaders who cooperated with the Nazis in World War II as a sign of Kyiv's purported Nazi sympathies. He regularly made references to Ukrainian nationalist figures such as Stepan Bandera, who was killed by a Soviet spy in Munich in 1959, as an underlying justification for the Russian military action in Ukraine.\n\n\"The Kremlin has mixed those issues and used the victory over Nazi Germany as a foundation for building anti-Ukrainian narratives,\" said political analyst Nikolai Petrov. \"In Putin's mind and in the Kremlin's plans, the victory over Nazis rhymes with the victory over the Ukrainian neo-Nazism as they put it.\""
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"value": "# How Putin uses the USSR's victory in World War II to rally support for him and the war in Ukraine\n\nBy The Associated Press \nMay 8th, 2025 04:07 AM\n\n---\n\nHardly any other country marks the end of World War II with the same fanfare and fervor as Russia, for which the victory over Nazi Germany 80 years ago remains a source of immense pride and a defining moment of history.\n\nVictory Day, celebrated on May 9, is Russia's most important secular holiday, reflecting its wartime sacrifice. But it's also used by the Kremlin to bolster patriotism and regain the superpower prestige it lost when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991.\n\nPresident Vladimir Putin, who has ruled Russia for 25 of those 80 years, has turned Victory Day into a key pillar of his tenure and has tried to use it to justify his 3-year-old invasion of Ukraine.\n\nHe has also sought to underline the failure of Western efforts to isolate Moscow by inviting Chinese President Xi Jinping and other leaders to the festivities, which this year have been overshadowed by reports of Ukrainian drone attacks targeting Moscow and severe disruptions at the capital's airports, as well as cellphone internet outages on Wednesday.\n\nA look at why Victory Day is so important for Russia and Putin:\n\n## The Soviet sacrifice of World War II\n\nThe Soviet Union lost a staggering 27 million people in what it calls the Great Patriotic War from 1941-45. That sacrifice left a deep scar in the national psyche.\n\nNazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, and quickly overran the western part of the country. They got as close as 30 kilometers (under 19 miles) from Moscow by October of that year, but the Red Army rebounded and routed the invaders.\n\nSoviet troops dealt crushing defeats to Germany in 1943 in Stalingrad and Kursk. and then drove the Nazi forces back across the western Soviet Union all the way to Berlin.\n\nPutin has noted that every seventh Soviet citizen was killed, while the United Kingdom lost one out of every 127 and the United States one out of 320.\n\n\"The Soviet Union and the Red Army, no matter what anyone is trying to prove today, made the main and crucial contribution to the defeat of Nazism,\" Putin wrote in 2020.\n\n## A Putin family story from World War II\n\nPutin is deeply emotional to the history of World War II, saying \"we will always remember the high price the Soviet people paid for the victory.\"\n\nHe often invokes stories from his parents, Vladimir and Maria, in the war, and the death of his 2-year-old brother, Viktor, known as \"Vitya,\" during the 2 1/2-year Nazi siege of his home of Leningrad, now called St. Petersburg.\n\n\"It was the place where my mother miraculously managed to survive,\" Putin wrote. \"My father, despite being exempt from active duty, volunteered to defend his hometown.\"\n\nHe also recalled in a magazine article how his father talked about a scouting mission behind Nazi lines when his comrades were killed and he survived by hiding in a swamp and breathing through a reed while German soldiers walked a few steps away.\n\nPutin's father was badly wounded. After leaving the hospital, he walked home on crutches to see morgue workers taking his wife's body away for burial.\n\n\"He came up to her and it seemed to him that she was breathing, and he said to the orderlies, 'She's still alive!'\" Putin's father recounted to his son.\n\nThe morgue workers replied, \"She'll die on the way, she won't survive.\" But Putin said his father pushed them away with crutches and forced them to carry her back to their apartment.\n\n## World War II's role in Kremlin policies\n\nPutin's emphasis on World War II history reflects not only his desire to showcase Russia's military might but also his effort to rally the country behind his agenda.\n\nWorld War II is a rare event in the nation's divisive history under Communist rule that is revered by all political groups, and the Kremlin has used that sentiment to encourage national pride and underline Russia's position as a global power.\n\nVictory Day parades are a massive show of its armed forces, with thousands of troops and scores of heavy equipment, including mobile launchers carrying nuclear-capable intercontinental ballistic missiles, rolling across Red Square, and flyovers of dozens of warplanes. Military parades, fireworks and other festivities are held in cities across the country.\n\nAuthorities also encourage May 9 demonstrations featuring what is known as the \"Immortal Regiment,\" in which people carry photos of relatives who fought in World War II. Putin joined those rallies for several years, carrying a picture of his father.\n\n## Using World War II to justify the invasion of Ukraine\n\nWhen Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, Putin declared it was aimed at the \"demilitarization\" and \"denazification\" of its neighbor, falsely alleging that neo-Nazi groups were shaping Ukraine's politics under President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who is Jewish. The claims were vehemently dismissed by Kyiv and its Western allies.\n\nPutin tried to cast Ukraine's veneration of some of its nationalist leaders who cooperated with the Nazis in World War II as a sign of Kyiv's purported Nazi sympathies. He regularly made references to Ukrainian nationalist figures such as Stepan Bandera, who was killed by a Soviet spy in Munich in 1959, as an underlying justification for the Russian military action in Ukraine.\n\n\"The Kremlin has mixed those issues and used the victory over Nazi Germany as a foundation for building anti-Ukrainian narratives,\" said political analyst Nikolai Petrov. \"In Putin's mind and in the Kremlin's plans, the victory over Nazis rhymes with the victory over the Ukrainian neo-Nazism as they put it.\""
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