{"prompt_hash": "ca3acfbd13147423f4dc58efbbe37dee81143eb06d6457f1669004193fd2d7d3", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-14 03:06:15+00:00", "topics": ["Nico Hoerner", "Chicago Cubs", "Miami Marlins", "Javier Sanoja", "Connor Norby", "Baseball", "MLB", "Carson Kelly", "Justin Turner", "MLB baseball", "Jesus Tinoco", "Kyle Stowers", "Sports", "Pete Crow-Armstrong", "Chris Flexen", "Ryan Weather", "Jesus Sanchez"], "text": "# Hoerner, Turner deliver run-scoring hits in the 9th inning to rally Cubs past Marlins 5-4\n\nBy Gavin Dorsey  \nMay 14th, 2025 03:06 AM\n\n---\n\nCHICAGO (AP) \u2014 Nico Hoerner had an RBI single and Justin Turner followed with a two-run double, all in the ninth inning, as the Chicago Cubs rallied to beat the Miami Marlins 5-4 on Tuesday night.\n\nKyle Stowers hit a solo homer in the second and Connor Norby went deep in the seventh for the Marlins. Javier Sanoja knocked in a run with a ground out and Jesus Sanchez added an RBI single for Miami, which carried a 4-2 lead into the bottom of the ninth.\n\nChicago's comeback started when Hoerner hit a line drive to center that cut the deficit to one run. Two pitches later, pinch-hitter Turner doubled into the left field corner, scoring Vidal Bruj\u00e1n and Hoerner.\n\nPete Crow-Armstrong and Carson Kelly each had two hits for Chicago. Crow-Armstrong hit his 11th homer in the third inning.\n\nChris Flexen (1-0) allowed one hit over the final two innings and earned his first victory.\n\nMiami's Jesus Tinoco (2-1) blew the save opportunity, allowing two hits, three runs \u2014 two earned \u2014 and a walk while recording just one out in the ninth.\n\n## Key moment\n\nTurner's line-drive two-RBI double into left field for the walk-off win.\n\n## Key stat\n\nThe Cubs struggled with runners in scoring position before taking advantage in the ninth inning. Chicago was 0 for 4 in the first eight innings, but 2 for 2 with runners on second or third in the ninth.\n\n## Up next\n\nThe Marlins will send LHP Ryan Weather (0-0) against Chicago RHP Jameson Taillon (2-2, 4.53) in the series final on Wednesday night."}
{"prompt_hash": "5b7727f885ed211776088760ae743c880dd72f70b12bb2ad7c7ad8bc8433181c", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-14 02:46:01+00:00", "topics": ["Colorado Rockies", "Texas Rangers", "Jack Leiter", "Bud Black", "Baseball", "MLB", "Wyatt Langford", "Hunter Goodman", "Sports", "Luke Jackson", "Shawn Armstrong", "Kyle Freeland", "MLB baseball", "Warren Schaeffer", "Sam Haggerty", "Patrick Corbin", "Josh Jung", "Chris Martin"], "text": "# Jung's 2 homers back Leiter's solid start as Rangers beat struggling Rockies 4-1\n\nMay 14th, 2025 02:46 AM\n\n---\n\nARLINGTON, Texas (AP) \u2014 Josh Jung hit a first-inning three-run home run and an eighth-inning solo shot while Jack Leiter allowed only one run on two singles over a career-high six innings as the Texas Rangers beat the struggling Colorado Rockies 4-1 on Tuesday night.\n\nJung's first homer followed singles by Sam Haggerty and Wyatt Langford for the Rangers (22-21), who have won four consecutive games to move above .500 for the first time since April 30. His second homer gave him his fifth career multihomer game and was his third homer in three games.\n\nLeiter (3-2) didn't allow a hit after two of the first four Rockies singled, Hunter Goodman scoring Jordan Beck. He won for the first time since April 2.\n\nShawn Armstrong earned his first save of the season following Chris Martin, who left with elbow tightness after allowing a first-pitch single in the ninth.\n\nLuke Jackson, Texas' closer, was unavailable after his pitching hand was struck by a comeback liner Monday.\n\nKyle Freeland (0-6) gave up three runs on his first five pitches for the Rockies (7-35), who have the worst record through 42 games of the divisional era (beginning in 1961). They've lost their first two games under interim manager Warren Schaeffer, who took over Sunday evening following the firing of Bud Black.\n\nColorado's 2-19 road record matches four other clubs as the worst through 21 games during the modern era (since 1900).\n\n## Key moment\n\nArmstrong, Texas' third pitcher in the ninth, entered with runners on the corners and none out. He struck out the next three batters \u2014 all looking.\n\n## Key stat\n\nJung gave Leiter three runs' backing just three batters in after Leiter received no run support in his previous two starts.\n\n## Up next\n\nWednesday's series finale will match Rockies RHP Antonio Senzatela (1-6, 5.77 ERA) against Rangers LHP Patrick Corbin (2-2, 3.13)."}
{"prompt_hash": "2ad979ba39f0a5ccce08c5a8dcd6d0ac5bc2a7e6b9928912784d35f2668d5a72", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 22:35:04+00:00", "topics": ["Willie Eugene Sims", "San Jose", "California", "Jeanette Allen Ralston", "Crime", "Homicide", "Ohio", "Jeff Rosen", "Lara Wallman", "William Weigel", "Law enforcement", "Allen Ralston"], "text": "# Thumbprint on cigarette carton leads to arrest in 1977 death of young woman\n\nMay 13th, 2025 10:35 PM\n\n---\n\nSAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Nearly half a century after a young California woman was strangled to death, officials say a thumbprint on a carton of cigarettes has led to an arrest.\n\nWillie Eugene Sims was arrested in Jefferson, Ohio, in connection with the death of Jeanette Ralston, according to a Friday statement from the Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office.\n\nSims, 69, has been charged with murder and was arraigned on Friday in Ashtabula County Court before being sent to California.\n\nRalston was found dead in the back seat of her Volkswagen Beetle on Feb. 1, 1977, in San Jose, according to the Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office. Her body was found in the carport area of an apartment complex near the bar where friends say she was last seen.\n\nShe had been strangled with a long-sleeve dress shirt, and evidence appeared to show she was sexually assaulted, according to prosecutors. Her car showed signs of having been unsuccessfully set on fire.\n\nHer friends said at the time that they saw her leave the bar with an unknown man the evening before, saying she would be back in 10 minutes, but she never returned. Police interviewed the friends and other witnesses and created a suspect sketch. But the investigation went cold.\n\nA thumbprint found on Ralston's cigarette carton in her car was found to match Sims last fall after law enforcement had asked to run the print through the FBI's updated system, prosecutors said.\n\nEarlier this year, officials from the District Attorney's office and San Jose police went to Ohio to collect DNA from Sims. Prosecutors say it matched the DNA found on Ralston's fingernails and the shirt used to strangle her.\n\n\"Every day, forensic science grows better, and every day criminals are closer to being caught,\" District Attorney Jeff Rosen said in a statement. \"Cases may grow old and be forgotten by the public. We don't forget and we don't give up.\"\n\nWilliam Weigel, homicide team supervisor for the Santa Clara county public defender's office, confirmed Monday that Lara Wallman had been assigned the case. He said their office can't comment on the evidence yet because they haven't seen it but cautioned the public from jumping to conclusions.\n\n\"It is kind of important that we let the system play itself out and allow our side to conduct our own independent review and investigation of the case before we rush to judgment as it were,\" he said.\n\nBack in 1977, Sims was an army private assigned to a facility about 68 miles (109 kilometers) south of San Jose, prosecutors said.\n\nThe year after Ralston's death, a jury in a separate case convicted Sims of an assault to commit murder in Monterey County and sentenced him to four years in prison, court records show.\n\nRalston's son, Allen Ralston, was 6 when she died. He told WOIO-TV that he is grateful and relieved an arrest was finally made.\n\n\"I'm just glad that somebody cared,\" he said about the case."}
{"prompt_hash": "652f174dce50c03cfd3ad6b1dc35d6954c1f3ba2a5442cc991aab0d302aad8d4", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-14 01:26:17+00:00", "topics": ["South Australia", "Rohan Dennis", "Melissa Hoskins", "2024 Paris Olympic Games", "Cycling", "Indictments", "Amanda Hoskins", "Law enforcement", "Jane Abbey", "Sports", "Legal proceedings"], "text": "# Former Olympic cyclist Rohan Dennis receives suspended sentence over wife's death\n\nMay 14th, 2025 01:26 AM\n\n---\n\nADELAIDE, Australia (AP) \u2014 Former Olympic cyclist and world champion Rohan Dennis received a suspended sentence on Wednesday over what was termed a \"tragic accident\" that led to the death of his wife, fellow Olympian Melissa Hoskins.\n\nThe 34-year-old Dennis appeared in South Australia District Court after earlier pleading guilty to a charge of committing an aggravated act likely to cause harm.\n\nDennis was arrested after Hoskins, 32, was struck by his vehicle in front of their home at Medindie in Adelaide's north on Dec. 30, 2023. Hoskins suffered serious injuries in the crash and died at Royal Adelaide Hospital.\n\nThe court was told that the couple had argued over kitchen renovations before Dennis left their home and drove away. The court also heard that Hoskins had jumped onto the hood of the car during the incident.\n\nDennis on Wednesday was sentenced to one year, four months and 28 days in jail, to be suspended for two years. The sentence was reduced from two years and two months because of his guilty plea and he's been placed on a two-year good behavior bond.\n\nHis licence was also suspended for five years.\n\n\"I accept you have a sense of responsibility for all that occurred, I accept you have anguished over what could have been different if you had acted in some other way,\" Judge Ian Press said Wednesday.\n\nDennis showed little emotion when Press sentenced him.\n\n\"Given your plea of guilty, your remorse, that you are the sole carer for your young children, and given all your other personal circumstances and the circumstances of the offending, I am satisfied that good reason exists to suspend that sentence,\" the judge said.\n\nThe offense carried a maximum sentence of seven years in jail but lawyer Jane Abbey asked that her client receive a suspended sentence, which was not opposed by the prosecution.\n\nDuring sentencing submissions in in April, Amanda Hoskins said her daughter had loved Dennis \"and I know that you would never intentionally hurt her.\"\n\n\"I believe this is a tragic accident. Your temper is your downfall and needs to be addressed,\" she said.\n\nHoskins' funeral was held in her home city of Perth, Western Australia and a public memorial service was held in Adelaide in February 2024. Dennis attended the service with their two children.\n\nHoskins competed at the 2012 and 2016 Olympics on the track in the team pursuit and was in the squad that won the 2015 world title. Dennis won two world titles in the road time trial, as well as silver in the team pursuit at the 2012 Olympics and bronze in the road time trial at the Tokyo Olympics."}
{"prompt_hash": "8f83f075be41ce05a3ab61835377eef9d86eb6ac225ced1ae3ddece5ffad874d", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 21:07:27+00:00", "topics": ["Missouri", "Kansas City", "Mary Elizabeth Coleman", "Mike Kehoe", "Missouri Tigers", "Legislation", "DC Wire", "Sports", "Politics", "NFL football", "John Sherman", "Stocks and bonds", "Chris Brown"], "text": "# Missouri House backs new stadium aid for Chiefs and Royals\n\nBy David A. Lieb  \nMay 13th, 2025 09:07 PM\n\n---\n\nJEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) \u2014 The Missouri House on Tuesday endorsed a new framework of financial incentives to try to keep the Kansas City Chiefs and Royals from possibly leaving the state by helping fund new or renovated stadiums for them.\n\nThe legislation, which has the backing of Republican Gov. Mike Kehoe, would authorize the state to issue bonds valued at up to half the cost of the stadium projects and allow tax credits of up to $50 million. But the plan doesn't list a total cost or a location for the stadiums, leaving those details to be negotiated later.\n\nMissouri lawmakers are scrambling to try to counter an offer from neighboring Kansas, which authorized its own package of incentives last year after voters in Jackson County, Missouri, turned down a sales tax extension that would have helped finance a $2 billion ballpark district for the Royals in downtown Kansas City and an $800 million renovation of the Chiefs' Arrowhead Stadium.\n\nThe clock is ticking for Missouri lawmakers. The state Senate would still need to approve the plan before a Friday deadline to wrap up work in the annual legislative session.\n\nBut the legislation encountered immediate resistance when it was brought up later Tuesday in Senate. Republican state Sen. Mary Elizabeth Coleman denounced it as \"special interests for billionaires\" and foreshadowed a lengthy debate that ended without a vote Tuesday night.\n\nThe Chiefs and Royals have played for more than 50 years in side-by-side football and baseball stadiums built in eastern Kansas City, drawing fans from both states in the split metropolitan area. Their stadium leases run until 2031, but Royals owner John Sherman has said the team won't play at Kauffman Stadium beyond the 2030 season.\n\nKansas amended its laws last year to allow bonds that would cover up to 70% of the costs of new stadiums for the Chiefs and Royals.\n\nMaterials distributed Tuesday by the Missouri governor's office said, \"Kansas is aggressively negotiating with both teams.\" Some lawmakers said they felt pressure to act now or potentially miss their chance to retain teams that generate thousands of jobs and millions of dollars of tax revenue annually.\n\n\"I can't imagine the economic landscape without the Chiefs and the Royals in Missouri,\" said Republican state Rep. Chris Brown, of Kansas City, who presented the plan to colleagues. But more than that, \"the Chiefs and the Royals literally are a part of us to some degree, they are a fabric woven within the state of Missouri.\"\n\nA provision in Missouri's legislation would require team owners to repay the state if they relocate to another state before the end of the financing agreement.\n\nMissouri has experience with losing professional sports teams. The National Football League's Rams were the most recent to depart, leaving a publicly financed domed stadium that had lured the team to St. Louis to return to a gleaming new stadium in Los Angeles that opened in 2020.\n\nBut many economists contend that public funding for stadiums isn't worth it, because sports tend to divert discretionary spending away from other forms of entertainment rather than generate new income.\n\nState Rep. Del Taylor, a Democrat from St. Louis, denounced \"fearmongering\" suggestions that the Chiefs and Royals might also leave, calling it \"unfair\" and \"conniving\" to come to lawmakers with a plan so late in the session.\n\n\"I don't like making decisions because someone has put my back against the wall,\" Taylor said.\n\nKehoe has been working for months with team representatives, lawmakers and community leaders to develop \"a competitive package\" for the Chiefs and Royals, said Gabby Picard, a spokesperson for the governor. The state aid ultimately also must be accompanied by local support.\n\n\"Choosing a location is a business decision that must be made by the teams, and any proposed tools put forward by the state will work in whatever Missouri location they select,\" she said.\n\nSports teams have been pushing a new wave of stadium construction across the U.S., going beyond basic repairs to derive fresh revenue from luxury suites, dining, shopping and other developments surrounding their stadiums.\n\nThe Washington Commanders and the District of Columbia announced a deal two weeks ago for a new stadium complex, with the football team contributing $2.7 billion and the city investing roughly $1.1 billion. Last month, the Ohio House endorsed a plan for $600 million of bonds to help build a new $2.4 billion football stadium complex for the Cleveland Browns. But that plan also must pass the Senate and has led the Cincinnati Bengals to re-up a request for $350 million of aid for their own stadium."}
{"prompt_hash": "1f9bd511077e4ea934e8c55b7082e555f6f2a73e784b9c6c25b6f9d5d9088f7f", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 23:48:17+00:00", "topics": ["Ian Happ", "Moises Ballesteros", "New York Mets", "Baseball", "Chicago", "MLB", "Illinois", "Sports", "MLB baseball", "Sports transactions"], "text": "# Cubs put Ian Happ on IL with oblique strain and call up prospect Moises Ballesteros\n\nMay 13th, 2025 11:48 PM\n\n---\n\nCHICAGO (AP) \u2014 One of the Cubs' best hitters this season is heading to the injured list.\n\nChicago announced before Tuesday night's game against Miami that outfielder Ian Happ has been placed on the 10-day IL with a left oblique strain. In a corresponding move, the Cubs selected the contract of catcher Moises Ballesteros from Triple-A Iowa.\n\nHapp suffered the injury on May 9 against the New York Mets and has missed the last three games. The 30-year-old is hitting .269 on the season, his best since he was an All-Star in 2022, and has three homers. Happ's designation is retroactive to May 10.\n\nThe 21-year-old Ballesteros is the Cubs' No. 4-ranked prospect. The Venezuelan signed with Chicago as an international free agent in 2021 and made his major league debut against the Marlins, going 0 for 4 as the designated hitter in the Cubs' 5-4 win.\n\nIn five seasons in the Cubs' farm system, Ballesteros is batting .288 in 386 games. He's hitting. 368 with four homers in 34 games for Triple-A Iowa this season."}
{"prompt_hash": "e46b7128fb9fa7b7f4a0da4b814f17dda23baf60b9677c2df2e7fc7dbb993aa0", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-14 00:49:14+00:00", "topics": ["Megan Thee Stallion", "Crime", "Tory Lanez", "Prisons", "Legal proceedings", "Kylie Jenner", "Santino Casio", "Homicide", "California", "Los Angeles", "Assault", "Criminal punishment", "Entertainment", "Pedro Calderon Michel", "Sexual assault"], "text": "# Rapper Tory Lanez's alleged prison attacker is man with previous conviction for assault on inmate\n\nBy Andrew Dalton  \nMay 14th, 2025 12:49 AM\n\n---\n\nLOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 Authorities said Tuesday that a man who attacked rapper Tory Lanez in a California prison is an inmate serving a life sentence for second-degree murder who was previously convicted for an in-prison assault with a deadly weapon.\n\nLanez was in fair condition a day after the attack in a housing unit at the California Correctional Institution in Tehachapi, where he's serving a 10-year sentence for shooting hip-hop star Megan Thee Stallion in the feet, Pedro Calderon Michel, spokesman for the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, said in an email.\n\nAuthorities did not specify how Lanez was attacked, but a message posted on the rapper's Instagram account Monday evening said Lanez was stabbed 14 times and both his lungs collapsed.\n\nPrison officials identified the alleged attacker as Santino Casio, 42. He has been put in restricted housing pending an investigation by the prison and the Kern County District Attorney's Office.\n\nCasio has been in the facility since 2004, after he was sentenced to life, with parole possible, for convictions of second-degree murder and first-degree attempted murder. In 2008, he was sentenced to six more years for assault by a prisoner with a deadly weapon, and in 2018 he was sentenced to two more years for possession and manufacture of a deadly weapon by a prisoner.\n\nAn email seeking comment sent to an attorney who previously represented Casio was not immediately answered.\n\nThe prison is about 100 miles (160 kilometers) north of Los Angeles in the mountains of the Mojave Desert and houses about 1,700 medium- and maximum-security inmates.\n\nIn December 2022, Lanez was convicted of three felonies: assault with a semiautomatic firearm; having a loaded, unregistered firearm in a vehicle and discharging a firearm with gross negligence.\n\nMegan, whose legal name is Megan Pete, testified during the trial that in July 2020, after they left a party at Kylie Jenner's Hollywood Hills home, Lanez fired the gun at the back of her feet and shouted for her to dance as she walked away from an SUV in which they had been riding.\n\nShe had bullet fragments in both feet that had to be surgically removed. It wasn't until months after the incident that she publicly identified Lanez as the person who had fired the gun.\n\nA judge rejected a motion for a new trial from Lanez's lawyers, who are appealing his conviction. They had no immediate comment after the attack.\n\nMegan recently alleged that Lanez was harassing her from prison through surrogates, and in January a judge issued a protective order through 2030 ordering him to stop any such harassment or any other contact.\n\nThe 32-year-old Canadian Lanez began releasing mixtapes in 2009 and saw a steady rise in popularity, moving on to major label albums, two of which reached the top 10 on Billboard's charts.\n\nThe Monday Instagram post on Lanez's status said he was \"talking normally, in good spirits, and deeply thankful to God that he is pulling through.\""}
{"prompt_hash": "dee7a0739dddf6fdb43577ec84181b7f5c3abd0147a35906372243818284f914", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 23:25:54+00:00", "topics": ["Pete Rose", "Rob Manfred", "Baseball", "Aaron Boone", "Bruce Bochy", "MLB", "Marcus Giamatti", "Cincinnati Reds", "Sports", "Bob Castellini", "Mike Schmidt", "MLB baseball", "Bart Giamatti", "Charlie Hustle", "Bud Selig", "Texas Rangers", "Philadelphia Phillies", "Gary Sheffield Jr.", "New York Yankees", "John Rocker"], "text": "# Reaction to Pete Rose being reinstated by baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred\n\nBy The Associated Press  \nMay 13th, 2025 11:25 PM\n\n---\n\nReaction to Pete Rose being reinstated along with Shoeless Joe Jackson by baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred on Tuesday, making them eligible for the Hall of Fame:\n\n___\n\n\"The Veterans Committee, that's their decision and I think that's fair. Nobody played the game harder. Nobody. He was all-out, full throttle. That was Pete. Charlie Hustle \u2014 that's how you get that name. Switch-hitter, amazing player. He was just a complete ballplayer. He played all over the field - outfield, infield. First base, third base. He was a winner. His team won. And I think that's a credit to him, how he played, how he set the tone. Amazing player.\" \u2014- Texas Rangers manager Bruce Bochy.\n\n___\n\n\"It's a great day for baseball as Commissioner Manfred has reinstated Pete Rose, making him eligible for the National Baseball Hall of Fame. The ongoing question of whether Pete Rose should or shouldn't in the Hall will be answered by a secret panel in the next Classic Baseball Era Committee. Congratulations to Pete's family, his teammates, as well as his supporters who have waited many years for this opportunity for consideration.\" \u2014- Philadelphia Phillies Hall of Fame third baseman Mike Schmidt.\n\n___\n\n\"I've always maintained I think he should have been in the Hall of Fame a long time ago. Again, not discounting what went on and how serious that I think that is, and maybe how that should have affected being with the club and all those things. But when it came to the Hall of Fame, it felt pretty simple to me that he always should have been in there.\" \u2014 New York Yankees manager Aaron Boone.\n\n___\n\n\"I understand and respect Commissioner Rob Manfred's decision regarding the removal of Pete Rose and 16 other deceased individuals from the ineligible list. Given my affection for my friend, the late Bart Giamatti, MLB's seventh Commissioner who disciplined Mr. Rose for gambling on his own team all those years ago, I believe Bart would understand and respect the decision as well.\" -- former MLB Commissioner Bud Selig.\n\n___\n\n\"That just because someone is dead dies not at all change the facts nor the behavior. Permanent means permanent. I am incredibly disappointed in the Commissioner's decision. I am also disappointed that my family was not consulted prior to this decision. The Commissioner's decision makes this a very dark day for baseball, the country and the fans. My father's mission by banning Rose was to uphold the integrity of the game. Therefore, reinstating Rose in this manner puts that integrity, Rule 21 and everything that my father fought to uphold in peril. My father believed that no one person is above the game, and were he here today, he would maintain that the institution of baseball must stand up to outside influences, political influences, and influences that are not in the best interest of baseball. Without integrity, the game of baseball will cease to exist. Without integrity, how will fans ever trust the purity of the game itself ever again? A purity built on the principle of fair play. Baseball is woven into the genetic and generational code of so many communities across this county, making it an integral part of the American experience. \u2014 Marcus Giamatti, son of former baseball Commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti, who signed a permanent ban agreement with Rose in 1989.\n\n___\n\n\"On behalf of the Reds and our generations of loyal fans, we are thankful for the decision of Commissioner Manfred and Major League Baseball regarding the removal of Pete Rose from the permanently ineligible list. Pete is one of the greatest players in baseball and Reds Country will continue to celebrate him as we always have. We are especially happy for the Rose family to receiver this news and what this could mean for them and all of Pete's fans.\" \u2014- Cincinnati Reds principal owner and managing partner Bob Castellini.\n\n___\n\n\"Absolutely pathetic they waited for Pete Rose to pass away before giving him his day in the sun. Reprehensible.\" former big league outfielder Gary Sheffield Jr.\n\n___\n\n\"Pete Rose deserved to see his name in the Hall of Fame.\" \u2014 former big league pitcher John Rocker."}
{"prompt_hash": "33fee623d038ac02114d0757e1ffa80b74add0921004ece35f1179954531c221", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 20:07:42+00:00", "topics": ["Pete Rose", "Donald Trump", "Baseball", "Cincinnati Reds", "Rob Manfred", "Cincinnati", "Voting", "MLB", "New York City Wire", "Albert Pujols", "Jackson", "Marcus Giamatti", "Sports", "MLB baseball", "Ty Cobb", "Benny Kauff", "Yadier Molina", "Jeffrey Lenkov", "Philadelphia Phillies", "Joe Jackson", "San Francisco Giants", "Bud Selig", "Jane Forbes Clark", "Ray Liotta"], "text": "# MLB reinstates Pete Rose, Shoeless Joe Jackson\n\nBy Ronald Blum  \nMay 13th, 2025 08:07 PM\n\n---\n\nNEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Pete Rose and Shoeless Joe Jackson were reinstated by baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred on Tuesday, making both eligible for the sport's Hall of Fame after their careers were tarnished by gambling scandals.\n\nRose's permanent ban was lifted eight months after his death and came a day before the Cincinnati Reds will honor baseball's career hits leader with Pete Rose Night.\n\nManfred announced Tuesday he was changing the league's policy on permanent ineligibility, saying bans would expire at death. MLB said 17 individuals had their status changed by the decision, including all eight banned members of the 1919 Chicago Black Sox, former Philadelphia Phillies president Williams D. Cox and former New York Giants outfielder Benny Kauff.\n\nUnder the Hall of Fame's current rules, the earliest Rose or Jackson could be inducted would be in 2028.\n\nRose agreed with then-Commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti to a permanent ban on Aug. 23, 1989, following an investigation commissioned by Major League Baseball concluded Rose repeatedly bet on the Reds as a player and manager of the team from 1985-87, a violation of a long-standing MLB rule.\n\nRose first applied for reinstatement in September 1997, but Commissioner Bud Selig never ruled on the request. Manfred in 2015 rejected a petition for reinstatement, saying \"Rose has not presented credible evidence of a reconfigured life.\"\n\nRose died Sept. 30 at age 83, and a new petition was filed Jan. 8 by Jeffrey Lenkov, a lawyer who represented Rose. Lenkov and Rose's daughter Fawn had met with Manfred on Dec. 17.\n\nRose's supporters have included U.S. President Donald Trump, who has said he intends to pardon Rose posthumously. Manfred discussed Rose with Trump when the pair met in April, but he hasn't disclosed specifics of their conversation.\n\nIn a letter to Lenkov, Manfred wrote, \"In my view, a determination must be made regarding how the phrase 'permanently ineligible' should be interpreted in light of the purposes and policies behind Rule 21, which are to: (1) protect the game from individuals who pose a risk to the integrity of the sport by prohibiting the participation of such individuals; and (2) create a deterrent effect that reduces the likelihood of future violations by others.\n\n\"In my view, once an individual has passed away, the purposes of Rule 21 have been served.\"\n\nMarcus Giamatti, son of the former commissioner who signed the agreement banning Rose, said in a statement he was \"incredibly disappointed\" in Manfred's decision.\n\n\"I am also disappointed that my family was not consulted prior to this decision,\" he said. \"The Commissioner's decision makes this a very dark day for baseball, the country and the fans.\n\n\"My father's mission by banning Rose was to uphold the integrity of the game. Therefore, reinstating Rose in this manner puts that integrity, Rule 21 and everything that my father fought to uphold in peril.\"\n\nA 17-time All-Star during a playing career from 1963-86, Rose holds record for hits (4,256), games (3,562), at-bats (14,053), plate appearances (15,890) and singles (3,215). He was the 1963 NL Rookie of the Year, 1973 MVP and 1975 World Series MVP. A three-time NL batting champion, he broke the prior hits record of 4,191 set by Ty Cobb from 1905-28.\n\nJackson was a .356 career hitter who was among the eight Black Sox banned for throwing the 1919 World Series. He died in 1951, but he remains one of baseball's most recognizable names in part for his depiction by Ray Liotta in the 1989 movie Field of Dreams.\n\n## What else needs to happen for Rose or Jackson to reach the Hall of Fame?\n\nUnder a rule adopted by the Hall's board of directors in 1991, anyone on the permanently ineligible list can't be considered for election to the Hall. Jackson was twice considered on ballots by the Baseball Writers' Association of America, but received just 0.9% in 1936 and 1% of a nominating vote in 1940.\n\nRose's reinstatement occurred too late for him to be considered for the BBWAA ballot. If not on the permanently banned list, Rose would have been eligible on the ballots each from 1992 through 2006. He was written in on 41 votes in 1992 and on 243 of 7,232 ballots (3.4%) over the 15 years, votes that were not counted.\n\nWithout the ban, both players are eligible for the Hall's Classic Baseball Era, which next meets to consider players in December 2027 and considers those whose greatest contributions to the sport were before 1980.\n\nA 10-person historical overview committee selects eight ballot candidates with the approval of the Hall's board, and the ballot is considered by 16 members at the winter meetings, with a 75% or higher vote needed. The committee members include Hall of Fame members, team executives and media/historians.\n\nHall of Fame Chairman of the Board Jane Forbes Clark confirmed in a statement that players affected by Manfred's ruling Tuesday would be considered.\n\n\"The National Baseball Hall of Fame has always maintained that anyone removed from Baseball's permanently ineligible list will become eligible for Hall of Fame consideration,\" she said. \"Major League Baseball's decision to remove deceased individuals from the permanently ineligible list will allow for the Hall of Fame candidacy of such individuals to now be considered.\"\n\nAmong the players in the 2028 class eligible for the BBWAA ballot are Albert Pujols and Yadier Molina.\n\n## Did Trump help get Rose reinstated?\n\nTrump has said he would pardon Rose, but it's not clear what a presidential pardon for Rose would entail.\n\nRose entered guilty pleas on April 20, 1990, to two counts of filing false tax returns, admitting he failed to report $354,968 during a four-year period. Rose was sentenced on July 19, 1990, by U.S. District Judge S. Arthur Spiegel in Cincinnati to five months in prison. He also was fined $50,000 and ordered to perform 1,000 hours of community service as a gym teacher's assistant with inner-city youths in Cincinnati as part of a one-year probation period. The first three months of the probation were to be spent at the halfway house. Rose repaid the Internal Revenue Service $366,042."}
{"prompt_hash": "ceb17de380b864bc8d8e051c6199152c55577ffdc54323a5e6456302942d1c65", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-14 02:42:18+00:00", "topics": ["Vladimir Guerrero Jr.", "Toronto Blue Jays", "Tampa Bay Rays", "Coco Montes", "Chris Bassitt", "Jeff Hoffman", "Toronto", "Baseball", "MLB", "Sports", "Edwin Uceta", "Daulton Varsho", "Ryan Pepiot", "MLB baseball", "Jonathan Aranda", "Junior Caminero", "Travis Jankowski", "Bo Bichette", "Ernie Clement", "Danny Jansen"], "text": "# Junior Caminero's 9th-inning grand slam powers Rays to 11-9 win over Blue Jays\n\nMay 14th, 2025 02:42 AM\n\n---\n\nTORONTO (AP) \u2014 Junior Caminero hit a tiebreaking grand slam during a five-run ninth inning, Danny Jansen homered against his former team, and the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Toronto Blue Jays 11-9 on Tuesday night.\n\nDaulton Varsho homered twice for the Blue Jays, and his three-run shot in the eighth against Edwin Uceta (3-1) put Toronto ahead 7-6. After Chandler Simpson's RBI single and Caminero's 419-foot shot to the upper deck in left made it 11-7 in the ninth, the Rays survived run-scoring doubles by Bo Bichette and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. in the bottom half.\n\nMason Montgomery came in to get the final out, retiring Varsho on a flyball for his first save of the season.\n\nJeff Hoffman (3-2) gave up Caminero's eighth homer this season and blew his second save.\n\nJansen was drafted by Toronto in 2013 and played for the Blue Jays beginning in 2018 before being traded to the Red Sox last July. In August, he played for the Red Sox in the resumption of a suspended game from earlier in the season, becoming the first major leaguer to play for both teams in the same game. He signed a one-year deal with the Rays in the offseason.\n\nJonathan Aranda and Ernie Clement homered for Toronto, which had a four-game win streak snapped.\n\nRays designated hitter Yandy D\u00edaz was placed on the restricted list and will miss the series because of a passport issue. Infielder Coco Montes was called up from Triple-A Durham.\n\n## Key moment\n\nSimpson drove in Travis Jankowski with a bases-loaded single to tie the game and set up Caminero's grand slam.\n\n## Key stats\n\nThe Rays have won eight of their last nine away games. Jansen extended his career-best on-base streak to 18 games.\n\n## Up next\n\nRyan Pepiot (2-4, 3.86 ERA) pitches for the Rays on Wednesday against the Blue Jays' Chris Bassitt (3-2, 3.35)."}
{"prompt_hash": "6ebf2abb8dacc13d6f2d5a53c70d57d19d3d0bf1cd4e50ec814b7dbaaa91c5f9", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 22:56:27+00:00", "topics": ["Donald Trump", "Indictments", "Hannah Dugan", "Wisconsin", "Juries", "Immigration", "Courts", "United States government", "Kenneth Gales", "Eduardo Flores-Ruiz", "U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation"], "text": "# Wisconsin judge Hannah Dugan is indicted on accusations she helped a man evade immigration agents\n\nBy Todd Richmond  \nMay 13th, 2025 10:56 PM\n\n---\n\nMADISON, Wis. (AP) \u2014 A federal grand jury indicted a Wisconsin judge Tuesday on charges she helped a man in the country illegally evade U.S. immigration authorities looking to arrest him as he appeared before her in a local domestic abuse case.\n\nMilwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan's arrest and ensuing indictment has escalated a clash between President Donald Trump's administration and local authorities over the Republican's sweeping immigration crackdown. Democrats have accused the Trump administration of trying to make a national example of Dugan to chill judicial opposition to the crackdown.\n\nProsecutors charged Dugan in April via complaint with concealing an individual to prevent arrest and obstruction. In the federal criminal justice system, prosecutors can initiate charges against a defendant directly by filing a complaint or present evidence to a grand jury and let that body decide whether to issue charges.\n\nA grand jury still reviews charges brought by complaint to determine whether enough probable cause exists to continue the case as a check on prosecutors' power. If the grand jury determines there's probable cause, it issues a written statement of the charges known as an indictment. That's what happened in Dugan's case.\n\nDugan faces up to six years in prison if she's convicted on both counts. Her team of defense attorneys responded to the indictment with a one-sentence statement saying that she maintains her innocence and looks forward to being vindicated in court. She was scheduled to enter a plea on Thursday.\n\nKenneth Gales, a spokesperson for the U.S. attorney's office in Milwaukee, declined to comment on the indictment Tuesday evening.\n\nDugan's case is similar to one brought during the first Trump administration against a Massachusetts judge, who was accused of helping a man sneak out a courthouse back door to evade a waiting immigration enforcement agent. That case was eventually dismissed.\n\nProsecutors say Dugan escorted Eduardo Flores-Ruiz and his lawyer out of her courtroom through a back jury door on April 18 after learning that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were in the courthouse seeking his arrest.\n\nAccording to court documents, Flores-Ruiz illegally reentered the U.S. after being deported in 2013. Online state court records show he was charged with three counts of misdemeanor domestic abuse in Milwaukee County in March. He was in Dugan's courtroom that morning of April 18 for a hearing.\n\nCourt documents suggest Dugan was alerted to the agents' presence by her clerk, who was informed by an attorney that the agents appeared to be in the hallway. An affidavit says Dugan was visibly angry over the agents' arrival and called the situation \"absurd\" before leaving the bench and retreating to her chambers. She and another judge later approached members of the arrest team in the courthouse with what witnesses described as a \"confrontational, angry demeanor.\"\n\nAfter a back-and-forth with the agents over the warrant for Flores-Ruiz, Dugan demanded they speak with the chief judge and led them away from the courtroom, according to the affidavit.\n\nShe then returned to the courtroom and was heard saying words to the effect of \"wait, come with me\" and ushered Flores-Ruiz and his attorney out through a back jury door typically used only by deputies, jurors, court staff and in-custody defendants, according to the affidavit. Flores-Ruiz was free on a signature bond in the abuse case at the time, according to online state court records.\n\nFederal agents ultimately captured him outside the courthouse after a foot chase.\n\nThe state Supreme Court suspended Dugan from the bench in late April, saying the move was necessary to preserve public confidence in the judiciary. A reserve judge is filling in for her."}
{"prompt_hash": "18df2b730c1160781a0ed502e4b4b30d590b556d1b33b91503c4a627eeeb93e6", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 04:06:19+00:00", "topics": ["Legal proceedings", "Homicide", "Kitty Menendez", "California", "Los Angeles", "Courts", "Erik Menendez", "Juries", "California state government", "Nathan Hochman", "Criminal punishment", "George Gascn", "Michael Jesic", "Jose Menendez"], "text": "# A timeline of the Menendez brothers' double-murder case\n\nMay 13th, 2025 04:06 AM\n\n---\n\nLOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 Erik and Lyle Menendez will be eligible for parole after a judge on Tuesday reduced the brothers' sentences for murdering their parents from life without parole to 50 years to life.\n\nThe brothers were sentenced in 1996 to life in prison without the possibility of parole for murdering their father Jose Menendez and mother Kitty Menendez in their Beverly Hills home in 1989. Their case reached a major turning point last year when then- Los Angeles District Attorney George Gasc\u00f3n said he was reviewing new evidence in the case.\n\nThe brothers would still need approval from the state's parole board to get out of prison. They could potentially go free on time served after spending nearly 30 years in prison for the murders. The state parole board will ultimately rule on whether to release them from prison.\n\nHere's a look at their case over the last three decades:\n\n___\n\n## 1990s\n\nMarch 1990: Lyle Menendez, then 21, is arrested. A few days later, Erik Menendez, 18, turns himself in. They are charged with first-degree murder.\n\nJuly 1993: The Menendez brothers go on trial, each with a separate jury. Prosecutors argued that they killed their parents for financial gain. The brothers' attorneys don't dispute the pair killed their parents, but argued that they acted out of self-defense after years of emotional and sexual abuse by their father.\n\nJan. 1994: Both juries deadlock.\n\nOct. 1995: The brothers' retrial begins, this time with a single jury. Much of the defense evidence about alleged sexual abuse is excluded during the second trial.\n\nMarch 1996: Jurors convict both brothers of first-degree murder.\n\nJuly 1996: The brothers are sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.\n\nFebruary 1998: A California appeals court upholds the brothers' conviction, and three months later, the state Supreme Court agrees.\n\nOctober 1998: The brothers file habeas corpus petitions with the California Supreme Court. After they are denied the next year, they file petitions in federal district court, which are also denied.\n\nSeptember 2005: The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals denies their habeas corpus appeal.\n\n## 2023\n\nMay 3: Attorneys for the Menendez brothers ask the court to reconsider the convictions and life sentences in light of new evidence from a former member of the boy band Menudo, who said he was raped by Jose Menendez when he was 14. In addition, they submit a letter that Erik wrote to his cousin before the killings about his father's abuse.\n\n## 2024\n\nSep. 19: Netflix releases the crime drama \" Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, \" a nine-episode series about the killings.\n\nOct. 4: Gasc\u00f3n says his office is reviewing new evidence in the case.\n\nOct. 16: Multiple generations of family members of the Menendez brothers hold a news conference pleading for their release from prison. The relatives say the jurors who sentenced them to life without parole in 1996 were part of a society that was not ready to hear that boys could be raped.\n\nOct. 24: Prosecutors say they will petition the court to resentence the brothers, and that it could lead to their release.\n\nNov. 18: California Gov. Gavin Newsom says he would not decide on granting the brothers clemency until after the newly elected district attorney has a chance to review the case.\n\nNov. 25: A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge holds a hearing regarding the request for resentencing but says he needs more time to make a decision, delaying the resentencing hearings.\n\nDec. 3: Nathan Hochman is sworn into office as the new district attorney of LA County.\n\n## 2025\n\nFeb. 21: Hochman says his office will oppose a new trial for the Menendez brothers. He cast doubt on the evidence of sexual abuse. The following week, Newsom orders the state parole board to conduct a \"comprehensive risk assessment\" to determine whether the brothers have been rehabilitated and if they would pose a danger to the public if released.\n\nMarch 10: Hochman says his office won't support resentencing the brothers because they have repeatedly lied about why they killed their parents.\n\nApril 11: Judge denies prosecutors' request to withdraw their resentencing petition. The following week, resentencing hearings scheduled are delayed due to disputes among prosecutors and the brothers' lawyers, who say they will ask to remove Hochman's office from the case.\n\nMay 9: Hochman's office remains on the case as the judge again denies prosecutors' request to withdraw their resentencing petition.\n\nMay 13: Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Michael Jesic reduces the brothers' sentences from life without parole to 50 years to life. They are immediately eligible for parole because they committed the crime under the age of 26. The state parole board must still decide whether to release them from prison."}
{"prompt_hash": "12102c68c2e9be963f3d76a4cad6f21f4b22b13f43cf791dcfe2d9adc8cf6f14", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-14 02:38:02+00:00", "topics": ["Greg Weissert", "Boston Red Sox", "Alex Bregman", "Kristian Campbell", "Detroit Tigers", "Baseball", "MLB", "Sports", "Spencer Torkelson", "Boston", "Beau Brieske", "Rafael Devers", "MLB baseball", "Ceddanne Rafaela", "Jace Jung", "Javier Baez", "Tommy Kahnle"], "text": "# Javier Baez hits a pair of 3-run HRs, including one in 11th, to lift Tigers to 10-9 win over Red Sox\n\nBy Larry Lage  \nMay 14th, 2025 02:38 AM\n\n---\n\nDETROIT (AP) \u2014 Javier Baez hit his second go-ahead, three-run homer in the 11th inning for his first multi-homer game in Detroit, lifting the Tigers to a 10-9 win over the Boston Red Sox on Tuesday night.\n\nThe AL-leading Tigers were ahead in the first, third, fourth and sixth innings and lost the lead each time.\n\nAfter falling behind in each of the two extra innings, they came back to win a second straight game against Boston and 10th in 13 games.\n\nKristian Campbell hit a two-run homer in the 11th and Greg Weissert (1-1) failed to keep a two-run lead. He allowed Jace Jung to hit a leadoff single and Baez to turn on a no-doubt shot to left.\n\nBeau Brieske (1-1) picked up the win after giving up two runs \u2014 one earned \u2014 and one hit in the 11th.\n\nBoston went up by a run in the 10th on Ceddanne Rafaela's RBI groundout and Trey Sweeney's two-out single in the home half of the inning made it 7-all.\n\nBaez, who has revived his career this season after struggling the previous three seasons in Detroit, also had a three-run homer in the sixth.\n\nHamilton's two-run blast off Tommy Kahnle pulled the Red Sox into a 6-all tie in the eighth. Boston had a chance to take the lead later in the inning with runners in scoring position, but Kahnle struck out Rafael Devers.\n\nBoston's Alex Bregman, who was booed during each at-bat because he turned down an offer to sign with the Tigers in the offseason, hit a solo home run in the fourth.\n\n## Key moment\n\nBaez put both his hands in the air in the moment after he sent the game-winning home run to left and the crowd chanted \"Ja-vy! Ja-vy!\" for a player they previously jeered.\n\n## Key stat\n\nSpencer Torkelson has 11 homers in 43 games, a season after hitting just 10 in 92 games.\n\n## Up next\n\nDetroit LHP Tarik Skubal (4-2, 2.08 ERA) and Boston RHP Hunter Dobbins (2-1, 2.78) are scheduled to pitch Wednesday night in the series finale."}
{"prompt_hash": "868928ebe6bbe70a3f2429b72751b454a497a8e28d2b069a7dfc0d9ccd01ecfe", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-14 02:36:38+00:00", "topics": ["Houston Astros", "Cam Smith", "Kansas City Royals", "Jose Altuve", "Jonathan India", "Jeremy Pea", "Bobby Witt Jr.", "Baseball", "Kansas City", "MLB", "Sports", "Brendan Rodgers", "Hunter Renfroe", "Isaac Paredes", "Bryan Abreu", "Freddy Fermin", "Lucas Erceg", "Vinnie Pasquantino", "Kris Bubic", "Framber Valdez", "Maikel Garcia", "Jake Meyers", "Michael Lorenzen", "John Schreiber", "MLB baseball"], "text": "# Isaac Paredes homers in bottom of the 9th inning to lift Astros to 2-1 win over Royals\n\nBy Kristie Rieken  \nMay 14th, 2025 02:36 AM\n\n---\n\nHOUSTON (AP) \u2014 Isaac Paredes hit a tiebreaking solo homer in the ninth inning to lift the Houston Astros to a 2-1 victory over the Kansas City Royals on Tuesday night.\n\nThe game was tied at 1 after a home run by Jeremy Pe\u00f1a in the sixth inning when Paredes led off the bottom of the ninth against John Schreiber (1-2). He sent his second pitch to left-center field for his fifth homer this season, giving Houston the win after Kansas City took the series opener Monday.\n\nBoth teams got strong outings from their starters. Houston's Framber Valdez allowed six hits and a run with seven strikeouts in eight innings. Kris Bubic yielded six hits and a run and tied a career high with nine strikeouts in 6 1/3 innings.\n\nBryan Abreu (1-1) struck out one in a scoreless ninth for the win.\n\nHunter Renfroe doubled off the wall in left-center field with one out in the eighth. Valdez plunked Jonathan India on the foot with two outs, but he induced a groundout by Bobby Witt Jr. to end his night.\n\nMaikel Garcia walked to open the fifth before a single by Vinnie Pasquantino sent him to third. The Royals took a 1-0 lead when Freddy Fermin singled on a ground ball to right field that scored Garcia.\n\nPe\u00f1a's home run to left field tied it with no outs in the sixth. Jose Altuve followed with a double on a grounder down the third base line, but Bubic retired the next three batters, with two strikeouts, to leave him stranded.\n\nJake Meyers singled to start Houston's seventh, but was out at second when Cam Smith grounded into a force out. Bubic was replaced by Lucas Erceg and he picked off Smith at first before striking out Brendan Rodgers to end the inning.\n\n## Key moment\n\nThe home run by Paredes.\n\n## Key stat\n\nPe\u00f1a has three homers, four doubles, 24 hits and 13 RBIs in 15 games since moving to the leadoff spot.\n\n## Up next\n\nKansas City RHP Michael Lorenzen (3-3, 3.57 ERA) opposes LHP Colton Gordon in the series finale Wednesday night. Gordon will be recalled from Triple-A Sugar Land to make his major league debut."}
{"prompt_hash": "08063b98a648f9b14ef52adb161d0dd646c9e427625200dc3b6007cd863f7c5d", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 04:13:39+00:00", "topics": ["Hawaii", "Access to health care", "Gerhardt Konig", "Hiking", "Honolulu", "Thomas Otake", "Paul Wong", "Indictments", "Law enforcement", "Joel Garner", "Crime", "Health"], "text": "# Hawaii doctor accused of trying to kill his wife on a hiking trail denied bail\n\nBy Jennifer Sinco Kelleher  \nMay 13th, 2025 04:13 AM\n\n---\n\nA judge on Tuesday denied a Maui anesthesiologist's request to be released on bail while he fights an attempted murder charge on allegations that he tried to kill his wife on a Honolulu hiking trail.\n\nGerhardt Konig previously pleaded not guilty. His wife wrote in a petition for a temporary restraining order against him that they were hiking in Honolulu in March when he grabbed her, pushed her toward the edge of a cliff, attempted to inject her with a syringe and then bashed her head with a rock. Konig suggested they go on the hike while the couple were on a trip to celebrate the wife's birthday, the petition said.\n\nIn denying the motion for bail, Judge Paul Wong said there's evidence that Konig hid from police, presents a serious flight risk and is a danger to the victim.\n\nShe has since filed for divorce. An attorney representing her is asking a judge to withhold the divorce case, filed earlier this month, from the public to protect the privacy of the couple's young children and because of the \"significant and arguably intrusive media coverage regarding the underlying events which precipitated this divorce.\"\n\nThe Associated Press does not name people who are victims of domestic violence unless they consent to be identified or decide to tell their stories publicly.\n\nWhat is known as \"Pali Puka\" trail is closed because the route is unsafe, the state Department of Land and Natural Resources said. Hikers often enter through a small clearing near a popular lookout point that offers stunning views despite a warning: \"Area Closed! Do not go beyond this sign.\"\n\nAt one point, Konig grabbed her by her upper arms and started pushing her toward the cliff's edge while yelling that he was sick of her, she said.\n\nThey began wrestling, and she screamed and pleaded for him to stop, fearing for her life, the petition said. During the struggle, she said he took a syringe from his bag and tried to inject her with something.\n\nShe said that she bit his arm in an attempt to defend herself.\n\nHe appeared to calm down, but then grabbed a nearby rock and \"began bashing me repeatedly on the head with it,\" she said.\n\nKonig's wife suffered major cuts to her head \u2014 from the jagged, softball-sized lava rock \u2014 and required surgery, prosecutors said.\n\nWhile the couple were in Oahu, the two young sons stayed home on Maui with a nanny and family, according to the wife's petition filed in family court. A judge signed an order saying Konig must stay away from her and their children.\n\nProsecutors, in opposing the bail request, said Konig \"faces a realistic prospect of life imprisonment.\" He tried to flee after the attack and called his adult son, who he told he \"tried to kill your stepmom\" and told him he would turn off his phone so that police could not locate him, prosecutors said in a court filing.\n\nHe also hid in the bushes until nightfall, even though the attack happened in the morning, and led police on a search, prosecutors said.\n\nWhen he was apprehended, he said, \"Wait, she's not dead?\" according to prosecutors.\n\nDefense attorney Thomas Otake called it a \"very small rock\" and argued doctors said there wasn't a substantial risk of death or a concussion from the wife's injuries.\n\nDuring Tuesday's hearing, Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Joel Garner said Konig was stashing lethal drugs at home, tried three different ways to kill his wife and has ties to South Africa, where he was born.\n\nThe petition for a restraining order said that in December, Konig accused his wife of having an affair.\n\nIn a court document filed Monday, prosecutors said Konig was storing at home syringes, needles and vials labeled anesthesia medication. On March 27, a few days after the alleged attack and when his wife was preparing to fly back to Honolulu for his grand jury proceedings, she discovered a fanny pack belonging to her husband that contained several syringes and several vials of what appeared to be drugs, the filing said.\n\n\"That's not unusual that a doctor who practices medicine would have drugs,\" Otake said, noting that none of the drugs were found on Oahu where the attack took place.\n\nKonig has been held without bail since his indictment on March 28. In a motion seeking \"bail at a reasonable amount,\" his defense attorneys said Konig, 46, has no prior criminal convictions.\n\nIn court, Otake suggested bail between $100,000 and $200,000, arguing that while the divorce is pending he doesn't have access to marital assets.\n\nOtake said his client intends to go to trial: \"This is going to be a 'he said, she said' trial.\""}
{"prompt_hash": "a1def3d91dd281180dd9a4581c03365e9ebf954b08f737d95a75d24da20a69f9", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-14 02:14:37+00:00", "topics": ["ArDarius Washington", "Baltimore Ravens", "District of Columbia", "Washington", "NFL", "Sports", "National Football League", "Malaki Starks", "NFL football"], "text": "# Ravens S Ar'Darius Washington tears his Achilles tendon during offseason conditioning, reports say\n\nMay 14th, 2025 02:14 AM\n\n---\n\nOWINGS MILLS, Md. (AP) \u2014 Baltimore Ravens safety Ar'Darius Washington reportedly tore his Achilles tendon during offseason conditioning.\n\nNFL Network and The Baltimore Sun, both citing unidentified sources Wednesday, reported Washington's injury, which could impact the team's defense this coming season. Washington started from late October on last season, and his presence helped the Ravens' pass defense turn its season around after a shaky start.\n\nWashington signed his restricted free agent tender with the Ravens last month. He's played all four of his NFL seasons with Baltimore.\n\nThe Ravens did use their first-round draft pick this year on another safety, taking Malaki Starks out of Georgia."}
{"prompt_hash": "0d818816eb79e4e9e6e2681d2c24cfb023926278ddf7ff8af3491fe2e462c50d", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 19:01:57+00:00", "topics": ["Harvey Weinstein", "Michael Cibella", "Kaja Sokola", "Assault", "New York City Wire", "Curtis Farber", "Entertainment", "Legal proceedings", "Crime", "Indictments", "Sexual assault", "Juries"], "text": "# Ex-model testifying that Harvey Weinstein sexually assaulted her questioned about private journal\n\nBy Philip Marcelo  \nMay 13th, 2025 07:01 PM\n\n---\n\nNEW YORK (AP) \u2014 A former fashion model testifying in Harvey Weinstein 's retrial on sexual assault charges was confronted on the stand Tuesday with a private journal in which she wrote about people who sexually abused her, but notably left out the disgraced former Hollywood mogul.\n\nMichael Cibella, a lawyer for Weinstein, noted that the journal by Kaja Sokola names at least two people who had sexually assaulted her. Neither one of them, she acknowledged to the jury in Manhattan, was Weinstein.\n\nInstead, the \"Pulp Fiction\" producer is mentioned in the writings for altogether different reasons. Under an entry for \"Harvey W\" Sokola wrote that he was \"promising me help,\" but \"nothing came out of it.\"\n\n\"The trauma that Harvey Weinstein inflicted on you was that he made promises that he didn't keep, even as you accused two other men of sexually assaulting you,\" Cibella said.\n\nThe Polish model, now a 39-year-old psychotherapist, pushed back at the characterization.\n\n\"That's your interpretation and I'll leave that with you,\" Sokola responded from the witness stand. \"Harvey made promises he didn't keep -- and he sexually assaulted me.\"\n\nEarlier in the day, Sokola had argued that the journal, which she wrote in Polish in 2015, shouldn't be discussed in open court at all.\n\nShe said the writing has been part of her treatment for substance abuse. One of the steps of the program, she explained, was to list all the people and things with which she held resentment.\n\n\"This is very inappropriate,\" Sokola pleaded as one of Weinstein's attorneys began to cite portions of the text to the jury. \"Please don't read that. This is my personal things. I'm not on trial here.\"\n\nJudge Curtis Farber assured Sokola that he would only permit limited questioning around the document. He also said he had concerns about the journal's completeness and authenticity and wondering how defense lawyers had obtained what appeared to be private medical records.\n\n\"This might backfire tremendously\" for the defense, Farber said at one point, as prosecutors also strongly opposed inclusion of the journal as evidence in the trial. \"That's the risk they're willing to take.\"\n\nWeinstein's lawyers, in their cross-examination of Sokola that began Friday, have sought to cast Sokola as a wannabe actor who tried to leverage her consensual relations with the former studio boss.\n\nCibella, to that end, quizzed Sokola on Tuesday about what she told prosecutors during a 2020 interview.\n\nHe contended that a prosecutor's handwritten notes from the meeting don't include any mention of Weinstein using force or tearing off her clothes, as she's described the incident to jurors in her testimony.\n\n\"Is it a fact that you never made an allegation in 2020 that Mr. Weinstein used force?\" Cibella asked.\n\n\"That is a lie,\" Sokola fired back.\n\nCibella also questioned Sokola about her communications with Weinstein in the years after she claimed he had sexually assaulted her in 2006.\n\nAmong them were phone messages, text messages and emails in which she tried to meet up in person with the co-founder of the production company Miramax or asked him for help on various movie industry opportunities.\n\nSokola, who is expected to return to the stand on Wednesday, testified last week that Weinstein exploited her dreams of an acting career to subject her to unwanted sexual advances, starting days after they met in 2002, while she was a 16-year-old on a modeling trip to New York.\n\nSome of those allegations are beyond the legal time limit for criminal charges, but Weinstein faces a criminal sex act charge over Sokola's claim that he forced oral sex on her in 2006.\n\nProsecutors added the charge to the landmark #MeToo case last year, after an appeals court overturned Weinstein's 2020 conviction. The guilty verdict pertained to allegations from two other women, who also have testified or are expected to testify at the retrial.\n\nWeinstein, 73, has pleaded not guilty and denies ever sexually assaulting anyone.\n\nThe Associated Press generally does not name people who allege they have been sexually assaulted, but Sokola has given her permission to be identified."}
{"prompt_hash": "2d9875d76be005eefc4b7ec0e8f9b8702e3ff4a4577e3d634ee08a1bf13a536a", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 09:25:49+00:00", "topics": ["Donald Trump", "Volodymyr Zelenskyy", "Vladimir Putin", "Friedrich Merz", "Recep Tayyip Erdogan", "Ukraine", "Marco Rubio", "Steve Witkoff", "Istanbul", "District of Columbia", "Russia", "Kyiv", "Turkey government", "War and unrest", "Europe", "Russia-Ukraine war", "Dmitry Peskov", "Politics", "Ukraine government", "Mykhailo Podolyak", "Russia government", "Germany government", "Russia Ukraine war"], "text": "# Zelenskyy says he will be waiting for Putin in Ankara for talks\n\nBy Illia Novikov and Samya Kullab  \nMay 13th, 2025 09:25 AM\n\n---\n\nKYIV, Ukraine (AP) \u2014 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Tuesday that he will be waiting for his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, in the Turkish capital this week to conduct face-to-face talks about the more than 3-year war, amid heavy pressure from the U.S. and European leaders to reach a settlement.\n\nPutin hasn't yet said whether he will be at the talks, which U.S. President Donald Trump has urged the two sides to attend as part of Washington's efforts to stop the fighting.\n\nZelenskyy told reporters in Kyiv that he will be in Ankara on Thursday to conduct the negotiations. He will meet with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the two will wait for Putin to arrive, he said.\n\nZelenskyy said he would \"do everything to agree on a ceasefire, because it is with (Putin) that I must negotiate a ceasefire, as only he can decide on it.\"\n\nZelenskyy said that if Putin chooses Istanbul to hold the meeting, then both leaders will travel there from Ankara.\n\n\"If Putin does not arrive and plays games, it is the final point that he does not want to end the war,\" Zelenskyy said.\n\nThe Ukrainian leader added that if Putin doesn't show up, European and U.S. leaders should follow through with threats of additional and heavy sanctions against Russia.\n\nTrump, who is on a four-day Middle East trip, said Tuesday that Secretary of State Marco Rubio would attend the talks. Special envoy Steve Witkoff also is set to take part, according to a U.S. official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to preview plans that have not been made public.\n\nWashington has been applying strong pressure on both sides to come to the table since Trump took office in January with a promise to end the war.\n\nMilitary analysts say that both sides are preparing a spring-summer campaign on the battlefield, where a war of attrition has killed tens of thousands of soldiers on both sides along the roughly 1,000-kilometer (620-mile) front line. The Institute for the Study of War, a Washington-based think tank, said Monday that Russia is \"quickly replenishing front-line units with new recruits to maintain the battlefield initiative.\"\n\n## German leader says ball is in Putin's court\n\nInternational pressure has been growing to push Ukraine and Russia into finding a settlement.\n\nGerman Chancellor Friedrich Merz pressed again for an unconditional 30-day ceasefire as he met his Greek counterpart in Berlin on Tuesday.\n\n\"We are waiting for Putin's agreement,\" he said.\n\n\"We agree that, in case there is no real progress this week, we then want to push at European level for a significant tightening of sanctions,\" Merz added. He said that \"we will focus on further areas, such as the energy sector and the financial market.\"\n\nMerz welcomed Zelenskyy's readiness to travel personally to Turkey, \"but now it is really up to Putin to accept this offer of negotiations and agree to a ceasefire. The ball is exclusively in Russia.\"\n\n## Russia isn't saying whether Putin will attend talks\n\nOvernight, Russia launched 10 Shahed and decoy drones at Ukraine, the Ukrainian air force said. It was Russia's smallest drone bombardment this year.\n\nThe Kremlin hasn't directly responded to Zelenskyy's challenge for Putin to meet him in person at the negotiating table.\n\nKremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov declined for the second straight day Tuesday to tell reporters whether Putin will travel to Istanbul and who else will represent Russia at the potential talks.\n\n\"As soon as the president considers it necessary, we will make an announcement,\" Peskov said.\n\nRussia has said that it will send a delegation to Istanbul without preconditions.\n\n## European leaders say Putin is dragging his feet\n\nZelenskyy won't be meeting with any Russian officials in Istanbul other than Putin, Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Zelenskyy, said Tuesday on a YouTube show run by prominent Russian journalists in exile.\n\nLower-level talks would amount to simply \"dragging out\" any peace process, Podolyak said.\n\nEuropean leaders have recently accused Putin of dragging his feet in peace efforts, while he attempts to press his bigger army's battlefield initiative and capture more Ukrainian land.\n\nRussia effectively rejected an unconditional 30-day ceasefire, starting Monday, that was demanded by Ukraine and Western European leaders, when it fired more than 100 drones at Ukraine. Putin instead offered direct peace talks.\n\nBut the wrangling over whether a ceasefire should come before the talks begin has continued.\n\n\"Ukraine is ready for any format of negotiations with Russia, but a ceasefire must come first,\" Andrii Yermak, the head of Ukraine's presidential office, said Tuesday.\n\nNegotiations are impossible while \"the Ukrainian people are under attack by Russian missiles and drones around the clock,\" Yermak said in a video address to the Copenhagen Democracy Summit 2025.\n\nPutin has repeatedly questioned the legitimacy of the Ukrainian government, especially Zelenskyy himself, saying his term expired last year. Under Ukraine's constitution, it's illegal for the country to hold a national election while it's under martial law, as it now is.\n\nZelenskyy dismissed claims that a decree enacted by him in 2022 prohibited him from meeting Putin, saying that the claim was Russian propaganda.\n\nPutin and Zelenskyy have only met once, in 2019.\n\nIn the war's early months, Zelenskyy repeatedly called for a personal meeting with Putin but was rebuffed. After the Kremlin's decision in September 2022 to illegally annex four regions of Ukraine \u2014 Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia \u2014 Zelenskyy issued the decree declaring that holding negotiations with Putin had become impossible.\n\nOn Tuesday, Zelenskyy said that this decree affected other Ukrainian officials who were directly negotiating with the Russian leader."}
{"prompt_hash": "c9db28280790456c8cee4120ac8ae5619c2b98d736113ffb5452aed8bcf9f35b", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 04:02:07+00:00", "topics": ["Sean Diddy Combs", "Crime", "New York City Wire", "Mary J. Blige", "Alex Fine", "Los Angeles", "Sex and sexuality", "Usher", "Emily Johnson", "Human trafficking", "Entertainment", "Sexual misconduct", "Sexual assault"], "text": "# Sean 'Diddy' Combs' ex-girlfriend Cassie testifies at his trial about abuse and 'freak offs'\n\nBy Michael R. Sisak and Larry Neumeister  \nMay 13th, 2025 04:02 AM\n\n---\n\nNEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Cassie, the R&B singer and former girlfriend of Sean \"Diddy\" Combs, testified Tuesday that the mercurial music mogul \u2014 powerful, abusive and controlling \u2014 beat her mercilessly and ordered her to have \"disgusting\" sex with strangers during drug-fueled, multi-day marathons he called \"freak offs.\"\n\nCassie, whose legal name is Casandra Ventura, sniffled and dabbed her eyes with a tissue, sighed heavily and paused to compose herself through about five hours of testimony at Combs' sex trafficking trial.\n\nIn humiliating detail, she recounted a turbulent 10-year relationship with Combs that she said was consumed by violence and his obsession with a form of voyeurism where \"he was controlling the whole situation.\" That included directing her encounters with male sex workers right down to the copious amounts of baby oil she applied to maintain the \"glistening\" look he desired.\n\nThe \"Me & U\" singer told jurors that his demands for her to engage in sometimes-revolting sex acts \u2014 sometimes as he watched from another room via FaceTime \u2014 left her feeling \"heavily objectified.\" But, she said, she endured them because she was in love with Combs.\n\nAt the same time, Cassie said, Combs controlled every aspect of her life, from her career to her living arrangements, and she didn't feel like she could tell him \"no.\"\n\nWhen she did try to leave, she said, Combs punished her \u2014 most notably in a 2016 assault captured on a security camera at a Los Angeles hotel. In the video, played in court for a fifth time, Combs is seen hitting, kicking and attempting to drag her back to their room. After the footage was leaked last year, Combs apologized.\n\nAsked how many other times Combs had knocked her to the ground, Cassie replied: \"Too many to count.\"\n\nDue to give birth soon to her third child, Cassie occasionally rested her hands on her pregnant belly as she testified. Her supporters in the courtroom included her husband, Alex Fine.\n\nShe is scheduled to return to the witness stand Wednesday. After prosecutors are done questioning her, Combs' lawyers will get their turn.\n\nProsecutors allege the three-time Grammy winner used his fame and fortune to orchestrate a deviant empire of exploitation, coercing women into abusive sex parties. His lawyers argue that, although he could be violent, he never veered into sex trafficking and racketeering. They contend all sexual acts were consensual.\n\nCombs, 55, has pleaded not guilty. He interacted with his lawyers but remained largely stoic as Cassie testified. During a break, he made a heart shape with his hands and mouthed \"thank you\" to one of his twin daughters. He also blew a kiss to his mother.\n\nJailed since his arrest last September, he could get at least 15 years and up to life in prison if convicted.\n\n## Cassie testifies about violence and abuse\n\nCassie sued Combs in 2023 alleging years of abuse. He settled within hours, but dozens of similar lawsuits followed.\n\nCassie testified Tuesday that she met Combs in 2005, when she was 19 and he was 37. Combs signed her to a 10-year contract with his Bad Boy Records label. Within a few years, they started dating, Cassie said.\n\nHer 2006 single, \"Me & U,\" reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop chart and was the signature song on her first studio album. She was working on a follow up, but Combs \"chose what was next for me\" and didn't release any others, she said.\n\nCassie told jurors she was \"sexually inexperienced\" when she met Combs and that he introduced her to various sex acts before asking her to engaged in her first \"freak off\" when she was barely 22. Cassie said she was \"confused, nervous, but also loved him very much\" and \"wanted to make him happy.\"\n\nCassie, now 38, said her relationship with Combs ran the gamut from good times to arguments and physical altercations. She said the abuse happened \"too frequently\" and sometimes came after the smallest perceived slights.\n\nCassie said Combs ordered her to recruit male sex workers for \"freak offs\" and that he would pay them thousands of dollars to have sex with her. The encounters, fueled by ecstasy and other drugs, would go on for 36 or 48 hours, and she said the longest lasted four days. They took place in private, often in dark hotel rooms, unlike Combs' very public White Parties in the Hamptons that attracted A-list celebrities.\n\n## Cassie felt she couldn't refuse Combs' demands\n\nCassie said her first \"freak off\" occurred in Combs' Los Angeles home with a male stripper from Las Vegas. She told jurors she felt dirty and confused afterward, but also relieved that Combs was happy.\n\nStill, she said she felt obligated to go along with future \"freak offs.\"\n\n\"I just didn't want to make him upset,\" she said. \"I just didn't want to make him angry and regret telling me about this experience that was so personal.\"\n\nCassie began crying when asked if she liked any aspect of the \"freak offs.\" She said she enjoyed \"time spent with him.\"\n\nShe said she used drugs at every \"freak off\" to numb herself during \"emotionless sex with a stranger that I didn't really want to have sex with.\"\n\nThe Associated Press doesn't generally identify people who say they are victims of sexual abuse unless they come forward publicly, as Cassie has done.\n\n## 'Freak offs' became a 'job'\n\nSoon, she said, she was doing \"freak offs\" weekly. They went on for a decade, with the final one in 2017 or 2018, she said. Each time, she said, she had to recuperate from lack of sleep, alcohol, drugs and \"having sex with a stranger for days.\"\n\nShe described the situation as: \"'Freak offs' became a job where there was no space to do anything else but to recover and just try to feel normal again.\"\n\nDuring her opening statement, prosecutor Emily Johnson told the jury that Cassie was not the only woman Combs beat and sexually exploited.\n\nCombs was among the most influential hip-hop producers and executives of the past three decades, working with artists including Notorious B.I.G., Mary J. Blige and Usher. He also created the fashion clothing line Sean John and produced the reality show \"Making the Band.\""}
{"prompt_hash": "ffcdb6eede1afc7561c3819a84be67cdcacfc35434c5e7ad219795087f610150", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 16:01:56+00:00", "topics": ["Donald Trump", "India government", "Pakistan", "India", "Narendra Modi", "Kashmir", "United States government", "International agreements", "United States", "South Asia", "War and unrest", "Politics", "Randhir Jaiswal", "JD Vance", "Marco Rubio"], "text": "# India disputes Trump's claim that trade incentives led to the India-Pakistan ceasefire\n\nBy Rajesh Roy  \nMay 13th, 2025 04:01 PM\n\n---\n\nNEW DELHI (AP) \u2014 The Indian government on Tuesday disputed U.S. President Donald Trump's claim that the U.S.-mediated ceasefire between India and Pakistan came about in part because he had offered possible trade concessions.\n\nAddressing a weekly news conference, Randhir Jaiswal, the spokesman for India's foreign ministry, said top leaders in New Delhi and Washington were in touch last week following the Indian military's intense standoff with Pakistan, but that there was no conversation on trade.\n\n\"The issue of trade didn't come up in any of these discussions,\" Jaiswal said, referring to the conversations held between U.S. Vice President JD Vance and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, as well as between U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and his Indian counterpart, S. Jaishankar.\n\nFollowing Saturday's understanding between India and Pakistan to stop military action on land, in the air and at sea, Trump told reporters on Monday that he had offered to help both nations with trade if they agreed to de-escalate.\n\n\"I said, come on, we're going to do a lot of trade with you guys. Let's stop it. Let's stop it. If you stop it, we'll do a trade. If you don't stop it, we're not going to do any trade,'\" Trump said.\n\n\"And all of a sudden, they said, I think we're going to stop,\" Trump said, crediting trade leverage for influencing both the nations' decision. \"For a lot of reasons, but trade is a big one,\" he said.\n\nThe militaries of India and Pakistan had been engaged in one of their most serious confrontations in decades since last Wednesday, when India struck targets inside Pakistan it said were affiliated with militants responsible for the massacre of 26 tourists last month in Indian-controlled Kashmir. Pakistan has denied any links to the attackers.\n\nAfter India's strikes in Pakistan, the two sides exchanged heavy fire along their de facto borders, followed by missile and drone strikes into each other's territories, mainly targeting military installations and airbases.\n\nThe escalating hostilities between the nuclear-armed rivals threatened regional peace, leading to calls by world leaders to cool down tempers.\n\nTrump said he not only helped mediate the ceasefire, but also offered mediation over the simmering dispute in Kashmir, a Himalayan region that both India and Pakistan claim in entirety but administer in parts. The two nations have fought two wars over Kashmir, which has long been described as the regional nuclear flashpoint.\n\nNew Delhi also declined Trump's offer for mediation on Tuesday.\n\n\"We have a longstanding national position that any issues related to the federally controlled union territory of Jammu and Kashmir must be addressed by India and Pakistan bilaterally. There has been no change to the stated policy,\" Jaiswal said.\n\nPakistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said late Tuesday that Pakistan was expelling a staff member of the Indian High Commission in Islamabad, accusing him of unspecified inappropriate activity and giving him 24 hours to leave the country.\n\nIn a tit-for-tat move last month, India and Pakistan reduced each other's diplomatic presence in Islamabad and New Delhi. So far, none of the expelled diplomats have returned. Pakistan and India routinely expel each other's diplomats over allegations of espionage."}
{"prompt_hash": "4f5b8721cc499b42300f3280ac736e3e47c0ebb4fc9f6e338796c3af8489c32d", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-14 00:50:37+00:00", "topics": ["Los Angeles Dodgers", "Dave Roberts", "Los Angeles Angels", "Tyler Glasnow", "Blake Snell", "Baseball", "MLB", "Sports", "MLB baseball", "Clayton Kershaw"], "text": "# Clayton Kershaw to make season debut for the Dodgers on Saturday against the Angels\n\nBy Beth Harris  \nMay 14th, 2025 12:50 AM\n\n---\n\nLOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 Clayton Kershaw will make his season debut for the Los Angeles Dodgers on Saturday against the Los Angeles Angels.\n\nThe 37-year-old left-hander began his 18th season with the team on the injured list while recovering from toe and knee surgeries. His return comes at a critical time for the Dodgers, with starters Blake Snell, Tyler Glasnow and rookie Roki Sasaki on the injured list.\n\n\"It's a big shot in the arm,\" manager Dave Roberts said Tuesday. \"Clayton has worked really hard to get healthy and the bar is high for him. He doesn't want to just come back to be active. He wants to be come back and help us win baseball games and be good. I know he's excited to contribute.\"\n\nKershaw struck out two and allowed a pair of runs on two hits and two walks in his final rehab start with Triple-A Oklahoma City on Sunday. He threw 57 pitches over four innings.\n\n\"It felt good to be focused on pitching,\" he told KLAC-AM before Tuesday's game. \"The last few times I pitched last year I just focused on how much my foot was hurting. Just focusing on the next pitch as opposed to what hurts. It's been a hard road but I'm feeling good.\"\n\nRoberts said Kershaw's imminent return \"adds an element of certainty and performance.\"\n\nThe three-time Cy Young Award winner will tie Zack Wheat and Bill Russell for the most years with the Dodgers franchise when he starts this weekend. He and Russell are the only players to log 18 seasons since the Dodgers moved to Los Angeles in 1958. Kershaw is the longest-tenured player on the current roster.\n\n\"I'm tired of taking up space,\" Kershaw said. \"I want to contribute and help the team out.\"\n\nKershaw is 32 strikeouts from reaching 3,000 to go with his 212 career wins.\n\nHe remains determined to eventually retire on his terms rather than let circumstances dictate his plans. His family is \"a huge motivating factor as well,\" he said.\n\n\"If I go out there and get shelled and I'm not good anymore that's one thing,\" Kershaw said. \"If another hitter gets the best of me that's one thing, but I'm not going to let it do it to myself.\"\n\nHe made just seven starts last year before his season ended in August due to pain in his left big toe. He watched from the sidelines as the Dodgers beat the New York Yankees to win their eighth World Series title.\n\nKershaw has been following his teammates on TV.\n\n\"It's a great team. Forty games in you can see a lot of things that are going really well,\" he said. \"I just want to be a part of it.\""}
{"prompt_hash": "8661bd1cda1311ec32eab990d63e853061bd665c211ba34dd146edfbbdbba393", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 16:16:10+00:00", "topics": ["Sean Diddy Combs", "Casandra Ventura", "Legal proceedings", "Crime", "Celebrity", "Lawsuits", "Music", "RB", "New York City Wire", "Entertainment", "Wiz Khalifa", "Sexual misconduct", "Human trafficking", "Mario Barrett", "Ryan Leslie", "Sexual assault", "Daniel Phillip", "Frankie Stone Fine", "Kid Cudi", "Suge Knight", "Alex Fine", "Lil Wayne", "Akon"], "text": "# Sean 'Diddy' Combs sex trafficking trial: Who is Cassie?\n\nBy Maria Sherman  \nMay 13th, 2025 04:16 PM\n\n---\n\nNEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Casandra Ventura, the R&B singer and actor known simply as Cassie, began testifying Tuesday in Sean \"Diddy\" Combs ' sex trafficking trial. She is expected to return to the stand on Wednesday.\n\nThe music mogul is charged with leveraging his status to coerce women \u2014 including Cassie \u2014 into abusive sexual encounters and using violence if they refused. He has pleaded not guilty. Cassie sued Combs in 2023 alleging years of rape and abuse. The suit was settled within hours, but was followed by dozens of similar legal claims and touched off a criminal investigation.\n\nHere's what you need to know about the 38-year-old star witness:\n\n## A talented performer\n\nA singer, actor, dancer and model, Cassie's professional ambitions began in adolescence, when she signed to the top-tier talent and modeling agency Wilhelmina. Her music career launched shortly thereafter, when she left her home state of Connecticut for New York, where she signed with manager Tony Mottola and first met Combs.\n\nCassie is perhaps best known for the 2006 hit single \"Me & U,\" which secured the No. 1 spot on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop songs chart and No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 all genres chart. It was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. The song was the lead single of her only studio album, released by Combs' Bad Boy Records, and was self-titled. She left the label in 2019.\n\nAs an actor, she appeared in several television and film projects including Fox's \"Empire,\" \"The Perfect Match\" and \"Spenser Confidential.\" She made her acting debut in 2008 in \"Step Up 2: The Streets\" and contributed the song \"Is It You\" to its soundtrack.\n\nShe appeared in a number of music videos as well, including Wiz Khalifa's \"Roll Up\" and Mario's \"Just A Friend 2002.\"\n\nAlthough she never released her long-teased sophomore album, at one point tentatively titled \"Electro Love,\" she did drop a few tracks: the R&B-pop \"Official Girl\" with Lil Wayne, \"Must Be Love\" with Combs, and \"Let's Get Crazy\" with Akon. And in 2012, Nicki Minaj tapped her for a feature on \"The Boys\" from Minaj's \"Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded \u2014 The Re-Up.\"\n\nCassie is also a wife and a mother. She married personal trainer Alex Fine in September 2019. Their first daughter, Frankie Stone Fine, was born that same year and they welcomed their second daughter, Sunny Cinco Fine, in 2021. She is currently pregnant with their third child, a son.\n\n## The Combs connection\n\nCassie met Combs in 2005 when she was 19 and he was 37. He signed her to his Bad Boy Records label and, within a few years, they started dating.\n\nIn her 2023 civil lawsuit, Cassie alleges Combs trapped her in a \"cycle of abuse, violence, and sex trafficking\" for more than a decade, including raping her and forcing her to engage in sex acts with male sex workers. Combs settled the lawsuit the next day.\n\nIn May 2024, CNN aired video that showed Combs attacking Cassie in a hotel hallway in 2016. The video closely mirrored an assault described in her lawsuit, which said Combs had already punched her that night, and she was trying to leave the InterContinental Hotel in Los Angeles when he woke and came after her. In the footage, a man who appears to be Diddy, wearing only a towel, punches Cassie, kicks her, and throws her on to the floor. The lawsuit alleges Combs paid $50,000 to bury the video at the time.\n\nLater, Combs apologized for the assault on Cassie in his first real acknowledgment of wrongdoing since the stream of allegations began.\n\nAmong other things, Cassie alleges Combs raped her when she tried to leave him and often punched, kicked and beat her, causing injuries including bruises, burst lips, black eyes and bleeding.\n\nShe also alleges that Combs was involved in blowing up rival rapper Kid Cudi's car when he learned that Cudi was romantically interested in her, and she alleges that Combs ran out of his home with guns when he learned that Suge Knight, a rival producer, was eating at a nearby diner.\n\nOn the first day of Combs' sex trafficking trial, a witness, Daniel Phillip, said he was a professional stripper who was paid $700 to $6,000 to have sex with Cassie while Combs watched and gave instructions, with the first encounter in 2012.\n\nPhillip told jurors that he stopped meeting with the couple after he saw Combs throw a bottle at her and then drag her by her hair into a bedroom as she screamed."}
{"prompt_hash": "216c540493cd1c6d028bb5f556e6197d4390533da00811fc854ee21484f00338", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 22:49:40+00:00", "topics": ["Kim Kardashian", "Crime", "Paris", "Theft", "France", "Legal proceedings", "Entertainment", "Simone Harouche"], "text": "# Kim Kardashian testifies about trauma of Paris jewelry robbery\n\nBy Thomas Adamson, John Leicester, and Nicolas Vaux-Montagny  \nMay 13th, 2025 10:49 PM\n\n---\n\nPARIS (AP) \u2014 Defiant in diamonds, Kim Kardashian appeared in a Paris courtroom Tuesday to testify in the trial over the 2016 armed robbery that upended her life. The reality star and business mogul gave emotional, at times harrowing, testimony about the night masked men tied her up at gunpoint and stole more than $6 million in jewelry.\n\nHere's what she revealed \u2014 and what's still to come.\n\n## A night that changed everything\n\nKardashian said she was starting to doze off in bed in the early hours when she heard stomping on the stairs. She assumed it was her sister Kourtney returning from a night out. \"Hello? Hello? Who is it?\" she called.\n\nMoments later, two masked men burst in. They dragged the concierge in handcuffs. They were dressed as police.\n\n\"I thought it was some sort of terrorist attack,\" she said.\n\nShe grabbed her phone but froze \u2014 \"I didn't know what 911 was (in France).\" She tried to call her sister and her bodyguard, but one man grabbed her hand to stop her. They threw her on the bed, bound her hands and held a gun to her back.\n\n\"I have babies,\" she recalled telling the robbers. \"I have to make it home. They can take everything. I just have to make it home.\"\n\nHer robe fell open \u2014 she said she was naked underneath \u2014 as one man pulled her toward him. \"I was certain that was the moment that he was going to rape me,\" Kardashian said.\n\nOne attacker leaned in and told her, in English, she'd be OK if she stayed quiet. He taped her mouth shut, and took her to the bathroom.\n\nKardashian later managed to free her hands by rubbing the tape against the bathroom sink. She hopped downstairs, ankles still bound, and found her friend and stylist, Simone Harouche. Fearing the men might return, the women climbed onto the balcony and hid in bushes. While lying there, Kardashian called her mother.\n\nThe men took a diamond ring she'd worn that night to a Givenchy show and rifled through her jewelry box. They took items including a watch her late father had given her when she graduated high school. \"It wasn't just jewelry. It was so many memories,\" she said.\n\n## A changed life and constant fear\n\nInvestigators believe the attackers followed Kardashian's digital breadcrumbs \u2014 images, timestamps, geotags \u2014 and exploited them with old-school criminal methods.\n\nThe robbery reshaped Kardashian's sense of safety and freedom. \"This experience really changed everything for us,\" she said. \"I started to get this phobia of going out.\"\n\nShe often rents adjoining hotel rooms for protection and no longer stores jewelry at home, and now has up to six security guards at home.\n\n\"I can't even sleep at night\" otherwise, she said.\n\nShe also said she no longer makes social media posts in real time unless at a public event. Her Los Angeles home was robbed shortly after the Paris heist in what she believes was a copycat attack.\n\n## A letter and an unexpected moment of grace\n\nIn a powerful courtroom moment, the chief judge read aloud a letter from one of the accused, who is too ill to testify. The letter said he had seen Kardashian's tears on television and expressed regret. Kardashian was visibly moved.\n\n\"I'm obviously emotional,\" she said in response.\n\n\"I do appreciate the letter, for sure,\" she added. \"I forgive you for what had taken place. But it doesn't change the emotion, the trauma, and the way my life is forever changed.\"\n\nKardashian, who is studying to become a lawyer, added that she regularly visits prisons. \"I've always believed in second chances,\" she said.\n\n## Diamonds, defiance and public image\n\nKardashian made a fashion statement in court, wearing a $1.5 million necklace by Samer Halimeh New York. The jeweler's press release for the necklace came out even as she was on the witness stand, a reminder that visibility remains currency, even if the rules have grown more complicated.\n\nThe choice reflected defiance and the reclaiming of the image and luxury once used against her.\n\nKardashian said Paris had once been a sanctuary, a place where she would walk at 3 or 4 a.m., window shopping, sometimes stopping for hot chocolate. It \"always felt really safe,\" she said. \"It was always a magical place.\"\n\n## What's next\n\nTwelve suspects were originally charged. One has died. One was excused due to illness. The French press dubbed the group les papys braqueurs \u2014 \"the grandpa robbers\" \u2014 but prosecutors say they were no harmless retirees.\n\nThe defendants face charges including armed robbery, kidnapping and gang association. If convicted, they could face life in prison.\n\nKardashian said she was grateful for the opportunity to \"tell my truth\" in the packed Paris courtroom.\n\n\"This is my closure,\" she said. \"This is me putting this, hopefully, to rest.\"\n\nThe trial is expected to conclude May 23."}
{"prompt_hash": "5832cae472c497d7e6a5ed7450d8c0389b2b4ea22542def8334a250b18660084", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-14 01:53:14+00:00", "topics": ["Atlanta Braves", "Washington Nationals", "Pierce Johnson", "Baseball", "DC Wire", "MLB", "CJ Abrams", "Ozhaino Albies", "Dylan Lee", "Sports", "Bryce Elder", "Amed Rosario", "MLB baseball", "Brad Lord", "Austin Riley", "Mike Soroka", "Mitchell Parker"], "text": "# Drake Baldwin helps Braves reach .500 for first time in 2025 with 5-2 win over skidding Nats\n\nBy Bill Trocchi  \nMay 14th, 2025 01:53 AM\n\n---\n\nATLANTA (AP) \u2014 Drake Baldwin hit a two-run homer, Spencer Schwellenbach pitched seven strong innings and the Atlanta Braves improved to .500 for the first time this season with a 5-2 win over the skidding Washington Nationals on Tuesday night.\n\nThe Braves (21-21), who began the season 0-7, handed the Nationals their seventh straight loss.\n\nBaldwin was 3 for 4 with two RBIs and three runs scored. Austin Riley was 2 for 4 with an RBI.\n\nAtlanta native CJ Abrams homered on the first pitch of the game from Schwellenbach (2-3), who kept the Nationals in check from there. He gave up two runs, four hits and two walks while striking out three.\n\nDylan Lee pitched a scoreless eighth and Pierce Johnson worked the ninth for his first save of the season.\n\nAmed Rosario was 2 for 3 with an RBI for the Nats, who have scored just 15 runs during the skid.\n\nWashington starter Michael Soroka, an All-Star for Atlanta as a rookie in 2019, went four innings in his first appearance against his former team, giving up four hits and two runs while striking out four. Brad Lord (2-5) gave up two runs in two innings of relief.\n\n## Key moment\n\nWith the Braves trailing 2-0 in the fourth inning, Baldwin tied it when he drove a hanging 3-2 slider from Soroka over the right-field wall for his fourth homer of the season.\n\n## Key stat\n\nAtlanta's Ozzie Albies ended an 0-for-28 drought with a one-out RBI single to right field in the sixth inning. It was the longest hitless streak of the nine-year veteran's career and the longest active streak in the majors.\n\n## Up next\n\nBryce Elder (2-2, 4.97 ERA) will start for the Braves against the Nationals' Mitchell Parker (3-3, 3.97) on Wednesday night."}
{"prompt_hash": "f37fdea5d90e07d69363e4a11594307decc061a8cc355d3f9803875947716445", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 15:09:14+00:00", "topics": ["Justin Trudeau", "Donald Trump", "Dominic LeBlanc", "Canada government", "Canada", "Anita Anand", "Franois Philippe Champagne", "Bill Blair", "Mlanie Joly", "David McGuinty", "International", "The Goldman Sachs Group", "Inc.", "Royalty", "Evan Solomon", "King Charles III", "Politics", "Mark Carney", "Business", "Tim Hodgson"], "text": "# Canadian Prime Minister Carney names a new foreign minister in a Cabinet shake-up\n\nBy Rob Gillies  \nMay 13th, 2025 03:09 PM\n\n---\n\nTORONTO (AP) \u2014 Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney announced a major Cabinet shakeup, including a new foreign minister, Tuesday as he shapes a newly reelected Liberal government.\n\nCarney, who replaced Justin Trudeau earlier this year and won election last month, named Anita Anand foreign minister, replacing M\u00e9lanie Joly, who becomes the minister of industry. Anand's previous roles include defense minister.\n\nFran\u00e7ois-Philippe Champagne retains his job as finance minister, while Dominic LeBlanc remains minister of U.S. trade at a time of a trade war between Canada and the United States.\n\nCarney won the job of prime minister by promising to confront the aggression toward Canada shown by U.S. President Donald Trump, while preserving the calm demeanor of an economist who has led the central banks of both Canada and the United Kingdom.\n\n\"Canadians elected this new government with a strong mandate to define a new economic and security relationship with the United States and to build a stronger economy for all Canadians,\" Carney said.\n\nCarney noted that King Charles III will deliver a speech outlining the Canadian government's priorities on May 27, when Parliament resumes. Charles is the head of state in Canada, which is a member of the British Commonwealth of former colonies.\n\nCarney has emphasized Canada's founding nations, the United Kingdom and France, and has said the old relationship with the U.S. based on steadily increasing integration is over.\n\nMore than 10 people were dropped from the new Cabinet, including former defense minister Bill Blair. David McGuinty goes from public safety to defense.\n\nCarney named former Goldman Sachs Canada CEO Tim Hodgson as natural resources minister. Carney, who worked for 14 years at Goldman Sachs, has said he wants to build Canada into an energy \"superpower\" and prioritize big, \"nation building\" projects.\n\nFormer journalist Evan Solomon is among the new ministers, serving in the new post of minister of artificial intelligence.\n\nWomen make up half of the Cabinet, as they did in Trudeau's Cabinet.\n\nCarney said the new Cabinet is built to deliver the change Canadians want and need. The Liberal government is in its fourth term."}
{"prompt_hash": "f2d30cc0901968bd8b9e66dc993d97dd3fa549c221f0f95946642096adf171c2", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 15:23:57+00:00", "topics": ["Jensen Huang", "NVIDIA Corp.", "Saudi Arabia", "Semiconductor manufacturing", "Artificial intelligence", "Technology", "Data management and storage", "Cloud computing", "Business"], "text": "# Nvidia to send 18,000 AI chips to Saudi Arabia\n\nBy The Associated Press  \nMay 13th, 2025 03:23 PM\n\n---\n\nU.S. chip maker Nvidia will partner with Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund-owned AI startup Humain and will ship 18,000 chips to the Middle Eastern nation to help power a new data center project.\n\nThe partnership was revealed Tuesday as part of a White House trip to Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. Saudi Arabia has been working to develop its artificial intelligence capacity and strengthen its cloud computing infrastructure with the help of foreign investment.\n\n\"AI, like electricity and internet, is essential infrastructure for every nation,\" said Jensen Huang, founder of Nvidia. \"Together with Humain, we are building AI infrastructure for the people and companies of Saudi Arabia to realize the bold vision of the Kingdom.\"\n\nThe cutting-edge Blackwell chips will be used in a 500 megawatt data center in Saudi Arabia, according to remarks at the Saudi-U.S. Investment Forum in Riyadh on Tuesday. The California company said its first deployment will use its GB300 Blackwell chips, which are among Nvidia's most advanced AI chips at the moment, and which were only officially announced earlier this year."}
{"prompt_hash": "dfd881c48923ebc457ac73675f66ab2d0031ebe8f27191fdef5556f1ffc58c7d", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 20:35:36+00:00", "topics": ["Pope Leo XIV", "Pope Francis", "Vatican City", "Social media", "Catholic Church", "Papal conclave", "Religion", "Pope Benedict XVI", "Donald Trump", "Technology", "JD Vance"], "text": "# Pope Leo XIV is back on social media, with a message of peace\n\nMay 13th, 2025 08:35 PM\n\n---\n\nVATICAN CITY (AP) \u2014 Pope Leo XIV has taken over the Vatican's official social media handles, with a first Instagram post on Tuesday repeating the first words he said to the world as pope: \"Peace be with you all!\"\n\nThe @Pontifex \u2013 Pope Leo XIV post featured some of the photos that have documented the first days of history's first American pope.\n\nThe Vatican said it was archiving the posts from Pope Francis ' 12-year papacy. On X, the new account didn't appear to be active Tuesday.\n\nThe Vatican launched the @Pontifex handle in 2012 during the pontificate of Pope Benedict XVI. It now comes in nine languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French, German, Polish, Arabic, and Latin -- and counts a combined 52 million followers.\n\nPast popes didn't actually send the posts, which were curated by the Vatican.\n\nThe former Cardinal Robert Prevost occasionally posted on X in an account started in 2011. It had been dormant since July 2023 but came back to life earlier this year to share criticism of Trump administration migration policies and comments by Vice President JD Vance."}
{"prompt_hash": "27e9bace7fe62d705f36699ce71f22f3660418d09ead554cf6c53ad11bc4b14c", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-14 01:05:09+00:00", "topics": ["Donald Trump", "Philippines", "Joe Biden", "Jeanine Pirro", "Lawsuits", "Philippines government", "Courts", "Legal proceedings", "Bribery", "Corporate crime", "Voting", "New York City Wire", "Erik Connolly", "Rudolph Giuliani", "Fraud", "Indictments", "Corruption", "Sidney Powell", "Elections"], "text": "# Fox News can get Smartmatic records about Philippines bribery case, court rules\n\nBy Jennifer Peltz  \nMay 14th, 2025 01:05 AM\n\n---\n\nNEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Fox News can get access to some internal documents at the voting-technology company Smartmatic as part of its effort to defend itself against a $2.7 billion civil defamation lawsuit over its coverage of claims of voting fraud during the 2020 presidential election, a New York appeals court ruled Tuesday.\n\nThe documents concern a U.S. corruption case about Smartmatic's dealings in the Philippines.\n\nThe opinion reversed a lower-court judge's repeated denials of Fox requests to peer into the company's records about the federal inquiry, which led to criminal charges against Smartmatic co-founder Roger Pi\u00f1ate and two other executives.\n\nSmartmatic says the suit is a world away from the criminal case, which alleges the executives conspired to pay over $1 million in bribes to a Filipino official between 2015 and 2018 to secure business there.\n\nPi\u00f1ate and at least one co-defendant have pleaded not guilty. It's unclear from court records whether the third executive has entered a plea or has an attorney who can comment on the charges. Smartmatic itself isn't charged and put the defendants on leave.\n\nFlorida-based Smartmatic says its business was decimated when Fox aired false claims that the election-tech company helped rig the 2020 voting. Under pressure from Smartmatic, Fox eventually interviewed an election technology expert who refuted the allegations.\n\nThe network says it simply reported on newsworthy allegations made by President Donald Trump and his allies, and that Smartmatic is vastly overstating its purported losses.\n\nA five-judge state Appellate Division panel said Fox can get some documents about how the Philippines corruption indictment affected Smartmatic's business, reasoning that the information is \"plainly relevant to its current and future lost profits.\"\n\nIn court filings and a recent hearing, lawyers for Fox News and Smartmatic disputed how much relevant material already was turned over.\n\nHailing Tuesday's ruling, the network said in a statement that evidence \"shows that Smartmatic's business and reputation were badly suffering long before any claims by President Trump's lawyers on Fox News.\"\n\nSmartmatic lawyer Erik Connolly said Fox's \"campaign of lies was the number-one cause of Smartmatic's injuries.\"\n\nSmartmatic is suing the network and some current and former on-air hosts, including Jeanine Pirro, newly tapped as top federal prosecutor for the nation's capital. The lawsuit involves shows in which Trump lawyers Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell portrayed Smartmatic as part of a broad conspiracy to steal the 2020 vote from Trump. The Republican was then in his first term.\n\nFederal and state election officials, exhaustive reviews in battleground states and Trump's own then-attorney general found no widespread fraud that could have changed the outcome of the election, which was won by Democrat Joe Biden. Nor did they uncover any credible evidence that the vote was tainted. Dozens of judges, including some whom Trump had appointed, rejected his fraud claims."}
{"prompt_hash": "5f93a585bdd39776a55705644b94fc1b3435ab367ed23352dd0fd918c22b6a7b", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-14 01:26:31+00:00", "topics": ["Mens college basketball", "Illinois Fighting Illini", "Brad Underwood", "College sports", "Illinois", "Illinois Fighting Illini mens basketball", "Lou Henson", "Sports", "Josh Whitman", "Rose Bowls"], "text": "# Illinois rewards football coach Bret Bielema and hoops coach Brad Underwood with 6-year extensions\n\nBy Andrew Seligman  \nMay 14th, 2025 01:26 AM\n\n---\n\nIllinois has locked in its football and men's basketball coaches for the long term, agreeing to six-year contracts with Bret Bielema and Brad Underwood.\n\nIllinois rewarded Bielema for turning around its struggling football program, and Underwood for an eight-year run that includes five NCAA Tournament appearances and a trip to the Elite Eight. Both deals were announced Tuesday.\n\nBielema's deal runs through 2030, while Underwood is locked in through the 2030-31 season. The contracts are pending approval by the university's board of trustees on May 22.\n\nBielema's annual salary would begin at $7.7 million, while Underwood's would start at $4.4 million. Both coaches would be eligible for four one-year extensions if performance benchmarks are met, as well as annual retention incentives starting next July 1.\n\nFor Bielema, the retention incentives would start at $700,000 and increase each year. For Underwood, they would begin at $1.15 million.\n\nIn four seasons in Champaign, Bielema has led Illinois to a 28-22 record and an 18-18 mark in Big Ten play. The Illini matched a school record for wins in 2024 when they went 10-3. They beat South Carolina in the Citrus Bowl and became just the fifth team in the program's 133 years to reach double-digit victories.\n\n\"Over the last four seasons, our program has been built on tough, smart, dependable people in every facet: from our players, to our coaches and staff, to our administration,\" Bielema said in a statement. \"I am fortunate to work every day with an athletic director that fully believes in our football program and a coaching staff that fully believes in our players.\"\n\nUnderwood praised his program's \"alignment\" with athletic director Josh Whitman, the administration and trustees.\n\n\"That foundation created the environment where \u2014 led by all the tremendous players we've had along with a group of talented assistant coaches and a dedicated staff \u2014 we have been able to achieve success,\" he said.\n\nBielema, who led Wisconsin to three Rose Bowls before a disappointing run at Arkansas, replaced the fired Lovie Smith after the 2020 season. He got a six-year contract at the time with a salary starting at $4.2 million to return to the Big Ten and his home state.\n\nIllinois had nine straight losing seasons before Bielema was hired. The Illini went 5-7 in his first year before winning eight games in 2022. They went 5-7 in 2023 before bouncing back last year.\n\nIllinois won 10 games for the first time since 2001. The Illini were ranked by the College Football Playoff selection committee a program-record four straight weeks and appeared in the AP poll 11 times, finishing at No. 16.\n\nUnderwood is 165-101 overall at Illinois and 92-66 in Big Ten play, with three league championships. He and Lou Henson are the only Illini coaches with at least five consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances. Illinois was also on track to make the 2020 tournament that was canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic.\n\nThe Illini won 22 games last season after losing five starters and the top eight scorers from a team that reached the Elite Eight in 2024.\n\nUnderwood has a 274-128 record in 12 seasons as a head coach, including three at Stephen F. Austin and one at Oklahoma State."}
{"prompt_hash": "b8e8c0015533f6f6e825831f9d44002d935d4a4d12a532672a8b9e22c2a3529e", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-14 01:05:06+00:00", "topics": ["Connecticut Sun", "Connecticut", "Tina Charles", "Jen Rizzotti", "WNBA", "Sports", "NBA basketball", "WNBA basketball", "Caitlin Clark", "Orlando", "Michael Carter Williams"], "text": "# Connecticut Sun exploring all options, including sale of franchise according to team president\n\nBy Doug Feinberg  \nMay 14th, 2025 01:05 AM\n\n---\n\nThe Connecticut Sun are looking at all options for the franchise's future, including a potential sale, team president Jen Rizzotti said Tuesday.\n\nThe team is owned by the Mohegan Tribe, which runs the casino where the team has played since 2003. The Tribe bought the franchise for $10 million and relocated it from Orlando that year. The Connecticut franchise was the first in the league to be run by a non-NBA owner and also became the first to turn a profit.\n\nRizzotti, who took over in her current role four years ago, said that Mohegan's decision was the move of \"responsible business owners\" and that \"it's more about being consistent about how they're evaluating all of their businesses, the Connecticut Sun being one of them.\"\n\nThe news was first reported Monday by Sportico, which said the team had hired investment bank Allen & Co to conduct the probe.\n\nRizzotti said that no decision has been made and that no timeline has been set. The team could be sold to an outside group or the franchise could bring on a minority owner.\n\n\"They want to make sure they're doing what's best for the organization as well as the WNBA,\" she said.\n\nRizzotti went on to say that the ownership group has done a great job over the years.\n\n\"They do everything first class. They pride themselves on guest experience and attention to detail and true investment in the right ways. If the tribe decides they want to own this team, they're as competitive, I think, as any ownership group in the league.\"\n\nThe WNBA has experienced rapid growth the last few seasons and ownerships groups have been investing more into their teams, including player experiences. That has come in the way of practice facilities. The Sun are one of the few teams in the league that haven't announced any plans for a new training facility.\n\nConnecticut practices either at the arena in the casino or a local community center.\n\nDespite the lack of facilities, the Sun have been one of the most successful teams in the league, making the postseason in 16 seasons, including a run of six straight semifinal appearances. But the team was hit hard this offseason with the entire starting five from last season leaving either via free agency or trade.\n\n\"We're going to pour into this franchise as long as it's here,\" Rizzotti said. \"And if it ends up not being the case, then we'll worry about that when the time comes.\"\n\nRizzotti met with the players and coaches Tuesday morning and asked them to stay focused on this season, which begins Sunday against Washington.\n\n\"They have their job, and our job is to put the best product on the floor,\" said Tina Charles, who returned to the franchise this offseason after leaving in 2014. \"We trust that they're gonna do their jobs and make the right decision that will benefit the organization and the players and the coaches and the staff moving forward.\"\n\nThe WNBA added a 13th franchise this year with the Golden State Valkyries beginning play. Toronto and Portland will enter the league next season as expansion teams. A 16th team will also be awarded to a city at some point soon.\n\nThe league hasn't had a team relocate since 2017, when the San Antonio franchise moved to Las Vegas and became the Aces. The Sun played a regular-season game last year in Boston and will again play one there in July against Caitlin Clark and the Indiana Fever.\n\nA group that includes former NBA player Michael Carter Williams expressed interest in February about bringing a franchise to Boston."}
{"prompt_hash": "c7e88de49ed35647e8ae3d050856fd0de259ccfa70dc7052439662bd326ee521", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 19:08:32+00:00", "topics": ["Aaron Boone", "Oswaldo Cabrera", "Athlete injuries", "Aaron Judge", "New York Yankees", "Injuries", "Softball", "Seattle Mariners", "MLB", "New York City Wire", "Oswald Peraza", "Sports", "Pablo Reyes", "New York", "MLB baseball", "Justin Greisberg", "DJ LeMahieu", "Jorbit Vivas"], "text": "# Yankees third baseman Oswaldo Cabrera placed on 10-day injured list with left ankle fracture\n\nBy Andrew Destin  \nMay 13th, 2025 07:08 PM\n\n---\n\nSEATTLE (AP) \u2014 New York Yankees third baseman Oswaldo Cabrera was placed on the 10-day injured list with a left ankle fracture ahead of Tuesday night's game against the Seattle Mariners.\n\nIn a corresponding move, infielder DJ LeMahieu completed his rehab assignment and was reinstated from the 10-day injured list.\n\nIn the ninth inning of New York's 11-5 victory over Seattle on Monday night, Cabrera fractured his left ankle on an awkward slide when he reached back for the plate and scored the Yankees' final run on Aaron Judge's sacrifice fly.\n\nManager Aaron Boone said Cabrera avoided emergency surgery and was discharged from the hospital early Tuesday morning before taking a flight back to New York. Cabrera is expected to meet with Dr. Justin Greisberg, an orthopedic foot and ankle surgeon, in New York on Wednesday.\n\n\"He'll see Dr. Greisberg tomorrow and then kind of get the plan of action, surgery in play potentially the next day,\" Boone said. \"But, we'll have a better idea here (in) the next 24 hours, 48 hours, just exactly what they're dealing with.\"\n\nBoone visited Cabrera in the hospital Monday night, as did numerous Yankees teammates \u2014 two at a time \u2014 throughout the evening, as well as in the team hotel lobby Tuesday morning.\n\nUpon leaving Seattle, Cabrera did so without a hard cast, nor a clear idea as to whether he had sustained any ligament damage in his left ankle. As a result, Boone was noncommittal about whether Cabrera could return later this year, or if his 2025 season ended with the injury.\n\n\"I have no idea,\" Boone said. \"We'll see, we'll see. Again, that's one of those things that if and when they do surgery, they'll go in there and you'll get a better idea when you're in there of what exactly is needed and then we'll see.\"\n\nCabrera had become a regular in the Yankees' lineup this season. The clubhouse favorite is hitting .243 this season with one home run and 11 RBIs.\n\nThere are a number of internal options to fill Cabrera's spot in the lineup in the meantime, Boone said. The since-activated LeMahieu could get time there, as well as Pablo Reyes and Jorbit Vivas. Oswald Peraza got the start at third base on Tuesday night.\n\nPrimarily, LeMahieu will play second base, the position the 36-year-old utilityman has spent the majority of his MLB career.\n\n\"It feels natural. I played there for 12 years,\" LeMahieu said. \"So, yeah, I feel really good over there. But yeah, kind of see how it checks out.\"\n\nLeMahieu was flying to Seattle during the middle of Monday night's game, and learned of Cabrera's injury when checking the score. Like his Yankees teammates, LeMahieu was devastated by the news.\n\n\"Obviously it's one of the dark sides of the game,\" LeMahieu said. \"Super unfortunate. He's a great guy, great player and just really unfortunate.\"\n\nWhile Cabrera's season hangs in the balance and the Yankees attempt to move forward for however long he's sidelined, Boone hardly could have gathered the fourth-year big leaguer was going through a challenging time from their Tuesday morning interaction.\n\n\"He was smiling, happy,\" Boone said. \"Trust he's in good hands.\""}
{"prompt_hash": "a3342fe3f2916d30a3283e81e608b2b119e06ed4767728b096a133537375fca7", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 20:52:07+00:00", "topics": ["Maryland", "Wes Moore", "West Virginia", "Schools", "Evacuations", "Climate and environment", "Aaron Stallings", "Education", "Deval Patrick", "Judy Hamilton", "Floods", "Climate"], "text": "# Flash flooding forces evacuation of elementary school in western Maryland\n\nBy Lea Skene  \nMay 13th, 2025 08:52 PM\n\n---\n\nBALTIMORE (AP) \u2014 Flooding in rural western Maryland forced the evacuation of an elementary school Tuesday afternoon as water began to breach the second floor, according to local officials.\n\nHomes and businesses in downtown Westernport were also inundated with floodwaters after hours of heavy rain.\n\nOfficials reassured the public that students and staff were safe as concerned parents and other community members posted on social media wondering how long the emergency situation would last at Westernport Elementary School.\n\nAllegany County spokesperson Kati Kenney said responders used rescue boats to safely evacuate the school. About 150 students and 50 adults were evacuated during 15 boat trips.\n\nKenney said additional evacuations were underway in nearby areas, with reports of people trapped in cars and houses, but no injuries had been reported as of late Tuesday afternoon. She said emergency crews from surrounding counties were helping with the response in the small community near the West Virginia line.\n\nAnother elementary school was also evacuated, and students at a middle school were sheltering in place, the Allegany County Department of Emergency Services said Tuesday evening. Officials said three emergency shelters had been opened across the county.\n\nAaron Stallings, rushed to Westernport Elementary to pick up his little sister earlier Tuesday afternoon, but he soon realized his car wouldn't make it. Stallings said he hopped a fence and made his way on foot through the shin-deep water.\n\n\"I knew my car was not going to get through, so I had to find an alternate route,\" he said.\n\nStallings said children were being kept on the second and third floors when he made his way inside. Minutes after he located his sister with the help of the principal, the water level on the first floor had already risen again to his knees and was rushing under the school doors.\n\nOnce he waded back outside with his sister, Stallings turned around to capture video of the scene, where parked cars and a dumpster were floating through the school's parking lot.\n\nAlley Wade also left work early when she heard about flooding downtown. She and her husband hoped to pick up their two sons, ages 8 and 10, but they couldn't get to the school because roads were already closed. Instead, they spent most of the afternoon standing around in the rain anxiously watching the floodwaters rise.\n\n\"It was stressful because I felt so helpless,\" Wade said.\n\nThe family was finally reunited after the students had been evacuated. Wade said there were a lot of crying kids, but thankfully everyone was safe.\n\nRoads throughout the area were closed due to flooding, including major arteries, according to the Allegany County Sheriff's Office.\n\nWesternport Mayor Judy Hamilton said the town has been prone to severe flooding in the past, but they weren't expecting it today.\n\n\"It just seemed to happen all at once,\" she said. \"My heart is breaking.\"\n\nShe said the evacuated students were taken to higher ground and sheltered in a church building, where they would be kept safe by teachers and staff until their parents could pick them up.\n\nWith a population under 2,000 people, Westernport is located in the far corner of western Maryland. Its downtown took shape in a valley where Georges Creek flows into the North Branch Potomac River.\n\nThe National Weather Service reported widespread flash flooding in the area Tuesday afternoon.\n\n\"We are closely monitoring the flood conditions that are present across Western Maryland due to heavy rainfall, especially in Allegany County,\" Gov. Wes Moore said in a social media post, adding that the state and local authorities were actively responding to the inundation.\n\nHamilton said the last time Westernport suffered from devastating floods was in 1996.\n\n\"But we're strong and we always build back,\" she said.\n\nIn West Virginia, Gov. Patrick Morrisey declared a state of emergency Tuesday night in Mineral County, along the Maryland border, due to severe storms and heavy rains that resulted in flash flooding. The declaration allows the state to mobilize personnel and resources to the area."}
{"prompt_hash": "e2652df2d537b65acb735499268780e29ce04c59833a56c43c802eb663435888", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-14 01:10:37+00:00", "topics": ["Emmanuel Clase", "Steven Kwan", "Milwaukee Brewers", "Cleveland Guardians", "Carlos Santana", "Kyle Manzardo", "Baseball", "MLB", "Logan Allen", "Sports", "Gavin Williams", "Hunter Gaddis", "MLB baseball", "Diving", "Jackson Chourio", "Quinn Priester", "Christian Yelich", "Matt Festa", "Jose Ramirez"], "text": "# Ram\u00edrez homers, Allen pitches 6 sharp innings as Guardians blank Brewers for 2nd straight night, 2-0\n\nMay 14th, 2025 01:10 AM\n\n---\n\nCLEVELAND (AP) \u2014 Jos\u00e9 Ram\u00edrez hit his seventh homer, Logan Allen allowed three hits in six innings, and the Cleveland Guardians beat Milwaukee 2-0 on Tuesday night, their second consecutive shutout of the Brewers.\n\nKyle Manzardo drove in the Guardians' other run with his second triple this season, a short flyball that got past a diving Jackson Chourio in center field to score Ram\u00edrez in the eighth inning.\n\nAllen (2-2) walked one and struck out six. Matt Festa, Hunter Gaddis and Emmanuel Clase completed the shutout. Clase got his ninth save.\n\nThe Guardians have six shutouts this season, including Monday night's 5-0 win over the Brewers. They have won five of seven overall.\n\nRam\u00edrez went deep in the first inning off Quinn Priester (1-2), who allowed three hits in five innings.\n\nRam\u00edrez and Steven Kwan each had two hits, including Kwan's ninth double. Carlos Santana walked twice to extend his on-base streak to 16 games.\n\nChourio had two of Milwaukee's three hits, including his 14th double, and stole his seventh and eighth bases of the season. The Brewers have lost five of six.\n\n## Key moment\n\nChourio doubled to open the sixth but Allen then retired the 2-3-4 hitters, striking out Christian Yelich to end the inning.\n\n## Key stat\n\nGuardians starters have a 2.16 ERA over their last 14 games. They had a 5.24 ERA over the prior 28 games this season.\n\n## Up next\n\nMilwaukee hadn't announced a starter for Wednesday's series finale. Gavin Williams (3-2, 4.38) will pitch for the Guardians."}
{"prompt_hash": "3dbcb8df8f756b1dccedbb2899a9f73243d6e46c8cafb5704b370b651279fe12", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-14 01:06:55+00:00", "topics": ["Robert F. Kennedy Jr.", "West Virginia", "Irene Berger", "Morgantown", "Lung disease", "Lawsuits", "Richard Nixon", "Sam Brown Petsonk", "Health", "Legal proceedings", "Harry Wiley"], "text": "# Judge orders restoration of jobs in health program for West Virginia coal miners\n\nBy John Raby  \nMay 14th, 2025 01:06 AM\n\n---\n\nCHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) \u2014 A judge on Tuesday ordered the restoration of a health monitoring program for coal miners in West Virginia and rescinded layoffs the federal government implemented in a unit of a small U.S. health agency.\n\nU.S. District Judge Irene Berger issued a preliminary injunction in a lawsuit filed against Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services by a coal miner who was diagnosed with a respiratory ailment commonly known as black lung disease.\n\nNearly 200 workers at a National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health facility in Morgantown were told last month that their jobs were being terminated as part of restructuring within Health and Human Services. Berger ordered that jobs be restored within NIOSH's respiratory health division in Morgantown, although her ruling didn't specify a number. The division is responsible for screening and reviewing medical exams to determine whether there is evidence that miners have developed black lung.\n\nFederal law mandates that regular health screenings be made available to coal miners. Those diagnosed with black lung also are given the option to transfer to other positions in a mine to protect them from continued dust exposure without a pay reduction.\n\nBerger said the defendants \"lack the authority to unilaterally cancel\" the Coal Workers Health Surveillance Program within NIOSH. She ordered both the surveillance and job transfer programs to be restored, saying that \"there be no pause, stoppage or gap in the protections and services\" mandated by the federal Mine Safety and Health Act.\n\nPoisonous silica dust has contributed to the premature deaths of thousands of mine workers from black lung disease. Plaintiff Harry Wiley, a West Virginia mine electrician who has worked in coal mines for 38 years, was diagnosed with early-stage black lung last November.\n\nCanceling the health surveillance program would \"cost lives,\" Berger wrote. \"Remaining in a dusty job may reduce the years in which Mr. Wiley can walk and breathe unassisted, in addition to hastening his death. It is difficult to imagine a clearer case of irreparable harm.\"\n\nThe judge gave Kennedy 20 days to show the federal government is complying with her order.\n\nAn email seeking comment from Health and Human Services wasn't immediately returned Tuesday night.\n\nWiley's attorney, Sam Brown Petsonk, said the preliminary injunction \"had to happen, and the public, I think, understands the absolute necessity of this program. It cannot be hindered. It cannot be whittled away. It's essential because it saves the lives of some of he hardest-working people in this entire world.\"\n\nNIOSH was created under a 1970 law signed by President Richard Nixon. It started operations the following year and grew to have offices and labs in eight cities, including Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Morgantown, and Spokane, Washington."}
{"prompt_hash": "0329cdd729e2b1620756e487154672eb131ca0be4a518ca098703fedda9a6e3f", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 22:33:48+00:00", "topics": ["Arizona", "Katie Hobbs", "New Mexico", "Arizona state government", "Emily Pike", "North Dakota", "Michelle Lujan Grisham", "Legislation", "Indigenous people", "Teresa Martinez", "Politics", "Amber Alerts", "Teens", "Activism", "Race and ethnicity", "Kelly Armstrong", "Race and Ethnicity"], "text": "# Arizona governor signs 'Emily's Law' to alert when Native Americans go missing\n\nBy Sejal Govindarao and Susan Montoya Bryan  \nMay 13th, 2025 10:33 PM\n\n---\n\nPHOENIX (AP) \u2014 Arizona's governor on Tuesday signed legislation to create an alert system for Native Americans who have gone missing in the state, a measure that won unanimous approval from lawmakers in the wake of the disappearance and death of a San Carlos Apache teen.\n\nWith Gov. Katie Hobbs' signature, Arizona becomes the latest state to join a movement that began in 2022 in Washington state to use alert systems to quickly share information about cases involving Native Americans.\n\nColorado, California and other states have adopted their own versions of such systems. New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham recently signed what is known as \"turquoise alert\" legislation, and North Dakota Gov. Kelly Armstrong approved a \"feather alert.\" The alerts take their names from items that hold spiritual and cultural significance to Native Americans.\n\nArizona's \"turquoise alert\" legislation is also referred to as \"Emily's Law\" to honor Emily Pike, whose remains were found Feb. 14 more than 100 miles (161 kilometers) from a group home she left in Mesa, Arizona, in late January. Pike's death spurred a resurgence of activism aimed at bringing more awareness to the disproportionate number of disappearances and violent deaths that have gripped Native American communities for decades, and prompted lawmakers to amend the bill to recognize her.\n\n\"It breaks my heart that we, the state of Arizona, didn't even go looking for this little girl. No one looked for her,\" said bill sponsor Rep. Teresa Martinez while on the House floor last week. \"We cannot let children go missing without somebody being alerted.\"\n\nMartinez's great niece is a member of the Gila River Indian Community.\n\nThe Federal Communications Commission voted last year to establish a new national alert code for delivering messages to the public via television, radio and wireless phones about missing and endangered persons cases.\n\nThe commission reported that in 2023, more than 188,000 people who fall outside of the criteria for Amber Alerts went missing, noting that the new code will be particularly beneficial to Native American, Alaska Native and Black communities. Those groups constitute 40% of missing people in the U.S. despite each making up much smaller percentages of the overall population, according to the commission.\n\nStates have various alert programs that cover cases that can include children, specific minorities, people with disabilities and older adults. California in 2024 rolled out \"ebony alerts\" to inform the public about missing Black youths. Supporters say there have been successful outcomes with that system but that law enforcement could be issuing more alerts for those cases that meet the requirements.\n\nThe Arizona legislation creates a rapid response system for issuing and coordinating alerts for people reported missing under the age of 65, including those who are members of federally recognized tribes, if law enforcement finds the individual could be in danger or missing under unexplained or suspicious circumstances.\n\n\"Like my sister says, even though she's not here with us, she's still making a difference,\" Pike's uncle, Allred Pike Jr., said in an interview Friday.\n\nPike's mother, Steff Dosela, has told reporters that it took a week for her to hear about her daughter's disappearance from the group home. Lawmakers in the Arizona Senate are looking into Arizona Department of Child Services' group home regulations.\n\nThe FBI announced last week that it was offering a $75,000 reward for information that would identify the person or people responsible for the disappearance and killing of Pike, whose remains were recovered by Gila County sheriff's deputies on state land near the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation. The reward is in addition to the $75,000 already being offered by the San Carlos Apache Tribe."}
{"prompt_hash": "91d5a4c76b6c2dfdc8a4de62136db13f0d9198d34ce189fcd9ed44202c79a033", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 17:08:56+00:00", "topics": ["Donald Trump", "Karoline Leavitt", "District of Columbia", "Josh Hawley", "John Thune", "Richard Blumenthal", "Rand Paul", "James Lankford", "Shelley Capito", "U.S. Department of Justice", "Qatar", "United States", "New York City Wire", "Qatar government", "Corruption", "Politics", "Tommy Tuberville", "United States government", "National security", "Sean Hannity", "Markwayne Mullin", "Pam Bondi"], "text": "# Schumer vows to hold up Justice Department nominees over luxury plane from Qatar\n\nBy Mary Clare Jalonick  \nMay 13th, 2025 05:08 PM\n\n---\n\nWASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer said Tuesday that he will hold up all Justice Department nominations on the Senate floor until he gets more answers about the free Air Force One replacement that President Donald Trump says would be donated by Qatar.\n\nTrump said this week that he wants to accept the $400 million plane, and that it would later be donated to a presidential library. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told Fox News on Monday that the details of the donation are still being worked out.\n\nThe plan, Schumer said, \"is not just naked corruption, it is also a grave national security threat.\"\n\nSchumer said he wants answers from Attorney General Pam Bondi and the Trump administration about whether it is investigating activities inside the United States by Qatari foreign agents that could benefit Trump or his business. He also wants to know if Qatar will be responsible for adding security measures to the plane and how it will be built and paid for.\n\n\"The Attorney General must testify before both the House and Senate to explain why gifting Donald Trump a private jet does not violate the emoluments clause \u2014 which requires congressional approval \u2014 or any other ethics laws,\" Schumer said.\n\nThe Constitution prohibits federal officials from accepting things of value, or \"emoluments,\" from foreign governments without congressional approval.\n\nIn a post on his social media site on Tuesday night, Trump said the plane \"is being given to the United States Air Force/Department of Defense, NOT TO ME! It is a gift from a Nation, Qatar, that we have successfully defended for many years.\"\n\nDemocrats have expressed uniform outrage about the potential foreign gift and many Republicans are uneasy about the plan, as well. Returning to Washington on Monday evening, senators in both parties questioned how the deal would work and stressed the importance of following federal laws that govern how a U.S. president can accept gifts from foreign countries.\n\n\"We need to look at the constitutionality of it,\" said Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., who said she'd be concerned about possible spying devices installed on the plane. Republican Sen. James Lankford of Oklahoma said that Trump had said he would follow the law, and \"that's the right answer.\"\n\nRepublican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky said Trump shouldn't accept the jet. \"I don't think it looks good or smells good,\" Paul said. Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., said he'd prefer \"a big, beautiful jet made in the United States of America.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., declined to give a direct opinion on the possible deal, but said that if it happens, \"I can assure you there will be plenty of scrutiny.\"\n\nRepublican Sen. Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma defended the idea. \"Why would we care if another country wanted to give the United States a gift?\" he asked.\n\nIn an excerpt of an interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity airing Tuesday night, Trump also questioned the criticism. \"My attitude is, why wouldn't I accept a gift?\" Trump said. He said the United States \"should have the most impressive plane.\"\n\nSchumer's holds mean that the Senate can't quickly confirm any of Trump's Justice Department nominees. Many lower-level nominations, such as U.S. attorneys, are often approved in groups by voice vote.\n\nDemocratic Sens. Brian Schatz of Hawaii and Richard Blumenthal of Hawaii went to the Senate floor Tuesday afternoon and tried to force a vote on a resolution disapproving of the Qatari gift. But it was blocked by Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville, who said Democrats are \"losing their mind over the situation\" and the gift is not a done deal. If the Qatari government does donate the plane, \"the only thing we should say is thank you,\" Tuberville said.\n\nSchatz said that \"it really should go without saying, but no president should be accepting a $400 million gift from a foreign country. It is gross, it is reckless, it is corrupt, and the outrage and condemnation especially on the Republican side should be universal.\""}
{"prompt_hash": "cb351b9f8b8f200fdbddc46227e0a6ad10762585fb04f719ab105e768604731a", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 16:08:07+00:00", "topics": ["Israel government", "Benjamin Netanyahu", "2024-2025 Mideast Wars", "Donald Trump", "Israel", "Steve Witkoff", "Hamas", "Gaza Strip", "Middle East", "Hostage situations", "War and unrest", "International agreements", "Humanitarian crises", "Water shortages", "Adam Boehler", "Military and defense", "Religion", "Edan Alexander"], "text": "# Netanyahu says 'no way' war in Gaza ends until defeat of Hamas\n\nBy Melanie Lidman and Elena Becatoros  \nMay 13th, 2025 04:08 PM\n\n---\n\nTEL AVIV, Israel (AP) \u2014 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says there is \"no way\" Israel will halt its war in Gaza \u2014 where airstrikes on two hospitals Tuesday killed at least eight and wounded dozens \u2014 even if a deal is reached to release more hostages.\n\nNetanyahu's comments are likely to complicate talks on a new ceasefire that had seemed to gain momentum after Hamas released the last living American hostage on Monday in a gesture to U.S. President Donald Trump, who is visiting the region but skipping Israel.\n\nThey pointed to a potentially widening rift between Netanyahu and Trump, who had expressed hope that the release of Israeli-American soldier Edan Alexander would be a step toward ending the 19-month war.\n\nThe Israeli military on Tuesday struck what it said was a Hamas \"command and control center\" located beneath a hospital in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis. The strike on the European hospital was the day's second strike on a hospital, and left at least six people dead and 40 wounded, according to Gaza's Health Ministry.\n\nThe dead were taken to Nasser hospital, which Israel struck earlier in the day, saying militants were operating inside it, without identifying them. Two people were killed in that strike.\n\nIn comments released by Netanyahu's office Tuesday from a visit to wounded soldiers the previous day, the prime minister said Israeli forces were just days away from a promised escalation of force and would enter Gaza \"with great strength to complete the mission. ... It means destroying Hamas.\"\n\nAny ceasefire deal reached would be temporary, the prime minister said. If Hamas were to say they would release more hostages, \"we'll take them, and then we'll go in. But there will be no way we will stop the war,\" Netanyahu said. \"We can make a ceasefire for a certain period of time, but we're going to the end.\"\n\nHamas has said it will only release the remaining hostages in return for more Palestinian prisoners, a lasting ceasefire and an Israeli withdrawal from Gaza. The dispute over whether to end the conflict has been the main obstacle in negotiations going back more than a year.\n\nIsrael says 58 hostages remain in captivity, with as many as 23 of them said to be alive, although authorities have expressed concern about the condition of three of them. Many of the 250 hostages taken by Hamas-led militants in the Oct. 7, 2023 attack that started the war were freed in ceasefire deals.\n\n## Comments come after hostage release\n\nMonday's release of 21-year-old Alexander resulted from negotiations between Hamas and the Trump administration that appeared to have largely bypassed Israel, which made no concessions for his release.\n\nAlexander, who was 19 when he was taken from an Israeli army base during the 2023 attack, was the first hostage released since Israel shattered an eight-week ceasefire with Hamas in March and unleashed fierce strikes on Gaza that have killed hundreds of Palestinians.\n\nIsrael has promised to intensify its offensive, including by seizing Gaza and displacing much of the territory's population again. Days before the ceasefire ended in March, Israel blocked all imports from entering the Palestinian enclave, deepening a humanitarian crisis and sparking warnings about the risk of famine. Israel says the steps are meant to pressure Hamas to accept a ceasefire agreement on Israel's terms.\n\nThe World Health Organization said Tuesday that according to Gaza's Health Ministry, 57 children had died from the effects of malnutrition since the blockade began on March 2.\n\nA WHO representative in the occupied Palestinian territories, Dr. Rik Peeperkorn, said that if the situation persists, nearly 71,000 children under the age of five are expected to suffer from acute malnutrition over the next 11 months.\n\n\"This is one of the world's worst hunger crises, unfolding in real time,\" Peeperkorn said.\n\n## Netanyahu faces criticism\n\nAlexander's release created a backlash against Netanyahu, who critics accuse of putting the lives of the hostages in danger by continuing the war. Netanyahu says he is committed to returning all the hostages, destroying Hamas and resettling much of Gaza's population through what he refers to as \"voluntary emigration.\"\n\nDuring a nearly two-hour meeting in Tel Aviv with the families of hostages on Tuesday, the United States' special envoy for the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, and Adam Boehler, the Trump administration's envoy for hostage affairs, said they would do what was needed to bring the remaining hostages home.\n\nWitkoff said everyone would prefer a diplomatic solution and that most hostages had been released through diplomacy. The officials headed to Doha, Qatar, after their meeting to join Trump. Qatar has been a key mediator between Israel and Hamas.\n\nWitkoff said they wouldn't be traveling to Qatar if they didn't think there was a genuine chance for progress in negotiations.\n\n## Alexander's parents say he told of 'unimaginable difficulty' in captivity\n\nAlexander's parents said in a statement on Tuesday that their son described enduring a harsh captivity that included hunger, lack of water, and \"appalling sanitary conditions.\"\n\nHis mother, Yael, said he feared for his life every day, \"but the most terrible sound that Edan feared was the sound of the war going on above their heads. Deafening explosions, the whistles of missiles, the sounds of collapse, collapse, and the earth shaking.\"\n\nAlexander's parents called on Netanyahu to listen to \"the vast majority of the Israeli public\" and prioritize the return of the remaining hostage. They thanked Trump and his envoys for \"their tireless efforts on Edan's behalf.\"\n\n## Israel seeking to move Palestinians out of Gaza\n\nNetanyahu has voiced support for a plan proposed by Trump for Palestinians to be moved out of the Gaza Strip after the war - a proposal that has infuriated Palestinians and Arab nations.\n\n\"We have put together an administration that will allow them to leave, but the problem with us is one thing \u2014 we need receptive countries,\" Netanyahu said during his visit to the wounded soldiers Monday. \"That's what we're working on right now. If you give them the go-ahead, I tell you that more than 50% will leave, and I think much more.\"\n\nIsrael and the US have been seeking countries willing to take Palestinians who would potentially move out of the territory.\n\nHamas-led militants killed 1,200 people in the 2023 attack. Israel's retaliatory offensive has killed over 52,800 Palestinians, many of them women and children, according to Gaza's Health Ministry, which does not say how many of the dead were combatants or civilians.\n\nIsrael's offensive has obliterated vast swaths of Gaza's urban landscape and displaced 90% of the population, often multiple times."}
{"prompt_hash": "7d330670c35449b8f0538644d1cb392b1df94cc3e71bae1925ea3e96029a728e", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 19:35:45+00:00", "topics": ["Uruguay", "Jos Mujica", "Claudia Sheinbaum", "Gustavo Petro", "Gabriel Boric", "Notable Deaths", "Fernando Pereira", "Cancer", "Luca Topolansky", "X Corp.", "Rebellions and uprisings", "Democracy", "Politics", "Evo Morales"], "text": "# Jos\u00e9 Mujica, Uruguay's humble president who changed his country and charmed the world, dies at 89\n\nBy Matilde Campod\u00f3nico and Isabel Debre  \nMay 13th, 2025 07:35 PM\n\n---\n\nMONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) \u2014 Former Uruguayan President Jos\u00e9 Mujica, a onetime Marxist guerilla and flower farmer whose radical brand of democracy, plain-spoken philosophy and simple lifestyle fascinated people around the world, has died. He was 89.\n\nUruguay's left-wing president, Yamand\u00fa Orsi, announced his death, which came four months after Mujica decided to forgo further medical treatment for esophageal cancer and enter hospice care at his three-room ranch house on the outskirts of Montevideo, Uruguay's capital.\n\n\"President, activist, guide and leader,\" Orsi wrote of his longtime political mentor before heading to Mujica's home to pay his respects. \"Thank you for everything you gave us.\"\n\nMujica had been under treatment for cancer of the esophagus since his diagnosis last spring. Radiation eliminated much of the tumor but soon Mujica's autoimmune disease complicated his recovery.\n\nIn January, Mujica's doctor announced that the cancer in his esophagus had returned and spread to his liver. In recent days, \"he knew that he was in his final hours,\" said Fernando Pereira, the president of Mujica's left-wing Broad Front party who visited the ailing ex-leader last week.\n\n## A colorful history and simple philosophy\n\nAs leader of a violent leftist guerrilla group in the 1960s known as the Tupamaros, Mujica robbed banks, planted bombs and abducted businessmen and politicians on Montevideo's streets in hopes of provoking a popular uprising that would lead to a Cuban-style socialist Uruguay.\n\nA brutal counterinsurgency and ensuing right-wing military dictatorship that ruled Uruguay between 1973 and 1985 sent him to prison for nearly 15 years, 10 of which he spent in solitary confinement.\n\nDuring his 2010-2015 presidency, Mujica, widely known as \"Pepe,\" oversaw the transformation of his small South American nation into one of the world's healthiest and most socially liberal democracies. He earned admiration at home and cult status abroad for legalizing marijuana and same-sex marriage, enacting the region's first sweeping abortion rights law and establishing Uruguay as a leader in alternative energy.\n\nRejecting the pomp and circumstance of the presidency, he drove a light blue beat-up 1987 Volkswagen Beetle, wore rumpled cardigan sweaters and sandals with socks and lived in a tin-roof house outside Montevideo, where for decades he tended to chrysanthemums for sale in local markets.\n\n\"This is the tragedy of life, on the one hand it's beautiful, but it ends,\" Mujica told The Associated Press in a wide-ranging Oct. 2023 interview from his farmhouse. \"Therefore, paradise is here. As is hell.\"\n\nAs the Uruguayan government declared three days of national mourning, tributes poured in from presidents and ordinary people around the world. The first to share remembrances were allied leaders who recalled not only Mujica's accomplishments but also his hallowed status as one of the last surviving lions of the now-receding Latin American left that peaked two decades ago.\n\nColombian President Gustavo Petro praised Mujica as a \"great revolutionary.\" Bolivia's former socialist president, Evo Morales said that he \"and all of Latin America\" are in mourning. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum called Mujica \"an example for Latin America and the entire world.\" Brazil's Foreign Ministry described him as \"one of the most important humanists of our time.\"\n\nChile's leftist President Gabriel Boric paid tribute to Mujica's efforts to combat social inequality.\n\n\"If you left us anything, it was the unquenchable hope that things can be done better,\" he wrote. \"The unwavering conviction that as long as our hearts beat and there is injustice in the world, it's worth continuing to fight.\"\n\n## From robbing banks to running Uruguay\n\nMujica never attended university and didn't finish high school. But politics piqued his interest as early as adolescence, when the young flower farmer joined the progressive wing of the conservative National Party, one of the two main parties in Uruguay. His pivot to urban guerrilla warfare came in the 1960s, as leftist struggles swept the region in the wake of the Cuban Revolution.\n\nHe and other student and labor radicals launched the Tupamaros National Liberation Movement, which quickly gained notoriety for its Robin Hood-style exploits aimed at installing a revolutionary government.\n\nBy 1970 the government cracked down, and the Tupamaros responded with violence, planting bombs in upscale neighborhoods and attacking casinos and other civilian targets, killing more than 30 people.\n\nMujica was shot six times in a firefight with police in a bar. He helped stage a prison break and twice escaped custody. But in 1973 the military seized power, unleashing a reign of terror upon the population that resulted in the forced disappearance of some 200 Uruguayans and the imprisonment of thousands.\n\nDuring his time in prison, he endured torture and long stretches in solitary confinement, often in a hole in the ground.\n\nAfter power returned to civilians in 1985, Mujica left prison under an amnesty that covered the crimes of the dictators and their guerrilla opponents. He entered mainstream politics with the Broad Front, a coalition of radical leftists and centrist social democrats.\n\nRapidly rising through the party ranks, Mujica charmed the country with his low-key way of living and penchant for speaking his mind. In 2005 he entered government with the Broad Front as an agricultural minister. Just four years later he was Uruguay's 40th president, elected with 52% of the vote.\n\nHis wife, Luc\u00eda Topolansky, a former co-revolutionary guerrilla member who was also imprisoned before becoming a prominent politician, bestowed the presidential sash on Mujica at his inauguration \u2014 as is custom for the senator who had received the most votes. They married in 2005 and had no children.\n\n\"I've been with him for over 40 years, and I'll be with him until the end,\" she told a local radio station Sunday as Mujica's condition deteriorated.\n\n## A folksy president who fascinated the world\n\nPepe's bracingly modest and spontaneous style as president \u2014 distributing pamphlets in the streets against machismo culture, lunching in Montevideo bars \u2014 made him a populist folk hero and token of global fascination.\n\n\"They made me seem like some impoverished president, but they were the poor ones ... imagine if you have to live in that four-story government house just to have tea,\" he told the AP of his decision to shun the presidential palace.\n\nOver his years in power, Mujica presided over comfortable economic growth, rising wages and falling poverty. In speeches, he pushed Uruguayans to reject consumerism and embrace their nation's tradition of simplicity.\n\nUnder his watch, the small nation became known worldwide for the strength of its institutions and the civility of its politics \u2014 rare features most recently on display during Uruguay's 2024 presidential vote that vaulted Orsi, Mujica's moderate prot\u00e9g\u00e9, to power.\n\nMujica's greatest innovations came on social issues. During his term, Uruguay became the first country in South America to legalize abortion for the first trimester and the first in the world to legalize the production, distribution and sale of marijuana. His government also legalized same-sex marriage, burnishing Uruguay's progressive image in the predominantly Catholic region.\n\nMujica's government also powered a green energy revolution that transformed Uruguay into one of the world's most environmentally friendly nations. Today the country generates 98% of its electricity from biomass, solar and wind energy.\n\nHis tenure was also not without controversy. The opposition complained of rising crime and a swollen fiscal deficit that forced his successor to raise taxes.\n\nSome world leaders disapproved of his disdain for the established order. Conservative Uruguayans voiced outrage over his progressive policies.\n\nStill, Mujica ended his tenure with a 60% approval rating. Ineligible to seek re-election because of a ban on consecutive terms, he continued to wield influence at home as an elected senator and abroad as a trailblazer and sage.\n\nEven so, his humility defined him until the end.\n\n\"They ask you: 'How do you want to be remembered?' Vanity of vanities!\" he exclaimed to the AP. \"Memory is a historical thing. ... Years go by. Not even the dust remains.\""}
{"prompt_hash": "c2ac0568a57b49ebb443b0d5870a03d1e3d46fac6ecb6e15488f371af8e72859", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 21:00:23+00:00", "topics": ["Donald Trump", "Mike Johnson", "Hakeem Jeffries", "Joe Biden", "U.S. Republican Party", "Government programs", "Legislation", "United States House of Representatives", "U.S. Democratic Party", "Education costs", "Congress", "Border security", "Mexico", "Personal finance", "Energy industry", "Politics", "Taxes", "Asylum", "Business", "Jobs and careers", "Labor"], "text": "# What's in Trump's big bill? Trillions in tax cuts, Medicaid changes and more\n\nBy Kevin Freking and Lisa Mascaro  \nMay 13th, 2025 09:00 PM\n\n---\n\nWASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Republicans in Congress are moving with rapid speed to advance President Donald Trump's big bill of tax breaks, spending cuts and beefed-up border security funding as leaders work to enact many of his campaign promises.\n\nHouse committees have been laboring for months to draft the legislation, which Republicans have labeled \"THE ONE, BIG, BEAUTIFUL BILL,'' a nod to Trump himself. Speaker Mike Johnson is pushing to approve the package and send it to the Senate by Memorial Day.\n\nDemocrats say they will fight what House party leader Hakeem Jeffries calls \"this extreme and toxic bill.\"\n\nHere's a look at what's in and out of the legislative package so far:\n\n## Tax cuts for individuals and businesses\n\nThe tax portion of the GOP legislation contains more than $5 trillion in tax cuts, according to an estimate from the Joint Committee on Taxation \u2014 costs that are partially offset by spending cuts elsewhere and other changes in the tax code.\n\nRepublicans look to make permanent the individual income tax cuts passed in President Donald Trump's first term, plus enact some of the promises he made on the campaign trail to not tax tips, overtime and interest on auto loans. Republicans partially offset the tax breaks by rolling back the clean energy tax credits passed during Joe Biden's presidency, such as a $7,500 tax credit for electric vehicles, bringing the overall cost of the tax cuts down to about $3.7 trillion.\n\nThe bill is expected to undergo further changes in the coming weeks. Lawmakers from New York are leading an effort to boost the state and local tax deduction, which the bill would already increase from $10,000 to $30,000 for families making less than $400,000 per year.\n\nThe legislation provides a deduction for those workers in service industry and other jobs that have traditionally relied on tips.\n\nThe package provides tax relief for automobile shoppers with a temporary deduction of up to $10,000 on car loan interest, applying the benefit only for those vehicles where the final assembly occurred in the United States. The tax break would expire at the end of Trump's term.\n\nFor seniors, there would be a bolstered $4,000 deduction on Social Security wages for those with adjusted incomes no higher than $75,000 for individuals and $150,000 for couples.\n\n## States to pick up more of the tab for food assistance\n\nHouse Republicans are looking to shift some of the cost of the Supplemental Nutrition and Assistance Program, known as SNAP, to the states. States would shoulder 5% of benefit costs under the bill beginning in fiscal year 2028. The share could also go higher for those states with high rates of overpayments and underpayments. The bill would also require states to pick up 75% of the administrative costs.\n\nCurrently, states shoulder none of the benefit costs and half of the administration costs.\n\nRepublicans argue that states have minimal incentive to control costs as a result of the current cost-sharing arrangement. But the changes would give them the incentive to enhance efficiencies and improve outcomes for recipients.\n\nRepublicans also are expanding work requirements for food aid recipients, which under current law applies to individuals without dependents aged 18-54. The bill expands the work requirement through age 64 and exempts only those caring for a dependent child under the age of 7.\n\nAt the same time, the legislation would invest $60 billion in new money for agriculture programs, sending aid to farmers.\n\n## New work requirements for Medicaid\n\nA centerpiece of the package is more than $900 billion in reduced spending, most of that coming through the Medicaid program.\n\nRepublicans insist they are simply rooting out \"waste, fraud and abuse\" to generate savings with new work and eligibility requirements. But Democrats warn that millions of Americans will lose coverage. In the 15 years since Obamacare became law, Medicaid has only expanded as most states have tapped into federal funds.\n\nAn estimate from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said the proposals would reduce the number of people with health care by at least 7.6 million from the Medicaid changes, and possibly more with other changes to the Affordable Care Act.\n\nTo be eligible for Medicaid, there would be new \"community engagement requirements\" of at least 80 hours per month of work, education or service for able-bodied adults without dependents. The new requirement would not kick in until Jan. 1, 2029. People would also have to verify their eligibility to be in the program twice a year, rather than just once.\n\nApplicants could not qualify for Medicaid if they have a home that is valued at more than $1 million.\n\n## Funding for 1 million migrant deportations, 20,000 new officers and the border wall\n\nThe legislation would provide $46.5 billion to revive construction of Trump's wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, and more money for the deportation agenda.\n\nThere's $4 billion to hire an additional 3,000 new Border Patrol agents as well as 5,000 new customs officers, and $2.1 billion for signing and retention bonuses, for a total of $69 billion in new spending.\n\nIt includes major changes to immigration policy, imposing a $1,000 fee on migrants seeking asylum \u2014 something the nation has never done, putting it on par with few others, including Australia and Iran.\n\nOverall, the plan is to remove 1 million immigrants annually and house 100,000 people in detention centers. It calls for 10,000 more Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers and investigators.\n\n## More money for the Pentagon and Trump's 'Golden Dome'\n\nThe House Armed Services Committee was tasked with drafting legislation with $100 billion in new spending. But they did that and more, passing a bill with $150 billion for the Defense Department and national security.\n\nAmong the highlights, it would provide $25 billion for Trump's \"Golden Dome for America,\" a long-envisioned missile defense shield, $21 billion to restock the nation's ammunition arsenal, $34 billion to expand the naval fleet with more shipbuilding and some $5 billion for border security.\n\nIt also includes $9 billion for servicemember quality of life-related issues, including housing, health care and special pay.\n\n## Tax on university endowments and overhaul of student loans\n\nA wholesale revamping of the student loan program is key to the legislation, providing $330 billion in budget cuts and savings.\n\nThe proposal would replace all existing student loan repayment plans with just two: a standard option with monthly payments spread out over 10 to 25 years and a \"repayment assistance\" plan that is generally less generous than those it would replace.\n\nAmong other changes, the bill would repeal Biden-era regulations that made it easier for borrowers to get loans canceled if their colleges defrauded them or closed suddenly.\n\nThere would be a tax increase, up to 21%, on some university endowments.\n\n## Federal employee pension cuts\n\nThe House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform targeted federal workers' pensions for a projected $50.9 billion in deficit savings over 10 years.\n\nMost of the savings would come from requiring federal workers hired before 2014 to pay more into the retirement system. They would have to match the 4.4% salary rate paid by federal workers hired since 2014.\n\n## More drilling, mining on public lands\n\nOne section of the bill would allow increased leasing of public lands for drilling, mining and logging while clearing the path for more development by speeding up government approvals. Royalty rates paid by companies to extract oil, gas and coal would be cut, reversing former President Joe Biden's attempts to curb fossil fuels to help address climate change.\n\nOil and gas royalty rates would drop from 16.7% on public lands and 18.75% offshore to a uniform 12.5%. Royalties for coal would drop from 12.5% to 7%.\n\nThe measure calls for four oil and gas lease sales in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge over the next decade. It also seeks to boost the ailing coal industry with a mandate to make available for leasing 6,250 square miles of public lands \u2014 an area greater in size than Connecticut.\n\nRepublican supporters say the lost revenue would be offset by increased development. It's uncertain if companies would have an appetite for leases given the industry's precipitous decline in recent years as utilities switched to cleaner burning fuels and renewable energy.\n\nIn a last-minute add, Republicans also included a provision authorizing sales of hundreds of thousands of acres of public lands in Nevada and Utah, prompting outrage from Democrats and environmentalists."}
{"prompt_hash": "8fda6abef12fc9de67a210f58cd5c66f10d65a1cc58ef26283530608492378d8", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 18:42:21+00:00", "topics": ["Donald Trump", "Sean Duffy", "Kristi Noem", "Lawsuits", "Rhode Island", "U.S. Department of Homeland Security", "United States government", "Legal proceedings", "California", "Colorado", "Connecticut", "Immigration", "Government budgets", "United States", "Peter Neronha", "Politics", "Matthew Platkin", "Tricia McLaughlin", "Rob Bonta"], "text": "# 20 Democratic attorneys general sue Trump administration over conditions placed on federal funds\n\nBy Kimberlee Kruesi  \nMay 13th, 2025 06:42 PM\n\n---\n\nPROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) \u2014 A coalition of 20 state Democratic attorneys general filed two federal lawsuits on Tuesday, claiming that the Trump administration is threatening to withhold billions of dollars in transportation and disaster-relief funds unless states agree to certain immigration enforcement actions.\n\nAccording to the complaints, both Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy have threatened to cut off funding to states that refuse to comply with President Donald Trump's immigration agenda.\n\nWhile no federal funding is currently being withheld, California Attorney General Rob Bonta said during a news conference on Tuesday that the threat was \"imminent.\"\n\n\"President Donald Trump can't use these funds as a bargaining chip as his way of ensuring states abide by his preferred policies,\" Bonta added.\n\nDepartment of Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement that the lawsuit will not stop the Trump Administration from \"restoring the rule of law.\"\n\n\"Cities and states who break the law and prevent us from arresting criminal illegal aliens should not receive federal funding. The President has been clear on that,\" she said.\n\nDuffy said in a statement that the 20 states have filed the lawsuit because \"their officials want to continue breaking federal law and putting the needs of illegal aliens above their own citizens.\"\n\nBoth lawsuits say that the Trump administration is violating the U.S. Constitution by trying to dictate federal spending when Congress has that power \u2014 not the executive branch.\n\nOn April 24, states received letters from the Department of Transportation stating that they must cooperate on immigration efforts and eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion programs or risk losing funds.\n\nNew Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin criticized the timing of Duffy's letter when Newark's airport struggles with radar outages and other issues.\n\n\"I wish the administration would stop playing politics with people's lives,\" Platkin said. \"I wish Secretary Duffy would do his damn job, which is to make sure planes land on time, not to direct immigration enforcement.\"\n\nMeanwhile, on Feb. 24, states received letters from the Department of Homeland Security declaring that states that \"refuse to cooperate with, refuse to share information with, or even actively obstruct federal immigration enforcement reject these ideals and the history we share in common as Americans.\"\n\n\"If any government entity chooses to thumb its nose at the Department of Homeland Security's national security and public safety mission, it should not receive a single dollar of the Department's money unless Congress has specifically required it,\" Noem wrote in her letter.\n\nAttorneys general behind the lawsuits include the following states: California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Washington, Wisconsin and Vermont.\n\nThe cases are being spearheaded by California and Illinois, but they were filed in federal court in Rhode Island, a detail that the attorneys general defended by saying they filed in \"any court that is going to be fair and objective and consider our factual presentation and legal analysis.\"\n\nThe lawsuits are the latest legal actions that Democratic-led states have taken against Trump since he took office earlier this year. Bonta noted that California has filed more than 20 lawsuits against the administration, while Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha said his state has launched more than a dozen.\n\nWhile the lawsuits have challenged policies on tariffs, federal employee firings and health care research, Trump's focus on immigration enforcement and the mass deportation of immigrants in the United States illegally have received the most attention.\n\nThis has included the president's promise to mass deport people and the start of a registry required for all those who are in the country illegally.\n\n\"What we're seeing is a creeping authoritarianism,\" Neronha said."}
{"prompt_hash": "9b1e3cc49be14f1d3d53de1b037d1bf9bac32b716db96c41c9b2eac9e30e82d3", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-14 00:05:03+00:00", "topics": ["Rory McIlroy", "Melbourne", "Gary Player", "Australian Open Tennis Championships", "Australia", "Golf", "Australian Open", "Sports", "Tennis", "Brisbane", "Jack Nicklaus", "Greg Norman"], "text": "# Rory McIlroy to play the Australian Open for the next 2 years on Melbourne's sandbelt\n\nMay 14th, 2025 12:05 AM\n\n---\n\nMELBOURNE, Australia (AP) \u2014 Masters champion Rory McIlroy is heading Down Under for the first time in more than a decade to play the Australian Open on Melbourne's famed sandbelt courses for the next two years.\n\nGolf Australia said Wednesday that McIlroy, who completed his career Grand Slam with his win at Augusta in April would play on the Royal Melbourne composite course from Dec. 4-7 and at nearby Kingston Heath in 2026.\n\nKingston Heath will host the Presidents Cup in 2028, the fourth time it has been played in Australia, with the previous three times at Royal Melbourne.\n\nMcIlroy will attempt to win his second Stonehaven Cup. He won the Australian Open in 2013 at Royal Sydney and returned the following year when it was played at another Sydney course, The Australian, but hasn't played in Australia since.\n\n\"I'm proud to be committing to the Australian Open for the next two years, especially with it being played on the world-class Melbourne sandbelt, somewhere I've always wanted to play professionally\" McIlroy said. \"The success of the Australian Open is important for the global game.\"\n\nRoyal Melbourne has hosted the Australian Open 17 times but not since 1991. First played in 1904, Gary Player has won the tournament seven times, Jack Nicklaus six and Greg Norman five times.\n\nGolf Australia decided earlier this year to move away from its previous combined event. The dates and venue of the Women's Australian Open will be confirmed at a later date.\n\nThe men's Australian Open will follow the Australian PGA Championship (Nov. 27-30 at Royal Queensland in Brisbane), with both events again co-sanctioned by the DP World Tour."}
{"prompt_hash": "5504b5ca9b867d9e00236dccc94b3aa3b9b6f86554cba6a1d58eac7c3abceb98", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-14 00:07:44+00:00", "topics": ["Donald Trump", "Troy Meink", "Military and defense", "U.S. Air Force", "Pete Hegseth", "District of Columbia", "Daniel Driscoll", "John Phelan"], "text": "# Senate confirms Troy Meink as the new Air Force secretary\n\nBy Lolita C. Baldor  \nMay 14th, 2025 12:07 AM\n\n---\n\nWASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 The Senate on Tuesday easily confirmed Troy Meink as the secretary of the Air Force, putting a former KC-135 tanker aircraft navigator and space expert in charge of the service.\n\nThe vote was 74-25.\n\nMeink has almost four decades of experience in the military and in government, including managing some of the nation's most sensitive satellite intelligence capabilities and the military's space portfolio.\n\nHe previously served as a deputy of the National Reconnaissance Office. While he is the last of the military's three service secretaries to get confirmed, Meink is the one with the most extensive national security and military experience.\n\n\"Your leadership is exactly what we need to refocus the Department of Defense on its core mission\u2014lethality, readiness, and putting the warfighter first,\" said Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said in a social media post.\n\nArmy Secretary Daniel Driscoll served a short stint in the Army, but worked largely as a lawyer and investment banker. Navy Secretary John Phelan had been a private investment executive and businessman, and is the first leader of the sea service since 2006 not to have been a veteran.\n\nMeink assumes control of both the Air Force and U.S. Space Force, which was established by President Donald Trump during his first term and just hit its fifth year in existence. And his confirmation comes as the Trump administration is working to reshape the nation's space capabilities, including the development of the \"Golden Dome\" missile defense system.\n\nThe futuristic system was ordered by Trump during his first week in office. If successful, it would for the first time enable the U.S. to place weapons in space that are meant to destroy ground-based missiles within seconds of launch.\n\nMany countries, including Russia, China, North Korea and the U.S., are developing new ways to disable of defend the tens of thousands of satellites that ring the Earth as a way to cripple a potential adversary without fighting a traditional land-based war.\n\nMeink is from Lemmon, South Dakota, and joined the Air Force as an ROTC cadet at South Dakota State University in 1988. In his previous position at the National Reconnaissance Office, Meink oversaw a more than $15 billion budget to acquire new satellite capabilities."}
{"prompt_hash": "634c3e02cc43221b501a10403056cad254d69982a78640f93981aa7432bae84a", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 22:06:40+00:00", "topics": ["Donald Trump", "Pennsylvania", "Stephanie Haines", "Immigration", "El Paso", "David Briones", "United States government", "Alabama Education Association", "Government and politics", "Legal proceedings", "Texas", "Politics"], "text": "# Federal judge OKs use of Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelans who are labeled gang members\n\nBy Rebecca Boone  \nMay 13th, 2025 10:06 PM\n\n---\n\nA federal judge says President Donald Trump can use the Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelan citizens who are shown to be members of the Tren de Aragua gang.\n\nThe ruling Tuesday from U.S. District Judge Stephanie Haines in Pennsylvania appears to be the first time a federal judge has signed off on Trump's proclamation calling Tren de Aragua a foreign terrorist organization and invoking the 18th century wartime law to deport people labeled as being members of the gang.\n\nAlso Tuesday, another federal judge in the western district of Texas temporarily barred the Trump administration from using the Alien Enemies Act to deport people in that region. At least three other federal judges have said Trump was improperly using the AEA to speed deportations of people the administration says are Venezuelan gang members.\n\nHaines, a Trump appointee, also said the administration hasn't been giving enough notice to people facing removal under the AEA. She ordered the administration to provide at least 21 days notice \u2014 far longer than the 12 hours that some deportees have been given.\n\n\"This case poses significant issues that are deeply interwoven with the constitutional principles upon which this Nation's government is founded,\" Haines wrote. \"In approaching these issues, the Court begins by stressing the questions that it is not resolving at this time.\"\n\nThe ruling doesn't address whether the administration can remove people under other immigration laws, nor does it address whether Trump can invoke the Alien Enemies Act to deport people who simply migrated to the U.S. and who aren't members of a foreign terrorist organization, Haines wrote. She also did not weigh in on whether people suspected of being members of other gangs could be removed under the act.\n\nBut she did say the Act can be used to remove Venezuelan citizens who are at least 14 years old, who are in the U.S. without legal immigration status, and who are members of Tren de Aragua.\n\n\"Having done its job, the Court now leaves it to the Political Branches of the government, and ultimately to the people who elect those individuals, to decide whether the laws and those executing them continue to reflect their will,\" Haines wrote.\n\nTrump issued a proclamation in March claiming that Tren de Aragua was invading the U.S. He said he had special powers to deport immigrants, identified by his administration as gang members, without the usual court proceedings. After the proclamation, the administration began deporting people designated as Tren de Aragua members to a notorious prison in El Salvador.\n\nThe proclamation and deporations sparked a flurry of lawsuits in multiple states \u2014 including the one that led to Haines' ruling Tuesday. That case was brought a Venezuelan national who says he fled to the U.S. with his wife and children in 2023 after facing extortion in his own country. He was arrested in February after a neighbor reported that he is a member of Tren de Aragua \u2014 a claim the man vehemently denies.\n\nHaines initially approved the case as a class action, temporarily blocking the Trump administration from using the AEA to deport any migrants in her district. But she lifted that designation Tuesday, clearing the way for deportations to resume as long as the people being removed are given at least 21 days notice in English and Spanish as well as an \"opportunity to be heard\" on any objections they might have.\n\nIn the Texas case, a woman said she fled Venezuela after she was subjected to repeated harassment, assault and intimidation as a form of political persecution. She came to the U.S. in 2023 and was granted temporary protected status, and is currently seeking asylum.\n\nBut last month she was arrested in Ohio and accused of being a gang member, which she denies. She is currently being held in El Paso, and asked Senior U.S. District Judge David Briones to stop the Trump administration from deporting her and other detainees in the region because, she said, the president's proclamation violates the due process rights of people facing removal and wrongly equates Tren de Aragua as an invasion by a foreign government.\n\nBriones said she was likely to succeed on the merits, and temporarily barred the administration from transferring the woman or other people in the region accused of being Tren de Aragua members into other districts or deporting them under the Alien Enemies Act."}
{"prompt_hash": "9cb84fed06e9238e4ba6dbdec6db86dadd5b44f35d51b087dbb12231fa2c6b18", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 17:09:26+00:00", "topics": ["Gulf of Mexico", "Texas", "Heat waves", "Cameron Self", "Weather", "Sylvia Dee", "John Nielsen-Gammon", "Climate and environment", "Brian Galvin", "Climate"], "text": "# Extreme heat will make it feel more like August than May for Texas, parts of southeastern US\n\nBy Juan A. Lozano  \nMay 13th, 2025 05:09 PM\n\n---\n\nHOUSTON (AP) \u2014 Sweltering heat more commonly seen in the throes of summer than in the spring was making an unwelcome visit this week to a large portion of the U.S. \u2013 from the Dakotas to Texas and other parts of the South \u2013 and putting millions of Americans on alert for potentially dangerous temperatures.\n\nIn Austin, forecasters warned that the early heat wave could break a century-old record for May of 104 degrees Fahrenheit (40 degrees Celsius).\n\n\"Definitely more like August this week than May,\" said Cameron Self, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service's office in the Houston and Galveston area.\n\nIt is not unusual to have temperatures above 90 degrees Fahrenheit (32 degrees Celsius) in May in Houston and other parts of Texas.\n\n\"But getting long stretches of temperatures well in the 90s that usually holds off till June,\" Self said.\n\nThis week's extreme heat was predicted to have some Texas cities experiencing the longest string of triple-digit days they have ever had before in June, said John Nielsen-Gammon, the Texas state climatologist.\n\nSeveral cities around North Dakota set record high temperatures in recent days, with some shattering highs that stood for well over 100 years.\n\nWhile cooler air is expected to provide some relief for the northern part of the country, Texas and states in the southeastern part of the U.S. were likely to suffer through this heat for at least the next week or so.\n\n## What's causing the unseasonably high temperatures?\n\nA very strong ridge of high pressure over the south-central United States that is centered over the Gulf of Mexico is responsible for the extreme heat. For the next six to 10 days, much of south central and the southeastern United States will be warmer than normal, with the highest temperatures occurring over parts of Texas and Florida, Self said.\n\nThe same weather system heating up Texas and other southern states was also the same one that helped spike temperatures in the Dakotas, Minnesota and parts of the Midwest, Nielsen-Gammon said.\n\n## Heat in the Dakotas, Minnesota breaks records, boosts wildfire conditions\n\nIn the last few days, the Dakotas, Minnesota and southern parts of Canada have seen unusually warm temperatures for this time of year, as much as 30 degrees above normal, said Mindy Beerends, meteorologist-in-charge for the National Weather Service in Grand Forks, North Dakota.\n\n\"This is very early for this type of heat,\" she said.\n\nFargo on Sunday hit 95 degrees Fahrenheit (35 degrees Celsius), surpassing the previous high of 93 degrees Fahrenheit (33.89 degrees Celsius) set in 1887. Bismarck on Monday reached 97 degrees Fahrenheit (36.11 degrees Celsius), breaking the record of 92 degrees Fahrenheit (33.33 degrees Celsius) set in 1880.\n\nThe unseasonably high temperatures, along with very low humidity and spreading drought conditions have created unusually dangerous fire conditions in northern Minnesota, Gov. Tim Walz and other state officials said at a briefing Tuesday.\n\nWeather conditions were expected to improve Thursday when rain and cooler temperatures should give firefighters a break, the officials said.\n\n\"But this is going to be an ongoing battle, probably throughout most of the summer,\" Walz said.\n\nMinnesota usually experiences a little over 1,100 wildfires covering about 12,000 acres per year but the state is already up to 970, covering more than 37,000 acres, including over 80 since Sunday, the officials said.\n\nFires have been explosive in nature due to the dry conditions, said Brian Galvin, fire chief of the Goodrich Rural Fire Department in central North Dakota. About 50 to 60 firefighters, farmers and other people responded on Saturday to a fast-moving fire near Lincoln Valley that burned 200 acres.\n\n## Parts of Texas could see triple digit temperature for days\n\nAreas like Houston that are closer to the Gulf of Mexico could have their temperatures \"modified somewhat\" because water temperatures are still cool enough, but parts of Texas farther west of the Gulf are going to see temperatures well over 100 degrees, Self said.\n\nIn San Antonio, the National Weather Service said high temperatures were expected to rise above 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38 degrees Celsius) through the weekend.\n\nThe Texas Department of Public Safety asked residents to follow various safety tips, including staying hydrated and limiting outdoor activities, to stay safe.\n\nTrump signed an executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America. The order only carries authority within the U.S. Other countries and international institutions continue to use the name the Gulf of Mexico.\n\n## Hotter temperatures earlier in the year is the \"new normal\"\n\nSylvia Dee, an assistant professor of earth, environmental and planetary sciences at Rice University in Houston, said with temperature records being broken \"somewhere every month and every year,\" heat waves like the one impacting Texas and other parts of the country should not be seen as out of the ordinary.\n\nClimate change is likely expanding the summer season, meaning that hotter temperatures will start earlier and end later, Dee said.\n\n\"I think that this is our new normal, for sure. I think we should be prepared as Texans, but also across the country, for these changes - higher temperatures, more persistent heat events,\" Dee said."}
{"prompt_hash": "d5608ca98f234ae4a2011b1f699c3f01ed2c6a1863d19612c35262a257038175", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 23:44:59+00:00", "topics": ["Tom Holmoe", "Brian Santiago", "Fresno", "High school basketball", "Brigham Young Cougars", "Basketball", "Sports", "College sports"], "text": "# BYU promotes Brian Santiago to replace longtime athletic director Tom Holmoe\n\nMay 13th, 2025 11:44 PM\n\n---\n\nPROVO, Utah (AP) \u2014 BYU has promoted Brian Santiago to replace longtime athletic director Tom Holmoe.\n\nThe school announced on Tuesday that Santiago will be elevated from deputy athletic director after working under Holmoe, who retired after 20 years earlier this year.\n\n\"We are excited to build on the forward momentum and legacy of Tom Holmoe, who is retiring, with the appointment of Brian Santiago as BYU's next director of athletics,\" BYU President C. Shane Reese said in a statement. \"Brian has a track record of leadership and an ability to lead BYU Athletics as we navigate the complex and rapidly evolving waters of college athletics. It's become clear to me throughout this search process that Brian will seek to strengthen BYU's academic and spiritual mission, and he understands how it blesses the lives of our student-athletes.\"\n\nSantiago has served as BYU's deputy athletic director since 2017 after spending the previous nine years as a senior associate athletic director. He started at BYU as an assistant basketball coach in 1997 before moving into athletic administration.\n\nSantiago graduated from Provo High School and played basketball at Utah Valley and Fresno State."}
{"prompt_hash": "63bb5f0ffb9b9e836777846ca0bf829431ce5819461c58f8d1e6f00d788bed5f", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 20:44:08+00:00", "topics": ["Pete Rose", "Rob Manfred", "Baseball", "Softball", "MLB", "New York City Wire", "Philadelphia Phillies", "MLB baseball", "Leslie Mann", "St. Louis Cardinals", "Sports", "Joe Gedeon", "Chicago White Sox", "Fred McMullen", "Pittsburgh Pirates"], "text": "# A full list of the players permanently banned by MLB\n\nMay 13th, 2025 08:44 PM\n\n---\n\nNEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Commissioner Rob Manfred announced Tuesday that Pete Rose, Shoeless Joe Jackson and other players permanently banned by the sport would have their statuses restored at death.\n\nThe ruling opens a path for Rose and Jackson to be considered for the Hall of Fame. Here are all of the players and other figures who have been permanently banned:\n\n## Chicago Black Sox\n\nMarch 12, 1921 \u2014 Chicago White Sox pitchers Eddie Cicotte and Claude \"Lefty\" Williams, first baseman Chick Gandil, shortstop Charles \"Swede\" Risberg, third baseman Buck Weaver, outfielders Jackson and Happy Felsch and infielder Fred McMullen were suspended by Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis. (The players were suspended by the team on Sept. 28, 1920, following their indictment on charges of throwing the 1919 World Series. Gandil at that time already was already on suspension in a salary dispute).\n\nThe players were acquitted on Aug. 3, 1921, but banned for life by Landis the following day. St. Louis Browns pitcher Joe Gedeon was also banned for his connections to the betting plot.\n\n\"Regardless of the verdict of juries, no player who throws a ballgame, no player that entertains proposals or promises to throw a game, no player that sits in conference with a bunch of crooked players and gamblers where the ways and means of throwing games are discussed and does not promptly tell his club about it, will ever play professional baseball,\" Landis wrote.\n\n## Philadelphia Phillies infielder Gene Paulette\n\nMarch 24, 1921 \u2014 Paulette was banned indefinitely by Landis for allegedly accepting a loan from Elmer Farrar of St. Louis that was tied to a gambling scheme. Paulette never was reinstated.\n\n## New York Giants outfielder Benny Kauff\n\nApril 7, 1921 \u2014 Kauff was suspended indefinitely by Landis following his indictment on charges of auto theft and possession of a stolen car.\n\n\"An indictment charging felonious misconduct by a player certainly charges conduct detrimental to the good repute of baseball,\" he said.\n\nKauff was acquitted on May 13, but Landis refused to reinstate him. A lawsuit filed by Kauff against the commissioner for reinstatement was dismissed.\n\n## New York Giants pitcher \"Shufflin'\" Phil Douglas\n\nAug. 18, 1922 \u2014 Douglas was banned for life by the club for writing a letter to St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Leslie Mann asking him to throw a game. Mann gave the letter to Branch Rickey, who sent it to Landis. The commissioner backed the ban, saying Douglas' letter was \"tragic and deplorable.\"\n\n## New York Giants outfielder Jimmy O'Connell and coach Cozy Dolan\n\nOct. 1, 1924 \u2014 Both were banned for life by Landis for offering a $500 bribe to Philadelphia Phillies shortstop Heinie Sand to throw game on Sept. 27, 1924. Sand told Phillies manager Art Fletcher, who told Landis.\n\n## Philadelphia Phillies president William D. Cox\n\nNov. 23, 1943 \u2014 Cox was banned for life by Landis for making \"approximately 15 or 20 bets\" of \"from $25 to $100 per game on Philadelphia to win.\" Cox was forced to sell his share of the team to Ruly M. Carpenter Jr.\n\n## Cincinnati Reds manager Pete Rose\n\nAug. 23, 1989 \u2014 Rose agreed to a lifetime ban with Commissioner A. Barlett Giammati for gambling on Reds games.\n\n## San Diego Padres infielder Tucupita Marcano\n\nJune 3, 2024 \u2014 Marcano was banned for life by Commissioner Rob Manfred for making 387 baseball bets, including 231 related to MLB, from Oct. 16-23, 2022, and July 12, 2023, through Nov. 1, 2023, while on the roster of the Pittsburgh Pirates."}
{"prompt_hash": "c1f731219af7d9a278214e3f65286a12cfd816f399ce5c0de78f1394b3cfced2", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 18:16:53+00:00", "topics": ["Stephen Curry", "Damian Lillard", "LeBron James", "Jayson Tatum", "Steve Kerr", "Jalen Brunson", "Boston Celtics", "NBA Playoffs", "Tom Thibodeau", "Doc Rivers", "Joel Embiid", "Donovan Mitchell", "Steve Nash", "Los Angeles Lakers", "Moritz Wagner", "Michael Porter Jr.", "Victor Wembanyama", "Injuries", "Athlete injuries", "NBA", "New York City Wire", "Zion Williamson", "Donte DiVincenzo", "Sports", "Kyrie Irving", "Milwaukee", "Kawhi Leonard", "Draymond Green", "Temetrius Morant", "Giannis Antetokounmpo", "Cleveland", "Dejounte Murray", "NBA basketball"], "text": "# In the NBA playoffs, injuries are becoming the story\n\nBy Tim Reynolds  \nMay 13th, 2025 06:16 PM\n\n---\n\nThese are the NBA playoffs of survival, where not even the stars are safe.\n\nThe latest blow to this postseason: Jayson Tatum was wheeled off Monday night, his season with the defending champion Boston Celtics over because of a right Achilles tendon tear that surely will mean he misses at least some of next season as well.\n\nGolden State's Stephen Curry may run out of time before his injured hamstring allows him to play again. Cleveland's Donovan Mitchell is dealing with an ankle issue. If the Los Angeles Lakers' season had gone any deeper, LeBron James would have been sidelined with a knee sprain. And Milwaukee's Damian Lillard tore his Achilles, putting next season in some doubt and raising questions about Giannis Antetokounmpo's future as well.\n\nThe star power is gone in some cases, aching in others, and there's no question that injuries are becoming the story of this postseason. For Lillard \u2014 and now Tatum, too \u2014 the issues will linger into next season or rob of them of the chance to play in 2025-26 entirely.\n\n\"Obviously we want to go out there and compete, but when a player of his caliber goes down and he's rolling in pain like that, you know something's wrong,\" New York guard Jalen Brunson said after seeing Tatum's injury on Monday night. \"So, that's why I just gave my thoughts and prayers \u2014 because you never want to see something like that, ever.\"\n\nInjuries are a constant, and the regular season saw some big-name players forced to shut down much earlier than they wanted. Philadelphia's Joel Embiid wasn't right for basically the entire season because of knee issues, Dallas' Kyrie Irving tore his ACL in March, San Antonio's Victor Wembanyama developed a blood clot that forced his season to end in February, New Orleans' Dejounte Murray tore his Achilles in January, Orlando's Moritz Wagner tore his ACL in December and two stars with long injury histories \u2014 the Los Angeles Clippers' Kawhi Leonard and New Orleans' Zion Williamson \u2014 both were inactive for more than half the season.\n\nOvercoming injuries is just part of NBA life, Bucks coach Doc Rivers said.\n\n\"The human spirit is amazing,\" Rivers said. \"It really is.\"\n\nAnd in the playoffs, the hits keep coming. Stars are hurting, most of Cleveland's starting lineup has been banged-up in these playoffs, Denver's Michael Porter Jr. is playing through a shoulder issue that typically needs weeks to deal with, and Memphis' Ja Morant had a hip problem that kept him from being on the floor at the end of the Grizzlies' season. Even teams that are winning aren't doing so at anywhere near 100% \u2014 case in point, Brunson has been dealing with an ankle issue and it somehow isn't slowing him down.\n\n\"Every year, playoffs are about adapting, whether it's a game plan, or an injury, or a lineup,\" Golden State coach Steve Kerr said shortly after Curry got hurt in the Warriors' second-round series against Minnesota. \"So, we just have to adapt.\"\n\nDown 3-1 in the series and facing a win-or-else game Wednesday, the Warriors are running out of time to adapt. There will be an update on Curry's status Wednesday, Kerr said. It wouldn't seem likely that Curry plays in Game 5.\n\n\"We're not going to Superman this thing,\" Warriors forward Draymond Green said. \"If he's in a place where he can play, I'm sure he will. ... But we don't need Superman. I play the long game. If he can, we know he will, but there's no pressure. We've got to figure out how to win, whether he plays or not.\"\n\nJames got hurt in a collision with Minnesota's Donte DiVincenzo late in what became the Lakers' final game of the season, a loss in Game 5 of an opening-round matchup. James later revealed that he probably couldn't have continued even if the Lakers won that game because of a knee sprain that won't need surgery but will need weeks to heal.\n\n\"Even if we would have won Game 5 at home, I probably would have missed 6 and 7 and even further,\" James said on his \"Mind the Game\" podcast with Steve Nash. \"I have some time, though. I have some time to get it right.\"\n\nTatum was having an absolutely monster game for Boston on Monday: 42 points, eight rebounds, four assists, four steals and two blocked shots \u2014 numbers that nobody in Celtics history, at least since each of those stats started being charted, had ever finished a game with.\n\nThose stats were largely forgotten by night's end, given the gravity of the injury and what it now means for the Celtics \u2014 a team that is in the process of being sold for a record figure exceeding $6 billion, is on track to face a potential record salary and luxury tax bill that could exceed $500 million next season and now has a franchise cornerstone in Tatum facing a long road back to the court.\n\nTatum has logged nearly 25,000 minutes in his eight seasons with the Celtics, more than any other player in the NBA over that span when counting both regular-season and playoff games. He's been an All-Star in six consecutive seasons, won two Olympic gold medals and likely will be All-NBA for a fourth consecutive season when that team is revealed in the coming weeks.\n\nAnd in the blink of an eye Monday, his story drastically changed.\n\n\"He's been a great player,\" Knicks coach Tom Thibodeau said. \"And he's a great guy, too.\""}
{"prompt_hash": "a707ee9c1eafdb7b5cadfd3b3858b0dae37e028a20d56fafc88cac3129c0e67c", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 21:11:52+00:00", "topics": ["Jayson Tatum", "Athlete injuries", "Damian Lillard", "Kevin Durant", "Achilles Injuries", "Aaron Rodgers", "Boston Celtics", "Indiana Pacers", "Milwaukee Bucks", "NBA Playoffs", "New York Knicks", "Brandon Graham", "Leonard Floyd", "NBA", "New York City Wire", "Sports", "NBA basketball", "Ryan Howard", "Dominique Wilkins"], "text": "# Celtics' Jayson Tatum is the latest of many star athletes who've torn an Achilles tendon\n\nBy The Associated Press  \nMay 13th, 2025 09:11 PM\n\n---\n\nThe diagnosis of a torn Achilles tendon for All-Star forward Jayson Tatum is a devastating blow to the defending champion Boston Celtics and the second injury of its kind during the NBA playoffs.\n\nSeven-time all-NBA guard Damian Lillard of the Milwaukee Bucks tore his left Achilles tendon during a loss to the Indiana Pacers on April 28.\n\nThe 27-year-old Tatum tore his right Achilles tendon on Monday night against the New York Knicks when he lunged toward a loose ball and his leg gave out. He buried his face in a towel in obvious pain while grabbing at his leg above the ankle after the non-contact injury.\n\nThe Knicks won 121-113 to take a 3-1 lead in the best-of-seven Eastern Conference semifinals. The series resumes Wednesday in Boston with the Celtics needing to win to stay alive in the playoffs.\n\nOther notable athletes who have come back from a torn Achilles tendon:\n\n## Aaron Rodgers\n\nThe four-time NFL MVP tore his left Achilles tendon on Sept. 11, 2023, four snaps into his first year with the New York Jets. He was hurt as he tried to avoid a rushing Leonard Floyd, who wrapped up the quarterback and spun him down to the MetLife Stadium turf. Rodgers, 39 at the time, returned to practice in an astonishing 77 days after surgery but did not play again until Sept. 9, 2024. The Jets released him in March, and he's undecided on playing in 2025.\n\n## Kobe Bryant\n\nThe late Basketball Hall of Famer tore an Achilles tendon on April 12, 2013, had surgery the next day and returned to the court with the Los Angeles Lakers on Dec. 8, 2013, at age 35. Bryant played only six games before a knee injury forced him to miss the rest of the season. Bryant averaged 22.3 points in only 35 games in 2014-15 and 17.6 points in 66 games in his last season in 2015-16.\n\n## Kevin Durant\n\nThe two-time NBA Finals MVP tore an Achilles tendon on June 13, 2019, playing for Golden State in Game 4 of the championship round. He missed a full season and came back with the Brooklyn Nets on Dec. 22, 2020, at age 32. Durant hasn't played more than 55 games in any season since his return but he's been elite, averaging 28.8 points, 7.1 rebounds and 5.7 assists in three seasons since the injury.\n\n## Dominique Wilkins\n\nThe Basketball Hall of Famer tore an Achilles tendon on Jan. 28, 1992. He returned to the court with the Atlanta Hawks on Nov. 6, 1992, just two months shy of turning 33. Wilkins averaged 29.9 points in his first season back and played seven more years, including two stints overseas.\n\n## Brandon Graham\n\nThe Philadelphia Eagles defensive end tore an Achilles tendon on Sept. 19, 2021, and returned for the season opener Sept. 11, 2022, at age 34. Graham had his best season as a pro last year, posting a career-high 11 sacks.\n\n## Ryan Howard\n\nThe 2006 NL MVP tore an Achilles tendon on the final swing of a postseason series on Oct. 7, 2011. Howard returned to the lineup with the Philadelphia Phillies on July 6, 2012, at age 32. The big slugger was never the same, however. Howard averaged 44 homers and 133 RBIs in a six-year span before the injury. He averaged 19/66 over the next five."}
{"prompt_hash": "9d5e32248c674277b1076ee61fa7f0bbb972e4f3fc5dc61fca58986a7ec64885", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 23:39:39+00:00", "topics": ["California", "Los Angeles", "Karl Frederic Seligman", "Ricardo Lara", "Wildfires", "Financial services", "Los Angeles Area wildfires", "Climate and environment", "Business", "Inflation", "Carmen Balber", "Climate"], "text": "# California approves State Farm's request for 17% premium increase for homeowners\n\nBy Tr\u00e2n Nguy\u1ec5n  \nMay 13th, 2025 11:39 PM\n\n---\n\nSACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) \u2014 California's top insurance regulator said Tuesday that State Farm can soon start raising premiums by 17% for all of its home insurance customers in the state to help the insurer rebuild its capital following the Los Angeles wildfires.\n\nState Farm has argued the emergency rate hikes are necessary to help the company avoid a \"dire\" financial crisis that could force them to drop more California policies. The state's largest home insurer said it was already struggling financially before this year but the LA fires, which destroyed more than 16,000 buildings in January, have made things worse.\n\nThe increase will apply to all of the roughly 1 million homeowners State Farm insures in the state.\n\nThe decision comes as California is undergoing a yearslong effort to entice insurers to continue doing business in the state as wildfires increasingly destroy entire neighborhoods. In 2023, several major companies, including State Farm, stopped issuing residential policies because of high fire risk. Last year, Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara unveiled a slate of regulations aimed at giving insurers more latitude to raise premiums in exchange for more policies in high-risk areas. Those rules kick in this year.\n\nState Farm initially asked for a 22% rate increase for homeowners but revised it to 17% during a recent hearing before an administrative judge. The request also includes a 38% hike for rental owners and 15% for tenants. The new rates will take effect in June. In exchange, State Farm will get a $400 million cash infusion from its parent company and agree to halt some nonrenewals through the end of this year.\n\nOn Tuesday, administrative Judge Karl Frederic Seligman ordered a ruling supporting State Farm's request, calling it \"a rescue mission to stabilize State Farm's financial condition while safeguarding policyholders.\"\n\nLara adopted the recommendation the same day. The new rates are temporary until the state has a chance to consider State Farm's request from last year for a 30% rate increase for homeowners. The hearings for that request are set for October.\n\n\"I expect State Farm provide the highest level of service to its California customers and to fulfill its promises. State Farm must now justify its financial condition and detail its recovery plan in a full rate hearing before a neutral judge and my Department's experts,\" Lara said in a statement.\n\nState Farm said in a statement that the approval \"is a critical first step for State Farm General's (SFG) ability to continue serving our California customers.\" The company received a financial rating downgrade last year and has seen a decline of $5 billion in its surplus account over the last decade.\n\nThe company said it has paid more than $3.51 billion and is handling more than 12,600 claims as of this week.\n\n\"Today's decision that would make consumers pay now but allow State Farm to wait months before having to show its math is a great disappointment for consumers,\" Carmen Balber, executive director of Consumer Watchdog, said of the ruling. The group opposes State Farm's request for higher premiums.\n\nState Farm said it plans to refund the emergency rates if California later approves lower rates. The insurer last received state approval for a 20% rate increase in December 2023."}
{"prompt_hash": "c4ec353937a8f9bf3f5033498108b60d5e86a185732cf1acaf1d3d9fb1e99607", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 15:15:47+00:00", "topics": ["Sean Diddy Combs", "Juries", "Bronx", "Music", "Manhattan", "Classical music", "New York City Wire", "Entertainment", "National Public Radio", "Technology"], "text": "# A closer look at the jurors in the Sean 'Diddy' Combs trial\n\nMay 13th, 2025 03:15 PM\n\n---\n\nNEW YORK (AP) \u2014 A jury of 12 New Yorkers, plus a half-dozen alternates, is hearing testimony at the federal sex trafficking trial of Sean \"Diddy\" Combs.\n\nThe group tilts male and middle-aged or older. Only three jurors are under 40. Five are over 60. Classical music listeners outnumber people who identified as hip-hop fans.\n\nTheir identities are known to the judge and lawyers but won't be made public. The jurors revealed a little about themselves as they were selected for the trial.\n\nHere's what we know about the regular jurors:\n\n## Eight men\n\n\u2014 Investment analyst, age 31\n\n\u2014 Social worker, 39\n\n\u2014 Communications clerk at a prison system facility, 41\n\n\u2014 Scientist, 51\n\n\u2014 Retired worker in finance, 68\n\n\u2014 Retired telecommunications company field technician, 68\n\n\u2014 Logistics analyst for a bank, 67\n\n\u2014 Massage therapist and actor, 69\n\n## Four women\n\n\u2014 Deli clerk, 30\n\n\u2014 Nursing home dietary aide, 42\n\n\u2014 Physician assistant, 43\n\n\u2014 Former treatment coordinator at a charity for blind people, 74\n\n## Their homes, families and educations\n\nEight are from New York City, including five from Manhattan and three from the Bronx. Four are from Westchester County, north of the city.\n\nNine are single, but some live with domestic partners and at least three are engaged. Six have children.\n\nNearly all have significant college experience and most are college graduates. A few have masters degrees and one, the scientist, has a Ph.D. in molecular biology and neuroscience.\n\n## Their taste in music\n\nAt a trial where the defendant is one of the biggest stars in the history of hip-hop, three jurors said they were hip-hop fans, with one specifying the rap music of the 1990s. Two said they listen to reggaeton and two mentioned R&B.\n\nNearly half said they listen to classical music, including the 31-year-old investment analyst, who said he also listens to scores from video games. A couple of older jurors said they listen to rock 'n' roll and one of the retirees said he listens primarily to Indian music.\n\n## Their taste in news\n\nSeveral jurors said they go to the New York Times and NPR for their news.\n\nOne of the retirees said his main sources are CNN, Fox News and local TV stations. Another retiree said he mainly listens to New York news radio and occasionally reads local papers such as the Journal News of Westchester. The prison-system employee said he gets his news from the New York Post.\n\nOthers eschew formal news sources altogether.\n\nThe 30-year-old deli clerk said \"I don't really get news. I get word of mouth.\" The 42-year-old dietary aide echoed that, saying, \"I'm not really a fan of the news.\"\n\nThe physician assistant said, \"I get my news primarily from just pop-ups, honestly, on my phone,\" which come from \"CNN, Washington Post, and other things that aren't necessarily reputable.\"\n\n## Their hobbies and habits\n\nThe 31-year-old investment analyst said he's a member of Connecticut country club and a regular Catholic church goer.\n\nThe nursing home worker said she is a fan of \"Harry Potter,\" \"The Chronicles of Narnia\" and the offerings of Disney and Marvel. She's one of two jurors who said they were union members, along with the massage therapist, who is a member of the Actors' Equity Association.\n\nOne of the retirees said he plays cricket and volleyball.\n\nSeveral said they were big sports fans.\n\nFinally, all agreed that nothing in their experience would keep them from being fair and impartial."}
{"prompt_hash": "3dc96197e3e96c54b5c93fb6fbfa2cc6d947172b772e014b71628ad1b2e0bb87", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 14:37:37+00:00", "topics": ["Soccer", "Carlo Ancelotti", "Real Madrid", "Madrid", "Sports", "Diego Fernandes", "Brazil", "Pep Guardiola", "James Robson", "Pele"], "text": "# How Carlo Ancelotti's move from Real Madrid to Brazil got awkward\n\nBy James Robson  \nMay 13th, 2025 02:37 PM\n\n---\n\nCarlo Ancelotti is swapping Real Madrid for Brazil in one of the biggest moves in world soccer. The problem is, neither he, nor Madrid, want to talk about it.\n\nAs coaching switches go, they don't come any bigger than this.\n\nBut when news broke Monday that Ancelotti was leaving the sport's most successful and iconic club team to take charge of its most successful and iconic national team, there was an awkward silence.\n\nMadrid chose to ignore the announcement by the Brazilian soccer federation and was still to publicly acknowledge it 24 hours later.\n\nThere was silence, too, from Ancelotti, who didn't even provide a quote for his new employer when it published its official statement.\n\nThat left an uncomfortable vacuum until Ancelotti finally confirmed his departure during a scheduled news conference on Tuesday, which he only took part in because he was supposed to preview Madrid's upcoming match against Mallorca.\n\n\"If I didn't have this news conference today it would have been a fantastic day. But in this news conference I have to explain things that I don't want to explain,\" the Italian coach said.\n\n## Bad timing?\n\nBecoming coach of record five-time world champion Brazil should be among the proudest moments of Ancelotti's career. He will be the first foreign coach of Brazil at a World Cup \u2014 taking charge of the team of Pele, Ronaldo and Neymar; and the most iconic yellow jersey in soccer.\n\nBut even for Ancelotti \u2014 who is famed for his cool demeanor on the sideline, cigar smoking and the odd raised eyebrow \u2014 his reaction has been understated.\n\nThe 65-year-old Ancelotti \u2014 who has won a record five Champions League titles as a coach \u2014 begins his new job later this month with a view to leading Brazil to next year's World Cup.\n\nWith three more rounds of the Spanish season to go, Ancelotti said he did not want \"anybody asking me about other things, because I respect this jersey a lot and I want to respect it until the last day.\"\n\n## Muted Madrid\n\nThe announcement came after Madrid's 4-3 loss to Barcelona over the weekend all but confirmed the defending Spanish champion would surrender its league title.\n\nBarcelona needs just two points to be crowned champion and can complete the job against Espanyol on Thursday.\n\nAncelotti's exit has been long-trailed, with departing Bayer Leverkusen coach Xabi Alonso widely expected to replace him. So news of the deal will not have come as a surprise to Madrid, which was involved in the negotiations to release Ancelotti early from a contract that had another year to run.\n\nBut its silence has been notable, with no messages of congratulations or thanks to a coach that won two Champions League titles and the Spanish title in his second spell at the club.\n\nAncelotti also coached Madrid from 2013-15, which saw him win another Champions League.\n\nDespite Ancelotti's future being confirmed, Madrid has not been pushed into responding with an announcement of its own succession plans.\n\n\"Real Madrid will release the statement when they want. There's no problem whatsoever. They'll do it at the appropriate time for Real Madrid and there's nothing further to add,\" Ancelotti said.\n\n## Brazil boost\n\nWhile Madrid is doing things in its own time, Brazil was coming under increasing pressure to announce a successor to Dorival J\u00fanior, who was fired in March after a humbling 4-1 loss to bitter rival Argentina in Buenos Aires.\n\nThe Brazilian federation enlisted the help of Brazilian businessman Diego Fernandes, a CEO of a banking firm, to facilitate negotiations over arguably the best active coach in soccer.\n\nManchester City manager Pep Guardiola has previously been linked with the job but signed a contract extension with the Premier League club this season.\n\nThe appointment of Ancelotti is a major coup for a country that hasn't lifted the World Cup since 2002 and is desperate to return to the summit of the sport next year.\n\nBy securing Ancelotti this month, it means he can get to work straight away with World Cup qualifying matches against Ecuador and Paraguay coming up in June.\n\nIt was possible Ancelotti could have stayed on to lead Madrid at the expanded Club World Cup in the United States in June and July. That would have served as a fitting parting, with a chance for him to add to his decorated career.\n\nInstead, Ancelotti's focus will be on Brazil's attempts to challenge Argentina, which was crowned world champion in 2022.\n\n## What next for Madrid?\n\nThe record 15-time European Cup winner was knocked out of the Champions League in the quarterfinals and is on the verge of being usurped by Barcelona in the league.\n\nAt a club with the most demanding standards, a change was bound to come.\n\nAlonso \u2014 a Champions League winner with Madrid as a player \u2014 is considered one of the most exciting young coaches in the game and led Leverkusen to the German league and cup double in his first full season in charge last year.\n\nThat success saw him linked with Madrid and Liverpool last season, but he decided to stay on for another year in Germany.\n\nHe confirmed this month that he will be leaving Leverkusen at the end of the season, with a move to Madrid widely tipped.\n\nOn Tuesday, Ancelotti did little dampen speculation about Alonso's expected arrival.\n\n\"I like Alonso a lot,\" he said. \"I don't have any advice for him because he already has all the tools needed to become a great coach in the future.\""}
{"prompt_hash": "7c6e8745053034bbd99a9d4c53cb5c00ca4c95ac3c7cf27f30a8b27b45118661", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 23:24:21+00:00", "topics": ["Stephen Vogt", "Cleveland Guardians", "Milwaukee Brewers", "Baseball", "MLB", "MLB baseball", "Zak Kent", "Sports", "Ben Lively"], "text": "# Guardians place right-hander Ben Lively on the 15-day injured list\n\nMay 13th, 2025 11:24 PM\n\n---\n\nCLEVELAND (AP) \u2014 Right-hander Ben Lively was placed on the 15-day injured list by the Cleveland Guardians on Tuesday due to a strained right flexor tendon.\n\nLively exited Monday night's game against the Milwaukee Brewers after three innings.\n\nManager Stephen Vogt said that Lively felt some discomfort after his start at Washington on May 6, but that he didn't experience it again until he threw a couple of warm up pitches before the fourth inning on Monday night.\n\n\"He felt like he could keep pitching. We took that away from him, much to his dismay. So that gives me a little bit of hope that it's something that he felt that he could pitch through. We just have to wait to hear the report,\" Vogt said before Tuesday's game.\n\nLively is 2-2 with a 3.22 ERA in 10 starts this season. He has allowed only one run in 14 innings in three May starts.\n\nThe Guardians have called up right-hander Zak Kent from Triple-A Columbus."}
{"prompt_hash": "7b3bc8c6c5fcd949b55cb7c21506ab214d92ef3036d60ef0253516537c82eb04", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 04:02:48+00:00", "topics": ["Robert De Niro", "Cannes Film Festival", "Quentin Tarantino", "Jeremy Strong", "Juliette Binoche", "Halle Berry", "Movies", "Mark Ruffalo", "Javier Bardem", "Kelly Reichardt", "Martin Scorsese", "Sean Baker", "Richard Linklater", "Donald Trump", "Richard Gere", "Pedro Almodovar", "Ari Aster", "Kristen Stewart", "Tom Cruise", "Scarlett Johansson", "Europe", "Ukraine", "Bernard-Henri Levy", "Fatma Hassona", "George Sherman", "Julia Ducournau", "Thierry Frmaux", "Entertainment", "Oliver Hermanus", "Spike Lee", "Leonardo Dicaprio", "Amlie Bonnin", "Joachim Trier", "Charlie Chaplin", "Harris Dickinson", "Viggo Mortensen", "Lynne Ramsay", "Jake Coyle", "Wes Anderson", "Grard Depardieu", "Jafar Panahi"], "text": "# At Cannes opening, Robert De Niro calls Trump 'America's philistine president'\n\nBy Jake Coyle  \nMay 13th, 2025 04:02 AM\n\n---\n\nCANNES, France (AP) \u2014 Much of the cinema world, including Robert De Niro, Leonardo DiCaprio and Quentin Tarantino, descended on the Cannes Film Festival as the French Riviera extravaganza got its 78th edition underway Tuesday.\n\nExpectations are running high for a potentially banner Cannes. All of the ingredients \u2014 loads of stars, top-tier filmmakers, political intrigue \u2014 seem to be lined up. Over the next 12 days, Cannes will play host to megawatt premieres including those of \"Mission: Impossible \u2013 The Final Reckoning,\" Spike Lee's \"Highest 2 Lowest\" and Ari Aster's \"Eddington.\"\n\nDiCaprio skirted the red carpet but drew a standing ovation when he presented De Niro with an honorary Palme d'Or. The moment, which brought together two of Martin Scorsese's most regular stars, came 49 years after \"Taxi Driver\" was crowned with the Palme d'Or.\n\nDiCaprio praised De Niro as \"the archetype\" actor, while also praising the 81-year-old performer \u2014 a fierce critic of U.S. President Donald Trump \u2014 for \"fighting for our democracy.\" When the crowd rose to its feet for a lengthy ovation for De Niro, DiCaprio handed him the Palme. \"Thanks, kiddo,\" said De Niro.\n\nAfter thanking the festival, De Niro quickly turned to speaking about Trump, who recently said he wants to enact a tariff on films made outside the country.\n\n\"Art is the truth. Art embraces diversity. And that's why art is a threat to the autocrats and the fascists of the world,\" said De Niro. \"America's philistine president has had himself appointed head of one of America's premier cultural institutions. He has cut funding and support to the arts, humanities and education. And now he announced a 100% tariff on films made outside the United States. You can't put a price on connectivity.\"\n\n## A busy opening day\n\nThe opening ceremony, which preceded the premiere of Am\u00e9lie Bonnin's French romance \"Leave One Day,\" was attended by Tarantino, who emerged to grandly declare the festival open, and then promptly dropped the mic and walked off stage. On Wednesday, Tarantino will pay tribute to Western filmmaker George Sherman. Also in attendance: Sean Baker, the \"Anora\" director and last year's Palme d'Or winner.\n\nThe ceremony capped a busy day at Cannes that included a three-film salute to Ukraine, the introduction of the jury that will decide the Palme d'Or, headed by Juliette Binoche, and the debut of a restoration of Charlie Chaplin's \"The Gold Rush\" for its 100th anniversary.\n\nCannes is coming off a 2024 festival that produced a number of eventual Oscar contenders, including \"Emilia P\u00e9rez,\" \"The Substance,\" \"Flow\" and the best picture winner, \"Anora. \" Asked Monday if he's feeling the pressure this time around, festival director Thierry Fr\u00e9maux said the only kind of pressure he believes in is in beer. (Beer on tap in France is \"bi\u00e8re \u00e0 la pression.\")\n\nCannes launched the same day G\u00e9rard Depardieu, one of France's most famous actors, was found guilty of having sexually assaulted two women on a 2021 film set. In one of France's most prominent #MeToo cases, Depardieu was given an 18-month suspended prison sentence. The 76-year-old has long been a regular presence at Cannes.\n\n## The introduction of Binoche's jury\n\nThis year's Cannes Film Festival, the premier international cinematic gathering, is also unspooling following Trump's call for tariffs on movies made overseas. Confusion over the still-unformed plans characterized most responses.\n\n\"I don't know what to say, really, about that,\" Binoche told reporters Tuesday. \"We can see that he's fighting and trying in many different ways to save America and save his ass.\"\n\nAlong with Binoche, the other eight jurors include Halle Berry and Jeremy Strong, who was unable to attend Cannes last year for the premiere of his Trump film \"The Apprentice.\" Strong referenced that film, which led to his first Oscar nomination, in his comments on the American president Tuesday.\n\n\"Truth is under assault,\" said Strong. \"Specifically at this temple of film, the role of film is increasingly critical because it can combat those forces in the entropy of truth, and can communicate truths, individual truths, human truths, societal truths, and affirm and celebrate our shared humanity.\"\n\nBerry, responding to Cannes' new protocols on attire for the red carpet, said she had \"an amazing dress\" with a long train for the opening ceremony but wore something else instead. Cannes has outlawed nudity and dresses with long trains for its evening premieres at the Palais.\n\n\"I had to make a pivot,\" said Berry. \"But the nudity part, I do think is probably also a good rule.\"\n\n## A starry lineup, with geopolitics playing a co-starring role\n\nCannes will follow up Tuesday's festivities with the return Wednesday of Tom Cruise. Three years after he brought \"Top Gun: Maverick\" to the festival, he's back with the latest \"Mission: Impossible\" movie.\n\nTwenty-two films will vie for Cannes' top prize, the Palme d'Or, to be presented May 24. Those films include Wes Anderson's \"The Phoenician Scheme,\" Richard Linklater's \"Nouvelle Vague,\" Lynne Ramsay's \"Die, My Love,\" Joachim Trier's \"Sentimental Value,\" Kelly Reichardt's \"The Mastermind,\" Oliver Hermanus' \"The History of Sound,\" Julia Ducournau's \"Alpha\" and Jafar Panahi's \"A Simple Accident.\"\n\nIn Cannes' Un Certain Regard section, three prominent actors are making their directorial debuts: Harris Dickinson (\"Urchin\"), Kristen Stewart (\"The Chronology of Water\") and Scarlett Johansson (\"Eleanor the Great\").\n\nGeopolitics are likely to play a starring role at Cannes, which began by screening three 2025 Ukraine documentaries: \"Zelensky,\" Bernard-Henri L\u00e9vy's \"Notre Guerre\" and The Associated Press-Frontline coproduction \"2000 Meters to Andriivka,\" by \"20 Days in Mariupol\" Oscar winner Mstyslav Chernov.\n\n\"This 'Ukraine Day' is a reminder of the commitment of artists, authors and journalists to tell the story of this conflict in the heart of Europe,\" the festival said in a statement.\n\nOn Tuesday, more than 350 filmmakers, actors and others in the film industry \u2014 including Richard Gere, Pedro Almodovar, Javier Bardem, Viggo Mortensen and Mark Ruffalo, published an open letter in the French newspaper Lib\u00e9ration and in Variety calling on cinema institutions to more forcefully respond to what they called \"genocide in Gaza.\"\n\nACID, a Cannes parallel section, includes the documentary \"Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk.\" It's about Fatma Hassona, a 25-year-old Palestinian photojournalist who was killed the day after the selection of the documentary was announced in April.\n\n\"Why is it that cinema, a breeding ground for socially committed works, seems to be so indifferent to the horror of reality and the oppression suffered by our sisters and brothers?\" the letter read."}
{"prompt_hash": "e79ed0475d14a1018c19a2c9afb1dfb697bba60a4918618d9aaeb32637a6415a", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 23:12:09+00:00", "topics": ["Coco Montes", "Toronto", "Baseball", "MLB", "MLB baseball", "Sports", "Kevin Cash", "Detroit"], "text": "# Rays slugger Yandy D\u00edaz to miss series at Toronto because of passport renewal issue\n\nMay 13th, 2025 11:12 PM\n\n---\n\nTORONTO (AP) \u2014 The Tampa Bays Rays placed designated hitter Yandy D\u00edaz on the restricted list Tuesday due to a passport renewal issue.\n\nTampa Bay made the move before Tuesday's game at Toronto. D\u00edaz isn't expected to play in the three-game series, Rays manager Kevin Cash said.\n\nD\u00edaz played the first three games of the Rays' six-game trip. He's expected to rejoin the team for a home series against Detroit starting on Friday.\n\n\"Certainly disappointed that he's not here because he's such a big part of our team and offense, but look forward to getting him back in Miami,\" Cash told reporters on Tuesday.\n\nTampa Bay recalled infielder Coco Montes from Triple-A Durham to take D\u00edaz's spot on the active roster.\n\nD\u00edaz is hitting .238 with six homers and 20 RBIs in 40 games this season."}
{"prompt_hash": "905448dad0d71012ce778b392ac750d1286d4c8997a6e346c70263be532fbb7c", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 23:02:48+00:00", "topics": ["Everton FC", "Soccer", "Megan Finnigan", "Sports"], "text": "# Goodison Park to become home of Everton's women's team from next season\n\nMay 13th, 2025 11:02 PM\n\n---\n\nLIVERPOOL, England (AP) \u2014 Goodison Park will become the home of Everton's women's team from next season, the English club said Tuesday.\n\nEverton's men's team is preparing to bid an emotional farewell to its long-time stadium ahead of a move to the newly built, 53,000-seat venue at Bramley-Moore Dock ahead of the start of next season.\n\nInstead of Goodison Park being demolished, it will host Women's Super League matches, with the women's side moving from its nearby current home in Walton Hall Park.\n\n\"This move is a testament to where the women's game is right now and, more importantly, where it is heading,\" Everton captain Megan Finnigan said. \"Goodison is a magical stadium with a deep heritage and close ties to the local community.\n\n\"Leading the team out for that first home match of next season will be nothing short of a career highlight \u2014 and the prospect of what Everton Women can become with such an iconic ground to call our home is hugely exciting.\"\n\nThe decision follows a review of the Goodison Legacy project \u2014 launched in 2020 \u2014 by the Friedkin Group following its takeover of the club in December.\n\nGoodison Park will also stage some academy matches, while there will be a program of stadium upgrades ahead of the new season.\n\nIt has been the home of the men's team since 1892.\n\nSouthampton will be the visitor for the team's final match there on Sunday."}
{"prompt_hash": "1119f30fc68e642739142eea3b9984d3e74003faa9bec0fee5e9062284c50995", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 15:49:38+00:00", "topics": ["Robert F. Kennedy Jr.", "U.S. Food and Drug Administration", "Ken Paxton", "Public health", "Water quality", "Utah", "Children", "Health", "Oral health", "Government programs", "Marty Makary", "Donald Trump", "Financial markets", "Colgate-Palmolive Co.", "Medication", "Brett Kessler"], "text": "# FDA and RFK Jr. aim to remove ingestible fluoride products used to protect kids' teeth\n\nBy Matthew Perrone  \nMay 13th, 2025 03:49 PM\n\n---\n\nWASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 U.S. health regulators announced an effort Tuesday to phase out ingestible fluoride supplements sometimes used to strengthen children's teeth, opening a new front in Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s effort against a mainstay of dental care.\n\nThe Food and Drug Administration said it will conduct a scientific review of the children's products by late October with the aim of removing them from the market. Formally withdrawing medical products requires a lengthy rulemaking process that can take years. Instead, the FDA will ask manufacturers to voluntarily pull their products, according to an administration official.\n\nFluoride tablets and lozenges are sometimes recommended for children and teens at increased risk of tooth decay or cavities because of low fluoride in their local drinking water. Companies also sell drops for babies.\n\nFDA Commissioner Marty Makary said the products pose a risk when swallowed because they may interfere with healthy gut bacteria that are critical to digestion, immunity and other key bodily functions. He also referenced studies showing possible associations between excess fluoride intake and other problems, including decreased IQ.\n\nThe nation's leading dental group said Tuesday the studies \"do not in fact demonstrate any harmful effects\" from fluoride at the levels used by dentists.\n\n\"Proposals like this stand to hurt rural America, not make them healthier,\" American Dental Association President Dr. Brett Kessler said. \"More than ever, at this critical time in American health care policy, it is vital that we slow down to properly study the full implications of actions like this on the health of the nation.\"\n\nOfficials in Utah \u2014 the first U.S. state to ban fluoride from drinking water \u2014 recently made fluoride supplements available without a prescription. As more state and local governments begin removing fluoride from their water, the need for supplemental fluoride is expected to grow.\n\nFluoride strengthens teeth and reduces cavities by replacing minerals lost during normal wear and tear, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In 1962, the agency set guidelines for how much should be added to water.\n\nKennedy, a former environmental lawyer, has called fluoride a \"dangerous neurotoxin\" tied to a range of health dangers. Last month, he announced a task force to scrutinize fluoride's use, while at the same time saying he would order the CDC to stop recommending that it be added to tap water.\n\nA report last year by the federal government's National Toxicology Program concluded that drinking water with more than twice the CDC's recommended level was associated with lower IQs in kids. The study was based on research conducted in Canada, China, India, Iran, Pakistan and Mexico.\n\n\"Ending the use of ingestible fluoride is long overdue,\" Kennedy said in a statement Tuesday. \"This decision brings us one step closer to delivering on President Trump's promise to Make America Healthy Again.\"\n\nAn influential government health panel recommends fluoride supplements for children between the ages of six months and 5 years if they live in areas with low fluoridation levels. The U.S. Preventative Services Task Forces judged the recommendation to have \"high certainty,\" based on the available evidence.\n\nA 2010 paper from the ADA recommended supplemental fluoride for children up to 16 years old who are at high risk of cavities. The recommendation was based on a review of studies across different age groups. The most common side effect associated with the products is spotting or discoloration of the teeth, caused by extra fluoride.\n\nADA's Kessler said the FDA's plan \"will be particularly harmful to the most vulnerable and those who lack access to care.\"\n\nThe FDA regulates most dental products, including fluoride-containing toothpastes, supplements, mouthwashes and rinses. But in Tuesday's press release, the FDA said the ingestible products targeted by the agency have \"never been approved.\" The agency's plan wouldn't affect toothpastes, mouthwash or fluoride treatments used by adults or those offered in dentists' offices.\n\nIn recent weeks fluoride-containing products have increasingly been targeted with lawsuits and legal actions.\n\nTexas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced an investigation early this month into the marketing of fluoride toothpastes by Colgate-Palmolive and Proctor and Gamble. A press release from his office described the companies' promotions as \"misleading, deceptive and dangerous.\""}
{"prompt_hash": "baf19417f7d630233d0e44440fb509ce50f445633fbbe1731e0397f8fe7a0651", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 21:53:40+00:00", "topics": ["Donald Trump", "Margo Martin", "Riyadh", "Saudi Arabia", "U.S. Air Force", "Saudi Arabia government", "Politics"], "text": "# How to impress a US president? Spin up a fighter jet escort for Air Force One\n\nMay 13th, 2025 09:53 PM\n\n---\n\nRIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) \u2014 Saudi Arabia didn't even wait for U.S. President Donald Trump to land there before it set out to impress him in a sky-high way.\n\nAs Trump flew in to Riyadh on Tuesday, he got a ceremonial escort from six Royal Saudi Air Force F-15s as his plane approached the kingdom's capital \u2014 an exceptionally rare sight.\n\nMargo Martin, a White House official, posted video of the escort online, declaring, \"Saudi F-15's providing honorary escort for Air Force One!\"\n\nThe Royal Saudi Air Force has the world's largest fleet of F-15s after the U.S. Air Force."}
{"prompt_hash": "45840e13a3d40eca0ac978ae0a15c08564154c135f56ba6f89f183f3c5352c9a", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 21:31:27+00:00", "topics": ["Bruce Bochy", "Corey Seager", "Texas Rangers", "Illinois", "Baseball", "Athlete injuries", "Medical diagnostic technology", "MLB", "Sports", "Kyle Higashioka", "Ryan McMahon", "Luke Jackson", "MLB baseball"], "text": "# Rangers place Corey Seager on 10-day injured list with right hamstring strain\n\nBy Stephen Hawkins  \nMay 13th, 2025 09:31 PM\n\n---\n\nARLINGTON, Texas (AP) \u2014 Corey Seager was placed on the 10-day injured list again Tuesday by the Texas Rangers after the two-time World Series MVP shortstop had already missed four of their previous five games because of right hamstring soreness.\n\nSeager is on the IL for the second time this season, with the latest move retroactive to Sunday. He had played in only five games since being activated May 3 after missing 10 games with a right hamstring strain. He homered twice Saturday at Detroit.\n\n\"Obviously it's frustrating, but at the same time we know he'll be back,\" manager Bruce Bochy said, then acknowledging it could be longer than just a 10-day IL stint this time. \"We're going to make sure this thing is healed up. We don't want him playing at 75, 80%.\"\n\nThere was no immediate move for right-handed closer Luke Jackson, who was struck on his pitching hand by a 111-mph comebacker liner on the only pitch he threw after coming into the ninth inning of their 2-1 win over Colorado on Monday night.\n\nJackson still had some swelling Tuesday, but X-rays and a CT scan showed no broken bones. He was in the clubhouse squeezing a squishy stress ball in his right hand in an effort to help relieve what swelling remained on the top of his hand and the wrist area where the ball struck him.\n\nBochy said Jackson would be evaluated Wednesday.\n\n\"He could be ready four or five days, we think,\" Bochy said. \"If it doesn't look like that's happening, then we'll make a move.\"\n\nThe Rangers activated catcher Kyle Higashioka from the 10-day IL after he missed 12 games because of a mild left intercostal strain.\n\nSeager, in the fourth season of his $325 million, 10-year contract with the Rangers, is hitting .300 with six homers and 12 RBIs in 26 games this season.\n\nThe five-time All-Star missed the end of last season after his second hernia surgery in less than eight months. That operation in September was a right sports hernia repair, on the opposite side of his abdomen from a procedure the previous January.\n\nHe dealt with the left hernia issue at the end of 2023, when he still hit .318 with six homers, 12 RBIs and 15 walks in 17 postseason games as the Rangers won their first World Series title. He was on the IL twice that season (left hamstring issue and right thumb sprain).\n\nRyan McMahon was leading off the ninth for Colorado in the series opener when his sharp liner struck Jackson's hand and popped up in the air before falling to the ground for an infield single.\n\nJackson, 0-3 with eight saves and a 5.54 ERA since signing with the Rangers as a free agent in February, said that had \"to be the hardest ball\" to ever hit him.\n\n\"The second it hit my hand. I didn't know, like, how bad it was. You know, adrenaline,\" he said. \"Then my hand swelled up so fast I couldn't even, like, think about holding the ball ... It wasn't comfortable last night. But this morning I woke up, felt pretty good.\""}
{"prompt_hash": "2c6c1ef4ee7a65cbef738c5586f20d7fe676fd8c987129d76845bdb970525792", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 15:45:10+00:00", "topics": ["Paul Skenes", "Don Kelly", "Pittsburgh Pirates", "Baseball", "MLB", "MLB Spring Training", "Sports", "MLB baseball", "Houston"], "text": "# Pirates ace Paul Skenes is joining Team USA for the World Baseball Classic\n\nMay 13th, 2025 03:45 PM\n\n---\n\nNEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Paul Skenes is ready to take on the world.\n\nThe Pittsburgh Pirates ace announced Tuesday that he will join Team USA when the World Baseball Classic returns next March.\n\n\"Being around the best players in the game for three, four weeks, however long it is \u2014 unbelievable opportunity,\" Skenes said at Citi Field before the Pirates played the New York Mets. \"And I just can't wait to learn.\"\n\nThe reigning National League Rookie of the Year \u2014 who spent two years at the Air Force Academy before transferring to LSU \u2014 is expected to be near the top of the rotation for the Americans, who are coming off a runner-up finish to Japan at the 2023 WBC.\n\nSkenes is confident the U.S. will have another good team and he's willing to help recruit other major league stars.\n\n\"I'll do whatever I have to do to win gold,\" he said.\n\nAsked if he thinks his commitment to Team USA could convince other elite pitchers to participate, Skenes said: \"That's the goal.\" But he added he's \"not too worried about any of that stuff.\"\n\nPirates manager Don Kelly said the club isn't overly concerned about Skenes risking injury by ramping up intensity on the mound earlier than usual, at a time in the year when most big league players are gearing up gradually at spring training.\n\n\"I think anytime these pitchers go out there, there's always concern and health risk and whatever,\" Kelly said. \"But you get to see the way that he works and the way that he prepares, and how diligent he is in that \u2014 he's going to do everything that he can to be prepared to go out there and stay as healthy as he can.\"\n\nSkenes, who turns 23 this month, was the top pick in the 2023 amateur draft. The 6-foot-6 right-hander is 14-7 with a 2.16 ERA in 32 career starts \u2014 the lowest ERA in the majors since his debut on May 11, 2024. He is 3-4 with a 2.63 ERA this season.\n\nSkenes gave up one run in six innings Monday night against the Mets and exited with the lead before Pittsburgh's bullpen gave it away late in a 4-3 loss.\n\nThe 2026 WBC will be held from March 5-17 in Tokyo, Houston, Miami and San Juan, Puerto Rico. Skenes and the rest of Team USA begin pool play in Houston from March 6-11.\n\nSkenes has already spoken a little bit to Pirates teammates who have played in the WBC.\n\n\"Basically, (they) said it's the coolest thing they've ever experienced. So, looking forward to it and looking forward to having my own experiences,\" he said."}
{"prompt_hash": "56e2737549219aff8057d842a28ab53d565735734f64237ca41801b555af311d", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 22:43:13+00:00", "topics": ["Stuart Skinner", "William Nylander", "Calvin Pickard", "Anthony Stolarz", "Florida Panthers", "Edmonton Oilers", "Toronto Maple Leafs", "Evan Rodrigues", "Matthew Tkachuk", "Ryan Reaves", "Max Domi", "Aleksander Barkov", "Sergei Bobrovsky", "Vegas Golden Knights", "Stanley Cup", "NHL", "Sports", "Pain management", "NHL hockey", "Kris Knoblauch", "National Hockey League", "Craig Berube", "Evander Kane", "Toronto", "Oliver Ekman-Larsson", "Stanley Cup Playoffs"], "text": "# Evander Kane's physicality helps Oilers push Golden Knights to brink of elimination\n\nBy Mark Anderson  \nMay 13th, 2025 10:43 PM\n\n---\n\nThis isn't the first time Evander Kane has been a pain to the Golden Knights, and he has helped bring a physicality to the Edmonton Oilers that has them one game from eliminating Vegas.\n\nIt's similar in the Florida-Toronto series, where the heat is rising as the stakes get higher.\n\nIn other words, it's the NHL playoffs.\n\nFor the Golden Knights, this is like a throwback \u2014 but not in a good way. Former Vegas enforcer Ryan Reaves had a long-running feud with Kane when the latter played for San Jose, which helped bleed into contempt between the teams.\n\nThe fact they were Pacific Division rivals that also met in the playoffs in 2018 and 2019 took their games up a level. The Golden Knights won the 2018 series and the Sharks got revenge in a memorable seven-game victory the following year.\n\nSo, of course, Kane is playing another big role role against the Golden Knights. He has two goals and two assists and has helped bring a key physical element to the Oilers, especially in Monday night's 3-0 Game 4 victory.\n\n\"It wears other teams down and it keeps guys on their toes,\" Kane said of the physicality. \"We got some turnovers off of that. I thought we were able to create some offensive opportunities. We didn't take our foot off the gas.\"\n\nKane missed the entire regular season because of two surgeries to repair a number of issues, but hasn't needed much time to transition his way back into the lineup.\n\n\"He likes the competition,\" Edmonton coach Kris Knoblauch said. \"He likes the level of intensity, and the game means more this time of the year. He rises to that occasion where you see other guys maybe wilt.\"\n\nThe Florida-Toronto series is tied \u2014 and heated.\n\nThe Maple Leafs won Games 1 and 2 on their home ice, the Panthers won Games 3 and 4 on their home ice, and that span has seen both good play and bad blood. The Panthers are waiting to see if forward Evan Rodrigues \u2014 the recipient of a high hit from former teammate Oliver Ekman-Larsson in Game 4 \u2014 will be cleared to play in Game 5.\n\nThat wasn't the end of the Game 4 shenanigans, either. Toronto's Max Domi appeared to blindside the Panthers' Aleksander Barkov with a hit at the end of regulation that led to four misconduct penalties, along with a suggestion from Florida's Matthew Tkachuk to the Leafs' William Nylander that a response would be coming from the defending Cup champions on Wednesday.\n\n\"He probably didn't even hear him,\" Leafs coach Craig Berube said of Nylander. \"He doesn't hear me.\"\n\n## Edmonton Oilers at Vegas Golden Knights\n\nWhen/Where to Watch: Game 5, Wednesday, 9:30 p.m. EDT (ESPN)\n\nSeries: Oilers leads 3-1\n\nEdmonton goalie Stuart Skinner was benched after the first two games in the opening round series against Los Angeles before Calvin Pickard came to rescue before reeling off six consecutive victories.\n\nThat included the first two games of this series.\n\nBut with Pickard day to day with a lower-body injury, it's Skinner's turn to play hero. He recorded a 23-save shutout on Monday to put the Oilers on the brink of advancing to the Western Conference final.\n\n\"Stuart made some big saves, especially early in the game when there were some times Vegas had the opportunity to get back in the game,\" Knoblauch said. \"He has a lot of pride. He puts pressure on himself to have success, and it was nice to see him get that shutout.\"\n\n## Florida Panthers at Toronto Maple Leafs\n\nWhen/Where to Watch: Game 5, Wednesday, 7 p.m. EDT (ESPN)\n\nSeries: Series tied 2-2.\n\nThe series is tied. Games, 2-2. Goals, Florida leads 14-13. The Panthers are delivering more hits, the Maple Leafs are blocking more shots. Add hits and blocks up, and it comes out basically even \u2014 60 a game for Toronto, 59 a game for Florida.\n\n\"It's a best-of-three now,\" Panthers goalie Sergei Bobrovsky said.\n\nWelcome to the swing game. In NHL history, when a best-of-seven series is tied 2-2, the Game 5 winner has gone on to prevail 79% of the time.\n\nThat goes up to 100% so far this postseason; four series were tied 2-2, and the Game 5 winner has won them all \u2014 all in Round 1 in the Western Conference. The Vegas-Minnesota, Edmonton-Los Angeles, Winnipeg-St. Louis and Dallas-Colorado series were all tied 2-2; Vegas, Edmonton and Dallas all won Game 5 and closed those matchups out in six games, while Winnipeg won Game 5 and went on to win Game 7 in an overtime thriller.\n\nMaple Leafs goalie Anthony Stolarz, who was injured in Game 1 of the series, returned to practice Tuesday. Berube, however, said he didn't know when Stolarz would play again."}
{"prompt_hash": "9cc7a215e38568462b48d1b0690ab5db7f418be0217fe9426ab007861f99ace3", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 21:26:09+00:00", "topics": ["Israel", "Gaza Strip", "United Nations", "Foreign aid", "Israel government", "War and unrest", "Israel-Hamas war", "2024-2025 Mideast Wars", "Hamas", "Famine", "Humanitarian crises", "Tommy Pigott", "Politics", "United Nations Security Council", "Antoine Renard", "Riyad Mansour"], "text": "# UN humanitarian chief blasts Israel for blocking aid to Gaza\n\nBy Farnoush Amiri and Edith M. Lederer  \nMay 13th, 2025 09:26 PM\n\n---\n\nUNITED NATIONS (AP) \u2014 The United Nations' top humanitarian official blasted Israel on Tuesday for \"deliberately and unashamedly\" imposing inhumane conditions on Palestinians, including the risk of famine \u2014 one of the strongest condemnations by a high-ranking U.N. official during the war in Gaza.\n\nTom Fletcher, head of the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, briefed the Security Council, describing this work as a \"grim undertaking\" since Israel began blocking all humanitarian aid from entering Gaza more than 10 weeks ago.\n\nHe went as far as saying that the council must \"act now\" to \"prevent genocide,\" a claim that Israel vehemently denied.\n\n\"I ask you to reflect \u2014 for a moment \u2014 on what action we will tell future generations we each took to stop the 21st century atrocity to which we bear daily witness in Gaza,\" said Fletcher, a longtime British diplomat who took up the U.N. post in November. \"It is a question we will hear, sometimes incredulous, sometimes furious \u2014 but always there \u2014 for the rest of our lives.\"\n\nIn response to Fletcher's remarks, the Israeli mission to the U.N. said that \"Israel will not accept a humanitarian mechanism that props up the Hamas terror organization that butchered our people in their homes and communities.\" Before the blockade, the U.N. and other international aid agencies handled moving aid into the enclave.\n\nThe U.N. World Food Program's director for Gaza, Antoine Renard, told The Associated Press that a quarter of Gaza's population is at risk of famine. That's despite all the food needed to feed the territory's population sitting in warehouses in Israel, Egypt, and Jordan \u2014 and most of it is not even 25 miles (40 kilometers) away, he said.\n\nRenard said WFP warehouses in Gaza are empty, and the agency has gone from providing meals for 1 million people at the end of April to producing only 250,000 meals daily. The meals they can serve are \"meaningless, compared to people's requirements,\" he said.\n\n\"Soon, we're going to speak about the fact that people don't even have access to a meal,\" Renard warned. \"Is that where we need to go to actually raise the alarm? It's now that we need to act.\"\n\nThe warnings come after food security experts said Monday that Gaza will likely fall into famine if Israel doesn't lift its blockade and stop its military campaign. Nearly half a million Palestinians are facing possible starvation, living in \"catastrophic\" levels of hunger, and 1 million others can barely get enough food, according to findings by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, a leading international authority on the severity of hunger crises.\n\n\"Israel has been openly and brazenly blocking humanitarian aid for over two months now \u2014 this is engineered starvation,\" Riyad Mansour, the Palestinian U.N. ambassador, told the Security Council. \"It is the most inhumane form of torture and killing.\"\n\nAmid Israel's blockade, AP obtained a proposal from a newly created group backed by the U.S., the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, to implement a new aid distribution system based on plans similar to those designed by Israel.\n\nIsrael has cited aid diversions by Hamas as reason for a new plan. The U.N. and aid groups have rejected Israel's moves to control aid distribution.\n\n\"It is a cynical sideshow. A deliberate distraction. A fig leaf for further violence and displacement,\" Fletcher said about the proposal, adding that it would exclude the disabled, women, children and the elderly.\n\nAsked Tuesday when aid would get into Gaza, a spokesperson for the State Department repeated Israeli rhetoric that Hamas \"bears responsibility\" for the humanitarian conditions in Gaza. It's a claim that aid officials have continuously disputed.\n\n\"I will reiterate that we are supportive of creative solutions to get aid in there but also in a way that the aid is not falling into the hands of Hamas, that it actually reaches the people that need it,\" deputy spokesman Tommy Pigott told reporters.\n\nRenard said \"criminal gangs,\" not Hamas, had stripped WFP trucks of supplies between October and early January. He said some taking of food recently was not by gangs but people with nothing to eat.\n\nHamas-led militants killed 1,200 people in a surprise Oct. 7, 2023, attack in southern Israel. Israel's retaliatory offensive has killed over 52,800 Palestinians, many of them women and children, according to Gaza's Health Ministry, which does not say how many of the dead were combatants or civilians.\n\nIsrael says it has killed thousands of militants, without giving evidence. The Israeli military on Tuesday struck what it said was a Hamas \"command and control center\" located beneath a hospital in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis.\n\n\"I can tell you from having visited what's left of Gaza's medical system, that death on this scale has a sound and a smell that does not leave you,\" the U.N.'s Fletcher said."}
{"prompt_hash": "c70fa55c5656641a02d1fcc17977c5833c007e1e87c8eed63d9ee85c0d1f2248", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 10:56:27+00:00", "topics": ["Nuno Espirito Santo", "Soccer", "Elliot Anderson", "Surgery", "Nigeria", "Sports", "Premier League", "Taiwo Awoniyi", "Nottingham", "United Kingdom"], "text": "# Forest striker Awoniyi reportedly placed in induced coma after urgent surgery\n\nMay 13th, 2025 10:56 AM\n\n---\n\nNOTTINGHAM, England (AP) \u2014 Nottingham Forest striker Taiwo Awoniyi has reportedly been placed in an induced coma after undergoing \"urgent\" surgery on an abdominal injury that was the subject of a heavily debated on-field discussion between the club's manager and owner following a Premier League game over the weekend.\n\nThe Nigeria international was injured when he collided with the goal frame after coming on as a second-half substitute during the 2-2 draw against Leicester on Sunday.\n\nAwoniyi was placed in an induced coma to aid his recovery from Monday's operation, Britain's PA news agency reported Tuesday, saying it will help restrict his movement and regulate his heart rate.\n\nForest had released a statement after Awoniyi's surgery, saying he was \"recovering well.\" The team has two games left in the Premier League \u2014 at West Ham and at home to Chelsea \u2014 as it seeks to qualify for the Champions League.\n\nAfter the game against Leicester, Forest owner Evangelos Marinakis entered the field and remonstrated with manager Nuno Espirito Santo.\n\nEspirito Santo said Marinakis was frustrated because of a miscommunication between the bench and medical staff after the injury to Awoniyi.\n\nAfter receiving treatment, the 27-year-old striker signaled he was OK to continue so Espirito Santo left him on and immediately made his final substitution, taking off Elliot Anderson for Jota Silva in the first minute of stoppage time.\n\nHowever, Awoniyi was in discomfort for the rest of the game, effectively leaving Forest down to 10 players and hampering its hopes of a winner.\n\nIn its statement, Forest said Marinakis' post-match reaction \"was one of deep care, responsibility, and emotional investment in one of our own.\"\n\n\"In moments like that, he demonstrates his leadership, not just through words, but through action and presence,\" the statement read. \"In the final 10 minutes of the game, when he saw our player clearly in discomfort, struggling through visible pain, it became increasingly difficult for him to stay on the sidelines.\n\n\"His deep frustration at seeing our player lying on the ground in severe pain \u2014 something no one with genuine care could ignore \u2014 triggered him to go onto the pitch. It was instinctive, human, and a reflection of just how much this team and its people mean to him.\"\n\nMarinakis relinquished his position as a person with significant control of Forest in recent weeks as the club closed in on unlikely Champions League qualification.\n\nUEFA has rules to bar clubs from its competitions in any season if owners have \"decisive influence\" over two clubs which qualify. Marinakis is also president of Olympiakos, which has qualified as Greek champion.\n\nWith two rounds of the season to go, Forest is seventh \u2014 one point behind fifth-placed Chelsea. The top five will qualify for the Champions League."}
{"prompt_hash": "9cec38904e05efa88f5ec3e45d76fa8fb191d205a52c574519cc46db5b233035", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 20:43:57+00:00", "topics": ["Baltimore Orioles", "Minnesota Twins", "San Francisco Giants", "Baseball", "DC Wire", "MLB", "Sports", "Simeon Woods Richardson", "Bailey Ober", "MLB baseball", "Dean Kremer"], "text": "# Twins and Orioles to play Wednesday doubleheader after weather postpones Tuesday's game\n\nMay 13th, 2025 08:43 PM\n\n---\n\nBALTIMORE (AP) \u2014 The opener of a three-game series between the Minnesota Twins and Baltimore Orioles on Tuesday was postponed because of rain.\n\nThe game will be made up as a traditional doubleheader on Wednesday with the first game starting at 12:05 p.m. EDT.\n\nMinnesota right-hander Bailey Ober will face Baltimore right-hander Dean Kremer in the opener. Twins right-hander Simeon Woods Richardson, who was scheduled to pitch Tuesday, is expected to start the second game Wednesday. The Orioles hadn't announced a starter for that one.\n\nThe Twins have won eight straight after beating the San Francisco Giants 7-6 on Sunday. The Orioles are last in the AL East."}
{"prompt_hash": "6a07890caccb208aa80743bee03d1cbfb22381c882a7a00ea8df5fa303b3b814", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 15:33:28+00:00", "topics": ["North Carolina", "Raleigh", "Voting", "Allison Riggs", "Donald Trump", "Roy Cooper", "Courts", "2024 United States presidential election", "Voting rights", "Richard Myers", "Legal proceedings", "U.S. Republican Party", "North Carolina state government", "Anita Earls", "Politics", "Isaac Jenkins", "Elections"], "text": "# North Carolina justice sworn in after long battle over result\n\nBy Gary D. Robertson  \nMay 13th, 2025 03:33 PM\n\n---\n\nRALEIGH, N.C. (AP) \u2014 North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs was sworn in to a new term on Tuesday after the Democrat won a monthslong fight against her Republican rival's challenges to thousands of ballots.\n\nThe State Board of Elections earlier Tuesday issued an election certificate to Riggs based on the incumbent's 734-vote victory over GOP candidate Jefferson Griffin from over 5.5 million ballots cast. The board was complying with a federal judge's order last week against Griffin, who conceded rather than appeal.\n\nThe Associated Press declared over 4,800 winners in the 2024 general election, but the Supreme Court election was the last nationally that was undecided.\n\n\"Thank you for your trust and unwavering support,\" Riggs told family and supporters after she was sworn in to an eight-year term in the old House chamber. \"You chose a path forward where power stays in the hands of people, not politicians. You demanded accountability and used your voices to speak out for our constitutional rights.\"\n\nThe victory builds Democratic hopes that they can take over the highest court in the ninth-largest state later this decade. Associate Justice Anita Earls \u2014 the other Democrat on the seven-member court \u2014 delivered the oath to Riggs and is seeking reelection in 2026. The conservative majority in place since early 2023 has issued opinions favoring Republicans on redistricting, photo voter identification and even this race.\n\nAfter two recounts, the result remained in the air for months, as Griffin protested the eligibility of over 65,000 ballots. Court decisions whittled the potential ballots at issue down to no more than roughly 7,000.\n\nRiggs' Democratic allies said Griffin and the state Republican Party were trying to overturn a fair and legal election by removing ballots that legally should be counted. Some of Griffin's challenges only applied to a handful of Democratic-leaning counties.\n\nThere was \"immeasurable damage done to our democracy\" as a result of the challenge, Riggs said. \"Voters should not have to fight tooth and nail to have their lawful votes counted.\"\n\nThe State Board of Elections dismissed Griffin's protests in December. But by April state appeals courts \u2014 including the high court \u2014 ruled against counting votes from people who never lived in North Carolina but whose parents had. And they declared ballots ineligible if they were cast by military and overseas voters who didn't provide copies of photo identification or an ID exception form.\n\nA Republican majority of justices also agreed that those people who cast ballots without an ID or form \u2014 perhaps several thousand \u2014 should have 30 days to provide additional information so their choices could still count.\n\nRiggs, who recused herself from her court's deliberations, went to federal court to block the removal of votes. U.S. District Judge Richard Myers, an appointee of President Donald Trump, sided with Riggs on May 5, agreeing the \"retroactive invalidation\" of ballots cast by military and overseas voters would violate the due process rights of voters. And Myers wrote the lack of a process for people mistakenly declared nonresidents also was unconstitutional.\n\nGriffin's challenges in part had been about \"making sure that every legal vote in an election is counted,\" he said last Wednesday as he announced he wouldn't appeal.\n\nRepublican officials contend the six-month challenge brought to light errors by the State Board of Elections that threatened election integrity and will be addressed by a newly appointed Republican-majority board. But many voters whose ballots were challenged described Griffin's efforts as a disturbing attempt to steal an election and lamented the rulings of other Republican state judges over the ballot protests.\n\n\"It's very distasteful that he did challenge,\" said Isaac Jenkins, 76, of Aberdeen, who was on the list of those who cast ballots questioned by Griffin, which also included Riggs' parents. \"It put a bad spotlight on the Republican Party and on the courts.\"\n\nMyers' order, however, did not invalidate for future North Carolina elections the state courts' decisions on military and overseas voters who don't provide ID information as well as those who have never been residents in the state. They can vote in North Carolina elections for federal offices only, the elections board said this week.\n\nRiggs, who was appointed to the court in September 2023 by then-Gov. Roy Cooper, now serves in a full associate justice's term that lasts through late 2032. Griffin remains a state Court of Appeals judge."}
{"prompt_hash": "0c944b2c93bce01db96d03596105704b166ba41bf07fe05c09aeeb3feb665d3c", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 22:34:53+00:00", "topics": ["Sevilla FC", "Soccer", "Cristhian Stuani", "Alvaro Garcia", "Sports transactions", "Sports", "Francisco Garca Pimienta"], "text": "# Forward who was playing in US college last year puts Sevilla on verge of escaping demotion\n\nBy Tales Azzoni  \nMay 13th, 2025 10:34 PM\n\n---\n\nMADRID (AP) \u2014 \u00c1lvaro Garc\u00eda Pascual, who last year was playing college soccer in the United States, gave Sevilla a 1-0 home win over Las Palmas and moved the traditional Spanish club on the verge of escaping relegation in the Spanish league on Tuesday.\n\nGarc\u00eda Pascual scored the winning goal with a header in the 52nd minute to move Sevilla seven points clear of the relegation zone with two games remaining. Some teams can cut that gap as the mid-week round continues on Wednesday and Thursday.\n\nThe 22-year-old Garc\u00eda Pascual was playing at Marshall University until last year, and before that he was at Coastal Carolina University. The forward joined Sevilla's B team in 2024, and made his first-team debut as a substitute in a game against Real Madrid at the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium in December.\n\nTuesday's victory ended an eight-game winless streak for Sevilla, which a few days ago faced a protest by a large group of angry fans who forced their way onto the premises of the club's training grounds following another loss.\n\nSevilla fired coach Francisco Garc\u00eda Pimienta in April, and former coach Joaqu\u00edn Caparr\u00f3s replaced him in a caretaker role. The club has been hit by financial plight and poor results ever since winning its seventh and last Europa League title in 2023.\n\nIt was the fourth-straight defeat for Las Palmas, which stayed in second-to-last-place, three points from salvation.\n\n## Other results\n\nIn other results, 13th-place Girona won 1-0 at already relegated Valladolid, which has lost 10 games in a row. Cristhian Stuani scored Girona's winner in the 80th.\n\nSeventh-place Celta Vigo strengthened its hold in the European qualification spots by winning 1-0 at 12th-place Real Sociedad, which is winless in six consecutive matches. Celta has won three of its last four matches.\n\nReal Madrid needs to beat Mallorca at home on Wednesday to keep Barcelona from winning the league title in advance. Even if Madrid wins, the Catalan club can lift the trophy with a victory at Espanyol on Thursday."}
{"prompt_hash": "06a6b1fce1484d51227cbd5b87981fc83db01a4ccaff12eee83c6c3a3d98f776", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 20:24:40+00:00", "topics": ["Donald Trump", "Honduras", "United States government", "Lawsuits", "Immigration", "Louisiana", "New Orleans", "United States", "U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement", "Politics", "Terry Doughty", "Gracie Willis", "Legal proceedings"], "text": "# Family of 2-year-old US citizen deported to Honduras drops lawsuit against Trump administration\n\nBy Megan Janetsky  \nMay 13th, 2025 08:24 PM\n\n---\n\nMEXICO CITY (AP) \u2014 Lawyers for a 2-year-old U.S. citizen who was deported with her mother to Honduras confirmed on Tuesday that the family was dropping its lawsuit against the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump.\n\nThe girl -\u2013 one of three U.S.-born children who were deported alongside their Honduran-born mothers -\u2013 had been at the heart of one of the mounting legal battles playing out in the United States weighing if the Trump administration broke the law in implementing its new deportation policies.\n\n\"Given the traumatizing experiences the families have been through, they are taking a step back to have full discussions about all their options, the safety and well-being of their children, and the best ways to proceed so the harms they have suffered can be fully addressed,\" said Gracie Willis, one of the family's lawyers.\n\nThe lawsuit was brought by the American Civil Liberties Union, National Immigration Project and several other allied groups, which said the deportations were a \"shocking \u2014 although increasingly common \u2014 abuse of power.\"\n\nWillis and the group of lawyers had argued that the families did not have a fair opportunity to decide whether they wanted the children to stay in the United States. Willis said the family of the 2-year-old girl and their lawyers jointly decided to dismiss the case to give the family \"space and time to consider all the options that are available to them.\"\n\nA federal judge in Louisiana had raised questions about the girl's deportation, saying the government did not prove it had done so properly.\n\nThe Honduran-born mother \u2014 who is pregnant \u2014 was arrested in April on an outstanding deportation order along with the girl and her 11-year-old Honduran-born sister during a check-in appointment at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in New Orleans, lawyers said. The family lived in Baton Rouge.\n\nLawyers for the girl's father insisted he wanted the girl to remain with him in the U.S., while ICE said the mother had wanted the girl to be deported with her to Honduras.\n\nIn a court filing, lawyers for the father said ICE indicated that it was holding the girl in a bid to induce the father to turn himself in.\n\nU.S. District Judge Terry Doughty in Louisiana had scheduled a hearing for the case later this week, saying it was \"in the interest of dispelling our strong suspicion that the Government just deported a U.S. citizen with no meaningful process.\""}
{"prompt_hash": "ce5f36e0fc526d1a6e763ae5bed5747067a30a84be16e39ae3f6e8c492455a80", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 20:26:29+00:00", "topics": ["Matt Quatraro", "Kansas City Royals", "Houston", "Baseball", "MLB", "Sports", "MLB baseball", "Sports transactions", "Edwin Jackson", "Boston Red Sox", "Rich Hill"], "text": "# The Royals signed veteran Rich Hill to a minor league deal. They would be his 14th team if called up\n\nMay 13th, 2025 08:26 PM\n\n---\n\nHOUSTON (AP) \u2014 The Kansas City Royals are giving Rich Hill another chance to pitch in the big leagues.\n\nThe Royals signed the 45-year-old left-hander to a minor league deal Tuesday, and he will report soon to the club's spring training facility in Surprise, Arizona. Once he gets up to speed, Hill likely will head to Triple-A Omaha and try to prove he can still help a major league ballclub with designs on contending for the postseason.\n\nKansas City entered Tuesday night's game in Houston tied for second in the AL Central.\n\n\"I love Rich,\" Royals manager Matt Quatraro said. \"I was with him for a year in Tampa. It's remarkable that he's still pitching, that he still has the drive to want to do it and go to Triple-A and continue to compete. That's one thing that stands out about him is he is the ultimate competitor. Nobody wants to win more than that guy. Nobody's more fiery than he is. So, I think it's tremendous that he still has that drive and he can continue to compete.\"\n\nHill made his big league debut with the Cubs in 2005, and he has made 248 starts and appeared in 386 games over the past two decades. He has a 4.01 ERA with 1,428 strikeouts while pitching for 13 different franchises; the Royals would be the 14th should he get called up, joining Edwin Jackson as the only players to play for that many clubs.\n\nHill made four appearances out of the Red Sox bullpen last season before he was designated for assignment in September. His best season was in 2016, when he went 12-5 with a 2.12 ERA while pitching for the Athletics and the Dodgers."}
{"prompt_hash": "72761b7ec13296a699711fe2c535c8f5e194f0f77f2dde7cc8f9a5b7c6bd92a1", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 22:23:40+00:00", "topics": ["Bryson DeChambeau", "Jon Rahm", "Luke Donald", "Golf", "Xander Schauffele", "Keegan Bradley", "Brooks Koepka", "Justin Thomas", "Scottie Scheffler", "Rory McIlroy", "Tiger Woods", "Gary Player", "Will Zalatoris", "PGA Championship", "Ryder Cup", "Europe", "Nick Price", "Oklahoma Sooners", "Marco Simone", "Nick Faldo", "Sports", "Dave Stockton", "Raymond Floyd"], "text": "# Keegan Bradley invites LIV golfers to Ryder Cup dinner despite PGA Tour-LIV tensions\n\nBy Doug Ferguson  \nMay 13th, 2025 10:23 PM\n\n---\n\nCHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) \u2014 Ryder Cup captain Keegan Bradley hosted a dinner in Philadelphia last week for prospective players high on the points list. Most of them were in the field for the Truist Championship. Brooks Koepka and Bryson DeChambeau were not.\n\nBoth players from Saudi-funded LIV Golf were invited to Philadelphia to join the informal dinner. DeChambeau's flight was delayed by weather, and he joined remotely. But it was another strong indication Bradley cares only about fielding the best team.\n\n\"They were in there on points and they played on previous teams. It was great to have them there,\" Bradley said Tuesday. \"This Ryder Cup and what comes with this, no one cares about what's going on in this PGA Tour-LIV. We're trying to put the best team together. It could mean there's one LIV guy, two LIV guys, it doesn't matter. We'll see how this year shakes out.\n\n\"It was really great to have them together with all the guys,\" he said. \"It's been a while since we've been able to do that.\"\n\nKoepka played in the 2023 matches at Marco Simone, while DeChambeau played in 2021.\n\n\"Look, I've got to keep playing good golf and ... hopefully I can make it on points alone,\" DeChambeau said.\n\nHe and Koepka can only earn points in the majors.\n\nJon Rahm, meanwhile, can earn points for the European team through the majors and European tour events he chooses to play. Rahm had not yet joined LIV Golf when Europe beat the Americans in Italy with Luke Donald as the captain.\n\nHe would seem to be a lock for Europe.\n\n\"That's a question for Luke,\" Rahm said. \"It's his team. Hopefully I can qualify, and we don't have to question it. I would like to think that personally I am, but it's not up to me.\"\n\n## Southern Hills gets another PGA\n\nJustin Thomas is back at Quail Hollow, where he won his first PGA Championship. He learned on Tuesday he will be going back to where he won his second Wanamaker Trophy.\n\nThe PGA Championship is returning to Southern Hills in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 2032.\n\nIt will be the sixth time Southern Hills has held the PGA, the most of any course, to go along with three U.S. Opens. The Perry Maxwell design \u2014 restored by Gil Hanse for the 2022 PGA Championship \u2014 has proven a strong test over the years.\n\nOnly 45 players in eight major championships at Southern Hills have finished under par.\n\nThomas tied a PGA Championship record in 2022 when he rallied from seven shots behind in the final round \u2014 including a shank on the par-3 sixth hole \u2014 and drove the par-4 17th green during a three-hole playoff he won over Will Zalatoris.\n\nOther PGA champions at Southern Hills were Tiger Woods (2007), Nick Price (1994), Raymond Floyd (1982) and Dave Stockton (1970). All but Stockton are in the World Golf Hall of Fame.\n\n## Steak and cigars ready\n\nWhile it's a tradition that doesn't get nearly as much attention as the Masters Club dinner at Augusta National, the PGA Championship also has a dinner for past champions.\n\nDefending champion Xander Schauffele was in charge of Tuesday night's menu, which was set to include smoked goat cheese dates, pickled watermelon, clams casino shooters and steak and bleu cheese crostini as appetizers. The main course was Wagyu New York strip steak, served with blackened jumbo shrimp, whipped sweet potatoes and a bourbon bone marrow reduction. Banana split and strawberry shortcake were for dessert.\n\nSchauffele placed full trust in the chefs at Quail Hollow while choosing the menu, saying they haven't let him down in his previous trips to Charlotte.\n\n\"The only thing I said was sort of steak,\" Schauffele said. \"I saw a lot of bleu cheese on there. I think we're kind of tweaking it a little bit, from the last of my knowledge, or making it a little bit more customized; you can have some on or not because it's sort of a really strong, you either like it or you don't thing.\"\n\nAs part of the tradition, Schauffele planned to give his fellow past PGA champions cigars and a humidor.\n\n\"The cigars I had input on,\" Schauffele said.\n\n## Rahm and the Grand Slam\n\nJon Rahm would love nothing more than to get a career Grand Slam. He's still two majors away \u2014 the PGA Championship and the British Open. Until he gets the third leg, his mind is more occupied with total majors instead of the collection of all four.\n\n\"I think obviously it would be a lot more on my mind if I were to win a third different one, kind of like Jordan (Spieth) has been able to do,\" Rahm said. \"But right now, if I ever had a thought, I'll focus more on quantity of majors rather than which ones.\n\n\"Let's say I never achieve it,\" he said. \"I'd rather have a situation like Sir Nick Faldo where he has six of two of them instead of having maybe three different ones, if that makes sense.\"\n\nFaldo won the Masters and the British Open three times each. He has the most majors of anyone who has two legs of the Grand Slam in the last 100 years.\n\nXander Schauffele, who won the PGA Championship and British Open last year, is on the same page.\n\n\"If I win another double major, the Open and the PGA, I'm not going to cry about it,\" he said. \"I'm trying to win as many as possible. The Grand Slam is obviously on the list of goals. But I'm not picky.\"\n\nScottie Scheffler thought it was \"wild\" that Rory McIlroy could win the Grand Slam with five majors. Tiger Woods, however, completed the slam by winning one of each (and then 11 more), as did Gary Player, who finished with nine majors."}
{"prompt_hash": "9a0f8a367d5c3084599d80a57dcc69892fe8a61445840b2c4742eaf5da65756b", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 21:51:23+00:00", "topics": ["Soccer", "Premier League", "Frank Lampard", "Dan Ballard", "Sports", "Bristol", "Sheffield United"], "text": "# Sunderland to meet Sheffield United for a place in the Premier League\n\nBy Steve Douglas  \nMay 13th, 2025 09:51 PM\n\n---\n\nSunderland has booked a showdown with Sheffield United for a place in the Premier League.\n\nDan Ballard bundled in a dramatic goal in stoppage time of extra time to earn Sunderland a 1-1 draw with Coventry and a 3-2 victory on aggregate in the Championship playoff semifinals on Tuesday.\n\n\"It's what dreams are made of, really,\" said Ballard, whose mistimed header from a corner went in off the underside of the crossbar. \"I can't remember what happened ... It's some feeling, that.\"\n\nSheffield United had already reached the playoff final at Wembley Stadium by completing a 6-0 aggregate win over Bristol City on Monday.\n\nWhile Sheffield United is looking to return to the top flight after an absence of just one year, Sunderland hasn't played in the Premier League since 2017 and has since been the subject of a Netflix series documenting the club's struggles.\n\nThe playoff final is the most lucrative one-off match in world soccer, with Sunderland in line to get an estimated revenue uplift of around 200 million pounds ($260 million) in projected matchday, broadcast and commercial revenue \u2014 and much more if the team was to survive the first season back in the top flight.\n\nFor Sheffield United, the uplift would be an estimated $180 million as the club is still benefitting from parachute payments from the last time the team was in the Premier League \u2014 in the 2023-24 season.\n\nCoventry, managed by Frank Lampard, last played in the Premier League in 2001 and suffered more heartache, having lost to Luton in a penalty shootout in the playoff final in 2023.\n\nSheffield United and Sunderland finished third and fourth, respectively, at the end of the regular season behind Leeds and Burnley, who secured the two automatic promotion spots."}
{"prompt_hash": "b8ac7f5adab7be2db210f93d8a9adbbe6d18feb3698fb4718dce2aa44b2fc076", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 22:14:56+00:00", "topics": ["China", "Beijing", "Donald Trump", "E-commerce", "International trade", "Tariffs and global trade", "John Lash", "China government", "Business", "United States government", "Transportation and shipping"], "text": "# US-China deal to slash tariffs also eases burden on cheap packages\n\nBy Didi Tang  \nMay 13th, 2025 10:14 PM\n\n---\n\nWASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Online shoppers in the U.S. will see a price break on their purchases valued at less than $800 and shipped from China after the Trump administration reached a truce with Beijing over sky-high tariffs.\n\nAn executive order Monday from President Donald Trump said the tariffs on low-value parcels originating from China and coming through the U.S. Postal Service will be lowered to 54%, down from 120%.\n\nIt also says a per-package flat rate \u2014 as an alternative to the value-based tariff \u2014 will be kept at $100, rather than being raised to $200 on June 1 as previously decreed. Packages shipped by commercial carriers are subject to the general tariff, which also has been cut.\n\nThe new rules go into effect Wednesday.\n\nThey are part of a broader agreement by the Trump administration to drastically lower import taxes on all Chinese goods from 145% to 30% following weekend talks in Switzerland with Chinese officials. China issued a public notice on Tuesday lowering its own tariffs on U.S. goods to 10%, down from 125%.\n\nHowever, the reductions are temporary, allowing the two sides to negotiate a longer-term deal in the next 90 days.\n\nIzzy Rosenzweig, founder and CEO of the logistic company Portless, said U.S. brands are \"very excited\" about the broader tariff cut. The import tax is still high, but not as prohibitive as when it was 145%, which amounted to a trade embargo.\n\nOn the low-value shipments, online purchases had been coming into the U.S. duty-free for several years under the de minimis rule, which exempted them from the import tax.\n\nPopular shopping sites such as Shein and Temu that offer ultra-low prices took advantage of the duty-free rule by shipping directly from China to U.S. buyers, bypassing more cumbersome customs paperwork.\n\nPresident Donald Trump terminated the exemption on such parcels originating from China and Hong Kong on May 2, following criticism that it not only resulted in lost tariff revenue but also allowed illicit drugs and unsafe products to flow into the U.S. without adequate scrutiny.\n\nU.S. Customs and Border Protection said as many as 4 million low-value parcels were coming into the U.S. every day \u2014 many of which originated from China.\n\nShortly before the exemption ended on May 2, prices on many items sold by Shein rose. Temu apparently halted shipments from China and tapped its existing inventory in the U.S.\n\nJohn Lash, group vice president of product strategy at the supply chain platform e2open, said he expected the volume of low-value packages would now rise but not back to previous levels. The $100 flat rate, he said, means that higher-value packages could get less of a hit, because the effective duty rate could be as low as 13%.\n\nNeither Shein nor Temu immediately responded to requests for comment Tuesday about the lower tariffs."}
{"prompt_hash": "5beccc43ebc0d417a315340e87d733702c2e08d245ad5101cf248cd3e498d8e0", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 15:50:15+00:00", "topics": ["Microsoft Corp.", "Labor", "Meta Platforms", "Inc.", "Mark Zuckerberg", "Satya Nadella", "Artificial intelligence", "Engineering", "Technology", "Cory Stahle", "Daniel Zhao", "Business", "Amy Hood", "Scott Hanselman", "Donald Trump"], "text": "# Microsoft lays off about 3% of its workforce in what one executive calls a 'day with a lot of tears'\n\nBy Matt O'Brien  \nMay 13th, 2025 03:50 PM\n\n---\n\nMicrosoft began laying off about 6,000 workers Tuesday, nearly 3% of its entire workforce and its largest job cuts in more than two years as the company spends heavily on artificial intelligence.\n\nHard hit was the tech giant's home state of Washington, where Microsoft informed state officials it was cutting 1,985 workers tied to its Redmond headquarters, many of them in software engineering and product management roles.\n\nMicrosoft said the layoffs will be across all levels, teams and geographies but the cuts will focus on reducing the number of managers. Notices to employees began going out on Tuesday.\n\nThe mass layoffs come just weeks after Microsoft reported strong sales and profits that beat Wall Street expectations for the January-March quarter, which investors took as a dose of relief during a turbulent time for the tech sector and U.S. economy.\n\n\"I think many people have this conception of layoffs as something that struggling companies have to do to save themselves, which is one reason for layoffs but it's not the only reason,\" said Daniel Zhao, lead economist at workplace reviews site Glassdoor. \"Big tech companies have trimmed their workforces as they rearrange their strategies and pull back from the more aggressive hiring that they did during the early post-pandemic years.\"\n\nMicrosoft employed 228,000 full-time workers as of last June, the last time it reported its annual headcount. About 55% of those workers were in the U.S.\n\nMicrosoft announced a smaller round of performance-based layoffs in January. But the 3% cuts will be Microsoft's biggest since early 2023, when the company cut 10,000 workers, almost 5% of its workforce, joining other tech companies that were scaling back their pandemic-era expansions.\n\nMicrosoft's chief financial officer, Amy Hood, said on an April earnings call that the company was focused on \"building high-performing teams and increasing our agility by reducing layers with fewer managers.\" She also said the headcount in March was 2% higher than a year earlier, and down slightly compared to the end of last year.\n\nThe layoffs are hitting all parts of Microsoft's business, including the video game platform Xbox and the career networking site LinkedIn. Some laid-off workers and the executives who made the cuts took to LinkedIn to talk about them.\n\n\"This is the first time I've had to lay people off to support business goals that aren't my own,\" wrote Scott Hanselman, a vice president of Microsoft's developer community. \"I often have trouble separating my beliefs with the system that I participate in and am complicit in. These are people with dreams and rent and I love them and I want them to be OK.\"\n\nHe added: \"This is a day with a lot of tears.\"\n\nThe company didn't give a specific reason for the layoffs, only that they were part of \"organizational changes necessary to best position the company for success in a dynamic marketplace.\"\n\nMicrosoft has said it has been spending $80 billion in the fiscal year that ends in June on building data centers and other infrastructure it needs to develop its artificial intelligence technology, though it has also scaled back some of those projects. Those AI tools have been pitched as changing the way people work, including in Microsoft's own workplaces.\n\nMicrosoft CEO Satya Nadella told Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg at an AI event last month at Meta's headquarters that \"maybe 20, 30% of the code\" for some of Microsoft's coding projects \"are probably all written by software.\"\n\nEven if AI is increasingly helping Microsoft software engineers, however, doesn't necessarily mean it's a chief reason for laying them off.\n\n\"When these big tech companies say that they're trimming management layers, that doesn't really sound like it's being driven by AI,\" Zhao said. \"You're not expecting ChatGPT to replace the manager.\"\n\nInstead, cutting management ranks can often reflect a broader strategy.\n\n\"As companies grow quickly, you need to add managers who can coordinate across teams or within teams,\" Zhao said. \"But it's not until things start to slow down that people start asking questions about how necessary those roles are.\"\n\nOf the laid-off employees in Washington, about 1,500 worked in person at Microsoft's offices and 475 worked remotely, according to the notice the company sent to the state employment agency. Their official last day will be in July.\n\nAfter hiring sprees that started when the COVID-19 pandemic spiked demand for online services, many tech companies are still in a process of \"coming back to Earth and trying to kind of rebalance some things,\" said Cory Stahle, an economist at Indeed, the job listings website.\n\nAnd while Microsoft isn't as directly affected by President Donald Trump's wide-ranging tariffs as some of its peers, it must also think more broadly about economic conditions that could play out over the coming months and years.\n\n\"This could be an effort to think more long term,\" Stahle said. \"If you have to go out and buy groceries and spend more on groceries and produce that are more expensive due to tariffs, you maybe don't have as much discretionary income to spend on electronics or video game systems.\""}
{"prompt_hash": "2af43f027547110dd28148c812ad02a8913a4e17d09a61e2bfe5a8e3c01b3efc", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 22:02:51+00:00", "topics": ["Donald Trump", "Joe Biden", "Law and order", "District of Columbia", "Robert Mueller", "Anthony Fauci", "Pam Bondi", "Charles Kushner", "Jared Kushner", "U.S. Department of Justice", "DC Wire", "Ed Martin", "Jack Smith", "Jeanine Pirro", "Government and politics", "United States government", "Politics"], "text": "# Trump's new pardon attorney says he will scrutinize Biden's final pardons\n\nBy Michael Kunzelman  \nMay 13th, 2025 10:02 PM\n\n---\n\nWASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Ed Martin Jr., who will be the Justice Department's new pardon attorney after President Donald Trump pulled his nomination to be the top federal prosecutor for Washington, said Tuesday that he plans to scrutinize pardons that former President Joe Biden issued on his way out of the White House.\n\n\"These are big moments, and so they have to be able to withstand scrutiny,\" Martin told reporters on Tuesday, his last full day as acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia.\n\nBiden pardoned his siblings and their spouses in January on his last day in office. He also pardoned Dr. Anthony Fauci, retired Gen. Mark Milley and members of the House committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.\n\nNone of them had been charged with any crime. The pardons were designed to guard against possible retribution by President Donald Trump.\n\nTrump pulled Martin's nomination last week amid bipartisan opposition and replaced him with Fox News host Jeanine Pirro, who is expected to be sworn into office on Wednesday.\n\nInstead, Martin will serve as an associate deputy attorney general and pardon attorney. In his new role, Martin also will be director of the \"weaponization working group\" at the Justice Department.\n\nAttorney General Pam Bondi called for creating that group in February to investigate the work of former special counsel Jack Smith, who led two federal prosecutions of Trump that were ultimately abandoned, and other examples of what Republicans claim to be unfair targeting of conservatives during Biden's administration.\n\nIn announcing his last-minute pardons, Biden said his family had been \"subjected to unrelenting attacks and threats, motivated solely by a desire to hurt me \u2014 the worst kind of partisan politics.\"\n\n\"Unfortunately, I have no reason to believe these attacks will end,\" he said on the day of Trump's second inauguration.\n\nMartin told reporters that he believes Biden's pardons \"need some scrutiny.\"\n\n\"They need scrutiny because we want pardons to matter and to be accepted and to be something that's used correctly. So I do think we're going to take a hard look at how they went and what they did,\" he said.\n\nThe Constitution grants broad pardon powers to presidents and their clemency actions cannot be undone by courts or other officials. It's not clear what action, if any, Martin believes he would be able to take regarding Biden's pardons.\n\nMartin said the U.S. Attorney's office under his leadership already had been \"taking a look at some of the conduct surrounding the pardons and the Biden White House.\"\n\nTrump also has used the president's sweeping pardon powers to benefit those close to him. In his final weeks of his first term, Trump pardoned Charles Kushner, the father of his son-in law, Jared Kushner, as well as multiple allies convicted in special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation.\n\nOn the first day of his second term, Trump pardoned nearly all of the 1,500 people charged with crimes in the Capitol riot, freeing from prison dozens of people convicted of assaulting police.\n\nTrump appointed Martin as acting U.S. Attorney during his first week back in the White House. Martin oversaw the dismissal of hundreds of Capitol riot cases after Trump's Jan. 6 pardons.\n\nBut his hopes of keeping the job faded amid questions about his lack of prosecutorial experience and his divisive politics. Trump yanked Martin's nomination two days after a key Republican senator said he could not support Martin for the job due to his defense of Capitol rioters.\n\n\"Ultimately, the president decided we didn't want to keep going forward,\" Martin said. \"The president of the United States said we have other battles to do, and so I'm excited about that.\""}
{"prompt_hash": "112873f6b15d8112df295d5bed4a8176db25ada3b52d5686ee0b7853df97d9ff", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 15:25:04+00:00", "topics": ["Donald Trump", "United States government", "Education funding", "Antisemitism", "Discrimination", "United States", "Race and ethnicity", "Politics", "Racism", "Colleges and universities", "District of Columbia", "Education", "Alan Garber"], "text": "# Trump administration cuts another $450 million in grants to Harvard\n\nBy Collin Binkley  \nMay 13th, 2025 03:25 PM\n\n---\n\nWASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 President Donald Trump's administration is cutting another $450 million in grants to Harvard University a day after the Ivy League school pushed back against government allegations that it's a hotbed of liberalism and antisemitism.\n\nIn a letter to Harvard on Tuesday, a federal antisemitism task force said Harvard will lose grants from eight federal agencies in addition to $2.2 billion that was previously frozen by the Trump administration.\n\nThe letter said Harvard has become a \"breeding ground for virtue signaling and discrimination\" and faces a \"steep, uphill battle\" to reclaim its legacy as a place of academic excellence.\n\n\"There is a dark problem on Harvard's campus, and by prioritizing appeasement over accountability, institutional leaders have forfeited the school's claim to taxpayer support,\" the letter said.\n\nIt was signed by officials at the Education Department, Health and Human Services and the General Services Administration.\n\nHours after the latest cuts Tuesday, Harvard filed a legal challenge to several sanctions imposed by the Trump administration in recent weeks. It was filed as an update to the university's April lawsuit seeking to block the initial $2.2 billion freeze.\n\nHarvard has faced escalating sanctions from the White House after becoming the first U.S. university to openly defy the government's demands to limit pro-Palestinian activism and end diversity, equity and inclusion practices.\n\nTrump, a Republican, has said he wants Harvard to lose its tax-exempt status, and the Department of Homeland Security has threatened to revoke the school's eligibility to host foreign students.\n\nLast week, the Education Department said Harvard will receive no new federal grants until it meets the government's demands.\n\nThe Trump administration has demanded Harvard make broad leadership changes, revise its admissions policies and audit its faculty and student body to ensure the campus is home to many viewpoints.\n\nThe demands are part of a pressure campaign targeting several other high-profile universities. The administration has cut off money to colleges including Columbia University, the University of Pennsylvania and Cornell University, seeking compliance with Trump's agenda.\n\nIn its amended lawsuit, Harvard said much of the funding that was initially frozen has now been terminated, apparently with no hope to restore it.\n\nA May 6 letter from the National Institute of Health notified Harvard that grants were being cut over allegations of campus antisemitism. It said grants are typically suspended pending an opportunity to take corrective action, but \"no corrective action is possible here,\" according to the lawsuit.\n\nHarvard later received similar letters from the Defense Department, Department of Energy, Department of Agriculture and other agencies, according to the suit. It's seeking to have those cuts overturned.\n\nHarvard President Alan Garber disputed the government's allegations in a Monday letter, saying Harvard is nonpartisan and has taken steps to root out antisemitism on campus. He insisted that Harvard is in compliance with the law, calling the federal sanctions an \"unlawful attempt to control fundamental aspects of our university's operations.\"\n\nThe government's letter on Tuesday said Harvard has repeatedly failed to address racial discrimination and antisemitism on campus. It cited the Supreme Court's 2023 decision striking down Harvard's use of race in the admissions process, along with a recent internal report at Harvard detailing cases of antisemitic harassment."}
{"prompt_hash": "10582c852ca2ce255816ac0a6ba1a5d26029971bf94b57232a89ce15e818bab1", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 21:56:06+00:00", "topics": ["Torres", "Boston", "Massachusetts", "Indictments", "Law enforcement", "Mental health", "Assault", "Legal proceedings", "Judith Dein", "Airport security"], "text": "# Massachusetts man pleads guilty to attacking a flight attendant with a broken spoon\n\nMay 13th, 2025 09:56 PM\n\n---\n\nBOSTON (AP) \u2014 A Massachusetts man pleaded guilty Tuesday to attacking a flight attendant with a broken metal spoon and attempting to open an airliner's emergency door on a cross-country flight.\n\nFrancisco Severo Torres, of Leominster, pleaded guilty to one count of interference and attempted interference with flight crew members and attendants using a dangerous weapon in the March 2023 disturbance on United Airlines Flight 2609 from Los Angeles to Boston.\n\nAccording to prosecutor and witness accounts, Torres went on a midair rant and tried to stab a crew member with a modified metal spoon.\n\nThe plane was about 45 minutes from Boston when the crew received an alarm that a side door on the aircraft was disarmed, according to court documents. One flight attendant noticed the door's locking handle had been moved. Another saw Torres near the door and believed he had moved the handle. Cabin pressure during flight prevents airplane doors from opening.\n\nTorres started loudly rambling that his father was Dracula, that he wanted to be shot so he could be reincarnated and that he would kill everyone on board, another passenger said. He punched a male flight attendant, who felt the metal spoon in Torres' hand hit him on his shirt collar and tie three times, according to court documents. No one was injured.\n\nTorres was eventually subdued and restrained by other passengers. He was arrested when the flight landed at Boston Logan International Airport, authorities said.\n\nTorres could be sentenced up to life in prison.\n\nA lawyer for Torres could not be reached for comment.\n\nTorres has spent time in mental health facilities, according to court records. The police chief in his hometown said officers have dealt with him several times since 2014, mostly over family issues and mental health episodes.\n\nDuring one court appearance after his arrest, a federal judge ruled that Torres was not competent to stand trial and that he needed additional treatment. Magistrate Judge Judith Dein based her decision on a mental health evaluation of Torres and her own observations."}
{"prompt_hash": "9cc6f97a0275679c96cc1535f515da9784dfec13e92823d71ba64fe70bbbd8c6", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 21:55:15+00:00", "topics": ["Scottie Scheffler", "Rory McIlroy", "Golf", "Xander Schauffele", "PGA Championship", "Masters Golf Tournament", "The Masters", "Sports", "Ted Scott"], "text": "# Scottie Scheffler is trending going into the PGA and inspired by Rory McIlroy's win at the Masters\n\nBy Doug Ferguson  \nMay 13th, 2025 09:55 PM\n\n---\n\nCHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) \u2014 Scottie Scheffler practically had the course to himself when he arrived a day early at the PGA Championship, a time to get reacquainted with Quail Hollow. He had played it only at the Presidents Cup in 2022 when the holes were a little out of order because of the format.\n\nLooking for a line off the tee at the par-5 seventh, caddie Ted Scott pointed to a small, black box beyond the bunkers. Scheffler delivered another beauty.\n\nAn onlooker peered down the fairway, unable to see the target where they were aiming.\n\n\"Just follow the ball, and you'll see the black box,\" Scott replied with a laugh.\n\nScheffler is starting to look like the No. 1 player he has been for the last two years, off to a slow start by his standards after missing nearly two months because of a freak hand injury suffered while making ravioli on Christmas.\n\nIn his last start he picked up his first win of the year in a big way \u2014 an eight-shot victory at the CJ Cup Byron Nelson, the largest margin on the PGA Tour in nearly five years.\n\nFor a guy who tries not to look too far ahead or behind, there was no denying his game was in a good spot going into the PGA Championship.\n\n\"I'm showing up coming off of a tournament that I won, and that's always a good feeling,\" Scheffler said Tuesday. \"You can definitely ride some of that momentum. When I look back at my career, it would be silly to say that I don't ride some of the momentum from those wins.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Rory McIlroy was on a tear that took him to victories at Pebble Beach, The Players Championship and then the crown jewel \u2014 a Masters green jacket to finally claim his place in history with the career Grand Slam.\n\nMcIlroy had said before starting that run he drew inspiration for Scheffler's dominance, his nine-win season from 2024 that included a Masters green jacket and Olympic gold medal and all the biggest tournaments in between.\n\n\"I'm a big admirer of Scottie for a lot of different reasons,\" McIlroy said after winning at Pebble Beach. \"But every time I play with him and I watch how he plays and how disciplined he is, it's a really cool thing to watch. ... Just trying to take a little bit of a leaf out of his book.\"\n\nNow it might be Scheffler's turn to be inspired. He got the best seat on the 18th green at Augusta National to see McIlroy's joy since Scheffler helped him into the green jacket.\n\n\"It was really cool to see Rory be able to finish that off and to be there for that moment,\" Scheffler said. \"He's a good buddy of mine out here, so I was very happy for him. That tournament and having to answer each year \u2014 for a guy that's had one of the best careers in the history of the game \u2014 for him to sit in here week in, week out and have to be asked about one single golf tournament I'm sure can be a bit frustrating. And I'm sure that's why there was so much emotion coming out of him.\n\n\"It takes a lifetime of work to be able to even have a chance to win major championships, let alone win all four of them.\"\n\nAs for motivation? Scheffler gets that no matter who wins.\n\n\"It's always motivating when you just get beat, and in golf you tend to get beat a lot,\" Scheffler said. \"You don't really get to win that many tournaments. Rory has been off to a great start this year, and he's definitely improved and made some changes in his game from last year.\n\n\"Golf is kind of an endless pursuit of getting the best out of yourself, and I'm looking forward to continuing to do that as the year goes on.\"\n\nThey are the star attractions at soggy Quail Hollow and will be grouped together when the 107th PGA Championship starts Thursday, joined by defending champion Xander Schauffele.\n\nIt's a good thing Scheffler arrived early for nine holes on Sunday \u2014 he was not at the PGA Tour event that week \u2014 because Quail Hollow has been inundated by more than 3 inches of rain since Friday, with downpours each of the two days of official practice.\n\nScheffler meant to play nine holes on Tuesday. He got in only five holes before the sun disappeared, dark clouds moved in and thunder claps arrived, with heavy rain not far behind.\n\nMcIlroy was supposed to meet with the media Tuesday afternoon and moved it back to Wednesday because of the weather.\n\nThat figures to make a 7,626-yard course even longer for a course where the strategy is the same for most players off the tee \u2014 grab driver and try to keep it in the short grass. The exceptions are the eighth and 14th holes, both par 4s that are reachable depending on the tees.\n\n\"Off the tee, you're just trying to get the ball in the fairway, really, and get the ball in the fairway probably as far as you can down there, just so you can have a shorter club into the firm greens,\" Scheffler said. \"I think there will be a lot of strategy going into the greens, just not as much off the tee.\"\n\nOne such moment was the eighth hole when he practiced on Sunday. His caddie told him driver off tee to a back left pin might be a problem if the tee shot went into the left rough. Scheffler went over to the left rough and threw a few balls in the grass.\n\nThe first shot skipped off the fringe and checked to a stop 2 inches short of the target."}
{"prompt_hash": "ade80a3b472282c6e0e8286601f31d170d2f0651d33716c228e9c36d496ce7cb", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 21:30:17+00:00", "topics": ["Plane crashes", "Virginia", "DC Wire", "Transportation", "Adina Azarian", "Tennessee", "Jeff Hefner", "New York", "National Transportation Safety Board", "District of Columbia"], "text": "# A lack of oxygen likely incapacitated the pilot of a private jet that crashed in Virginia in 2023\n\nBy Travis Loller  \nMay 13th, 2025 09:30 PM\n\n---\n\nNASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) \u2014 A lack of oxygen that incapacitated the pilot and three passengers is likely what caused a private jet to become unresponsive before flying over the nation's capital and prompting the military to scramble fighter jets in 2023, according to a final report from the National Transportation Safety Board released on Tuesday.\n\nThe oxygen problem was likely caused by a loss of cabin pressure, according to the report. Investigators could not determine the exact reason for the pressure loss, but they noted that the Cessna Citation had a number of maintenance issues. They included no pilot-side oxygen mask and supplemental oxygen at its minimum serviceable level.\n\n\"At that level, oxygen would not have been available to the airplane occupants and passenger oxygen masks would not have deployed in the event of a loss of pressurization,\" according to the report. It concluded that, \"Contributing to the accident was the pilot's and owner/operator's decision to operate the airplane without supplemental oxygen.\"\n\nFour people died in the June 4, 2023 accident. They were pilot Jeff Hefner, 69; New York real estate broker Adina Azarian, 49; Azarian's 2-year-old daughter Aria; and Evadnie Smith, 56, who worked as live-in nanny for Aria. Prior to the crash, Azarian, Aria and Smith were in North Carolina to visit Azarian's adoptive parents.\n\nHefner stopped responding to air traffic control instructions within minutes of taking off from Elizabethton, Tennessee, at 1:13 p.m. The plane flew to New York, near its destination at Long Island's MacArthur Airport, then turned around and flew a straight path over D.C. Fighter jets sent after it caused a loud sonic boom that was heard across the capital region as they raced to catch up. The plane then plunged almost straight down in into a mountain near Montebello, Virginia, and burst into flames at 3:23 p.m.\n\nFighter pilots tasked with intercepting the wayward flight said Hefner \"was laying and slumped completely over into the right seat and remained motionless throughout their observations,\" according to NTSB records. They did not observe any movement within the cabin area nor any shapes that resembled a person.\n\nOnce Hefner lost consciousness, the plane likely was directed along its path by autopilot \"until a point at which it was no longer able to maintain control,\" according to the report.\n\nLack of oxygen, called hypoxia, can affect people differently, but it is known to cause confusion, disorientation and diminished judgment and reactions, according to the report. A pilot would likely have between 30 seconds and 2 minutes to take corrective action. That time could be less if the depressurization is rapid.\n\n\"However, gradual depressurization can be as dangerous or more dangerous than rapid depressurization because of its potential to insidiously impair a pilot's ability to recognize and respond to the developing emergency,\" according to the report. \"Cognitive impairment from hypoxia makes it harder for affected individuals to recognize their own impairment.\"\n\nThe report noted that Hefner had several health issues and had been prescribed at least one medication that was potentially impairing but did not list those issues as contributing to the accident."}
{"prompt_hash": "0bd25da2569a5fa0434b8c762541ec3e3782effb47fd1724c639178b27f616c0", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 22:16:55+00:00", "topics": ["WNBA", "Womens National Basketball Association", "Sandy Brondello", "Oregon Ducks", "Portland", "Oregon", "Nyara Sabally", "Scott Rueck", "Sports", "WNBA basketball"], "text": "# Oregon gets a taste of a WNBA future via preseason Liberty game\n\nBy Anne M. Peterson  \nMay 13th, 2025 10:16 PM\n\n---\n\nEUGENE, Ore. (AP) \u2014 There was no shortage of \"WNBA Portland\" T-shirts among the fans at the New York Liberty's preseason game at the University of Oregon.\n\nThe sellout crowd, which welcomed former Ducks Sabrina Ionescu and Nyara Sabally back to Eugene for a WNBA exhibition against the Toyota Antelopes, exemplified the popularity in Oregon of women's basketball, and of women's sports in general.\n\nAnd that's a harbinger of what could come when Portland's expansion team joins the WNBA next year.\n\n\"Hell yeah, I'm excited,\" said basketball fan Lynn Manuel, who was at Monday's game.\n\nPortland was awarded an expansion team last September. RAJ Sports, led by Lisa Bhathal Merage and Alex Bhathal, own and operate the team. They paid $125 million for the franchise.\n\n\"I'm so excited. Understanding the fan base that is built here in Eugene, but in Oregon as a whole, and knowing they're going to come out and support,\" Ionescu said. \"And knowing us being from here, and knowing that fans are going to travel, and there's a lot of Ducks fans in Portland, so super excited to see how they support that team there, but also support us every time we come to play.\"\n\nIonescu drew big crowds in Eugene during her playing days for the Ducks. She set the NCAA record, among women and men, for triple-doubles. A highlight of her four-year career came when the U.S. team played Oregon in November 2019 and the Ducks won, 93-86. Ionescu had 30 points.\n\nAfter going to the Final Four in 2019 when she was a junior, Oregon won the 2020 Pac-12 championship and was headed back to the NCAA Tournament when the event was canceled by the COVID-19 pandemic.\n\nThe Ducks are not alone in cultivating an enthusiastic fan base. The Oregon State women have had success in recent years, at times outdrawing the men. Under coach Scott Rueck, the Beavers reached the Final Four in 2016 and have been to the Elite Eight twice since then.\n\nAnd Portland has certainly embraced women's sports. The Thorns of the National Women's Soccer League routinely draw upwards of 17,000 fans to games. The city is also home to the nation's first bar exclusively for women's sports, the Sports Bra, which opened in 2022.\n\nPortland is the third expansion franchise the WNBA has announced in recent years. The Golden State Valkyries will begin play in the San Francisco Bay Area this season and Toronto will join Portland in 2026.\n\n\"I think it's great. We've got Golden State this year and we're excited to go there, but also the Toronto Tempo and the Portland team,\" said Liberty coach Sandy Brondello. \"I played when there was a Portland team here, the Portland Fire, and I loved coming to Portland.\"\n\nThe Fire played in Portland from 2000 until 2002 and averaged more than 8,000 fans before folding."}
{"prompt_hash": "809b1032569c91b26fda76e186f1e22a6477a2aa1e2fcaa726844eeda9dfde84", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 21:12:18+00:00", "topics": ["Alaska", "Notable Deaths", "Sports", "Minnesota", "Sled dog racing", "Mitch Seavey"], "text": "# Dan Seavey, patriarch of Alaska mushing family who raced in the first Iditarod, dies\n\nBy Becky Bohrer  \nMay 13th, 2025 09:12 PM\n\n---\n\nDan Seavey, who helped organize the first Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race and whose son and grandson have each won the famous Alaska race multiple times, has died. He was 87.\n\nThe Minnesota native, who competed in the first two Iditarod races in 1973 and 1974, was out helping tend to his dogs shortly before he died last Thursday, his son Mitch Seavey said. Dan Seavey had been adamant in his later years about remaining at the south-central Alaska home in Seward he had moved his family to decades earlier, the younger Seavey said.\n\n\"It's hard, and everybody will miss him. But he lived a great life and passed away in his own fashion,\" Mitch Seavey said.\n\nThe Iditarod race organization called Dan Seavey a \"true pioneer and cherished figure\" in the race's 53-year history and said he was instrumental in the establishment of the Iditarod Trail as a National Historic Trail in 1978. He also wrote a book, \"The First Great Race,\" which his son said drew on notes Seavey recorded during the first edition of the Iditarod.\n\nDan Seavey in total ran the Iditarod five times. His last, in 2012, was aimed at celebrating and drawing attention to the trail's history.\n\nThat year featured three generations of Seaveys, with Mitch's son Dallas winning the first of his record-breaking six titles. Mitch, a three-time Iditarod champ, that year finished seventh.\n\nDan Seavey moved with his family to Alaska in 1963 to teach in Seward, a community about 125 miles (201 kilometers) south of Anchorage. In an interview for Project Jukebox, a University of Alaska Fairbanks oral history project, he recalled being inspired as a kid by a radio program centered on a character who was with a Canadian mounted police force and his trusty sled dog, Yukon King, who took on bad guys during the Gold Rush era.\n\nSeavey said finding time to train to race was difficult.\n\n\"Having to make a living, it kind of interfered with my dog mushing,\" Seavey, a longtime history teacher, said. He trained on nights and weekends, and around the first two years of the Iditarod he petitioned the school board for time off, he said.\n\nSeavey didn't have competitive aspirations past those first two Iditarod races, his son said, but he continued to mush recreationally. Seavey at one point thought about letting Mitch have his dogs but couldn't bear the thought of not having dogs around, Mitch Seavey said."}
{"prompt_hash": "0be5527cc550b4716c34f86ec9c50b38ace125563702887a07e9bda215c06b1a", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 22:01:25+00:00", "topics": ["Alex Palou", "Josef Newgarden", "Will Power", "Marco Andretti", "Indianapolis", "Sports", "Scott Dixon", "Indianapolis 500", "Scott McLaughlin", "Benjamin Kenneth", "Marcus Armstrong", "Helio Castroneves", "Alexander Rossi", "Marcus Ericsson"], "text": "# Rain and lightning cut short Indy 500 practice, but Team Penske still shines\n\nBy Jenna Fryer  \nMay 13th, 2025 10:01 PM\n\n---\n\nINDIANAPOLIS (AP) \u2014 Team Penske was fastest on opening day of practice for the Indianapolis 500, a day shortened at the front and back end because of weather.\n\nWill Power and two-time defending Indy 500 winner Josef Newgarden went 1-2 in Chevrolets for Penske in Tuesday's abbreviated session. Cars ran only about three hours, first because of morning rain and then a lightning strike ended the session with about 30 minutes remaining.\n\nPower turned a lap at 227.026 mph around Indianapolis Motor Speedway, while Newgarden went 226.971 mph.\n\nAlex Palou, winner of four of the first five races this season and the current IndyCar points leader, was third fastest for Chip Ganassi Racing. The Honda driver is the two-time reigning IndyCar champion and has won three of the last four series titles. He went 226.673 mph.\n\nHe was followed by Ganassi teammate Scott Dixon and then Scott McLaughlin, another Penske driver. Four-time Indianapolis 500 winner Helio Castroneves was sixth fastest for Meyer Shank Racing, and new father Alexander Rossi, who welcomed his first baby last week, was seventh fastest.\n\nThe birth of Rossi's son was a surprise to many in the industry as he and wife, Kelly, deliberately did not reveal her pregnancy to many people.\n\n\"Because why would we?\" he asked. The boy, named Benjamin Kenneth, was born last Wednesday. His first name was the only name they could decide on, and his middle name is after her late father.\n\nMarcus Armstrong of Meyer-Shank was eighth fastest, Marcus Ericsson, a former Indianapolis 500 winner, was ninth, and Marco Andretti, in his only scheduled IndyCar race of the season, was 10th for Andretti Global."}
{"prompt_hash": "1ab176a46c22583fa3132d2915db9511a5a406404a53d4f854cddbe0a3f50a1a", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 21:34:01+00:00", "topics": ["North Carolina Tar Heels", "College sports", "North Carolina", "Atlantic Coast Conference", "Notable Deaths", "Lew Alcindor", "Wes Unseld", "Sports", "Elvin Hayes", "Pennsylvania", "Larry Miller"], "text": "# Larry Miller, star on North Carolina's ACC championship teams in 1967-68, dies at age 79\n\nMay 13th, 2025 09:34 PM\n\n---\n\nCHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) \u2014 Larry Miller, a two-time ACC player of the year for North Carolina and 2022 inductee in the College Basketball Hall of Fame, has died. He was 79.\n\nThe UNC athletic department said Miller died Sunday in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. No cause of death was given. An athletic department spokesman said Miller was in hospice care and dealing with medical issues for some time.\n\nMiller, a native of Catasauqua, Pennsylvania, was a star forward on coach Dean Smith's first two Atlantic Coast Conference championship and Final Four teams in 1967 and 1968. He earned first-team All-America honors both seasons and was a consensus pick in 1968 along with UCLA's Lew Alcindor, Houston's Elvin Hayes, LSU's Pete Maravich and Louisville's Wes Unseld.\n\nMiller scored in double figures in 64 consecutive games, still a UNC record. Miller scored 1,982 points in three seasons and averaged 21.8 points, the fifth-highest by a Tar Heel. In one of his most memorable performances, he scored 32 points on 13-of-14 shooting from the field in an 82-73 victory over Duke in the 1967 ACC championship game. Led by Miller, Carolina went 70-21, including 32-10 in ACC regular-season play, from 1965-68. The Tar Heels were No. 4 in the final Associated Press polls his last two seasons, the first time Carolina was ranked in the top 10 in the final poll in consecutive seasons. Miller played seven years in the ABA and set the league's all-time single-game record with 67 points."}
{"prompt_hash": "36f169f70ab0fa2ef4f83db2cb86152a443d5ca7317a8554f8f6e56f1cf3cf50", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 21:51:01+00:00", "topics": ["Michigan", "Abortion", "Gretchen Whitmer", "Michigan state government", "Health"], "text": "# Judge overturns Michigan's 24-hour waiting period before an abortion\n\nBy Ed White  \nMay 13th, 2025 09:51 PM\n\n---\n\nDETROIT (AP) \u2014 A judge on Tuesday struck down Michigan's 24-hour waiting period before an abortion, saying it conflicts with a voter-approved amendment that locked abortion rights in the state constitution in 2022.\n\n\"Michiganders have the fundamental right to reproductive freedom, including the right to abortion care, and the state cannot deny, burden or infringe upon this freedom barring a compelling state interest to protect the health of the individual seeking care,\" Judge Sima Patel said.\n\nThe waiting period had been in place for years, though Patel temporarily blocked it earlier in litigation in 2024.\n\nThe judge said a mandatory 24-hour delay \"exacerbates the burdens that patients experience seeking abortion care.\"\n\nPatel also overturned a regulation that required abortion providers to provide a fetal development chart and information about alternatives, declaring them \"coercive and stigmatizing.\" The judge stopped a requirement that only a physician, not other health professionals, can perform an abortion.\n\nThe lawsuit was filed by Northland Family Planning Centers and a group called Medical Students for Choice.\n\nMichigan's attorney general and health director agreed that the challenged regulations were unconstitutional, though state attorneys were assigned to defend them in court.\n\nAbortion rights were added to the state constitution by nearly 57% of voters in 2022, months after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.\n\nPatel's ruling \"reaffirms that Michigan is a state where you can make your own decisions about your own body with a trusted health care provider, without political interference,\" Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a Democrat, said."}
{"prompt_hash": "56e2858e0e19fa2bf7282f4397da83b972fbd0b7678d65a11e23a5004881f26e", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 20:56:24+00:00", "topics": ["Boston Celtics", "Jayson Tatum", "New York Knicks", "Kristaps Porzingis", "Kevin Durant", "NBA Playoffs", "Surgery", "Injuries", "Athlete injuries", "NBA", "New York City Wire", "Sports", "NBA basketball"], "text": "# Tatum to miss remainder of playoffs after Achilles surgery\n\nBy Kyle Hightower  \nMay 13th, 2025 08:56 PM\n\n---\n\nBOSTON (AP) \u2014 When Jayson Tatum toppled to the court, writhing in pain and grabbing at his right foot late in the Celtics' Eastern Conference semifinals Game 4 loss to the New York Knicks, it looked like a potentially season-altering injury.\n\nBoston's worst fears are now confirmed.\n\nTatum had surgery Tuesday to repair a ruptured right Achilles tendon that will sideline him for the remainder of the playoffs, the team announced.\n\nThe Celtics provided details on the extent of Tatum's injury and announced news of the surgery a day after the six-time All-Star went down in the Celtics' 121-113 Game 4 loss to the New York Knicks. It puts the hopes of the defending champions repeating and Tatum's playing status for next season in doubt.\n\nThey did not give a timetable for his return, but said a full recovery was expected.\n\nWhen Kevin Durant tore his Achilles tendon during the 2019 NBA Finals, he wound up missing the entire 2019-2020 season.\n\nThe 27-year-old Tatum is leading the Celtics in points (28.1), rebounds (11.5) and assists (5.4) per game for the second straight postseason.\n\nThe Knicks lead the Celtics 3-1 in their Eastern Conference semifinals series. Game 5 is in Boston on Wednesday night.\n\nTatum was carried off the court with 2:58 remaining in Monday night's game. The Celtics had just turned the ball over and as Tatum moved for the loose ball, his leg gave out and he went down. He buried his face in a towel in obvious pain while grabbing at his leg above the ankle after the noncontact injury.\n\nTatum scored 42 points, his highest total during these playoffs and one of the best all-round postseason performances of his career, before he was hurt.\n\nThe injury was Tatum's second this postseason. He missed Game 2 of Boston's 4-1 first-round series win over Orlando with a bone bruise in his right wrist. It was the first time he'd missed a playoff game in his career.\n\nNow, Tatum's teammates will face a daunting task that few teams before them have pulled off if they want to break an NBA record six-season drought without a repeat champion.\n\nTeams holding a 3-1 lead in the NBA playoffs have gone on to win 95.6% of the time, with only 13 teams in 293 tries ever coming back from the deficit to win the series.\n\n\"Obviously, we all realize in our heads what this could mean. This part of the sport \u2013 it's tough,\" Celtics center Kristaps Porzingis said Monday. \"We have to move forward. He don't want us to be over here sad and not play our best basketball.\"\n\nTo become the 14th team to overcome a 3-1 deficit, the Celtics will need big performances from a roster that has several players who have dealt with injuries this postseason.\n\nAll-Star Jaylen Brown entered the playoffs dealing with a right knee issue that has slowed him at times. Porzingis also has been slowed at times by the lingering effects of a viral illness that sidelined him for stretches in the second half of the regular season.\n\nBrown said Monday that his confidence remains high.\n\n\"Get ready for the next one. Get ready to fight. Get ready to come out on our home floor and do what we need to do,\" Brown said. \"That's the goal. Still the goal. We've got enough in this locker room. So, I believe in my guys.\"\n\nRegardless of how this series or the rest of the playoffs play out for Boston, Tatum's injury likely will alter how the franchise confronts this coming offseason.\n\nIncluding this year, the Celtics' payroll will be over the salary cap and make them a luxury-tax team for the third straight season. That means they will be hit with the \"repeater tax\" for being over the cap threshold in three out of four seasons.\n\nTheir current payroll for next season is on track to come in around $225 million, which would mean a tax bill next year of almost $280 million. The combined potential $500 total price tag would be a league record.\n\nIt is unclear whether the team's incoming new ownership will want to keep paying those hefty taxes to maintain the current roster after agreeing to a purchase in March that is expected to have a final price of a minimum of $6.1 billion.\n\nTatum signed an NBA-record five-year, $314 contract last July that will begin next season. Brown is playing under a five-year, $304 million deal that kicked in this season.\n\nThat means that trimming player salary is a possibility ownership could explore this summer.\n\nAnd with Tatum possibly missing all of next season, it could accelerate the front office's timeline for reworking the current roster with an eye toward the future."}
{"prompt_hash": "3c451019f36689ec2e0a04e343f25600dcca7c03cb1bc6d1d54516c20158b9c7", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-12 16:45:31+00:00", "topics": ["Donald Trump", "Sean Rowe", "Desmond Tutu", "United States government", "Anglicanism", "South Africa", "U.S. government shutdown", "District of Columbia", "Racism", "Afghanistan", "Iraq", "Discrimination", "National", "United States", "DC Wire", "Politics", "Mariann Budde", "Religion", "Rick Santos", "Political refugees"], "text": "# Episcopal refugee agency won't help resettle white South Africans in US\n\nBy Peter Smith  \nMay 12th, 2025 04:45 PM\n\n---\n\nThe Episcopal Church's migration service is refusing a directive from the federal government to help resettle white South Africans granted refugee status, citing the church's longstanding \"commitment to racial justice and reconciliation.\"\n\nPresiding Bishop Sean Rowe announced the step Monday, shortly before 59 South Africans arrived at Dulles International Airport outside Washington on a private charter plane and were greeted by a government delegation.\n\nEpiscopal Migration Ministries instead will halt its decades-long partnership with the government, Rowe said.\n\nPresident Donald Trump opened a fast-tracked refugee status to white South Africans, accusing their government of discrimination, even as his administration abruptly shut down the overall U.S. refugee program. The South Africans jumped ahead of thousands of would-be refugees overseas who had been undergoing years of vetting and processing.\n\nEpiscopal Migration Ministries has long resettled refugees under federal grants. Rowe said that about two weeks ago, the government contacted it and said it expected the ministry to resettle some of the South Africans under terms of its grant.\n\n\"In light of our church's steadfast commitment to racial justice and reconciliation and our historic ties with the Anglican Church of Southern Africa, we are not able to take this step,\" Rowe said. \"Accordingly, we have determined that, by the end of the federal fiscal year, we will conclude our refugee resettlement grant agreements with the U.S. federal government.\"\n\nAnother faith-based group, Church World Service, said it is open to helping resettle the Afrikaners.\n\nSouth Africa's government has vehemently denied allegations of discriminatory treatment of its white minority residents.\n\n\"It has been painful to watch one group of refugees, selected in a highly unusual manner, receive preferential treatment over many others who have been waiting in refugee camps or dangerous conditions for years,\" Rowe said. \"I am saddened and ashamed that many of the refugees who are being denied entrance to the United States are brave people who worked alongside our military in Iraq and Afghanistan and now face danger at home because of their service to our country.\"\n\nHe also said many refugees, including Christians, are victims of religious persecution and are now denied entry.\n\nHe said the church would find other ways to serve immigrants, such as those already in this country and those stranded overseas.\n\nThe move marks the end of a ministry-government partnership that, for nearly four decades, has served nearly 110,000 refugees from countries, including Ukraine, Myanmar and Congo, Rowe said.\n\nIt's not the first high-profile friction between the Episcopal Church and the Trump administration. Bishop Mariann Budde of Washington drew Trump's anger in January at an inaugural prayer service in which she urged \"mercy\" on those fearing his actions, including migrants and LGBTQ+ children.\n\nThe Anglican Church of Southern Africa includes churches in South Africa and neighboring countries. It was a potent force in the campaign against apartheid in the 1980s and 1990s, an effort for which the late Archbishop Desmond Tutu received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984.\n\nAnother faith-based refugee agency, Church World Service, says it is open to serving the South African arrivals.\n\n\"We are concerned that the U.S. Government has chosen to fast-track the admission of Afrikaners, while actively fighting court orders to provide life-saving resettlement to other refugee populations who are in desperate need of resettlement,\" Rick Santos, CWS president and CEO, said in a statement.\n\nHe added that the action proves the government knows how to screen and process refugees quickly.\n\n\"Despite the Administration's actions, CWS remains committed to serving all eligible refugee populations seeking safety in the United States, including Afrikaners who are eligible for services,\" he said. \"Our faith compels us to serve each person in our care with dignity and compassion.\"\n\nThe Episcopal ministry and CWS are among 10 national groups, most of them faith-based, that have partnered with the government for refugee resettlement."}
{"prompt_hash": "fee2fcdf0f977416d9ca939c33934fce66df868c34f9f5b92c29766c3b220695", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 21:44:34+00:00", "topics": ["Law enforcement", "Lawsuits", "Texas", "Legal proceedings", "Shootings", "Border security", "School shootings", "Gun violence", "Adrian Gonzales", "Christina Mitchell", "Paul Looney", "Pete Arredondo"], "text": "# Texas prosecutor sues to compel Border Patrol testimony in trial of Uvalde police officer\n\nBy Jim Vertuno  \nMay 13th, 2025 09:44 PM\n\n---\n\nAUSTIN, Texas (AP) \u2014 A Texas prosecutor filed a federal lawsuit seeking to force three U.S. Border Patrol agents who responded to the 2022 Robb Elementary School shooting to testify in the prosecution of the former school police chief, who is facing criminal charges over the slow law enforcement action at the massacre.\n\nThe lawsuit from Uvalde County District Attorney Christina Mitchell filed on May 9 claims the testimony from the three officers, two of whom were part of the tactical team that eventually broke into a classroom and killed the gunman, is vital to the case against former school district Police Chief Pete Arredondo, who faces multiple counts of child endangerment and abandonment.\n\nAccording to the lawsuit, the agents gave written statements early in the state investigation into the shooting and the response from nearly 400 local, state and federal officers who waited more than an hour to breach the classroom where the gunman was located. Nineteen fourth-grade students and two teachers were killed, and 18 more people were injured, in one of the worst school shootings in U.S. history.\n\nBut U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials have since then denied multiple requests to make the agents available for testimony about the law enforcement response, their tactical training, equipment and other topics.\n\nThe information sought \"is extraordinarily significant\" because the agents are \"uniquely qualified to clarify how Arredondo's actions, omissions, and orders as incident commander influenced their actions,\" the lawsuit said.\n\nCustoms and Border Protection officials did not immediately respond to an email Tuesday seeking comment.\n\nThe lawsuit seeks federal court help because a state court cannot compel the agents to testify on matters that relate to their official duties.\n\nThe testimony could also be valuable to Arredondo if the agents' accounts present mitigating information for his actions that day, the lawsuit said. And it noted that Mitchell has offered to seek a court order granting the agents immunity for their cooperation and testimony.\n\nThe lawsuit does not name the three agents but identifies one of them as the \"tactical commander who directed and participated in the entry\" of the classroom by officers.\n\nThe lawsuit said Border Patrol officials have claimed prosecutors can find the information they want from other responding law enforcement agencies. Border Patrol has also said the agents' testimony could reveal classified information or confidential sources, disclose law enforcement techniques or \"interfere with the orderly conduct of CBP business.\"\n\nArredondo and former Uvalde schools officer Adrian Gonzales are the only two responding law enforcement officers that day to be charged and are scheduled for trial in October. Both men have pleaded not guilty.\n\nAccording to the lawsuit, because Gonzales was indicted over his conduct prior to the arrival of the Border Patrol, the request to compel testimony from the agents is not part of his case.\n\nMultiple investigations into the response have laid bare cascading problems in law enforcement training, communication, leadership and technology, and questioned whether officers prioritized their own lives over those of children and teachers.\n\nPaul Looney, an attorney for Arredondo, said he also has been frustrated by Border Patrol's refusal to let its agents testify, and questioned why prosecutors aren't demanding to speak to more of them. The lawsuit said prosecutors initially wanted to speak with 18 agents, but narrowed it down to try to get Border Patrol's cooperation.\n\n\"We want all of them. We want to know what they saw, what they heard,\" Looney said. \"One level of government is completely frustrating our ability to know what happened in there.\""}
{"prompt_hash": "d302935d31e554bd576fa62d64aa7bb98b6afc9ef9e8e749a01c581c5e591706", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 21:39:33+00:00", "topics": ["Crime", "Rio de Janeiro", "Thiago da Silva Folly", "Brazil government", "Law enforcement", "Assassinations", "Homicide", "Drug crimes"], "text": "# Brazil's military police kill leader of a drug trafficking group in a Rio favela\n\nBy Associated Press  \nMay 13th, 2025 09:39 PM\n\n---\n\nRIO DE JANEIRO (AP) \u2014 Brazilian military police on Tuesday killed the main leader of a drug trafficking group in a Rio de Janeiro favela as well as two other suspected criminals, authorities said.\n\nA fierce shootout broke out after Rio's military police found Thiago da Silva Folly in a bunker in the Mare complex of low-income neighborhoods, police said. Folly was killed, while another two were wounded and taken to a hospital, but later died from their injuries.\n\nFolly was the main leader of the Pure Third Command faction in Mare, police said.\n\n\"The objective was to arrest the leader of the faction, but he chose to engage in confrontation,\" Gov. Cl\u00e1udio Castro was quoted as saying in the statement. \"Once again, we demonstrate that there will be no truce for these extremely violent criminals.\"\n\nPolice said Folly had 227 criminal charges against him and 17 outstanding arrest warrants. One of the warrants was related to the killing of two military police officers during an operation in Mare in June.\n\nFolly was also under investigation for his involvement in the death of a soldier in 2014 and for attacks on members of the National Public Security Force in 2016, police added. The organ also said he also coordinated paramilitary training within the community.\n\nThe operation, launched early Tuesday, shut down main roads and rerouted bus lines. Local news outlet G1 reported that at least two schools were closed."}
{"prompt_hash": "6a03f3652eaad544e912da6934183a7cd43b8df5e99e6634661c55e269c2e717", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 21:38:21+00:00", "topics": ["South Carolina", "Crime", "Mikal Mahdi", "Henry McMaster", "Neal Collins", "Prisons", "Capital punishment", "Legal proceedings", "Law enforcement", "Theft", "Brandon Charochak", "Shootings", "Jonathan Arden", "Jonathan Groner", "Brad Sigmon", "James Myers", "Stephen Stanko", "U.S. Democratic Party"], "text": "# Lawmakers seek investigation into South Carolina's firing squad execution\n\nBy Jeffrey Collins  \nMay 13th, 2025 09:38 PM\n\n---\n\nCOLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) \u2014 Two South Carolina legislators have requested an investigation into the state's firing squad execution last month after lawyers for the inmate said his autopsy showed the shots nearly missed his heart and left him in extreme pain for up to a minute.\n\nThe Democratic and Republican representatives asked the governor, the prison system and leaders in the state House and Senate for an independent and comprehensive review of the April 11 execution of Mikal Mahdi.\n\nThey also want the firing squad removed from the methods of execution that an inmate can choose until an investigation is complete. Condemned prisoners in South Carolina can also choose lethal injection or the electric chair.\n\nReps. Justin Bamberg and Neal Collins wrote in their letter that the request doesn't diminish the crimes Mahdi was convicted of, nor was it rooted in sympathy for the 42-year-old inmate. Mahdi was put to death for the 2004 shooting of an off-duty police officer during a robbery.\n\n\"This independent investigation is to preserve the integrity of South Carolina's justice system and public confidence in our state's administration of executions under the rule of law,\" they wrote.\n\nBamberg, a Democrat, and Coillins, a Republican, are deskmates in the South Carolina House.\n\n## Prison officials say the execution was conducted properly\n\nPrison officials said they thought the execution was properly conducted. House and Senate leaders did not respond. Republican Gov. Henry McMaster said he sees no need to investigate.\n\n\"The governor has high confidence in the leadership of the Department of Corrections. He believes the sentence of death for Mr. Mahdi was properly and lawfully carried out,\" wrote spokesman Brandon Charochak in an email.\n\nEven without an investigation, what happened at Mahdi's execution may get hashed out in court soon. A possible execution date for Stephen Stanko, who has two death sentences for murders in Horry County and Georgetown County, could be set as soon as Friday. He would have to decide two weeks later how he wants to die.\n\nMahdi had admitted he killed Orangeburg Public Safety officer James Myers in 2004, shooting him at least eight times before burning his body. Myers' wife found him in the couple's Calhoun County shed, which had been the backdrop to their wedding 15 months earlier.\n\n## Just one autopsy photo\n\nThe autopsy conducted after Mahdi's execution raised several questions that the lawmakers repeated in their letter.\n\nThe only photo of Mahdi's body taken at his autopsy showed just two distinct wounds in his torso. A pathologist who reviewed the results for Mahdi's lawyers said that showed one of the three shots from the three prison employee volunteers on the firing squad missed.\n\nThe pathologist who conducted the autopsy concluded that two bullets entered the body in the same place after consulting with an unnamed prison official who said that had happened before in training. Prison officials said all three guns fired and no bullets or fragments were found in the death chamber.\n\n\"Both bullets traveling on the exact same trajectory both before and after hitting a target through the same exact entrance point is contrary to the law of physics,\" Bamberg and Collins wrote.\n\n## Shots appeared to have hit low\n\nIn the state's first firing squad execution of Brad Sigmon on March 7, three distinct wounds were found on his chest and his heart was heavily damaged, according to his autopsy report.\n\nThe shots barely hit one of the four chambers of Mahdi's heart and extensively damaged his liver and lungs. Where it likely takes someone 15 seconds to lose consciousness when the heart is directly hit, Mahdi likely was aware and in extreme pain for 30 seconds to a minute, said Dr. Jonathan Arden, the pathologist who reviewed the autopsy for the inmate's lawyers.\n\nWitnesses said Mahdi cried out as the shots were fired at his execution, groaned again some 45 seconds later and let out one last low moan just before he appeared to draw his final breath at 75 seconds.\n\n## Little documentation at the autopsy\n\nBamberg and Collins said Mahdi's autopsy itself was problematic.\n\nThe official autopsy did not include X-rays to allow the results to be independently verified; only one photo was taken of Mahdi's body, and no close-ups of the wounds; and his clothing was not examined to determine where the target was placed and how it aligned with the damage the bullets caused to his shirt and his body.\n\n\"I think it is really stretching the truth to say that Mikal Mahdi had an autopsy. I think most pathologists would say that he had 'an external examination of the body,'\" said Jonathan Groner, an expert in lethal injection and other capital punishments and a surgeon who teaches at Ohio State University.\n\nSigmon's autopsy included X-rays, several photos and a cursory examination of his clothes\n\nPrison officials have used the same company, Professional Pathology Services, for all its execution autopsies, Corrections Department spokeswoman Chrysti Shain said.\n\nThey provide no instructions or restrictions to the firm for any autopsy, she said.\n\nThe pathologist who conducted the autopsy refused to answer questions from The Associated Press.\n\nBamberg and Collins also want the state to allow at least one legislator to attend executions as witnesses.\n\nState law is specific about who can be in the small witness room: prison staff, two representatives for the inmate, three relatives of the victim, a law enforcement officer, the prosecutor where the crime took place, and three members of the media."}
{"prompt_hash": "f6f86ce2211d7a147b4cbd7d855faa3b0a1feb58fbbe4968c8dca41aaf3b25a0", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 20:58:15+00:00", "topics": ["Detroit Tigers", "Baseball", "MLB", "Will Vest", "Jason Foley", "Toledo Rockets", "MLB baseball", "A.J. Hinch", "Sports"], "text": "# Tigers RHP Jason Foley has season-ending surgery after leading team, ranking 5th in AL with 28 saves\n\nMay 13th, 2025 08:58 PM\n\n---\n\nDETROIT (AP) \u2014 Detroit Tigers right-hander Jason Foley, who had a team-high 28 saves last season, has had season-ending shoulder surgery.\n\n\"He's going to want to forget 2025 because he very much was going to be a part of this season,\" manager A.J. Hinch said Tuesday. \"I love him as a competitor and know he will attack this rehab.\"\n\nThe 29-year-old Foley was optioned to Triple-A Toledo after spring training, a season after trailing just four AL pitchers in saves.\n\nFoley went on the injured list last month a right shoulder strain.\n\nHe was 3-6 with a 3.15 ERA in 69 appearances last year, tying Will Vest for the team lead, and had at least 20 more saves than any other Tiger. In three-plus seasons, he is 7-9 with a 3.16 ERA in 210 games."}
{"prompt_hash": "dc218ceee88e9785b625a029eabd2d66de750d5fd09959e16d84c52ded3aa302", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 17:20:28+00:00", "topics": ["Will Cuylle", "Sidney Crosby", "Jordan Binnington", "Bo Horvat", "Brandon Montour", "Adam Fantilli", "Hockey", "Canada", "Stockholm", "Sports", "Germany", "Jacob Berglund", "Marc Michaelis", "Austria", "New York Islanders"], "text": "# Hat tricks: Canada and Germany earn third straight wins at ice hockey worlds\n\nMay 13th, 2025 05:20 PM\n\n---\n\nSTOCKHOLM (AP) \u2014 Sidney Crosby scored his first goal of the tournament as Canada dominated France 5-0 for its third straight win at the ice hockey world championship on Tuesday.\n\nBo Horvat scored two goals, Brandon Montour scored one and added an assist and Will Cuylle also scored. Jordan Binnington stopped 15 shots for the shutout.\n\n\"We've been trying to come out hard every game and sticking to our game,\" forward Adam Fantilli said. \"It's been great so far.\"\n\nHorvat netted the opening goal with a backhand 6:32 into game and Cuylle doubled the advantage on a snap shot from the left circle with 7:49 to go in the frame.\n\nCrosby turned around at the boards and skated toward the goal from the right before roofing a shot to make it 3-0 on a power play with 2:29 remaining in the middle period.\n\nIt is the third worlds for Crosby and the first since he captained Canada to gold in 1995.\n\nHorvat added his second on a power play 3:57 into the final period from the right circle. The New York Islanders forward tops the goal scoring table with four goals.\n\nMontour's slap shot finished the scoring with 8:55 left.\n\nCanada is tied atop Group A in Stockholm with co-host Sweden on nine points. It next plays Austria on Thursday. France has one point.\n\nIn Herning, Denmark, newcomer Hungary claimed its first victory, 4-2 over Kazakhstan. Hungary's Janos Hari scored the fastest goal of the tournament 15 seconds into the game.\n\nEarlier, Germany defeated Norway 5-2 for its third straight victory to lead Group B with nine points.\n\nMarc Michaelis and Yasin Ehliz had a goal and an assist each and Wojciech Stachowiak, Joshua Samanski and Frederik Tiffels also scored a goal apiece in Herning.\n\nAndreas Martinsen and Jacob Berglund scored for Norway, which remained without a point.\n\nIn Stockholm, Latvia beat Slovenia 5-2 for its second win in Group A. Slovenia is still looking for its first points."}
{"prompt_hash": "4c0b7483a74320cb9e158b76d78d90bdec2d67a82ff0d9e43f3e47eeee68c710", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 21:34:51+00:00", "topics": ["Jayson Tatum", "NBA Playoffs", "Jalen Brunson", "Anthony Edwards", "Stephen Curry", "New York Knicks", "Boston Celtics", "Steve Kerr", "Julius Randle", "Minnesota Timberwolves", "Athlete injuries", "Jimmy Butler", "Mikal Bridges", "NBA", "New York City Wire", "Sports", "NBA basketball", "New York", "Draymond Green"], "text": "# Knicks look to close out defending champion Celtics in Game 5. Timberwolves can do same to Warriors\n\nBy Kyle Hightower  \nMay 13th, 2025 09:34 PM\n\n---\n\nBOSTON (AP) \u2014 Anthony Edwards and the Minnesota Timberwolves are on the brink of their second straight trip to the Western Conference finals. In the East, Jalen Brunson and the New York Knicks are a win away from reaching the conference finals for the first time in 25 years.\n\nNew York wasn't given much of a shot entering its semifinal matchup against a Boston Celtics team it went 0-4 against during the regular season.\n\nThere aren't a lot of Knicks doubters now.\n\nNew York rode huge fourth-quarter performances from Brunson and Mikal Bridges to overcome a double-digit deficit for the third time in the series and defeat the defending champions 121-113 in Game 4.\n\nBrunson believes the Knicks brought a sense of urgency and desperation into the matchup.\n\n\"We're playing a really good team, and I don't even think we're playing our best basketball yet,\" Brunson said. \"And we have a team that's fairly new this year and we still have a long way to go to be the best team we can be and it's always time to learn for us so we got to make sure we're never satisfied.\"\n\nNew York took a 3-1 series lead, and Boston suffered a devastating blow when star Jayson Tatum went down in the fourth quarter with a ruptured right Achilles tendon. Players from both teams walked over to offer support to Tatum as he writhed in pain on the court at Madison Square Garden. He had surgery Tuesday.\n\nTeams leading 3-1 in the NBA playoffs have won 95.6% of the time, with only 13 teams in 293 tries coming back to win three straight games.\n\nAnd that's the same tough spot the Golden State Warriors are in after the Timberwolves' 117-110 win on Monday.\n\nJulius Randle led the way with 31 points, followed by Edwards with 30. Edwards got off to a sluggish start, but he scored 11 points during a 17-0 third-quarter run.\n\n\"I didn't like how we were playing overall, and I didn't like how I was playing individually,\" Edwards said. \"I know I had to pick it up.\"\n\nThe Warriors opened the series with a win at Minnesota and will have to win there again to keep their season alive. They'll still be without star Stephen Curry, who missed his third consecutive game and was set to have his strained left hamstring re-evaluated Wednesday.\n\nJimmy Butler didn't feel well before or during Game 4 but coach Steve Kerr is counting on \"Playoff Jimmy\" showing up with the season on the line Wednesday.\n\n\"He does whatever is necessary to win,\" Kerr said. \"And I'm confident that Game 5, he's the ultimate competitor. He'll be ready to roll.\"\n\n## New York Knicks at Boston Celtics\n\nWhen/where to watch: Game 5, 7 p.m. EDT (TNT).\n\nSeries: Knicks lead 3-1.\n\nBetMGM Sportsbook: Celtics by 4.5.\n\nWhat to know: The Celtics' reign as NBA champions is in peril as they return home trailing the Knicks 3-1. Boston surrendered a double-digit, second-half lead for the third time in the series and lost Tatum to the torn Achilles tendon late in the fourth quarter. The Celtics hit a series-best 18 3-pointers in Game 4, but were just of 6 of 24 after halftime. They'll have to contend with a Knicks team that got another strong night from Brunson, who continued to show why he was named the NBA's clutch player of the year. He finished with 39 points and 12 assists \u2014 his sixth game this postseason scoring 30 or more \u2014 to help New York get within a victory of advancing to its first conference finals appearance since 2000.\n\n## Golden State Warriors at Minnesota Timberwolves\n\nWhen/where to watch: Game 5, 8:30 p.m. EDT (TNT).\n\nSeries: Timberwolves lead 3-1.\n\nBetMGM Sportsbook: Timberwolves by 11.5.\n\nWhat to know: The Timberwolves' 1-2 punch of Edwards and Randle has been too much for Golden State, and without Curry, the Warriors don't have the scoring power to stay with Minnesota. With Curry set for a re-evaluation of the hamstring he hurt in Game 1 last Tuesday, it would seem highly unlikely he would be thrust right back into action, even in an elimination game. The Warriors regularly put rehabbing players through on-court work before they return to game action. \"We don't need Superman. I play the long game,\" longtime teammate Draymond Green said. Curry wouldn't even get a chance to return if the Warriors don't stave off elimination and force a Game 6 back home at Chase Center on Sunday. The Wolves knocked down 16 of 32 3-pointers Monday night while the Warriors were cold from long range again. After they managed only five 3-point attempts in the first half of Game 3 \u2014 missing them all \u2014 and finished 10 for 23 from deep, they were even worse in Game 4 at 8 of 27."}
{"prompt_hash": "4f5929924a1588fc054fbac3f4e971b9ee4396f26b623243038d212a31e1cc71", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 18:01:55+00:00", "topics": ["Indianapolis", "IndyCar", "Auto Racing", "International trade", "Sports", "United Parcel Service", "Inc.", "Patricio OWard", "Germany", "Business"], "text": "# Pato O'Ward battles customs delay for special helmet ahead of Indianapolis 500\n\nBy Jenna Fryer  \nMay 13th, 2025 06:01 PM\n\n---\n\nINDIANAPOLIS (AP) \u2014 Pato O'Ward's special Indianapolis 500 helmet was finally released from customs after it was withheld from delivery over a dispute in fees the driver apparently owed in customs fees.\n\nA rain delay at Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Tuesday bought O'Ward additional time to sort the issue concerning the helmet he had designed and shipped from Germany for \"The Greatest Spectacle in Racing.\"\n\nO'Ward at one point claimed the helmet was being held \"ransom\" as he insisted he'd already paid the customs fees. O'Ward argued had he not paid the fees, the helmet never would have cleared customs. He was willing to pay a second time, he said, as he impatiently awaited the information needed to disperse the funds.\n\n\"I've been on the phone 48 minutes and they won't send me a link to pay the customs,\" he grumbled.\n\nHe initially thought the delivery delay was because the package required a signature, but insisted there were people at his house awaiting the helmet.\n\n\"I kept telling the driver to ring the bell! There's people there!\" he said. \"But then they said it is a customs fee and they won't deliver it until it's been paid.\"\n\nO'Ward was adamant it was a mix-up and was willing to pay twice. Drivers often unveil special helmet designs for the Indianapolis 500 to replace the ones they wear the rest of the season. The idea is to showcase meaningful and fun designs that represent their culture, personality or other things that have personal meaning.\n\nWhen he got on track Tuesday he was wearing his normal helmet.\n\nA woman on the Arrow McLaren team is married to a high-ranking UPS official who helped him sort the issue and the Indy 500 helmet has been delivered to his house.\n\nO'Ward will debut the helmet Friday."}
{"prompt_hash": "227781c85f0a0b633c2319f9243f710b35b12012db363021684460c532400ffe", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 21:10:01+00:00", "topics": ["Bryson DeChambeau", "Golf", "Rory McIlroy", "PGA Championship", "Jon Rahm", "Justin Thomas", "Masters Golf Tournament", "Mexico", "South Korea", "The Masters", "Justin Rose", "Mexico City", "Sports", "Brooks Koepka"], "text": "# Over his Masters meltdown, DeChambeau looks to continue strong play in majors at PGA Championship\n\nBy Steve Reed  \nMay 13th, 2025 09:10 PM\n\n---\n\nCHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) \u2014 Bryson DeChambeau left Augusta National last month frustrated over his final-round meltdown at the Masters and perplexed by his poor iron play.\n\nThe burly 6-foot-1, 220-pound DeChambeau has put that disappointing loss behind him and feels he's fixed the iron issue \u2014 or at least put a Band-Aid on it \u2014 heading into this week's PGA Championship. He enters Quail Hollow confident after following up a second-place finish at the LIV Tour's Mexico City event with a win two weeks ago in South Korea.\n\nNow he looks to continue his recent run of success at major championships, where he has replaced Brooks Koepka and Jon Rahm as LIV's best chance to win.\n\nIn 2024, DeChambeau finished tied for sixth at the Masters, then second at the PGA Championship at Valhalla before winning his second U.S. Open at Pinehurst. Despite shooting a final-round 75 at this year's Masters, he still finished tied for fifth, giving him six top-10 finishes in his past 10 majors.\n\n\"I feel like I've always had the capacity to play well in major championships and contend consistently,\" DeChambeau said. \"A lot of things have to go right in majors for you to play well. Your whole game has to be on. So I felt like at Valhalla, especially after Augusta last year, that was the second time (in a row) that I played well in a major, and it kind of gave me that confidence that I could just keep moving forward with that at every major and keep hammering down on majors.\"\n\nThe second-place finish at Valhalla last year proved huge for his confidence.\n\n\"It was more of an assurance of saying, hey, I can do this, and I can do this for a long time, God willing,\" DeChambeau said. \"Valhalla definitely gave me some confidence for the rest of the majors, last year and even this year.\"\n\nNow comes another test at Quail Hollow, a course where DeChambeau has limited experience compared to many PGA Tour players.\n\nHe's only played here once in the past six years, finishing tied for eighth at the 2021 Wells Fargo Championship before leaving for the LIV Tour. His best finish at Wells Fargo was fourth in 2018. When Justin Thomas won the 2017 PGA Championship at Quail Hollow, DeChambeau finished tied for 33rd.\n\nThe long course certainly plays to DeChambeau's strength off the tee.\n\n\"I feel like I'm moving in the right direction with giving myself a lot of multiple chances to win these major championships,\" he said.\n\nDespite his success this past month on the LIV Tour, which included shooting 30 on the back nine of the final round at South Korea to win the tournament, DeChambeau still plans to switch irons once they have been produced and delivered.\n\nAs of Tuesday, he had not received them.\n\n\"My irons weren't that great, but I played better in Mexico. My irons were really good in Korea. I feel like it's moving in the right direction,\" DeChambeau said. \"Let's hopefully keep it more of the same. If I can do that, I'll give myself a good chance this week.\"\n\nAnd maybe, just maybe, have a chance to beat Rory McIlroy, who got the best of him in the final pairing at the Masters en route to winning the career Grand Slam.\n\nEarly on in the final round, it looked as if it might be DeChambeau's day at Augusta National. But after grabbing sole possession of the lead after two holes, DeChambeau faded fast and shot 75, leaving him four shots behind McIlroy and Justin Rose.\n\n\"Hopefully we can have another go at it again like the Masters,\" DeChambeau said of McIlroy."}
{"prompt_hash": "d20ab13f143177dbed01430210efd79daa4a7c590ffeb8723a0723ec2023ded9", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 18:41:07+00:00", "topics": ["John Barnett", "Lawsuits", "South Carolina", "Business", "Charleston", "Courts", "Legal proceedings", "Suicide", "The Boeing Co."], "text": "# Family of Boeing whistleblower settles lawsuit with aircraft maker over his death\n\nMay 13th, 2025 06:41 PM\n\n---\n\nCHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) \u2014 The family of a former Boeing quality control manager who killed himself after lawyers questioned him about his whistleblowing on alleged jumbo jet defects has settled a lawsuit against the aircraft maker.\n\nDetails of the settlement over John Barnett's death were not disclosed in a court filing Monday.\n\nBarnett, a longtime Boeing employee, shared his safety concerns with journalists after he retired in 2017. He said he once saw discarded metal shavings near wiring for the flight controls that could have cut the wiring and caused a catastrophe. He also noted problems with up to a quarter of the oxygen systems on Boeing's 787 planes.\n\nBarnett shared his concerns with his supervisors and others before leaving Boeing, but according to the lawsuit they responded by ignoring him and then harassing him.\n\nBarnett, 62, shot himself on March 9, 2024, in Charleston after answering questions from attorneys for several days. He lived in Louisiana.\n\nThe document announcing the settlement and closing the case in federal court in South Carolina was one page and the only detail was that either side can reopen the lawsuit if the settlement is not finalized in 60 days.\n\nBoeing did not answer the lawsuit in court papers before the settlement.\n\n\"We are saddened by John Barnett's death and extend our condolences to his family. Boeing took actions several years ago to review and address the issues that Mr. Barnett raised,\" the company said in a statement Tuesday."}
{"prompt_hash": "15257fce35ce1e1c3fa7372a271aaf827bcb2ea26202a0b76479ab8ecf23fa09", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 15:05:04+00:00", "topics": ["Television", "Stanley Tucci", "Italy", "Zac Efron", "Eugene Levy", "JWD-evergreen", "Lifestyle", "Macaulay Culkin", "Entertainment", "Jose Andres", "Ewan McGregor", "Rainn Wilson", "Chris Hemsworth", "Will Smith"], "text": "# Stanley Tucci returns to Italy in new travel series\n\nBy Mark Kennedy  \nMay 13th, 2025 03:05 PM\n\n---\n\nNEW YORK (AP) \u2014 You can't keep Stanley Tucci from his beloved Italy just like you can't keep cheese from lasagna.\n\nThe Golden Globe- and Emmy-winning actor is once again elegantly roaming through the land of his heritage in National Geographic's new food-travel series \"Tucci in Italy,\" less than three years after a similar show was axed.\n\n\"I think that visually it's more interesting this time around, and I think that we try to go more in depth into the stories as much as you can, given the format,\" he says.\n\nTucci goes from a three-Michelin-star restaurant in Milan where the staff grow their own vegetables \u2014 \"Stop it!\" he half-heartedly begs a chef adding salmon eggs to a pesto risotto \u2014 to cooking fish for anglers on the banks of the Sarca River.\n\n\"I'm exploring the complex connections between the land, the people and the food they eat in order to discover the essence of each region in the country I love \u2013 Italy,\" the \"Conclave\" and \"The Devil Wears Prada\" star tells viewers in each installment.\n\n## 'The people are great'\n\nEach episode of the first season of \"Tucci in Italy\" explores a different region \u2014 from Tuscany to Trentino-Alto Adige, Lombardy, Abruzzo and Lazio. It was shot over six months, from January to July in 2024.\n\n\"It's a lot of planning, it is a lot logistics. But ultimately, once you get to where you're supposed to be, which isn't always easy in Italy, especially in the mountainous areas, it's great,\" says Tucci. \"The people are great, extraordinary.\"\n\nIn Tuscany, the cradle of the Renaissance, Tucci eats lampredotto, a sandwich made with the cow's fourth stomach, and a beef tongue stew. In the Alpine region of Trentino-Alto Adige, he skis and munches on beef goulash and polenta near the Austrian border.\n\nNational Geographic greenlit Tucci's new docuseries a year after CNN canceled his \"Searching for Italy\" despite winning Emmys for Outstanding Hosted Nonfiction Series or Special.\n\nMuch of the same production staff and crew transferred over with Tucci to his new TV home, and they embraced the use of the latest drones, giving the series a sweep and majesty.\n\nExecutive producer Lottie Birmingham, who worked on \"Searching for Italy\" and jumped aboard \"Tucci in Italy,\" says the new series pushes viewers into new parts of the European nation.\n\n\"I think before we did focus quite a lot on the major cities, whereas this time we've kind of gone out into the wider regions,\" she says. \"In Lazio, for example, we haven't just focused on Rome or in Tuscany we haven't just focused on Florence.\"\n\n## Deeper issues under the surface\n\nThe series also stops to look at some of the social issues roiling Italy, like immigration and gay rights. Tucci and his team spotlight Punjabi migrants, particularly Sikhs, who have a significant presence in the nation's dairy industry, and the impact that Ethiopian immigrants have had despite facing racism and being treated as \"other.\"\n\n\"Every country does it, and it's never a helpful thing,\" says Tucci. \"And after people assimilate, then they often find others to become 'others.' So it's just this sort of weird, vicious circle.\"\n\nThe new series \u2014 produced by Salt Productions and BBC Studios \u2014 in many ways is more true to Tucci's initial vision, which was to look carefully at trends below the surface of what appears to be a happy, sun-blasted land.\n\n\"The original idea of the show that I had almost 20 years ago, at this point, was to show the diversity of Italy. But also to, in a weird way, dispel the myth that it's sunny all the time and everybody's eating pizza and pasta and everybody is happy and smiling all the time. Yeah, that exists, but that's not everything.\"\n\nIt was Tucci who suggested a stop in Lombardy after reading an article about a gay couple who haven't been able to legally adopt their baby boy since the government doesn't recognize adoptions by same-sex couples.\n\n\"There's a darker side, as there are with every country,\" says Birmingham. \"Italians are so focused on food and family, but what does family mean? That was what we wanted to look at in that story.\"\n\n## Tucci's special touch\n\nTucci is part of a crowded field of celeb travel hosts, which includes Rainn Wilson, Eugene Levy, Zac Efron, Jos\u00e9 Andr\u00e9s, Chris Hemsworth, Will Smith, Macaulay Culkin and Ewan McGregor. Birmingham believes her host has something special to offer.\n\n\"I think he's particularly good at putting people at ease,\" she says. \"He is genuinely interested, and it is a real passion for him. He's not hosting this series just to host it. He loves Italy more than any of us, and I think that's really apparent.\"\n\nOne of the series' highlights is when Tucci visits Siena, a city in central Italy's Tuscany region, and watches its medieval-era horse race run around the Piazza del Campo. Afterward, each city ward hosts a dinner party in the streets where thousands sing and toast their neighborhood.\n\n\"I didn't know about that and I just think it's incredible,\" says Tucci, who first visited Siena when he was about 12. \"Italy was a very different place and yet still is very much the same.\"\n\nIt's that push and pull of modernity and tradition that the show highlights, like a restaurant in Florence that caused a stir when traditional regional delicacies were done with Japanese styles and ingredients.\n\nTucci found the food delicious and worried that Italians must embrace change. \"They maintain their traditions, they maintain the quality. But it also stops them from growing,\" says Tucci. \"There's no reason why you can't have both.\""}
{"prompt_hash": "68c42744cff5478f74e56c614cd65ba60abd9070f800b5c75dab9199d1496500", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 21:06:49+00:00", "topics": ["Scottie Scheffler", "Xander Schauffele", "Jordan Spieth", "Patrick Reed", "Rory McIlroy", "Justin Thomas", "Golf", "PGA Championship", "Adam Scott", "Ludvig Aberg", "Viktor Hovland", "Jim Furyk", "Tiger Woods", "Bryson DeChambeau", "Sports", "Gary Woodland", "Dustin Johnson", "Phil Mickelson", "Collin Morikawa"], "text": "# McIlroy and Scheffler in a group of Big Three at the PGA Championship\n\nBy Doug Ferguson  \nMay 13th, 2025 09:06 PM\n\n---\n\nCHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) \u2014 Masters champion Rory McIlroy and world No. 1 Scottie Scheffler will be playing together in the opening two rounds of the PGA Championship, joined by defending champion Xander Schauffele in another group of the top three players in the world.\n\nIt's the first time since 2022 the PGA Championship has grouped together Nos. 1-2-3 in the world ranking for the start of the tournament.\n\nIt first was done at the U.S. Open in 2008 when Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson and Adam Scott were grouped at Torrey Pines.\n\n\"I'm playing with two guys that are playing some of the best golf in the world,\" Scheffler said. \"Xander won two majors last year, and Rory already won The Players and the Masters this year, so he's playing some fantastic golf. Yeah, it should be a lot of fun.\n\n\"I've seen that pairing before, and we have a good time out there, and it's competitive.\"\n\nAnother compelling draw: Jordan Spieth and Patrick Reed, joined by Ludvig Aberg.\n\nSpieth needs only the PGA Championship to complete the career Grand Slam and join an exclusive group that now includes McIlroy, who won the Masters for the final leg of the slam.\n\nSpieth and Reed formed a formidable partnership in the Ryder Cup in 2014 and 2016. That ended in 2018 when Spieth played with Justin Thomas, while Reed was partnered by Woods.\n\nReed spoke to The New York Times after the Paris matches and blamed Spieth for them not playing together and U.S. captain Jim Furyk for twice leaving Reed on the bench. Reed, who joined LIV Golf in 2022, has not played in the Ryder Cup since then.\n\nWhat made them successful was that both were so competitive they tried to beat each other and wound up playing some of their best golf. This will be the first time they play together since the final round of The Players Championship four years ago.\n\nSpieth hasn't posted the better score the last eight times they have played together. They tied on two occasions.\n\nJustin Thomas, who won the PGA Championship the last time it was at Quail Hollow in 2017, is playing alongside Dustin Johnson and Collin Morikawa. Bryson DeChambeau is grouped with Gary Woodland and Viktor Hovland.\n\nThe power group of Scheffler, McIlroy and Schauffele start on the 10th hole Thursday at 8:22 a.m., and on the first hole at 1:47 p.m. Friday."}
{"prompt_hash": "747c8e1db27be5c5f65a7532d88f2adc60a8bcbd65b8ba08d9bece5ec5f2efe5", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 11:50:21+00:00", "topics": ["Sara Errani", "Karen Khachanov", "Tennis", "Jasmine Paolini", "Jannik Sinner", "Carlos Alcaraz", "Lorenzo Musetti", "Serena Williams", "Daniil Medvedev", "Rome", "Madrid", "Sports", "Jack Draper", "Adriano Panatta", "Corentin Moutet", "Casper Ruud", "Diana Shnaider", "Jaume Munar", "Francisco Cerundolo", "Raffaella Reggi"], "text": "# Sinner passes big test in return from doping ban, Alcaraz sets up rematch with Draper in Rome\n\nBy Andrew Dampf  \nMay 13th, 2025 11:50 AM\n\n---\n\nROME (AP) \u2014 Top-ranked Jannik Sinner passed a big test in his return from a three-month doping ban, beating accomplished clay-court player Francisco Cerundolo 7-6 (2), 6-3 on Tuesday to reach the Italian Open quarterfinals.\n\nThe 18th-ranked Cerundolo has a tour-best 18 wins on clay this year and was coming off a run to the Madrid Open semifinals.\n\nAlso, Cerundolo beat Sinner when they last met on the same court \u2014 and in the same round \u2014 two years ago.\n\nIt's Sinner's first tournament since he won his third Grand Slam title at the Australian Open in January and he hasn't dropped a set in three matches.\n\n\"Today I felt that I raised my level,\" Sinner said. \"It was a very long day \u2026 But I need this. I'm happy to be back. I was three months out, so every situation for me, I feel very fortunate to be here, very lucky.\"\n\nSinner extended his winning streak to 24 matches, dating back to October, and he said that reaching the quarterfinals was \"a great result,\" adding that \"for the first tournament, I'm very, very happy.\"\n\nIn February, Sinner agreed to a settlement with the World Anti-Doping Agency that raised some questions, since the three-month suspension conveniently allowed him not to miss any Grand Slams and come back at his home tournament.\n\nRome is the last big warmup before the French Open starts on May 25.\n\nThe start of the match was delayed for several hours due to rain, turning it into a night match. But ticket-holders for the day session at the Foro Italico hung around to see their home player and serenaded him with chants of \"Ole, Ole, Ole; Sin-ner, Sin-ner\" at all of the big moments.\n\nA sign in the crowd read, \"We are all Sinners.\"\n\nSinner hung on during long rallies with Cerundolo and eventually found the range on his drop shot when it mattered most \u2014 during the tiebreaker.\n\nWhen Sinner produced a stop-volley winner early in the second set he gestured with the fingers for the crowd to cheer louder.\n\nSinner then required a medical timeout for treatment of apparent blisters on his right foot. But he broke Cerundolo in the next game to take a 3-1 lead in the second set to take control for good.\n\nSinner will next face either freshly crowned Madrid champion Casper Ruud or Jaume Munar.\n\nSinner is attempting to become the first Italian man to win the Rome title since Adriano Panatta in 1976.\n\n## Alcaraz overcomes fatigue\n\nIn the other half of the draw, Carlos Alcaraz was made to work for a 6-3, 3-6, 7-5 victory over Karen Khachanov that earned him a rematch with Jack Draper \u2014 who beat him earlier this year.\n\nAlcaraz improved to 5-0 in his career against the 24th-ranked Khachanov.\n\n\"Physically I was struggling a little bit,\" Alcaraz said. \"Not any pain in any part of the body. I was just tired. I had to run a lot. I was really proud the way I fought (for) every ball.\"\n\nThe third-ranked Alcaraz wore a long black brace that covered the upper portion of his right leg and stretched down to just below his knee.\n\nAlcaraz withdrew from Madrid due to an upper right leg ailment that bothered him during the Barcelona Open final. He also had a left leg injury.\n\nAlcaraz, who won the Monte Carlo Masters in April, improved to 12-1 on clay this season. The four-time Grand Slam champion will next face No. 5 Draper, who rallied past Corentin Moutet 1-6, 6-4, 6-3.\n\nWhile Alcaraz holds a 3-2 career edge over Draper, the British player won their most recent meeting in the semifinals at Indian Wells, California, in March.\n\n## Match point delay\n\nLorenzo Musetti had set up a match point against Daniil Medvedev when their match was interrupted by rain.\n\nThe contest was suspended for nearly three hours before the players finally came back out and Musetti closed it out by producing an inside-out forehand winner on the first point of the resumption.\n\nMusetti, a new entrant in the top 10 of the rankings at No. 9, won 7-5, 6-4.\n\n## Paolini into semifinals\n\nIn the women's tournament, Jasmine Paolini rallied past Diana Shnaider 6-7 (1), 6-4, 6-2 to become the first Italian woman to reach the semifinals in Rome since her doubles partner, Sara Errani, lost the 2014 final to Serena Williams.\n\nPaolini was trailing 3-0 in the second set when the match was briefly stopped due to rain. Shnaider went on to hold serve and go ahead 4-0 after the suspension but then Paolini won six straight games to take the set.\n\n\"It was a good thing that it rained for five minutes. I got some coaching from Sara,\" Paolini said of Errani, who was watching from the stands.\n\nThe last Italian woman to win the Italian Open was Raffaella Reggi, who took the 1985 title in Taranto."}
{"prompt_hash": "05bcf1056eab5d8639248469221399802e022ad185a328606559799f16a8635f", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 21:03:27+00:00", "topics": ["Mali", "Bamako", "Campaign finance", "Democracy", "Activism", "Politics", "Mali government", "Moussa Mara", "Protests and demonstrations"], "text": "# Mali's leader dissolves political parties and bans meetings of their members\n\nBy Baba Ahmed  \nMay 13th, 2025 09:03 PM\n\n---\n\nBAMAKO, Mali (AP) \u2014 The president of Mali's transitional government signed a decree Tuesday dissolving political parties amid a backdrop of pro-democracy opposition, a minister in the government announced.\n\nThe decision by Gen. Assimi Goita comes amid a surge in kidnappings of pro-democracy activists in the capital Bamako and just days after a demonstration by several hundred pro-democracy activists.\n\n\"Political parties and organizations of a political nature are dissolved throughout the national territory,\" announced Mamani Nassire, the minister delegate to the prime minister in charge of political reforms and support for the electoral process.\n\nNassire was reading from a decree signed by Goita on national TV. The decree was announced after an extraordinary council of ministers meeting Tuesday.\n\nThe decree reads: \"It is forbidden for members of dissolved political parties and political organizations to hold any meetings.\"\n\nFor almost two weeks, political parties and pro-democracy activists have been demonstrating against the military government to prevent the signing of the decree. However, on Monday, the National Transition Council, Mali's transitional legislative body, voted in favor of the decree, which was adopted by the Council of Ministers last week.\n\n\"This decision deals a severe blow to the reconciliation process that began last year,\" wrote Mali's former prime minister, Moussa Mara, on his X account.\n\nMali has been under military rule since a 2021 coup d'\u00e9tat led by Goita. In recent days, arrests of pro-democracy activists have multiplied in response to demonstrations. However, some political figures are planning to appeal to the Constitutional Court to overturn the transition chief's decision.\n\n\"Political parties are recognized by the Malian constitution, so we're going to take our case to the Constitutional Court to ensure our rights are upheld. In the meantime, we're going to continue our fight as a civil society and as citizens of this country for the country to run smoothly,\" said Nouhoum Togo, president of the Union for the Safeguard of the Republic party, which ceased to exist after the law dissolving political parties."}
{"prompt_hash": "70bed253b7362a47c8863a041dde58ffd721782ab4a7a1148df322fbdd96543c", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 18:59:23+00:00", "topics": ["Womens college basketball", "Kevin McGuff", "Ohio State Buckeyes", "College sports", "Columbus", "Ohio State Buckeyes womens basketball", "Womens sports", "Richard Piatt", "Sports", "Big Ten Conference", "Ohio", "Dublin"], "text": "# Ohio State women's basketball coach charged with driving while impaired\n\nMay 13th, 2025 06:59 PM\n\n---\n\nCOLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) \u2014 Ohio State women's basketball coach Kevin McGuff, the Big Ten's 2024 coach of the year, was charged with operating a vehicle while impaired last week, police said.\n\nA witness told police McGuff hit several curbs and drove partially into a yard, where he was found behind the wheel on May 6 in the Columbus suburb of Dublin, according to an arrest report. McGuff refused to give a breath sample, police said.\n\nThe coach's attorney entered a not guilty plea on his behalf during a hearing Tuesday. McGuff's attorney, Richard Piatt, said some of the details that have been reported were not true.\n\n\"Please understand that Kevin McGuff is presumed innocent and like everyone else charged with an offense, deserves to have this case resolved on the merits and the facts that actually occurred,\" Piatt said in a statement.\n\nMcGuff has led Ohio State to eight NCAA tournament appearances in 12 seasons and a Big Ten title in the 2023-2024 season. He previously coached at Washington and Xavier and has a career record of 479-212.\n\nOhio State issued a statement saying it was aware of the charge.\n\n\"The department is in communication with Coach McGuff and monitoring the situation closely,\" the statement said. \"This is an ongoing, personal legal matter, and the department will share additional information at the appropriate time.\""}
{"prompt_hash": "0609c1258ec8a927164bb971f3340190ebd3fd1a4f193fae13e65a75da47538b", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 21:01:24+00:00", "topics": ["Kate Woodworth", "Climate change", "Harry Richardson", "Books and literature", "Celebrity", "Animals", "Book Reviews", "Entertainment", "Tom Estabrook", "Anita Snow", "Lobsters", "Climate and environment", "Maine", "Climate"], "text": "# 'Little Great Island' review: A town struggles with environmental change\n\nBy Anita Snow  \nMay 13th, 2025 09:01 PM\n\n---\n\nMari McGavin is on the run from a powerful religious cult and her controlling husband, fleeing with her young son back to the tiny island in Maine where she grew up.\n\nOn Little Great Island, she crosses paths with an old friend from her childhood, Harry Richardson, who is fleeing his own demons, in his case grief and painful memories after his wife's death. Harry is so bereft he can barely function as he returns to sell the home where his family spent summers when he was kid.\n\nIn her novel \"Little Great Island,\" author Kate Woodworth explores the relationship between the two as they navigate pain and loss, as well as their connections to an island being reshaped by global warming.\n\nHarry reluctantly allows Mari, who lived for years in a religious farming community in South Carolina, to plant a vegetable garden on his family's property while he clears out its contents and readies it for sale. They grow closer as Harry helps Mari and her 6-year-old son, Levi, with gardening chores and he slowly starts absorbing his loss.\n\nDistinguished retired diplomat Tom Estabrook, who knew Mari and Harry as children, is also a key character in the book released this month by Sybilline Press.\n\nEstabook, who spent many summers on Little Great Island, worries over its future as the ocean around it heats up, lobsters and clams die from shell disease and monarch butterflies on land largely disappear. Mari's father bemoans that his daily lobster catch is now just around 60, down from an average of 400 or 500.\n\nIn Woodworth's skillful hands, Little Great Island itself emerges as a leading character, with vibrant mentions of the natural world that range from an osprey's hunting sound to lobster mating habits.\n\nAs Little Great Island and its way of life are increasingly threatened, year-round and summer residents are struggling over the future.\n\nSome permanent residents are considering whether to move to the mainland and get a regular job in an office or shop. Others can't decide if a developer should be allowed to build an executive retreat center that could harm the environment and forever change the island's character.\n\nMari believes organic farming could provide a sustainable way to save the island and its character. But in the end, as tension builds over a decisive vote, it's up to the permanent islanders to decide their path forward."}
{"prompt_hash": "ca8a9be0498f84ac21e9eaabe77a05eaef7a42efb23b515511f7de3288494105", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 04:01:36+00:00", "topics": ["China", "Inflation", "Donald Trump", "International trade", "Economic policy", "Public health", "Federal Reserve System", "Government policy", "Tariffs and global trade", "Stanley Black  Decker", "Inc.", "Consumer products and services", "Mattel", "Rick Woldenberg", "U.S. Department of Labor", "Alan Detmeister", "Business", "Laura Rosner-Warburton", "Cars", "Procter  Gamble Co."], "text": "# Inflation cooled again even as some tariffs took effect. But economists don't expect that to last\n\nBy Christopher Rugaber  \nMay 13th, 2025 04:01 AM\n\n---\n\nWASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Inflation cooled for the third straight month in April even after some of President Donald Trump's tariffs took effect, though economists and many business owners expect inflation will climb by this summer.\n\nConsumer prices rose 2.3% in April from a year ago, the Labor Department said Tuesday, down from 2.4% in March and the smallest increase in more than four years. On a monthly basis, prices rose modestly, increasing 0.2% from March to April after falling 0.1% the previous month, the first drop in five years.\n\nGrocery prices dipped 0.4% from March to April in what will come as a relief to many people stretching family budgets for the basics. It was the biggest decline in food costs at home since September 2020, the government said. Egg prices fell sharply, declining 12.7%, the most in 41 years. Yet they are still 49% higher than a year ago.\n\nOverall, the report suggests tariffs haven't yet impacted prices for many items. Economists say the impact will more likely be seen by June or July. The 10% tariff on all goods that took effect April 5 could take two to three months to feed into the inflation data. And many companies built stockpiles of products earlier this year, enabling them to delay price hikes in hopes that the trade war will cool.\n\nThe cost of clothing, which is mostly imported, declined 0.2% from March to April, Tuesday's report said. New car prices were unchanged. And grocery prices fell despite fears that tariffs on some goods from Mexico would boost food costs.\n\n\"It's early days for tariff effects,\" said Laura Rosner-Warburton, co-founder of MacroPolicy Perspectives and formerly an economist at the Federal Reserve's New York branch. \"More will come in May, June, and July. There are plenty of price increases already scheduled and on the way.\"\n\nAnd there were some early signs that the duties are having an impact. Computer prices rose 0.3% from March to April, a category that is heavily imported from China and usually sees mild price declines. Sporting goods and toys, where many products are imported, also saw increases. And a category that includes baby strollers and car seats also got more expensive.\n\nStill, excluding the volatile food and energy categories, core prices were also muted, rising 2.8% in April compared with a year ago, the same as in March. On a monthly basis, they increased a mild 0.2%. Economists watch core prices because they typically provide a better read on where inflation is headed.\n\nRosner-Warburton noted that some prices fell as business weakened, particularly in travel. Air fares and hotel prices dropped noticeably last month, contributing to lower inflation, but that may have been driven by a decline in foreign visitors to the U.S.\n\nSome companies have raised prices and others have said they plan to do so as a result of the duties. Mattel Inc., the maker of Barbie dolls and Hot Wheels cars, said earlier this month it would have to raise prices on some products. The company makes 40% of its products in China.\n\nTool maker Stanley Black & Decker said it raised prices in April and plans to do so again in the July-September quarter because of higher tariffs. And executives at Procter & Gamble, the consumer products giant that makes household name brands such as Crest toothpaste, Tide detergent, and Charmin toilet paper, said last month it will likely have to pass on higher prices to consumers as soon as July.\n\nOnly some early tariffs imposed by Trump were in effect in April, including 25% duties on steel and aluminum and 25% on some imports from Canada and Mexico. Trump's initial 20% import taxes on goods from China were also in place. The steel and aluminum duties will take time to feed through into consumer products, such as cars, and may not affect retail prices for months.\n\nTrump's huge 145% import taxes on Chinese goods were reduced to 30% in a deal announced Monday, with some of the higher tariffs on pause for 90 days. Retailers and importers had largely stopped shipping shoes, clothes, toys, and other items when the duties were so high, but many will now resume importing from China, which should reduce the chances of empty shelves this fall.\n\nYet the additional 30% duties, on top of other import taxes, will likely affect prices. The Footwear Distributors and Retailers of America, a trade group, says children's shoes from China will now pay a nearly 100% tariff, because the latest duties are on top of previous import taxes.\n\nMatt Priest, president and CEO of the FDRA, said that the cost of shipping goods from China will likely rise as many companies scramble to get orders to the U.S. during the 90-day window.\n\n\"We're not out of the inflationary cost woods yet,\" he said.\n\nAnd economists say average tariffs are now at about 18%, roughly six times higher than before Trump took office and the highest in about 90 years.\n\nConsumer prices cooled noticeably in February and March, prompting Trump to claim repeatedly on social media that there is \"NO INFLATION.\" Inflation has fallen to nearly the 2% target set by the Federal Reserve, the agency charged with fighting higher prices.\n\nThe Fed would have likely been gearing up to restart interest rate cuts in the absence of tariffs because inflation is down. It reduced its benchmark rate three times last year. However, it has since frozen rates while it awaits further evidence of how the tariffs \u2014 and other policy changes, such as immigration restrictions and potential tax cuts \u2014 affect the economy.\n\nThe smaller import taxes on Chinese goods will limit the damage to the U.S. economy, but combined with all the other tariffs, economists forecast they will still slow growth this year and worsen inflation.\n\nThe Yale Budget Lab, for example, estimates the tariffs will lift prices 1.7% and cost the average household about $2,800 this year.\n\n\"This is still a very, very substantial tariff hike, but it will take awhile\" to show up in the inflation data, Alan Detmeister, an economist at UBS, said.\n\nMany small businesses are relieved that the U.S. has cut its tariffs on goods from China but say they still aren't sure what their costs will be for the remainder of this year, or whether they can avoid raising prices themselves.\n\nRick Woldenberg, CEO of Learning Resources, an educational toy company, said that the 145% tariffs would have pushed his tariff bill to $100.2 million from $2.3 million last year.\n\nHe paused shipments and production but is now strategizing how to work with the lower tariffs. He has 13 containers stored in warehouses in Los Angeles, which allows importers to defer duty payments for up to five years. And he may bring $11 million of goods from China and pay the 30% tariffs, but he's not sure how to price them.\n\n\"We just don't know what our costs are,\" he said. \"We do not know what our tariff costs are. We do not know what our freight costs are.\""}
{"prompt_hash": "f6283f6ff7e9bce9181f5d51c4bb9bcf82e6e16df9c36b3084cc9735dad881c0", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 20:47:56+00:00", "topics": ["Pennsylvania", "Voting", "Legislation", "Josh Shapiro", "Manuel Bonder", "Politics", "Joanna McClinton", "U.S. Democratic Party", "Elections", "U.S. Republican Party"], "text": "# Democrats endorse set of changes to Pennsylvania election rules, sending bill to state Senate\n\nBy Mark Scolforo and Marc Levy  \nMay 13th, 2025 08:47 PM\n\n---\n\nHARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) \u2014 Pennsylvania voters would get more than a week of early voting and county election officials would have more time to start processing mail-in ballots under an election law proposal that advanced out of the state House on Tuesday by a single vote, with all Republicans opposed.\n\nThe wide-ranging bill sponsored by Speaker Joanna McClinton, D-Philadelphia, addresses an array of election-related matters, including rules for ballot drop boxes, electronic lists of registered voters for election workers to consult, in-person early voting and voter registration.\n\nIt passed on a vote of 102 to 101 and was sent to the Republican majority state Senate, adding a potent political issue to the mix as lawmakers and the governor head into the homestretch of the annual state budget season's dealmaking.\n\n\"This bill will make sure we have less ambiguities in the law,\" McClinton said in an interview before the vote. \"It also accounts for the changes in how voters want to cast their ballot by providing options for early voting, increased access to ballot drop boxes and allowing them to correct small errors on mail-in ballots.\"\n\nIts prospects in the Republican majority state Senate are unclear. The communications director for the GOP caucus released a statement saying simply that the House-passed bill will be reviewed by a committee.\n\nIt would require counties to pay their elections officials at least $175 per election and change the rules for recounts and contested elections. Every county would have to have at least two ballot drop boxes to return mail-in ballots, with more in larger counties.\n\nIn-person early voting would start 11 days before an election and end the Sunday before the election. All counties would have at least one in-person early voting site, and larger counties would have to add one for every 100,000 registered voters.\n\nThe early in-person voting proposal would replace a clumsy and time-consuming alternative that led to hourslong lines and claims of disenfranchisement last fall in the nation's biggest presidential battleground state. That alternative allows voters to go to their election office, register for a mail-in ballot, fill it out on the spot and hand it in. Some county election offices found themselves swamped and unprepared for the influx.\n\nEstablishing rules for drop boxes would settle a gray area in state law that led to partisan court battles over whether drop boxes were legal and, if so, what sort of security measures are required. Democratic-controlled counties have embraced the use of drop boxes for mail-in voters, while Republican-controlled counties have generally eschewed them as illegal.\n\nUnder the bill, the state would provide $2 million for the Department of State to identify electronic poll books that are compatible with other election software. The state would borrow up to $60 million more to help counties purchase them. Electronic poll books \u2014 with lists of eligible, registered voters for election workers to use \u2014 would replace paper poll lists with a digital system.\n\nVoters using mail-in ballots would no longer have to provide an accurate, handwritten date on the return envelope, a requirement that has spawned years of litigation. But the voter would still have to sign the envelope for their ballot to count. Household members and others close to a voter would be permitted to return their mail-in ballots \u2014 current law requires most voters to return their own ballots.\n\nCounty workers could begin to process mail-in ballots a week before the election, taking ballots out of envelopes and scanning them if the scanner is able to scan the ballot without tabulating or recording the vote until Election Day. Many counties have long hoped for more time to begin to process the ballots in advance as a way to lessen the Election Day workload.\n\nAsked if Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro supports McClinton's proposal, his press secretary, Manuel Bonder, said the governor wants to improve the safety and security of elections \"while enfranchising voters\" and that his team \"will continue working with both legislative chambers toward bipartisan reforms that protect our democratic process for all eligible Pennsylvanians.\""}
{"prompt_hash": "2e798363cc4f90f1e0253d90a861dc4003a07f994028260100582220b3cdb141", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 17:04:39+00:00", "topics": ["Mohammad bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud", "Joe Biden", "Saudi Arabia", "Donald Trump", "Jane Fraser", "Jamal Khashoggi", "Royalty", "NVIDIA Corp.", "Jensen Huang", "Politics", "Elon Musk", "United States government", "Ruth Porat", "Saudi Arabia government", "Stephen Schwarzman", "Government policy", "Scandals"], "text": "# Saudi Arabia greets Trump with lavish royal welcome\n\nBy Chris Megerian  \nMay 13th, 2025 05:04 PM\n\n---\n\nWASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 The fist bump seems so long ago.\n\nThree years after Joe Biden's cursory greeting with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Donald Trump luxuriated in an extravagant royal welcome as he arrived in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday.\n\nConcerns about human rights and fossil fuels in the oil-rich autocracy were nowhere on the agenda. Instead the day was all about cutting deals and celebrating a personal relationship that has endured through scandal and political turmoil.\n\n\"I really believe we like each other a lot,\" Trump said as they sat on golden chairs under elaborate chandeliers in the royal palace. During a speech later in the day, the president described Prince Mohammed as an \"incredible man\" and \"my friend.\"\n\nThe feeling was clearly mutual. The crown prince addressed his guest as \"my dear President Trump,\" and the Saudis played his campaign anthems \u2014 \"God Bless the U.S.A.\" and \" YMCA \" \u2014 during his appearance at an investment forum.\n\nFor the U.S. Republican president, the visit was a return to the international stage after his comeback election victory (Exactly one year ago, he was on trial in a hush money case and listening to his former lawyer testify against him in a New York City courtroom.)\n\nAlthough Trump recently attended the funeral of Pope Francis in Rome, Saudi Arabia was originally intended to be his initial overseas destination, just like in his first term. It served as a gilded debut for a foreign policy focused on securing cash infusions for American businesses.\n\nTrump pumped his fist as he stepped out of Air Force One, then descended the stairs to shake hands with Prince Mohammed, who greeted his guest on the tarmac in a rare display of respect.\n\nThe crown prince, Saudi Arabia's de facto ruler, has been eager to rehabilitate his global image after the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, which U.S. intelligence officials accused him of ordering. He's also seeking an economic revival for the kingdom to reduce its reliance on fossil fuels, and the occasion was an opportunity to demonstrate that the floodgates for investment were open again.\n\nThe guest list for an elaborate luncheon was stuffed with corporate executives, including Ruth Porat of Google, Stephen Schwarzman of the Blackstone Group, Jane Fraser of Citicorp, Alex Karp of Palantir and Jensen Huang of NVIDIA. Also attending was Elon Musk, the world's richest person and a top adviser to Trump.\n\nAs Air Force One approached Riyadh, Saudi pilots in six American-made F-15 fighter jets escorted the plane. After a traditional coffee ceremony inside the royal terminal at the airport, Trump's limousine was flanked by riders on white Arabian horses carrying American and Saudi flags. A honor guard was lined up with golden swords.\n\n(Missing from the visit was the orb, a glowing sphere a little bigger than a bowling ball that Trump memorably posed for photos with during his trip to Riyadh in his first term.)\n\nTrump has downplayed traditional American alliances in Europe, and often expressed exasperation with the country's trading and defense partners. But there was no such hesitation in Riyadh, and he said the relationship between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia \"has been a bedrock of security and prosperity,\"\n\nBiden received little of the same pomp when he visited three years ago. He had previously criticized Saudi Arabia as a \"pariah\" but decided to travel to the kingdom anyway in an implicit acknowledgement that it was too influential of a global player to ignore.\n\nThe crown prince greeted the Democratic president at the palace, which is where the two leaders exchanged their fist bump. Their only other joint public appearance was all business, as they sat across from each other at a large conference table, flanked by top advisers.\n\nLater that year, OPEC+ announced it would reduce oil production in a blow to Biden, whose political fortunes were being battered by inflation. The Democratic president acknowledged that it was \"a disappointment, and it says that there are problems\" in the U.S.-Saudi relationship.\n\nBut there was no such friction during Trump's visit. In his speech, the president flattered Saudi Arabia for its economic development and suggested that foreign leaders shouldn't be \"giving you lectures on how to live and how to govern your own affairs.\"\n\n\"You achieved a modern miracle the Arabian way,\" Trump said.\n\nPrince Mohammed, sitting in the audience, placed his right hand on his heart and beamed."}
{"prompt_hash": "e5ef461754693c316085848e340616b1fb684f7739cf17732e2c014cf4d73cfa", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 20:45:10+00:00", "topics": ["Soccer", "FIFA World Cup", "Ohio", "New Jersey", "Chicago", "Sports", "CONCACAF Gold Cup"], "text": "# US will play friendlies in New Jersey and Ohio as it prepares to co-host next year's World Cup\n\nMay 13th, 2025 08:45 PM\n\n---\n\nCHICAGO (AP) \u2014 The United States men's national team will play friendlies against South Korea on Sept. 6 at Harrison, New Jersey, and Japan three days later at Columbus, Ohio, as it prepares to co-host next year's World Cup.\n\nThe games announced Tuesday will be the first for the Americans after this year's CONCACAF Gold Cup, in which they face Trinidad and Tobago, Saudi Arabia and Haiti in June.\n\nAfter the September matches, the U.S. will have just three more training camps during FIFA international fixture periods before the team gathers ahead of next year's World Cup: in October, November and March."}
{"prompt_hash": "8ba4112408e17a7a3645fe4d8e2dc041d47c1dc7298fb3ae14a26a1d6cf85012", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 20:25:43+00:00", "topics": ["New York City", "Eric Adams", "Laura Taylor Swain", "Prisons", "New York City Wire", "Benny Boscio", "Debbie Greenberger", "Lawsuits", "Courts", "Violence", "Legal proceedings"], "text": "# Judge strips NYC of full authority over Rikers Island, citing 'unprecedented' violence\n\nBy Jake Offenhartz  \nMay 13th, 2025 08:25 PM\n\n---\n\nNEW YORK (AP) \u2014 New York City will no longer fully control its jail system, including the long-troubled Rikers Island complex, after a federal judge found the city had failed to stem spiraling dysfunction and brutality against those in custody.\n\nInstead, U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain said she would appoint an outside manager to \"take all necessary steps\" toward restoring order inside the jails and bringing the city into compliance with previous court orders.\n\nThe official, known as a \"remediation manager,\" will report directly to the court. While the city's corrections commissioner will remain responsible for much of the day-to-day operations of the jail system, the remediation manager will have broad powers to address long-standing safety problems, including authority over hiring and promotions, staff deployment and disciplinary action regarding the use of force\n\nThe extraordinary intervention, outlined Tuesday by Swain in a 77-page order, comes nearly a decade after the city's jail system was placed under federal oversight as part of a class-action lawsuit brought by detainees.\n\nIn the years since, rates of violence have continued to increase, creating a \"grave and immediate threat\" that violates the constitutional rights of those in custody, according to Swain.\n\n\"Worse still, the unsafe and dangerous conditions in the jails, which are characterized by unprecedented rates of use of force and violence, have become normalized despite the fact that they are clearly abnormal and unacceptable,\" Swain wrote Tuesday.\n\nThis past November, she found the city in contempt for failing to comply with 18 separate provisions of court orders pertaining to security, staffing, supervision, use of force and the safety of young detainees.\n\nThe contempt ruling opened the door to a federal receivership of Rikers Island, a remedy long supported by detainee advocates, strongly opposed by New York City Mayor Eric Adams and characterized by the court as an option of last resort.\n\nIn her order on Tuesday, Swain said the remedial manager would have \"broad authority\" similar to a federal receiver, but would be expected to work closely with the city-appointed commissioner of the Department of Correction to implement a reform plan.\n\nAt a press conference Tuesday, Adams said the city would follow the judge's order, while also suggesting the appointment of an outside manager was not necessary.\n\n\"Remediation manager? I don't know the definition of that,\" he said. \"We have this oversight and that oversight. How much oversight are you going to do before you realize there are systemic problems?\"\n\nBenny Boscio, the president of the union that represents correction officers, said the union was willing to work with the outside manager, but it would maintain \"our fierce advocacy for the preservation of our members' employment rights and improving their working conditions.\"\n\nAdvocates for detainees, meanwhile, celebrated the judge's order as a turning point in a decades-long effort at reform.\n\n\"This has the potential to finally change the culture of violence and brutality in the city's jails that we've seen for decades,\" said Debbie Greenberger, an attorney with the Emery Celli law firm, which represents detainees, along with the Legal Aid Society.\n\n\"Nothing is going to change overnight, but I'm more hopeful today that we have a path to transformational change,\" she added."}
{"prompt_hash": "57dabfe0e4665e0daaaf09ede1652c3df9fcfaa0cfe864ff2b28c1be3a12bebf", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 10:00:06+00:00", "topics": ["Cooper Flagg", "Luka Doncic", "Rick Welts", "Kyrie Irving", "NBA Draft", "Patrick Ewing", "Anthony Davis", "Dallas Mavericks", "Nico Harrison", "Jon Scheyer", "New York Knicks", "Fires", "NBA", "Mark Cuban", "Sports", "NBA basketball", "Dallas", "LeBron James", "Chicago", "Patrick Dumont", "Los Angeles Lakers"], "text": "# Rick Welts was at the 1st NBA lottery. And he was there when Mavs won a chance to draft Cooper Flagg\n\nBy Tim Reynolds  \nMay 13th, 2025 10:00 AM\n\n---\n\nCHICAGO (AP) \u2014 Rick Welts was there, 40 years to the date earlier, when the NBA draft lottery got started. He worked for the league then and was in the room when that first one took place.\n\nAnd it seems he has spent much of the four decades since debunking the rumors that the 1985 lottery was rigged so the New York Knicks would get Patrick Ewing.\n\nGiven all the extraordinary measures \u2014 including witnesses, accountants, videotaping of the event \u2014 that goes into running such a thing, it's reasonable to conclude that the 2025 lottery wasn't fixed, either.\n\nBut it might fix the Dallas Mavericks.\n\n\"The fun starts now,\" Welts, the team's CEO, said Monday night after the Mavs won this year's lottery and got the chance to draft Duke phenom Cooper Flagg with the No. 1 overall pick next month.\n\nMore accurately, perhaps, the fun resumes now \u2014 after a few months that were anything but fun.\n\nFlagg worked out at the combine in Chicago on Tuesday, going through some shooting and sprinting drills as well as getting measured. He is scheduled for a news conference in Chicago on Wednesday.\n\nIf Dallas selects Flagg \u2014 it's difficult to think there's any other option at this point \u2014 he would join a team that currently has two other former Duke players in Kyrie Irving and Dereck Lively.\n\n\"I think Cooper would be incredible there,\" Duke coach Jon Scheyer told ESPN at the ACC's spring meetings in Amelia Island, Florida. \"It's crazy. We never talked about Dallas. It's amazing how things work out. It would be an incredible spot for him.\"\n\nThe Mavs were a ton of fun not that long ago. At this time last year, they were making their way to the NBA Finals. Luka Doncic was a star in a city that, sorry Cowboys, isn't just a football town anymore and hasn't been for some time. Irving was dazzling.\n\nAnd then, well, everyone knows what happened.\n\nThe Mavericks stunned the league by pulling off a trade with the Los Angeles Lakers, sending Doncic to be teammates with LeBron James and bringing back Anthony Davis in return. It was like general manager Nico Harrison's first name had been officially changed to Fire, since that's all the Mavs heard from their fans for weeks: \"Fire Nico, fire Nico, fire Nico.\" Players kept getting hurt \u2014 Irving tore his ACL about a month after the trade \u2014 and hope was realistically gone. Dallas made the play-in tournament, but not the playoffs.\n\n\"Honestly, there hasn't been a lot of fun around the Mavericks for the past three months,\" Welts sad. \"So, I think for everybody in the organization, from (team governor) Patrick Dumont to Nico Harrison, to coach (Jason) Kidd, to all of our staff, I guess it's been a lot to carry the last three months. And to have this happen, it's unbelievable.\"\n\nWelts returned to Dallas on Tuesday, still holding the envelope with the No. 1 on it, amid cheers from others when he walked into the building. A couple of people threw confetti, and everybody was applauding.\n\n\"You guys have a good night?\" Welts asked, fully aware of the answer.\n\nDumont, who also has taken criticism for allowing Harrison to trade Doncic, wasn't watching the lottery in real time. He was getting updates from former governor Mark Cuban, who called to say the Mavs jumped into the top four and, he thinks, then to say that the Mavs won. Turns out, Dumont isn't exactly sure what Cuban said \u2014 Cuban was evidently screaming pretty loudly and pretty excitedly.\n\n\"Listen, everyone, including Patrick, has been through a lot the past three months,\" Welts said. \"You know, this is just such a moment of exhilaration, breath of fresh air for the franchise that you really feel like we get a fresh start.\"\n\nWelts had been telling any friend who would listen in recent weeks that the Mavs were going to win the lottery. He had no way of knowing, obviously. But the only problem he could foresee after the lottery ended was finding the time to return hundreds of congratulatory text messages.\n\nA good problem to have, indeed. The 1985 lottery, he'll never forget. Same goes for the 2025 one.\n\n\"I have a lot of stories about that one,\" Welts said of 1985. \"But I'm going to remember this one more.\""}
{"prompt_hash": "9a6b4663dd3d28b14d2d693845c533a20260899af1422bd4528e9a3c9b145702", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 18:35:16+00:00", "topics": ["Maryland", "Wes Moore", "Abortion", "DC Wire", "Health", "Politics", "Lesley Lopez", "Subsidies"], "text": "# Maryland Gov. Wes Moore signs bill to tap unused ACA insurance funds for abortion grant program\n\nBy Brian Witte  \nMay 13th, 2025 06:35 PM\n\n---\n\nANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) \u2014 Maryland will become the first state to use money collected from a surcharge on insurance plans sold under the Affordable Care Act to fund a program to pay for abortions, regardless of a patient's insurance coverage, under a measure signed into law Tuesday by Democratic Gov. Wes Moore.\n\nThe law will make about $25 million available when it takes effect July 1, because a $1 surcharge has been unused and growing over the last 15 years since the ACA took effect in 2010. It's estimated to make about $3 million available annually in future years.\n\n\"The lieutenant governor and I were very clear from Day 1 \u2014 that Maryland will always be a safe haven for abortion access,\" Moore said, highlighting the measure among some 170 bills signed at a ceremony.\n\nThe program will be paid for through the transfer of certain insurance premium funds collected by carriers that can only be used for abortion coverage in accordance with the ACA. Supporters say other states have access to a similar surplus of funds through their state exchange insurance systems.\n\n\"If programs like ours are duplicated across the country, we could help millions of Americans access essential abortion care \u2014 without relying on taxpayer dollars,\" said Del. Lesley Lopez, a Democrat from Maryland's Montgomery County, in the suburbs of the nation's capital.\n\nOfficials in New York and Illinois already have reached out to Maryland officials to learn more about the program, said Lopez, who sponsored the bill.\n\nA dozen states require abortion coverage in ACA marketplace plans, according to KFF, a nonprofit that researches health care issues. They are California, Colorado, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Vermont and Washington.\n\n\"This money exists in every state that has abortion as a required type of care under their state's benefit exchanges,\" Lopez said. \"It's basically all the blue states that mandated abortion be covered when the Affordable Care Act was starting to be implemented.\"\n\nThe law creates a grant program fund in the state's health department to improve access to abortion clinical services. It requires the department to award grants to nonprofit organizations to support equitable access.\n\nLynn McCann-Yeh, co-executive director of the Baltimore Abortion Fund, which helps pay costs associated with abortion for people who live in Maryland or who travel there, said it's hard to keep up with an annual budget of about $2 million.\n\n\"We would need many, many more times over that to fully be able to meet the full logistic and medical support for each caller,\" she said.\n\nShe said the $3 million that would be made available annually under the new law could make a major difference. The fund could apply to administer a share of that money.\n\n\"The $3 million is a great start, but it will take more than that and it will take sustained funding,\" she said.\n\nMaryland's legislature is controlled by Democrats, who hold a 2-1 advantage over Republicans in voter registration statewide. Last year, Maryland voters approved a constitutional amendment with 76% support to enshrine abortion rights in the state's constitution, in response to the 2022 decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade. The court's decision in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization gave control over abortion to the states.\n\n\"I think before the Dobbs decision, there just wasn't quite the same type of urgency as there is now,\" Lopez said. \"We've seen abortion bans in some form or another in double digits in states across the country, so we've got to make sure that we shore up all the support we can in a state like Maryland that has it as a constitutionally protected right.\"\n\nTwelve states currently enforce abortion bans with limited exceptions at all stages of pregnancy. Four more have bans that kick in after about six weeks, which is before many women know they're pregnant.\n\nThe Dobb decision and an influx of people from other states seeking abortions in Maryland has made the financial need more urgent, supporters of the law say.\n\nMaryland has been seeing an increase in patients from other states where abortion has been banned. Last year, 15% of abortions in Maryland were obtained by patients from other states, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a research organization that supports abortion rights. That's a decrease from 20% in 2023."}
{"prompt_hash": "1c58b6a8591563af5a43108c1a5c6c937b1b492cd6334f46231c2a35564d6678", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 20:29:28+00:00", "topics": ["New Jersey", "3M Co.", "Matt Platkin", "Pollution", "Legal proceedings", "Shawn LaTourette", "Business", "The Chemours Co.", "Lawsuits", "Climate and environment", "Climate"], "text": "# New Jersey says chemical maker 3M agrees to 'forever chemical' settlement worth up to $450M\n\nMay 13th, 2025 08:29 PM\n\n---\n\nTRENTON, N.J. (AP) \u2014 New Jersey's attorney general said Tuesday chemical manufacturer 3M agreed to pay up $450 million to resolve lawsuits over natural resource contamination stemming from PFAS \u2014 commonly referred to as \"forever chemicals.\"\n\nThe settlement is subject to court approval and a public comment period, Attorney General Matt Platkin's office said. St. Paul, Minnesota-based 3M is expected to pay $285 million this year, with additional amounts payable over the next 25 years. The total amount could reach $450 million, Platkin's office said.\n\n\"Corporate polluters must be held accountable when they contaminate our state's water supply,\" Platkin said in a statement.\n\nPFAS, or perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, are a group of chemicals that have been around for decades and have now spread into the nation's air, water and soil.\n\n3M said in 2022 it would end all PFAS manufacturing by the end of this year. In a statement, the company said it's on track to do so.\n\n\"This agreement is another important step toward reducing risk and uncertainty on these legacy issues, allowing 3M to focus on its strategic priorities,\" 3M said.\n\nPFAS were manufactured by companies such as 3M, Chemours and others because they were incredibly useful. They helped eggs slide across non-stick frying pans, ensured that firefighting foam suffocates flames and helped clothes withstand rain and keep people dry.\n\nThe chemicals resist breaking down, though, meaning they linger in the environment.\n\nEnvironmental activists say PFAS makers knew about the health harms of PFAS long before they were made public. The same attributes that make the chemicals so valuable \u2013 resistance to breakdown \u2013 make them hazardous to people.\n\nPFAS accumulate in the body, which is why the Environmental Protection Agency set their limits for drinking water at 4 parts per trillion for two common types \u2014 PFOA and PFOS \u2014 that are phased out of manufacturing but still are present in the environment.\n\nThe New Jersey settlement stems from 2019 lawsuits at the nearly 1,500-acre (607-hectare) Chambers Works site in Pennsville and Carneys Point and another location in Parlin. The settlement also resolves all other statewide claims in litigation over PFAS in firefighting material used in the state.\n\nThe lawsuits alleged the companies involved, including 3M, knew about risks from forever chemicals produced at the facilities but continued to sell them.\n\nThe attorney general said that by agreeing to settle 3M would not go to trial next week in the Chambers Works case.\n\nNew Jersey's Department of Environmental Protection will use a portion of the settlement funds to \"protect public health, safety and the environment from impacts caused by PFAS,\" according to a joint statement from the attorney general and DEP Commissioner Shawn LaTourette."}
{"prompt_hash": "568766d5cb6d096a54f8fc60b1b5067535f3adb4116c074624e2f07404a4bd39", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 20:32:41+00:00", "topics": ["Robert Benton", "Dustin Hoffman", "Sally Field", "Movies", "Meryl Streep", "Texas", "New York City Wire", "Notable Deaths", "Sallie Rendigs", "Richard Russo", "Jeff Bridges", "David Newman", "Avery Corman", "E.L. Doctorow", "Paul Newman", "Robert Towne", "Philip Roth", "Mark Harris", "Ellery Douglass Benton", "Arthur Penn", "Arts and entertainment", "John Benton", "Faye Dunaway", "Gloria Steinem", "Jean-Luc Godard", "Bonnie Parker", "Warren Beatty", "Entertainment"], "text": "# Robert Benton, Oscar-winning filmmaker of 'Kramer vs. Kramer,' dead at 92\n\nBy Hillel Italie  \nMay 13th, 2025 08:32 PM\n\n---\n\nNEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Robert Benton, the Oscar-winning filmmaker who helped reset the rules in Hollywood as the co-creator of \"Bonnie and Clyde,\" and later received mainstream validation as the writer-director of \"Kramer vs. Kramer\" and \"Places in the Heart,\" has died at age 92.\n\nBenton's son, John Benton, said that he died Sunday at his home in Manhattan of \"natural causes.\"\n\nDuring a 40-year screen career, the Texas native received six Oscar nominations and won three times: for writing and directing \"Kramer vs. Kramer\" and for writing \"Places in the Heart.\" He was widely appreciated by actors as attentive and trusting, and directed Oscar-winning performances by Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep and Sally Field. Although severe dyslexia left him unable to read more than a few pages at a time as a child, he wrote and directed film adaptations of novels by Philip Roth, E.L. Doctorow and Richard Russo, among others.\n\nBenton was an art director for Esquire magazine in the early 1960s when a love for French New Wave movies and old gangster stories (and news that a friend got $25,000 for a Doris Day screenplay) inspired him and Esquire editor David Newman to draft a treatment about the lives of Depression-era robbers Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker, imagining them as prototypes for 1960s rebels.\n\nTheir project took years to complete as Francois Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard were among the directors who turned them down before Warren Beatty agreed to produce and star in the movie. \"Bonnie and Clyde,\" directed by Arthur Penn and starring Beatty and Faye Dunaway, overcame initial critical resistance in 1967 to the film's shocking violence and became one of the touchstones of 1960s culture and the start of a more open and creative era in Hollywood.\n\nThe original story by Benton and Newman was even more daring: they had made Clyde Barrow bisexual and involved in a 3-way relationship with Bonnie and their male getaway driver. Beatty and Penn both resisted, and Barrow instead was portrayed as impotent, with an uncredited Robert Towne making numerous other changes to the script. \"I honestly don't know who the 'auteur' of 'Bonnie and Clyde' was,\" Benton later told Mark Harris, author of \"Pictures at a Revolution,\" a book about \"Bonnie and Clyde\" and four other movies from 1967.\n\n## Oscar-winning triumphs\n\nOver the following decade, none of Benton's films approached the impact of \"Bonnie and Clyde,\" although he continued to have critical and commercial success. His writing credits included \"Superman\" and \"What's Up, Doc?\" He directed and co-wrote such well-reviewed works as \"Bad Company,\" a revisionist Western featuring Jeff Bridges, and \"The Late Show,\" a melancholy comedy for which his screenplay received an Oscar nomination.\n\nHis career soared in 1979 with his adaptation of the Avery Corman novel \"Kramer vs. Kramer,\" about a self-absorbed advertising executive who becomes a loving parent to his young son after his wife walks out, only to have her return and ask for custody. Starring Hoffman and Streep, the movie was praised as a perceptive, emotional portrait of changing family roles and expectations and received five Academy Awards, including best picture. Hoffman, disenchanted at the time with the film business, would cite \"Kramer vs. Kramer\" and Benson's direction for reviving his love for movie acting.\n\nFive years later, Benton was back in the Oscars race with a more personal film, \"Places in the Heart,\" in which he drew upon family stories and childhood memories for his 1930s-set drama starring Fields as a mother of two in Texas who fights to hold on to her land after her husband is killed.\n\n\"I think that when I saw it all strung together, I was surprised at what a romantic view I had of the past,\" Benton told The Associated Press in 1984, adding that the movie was in part a tribute to his mother, who had died shortly before the release of \"Kramer vs. Kramer.\"\n\n## A lifelong movie fan\n\nBenton was born in Waxahachie, Texas, outside of Dallas. He owed his early love for movies to his father, telephone company employee Ellery Douglass Benton, who, instead of asking about homework, would take his family to the picture shows. The elder Benton would also share memories of attending the funerals of outlaws Barrow and Parker, Texas natives who grew up in the Dallas area.\n\nRobert Benton studied at the University of Texas and Columbia University, then served in the U.S. Army from 1954 until 1956. While at Esquire, Benton helped start the magazine's long-standing Dubious Achievement Award and dated Gloria Steinem, then on staff at the humor magazine Help! He married artist Sallie Rendigs in 1964. They had one son.\n\nBetween hits, Benton often endured long dry spells. His latter films included such disappointments as the thrillers \"Billy Bathgate,\" \"The Human Stain\" and \"Twilight.\" He had much more success with \"Nobody's Fool,\" a wry comedy released in 1994 and starring Paul Newman, in his last Oscar-nominated performance, as a small-town troublemaker in upstate New York. Benton, whose film was based on Russo's novel, was nominated for best adapted screenplay.\n\n\"Somebody asked me once when the Academy Award nominations came out and I'd been nominated, 'What's the great thing about the Academy Awards?'\" Benton told Venice magazine in 1998. \"I said 'When you go to the awards and you see people, some of whom you've had bitter fights with, some of whom you're close friends with, some people you haven't seen in ten years, some people you just saw two days before \u2014 it's your family.' It's home. And home is what I've spent my life looking for.\""}
{"prompt_hash": "63e04b54315fa6bcf8d6d80e68f553ff13d5d60db73f49246328cd799d99e95a", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 06:14:47+00:00", "topics": ["Germany government", "Germany", "Berlin", "Peter Fitzek", "Business", "Politics", "Alexander Dobrindt"], "text": "# Germany bans the far-right 'Kingdom of Germany' group and arrests 4 of its leaders\n\nBy Kirsten Grieshaber  \nMay 13th, 2025 06:14 AM\n\n---\n\nBERLIN (AP) \u2014 The German government on Tuesday banned the far-right organization \"Kingdom of Germany\" as a threat to the country's democratic order and arrested four of its leaders in raids across several states.\n\nThe group is part of the country's so-called Reich Citizen, or Reichsb\u00fcrger, movement that claims the historical German Reich still exists and refuses to recognize the current democratic government or its parliament, laws and courts. Members also refuse to pay taxes or fines.\n\nAbout 800 police officers launched raids Tuesday on the group's properties and the homes of its leading members throughout the country.\n\nInterior Minister Alexander Dobrindt, in announcing the ban on the group, said its members have underpinned their claims to power using antisemitic conspiracy narratives that cannot be tolerated.\n\n\"The members of this association have created a 'counter-state' in our country and built up economic criminal structures,\" Dobrindt said. \"We will take decisive action against those who attack our free democratic basic order.\"\n\nAmong those arrested Tuesday was the group leader Peter Fitzek. He proclaimed the \"Kingdom of Germany\" in the eastern town of Wittenberg in 2012 and says it has around 6,000 followers, though the Interior Ministry says it has about 1,000 members The group claims to have seceded from the German federal government.\n\n\"This is not about harmless nostalgia, as the title of the association might suggest, but about criminal structures, criminal networks,\" the minister told reporters later in Berlin. \"That's why it's being banned today.\"\n\nThe group's online platforms will be blocked and its assets will be confiscated to ensure that no further financial resources can be used for extremist purposes, Dobrindt said.\n\nThe group gave no immediate public comment, and generally declines to interact with media outlets.\n\nIt's not the first time that Germany has acted against the Reichsb\u00fcrger movement.\n\nIn 2023, German police officers searched the homes of about 20 people in connection with investigations into the far-right Reich Citizens scene, whose adherents had similarities to followers of the QAnon movement in the United States.\n\nLast year, the alleged leaders of a suspected far-right plot to topple Germany's government went on trial on Tuesday, opening proceedings in a case that shocked the country in late 2022."}
{"prompt_hash": "18737e44048a294347b115895160e1581214a86ef32bd5c20bff0d06e46123ad", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 16:00:41+00:00", "topics": ["Shootings", "Crime", "Monique Richardson", "Homicide", "Florida", "Gun violence", "Kate Payne", "Education", "Randall Harper"], "text": "# Florida State student accused in a mass shooting on campus to remain jailed\n\nBy Kate Payne  \nMay 13th, 2025 04:00 PM\n\n---\n\nTALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) \u2014 A judge on Tuesday ordered the Florida State University student accused of killing two people and wounding six others in a mass shooting on campus last month to remain jailed without bond.\n\nDuring 20-year-old Phoenix Ikner's first court appearance since the April 17 attack, Leon County Judge Monique Richardson ordered Ikner to have no contact with the victims and their families and approved the appointment of two public defenders for him, Megan Long and Randall Harper. The attorneys did not immediately respond to a request for comment.\n\nIkner, who was shot and wounded by officers, ending the attack, sat quietly during the hearing, which he appeared at via video from a lockup in a neighboring county. He is charged with two counts of first-degree murder and seven counts of attempted first-degree murder.\n\nIkner is the stepson of a local sheriff's deputy, and investigators say he used his stepmother's former service weapon to carry out the shooting, which terrified the campus and the state's capital city.\n\nIkner was formally charged Monday after being released from a hospital. He was booked into the Leon County Detention Facility and then transferred to a jail in nearby Wakulla County, which is standard procedure when an inmate is related to a Leon County deputy, authorities said.\n\nInvestigators say that on the day of the attack, Ikner, an FSU political science student, arrived on campus and stayed near a parking garage until just before lunchtime, when he began walking into and out of buildings and green spaces while firing his gun. In less than five minutes, officers confronted Ikner, shooting and wounding him.\n\nAuthorities have not revealed a motive for the attack, which killed two men and wounded six other people.\n\nIf Ikner is convicted of the murder charges, he could face the death penalty."}
{"prompt_hash": "a96030c656cf4343fd92c443bcd024fc422349e38a3f6eec07244257a8962033", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 18:50:59+00:00", "topics": ["Iowa", "Donald Trump", "Des Moines", "Cedar Rapids", "Politics", "John Adams", "Kim Reynold", "Larry McBurney", "United States government", "Bill Gustoff", "Eric Gjerde"], "text": "# Iowa lawmakers don't want cities to limit people's use of fireworks\n\nBy John Hanna  \nMay 13th, 2025 06:50 PM\n\n---\n\nIowa lawmakers want President Donald Trump to know that their state is eager to be at the center of next year's celebration of the nation's 250th birthday and shares his vision of fireworks filling the skies \u2014 so much so that they don't want local officials blocking any small, neighborhood displays.\n\nThe Republican-controlled Legislature passed a bill this week that would ban local limits on people setting off their own rockets, mortars, aerial spinners and Roman candles on July 3 or 4, or Dec. 31. There was nothing to stop big, public shows \u2014 say, a Fourth of July display as part of Trump's proposed \"Great American State Fair\" in Iowa's capital of Des Moines \u2014 but a relative handful of cities, including Des Moines, haven't allowed people to shoot them off, even on the nation's birthday or New Year's Eve.\n\nThe bill headed to Republican Gov. Kim Reynold's desk after the state House approved it Tuesday, 51-39, with the GOP majority overriding Democrats' concerns that it could undermine fire safety or harm military veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder. Des Moines and at least six of its suburbs, as well as the cities of Ames, Cedar Rapids and Dubuque bar people from setting off their own fireworks even on Independence Day.\n\nIn arguing for the bill, Republican state Rep. Bill Gustoff quoted founding father John Adams' desire for national celebrations involving parades and \"illuminations\" of fireworks, from \"one end of this continent to the other.\" Gustoff, who is from the Des Moines area, also cited the proposal Trump first floated in 2023 to have a yearlong national exposition on the Iowa State Fairgrounds in Des Moines.\n\n\"Mr. President, we welcome that idea in Iowa and we're ready, willing and able to host the party,\" Gustoff said during Tuesday's short debate. \"We need to enable Iowans to be part of that celebration.\"\n\nWhile communities around the world have celebrated events with fireworks for hundreds of years, people's fondness for setting them off themselves has often been a bane of local police and firefighters. Still, only one state \u2014 Adams' home of Massachusetts \u2014 imposes an outright ban on their use by individual consumers.\n\nFor years, Pennsylvania only allowed the use of sparklers and similar novelty fireworks. But in 2017, it permitted the sale of the full array of products, only to narrow those sales in 2022 to July 2-4 and Dec. 31 amid complaints. Georgia ended a decades-long ban on consumer fireworks in 2015 and doesn't allow cities and counties to restrict them.\n\nIowa banned consumer sales of fireworks for decades, spurred on by a June 1931 fire that engulfed about 100 buildings in the small town of Spencer, which started with a sparkler at a drugstore. However, in 2017, Iowa lawmakers allowed cities and counties to license firework sellers and allow people to set off fireworks from June 1 through July 8 and from Dec. 10 through Jan. 3.\n\nIowa state health department data shows that in 2017, the number of fireworks-related emergency room visits in Iowa nearly doubled from 2016 and remained higher than pre-legalization levels through 2023. The state associations for fire marshals, fire chiefs, firefighters and emergency managers, opposed the fireworks law, as did the Iowa League of Cities.\n\nDemocratic state Rep. Larry McBurney, from the Des Moines area, said the flash, noise and smell of gunpowder from fireworks can trigger veterans' PTSD. Fellow Democratic state Rep. Eric Gjerde, a Cedar Rapids police officer, said people who call to complain about fireworks in his city often think they're hearing gunfire.\n\n\"We have to take every single one of those extremely seriously, so we send multiple officers to investigate,\" he told his colleagues.\n\nFireworks manufacturers and retailers supported the bill, as did the state association for retail stores and the small-government, free-market group Americans for Prosperity. But in arguing in favor of the bill, Gustoff cited next year's celebration of the Declaration of Independence's signing in 1776.\n\n\"Current law allows a patchwork of ordinances that are a trap for the unwary, patriotic American in Iowa who simply wants to celebrate Independence Day the way it was intended by our founding fathers,\" he said."}
{"prompt_hash": "098ee491a42fb140efd52fb48c6a0f64abbf23d7d4452ad459ea3c15195a9b44", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 18:48:55+00:00", "topics": ["Mens college basketball", "Paul Corsaro", "College sports", "College basketball", "Indianapolis", "Sports"], "text": "# IU Indianapolis fires Paul Corsaro for his treatment of players\n\nMay 13th, 2025 06:48 PM\n\n---\n\nINDIANAPOLIS (AP) \u2014 IU Indianapolis fired men's basketball coach Paul Corsaro on Tuesday for how he treated his players. The Jaguars did not provide details of Corsaro's actions.\n\n\"His behavior did not meet the university's values and standards regarding the treatment of student athletes,\" the university said in a statement.\n\nCorsaro went 10-24 overall and 6-14 in the Horizon League in his only season with the Jaguars.\n\nThe 36-year-old Indianapolis native was considered an up-and-comer in the coaching ranks when he left the University of Indianapolis last spring after four seasons. He posted a 79-37 mark with the Greyhounds, topping the 20-win mark and making NCAA Division II Tournament runs in each of his final two seasons at his alma mater.\n\nCorsaro was named the Great Lakes Valley Conference and Midwest Region Coach of the Year in 2022-23.\n\nHe played both football and basketball in college. After graduating from Indianapolis in 2012, he joined the Greyhounds staff and worked there until 2017-18. Following two seasons as an assistant coach at Purdue Fort Wayne, he took the head coaching job at Indianapolis.\n\nIU Indianapolis said it will conduct a national search for Corsaro's successor."}
{"prompt_hash": "f9504c162cb3534799da86debca57e440fde56492e33055cbae1003d91d251dc", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 13:34:12+00:00", "topics": ["Shootings", "Evette Jeffrey", "Bronx", "Teens", "Law enforcement", "New York", "Gun violence", "New York City Wire", "Vanessa Gibson", "New York City", "Joseph Kenny"], "text": "# Teen 'innocent bystander' fatally shot during a fight near a New York City school\n\nMay 13th, 2025 01:34 PM\n\n---\n\nNEW YORK (AP) \u2014 A 16-year-old girl was killed by a stray bullet near a Bronx high school and a 14-year-old suspect was taken into custody, police said Tuesday.\n\nThe girl, Evette Jeffrey, was shot in the head Monday after a fistfight broke out between two rival gangs. A 14-year-old fired three rounds into a crowd of other teens, apparently trying to hit a person who had punched him, Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said at a news conference.\n\n\"Evette Jeffrey was not involved in this dispute. She was an innocent bystander who was simply trying to take cover behind a brick wall and was struck in the head by one of the rounds,\" Kenny said.\n\nJeffrey was taken to a local hospital, where she was pronounced dead.\n\nThe other 14-year-old, who was not identified by police, was apprehended late Tuesday morning as he was trying to get into a taxi. There were no charges filed against the teen as of midday, Kenny said.\n\nBronx Borough President Vanessa Gibson said Monday that the girl's mother is inconsolable.\n\n\"She got the worst phone call that no parent should ever get \u2014 ever \u2014 that her child was shot,\" Gibson said."}
{"prompt_hash": "10d62e81e751e1241c2dc314fe952fbcc56c81322a7f25d741f6177e315ee36b", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 18:43:22+00:00", "topics": ["Crime", "Homicide", "Rachel McCarthy James", "Book Reviews", "Entertainment", "Lizzie Borden", "Fernanda Figueroa"], "text": "# 'Whack Job' review: How a survival tool turned murder weapon\n\nBy Fernanda Figueroa  \nMay 13th, 2025 06:43 PM\n\n---\n\nFrom the murder of a Neanderthal-like man to the infamous Lizzie Borden, \"Whack Job: A History of Axe Murder\" provides a sarcastic, witty and quirky look at the history of a rather simple tool often found at the scene of a crime: an axe.\n\nRachel McCarthy James spends each chapter of \"Whack Job\" detailing an instance where \"axe murder\" has occurred, but for true crime fans the book might not make the cut.\n\nInstead of looking at the gory details and dramatizing events, James examines the social-economic, political issues and human nature that caused these individuals to befall their fate to an axe. As such, the book, while having a true crime element, is ultimately a history crash course on the axe's evolution \u2014 from a survival tool in 430,000 BCE to a modern-day weapon of murder.\n\nStill, this is what makes the book intriguing \u2014 even if, like me, you were hoping it would dive deeper into the axe murder itself.\n\nJames has fun with the topic, describing what makes the axe the perfect weapon in each instance, keeping the true crime fan in me thoroughly engaged.\n\nA book such as this, focused on history and facts, could become tedious to a casual reader, but James knows how to disarm readers with properly timed humor and quippy theories.\n\nTrue crime fan or not, James' book is a great primer of \"axe murder\" in all its shapes and forms"}
{"prompt_hash": "f7c95980ca7534a05fa00f15b30cea853e2b66ee9ef7c0f7d2906740e2707ffe", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 17:35:13+00:00", "topics": ["Portland Trail Blazers", "Paul Allen", "Microsoft Corp.", "Jody Allen", "Lymphoma", "NBA", "Sports", "Philanthropy", "NBA basketball", "Business", "Phil Knight"], "text": "# The NBA's Portland Trail Blazers are going up for sale\n\nBy Anne M. Peterson  \nMay 13th, 2025 05:35 PM\n\n---\n\nPORTLAND, Ore. (AP) \u2014 Paul Allen's estate announced Tuesday that it has begun the process of selling the Portland Trail Blazers.\n\nThe sale of the team is \"consistent with Allen's directive to eventually sell his sports holdings and direct all estate proceeds to philanthropy,\" the Trail Blazers said in a statement.\n\nAllen, the billionaire co-founder of Microsoft, died in 2018 at age 65 from complications of non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Since then, his sister, Jody Allen, has served as chair of the Trail Blazers and the NFL's Seattle Seahawks and trustee of the Paul G. Allen Trust.\n\nThe estate said it has hired the New York investment firm Allen & Company and the law firm Hogan Lovells to lead the sales process, \"which is estimated to continue into the 2025-26 basketball season.\"\n\nThe team noted in its announcement that the NBA Board of Governors must ratify any final purchase agreement.\n\nIn addition to the Trail Blazers and Seahawks, Allen was a co-owner of Major League Soccer's Seattle Sounders. The statement said the announcement does not impact the Seahawks or the estate's 25% interest in the Sounders. Neither of those teams is for sale.\n\nAllen bought the Trail Blazers in 1988, telling the The Associated Press at the time that \"for a true fan of the game, this is a dream come true.\"\n\nSince his death, there has been widespread speculation surrounding the future ownership of both the Seahawks and Trail Blazers. Allen stipulated in his will the eventual sale of both teams, with the proceeds given to philanthropic endeavors.\n\nJody Allen reportedly rebuffed an offer to buy the Trail Blazers from Nike co-founder Phil Knight for more than $2 billion in 2022. At that time, there were no ongoing discussions about the sale of the teams, she said in a rare statement.\n\n\"A time will come when that changes given Paul's plans to dedicate the vast majority of his wealth to philanthropy, but estates of this size and complexity can take 10 to 20 years to wind down,\" she said. \"There is no pre-ordained timeline by which the teams must be sold.\"\n\nCNBC earlier this year valued the Trail Blazers at $3.65 billion. In March, the Boston Celtics sold for $6.1 billion.\n\nThe Trail Blazers finished 36-46 this season and missed out on the playoffs for the fourth straight year. They have the 11th pick in the next month's NBA draft, as was decided in Monday night's draft lottery."}
{"prompt_hash": "74669ce34238fe09c71a07dec421f4a28f3fba4244394b09f67b03529a970717", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 17:10:47+00:00", "topics": ["Aaron Thomas", "Juries", "Crime", "Legal proceedings", "Melanie Wilk Thunberg", "Sexual assault", "John Calcagni", "Child abuse", "Indictments"], "text": "# Jurors deliberate fate of high school basketball coach who conducted naked fat tests\n\nBy Kimberlee Kruesi  \nMay 13th, 2025 05:10 PM\n\n---\n\nWAKEFIELD, R.I. (AP) \u2014 Jurors began deliberating Tuesday in the child molestation trial of a former Rhode Island high school basketball coach who asked hundreds of male student-athletes to take off their underwear so he could check their body fat.\n\nDefense attorneys contend Aaron Thomas conducted the tests because he was focused on developing a successful athletics program, downplaying the credibility of students who say they were humiliated and embarrassed.\n\nThe trial for the once popular coach and teacher at North Kingstown High School lasted six weeks. Thomas, 57, is charged with second-degree child molestation and second-degree sexual assault.\n\nJurors concluded Tuesday without a verdict. The judge has instructed them to deliberate each day from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. until they reach a decision.\n\nFor nearly 30 years, Thomas designed and administered a fitness test that involved measuring their upper inner thighs and pressing his fingers into their groin areas with no other adults present.\n\nDefense attorneys acknowledged it was wrong and not backed by body composition expert but insisted it didn't break the law. They said that's because Thomas didn't touch the boy athletes for sexual gratification or arousal, a key requirement under the charges he faces.\n\n\"I suggest to you that justice was served years ago,\" John Calcagni, Thomas' attorney, said during closing arguments on Monday. \"He lost his job. He'll never coach and teach ever again. And in his own words, his reputation has been destroyed.\"\n\nProsecutors, meanwhile, presented a starker picture in their closing argument on Tuesday, focusing on Thomas creating a program that allowed him to have unfettered access to young naked boys for decades.\n\nQuoting from the student-athletes who testified throughout the trial, the prosecution argued that Thomas preyed on prepubescent boys who were smaller in size and likely intimidated by Thomas' authority.\n\n\"He's someone who used somewhat legitimate testing as a cover and a guise to administer his own perverted tests, under the guise of legitimacy for his own pleasure,\" said Special Assistant Attorney General Meegan Thomson.\n\nA key detail surrounding the case is the question Thomas would present to the male athletes, asking if they were \"shy or not shy?\" Those who said no were asked to strip naked, allowing Thomas to pinch various areas of their bodies, including near their groins and buttocks. The tests were conducted behind closed doors, first in a small closet-like room and then eventually in Thomas' office.\n\n\"It's meant to be coercive. That question is not poised until you're alone being towered over this man at 6'4 and you're already in a state of undress and he's saying 'shy or not shy'.'\" Thomson said.\n\nDuring his testimony, Thomas told his attorney he likely saw more than 600 student-athletes throughout his career, with \"roughly 80%\" of them taking their underwear off during the test. He acknowledged that removing the underwear was not necessary.\n\nDuring his third day of testifying, Thomas acknowledged he lied to law enforcement when he was initially asked if students were naked for the tests.\n\n\"I'm truly sorry that it occurred the way it occurred,\" Thomas said. \"It was never my intent to ever hurt or cause any kind of pain, or embarrass, or make uncomfortable, even, any of the student-athletes. It was just for competitive advantage.\"\n\nAlthough Thomas is alleged to have performed the tests on multiple students over many years, the charges relate to just two. One was 14 at the time of the alleged crime between September 2000 and February 2002.\n\nOn Monday, the defense team attacked the credibility of the two student-athletes whose allegations led to the charges, pointing out the mental health struggles of one of the witnesses and inconsistent statements in their testimony.\n\nCalcagni also stressed that some of the student-athletes are pursuing a civil lawsuit against North Kingstown, saying \"when money is on the line, that becomes a motivating factor for people, sometimes to stretching the truth, and sometimes not to tell the truth at all.\"\n\nThomson pushed back against those attacks, saying that one of the witnesses involved in the charges has passed the statute of limitations to file a civil lawsuit and countered that the mental health struggles directly stemmed from the years of abuse caused by Thomas.\n\nMore than a dozen student-athletes testified throughout the six-week trial, as well as law enforcement officers, body composition experts and former school officials.\n\nJudge Melanie Wilk Thunberg told jurors that if they don't find Thomas guilty of sexual assault, they can consider whether he's guilty of misdemeanor battery, a lesser charge."}
{"prompt_hash": "fc2e5bd4a0c98ccdfee1fed226fdd9d32b476450c3811569844a18afcec06610", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 18:36:55+00:00", "topics": ["Arturo Chacn-Cruz", "Classical music", "Milan", "San Francisco", "Indianapolis", "Celebrity", "Arts and entertainment", "Miami", "Don Carlo", "Sports", "Doug Boles", "Opera", "Entertainment"], "text": "# From opera houses to the Indy 500: Arturo Chac\u00f3n-Cruz's next big stage\n\nMay 13th, 2025 06:36 PM\n\n---\n\nINDIANAPOLIS (AP) \u2014 Acclaimed opera tenor Arturo Chac\u00f3n-Cruz will perform \"God Bless America\" during pre-race ceremonies for the Indianapolis 500.\n\nChac\u00f3n-Cruz is the winner of the 2024 International Opera Awards' Readers' Award and has performed in more than 60 leading roles in 30 countries. He's appeared in major opera houses such as New York's Metropolitan Opera, La Scala in Milan, San Francisco Opera and Vienna's Staatsoper.\n\nChac\u00f3n-Cruz is acclaimed in the operas of Verdi, Puccini and the French Romantic repertoire, with signature roles including Werther, Don Carlo, Cavaradossi, Hoffmann and Manrico.\n\nIn 2018, he was named GQ Latin America's Man of the Year.\n\nBased in Miami with his wife and son, Chac\u00f3n-Cruz continues to represent both his Mexican heritage and American journey. He became an American citizen in 2010 and said singing \"God Bless America\" at the Indy 500 is \"a moment that reflects my artistic path and the country I now call home.\"\n\nIMS and IndyCar President Doug Boles called the Indy 500 pre-race ceremony and singing of \"God Bless America\" one of the most important tributes to the United States.\n\n\"Arturo has performed throughout the world, on some of the largest stages, so it's only fitting that he now adds his talent to 'The Greatest Spectacle in Racing' at the Racing Capital of the World,\" Boles said."}
{"prompt_hash": "2233495a9397c50f7dd8707d3e971947e286d7786f73a39f9a174ddb05dcb435", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 18:34:24+00:00", "topics": ["Jon Ossoff", "Marjorie Taylor Greene", "Brian P. Kemp", "Donald Trump", "Georgia", "Joe Biden", "U.S. Republican Party", "Kevin McCarthy", "Senate elections", "Raphael Warnock", "David Perdue", "Voting", "Jay Morgan", "Rick Allen", "Rich McCormick", "Buddy Carter", "Brian Robinson", "Elections", "Politics", "Eric Tanenblatt", "John King Jr.", "2020 United States presidential election", "Greg Dolezal", "Mike Collins", "United States Senate", "Georgia state government", "Brad Raffensperger", "Brian Jack"], "text": "# Georgia Republicans look to rally behind a challenger to Sen. Jon Ossoff\n\nBy Jeff Amy and Bill Barrow  \nMay 13th, 2025 06:34 PM\n\n---\n\nATLANTA (AP) \u2014 When Georgia's governor and a lightning-rod congresswoman decided last week to not run for the U.S. Senate, it seemed like the waiting game was over among Republicans seeking to challenge Democratic U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff.\n\nU.S. Rep. Buddy Carter, who represents a district on the Georgia coast, had become the first major Republican candidate to declare when he announced on Thursday. Then, state Insurance Commissioner John King did the same on Monday.\n\n\"I expect a competitive primary \u2014 Senate seats don't come along that often,\" said Eric Tanenblatt, a top national GOP fundraiser and Kemp ally who has backed Trump's rivals in presidential primaries.\n\nBut after the exits of Gov. Brian Kemp and U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, there's a new waiting game going on. Hopefuls are looking to President Donald Trump and Kemp for support. The governor told reporters last week that he'd like to unite with Trump behind a preferred candidate, which could head off an expensive and tumultuous primary that could weaken a nominee.\n\n\"I had a good conversation with President Trump about my decision. And I'm going to continue talking to him about the races in Georgia,\" Kemp said in Forsyth, Georgia. \"I think if it's possible, it would be great if we can line up on things. That's hard to do sometimes in primaries.\"\n\nKemp and Trump met Sunday in Washington, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported, and some possible contenders are waiting to see how things play out. Republican congressman Mike Collins said on the day that Kemp stepped aside that he wanted to hear from Trump.\n\n\"I will speak to President Trump and his team and do whatever is necessary to ensure he has another vote in the Senate for the America First agenda,\" Collins said on the day Kemp stepped aside.\n\nFive other GOP officeholders have acknowledged interest in the race, including two other Republicans in Congress, Rick Allen and Rich McCormick. Also mulling it over are Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, state Agriculture Commissioner Tyler Harper and state Sen. Greg Dolezal.\n\nTrump's own desires could elevate others.\n\nU.S. Rep. Brian Jack, Trump's White House political adviser during Trump's first term, is in his first term in Congress. Jack has vaulted onto a leadership track in the House, becoming deputy chair of the National Republican Congressional Committee, the GOP House campaign arm. Having also served as an aide to then-House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, Jack was elected as the freshman representative to the House GOP Steering Committee. Jack has shown no public interest in the Senate seat but may be closer to Trump than any Georgia Republican.\n\nRepublicans have flagged Georgia and Michigan as prime opportunities for expanding their Senate majority in 2026. But in Georgia, unlike Michigan, the Democratic incumbent is seeking reelection. Ossoff is trying to show he can deliver for Georgia and work with Republicans while also offering a sharp critique of Trump.\n\nWhile Georgia backed Trump in 2024, the state's voters have sometimes supported Democrats. They chose Joe Biden in 2020. They handed Senate control to Democrats in January 2021 runoffs by electing Ossoff and Raphael Warnock after Republicans David Perdue and Loeffler lashed themselves to Trump's false claims that his 2020 defeat was rigged. They then reelected Warnock in a runoff over Herschel Walker, the Republican nominee in 2022.\n\nAny Republican challenger to Ossoff must win a primary that could be decided well to the right of the broader electorate.\n\n\"Republicans don't want business as usual. They want disruption,\" said Chip Lake, a GOP campaign consultant who worked for Walker in 2022.\n\nBut a primary in which every candidate tries to be the most conservative and most loyal to Trump could cause problems later.\n\n\"If we nominate someone that is just too extreme, I don't think it's going to go well for us in a general election,\" Tanenblatt said.\n\nRallying around a single candidate might reduce that risk. That's where Trump and Kemp, who has his own fraught history with the president, could play key roles.\n\nKemp pledged that his political organization, considered the most effective in Georgia, will work for a Republican Senate win in 2026. Victory could burnish Kemp's reputation.\n\n\"Just because my name's not on the ballot, that doesn't mean that I won't be on the political playing field,\" Kemp said.\n\nBut some time to campaign without a Trump endorsement would give candidates time to prove themselves, said Brian Robinson, a Republican political consultant.\n\n\"We'll see how hard they're working. We'll see how much money they're raising and we'll see what machinations go on in the third-party groups out of D.C.,\" Robinson said, alluding to politically active conservative groups such as Club for Growth.\n\nCarter, a pharmacist, mayor and state lawmaker before he went to Congress, is trying to get a jump on that process. Tanenblatt said Carter is the kind of Republican who can appeal to the Trump base and the party's more traditional wing. His challenge, Tanenblatt said, is that he's largely unknown in metro Atlanta, home to most Georgia voters.\n\nCollins, a second-term congressman, might benefit from representing a northeast Georgia district that includes some of Atlanta's suburbs. Besides Greene, he's maybe the most like Trump stylistically, with a string of inflammatory social media posts and a big, booming personality. It's not an act, said Jay Morgan, a longtime Republican strategist.\n\n\"This is not something he made up,\" Morgan said. \"He's gotten a little better at it, he's gotten a little more polished and he is a hard worker. Nobody will work harder than Mike Collins.\"\n\nMaybe the best-known Republican prospect is Raffensperger, but his notoriety could cut both ways. Raffensperger is best known for clashing with Trump when Trump asked him to overturn Biden's 2020 win in Georgia.\n\n\"The best argument Brad Raffensperger can make is he can win,\" Morgan said.\n\nRaffensperger appealed to moderates and even Democrats in his 2022 reelection bid, but he is despised by many Republican activists.\n\n\"Donald Trump is the leader of this party, and you're not going to have success at all in a primary as a candidate running for any office in Georgia if you don't acknowledge that and be supportive of that,\" Lake said,\n\nThe right nominee will tap into GOP hunger to win back one of Georgia's Senate seats after three consecutive losses.\n\n\"They are tired of losing,\" Morgan said. \"And this could be a critical, critical race. Depending on what happens in the country and the mood of the country, this is a race Republicans can win again.\""}
{"prompt_hash": "c6f68102c7e92baf0d487a5953710000562667657117f2b5cbdfea9e5b86573b", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 13:01:06+00:00", "topics": ["Meta Platforms", "Inc.", "Alphabet", "Social media", "Online safety", "Elon Musk", "LGBTQ", "Mark Zuckerberg", "Gender", "Technology", "Sarah Kate Ellis", "Business"], "text": "# Major social media platforms fail to protect LGBTQ users, advocacy group GLAAD says\n\nBy Barbara Ortutay  \nMay 13th, 2025 01:01 PM\n\n---\n\nSAN FRANCISCO (AP) \u2014 Major social media platforms such as Instagram and YouTube have failed to protect LGBTQ+ users from hate and harassment, in part, because they intentionally rolled back previous safety practices, the advocacy group GLAAD said Tuesday in its annual Social Media Safety Index.\n\nThe report said that recent \"unprecedented hate speech policy rollbacks\" from Instagram and Facebook parent Meta Platforms and Google's YouTube are \"actively undermining the safety of LGBTQ people\" both online and offline. Meta's rollback now allows users to call LGBTQ people \"mentally ill,\" among other policy changes.\n\nThe scorecard assigns numeric ratings to each platform with regard to LGBTQ safety, privacy, and expression. Elon Musk's X received the lowest score at 30 out of 100, while TikTok came in highest at 56. Meta's Facebook, Instagram, Threads and Google's YouTube were in the 40s. The group's methodology has changed since last year, so the scores are not directly comparable to previous reports.\n\n\"At a time when real-world violence and harassment against LGBTQ people is on the rise, social media companies are profiting from the flames of anti-LGBTQ hate instead of ensuring the basic safety of LGBTQ users,\" said Sarah Kate Ellis, GLAAD's president and CEO.\n\nWhile X has received the lowest scores since Musk's takeover of the platform in 2022 \u2014 when it was called Twitter \u2014 Meta's backslide can largely be attributed to its recent policy shift. CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in January that Meta is removing restrictions on topics like immigration and gender \"that are out of touch with mainstream discourse,\" citing \"recent elections\" as a catalyst. GLAAD calls the rollback \"particularly extreme.\"\n\nRepresentatives for Meta, TikTok and X did not immediately respond to messages for comment.\n\nGLAAD said Google recently removed \"gender identity and expression\" from YouTube's list of protected characteristic groups, which suggests that the platform is \"no longer protecting transgender, nonbinary, and gender-nonconforming people from hate and discrimination.\"\n\nGoogle says this is not the case.\n\n\"We confirmed earlier this year our hate speech policy hasn't changed. We have strict policies against content that promotes hatred or violence against members of the LGBTQ+ community and we continue to be vigilant in our efforts to quickly detect and remove this content,\" Google said in a statement.\n\nAlthough GLAAD acknowledges Google's statement, the organization stresses that gender identity has not been restored as a protected characteristic on YouTube's hate speech policy page.\n\n\"YouTube should reverse this dangerous policy change and update its 'Hate Speech' policy to expressly include gender identity and expression as a protected characteristic,\" the report says.\n\nGLAAD's report makes policy recommendations for protecting LGBTQ users, though it's unclear if the platforms will take these up, given that many have rolled back such protections. For instance, GLAAD says platforms should protect LGBTQ people from hate, harassment and violence, prohibit targeted misgendering and \"deadnaming\" of transgender users and explain steps it takes to stop wrongfully removing or demonetizing legitimate accounts and content related to LGBTQ topics."}
{"prompt_hash": "cdc5ede6cdd2a40f3e84c2a14b272b95492b20c0c331da09c9669d0d7a599fcf", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 16:11:04+00:00", "topics": ["Saudi Arabia", "Labor", "Amnesty International", "Race and ethnicity"], "text": "# Amnesty report exposes abuse of Kenyan domestic workers in Saudi Arabia\n\nBy Associated Press  \nMay 13th, 2025 04:11 PM\n\n---\n\nMOMBASA, Kenya (AP) \u2014 More than 70 Kenyan women have documented their harrowing experiences working as domestic workers in Saudi Arabia, a new report by Amnesty International released on Tuesday shows.\n\nIn the report, launched in the Kenyan coastal city of Mombasa, the rights group documents how workers were deceived by recruitment agents, denied rest days, and worked under inhumane conditions with little or no pay.\n\nOne of the women, Bigeni Maina Mwangi, told The Associated Press how she was promised a beautician job in Saudi Arabia, but she instead found herself thrust into a life of domestic servitude under exploitative conditions.\n\n\"The contract I signed in Nairobi was changed the moment I landed,\" she said. \"The agent said I had no choice but to work.\"\n\nMwangi worked in Saudi Arabia for 17 months without pay. When she was finally sent home, her promised wages never came. Due to rising unemployment in Kenya, she found a better job in Dubai, but a return to Oman in 2020 led to even grimmer conditions.\n\n\"I worked in three houses non-stop, often without food,\" she said.\n\nThe Amnesty report urges the Kenyan and Saudi governments to extend labor protections to domestic workers, prosecute abusive employers, and ban recruitment agencies complicit in exploitation.\n\nAnother woman, Mejuma Shaban Ali, recounted signing her contract at Kenya's main airport before flying out in 2014. Her journey led her to what she described as \"a prison.\"\n\n\"I was forced to escape the house disguised as taking out trash,\" Ali said. \"I got to the Embassy hoping for help. Instead, I was told to find another employer because I had made no money to pay off my employer.\"\n\nShe ended up working illegally after being linked to a broker, with her passport still held by her first employer.\n\nBoth women called for a crackdown on rogue recruitment agencies and stronger embassy support. \"There are people suffering in Oman with no way out,\" Ali warned.\n\nThe rights group estimates more than 150,000 Kenyans work as domestic workers in Saudi Arabia.\n\n\"The system amounts to modern slavery,\" said Amnesty Kenya Executive Director Irungu Houghton.\n\nThe Kenyan government has in recent months cracked down on exploitative recruitment agencies and promised to protect Kenyans abroad. The labor ministry in April facilitated the return of more than 100 Kenyans who were scammed by an agency and got stranded in Myanmar and Thailand."}
{"prompt_hash": "8f57f641c5775a2ff0257e4e8aec2d7a5932f4d3e7c201c21ca35f3d5cf8bb26", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 16:30:40+00:00", "topics": ["Georgia", "Chattanooga", "Tennessee", "Atlanta", "Automotive accidents", "Accidents"], "text": "# 3 people killed in fiery crash involving a half-dozen vehicles on north Georgia interstate\n\nBy The Associated Press  \nMay 13th, 2025 04:30 PM\n\n---\n\nCALHOUN, Ga. (AP) \u2014 Three people were killed and two others injured in a fiery wreck involving multiple vehicles and semi-trailers on the interstate that connects Atlanta to Chattanooga, Tennessee, authorities said. The crash closed all of the southbound lanes Tuesday morning.\n\nThe crash happened on Interstate 75 near Calhoun, Georgia, the Gordon County Sheriff's Office said.\n\nA semi-trailer headed north on the freeway collided with a car, and the truck then crossed the median into the southbound lanes, the Georgia State Patrol said. That caused collisions with two other semi-trailers, a car and a pickup truck, the agency said. The pickup caught fire.\n\nAll told, six vehicles were involved and three people were killed, the state patrol said. The two injured people were taken to hospitals. Their conditions weren't immediately released.\n\nVideo from local news outlets showed one of the semis crumpled in a ditch, and another partially off the highway.\n\nThe names of those killed and injured were not released.\n\nThe crash happened two days after two people were killed near Chattanooga on Mother's Day Sunday on I-75, about 45 miles (72 kilometers) north of Tuesday's wreck."}
{"prompt_hash": "49a4caea0ecf5bea1fc9334ecbcfc547adbbee712a855013a7b719b32fd428a6", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 18:28:05+00:00", "topics": ["Trey Hendrickson", "Zac Taylor", "Cincinnati Bengals", "Myles Garrett", "NFL", "NFL football", "Sports", "Katie Blackburn"], "text": "# All-Pro pass rusher Trey Hendrickson shows up at Bengals' practice frustrated over contract\n\nBy Charlie Goldsmith  \nMay 13th, 2025 06:28 PM\n\n---\n\nCINCINNATI (AP) \u2014 A text from head coach Zac Taylor led Bengals All-Pro defensive end Trey Hendrickson to head to Cincinnati, attend Tuesday's optional team practice as a spectator and speak to reporters.\n\nHendrickson, entering the final year of his contract, has been seeking a new deal and also requested a trade. The Bengals' front office hasn't matched what he's looking for.\n\nOn Monday, Taylor texted Hendrickson that he'd be fined if he didn't report to mandatory minicamp next month.\n\nThat message frustrated Hendrickson, who held court with local reporters for 20 minutes during Tuesday's practice.\n\n\"A little bit transpired between me and Zac,\" Hendrickson said. \"We've tried to keep it the least amount personal as possible, but at some point in this process it's becomes personal. Being sent 30 days before mandatory camp or how many ever days it is that if I don't show up I will be fined alludes to the fact that something won't get done in that time frame.\n\n\"The lack of communication post draft made it imminently clear to my party \u2014 meaning my wife, my son and my agent, a small group of people \u2014 that this might not work out.\"\n\nHendrickson led the NFL with 17 1/2 sacks last season and was selected as an All-Pro. He said that as the defensive end market escalates, he's looking for a new contract that matches what top pass rushers are getting paid.\n\nHendrickson is scheduled to earn $15.8 million in base salary and has a cap number of $18.7 million.\n\nThe Bengals haven't budged from their stance, and the two sides haven't been able to find a middle ground. That's led to frustration coming from Hendrickson, who released a statement to ESPN on Monday about the lack of communication since the NFL draft concluded on April 26.\n\n\"I think over the last week or so, it's become personal unfortunately,\" Hendrickson said. \"When there's a lack of communication in any relationship, where it's a business or personal relationship, lack of communication leads to animosity, and that leaves my narrative only to me with no clear direction.\n\n\"So, the lack of direction, the lack of communication is leading me to things that are allowing me to think about what's going to happen more than how great they've treated me over the last four years.\"\n\nTaylor and the Bengals' front office and ownership weren't made available for comment on Tuesday.\n\nBengals executive vice president Katie Blackburn said during the league meetings in late March the ball was in Hendrickson's court to agree to a deal.\n\n\"I think some of it is on him to be happy at some point, and if he's not, that's what holds it up sometimes,\" she said. \"It takes him to say yes to something. We have all the respect in the world for him. He's been a great player. We're happy to have him.\"\n\nHendrickson said that he wouldn't be willing to play in 2025 without a new contract. He's uncertain about what his future with the Bengals will look like.\n\n\"I can't control the narratives,\" Hendrickson said. \"That is one thing I found through this whole process. The way I feel is not being conveyed. I definitely am disappointed, I love Cincinnati. It's this weird dilemma. Players go through it a lot more often. I am just not going to let fear overtake me to do something and also give me a platform to glorify God in the good and in the bad. I am very blessed. The perspectives I can't control. I'm a football player. I'm itching to play football.\"\n\nWhile both sides appear to be deadlocked, Hendrickson did say he thinks the current relationship with the Bengals can be repaired over time with a new deal. Hendrickson cited Myles Garrett's demands to be traded out of Cleveland earlier this year before he agreed to a extension worth $160 million, including $123.5 million guaranteed.\n\n\"He's done great things for his family and obviously providing on and off the football field. He's tremendous. But I think that relationship will repair with time. And same with this,\" Hendrickson said.\n\n\"This is just the uncomfortable business side that we've unfortunately had to deal with for the last couple years, and, quite frankly, I think we're all spent.\""}
{"prompt_hash": "9b7bda29b826c9409425e9d743281f9a14b8ac3c25a397a60c120ac10a6f97fa", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 15:26:05+00:00", "topics": ["Syria", "Donald Trump", "Bashar Assad", "Saudi Arabia", "Mohammad bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud", "Ahmad al-Sharaa", "Recep Tayyip Erdogan", "Syria government", "Politics", "Al-Qaida", "Rebellions and uprisings", "Bill Clinton", "Sanctions and embargoes", "Ibrahim Hamidi", "Saudi Arabia government", "Abu Mohammad al-Golani"], "text": "# Trump to ease sanctions on Syria, restore relations with new leader\n\nBy Zeke Miller, Bassem Mroue, and Aamer Madhani  \nMay 13th, 2025 03:26 PM\n\n---\n\nRIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) \u2014 President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he will ease sanctions on Syria and move to normalize relations with its new government to give the country \"a chance at peace.\"\n\nTrump made the announcement shortly before he was set to meet Wednesday in Saudi Arabia with Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa, the onetime insurgent who last year led the overthrow of longtime leader Bashar Assad. Trump said the effort at rapprochement came at the urging of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the Saudi de facto ruler, and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.\n\n\"There is a new government that will hopefully succeed,\" Trump said of Syria, adding, \"I say, good luck, Syria. Show us something special.\"\n\nThe developments were a major boost for the Syrian president, who had been imprisoned in Iraq for his role in the insurgency following the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of the Arab country. Al-Sharaa was named president of Syria in January, a month after a stunning offensive by insurgent groups led by al-Sharaa's Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, or HTS, that stormed Damascus, ending the 54-year rule of the Assad family.\n\nThe U.S. has been weighing how to handle al-Sharaa since he took power in December. Gulf leaders have rallied behind the new government in Damascus and want Trump to follow, believing it is a bulwark against Iran's return to influence in Syria, where it had helped prop up Assad's government during a decadelong civil war.\n\nThen-President Joe Biden left the decision to Trump, whose administration has yet to formally recognize the new Syrian government. Sanctions imposed on Damascus under Assad also remain in place.\n\nBefore Trump spoke, the White House said he had \"agreed to say hello\" to the Syrian president while in Saudi Arabia.\n\nThe comments marked a striking change in tone from Trump and put him at odds with longtime U.S. ally Israel, which has been deeply skeptical of al-Sharaa's extremist past and cautioned against swift recognition of the new government.\n\nFormerly known by the nom de guerre Abu Mohammed al-Golani, al-Sharaa joined the ranks of al-Qaida insurgents battling U.S. forces in Iraq after the U.S.-led invasion and still faces a warrant for his arrest on terrorism charges in Iraq. The U.S. once offered $10 million for information about his whereabouts because of his links to al-Qaida.\n\nAl-Sharaa came back to his home country after the conflict began in 2011 and led al-Qaida's branch that used to be known as the Nusra Front. He later changed the name of his group to Hayat Tahrir al-Sham and cut links with al-Qaida.\n\nHe is set to become the first Syrian leader to meet an American president since Hafez Assad met Bill Clinton in Geneva in 2000.\n\nSyria has historically had fraught relations with Washington since the days of the Cold War, when Damascus had close links with the Soviet Union and later when Syria became Iran's closest ally in the Arab world. The removal of the Assad family could change the track.\n\nIbrahim Hamidi, a London-based Syrian analyst, said Trump's planned meeting with al-Sharaa marks a \"strategic shift\" for the country.\n\n\"The Syrian-American meetings in Riyadh open the gate for the two sides to start discussing issues of disagreement between them in a positive atmosphere,\" said Hamidi, editor-in-chief of the Arab magazine Al Majalla. \"This is important.\""}
{"prompt_hash": "35e9aa437ab8f478fdb2028d84cd3747a468625a639ced9997ee3e25565e7552", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 11:23:22+00:00", "topics": ["Pope Leo XIV", "Rome", "Papal conclave", "Poverty", "Gabriele Pedicino", "Religion", "Christianity"], "text": "# Pope Leo XIV visits the headquarters of his Augustinian order\n\nBy Paolo Santalucia  \nMay 13th, 2025 11:23 AM\n\n---\n\nROME (AP) \u2014 Pope Leo XIV celebrated Mass and had lunch with members of his Augustinian religious order on Tuesday, slipping into the congregation's headquarters outside St. Peter's Square where he served for 12 years as superior.\n\n\"The atmosphere was of great fraternity,\" said the Rev. Gabriele Pedicino, head of the Augustinians' Italian branch. \"You really always have to practice and remember that he is now the pope, because he puts you at ease and has this closeness that always impresses me.\"\n\nLeo was seen arriving in a black vehicle at around lunchtime at the Augustinianum, the pontifical institute that also serves as the Rome-based residence and headquarters of the Order of St. Augustine. Leo left shortly before 3 p.m.\n\nThe ethos of the order, which includes a contemplative spirituality, communal living and service to others, is traced to the fifth-century St. Augustine of Hippo, one of the theological and devotional giants of early Christianity.\n\nThe former Rev. Robert Prevost, history's first American pope, was twice elected superior of the order, serving as general prior from 2001-2013. The order was formed in the 13th century as a community of mendicant friars \u2014 dedicated to poverty, service and evangelization and inspired by the saint.\n\nEver since his May 8 election, Leo has repeatedly emphasized that he's a \"son of St. Augustine\" and quoted from the saint.\n\nHe visited an Augustinian-run Marian sanctuary south of Rome on Saturday in his first outing as pope, and during his first greeting to the world, Leo wore a pectoral cross given to him by his order that contained relics of St. Augustine.\n\nLeo, the first Augustinian pope, has also kept as his papal coat of arms and motto \"In Illo uno unum.\" The words were pronounced by St. Augustine in a sermon to explain that \"although we Christians are many, in the one Christ we are one.\" The emblem on the coast of arms is that of the Augustinian order: a pierced flaming heart and a book, representing the Scriptures.\n\nPedicino said that he expected Leo to apply Augustine's teaching about communion and unity in diversity in his new ministry as pope.\n\n\"Diversity isn't a danger or something negative,\" he said of Augustine's teaching. \"So I think the pope will work so that inside the church and out, the 'other' is increasingly seen not as a danger if different, but as someone to love and who enriches our life and makes it more beautiful.\""}
{"prompt_hash": "dc4dbc63b50382ad74f3f010c3afc4b49f13a47f8a590ed4da9af78bb98625ab", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 06:42:33+00:00", "topics": ["United Kingdom government", "Keir Starmer", "United Kingdom", "London", "Fires", "Charles Grant", "Politics", "Dominic Murphy"], "text": "# Man arrested for arson at UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer's private home\n\nMay 13th, 2025 06:42 AM\n\n---\n\nLONDON (AP) \u2014 Police arrested a 21-year-old man Tuesday on suspicion of starting fires at U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer's private house, another property and a car connected to the politician.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police force said the suspect was detained on suspicion of arson with intent to endanger life after an early morning fire Monday damaged the door of the house where Starmer and his family lived before he was elected to lead the country.\n\nNo injuries were reported from any of the fires.\n\nCounterterrorism detectives, who are leading the investigation because it involves the prime minister, are also looking into connections between a car fire Thursday near Starmer's house and a fire Sunday outside a north London house converted into apartments that he as a connection to.\n\n\"A key line of enquiry is whether the fires are linked due to the two premises and the vehicle all having previous links to the same high-profile public figure,\" said Cmdr. Dominic Murphy, head of counterterrorism at the Metropolitan Police.\n\nStarmer moved with his family to the prime minister's official Downing Street residence after taking office in July.\n\nNeighbor Charles Grant said police searched his yard Monday for a projectile.\n\n\"From what other people have told me today, I gather someone threw a firebomb at Keir Starmer's house,\" he said.\n\nStarmer's house has attracted protesters in the past. Last year, three pro-Palestinian activists were arrested and charged with public order offenses after unfurling a banner covered in red handprints outside the building.\n\nThe main opposition leader, Kemi Badenoch of the Conservative Party, called it \"a shocking incident.\"\n\n\"No one should face these sorts of threats, let alone people in public service,\" she posted on X. \"It's an attack on our democracy and must never be tolerated.\""}
{"prompt_hash": "48657f12ab28062140afb9658ce6e350966635d953933100c4eb0d196cd2b030", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 13:41:55+00:00", "topics": ["Minnesota Vikings", "Indianapolis Colts", "Atlanta Falcons", "Washington Commanders", "New York Jets", "Denver Broncos", "Miami Dolphins", "Los Angeles Rams", "Jacksonville Jaguars", "Mary Ellen Coe", "Philadelphia Eagles", "Pittsburgh Steelers", "NFL", "National Football League", "Mark Wilf", "Sports", "Sao Paulo", "NFL football", "London", "Dublin", "Peter OReilly", "Roger Goodell"], "text": "# NFL's record seven international games features back-to-back games for Vikings in Dublin and London\n\nBy Arnie Melendrez Stapleton  \nMay 13th, 2025 01:41 PM\n\n---\n\nThe Minnesota Vikings get a double dip of international play in 2025 with trips to both Ireland and Britain as the NFL features a record seven overseas kickoffs this season, including forays into Germany and Spain.\n\nThe Vikings will play the Pittsburgh Steelers at Croke Park in Dublin on Sept. 28 in Ireland's first NFL regular season game, and then they'll fly over to London to face the Cleveland Browns at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium a week later on Oct. 5.\n\n\"Our experiences in London have always been memorable, so to return in 2025 as the first team to play in back-to-back international games in different countries was something we could not pass up,\" Vikings owner Mark Wilf said.\n\nThe Vikings are 8-0 in international games, including 4-0 in the regular season. The Vikings and Browns also played in London in 2017, the last time the Vikings were scheduled to visit Cleveland. That means they're going to go 24 years between trips to Cleveland, with the next one in 2033.\n\nThe matchups were revealed on Tuesday by the NFL as part of a series of announcements of notable games on each of the league's broadcasters ahead of the full schedule release on Wednesday night.\n\nThat's also when the league will announce the Los Angeles Chargers' opponent for its first international game of the season in Brazil, on Sept. 5 at Corinthians Stadium in Sao Paulo. That's where the Philadelphia Eagles began their Super Bowl quest last year with a game against the Green Bay Packers on opening weekend.\n\nThe Brazilian game will be streamed for free to a worldwide audience exclusively on YouTube and YouTube TV, marking the platform's debut as a live NFL broadcaster. NFL commissioner Roger Goodell and YouTube chief business officer Mary Ellen Coe will announce the Chargers' opponent Wednesday at YouTube's 2025 Brandcast upfront event at Lincoln Center in New York.\n\nYouTube and the NFL also announced a multi-year deal for the annual Super Bowl flag football game featuring creators and artists with additional international contests following the success of the inaugural game in February that drew more than 6 million live views.\n\nIn other international games, the Denver Broncos visit the New York Jets on Oct. 12 at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London; the Los Angeles Rams visit the Jacksonville Jaguars a week later at Wembley Stadium in London; the Atlanta Falcons visit the Indianapolis Colts on Nov. 9 at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin; and the Washington Commanders visit the Miami Dolphins on Nov. 16 at Santiago Bernabeu Stadium in Madrid.\n\nThis marks the 14th game in London for the Jaguars, as part of the team's multi-year commitment to playing games in Britain. Overall, the NFL has played 39 regular season games in London.\n\nThe six international matchups that were announced will all be on NFL Network and streamed on NFL+.\n\nThe Colts-Falcons game in Berlin is the fifth regular season NFL game in Germany. Previous games have been played in Munich and Frankfurt.\n\nPeter O'Reilly, NFL executive vice president of club business and league events, said the largest-ever slate of international games \"underscores our collective commitment to global growth as we continue our journey to becoming a truly global sport.\"\n\nAlso Tuesday, the NFL revealed on \"Good Morning America\" that the Super Bowl champion Eagles will play the Packers in Green Bay on Monday Night Football on Nov. 10. The rest of the MNF lineup will be announced Wednesday.\n\nThe Week 10 game at Lambeau Field pits the teams at the center of the tush push debate this offseason. Green Bay has proposed a ban on the Eagles' short-yardage tactic, calling for the NFL to outlaw the quarterback sneak where teammates push him from behind. The issue is expected to be debated at the league's spring meeting next week."}
{"prompt_hash": "d3616231b83329b2be1565aa6b3859bbe2a31a02dfbc4605134266c54eea98e5", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 17:58:29+00:00", "topics": ["Television", "Streaming media", "Jimmy Pitaro", "Technology", "Rich Eisen", "Sports", "David Bauder", "Entertainment", "Business"], "text": "# ESPN says its direct-to-consumer streaming service will debut in September at $29.99 a month\n\nBy David Bauder  \nMay 13th, 2025 05:58 PM\n\n---\n\nNEW YORK (AP) \u2014 ESPN said Tuesday that its new all-encompassing streaming service will take on a familiar name \u2014 ESPN \u2014 and launch in September at an initial price of $29.99 per month.\n\nThe service will enable consumers to view all of ESPN's various networks, including ones devoted to the SEC, Big 10 and ACC college leagues, as well as content from the current ESPN+ streaming service, which will be folded in to the new product.\n\nThe network also promised enhancements to its ESPN app for mobile devices, including using artificial intelligence to create a personalized \"SportsCenter\" for consumers that concentrates on news and highlights for their favorite teams, sports and athletes.\n\nSeptember will represent a big moment for ESPN on par with the cable sports network's launch in 1979, the introduction of ESPN2 in 1993 and launch of the ESPN.com website two years later, said Jimmy Pitaro, ESPN chairman. The exact date it will become available will be announced later.\n\nIt's also a pivotal development in the accelerating industry shift from television to streaming. ESPN and its sister channels will remain available on cable and satellite systems.\n\nAfter kicking around several ideas for what to call the service, which was known informally as \"Flagship\" during the developmental stages, Pitaro said executives decided to keep it simple. \"There's power in our name and there's trust in our name,\" he said.\n\nAll live events shown on ESPN networks, along with sports shown on broadcast sister ABC-TV, will be available through the streaming service.\n\nSo will its other programming, like \"SportsCenter\", \"Pardon the Interruption,\" \"First Take,\" \"The Pat McAfee Show,\" \"NFL Live\" and original films. ESPN announced Tuesday that a former network personality, Rich Eisen, will bring his daily program to ESPN even as he continues to work at the NFL Network.\n\nESPN's streaming service will be available for $299.99 per year. The Disney-owned network said it will also allow people to bundle ESPN along with Hulu and Disney+ for $35.99 a month \u2014 or $29.99 a month for the first year.\n\nAlthough consumers will be able to buy the more limited slate of programming available now on ESPN+ for $11.99 a month, Pitaro said ESPN decided against offering other lower-cost alternatives containing some, but not all, of the company's various services. It would be too confusing for consumers, he said.\n\nPitaro said ESPN remains open to other acquisitions or partnerships to build programming. That includes potentially taking on some struggling regional sports networks that show baseball, even though ESPN decided earlier this year to opt out of the final three years of its contract to show Major League Baseball at the end of this season.\n\n\"When the league is ready to have a conversation, we are ready to listen,\" Pitaro said."}
{"prompt_hash": "abc24e48a23ca1a3638f52c733c88e570ca71dd2b083f630583ccddbf98b1d1b", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 17:35:39+00:00", "topics": ["Burkina Faso", "Tehran", "Iran", "Iran government", "Mohammad Kabura", "Taliban", "Ulf Laessing", "Mohamed Toumba"], "text": "# The Taliban and Burkina Faso ambassadors pledge new trade and mining cooperation\n\nBy Wilson Mcmakin  \nMay 13th, 2025 05:35 PM\n\n---\n\nDAKAR, Senegal (AP) \u2014 The Taliban's acting ambassador to Iran has met with his Burkina Faso counterpart in the Iranian capital Tehran as part of a broader outreach effort by the West African country to win new trade partners, according to Taliban-controlled media.\n\nDuring the meeting between acting Ambassador Maulvi Fazl Mohammad Haqqani and Ambassador Mohammad Kabura, both parties pledged to cooperate on trade, mining and vocational training. The Taliban are the de facto rulers of Afghanistan.\n\n\"In this meeting, the parties emphasized the expansion of cooperation in the fields of trade, agriculture, mining, and the exchange of professional and vocational skills,\" the Afghan embassy in Tehran said in a statement.\n\nBoth ambassadors also pledged Monday to have private sector delegations visit soon as part of the plan to develop trade between Afghanistan and Burkina Faso.\n\nThe meeting comes less than a week after the Commander General of Iranian law enforcement and security forces visited neighboring Niger and announced new areas of cooperation and training for the Niger Police and National Guard, including training at the Iranian Police University.\n\n\"The meeting culminated in the signing of a memorandum of understanding covering several areas of cooperation between the two countries,\" according to a statement from Niger's Minister of the Interior, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Toumba to media outlets.\n\nThe Taliban seized power in Afghanistan in August 2021 as U.S. and NATO troops were in the final weeks of withdrawing from the country after two decades of war.\n\nBurkina Faso has struggled in recent years with a ballooning militant insurgency, elements of which are aligned with the Taliban informally. The landlocked nation of 23 million people has come to symbolize the security crisis in the arid Sahel region south of the Sahara in recent years. It has been shaken by violence from extremist groups linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State group, and the governments fighting them.\n\nThe three-nation bloc of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger announced last year that they were leaving the regional bloc known as ECOWAS. They then created their own security partnership, known as the Alliance of Sahel States, severed military ties with long-standing Western partners such as U.S. and France, and turned to Russia for military support.\n\nUlf Laessing, head of the Sahel program at the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in Bamako, told The Associated Press that Burkina Faso and the Alliance of Sahel States, known by its French acronym AES, have been searching for alternative partners since their respective military juntas took power.\n\nThey wish to \"rely less on western companies and focus more on their so called new partners,\" Laessing said.\n\n\"Iran has been trying to boost cooperation with the Sahel AES countries. They also have been active in Burkina Faso sending even some aid. A shipment arrived at Ouagadougou airport.\""}
{"prompt_hash": "90df60d9d28ac89b424137824af90c1af174c1b785e881b55566da54cabd71f0", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 17:47:07+00:00", "topics": ["Kyle Larson", "Tony Kanaan", "Indianapolis", "Christopher Bell", "Automobile racing", "IndyCar", "Auto Racing", "Sports", "Indianapolis 500", "Charlotte Motor Speedway"], "text": "# Rain delays opening day for Indianapolis 500 as Kanaan awaits approval to be Larson's replacement\n\nBy Jenna Fryer  \nMay 13th, 2025 05:47 PM\n\n---\n\nINDIANAPOLIS (AP) \u2014 The first day of practice for the 109th Indianapolis 500 has been delayed by rain, causing a disruption to Tuesday's schedule at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.\n\nThe day was supposed to begin with a two-hour window for Arrow McLaren team principal Tony Kanaan to run a veteran refresher course in case he's needed to substitute for NASCAR star Kyle Larson, who is attempting to run both the Indy 500 and the Coca-Cola 600 on May 25. It will be Larson's second attempt at completing 1,100 miles on the same day; last year rain in both Indianapolis and Charlotte, North Carolina, prevented him from turning a lap at the 600.\n\nThe rain Tuesday in Indianapolis delayed all on-track activity, so IndyCar is expected to go to full field practice if weather permits. Kanaan will have to complete the refresher course at a later time.\n\nBut it's needed because NASCAR is adamant that Larson make the Coca-Cola 600 a priority. The Indy 500 was delayed by rain last year and Hendrick Motorsports made the decision to leave him at the speedway for the 500 and arrive late in North Carolina. But by the time he got to Charlotte Motor Speedway, the race was in a rain stoppage and never resumed.\n\nIt took NASCAR several weeks to decide whether or not it would grant Larson the waiver he needed to remain eligible for the playoffs, and this year NASCAR has made it clear he must be at the 600 or it will cost him dearly in his pursuit of a second Cup Series championship.\n\nLarson was not discouraged by Tuesday's rain, even though the long-range forecast shows pockets of rain all the way into next week.\n\nIn fact, despite his non-stop racing schedule and run of NASCAR success \u2014 he's tied for the Cup Series points lead and tied with Christopher Bell with three wins so far this season \u2014 he said he's relaxed for the 500 and called it the \"biggest event of the year.\"\n\n\"Every day is something really cool and just being part of it is special,\" Larson said. \"Hopefully we can make the couple of weeks special and perform well on the track, get to the All-Star race, and then the 600 next week. I know we're going to have good cars for (the NASCAR races) so good times to be Kyle Larson.\"\n\nHe did say of all the different disciplines of racing he does, IndyCar is the most difficult because it requires the most work from him inside the cockpit.\n\n\"Everything besides the Indy car is really easy because I do it often,\" Larson said. \"IndyCar is difficult to drive because there's so much more going on in the car. Sprint cars, I rarely touch, nothing matters. But the Indy car has so many adjustments. I feel like I am studying the wheel, staring at the wheel, and then they tell me to make an adjustment and I need to find it quickly, or hope it comes from memory. That part is what gets me.\"\n\nKanaan, meanwhile, is the 2013 Indy 500 winner but last raced the event in 2023 for McLaren. He then moved into a management role with the team and has since been promoted to team principal.\n\nHe said his wife noticed immediately it was a scheduled on-track day for Kanaan when she said \"Good morning\" and he grumbled a reply.\n\n\"She said 'I guess the race car driver is back,'\" Kanaan said of his wife, Lauren."}
{"prompt_hash": "b8342c7ad34ea8977a2851bb7e16aaf2e3ba205bee83d549fcecf6adc1bf0f9e", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 17:28:41+00:00", "topics": ["NWSL soccer", "Soccer", "Sports retirements", "FIFA Womens World Cup", "San Diego", "NWSL", "Womens sports", "Womens soccer", "Sports", "Alex Morgan", "Lauren Leichtman", "Alex Fernandez"], "text": "# Alex Morgan becomes a minority stakeholder in her former NWSL club, the San Diego Wave\n\nBy Anne M. Peterson  \nMay 13th, 2025 05:28 PM\n\n---\n\nAlex Morgan has joined the investor group for the San Diego Wave, the National Women's Soccer League team she played for before retiring from professional soccer.\n\nThe Wave announced Tuesday that the two-time Women's World Cup winner has rejoined the club as a minority stakeholder.\n\n\"San Diego is where I've built my home, where I am raising my children, and found a purpose beyond my playing career,\" Morgan said in a statement. \"I believed in Wave FC before a single match was played, and I still believe this Club has the power to change the future of women's sports.\"\n\nMorgan announced she was retiring after a 15-year career in professional soccer last September, when she was pregnant with her son Enzo, who was born last month. A crowd of 26,516 filled San Diego's Snapdragon Stadium for Morgan's farewell match.\n\nMorgan was among the first players signed by the Wave after the club joined the NWSL in 2021. She went on to play 63 matches with the Wave and scored 28 goals, including the team's first.\n\nMorgan played in 150 NWSL matches over her career, which included stints with the Portland Thorns and the Orlando Pride.\n\nIn addition to World Cup titles in 2015 and 2019, Morgan also won an Olympic gold medal in 2012 for the United States. She played in 224 matches for the U.S., with 123 goals (fifth on the career list) and 53 assists. She was named the U.S. Soccer Player of the Year in 2012 and 2018.\n\nOff the field, Morgan advanced women's soccer through her fight for equal pay. The U.S. women filed a lawsuit in 2019 that led to a historic agreement in 2022 that provided the women with pay equitable to what U.S. men's players received.\n\nShe also paved the way for reforms in the NWSL, calling for the adoption of an anti-harassment policy after a coach misconduct scandal rocked the league in 2021.\n\n\"Alex has always fought to positively impact this game beyond the pitch,\" said Lauren Leichtman, controlling owner of the Wave. \"She used her platform to lead, to advocate, and to build something meaningful in San Diego. Her decision to invest is not only a continuation of her leadership but also a reflection of her belief in what we are building.\"\n\nIn addition to their son, Morgan and her husband, Servando Carrasco, have a daughter, Charlie, who was born in 2020."}
{"prompt_hash": "625204f89a10fa39ab32a2e4d9e5c47b395fd0e90c4d611e935b421886e256ce", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 17:29:26+00:00", "topics": ["Adalberto Jordan", "Georgia", "Stacey Abrams", "Voting rights", "Voting", "Federico Moreno", "Lawsuits", "Courts", "Legal proceedings", "Catherine Engelbrecht", "United States Senate", "Politics", "Jake Evans", "Steve Jones"], "text": "# Federal appeals court may revive lawsuit against conservative group accused of voter intimidation\n\nBy Sudhin Thanawala  \nMay 13th, 2025 05:29 PM\n\n---\n\nATLANTA (AP) \u2014 A federal appeals court appeared inclined Tuesday to revive a lawsuit accusing a conservative group of violating the Voting Rights Act when it announced it was challenging the eligibility of more than 360,000 Georgia voters.\n\nThe lower court committed \"legal error\" in its ruling finding no violation of the Voting Rights Act, 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Adalberto Jordan said at a hearing in Atlanta.\n\nAnother judge on the panel, Federico Moreno, seemed to agree, saying the district court judge had failed to conduct a separate analysis of one part of the law.\n\nThe three-judge panel did not immediately issue a ruling.\n\nThe panel was considering a lawsuit against Texas-based nonprofit True the Vote by Fair Fight, a group founded by former Democratic Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams. Fair Fight argued True the Vote's mass voter challenge ahead of a 2021 runoff election for two pivotal U.S. Senate seats violated a section of the 1965 Voting Rights Act that prohibits voter intimidation.\n\nIn a 145-page decision last year, U.S. District Judge Steve Jones disagreed, saying the evidence presented during a trial did not show the actions of True the Vote \"caused (or attempted to cause) any voter to be intimidated, coerced, or threatened in voting.\" Jones added, however, that the list of voters to be challenged \"utterly lacked reliability\" and bordered on \"recklessness.\"\n\nJordan and Moreno took issue with Jones' conclusion that True the Vote did not attempt to intimidate voters.\n\nMoreno asked an attorney for the group, Jake Evans, whether intimidating voters was the goal of the challenge.\n\nEvans said there was no evidence of any desire by True the Vote's co-founder, Catherine Engelbrecht, to intimidate voters, and she had no contact with the challenged voters who testified at trial.\n\nJordan said that argument did not speak to the claim that the group attempted to intimidate voters.\n\n\"Attempt does not require success,\" he said.\n\nMoreno also suggested the 11th Circuit needed to weigh in on such mass challenges for future elections."}
{"prompt_hash": "a5897b315036dded22a84f15f3720a6a04902e768ec1a1baa23632ff7866d070", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 17:37:57+00:00", "topics": ["Donald Trump", "Legislation", "Philanthropy", "Terrorism", "U.S. Republican Party", "United States House of Representatives", "District of Columbia", "Language", "Congress", "Business", "Government and politics", "Diane Yentel", "Michelle Roos", "Internal Revenue Service", "Thomas Kelley", "Politics"], "text": "# House Republicans look to help Trump strip nonprofits of tax-exempt status\n\nBy Alexa St. John and Matthew Daly  \nMay 13th, 2025 05:37 PM\n\n---\n\nWASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 A proposal by Republicans in Congress would allow President Donald Trump's administration to remove the tax-exempt status of nonprofits that it says support terrorism, creating what some nonprofits say is an arbitrary standard to financially punish charities that advocate for issues that don't align with his agenda.\n\nUnusual language added Monday to a reconciliation bill from the House Ways and Means Committee \u2014 the tax-writing committee \u2014 would allow for terminating the tax-exempt status of groups the administration deems \"terrorist supporting organizations.\" The language mirrors a bill from the last Congress that passed in the House but did not pass the Senate.\n\nThe definition and criteria for determining whether or how an organization supports terrorism are unclear. The bill also targets nonprofits in other ways, echoing complaints by Trump, who has called the tax-exempt status a \"privilege\" that has been \"abused.\" Trump has threatened to revoke tax-exempt status for groups that don't abide by his directives or agree with his views.\n\nGOP Rep. Jason Smith of Missouri, who chairs the Ways and Means panel, said during debate on the bill last fall that members of Congress \"have the duty to make sure that taxpayers are not subsidizing terrorism.\" Smith didn't immediately respond to a message seeking further comment Tuesday.\n\nHouse Republicans are conducting hearings this week for the so-called budget reconciliation process on various sections of the bill as a self-imposed Memorial Day deadline to pass Trump's tax breaks and spending cuts looms. Committees will then stitch the various sections together in what will become a massive package that is likely to include trillions of dollars in tax cuts.\n\nThe provision in the Ways and Means bill would create a new way to strip tax exemptions granted by the Internal Revenue Service to charitable organizations.\n\nChurches and religious entities, universities, private foundations, political associations and other nonprofits such as labor groups are among those that often qualify as 501(c)(3). There are other 501(c) groups including (c)(4) trade unions, and (c)(6), including business groups. The exemption is powerful because the groups don't pay certain taxes and their donors get a federal tax deduction.\n\n## Concern among advocacy groups\n\nThe Ways and Means proposal would hand \"unchecked power\" to administration officials \"to punish organizations that do not fall in line with the administration's ideology,\" sad Diane Yentel, CEO of the National Council of Nonprofits, \"without due process, without a third-party investigation and without public evidence.\"\n\nThe previous bill faced backlash from a variety of groups warning it could be a way to punish those at odds with the administration. The new one faces similar concerns.\n\n\"This is a five-alarm fire for nonprofits nationwide,\" said Lia Holland, campaigns and communications director at the nonprofit group Fight for the Future, which advocates free speech online. \"Any organization with goals that do not line up with MAGA can be destroyed with a wink from Trump to the Treasury.\"\n\nHolland said the \"terribly thought-out legislation\" puts environmental, racial justice, LGBTQ+ and other groups at risk.\n\nThe provision is one of several in the GOP bill causing concern for nonprofits and foundations, including one that would take away resources from foundations by increasing a tax on the income they earn from investing their endowments.\n\nAdditionally, the bill would require that corporations give at least 1% of their taxable income to charity to receive a tax benefit. Any donations below that threshold would not be deductible.\n\n## Trump's feud with nonprofits\n\nTrump has previously called the tax-exempt status a \"privilege\" that has been \"abused,\" and he's already threatened to revoke it for those that don't abide by his directives or agree with his views. Most recently that's included Harvard University, which defied the administration's demands to limit on-campus activism. Trump froze more than $2.2 billion in grants and $60 million in contracts to the school, moved to terminate $450 million more and questioned its tax-exempt status. Harvard has sued to stop the grant freeze.\n\nMichelle Roos, executive director of the Environmental Protection Network, which represents hundreds of former scientists and regulators, said last month \"we all pay the price\" when charitable organizations are silenced based on politics.\n\nFor example, the move to revoke tax-exempt status could choke off funding for groups that urge greater action to promote clean air, water and land, work to help communities most affected by industrial pollution and advocate for projects and policies to combat climate change \u2014 among other issues.\n\n\"It threatens the rights, health, and future of every community,\" Roos said in a statement.\n\nLast month, Trump said he could target environmental groups and the ethics watchdog organization Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.\n\nThough past presidents have tried to influence and direct the IRS, presidents cannot order the agency to conduct tax investigations under a law passed by Congress in 1998. The IRS can examine an organization's tax-exempt status and can rescind it if it's not operating for charitable purposes as required. Still, the IRS' independence under Trump is in question.\n\nSpeaking generally about the Trump administration's stance toward nonprofits before the bill was unveiled, Thomas Kelley, a professor at the University of North Carolina School of Law, told The Associated Press it would devastate charitable groups if donations were no longer deductible. He also said most private grant-making foundations have internal policies that they give only to 501(c)(3) organizations."}
{"prompt_hash": "12842a62b543286cef9e73b25312c43fc8dba73624fee378638ba80ae534fc59", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 17:33:31+00:00", "topics": ["Justin Thomas", "Patrick Reed", "Francesco Molinari", "Golf", "PGA Championship", "Jack Nicklaus", "Rory McIlroy", "Louis Oosthuizen", "Jordan Spieth", "Andrew Novak", "Sports", "Tiger Woods"], "text": "# Justin Thomas returns to the site of his first major win, looking for third career PGA Championship\n\nBy Steve Reed  \nMay 13th, 2025 05:33 PM\n\n---\n\nCHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) \u2014 Justin Thomas has positioned himself to turn back the clock at the PGA Championship.\n\nThe resurgent Thomas returns to Quail Hollow this week looking to recapture some of the magic from his first major victory at the 2017 PGA Championship when he posted a two-shot victory over Francesco Molinari, Louis Oosthuizen and Patrick Reed.\n\nThe 32-year-old Thomas finally appears to have his game back on track following a years-long slump.\n\nHe's finished tied for second or better in three of his last four tournaments with a combined score of 41-under par, including a playoff win last month over Andrew Novak at the RBC Heritage that snapped a three-year winless drought on the PGA Tour.\n\nThe only tournament he hasn't been competitive in over the last month was the Masters. He finished tied for 36th.\n\nStill, it is one of Thomas' best stretches of golf since 2016-17 when he became the fourth player behind Jack Nicklaus, Tiger Woods and Jordan Spieth to win five times in the same season, including a major, before his 25th birthday.\n\n\"I'm just more patient, I'd say,\" Thomas said of his recent improved play. \"I don't feel like I'm forcing the issue as much. Just trying to trust my game and myself quite a bit more. I feel like some of the events maybe earlier this year or last year where I had a chance to win, I just felt like maybe I pressed a little too much.\"\n\nWhile the memory of celebrating his first major on the 18th green at Quail Hollow eight years ago with his father Mike, then a PGA Tour professional at Harmony Landing in Louisville, Kentucky, and a former member of the PGA's board of directors, will forever be etched in his memory, Thomas admitted there's probably not much carryover from that to help him this week.\n\nThat tournament was played during the summer on what he called a \"completely different golf course\" with Bermuda grass versus overseed.\n\nThis one comes in the spring, with a course that will have absorbed several inches of rain by the time golfers tee off on Thursday, likely meaning that an already long course will play even longer.\n\n\"As much as I'd like to say (it matters), I think that's a bit of a stretch,\" Thomas said.\n\nHowever, Thomas said his knowledge of the course and the confidence of knowing he can handle Quail Hollow's difficult three closing holes known as the \"Green Mile\" could pay dividends if he's near the top of the leaderboard on Sunday.\n\n\"If I'm coming down the stretch and trying to win the tournament, I can tell myself I've literally done this before here,\" Thomas said. \"I've hit the shots. I've made the putts. I've handled all of that mentally on this exact golf course in this exact tournament.\"\n\nIt's helpful, too, that the weight of a losing streak has been lifted from his shoulders.\n\nThe win at Harbour Town last month \u2014 his first since the 2022 PGA Championship at Southern Hills \u2014 was something he called \"the last thing I needed to do for my own well-being\" and helped jettison him back into the top 10 in the world, while proving he's capable of making big shots to close out a win.\n\nHe nearly pulled off another last week at the Truist Championship, but wound up tied for second after a late run at the leaders.\n\nHe's in the right \"head space,\" and he appears set on reaching bigger goals ahead.\n\nThomas said watching Rory McIlroy clinch the career Grand Slam last month with a win at the Masters has ignited some competitive jealousy within him. Although he's never won a major other than the PGA Championship, Thomas feels like it's something he's capable of accomplishing in his career.\n\n\"I have a lot of faith and a lot of ability \u2014 or trust in my ability,\" Thomas said. \"I have confidence in, I feel like, what I can do. Obviously I knew I always wanted to win the Grand Slam, wanted to win all the majors. For some reason watching somebody do it firsthand, it reminded me almost of, damn, I forgot, I really do want to do that.\""}
{"prompt_hash": "9cb44859c62af1de06e7471476d7319839e901196825ec2a2e8b8f0d5ae643eb", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 14:00:07+00:00", "topics": ["Philadelphia", "Ken Griffin", "Philanthropy", "Donald Trump", "Constitutional law", "Politics", "Business", "Julia Quinn", "United States government", "Jeffrey Rosen", "Cason Carter"], "text": "# Ken Griffin will loan his copies of the Constitution and Bill of Rights so the public can see them\n\nBy Glenn Gamboa  \nMay 13th, 2025 02:00 PM\n\n---\n\nCitadel CEO Ken Griffin believes American prosperity is a testament to the power of the Constitution. And as the country gets ready to celebrate its 250th anniversary next year, the hedge fund billionaire wants to expand public access to the 1787 document.\n\nGriffin announced Tuesday that he will lend his first-edition copy of the Constitution to the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia for a public exhibit dedicated to the founding document of the U.S. government. He will also loan the center his copy of the Bill of Rights, which he has not previously acknowledged owning publicly, and has made a $15 million donation for the exhibit \u2013 the largest in the center's history.\n\n\"The authors of the Constitution had incredible foresight in designing a system of government that has withstood the test of time and now, more than ever, protects the American Dream,\" Griffin said in a statement.\n\nJeffrey Rosen, CEO of the National Constitution Center, called Griffin's loan of the documents and the donation a \"transformative opportunity.\"\n\n\"Ken Griffin's generosity is going to allow us to create a new Founding Principles gallery that will tell the story of the American idea from the revolution through the Constitutional Convention through ratification and all the way up to the adoption of the Bill of Rights,\" said Rosen, adding that the new exhibit will also mark the center's largest renovation since it opened in 2003.\n\nThe support comes as the Constitution is increasingly cited, as all three branches of government navigate questions about who should be controlling what.\n\n\"The Constitution Center's mission has never been more relevant,\" said Rosen, adding that the nonpartisan nonprofit center tries to reduce polarization by offering a platform for both conservative and liberal Constitutional scholars. \"It's an honor to convene people of different perspectives for these Constitutional debates and conversations. And we are very much looking forward to continuing these conversations.\"\n\nA longtime Republican megadonor, Griffin has recently drawn attention for his criticisms of President Donald Trump.\n\n\"The United States was more than just a nation. It's a brand,\" Griffin said at the Semafor World Economy Summit last month. \"It was like an aspiration for most the world. And we're eroding that brand right now.\"\n\nBut Griffin's representatives said the donation and loan to the NCC have been planned for years.\n\n\"The National Constitution Center is a powerful platform for celebrating our country's founding principles,\" said Julia Quinn, Citadel director of philanthropy. \"The work it has done to increase awareness and understanding of the Constitution, at both the center itself and through its widely available educational programming, is best in class and we're thrilled about this partnership.\"\n\nGriffin purchased the rare first printing of the Constitution at auction at Sotheby's in New York for $43.2 million in 2021, with plans to make the document available for public viewing. He declined to say when he acquired the rare first printing of 17 proposed constitutional amendments passed in 1789 by the House of Representatives for consideration by the Senate \u2014 which, after further debate, became the Bill of Rights.\n\nCaroline Klibanoff, executive director of Made By Us, a nonprofit that helps museums and history institutions better connect with those under 30, said next year's 250th anniversary of the United States is an \"incredible opportunity\" to help members of the largest youth generation link their futures to their histories.\n\nAnd at a time when younger generations show an increased distrust of institutions, the National Constitution Center can address that issue by showcasing such important documents, Kilbanoff said.\n\n\"They are the fact-checking generation. They want to see the original source material and not take your interpretation for it,\" she said. \"Having the documents be at the forefront will be really desirable.\"\n\nGriffin's team said he wanted to celebrate the essential American values of individual freedom, democracy, and opportunity with his philanthropy \u2013 including his support of the recently opened National Medal of Honor Museum and his donation to the National Constitution Center.\n\n\"Ken loves America and has shown an extraordinary commitment to our founding principles,\" said Cason Carter, Citadel head of public affairs. \"He cares deeply about expanding access to the American Dream, which is underpinned by these historical documents, and he believes that America is well worth celebrating, particularly on its 250th anniversary.\""}
{"prompt_hash": "e8f5c97a6ed20b9efd1186a7067aabf9e67ca84db6f7327512b489f54acefa31", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 17:24:26+00:00", "topics": ["Barack Obama", "Donald Trump", "Washington", "Kevin McCarthy", "John Podesta", "Carl Nichols", "Taylor Taranto", "Hillary Clinton", "Law enforcement", "Riots", "DC Wire", "Violence", "Fraud", "United States government", "Bomb threats", "Juries", "Law and order", "2021 United States Capitol riot", "Weapons testing", "Samuel White", "Government and politics", "Legal proceedings", "Politics"], "text": "# Trial opens for Capitol riot defendant who was arrested near Obama's DC home\n\nBy Michael Kunzelman  \nMay 13th, 2025 05:24 PM\n\n---\n\nWASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Only a few Capitol riot defendants remained jailed after President Donald Trump issued mass pardons to supporters who joined a mob's attack on Jan. 6, 2021. A trial for one of them \u2014 a military veteran charged with federal firearms offenses and a hoax bomb threat \u2014 began Tuesday with testimony about his 2023 arrest near former President Barack Obama's Washington home.\n\nTaylor Taranto was arrested in Obama's neighborhood on the same day in June 2023 that Trump posted on social media what he claimed was the former president's address. Investigators said they found two guns, roughly 500 rounds of ammunition and a machete in Taranto's van.\n\nTaranto was live streaming video on YouTube in which he said he was looking for \"entrance points\" to underground tunnels and wanted to get a \"good angle on a shot,\" according to prosecutors. He reposted Trump's message about Obama's home address and wrote, \"We got these losers surrounded! See you in hell, Podesta's and Obama's.\" He was referring to John Podesta, who chaired Hillary Clinton's 2016 Democratic presidential campaign.\n\nTaranto wasn't the only Jan. 6 defendant whose criminal case didn't end when Trump provided clemency to all of the more than 1,500 people charged in the riot. In some cases, Trump's Justice Department concluded that the pardons covered separate offenses, such as charges for guns seized from homes during Capitol riot investigations.\n\nIn Taranto's case, however, prosecutors said the firearms offenses he faces are \"wholly unrelated to the pardon.\" Taranto, a Navy veteran from Pasco, Washington, is charged with carrying firearms without a license, with illegally possessing large-capacity magazines and ammunition and with making a hoax bomb threat.\n\nU.S. District Judge Carl Nichols, who was nominated by Trump, is hearing testimony and will decide the case without a jury. The government's first trial witness was an FBI agent who led the frantic search for Taranto after Capitol police investigators watched his livestreamed video and heard what they believed to be a bomb threat.\n\nA prosecutor, Samuel White, told the judge that the video captured Taranto outlining his \"ominous, threatening plan.\" Taranto said on the video that he was in Gaithersburg, Maryland, on a \"one-way\" to the National Institute of Standards and Technology.\n\nTaranto's lawyers said he didn't have any bomb-making material and wasn't near the Gaithersburg institute. Defense attorney Pleasant Brodnax said the video shows Taranto was merely joking in an \"avant-garde\" manner.\n\n\"He believes he is a journalist and, to some extent, a comedian,\" Broadnax said.\n\nTaranto has been jailed since his arrest. The judge concluded that he poses a danger to the public.\n\nTaranto was charged with four misdemeanors related to the Jan. 6 attack. Prosecutors said he joined the crush of rioters who breached the building. He was captured on video at the entrance of the Speaker's Lobby around the time that a rioter, Ashli Babbitt, was shot and killed by an officer while she tried to climb through the broken window of a barricaded door.\n\nTaranto's wife told investigators that he came to Washington because then-House Speaker Kevin McCarthy was offering to release unseen video of the Jan. 6 attack. Taranto made \"ominous comments\" about McCarthy on video, saying, \"Coming at you McCarthy. Can't stop what's coming. Nothing can stop what's coming,\" according to prosecutors.\n\nTaranto was attacked and injured by other inmates in the wing of the Washington jail where other Jan. 6 defendants were detained while awaiting trial, according to his lawyers. They said he was shunned for negative comments that he made about Babbitt."}
{"prompt_hash": "92a11590528e9e6ea416e7326104c51c29040dd998732ba70fae3baf484c6959", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 13:12:22+00:00", "topics": ["Donald Trump", "International trade", "Joe Biden", "Government policy", "Economic policy", "New York", "District of Columbia", "Legal proceedings", "Lawsuits", "Tariffs and global trade", "New York City Wire", "Richard Nixon", "Victor Schwartz", "Politics", "Kathleen Claussen", "George W. Bush", "United States government", "Business", "Jeffrey Schwab", "Taxes", "Chuck Grassley", "United States", "Courts", "Warren Maruyama"], "text": "# Trump trade war faces legal challenge as businesses, states argue his tariffs exceeded his power\n\nBy Paul Wiseman and Lindsay Whitehurst  \nMay 13th, 2025 01:12 PM\n\n---\n\nWASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 President Donald Trump is waging a trade war without getting approval from Congress: He declared a national emergency to slap import taxes \u2014 tariffs \u2014 on almost every country on earth.\n\nThe president is now facing at least seven lawsuits that argue he's gone too far and asserted power he does not have.\n\nA three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of International Trade, which deals specifically with civil lawsuits involving international trade law, held the first hearing on the challenges Tuesday morning in New York. Five small businesses are asking the court to block the sweeping import taxes that Trump announced April 2 \u2013 \"Liberation Day,'' he called it.\n\nDeclaring that the United States' huge and long-running trade deficits add up to a national emergency, Trump invoked the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEPPA) and rolled out 10% tariffs on many countries. He imposed higher\u2013 up to 50% -- \"reciprocal'' tariffs on countries that sold more goods to the United States than the U.S. sold them. (Trump later suspended those higher tariffs for 90 days.)\n\nTrump's tariffs rattled global markets and raised fears that they would disrupt commerce and slow U.S. and global economic growth.\n\nJeffrey Schwab, senior counsel and director of litigation at the nonprofit Liberty Justice Center, said the president is exceeding the act's authority. \"That statute doesn't actually say anything about giving the president the power to tariff,'' said Schwab, who is representing the small businesses. \"It doesn't say the word tariff.''\n\nIn their complaint, the businesses also call Trump's emergency \"a figment of his own imagination: trade deficits, which have persisted for decades without causing economic harm, are not an emergency.'' The U.S. has, in fact, run a trade deficit \u2013 the gap between exports and imports \u2013 with the rest of the world for 49 straight years, through good times and bad.\n\nBut the Trump administration argues that courts approved President Richard Nixon's emergency use of tariffs in a 1971 economic crisis. The Nixon administration successfully cited its authority under the 1917 Trading With Enemy Act, which preceded and supplied some of the legal language used in IEPPA.\n\nThe legal battle against Trump's tariffs has created unusual bedfellows, uniting states led by Democratic governors with libertarian groups \u2013 including the Liberty Justice Center \u2013 that often seek to overturn government regulation of businesses. A dozen states have filed suit against Trump's tariffs in the New York trade court. A hearing in that case is scheduled for May 21.\n\nKathleen Claussen, a professor and trade-law expert at Georgetown Law, said Tuesday's hearing and another scheduled for the states' lawsuit in the coming weeks will likely set the tone for legal battles over tariffs to come. If the court agrees to block the tariffs under the emergency economic-powers act, the Trump administration will certainly appeal. \"It strikes me probably this probably is something that has to be decided by the Supreme Court,\" she said.\n\nAnd if the cases do go to the Supreme Court, legal experts say, it's possible the justices will use conservative legal doctrines they cited to rein in government powers claimed by Democratic President Joe Biden administration to strike down or limit tariffs imposed by Trump, a Republican.\n\nThe U.S. Constitution gives the power to impose taxes \u2014 including tariffs \u2014 to Congress. But over the years lawmakers ceded power over trade policy to the White House, clearing the way for Trump's expansive use of tariffs.\n\nSome lawmakers now want to reclaim some of the authority they've given up.\n\nRepublican Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Democratic Sen. Maria Cantwell of Washington, for instance, have introduced legislation that would require presidents to justify new tariffs to Congress. Lawmakers would then have 60 days to approve the tariffs. Otherwise, they would expire.\n\nBut their proposal appears to stand little chance of becoming law, given most Republican lawmakers' deference to Trump and the president's veto power. \"That train has left the station,'' said trade lawyer Warren Maruyama, who was general counsel for the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative in the administration of President George W. Bush.\n\nFor now, many American businesses are struggling to cope with Trump's tariffs, which have lifted America's average tariff to the highest level since 1934 \u2014 even after a trade truce with China was announced Monday, according to Yale University's Budget Lab.\n\nVictor Schwartz of New York City has spent the last 39 years building a business importing wine and spirits from small producers across the world. The tariffs are hitting his business hard. His customers want regional wines from around the world, so he can't just shift to American vintages. And the state requires him to post prices a month in advance so it's tough to keep up with Trump's ever-changing tariffs.\n\nHis business \u2014 V.O.S. Selections \u2014 is one of the five plaintiffs in Tuesday's hearing. \"It's a race against time,\" he said. \"Will we get through it? I'm not sure exactly.\""}
{"prompt_hash": "663ba59bfe31faaa2ec2480b2657f0864fca4cb1a9faf5f447428f20068f4154", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 17:19:49+00:00", "topics": ["Wildfires", "Long Beach", "Los Angeles", "California", "Los Angeles Area wildfires", "Fires", "Natural disasters"], "text": "# LA County wildfire alert mistakenly sent to millions due to tech glitch\n\nMay 13th, 2025 05:19 PM\n\n---\n\nLOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 A technological glitch caused an emergency alert to be mistakenly sent to millions of Los Angeles County residents in January rather than only those in the proximity of a wildfire, according to a congressional report.\n\nThe mistaken alert on Jan. 9 came as residents were on edge two days after fierce winds and deadly wildfires ripped across Los Angeles County hillsides and burned through communities. The alert message was only supposed to go to residents in the San Fernando Valley facing an evacuation warning due to the Kenneth Fire.\n\nThe report issued Monday by Democratic Rep. Robert Garcia of Long Beach found that Los Angeles County officials properly coded the alert to reach the wireless devices of a more limited group of people. But the alert was sent to residents across the county of 10 million people, and without specific geographic information, prompting concern and confusion after two days of devastating wildfires.\n\nThat's because the coding for the precise location didn't get saved into the IPAWS federal channel for local emergency alerts, which software provider Genasys believed might be due to a network disruption, the report said. \"The initial false alert is believed to be caused by technology issues with third-party technology vendor Genasys,\" the report said.\n\nThe report did not address how emergency alerts were handled in the Eaton and Palisades fires.\n\nIn the Eaton Fire in Altadena, evacuation orders went out long after houses were reported burning. LA County officials have launched their own independent review, led by a third party, of evacuation policies and the emergency alert system. An initial report released last month said nearly three dozen people who responded to the fires had been interviewed and more interviews were planned. The next report on the review is expected by July 27.\n\nIn the Palisades fire, residents said they received notification about the blaze on their phones well after they could see it coming and decided on their own to leave, reporting by The Associated Press found.\n\nGarcia's report suggested that Los Angeles County officials could use more location-specific language in the text of warnings so residents know where they are intended for, and the need for enhanced training and standardized software to prevent issues like the faulty alert issued in connection with the Kenneth Fire.\n\n\"The lessons from the Kenneth Fire should not only inform reforms, but serve as a catalyst to modernize the nation's alerting infrastructure before the next disaster strikes,\" the report said."}
{"prompt_hash": "dc80627ab67415d7cbf040169c6045bea040a84fd9f2249796a80d7c5034cf84", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 07:17:15+00:00", "topics": ["Law enforcement", "India", "International", "South Asia", "Medication", "Maninder Singh"], "text": "# 14 people die from drinking toxic liquor in India\n\nMay 13th, 2025 07:17 AM\n\n---\n\nNEW DELHI (AP) \u2014 At least 14 people died and six were hospitalized in critical condition after consuming toxic liquor overnight in northern India, police said Tuesday.\n\nSeven people were arrested on allegations they supplied the toxic liquor in five villages around 19 kilometers (12 miles) from the city of Amritsar in northern Punjab, senior police officer Maninder Singh said.\n\nThe police have launched a crackdown to destroy the network of spurious liquor supplies in the area following the incident, Singh said.\n\nThe local administration deployed medics to the villages to check on people who drank the contaminated liquor, said Sakshi Sawhney, a senior government official in Amritsar.\n\nThose showing symptoms are being shifted to hospitals to ensure the death toll doesn't rise, said Sawhney.\n\nInvestigators have not said what ingredients were suspected of causing the deaths and sickness.\n\nIn India, deaths from consumption of contaminated liquor manufactured locally is rampant, mainly in rural areas."}
{"prompt_hash": "9db99732ae4bdc183bf252aa3dc2cd4ec5af3302c343a1e5c4b3fdd6ad67ca09", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 16:30:17+00:00", "topics": ["Donald Trump", "China", "Agriculture", "International trade", "National", "Tariffs and global trade", "Future of food", "Government policy", "Economic policy", "International agreements", "U.S. Department of Agriculture", "Production facilities", "United Kingdom government", "Commodity markets", "Associated Press", "Matt Griggs", "Politics", "Legal proceedings", "Dan Glessing", "Business", "Hubert Humphrey", "Joe Janzen"], "text": "# Farmers taking a wait-and-see approach on Trump's trade war\n\nBy Steve Karnowski and Kristin M. Hall  \nMay 13th, 2025 04:30 PM\n\n---\n\nWAVERLY, Minn. (AP) \u2014 Minnesota farmer Dan Glessing isn't ready to get too upset over President Donald Trump's trade wars.\n\nFarm country voted heavily for Trump last November. Now Glessing and many other farmers are taking a wait-and-see attitude toward the Republican president's disputes with China and other international markets.\n\nChina normally would buy about one row out of every four of the Minnesota soybean crop and took in nearly $13 billion worth of soybeans from the U.S. as a whole last year. More than half of U.S. soybeans are exported internationally, with roughly half of those going to China, so it's a critical market.\n\nTrump last month raised U.S. tariffs on products from China to 145%, and China retaliated with 125%. But Monday's announcement of a 90-day truce between the two countries backed up the reluctance of many farmers to hit the panic button.\n\nMore good news came in an updated forecast from the U.S. Department of Agriculture on Monday that projected higher corn exports and only slightly lower corn prices. The report also predicted somewhat lower soybean exports but higher domestic consumption, resulting in higher prices. Soybean futures surged.\n\nAfter he finished planting his soybean crop on Monday, Glessing said he was excited by the news and hopes to see more progress. But he said he wasn't really surprised.\n\n## Tariffs, weather and other uncertainty\n\nOn a bright, sunny day last week, as he began planting soybeans, Glessing said tariffs were only one of the things he's worried about \u2014 and not necessarily the biggest. Farming, after all, is an enterprise built on loose soil, the whims of weather and other uncontrollable factors.\n\n\"Am I concerned about tariffs? Yeah. I mean, there's uncertainty that comes with that,\" Glessing said. \"Is that the number one driving factor in these poor commodity prices the last two years? No.\"\n\nAs he steered his 25-year-old Case IH tractor over a gently rolling field near the town of Waverly, he towed a planter that inserted his seeds through the stubble of last year's corn crop. As he laid down the long rows, he rumbled past a pond where wild swans paddled about.\n\nRiding shotgun was Georgie the Corgi, who alternated between roaming around his cab and half-dozing at his feet.\n\nPerhaps more skeptical than Glessing is Matt Griggs, one of many soybean farmers in Tennessee paying close attention to the trade war. On Monday, he said the ripple effects on farmers might still be coming.\n\n\"We're only on a 90-day pause,\" Griggs said. \"Who knows what is going to come after that?\"\n\nJoe Janzen, an agricultural economist at the University of Illinois, said the commodity markets have largely shaken off the initial shock of the trade war, including Trumps' declaration of April 2 as \"Liberation Day,\" when he announced stiff worldwide tariffs.\n\n\"Our markets have largely rebounded and are back where we were around April Second,\" Janzen said. \"Tariffs have not had a major impact on prices yet.\"\n\nEven something that might seem like good news \u2014 ideal planting conditions across much of the Midwest \u2014 has its downside. The potential for bigger crops sent prices downward, Glessing noted. High interest rates, seed and fertilizer costs pose additional challenges.\n\n\"There's so many other factors besides just tariffs and my market price,\" Glessing said.\n\n## Looking for signs of progress\n\nBut Glessing said he was encouraged by that morning's news of a trade deal with the United Kingdom, and said he hopes the current uncertainty in talks with China and other countries ultimately leads to better trade deals going forward.\n\nGlessing had finished planting his corn the day before on the other half of a field that he rents from his father's cousin, split between 45 acres of corn and 45 acres of beans. It's at the farm where his grandfather grew up, and it's part of the approximately 700 acres he plants on average. He locked in those planting decisions months earlier as he made deals for seeds, fertilizer and other supplies.\n\nBack on his \"home farm\" closer to Waverly \u2014 where his late grandfather's house, made of local brick, still stands and a cacophony of house sparrow songs filled the air \u2014 Glessing was pleased to spot the first signs of corn he had planted there about 10 days earlier poking above the soil.\n\nWaverly is about an hour west of Minneapolis. Its most famous resident was Democratic former Vice President Hubert Humphrey. It's in the congressional district represented by Republican House Majority Whip Tom Emmer.\n\nGlessing's post as president of the Minnesota Farm Bureau puts him in close touch with other influential politicians, too. He and his wife, Seena, were Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar's guests at the Capitol for Trump's inauguration in January. Glessing declined to say who he voted for.\n\nThe Glessings have three kids, milk about 75 dairy cows, and grow corn, soybeans and alfalfa on a combination of parcels they own or rent. He uses the alfalfa and corn primarily to feed his cows. He sells his soybeans to a processing plant in Mankato, where some of them become soybean meal he adds to his animal feed. The milk from his cows goes to a co-op cheese plant in Litchfield that sells internationally.\n\nBecause Glessing has local buyers locked in and doesn't directly export his crops, he's partially cushioned from the volatility of world markets. But he's quick to point out that everything in the agricultural economy is interconnected.\n\n## Lessons learned during Trump's first trade war\n\nOn his farm near Humboldt, Tennessee, roughly midway between Memphis and Nashville, Griggs weathered the 2018 trade war during Trump's first term and said he feels more prepared this time around.\n\n\"Back in 2018, prices were about the same as what they are now, and due to the trade war with China, prices dropped around 15%,\" he said. \"They dropped significantly lower, and they dropped in a hurry, and due to that, we lost a lot of demand from China.\"\n\nGriggs said exports to China never fully rebounded. But he doesn't think the impact of the current dispute will be nearly as drastic.\n\nGriggs \u2014 who raises approximately 1,600 acres of cotton, corn, soybeans and wheat \u2014 said tariffs were just one consideration as he planned out this year's crops. Growing a variety of crops helps him minimize the risk that comes with weather, volatile prices, and now the prospect of a trade war.\n\nGriggs said he's going to be watching for opportunities to sell when market volatility causes upticks in prices.\n\n\"The main thing I learned in 2018 was that if you do have a price period where prices have risen some, go ahead and take advantage of it instead of waiting for it to go higher,\" said Griggs. \"Because when it comes to the tariffs and everything, the markets can be very unpredictable. So my lesson learned was, 'Don't hold out for a home run, be satisfied with a double.'\"\n\nHe said a temporary subsidy called the Market Facilitation Program helped soybean farmers withstand some of the losses last time could help if something similar is revived this year. But he said no farmer wants to make a living off government subsidies.\n\n\"We just want fair access to markets,\" Griggs said. \"And a fair price for the products we produce.\""}
{"prompt_hash": "917640895edba41115dd5077d4fdb4981f2d845650a3378637d8c7e9a5fe3529", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 16:35:39+00:00", "topics": ["2024 Paris Olympic Games", "Adelia Petrosian", "Anna Shcherbakova", "Figure skating", "Olympic games", "Ice dancing", "Sports - Europe", "Vladislav Dikidzhi", "Sports", "Alina Gorbacheva", "Kamila Valieva"], "text": "# Only four Russian figure skaters approved for 2026 Olympics qualification event as neutrals\n\nMay 13th, 2025 04:35 PM\n\n---\n\nLAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) \u2014 Four Russian figure skaters were approved Tuesday by the International Skating Union to try to qualify for the 2026 Winter Olympics as neutral athletes who have not supported the invasion of Ukraine, including 17-year-old national champion Adelia Petrosian.\n\nNo Russian athletes, however, were approved to compete in the pairs and ice dance disciplines at a one-off Olympic qualification meeting in September in Beijing. The 2026 Milan-Cortina d'Ampezzo Olympics open on Feb. 6.\n\nThe ISU said \"not all nominated athletes passed the rigorous screening\" and the eligibility decisions by its ruling council are \"final with regard to all applicants and not subject to appeal.\"\n\nRussians and Belarusians have been banned from international skating events since the full military invasion of Ukraine started in February 2022, four days after the Beijing Winter Games closed.\n\nThe ISU previously said Russia and Belarus can have just one competitor \u2014 individual, pair, or ice dance couple \u2014 in each discipline at the Olympics.\n\nAt the 2024 Paris Summer Games, Russia was banned from team sports though a small group of individual Russian athletes ended up being allowed to compete as approved neutral athletes. They were judged not to have publicly supported the war or have ties to the military or state security agencies.\n\nA similar process in underway ahead of the Milan-Cortina d'Ampezzo Olympics.\n\nThe ISU said it \"thoroughly examined public appearances and statements made by the nominated (neutral athletes) since February 2022, to assess any active support for the invasion of Ukraine or any contractual links to Russian or Belarusian military and other national security agencies.\"\n\nPetrosian is the likely star name among the Russian figure skaters.\n\nThe two-time national champion turns 18 in June and is coached by Eteri Tutberidze. The storied Russian team mentor was a controversial figure at the Beijing Olympics coaching gold-medal favorite Kamila Valieva through a doping scandal, and the eventual gold medalist Anna Shcherbakova.\n\nThe likely back-up women's skater approved for the Olympic qualifier is 17-year-old Alina Gorbacheva.\n\nThe two men's individual skaters approved as eligible to qualify are Petr Gummenik and Vladislav Dikidzhi."}
{"prompt_hash": "184b124b73372397c3b60194ff12372c14c9d93cc5091c1f81eecef3fcfd17b3", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 17:15:45+00:00", "topics": ["Iowa", "Kim Reynolds", "Legislation", "Monte Shaw", "Business", "Jeff Taylor", "Politics", "Climate and environment", "Lee Enterprises", "Inc.", "Sabrina Zenor", "Iowa state government", "Climate"], "text": "# Carbon dioxide pipeline regulations pass in testy Iowa Senate but still need governor's signature\n\nBy Hannah Fingerhut  \nMay 13th, 2025 05:15 PM\n\n---\n\nDES MOINES, Iowa (AP) \u2014 The Iowa Senate advanced a bill that could further complicate a massive carbon-capture pipeline project routed across several Midwestern states after a long-winded and testy debate that exposed a clear rift among Republicans over property rights and the future of the state's agricultural dominance.\n\nThe legislation that narrowly passed late Monday would prohibit the renewal of permits for a carbon dioxide pipeline, limit the use of such a pipeline to 25 years and significantly increase the insurance coverage requirements for the pipeline company. Those provisions would likely make it less financially feasible for a company to build the pipeline.\n\nAlready passed by the House, the measure now goes to Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds' desk. A spokesperson for the governor said Tuesday that the governor's office is reviewing the bill.\n\nThe legislation could force adjustments to Summit Carbon Solutions' plans for the estimated $8.9 billion, 2,500-mile (4,023-kilometer) project, which are already strained after South Dakota's governor signed a ban on the use of eminent domain \u2014 the government seizure of private property with compensation \u2014 to acquire land for carbon dioxide pipelines.\n\nThe project received permit approvals in Iowa, Minnesota and North Dakota, but it does face various court challenges, and its application was rejected in South Dakota.\n\nThe Iowa Senate, already operating in overtime as legislative session drags on, came to a halt after a dozen Republican state senators insisted that their leaders bring a pipeline bill to the floor.\n\nIn response, Summit spokesperson Sabrina Zenor this month outlined the company's investment to date, saying that the company remained committed to building the project and to Iowa.\n\n\"Summit Carbon Solutions has invested four years and nearly $175 million on voluntary agreements in Iowa, signing agreements with more than 1,300 landowners and securing 75% of the Phase One route,\" Zenor said in a May 1 statement.\n\nZenor declined to comment Tuesday.\n\nDozens of Summit employees and leaders and members of the Iowa Corn Growers Association, the Iowa Renewable Fuels Association and labor unions made a big showing as debate in the state Senate seemed inevitable. They told lawmakers that the project is essential for the future of Iowa's ethanol industry, for farmers and for construction jobs.\n\nThe pipeline would carry carbon emissions from ethanol plants in Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota to be stored underground permanently in North Dakota. By lowering carbon emissions from the plants, the pipeline would lower their carbon intensity scores and make them more competitive in the renewable fuels market.\n\nThe project would also allow ethanol producers and Summit to tap into federal tax credits.\n\nA majority of the Iowa Senate \"turned their back on Iowa agriculture tonight,\" Iowa Renewable Fuels Association Executive Director Monte Shaw said in a statement.\n\n\"For 25 years, Iowa has benefited greatly from being the most profitable place in the world to convert corn kernels into ethanol,\" said Shaw, who predicts that there will be severe economic consequences if the legislation is signed into law. \"Iowa is poised to be left behind.\"\n\nThe pipeline's critics accuse Summit of stepping on their property rights and downplaying the safety risks of building the pipeline alongside family homes, near schools and across ranches.\n\nLee Enterprises and The Associated Press reviewed hundreds of cases that reveal the great legal lengths the company went to to get the project built. In South Dakota, in particular, a slew of eminent domain legal actions to obtain land sparked a groundswell of opposition that was closely watched by lawmakers in Iowa as well.\n\nTensions flared among the Iowa Senate's Republican supermajority, with senators openly criticizing one another and exposing the closed-door discussions that got them there. Thirteen Republican senators joined with 14 Democrats in voting in favor of the bill. Twenty-one Republicans and one Democrat voted against it.\n\nThe Republicans who opposed it stressed that they, too, respect private property rights. But they said the bill has holes that will threaten any infrastructure development in Iowa, not just carbon-capture pipelines.\n\nThey criticized the bill for drawing out the permitting process by muddying up the standards of public use, allowing anyone, anywhere to intervene, and creating unnecessary insurance disputes between the company and landowners that may be miles away.\n\nThe bill's backers said those criticisms are overblown interpretations of the legislation and distractions from the issue at hand.\n\nRepublican state Sen. Jeff Taylor, who supports the bill, said it would fundamentally ensure that companies respect the constitutional requirement for eminent domain.\n\n\"Both the Iowa Constitution and the federal Constitution specify what the requirement is for eminent domain: It's public use,\" Taylor said. \"It's not anything else. It's not a positive business climate, it's not helping the agribusiness in the state, it's not the price of corn or helping the ethanol plants. It's public use.\""}
{"prompt_hash": "4c12f6e8669b2d09a46607e1a5b7a52c2f2cd3cdb3bc11afbe467607f577e1bf", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 17:15:12+00:00", "topics": ["Horse racing", "New York City Wire", "Ruby Love", "Bob Baffert", "Sports", "Billy Gorham", "Baltimore", "Jimmy McCarthy", "Kentucky", "Raul Mena", "England", "Jamie Osborne", "David Redvers", "Preakness Stakes"], "text": "# Lukas looks to 'turn the page' on American Promise in the Preakness after a troubled Derby trip\n\nBy Stephen Whyno  \nMay 13th, 2025 05:15 PM\n\n---\n\nBALTIMORE (AP) \u2014 American Promise got cut off at the start of the Kentucky Derby, then couldn't get the room to squeeze between horses down the stretch. It added up to a 16th-place finish.\n\n\"He's a big horse,\" trainer D. Wayne Lukas said. \"He can't stop and start like that. It just won't work.\"\n\nLukas is hoping things will work out better in the Preakness Stakes this Saturday, bringing American Promise back to race two weeks after the troubled trip in the Derby. No one has saddled more horses in the second leg of the Triple Crown than the 89-year-old Hall of Famer, who is looking to become the first to win the Preakness back to back since good friend Bob Baffert in 2001 and '02.\n\n\"When you have a trip that you could analyze and overanalyze or whatever you want to do, I turn the page and concentrate on this here and what we can get done,\" Lukas said Tuesday after overseeing American Promise jog a couple of miles in the rain at Pimlico Race Course. \"He did really well. He had good energy and everything.\"\n\nAmerican Promise is set to be Lukas' 49th Preakness horse over 34 renditions of the race since winning his first try back in 1980 with Codex. If American Promise gets the job done, it will give Lukas an eighth Preakness victory and tie Baffert for the record.\n\nOpening at odds of 15-1 \u2014 third-longest in the field of nine \u2014 he's a long shot to do so. But a deluge of rain this week could factor in, like the muddy track did at Churchill Downs when Sovereignty outdueled Journalism, who is the Preakness favorite with the Derby winner not running.\n\nLukas said Journalism \"jumps off the page\" and is a worthwhile favorite, but he has reason to believe American Promise could thrive with room to run, even if the surface is a little sloppy.\n\n\"I got a hunch that he'll be able to manage it,\" Lukas said.\n\n## Dual-citizen horse\n\nHeart of Honor is in a barn by himself this week at Pimlico because he will soon be returning to England, where he was born in 2022. But rather than being an international entrant in the Preakness, the colt is actually more American than British-bred.\n\n\"He ended up in the U.K. by accident,\" said Jimmy McCarthy, chief operating officer for Jamie Osborne's stable based in Hungerford.\n\nThat is because David Redvers bought his mare, Chilean champion Ruby Love, in November 2021 at Keeneland in Lexington, Kentucky, when she was in foal with him, then shipped her to England. In addition to her name, Heart of Honor got his moniker from the white mark on his face that looks a little like a heart.\n\nOn the track, he has shown some heart, finishing second in his past three races in Dubai at Meydan Racecourse, most recently the Grade 2 UAE Derby on April 5. The Preakness is a step up from that, not to mention an ordeal involving flying the horse first to Louisville, Kentucky, and then to Baltimore for a shot in the $2 million race.\n\nHeart of Honor opened at 12-1.\n\n\"It's a big risk, and it's a big undertaking,\" McCarthy said. \"It is a bit of an adventure. It's something they're willing to take a risk, so we'll see what happens.\"\n\n## Local Billy\n\nPay Billy is the Maryland local long shot, an automatic qualifier from winning the Federico Tesio Stakes at nearby Laurel Park last month. Neither jockey Raul Mena nor trainer Billy Gorham has ever had a horse in a Triple Crown race before.\n\n\"Everyone in the barn's all excited,\" Gorham said. \"A lot of the guys that work for me have been with me a long time. Everyone's worked hard through the years with just claiming horses and a few stakes horses here and there basically everyday horses. Now we get a chance to go in the Preakness, it's a big deal.\"\n\nMena, a 33-year-old from Chile who has been riding in the U.S. for nearly a decade, called it a \"very special moment\" for himself professionally, and because few expect Pay Billy at 20-1 to pull off an upset, he's enjoying the experience.\n\n\"He's not going to be the favorite,\" Mena said. \"I don't got the pressure in the race. I know my horse: He's got the talent to be competing with those horses. ... If we win the race, it's going to be awesome. If he doesn't win, I'm still happy.\""}
{"prompt_hash": "efcd2f5e3e37aa29b77edd4fa233e4750477732af941516fee16696ca191e9f0", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 17:14:15+00:00", "topics": ["Chad Baker-Mazara", "Southern California Trojans", "College sports", "Mens college basketball", "Auburn Tigers", "College basketball", "Southern California Trojans mens basketball", "San Diego", "Sports", "NCAA Mens Division I Basketball Championship", "Eric Musselman"], "text": "# Chad Baker-Mazara transfers to USC after helping Auburn reach the Final Four\n\nMay 13th, 2025 05:14 PM\n\n---\n\nLOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 Chad Baker-Mazara is transferring to Southern California after helping Auburn reach the Final Four.\n\nThe 6-foot-7 forward started 34 of 38 games for the Tigers last season, averaging 12.3 points and 3.0 rebounds while earning All-SEC third-team honors. The Tigers lost 79-73 to eventual national champion Florida in the national semifinals, with Baker-Mazara scoring 18 points.\n\n\"He's a proven winner and will be a player that we can play all over the floor,\" USC coach Eric Musselman said Tuesday. \"Chad will be one of the best returning players in the country this year. Chad plays with incredible passion and emotion that can lift a home crowd.\"\n\nBaker-Mazara, who is from the Dominican Republic, started nine of 35 games in his first season with the Tigers. He was selected to the SEC All-Tournament team.\n\nHe previously played at Northwest Florida State College and Duquesne before transferring to San Diego State as a sophomore. He was the Mountain West's sixth man of the year and helped the Aztecs to a berth in the NCAA Tournament.\n\nBaker-Mazara is the sixth player to join USC for next season via the transfer portal."}
{"prompt_hash": "ef9a3697bfeea71f1ba0d654d56ade91e69830082bc0e5fd11806915e89097bf", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 12:04:32+00:00", "topics": ["Allergies", "Gardening", "Be Well", "JWD-evergreen", "Lifestyle", "Business", "Bermuda", "Health", "Trees", "Jessica Damiano"], "text": "# Allergic gardeners can choose plants that produce less floating pollen\n\nBy Jessica Damiano  \nMay 13th, 2025 12:04 PM\n\n---\n\nFor many, the return of the spring garden brings with it a sneezy, itchy, foggy-headed feeling that hits the moment a warm breeze stirs up. I'm fortunate not to suffer much, but my blue car turned a chartreuse shade of yellow last week, and a $32 car wash provided results that lasted only two hours. Sigh.\n\nThese seasonal allergies often go by the old-fashioned name hay fever, but it's not the hay that causes misery for so many, it's the pollen.\n\nAnd not just any pollen, but the nearly weightless kind that floats up our noses and engages our immune systems. Trees, weeds, grasses and even some of our favorite flowers are culprits.\n\nBut pollen isn't all bad. It's essential to the reproduction of plants, the survival of insects and the entire food web. We humans could not survive without it, so we absolutely shouldn't avoid high-pollen plants as a general rule. However, if you're an allergy sufferer who has had to forgo planting a garden due to health reasons, plants that release the least pollen may enable you to smell the flowers.\n\n## Plants that might bring sneezes\n\nAllergy-inducing plants are those that rely on wind rather than bees or butterflies to spread their pollen. Ragweed, which strikes in late summer and early fall, gets the most notoriety, but its springtime counterparts can be at least as irritating.\n\nTrees most likely to cause symptoms include birch (Betula), catawba (Catalba), cypress (Cupressus), elm (Ulmus), hickory/pecan (Carya), oak (Quercus), sycamore (Platanus) and walnut (Juglans), according to the Ogren Plant Allergy Scale (OPALS), created by horticulturist Thomas Ogren and published in his 2020 book, \"The Allergy-Fighting Garden.\"\n\nPalm trees, too \u2014 but only the males. In fact, female trees don't produce pollen at all, so seek them out when possible.\n\nGrasses can irritate eyes and sinuses, too. The scale ranks Bermuda (except sterile male varieties), Johnson, Kentucky, orchard, sweet vernal and timothy grasses among the highest for allergens.\n\nWeeds like ragweed, curly dock, lamb's quarters, pigweed, plantain, sheep sorrel and sagebrush are also big pollen producers, Ogren found.\n\n## Not all plants are irritating to allergy sufferers\n\nOn the other hand, plants with \"double\" flowers or heavier pollen that doesn't travel far are less likely to release much pollen.\n\nAmong trees, apricot (Prunus armeniaca), fig (Ficus), fir (Abies), fruiting pear (Pyrus), fruiting plum (Prunus domestica, Prunus insititia), redbud (Cerus), serviceberry (Amelanchier laevis), female ash (Fraxinus), female box elder (Acer negundo), female cottonwood/poplar (Populus), female maple (Acer), female palm (Arecaceae) and female willow (Salix) are easier on the respiratory system.\n\nSt. Augustine and sterile male Bermuda are safer bets in the grass department.\n\nAs for flowers, you've got options: Begonia, female clematis, columbine, crocus, daffodil, delphinium, hibiscus, impatiens, iris, bird of paradise, pansy, petunia, phlox, poppy, snapdragon, tulip, verbena and zinnia are friends. Roses, too \u2014 especially tightly packed, dense-petaled varieties, which exude even less pollen than those with single or semi-double flowers (rose allergies are more often fragrance-related than due to pollen, according to Ogren).\n\nAnd if you suffer from seasonal allergies, keeping windows closed and getting someone else to mow the lawn will also help to nip your symptoms in the bud."}
{"prompt_hash": "7619316b36f64c89f8183a8f7daeaa558ea0dc48e7294ea7d71ca8ce006b804a", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 17:10:43+00:00", "topics": ["Lionel Messi", "Inter Miami CF", "Soccer", "MLS soccer", "New York City Wire", "Sports"], "text": "# Messi to unveil favorite goal, auction artwork for charity\n\nMay 13th, 2025 05:10 PM\n\n---\n\nFORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Lionel Messi is about to tell the world which of his many goals was his favorite.\n\nThe Inter Miami star, eight-time Ballon d'Or winner and World Cup champion announced Tuesday that he will unveil his favorite goal on May 22. A depiction of that goal will then be turned into a work of art that will be auctioned off for charity.\n\nMessi has plenty of options to choose from: He's scored more than 800 goals for club and country over his long career with Argentina, Barcelona, Paris Saint-Germain and Inter Miami.\n\nMessi and the artist, Refik Anadol, will both sign the art piece, which will be unveiled in New York by auction house Christie's on June 11.\n\n\"Choosing just one goal out of them all is very difficult,\" Messi said. \"Each one is special in its own way, and some are really important or bring back incredible memories. But highlighting one as a favorite for the first time, to make this unique project possible is worth it. There's a strong purpose behind it, and I'm really happy to be part of it.\"\n\nThe auction will close on July 25."}
{"prompt_hash": "d1e9fde4b4883b7dcb315c17f5b0f95f3075b71f99a4e99ad97798f355c29dce", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 12:51:17+00:00", "topics": ["Baltimore", "Fires", "John Marsh", "Building collapses", "Amtrak", "Accidents", "DC Wire", "New York City Wire", "James Wallace", "District of Columbia", "Business", "Evacuations", "Transportation"], "text": "# More than 200 firefighters battle massive warehouse blaze in Baltimore. No injuries reported\n\nMay 13th, 2025 12:51 PM\n\n---\n\nBALTIMORE (AP) \u2014 More than 200 firefighters battled a massive blaze that broke out at a west Baltimore warehouse, disrupting Amtrak service in the area and prompting officials to move dozens of area residents.\n\nCommuter rail service was canceled Tuesday amid fears the building could collapse onto railroad tracks.\n\nFirefighters were dispatched to the multistory mattress warehouse at Edmondson Avenue and Bentalou Street around 7 p.m. Monday and found heavy fire, the Baltimore City Fire Department said in a social media post. About 30 residents of nearby homes were temporarily evacuated.\n\nBy Tuesday morning, the fire had been contained to the building, but firefighters were chasing hot spots and a deep-seated fire in multiple locations, fire department spokesperson John Marsh said. No injuries had been reported.\n\nThe cause has not been determined, and officials were still working to figure out where the fire started, Fire Chief James Wallace said at a news conference Tuesday. City and state officials will investigate, and Wallace said he has asked for the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to take the lead, he said.\n\n\"The ATF brings a ton of resources for us, and given the size and scope of the fire, the fact that we disrupted rail service, it's very appropriate that we bring all hands on deck to investigate the cause of this fire,\" he said.\n\nOfficials believe that part of the building may have been in use and part may have been vacant, but they didn't have information about the building's history, he said.\n\n\"It's been years since we've had a fire of that magnitude \u2014 seven alarms,\" Wallace said. But it was necessary to bring in additional resources, including aerial ladders and a heavier water flow, he said.\n\nThe warehouse backs up to railroad tracks. Amtrak service was stopped for a time between Wilmington, Delaware, and Washington, D.C., Amtrak said in a social media post.\n\nService was restored by Tuesday morning, but was still restricted to one track and Amtrak warned that delays were expected for the rest of the day along the Northeast Corridor.\n\nThe Maryland Transit Administration canceled MARC commuter rail service on its Penn line on Tuesday morning because of the fire and concerns that the structure may collapse onto the tracks. Service was restored midday on a Saturday schedule, but extended delays were expected."}
{"prompt_hash": "fa1eb0d7820ec325b51c396a24f103f904d060b6526c4e300766cd3e50336d49", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 17:06:02+00:00", "topics": ["2024 Paris Olympic Games", "Doping", "Dominique Lasconi Mulamba", "Ben Johnson", "Paris", "Olympic games", "Track and field", "Benita Sarr-Kindongo", "Sports", "Democratic Republic of the Congo"], "text": "# Paris Olympics sprinter banned 4 years for doping with anabolic steroid\n\nMay 13th, 2025 05:06 PM\n\n---\n\nMONACO (AP) \u2014 A 100-meter sprinter who tested positive at the Paris Olympics for the type of anabolic steroid used by Ben Johnson at the 1988 Seoul Summer Games claimed at his disciplinary hearing the drug \"is unsuited for sprinters.\"\n\nA doping tribunal judge banned Dominique Lasconi Mulamba for four years, the Athletics Integrity Unit said Tuesday and published details of the case.\n\nMulamba tested positive for stanozolol in Paris last August, one day after the Congo athlete placed seventh in his 100 heat clocking 10.53 seconds. He had been a flagbearer for Congo at the opening ceremony held on boats along the River Seine.\n\nAt a disciplinary hearing held by video link last month, Mulamba's lawyer, Benita Sarr-Kindongo, said stanozolol reduces muscle flexibility and is preferred by weightlifters and bodybuilders.\n\n\"The use of stanozolol would have negatively impacted his performance rather than enhancing it,\" the lawyer argued on the athlete's behalf, according to the published verdict. \"No competitive benefit was gained.\"\n\nThe anabolic steroid was used 36 years earlier by Johnson before he crossed the finish line first in the 100 meters at the Seoul Olympics in a world-record time. He was later disqualified, stripped of the record and banned for two years in one of the most notorious Olympic doping cases.\n\n\"History itself tells a very different story,\" lawyers for the AIU argued at the Mulamba hearing, citing Johnson's case. \"It is simply wrong to claim that stanozolol is unsuited for sprinters.\"\n\nThe 23-year-old Mulamba's ban expires in August 2028 after the Los Angeles Olympics closes. He can challenge his ban in an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport."}
{"prompt_hash": "c902b30d4ea2061ae72f0394b05d09dd47ff97bc1e48ecd16fd8b6d6f6366f52", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 15:45:47+00:00", "topics": ["Ohio", "2024 Paris Olympic Games", "Wrestling", "Columbus", "Prostitution", "National", "Sports", "Kyle Snyder"], "text": "# Wrestling gold medalist Kyle Snyder charged in prostitution sting\n\nMay 13th, 2025 03:45 PM\n\n---\n\nCOLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) \u2014 Olympic gold medalist Kyle Snyder, one of the most successful wrestlers in U.S. history, was arrested in a prostitution sting, according to police in Columbus.\n\nSnyder, 29, was charged with engaging in prostitution after he was arrested on Friday, according to court records, which did not list an attorney for him. Messages seeking comment from Snyder were not immediately returned on Tuesday.\n\nSnyder became the youngest American wrestler to win Olympic gold at age 20 during the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games, and he followed that up with a silver at the Tokyo Games. He lost in the bronze-medal match at last year's Olympics in Paris.\n\nHe was a three-time NCAA champion at Ohio State and has won three world championships.\n\nJust last week, the Real American Freestyle wrestling league announced it had added Snyder to its lineup.\n\nThe league, with pro wrestling icon Hulk Hogan as the commissioner, is slated to hold its first event Aug. 30 in Cleveland."}
{"prompt_hash": "30d77b7f230dc117646a4c3a7d6d6100a2c8be7109b5654e291e97bcc8b91a71", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 10:51:54+00:00", "topics": ["Andrew Witty", "UnitedHealth Group", "Inc.", "Brian Thompson", "Luigi Mangione", "Stephen Hemsley", "Minnesota", "National", "Business", "Health", "Humana", "GSK Plc", "Prescription drugs", "Dave Wichmann"], "text": "# UnitedHealth Group CEO steps down as company withdraws outlook for 2025\n\nBy Michelle Chapman  \nMay 13th, 2025 10:51 AM\n\n---\n\nUnitedHealth CEO Andrew Witty is stepping down for personal reasons and the nation's largest health insurer suspended its full-year financial outlook due to higher-than-expected medical costs.\n\nChairman Stephen Hemsley will become CEO, effective immediately, the Minnesota company said.\n\nHemsley was UnitedHealth Group CEO from 2006 to 2017. He will remain chairman of the company's board. Witty will serve as a senior adviser to Hemsley.\n\nIt has been a punishing period for UnitedHealth, starting in December when executive Brian Thompson was targeted outside of a New York City hotel and killed. While unrelated to the financial operations of the $340 billion healthcare giant, its shares have tumbled severely since the attack.\n\n\"I'm deeply disappointed in and apologize for the performance setbacks we have encountered from both external and internal challenges,\" Hemsley said during an early Tuesday conference call. \"Many of the issues standing in the way of achieving our goals as well as our opportunities are largely within our control. I am optimistic about our future as these issues are within our capacity to resolve. We will approach them with humility, rigor and urgency.\"\n\nThe 60 year-old Witty joined the company in 2018 after serving about nine years as CEO of the British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline. He was named UnitedHealth's CEO in February 2021, replacing Dave Wichmann.\n\nUnitedHealth became one of the nation's largest companies under Witty's leadership. Total revenue topped $400 billion last year, a 55% increase from the $257 billion UnitedHealth brought in the year before Witty became CEO.\n\nShares of UnitedHealth rocketed higher under Witty, too, up 60.5% since he took the company's top job.\n\nYet there have been several setbacks for UnitedHealth over the past five months as it wrestles with the national attention on Luigi Mangione, who was indicted last month on a federal murder charge in the killing of Thompson.\n\nThe case has captured the American imagination, setting off a cascade of resentment and online vitriol toward U.S. health insurers while rattling corporate executives concerned about security.\n\nUnitedHealth cut its 2025 forecast last month following its first quarterly earnings miss in more than a decade. On Tuesday the company withdrew that financial forecast entirely, saying that medical costs from new Medicare Advantage members were higher than expected.\n\nShares of UnitedHealth, which have plummeted 38% since the deadly Dec. 4 ambush of Thompson in midtown Manhattan, fell more than 16% Tuesday to levels last seen almost five years ago.\n\nOther big insurers tumbled as well, with Elevance, Humana and Cigna falling between 4% and 7%.\n\nMore than 50 million people have health insurance under UnitedHealth Group Inc. It also has a large pharmacy benefit manager that runs prescription drug coverage and a growing Optum segment that delivers care and provides technical support.\n\nUnitedHealthcare is the nation's largest provider of Medicare Advantage plans, with more than 8 million customers. Those are privately run versions of the federal government coverage program mostly for people ages 65 and older."}
{"prompt_hash": "83753340d5bb4062e525a9991b93d00737f27246b94dfd6107e92beb192029e9", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 04:08:48+00:00", "topics": ["Donald Trump", "Arizona", "U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement", "John Jairo Lugo", "Ryan Smith", "New Haven", "Phoenix", "Immigration", "Connecticut", "Protests and demonstrations", "National", "Politics", "Business", "Race and ethnicity", "Tom Cartwright", "Justin Elicker", "Andrew Levy", "The Boeing Co.", "Labor unions", "Border security", "Race and Ethnicity"], "text": "# Avelo Airlines carries out deportation flights for ICE\n\nBy Jacques Billeaud  \nMay 13th, 2025 04:08 AM\n\n---\n\nPHOENIX (AP) \u2014 A budget airline that serves mostly small U.S. cities began federal deportation flights Monday out of Arizona, a move that's inspired an online boycott petition and sharp criticism from the union representing the carrier's flight attendants.\n\nAvelo Airlines announced in April it had signed an agreement with the Department of Homeland Security to make charter deportation flights from Mesa Gateway Airport outside Phoenix. It said it will use three Boeing 737-800 planes for the flights.\n\nThe Houston-based airline is among a host of companies seeking to cash in on President Donald Trump's campaign for mass deportations.\n\nCongressional deliberations began last month on a tax bill with a goal of funding, in part, the removal of 1 million immigrants annually and housing 100,000 people in U.S. detention centers. The GOP plan calls for hiring 10,000 more U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers and investigators.\n\n## Details of Avelo agreement with ICE not disclosed\n\nAvelo was launched in 2021 as COVID-19 still raged and billions of taxpayer dollars were propping up big airlines. It saves money mainly by flying older Boeing 737 jets that can be bought at relatively low prices. And it operates out of less-crowded and less-costly secondary airports, flying routes that are ignored by the big airlines. It said it had its first profitable quarter in late 2023.\n\nAndrew Levy, Avelo's founder and chief executive, said in announcing the agreement last month that the airline's work for ICE would help the company expand and protect jobs.\n\n\"We realize this is a sensitive and complicated topic,\" said Levy, an airline industry veteran with previous stints as a senior executive at United and Allegiant airlines.\n\nAvelo did not grant an interview request from The Associated Press.\n\nFinancial and other details of the Avelo agreement \u2014 including destinations of the deportation flights \u2014 haven't publicly surfaced. The AP asked Avelo and ICE for a copy of the agreement, but neither provided the document. The airline said it wasn't authorized to release the contract.\n\nSeveral consumer brands have shunned being associated with deportations, a highly volatile issue that could drive away customers. During Trump's first term, authorities housed migrant children in hotels, prompting some hotel chains to say that they wouldn't participate.\n\n## Union cites safety concerns\n\nMany companies in the deportation business, such as detention center providers The Geo Group and Core Civic, rely little on consumer branding. Not Avelo, whose move inspired the boycott petition on change.org and drew criticism from the carrier's flight attendants union, which cited the difficulty of evacuating deportees from an aircraft in an emergency within the federal standard of 90 seconds or less.\n\n\"Having an entire flight of people handcuffed and shackled would hinder any evacuation and risk injury or death,\" the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA said in a statement. \"It also impedes our ability to respond to a medical emergency, fire on board, decompression, etc. We cannot do our jobs in these conditions.\"\n\nIn New Haven, Connecticut, where Avelo flies out of Tweed New Haven Airport, Democratic Mayor Justin Elicker urged Avelo's CEO to reconsider. \"For a company that champions themselves as 'New Haven's hometown airline,' this business decision is antithetical to New Haven's values,\" Elicker said in a statement.\n\nProtests were held outside airports in Arizona and Connecticut on Monday.\n\nIn Mesa, over 30 protesters gathered on a road leading up to the airport, holding signs that denounced Trump's deportation efforts. In Connecticut, about 150 people assembled outside Tweed New Haven Airport, calling on travelers to boycott Avelo.\n\nJohn Jairo Lugo, co-founder and community organizing director of Unidad Latina en Acci\u00f3n in New Haven, said protesters hope to create a financial incentive for Avelo to back out of its work for the federal government.\n\n\"We need to cause some economical damage to the company to really convince them that they should be on the side with the people and not with the government,\" Lugo said.\n\n## Mesa is one of five hubs for ICE airline deportation operations\n\nMesa, a Phoenix suburb with about 500,000 people, is one of five hubs for ICE Air, the immigration agency's air transport operation for deportations. ICE Air operated nearly 8,000 flights in a 12-month period through April, according to the advocacy group Witness at the Border.\n\nICE contracts with an air broker, CSI Aviation, that hires two charter carriers -- GlobalX and Eastern Air Express -- to do most of the flights, said Tom Cartwright, who tracks flight data for Witness at the Border.\n\nCartwright said it was unusual in recent years for commercial passenger carriers to carry out deportation flights.\n\n\"It's always been with an air broker who then hires the carriers, and the carriers have not been regular commercial carriers, or what I call retail carriers, who are selling their own tickets,\" Cartwright said. \"At least since I have been involved (in tracking ICE flights), they've all been charter companies.\"\n\nAvelo will be a sub-carrier under a contract held by New Mexico-based CSI Aviation, which didn't respond to questions about how much money Avelo would make under the agreement.\n\nAvelo provides passenger service to more than 50 cities in the U.S., as well as locations in Jamaica, Mexico and the Dominican Republic. Avelo does not operate regular commercial passenger service out of Mesa Gateway Airport, said airport spokesman Ryan Smith.\n\nIn February 2024, Avelo said it had its first profitable quarter, though it didn't provide details. In an interview two months later with the AP, Levy declined to provide numbers, saying the airline was a private company and had no need to provide that information publicly. ___\n\nAssociated Press writer Susan Haigh in Hartford, Connecticut, contributed to this report."}
{"prompt_hash": "7582026d29d25bec38e7cc561b01199fc7307957e2e8c287b79819d317dc7cd2", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 15:41:26+00:00", "topics": ["Cycling", "Mathias Vacek", "Sports", "Rome", "Albania", "Francisco Muoz", "Giro dItalia", "Business"], "text": "# Van Uden sprints to biggest win of his career on Giro's 4th stage, Pedersen keeps overall lead\n\nMay 13th, 2025 03:41 PM\n\n---\n\nLECCE, Italy (AP) \u2014 Casper van Uden won a bunch sprint at the end of the fourth stage of the Giro d'Italia on Tuesday for the biggest victory of his career, while Mads Pedersen kept hold of the leader's pink jersey.\n\nVan Uden, a Grand Tour debutant who rides for Team Picnic-PostNL, edged out Olav Kooij as the three-week race resumed in the heel of Italy after the opening three stages in Albania.\n\nIt was only the fifth-ever professional win for the 23-year-old Dutch cyclist and a first in nearly a year.\n\n\"I didn't do it alone. We did it with the whole team, all the boys here, and all the staff back at HQ as well. They did super work,\" Van Uden said.\n\n\"I don't think it's a surprise. I know the boys and everyone really believes in me, so sometimes I have to find that belief in myself a little bit, but this helps. And everyone from the team, they do a really good job helping me believe in myself and it pays off. \"\n\nMaikel Zijlaard was third at the end of the mostly flat, 189-kilometer (117-mile) route from the UNESCO World Heritage site of Alberobello to Lecce, to complete and all-Dutch podium for the first time in the Giro's history.\n\nPedersen was fourth to maintain a seven-second lead over pre-race favorite Primoz Roglic and his 14-second advantage over Mathias Vacek.\n\n\"It was a hectic final, especially like the rest of the day was quite easy, but the final was really something special,\" Pedersen said. \"Wide roads and then narrow roads and so on. So a stressful day in the end, but all in all it was okay, we made it.\"\n\nIt was certainly a long day for lone breakaway rider Francisco Mu\u00f1oz. The Spanish cyclist spent 133 kilometers up front on his own after escaping right from the start \u2014 and shaking his head when he saw no one had followed him.\n\nWednesday's fifth stage finishes at another World Heritage site as it ends in Matera, which is renowned for its \"Sassi\" or ancient cave dwellings, after a 151-kilometer route from Ceglie Messapica.\n\nThe Giro ends in Rome on June 1."}
{"prompt_hash": "a68ceb79e9b2eb90f7b16c614da9cafd1be74e37eba751cd6fedb0ea5db6bc66", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 04:03:07+00:00", "topics": ["Grard Depardieu", "Fanny Ardant", "Juliette Binoche", "France", "Cannes Film Festival", "Legal proceedings", "International", "Gerard Depardieu", "Europe", "Paris", "Carine Durrieu Diebolt", "Arts and entertainment", "Courts", "Indictments", "Criminal punishment", "Vincent Perez", "MeToo", "Assault", "Charlotte Arnould", "Sexual assault", "Jrmie Assous", "Entertainment"], "text": "# G\u00e9rard Depardieu found guilty of sexual assault\n\nBy Sylvie Corbet  \nMay 13th, 2025 04:03 AM\n\n---\n\nPARIS (AP) \u2014 French movie star G\u00e9rard Depardieu was convicted Tuesday of sexually assaulting two women on a set and received an 18-month suspended prison sentence in a case that was widely seen as a post-#MeToo test for the country's film industry.\n\nThe 76-year-old Depardieu, one of the most prominent figures in French cinema for decades, must also pay both accusers a total of 29,040 euros (around $32,350) in fines, and the court ordered that his name be listed in the national sex offender database.\n\nThe actor was convicted of groping a 54-year-old woman responsible for decorating the set and a 34-year-old assistant during the filming of \"Les Volets Verts\" (\"The Green Shutters\") in 2021.\n\nDepardieu, who has denied the accusations, did not attend the hearing in Paris. His lawyer said that his client would appeal the decision.\n\n## Accuser praises the verdict\n\nThe case offered a fresh assessment of how French society and its filmmakers would handle sexual misconduct allegations against a top actor in the wake of the #MeToo movement.\n\nOne of the accusers, the set dresser, said she was \"very much satisfied\" with the verdict.\n\n\"I'm very moved,\" she told reporters. \"That's a victory for me, really, and a big progress, a step forward. I feel justice was made.\"\n\nHer lawyer, Carine Durrieu Diebolt, said \"it is the victory of two women, and it is the victory of all women beyond this trial.\"\n\n\"Today we hope to see the end of impunity for an artist in the world of cinema,\" Durrieu Diebolt said. \"I think that with this decision, we can no longer say that he is not a sexual abuser. And today, as the Cannes Film Festival opens, I'd like the film world to spare a thought for G\u00e9rard Depardieu's victims.\"\n\nA suspended sentence means that Depardieu does not have to go to prison unless he commits another offense. Suspended sentences are common in France for a wide range of crimes.\n\nThe court said it took into account Depardieu's age, his poor health and his criminal record, which included one prior unrelated conviction, although the court offered no details.\n\n## Other misconduct allegations arose\n\nDepardieu's long and storied career \u2014 he told the court that he's made more than 250 films \u2014 has turned him into a French movie giant. He was nominated for an Oscar in 1991 for his performance as the swordsman and poet Cyrano de Bergerac.\n\nIn recent years, the actor has been accused publicly or in formal complaints of misconduct by more than 20 women, but so far only the sexual assault case has proceeded to court. Some other cases were dropped because of a lack of evidence or an expired statute of limitations.\n\nDuring the four-day trial in March, Depardieu rejected the accusations, saying he's \"not like that.\" He acknowledged using vulgar and sexual language on the film set and that he grabbed the set dresser's hips during an argument, but denied that his behavior was sexual.\n\nThe court, composed of a panel of three judges, concluded that Depardieu's explanations in court were \"unpersuasive\" and \"not credible\" and stressed both accusers' \"constant, reiterated and substantiated declarations.\"\n\nThe court also said that both plaintiffs have been faced with an \"aggressive\" defense strategy \"based on comments meant to offend them.\" The judges therefore concluded that comments by Depardieu's lawyer in court aggravated the harm to the accusers and justified higher fines.\n\nDepardieu lawyer J\u00e9r\u00e9mie Assous regretted that the court \"considered that questioning the accusations is an additional assault ... which means that now the defense, even in this type of trial, is no longer accepted.\"\n\n## The two accusers testified in court\n\nThe set dresser, whose duties could include choosing the furniture and paintings that will appear in a movie, said the actor used his legs as pincers to hold her as she squeezed past him in a narrow corridor.\n\nShe said he grabbed her hips then started groping her behind and \"in front, around.\" She ran her hands near her buttocks, hips and pubic area to show where she was touched. She said he then grabbed her chest.\n\nThe woman also testified that Depardieu used an obscene expression to ask her to touch his penis and suggested he wanted to rape her. She told the court that the actor's calm and cooperative attitude during the trial bore no resemblance to his behavior at work.\n\nThe other plaintiff, an assistant, said Depardieu groped her buttocks and breasts during three separate incidents on the film set.\n\nThe Associated Press does not identify by name people who say they were sexually assaulted unless they consent to be named. Neither woman has done so in this case, although one has agreed to be pictured.\n\n## Some expressed support for Depardieu\n\nSome figures in the French cinema world have expressed their support for Depardieu. Actors Vincent Perez and Fanny Ardant were among those who took seats on his side of the courtroom.\n\nFrench media reported last week that Depardieu was shooting a film directed by Ardant in the Azores archipelago, in Portugal.\n\nThe actor may have to face other legal proceedings soon.\n\nIn 2018, actor Charlotte Arnould accused him of raping her at his home. That case is still active, and in August 2024 prosecutors requested that it go to trial.\n\nFor more than a half-century, Depardieu stood as a towering figure in French cinema, a titan known for his commanding physical presence, instinct, sensibility and remarkable versatility.\n\nA bon vivant who overcame a speech impediment and a turbulent youth, Depardieu rose to prominence in the 1970s and became one of France's most prolific and acclaimed actors, portraying a vast array of characters, from volatile outsiders to deeply introspective figures.\n\nIn recent years, his behavior toward women has come under renewed scrutiny, including after a documentary showed him repeatedly making obscene remarks and gestures during a 2018 trip to North Korea.\n\nActor Juliette Binoche, who presides over the jury for the 78th Cannes Film Festival, said Tuesday that Depardieu is \"apparently no longer sacred,\" adding \"it makes us reflect on the power some people have.\""}
{"prompt_hash": "513f94b2f3c313fb59472b3bf1cf93627a86eeee652213345dd5184028052a1b", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 00:59:15+00:00", "topics": ["Australia government", "Indonesia government", "Pope Leo XIV", "Prabowo Subianto", "Anthony Albanese", "Rome", "Indonesia", "Australia", "Elections", "Peter Dutton", "Politics", "Conservatism", "Canada government", "Mark Carney"], "text": "# Australian Cabinet sworn in after landslide election victory\n\nMay 13th, 2025 12:59 AM\n\n---\n\nCANBERRA, Australia (AP) \u2014 Australia's Cabinet was sworn into office Tuesday after the center-left Labor Party was reelected in a landslide May 3.\n\nWith vote counting continuing, Labor expects to hold between 92 and 95 seats in the 150-seat House of Representatives. The party held 78 seats in the previous Parliament.\n\nThe conservative opposition alliance of parties is on track to win 41 seats in one of its worst election results.\n\nThe Cabinet held its first meeting after the swearing-in ceremony.\n\nPrime Minister Anthony Albanese plans to fly to Jakarta on Wednesday to meet Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto. He then intends to fly from Indonesia to Rome to attend the inauguration of Pope Leo XIV on Sunday.\n\nWhile in Rome, he plans to meet for the first time a range of world leaders including Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney.\n\nThe conservative opposition Liberal Party on Tuesday elected former minister Sussan Ley as their new leader. She is the first woman to lead the party that was founded in 1944. Her predecessor Peter Dutton is the only Australian opposition leader to lose his parliamentary seat in an election."}
{"prompt_hash": "073b347fe1be583a12c6acdd724e78fdeabdcfe782d05cff3fefdc90133611fc", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 07:51:55+00:00", "topics": ["Russia", "Penny Wong", "Ukraine", "Australia", "Moscow", "International agreements", "Australia government", "Thomas Schansman", "Business", "Dmitry Peskov", "Russia government", "Politics", "Netherlands government", "Caspar Veldkamp", "Rebellions and uprisings", "Don Rothwell"], "text": "# Global aviation council finds Russia responsible for downing MH17 over Ukraine in 2014\n\nBy Rod Mcguirk  \nMay 13th, 2025 07:51 AM\n\n---\n\nMELBOURNE, Australia (AP) \u2014 The Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization on Tuesday found Russia responsible for shooting down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over Ukraine with the loss of 298 lives more than a decade ago, in a ruling that raises the prospect of victims' families being paid compensation.\n\nRussia has rejected the findings.\n\nA Dutch-led international investigation concluded in 2016 that the Amsterdam-to-Kuala Lumpur airliner was shot down on July 17, 2014, from Ukrainian territory held by separatist rebels using a Buk missile system delivered from Russia. Moscow denies any involvement in the MH17 tragedy.\n\nThe Netherlands and Australian governments brought the case against Moscow before the Montreal-based global aviation agency in 2022, and on Tuesday welcomed the verdict.\n\n## Council finds that Russia violated the Chicago Convention\n\nThe council found that Russia had violated the Convention on International Civil Aviation, known as the Chicago Convention, which requires that states \"refrain from resorting to the use of weapons against civil aircraft in flight.\"\n\nIt's the first time that the council, which represents 193 member states, has decided a dispute between governments.\n\nDutch Foreign Minister Caspar Veldkamp said that the council would consider the question of reparations within weeks.\n\n\"In that context, the Netherlands and Australia are requesting that the ICAO Council order the Russian Federation to enter into negotiations with the Netherlands and Australia, and that the Council facilitate this process,\" Veldkamp said in a statement.\n\n\"The latter is important in order to ensure that the negotiations are conducted in good faith and according to specific timelines, and that they will yield actual results,\" he added.\n\nDutch father Thomas Schansman, who lost his son in the disaster, said the ICAO decision makes it clear Russia was responsible for the tragedy and could lead to compensation, but that he and other relatives mostly want the country to acknowledge its culpability.\n\n\"Money cannot buy anything back,\" he told The Associated Press.\n\nAustralian Foreign Minister Penny Wong urged the council to move swiftly to \"determine remedies.\"\n\n\"We call on Russia to finally face up to its responsibility for its horrific act of violence and make reparations for its egregious conduct, as required under international law,\" Wong said in a statement.\n\n## Russia rejects the council's findings\n\nSpeaking to journalists Tuesday, the Kremlin rejected the investigation's results as \"biased.\"\n\n\"Russia did not take part in the investigation of this incident and therefore we will not accept these biased conclusions,\" said Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov.\n\nAustralian National University international law expert Don Rothwell said that the council had yet to publish the reasons for its decisions.\n\n\"One of the consequences for this process will be that the council will probably make some recommendations that Russia pay what are called reparations, which is an international term for damages, as a result of its violation of international law,\" Rothwell said.\n\n\"So we have to wait and see exactly what the council finds on that particular point,\" Rothwell added."}
{"prompt_hash": "c9e9f3d2f48e83ac3efd69589449c35907f508e34becc426b48228a89c86c2dc", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 16:52:05+00:00", "topics": ["San Diego", "Jacqueline Ma", "California", "Assault", "Crime", "Prisons", "Legal proceedings", "Criminal punishment", "Education", "Sexual assault", "Child abuse", "Law enforcement"], "text": "# Former teacher of the year gets 30 years in California prison for sexually assaulting students\n\nMay 13th, 2025 04:52 PM\n\n---\n\nSAN DIEGO (AP) \u2014 A onetime county teacher of the year at a Southern California elementary school has been sentenced to 30 years to life in prison for grooming and sexually assaulting two young boys on campus.\n\nJacqueline Ma, who taught at Lincoln Acres Elementary in National City near San Diego, pleaded guilty in February to two counts of forcible lewd acts on a child, one count of a lewd act on a child, and one count of possessing child sexual abuse material.\n\nShe was arrested in March 2023 after the mother of one of the victims reported inappropriate messages she found between her son and Ma on a family tablet. Investigators learned that Ma had groomed the boy for more than a year before she sexually abused him when he was 12 years old, according to the San Diego County District Attorney's Office.\n\nInvestigators also discovered that she had groomed and sexually assaulted an 11-year-old boy in 2020.\n\n\"This defendant violated the trust she had with her students in the most extreme and traumatic way possible and her actions are despicable,\" District Attorney Summer Stephan said in a statement last week. \"Her victims will have to deal with a lifetime of negative effects and her 30-year sentence is appropriate.\"\n\nMa had taught in the district since 2013 and had a bachelor's degree in biology and a master's in education, both from UC San Diego, according to her teacher of the year profile in the San Diego Union-Tribune.\n\nThe award was given for the 2022-23 academic year by the San Diego County Office of Education."}
{"prompt_hash": "6de3305bc9b3fa6154a0e9fc51568e225d07e0378aca71f52cabf02f76413eac", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 11:08:28+00:00", "topics": ["Carlo Ancelotti", "Soccer", "Madrid", "Real Madrid", "Brazil", "Barcelona", "Sports", "RCD Mallorca", "Bayer Leverkusen"], "text": "# Ancelotti focused on finishing 'spectacular adventure' with Madrid before taking over Brazil job\n\nBy Tales Azzoni  \nMay 13th, 2025 11:08 AM\n\n---\n\nMADRID (AP) \u2014 Carlo Ancelotti wants to finish his \"spectacular adventure\" with Real Madrid on a high note before turning his attention to his new job with five-time world champion Brazil.\n\nSpeaking for the first time since Brazil announced him as its next coach, Ancelotti said Tuesday he wants to remain fully focused on Madrid in his final two weeks in charge of the Spanish powerhouse.\n\nThe 65-year-old Italian had not commented on the move until he was asked about it at a news conference ahead of Madrid's next Spanish league match against Mallorca on Wednesday.\n\n\"I have great respect for this club, these fans and these players and I'm totally focused on finishing the last part of this spectacular adventure,\" Ancelotti said. \"Beginning on May 26 I will start coaching Brazil, which will be a great challenge personally, but until then I will continue training Real Madrid and I want to finish the best possible way.\"\n\nAncelotti said he will give his all to help Madrid finish well in the Spanish league even though it only has a slim chance of defending its title. The club's last two league matches will be at Sevilla on Sunday and against Real Sociedad on May 25.\n\n\"It's very clear what I have to do during these next few weeks,\" Ancelotti said. \"I have to prepare for tomorrow's match, then for the (weekend's) match and then for the match against Real Sociedad. On May 26 I'll have something else to do, and then I will start thinking about that.\"\n\nFormer Madrid player Xabi Alonso is widely expected to take over the coaching job after confirming he is leaving Bayer Leverkusen, but the Spanish club has yet to announce Ancelotti's successor.\n\n\"I like Alonso a lot,\" Ancelotti said when asked about the former midfielder. \"I don't have any advice for him because he already has all the tools needed to become a great coach in the future.\"\n\nAncelotti, wearing Madrid's apparel as usual, looked relaxed as he led the team's practice session at the club's training center.\n\nMadrid had not released any reaction or statement about its coach since Brazil's announcement, and there were no farewell or congratulatory messages for Ancelotti either.\n\n\"The club will make its announcement when it wants to make its announcement,\" Ancelotti said. \"I don't see any problem.\"\n\nAncelotti had previously said he would never leave Madrid unless the club decided to make a change. On Tuesday, he said the partnership naturally came to an end.\n\n\"I never felt that Madrid didn't want me,\" Ancelotti said. \"These are normal things in life, I couldn't be Madrid's coach forever. There's a time when things have to come to an end, for several different reasons. Maybe the club needed a new boost, maybe the coach needed a new boost. It's normal, there's no need to make a drama about this. I'm hugely thankful for this club and we will go our separate ways. It's a spectacular time that is coming to an end.\"\n\nMadrid lost its fourth straight match to Barcelona on Sunday, a 4-3 defeat after holding a two-goal lead, to see its title chances in the league virtually vanish. Madrid dropped seven points behind the Catalan club with three matches remaining. A loss or a draw against Mallorca on Wednesday would hand Barcelona the title. Barcelona visits city rival Espanyol on Thursday.\n\n\"We don't want to hand the league to our rival,\" Ancelotti said. \"We need to do well in these last three matches.\"\n\nAncelotti is leaving after four mostly successful years in his second stint with Madrid, which won both the Champions League and the Spanish league last season.\n\nAncelotti also coached the club from 2013-2015. In total, he was in charge of Madrid in 350 matches and helped it win three Champions Leagues, three Club World Cups, two Spanish leagues, two Copa del Reys, three UEFA Super Cups and two Spanish Super Cups.\n\nMadrid began the season by winning the UEFA Super Cup title but has mostly struggled since then. Many Madrid fans blamed Ancelotti for its relatively poor season, saying he lost control over the squad and wasn't able to get the team ready for the clasicos against Barcelona.\n\nHe said he understood if fans were upset about him negotiating with Brazil during the season, but that such dealings were normal in soccer.\n\nHe admitted \"not everything went perfectly,\" but felt that fans would not soon forget some \"wonderful nights at the Bernabeu\" during his stint.\n\n\"I don't regret anything. I've had a fantastic time here and I want to have a fantastic time in these last 15 days. I gave everything I could, and the titles speak for themselves,\" Ancelotti said. \"Yes, I wanted to win another Spanish league and another Champions League, but I'm very happy with what has been happening.\""}
{"prompt_hash": "c0f7eccd9fcd2ffcea5511d1ccf60f64d6ad9dfa70a18a6ef9f2ca437f26cb9a", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 14:21:28+00:00", "topics": ["Joe Biden", "Mens health", "Donald Trump", "Prostate cancer", "Cancer", "Political debates", "Health", "Politics"], "text": "# Nodule found in Joe Biden's prostate during exam\n\nMay 13th, 2025 02:21 PM\n\n---\n\nWASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 A small nodule was found in the prostate of former President Joe Biden during a routine physical exam, a spokesperson said Tuesday.\n\nA short statement said the finding \"necessitated further evaluation,\" but it was not clear whether that had already taken place or the outcome of the examination.\n\nThe detection of nodules in the prostate generally requires a further exam by a urologist to rule out prostate cancer. These kinds of abnormal growths can be caused by cancer or by less serious conditions, including inflammation or an enlarged prostate.\n\nBiden is 82. His age and concerns about his health were cited by Democratic leaders who pressed him to abandon his reelection bid in 2024 following a disastrous debate performance last June.\n\nBut as recently as last week, Biden rejected concerns about his age, saying the broader party didn't buy into that, and instead blaming the Democratic leadership and \"significant contributors.\"\n\nPresident Donald Trump repeatedly raised questions about Biden's physical and mental capacity during the campaign.\n\nIn February 2023, Biden had a skin lesion removed from his chest that was a basal cell carcinoma, a common form of skin cancer. And in November 2021, he had a polyp removed from his colon that was a benign, but potentially pre-cancerous lesion."}
{"prompt_hash": "1411902da3294acfc295a25b2ab1c07b855f0d46884046199927f8c525bb070b", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 02:17:50+00:00", "topics": ["Boston Celtics", "Jayson Tatum", "Joe Mazzulla", "Athlete injuries", "NBA Playoffs", "Jaylen Brown", "Injuries", "Medical diagnostic technology", "Basketball", "NBA", "New York City Wire", "Kristaps Porzingis", "Sports", "NBA basketball"], "text": "# Jayson Tatum suffers right leg injury in Celtics' loss to Knicks\n\nBy Brian Mahoney  \nMay 13th, 2025 02:17 AM\n\n---\n\nNEW YORK (AP) \u2014 The Boston Celtics are used to seeing Jayson Tatum get up when he goes down, like he did after a hard fall that caused a wrist injury in the first round of the playoffs.\n\nWhen he couldn't get to his feet late in Game 4 of the Eastern Conference semifinals and had to be carried off the court, it was clear just how serious his lower right leg injury was, even before testing that won't come until Tuesday.\n\n\"He's the type of guy, he gets right up,\" Celtics coach Joe Mazzulla said. \"So he didn't and we'll know tomorrow exactly what it is. But yeah, I mean it's tough to watch a guy like him get carried like that.\"\n\nThe Celtics had just turned the ball over with about three minutes left and as Tatum lunged forward toward the loose ball, his leg gave out and he went down. He buried his face in a towel in obvious pain while grabbing at his leg above the ankle after the non-contact injury.\n\nThe New York Knicks won 121-113 to take a 3-1 lead. The series resumes Wednesday in Boston with the Celtics needing to win to extend their NBA title reign.\n\nMazzulla said the All-Star forward would undergo an MRI exam Tuesday.\n\n\"I think tonight is tough,\" the Celtics' Jaylen Brown said. \"I think everybody's kind of at a loss for words, just because, one losing the game, but obviously the concern with JT. But we pick our heads back up tomorrow and go from there.\"\n\nTatum scored 42 points, his high in these playoffs, before he was hurt. He buried his face in his hands as he was pushed down a tunnel in a wheelchair after leaving the floor.\n\nAn eight-year veteran, Tatum won his first NBA title last year when he led Boston to its 18th championship.\n\nPlayers and coaches on both sides expressed their concern for Tatum, who was hurt in Game 1 of the opening around against Orlando when he was fouled on a dunk attempt and landed awkwardly, remaining on the court briefly before getting up holding his right wrist. He remained in the game before missing Game 2, the first time he'd missed a playoff game in his career.\n\nThe Celtics won without him that time. Now they are faced with having to do it again.\n\n\"Obviously it's tough to see, but who hasn't had injuries, you know?\" Celtics center Kristaps Porzingis said. \"And it's a part of this sport, part of this game and we feel for him, of course. But we have to move forward. He don't want us to be over here sad and not play our best basketball. So, we're going to go out there and leave it all out there and live with the result.\""}
{"prompt_hash": "bdebb14992b9c3a9fb6a22223fb34edb930bd5705a1cd257ce8500c2815c7ba1", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 16:42:57+00:00", "topics": ["Adelaide Faith", "Books and literature", "Psychotherapy", "Book Reviews", "Arts and entertainment", "Health", "Helen Wieffering", "Fiction", "Entertainment"], "text": "# 'Happiness Forever' review: Debut novel is set on a therapy couch\n\nBy Helen Wieffering  \nMay 13th, 2025 04:42 PM\n\n---\n\nDo we get to choose who we love? For Sylvie, the protagonist of Adelaide Faith's \"Happiness Forever,\" the answer is surely an emphatic \"No.\" That's because Sylvie is in love with her therapist, an older woman with peach-colored hair who lives within walking distance of Sylvie's home. After 13 sessions, Sylvie spends her weeks counting down the hours until she and her therapist meet again. She can't decide whether she wants the therapist to adopt her or simply hold her hand.\n\nThe question of what to do about this inconvenient obsession carries through Faith's endearing debut novel. Sylvie knows she must respect the boundaries of the therapy room, but feeds her obsession in other ways \u2014 adopting her therapist's style of dress; studying therapy on her work breaks at the vet clinic; staying alert for a chance encounter in the neighborhood dog park. If the therapist only loved her, Sylvie believes all her problems would be solved. \"There might be no need to worry about carrying on when somebody else had already worked out the meaning of life,\" Sylvie thinks.\n\nWhat might in another book veer into unsettling territory is kept here in a lighthearted realm that deepens with meaning as we learn more about Sylvie's reasons for being in therapy and her shy attempts outside those sessions toward a fuller, healthier life. Sylvie makes a new friend; goes on a trip; and searches for ways to feel \"like a person\" with a \"real\" and meaningful life. As the book goes on, Sylvie must find out if she has healed enough to release herself from the therapist's grip."}
{"prompt_hash": "16b1f462c6ae8f2b9ad1614a1c9e8ba5a38a976f397e3c55def249a692087a1e", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-12 21:45:25+00:00", "topics": ["Donald Trump", "Internal Revenue Service", "Taxes", "Melanie Krause", "Immigration", "United States government", "Privacy", "United States", "Elon Musk", "Alan Butler Morrison"], "text": "# Judge refuses to block IRS from sharing tax data to identify and deport people illegally in U.S.\n\nBy The Associated Press  \nMay 12th, 2025 09:45 PM\n\n---\n\nA federal judge on Monday refused to block the Internal Revenue Service from sharing immigrants' tax data with Immigration and Customs Enforcement for the purpose of identifying and deporting people illegally in the U.S.\n\nIn a win for the Trump administration, U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich denied a preliminary injunction in a lawsuit filed by nonprofit groups. They argued that undocumented immigrants who pay taxes are entitled to the same privacy protections as U.S. citizens and immigrants who are legally in the country.\n\nFriedrich, who was appointed by President Donald Trump, had previously refused to grant a temporary order in the case.\n\nThe decision comes less than a month after former acting IRS commissioner Melanie Krause resigned over the deal allowing ICE to submit names and addresses of immigrants inside the U.S. illegally to the IRS for cross-verification against tax records.\n\n\"The plaintiffs are disappointed in the Court's denial of our preliminary injunction, but the case is far from over. We are considering our options,\" Alan Butler Morrison, the attorney representing the nonprofit groups, wrote in an email. He noted that the judge's ruling made it clear that the Department of Homeland Security and the IRS can't venture beyond the strict limitations spelled out in the case.\n\n\"So far, DHS has not made formal requests for taxpayer data and plaintiffs will be keeping a close watch to be sure that the defendants carry out their promises to follow the law and not use the exception for unlawful purposes,\" Morrison said.\n\nThe IRS has been in upheaval over Trump administration decisions to share taxpayer data. A previous acting commissioner announced his retirement earlier amid a furor over Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency gaining access to IRS taxpayer data.\n\nThe Treasury Department says the agreement with ICE will help carry out President Donald Trump's agenda to secure U.S. borders and is part of his larger nationwide immigration crackdown, which has resulted in deportations, workplace raids and the use of an 18th century wartime law to deport Venezuelan migrants.\n\nThe acting ICE director has said working with Treasury and other departments is \"strictly for the major criminal cases.\"\n\nAdvocates, however, say the IRS-DHS information-sharing agreement violates privacy laws and diminishes the privacy of all Americans.\n\nIn her ruling, Friedrich said the agreement doesn't violate the Internal Revenue Code, so the IRS hasn't substantially changed the way it handles taxpayer information. Instead, the Trump administration has decided to use already existing \"statutorily authorized tools\" to help with criminal investigations, Friedrich wrote.\n\nFederal law allows the IRS to release some taxpayer information to other agencies if the information may assist in criminal enforcement proceedings, and the requesting agency meets certain criteria, the judge said.\n\nStill, that doesn't mean that all the information the IRS holds can be turned over, Friedrich said.\n\nFirst, the investigating agency has to already have the name and address of the person whose information is being sought. Then the agency has to provide that information to the IRS, along with the time span for which the information relates, the law that allows the information to be released and the reason why any IRS-disclosed information would be relevant to the investigation.\n\n\"In other words, the IRS can disclose information it obtains itself (such as through audits), but not information it obtains exclusively from the taxpayer (such as a tax return filed by the taxpayer),\" Friedrich wrote. She noted the law contains a significant exception \u2014 a taxpayer's identity, including the individual's name, address or taxpayer identifying number, isn't considered part of the protected tax return information."}
{"prompt_hash": "615f36fddcddd7d2313dd869a31007e28ca21d83bfe909e7ea43521e07e07c89", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 02:23:52+00:00", "topics": ["Jayson Tatum", "Jalen Brunson", "New York Knicks", "Boston Celtics", "NBA Playoffs", "Mikal Bridges", "Karl Anthony Towns", "Jaylen Brown", "O.G. Anunoby", "Athlete injuries", "NBA", "New York City Wire", "Cleveland", "Sports", "Derrick White", "NBA basketball", "Al Horford"], "text": "# Knicks take a 3-1 lead over the Celtics with a 121-113 victory as Tatum is injured in final minutes\n\nBy Brian Mahoney  \nMay 13th, 2025 02:23 AM\n\n---\n\nNEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Jalen Brunson and the New York Knicks had just taken control of the game with another fourth-quarter kick when Jayson Tatum fell to the court with a potentially severe right leg injury.\n\nThe specifics of Tatum's injury are uncertain but the situation in the Eastern Conference semifinals is clear.\n\nThe Knicks need one more victory to reach the conference finals for the first time in 25 years. The Celtics need to match the biggest comeback in NBA history to extend their title reign.\n\nBrunson had 39 points and 12 assists, and the Knicks pushed the defending champions to the brink of elimination with a 121-113 victory Monday night in Game 4.\n\nBlown out in Game 3, the Knicks dominated the second half to become the first home team to win in this series.\n\n\"I think it was a sense of urgency, desperation, just knowing that we have a great opportunity,\" Brunson said.\n\nThe Celtics will have to make the NBA's 14th comeback from a 3-1 deficit and may have to do it without Tatum, who was carried off the court with a right leg injury with 2:58 left.\n\nMikal Bridges and Karl-Anthony Towns each added 23 points and OG Anunoby bounced back from two poor performances by scoring 20 for the Knicks, who can win the series Wednesday night at Boston. If not, they would come back to Madison Square Garden to try to do it Friday night.\n\n\"We have to turn that page quickly and do our first job, which is win on Wednesday. That's the mindset,\" Celtics veteran Al Horford said. \"As a group, we just have to rally together because obviously we've lost our leader, the guy that gets us going.\"\n\nTatum scored 42 points, his high in these playoffs, before he was hurt when the Celtics turned the ball over and his leg gave out as he tried to lunge forward toward the loose ball.\n\nNobody has come from 3-1 down since Denver did it twice in 2020 at the Walt Disney World resort. It hasn't happened when a team had to win a true road game since Cleveland rallied past Golden State in the 2016 NBA Finals.\n\nAfter leading by at least 20 points in the first three games \u2014 but blowing the first two of them in Boston \u2014 the Celtics had another double-digit lead less than five minutes into this game and were up 62-51 at halftime.\n\nBrunson then scored 18 in a desperate third quarter, when the Knicks played their starters the entire way and outscored the Celtics 37-23 to set up a thrilling final period.\n\n\"Just keep fighting,\" Bridges said. \"We were down way worse before.\"\n\nTatum's three-point play tied it for the final time at 102-all before Anunoby hit a 3-pointer and the Knicks later put it away for good with an 11-0 burst that made it 116-104.\n\nDerrick White made six 3-pointers and scored 23 points for the Celtics. Jaylen Brown had 20."}
{"prompt_hash": "cbe116e166ddb618086b3e551d82ecdd79004a3e6530a82dde146c1dbb266535", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 16:17:05+00:00", "topics": ["Crime", "Baghdad", "Iraq", "Law and order", "Drug crimes", "Terrorism", "Prisons", "Indictments", "Islamic State group"], "text": "# Iraq says more than 19,000 prisoners have been released under a new amnesty law\n\nBy Qassim Abdul-Zahra  \nMay 13th, 2025 04:17 PM\n\n---\n\nBAGHDAD (AP) \u2014 More than 19,000 prisoners have been released in Iraq so far this year under a broad new amnesty law that eases prison crowding and frees some people convicted of terrorism-related crimes, judicial authorities said Tuesday.\n\nThe amnesty covers some people convicted of the terror-related offense of membership in the Islamic State group, which had been seen by Sunni Muslims as disproportionately targeting their community. However, anyone convicted of a killing in connection with terrorism-related charges is not eligible for the amnesty. Other crimes covered under the amnesty include corruption, theft and drug use.\n\nThe number of releases were announced following a meeting Tuesday in Baghdad among top judicial officials led by the head of the Supreme Judicial Council Faeq Zeidan to discuss the implementation of the new law, passed earlier this year.\n\nA statement released after the meeting said that 19,381 inmates were released from prisons during the first four months of the year. It added that the overall number of beneficiaries of the law, including those sentenced in absentia, those released on bail and those with outstanding arrest warrants, reached 93,597.\n\nIraq's prisons face a crisis of overcrowding, with the justice minister saying earlier this month that the country's 31 prisons hold about 65,000 inmates despite being built to hold only about half that number.\n\nThousands more detainees remain in the custody of security agencies but have not yet been transferred to the Justice Ministry due to a lack of prison capacity.\n\nAmong provisions of the new law adopted in January is that some people convicted of terrorism charges can ask for a retrial if they assert that their confessions were taken under duress while in detention.\n\nThe general amnesty law had strong support from Sunni lawmakers who argue that their community has been targeted by terrorism charges, with confessions sometimes extracted under torture.\n\nThousands of detainees held in the country are linked to the Islamic State group, which was defeated in Iraq in 2017. Some former members of the extremist group were executed for their acts while they controlled large parts of the country.\n\nAll executions have been halted under the general amnesty law.\n\nIraq has faced criticism from human rights groups over its application of the death penalty and particularly over mass executions carried out without prior notice to lawyers or family members of the prisoners."}
{"prompt_hash": "e1b268da6e7ce6a725e197fb8875861e3d8078b161068d3428e6e5798c6cad8c", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 16:11:21+00:00", "topics": ["Florida Panthers", "Doug Cifu", "National Hockey League", "Social media", "NHL", "Sports", "Donald Trump", "Virtu Financial", "Inc.", "Vincent Viola", "Gary Bettman", "Business", "Canada", "NHL hockey"], "text": "# Panthers vice chairman Doug Cifu suspended by NHL over comments on social media\n\nBy Tim Reynolds  \nMay 13th, 2025 04:11 PM\n\n---\n\nThe NHL has suspended Florida Panthers vice chairman and alternate governor Doug Cifu from any involvement with the team or the league, doing so in response to inappropriate posts on Cifu's now-shuttered social media account.\n\nCifu, in posts on X, got into a back-and-forth with a Toronto fan on Sunday night, the fan starting the exchange by comparing hits by Florida players in this ongoing series against the Maple Leafs to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians.\n\nA post on Cifu's account shortly after, in response to the Toronto fan, referred to the fan a \"51st state anti semite loser.\" President Donald Trump has often said in recent months that he wants to see Canada added to the United States as the 51st state. That post was among those deleted not long afterward, and the account has since been suspended.\n\n\"The NHL has concluded that Mr. Cifu's X posts were unacceptable and inappropriate,\" the league said in a statement, first reported by The Toronto Sun. \"As a result, Mr. Cifu has been suspended indefinitely from any involvement with the Club and the NHL.\"\n\nCifu \u2014 whose name is etched on the Stanley Cup, part of the group that the Panthers included in that tribute after winning their first title last year \u2014 is CEO of Virtu Financial, a company he co-founded with Panthers owner, chairman and governor Vincent Viola in 2008.\n\nCifu will have an in-person meeting with Commissioner Gary Bettman at some point.\n\n\"My behavior does not reflect the standards of the Florida Panthers organization and the Viola family,\" Cifu said in a statement to Florida Hockey Now. \"I sincerely apologize to all those affected by my comments. I am committed to working with the NHL to amend my actions.\""}
{"prompt_hash": "448057e520c933796456c10fbb55028af6273cdd985f0003e16161fcf4a54cbe", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 16:08:37+00:00", "topics": ["Rory McIlroy", "Scottie Scheffler", "Golf", "PGA Championship", "Viktor Hovland", "Bryson DeChambeau", "Jordan Spieth", "Max Homa", "Sports betting", "Masters Golf Tournament", "The Masters", "Sports", "Justin Rose", "Charlotte"], "text": "# Sports betting: McIlroy and Scheffler head into PGA Championship as co-favorites\n\nBy Ryan Hannable Of Betmgm Sportsbook  \nMay 13th, 2025 04:08 PM\n\n---\n\nThe last two Masters champions are the co-favorites for this week's PGA Championship.\n\nRory McIlroy and Scottie Scheffler are tied for the shortest odds at the BetMGM Sportsbook, both listed at +500 for the season's second major. The tournament starts Thursday at Quail Hollow Golf Club in Charlotte, North Carolina.\n\nMcIlroy, who won the Masters last month, has won four times at Quail Hollow, including last year's Wells Fargo Championship.\n\nUnlike most PGA Championship venues, this is a familiar one because it is a regular stop on the PGA Tour. The course also hosted the 2017 PGA Championship and the 2022 Presidents Cup.\n\nQuail Hollow is a long course, playing over 7,600 yards, and it will play even longer this week following heavy rain.\n\n## PGA Championship favorites\n\nThere are three players with odds shorter than +1000 to win this week \u2013 Scheffler (+500), McIlroy (+500), and Bryson DeChambeau (+800).\n\nAs of Tuesday morning at the BetMGM Sportsbook, Scheffler is taking in the most number of bets in the outright winner market (14.9%) and the most money (20.7%).\n\nMcIlroy is next, taking in the second-most bets (13%) and second-most money (17.6%). DeChambeau has the third-most bets (12.6%) and third-most money (15.4%).\n\nThese three players are combining for more than half of the money (53.7%) in the outright winner market.\n\n## PGA Championship long shots\n\nWhile these players aren't necessarily long shots, they are the next tier behind the big three for the event.\n\nJordan Spieth, who is going for the career Grand Slam this week, is +5500 to win. He's bringing in the sixth-most bets (4.1%) and sixth-most money (5.3%).\n\nAnother player with longer odds generating some action is Viktor Hovland at +5000. He's drawing the ninth-most bets and seventh-most money.\n\nAt +9000, Justin Rose is taking in the 14th-most bets, while at +10000, Max Homa is taking in the 16th-most bets.\n\n## PGA Championship prop bets\n\nIn addition to outright winner and top 5/10/20 finish bets, there are other markets available.\n\nThere's the winning margin, where one stroke has the lowest odds at +240, followed by a playoff, two strokes, and four strokes or more (+350). Three strokes is +650.\n\nWill there be a hole-in-one? Yes is +140, while no is -175.\n\nOther notable prop bets include: any player to set a course record by shooting 60 or lower (+650), albatross in the tournament (+1200), and Scheffler/McIlroy to win (+200) or the field (-285)."}
{"prompt_hash": "b8a73e9eb6c3a3cdd611f83a9158ce8d025bfa56448b167c1ef937cfe129a68f", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 16:02:24+00:00", "topics": ["Matthew Whitaker", "Donald Trump", "The Hague", "Vladimir Putin", "Mark Rutte", "United States government", "Russia", "Canada", "Ukraine", "Government budgets", "United States", "NATO", "Politics", "North Atlantic Treaty Organization", "Business", "Russia Ukraine war", "Dick Schoof"], "text": "# US envoy says the Trump administration insists NATO allies raise defense investment to 5%\n\nBy Lorne Cook  \nMay 13th, 2025 04:02 PM\n\n---\n\nBRUSSELS (AP) \u2014 The Trump administration wants to hear this week how NATO's European member countries and Canada plan to boost defense investment to 5% of gross domestic product, new U.S. envoy Matthew Whitaker said Tuesday.\n\nIn 2023, as Russia's full-scale war on Ukraine entered its second year, NATO leaders agreed to spend at least 2% of GDP on national defense budgets. So far, 22 of the 32 member countries have done so.\n\nThe leaders will set a new goal at a summit in The Hague on June 25. President Donald Trump insists that U.S. allies should commit to spending at least 5%, but that would require investment at an unprecedented scale.\n\nTrump has cast doubt over whether the U.S. would defend allies that spend too little.\n\nBriefing reporters ahead of a meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Antalya, Turkey on Wednesday, U.S. Ambassador Matthew Whitaker insisted that \"5% is our number. We're asking our allies to invest in their defense like they mean it.\"\n\n\"Make no mistake, this ministerial is going to be different,\" Whitaker said, adding that \"5% is not just a number, it is a necessity for our security. The alliance is facing significant threats.\"\n\nHe did not outline those threats.\n\nNATO leaders insisted at a summit last year that \"Russia remains the most significant and direct threat to Allies' security,\" but some countries have grown uneasy about Trump's links to President Vladimir Putin.\n\nLast week, Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof said that NATO's chief expects the leaders \"to aim for 3.5% hard military spending by 2032,\" and to \"1.5% related spending such as infrastructure, cybersecurity and things like that. Also achievable by 2032.\"\n\nWhile the two figures do add up to 5%, factoring in infrastructure and cybersecurity would change the basis on which NATO traditionally calculates defense spending. The seven-year time frame is also short by the alliance's usual standards.\n\nAsked about his demand, NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte did not deny it, but he said: \"I'm not going to confirm the figures.\" He said that \"there are many rumors floating around\" as envoys discuss the new spending goal.\n\nWhitaker appeared to confirm the \"defense investment\" plan, saying that it \"also includes things like mobility, necessary infrastructure, cyber security. It is definitely more than just missiles, tanks and howitzers.\"\n\n\"But at the same time, it's got to be defense-related. It's not a grab bag for everything that you could possibly imagine,\" Whitaker added.\n\nIt remains difficult to see how many allies might reach even 3.5%. NATO's most recent estimates show that 22 allies would reach the 2% goal last year, compared to a previous forecast of 23.\n\nBelgium, Canada, Croatia, Italy, Luxembourg, Montenegro, Portugal, Slovenia and Spain would not, although Spain does expect to reach the 2% goal in 2025, a year too late.\n\nEven the United States was estimated to have spent 3.19% of GDP in 2024, down from 3.68% a decade ago, when all members vowed to increase spending after Russia annexed Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula. It's the only ally whose spending has dropped.\n\nWhitaker also said that any European investments in \"defense industry capabilities must also include the fair treatment for American defense technology firms.\" He said that excluding the U.S. and others \"would undermine NATO interoperability, slow Europe's rearming, raise costs and stifle innovation.\"\n\nLast month, the European Union announced a new drive to break its security dependency on the United States, with a focus on buying more defense equipment in Europe."}
{"prompt_hash": "9d14dd0fc5d9325de7e4db0df3844b19e6b9ea4728ec03961443c8a400aa81b3", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 16:01:33+00:00", "topics": ["Newark", "Ras Baraka", "Robert Menendez", "Delaney Hall", "Donald Trump", "Prisons", "Law enforcement", "Immigration", "New York City Wire", "Alina Habba", "Protests and demonstrations", "U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement", "Indictments", "Politics", "Bonnie Coleman", "U.S. Democratic Party"], "text": "# Newark mayor returns to immigration detention center days after trespassing arrest\n\nMay 13th, 2025 04:01 PM\n\n---\n\nNEWARK, N.J. (AP) \u2014 Newark Mayor Ras Baraka briefly returned Tuesday to the gates of the federal immigration detention center where he was arrested last week on trespassing charges.\n\nBaraka, a Democrat running for governor in the June 10 primary, was turned away from Delaney Hall, the facility where he was arrested Friday. He departed and stayed about a half hour away from the building, according to NJ.com.\n\nWitnesses said the arrest last week 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\nBaraka, an outspoken opponent of President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown and vocal opponent of the facility's opening, faces a court hearing on the trespassing charge on Thursday. He has denied the trespassing charge\n\nIt wasn't immediately clear how Baraka's appearance at the gates Tuesday differed from Friday when he was arrested. He denied being on the detention facility's property, which is run by private prison operator Geo Group. Alina Habba, interim U.S. attorney for New Jersey, said on the social platform X that Baraka trespassed there again.\n\nIn video of the Friday 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\nDelaney Hall is a two-story building next to a county prison and formerly operated as a halfway house. In 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."}
{"prompt_hash": "cab24090f75fc1011e2b5533564147edf310522371b13f6b64ff1a02f50dcf8f", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 04:10:08+00:00", "topics": ["Donald Trump", "JD Vance", "Chicago", "Pope Francis", "Pope Leo XIV", "Catholic Church", "United States government", "United States", "Papal conclave", "JWD-evergreen", "United States Congress", "Kamala Harris", "Steven Millies", "Robert F. Prevost", "Hugh Hewitt", "Raul Zegarra", "David Gibson", "Religion", "Government and politics", "Timothy Dolan", "Politics"], "text": "# Trump and Pope Leo are Earth's most powerful Americans in differing ways\n\nBy Laurie Kellman  \nMay 13th, 2025 04:10 AM\n\n---\n\nThe motto of one newly elected American world leader: \" Fight! \" The other introduced himself to the world with his first public word as pope: \" Peace.\"\n\nThe contrast between President Donald Trump and Chicago-born Pope Leo XIV couldn't be more stark \u2014 politically, personally or in their world views. They lead in different roles and realms.\n\nBut Leo's historic election last week to lead the world's 1.4 billion Catholics as the first U.S.-born pope means that the two most powerful people on the planet are Americans. That raises questions about American influence at a time when Trump's tariff wars and \"one way or the other\" threats have upended eight decades of global order and sparked distrust among allies toward the United States.\n\nThe prospect of too much American power in geopolitics is widely considered one reason that the Catholic Church had not elected an American to the papacy across the country's nearly 250-year history. Until, that is, the former Cardinal Robert F. Prevost of Chicago \u2014 Pope Leo XIV \u2014 was chosen last week to be the 267th pontiff.\n\n\"The irony of Leo's election is that many in the rest of the world will view it as a sign of hope \u2014 as an American who can speak for them rather than act against them,\" said David Gibson, director of Fordham University's Center on Religion and Culture.\n\n## Pope Leo is another kind of American on the world stage\n\nThe shock and delight of the not-well-known cardinal's election soon shifted into robust discussion about how the top of the global pecking order could be populated by two Americans.\n\nTrump is known to not enjoy sharing attention or primacy, as his \"America first\" foreign policy approach makes clear. American Catholics chose Trump over his Democratic rival, Kamala Harris.\n\nIn one apparent appeal to them, Trump posted an AI-generated image of himself dressed as a pope during the days of mourning for Pope Francis, who died April 21. The move was not appreciated by some Catholics and Italians. Trump denied posting the image himself and said anyone who was offended \"can't take a joke.\" He insisted that \"the Catholics loved it.\"\n\nEven so, Trump wished Leo well and called it a \"great honor\" that the new pope was American.\n\nPope Leo, meanwhile, is in some senses a politician as well, with a calm manner and the approach of talking to his fellow cardinals in small groups before the conclave, they said. Though he was born in Chicago, Leo \u2014 then Prevost \u2014 spent two decades as a missionary in Peru before being appointed by Pope Francis in 2023 to lead the Vatican's powerful office that vets bishops around the world.\n\nHe wouldn't be the first pope to wade into world politics. Pope John Paul II, for example, is rightly credited with helping bring down communism. But Leo enters the papacy having already criticized Vice President JD Vance, the highest-profile Catholic in American politics, on social media. Leo is at odds with the administration on such policy issues as immigration \u2014 Trump's signature issue \u2014 and the environment.\n\nLike Trump, Leo has turned his attention to the media. On Monday in Vatican City, he called for the release of imprisoned journalists and affirmed the calling for \"all of us to safeguard the precious gift of free speech and of the press.\" In contrast, Trump's approach to journalists has been combative, from the White House to the courts.\n\n## Trump and Pope Leo are in 'different lanes' as leaders\n\nIn early February, Leo \u2014 then still Prevost \u2014 shared an article from a Catholic publication with the headline, \"JD Vance is wrong: Jesus doesn't ask us to rank our love for others.\"\n\nIt came days after Vance \u2014 a convert to Catholicism \u2014 discussed immigration in a Fox News interview by referencing a Christian tenet \"that you love your family and then you love your neighbor, and then you love your community, and then you love your fellow citizens, and then after that, prioritize the rest of the world.\"\n\nLeo, speaking Italian to thousands gathered in St. Peter's Square, described a different vision for the Church and human relations: \"We have to be a church that works together to build bridges and to keep our arms open, like this very piazza, welcoming.\"\n\nVance suggested the papacy is \"bigger\" than politics and social media. \"It's very hard to fit a 2,000-year-old institution into the politics of 2025 America,\" he said during an interview with conservative commentator Hugh Hewitt, adding that \"it's better for all of us if we allow the church to be about the saving of souls.\"\n\nIn the rise of Trump at the same time as Leo, \"the gospel meets the culture,\" said Steven Millies, director of The Bernardin Center at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago. Religion and politics, he added, are misaligned because they are \"oriented toward different purposes.\"\n\n\"What both Francis and then Cardinal Prevost were doing was being bishops \u2014 teaching the Gospel, and reminding us the Gospel always is on the side of the poor, the afflicted, the suffering,\" Millies said in an email. \"That's not Trump's lane as a president, a reality TV star or a businessman.\"\n\n## How American is Pope Leo's world view, anyway?\n\nLeo's decades in Peru \u2014 he is a citizen of both countries \u2014 can give him a broader view of humanity and power, and religion and politics, scholars say.\n\nBeyond the obvious personality differences with Trump, Leo is expected to wield power differently \u2014 to the neediest people first, for example, whereas Trump cut off American aid. Leo did not mention his American roots during his first speech, nor did he speak in English \u2014 a sign, some Vatican watchers said, of his global priorities.\n\n\"Even though it is factually true that Leo is the first U.S.-born pope, it makes more sense to think about him as the second pope of the Americas. This challenges 'America first' approaches and imagines the region more holistically, as Pope Francis did first, with its center of gravity in the global south,\" said Raul Zegarra, assistant professor of Roman Catholic theological studies at Harvard Divinity School.\n\n\"All of this points to a pope that understands global leadership through dialogue instead of isolation; who understands power through service, instead of domination,\" he said. \"It is hard to imagine a sharper contrast with the current administration in the U.S.\"\n\nTo hear some of the American cardinals tell it, Leo actually is not all that American in style or outlook, and his U.S. heritage played little if any part in his selection as pope. But Trump hovered over the proceedings.\n\nSix American cardinals who had participated in the conclave took the stage at a press conference as \"Born in the USA\" and \"American Pie\" blared from speakers. Then, one after another downplayed Leo's American roots. One quoted a phrase that was going around, that Leo is \"the least American of the American\" cardinals. Several said they expected Leo to be a \"bridge-builder\" with the Trump administration \u2014 the meaning of the Latin word \"pontiff.\"\n\nAsked whether the cardinals elected Leo to offset Trump, several said no.\n\n\"I don't think at all my brother cardinals would have thought of him as a counterweight to any one person,\" said Cardinal Timothy Dolan, archbishop of New York.\n\n\"Obviously the cardinals were quite aware of things that have occurred in the United States, statements that have been made, political actions that have been taken,\" said Wilton Gregory, archbishop emeritus of Washington. But the conclave's goal, he said, was choosing \"who among us\" could strengthen the faith.\n\nSaid Millies: \"It's not that the world should fear a U.S.-born pope. Quite the reverse: As 'the least American of the Americans,' he is untainted by our recent politics and may seem safer even as, still, he is an American intimately familiar with this nation's better angels.\""}
{"prompt_hash": "9d524a067ef8f4c662b5a4b70a1261361c65b04423da5b2e8c5a78e1fe202116", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 13:25:31+00:00", "topics": ["Tennis", "French Open Tennis Championships", "Arthur Cazaux", "Valentin Royer", "France", "Tristan Schoolkate", "Terence Atmane", "Paris", "French Open", "Sarah Rakotomanga Rajaonah", "Destanee Aiava", "Richard Gasquet", "Pierre Hugues Herbert", "United States", "Stanislas Wawrinka", "Diane Parry", "Sports", "Emilio Nava", "Elsa Jacquemot"], "text": "# Former Roland Garros champ Stan Wawrinka, veteran Richard Gasquet get French Open wild cards\n\nMay 13th, 2025 01:25 PM\n\n---\n\nPARIS (AP) \u2014 Three-time major champion Stan Wawrinka and French veteran Richard Gasquet were among eight men given wild-card entries Tuesday for the French Open.\n\nWawrinka, who turned 40 in March, won the Australian Open in 2014 for his first Grand Slam singles title and added major wins at the French Open in 2015 and the 2016 U.S. Open.\n\nThe Swiss player has battled injuries in recent years and has dropped to No. 132 in the ATP rankings.\n\nGasquet will be playing his final tournament in Paris. The 38-year-old Frenchman, who reached a career-best ranking of No. 7 back in 2007, was once regarded as a potential Grand Slam winner but could never get past the semifinals at any major. Gasquet reached the Wimbledon semifinals twice and was also a semifinalist at the U.S Open. He claimed 16 tour titles and was a member of the France team that won the 2017 Davis Cup.\n\nThe French Open runs from May 25 to June 8."}
{"prompt_hash": "a129fc0cd9d9044804550d2c0be8813691a0acbbfcb38cb4e4f68214298ded9f", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 15:48:10+00:00", "topics": ["Classical music", "Fisher", "Gustav Mahler", "Silvio Scambone", "Jaap van Zweden", "Simon Reinink", "Klaus Mkel", "Dorian Gray", "Michael Waterman", "John F. Kennedy", "Dominik Winterling", "Kirill Petrenko", "Vienna", "Bernard Haitink", "Chicago", "Entertainment", "Marina Mahler", "Leonard Bernstein", "Willem Mengelberg", "Anders Hillborg"], "text": "# Composer Gustav Mahler celebrated at Amsterdam festival\n\nBy Ronald Blum  \nMay 13th, 2025 03:48 PM\n\n---\n\nAMSTERDAM (AP) \u2014 When Klaus M\u00e4kel\u00e4 climbed the Concertgebouw podium and turned to the audience at the orchestra's third Gustav Mahler Festival in 105 years, the conductor could see the writing on the wall.\n\nFacing him was \"MAHLER\" etched in gold on a cartouche and shining in a spotlight, centered in a permanent position of honor among the 17 composers enshrined across the balcony front. And sitting in the first row directly behind the sign Friday night was Marina Mahler, the composer's 81-year-old granddaughter.\n\n\"It was just as it should be. I was terribly moved and excited at the same time,\" she said after the final note of Symphony No. 1. \"It affected me in the deepest possible way.\"\n\nAll 10 of Mahler's numbered symphonies are being presented in order along with his other major works from May 8-18, ending on the 114th anniversary of his death at age 50.\n\n\"This is in a way the first orchestra that really trusted in Mahler,\" M\u00e4kela said.\n\nJoining the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra are the Budapest Festival Orchestra, NHK Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Berlin Philharmonic, with conducting split among M\u00e4kel\u00e4 (Symphonies 1 and 8), Iv\u00e1n Fischer (2 and 5), Fabio Luisi (3 and 4), Jaap van Zweden (6 and 7), Kirill Petrenko (9) and Sakari Oramo (10). Programs are simulcast to a 1,500-seat amphitheater in Amsterdam's Vondelpark.\n\n\"We have a U.S. orchestra for the first time in this festival,\" said Simon Reinink, who headed the planning as general director of The Concertgebouw (the building, as opposed to the orchestra). \"We also thought why shouldn't we invite an Asian orchestra?\"\n\n## Early champion was in Amsterdam\n\nMahler's first champion was Willem Mengelberg, who conducted the entirety of the first Mahler Festival in 1920 to celebrate his 25th anniversary as the Concertgebouw's chief conductor. A second festival was held in 1995 to mark the 75th anniversary of the first festival and a 100th anniversary celebration was planned for 2020 and canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\n\"Mahler is really in the DNA of the orchestra,\" said Dominik Winterling, managing director of Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. \"You feel it because we have a certain tradition, which is also passed on from generation to generation.\"\n\nBruno Walter and Leonard Bernstein were Mahler's other primary proponents in the 20th century.\n\n\"My father, who was a musician, always told me: `Mahler was a great conductor and a good composer with some problems. Usually the form is not perfect and it's formless,'\" Iv\u00e1n Fischer said of S\u00e1ndor Fischer, also a conductor.\n\nWhen Bernstein led the Vienna Philharmonic in all of Mahler's symphonies over a decade starting in the mid-1960s, there was resistance.\n\n\"In intervals, in corridors, everywhere musicians talk to each other, there was this: `Yes, it's good music but a little kitsch. Well, why does he need these bombastic effects?'\" Iv\u00e1n Fischer recalled. \"Really the cult of Mahler, where everybody started to love it, came after this cycle of Bernstein in Vienna but it was a spirit of the time. I think what created the breakthrough was that you didn't feel that music had to comport to certain norms and so it was a little liberation of the '60s, the time of free love, Beatles.\"\n\nMahler has gained acceptance. The Fifth Symphony's adagietto was conducted by Bernstein at President John F. Kennedy's funeral and is featured in Luchino Visconti's 1971 film \"Death in Venice\" and 2022's \"T\u00e1r.\" No. 2 sets a mood in a current Tony Award nominee, \"The Picture of Dorian Gray.\"\n\n## Klaus M\u00e4kel\u00e4 gets prominent role\n\nThough just 29, M\u00e4kel\u00e4 was a natural fit to lead off with the first symphony because he becomes both Concertgebouw chief conductor and CSO music director for the 2027-28 season. His exuberantly stepped down two dozen steps toward the podium to open his program with Anders Hillborg's \"Hell Mountain,\" a world premiere commissioned for the festival that quotes two of Mahler's works.\n\nVan Zweden, who has a home a short walk from the Concertgebouw, was to open the canceled 2020 festival with the New York Philharmonic, when he was its music director. Van Zweden first heard Mahler When he was 6 or 7, van Zweden heard a fourth symphony led by Bernard Haitink, the Concertgebouw's chief conductor from 1961-88. A violinist in his youth, van Zweden became the orchestra's youngest concertmaster at age 19.\n\n\"The scores of Mahler, what he gave us is a GPS system about the road of his life,\" he said. \"He is such a human and we are such a witness of all the emotional roller-coasters and beauty and sadness and everything in his life during that performance. That is a different experience than a Tchaikovsky symphony.\"\n\nLuisi first heard Mahler when he attended a Fifth Symphony as a 15-year-old in Genoa, Italy.\n\n\"It was overwhelming. I didn't know that this music could be so passionate and intense all the time \u2014 such a long symphony with a lot of different characters, different feelings, different moods,\" he recalled. \"I remember getting out of that concert shaking in pleasure and surprise.\"\n\nM\u00e4kel\u00e4 used a new edition of the score for No. 1 compiled by Michael Waterman, the fifth member of his family to play in the Concertgebouw in a lineage dating to 1950. With the help of his mom Cleora and friend Silvio Scambone, Waterman compiled markings going back to 1967. He now is working on editions of Nos. 5 and 9 based on notations dating to Mengelberg, who headed the orchestra from 1895-1945 before he was banned for his collaboration with Nazis.\n\nOn Saturday, Fisher took a five-minute break between the first and second movements of No. 2, specified by Mahler but not often followed. In a hall famous for its precise acoustics, he drew breathtaking playing from horns that scampered on and off stage like NFL special teams.\n\n\"So you hear these trumpets from heaven, everywhere, different directions,\" he said.\n\nM\u00e4kel\u00e4 is convinced Mahler has become more accessible in current times.\n\n\"It speaks to the audience now because it's music that everyone can relate to,\" he said. \"Because it's so personal, it somehow gives you a possibility to self-reflect.\""}
{"prompt_hash": "5304fd68020265036710d4fddd8b27f935f0c8dfa383349a94aac73cffe48210", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 10:35:24+00:00", "topics": ["Bosnia and Herzegovina", "Bullfighting", "JWD-evergreen", "Sports", "Arts and entertainment", "Animals", "Lifestyle", "Entertainment"], "text": "# A teenage bullfighting enthusiast celebrates victories in Bosnia\n\nBy Eldar Emric  \nMay 13th, 2025 10:35 AM\n\n---\n\nKAKANJ, Bosnia (AP) \u2014 Like most girls her age, Bosnian teenager Mirnesa Junuzovic splits her days into free time and time reserved for school and house chores. How she spends the former, however, makes her quite unique.\n\nThe 15-year-old Junuzovic takes daily, hourslong walks with her bull, Cobra, and trains the beast for traditional bullfights that have been organized in the country for more than two centuries.\n\n\"We walk for three or more hours every day, I talk to him and call him by different nicknames that I have for him,\" Junuzovic said, adding: \"I can always anticipate when he is going to rush or scrape at the ground.\"\n\nJunuzovic believes that she and Cobra share a special bond and insists that while they train and walk through the fields and forest around her rural home on the outskirts of Kakanj, the bull sometimes uses its horns to move tree branches and shrubs out of her way.\n\nWhen somebody else approaches him, Junuzovic insisted, \"his whole demeanor changes\" and he starts snorting.\n\n\"But he never acts like that with me,\" she rushed to say. \"He knows that I take care of him. He is just like a human, except that he cannot talk.\"\n\nBullfights in Bosnia are relatively mellow and bloodless affairs resembling a natural clash for dominance between male bulls in the wild. Almost every weekend during the summer months, rodeo-like corrals are set up in forest clearings or meadows around the country.\n\nThousands of people gather around these enclosures in village fair-like settings to watch bull-on-bull fights in which animals push each other and clash horns until one of them admits defeat by turning their tail and fleeing. The clash often lasts just a few minutes.\n\nBefore bulls enter the arena, inspectors check their horns and even cut off the tips if they are too sharp. They also check the animals' anti-doping test results and make sure the bulls clash heads only if they want to.\n\nAmong the village folk in Bosnia, the love of bulls and bullfighting is installed in children at an early age. Attending the fights is often embraced as a family activity.\n\n\"This is a part of our tradition. We love it,\" explained Muriz Spahic, who drove for more than 70 kilometers (around 45 miles) to watch bulls fighting last Sunday outside the village of Bijelo Polje in central Bosnia.\n\n\"My grandpa loves it, he is here with us today, I love it, my child loves it,\" he said, \"We go to the fights together.\"\n\nIn between the fights, the spectators fire up grills, roast meat, drink and dance to blaring folk music.\n\nFighting bulls of Bosnia have traditionally been trained by men, but women started joining the fray several years ago. Still, women in this field are rare and Junuzovic, who started training bulls at the age of 12, remains the youngest of the trainers.\n\nSome of her school friends look down at her hobby and insist that it is \"stinky,\" she said. But those who she really cares about are \"very supportive. They call to congratulate me every time we win.\"\n\nBulls fight in different weight classes and Cobra, who weighs 620 kilograms (more than 1,360 pounds), is among the \"lightweights.\"\n\nCobra's winning streak, which began eight fights ago, continued in Bijelo Polje, where he scored his ninth victory of the 2025 bullfighting season.\n\nThe other bull \"quit,\" because he \"was unprepared,\" Junuzovic said.\n\nAround half of the scheduled battles overall end with one of the animals leaving the ring without even trying.\n\n\"Still, we won and every victory counts,\" she said with a big smile."}
{"prompt_hash": "dd5bff2fa8645534bbb2d861dd06510523a7f818201f32a4bb0a31cf3d5373de", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 15:06:44+00:00", "topics": ["Myanmar", "War and unrest", "Military and defense", "Funerals and memorial services", "Myanmar government", "Aung San Suu Kyi", "Catherine West"], "text": "# Funerals held in Myanmar for pupils and teachers killed in airstrike on school\n\nBy Grant Peck  \nMay 13th, 2025 03:06 PM\n\n---\n\nBANGKOK (AP) \u2014 Funerals have been held in Myanmar for almost two dozen students and teachers alleged to have been killed in an airstrike on a local school by a ruling military jet fighter.\n\nLocal resistance groups and independent media said Tuesday that 20 pupils and 2 teachers died in the attack on Ohe Htein Twin village, in Sagaing region's township of Tabayin, also known as Depayin. Their reports said that as many as 100 people were wounded.\n\nThe dead students were from grades 2 to 11, with the youngest seven years old, according to the shadow National Unity Government, which serves as an umbrella organization for opponents of military rule\n\nA member of a local resistance group fighting against army rule told The Associated Press that another student, who was severely injured in Monday's bombing, died Tuesday afternoon while undergoing medical treatment.\n\nThe resistance fighter, who requested that neither he nor his group be named for fear of arrest by the military, said the incident occurred while more than 100 students were studying in a school in the village, which has about 500 houses. He denied that any resistance fighters were stationed in the village that was attacked.\n\nSagaing has been a stronghold of armed resistance to army rule in Myanmar, and the military in recent years has stepped up airstrikes in their fight against resistance forces, which include the armed People's Defense Forces. The resistance has no effective defense against air attacks, which many reports say hit non-military targets.\n\nMyanmar has been in turmoil since the army's 2021 takeover ousted the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi, which led to nationwide peaceful protests that escalated into a durable armed resistance denying the army control of much of the country.\n\nA report Tuesday in the state-run Global New Light of Myanmar newspaper denied the army had carried out the airstrike, saying malicious media outlets were intentionally spreading fake information. The military's tight control over the media and the relative remoteness of many such incidents makes independent confirmation of what occurred difficult.\n\nThe bodies of 18 of the victims, most of them under the age of 10 were buried Monday in two village cemeteries after hastily arranged funerals just a few hours after the bombing incident, the unidentified resistance fighter said.\n\nAbout 100 wounded people, both students and teachers, were being treated in regional hospitals as the village's clinic lacked adequate facilities. At least two victims have had to have limbs amputated, he added.\n\nA member of another resistance group, the White Depeyin People's Defence Force, also speaking on condition of anonymity, told the AP that the funerals concluded on Tuesday.\n\nA report on Tuesday by the Human Rights Ministry of the National Unity Government said the jet fighter took off from an airbase in Meiktila township in the central region of Mandalay on Monday morning and deliberately attacked the school with two cluster bombs while students were preparing to sit for their exams.\n\n\"All individuals implicated in the commanding, execution, or collusion of deliberate air strikes against innocent children, students, and educators shall be subject to stringent judicial repercussions,\" the group said in a separate statement. \"No avenue for impunity shall be permitted. Every responsible party will be pursued without respite, unequivocally identified, held accountable and subjected to stringent punitive measures under the full force of the law.\"\n\nThe military has increasingly used airstrikes to counter the widespread armed struggle against its rule. More than 6,600 civilians are estimated to have been killed by security forces since the army's 2021 takeover, according to figures compiled by nongovernmental organizations.\n\nAirstrikes in Myanmar garnered increased attention recently when numerous reports deemed credible by the United Nations and human rights groups said that they continued to be carried out in the wake of Myanmar's devastating March 28 earthquake, after which the military and resistance groups declared ceasefires to facilitate relief efforts.\n\n\"We are horrified by reports of a Myanmar regime airstrike on a school in an earthquake-affected area at a time when a ceasefire has been announced. Schools are meant to be a place of safety and opportunity, not collateral in a conflict,\" Britain's Minister for Indo-Pacific Catherine West said in a statement.\n\n\"We repeat our call to all parties, particularly the Myanmar military, to refrain from airstrikes, safeguard civilians, and protect civilian infrastructure.\""}
{"prompt_hash": "fac1cb448e8f0ebf2824e6cf9fbc195b026edd8935a9760e947ab9e0d5812ee8", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 04:48:21+00:00", "topics": ["Oswaldo Cabrera", "Aaron Boone", "Aaron Judge", "Athlete injuries", "Tim Lentych", "New York Yankees", "Baseball", "MLB", "New York City Wire", "Sports", "MLB baseball"], "text": "# Yankees' Oswaldo Cabrera leaves game in ambulance following home plate slide\n\nBy Andrew Destin  \nMay 13th, 2025 04:48 AM\n\n---\n\nSEATTLE (AP) \u2014 Yankees third baseman Oswaldo Cabrera was taken off the field in an ambulance after he injured his left ankle in the ninth inning of New York's 11-5 victory over Seattle on Monday night.\n\nCabrera was hurt on an awkward slide when he reached back for the plate and scored the Yankees' final run on Aaron Judge's sacrifice fly.\n\nManager Aaron Boone said Cabrera had a brace put on his left ankle before entering the ambulance on a stretcher. Cabrera was taken to a hospital with team athletic trainer Tim Lentych.\n\n\"I think everyone understands it was a pretty serious situation,\" Boone said. \"So, just praying for our guy (Cabrera) tonight and hoping for the best. Trust that he's in good hands as he goes through the night here.\"\n\nCabrera, a 26-year-old native of Venezuela, writhed on the ground and stayed down for several minutes while being attended to by various medical personnel.\n\n\"Right before he got carted off, he just called me over and said, 'Hey, did I score?'\" Judge said. \"So, just kind of shows you what type of guy he is. Something like that happens and the one thing on his mind for all the pain and everything is, 'Did I score?'\"\n\nCabrera is in his fourth MLB season and has become a regular in the Yankees' lineup. He is hitting .243 this season with one home run and 12 RBIs.\n\n\"He cares for everybody in this room. He loves being a Yankee,\" Judge said. \"He wears his jersey with pride. This is a tough one, especially a guy that's grinded his whole life and finally got an opportunity to be our everyday guy and been excelling at it.\""}
{"prompt_hash": "c69d42f5245ec08e6e03dff9d92705fdf3098281f81af38a5837a8fa3849deb9", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 15:26:37+00:00", "topics": ["Scottie Scheffler", "Tiger Woods", "Arnold Palmer", "Rory McIlroy", "Golf", "Jordan Spieth", "Xander Schauffele", "Jack Nicklaus", "Phil Mickelson", "Jon Rahm", "Gary Player", "Dustin Johnson", "Tennis", "Brooks Koepka", "PGA Championship", "British Open Golf", "U.S. Open Mens Golf Championships", "On the Fringe", "Sports", "Raymond Floyd", "Nick Faldo", "Larry Nelson", "Lee Trevino", "Gene Sarazen", "Ben Hogan", "Collin Morikawa", "Sandy Lyle", "Nick Price"], "text": "# Golf waited 25 years for the latest career Grand Slam. How long will the next one take?\n\nBy Doug Ferguson  \nMay 13th, 2025 03:26 PM\n\n---\n\nCHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) \u2014 Tiger Woods became the youngest player to complete the career Grand Slam at age 24 when he crossed the Swilcan Bridge at St. Andrews and marched right into history. No one bothered asking who was next because no one was particularly close.\n\nIt's different now.\n\nThat was some grand occasion for Rory McIlroy when he won the Masters. There was sheer joy from 17 years of trying to win the green jacket, the last 11 years fully aware that he could join the most exclusive group in golf. \"Welcome to the club, kid,\" is the text Woods sent him.\n\nThat raised the question: Who's next?\n\nThe attention immediately falls to Jordan Spieth, who has been trying to complete the Grand Slam at the PGA Championship since 2017, the last time it was at Quail Hollow. He has never finished closer than six shots in those previous eight attempts.\n\n\"There's been a number of years I've come to the PGA, and no one's really asked me about it,\" Spieth said Tuesday. \"There's been some years where it was a storyline, I guess. It's funny, I think if didn't, then it wouldn't have been a storyline for me here necessarily.\"\n\nPerhaps he's been lost behind McIlroy and Phil Mickelson, who has been trying to get the career slam since the 2014 U.S. Open. This year's might be Lefty's last chance. His five-year exemption to the U.S. Open from winning the 2021 PGA Championship at age 50 runs out.\n\n\"I would put money on Jordan being the next guy,\" Xander Schauffele said.\n\nBut this is no easy money, even when it's only one more major to win.\n\nThat surely was the feeling some 60 years ago when golf celebrated a career Grand Slam in consecutive years \u2014 Gary Player at the 1965 U.S. Open, Jack Nicklaus at the 1966 U.S. Open. Next in line was Arnold Palmer. All he needed was the PGA Championship.\n\n\"Certainly the incentive is there,\" Palmer said when he arrived at Firestone for the 1966 PGA Championship. \"I feel so good there can't be any excuses.\"\n\nBut there was no Grand Slam, not that year or the next 28 years that followed until Palmer played his last PGA Championship in 1994 at age 64. Lee Trevino, Tom Watson and Raymond Floyd all reached the cusp of golf's greatest feat and never crossed the line.\n\nAfter Nicklaus, it took 34 years before Woods got his Grand Slam, and then 25 years until McIlroy did it.\n\n\"Do I think it will take another 25 years? It's a good question,\" Scottie Scheffler said. \"Jordan can win the Grand Slam by winning four majors. Rory did it in five. ... The odds would say he's good enough to do it, for sure.\"\n\nScheffler has been the dominant player for the last three years, winning the Masters in 2022 and 2024 and spending more consecutive weeks at No. 1 than anyone except Woods.\n\n\"I've only one won, technically. That's the other side of the coin,\" Scheffler said of his chances at the Grand Slam. \"I've been playing some pretty good golf and I'm not even close.\"\n\nThe PGA Championship, which starts Thursday, and the next two majors at Oakmont (U.S. Open) and Royal Portrush (British Open) could go a long way in shaping the conversation for the next several years.\n\nJon Rahm winning the PGA Championship or British Open. Schauffele or Collin Morikawa winning at the U.S. Open. Dustin Johnson at the PGA Championship or British Open. Brooks Koepka at the British.\n\nThat's all it would take to add to the list of players on the verge of a feat realized by only Woods and McIlroy over the last 59 years.\n\nBut as hard as it is to win two majors, getting the third leg is no small task. That much is evident by the number of players who have two legs of the slam and got no closer.\n\nNick Price won the PGA Championship in 1992 and the British Open in 1994.\n\n\"From the time I won the first PGA, I wanted to win that Grand Slam so badly,\" Price said. \"It's every golfer's dream. I always struggled at Augusta as a low ball-striker. And then the U.S. Open, I had two or three good chances. It was definitely one of those things on my mind.\"\n\nBefore him was Sandy Lyle and Nick Faldo, Fuzzy Zoeller and Larry Nelson, Hubert Green and the late Seve Ballesteros. The Spaniard had two legs of the Grand Slam at age 23.\n\nFaldo won six majors \u2014 three apiece at the British Open and Masters \u2014 giving him the most majors of any players in the last century who got only two legs of the Grand Slam.\n\n\"It's not easy to get on the cusp, but it's a lot easier to get on the cusp than to actually pull it off,\" Scheffler said. He paused before adding, \"I think it's really hard to get on the cusp.\"\n\nAnd it doesn't get any easier as time goes on. The modern version of the Grand Slam didn't start until Palmer mentioned it in 1960. Gene Sarazen (1935) and Ben Hogan (1953) won the career slam retrospectively. It still counts.\n\nPlayer (29), Nicklaus (26) and Woods were all in their 20s when they captured the last leg. McIlroy was 35 when he finally got the Masters, perhaps another reason he was so emotional that day at Augusta National, and still looks to be floating on air.\n\nJohnson turned 40 last year and his game in the majors has dropped substantially since joining LIV Golf. Koepka turned 35 last month and has gone seven straight majors without a top 10 since winning the 2023 PGA Championship, the longest such streak of his career.\n\nSpieth is 31, winless in three years but still in his prime. If he isn't next, perhaps the focus shifts to who joins the line."}
{"prompt_hash": "63fb0fddf2753bc12adba342003bd13f6f681b415667e621396d366c1c53ecdf", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 08:15:56+00:00", "topics": ["Soccer", "Son Heung-Min", "Lee Kang in", "Tottenham Hotspur FC", "Kim Min-jae", "Paris Saint-Germain FC", "Manchester United FC", "Inter Milan", "Bayern Munich", "Sports - Europe", "Bundesliga", "SSC Napoli", "Sports", "Premier League", "South Korea"], "text": "# Son, Kim and Lee tasting success in Europe despite South Korea's soccer struggles\n\nBy John Duerden  \nMay 13th, 2025 08:15 AM\n\n---\n\nSEOUL, South Korea (AP) \u2014 South Korea's national soccer team may be stumbling toward 2026 World Cup qualification and its clubs may have struggled in the Asian Champions League, but three of its biggest stars have been finding success in Europe.\n\nKim Min-jaehelped German giant Bayern Munich lift the Bundesliga title, the 28-year-old defender's second major prize in Europe after winning the Italian championship with Napoli two years earlier.\n\nWhile Kim has two European trophies, the biggest star in Korean soccer is Son Heung-min and the 32-year-old forward is yet to win a major title. That could change next week with the Tottenham captain preparing to lead the London-based Spurs in the Europa League final against Premier League rival Manchester United.\n\n\"To complete the puzzle, you need every piece. Ultimately, I think, the most important final piece is still missing,\" Son, who joined Tottenham in 2015, told South Korea media in London on Monday. \"I think I've been chasing that piece for 10 years. I'd love to finish that puzzle this time.\"\n\nSon was part of the Tottenham team that lost the 2019 UEFA Champions League final to Liverpool. Now, as the senior player, he's determined to end what has been a difficult season for club \u2014 Tottenham is currently 17th out of 20 teams in the Premier League \u2014 and country, on a high.\n\n\"I think this will be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, something I may never have again,\" Son said. \"I hope I won't have regrets afterward. When I return to Korea after the season, I'd like to give my Korean fans and our Tottenham supporters the biggest smile I can bring.\"\n\nSon returned to action last weekend after an absence through injury but is set to start against Manchester United. The same is not automatically the case for Lee Kang-in.\n\nThe 24-year-old Lee, an attacking midfielder has been struggling for playing time of late for Paris Saint-Germain. He has appeared in 11 UEFA Champions League games this season but was on the bench as the French club beat Arsenal in the semifinals to book a final against Inter Milan on May 31 in Munich.\n\nThat game will marks the end of the European season and the start of transfer speculation. Lee has been linked with clubs elsewhere in Europe. So has Kim, whose season at Munich has been affected by injuries.\n\n\"I want to keep playing for Munich,\" Kim said last month. \"There's no reason why I should leave this team. I like playing for Munich. I want to continue playing for this team next season. It's one thing that's important to me right now.\"\n\nIt remains to be seen where the three biggest stars in Korean football are in August but the focus is currently on winning three prizes in European club football and bringing some good news for fans at home."}
{"prompt_hash": "cd9adccdfbba31f6c0b65e9155394ce09dbd2bb8f48cf90ebd681c88d5a70554", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 14:58:34+00:00", "topics": ["Europe", "Russia", "Vladimir Putin", "European Union", "Economy", "Eurocopa 2024", "Business", "David McHugh", "International trade", "Donald Trump"], "text": "# European economist says Russia's economy is strained due to the Ukraine war and sanctions\n\nBy Lorne Cook and David Mchugh  \nMay 13th, 2025 02:58 PM\n\n---\n\nBRUSSELS (AP) \u2014 Russia's economy is under growing strain as its invasion of Ukraine drags on and Western sanctions are undermining President Vladimir Putin's ability to sustain his war, a leading European economist said after briefing finance ministers on Tuesday.\n\nThe economist, Torbj\u00f6rn Becker, Director of the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics, warned that should Russia prevail, European Union governments would have to spend 2-3 times more than they currently do on defense for several years.\n\nRussia's \"financial system, their macroeconomic performance, is under pressure. It's not in balance. Risks are mounting. But it doesn't mean that we can sit back and relax,\" Becker told reporters at EU headquarters in Brussels.\n\nHe spoke after briefing the bloc's finance ministers to help provide a picture of \"the actual condition of Russia's economy, which significantly contrasts with the narrative promoted by Russian propaganda,\" the EU's Polish presidency said.\n\nIt said that discussion would help \"us to better shape punitive, financial and economic sanctions against Russia.\"\n\nBecker said Russia's economy only accounts for about 12% of the economies of the world's biggest trading bloc. He underlined that it is highly dependent on oil and natural gas revenue, and on imports of high-tech equipment to sustain the war effort.\n\nStill, Russia's economy has outperformed predictions. High defense spending has propelled growth and kept unemployment low despite fueling inflation. At the same time, wages have gone up to keep pace with inflation, leaving many workers better off.\n\nLarge recruiting bonuses for military enlistees and death benefits for those killed in Ukraine have also put more income into the country's poorer regions.\n\nOver the long term, inflation and a lack of foreign investments remain threats to the economy. The question is how long Russia's militarized economy can keep going before those issues bite and whether it can hold out for longer than Ukraine and its Western backers.\n\nTo hit its economy harder, EU envoys have drafted a new set of sanctions that would target more ships in the shadow fleet of tankers that Russia has deployed to evade a price cap of $60 per barrel imposed on Russian oil by the Group of 7 democracies.\n\nThey could also freeze the assets of the Nord Stream II gas pipeline consortium. The pipeline is not in use, but the EU believes the move could help to discourage investment. The sanctions could enter force as soon as Thursday.\n\n\"If we can lower oil prices and gas revenues and put tighter sanctions on what they can import, that's great,\" Becker said. He said U.S. President Donald Trump should press \"China and India about what they are paying for and what they're exporting to Russia.\"\n\nRussia found new markets for its oil in India and China after the EU imposed a near-total ban and continues to earn a substantial part of government revenues from exports of oil and gas.\n\nBecker also urged Trump to hit Russia's financial system by restricting international transactions. \"If something ruins an economy pretty quickly, it's a banking crisis,\" he said.\n\nIn a recent report, his institute said that Russia's oil revenues decreased dramatically in early 2025, notably due to EU and G7 sanctions on the ghost fleet. This has forced Russia to withdraw from its sovereign wealth fund.\n\nThe institute estimates that the liquid part of the fund is now equivalent to less than 3% of GDP. \"If oil prices stay as they are, they will certainly run out of these funds in a year,\" Becker said."}
{"prompt_hash": "fe9bdd71b9686c954ba1af11dea8bcd53dcd3a8db68f4243882dbfb1de6542da", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 12:42:58+00:00", "topics": ["Albania", "Europe", "Edi Rama", "Sali Berisha", "European Union", "Socialism", "U.S. Democratic Party", "Global elections", "Voting rights", "Politics", "Voting", "Marta Kos"], "text": "# Albanian preliminary polls results show a clear win for the ruling Socialists\n\nBy Llazar Semini  \nMay 13th, 2025 12:42 PM\n\n---\n\nTIRANA, Albania (AP) \u2014 Preliminary results in Albania's parliamentary election on Tuesday gave a clear victory to the ruling Socialist Party, which attracted voters supporting the country's uphill effort to join the European Union and Prime Minister Edi Rama's bid for a fourth term.\n\nWith about 97% of the votes counted, Rama's left-wing Socialists got 52.09% of the votes, or 82 seats in the 140-seat Assembly, or parliament, followed by the opposition center-right Democratic Party-led coalition of Sali Berisha with 34.43%, or 52 seats. Three other small parties will take the rest.\n\nWith that number, the left-wing Socialists should be able to govern alone.\n\nPreliminary turnout Sunday was 42% of the 3.7 million eligible voters, or 4 percentage points lower than four years ago.\n\nBerisha's Democrats claimed irregularities during the vote and also with ballots mailed from the diaspora, accusing the ruling Socialists of involving criminal gangs to favor their candidates, buying ballots and using other illegal methods.\n\n\"No way to reconcile with such elections. No, forget it,\" said Berisha, suggesting that the Democrats will not recognize the results.\n\nThe European Union hailed Albania's vote as \"calm and well organized, despite some shortcomings,\" calling on \"all political forces to ... ensure the continued functioning of the country's institutions.\"\n\n\"Albania's EU integration process is a strategic national objective, and a whole-of-society project, which is strongly supported by Albania's citizens,\" said EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas and Enlargement Commissioner Marta Kos, also calling \"for a constructive and inclusive political dialogue as all of Albania's political parties and all sectors of society ... have a role to play in further advancing the country's EU accession process.\"\n\nThe Central Election Commission, the electoral executive, has said that by law the final results come out 48 hours after voting ends \u2014 in other words, later Tuesday. The results may be delayed following a request of the opposition not to consider some 53,000 ballots mailed from the diaspora in neighboring Greece, claiming they were manipulated.\n\nFor the first time, those in the diaspora could cast postal votes. About 195,000 mailed in their votes.\n\nEligible voters in Albania and abroad voted to elect 140 lawmakers for a four-year mandate in the Balkan nation. Because of mass emigration, the country of 2.4 million people has a total of nearly 3.7 million eligible voters.\n\nDiaspora votes from Greece may have moved seats in three or four areas in favor of the left-wing Socialists. The opposition claims they were manipulated by Socialist supporters. The postal company said it has confirmation signatures of all the voters in Greece.\n\nIt is expected that Rama will give a speech to his supporters, likely on Wednesday.\n\nRama's Socialist Party says it can deliver EU membership in five years, which is an ambitious pledge, while battling the Democrats, who argue that Albania isn't ready for EU membership.\n\nOn Friday, the opposition will hold a protest against the alleged election manipulation. The protest will coincide with a European Political Community summit being held in Tirana.\n\n\"The friends who will come should listen to the people's voice asking for a free vote and also that a tyrant, a narco-dictator, is not allowing them but using all violent tools to grab the vote,\" said Berisha.\n\nA joint international observation mission noted that despite being competitive and professionally managed, the election process so far was marked by the ruling party's misuse of public resources, a confrontational and polarizing tone, the two main political parties using divisive language, untransparent financing and unbalanced media coverage of smaller parties."}
{"prompt_hash": "9f76ad22061a0ab3f6abb137da2de55e98beb98809af3124af466b282b7229f1", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 13:30:35+00:00", "topics": ["United Kingdom", "Russell T Davies", "Eurovision Song Contest", "SciFi and fantasy", "Television", "Eurocopa 2024", "Public media", "Ncuti Gatwa", "Varada Sethu", "Sam Ryder", "Arts and entertainment", "BBC", "Theo Evan", "Belinda Chandra", "Planets"], "text": "# 'Doctor Who' and Eurovision will unite for a night of music and intergalactic adventure\n\nBy Hilary Fox  \nMay 13th, 2025 01:30 PM\n\n---\n\nLONDON (AP) \u2014 \"Doctor Who\" and Eurovision unite for an evening of music and intergalactic adventure on Saturday \u2014 all thanks to Russell T Davies.\n\nBefore fans tune in for the annual song contest, they can enjoy Ncuti Gatwa's Doctor and Varada Sethu's Belinda Chandra attending the Interstellar Song Contest in an episode of the sci-fi series.\n\nIn real life, the Eurovision Song Contest is an annual musical competition and TV event that sees 37 countries compete for a crystal microphone trophy over a four-hour live broadcast. In the interstellar version, aliens from 40 different worlds vie to win, also by singing.\n\nDavies says it took three years to pull it off the doubleheader because they had to work with the BBC to set the schedule and storylines in stone to ensure a perfect alignment.\n\nBritain's Sam Ryder took a \"Space Man\" to Eurovision before, in 2022. Now, Gatwa will read out the U.K.'s jury scores during the song contest's grand final, held this year in Basel, Switzerland.\n\nTalking to The Associated Press, Davies says that both Eurovision and \"Doctor Who\" share the DNA of old-fashioned Saturday night television, making the combination \"irresistible.\"\n\nThis conversation has been edited for clarity and brevity.\n\n## AP: Do you feel that Eurovision and \"Doctor Who\" naturally share a kind of fandom?\n\nDAVIES: I almost think every episode of \"Doctor Who\" is a great big celebration, sort of noise and color and spectacle, and that sums up Eurovision as well. In pitching this to Disney+ as well it's like, \"Look we're going out in 60 of your territories\" and Eurovision itself has a viewing figure that some years is bigger than the Super Bowl. There's not many shows that can say that on planet Earth.\n\n## AP: How much fun did you have with the lore of Eurovision?\n\nDAVIES: It's enormous fun. It could be said if you've never seen a single Eurovision Song Contest in your life, you can still come along and watch this. It's the kind of thing we'd have made up for a \"Doctor Who\" story anyway.\n\nOne day I'll do that \"ABBA Voyage\" story where the holograms come to life and start killing people. That's the best idea ever. We've got to do that one then. Can you imagine? That would be just amazing. I think there might be some copyright problems with that but we'd overcome them.\n\nThe actual pitch for the story to Juno (Dawson), who wrote it, was Eurovision meets \"Die Hard.\" So as you will see, the moment it starts, there's trouble, someone's out to sabotage it. There are villains behind the scenes trying to disrupt the program. All chaos is let loose and the rest of the episode is spent saving people's lives after that.\n\n## AP: How about the songs?\n\nDAVIES: I think there's four songs in total (by Murray Gold). Obviously we don't get to all 40 planets with their songs, but it was a very big production. We had to hive this off into its own production unit. There are scenes in the television gallery, where 40 different monitors have output of 40 different screens. And that's all been fed in live. That's not done with green screen afterwards, that's all stuff they'd already shot. Crowds, acts, rehearsals, backstage, presenters, all of that stuff, playing onto that set, so it's terribly complicated.\n\n## AP: Is this the most expensive episode of \"Doctor Who\"?\n\nDAVIES: Frankly, they're all expensive. It was a lot, yes. It had to be planned very far in advance, more than any. Once you plan something carefully, then it costs less just because you're not busking. We allocate each story more or less the same amount of money. So I think it ends up costing as much as the others, but it just looks so good because they had so much time to plan it.\n\n## AP: Am I allowed to ask how much an episode normally costs?\n\nDAVIES: We never say that. I don't know why, but we just don't ever do it. I don't think they'd tell me. I'd faint.\n\n## AP: Are you planning to watch Eurovision this year?\n\nDAVIES: Yes, I will be. This will be a great night. I always sit and watch \"Doctor Who\" \u2014 I'm old-fashioned \u2014 on its old-fashioned BBC One transmission at 7 o'clock at night.\n\nI know people who have Eurovision parties, which I've never gone to actually. Look at my life, it's devoted to television. I can't bear other people talking over it. That would just be a nightmare. So I will be sitting in. I'll get some nice dinner. I'll be a very happy man.\n\n## AP: Have you got any favorites for this year?\n\nDAVIES: I would like to go on a date with the man from Cyprus (Theo Evan). He's beautiful. I do like the U.K. entry this year (\"What the Hell Just Happened?\" by Remember Monday). I have a theory it's being underestimated in Great Britain. Just because we're so used to losing. We've won five times, everyone. But this country gets a bit cynical about Eurovision sometimes. But I love our song. I think it's got a very memorable chorus."}
{"prompt_hash": "1a0b5de9af39faedc355ba57c0571ec91ad506c40c6dfaea6d1f967dcea403ed", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-12 21:39:46+00:00", "topics": ["Burkina Faso", "Islam", "Radicalism", "Al-Qaida", "Charlie Werb", "Wassim Nasr"], "text": "# More than 100 killed in jihadi attack in northern Burkina Faso\n\nBy Baba Ahmed and Wilson Mcmakin  \nMay 12th, 2025 09:39 PM\n\n---\n\nBAMAKO, Mali (AP) \u2014 An attack by a jihadi group in northern Burkina Faso killed more than 100 people, mostly soldiers, an aid worker and local residents said Monday.\n\nThe attack on several locations, including a military base and the long besieged strategic town of Djibo, occurred early Sunday, said an aid worker actively involved in dialogues in Burkina Faso's hard-hit communities. A student from the area said her father was among those killed.\n\nBoth individuals spoke to The Associated Press on Monday on the condition of anonymity due to fear of reprisals.\n\nA jihadi group aligned with Al-Qaida known as Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal-Muslimin, or JNIM, which is active in the Sahel region, claimed responsibility for Sunday's attack.\n\nRun by a military junta, the landlocked nation of 23 million has been among the worst hit by the security crisis in Africa's Sahel region, known as the global hot spot for violent extremism. About half of Burkina Faso is outside of government control as a result of the violence that contributed to two coups in 2022. Government security forces have also been accused of extrajudicial killings.\n\nThe aid worker, as well as Charlie Werb, an independent analyst focusing on the Sahel, recounted how Sunday's attack began simultaneously in different locations at 6 a.m. local time on Sunday.\n\n\"JNIM fighters attacked eight localities simultaneously to disperse the Burkina Faso air force. The main attack occurred in Djibo, where JNIM fighters first took control of all the town's entry checkpoints before attacking the military camps, particularly the Special Anti-Terrorist Unit's camp,\" said the aid worker.\n\nWerb, who studied videos posted online, said the attackers spent several hours in the areas without air support from Burkina Faso's military, unlike similar attacks on Djibo in the past, when security forces have successfully repelled the extremists.\n\nThe latest attack shows JNIM's escalating power and widening reach in Burkina Faso, said Wassim Nasr, a Sahel specialist and senior research fellow at the Soufan Center security think tank. \"The fact that Djibo was targeted confirms the extent of JNIM's freedom of movement within Burkina Faso.\"\n\nAnalysts have warned that the junta's strategy of military escalation, including the mass recruitment of civilians into poorly trained militias, has worsened inter-ethnic tensions."}
{"prompt_hash": "37ea501eb8864a1a96007463c80b75f163ea70336ce896beed3e629073ed447f", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 08:36:40+00:00", "topics": ["Novak Djokovic", "Andy Murray", "Tennis", "French Open Tennis Championships", "French Open", "Sports", "Australian Open Tennis Championships"], "text": "# Novak Djokovic splits with coach Andy Murray ahead of French Open\n\nMay 13th, 2025 08:36 AM\n\n---\n\nLONDON (AP) \u2014 Novak Djokovic is splitting with coach Andy Murray just two weeks ahead of the French Open, following a dismal start to the clay-court season.\n\nMurray's representatives announced Tuesday that the two former No. 1-ranked players will \"no longer be working together.\"\n\n\"Thanks to Novak for the unbelievable opportunity to work together and thanks to his team for all their hard work over the past six months,\" Murray was quoted as saying. \"I wish Novak all the best for the rest of the season.\"\n\nThe decision comes after Djokovic lost his opening match in his last two tournaments in Monte Carlo and Madrid, both on clay.\n\nDjokovic thanked Murray in a post on social media \"for all the hard work, fun & support over last six months on & off the court.\"\n\n\"I really enjoyed deepening our friendship together,\" Djokovic wrote.\n\nDjokovic and Murray joined forces ahead of the Australian Open in what initially was seen as an unlikely pairing. After Murray retired last year, Djokovic reached out with the coaching proposition.\n\nDjokovic said in February that Murray had agreed to stay on for an \"indefinite\" period, including \"some clay-court tournaments\" this season. Djokovic has yet to win a tournament this season after having to retire from the Australian Open semifinals with a hamstring injury and losing in the final in Miami to leave him one shy of 100th career title."}
{"prompt_hash": "5db7ecdac8ed36ee7c0ae7b1c4899d2822bf490d9a658be8e68fc6111a80400f", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-12 21:14:31+00:00", "topics": ["Donald Trump", "Josh Hawley", "Mike Johnson", "Government programs", "U.S. Republican Party", "Taxes", "United States House of Representatives", "Legislation", "California", "Congress", "Politics", "United States government", "Nick LaLota", "Business", "District of Columbia", "Health"], "text": "# Trump's $4.9 trillion tax plan targets Medicaid to offset costs\n\nBy Lisa Mascaro and Kevin Freking  \nMay 12th, 2025 09:14 PM\n\n---\n\nWASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 House Republicans proposed sweeping tax breaks Monday in President Donald Trump's big priority bill, tallying at least $4.9 trillion in costs so far, partly paid for with cuts to Medicaid, food stamps and green energy programs used by millions of Americans.\n\nThe House Ways and Means Committee named its package \"THE ONE, BIG, BEAUTIFUL BILL'' in all capital letters, a nod to Trump himself. It seeks to extend the tax breaks approved during Trump's first term \u2014 and boost the standard deduction, child tax credit and estate tax exemption \u2014 while adding new tax breaks on tipped wages, overtime pay, Social Security benefits and auto loans that Trump promised during his campaign for the White House.\n\nThere's also a tripling of the state and local tax deduction, called SALT, from $10,000 up to $30,000 for couples, which certain high-tax state GOP lawmakers from New York and California already rejected as too meager. Private universities would be hit with hefty a new tax on their endowments, as much as 21%, as the Trump administration goes after the Ivy League and other campuses. And one unusual provision would terminate the tax-exempt status of groups the State Department says support \"terrorists,\" which civil society advocates warn is a way to potentially punish those at odds with the Trump administration.\n\nOverall, the package is touching off the biggest political debate over taxes, spending and the nation's priorities in nearly a decade. Not since 2017 has Congress wrestled with legislation as this, when Republicans approved the Trump tax cuts but also failed to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare. The cost assessments are only preliminary, and expected to soar.\n\n\"Republicans need to UNIFY,\" Trump posted on social media before departing for a trip to the Middle East.\n\nTrump said when he returns to Washington, \"we will work together on any and all outstanding issues, but there shouldn't be many \u2014 The Bill is GREAT. We have no alternative, WE MUST WIN!\"\n\nBut one key Republican, Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri, implored his party not to impair Medicaid, arguing that cutting health care to pay for tax breaks is both \"morally wrong and politically suicidal.\"\n\n\"If Republicans want to be a working-class party \u2014 if we want to be a majority party \u2014 we must ignore calls to cut Medicaid and start delivering on America's promise for America's working people,\" Hawley wrote in The New York Times.\n\nLate Monday, the House Agriculture Committee released its proposals \u2014 cutting $290 billion from federal nutrition programs, in part by shifting costs to the states and requiring able-bodied adults without dependents to fulfill work requirements until they are 64 years old, rather than 54, to qualify for food aid.\n\n## Round-the-clock work ahead\n\nAs Republicans race toward House Speaker Mike Johnson's Memorial Day deadline to pass Trump's big bill, they are preparing to flood the zone with round-the-clock public hearings starting Tuesday and stitch the various sections together in what will become a massive package.\n\nThe politics ahead are uncertain. The bipartisan Joint Committee on Taxation said Monday that tax breaks would reduce revenue by $4.9 trillion over the decade \u2014 and that was before Trump's new tax breaks were included.\n\nTexas Rep. Chip Roy, a member of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, warned the price tag could climb to $20 trillion, piling onto the deficits and debt.\n\n\"I sure hope House & Senate leadership are coming up with a backup plan,\" Roy posted on social media, \"\u2026. because I'm not here to rack up an additional $20 trillion in debt over 10 years.\"\n\nHouse Republicans have been huddling behind closed doors, working out final provisions in the 389-page tax portion of the package.\n\nThe legislation proposes to boost the standard deduction many Americans use by $2,000, to $32,000 per household, and increase the child tax credit from $2,000 to $2,500 for four years. It adds a new requirement focused on preventing undocumented immigrants from benefiting from the credit even if the children are U.S. citizens, which the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a liberal think tank, estimates would affect 4.5 million children who are U.S. citizens or lawful residents.\n\nIt would also increase the estate tax exemption, which is now $14 million, to $15 million and index future increases to inflation.\n\nAs for the president's promises, the legislation includes Trump's \"no taxes on tips\" pledge, providing a deduction for those workers in service industry and other jobs that have traditionally relied on tips. It directs the Treasury secretary to issue guidance to avoid businesses gaming the system.\n\nThe package also provides tax relief for automobile shoppers with a temporary deduction of up to $10,000 on car loan interest, applying the benefit only for those vehicles where the final assembly occurred in the United States. The tax break would expire at the end of Trump's term.\n\nFor seniors, there would be a bolstered $4,000 deduction on Social Security wages for those with adjusted incomes no higher than $75,000 for individuals and $150,000 for couples.\n\nBut one hard-fought provision, the deduction for state and local taxes known as SALT, appears to be a work in progress. The legislation proposes lifting the cap to $15,000 for single filers and $30,000 for couples, but with a reduction at higher incomes \u2014 about $200,000 for singles and $400,000 for couples.\n\n\"Still a hell no,\" wrote Rep. Nick LaLota, R-N.Y., on social media.\n\n## Battle over Medicaid, food aid\n\nMeanwhile, dozens of House Republicans have told Johnson and GOP leaders they will not support cuts to Medicaid, which provides some 70 million Americans with health care, nor to green energy tax breaks that businesses back home have been relying on to invest in new wind, solar and renewable projects.\n\nAll told, 11 committees in the House have been compiling their sections of the package as Republicans seek at least $1.5 trillion in savings to help cover the cost of preserving the 2017 tax breaks, which are expiring at the end of the year.\n\nThe final section from the Agriculture Committee proposed cutting the Supplemental Nutrition and Assistance Program, known as SNAP, by expanding work requirements, limiting future expansions of the program and forcing states to shoulder more of the cost.\n\nAlong with new work requirements for older Americans, it would also require some parents of children older than 7 to work to qualify, down from 18 years old. Only areas with unemployment rates over 10% would be eligible for waivers.\n\nSome Republicans have already balked at the increased costs to the states, which be required to contribute at least 5% of the cost of SNAP allotments beginning in 2028.\n\nAt the same time, the legislation would invest $60 billion in new money for agriculture programs, sending aid to farmers.\n\nOn Sunday, House Republicans on the Energy and Commerce Committee unveiled the cost-saving centerpiece of the package, with at least $880 billion in cuts largely to Medicaid to help cover the cost of the tax breaks.\n\nWhile Republicans insist they are simply rooting out \"waste, fraud and abuse\" to generate savings with new work and eligibility requirements, Democrats warn that millions of Americans will lose coverage. In the 15 years since Obamacare became law, Medicaid has only expanded as most states have tapped into federal funds.\n\nA preliminary estimate from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said the proposals would reduce the number of people with health care by 8.6 million.\n\nTo be eligible for Medicaid, there would be new \"community engagement requirements\" of at least 80 hours per month of work, education or service for able-bodied adults without dependents. People would also have to verify their eligibility to be in the program twice a year, rather than just once.\n\nThere are substantial cuts proposed for green energy programs and tax breaks, rolling back climate-change strategies from the Biden-era Inflation Reduction Act."}
{"prompt_hash": "9e0d3995f10b5143829302d74058193fe8fc68b3209a29ab2acf51ab4184d165", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 14:22:49+00:00", "topics": ["Soccer", "Bologna FC", "Christian Pulisic", "Milan", "AC Milan", "Sports", "Vincenzo Italiano", "Riccardo Orsolini", "Santiago Gimnez", "Serie A"], "text": "# It's cup specialist vs. serial runner-up as Milan takes on Bologna in the Italian Cup final\n\nBy Daniella Matar  \nMay 13th, 2025 02:22 PM\n\n---\n\nMILAN (AP) \u2014 A cup specialist will take on a serial runner-up when AC Milan plays Bologna in the Italian Cup final on Wednesday.\n\nAnd both teams will be looking to get their hands on the trophy for the first time in decades.\n\nBologna hasn't won the Italian Cup since 1974, which was its last major trophy.\n\nMilan has won plenty of trophies since then, but last lifted the Italian Cup 22 years ago \u2014 losing two finals in the intervening years.\n\nThis time, however, the Rossoneri are led by a cup specialist in coach S\u00e9rgio Concei\u00e7\u00e3o.\n\nIndeed, Concei\u00e7\u00e3o has already steered Milan to a trophy this season \u2014 winning the Italian Super Cup in January just a week after being appointed as coach.\n\nThat was the 50-year-old's 12th trophy as coach, with nine coming in cup competitions.\n\nConcei\u00e7\u00e3o also lifted seven cup trophies as a player, with Porto and Lazio.\n\nHowever, even if Milan ends the season with two trophies in Concei\u00e7\u00e3o's five months in charge, it might not be enough to save the Portuguese coach's job.\n\nMilan is eighth in Serie A with two rounds remaining and only has a slim chance of qualifying for the Champions League \u2014 or any European competition.\n\nWinning the Italian Cup would earn Milan a spot in the Europa League and go some way toward salvaging a season where the Rossoneri were never competitive in Serie A or Europe, having been dumped out of the Champions League by Feyenoord in the knockout playoff round.\n\n\"It's not the moment to talk about my future,\" Concei\u00e7\u00e3o said. \"Now we're only thinking about this final, against a difficult team to face.\n\n\"I have my character and my personality, I've changed things and you need time but at Milan you don't have time. \u2026 At Milan, what counts is winning trophies and Wednesday we have a great chance.\"\n\nIn contrast to Concei\u00e7\u00e3o, Bologna coach Vincenzo Italiano has not fared well in finals.\n\nItaliano never won a cup in his playing days and, as Fiorentina coach, he lost back-to-back Europa Conference League finals \u2014 in 2023 and 2024 \u2014 and finished runner-up in the 2023 Italian Cup.\n\n## Second meeting in a week\n\nThe cup final in Rome will be the teams' second meeting in less than a week.\n\nTwo goals from Santiago Gim\u00e9nez, either side of a Christian Pulisic strike, saw Milan rally to beat Bologna 3-1 and seriously dent its opponent's chances of qualifying for the Champions League again.\n\n\"We were ahead and we thought we could control it, Milan didn't give the impression of wanting to attack,\" Bologna scorer Riccardo Orsolini said in an interview with Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera.\n\n\"We gave them the spark that rekindled them and we got sliced through like butter. If we play like that in Rome we'll get slapped. We've understood what we shouldn't do.\""}
{"prompt_hash": "692a2d8bde04d78c83715b09f25f8248b4f6818a34d1f75441b6055e65eee2f0", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-12 21:06:54+00:00", "topics": ["Donald Trump", "Qatar", "Karoline Leavitt", "Laura Loomer", "Brian Schatz", "Josh Hawley", "Rand Paul", "Cory Booker", "Chris Murphy", "John Thune", "George W. Bush", "Middle East", "District of Columbia", "Christopher Coons", "U.S. Republican Party", "Politics", "Qatar government", "U.S. Democratic Party", "William Evanina", "Constitutional law", "Richard Painter", "The Boeing Co.", "Jessica Levinson"], "text": "# Trump's plan to accept free jet from Qatar raises questions\n\nBy Chris Megerian, Zeke Miller, and Bernard Condon  \nMay 12th, 2025 09:06 PM\n\n---\n\nWASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 For President Donald Trump, accepting a free Air Force One replacement from Qatar is a no-brainer.\n\n\"I would never be one to turn down that kind of an offer,\" the Republican told reporters on Monday. \"I could be a stupid person and say, 'No, we don't want a free, very expensive airplane.'\"\n\nCritics of the plan worry that the move threatens to turn a global symbol of American power into an airborne collection of ethical, legal, security and counterintelligence concerns.\n\n\"This is unprecedented,\" said Jessica Levinson, a constitutional law expert at Loyola Law School. \"We just haven't tested these boundaries before.\"\n\nTrump tried to tamp down some of the opposition by saying he wouldn't fly around in the gifted Boeing 747 when his term ends. Instead, he said, the $400 million plane would be donated to a future presidential library, similar to how the Boeing 707 used by President Ronald Reagan was decommissioned and put on display as a museum piece.\n\n\"It would go directly to the library after I leave office,\" Trump said. \"I wouldn't be using it.\"\n\nHowever, that did little to quell the controversy over the plane. Democrats are united in outrage, and even some of the Republican president's allies are worried. Laura Loomer, an outspoken conspiracy theorist who has tried to purge disloyal officials from the administration, wrote on social media that she would \"take a bullet for Trump\" but said she's \"so disappointed.\"\n\nCongressional Republicans have also expressed some doubts about the plan.\n\n\"My view is that it would be better if Air Force One were a big, beautiful jet made in the United States of America. That would be ideal,\" said Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley.\n\nAnd Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul flatly said he was a \"No\" on whether Trump should accept the plane. When asked to elaborate on his reasoning, Paul replied: \"I don't think it looks good or smells good.\" The Republican shrugged when asked by a reporter if there were \"constitutional questions.\"\n\nTrump will likely face persistent questions about the plane in the coming days as he travels to the Middle East, including a stop in Qatar.\n\n## Why does Trump want the Qatari plane?\n\nThe two planes currently used as Air Force One have been flying for nearly four decades, and Trump is eager to replace them. During his first term, he displayed a model of a new jumbo jet in the Oval Office, complete with a revised paint scheme that echoed the red, white and dark blue design of his personal plane.\n\nBoeing has been working on retrofitting 747s that were originally built for a now-defunct Russian airliner. But the program has faced nearly a decade of delays \u2014 with perhaps more on the way \u2014 from a series of issues, including a critical subcontractor's bankruptcy and the difficulty of finding and retaining qualified staff who could be awarded high-level security clearances.\n\nThe new planes aren't due to be finished until near the end of Trump's term, and he's out of patience. He has described the situation as \"a total mess,\" and he has complained that Air Force One isn't as nice as the planes flown by some Arab leaders.\n\n\"It's not even the same ballgame,\" he said.\n\nTrump said Qatar, which hosts the largest U.S. military base in the Middle East, offered a replacement plane that could be used while the government was waiting for Boeing to finish.\n\n\"We give free things out,\" he said. \"We'll take one, too.\"\n\nHe bristled at suggestions that he should turn down the plane, comparing the potential gift to favors on the golf course.\n\n\"When they give you a putt, you pick it up and you walk to the next hole and you say, 'Thank you very much,'\" he said.\n\nSenate Majority Leader John Thune of South Dakota expressed skepticism.\n\n\"I understand his frustration. They're way behind schedule on delivering the next Air Force One,\" the Republican told reporters. \"Whether or not this is the right solution or not, I don't know.\"\n\nMississippi GOP Sen. Roger Wicker said that any plane \"needs to be gifted to the United States of America.\"\n\nHe added that whether the U.S. should accept a Qatari plane warranted further inquiry. \"There'll be some questions about that, and this issue, I expect, will be vetted by the time a decision needs to be made,\" he said.\n\n## Will the new plane be secure?\n\nThe Qatari plane has been described as a \"palace in the sky,\" complete with luxurious accommodations and top-of-the-line finishes.\n\nBut security is the primary concern when it comes to presidential travel. The current Air Force One planes were built from scratch near the end of the Cold War. They are hardened against the effects of a nuclear blast and include a range of security features, such as anti-missile countermeasures and an onboard operating room. They are also equipped with air-to-air refueling capabilities for contingencies, though it has never been utilized with a president on board.\n\nA former U.S. official briefed on the Air Force One replacement project said that while it would be possible to add some features to the Qatari jet, there was no way to add the full suite of capabilities to the plane on a tight timetable.\n\nThe official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive program, said it would be a risk for presidents to fly on such a jet.\n\nOne of the most important features of Air Force One is the communications capabilities. Presidents can use the plane as a flying Situation Room, allowing them to respond to crises anywhere on the globe.\n\nHowever, on Sept. 11, 2001, Republican President George W. Bush was frustrated by communications issues and ordered up massive technology upgrades over subsequent years to improve the president's ability to monitor events and communicate with people around the world.\n\nThe new ones under development by Boeing are being stripped down so workers can replace the standard wiring with shielded cabling. They're also modifying the jet with an array of classified security measures and communications capabilities.\n\nBecause of the high standards for ensuring a president can communicate clearly and securely, there are fears that Trump would be compromising safety by rushing to modify the Qatari jet.\n\n\"Disassembling and evaluating the plane for collection/spy devices will take years,\" William Evanina, who served as director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center during Trump's first term, wrote on social media.\n\nHe said the plane should be considered nothing more than \"a gracious presidential museum piece.\"\n\n## Is any of this legal or ethical?\n\nEven for a president who has blurred traditional lines around public service and personal gain, Trump's plans to receive a jumbo jet as a gift has rattled Washington.\n\nThe Constitution prohibits federal officials from accepting things of value, or \"emoluments,\" from foreign governments without congressional approval.\n\n\"This is a classic example of what the founders worried about,\" said Richard Painter, a law professor at the University of Minnesota and former White House ethics chief under Bush. \"But I don't think the founders anticipated it would get this bad.\"\n\nWhite House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told Fox News on Monday that the details of the donation are \"still being worked out\" but would be done \"in full compliance with the law.\"\n\nShe dismissed idea the idea that Qatar wanted to influence Trump.\n\n\"They know President Trump, and they know he only works with the interests of the American public in mind,\" she said.\n\nTrump faced a legal fight over emoluments during his first term, when he opened the doors of his D.C. hotel to lobbyists, business executives and diplomats. His lawyers argued that the founders didn't intend to ban transactions representing an exchange of a service like hotel space for money, only outright gifts. But some ethics lawyers disagreed, and it's not clear if Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, the Philippines and other countries were paying full price or more for when they used the hotel.\n\nIn his second term, Trump's family business has been very busy overseas. In December, it struck a deal for two Trump-branded real estate projects in Riyadh with a Saudi firm that two years earlier it had partnered with for a Trump golf resort and villas in Oman. And in Qatar, the Trump Organization announced last month another Trump branded resort along the coast.\n\nFour Democratic senators on the Foreign Relations Committee \u2014 Brian Schatz of Hawaii, Chris Coons of Delaware, Cory Booker of New Jersey and Chris Murphy of Connecticut \u2014 issued a statement saying Trump's plan \"creates a clear conflict of interest, raises serious national security questions, invites foreign influence, and undermines public trust in our government.\"\n\n\"No one \u2014 not even the president \u2014 is above the law,\" they said."}
{"prompt_hash": "afadf60d7d7341da2511cbf813676b7d642f053d934af4189268a09129f56f71", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-12 20:11:19+00:00", "topics": ["Donald Trump", "Gender", "Andrea Lucas", "Karen Ortiz", "Workplace culture", "Labor", "Civil rights", "Email and messaging", "Discrimination", "Human rights", "LGBTQ", "Politics", "Brittany Panuccio", "Jocelyn Samuels", "Race and ethnicity", "New York", "Business", "Race and Ethnicity"], "text": "# Civil rights agency moves to fire judge fighting Trump directives\n\nBy Claire Savage  \nMay 12th, 2025 08:11 PM\n\n---\n\nThe federal agency tasked with protecting workers' civil rights has moved to terminate a New York administrative judge who has resisted compliance with directives from the White House, including President Donald Trump's executive order decreeing male and female as two \"immutable\" sexes.\n\nThe U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in response to Trump's order has moved to drop at least seven of its own pending cases representing transgender workers alleging discrimination, and is classifying all new gender identity-related discrimination cases as its lowest priority, signaling a major departure from its prior interpretation of civil rights law.\n\nEEOC Administrative Judge Karen Ortiz, who in February criticized the agency's Trump-appointed head, Acting Chair Andrea Lucas, in an email copied to more than 1,000 colleagues, on Wednesday was placed on administrative leave. She also received notice that the EEOC leadership sought to fire her, accusing her of \"profoundly unprofessional\" conduct.\n\n\"Of particular concern, your February email was ultimately circulated to multiple press outlets, potentially resulting in significant reputational harm to the agency,\" according to the notice, which included a PDF of a March 10 article by The Associated Press about Ortiz, along with other materials.\n\nAn EEOC spokesperson said on Monday that the agency had no comment on Ortiz's termination proceedings. But in its notice to Ortiz, the agency said its action \"does not pertain to the content of your disagreement with the Agency policy, but rather the disrespectful and disparaging manner in which you have conveyed your message.\"\n\nIn her February mass-email criticizing the agency's efforts to comply with Trump's order, Ortiz wrote to Lucas that \"You are not fit to be our chair much less hold a license to practice law,\" adding: \"I will not compromise my ethics and my duty to uphold the law.\" The letter was leaked on Reddit, where it gained more than 10,000 \"upvotes.\" Many users cheered its author.\n\nThe EEOC subsequently revoked her email privileges for about a week and issued her a written reprimand for \"discourteous conduct.\"\n\nOrtiz's actions were cited in an April 18 White House proposal aimed to make it easier to fire some federal workers. It listed Ortiz as an example of bureaucrats who \"use the protections the system gives them to oppose presidential policies and impose their own preferences.\"\n\nOrtiz said she was unfazed after being called out by the nation's highest office. Trump \"just gave me an even bigger platform,\" she said in an April 19 message to The AP.\n\nThe EEOC has undergone tumultuous change since Trump took office. He fired two of the three Democratic commissioners of the federal agency in an unprecedented move that swept away what would have been a key barrier to his campaign to dismantle diversity and inclusion programs, end protections for transgender and nonbinary workers and other priorities. One of the dismissed commissioners, Jocelyn Samuels, filed a lawsuit challenging her termination, arguing her removal was a violation of the Civil Rights Act that created the agency to be an independent and bipartisan protector of the rights of workers. The move also left the agency without the quorum needed to make key decisions. But last week, Trump tapped an assistant U.S. attorney in Florida, Brittany Panuccio, to fill one of the vacancies. If Panuccio is confirmed by the Senate, the EEOC would regain a quorum and establish a Republican majority 2-1, clearing the path to make major policy changes, including revising agency guidance on how to implement existing civil rights laws.\n\nSince February, Ortiz said she has continued to \"raise the alarm\" and convey her opposition to the agency's actions, including in an April 24 email to Lucas and several other internal email groups with the subject line, \"If You're Seeking Power, Here's Power\" and a link to Tears for Fears' 1985 hit \"Everybody Wants to Rule the World.\"\n\n\"Take in the lyrics,\" Ortiz wrote to Lucas. \"Ponder what you're allowing yourself to be a part of.\"\n\nHer ability to send emails was again promptly revoked.\n\nOrtiz said she plans to fight the termination, and is strategizing with her attorneys and union on how best to respond. She may reply to the dismissal notice within 15 days, and has the right to request a time extension, an attorney, a union representative, or another representative of her choosing, according to the document, which was acquired by The AP. A final decision will be issued after the reply period has passed.\n\n\"I've been quite the thorn in the agency's side,\" Ortiz said Monday in a phone interview with The AP. \"But, you know, it's warranted.\""}
{"prompt_hash": "6d8c6106b4647c6a7bad7e308ee1fd4b0f13ff1300f5e8647185ee4e15cddbba", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 06:56:45+00:00", "topics": ["Cricket", "Sports", "Mohammad Rizwan", "Pakistan", "India"], "text": "# Pakistan T20 cricket league set to resume after ceasefire\n\nBy Rizwan Ali  \nMay 13th, 2025 06:56 AM\n\n---\n\nISLAMABAD (AP) \u2014 The Pakistan Super League is set to resume this weekend after a ceasefire between Pakistan and India.\n\n\"PSL X picks up from where it left off! 6 teams, 0 fear,\" Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Mohsin Naqvi posted Tuesday on X.\n\n\"Let the aura take over as we unite and celebrate the spirit of cricket,\" he posted. \"Get ready for 8 thrilling matches starting 17th May, leading up to the Grand Final on 25th May. Best of luck to all the teams!\"\n\nPakistan and India agreed to a truce last Saturday after talks to defuse their most serious military confrontation in decades.\n\nThe Pakistan-based Twenty20 league was suspended last Thursday after an Indian drone fell near the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium, which was due to host a game featuring foreign players from Australia, England, South Africa, West Indies, New Zealand and Afghanistan.\n\nThe organizers first proposed moving the tournament to Dubai but later decided to postpone it after foreign players showed their reluctance to participate in the tournament due to security concerns. Around 43 foreign cricketers \u2014 competing in six PSL teams \u2014 were flown out of Pakistan from an airbase in Rawalpindi.\n\nIt was not clear how many foreign players will return to Pakistan for the remaining eight games, which will be played at Rawalpindi and Lahore.\n\nThe PCB said that Rawalpindi will host the remaining four league matches between May 17-19 before Lahore hosts the playoffs from May 21, including the final at Gaddafi Stadium on May 25.\n\nQuetta Gladiators have already qualified for the playoffs and lead the standings with 13 points. Karachi Kings, Islamabad United, Lahore Qalandars and Peshawar Zalmi are in the running to fill the remaining three playoff spots.\n\nMultan Sultans, led by Mohammad Rizwan, are already out of playoff race after losing eight of their nine league games.\n\nOn Monday, the world's most lucrative T20 league \u2014 the Indian Premier League \u2014 also announced the resumption of the tournament. The IPL will run from Saturday until June 3."}
{"prompt_hash": "965739fcc9ba03e96a102ad3fdd438c126b288272e084ac9c85f82dc08db84f3", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 14:02:34+00:00", "topics": ["China", "Donald Trump", "International trade", "Mexico", "Gustavo Petro", "Claudia Sheinbaum", "United Kingdom", "China government", "Howard Lutnick", "Jerome Powell", "Ursula Von Der Leyen", "Joe Biden", "Justin Trudeau", "United States government", "European Union", "National", "United States", "Tariffs and global trade", "General Motors Co.", "Politics", "Mark Carney", "Ford Motor Co.", "Business", "Stellantis NV"], "text": "# Trump's tariffs have launched global trade wars. Here's a timeline of how we got here\n\nBy Wyatte Grantham-Philips  \nMay 13th, 2025 02:02 PM\n\n---\n\nNEW YORK (AP) \u2014\n\nLong-threatened tariffs from U.S. President Donald Trump have plunged the country into trade wars abroad \u2014 all while on-again, off-again new levies continue to escalate uncertainty.\n\nTrump launched a trade war during his first term as well, taking particular aim at China by putting taxes on most of its goods. Beijing responded with its own retaliatory tariffs on a range of U.S. products. Trump used the threat of more tariffs to force Canada and Mexico to renegotiate a North American trade pact, called the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, in 2020.\n\nWhen President Joe Biden took office, he preserved most of the tariffs Trump had enacted against China, in addition to imposing some new restrictions. But his administration claimed to take a more targeted approach.\n\nFast-forward to today, and economists stress there could be greater consequences on businesses and economies worldwide under Trump's more sweeping tariffs this time around \u2014 and that higher prices will likely leave consumers footing the bill. There's also been a sense of whiplash from Trump's back-and-forth tariff threats and responding retaliation seen over the last few months.\n\nHere's a timeline of how we got here:\n\n## January 20\n\nTrump is sworn into office. In his inaugural address, he again promises to \"tariff and tax foreign countries to enrich our citizens.\" And he reiterates plans to create an agency called the External Revenue Service, which has yet to be established.\n\nOn his first day in office, Trump also says he expects to put 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico starting on Feb. 1, while declining to immediately flesh out plans for taxing Chinese imports.\n\n## January 26\n\nTrump threatens 25% tariffs on all Colombia imports and other retaliatory measures after President Gustavo Petro's rejects two U.S. military aircraft carrying migrants to the country, accusing Trump of not treating immigrants with dignity during deportation.\n\nIn response, Petro also announces a retaliatory 25% increase in Colombian tariffs on U.S. goods. But Colombia later reversed its decision and accepted the flights carrying migrants. The two countries soon signaled a halt in the trade dispute.\n\n## February 1\n\nTrump signs an executive order to impose tariffs on imports from Mexico, Canada and China \u2014 10% on all imports from China and 25% on imports from Mexico and Canada starting Feb. 4. Trump invoked this power by declaring a national emergency \u2014 ostensibly over undocumented immigration and drug trafficking.\n\nThe action prompts swift outrage from all three countries, with promises of retaliatory measures.\n\n## February 3\n\nTrump agrees to a 30-day pause on his tariff threats against Mexico and Canada, as both trading partners take steps to appease Trump's concerns about border security and drug trafficking.\n\n## February 4\n\nTrump's new 10% tariffs on all Chinese imports to the U.S. still go into effect. China retaliates the same day by announcing a flurry of countermeasures, including new duties on a variety of American goods and an anti-monopoly investigation into Google.\n\nChina's 15% tariffs on coal and liquefied natural gas products, and a 10% levy on crude oil, agricultural machinery and large-engine cars imported from the U.S., take effect Feb. 10.\n\n## February 10\n\nTrump announces plans to hike steel and aluminum tariffs starting March 12. He removes the exemptions from his 2018 tariffs on steel, meaning that all steel imports will be taxed at a minimum of 25%, and also raises his 2018 aluminum tariffs from 10% to 25%.\n\n## February 13\n\nTrump announces a plan for \"reciprocal\" tariffs \u2014 promising to increase U.S. tariffs to match the tax rates that countries worldwide charge on imports \"for purposes of fairness.\" Economists warn that the reciprocal tariffs, set to overturn decades of trade policy, could create chaos for global businesses.\n\n## February 25\n\nTrump signs an executive order instructing the Commerce Department to consider whether a tariff on imported copper is needed to protect national security. He cites the material's use in U.S. defense, infrastructure and emerging technologies.\n\n## March 1\n\nTrump signs an additional executive order instructing the Commerce Department to consider whether tariffs on lumber and timber are also needed to protect national security, arguing that the construction industry and military depend on a strong supply of wooden products in the U.S.\n\n## March 4\n\nTrump's 25% tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico go into effect, though he limits the levy to 10% on Canadian energy. He also doubles the tariff on all Chinese imports to 20%.\n\nAll three countries promise retaliatory measures. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announces tariffs on more than $100 billion of American goods over the course of 21 days. And Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum says her country would respond with its own retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods without specifying the targeted products immediately, signaling hopes to de-escalate.\n\nChina, meanwhile, imposes tariffs of up to 15% on a wide array of key U.S. farm exports, set to take effect March 10. It also expands the number of U.S. companies subject to export controls and other restrictions by about two dozen.\n\n## March 5\n\nTrump grants a one-month exemption on his new tariffs impacting goods from Mexico and Canada for U.S. automakers. The pause arrives after the president spoke with leaders of the \"Big 3\" automakers \u2014 Ford, General Motors and Stellantis.\n\n## March 6\n\nIn a wider extension, Trump postpones 25% tariffs on many imports from Mexico and some imports from Canada for a month.\n\nTrump credited Sheinbaum with making progress on border security and drug smuggling as a reason for again pausing tariffs. His actions also thaw relations with Canada somewhat, although outrage and uncertainty remains. Still, after its initial retaliatory tariffs of $30 billion Canadian (US$21 billion) on U.S. goods, the government says it's suspended a second wave of retaliatory tariffs worth $125 billion Canadian (US$87 billion).\n\n## March 10\n\nChina's retaliatory 15% tariffs on key American farm products \u2014 including chicken, pork, soybeans and beef \u2014 take effect. Goods already in transit are set to be exempt through April 12, per China's Commerce Ministry previous announcement.\n\n## March 12\n\nTrump's new tariffs on all steel and aluminum imports go into effect. Both metals are now taxed at 25% across the board \u2014 with Trump's order to remove steel exemptions and raise aluminum's levy from his previously-imposed 2018 import taxes.\n\nThe European Union takes retaliatory trade action promising new duties on U.S. industrial and farm products. The measures will cover goods from the United States worth some 26 billion euros ($28 billion), and not just steel and aluminum products, but also textiles, home appliances and agricultural goods. Motorcycles, bourbon, peanut butter and jeans will be hit, as they were during Trump's first term. The 27-member bloc later says it will delay this retaliatory action until mid-April.\n\nCanada, meanwhile, announces plans to impose more retaliatory tariffs worth Canadian $29.8 billion ($20.7 billion) on U.S. imports, set to go into effect March 13.\n\n## March 13\n\nTrump threatens a 200% tariff on European wine, Champagne and spirits if the European Union goes forward with its previously-announced plans for a 50% tariff on American whiskey.\n\n## March 24\n\nTrump says he will place a 25% tariff on all imports from any country that buys oil or gas from Venezuela, in addition to imposing new tariffs on the South American country itself, starting April 2.\n\nThe tariffs would most likely add to the taxes facing China, which in 2023 bought 68% of the oil exported by Venezuela, per the U.S. Energy Information Administration. But a number of countries also receive oil from Venezuela \u2014 including the United States itself.\n\n## March 26\n\nTrump says he is placing 25% tariffs on auto imports. These auto imports will start being collected April 3 \u2014 beginning with taxes on fully-imported cars. The tariffs are set to then expand to applicable auto parts in the following weeks, through May 3.\n\n## April 2\n\nTrump announces his long-promised \"reciprocal\" tariffs \u2014 declaring a 10% baseline tax on imports across the board starting April 5, as well as higher rates for dozens of nations that run trade surpluses with the U.S. to take effect April 9.\n\nAmong those steeper levies, Trump says the U.S. will now charge a 34% tax on imports from China, a 20% tax on imports from the European Union, 25% on South Korea, 24% on Japan and 32% on Taiwan. The new tariffs come on top of previously-imposed levies, including the 20% tax Trump announced on all Chinese imports earlier this year.\n\nMeanwhile, for Canada and Mexico, the White House says USMCA-compliant imports can continue to enter the U.S. duty-free. Once the two countries have satisfied Trump's demands on immigration and drug trafficking, the White House adds, the tariff on the rest of their imports may drop from 25% to 12%.\n\n## April 3\n\nTrump's previously-announced auto tariffs begin. Prime Minister Mark Carney says that Canada will match the 25% levies with a tariff on vehicles imported from the U.S.\n\n## April 4\n\nChina announces plans to impose a 34% tariff on imports of all U.S. products beginning April 10, matching Trump's new \"reciprocal\" tariff on Chinese goods, as part of a flurry of retaliatory measures.\n\nThe Commerce Ministry in Beijing says it will also impose more export controls on rare earths, which are materials used in high-tech products like computer chips and electric vehicle batteries. And the government adds 27 firms to lists of companies subject to trade sanctions or export controls.\n\n## April 5\n\nTrump's 10% minimum tariff on nearly all countries and territories takes effect.\n\n## April 9\n\nTrump's higher \"reciprocal\" rates go into effect, hiking taxes on imports from dozens of countries just after midnight. But hours later, his administration says it will suspend most of these higher rates for 90 days, while maintaining the recently-imposed 10% levy on nearly all global imports.\n\nChina is the exception. After following through on a threat to raise levies against China to a total of 104%, Trump says he will now raise those import taxes to 125% \"effective immediately\" \u2014 escalating tit-for-tat duties that have piled up between the two countries. The White House later clarifies that total tariffs against China are actually now 145%, once his previous 20% fentanyl tariffs are accounted for.\n\nChina upped its retaliation prior to this announcement \u2014 vowing to tax American goods at 84% starting April 10. Also earlier, EU member states vote to approve their own retaliatory levies on 20.9 billion euros ($23 billion) of U.S. goods in response to Trump's previously-imposed steel and aluminum tariffs. The EU's executive commission doesn't immediately specify which imports it will tax, but notes its counter tariffs will come in stages \u2014 with some set to arrive on April 15, and others May 15 and Dec. 1.\n\nSeparately, Canada's counter tariffs on auto imports take effect. The country implements a 25% levy on auto imports from the U.S. that do not comply with the 2020 USMCA pact.\n\n## April 10\n\nThe EU puts its steel and aluminum tariff retaliation on hold for 90 days, to match Trump's pause on steeper \"reciprocal\" levies. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says the commission wants to give negotiations with the U.S. a chance \u2014 but warns countermeasures will kick in if talks \"are not satisfactory.\"\n\n## April 11\n\nChina says it will raise tariffs on U.S. goods from 84% to 125%, in response to Trump's heightened levies. The new rate is set to begin April 12.\n\nLater, the Trump administration unveils that electronics, including smartphones and laptops, will be exempt from so-called \"reciprocal\" tariffs. But in the days following, U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick signals that this is only a temporary reprieve, saying that sector-specific levies on semiconductors will arrive in \"probably a month or two.\" And other, non-\"reciprocal\" tariffs that tax some electronics, notably from China, remain.\n\n## April 14\n\nTrump says he might temporarily exempt the auto industry from tariffs he previously imposed on the sector, to give carmakers time to adjust their supply chains.\n\nThe Trump administration also launches investigations into imports of computer chips, chipmaking equipment and pharmaceuticals \u2014 signaling next steps toward imposing tariffs on these sectors. The U.S. Commerce Department posts notices about these probes, seeking public comment within the next three weeks.\n\nSeparately, the Commerce Department says it's withdrawing from a 2019 agreement that had suspended an antidumping investigation into fresh tomato imports from Mexico. That termination, set to take effect July 14, means most tomatoes from Mexico will be subject to a 20.91% tariff.\n\n## April 29\n\nTrump signs executive orders to relax some of his 25% tariffs on automobiles and auto parts \u2014 aimed at easing import taxes for vehicles that are made with foreign parts, but assembled in the U.S.\n\nFor one year, the administration says it will provide a rebate of 3.75% relative to the sales prices of a domestically-assembled car \u2014 a figure reached by putting the previously-imposed 25% import tax on parts that make up 15% of that price. And for the second year, the rebate would equal 2.5% of the sales price, applying to a smaller share of the vehicle's parts.\n\n## May 3\n\nThe latest round of Trump's auto tariffs takes effect. The previously-announced 25% levies now apply to a range of imported auto parts.\n\n## May 4\n\nTrump threatens a 100% tariff on foreign-made films, while claiming that the movie industry in the U.S. is dying. It isn't immediately clear how such a tariff on international productions could be implemented, but Trump says he's authorized the Commerce Department and the U.S. Trade Representative to \"immediately begin the process.\"\n\n## May 6\n\nThe U.S. trade deficit soared to a record $140.5 billion in March as consumers and businesses tried to get ahead of Trump'stariffs. Federal data showed an enormous stockpiling of pharmaceutical products. The deficit \u2014 which measures the gap between the value of goods and services the U.S. sells abroad against what it buys \u2014 has roughly doubled during the past year.\n\nAlso, the U.S. government announced that top officials are set to meet with a high-level Chinese delegation over the weekend in Switzerland in the first major talks between the two nations since President Trump sparked a trade war. No country has been hit harder by Trump's trade war than China, the world's biggest exporter and second largest economy. U.S. tariffs against China are set at 145% and China tariffs on the U.S. at 125%.\n\n## May 7\n\nThe Federal Reserve left its key interest rate unchanged at 4.3%, saying that the risks of both higher unemployment and higher inflation have risen due to uncertainty about how and when Trump's tariffs might impact the U.S. economy. Chair Jerome Powell underscored that the tariffs have dampened consumer and business sentiment and that there's currently too many unknowns to be able to predict how the Fed might adjust its interest rate policy going forward.\n\n## May 8\n\nThe United States and Britain announced a trade deal, potentially lowering the financial burden from tariffs while creating greater access abroad for American goods. The president said the agreement would lead to more beef and ethanol exports to the U.K., which would also streamline the processing of U.S. goods though customs. Trump said final details were being written up. \"In the coming weeks, we'll have it all very conclusive,\" Trump said.\n\nBritain said the deal will cut tariffs on U.K. cars from 27.5% to 10%, with a quota of 100,000 U.K. vehicles that can be imported to the U.S. at a 10% tariff. It also eliminate tariffs on steel and aluminum.\n\nSeparately, the European Union published a list of U.S. imports that it would target with retaliatory duties if no solution is found to end U.S. President Donald Trump's tariff war. The EU's executive branch, the European Commission, also said it would begin legal action at the World Trade Organization over the \"reciprocal tariffs\" that Trump imposed on countries around the world a month ago.\n\n## May 12\n\nThe United States and China agreed to roll back most of the tariffs each nation had imposed on the other and declared a 90-day truce in their trade war.\n\nThe Trump administration said it would reduce the 145% duties it had imposed on imports from China to 30%, while China said it would cut its 125% tariffs on U.S. goods to 10%. Some of the U.S. tariffs \u2014 24 percentage points \u2014 will be delayed for 90 days, while the rest of have been removed.\n\nThe deal was celebrated by financial markets, which soared in response. Yet economists noted that tariffs between the two countries remained noticeably higher than they were a few months ago."}
{"prompt_hash": "4ddc4e398e13b67071a738b7630373c0523bde022e45c0589d9726d5bacfd9af", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 13:53:25+00:00", "topics": ["Soccer", "Premier League", "New Zealand", "Australia", "Sports", "Sydney", "Rob McElhenney"], "text": "# Wrexham heading Down Under for preseason tour ahead of push for Premier League\n\nMay 13th, 2025 01:53 PM\n\n---\n\nWREXHAM, Wales (AP) \u2014 Wrexham is heading Down Under to prepare for its first shot at getting into the Premier League.\n\nThe fast-rising Welsh club owned by Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney will play three preseason friendlies in an eight-day span in July during a tour of Australia and New Zealand.\n\nWrexham has just clinched a third straight promotion and will be playing next season in the Championship \u2014 one tier down from the Premier League.\n\nWrexham will play Melbourne Victory on July 11 and then Sydney FC four days later, the team said Tuesday. The closing game of the tour will be against Wellington Phoenix on July 19.\n\n\"From the very beginning, we wanted to help make Wrexham a globally recognized team, town and brand,\" Reynolds and McElhenney said in a club statement. \"We could not be more excited to bring the Red Dragons to Australia and New Zealand.\"\n\nWrexham has previously had preseason tours to the United States."}
{"prompt_hash": "fee7fb4d159b099b2d71ff3816cfd8d25465cf4bd68ec87c078762213ed53629", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 13:47:41+00:00", "topics": ["Canada", "Electric vehicles", "Ken Chiu", "Ontario", "Business", "Flavio Volpe", "Honda Motor Co.", "Ltd."], "text": "# Honda Canada postpones multibillion EV investment project in Ontario\n\nMay 13th, 2025 01:47 PM\n\n---\n\nTORONTO (AP) \u2014 Honda Canada will postpone a $15-billion Canadian (US$10.7 billion) electric vehicle investment project in Canada's most populous province, including a proposed EV battery plant and retooled vehicle assembly facility.\n\nHonda Canada spokesman Ken Chiu said Tuesday due to the recent slowdown in the EV market, Honda has announced an approximate two-year postponement of the comprehensive value chain investment project in Ontario.\n\n\"The company will continue to evaluate the timing and project progression as market conditions change,\" Chiu said in a statement.\n\nThe decision has no impact on current employment at the Honda manufacturing plant in Alliston, Ontario, he added.\n\nHonda's EV project in Canada includes a retooled assembly plant, an electric vehicle battery plant in close proximity, as well as two key battery parts facilities located elsewhere in Ontario.\n\nThe project was expected to see the two main plants create 1,000 jobs on top of retaining the existing 4,200 jobs at the assembly plant.\n\nUnder the original plan, the plant was set to produce up to 240,000 vehicles per year when fully operational in 2028.\n\nOttawa was set to give the Japanese automaker around $2.5 billion Canadian (US$1.8 billion) through tax credits, while Ontario committed to providing up to $2.5 billion Canadian (US$1.8 billion) in support directly and indirectly.\n\n\"The market cooling consequences of US tariff actions continue to be felt by everyone, Honda included,\" Flavio Volpe, president of the Automotive Parts Manufacturers' Association, posted on social media."}
{"prompt_hash": "6cecbb4eb81aeedc57f01d509ce9d336d4602cdc5e00ec6a70b74b16851ea12c", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 13:38:22+00:00", "topics": ["Soccer", "Liverpool FC", "Atletico Madrid", "FC Barcelona", "Tottenham Hotspur FC", "SSC Napoli", "Uruguay", "Marcelo Bielsa", "Rodrigo Bentancur", "Jose Maria Gimenez", "Sports"], "text": "# Sports court rejects appeal from Uruguay players who clashed with fans at Copa America game in US\n\nMay 13th, 2025 01:38 PM\n\n---\n\nLAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) \u2014 Sport's highest court rejected an appeal by five Uruguay players against their bans for clashing with fans after a Copa America semifinal in North Carolina last year, dismissing their claim that they acted in self defense to protect their families.\n\nFive Uruguay players, including Liverpool forward Darwin N\u00fa\u00f1ez, Barcelona defender Ronald Ara\u00fajo and Atletico Madrid defender Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Gim\u00e9nez, were banned for between three and five games by South American soccer body CONMEBOL after the brawl.\n\nThe players had clashed with fans in the stands at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte after a 1-0 loss to Colombia last July. Tottenham midfielder Rodrigo Bentancur and Napoli defender Math\u00edas Olivera also were involved and later banned.\n\nThe Court of Arbitration for Sport said Tuesday its judges dismissed appeals by the players and the Uruguayan soccer federation.\n\n\"The panel found that in this case, the principle of self-defense does not apply and that the conduct of the players constituted a voluntary, violent and unjustified action,\" the court said in a statement.\n\nN\u00fa\u00f1ez should now be suspended when Uruguay resumes World Cup qualifying games at Paraguay on June 5 and hosts Venezuela five days later.\n\nCoached by Marcelo Bielsa, the team is on track to qualify for the 2026 tournament and return to the U.S., which will co-host the tournament with Canada and Mexico.\n\nUruguay is third in the standings in the 10-team South American qualifying group with four rounds left, six points ahead of seventh-placed Venezuela.\n\nThe top six in the final standings in September advance directly to the World Cup and the seventh-place team enters an intercontinental playoff in March next year."}
{"prompt_hash": "1368fac4b7fe3af9581317e799d157b4f3ee82ff82c3b430ffbf10e711fcded6", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 10:49:30+00:00", "topics": ["Turkey", "Abdullah Ocalan", "Kurdistan Workers Party", "Recep Tayyip Erdogan", "Iraq", "Turkey government", "Syria", "Islam", "Syria government", "Disarmament", "Politics"], "text": "# Turkey says it is closely monitoring PKK disbandment to secure peace\n\nBy Suzan Fraser  \nMay 13th, 2025 10:49 AM\n\n---\n\nANKARA, Turkey (AP) \u2014 Turkey is closely monitoring any attempts to undermine its peace initiative with the PKK, a senior official said Tuesday, following the militant Kurdish group's announcement that it is dissolving and ending its decades-long armed conflict with the Turkish state.\n\nThe PKK, designated as a terrorist organization by several, announced the historic decision on Monday months after its imprisoned leader called for the group to formally disband and disarm \u2014 a move that could bring an end to one of the Middle East's longest-running insurgencies.\n\nIn making the call, the PKK leader stressed the need for securing Kurdish rights through negotiation rather than armed struggle.\n\nPrevious peace efforts with the group have failed, most recently in 2015. Given the past failures, a close aide to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan expressed determination to uphold the current initiative and prevent any disruptions.\n\n\"We are closely following attempts to sabotage the process and we will not allow anyone to test our state's determination in this regard,\" Fahrettin Altun, the head of the Turkish presidential communications office said.\n\nThe PKK initially launched its struggle with the goal of establishing an independent Kurdish state. Over time, it moderated its objectives toward autonomy and greater Kurdish rights within Turkey. The conflict, which has spilled into neighboring Iraq and Syria, has claimed tens of thousands of lives since it began in the 1980s.\n\nThe latest peace effort, which the government has labeled \"Terror-Free Turkey\" was launched in October, after a key ally of President Recep Tayyip suggested parole for PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan if the PKK renounces violence and disbands.\n\nOfficials have not disclose details about the process that will follow the PKK's decision.\n\nMedia close to the government have reported that the PKK's disarmament process is expected to take three to four months, with weapons being collected at designated locations in northern Iraq under official supervision.\n\nAccording to Hurriyet newspaper, the disarmament could be overseen jointly by Turkey and the Kurdistan Regional Government in Iraq or through a commission involving Turkey, the United States, European Union nations and Iraq.\n\nThe newspaper also suggested that high-ranking PKK members may be relocated to third countries, while lower-ranking militants without arrest warrants could return to Turkey once a legal framework is established to facilitate their reintegration.\n\nTurkish officials have not responded to requests for comment on the report.\n\nAnalysts expect Ocalan to see improved prison conditions following the PKK's disbandment.\n\nErdogan said Monday the PKK's declaration should apply to all PKK-affiliated groups, including Kurdish groups in Syria.\n\nThe Kurdish fighters in Syria have ties to the PKK and have been involved in intense fighting with Turkish-backed forces there. The leader of the U.S.-backed Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces previously said Ocalan's call for a dissolution does not apply to his group in Syria.\n\nThe group then reached an agreement with the central government in Damascus for a nationwide ceasefire and its merger into the Syrian army. Despite the deal, Kurdish officials in Syria later declared their desire for a federal state, sparking tensions with the Syrian government.\n\nSome believe the main aim of the reconciliation effort is for Erdogan's government to garner Kurdish support for a new constitution that would allow him to remain in power beyond 2028, when his term ends."}
{"prompt_hash": "7298cbcbb4ddc11a729e2bf1954678be8b087060cb30c63d8fb2be10895e7e64", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 13:19:48+00:00", "topics": ["Cycling", "Sports retirements", "2024 Paris Olympic Games", "Sports", "Bradley Wiggins"], "text": "# Cycling champion Bradley Wiggins says he was a cocaine addict and is 'lucky' to be alive\n\nMay 13th, 2025 01:19 PM\n\n---\n\nLONDON (AP) \u2014 Former Tour de France champion Bradley Wiggins has revealed he became addicted to cocaine after retiring from cycling.\n\nIn an interview with British newspaper The Observer, the five-time Olympic gold medalist said he is \"lucky\" to be alive.\n\n\"There were times my son thought I was going to be found dead in the morning,\" the 45-year-old Wiggins said. \"I was a functioning addict. People wouldn't realize. I was high for most of the time for years.\"\n\nThe British cyclist was a gold medalist in four straight Olympics from 2004 and won the Tour in 2012. He retired in 2016.\n\nIn 2022, he made an allegation in an interview with Men's Health UK magazine that he was sexually groomed by a coach \u2014 whose name he did not reveal \u2014 when he was 13 years old.\n\nIn a soon-to-be-published autobiography, The Chain, Wiggins detailed how his life spiraled into a cycle of debt and addiction after retirement from the sport.\n\nWiggins told the Observer his cocaine addiction became a \"really bad problem\" and he was \"walking a tightrope.\" He quit his addiction a year ago, the newspaper said.\n\n\"I already had a lot of self-hatred, but I was amplifying it,\" he said. \"It was a form of self-harm and self-sabotage. It was not the person I wanted to be. I realized I was hurting a lot of people around me.\""}
{"prompt_hash": "dc173d2fa2c3ed051d1a98b2b34058a7be7a5707d9a72b27f50fe2a849cd9c3a", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 04:39:11+00:00", "topics": ["Donald Trump", "International trade", "Shigeru Ishiba", "China", "Japan", "Japan government", "World Trade Organization", "Tariffs and global trade", "Business", "Politics"], "text": "# WTO chief says global free trade is in crisis\n\nBy Mari Yamaguchi  \nMay 13th, 2025 04:39 AM\n\n---\n\nTOKYO (AP) \u2014 Global free trade is in crisis, the head of the World Trade Organization chief said Tuesday while meeting Japanese Prime Minister Shigaru Ishiba on Tuesday.\n\nNgozi Okonjo-Iweala, director-general of the World Trade Organization, told Ishiba that she has high expectations for Japan as a champion of open markets as U.S. President Donald Trump disrupts world commerce with his fast-changing tariffs and other policies.\n\n\"Trade is facing very challenging times right now and it is quite difficult,\" she said. \"We should try to use this crisis as an opportunity to solve the challenges we have and take advantage of new trends in trade.\"\n\nJapan, as \"a champion of the multilateral trading system\" must help maintain, strengthen and reform the WTO, the Japanese Foreign Ministry cited her as saying.\n\nLater Tuesday, the WTO chief met with Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya and issued a joint statement, saying that \"in a time of uncertainty and disruption, the value of the multilateral trading system is unquestionable.\" Japan said in the same statement the current trade turmoil \"would have a significant impact on the global economy and the entire multilateral trading system\" and called for promoting WTO reforms, including its rule-making function, dispute settlement and monitoring of the implementation of agreements.\n\nThey met a day after the United States and China said they had agreed to slash recent sky- high tariffs for 90 days to allow time for negotiations.\n\nJapan is among many countries yet to reach a deal with the Trump administration on hikes to U.S. tariffs, including those on autos, steel and aluminum.\n\nThe WTO played a pivotal role in past decades as the U.S. and other major economies championed the trade liberalization that facilitated the growth of global supply chains, many of which are anchored in China. By dismantling many protectionist barriers to trade, it has aided the ascent of Japan and China, and many other countries, as export manufacturing hubs.\n\nSince taking office for a second time, Trump has prioritized higher tariffs to try to reduce U.S. imports and compel companies to locate factories in the United States, doubling down on a trade war that he launched during his first term.\n\nOkonjo-Iweala and Ishiba agreed that WTO member countries should unite to restore the organization's capacity to address challenges.\n\nThe trade chief visited Japan to strengthen cooperation between the east Asian country and the WTO to maintain and reinforce the multilateral trading system, Japanese officials said.\n\nShe also met with Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato and Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Yoji Muto."}
{"prompt_hash": "76eff6dee54d6128473523395f68843ce5c6195c5c2db87e0cf096957f36201c", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 09:35:59+00:00", "topics": ["Libya", "Tripoli", "War and unrest", "Military and defense", "Abdul Hamid Dbeibah", "Ahmed Ammer", "Libya government", "Mahmoud Hamza"], "text": "# A warlord and 6 other people killed as militia infighting rocks Libya's capital, officials say\n\nBy Samy Magdy  \nMay 13th, 2025 09:35 AM\n\n---\n\nCAIRO (AP) \u2014 Clashes between heavily armed militias rocked the Libyan capital, with gunfire and explosions heard across the city following the killing of a powerful warlord, officials said. At least six people were killed, they said.\n\nThe hourslong clashes, which involved heavy weapons, took place Monday evening into the early hours of Tuesday and centered in Tripoli's southern neighborhood of Abu Salim, the officials said.\n\nThe fighting stemmed from the killing of Abdel-Ghani al-Kikli, commander of the Stabilization Support Authority, SSA, on Monday by a rival militia, a senior government and health official said.\n\nThe SSA is an umbrella group of militias that rose to become one of the most powerful groups in western Libya, which has a history of atrocities and rights abuses during the country's long-running conflict. Al-Kikli, who was known as \"Gheniwa,\" has been accused by Amnesty International of war crimes and other serious rights violations over the past decade.\n\nAl-Kikli was killed in a facility run by the 444 Brigade, a militia commanded by Mahmoud Hamza, a warlord close to Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah, one of the officials said.\n\nHamza's militia and their allies then attacked the offices of SSA across the capital, seizing their assets and detaining dozens of SSA fighters, said the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity for their safety.\n\nThe Health Ministry's Ambulance and Emergency Services said in a statement that at least six people were killed in the vicinity of Abu Salim, the SSA stronghold. It said it helped evacuate many families trapped in the clashes.\n\nResidents reported heavy clashes and explosions in multiple areas in the capital, with dozens of vehicles carrying fighters affiliated with different militias in the streets.\n\n\"It was a nightmare,\" said Ahmed Ammer, who lives in the city center, adding that the clashes were reminiscent of the civil war that engulfed the North African country following the 2011 overthrow and killing of longtime ruler Moammar Gadhafi.\n\nHe said the clashes subsided early Tuesday morning, but the situation has been tense with many fighters in the streets.\n\nClasses in the capital's schools were suspended on Tuesday, according to the Tripoli-based Education Ministry. The University of Tripoli also said it suspended studies, exams and administrative work until further notice.\n\nDbeibah's government posted on its social media platforms early Tuesday that its forces carried out a military operation in Abu Salim and took full control of the area. It didn't provide further details.\n\nIn a statement, the U.N. mission in Libya expressed alarm about the \"intense fighting with heavy weaponry in densely populated civilian areas\" and warned that \"attacks on civilians and civilian objects may amount to war crimes.\"\n\nThe clashes were the latest bout of violence in the largely lawless Mediterranean country, which has been plunged into chaos and division since 2011. Amid the chaos, militias grew in wealth and power, particularly in Tripoli and the western part of the country.\n\nLibya has been divided for years between rival administrations in the east and west, each backed by armed groups and foreign governments. Currently, it is governed by Dbeibah's government in the west and by the administration of Prime Minister Ossama Hammad in the east."}
{"prompt_hash": "fb7e2980ea812e8c1c35c7cc48abaaf3fa6f615a637a0adfaa0464b9e58cea02", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 13:06:49+00:00", "topics": ["Ari Aster", "Cannes Film Festival", "Josh OConnor", "Joaquin Phoenix", "Michael Cera", "Kelly Reichardt", "Denzel Washington", "Movies", "Paul Mescal", "Emma Stone", "Pedro Pascal", "Sean Baker", "Juliette Binoche", "Benicio del Toro", "Kristen Stewart", "Scarlett Johansson", "Spike Lee", "Tom Cruise", "Jafar Panahi", "Joachim Trier", "Lynne Ramsay", "Oliver Hermanus", "Luc Dardenne", "Arts and entertainment", "Chie Hayakawa", "Mascha Schilinksi", "Julia Ducournau", "Donald Trump", "Bong Joon-ho", "Harris Dickinson", "Wes Anderson", "Entertainment"], "text": "# 5 things to look for at this year's Cannes Film Festival\n\nBy Jake Coyle  \nMay 13th, 2025 01:06 PM\n\n---\n\nCANNES, France (AP) \u2014 The 78th Cannes Film Festival got underway Tuesday, kicking off two weeks of French Riviera frenzy. Here are five things to look for at this year's Cannes:\n\n## Oscar season starts now\n\nIt might still be springtime, but, make no mistake, multiple Oscar campaigns will be launched in Cannes.\n\nRecent Cannes editions have produced several best-picture winners, including Bong Joon Ho's \"Parasite\" and this year's winner, \"Anora\" by Sean Baker. The sway Cannes has on the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences has only grown in recent years as the academy has expanded its overseas membership \u2014 many of them European voters who closely follow the buzz in Cannes.\n\nAt the Oscars in March, three Cannes entries \u2014 \"Anora,\" \"Emilia Perez\" and \"The Substance\" \u2014 were among the 10 best-picture nominees. Less heralded movies can also emerge. The Latvian animated charmer \"Flow\" premiered last year in Cannes before its upset win at the Oscars.\n\n## As ever, a wide-open Palme d'Or race\n\nBefore we get to the Academy Awards, though, Cannes will hand out its own prize, the Palme d'Or.\n\nDeliberations by the jury (headed this year by Juliette Binoche ) are held entirely in private, so predicting the Palme is no easier than it was guessing the next pope. That doesn't stop bookies from handicapping the race and plenty of guesswork up and down the Croisette.\n\nThis year's competition lineup features two previous Palme winners in Julia Ducournau (who returns with \"Alpha,\" her follow-up to \"Titane\") and Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne (two-time winners, back this year with \"The Young Mother's Home\").\n\nSome of the movies that could be in the mix include Lynne Ramsay's \"Die, My Love,\" Jafar Panahi's \"A Simple Accident\" and Mascha Schilinksi's \"Sound of Falling.\" Or it could be Chie Hayakawa's \"Renoir,\" Joachim Trier's \"Sentimental Value\" or Ari Aster's \"Eddington.\" Or it could be \u2026 well, you get the idea.\n\n## Who will shine on the red carpet in Cannes?\n\nCannes has a power to burnish even the most established stars, and its red carpet will, for the next 10 days, host a nonstop parade of them. (And they will be clothed, as per Cannes' latest etiquette protocol.)\n\nAmong those on tap are Tom Cruise with \"Mission Impossible: Final Reckoning\" on Wednesday; Spike Lee's \"Highest 2 Lowest,\" with Denzel Washington; Wes Anderson's \"The Phoenician Scheme,\" with a cast featuring Benicio Del Toro and Michael Cera; Ari Aster's \"Eddington,\" with Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal and Emma Stone; and Oliver Hermanus' \"The History of Sound,\" with Paul Mescal and Josh O'Connor.\n\nO'Connor also stars in Kelly Reichardt's \"The Mastermind,\" scheduled as one of the festival's last premieres.\n\n## How will the actors-turned-directors fare?\n\nThree stars are coming to Cannes with their first features behind the camera: Scarlett Johansson (\"Eleanor the Great\"), Kristen Stewart (\"The Chronology of Water\") and Harris Dickinson (\"Urchin\"). All are premiering in the Cannes sidebar Un Certain Regard, which means they won't have quite the pressure of the competition lineup. But there's no calm or easygoing section of Cannes, and each could emerge from the festival either minted as a filmmaker or humbled by critics.\n\n## Will the threat of tariffs dampen deal making?\n\nWhile Cannes movie screens light up with films, deal making transpires along the Croisette. Cannes draws studios, producers and sales agents all on the hunt for acquisitions. But when U.S. President Donald Trump last week announced that he wants to enact tariffs on films made outside the U.S., it threw a giant wrench in the border-crossing dealmaking that Cannes specializes in. Yet with little detail on any possible tariffs and widespread doubt over its feasibility, the buying and selling of movies might not be slowed."}
{"prompt_hash": "8e278130c28ea8889a96ea15b86e0bfff6baf46b2c8986aec6d50d71bfbc1af4", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 11:21:03+00:00", "topics": ["Arizona", "Donald Trump", "New Jersey", "Nevada", "Hispanics", "Joe Biden", "U.S. Democratic Party", "Bernie Sanders", "Voting", "Immigration", "2024 United States presidential election", "Kamala Harris", "Elon Musk", "Race and ethnicity", "Ruben Gallego", "Politics", "Chuck Rocha", "Patricia Campos-Medina", "Alex Berrios", "Thomas Perez", "Business", "Alex Ball", "Daniel Garza", "Ras Baraka", "Race and Ethnicity"], "text": "# Some Democrats push the economy, not immigration, for Latino voters\n\nBy Adriana Gomez Licon  \nMay 13th, 2025 11:21 AM\n\n---\n\nFORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Democrats have long focused on immigration when courting Latino voters in states like Arizona, Nevada, New Jersey, and Florida, where generations of Mexican, Cuban and other Latin American immigrants have settled and gained permanent legal status.\n\nBut Donald Trump's victory in the 2024 presidential election and the rightward shift of Latino voters have some liberals reconsidering traditional wisdom.\n\n\"People do care about it, but they don't vote on it. They vote on the economy,\" said Patricia Campos-Medina, a labor activist who ran for the U.S. Senate last year in New Jersey and is now advising U.S. Rep. Mikie Sherrill, one of the Democrats running for governor in next month's primary.\n\nLiberal strategists, organizers and some politicians are urging Democrats to focus on the economy in this year's elections rather than on immigration. Some argue a broad economic message would be more effective with the wide range of nationalities and experiences in the Latino community rather than customized efforts based on perceived cultural or political interests.\n\nLast year, Trump, a Republican, made inroads in heavily Puerto Rican areas of eastern Pennsylvania and turned South Texas' Rio Grande Valley while improving his numbers along Florida's Interstate 4 corridor. His message to Latinos focused heavily on the economy and border security.\n\n\"Latino operatives have been saying, 'Don't treat us all as a monolith,'\" said Tory Gavito, who co-founded Way to Win, a progressive group formed after Trump's 2016 win that recently conducted focus groups with Latinos who skipped the 2024 election. \"They were pretty monolithic.\"\n\n## Economic concerns topped everything else\n\nInflation was top of mind for nearly half of Latinos who voted last fall, according to AP VoteCast, a wide-ranging survey of the 2024 electorate. About three-quarters of Latino Trump voters were very concerned about housing costs in their community, compared with about 6 in 10 white Trump voters.\n\n\"Where we fell short was failing to fully appreciate the bread-and-butter economic issues that were driving them,\" said Tom Perez, a former Democratic National Committee chair who advised President Joe Biden. He is now co-chair of the American Bridge 21st Century, a group that does opposition research on Republicans. \"Many folks felt like we were too focused on identity politics and not focused enough on the cost of eggs, the cost of gas, the cost of living.\"\n\nAlex Berrios, co-founder of the organizing group Mi Vecino, which mobilizes Latino voters in Florida, Arizona and Maine, said Democrats focused too much on using buzzwords and trying to micro-target specific nationalities. The result, he argues, left voters feeling as though the party's message was staged.\n\n\"It's like they were saying, 'Let me get my Venezuelan script out,'\" Berrios said. \"No. The first thing is just be relatable.\"\n\nChuck Rocha is a Democratic strategist who mobilized Latinos for U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders' presidential bid in 2020 and for U.S. Sen. Ruben Gallego last year and started a super political action committee, or PAC, to reach out to Latinos in key races. He argued that Democrats \"mess up by bringing a policy book to a boxing match.\"\n\n\"It's about three things: affordability, affordability, affordability,\" he said. \"Affordability is the only thing that they care about because that's what's hitting them in the face every day.\"\n\n## New Jersey becomes an early test\n\nNew Jersey's primary for governor is an early test of the different Democratic points of view. Last year, Trump flipped two Hispanic-majority towns that he had lost by more than 30 and 50 percentage points in 2016. Democrat Kamala Harris won a traditionally blue state by just 6 percentage points, the closest presidential contest there since 2004.\n\nSherrill, who flipped a longtime Republican district in winning her House seat in 2018, has focused on her biography and her military service while also arguing she will stand up to Trump and billionaire adviser Elon Musk. One of her ads promises she will \"drive down costs from health care to housing.\"\n\nHer campaign manager, Alex Ball, outlined during the weekend in a memo that one of its goals is meeting in person Hispanic voters from two suburban counties who have voted in three of the four past Democratic primaries.\n\n\"There is a real risk of a Republican winning in November, but Mikie is the candidate who can win just like she has won tough elections before, even driving out a long-time Republican incumbent in a Trump district \u2014 something no one thought was possible,\" Ball wrote.\n\nMeanwhile, Newark Mayor Ras Baraka has frequently campaigned against U.S. immigration authorities' plans to open a detention facility in his city. The mayor was arrested by immigration authorities on Friday while demonstrating outside, with video of his detention and release spreading widely and leading to his competitors in the Democratic primary rallying to his side.\n\n## Democrats see an opening\n\nA May AP-NORC poll found that 38% of Hispanic adults approve of Trump's handling of the economy, which is roughly in line with U.S. adults overall.\n\nBut there's growing unease as Trump's plans to revive manufacturing and reshape the global economy have been rolled out with constant changes, creating uncertainty and sparking concerns of prices rising and products disappearing from shelves. From January through March, the economy shrank for the first time in three years as businesses were disrupted by Trump's trade wars. Trump fired thousands of federal workers, with impacts felt outside of Washington.\n\nThe Libre Initiative, a Koch Network-affiliated conservative group, is running ads targeting Latinos in support of tax breaks approved during Trump's first term that may expire at year's end.\n\nDaniel Garza, president of the group, acknowledged \"nervousness\" among Latino voters, with some wondering if maybe Trump took on too much and too fast. But Garza said that it's too soon to make a fair assessment of his second term, which began in January.\n\nHe argues voters should wait and see how Trump negotiates trade and whether the Republican Party can pass his \"big, beautiful bill\" with both tax breaks and spending cuts and promises he made such as exempting tips, overtime and Social Security from taxation.\n\n\"My sense is that Latinos are a very patient lot,\" he said. \"Aguantamos mucho.\"\n\nThat is Spanish for \"We put up with a lot.\""}
{"prompt_hash": "5224993361e9f5aa2bdd830b647f42a375a14bfb45d70899a76bee80c61fa8d9", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-12 22:04:36+00:00", "topics": ["Tallahassee", "Shootings", "Crime", "Homicide", "Prisons", "Gun violence", "Education"], "text": "# Man accused in Florida State shooting out of hospital and booked into jail on murder charges\n\nMay 12th, 2025 10:04 PM\n\n---\n\nTALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) \u2014 A man accused of fatally shooting two people and wounding six others during a shooting last month at Florida State University was discharged from a Tallahassee hospital on Monday and charged with murder, authorities said.\n\nPhoenix Ikner, 20, was booked into the Leon County Detention Facility on two counts of first-degree murder and seven counts of attempted first-degree murder, the Leon County Sheriff's Office said in a statement. He was then transferred to a jail in neighboring Wakulla County, which is standard procedure when an inmate is related to a Leon County deputy.\n\nIkner, identified as the stepson of a sheriff's deputy, arrived on campus April 17 and stayed near a parking garage before he walked in and out of buildings and green spaces while firing a handgun just before lunchtime, police said.\n\nIn roughly four minutes, officers confronted Ikner, a political science student at Florida State, and shot and wounded him, Tallahassee police said.\n\nPolice believe Ikner used a former service weapon that belongs to his stepmother, an 18-year veteran of the Leon County Sheriff's Office, officials said. In recent years, she has worked as a middle school resource officer and was the department's employee of the month a year ago in March. After the shooting she requested and was granted personal leave and also reassigned from her post at the school.\n\nAuthorities have not yet revealed a motive for the shooting.\n\nOnline jail and court records Monday didn't list an attorney for Ikner. Multiple attempts to reach his family after the shooting went unanswered."}
{"prompt_hash": "726d53040a98fdaa3f07fbad2ea34f75b14efaeec5137957b1b61bd79ed6cc2c", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-14 06:51:44+00:00", "topics": ["Poland", "Donald Tusk", "Andrzej Duda", "Military and defense", "Poland government", "Global elections", "Conservatism", "Legislation", "Elections", "Politics", "Voting", "Government policy", "Business"], "text": "# A look at the leading candidates for Poland's next president\n\nBy Vanessa Gera  \nMay 14th, 2025 06:51 AM\n\n---\n\nWARSAW, Poland (AP) \u2014 Poland holds a presidential election Sunday as the conservative incumbent Andrzej Duda nears the end of his second and final term. If none of the 13 candidates wins at least 50% of the vote, a runoff will be held June 1 between the top two. All signs indicate it will be a showdown between Warsaw Mayor Rafa\u0142 Trzaskowski and conservative historian Karol Nawrocki.\n\nWhile much of the power in Poland lies with the prime minister and legislature, the presidency is far more than ceremonial, with influence over foreign policy and military affairs and the ability to veto legislation.\n\nHere is a look at the top four candidates:\n\n## Rafa\u0142 Trzaskowski, the liberal mayor of Warsaw\n\nTrzaskowski, a political ally of Prime Minister Donald Tusk, has been leading in polls with support just above 30% \u2014 a clear edge over his two main rivals, both conservative nationalists.\n\nSupporters of the 53-year-old praise his pro-European stance and his role in modernizing Warsaw, which has seen significant infrastructure and cultural investment during his tenure.\n\nHowever, Poland remains a largely conservative, Catholic country. Trzaskowski's liberal views \u2014 particularly his support for LGBTQ+ rights and participation in Pride parades \u2014 alienate some voters outside urban centers. He also faces criticism over local governance, including allegations of inefficiency, controversial real estate management and perceived wasteful spending.\n\nIn a runoff, he could expect the bulk of right-wing voters to coalesce behind the other candidate. Trzaskowski could also be vulnerable to voter apathy among centrists and progressives who are frustrated with Tusk's inability to deliver on key campaign promises, such as loosening Poland's strict abortion law.\n\nThis is the second presidential campaign for Trzaskowski after Duda narrowly defeated him five years ago.\n\n## Karol Nawrocki, a conservative histo\n\nNawrocki, 42, is the candidate representing Poland's conservative Law and Justice party. The historian currently heads the Institute of National Remembrance, where he angered Russia with efforts to topple Soviet-era memorials. He previously directed the Museum of the Second World War in Gdansk, putting his national conservative stamp on the institution. His academic work has focused on anti-communist resistance and organized crime in communist-era Poland.\n\nHe is not a party member, and his candidacy represents the Law and Justice party's strategy to present a fresh face as it aims to regain influence. The party ruled for eight years but lost power to Tusk's coalition in 2023.\n\nNawrocki's campaign has been marred by controversies.\n\nJournalists revealed that in 2018, under the pseudonym \"Tadeusz Batyr,\" he published a book on a notorious gangster. In a television interview, Batyr \u2014 with his face blurred and his voice altered \u2014 praised Nawrocki's work without disclosing they were the same person. Separately Nawrocki, using his real identity, praised Batyr's work.\n\nNawrocki has also been linked to a scandal involving the acquisition of a Gdansk apartment from an elderly pensioner named Jerzy. Allegations suggest Nawrocki promised to care for Jerzy in return but failed to fulfill the commitment, leading the man to end up in a city-funded retirement home. Journalists uncovered the story after Nawrocki claimed in a debate that he owned only one home, and the explanations he has given to explain the existence of his second apartment have shifted \u2014 creating a clear impression of impropriety that his competitors have seized on.\n\n## S\u0142awomir Mentzen, a far-right firebrand and beer entrepreneur\n\nAt 38, S\u0142awomir Mentzen has emerged as a prominent figure in the presidential race, leveraging his savvy use of social media platforms to connect with younger voters. His sleek videos and populist messaging have resonated with many young people, especially men. Mentzen also has been actively touring the country, aiming to broaden his appeal to older demographics.\n\nThe rise of his Confederation party coincides with a broader surge of populist right-wing movements across Europe.\n\nHowever, Mentzen's political journey has not been without controversy. In 2019, he made headlines with a statement saying: \"We don't want Jews, homosexuals, abortion, taxes or the European Union.\"\n\nWhile he later said the remark was taken out of context, it has continued to shadow him. Although the Confederation party has emphasized its free-market positions and distanced itself from some extreme elements, many Poles remain wary of Mentzen's past statements.\n\nHe experienced an early surge in the polls that faded after he advocated for the introduction of tuition fees at state universities, a stance that proved unpopular given Poland's tradition of free higher education.\n\nHe also has taken a hard-line position on abortion, opposing it even in cases of rape \u2014 a view that for many went too far.\n\nMentzen is also a successful entrepreneur. He has degrees in economics and physics and owns a brewery in the central city of Torun that has produced beers with names such as \"White IPA Matters,\" \"Hate Speech\" and \"Bitcoin.\" The \"White IPA Matters\" beer had a marketing campaign featuring a Black bartender, triggering controversy.\n\nIn a personal revelation, Mentzen disclosed in 2024 that he has autism. He shared that while he possesses strong concentration skills, he sometimes struggles with interpreting others' emotions.\n\n## Szymon Ho\u0142ownia, parliament speaker with a showman's flair\n\nSzymon Ho\u0142ownia, 48, is a former television personality who transitioned into politics, bringing charisma and a fresh face to the political scene.\n\nOnce a seminary student, he became widely known as the co-host of Poland's version of \"Got Talent.\" His political journey began in earnest with his candidacy in the 2020 presidential election, where he secured nearly 14% of the vote to finish third.\n\nIn 2020, Ho\u0142ownia founded the Poland 2050 movement, which evolved into a political party. In the 2023 election, the party joined forces with the conservative agrarian Polish People's Party to create the Third Way coalition, which then joined Tusk's coalition. Ho\u0142ownia was elected as the speaker of the Sejm, Poland's lower house of parliament.\n\nHis showman's flair energized Poles hungry for new faces in a political scene dominated by many of the same figures for decades, including Tusk. Captivated citizens began watching live sessions of parliament online, drawn by his energy and wit.\n\nSome analysts say his decision to join Tusk's government, however, has undermined his image as a refreshing outsider."}
{"prompt_hash": "333250ddf0ca263452fdc55df0a4b1c8fd13ce42e68ba109f504f3e6fc1de6ff", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-14 07:53:50+00:00", "topics": ["Plane crashes", "Military and defense", "Tokyo"], "text": "# 2 crew members missing after a military training plane crashes in central Japan\n\nBy Mari Yamaguchi  \nMay 14th, 2025 07:53 AM\n\n---\n\nTOKYO (AP) \u2014 A search was launched on Wednesday for two crew members reported missing after a Japanese air force training plane crashed minutes after take off.\n\nThe T-4 training plane belonging to the Japan Air Self-Defense Force took off from Komaki Air Base, in the central Japanese prefecture of Aichi, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi said.\n\nThe force said the plane was lost from radar two minutes after taking off. The authorities are searching for the missing aircraft and its crew in an area near a reservoir known as the Iruka pond, officials said. The reservoir is about 10 kilometers (6 miles) northeast of the air base, near the city of Inuyama.\n\nDefense Minister Gen Nakatani told reporters that parts of the aircraft have been found at the crash site. He said the cause of the crash is under investigation. Officials were also preparing to collect fuel apparently leaked from the aircraft and floating in the reservoir, Nakatani said.\n\nWitnesses told the NHK national broadcaster that they heard a loud noise like thunder, followed by sirens of police cars and fire engines.\n\nThe T-4 plane, which operates out of Nyutabaru air base, in the southern prefecture of Miyazaki, was heading back to its home base on an unspecified mission, Nakatani said.\n\nThe crash is the latest in a series of defense aircraft accidents in recent years.\n\nIn April 2024, two SH-60K navy reconnaissance helicopters crashed during nighttime anti-submarine training near Torishima island, about 600 kilometers south of Tokyo, leaving all eight crewmembers dead.\n\nIn 2023, an army UH-60JA Black Hawk helicopter on a reconnaissance mission crashed off a southern island of Miyako, with the loss of 10 crew."}
{"prompt_hash": "7a3fa04948658a0774ea948b311696aa63733b6fafae63dfc76648a7ed764c6e", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-14 11:23:52+00:00", "topics": ["Algeria", "France", "France government", "Government and politics", "Algeria government"], "text": "# France expels Algerian diplomats in tit-for-tat decision as their feud deepens\n\nMay 14th, 2025 11:23 AM\n\n---\n\nALGIERS, Algeria (AP) \u2014 France said Wednesday it will expel Algerian diplomats in response to Algeria's decision to do the same, escalating a diplomatic standoff.\n\nThe Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs said in a statement it had summoned Algerian officials to inform them of the decision, describing it as \"strict reciprocity\" after 15 French officials were expelled from Algiers on Sunday.\n\nFrance did not say how many Algerians holding diplomatic passports had been expelled. It called on Algerian authorities to \"demonstrate responsibility and to return to a demanding and constructive dialogue that had been initiated by our authorities, in the interest of both countries.\"\n\n\"The Algerians wanted to send back our agents; we are sending theirs back,\" French Foreign Minister No\u00ebl Barrot said on Wednesday, speaking Wednesday to French broadcaster BFMTV.\n\nThe measures are the latest sign of deteriorating relations between France and Algeria. They go against a 2013 deal allowing individuals with diplomatic passports to travel between the countries without needing visas.\n\nAlgeria said it expelled French officials on Sunday because France had broken procedures, including in how it assigned new diplomats to replace a different set that were expelled last month.\n\nDespite economic ties and security cooperation, France and Algeria for decades have clashed over issues ranging from immigration to the painful legacy of French colonialism.\n\nTensions flared last year when France shifted its longstanding position and backed Morocco's plan for sovereignty over disputed Western Sahara. Algeria views the Morocco-controlled territory as Africa's last colony and supports the pro-independence Polisario Front materially and politically.\n\nThe tensions jeopardize more than $12 billion in annual bilateral trade and could create hurdles for the hundreds of thousands of Algerian-born residents of France who travel between the countries."}
{"prompt_hash": "aebae8a68554db916f951dd49b73a98fc6454ed4644d40cdaec8816632f9307f", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-14 06:10:54+00:00", "topics": ["Saudi Arabia", "Ahmed al-Doush", "Donald Trump", "Legal proceedings", "Social media", "United Kingdom government", "Prisons", "Mohammad bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud", "Terrorism", "Business", "Cybercrime", "Saudi Arabia government", "Amnesty International", "Indictments"], "text": "# British banking analyst jailed in Saudi Arabia for 10 years over 'unknown tweet'\n\nBy Gabe Levin  \nMay 14th, 2025 06:10 AM\n\n---\n\nDUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) \u2014 A British Bank of America analyst has been sentenced to a decade in a Saudi Arabian prison apparently over a since-deleted social media post, according to his lawyer.\n\nThe family of Ahmed al-Doush, 41, believes the charges against him stemmed from a deleted 2018 tweet about Sudan that did not mention Saudi Arabia and his relationship with the son of a Saudi critic in exile, Amnesty International said in a statement Tuesday.\n\nThe father-of-four was sentenced Monday after being accused of violating terrorism and anti-cyber crime laws.\n\n\"The exact tweet is unknown,\" Haydee Dijkstal, al-Doush's international counsel, posted Tuesday on X. \"His trial and detention involved fair trial and due process violations.\" The lawyer said the U.K. government \"should stand firmly against a British national's imprisonment for allegedly exercising his free speech rights.\"\n\nThe Saudi Arabian government did not respond to requests for comment.\n\n\"We are supporting a British man who is detained in Saudi Arabia and are in contact with his family and local authorities,\" a spokesperson for the Foreign Office in London said in a statement.\n\nAl-Doush, a British national, was arrested in August 2024 at a Riyadh airport where he was waiting for a flight to Manchester, England, with his family following a holiday. His wife has since given birth to their fourth child.\n\n\"I rarely speak to my husband, but in the few snatched conversations we have managed, it is clear that Ahmed is struggling,\" al-Doush's wife, Amaher Nour, said ahead of her husband's sentencing, citing his thyroid problems and distress after nine months of detention.\n\nThe developments came while U.S. President Donald Trump was in Saudi Arabia, where several dual nationals with Western ties and Saudis have been detained in recent years over social media posts that could be viewed as critical to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the country's de facto ruler.\n\nIn 2021, a Saudi-American dual national was sentenced to more than 19 years in prison by Saudi Arabia on terrorism-related charges stemming from tweets.\n\nSaad Almadi, now 75, was jailed in connection with tweets he had posted over the past several years in the U.S. He was released in 2023 but has been banned from leaving the kingdom.\n\nOn Wednesday, the kingdom's foreign minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al-Saud was asked during a press conference if Almadi's case had been discussed during Trump's trip.\n\n\"We obviously have robust conversations with our U.S. partners about a number of issues,\" Prince Faisal said, without directly commenting on Almadi. He added that Saudi Arabia \"will always, you know, welcome those conversations.\""}
{"prompt_hash": "166bbb77a8cb218832e78200de86dd512ee7753daac18b7bd518158fc2561a4f", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-14 05:11:40+00:00", "topics": ["Los Angeles", "California", "Anne Bremner", "Erik Menendez", "O.J. Simpson", "Kitty Menendez", "Legal proceedings", "Crime", "Homicide", "National", "Law and order", "Michael Jesic", "Arts and entertainment", "Entertainment"], "text": "# The Menendez brothers are now eligible for parole. What's next?\n\nBy Jaimie Ding  \nMay 14th, 2025 05:11 AM\n\n---\n\nLOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 The 1989 shotgun murders of Jose and Kitty Menendez in Los Angeles gripped the nation.\n\nThe killings of the entertainment executive and his wife in their wealthy Beverly Hills neighborhood were brutal. Their son Lyle Menendez was the one who called 911, with the brothers initially claiming the killing was Mafia-related or connected to their father's business dealings.\n\nLyle Menendez was attending Princeton University, and his younger brother Erik Menendez was a tennis star.\n\nThe brothers were later arrested, charged and convicted for their parents' deaths.\n\nThe brothers have argued that they committed the crimes in self-defense after years of abuse by their father.\n\nOn Tuesday, the brothers were granted their first chance at freedom in decades. A Los Angeles judge reduced the brothers' sentences from life in prison without parole to 50 years to life, making them immediately eligible for parole.\n\nHere's what to know:\n\n## Why is the case famous?\n\nComing on the heels of the O.J. Simpson trial, the nation was hungry for true crime TV. The brothers' first trial was one of the first to be almost entirely televised on Court TV. It spawned documentaries, television specials and dramatizations.\n\nThe Netflix drama \" Monsters: Lyle and Erik Menendez Story \" and the documentary \"The Menendez Brothers,\" released in the fall of 2024, have been credited for bringing new attention to the case.\n\n## What happened at resentencing?\n\nThe brothers' lawyers turned to family members and those who knew the brothers since their conviction to speak to their character and rehabilitation in prison in front of Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Michael Jesic.\n\nThe Menendez family have supported the brothers and called for their release since their resentencing effort began last fall.\n\nProsecutors, who have opposed the brothers' resentencing, did not call any witnesses. They've argued the brothers haven't taken full responsibility for their crimes.\n\nErik and Lyle Menendez appeared virtually to read their statements to the court.\n\n\"You did not deserve what I did to you, but you inspire me to do better,\" Erik Menendez said, addressing his family.\n\nJesic issued his decision immediately after the brothers spoke, granting them a new sentence of 50 years to life.\n\n## How soon could they go before the parole board?\n\nThe brothers are immediately eligible for parole under California's youthful offender law because they committed the crime at ages 18 and 21, both under the age of 26.\n\nParole suitability hearings are conducted by a state board to determine if a person should be released. An inmate will be scheduled for their first hearing no later than six months following their eligibility date, according to board policy.\n\nThey already have a hearing before the board scheduled for June 13 in a clemency petition they've submitted to Gov. Gavin Newsom. It's not yet clear if that will serve as their formal parole hearing or if a separate one will be scheduled.\n\nNewsom ordered the state parole board to conduct a comprehensive risk assessment for him to determine their danger to the public if released.\n\nAnne Bremner, a trial lawyer in Seattle, said the brothers will have some pressure on them to prepare for the parole board and impress upon them that they should be let out.\n\n\"My guess is the parole board has been watching this and of course they've done these risk assessments already,\" she said. They know \"who these two are, what their alleged crimes were and what they've done since the time that they were incarcerated until today.\"\n\n## What happens if parole is denied or granted?\n\nIf they are denied at their first parole hearing, they will continue to receive subsequent hearings until they are granted release.\n\nIf parole is granted, Newsom could still move to override the board. If he lets the parole decision stand, the brothers would be released from prison.\n\n## What other avenues do they have for release?\n\nIn May 2023, the brothers' attorneys also filed a petition for habeas corpus to the court, asking for a new trial in light of new evidence of their sexual abuse. LA prosecutors have filed a motion opposing that petition, but its status is unclear."}
{"prompt_hash": "64c4ad0ec0f98ee8ad1c268d8d1417dcba9e58b4651c26f1ec64fdbdce595dd4", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-14 11:24:52+00:00", "topics": ["U.S. Democratic Party", "Donald Trump", "Bernie Sanders", "Charles Schumer", "Marco Rubio", "Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez", "U.S. Republican Party", "Joe Biden", "Mike Johnson", "Pete Hegseth", "Public opinion", "Florida", "United States government", "United States", "Barack Obama", "Elon Musk", "Politics", "Linda Sleet", "Patrick Reynolds", "Damien Williams"], "text": "# AP-NORC Poll: Democrats' optimism about party's future drops sharply\n\nBy Steve Peoples and Linley Sanders  \nMay 14th, 2025 11:24 AM\n\n---\n\nNEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Six months after Donald Trump's presidential victory, Democrats remain deeply pessimistic about the future of their party, although neither the Democratic Party nor the Republican Party is viewed favorably by a majority of U.S. adults.\n\nA new poll conducted earlier this month by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found that only about one-third of Democrats are \"very optimistic\" or even \"somewhat optimistic\" about their party's future. That's down sharply from July 2024, when about 6 in 10 Democrats said they had a positive outlook.\n\n\"I'm not real high on Democrats right now,\" said poll respondent Damien Williams, a 48-year-old Democrat from Cahokia Heights, Illinois. \"To me, they're not doing enough to push back against Trump.\"\n\nThe poll comes at a critical moment for the Democratic Party, which is desperately seeking momentum after losing the White House and both chambers of Congress in last fall's general election. In the survey, Democrats offer mixed reviews for some of their party's best-known elected officials \u2014 including Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, both of New York \u2014 while reporting significant concerns about how leaders are chosen in the U.S. political system.\n\nWilliams, a member of the Teamsters union, said he likely won't feel good about his party again \"until somebody steps up in terms of being a leader that can bring positive change \u2014 an Obama-like figure.\"\n\nRepublicans, meanwhile, are slightly more optimistic about the future of the GOP than they were last year.\n\nThe poll finds that about half of Republicans, 55%, are very or somewhat optimistic about their party's future, up from 47% last summer. Still, only about 3 in 10 Republicans are optimistic about the state of U.S. politics, up from about 1 in 10 last summer.\n\nPatrick Reynolds, a 50-year-old Republican community activist and pastor from Fort Worth, Texas, says he has conflicting feelings about Trump's leadership and the future of his party.\n\nHe worries that too many Republicans in Congress are falling in line behind the Republican president and his chief ally and adviser, Elon Musk, who has led Trump's push to slash the size of the federal government. Reynolds also says he's concerned that Trump's aggressive moves to combat illegal immigration may be violating the Constitution.\n\n\"How can we be the party of the rule of law when we're violating constitutional principles?\" Reynolds said. \"I think there could be a (political) backlash.\"\n\nNeither political party is especially popular right now.\n\nOverall, about 4 in 10 U.S. adults have a favorable view of the Republican Party while about one-third have a positive view of the Democratic Party.\n\nThis relatively weak support extends to some of each party's most prominent officials.\n\nRoughly 4 in 10 Americans have a favorable view of Bernie Sanders, a Vermont independent who has twice run for the Democratic presidential nomination and has toured the nation in recent months rallying anti-Trump resistance. Among self-described Democrats, about three-quarters view Sanders favorably.\n\nAbout half of Democrats have a favorable view of Ocasio-Cortez, who has joined Sanders on the \"Fighting Oligarchy\" tour. She is less popular among U.S. adults overall \u2014 about 3 in 10 have a favorable opinion of the 35-year-old representative, who is sometimes mentioned as a potential presidential candidate in 2028.\n\nSchumer, the top Senate Democrat, is less popular than Sanders or Ocasio-Cortez.\n\nJust about one-third of Democrats have a somewhat or very favorable view of the 74-year-old senator, who took a hit from many liberals for acceding to a Republican-led funding bill that kept the government open. The share of Democrats who view Schumer positively has fallen since December 2024, when about half had a somewhat or very favorable view. Among all adults, his favorability stands at 21%.\n\n\"I just feel like the majority of the old Democratic Party needs to go,\" said Democrat Monica Brown, a 61-year-old social worker from Knoxville, Tennessee. \"They're not in tune with the new generation. They're not in tune with the new world. We've got such division within the party.\"\n\nOn the GOP side, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, a former Florida senator, is more popular than several other high-profile Republicans.\n\nAbout 6 in 10 Republicans view Rubio favorably, although that number falls to about one-third among all adults. About half of Republicans have a positive opinion of House Speaker Mike Johnson of Louisiana, while around one-quarter of U.S. adults feel the same. That's roughly the same level of support for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, a former Fox News Channel host who earns favorable ratings from 44% of Republicans and about one-quarter of Americans overall.\n\nBeyond their negative outlook on the future of their party, 55% of Democrats are also pessimistic about the way leaders are chosen in the U.S. The figure is up slightly from 46% last summer, when President Joe Biden was still in the White House.\n\nLinda Sleet, a 69-year-old retiree who lives in Venice, Florida, raised specific concerns about the way congressional districts are drawn and the Electoral College that is used to determine presidential contests instead of the popular vote.\n\n\"I don't have confidence in the system,\" Sleet said. \"I think it served a purpose way back when. It does not now.\"\n\nWilliams, the Teamster from Illinois, said he's unhappy with just about everything to do with U.S. politics.\n\n\"I'm going to need to see some wins for America, for humanity, before I can be optimistic right now,\" he said. \"Every day is just a constant barrage of negative feelings and news politically. It's all screwed up right now.\""}
{"prompt_hash": "445e72798a8c9787ebdd39eb11b214e19d1fec74aed8feddedfac668573ecab3", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-14 03:51:32+00:00", "topics": ["Halle Bailey", "Celebrity", "Darryl Dwayne Granberry Jr.", "Hip hop and rap", "Los Angeles", "Entertainment", "Chloe Bailey"], "text": "# Halle Bailey gets restraining order against DDG\n\nBy Andrew Dalton  \nMay 14th, 2025 03:51 AM\n\n---\n\nLOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 A Los Angeles judge has granted a restraining order to \"The Little Mermaid\" actor and singer Halle Bailey, who says her ex-boyfriend, the rapper and YouTuber DDG, has been repeatedly violent with her and she fears for herself and the baby they have together.\n\nThe judge on Tuesday ordered DDG, whose legal name is Darryl Dwayne Granberry Jr., to stay away from Bailey and their 17-month-old son, Halo, until a June 6 hearing.\n\n\"Throughout our relationship,\" Bailey said in documents requesting the order, \"Daryl has been and continues to be physically, verbally, emotionally, and financially abusive towards me. I am seeking orders to protect myself and our son Halo from his ongoing abuse.\"\n\nA message seeking comment from a representative for Granberry was not immediately answered.\n\nBailey, 25, and Granberry, 27, were in a relationship from 2022 until last year, and since their breakup there have been \"multiple acts of physical violence,\" Bailey said.\n\nIn a January incident that she recounts in detail, Bailey said Granberry was repeatedly calling her a \"bitch\" as she tried to strap the baby into a seat inside his car.\n\n\"The next thing I knew, things got physical between us,\" Bailey said in the documents. \"We fought each other, wrestling and tussling. At one point, Darryl was pulling my hair. He then slammed my face on the steering wheel, causing my tooth to get chipped. I then stopped fighting back as I was in a lot of pain.\"\n\nBailey included photos of her tooth and bruises on her arms in her filing.\n\nIn March, she said Granberry entered her house when she wasn't home and texted her a photo of her bed along with a threatening message suggesting she was having sex with other men.\n\nA few days later, she said, he berated her when she did not want to send their sick baby on a visit with him, and smashed the Ring camera on her porch when he realized it was recording the confrontation. She said when she called a relative for help, he took her phone and got into his car, slamming the door on her as she was holding the baby. Bailey filed a police report over the incident.\n\nShe also asked that Granberry be ordered to stop using his streaming platforms on Twitch and YouTube to turn his followers against her.\n\n\"Whenever he wishes to cause upset, he starts bad mouthing me to his several millions of fans,\" she said in the documents. \"He claims I am withholding our son and that I am with other men. As a result, I then receive threats and hate on social media.\"\n\nGranberry was also ordered not to possess any weapons. The judge can extend the order for up to five years at the June 6 hearing.\n\nDDG, from Pontiac, Michigan, first saw success as a video streamer and then as a hip-hop artist. On May 5, he released his fourth studio album, \"Blame the Chat,\" on Epic records.\n\nBailey, from Atlanta, has been nominated for five Grammy Awards as both a solo artist and as part of Chloe x Halle, the duo with her sister that first brought her fame.\n\nShe starred in the sitcom \"Grown-ish\" from 2018 to 2022, and in 2023 played the title character in Disney's live-action remake of \"The Little Mermaid.\""}
{"prompt_hash": "8de67f9646ca9019d1786e4086bcab96e8faa1633d300c8a04efab92686eb9fb", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-14 01:07:31+00:00", "topics": ["New Zealand", "Diana Ward-Pickering", "JWD-evergreen", "Meta Platforms", "Inc.", "Brent Fuller", "International trade", "Agriculture", "Currency markets", "Kate Evans", "Oddities", "Lifestyle", "Trees"], "text": "# The unofficial national fruit of New Zealand isn't native to the country \u2014 it's South American\n\nBy Charlotte Graham-Mclay  \nMay 14th, 2025 01:07 AM\n\n---\n\nWELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) \u2014 The unofficial national fruit of New Zealand isn't native to the country \u2013 it's South American. It isn't exclusively found in New Zealand. And it's not, perhaps surprisingly, the kiwi. It's the feijoa.\n\nKnown as pineapple guava elsewhere, the fruit \u2014 a green perfumed oval with a polarizing taste \u2014 can be purchased in California or Canberra. Yet no country has embraced the feijoa with quite the fervor or the fixation of New Zealanders.\n\nDue to its short shelf life, New Zealand \u2014 a nation of thriving fruit exports \u2014 has never been able to spin the feijoa (pronounced fee-jo-ah) into a global brand, as growers have done with apples and kiwi. But during the brief span of weeks each year when the fruit is ripe, the country goes feijoa wild.\n\n## A backyard boom\n\nThe feijoa's allure comes partly from how it's acquired. In autumn, fallen fruit forms fragrant carpets beneath backyard trees and is swept into boxes, bags and buckets to be offered for free outside homes, in office breakrooms and on neighborhood Facebook groups. There's such abundance that some feijoa lovers take pride in never having paid for one.\n\n\"It's sort of non-commercialized. We turn up our noses at the idea of buying them in the shop,\" said Kate Evans, author of the book Feijoa: A Story of Obsession and Belonging. \"You just sort of expect to get them for free.\"\n\nIn suburban Wellington, Diana Ward-Pickering said she had given away \"thousands\" of feijoas from her five backyard trees this season: in a box on the sidewalk, to neighbors, to coworkers, to her daughter's eyelash technician \u2014 in short, to any friend or stranger who wanted some.\n\nOn a recent Sunday, Ward-Pickering selected a feijoa from dozens on the ground, halved it with a spoon, and scooped the pale, creamy flesh into her mouth.\n\n\"Delicious,\" she said. But while she could eat a kilogram (2.2 pounds) of the fruit in a sitting, she said, even her appetite couldn't keep up with the sudden and generous bounty that arrives each April.\n\n\"There are people who can't afford to pay for them,\" Ward-Pickering said. \"We happily give them away.\"\n\n## Love it or hate it\n\nNot everyone's an enthusiast, and every New Zealander has an opinion. What devotees of the fruit savor as a distinctive texture, flavor and smell, is gritty, soapy or sour to others.\n\nDiana Ward-Pickering's daughter, Lizzy, gingerly slurped a piece of feijoa into her mouth and grimaced.\n\n\"It's giving snot,\" she said. \"My mind has not changed.\"\n\nBut for New Zealanders abroad who love the fruit, feijoas are a nostalgic taste evocative of a kiwi childhood. Evans, who admitted to once paying 3 Australian dollars ($1.90) for a single feijoa at a market in Australia, said that in 12 years living overseas she often saw expatriates asking the same question online: Where can I find feijoas?\n\n## A strange history\n\nHow a fruit that hails from the Brazilian highlands, Uruguay and a corner of Argentina first came to New Zealand remains something of a mystery, Evans said. But what's known is that feijoas have been in New Zealand for just over 100 years, probably originating from California, via Australia.\n\nThe trees grow \"extremely well\" in New Zealand, growers say, due to the soil, subtropical climate and relative lack of destructive insect species.\n\nIn spite of New Zealand's booming backyard feijoa economy there's still demand for them in stores, where they are currently sold for about 9 to 10 New Zealand dollars ($5-6) per kilogram. There are about 100 commercial feijoa growers in New Zealand almost solely supplying the domestic market, including for popular beverages such as feijoa cider, kombucha and juice.\n\nBut exporting the fruit is \"tricky,\" said Brent Fuller, spokesperson for the New Zealand Feijoa Growers Association. \"They'll keep in the chiller for two or three weeks, but that's about it.\"\n\nResearch is underway to increase the shelf life of the fruit. But with the name feijoa still unknown abroad, it remains for now an institution of New Zealand's autumn.\n\n\"It's something that kind of bonds us and gives us an excuse to talk to people around us,\" Evans said. The kiwi, she added, has been a lucrative export for New Zealand.\n\n\"But we don't love it the way that we love feijoas.\""}
{"prompt_hash": "8da9f4d950e4aa85efcc0e1e441b67eaf3850c460246233139bf0bcebc01971a", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-14 01:10:41+00:00", "topics": ["Ahmedabad", "Heat waves", "Asia", "Asia Pacific", "Be Well", "Health", "Medical research", "Lifestyle", "Climate change", "Associated Press", "Climate and environment", "Mayank Yadav", "Weather", "Priya Bhavsar"], "text": "# In one Indian city, reflective paint and bus stop sprinklers offer relief from killer heat\n\nBy Sibi Arasu  \nMay 14th, 2025 01:10 AM\n\n---\n\nAHMEDABAD, India (AP) \u2014 For 20-year-old Mayank Yadav, riding a crowded bus in the summer months in this western Indian city can be like sitting in an oven. That makes it a treat when he steps off and into a bus stop outfitted with sprinklers that bathe overheated commuters in a cooling mist.\n\n\"Everyone is suffering from the heat,\" Yadav said. \"I hope they do more of this across the city.\"\n\nRising heat is a problem for millions of people in India. In Ahmedabad, temperatures this year have already reached 42 degrees Celsius (107 Fahrenheit), a level usually not seen for several more weeks, prompting city officials to advise people to stay indoors and stay hydrated.\n\nAnd yet, coping with that heat is a familiar challenge in Ahmedabad. After a 2010 heat wave killed more than 1,300 people, city and health officials rushed to develop South Asia's first heat action plan.\n\nThe plan, rolled out in 2013 and now replicated across India and South Asia, includes strategies for hospitals, government officials and citizens to react immediately when temperatures rise beyond human tolerance. Public health officials said it's helped save hundreds of lives every summer.\n\nCity officials, with help from climate and health researchers, have implemented two simple yet effective solutions to help those affected most by heat: the poor and those who work outdoors. By painting tin-roofed households with reflective paint, they've reduced indoor temperatures, which otherwise might be up to 5 degrees Celsius (9 degrees Fahrenheit) hotter than outside. More recently, the city hung curtains woven of straw and water sprinklers at one bus stop so commuters can get relief from the sun and heat. Officials said they plan to expand the idea to other bus stops in the city.\n\nResidents said both measures have been a relief even as they brace for at least three more months of sweltering summer.\n\n## A simple coat of paint makes all the difference\n\nThroughout the city's low-income neighborhoods, hundreds of tin-roofed homes have been painted with reflective paint that helps keep the indoors cooler. Residents said their houses were so hot before the roofs were painted that they would spend most of their time outdoors under any shade they could find.\n\n\"Earlier, it was really difficult to sleep inside the house,\" said Akashbhai Thakor, who works as a delivery van driver and lives with his wife and three-month-old child in Ahmedabad. Thakor's roof was painted as part of a research project that is trying to measure the impact of the so-called cool roofs.\n\nEarly results have been promising. \"After the roof was painted, the house is much cooler, especially at night,\" said Thakor.\n\nPeople like Thakor are much more vulnerable to extreme heat because their houses aren't insulated and, since most of them depend on a daily wage, they must work regardless of the weather, said Priya Bhavsar of the Indian Institute of Public Health Gandhinagar, who is working on the project. Bhavsar said low-cost solutions could be the only respite for thousands of people in the city who can't afford to buy an air conditioner.\n\nVeer Vanzara, who lives in the same area as Thakor and works in a nearby garment factory, said the heat makes his job much worse, especially since his factory has no ventilation. So his family is grateful for the cool roofs. \"The evenings and night are much cooler than before inside our house,\" he said.\n\n## A bus stop that's become an oasis from the heat\n\nIn Ahmedabad's city center, a 25-meter stretch of a bus stop has been draped with mats made of straw which, when sprinkled with water, immediately cool the hot wind. Sprinklers installed on the bus stop roof lightly spray cool water on the commuters below, providing instant relief from the blazing heat just a step away.\n\n\"When nothing like this was here, it was really hot. What they've done is really good. Senior citizens like me can get some cooling from the heat,\" said 77-year-old Ratilal Bhoire, who was waiting under the sprinklers with his daughter. Bhoire said when he was younger, Ahmedabad was hot, but it was still possible to walk many kilometers without feeling dizzy, even at the height of summer. \"Nowadays you can't do that,\" he said.\n\nHeat is the city's biggest problem and heat waves \u2014 continuous days of extreme heat \u2014 are increasing, said Dr. Tejas Shah of Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation, who oversees the city's heat action plan. \"We are in the period of climate change, and it has already shown its effect,\" said Shah.\n\nShah and other city officials said the onset of summer has become a testing time and efforts such as cool roofs and cool bus stops are reducing heat-related illness and deaths. As climate projections predict only hotter and longer summers for his city, Shah said being prepared is the only thing to do.\n\n\"It (the heat) needs to be addressed in the proper way,\" he said."}
{"prompt_hash": "fdcb0b01075cd220be2d9c527902af24363c2533eb2d62d8c381e9ffc277b333", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-14 09:03:21+00:00", "topics": ["Germany", "Daniil B.", "Switzerland", "Ukraine", "Cologne", "Crime", "Russia government", "Law enforcement", "Herbert Reul", "Fires", "Arson", "Stefanie Hubig"], "text": "# Germany and Switzerland arrest 3 over suspected plans to send explosive parcels to Ukraine\n\nBy Geir Moulson  \nMay 14th, 2025 09:03 AM\n\n---\n\nBERLIN (AP) \u2014 Three Ukrainian nationals have been arrested in Germany and Switzerland on suspicion of agreeing to send parcels containing explosive or incendiary devices from Germany to Ukraine, apparently at the behest of people acting for Russia, German prosecutors said Wednesday.\n\nThe men are suspected of acting as secret agents for the purpose of sabotage, as well as agreeing to commit arson and bring about an explosion, federal prosecutors said in a statement.\n\nThe alleged plans fit a pattern in which Western officials have accused Russia and its proxies of staging dozens of attacks and other incidents across Europe since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine more than three years ago.\n\nTwo of the men \u2014 identified only as Vladyslav T. and Daniil B. in line with German privacy rules \u2014 were arrested in different parts of Germany on Friday and Saturday respectively. The third, identified as Yevhen B., was arrested in Tuesday in the northern Thurgau region of neighboring Switzerland.\n\nThe suspects are accused of telling \"one or more people suspected to be acting on behalf of Russian state agencies\" around March that they were prepared to carry out attacks on freight transport in Germany, prosecutors said. The alleged plan was for the men to send packages that would explode or catch fire while being transported to Ukraine.\n\nOne of the suspects, Vladyslav T., dispatched two \"test packages\" in Cologne at the end of March that contained GPS trackers to scope out possible means of transport, according to prosecutors. He was allegedly tasked with doing so by Yevhen B., who is accused of providing the contents of the packages via Daniil B.\n\nGerman prosecutors did not elaborate further on what was in the packages or on how and where they were dispatched.\n\nHerbert Reul, the top security official in North Rhine-Westphalia state, where Cologne is located, said he didn't believe the test packages had contained explosives or fuel. Of the suspects, he said: \"The first impression is of low-level agents \u2014 people who ... are recruited for not much money and who then do the job for the Russian state.\"\n\nIn a previous case last year, Western security officials suspect Russian intelligence was behind a plot to put incendiary devices in packages on cargo planes headed to North America, including one that caught fire at a courier hub in Germany and another that ignited in a warehouse in the U.K.\n\n\"We know that Russia is trying by all means to destabilize Western democracies, including with deliberate sabotage and perfidious intelligence methods,\" German Justice Minister Stefanie Hubig said following the latest arrests."}
{"prompt_hash": "566f4dd5ecfad523d897a4b157e87ef3c854fab192e0457d991b762cb0a9cee6", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-14 09:27:35+00:00", "topics": ["Pope Francis", "Christianity", "Pope Leo XIV", "Catholic Church", "Middle East", "Ukraine", "Papal conclave", "Religion", "Donald Trump", "India", "Vatican City"], "text": "# Pope vows every effort to work for peace in regions where Christians persecuted, forced to flee\n\nBy Nicole Winfield  \nMay 14th, 2025 09:27 AM\n\n---\n\nVATICAN CITY (AP) \u2014 Pope Leo XIV vowed to take \"every effort\" Wednesday to work for peace in the Middle East and Ukraine and to actively promote the spirituality and traditions of the eastern rite churches, those Catholic communities with origins in the Mideast and eastern Europe that have been decimated by years of conflict and persecution.\n\n\"The church needs you!\" Leo told a Holy Year audience of eastern rite pilgrims.\n\nEastern-rite Catholics accept the authority of the pope but have many of their own rituals and liturgy. They include the Coptic, Chaldean, Maronite and Eritrean Catholic churches, as well as the Syro-Malabar church in India and Greek Catholic communities that are found across Eastern Europe and the Americas. Unlike Orthodox Christians, these Catholic churches fully recognize papal authority.\n\nIn his remarks, Leo acknowledged that many eastern rite Catholics have been forced to flee their homelands because of \"war and persecution, instability and poverty.\" It was a reference to the exodus of Christians from the Middle East, Iraq and Syria especially, where entire communities have been displaced by years of Islamic extremist violence. Many of these communities in northern Iraq were some of the oldest of the faith, where the dialects of Aramaic \u2014 the language of Jesus \u2014 are still spoken.\n\nLeo vowed to work for peace in those regions, citing in particular the Middle East and Ukraine, and said the Holy See was ready to \"help bring enemies together, face to face.\"\n\n\"Who better than you can sing a song of hope even amid the abyss of violence?\" he said. \"From the Holy Land to Ukraine, from Lebanon to Syria, from the Middle East to Tigray and the Caucasus, how much violence do we see!\"\n\nIn one of his first acts as pope, Leo spoke by telephone with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who invited him to Ukraine and thanked him for his support. Leo has in the past called Russia's war in Ukraine \"an imperialist invasion in which Russia wants to conquer territory for reasons of power given Ukraine's strategic location.\"\n\nThe Vatican under Francis was largely sidelined in any peace efforts, though the Holy See did work on prisoner exchanges and to reunite Ukrainian children who were taken to Russian territory back with their families.\n\nZelenskyy, who met with President Donald Trump in St. Peter's Basilica on the sidelines of Pope Francis' funeral, is expected in Rome for Leo's formal installation Mass on Sunday.\n\nLeo praised those Christians who are working at reconciliation even in regions where they are persecuted minorities, and urged them to continue.\n\n\"I thank God for those Christians \u2014 Eastern and Latin alike \u2014 who, above all in the Middle East, persevere and remain in their homelands, resisting the temptation to abandon them,\" Leo said. \"Christians must be given the opportunity, and not just in words, to remain in their native lands with all the rights needed for a secure existence.\"\n\nThe audience featured a mix of faithful from around the world, with Lebanese and Ukrainian flags and ululating pilgrims.\n\nLeo recalled that his namesake, Pope Leo XIII, paid particular attention to the eastern rite churches. That Leo, who was pope from 1878 to 1903, penned the first specific document about the dignity of eastern rite churches and the need to preserve and celebrate their traditions in the west.\n\nThat Leo went so far as to threaten any Latin rite priest in the west with dismissal if he tried to bring an eastern rite Catholic over to the western traditions of the Latin rite.\n\nThe former Cardinal Robert Prevost lamented that today, these Catholics often find indifference among other Latin rite Catholics when they resettle in communities in the diaspora. They \"risk losing not only their native lands, but also, when they reach the West, their religious identity,\" he said.\n\n\"As a result, with the passing of generations, the priceless heritage of the Eastern Churches is being lost,\" the pontiff said.\n\nHe urged the Vatican office that deals with eastern churches to define guidelines for Latin rite bishops to better support diaspora communities, saying the contribution that eastern churches can give the west is \"immense.\"\n\n\"We have great need to recover the sense of mystery that remains alive in your liturgies, liturgies that engage the human person in his or her entirety, that sing of the beauty of salvation and evoke a sense of wonder at how God's majesty embraces our human frailty,\" he said."}
{"prompt_hash": "21fa86eb31c441049123002e7d325aa870ec6ee5b9652909a449ae461b17c9fe", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-14 08:42:36+00:00", "topics": ["Tour de France", "Cycling", "Paris", "Lille", "Nice", "Sports"], "text": "# Tour de France final stage to feature Montmartre climb and Champs-\u00c9lys\u00e9es finish\n\nMay 14th, 2025 08:42 AM\n\n---\n\nPARIS (AP) \u2014 Tour de France riders will climb up the iconic Montmarte hill in Paris on the final stage this year before cycling's biggest race finishes on the Champs-\u00c9lys\u00e9es, organizers said Wednesday, as they look to build on the popular success of the Olympic road race.\n\nLast year's final stage was held outside Paris for the first time since 1905 because of a clash with the Olympics, moving instead to Nice. Because of security and logistical reasons, the French capital did not have its traditional Tour finish on the Champs-\u00c9lys\u00e9es.\n\nThe world famous avenue is back on the program this year for the conclusion of the 3,320-kilometer (2,063-mile) race.\n\n\"To mark the 50th anniversary of the first final finish on the Champs-\u00c9lys\u00e9es, and one year after the excitement and cheers of the Paris 2024 Olympic road race, the peloton will return to the capital on a route that passes through the heights of Montmartre,\" organizers said.\n\n## 500,000 spectators\n\nAt last year's Olympics, huge crowds of fans gathered in Montmartre \u2014 the area in the northern part of Paris that is popular among artists and offers grand vistas of the city \u2014 to cheer on riders.\n\n\"An exceptional route has been designed, inspired by the course of the 2024 Olympic road race, which drew over 500,000 spectators last August,\" Tour organizers said. \"Riders will climb the Montmartre hill and pass beneath the Sacr\u00e9-Coeur before battling it out on a stage that may break from the traditions established over the past 50 years in the heart of the capital.\"\n\nTraditionally, the Champs-\u00c9lys\u00e9es stage is largely processional until a sprint decides the day's winner. The inclusion of the sharp Montmartre climb could change that scenario. Full details of the route will be presented at a news conference next week.\n\nThe Tour starts from the northern city of Lille on July 5, with the women's race kicking off on July 26 from the Brittany town of Vannes."}
{"prompt_hash": "0a01126219060bb76ce6fcea946764d5c7cd3b6dd4257d56a5ab27f77455cf03", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-14 10:32:37+00:00", "topics": ["Tesla", "Inc.", "Electric vehicles", "Transportation technology", "Finance", "Finance  Business", "Business", "Lifestyle", "Technology", "Michael Cantu"], "text": "# Edmunds electric SUV test: 2025 Hyundai Ioniq 5 vs 2026 Tesla Model Y\n\nBy Michael Cantu  \nMay 14th, 2025 10:32 AM\n\n---\n\nThe Tesla Model Y and the Hyundai Ioniq 5 are two of the hottest electric SUVs on the market. Adding to their appeal, both SUVs were recently updated. The 2026 Model Y has new styling, higher-quality interior materials and a smoother ride quality. Changes to the 2025 Hyundai Ioniq 5 aren't as dramatic, but you do get more range, easier-to-use controls and new ways to charge. Which recently updated electric SUV is the better buy? Edmunds' experts compare them to find out.\n\n## Range and charging\n\nThe 2026 Model Y is currently only available in the Long Range All-Wheel Drive version. It delivers an EPA-estimated 327 miles of range, which is impressive for a dual-motor electric SUV. Edmunds tested this version on its independent, standardized EV range test and found the Tesla matched its EPA estimate in real-world driving.\n\nThe 2025 Ioniq 5's estimated range spans from 245 miles in the base model to 318 miles in most single-motor models, which are rear-wheel-drive. Edmunds tested an Ioniq 5 Limited with dual electric motors and all-wheel drive. It beat its EPA estimate of 269 miles by going 282 miles in Edmunds' testing.\n\nThe Ioniq 5's new Tesla-style charging port allows it to charge at most Tesla Supercharger fast-charging stations. The Model Y has access to any type of Tesla charging station. Both can charge at non-Tesla stations as well. When using a high-powered fast-charging station, the Model Y can add up to 169 miles in 15 minutes. The Ioniq 5 charges a little quicker, regaining 178 miles in 15 minutes.\n\nThe Tesla offers a bit more maximum range but charges a little slower, making it a tie here.\n\nWinner: tie\n\n## Interior and tech features\n\nTesla stuffs a lot of standard tech in the Model Y, including a large 15.4-inch center touchscreen, a 16-speaker audio system, dual wireless phone chargers and several advanced driver aids. You can also stream movies and play arcade games when you're parked. Tesla's Full Self-Driving (Supervised) system is an expensive option, but it can drive and navigate the Model Y traffic on city streets and highways as long as the driver is paying attention and is prepared to take control if needed.\n\nThe Ioniq 5's base trim comes standard with a 12.3-inch center touchscreen and a pleasing number of advanced driver aids. Wireless connectivity for Apple CarPlay and Android Auto smartphone integration is also standard; neither system is available on the Model Y. However, you need to upgrade to a higher trim for the eight-speaker Bose audio system and upgraded highway driving assist system.\n\nBoth SUVs seat five and are spacious and comfortable. They also ride smoothly over bumps and are composed when cornering. But Edmunds has found it's the little things that help the Ioniq 5 get an edge here. Its available 360-degree camera system is more helpful than the Tesla's when parking, for example, and its controls and features are easier to use and learn. The Model Y's touchscreen, which controls almost everything, can be distracting to use while driving.\n\nWinner: Ioniq 5\n\n## Utility\n\nThe Model Y provides loads of cargo space: 29 cubic feet behind the rear seats and a whopping 71.4 cubic feet with the rear seat folded down. The front trunk adds another 4.1 cubes. The Ioniq 5 has less space, but it's enough for most folks: 26.3 cubic feet behind the rear seats and 58.5 cubic feet with the rear seats folded down. However, its front trunk is only large enough for a charging cord.\n\nAs for small-item storage, both SUVs provide plenty of compartments and sizable door pockets. The Ioniq 5 has a movable center console that's handy at times.\n\nWinner: Model Y\n\n## Pricing and value\n\nThe Model Y Long Range All-Wheel Drive currently starts at $50,630, and other models should be offered later. Although not cheap, it's an excellent value because of its extensive list of standard tech features, several standard comfort features like heated and ventilated front seats, and lengthy range.\n\nThe Ioniq 5's base Standard Range model starts at $44,075 but provides only 245 miles of range. The SE model, which offers 318 miles, is about $4,000 more. Neither one has as many standard features as the Tesla, but the lower price makes the Hyundai attainable for shoppers with smaller budgets. Both the Model Y and the Ioniq 5 currently qualify for federal tax credits.\n\nWinner: tie\n\n## Edmunds says\n\nThis comparison is a draw; both electric SUVs are excellent choices, so it comes down to personal preference. If you want a more traditional vehicle that's easier to use, go for the Ioniq 5. But if you prefer the Model Y's minimalist design approach and distinctive tech features, then it's the EV for you."}
{"prompt_hash": "f27f1d00ef8e96d3856c553928207a13c03116aa2d3c3e380b383365b99fa89a", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-14 04:05:37+00:00", "topics": ["Newark", "Donald Trump", "Sean Duffy", "Joe Biden", "Federal Aviation Administration", "Aviation safety", "Pete Buttigieg", "U.S. Department of Transportation", "Travel", "New York City Wire", "Business", "Politics", "Chris Rocheleau", "Transportation"], "text": "# FAA to meet with airlines to address Newark airport delays and equipment issues\n\nBy Josh Funk  \nMay 14th, 2025 04:05 AM\n\n---\n\nThe recent chronic delays and cancellations at New Jersey's largest airport have highlighted the shortage of air traffic controllers and the aging equipment they use, which President Donald Trump's administration wants to replace.\n\nThe Federal Aviation Administration is working on a short-term fix to the problems at the Newark airport that includes technical repairs and cutting flights to keep traffic manageable while dealing with a shortage of controllers. Officials are meeting with all the airlines that fly out of Newark starting Wednesday to discuss the plan.\n\nBut even before those problems, aviation was already in the spotlight ever since the deadly midair collision of a passenger jet and a U.S. Army helicopter above Washington, D.C., in January, and a string of other crashes and mishaps since then. The investigations into those crashes continue while the U.S. Department of Transportation tries to make progress on the long-standing issues of not having enough air traffic controllers and relying on outdated equipment. A U.S. Senate hearing Wednesday morning will focus on the FAA's efforts.\n\n## What happened in Newark?\n\nTwice in the past two-and-a-half weeks, the radar and communications systems that air traffic controllers in Philadelphia who direct planes in and out of Newark rely on failed for a short time. That happened because the lines that carry the radar signal down from another FAA facility in New York failed, and the backup system didn't work immediately.\n\nSo the controllers were left unable to see or talk to the planes around Newark Liberty International Airport for as long as 90 seconds on April 28 and May 9. The lines \u2014 some of which were old copper wires \u2014 failed a third time on Sunday, but that time the backup system worked and the radar stayed online.\n\nBut the first one of those stressful situations prompted five to seven controllers to take a 45-day trauma leave, and that worsened the existing staff shortage at the Philadelphia control facility, prompting the FAA to limit the number of flights in Newark each day.\n\nThe FAA currently has 22 fully certified air traffic controllers and five supervisors assigned to Newark in the Philadelphia facility, but the agency wants to have 38 controllers there. Another 21 controllers are in training there, and 10 of them are certified on at least part of the area.\n\n## What has been done in Newark?\n\nThe FAA quickly limited the number of flights in Newark to between 24 and 28 arrivals and the same number of departures every hour to make sure the remaining controllers could handle them safely. At times when controller staffing is especially lean, like Monday, the FAA is limiting traffic even further. Before the problems, 38 or 39 flights would take off and land every hour in Newark.\n\nThe meetings FAA officials are having with all the airlines starting Wednesday are focused on a plan that continues limiting takeoffs and landings to no more than 28 apiece an hour until at least mid-June. By then, a runway construction project should be wrapped up, and the controllers who took trauma leave would be scheduled to return. After that, the FAA has said it might be able to bump up the limit to 34 arrivals and 34 departures an hour.\n\nMeanwhile, the number of flights a day must be cut because the airport can't handle everyone on the schedule. That's why Newark has generally led the nation in cancellations and delays in recent weeks. After the FAA meets with the airlines, it will give them a couple of weeks to submit information in writing, so it won't issue a decision before May 28.\n\nThe FAA has been able to install new fiber optic lines at Newark airport and the two other major airports in the New York area \u2014 Kennedy International and LaGuardia \u2014 but those are still being tested and won't come online until the end of the month. Officials were able to update some computer software last week that kept the radar from going offline a third time on Sunday when the primary line failed yet again.\n\nLonger-term, the FAA is also planning to build a new radar system in Philadelphia, so that controllers there won't have to rely on the signal piped down from New York anymore. But that might not be done for months, although officials are working with contractors to speed up that project.\n\n## Why not hire more controllers?\n\nThe FAA has been working for a long time to hire more air traffic controllers to replace retiring workers and handle the growing air traffic. But it can be hard to find good candidates for the stressful positions, and it takes years to train controllers to do the job.\n\nTransportation Secretary Sean Duffy has made several moves to try to hire more controllers. The FAA is trying to shorten the time it takes between when someone applies to the air traffic controller academy in Oklahoma City and when they start, and the agency is also trying to improve the graduation rate there by offering more support to the students. The candidates with the highest scores on the entrance exam are also getting top priority.\n\nThe FAA is also offering bonuses to experienced controllers if they opt not to retire early and continue working to help ease the shortage.\n\nMore high-tech simulators are also being used at airports across the country, including Newark, to train air traffic controllers. The FAA said Tuesday that controllers tend to complete training more quickly when they use one of the 111 simulators it has.\n\n\"These new simulators give air traffic control trainees a high-tech space to learn, develop and practice their skills,\" said acting FAA Administrator Chris Rocheleau.\n\n## What about the outdated equipment?\n\nThe Transportation Department plans to ask Congress for billions and billions of dollars to pay for an overhaul of the air traffic control system nationwide to replace the 618 radars, install 4,600 new high-speed connections and upgrade all the computers controllers use. The exact price tag hasn't been determined.\n\nDuffy blames former President Joe Biden's administration for failing to upgrade the air traffic control system, but Congress first recognized the system was struggling to keep up with the growing number of flights as far back as the 1990s, so the problems go back decades \u2014 long before the Biden or first Trump administrations. Biden's former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has defended their efforts to upgrade some of the technology and expand air traffic controller hiring.\n\nSome of the decades-old computer equipment that controllers rely on was on display at last week's news conference about the plan, which has drawn broad support from more than 50 groups across the industry. Duffy has used an assortment of colorful metaphors to emphasize how old the equipment is, saying the gear looks like it came off the set of the movie \"Apollo 13\" and comparing it to a 1967 Volkswagen Beetle."}
{"prompt_hash": "4a9955b2c0238e77d76b7b750b15f2b7bf619e157a3cf6f0ebb45756ecf57fc2", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-14 10:25:41+00:00", "topics": ["China", "Scott Bessent", "Donald Trump", "International trade", "China government", "Production facilities", "Government policy", "Tariffs and global trade", "Business", "Economic policy", "Margaret Zhuang", "Danny Lau"], "text": "# Chinese businesses view tariff pause with caution and uncertainty\n\nBy Huizhong Wu  \nMay 14th, 2025 10:25 AM\n\n---\n\nBANGKOK (AP) \u2014 While U.S. President Donald Trump has talked of victory after reaching a weekend deal with China to reduce the sky-high tariffs levied on each others' goods, businesses in China are reacting to the temporary deal with caution.\n\nThe U.S. and China have cut the tariffs levied on each other in April, with the U.S. cutting the 145% tax Trump imposed last month to 30%. China agreed to lower its tariff rate on U.S. goods to 10% from 125%. The lower tariff rates came into effect on Wednesday.\n\nU.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, announcing the reduction in tariff rates this weekend in Geneva, had said, \"We do want trade.\" While the markets have responded to the agreement with gusto, rebounding to the levels before Trump's tariffs, business owners remain wary.\n\nBusinesses like one kitchen utensil factory in southern Guangdong province were eager to get back to work. The business said they put at least four orders from their American clients back into production on Tuesday after the tariff pause was announced.\n\n\"We thought the negotiation would bring the tariffs down a bit, but didn't expect it would be so much,\" said Margaret Zhuang, a salesperson for the utensil factory in Guangdong province, one of China's manufacturing hubs.\n\nThe two countries are now planning to start negotiations for a longer-term deal.\n\nKahlee Yu, sales manager of Yangjiang Hongnan Industry and Trade Company, which also manufactures kitchen utensils, said he was reaching out to American customers again. \"We're a little bit optimistic about the trade deal between the two sides. But it is still possible the tariff policies will change again, resulting in no orders from our American clients,\" he said.\n\nHowever happy they were in the moment, the damage from tariffs announced in April has already been done, Zhuang added, as they are seeing fewer orders. Currently, she has orders for products up until June. Earlier this year, before Trump's trade war began, they had orders for production extending to August.\n\nThe uncertainty also means companies are less willing to make new investments. Kelvin Liao, sales director at Action Composites, a manufacturer of carbon fiber auto parts in Dongguan, a major city in Guangdong, said he was originally planning to buy a piece of land to build a new factory, but opted instead to rent because of the tariff situation.\n\n\"It is good to reach a trade deal between the two countries. But people have already lost confidence in Trump, and we will take a wait-and-see attitude,\" he said. \"We believe the signing a trade deal is just a pause and the ultimate goal of the US is to curb China's development.\"\n\nTariffs also remain in place for some industries, which are not part of the general deal. Hong Kong businessman Danny Lau, who owns an aluminum-coating factory, said his company still faces about a 75% tariff from tariffs levied at different points since 2018 by the U.S. Still he welcomed the news from the weekend, saying he would reach out to existing American customers to gauge their views.\n\n\"Although the policy change doesn't cover our industry, we hope talks will continue and there will be better news during the 90-day pause,\" he said.\n\nIn April, some Chinese businesses said they would focus their attention on exporting to other markets, given how high the American tariffs were. Analysts said previously that the tariffs could cause Chinese businesses to diversify their supply chains and move part of their manufacturing capacity abroad, including to the U.S.\n\nLiao, the auto parts manufacturer, said his company already has a factory in Vietnam, and the products there were exported to the U.S.\n\n\"We don't believe that the US has the ability to produce the products like ours with lower costs. We will not give up on the US market.\""}
{"prompt_hash": "1d0ad22b79c7faff5da588425f8a842edb13f0d942d17438f41b9bdcdc0dd397", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-14 08:49:04+00:00", "topics": ["Hungary", "Viktor Orban", "Hungary government", "Legislation", "Womens rights", "Politics"], "text": "# Hungary targets critics with bill that would blacklist critical media and NGOs\n\nBy Justin Spike  \nMay 14th, 2025 08:49 AM\n\n---\n\nBUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) \u2014 The nationalist party of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orb\u00e1n introduced a bill late Tuesday that would allow the government to monitor, restrict, penalize and potentially ban organizations it deems a threat to national sovereignty, marking a significant escalation of the government's long-running crackdown on critical media and non-governmental organizations.\n\nThe bill, submitted by a lawmaker in Orb\u00e1n's Fidesz party, would expand the authority of Hungary 's controversial Sovereignty Protection Office, allowing it to identify organizations that influence public debate or voter sentiment in ways it considers detrimental to Hungary's interests.\n\nUnder the proposed legislation, such organizations could be placed on a list by governmental decree, stripped of key funding and subjected to severe financial penalties if they are found to \"endanger the sovereignty of Hungary by carrying out activities aimed at influencing public life with foreign support.\"\n\nThe bill would also allow the bank accounts of affected organizations to be monitored, and access to the accounts and transactions deemed to violate the new provisions could be blocked.\n\nThe measure is the latest in an escalating effort by Orb\u00e1n's government to tighten its control over political expression and civic engagement in Hungary as the European Union's longest-serving leader faces a major challenge to his 15-year grip on power in elections scheduled for next year.\n\nParliament will likely vote on the bill in the coming days and it is expected to pass since Fidesz has a two-thirds majority.\n\nFacing mounting legal and financial pressure from the government, many of Hungary's independent media outlets and NGOs have increasingly depended on international grants and assistance to sustain their operations.\n\nBut in a February speech laced with conspiracy rhetoric, Orb\u00e1n said that organizations that receive any funding from outside Hungary's borders \"have to be taken down, they have to be swept away ... It is necessary to make their existence legally impossible.\"\n\nOrb\u00e1n has for years enacted crackdowns on NGOs and independent media, passing laws that critics say seek to stigmatize and obstruct groups that provide protection for women and minorities, offer legal and human rights assistance and expose official corruption.\n\nThose efforts ramped up in 2023 when Orb\u00e1n's right-wing populist government launched the Sovereignty Protection Office, an authority tasked with investigating organizations and media outlets it deems to be exerting foreign influence.\n\nThe office has the power to gather information on any groups or individuals that benefit from foreign funding and influence public debate, and Hungary's secret services can assist in its investigations. Violations can result in prison terms of up to three years.\n\nOpponents of the government's policies have compared the Sovereignty Protection Office to Russia's \"foreign agent\" law, and said it can be used to arbitrarily target government critics, including NGOs and journalists.\n\nThe bill introduced Tuesday outlines a broad definition of what constitutes a threat to sovereignty. Organizations may be targeted if they oppose or portray in a negative light values such as Hungary's democratic character, national unity, traditional family structures, or Christian culture \u2014 suggesting that even legitimate criticism of government policy could be treated as a national security threat.\n\nGroups placed on the list would be barred from receiving donations through Hungary's 1% personal income tax program \u2014 a vital funding stream for many non-profits \u2014 and would be required to obtain special authorization from the national tax authority to accept any foreign donations.\n\nIn addition, Hungarian citizens donating to listed organizations would need to submit a formal declaration affirming that their contributions were not sourced from abroad. Organizations found to have received prohibited support would be subject to fines amounting to 25 times the value of the offending donation."}
{"prompt_hash": "fa1c1422c45bee1ed483e8f5c5f8d531193011362d40ef4d524fc91a5ff7d0fa", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-14 10:19:27+00:00", "topics": ["New Zealand", "Protests and demonstrations", "Politics", "Debbie Ngarewa-Packer", "Race and ethnicity", "New Zealand government", "Voting", "International agreements", "Race and Ethnicity"], "text": "# M\u0101ori lawmakers who performed a protest haka receive temporary bans from New Zealand's Parliament\n\nBy Charlotte Graham-Mclay  \nMay 14th, 2025 10:19 AM\n\n---\n\nWELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) \u2014 Three New Zealand lawmakers from Te P\u0101ti M\u0101ori, the M\u0101ori Party, will receive temporary bans from Parliament and severe censure, it was announced Wednesday, over their protest of a proposed law by performing a haka, a chanting dance of challenge, directed at their opponents.\n\nA committee of their peers recommended the penalties, understood to be the harshest ever assigned to New Zealand parliamentarians, in findings that said the trio's actions could have intimidated other legislators and were in contempt of Parliament. Their temporary suspensions are expected to be affirmed by vote during a sitting of all lawmakers on Thursday.\n\nThe decision means that Hana-R\u0101whiti Maipi-Clarke, who at 22 is currently New Zealand's youngest lawmaker, will be suspended from Parliament for seven days. The co-leaders of her political party, Rawiri Waititi and Debbie Ngarewa-Packer, face 21-day bans.\n\nThey won't receive salaries during their suspensions.\n\nThe ruling is the latest twist in a fraught national saga over a bill, now defeated, that opponents said would reverse decades of progress for M\u0101ori, New Zealand's Indigenous people, and provoke constitutional havoc.\n\n## Why were the M\u0101ori lawmakers suspended?\n\nVideo of the legislators in full cry drew millions of views on social media and global news headlines last November. The bill they opposed was vanquished at a second vote in April.\n\nHowever, some lawmakers from the center-right government objected to the M\u0101ori Party legislators' protest during the first vote and complained to parliament's speaker. At issue was the way the trio walked across the floor of the debating chamber towards their opponents while they performed the haka.\n\n\"It is not acceptable to physically approach another member on the floor of the debating chamber,\" Wednesday's report said, adding that the behavior could be considered intimidating. The committee denied the legislators were being punished for the haka \u2014 which is a beloved and sacred cultural institution in New Zealand life, but \"the time at and manner in which it was performed\" during a vote, according to the findings.\n\nThe committee deciding the fate of the lawmakers is comprised of members from all political parties. The government's opponents disagreed with parts or all of the decision but were overruled.\n\n## How did the suspended legislators respond?\n\nThe three legislators didn't appear before the committee when summoned in April because they said New Zealand's parliament doesn't respect M\u0101ori cultural protocol and they wouldn't get a fair hearing.\n\n\"The process was grossly unjust, unfair, and unwarranted, resulting in an extreme sanction,\" M\u0101ori party spokesperson and lawmaker Mariameno Kapa-Kingi said in a statement Wednesday. \"This was not about process, this became personal.\"\n\nWaititi and Ngarewa-Packer, the leaders of the minor party that advocates M\u0101ori rights and holds six of Parliament's 123 seats, have for weeks lambasted the committee's process as intolerant of M\u0101ori principles and identity.\n\nThe pair received more severe sanctions than Maipi-Clarke because the younger lawmaker had written a letter of \"contrition\" to the committee, the report said.\n\n## Why did a proposed law provoke the protest?\n\nThe controversial Principles of the Treaty of Waitangi Bill sought to redefine New Zealand's founding document, the 1840 pact between the British Crown and M\u0101ori tribal leaders signed during New Zealand's colonization.\n\nThe English and M\u0101ori language versions of the treaty differed and the Crown immediately began to breach both, resulting in mass land thefts and generations of disenfranchisement for M\u0101ori, who remain disadvantaged on almost every metric. But in recent decades, M\u0101ori protest movements have wrought growing recognition of the Treaty's promises in New Zealand's law, politics and public life.\n\nThat produced billion-dollar land settlements with tribes and strategies to advance Indigenous language and culture. Such policies were the target of the bill, drawn up by a minor libertarian party who denounced what they said was special treatment for M\u0101ori as they tried to rewrite the treaty's promises.\n\nThe bill was never expected to become law \u2013 and it didn't. But public uproar about it led to the lawmakers haka in Parliament last November. Days later, tens of thousands of New Zealanders marched on Parliament to oppose it in the largest race relations protest in the country's history."}
{"prompt_hash": "5092648e41d2cf3450edaa9adfdc0b7c4d330867dab343b14b964e3b508ba188", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-14 09:28:06+00:00", "topics": ["Russia government", "Russia", "Grigory Melkonyants", "Activism", "Politics", "Mikhail Biryukov", "Elections", "Ella Pamfilova", "Indictments", "Criminal punishment"], "text": "# Russia convicts a prominent election monitoring activist and sentences him to 5 years in prison\n\nBy Dasha Litvinova  \nMay 14th, 2025 09:28 AM\n\n---\n\nA court in Moscow on Wednesday convicted one of the leaders of a prominent independent election monitoring group on charges of organizing the work of an \"undesirable\" organization and sentenced him to five years in prison.\n\nGrigory Melkonyants, co-chair of Russia's leading election watchdog Golos, has rejected the charges as politically motivated. The case against him is part of the monthslong crackdown on Kremlin critics and rights activists that the government ratcheted up after invading Ukraine in 2022.\n\nAfter a judge of the Basmanny District Court delivered the verdict, Melkonyants, 44, told several dozen supporters and journalists from the glass defendant's cage: \"Don't worry, I'm not despairing. You shouldn't despair either!\"\n\nGolos has monitored for and exposed violations in every major election in Russia since it was founded in 2000. Over the years, it has faced mounting pressure from the authorities.\n\nIn 2013, the group was designated as a \"foreign agent\" \u2014 a label that implies additional government scrutiny and carries strong pejorative connotations. Three years later, it was liquidated as a non-governmental organization by Russia's Justice Ministry.\n\nGolos has continued to operate without registering as an NGO, exposing violations in various elections, and in 2021 it was added to a new registry of \"foreign agents,\" created by the Justice Ministry for groups that are not registered as a legal entity in Russia.\n\nIt has not been designated as \"undesirable\" \u2014 a label that under a 2015 law makes involvement with such organizations a criminal offense. But when it was an NGO, it was a member of the European Network of Election Monitoring Organizations, a group that was declared \"undesirable\" in Russia in 2021, and the charges against Melkonyants stemmed from that.\n\nThe defense argued that when ENEMO was outlawed in Russia, Golos wasn't a member, and Melkonyants had nothing to do with it.\n\nMelkonyants, a renowned election expert and lawyer by training, was arrested in August 2023 and has been in custody ever since.\n\nElla Pamfilova, chair of Russia's Central Election Commission, the country's main election authority, spoke out in his support at the time, telling Russian business daily Vedomosti about the case: \"I would really like to hope that they will handle this objectively. Because his criticism, often professional, helped us a lot sometimes.\"\n\nIndependent journalists, critics, activists and opposition figures in Russia have come under increasing pressure from the government in recent years that intensified significantly amid the war in Ukraine.\n\nMultiple independent news outlets and rights groups have been shut down, labeled as \"foreign agents\" or outlawed as \"undesirable.\" Hundreds of activists and critics of the Kremlin have faced criminal charges.\n\nMelkonyants' defense team said after the verdict that they will appeal. Lawyer Mikhail Biryukov told reporters that \"there is no evidence\" in the case that he and others on the defense team consider \"politically motivated, pretentious.\"\n\n\"We will fight for Grigory's freedom, because an illegal, unjust verdict should not exist. It should not stand (in the appeal proceedings). We all hope that the law will prevail,\" Biryukov said.\n\nMemorial, Russia's prominent human rights group that won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2022, has designated Melkonyants as a political prisoner."}
{"prompt_hash": "b2a89e834b59e625982038bc01b6bda0584bed796f8766d2f8762e32638aca4b", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-14 10:09:59+00:00", "topics": ["Protests and demonstrations", "Democracy", "Niger", "Mali government", "Censorship", "Burkina Faso", "Politics"], "text": "# Malian authorities ban French TV channel over its coverage of a pro-democracy protest\n\nBy Associated Press  \nMay 14th, 2025 10:09 AM\n\n---\n\nBAMAKO, Mali (AP) \u2014 Mali's media regulatory body said it is banning a French television channel in the country due to \"defamatory remarks\" it made about a pro-democracy demonstration in the capital earlier this month.\n\nThe High Authority for Communication said in a letter published on Tuesday that it was cutting the signal of French channel TV5 Monde after a news anchor remarked that \"hundreds of security forces were mobilized to prevent demonstrators from accessing\" the Palais de la Culture during a May 3 protest.\n\nThe authority said this was incorrect and that \"the forces of law and order were present at the Palais de la Culture to secure the demonstrators.\"\n\nTV5MONDE did not immediately comment on the announcement.\n\nThe decision was the latest move by Malian authorities that targeted media outlets. The signals of France 24 and Radio France Internationale (RFI) have been blocked for three years, and Mali's private TV channel, Djoliba TV News, had its signal cut off for six months last December over a debate questioning the official version of a thwarted coup attempt in neighboring Burkina Faso.\n\nLike Burkina Faso and Niger, Mali is ruled by military regimes that took power following coups. The regimes have formed an alliance called the Alliance of Sahel States and have severely restricted freedom of expression by cutting off media signals and arresting journalists, political figures, and civil society leaders."}
{"prompt_hash": "d36f1532ccf3f5c4b8a9b54476cf3ce600178ceb2dcbeda5b7c3f0a487b7655e", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 23:20:07+00:00", "topics": ["Philanthropy", "Florida", "Donald Trump", "Bill Gates", "Government budgets", "Joe Deitch", "The Walt Disney Co.", "Abigail Disney", "Politics", "Business", "Tommy Marcus", "United States government", "Roy Disney"], "text": "# Abigail Disney urges donors to be braver about their giving and shouldering more risk\n\nBy Glenn Gamboa  \nMay 13th, 2025 11:20 PM\n\n---\n\nMIAMI BEACH, Florida (AP) \u2014 Activist and philanthropist Abigail Disney urged donors and the leaders of major foundations and nonprofits to be braver with their giving, especially at a time when more are fearful about speaking their minds.\n\n\"The people who speak up against their own self-interest are becoming very, very important,\" Disney said Tuesday at the opening panel of The Elevate Prize Foundation's Make Good Famous Summit in Miami Beach, Florida. \"The people in philanthropy are the people who need to be speaking up \u2026 What we are experiencing is nothing compared to the risk that people of color, Indigenous people, immigrants are experiencing every single day in this country.\"\n\nDisney told The Associated Press in an interview before the panel that she planned to be more outspoken because \"everyone has been so quiet since the election.\" Many question why major donors and foundations have not reacted faster to the Trump administration's cuts to foreign aid and federal funding to nonprofits, though some organizations, like the Marguerite Casey Foundation, have opted to scale up donations dramatically.\n\n\"When people see each other act, it becomes easier for them to act,\" said Disney, who joked that she inspired Bill Gates to spend all of the Gates Foundation's assets and shut down the nonprofit by 2045. Disney, whose grandfather Roy Disney co-founded The Walt Disney Co., announced in December that her Daphne Foundation would spend its assets and soon shut down.\n\nDisney represented only one segment of philanthropists convened by The Elevate Prize Foundation to pledge action. \"We are gathering at a time of real consequence,\" said Joe Deitch, the foundation's founder and chairman. \"The challenges we face on the planet and as a people are daunting. We're witnessing a level of political and social division that often feels insurmountable.\"\n\nThe foundation took its own action by awarding international human rights organization Equality Now $1 million in unrestricted funds for its work, which will help the group expand its work.\n\nTommy Marcus, also known as Quentin Quarantino on Instagram where his 1.1 million followers have donated more than $30 million to charities he supports, said action makes him feel optimistic.\n\n\"I get hope from knowing \u2014 for the wonderful things that I really care about and I just feel obligated to do something about \u2014 that there's just so many good people who will say, 'You know, Tommy, I wasn't thinking about this, but here's $30',\" he said. \"I think the future of fundraising, the future of charity, is in community.\"\n\nMarcus said in an interview that he found such support \"flattering and a little scary,\" and that he takes the responsibility of that support very seriously. And he plans to continue to use his platform to draw attention to causes his followers can support.\n\n\"Unfortunately, there's plenty of reasons to be a bit demotivated and deflated,\" he said. \"At the same time, I take inspiration from my community and the unique things that we band together for or the way we just help an individual do something.\"\n\nTynesha McHarris, co-founder of the Black Feminist Fund, said that this is a frightening time and there will be setbacks as they fight Trump administration policies that she says target Black women, but there will also be opportunities.\n\n\"We are in this moment in time where we have to respond against one of the most lethal threats globally, that is trying to come for everything that is possible,\" she said. \"I get to be alongside a cadre of people that stand in their way. That is a gift. Take it. Even if it makes your hands sweat or your stomach hurt. It is a gift to be amongst a community and a country and a coalition who would rather choose freedom over fascism, freedom over fear.\"\n\nDisney told the panel she would like to eliminate the words \"tireless\" and \"fearless\" from the English language,\n\n\"No one is tireless or fearless,\" she said. \"Courage is working through fear, in spite of fear. I've never had a moment in my life when I wasn't fearful. The trick is to hold on to your values through fear.\""}
{"prompt_hash": "e01a47c391ee2e103b1b7e56a014a132e8f700b45550b09f1488b74cadee11fc", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 20:32:05+00:00", "topics": ["Missouri", "Government budgets", "Mike Kehoe", "Saddam Hussein", "Ronald Reagan", "Josh Hawley", "Notable Deaths", "U.S. Republican Party", "Politics", "Kit Bond", "Jason Van Eaton", "United States Senate", "Matt Blunt"], "text": "# Sen. Kit Bond, whose mastery of pork-barrel spending benefitted his native Missouri, dies at 86\n\nBy Heather Hollingsworth  \nMay 13th, 2025 08:32 PM\n\n---\n\nChristopher \"Kit\" Bond, a Republican who brought billions of dollars in federal funding to Missouri during his four terms in the U.S. Senate and who was state's the youngest person to be governor, died Tuesday. He was 86.\n\nBond's family told Gov. Mike Kehoe's office that Bond died in St. Louis, but it didn't disclose the cause, Gabby Picard, a spokesperson for the governor, said in an email. Kehoe ordered flags flown at half staff for the man he described as a \"skilled statesman.\"\n\nJason Van Eaton, Bond's former deputy chief of staff, told The Associated Press that his former boss' death marked the end of an era. \"The lasting legacy of Kit Bond will be the thousands of people that he inspired,\" he said.\n\nU.S. Senator Josh Hawley, of Missouri, described Bond as a \"champion for Missouri\" in a message on X. Former U.S. Sen. Jim Talent, of Missouri, praised Bond's \"relentless and penetrating intelligence\" in a statement.\n\nAs a member of the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee, Bond secured federal money for big and small projects in Missouri, scoffing at government watchdog groups that considered him a master of pork-barrel spending.\n\n\"If it's pork, it's an awfully healthy diet for the people of Missouri,\" Bond said in 1999.\n\nEarly in his career, Bond was considered a political wunderkind. When he took office at age 33 as Missouri's youngest governor, he was also the state's first Republican chief executive in about three decades and garnered consideration as a vice presidential candidate.\n\nHis early success stalled when he lost a reelection bid, but he later rebounded to win another term as governor before being elected to the Senate in 1986 and eventually becoming the patriarch of the Missouri Republican Party.\n\n\"Public service has been a blessing and a labor of love for me,\" Bond said during his 2009 announcement to a joint session of the Legislature that he would not seek another term.\n\nFormer Gov. Matt Blunt, who was the state's second-youngest governor, recalled the advice and friendship Bond offered after his 2004 election. He called Bond's death a \"profound loss.\"\n\nWhen Bond entered the Senate, he downplayed hot-button issues in favor of working on legislation that benefited Missouri. Early in his career, Bond voted to override President Ronald Reagan's veto of a highway financing bill that included money for projects in Missouri.\n\nBond assumed a higher national profile during his last term in the Senate. After the U.S. invasion of Iraq, he became a primary spokesman for congressional Republicans about the war during the time leading up to the 2006 elections.\n\nEventually, though, the Bush administration's central allegation that Saddam Hussein was hiding weapons of mass destruction proved baseless.\n\nAfter Republicans lost control of Congress in 2006, Bond sought to mend relations with Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee after years of discord over its investigation into intelligence before the invasion of Iraq.\n\nTestaments to Bond's longevity in the public arena are stamped across Missouri. A federal courthouse in Jefferson City and a life sciences center at the University of Missouri-Columbia are named after him. A highway bridge crossing the Missouri River in Hermann and one in Kansas City also carry his name.\n\nBond often bragged about his wife, Linda, a fundraising consultant whom he married in 2002, and his son from his previous marriage, Sam.\n\n\"I have a wonderful wife, a magnificent son I'm very proud of, I have the opportunity to serve the state I love,\" he told the AP in 2004."}
{"prompt_hash": "6c518b34cbb4928e128c4812aa23f6ea05e7af4015ae8f8f58b9172de432c736", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 20:32:02+00:00", "topics": ["Philadelphia Phillies", "St. Louis Cardinals", "Baseball", "MLB", "Aaron Nola", "Climate and environment", "Jesus Luzardo", "Sports", "St. Louis", "Erick Fedde", "Sonny Gray", "MLB baseball"], "text": "# Cardinals and Phillies to play split doubleheader after Tuesday's game postponed due to weather\n\nMay 13th, 2025 08:32 PM\n\n---\n\nPHILADELPHIA (AP) \u2014 The second game of a three-game series between the St. Louis Cardinals and Philadelphia Phillies was postponed on Tuesday because of inclement weather.\n\nThe game will be made up as part of a split day/night doubleheader on Wednesday.\n\nCardinals right-hander Erick Fedde will face Phillies right-hander Aaron Nola in the first game of the doubleheader. Neither team has announced a starter for the second game.\n\nSt. Louis right-hander Sonny Gray was scheduled to face Philadelphia left-hander Jesus Luzardo on Tuesday before the postponement.\n\nThe Cardinals have won nine straight games after Monday night's 3-2 win over the Phillies."}
{"prompt_hash": "de1b6944322d070605c556e3a75e50e84e5af918122a9718c5f1598182dd3aad", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 20:22:34+00:00", "topics": ["Thomas Morstead", "New York Jets", "Austin McNamara", "Aaron Rodgers", "New York", "Sports transactions", "New York City Wire", "NFL", "Sports", "Davante Adams", "New Orleans", "Braden Mann", "C.J. Mosley", "Aaron Glenn", "NFL football"], "text": "# Veteran punter Thomas Morstead released by Jets amid roster overhaul by new regime\n\nBy Dennis Waszak Jr.  \nMay 13th, 2025 08:22 PM\n\n---\n\nThe New York Jets released veteran punter Thomas Morstead on Tuesday after two seasons in his second stint with the team.\n\nMorstead, who turned 39 in March, is part of what has been a roster overhaul by new general manager Darren Mougey and coach Aaron Glenn since they were hired in January. Other veterans who have been released this offseason by the Jets include quarterback Aaron Rodgers, wide receiver Davante Adams and linebacker C.J. Mosley.\n\nNew York also announced it signed undrafted free agent Kai Kroeger, who played five seasons at South Carolina.\n\nIn a video message on his Instagram page, Morstead said he was working out at Tulane's Yulman Stadium in New Orleans and received a call from the Jets that they were moving on from him.\n\n\"Just wanted to say thank you to all the fans, all the coaches that I worked with over the past few years, the teammates,\" he said. \"It's been awesome. Had a great experience. Disappointed to be moving on and disappointed how it went down, but it's just the way it goes in this business. I really appreciate everybody that's been a part of the journey. And I'm out here, getting some kicks in with my boys and just wanted to say thank you to everybody.\"\n\nThe Jets thanked the punter \"for everything you've done in the Green & White\" in their announcement of Morstead's release on social media.\n\nMorstead was due a base salary of $2.1 million \u2014 with no guaranteed money \u2014 and set to count $3.05 million on the salary cap this season in the last year of his contract with New York.\n\nMorstead averaged 48.2 yards per punt in 34 games with the Jets the past two seasons while landing 55 kicks inside the 20-yard line. He has a career punting average of 46.8 yards in 255 games. Morstead was a fifth-round draft pick by New Orleans out of SMU in 2009 and played 12 seasons with the Saints before joining the Jets in 2021. He filled in for seven games for an injured Braden Mann before being released by New York and signing with Atlanta.\n\nMorstead played with Miami in 2022 before rejoining the Jets.\n\nKroeger averaged 44.6 yards per punt, the second-best mark in Gamecocks history and set a school record with 265 career punts. He and Austin McNamara, who signed during the offseason, are the punters currently on the Jets' roster."}
{"prompt_hash": "4c00f93ac588eeeb97a259e5775121732e918321d4a1bdcb007c5aff5008b94d", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 20:19:30+00:00", "topics": ["Federal Reserve System", "Financial markets", "Donald Trump", "Stocks and bonds", "Business", "Inflation"], "text": "# How major US stock indexes fared Tuesday, 5/13/2025\n\nBy The Associated Press  \nMay 13th, 2025 08:19 PM\n\n---\n\nU.S. stocks rose following an encouraging report that showed inflation unexpectedly slowed across the country last month.\n\nThe S&P 500 climbed 0.7% Tuesday and erased its loss for the year so far. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.6%, and the Nasdaq composite rose 1.6% as AI and other tech stocks led the way.\n\nThe report on inflation could give the Federal Reserve more leeway to cut interest rates later this year to help the economy, but analysts and economists cautioned that inflation could still run higher in coming months because of President Donald Trump's tariffs.\n\nOn Tuesday:\n\nThe S&P 500 rose 42.36 points, or 0.7%, to 5,886.55.\n\nThe Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 269.67 points, or 0.6%, to 42,140.43.\n\nThe Nasdaq composite rose 301.74 points, or 1.6%, to 19,010.08.\n\nThe Russell 2000 index of smaller companies rose 10.15 points, or 0.5%, to 2,102.35.\n\nFor the week:\n\nThe S&P 500 is up 226.64 points, or 4%.\n\nThe Dow is up 891.05 points, or 2.2%.\n\nThe Nasdaq is up 1,081.17, or 6%.\n\nThe Russell 2000 is up 79.27 points, or 3.9%.\n\nFor the year:\n\nThe S&P 500 is up 4.92 points, or 0.1%.\n\nThe Dow is down 403.79 points, or 0.9%.\n\nThe Nasdaq is down 300.71 or 1.6%.\n\nThe Russell 2000 is down 127.81 points, or 5.7%."}
{"prompt_hash": "5af41f9e4fdfbc2a6187c41ef4a02c7135cb4fc3b275129740b0fd757a8662f2", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-12 17:53:02+00:00", "topics": ["Cannes Film Festival", "Bella Hadid", "Bianca Censori", "Fairs and festivals", "JWD-evergreen", "Kendall Jenner", "Thierry Frmaux", "Entertainment", "Lifestyle", "Naomi Campbell", "Oddities"], "text": "# Cannes bans nudity on its red carpet\n\nMay 12th, 2025 05:53 PM\n\n---\n\nCANNES, France (AP) \u2014 The Cannes Film Festival red carpet is perhaps the most rigidly controlled red carpet in the world. Now, the festival has added a new stipulation: no nudity.\n\nWhile nudity was never previously endorsed at the festival, Cannes updated its dress policy on the eve of its 78th edition to read that \"nudity is prohibited on the red carpet, as well as in any other area of the festival.\"\n\nWhile a no-shirt-no-service policy is standard in places far less glamorous than Cannes, the policy tweak sparked widespread attention Monday because of the recent trend of sheer and \"nude dresses, \" such as Bianca Censori's Grammys appearance.\n\nAsked for clarity on the policy, Cannes press officers said the festival \"made explicit in its charter certain rules that have long been in effect.\"\n\n\"The aim is not to regulate attire per se, but to prohibit full nudity on the red carpet, in accordance with the institutional framework of the event and French law,\" it said.\n\nCannes also noted that \"voluminous outfits, in particular those with a large train, that hinder the proper flow of traffic of guests and complicate seating in the theater are not permitted.\"\n\nStill, skin has often been flashed at the French Riviera festival by celebrities like Bella Hadid, Naomi Campbell and Kendall Jenner, and dress policies have long been flouted by celebrities. For evening premieres at the Palais' Grand Th\u00e9\u00e2tre Lumi\u00e8re, black tie and evening wear is required. Though not in recent years, Cannes security officials have sometimes turned away women for not wearing heels.\n\nThe festival also banned selfies in 2018 \u2014 Cannes director Thierry Fr\u00e9maux called them \"grotesque\" \u2014 but A-listers sometimes snap a quick photo on the Palais steps.\n\nThe festival kicks off Tuesday."}
{"prompt_hash": "4a36acdef4a322cc600ebf5870f50061427af99369b1a693f95e7db63ae57c66", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 20:14:03+00:00", "topics": ["Roger Goodell", "Dasha Smith", "NFL", "Sports", "National Football League", "Aaron Glenn", "NFL football", "Technology"], "text": "# NFL pauses accelerator program aimed at increasing diverse hirings\n\nBy Josh Dubow  \nMay 13th, 2025 08:14 PM\n\n---\n\nThe NFL will not hold its accelerator program aimed at increasing diversity among coaches at the upcoming spring meetings as the league plans to make changes to the program before bringing it back next year.\n\nThe latest event in the program, which began in 2022, was scheduled to have coaching candidates of diverse backgrounds meet with team owners at league meetings next week in Minnesota.\n\nNFL chief administrative officer Dasha Smith said the program will come back in May 2026.\n\n\"This will allow us to reimagine the program, reflecting on the feedback and engaging with stakeholders so we can ensure a successful program in the future,\" she said in a statement Tuesday. \"We're steadfast in our commitment to strengthen our talent pipeline and create an environment that reflects the diversity of our fan base. The NFL strives to be a unifying force, and we are confident the next evolution of our efforts will take us one step closer to that goal.\"\n\nCBS Sports first reported the decision.\n\nThe NFL recently held an accelerator program for general manager candidates at league meetings in December, a three-day candidate development program at the scouting combine and the ninth-annual women's forum.\n\nAmong the people who have gone through the accelerator program and eventually got top jobs are New York Jets head coach Aaron Glenn and former Tennessee general manager Ran Carthon.\n\nSmith said the league intends to combine the coaching and front office accelerator programs and remains committed to increasing diverse hirings for key leadership positions.\n\n\"We believe diversity of thought and background is essential to our success, and it's reflected in the policies, programs, and partnerships that help us attract, develop, and retain top talent at every level on and off the field,\" she said.\n\nThe NFL currently has seven minority head coaches and seven minority general managers. Commissioner Roger Goodell reiterated the league's commitment to diverse hiring at the Super Bowl.\n\n\"I believe that our diversity efforts have led to making the NFL better,\" he said in February in New Orleans. \"It's attracted better talent. We think we're better if we get different perspectives, people with different backgrounds, whether they're women or men or people of color. We make ourselves stronger and we make ourselves better when we have that.\""}
{"prompt_hash": "ba6615caf4b961f3ea2fdc020de50bddc97094c75e9bcc3d77ec820814482f82", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 20:11:02+00:00", "topics": ["Pete Hegseth", "Donald Trump", "Military and defense", "Associated Press", "Josh Benson", "U.S. Marine Corps", "Middle East", "U.S. Department of Defense", "Europe", "United States government"], "text": "# Hegseth's planned cuts could hit more than 120 high-ranking officers\n\nBy Lolita C. Baldor  \nMay 13th, 2025 08:11 PM\n\n---\n\nWASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's plans to slash the number of senior military leaders across the services would cut more than 120 high-ranking officer jobs in the active duty and National Guard, including as many as nine top general slots.\n\nBased on the percentages outlined by Hegseth and his senior staff, 20% of the 44 authorized top active duty general and admiral jobs would be eliminated, along with 10% of the more than 800 one-, two- and three-star positions, according to numbers compiled by The Associated Press.\n\nThe cuts \u2014 about nine positions among four-star generals and 80 jobs across the other leadership levels \u2014 would affect dozens of active duty officers scattered across the five services as well as those who are in joint command jobs, such as those overseeing Africa, the Middle East and Europe. The changes would eliminate 33 senior National Guard positions.\n\nThe cuts are part of a broader government-wide campaign to slash spending and personnel across federal agencies that is being pushed by President Donald Trump's administration and ally Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency.\n\nAccording to Hegseth and others, the intent of the military job reductions isn't to reduce the overall size of the force but to thin out the higher ranks and offset those cuts with additional troops at lower levels. While the overall number of service members may not drop, the salary costs will be lower.\n\nSome Democratic members of Congress have criticized Hegseth's plans as an attempt to politicize the military and oust leaders that don't agree with the Trump administration. The changes also come as the world is roiled by conflicts, including the wars in Gaza and Ukraine, and as the U.S. has troops deployed in Syria and elsewhere.\n\n## Shifting leadership responsibilities\n\nMilitary officials expect that as various jobs are downgraded \u2014 for example from a lieutenant general in charge to a major general or brigadier general \u2014 more leadership responsibilities will fall on colonels or Navy captains and other subordinates.\n\nAnd while many of the job cuts will come through attrition, as senior officers retire or move on, the services say they will have the flexibility to move people into higher priority positions and get rid of less critical posts.\n\n\"More generals and admirals does not equal more success,\" Hegseth said in a video describing his plan. \"This is not a slash and burn exercise meant to punish high-ranking officers. Nothing could be further from the truth. This has been a deliberative process.\"\n\nCalling it the \"Less Generals, More GIs\" plan, he said the department will make \"prudent reductions.\"\n\n## How the cuts will hit the military services\n\nThe Army, which is the largest service, is allowed to have a maximum of 219 high-ranking general officers and is expected to absorb a higher number of the cuts, while the Marine Corps will probably see little impact at the very top. There are only two Marine four-star generals, and the tiny Space Force also only has two.\n\n\"The Marine Corps, with our general officers, like our civilians and senior executives, is by far the leanest service,\" said Lt. Col. Josh Benson, a Marine spokesman. \"Due to the already lean nature of the general officers in the Marine Corps, any cuts to Marine general officers will have an outsized impact to the Corps relative to other services.\"\n\nHe said nearly one-third \u2014 or 21 \u2014 of Marine generals hold two or three jobs each, and as many as 10 positions are already empty.\n\nArmy leaders, meanwhile, have already developed plans to merge or close headquarters units and staff. As many as 40 general officer slots could be cut as a result, officials have said.\n\nThe joint jobs would include leaders at regional commands, such as those in Europe, the Indo-Pacific and the Middle East, as well as administrative or functional commands, such as Cyber Command and Special Operations Command.\n\nUnder the law, there currently can be no more than 232 of those joint officers, and they're spread across all the services.\n\nIt's unclear how many of the cuts those jobs would absorb, versus the slots in each of the services. But officials have talked about merging some commands as the Pentagon reviews its overall leadership structure.\n\nIn addition to the joint command jobs, Congress stipulates the maximum number of high-ranking general officers in the services: 219 in the Army, 171 in the Air Force, 21 in the Space Force, 64 in the Marine Corps and 150 flag officers in the Navy.\n\nAll combined, the services can't have more than 27 four-star officers, 153 three stars, 239 two stars and 210 one stars.\n\n## National Guard review and cuts\n\nThe decrease in the National Guard stems from a review done by Guard leaders last year that identified more than 30 positions that could be cut among the 133 general officer jobs spread out across the government. There are about 30 general officers in the National Guard Bureau headquarters staff, and the rest are assigned to jobs in other federal agencies, including the FBI, CIA and the military commands.\n\nGuard officials described their plan to Hegseth and Pentagon leaders, and it was approved. According to officials, it would result in six jobs cut from Guard Bureau staff and the rest from other military and government posts.\n\nThe adjutants general who run the Guard in each state are chosen by and work for the governors and so are not part of any cuts. They are largely one- and two- star officers."}
{"prompt_hash": "84d57c387b298c0632fb5fbde87dc1789914a965997fba1adaa5c961f621eaae", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 17:39:56+00:00", "topics": ["Florida", "Glen Edward Rogers", "Tina Marie Cribbs", "Ron DeSantis", "Crime", "Lake City", "Carmen Gayheart", "Anthony Wainwright", "Homicide", "Kidnapping", "Legal proceedings", "O.J. Simpson", "Prisons", "Law enforcement", "Capital punishment", "Ronald Goldman"], "text": "# 2 more executions set in Florida, making it 6 so far in 2025\n\nMay 13th, 2025 05:39 PM\n\n---\n\nSTARKE, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Florida is continuing its rapid pace of executions this year, with one convicted killer set to die this week and another on June 10 who would be the sixth person put to death by the state in 2025.\n\nGlen Rogers, 62, is scheduled to die by lethal injection at Florida State Prison on Thursday for the 1995 stabbing death near Tampa of Tina Marie Cribbs. Rogers, who has claimed he killed many people around the country, was also sentenced to death in California for another woman's murder.\n\nRogers was arrested in Kentucky driving Cribbs' car, which he claimed she had lent to him.\n\nThere were also claims by Rogers and others that he was involved in the O.J. Simpson murder case and was responsible for the killings of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. This came up in a 2012 documentary and in correspondence between Rogers and a criminal profiler, but Los Angeles police and prosecutors said he was not the killer.\n\nRepublican Gov. Ron DeSantis last week signed a death warrant for Anthony Wainwright, 54, who was convicted of kidnapping, raping and murdering Carmen Gayheart in 1994. Gayheart was abducted from a grocery store parking lot in Lake City, Florida.\n\nWainwright and another man had escaped earlier from prison in North Carolina and were captured in Mississippi after a shootout with police, according to court records.\n\nBoth Rogers and Wainwright have appeals pending that could delay their executions. There were also six Florida executions in 2023 but only one in 2024."}
{"prompt_hash": "a6ef40e655667453e1ff0858b8e1a957f6a10ca35e42dd82421e1daa828b0c3a", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 20:06:47+00:00", "topics": ["Burkina Faso", "Africa", "Ibrahim Traore", "John Jerry Rawlings", "Coups detat", "United States government", "United States", "Nigeria government", "Richard Alandu", "Thomas Sankara", "Michael Langley"], "text": "# Burkina Faso's Traore captivates young Africans despite worsening security crisis\n\nBy Dulue Mbachu  \nMay 13th, 2025 08:06 PM\n\n---\n\nABUJA, Nigeria (AP) \u2014 As news emerged this week about hundreds of Burkina Faso citizens killed separately by both jihadi groups and government forces, images of Burkina Faso's junta leader Capt. Ibrahim Traore were plastered over Russian state media speaking about pan-Africanism and liberating the minds of the continent's youths.\n\nTraore, who was in Moscow for the 80th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II, is Africa's youngest leader at 37, a strong appeal for the continent's young population that is used to much older leaders.\n\nSince coming to power in September 2022 after the country's second coup that year, he has dwelt on a rhetoric of self-reliance and independence from the West, particularly former colonial ruler France \u2014 a message that often resonates with young Africans and the diaspora.\n\n## Why is Traore trending\n\nThe latest Traore frenzy reached a new peak late April with a solidarity march in the country's capital, Ouagadougou, following an alleged coup attempt and comments by Gen. Michael Langley, the head of U.S. military in Africa, accusing the Burkina Faso leader of misusing the country's gold reserves.\n\nFollowing the 2022 coup that brought him to power, Traore promised to end the country's decadeslong deadly security crisis and leverage its rich mineral resources for the benefit of its 24 million citizens.\n\nAlongside the coup-hit nations of Niger and Mali, Burkina Faso has since severed ties with the regional bloc of ECOWAS \u2014 criticized by many young Africans as representing the interest of leaders and not the citizens \u2014 as well as longstanding Western allies such as France, whose military provided security support to the government for many years to help its security crisis.\n\nAnalysts and locals suggest that these factors, combined with his youth, have contributed to Traore's appeal among young Africans.\n\n\"There is a growing consciousness among African youth at home and abroad that they need to do something about the continent's lack of progress,\" said Richard Alandu, a Ghanaian living near the border with Burkina Faso. \"It appears Traore has become the face of that consciousness.\"\n\n## How has Traore fared as Burkina Faso's junta leader\n\nThe security crisis that Traore vowed to resolve has worsened instead, slowing the country's overall economic development and preventing most citizens from benefiting from its mineral wealth, according to analysts and researchers' data.\n\n\"There has been no real progress on the ground\" in Burkina Faso, said Gbara Awanen, a professor of international relations and security studies at Nigeria's Baze University, who specializes in West Africa. \"A lot of it is just sleek propaganda.\"\n\nData from the U.S.-based Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project, or ACLED, shows that while 2,894 people were killed by both government and armed groups during the year before the 2022 coup, the number has more than doubled to at least 7,200 in the last year.\n\nAnalysts say the attacks have worsened to the point that Ouagadougou is now increasingly threatened, with more than 60% of the country outside of government control. At least 2.1 million people have lost their homes as a result of the violence, and almost 6.5 million need humanitarian aid to survive, conservative estimates show.\n\n## Propaganda rhythms\n\nBabacar Ndiaye, a senior fellow at the Senegal-based Timbuktu Institute for Peace Studies, attributes the current frenzy surrounding Traore primarily to his popularity \u2014 and Russia-driven propaganda\n\nDespite Burkina Faso's worsening security crisis, Traore still has \"so much resonance and interest simply because of propaganda,\" Ndiaye said. \"In Africa, there is deep frustration with the traditional leadership, so there is polarized anger towards a scapegoat that is the west.\"\n\nWest Africa, meanwhile, has a history of young men seizing power as exemplified by John Jerry Rawlings in Ghana, Samuel Doe in Liberia and Thomas Sankara in Burkina Faso, all in the 1980s. That history, placed against the perceived failure of Western-style democracy in Africa, has helped to create conditions for idolizing the likes of Traore.\n\nStill, allegations of propaganda do not adequately explain the excitement that has built up around Africa's youngest ruler, according to Chidi Odinkalu, an Africa analyst and professor at Tufts University.\n\n\"Traore articulates a revolutionary message that is appealing to a young population frustrated by the thievery of what passes for 'democracy' in their own countries,\" said Odinkalu.\n\n____\n\nFollow AP's Africa coverage at: https://apnews.com/hub/africa/"}
{"prompt_hash": "6957e7bf7aeb434290f11fad4fba486a33d0c4ad04e167609e4743f479e49b2c", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 19:54:58+00:00", "topics": ["Cannes Film Festival", "Charlie Chaplin", "Spencer Chaplin", "Movies", "Comedy", "Los Angeles", "Entertainment", "Kiera Chaplin", "Thierry Fremaux"], "text": "# On 100th anniversary of 'The Gold Rush,' Cannes tips hat to Charlie Chaplin\n\nBy Jake Coyle  \nMay 13th, 2025 07:54 PM\n\n---\n\nCANNES, France (AP) \u2014 One hundred years after Charlie Chaplin made dinner rolls dance and ate his shoe like it was a fine meal, \"The Gold Rush\" has been vividly brought back to life in a new restoration that premiered Tuesday at the Cannes Film Festival.\n\nOn the opening day of its 78th edition, Cannes debuted a 4K restoration of \"The Gold Rush,\" one of Chaplin's most beloved silent masterpieces. The screening, held just before the festival's official opening ceremony, was part of a new day-one tradition for restored films, festival director Thierry Fremaux said before the screening at Cannes' Debussy Theatre.\n\nYears in the making, this \"Gold Rush\" pristinely restores Chaplin's Tramp to all his downtrodden glory. The 1925 Alaskan frontier comedy may be marking its centenary, but it looks bracingly fresh in the restoration carried out by La Cineteca di Bologna.\n\nThe restoration was more complicated than most because it included an extensive search for any missing footage. In 1942, Chaplin edited the film and re-released it with sound effects, music and narration. That version landed two Oscar nominations, but the restoration sought to get as close to the 1925 original as possible.\n\nIn \"The Gold Rush\" Chaplin's lone prospector ambles through the snowy Alaskan wilds in pursuit less of gold than some food and perhaps companionship. His antic, cliff-dangling struggles make up much of the film's deft slapstick, but the Little Tramp's humble, sweet hopes for romance greatly exceed his strike-it-rich ambitions.\n\nThe film's premiere drew two grandchildren of Chaplin: Kiera Chaplin and Spencer Chaplin.\n\n\"What to say about 'The Gold Rush?' said Spencer Chaplin. \"It was his biggest production to date. He built the set \u2014 it was almost like a tourist attraction in L.A. at the time. He built the mountains.\"\n\nThe screening in Cannes drew a packed house in one of Cannes' largest theaters, a crowd that the Chaplin descendants warmly surveyed.\n\n\"Our grandfather would be really proud to see this, a hundred years later, to see all you here and interested in seeing the film,\" said Kiera Chaplin.\n\n\"The Gold Rush\" will roll out in theaters worldwide on June 26 in a release organized by mk2 Films."}
{"prompt_hash": "dad12db90e913b93e13e9551214108f9b364a14adc828acbcc3691794d642b0d", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 19:54:21+00:00", "topics": ["Family medicine", "Diego Maradona", "Leopoldo Luque", "Sports", "Argentina", "Carlos Daz", "Health", "Pablo Dimitroff"], "text": "# Daughter of Maradona testifies against late soccer star's primary care doctor\n\nMay 13th, 2025 07:54 PM\n\n---\n\nBUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) \u2014 One of Diego Maradona's daughters testified Tuesday that her father's primary care physician couldn't explain to her what type of treatment the soccer great was receiving and blamed the doctor for recommending that her father be moved to home care before his death in 2020.\n\nLeopoldo Luque, a neurosurgeon who was Maradona's primary care doctor, is one of seven medical professionals on trial accused of negligence in Maradona's death.\n\nMaradona had surgery for a hematoma that formed between his skull and brain and stayed in intensive care at Los Olivos clinic between Nov. 4-11, 2020. He then was sent to recover at a private home where he died two weeks later at the age of 60.\n\nGianinna Maradona told the court that her father's health was badly deteriorating a month before his death and that she made this observation to Luque on several occasions.\n\nThe deficiencies in Maradona's home care are one of the prosecution's key pieces of evidence. A cardiologist testified that he was against moving Maradona from the Olivos Clinic.\n\nThree judges will decide whether those charged are guilty of manslaughter. The maximum prison sentence is 25 years.\n\n\"I told Luque that my dad seemed very lost, that he wasn't happy, and that he couldn't walk. He told me there were ups and downs in his days,\" said the daughter of \"El Diez.\"\n\nRecalling Maradona's 60th birthday on Oct. 30, Giannina testified that when she visited him at home, \"he looked at us but didn't understand. I asked him if he felt OK, and he said no, that he felt bad.\"\n\nThe witness stated that every time she asked the doctor to explain why her father \"was getting worse and worse \u2026 he couldn't tell me with certainty what treatment he was undergoing.\"\n\nShe recounted that Luque, along with psychiatrist Agustina Cosachov and psychologist Carlos D\u00edaz, two other defendants, proposed home confinement for Maradona, and she ended up trusting the decision even though she didn't initially agree.\n\n\"I chose to believe that they, who were monitoring my father's health, were giving us the best proposal. Looking back I feel like it was all a play to keep my father in a dark, ugly, and lonely place,\" said Maradona's daughter.\n\nClinic medical director Pablo Dimitroff testified that after the surgery Maradona had \"a complex psychomotor excitation episode\" that resembled alcohol withdrawal.\n\nDimitroff also advised against home confinement, but Luque ultimately informed him of the decision to move Maradona out of the clinic."}
{"prompt_hash": "72fbe78e95ccc585f5966b5bbc5a3b57cad3188e6cc3d4521ed78277c2e2290d", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 04:04:02+00:00", "topics": ["Donald Trump", "Joe Biden", "Saudi Arabia", "Syria", "Mohammad bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud", "Steve Witkoff", "Bashar Assad", "Royalty", "Iran government", "Larry Fink", "Elon Musk", "BlackRock", "Inc.", "Saudi Arabia government", "Ahmad al-Sharaa", "Stephen Schwarzman", "Recep Tayyip Erdogan", "Jamal Khashoggi", "Politics", "Hamas", "Business", "Syria government", "Tesla", "Sanctions and embargoes", "Corporate management", "SpaceX", "Rebellions and uprisings", "Houthis"], "text": "# Trump lays out Mideast vision as he visits Saudi crown prince\n\nBy Aamer Madhani, Zeke Miller, and Jon Gambrell  \nMay 13th, 2025 04:04 AM\n\n---\n\nRIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) \u2014 President Donald Trump on Tuesday held out Saudi Arabia as a model for a reimagined Middle East, using the first major foreign trip of his term to emphasize the promise of economic prosperity over instability in a region reeling from multiple wars.\n\nOffering partnership to longtime foes, Trump said he would move to lift sanctions on Syria and normalize relations with the new government led by a former insurgent, and he touted the U.S. role in bringing about a fragile ceasefire with Yemen's Houthis. But Trump also indicated his patience was not endless, as he urged Iran to make a new nuclear deal with the U.S. or risk severe economic and military consequences.\n\nWith his carrot and stick approach, Trump gave the clearest indication yet of his vision for remaking the region, where goals of fostering human rights and democracy promotion have been replaced by an emphasis on economic prosperity and regional stability.\n\nTrump also made a pitch to Saudi Arabia to join the Abraham Accords started in his first term and recognize Israel. And he envisioned a hopeful future for the people of Gaza \u2014 emphasizing they must first cast off the influence of Hamas.\n\n\"As I have shown repeatedly, I am willing to end past conflicts and forge new partnerships for a better and more stable world, even if our differences may be profound,\" Trump said as he laid out his outlook for the region in a speech at an investment forum.\n\nSaudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the de facto ruler, welcomed Trump to the kingdom with royal flourishes and lavished attention on him at every turn. It was a stark contrast to the crown prince's awkward fist bump in 2022 with then-President Joe Biden, who tried to avoid being seen on camera shaking hands with him during a visit to the kingdom.\n\n## Trump shows disdain for 'nation-builders' and interventionists\n\nThe Republican president made the case for a vision centered in pragmatism. It's something he sees as a necessity for the U.S., which he believes is still feeling the ill effects of 20 years of \"endless war\" in Iraq and Afghanistan.\n\n\"In the end, the so-called nation builders wrecked far more nations than they built, and the interventionists were intervening in complex societies that they did not even understand themselves,\" Trump said.\n\nTrump used the moment to extend an olive branch to Iran and urge its leaders to come to terms with his administration on a deal to curb its nuclear program. But he also warned that this opportunity to find a diplomatic solution \"won't last forever.\"\n\n\"If Iran's leadership rejects this olive branch ... we will have no choice but to inflict massive maximum pressure, drive Iranian oil exports to zero,\" he said.\n\nThe latest entreaty to Tehran comes days after Trump dispatched special envoy Steve Witkoff to meet with Iranian officials for a fourth round of talks aimed at persuading Iran to abandon its nuclear program.\n\nTrump, in his speech, also said he hoped Saudi Arabia will recognize Israel \"in your own time.\"\n\nSaudi Arabia long has maintained that recognition of Israel is tied to the establishment of a Palestinian state along the lines of Israel's 1967 borders. Under the Biden administration, there was a push for Saudi Arabia to recognize Israel as part of a major diplomatic deal. However, the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel upended those plans and sent the region into one of the worst periods it has faced.\n\n## Trump moving to restore relations with new leader of Syria\n\nSeparately, Trump announced he was lifting U.S. sanctions on Syria. He is expected to meet Wednesday in Saudi Arabia with Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa, the onetime insurgent who last year led the overthrow of longtime leader Bashar Assad.\n\nThe U.S. has been weighing how to handle al-Sharaa since he took power in December. Gulf leaders have rallied behind the new government in Damascus and want Trump to follow suit, believing it is a bulwark against Iran's return to influence in Syria, where it had helped prop up Assad's government during a decadelong civil war.\n\nTrump said calls from Gulf leaders as well as Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan shaped his surprise announcement.\n\n\"So I say, good luck, Syria, show us something very special like they've done, frankly, in Saudi Arabia,\" Trump said.\n\nPrince Mohammed carefully choreographed the visit as he looked to flatter Trump.\n\nThe de facto Saudi leader greeted Trump warmly as he stepped off Air Force One at King Khalid International Airport. The two leaders then retreated to a grand hall at the Riyadh airport, where Trump and his aides were served traditional Arabic coffee by waiting attendants wearing ceremonial gun belts.\n\nThe leaders signed more than a dozen agreements to increase cooperation between their governments' militaries, justice departments and cultural institutions.\n\nThe crown prince has already committed to some $600 billion in new Saudi investment in the U.S. And Trump teased $1 trillion would be even better.\n\n## Fighter jet escort\n\nThe pomp began before Trump even landed. Royal Saudi Air Force F-15s provided an honorary escort for Air Force One as it approached the kingdom's capital \u2014 an exceptionally rare sight.\n\nTrump and Prince Mohammed also took part in a formal greeting and lunch at the Royal Court at Al Yamamah Palace, gathering with guests and aides in an ornate room with blue and gold accents and massive crystal chandeliers. As he greeted business titans with Trump by his side, the crown prince was animated and smiling.\n\nBiden's 2022 visit was far more restrained. At the time, Prince Mohammed's reputation had been badly damaged by a U.S. intelligence determination that he had ordered the 2018 killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.\n\nBut that dark moment appeared to be distant memory for the prince on Tuesday as he rubbed elbows with high-profile business executives \u2014 including Blackstone Group CEO Stephen Schwarzman, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink and Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk \u2014 in front of the cameras and with Trump by his side.\n\nTrump slammed Biden for \"spurning\" a \"most trusted and long-standing partner.\"\n\n\"We have great partners in the world, but we have none stronger and nobody like the gentleman that's right before me,\" Trump said of the prince. \"He's your greatest representative.\"\n\nLater, the crown prince feted Trump with an intimate state dinner at Ad-Diriyah, a UNESCO heritage site that is the birthplace of the first Saudi state and the location of a major development project championed by the crown prince.\n\n## Qatar and UAE next\n\nThe three countries on Trump's itinerary \u2014 Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates \u2014 are places where the Trump Organization, run by Trump's two oldest sons, is developing major real estate projects. They include a high-rise tower in Jeddah, a luxury hotel in Dubai and a golf course and villa complex in Qatar.\n\nTrump planned to announce deals at all three stops during the Mideast swing, initiatives that will touch on artificial intelligence, expanding energy cooperation and beyond.\n\n.And Trump believes more deals with Saudi Arabia should be in the offing.\n\n\"I really believe we like each other a lot,\" Trump said at one point with a smiling crown prince sitting nearby."}
{"prompt_hash": "e321a40c24445c45cfb36812aed9b153f59cd20d34f33032ced0f75b6586eefd", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 19:46:13+00:00", "topics": ["Aja Wilson", "WNBA", "Las Vegas Aces", "Womens National Basketball Association", "Becky Hammon", "Breanna Stewart", "Las Vegas", "New York", "Kelsey Plum", "Sports", "Cynthia Cooper", "Caitlin Clark", "Jewell Loyd", "Liz Kitley", "Napheesa Collier", "Chelsea Gray", "WNBA basketball", "Jackie Young"], "text": "# WNBA MVP A'ja Wilson is fueled by the Aces falling short last season\n\nBy Mark Anderson  \nMay 13th, 2025 07:46 PM\n\n---\n\nHENDERSON, Nev. (AP) \u2014 A'ja Wilson went into last season trying to prove she was indeed the WNBA's best player even if MVP voters thought otherwise in 2023.\n\nShe then went out and put together one of the best performances in league history.\n\nThe problem is her teammates didn't all come along, and the two-time defending champion Aces never quite found their game and eventually were eliminated by eventual winner New York in the semifinals. As satisfying as last season was individually for Wilson, failing to meet Las Vegas' high standards as a team sticks with her.\n\nAnd that same drive that fueled her last season remains.\n\n\"I want to be the best,\" Wilson said. \"Normally, you're classified the best when you win games and you win championships, so that was my whole mentality coming into this offseason. It was a long offseason. It was a long, dull offseason because we lost. Sometimes you need that 'L' to wake you up.\"\n\nThe offseason, however, wasn't a complete disappointment.\n\nHer A'One signature Nike shoe was released earlier this month and became a big seller.\n\n\"I am overwhelmed a little bit because it means a lot to me,\" Wilson said. \"The love, the joy, the positivity behind it, seeing so many people want to buy it, it definitely has my heart full. So I'm grateful. I'm so excited to see what's more to come.\"\n\nThat includes what to come with the Aces this season.\n\nWilson and the Aces return with most of the core intact but with some notable changes. Las Vegas helped orchestrate a three-team trade in January that sent Kelsey Plum to Los Angeles and landed Jewell Loyd from Seattle. The Aces also have what is essentially a new player in Liz Kitley, a post player who was drafted 24th a year ago but didn't play because of a torn ACL.\n\nPlus, returning All-Star guards Chelsea Gray and Jackie Young should be healthy after playing through injuries last season.\n\n\"Me being healthy is a game changer, just getting everybody organized and being a leader and knowing the flows and ins and outs of the game,\" Gray said. \"A'ja, I think it only helps her as well. We can get into some actions and stuff. It's hard when you look at it defensively. You have A'ja and you want to come double, who do you come off of? Who do you rotate to?\"\n\nThat was part of why the Aces had their dominant two-year stretch. They could make opponents pay for placing too much attention on Wilson in the frontcourt, and she could take advantage when defenses backed off her to try to take away Las Vegas' perimeter shooting.\n\nIt almost didn't matter what kind of defense Wilson faced last season. She was on a mission from the beginning and averaged 26.9 points and 11.8 rebounds, joining the Houston Comets' Cynthia Cooper in 1997 as the league's only unanimous choices for MVP.\n\n\"She put together the single most greatest individual season in WNBA history,\" Aces coach Becky Hammon said. \"Not only was it historical numbers-wise in the W, it would be the same in the NBA. It was just unprecedented.\n\n\"However, she was very upset with not winning a championship. So, to her, that was like, 'How do I get more out of my teammates?' We talked about it. We've got to get greatness out of everybody else. One person being great isn't enough, and she recognizes that.\"\n\nA long, dull offseason.\n\nWilson doesn't want to experience another one of those again, but she also knows the competition is fierce.\n\nDefending champion New York and Breanna Stewart figure to be in the conversation again, Caitlin Clark-led Indiana upgraded in the offseason and became one of the favorites, and Minnesota and Napheesa Collier came oh-so-close after losing in overtime to the Liberty in Game 5 of the finals.\n\nBut Wilson senses a different vibe in the Aces' locker room compared with last year at this time, one that more closely resembles the team that won it all in 2022 and 2023.\n\n\"It kind of sucks when the mindset (with other players) wasn't where it is,\" Wilson said. \"But it's also human nature. When you come in after winning back to back, you have this feeling of, 'What else do we have to do?' We've already executed and done more than people may have expected us to do.\n\n\"I think this year we've come in with a different mindset, understanding how hard it is to get there.\""}
{"prompt_hash": "4659f3127f9041e53fb7cc312062fce2a6c80014d95d150d270bf75982b70301", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 19:35:33+00:00", "topics": ["Tesla", "Inc.", "Elon Musk", "Self-driving cars", "Donald Trump", "Texas", "Europe", "Auto industry", "Government regulations", "Ann Carlson", "Business", "Austin", "Politics", "Dan Ives"], "text": "# Feds ask Musk's car company how its driverless taxis will avoid causing accidents in Texas rollout\n\nBy Bernard Condon  \nMay 13th, 2025 07:35 PM\n\n---\n\nNEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Federal safety regulators have asked Elon Musk's car company to explain how its driverless taxis will avoid causing accidents when they hit the road in Texas next month before a national \"robotaxi\" launch that is key to keeping its stock price aloft.\n\nTesla has been told to provide information on how its taxis will operate safely in Austin, Texas, when there is fog, sun glare, rain and other low-visibility conditions that have been tied to accidents involving the company's driver-assistance software. Those accidents, including one that killed a pedestrian, triggered the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to launch an investigation in October of 2.4 million of Musk's vehicles.\n\nThe billionaire reassured investors on an earnings call last month that the robotaxi service would launch in Austin as planned and would quickly lead to millions of robotaxis and other autonomous self-driving Teslas operating around the country by the end of the year.\n\n\"We expect a green light after Tesla's response but the big focus is on more widespread launches in the U.S. after the Austin pilot kicks off,\" said Wedbush Securities stock analyst Dan Ives. \"It's a pivotal time for Musk.\"\n\nOn that same call, Musk said he was stepping back from his work as President Donald Trump's government cost-cutting czar. Tesla's shares have risen 45% since but they're still down about 17% year to date.\n\nRegulators routinely request safety information from automakers and NHTSA's order itself is not alarming, though it could lead to delays of the Austin launch if Tesla's answers to the nine-page letter made public by the agency on Monday are not satisfactory. The agency gave Tesla until June 19 to provide a response.\n\nFederal regulators have limited powers over new Tesla taxis that operate without a steering wheel or brake pedals because there are no national regulations on self-driving technology. One fall back is that the vehicles themselves still must past longstanding safety checks.\n\n\"NHTSA can force a recall, either 'voluntarily,' by Tesla, or by ordering a recall,\" said Ann Carlson, the former acting NHTSA chief. \"The agency cannot, however, require some sort of pre-approval before Tesla can launch.\"\n\nIn the letter, regulators posed several questions to Tesla in addition to those about low-visibility conditions. They asked for the number and models of the taxis, when and where the taxis will be deployed in the next several months, how they will be monitored remotely by Tesla in real time, the cameras and other sensors being used to guide the vehicles, the specific measures used to judge whether they are navigating the streets in a safe way, and the names of people at Tesla making those evaluations.\n\nIn his investor conference call last month, Musk spoke of an effortless driving future coming within months.\n\n\"Can you go to sleep in our cars and wake up at your destination?\" the billionaire asked, then answered, \"I'm confident that will be available in many cities in the U.S. by the end of this year.\"\n\nIf such a future doesn't come soon, the company could struggle to justify the stock's still-high price.\n\nTesla reported a 71% drop in profits in the first quarter as it faced angry protests over Musk's embrace of extreme right-wing politicians in Europe and his role in cutting government jobs that has divided the country."}
{"prompt_hash": "6b825e0b34010b81ca5cd9623b19019437154ea268cf5d6dd27ffd8ed8141714", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 19:33:08+00:00", "topics": ["Medical research", "David Thomas", "Public health", "Michigan", "Colleges and universities", "Black experience", "Education", "Willie Woods", "Race and ethnicity", "Race and Ethnicity"], "text": "# Morehouse College names Michigan public health dean as next president\n\nMay 13th, 2025 07:33 PM\n\n---\n\nATLANTA (AP) \u2014 Morehouse College trustees have named a University of Michigan public health researcher as the next president of the all-male historically Black school.\n\nTrustees said Tuesday that F. DuBois Bowman, currently dean of the University of Michigan School of Public Health, would become Morehouse's new leader on July 15.\n\nBowman, a 1992 Morehouse graduate, will take over for David Thomas, who is stepping down in June after leading the 2,200-student college since 2018.\n\n\"Dr Bowman's record of visionary leadership, his deep commitment to academic excellence and his lifelong dedication to Morehouse make him the ideal choice to lead the college into its next era,\" Board of Trustees Chairman Willie Woods said in a statement.\n\nBowman won Morehouse's top alumni award in 2019, with trustees saluting his work as a mentor and for welcoming graduate students from Morehouse and sister school Spelman College at Michigan. One of his sons graduated from Morehouse in 2024 and a second son is currently a student.\n\nHe holds a master's degree in biostatistics from Michigan and a doctorate in biostatistics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has previously worked at Columbia University and Emory University. His research has focused on neurological and mental health disorders.\n\nBowman has led Michigan's public health school for more than seven years. It's one of the top-ranked schools of public health nationwide, with more than 1,300 students and more than $100 million in annual research spending."}
{"prompt_hash": "061850c8495f3a9314b05e53ebca23b7a74980d439b2cb9bb9527b39d37f62ce", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 05:15:50+00:00", "topics": ["Kim Kardashian", "Crime", "Paris", "Theft", "Kris Jenner", "France", "Legal proceedings", "Los Angeles", "Arts and entertainment", "Karl Lagerfeld", "David de Pas", "Simone Harouche"], "text": "# Kim Kardashian testifies at Paris robbery trial\n\nBy Thomas Adamson, John Leicester, and Nicolas Vaux-Montagny  \nMay 13th, 2025 05:15 AM\n\n---\n\nPARIS (AP) \u2014 Kim Kardashian said a silent prayer \u2014 for her sister, her best friend, her family \u2014 as a masked man pulled her toward him in a Paris hotel room during the 2016 jewelry heist that changed her life. She wore a bathrobe. Her hands were zip-tied. Her mouth was taped. She thought she wouldn't survive.\n\n\"I was certain that was the moment that he was going to rape me,\" she told a Paris court Tuesday. \"I absolutely did think I was going to die.\"\n\nShe said she was getting ready for bed when she heard stomping on the stairs. At first, she thought it was her sister Kourtney and a friend returning drunk from a night out at Paris Fashion Week.\n\n\"Hello? Hello? Who is it?\" she called out. Then masked men stormed the room.\n\nShe grabbed her phone but didn't know the French emergency number. She tried to call her sister and bodyguard, but one man stopped her. The men threw her on the bed, zip-tied her hands and pressed a gun to her.\n\n\"I have babies,\" Kardashian said, according to her testimony. \"I have to make it home. They can take everything. I just have to make it home.\"\n\nShe was carried into the bathroom. One man taped her mouth. She was told she'd be OK if she stayed quiet.\n\nThe last time Kardashian saw the men that police say robbed her, she was locked in the marble bathroom while masked assailants stole more than $6 million in jewelry. On Tuesday, nearly a decade later, she faced them again \u2014 this time, from the witness stand.\n\nHer testimony marked the emotional climax of a trial that has gripped France and reignited debates about the cost of fame and what it means to live in public.\n\n## Following digital breadcrumbs\n\nAt the time of the robbery, Kardashian was one of the most recognized women on the planet. A fashion icon. A reality star. A billionaire business mogul. She had mastered a new kind of celebrity \u2014 one broadcast in real time, post by post, to millions of followers.\n\nBut in the early hours of Oct. 3, 2016, that visibility became a weapon against her. The robbery marked a turning point for Kardashian, and for how the world understood vulnerability in the digital age.\n\nInvestigators believe the attackers followed Kardashian's digital breadcrumbs \u2014 images, timestamps, geotags \u2014 and exploited them with old-school criminal methods.\n\nDressed in black with defiant sparkling diamonds, Kardashian on Tuesday stood across from her mother, Kris Jenner, in the heavily secured courtroom. Her voice trembled as she thanked French authorities for \"allowing me to share my truth.\"\n\nShe described how the attackers arrived at her hotel disguised as police officers, dragging the concierge upstairs in handcuffs. \"I thought it was some sort of terrorist attack,\" she said.\n\nOne attacker demanded she turn over her diamond ring valued at $4 million on the bedside table. \"He said, 'Ring! Ring!' and he pointed to his hand,\" she recalled.\n\nFrench prosecutors say the assailants \u2014 most in their 60s and 70s \u2014 were part of a seasoned criminal ring. Two defendants have admitted being at the scene. One claims he didn't know who she was.\n\nTwelve suspects were originally charged. One has since died. Another was excused due to illness. The French press dubbed them les papys braqueurs \u2014 \"the grandpa robbers\" \u2014 but prosecutors insist they were no harmless retirees.\n\nThey face charges including armed robbery, kidnapping and membership in a criminal gang, offenses that carry the potential for life imprisonment.\n\n## 'Take everything. I need to live'\n\nAfter the men fled, Kardashian rubbed the tape against the bathroom sink to free her hands. She hopped downstairs, still bound, to find her friend and stylist, Simone Harouche. Fearing the robbers might return, they went onto the balcony and hid in bushes. While lying there, Kardashian called her mother.\n\nEarlier in the trial, Harouche recalled hearing Kardashian scream from upstairs: \"'I need to live.' That is what she kept on saying, 'Take everything. I need to live.'\"\n\nHarouche locked herself in a bathroom and texted Kardashian's sister and bodyguard: \"Something is very wrong.\"\n\nShe described how her friend was \"beside herself ... she just was screaming.\"\n\nJudge David de Pas asked whether Kardashian had made herself a target by posting images of herself with \"jewels of great value.\" Harouche rejected the premise. \"Just because a woman wears jewelry, that doesn't make her a target,\" she said. \"That's like saying that because a woman wears a short skirt that she deserves to be raped.\"\n\nAfter the robbery, critics slammed Kardashian for flaunting her wealth, including designer Karl Lagerfeld who told the Associated Press she was \"too public\" with her jewelry. But as details of the heist emerged, public opinion grew sympathetic.\n\nThe heist triggered a cultural shift, prompting publicists and managers to urge clients to delay social media posts, remove location tags and think twice before flashing luxury online. Yet Kardashian's own image, some say, continues to complicate that narrative. As she testified Tuesday about her trauma, journalists received a press release touting her Paris courthouse appearance: \"Kim Kardashian stuns \u2026wearing a show-stopping $1.5 million diamond necklace by Samer Halimeh New York, featuring 80 flawless diamonds.\" Visibility, it seemed, remains currency.\n\nShe told the court her house in Los Angeles was robbed shortly afterward in what appeared to be a copycat attack. Without security guards, she said, \"I can't even sleep at night.\" She now keeps between four and six guards at home.\n\n\"I started to get this phobia of going out,\" Kardashian said. \"This experience really changed everything for us.\"\n\nAt the time of the 2016 robbery, she said, her bodyguard was staying in a separate hotel: \"We assumed that if we were in a hotel it was safe, it was secure.\"\n\nShe said Paris had once been a sanctuary, a place where she would walk at 3 or 4 a.m., window shopping, sometimes stopping for hot chocolate. It \"always felt really safe,\" she said. \"It was always a magical place.\"\n\nKardashian, who is studying to become a lawyer herself, said she was grateful for the opportunity \"to tell my truth\" in the packed Paris courtroom.\n\n\"This is my closure,\" she said. \"This is me putting this, hopefully, to rest.\""}
{"prompt_hash": "faff8d051a92ae4966519c9a784af39484e22c24f701f6512a8fc7f78d3780dd", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 19:22:10+00:00", "topics": ["Texas Tech Red Raiders", "NiJaree Bruce Canady", "College sports", "Bruce Canady", "College baseball", "Texas", "Sports", "Caitlin Lowe", "Gerry Glasco", "Compensation in sports", "Softball"], "text": "# NiJaree Canady handles pressure, makes $1 million-plus NIL deal pay off for Texas Tech\n\nBy Cliff Brunt  \nMay 13th, 2025 07:22 PM\n\n---\n\nOKLAHOMA CITY (AP) \u2014 NiJaree Canady smiled broadly as she held up a gaudy championship belt with the Big 12 logo in the center.\n\nTexas Tech's star pitcher had dominated the conference tournament, throwing 16 2/3 shutout innings in three games to claim the Most Outstanding Player award.\n\nHer smile was as much from relief as joy. Moments before that, she had described the challenges she has faced since her decision to transfer from Stanford shifted the college softball landscape.\n\nCanady led an upstart Stanford squad to the Women's College World Series semifinals her freshman and sophomore years. After last season, when she was named the USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year, she entered the transfer portal.\n\nShe shunned the traditional powers and signed a $1 million NIL deal to head to Texas Tech \u2014 a massive sum for a softball player that drew some unwanted attention.\n\n\"So, I definitely feel like there were a lot of things said about the whole entire thing and of course, like media and stuff,\" she said. \"I feel like that added just \u2014 a weight to the situation.\"\n\nHer father, Bruce Canady, said things got crazy.\n\n\"A whole lot of pressure was put on her,\" he said. \"It got to the point where we thought we had had a stalker. Just a lot was going on. But, you know, Tech's a good place. It's a good place. They've got her in a good environment.\"\n\nCanady said her father and her faith were among the key aspects that helped her deal with the challenges.\n\n\"I got through it,\" she said. \"And there were days where it honestly was very hard, just looking back.\"\n\nShe'll take another step when the 12th-seeded Red Raiders (45-12) host Brown (33-15) on Friday in the Lubbock Regional.\n\nThat Canady was even in the portal was a bit of a shocker. She had been successful and had built deep friendships at Stanford.\n\n\"Extremely hard,\" Bruce Canady said. \"I mean, we're the type of parents that push education. But then you get a lifetime opportunity ... then you just have to go with it.\"\n\nGerry Glasco took the head coaching job at Texas Tech last summer. After he started talking to Canady, he got busy.\n\n\"I realize we have to put together a team that can compete on a national level and give her a realistic chance to come to Tech or there's no way we can recruit her,\" he said.\n\nGlasco came through, and Canady did the same. Canady has a 26-5 record with a nation-leading 0.81 ERA and has 263 strikeouts in 181 innings.\n\nCanady also has been able to hit \u2014 something she didn't do at Stanford. She is batting .309 with eight home runs and 30 RBIs.\n\nThe ups and downs of the journey were part of why the winning of the Big 12 regular-season and tournament titles \u2014 the first ever for the school \u2014 were so satisfying for Canady. She loved her teammates at Stanford, but Tech is home for her now.\n\n\"I feel like it was all worth it, and there's no place I'd rather be right now than with Texas Tech,\" she said. \"Being able to win the regular season and the the conference tournaments means everything.\"\n\nEven Glasco was surprised by how well Canady pitched in the conference tournament. She's been dealing with a nagging injury and hasn't been practicing.\n\n\"To get to see her dominate in the circle the way she dominated this week was really eye opening to me as a coach,\" he said. \"And we know her greatness. But like, it was very visible, very evident.\"\n\nCanady allowed two hits and struck out eight in seven innings in the Big 12 title game, a 4-0 win over Arizona.\n\n\"I think she's a competitor, first and foremost,\" Arizona coach Caitlin Lowe said. \"She obviously has elite stuff and she competes her tail off, and she has a lot of tools, right? So the moment you get on time, then there comes the change up. And being able to lay off the rise that's out of the zone to get to the rise that's in the zone and then being on time for that when it's your time. It's a cat and mouse game.\"\n\nCanady felt comfortable at Devon Park in Oklahoma City \u2014 the site of her Women's College World Series wins \u2014 during the conference tournament. She hopes to lead her teammates back in a few weeks so they can have the World Series experience.\n\n\"This, especially being in Oklahoma City, is just a dream come true to be able to hold the (conference tournament) trophy,\" she said. \"We still have one big goal we want to accomplish. We've knocked out two of the three.\""}
{"prompt_hash": "7f6fcd9165a073268352a9a01e68709b41d9422f4267c6bd0fa705449f14db12", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 19:18:30+00:00", "topics": ["Florida", "Ron DeSantis", "Courts", "Children", "Brian Wright", "Politics", "Legal proceedings", "Legislation", "Lifestyle", "Melissa Stewart"], "text": "# Federal appeals court continues to block Florida's drag-show ban as likely unconstitutional\n\nMay 13th, 2025 07:18 PM\n\n---\n\nATLANTA (AP) \u2014 An injunction barring the enforcement of Florida's drag-show ban will remain in effect after a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that the law is likely unconstitutional.\n\nA three-judge panel for the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals voted 2-1 to back a lower court decision that described Florida's law, purportedly aimed at protecting children from drag shows, as overly broad and vaguely written. The case now returns to the Middle District of Florida, where a federal bench trial can be scheduled.\n\nAttorney Melissa Stewart, who is representing Hamburger Mary's, a drag-themed casual-dining restaurant, said they're thrilled the First Amendment rights of Floridians will remain protected as the case continues.\n\n\"The Court's opinion recognizes this law for what it is -\u2013 an egregiously unconstitutional attempt to censor the speech and expression of citizens,\" Stewart said.\n\nBrian Wright, a spokesman for the Florida governor's office, called the ruling an overreach by a federal court.\n\n\"No one has a constitutional right to perform sexual routines in front of little kids,\" Wright said. \"We will do everything possible to have this lawless decision overturned.\"\n\nThe Hamburger Mary's in Orlando, which filed the lawsuit in 2023, regularly hosted drag shows, including family-friendly performances on Sundays that children were invited to attend. The restaurant closed its downtown location last year but plans to reopen at a new spot in nearby Kissimmee. The restaurant's owner has said the Florida law violated First Amendment rights by chilling speech.\n\nChampioned by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, the law seeks to punish venues for allowing children into what it called \"adult live performances.\" Though it did not mention drag shows specifically, the sponsor of the legislation said it was aimed at those performances.\n\nVenues that violated the law faced fines and the possibility that their liquor licenses could be suspended or revoked. Individuals could be charged with a misdemeanor crime."}
{"prompt_hash": "b652cec029df13bd0f378118cc2a23cdfd89948a1bae22428a971ad4dee2c4d6", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 19:20:57+00:00", "topics": ["England", "United States", "South Africa", "Australia", "Spain", "PGA Championship", "Adam Scott", "Justin Thomas", "Patrick Fishburn", "Dustin Johnson", "Justin Hicks", "Will Zalatoris", "Andre Chi", "Tyler Collet", "Ludvig Aberg", "John Somers", "Hideki Matsuyama", "Michael Thorbjornsen", "Max McGreevy", "Luke Donald", "Jordan Spieth", "Rafael Campos", "Patrick Reed", "Jesse Droemer", "Nick Dunlap", "Justin Lower", "Greg Koch", "Dean Burmester", "Sami Valimaki", "Jacob Bridgeman", "John Catlin", "Lucas Glover", "Matthieu Pavon", "Max Homa", "Joaquin Niemann", "Joe Highsmith", "Cameron Young", "Michael Block", "Marco Penge", "Ryan Gerard", "Chris Kirk", "Scottie Scheffler", "Tony Finau", "Nicolai Hojgaard", "Karl Vilips", "Rory McIlroy", "Thomas Detry", "Xander Schauffele", "Stephan Jaeger", "Sam Stevens", "Akshay Bhatia", "Austin Eckroat", "Max Greyserman", "Andrew Novak", "Keegan Bradley", "Alex Noren", "Sergio Garcia", "John Keefer", "Jason Day", "Ryo Hisatsune", "David Puig", "Elvis Smylie", "Viktor Hovland", "Phil Mickelson", "Kevin Yu", "Corey Conners", "Cameron Smith", "Brian Harman", "Jon Rahm", "Tom Johnson", "Daniel Berger", "Patrick Cantlay", "Matt Fitzpatrick", "Golf", "Jimmy Walker", "Richard Bland", "Jason Dufner", "Seamus Power", "Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen", "Sports", "Tyrrell Hatton", "Patton Kizzire", "Ryan Fox", "Sepp Straka", "Martin Kaymer", "Matt Wallace", "Jhonattan Vegas", "Brooks Koepka", "Rickie Fowler", "Wyndham Clark", "Taylor Moore", "Collin Morikawa", "Sahith Theegala", "Shaun Micheel", "Padraig Harrington", "Patrick Rodgers", "Nick Taylor", "Harry Hall", "Sam Burns", "Byeong Hun An", "Ben Griffin", "Thriston Lawrence", "J.J. Spaun", "Garrick Higgo", "Tom Hoge", "Daniel Van Tonder", "Victor Perez", "Taylor Pendrith", "Jake Knapp", "Mackenzie Hughes", "Aaron Rai", "John Parry", "Tom McKibbin", "Keita Nakajima", "Thorbjorn Olesen", "Matt McCarty", "Michael Kartrude", "Beau Hossler", "Erik van Rooyen", "Sungjae Im", "Michael Kim", "Eugenio Chacarra", "Takumi Kanaya", "Christiaan Bezuidenhout", "Ryan Lenahan", "Maverick McNealy", "Eric Cole", "Cameron Davis", "Timothy Wiseman", "Rico Hoey", "Lee Hodges", "Denny McCarthy", "Niklas Norgaard", "Laurie Canter", "Keith Mitchell", "Adam Hadwin", "Robert MacIntyre", "Si Woo Kim", "Larkin Gross", "Gary Woodland", "Tommy Fleetwood", "J.T. Poston", "Brian Campbell", "Shane Lowry", "Tom Kim", "Bryson DeChambeau", "Kurt Kitayama", "Brian Bergstol", "Dylan Newman", "Nicolas Echavarria", "Harris English", "Min Woo Lee", "Rasmus Hojgaard", "Davis Riley", "Eric Steger", "Bob Sowards", "Russell Henley", "Bobby Gates", "Davis Thompson", "Bud Cauley", "Justin Rose", "Brandon Bingaman"], "text": "# Tee times for the PGA Championship at Quail Hollow\n\nMay 13th, 2025 07:20 PM\n\n---\n\nCHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) \u2014 At Quail Hollow Club\n\nCharlotte, N.C.\n\nPurse: TBA\n\nYardage: 7,626; Par: 71\n\nAll Times EDT\n\nThursday-Friday\n\n## First hole-10th hole\n\n7 a.m.-12:25 p.m. \u2014 Luke Donald, England; Padraig Harrington, Ireland; Martin Kaymer, Germany.\n\n7:11 a.m.-12:36 p.m. \u2014 John Somers, United States; Taylor Moore, United States; David Puig, Spain.\n\n7:22 a.m.-12:47 p.m. \u2014 Kurt Kitayama, United States; Nic Ishee, United States; Alex Noren, Sweden.\n\n7:33 a.m.-12:58 p.m. \u2014 J.T. Poston, United States; Ryo Hisatsune, Japan; Tom Johnson, United States.\n\n7:44 a.m.-1:09 p.m. \u2014 Davis Thompson, United States; Bud Cauley, United States; Nico Echavarria, Colombia.\n\n7:55 a.m.-1:20 p.m. \u2014 Harris English, United States; Michael Kim, United States; Thomas Detry, Belgium.\n\n8:06 a.m-1:31 p.m. \u2014 Stephan Jaeger, Germany; Chris Kirk, United States; Robert MacIntyre, Scotland.\n\n8:17 a.m.-1:42 p.m. \u2014 Thorbjorn Olesen, Denmark; Karl Vilips, Australia; Laurie Canter, England.\n\n8:28 a.m.-1:53 p.m. \u2014 Si Woo Kim, South Korea; Sam Stevens, United States; Rico Hoey, Philippines.\n\n8:39 a.m.-2:04 p.m. \u2014 Bobby Gates, United States; Lee Hodges, United States; Ben Griffin, United States.\n\n8:50 a.m.-2:15 p.m. \u2014 Thriston Lawrence, South Africa; Nick Dunlap, United States; Harry Hall, England.\n\n9:01 a.m.-2:26 p.m. \u2014 Greg Koch, United States; Marco Penge, England; Ryan Gerard, United States.\n\n9:12 a.m.-2:37 p.m. \u2014 Dylan Newman, United States Daniel Van Tonder, South Africa; Victor Perez, France.\n\n## 10th hole-first hole\n\n7:05 a.m.-12:30 p.m. \u2014 John Parry, England; Justin Hicks, United States; Ryan Fox, New Zealand.\n\n7:16 a.m.-12:41 p.m. \u2014 Andre Chi, United States; Patrick Fishburn, United States; Seamus Power, Ireland.\n\n7:27 a.m.-12:52 p.m. \u2014 Max McGreevy, United States; Sahith Theegala, United States; Sepp Straka, Austria.\n\n7:38 a.m.-1:03 p.m. \u2014 Brooks Koepka, United States; Rickie Fowler, United States; Shane Lowry, Ireland.\n\n7:49 a.m.-1:14 p.m. \u2014 Phil Mickelson, United States; Tommy Fleetwood, England; Jason Day, Australia.\n\n8 a.m.-1:25 p.m. \u2014 Jon Rahm, Spain; Patrick Cantlay, United States; Matt Fitzpatrick, England.\n\n8:11 a.m.-1:36 p.m. \u2014 Corey Conners, Canada; Min Woo Lee, Australia; Rasmus Hojgaard, Denmark.\n\n8:22 a.m.-1:47 p.m. \u2014 Rory McIlroy, Northern Ireland; Xander Schauffele, United States; Scottie Scheffler, United States.\n\n8:33 a.m.-1:58 p.m. \u2014 Tony Finau, United States; Nicolai Hojgaard, Denmark; Max Greyserman, United States.\n\n8:44 a.m.-2:09 p.m. \u2014 Andrew Novak, United States; Keegan Bradley, United States; Maverick McNealy, United States.\n\n8:55 a.m.-2:20 p.m. \u2014 Akshay Bhatia, United States; Denny McCarthy, United States; Sam Burns, United States.\n\n9:06 a.m.-2:31 p.m. \u2014 John Catlin, United States; Garrick Higgo, South Africa; Jesse Droemer, United States.\n\n9:17 a.m.-2:42 p.m. \u2014 Eugenio Chacarra, Spain; Rupe Taylor, United States; Justin Lower, United States.\n\n## First hole-10th hole\n\n12:30 p.m.-7:05 a.m. \u2014 Michael Kartrude, United States; Sami Valimaki, Finland; Jake Knapp, United States.\n\n12:41 p.m.-7:16 a.m. \u2014 Erik van Rooyen, South Africa; Michael Block, United States; Mackenzie Hughes, Canada.\n\n12:52 p.m.-7:27 a.m. \u2014 Lucas Glover, United States; Max Homa, United States; Joaquin Niemann, Chile.\n\n1:03 p.m.-7:38 a.m. \u2014 Tyrrell Hatton, England; Will Zalatoris, United States; Adam Scott, Australia.\n\n1:14 p.m.-7:49 a.m. \u2014 Justin Thomas, United States; Dustin Johnson, United States; Collin Morikawa, United States.\n\n1:25 p.m.-8 a.m. \u2014 Jordan Spieth, United States; Patrick Reed, United States; Ludvig Aberg, Sweden.\n\n1:36 p.m.-8:11 a.m. \u2014 Hideki Matsuyama, Japan; Wyndham Clark, United States; Tom Kim, South Korea.\n\n1:47 p.m.-8:22 a.m. \u2014 Bryson DeChambeau, United States; Viktor Hovland, Norway; Gary Woodland, United States.\n\n1:58 p.m.-8:33 a.m. \u2014 Sergio Garcia, Spain; Daniel Berger, United States; Russell Henley, United States.\n\n2:09 p.m.-8:44 a.m. \u2014 Justin Rose, England; Cameron Smith, Australia; Brian Harman, United States.\n\n2:20 p.m.-8:55 a.m. \u2014 Brandon Bingaman, United States; Davis Riley, United States; Sungjae Im, South Korea.\n\n2:31 p.m.-9:06 a.m. \u2014 Takumi Kanaya, Japan; Christiaan Bezuidenhout, South Africa; Tom McKibbin, Northern Ireland.\n\n2:42 p.m.-9:17 a.m. \u2014 Keita Nakajima, Japan; Timothy Wiseman, United States; Beau Hossler, United States.\n\n## 10th hole-first hole\n\n12:25 p.m.-7 a.m. \u2014 Keith Mitchell, United States; Bob Sowards, United States; Adam Hadwin, Canada.\n\n12:36 p.m.-7:11 a.m. \u2014 Eric Cole, United States; Eric Steger, United States; Cam Davis, Australia.\n\n12:47 p.m.-7:22 a.m. \u2014 Austin Eckroat, United States; Brian Bergstol, United States; Jacob Bridgeman, United States.\n\n12:58 p.m.-7:33 a.m. \u2014 Niklas Norgaard, Denmark; Byeong Hun An, South Korea; J.J. Spaun, United States.\n\n1:09 p.m.-7:44 a.m. \u2014 Patrick Rodgers, United States; Nick Taylor, Canada; Dean Burmester, South Africa.\n\n1:20 p.m.-7:55 a.m. \u2014 Joe Highsmith, United States; Cameron Young, United States; Aaron Rai, England.\n\n1:31 p.m.-8:06 a.m. \u2014 Tom Hoge, United States; Matthieu Pavon, France; Taylor Pendrith, Canada.\n\n1:42 p.m.-8:17 a.m. \u2014 Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen, Denmark; Patton Kizzire, United States; Matt McCarty, United States.\n\n1:53 p.m.-8:28 a.m. \u2014 Tyler Collet, United States; Jimmy Walker, United States; Richard Bland, England.\n\n2:04 p.m.-8:39 a.m. \u2014 Jason Dufner, United States; Michael Thorbjornsen, United States; Shaun Micheel, United States.\n\n2:15 p.m.-8:50 a.m. \u2014 Rafael Campos, Puerto Rico; Ryan Lenahan, United States; Matt Wallace, England.\n\n2:26 p.m.-9:01 a.m. \u2014 Jhonattan Vegas, Venezuela; Elvis Smylie, Australia; Brian Campbell, United States.\n\n2:37 p.m.-9:12 a.m. \u2014 Kevin Yu, Taiwan, Larkin Gross, United States; John Keefer, United States."}
{"prompt_hash": "7d47f14b69e0b224038d9c7c79376632811075a0ec2b2897bf173203b0d30ae9", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 14:41:02+00:00", "topics": ["London", "United Kingdom", "Legal proceedings", "Peter Sullivan", "Diane Sindall", "Courts", "Prisons", "Kim Smith", "Jason Pitter", "Sarah Myatt", "Duncan Atkinson", "Timothy Holroyde"], "text": "# A man wrongfully imprisoned for 38 years weeps as a UK court overturns his murder conviction\n\nBy Brian Melley  \nMay 13th, 2025 02:41 PM\n\n---\n\nLONDON (AP) \u2014 A man who spent nearly four decades in a British prison in the killing of a barmaid said he was not angry or bitter Tuesday as his murder conviction was overturned and he was released after being exonerated by DNA evidence.\n\nPeter Sullivan put his hand over his mouth and wept as the Court of Appeal in London quashed his conviction and ordered his freedom after he had spent years fighting to prove his innocence.\n\nSullivan, who watched the hearing by video from Wakefield prison in northern England, said through his lawyer that he was not resentful and was anxious to see his loved ones.\n\n\"As god is my witness, it is said the truth shall take you free,\" attorney Sarah Myatt read from a statement outside court. \"It is unfortunate that it does not give a timescale as we advance towards resolving the wrongs done to me. I am not angry, I am not bitter.\"\n\nHe was the longest-serving victim of a wrongful conviction in the U.K., Myatt said.\n\nSullivan, 68, was convicted in 1987 of killing Diane Sindall in Bebington, near Liverpool in northwest England. He was behind bars for 38 years.\n\nSindall, 21, a florist who was engaged to be married, was returning home from a part-time job at a pub on a Friday night in August 1986 when her van ran out of fuel, police said. She was last seen walking along the road after midnight.\n\nHer body was found about 12 hours later in an alley. She had been sexually assaulted and badly beaten.\n\nSexual fluid found on Sindall's body could not be scientifically analyzed until recently. A test in 2024 revealed it wasn't Sullivan, defense attorney Jason Pitter said.\n\n\"The prosecution case is that it was one person. It was one person who carried out a sexual assault on the victim,\" Pitter said. \"The evidence here is now that one person was not the defendant.\"\n\nProsecutor Duncan Atkinson did not challenge the appeal and said that if the DNA evidence had been available at the time of the investigation it was inconceivable that Sullivan would have been prosecuted.\n\nMerseyside Police said it reopened the investigation as the appeal was underway and was \"committed to doing everything\" to find the killer.\n\nThe Criminal Cases Review Commission, which examines possible wrongful convictions, declined to refer Sullivan's case to the appeals court in 2008 because it said testing at the time was unlikely to produce a DNA profile.\n\nA commission spokesperson said that while it made the correct decision based on the evidence at the time, it regretted not identifying the potential miscarriage of justice in its first review.\n\nSullivan appealed in 2019 without the CCRC's help and the court turned down his bid in 2021.\n\nBut the commission took up the case later that year and was able to use scientific techniques that hadn't been available during the earlier review to find the DNA that set Sullivan free.\n\n\"In the light of that evidence, it is impossible to regard the appellant's conviction as safe,\" Justice Timothy Holroyde said.\n\nPolice said the DNA found in the subsequent investigation does not match anyone in a national database. They've ruled out as suspects Sindall's fianc\u00e9, members of her family and more than 260 men who have been screened since they reopened the investigation.\n\nSullivan's sister, Kim Smith, reflected outside the court on the toll the case had taken on two families.\n\n\"We lost Peter for 39 years and at the end of the day it's not just us,\" Smith said. \"Peter hasn't won and neither has the Sindall family. They've lost their daughter, they are not going to get her back. We've got Peter back and now we've got to try and build a life around him again.\""}
{"prompt_hash": "1bb100a18bd3b43d1fc0a5030311710e1af9226abea62395cb35fd5cda9d37f1", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 19:15:24+00:00", "topics": ["Alabama", "Kay Ivey", "Steve Marshall", "Legal proceedings", "Legislation", "Violence", "Sarah Stewart", "Homicide", "Trials", "Walt Harris", "Katherine Robertson", "Ibraheem Yazeed"], "text": "# Alabama governor signs speedy trial bill into law, seeking to speed prosecution of violent crimes\n\nMay 13th, 2025 07:15 PM\n\n---\n\nMONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) \u2014 Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey signed legislation Tuesday to allow visiting judges to be brought in to handle violent criminal cases to get them to trial more quickly.\n\nThe law known as the Speedy Trial Act allows the chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court to appoint a sitting or retired judge to preside over a specific case or cases involving a violent offense. Under the act, the attorney general or a district attorney must request the appointments.\n\nOn the same day the bill was signed, Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall asked Chief Justice Sarah Stewart to appoint a visiting judge to handle the case of the man accused of the 2019 kidnapping and killing of college student Aniah Blanchard, 19. Her disappearance from an Auburn gas station drew national attention.\n\nMarshall wrote in the letter to Stewart that \"our entire state has watched the repeated delays in this case with angst and frustration.\"\n\nBlanchard, a Southern Union student and stepdaughter of prominent UFC fighter Walt Harris, was last seen on Oct. 23, 2019. Her remains were discovered about a month later in a wooded area of Macon County. A trial date has not been set for Ibraheem Yazeed, the man accused of killing Blanchard. He has pleaded not guilty to capital murder charges.\n\nRecently, Marshall's office had urged lawmakers to pass the legislation.\n\n\"There are significant bottlenecks in certain circuits in our state where violent crime cases are not moving quickly and victims are getting frustrated,\" Katherine Robertson, who serves as chief counsel for Marshall, said last week after lawmakers approved the bill.\n\nIvey also referred to the Blanchard case while signing the legislation into law."}
{"prompt_hash": "a2608e371bf1133f4689f0a37f376858b8f9a8252f67e69347367e4b285b40a9", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 19:12:04+00:00", "topics": ["Donald Trump", "U.S. Department of Agriculture", "Climate change", "Lawsuits", "Agriculture", "Environmental conservation", "New York City Wire", "Future of food", "Health", "Melina Walling", "Courts", "Climate and environment", "Legal proceedings", "Jeffrey Stein", "Associated Press", "Jeff Stein", "United States government", "Business", "Renewable energy", "Climate"], "text": "# Facing lawsuit, USDA says it will restore climate change-related webpages\n\nBy Melina Walling  \nMay 13th, 2025 07:12 PM\n\n---\n\nThe U.S. Department of Agriculture has agreed to restore climate change-related webpages to its websites after it was sued over the deletions in February.\n\nThe lawsuit, brought on behalf of the Northeast Organic Farming Association of New York, the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Environmental Working Group, argued that the deletions violated rules around citizens' access to government information.\n\nThe USDA's reversal comes ahead of a scheduled May 21 hearing on the plaintiffs' motion for a preliminary injunction against the agency's actions in federal court in New York.\n\nThe department had removed resources on its websites related to climate-smart farming, conservation practices, rural clean energy projects and access to federal loans related to those areas after President Donald Trump's Jan. 20 inauguration.\n\nAt the same time, the Trump administration was working to pause or freeze other funding related to climate change and agriculture, some of which was funded by the Biden-era 2022 Inflation Reduction Act.\n\nIn a letter filed Monday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, the Justice Department said the USDA \"will restore the climate-change-related web content that was removed post-inauguration\" and that it \"commits to complying with\" federal laws governing its future \"posting decisions.\"\n\nThe lawsuit was filed by Earthjustice and the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University.\n\nEarthjustice attorney Jeffrey Stein said Tuesday scrubbing the websites of information relevant to programs it was undoing \"made it really difficult for farmers to fight for the funding that they're owed, for advocates to educate the public and members of Congress about the specific impacts of freezing funding on ordinary Americans in their districts.\"\n\n\"I think that the funding freeze and the staff layoffs and the purging of information, they all intertwined as a dangerous triple whammy,\" Stein said.\n\nA USDA spokesperson referred The Associated Press to the Department of Justice, which did not immediately reply to a request for comment Tuesday.\n\nStein said USDA had committed to restoring most of the material within about two weeks. He said he hoped the agency's reversal would be a \"positive sign\" in other cases brought against the administration over agencies purging information from websites.\n\n___\n\nFollow Melina Walling on X @MelinaWalling and Bluesky @melinawalling.bsky.social."}
{"prompt_hash": "e6d2c9edfd9d83ac952d2508b15445a5e04506c29a9533b107344b6a16bd7613", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 18:27:45+00:00", "topics": ["Crime", "Drug crimes", "Donald Trump", "Drug cartels", "San Diego", "Terrorism", "Pedro Inzunza Coronel", "Mexico", "Opioids", "Adam Gordon"], "text": "# US charges high-ranking Mexican drug cartel suspects with narco-terrorism\n\nBy Julie Watson  \nMay 13th, 2025 06:27 PM\n\n---\n\nSAN DIEGO (AP) \u2014 U.S. officials unveiled an indictment Tuesday against two alleged Mexican drug cartel leaders on narco-terrorism charges.\n\nThe indictment comes after the Trump administration in February designated the Sinaloa Cartel and seven other Latin American crime organizations as \"foreign terrorist organizations,\" upping its pressure on cartels operating in the U.S. and on anyone aiding them. President Donald Trump called for the designation in an executive order on Jan. 20, the day he took office in his second term.\n\nThe \"foreign terrorist organization\" label is unusual because it deploys a terrorist designation normally reserved for groups like al-Qaida or the Islamic State group that use violence for political ends \u2014 not for money-focused crime rings such as the Latin American cartels.\n\n\"If you act like a terrorist, you shouldn't be surprised if you are charged as one,\" said Adam Gordon, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of California.\n\nThose charged were described as key leaders of the Beltr\u00e1n Leyva Organization, according to the indictment. The organization is one of a number of warring criminal groups that once formed part of the Sinaloa Cartel and have since split off and warred for territory and power, fueling bloodshed in large swathes of Mexico.\n\nPedro Inzunza Noriega and his son, Pedro Inzunza Coronel, were also charged with providing material support of terrorism in connection with the trafficking of massive amounts of fentanyl, cocaine, methamphetamine and heroin into the United States, according to court documents. Five other high-ranking members were charged with drug trafficking and money laundering.\n\nAll remain fugitives, officials said.\n\nThe father and son have overseen \"one of the largest and most sophisticated fentanyl production networks in the world,\" Gordon said. The organization is accused of trafficking tens of thousands of kilograms (pounds) of fentanyl into the United States.\n\nMexican authorities in December raided multiple sites controlled by the father and son that resulted in the world's largest seizure of fentanyl, totaling 1,500 kilograms (more than 1.65 tons), according to court documents.\n\nThe group is also known for its violence, engaging in shootouts, kidnappings, torture and murders and targeting officials. It controls the drug trade in various parts of Central America and in many areas of Mexico \u2013 including in the border city of Tijuana, across from San Diego, according to the indictment.\n\nThe elder Pedro is paralyzed after being shot by a rival cartel member. His group has been one of the top distributors of cocaine and now fentanyl since 2006, Gordon said."}
{"prompt_hash": "764eacdd48ecc560ef3bca3e88970960df8c875f32ff49f2d3d65c02edb735c0", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 12:43:56+00:00", "topics": ["United States government", "Inflation", "Retail and wholesale", "Bird flu", "United States", "Lifestyle", "Donald Trump", "David L. Ortega", "Cal-Maine Foods", "Inc.", "Kevin Bergquist", "Wells Fargo  Co.", "Business"], "text": "# US egg prices fall for the first time in months but remain near record highs\n\nBy Dee-Ann Durbin  \nMay 13th, 2025 12:43 PM\n\n---\n\nU.S. retail egg prices fell in April from the record-high prices they hit earlier this year, according to government data released Tuesday.\n\nThe average price for a dozen Grade A eggs declined to $5.12 last month after reaching a record $6.23 in March, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. It was the first month-to-month drop in egg prices since October 2024.\n\nOverall, the average price of eggs of all sizes fell 12.7%, the steepest monthly decline since March 1984.\n\nStill, retail egg prices remain near historic highs as a persistent outbreak of bird flu wipes out flocks of egg-laying hens. The April average price for a dozen large eggs was 79% higher than the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported for the same month a year ago, when the price averaged $2.86 per dozen.\n\nDavid L. Ortega, a professor of food economics and policy at Michigan State University, said he thinks U.S. egg prices will continue to fall in May and June. Consumer demand tends to fall after Easter, which helps lower prices, he said.\n\nFewer bird flu outbreaks at commercial poultry operations in recent weeks also has helped to stabilize the country's egg supply, Ortega said.\n\nAccording to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, there were 59 bird flu outbreaks at commercial poultry operations in February, 12 in March and three in April.\n\nBut Ortega said the progress of the virus is uncertain, and prices could edge up again if outbreaks expand again.\n\nBird flu has killed more than 169 million birds since early 2022. Any time a bird gets sick, the entire flock is killed to help keep the virus from spreading. Once a flock is slaughtered, it can take as long as a year to clean a farm and raise new birds to egg-laying age.\n\nEven one outbreak at a commercial facility can impact supply, because massive egg farms may have millions of birds. Outbreaks on two farms in Ohio and South Dakota in April affected more than 927,000 egg-laying hens.\n\nLowering egg prices has been a particular focus of President Donald Trump. In February, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said it would invest $1 billion to help farmers improve their biosecurity measures to fight bird flu.\n\nThe U.S. has also increased imports of eggs from South Korea, Turkey, Brazil and other countries. According to Wells Fargo Agri-Food Institute Sector Manager Kevin Bergquist, the volume of egg and egg product imports increased 77.5% during the first three months of the year compared to the same period a year ago.\n\nThe antitrust division of the U.S. Department of Justice is also investigating Cal-Maine Foods, the largest U.S. egg producer, which supplies around 20% of America's eggs. Cal-Maine confirmed the investigation in early April..\n\nRidgeland, Mississippi-based Cal-Maine said its net income more than tripled to $508.5 million in its most recent quarter, which ended March 1."}
{"prompt_hash": "4d833ada12f5e60b6419ad1ea50e0e1d54d23bcc0b08ef9a95913f466d3b8cf4", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 19:08:08+00:00", "topics": ["Luis Abinader", "Dominican Republic", "Censorship", "Privacy", "Protests and demonstrations", "Jaime Rincn", "Raquel Pea"], "text": "# Journalists in the Dominican Republic decry erosion of press freedom\n\nBy Mart\u00edn Adames  \nMay 13th, 2025 07:08 PM\n\n---\n\nSANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) \u2014 Dozens of people, including prominent journalists, marched Tuesday through the Dominican Republic 's capital to decry a bill that critics warn could lead to government censorship.\n\nThe bill, which is expected to be approved, calls for the creation of an independent regulator that would oversee content published on social media and digital news sites, focusing especially on anything that would violate the privacy of children or someone's dignity. But critics say such a regulator could overreach.\n\nHowever, some journalists have publicly supported the bill, noting that it protects freedom of expression without prior censorship and calls for the respect of public criticism.\n\nOpponents of the bill say it is the latest measure under the administration of President Luis Abinader that appears aimed at stifling the media in the Caribbean country of more than 11 million people.\n\nUnder Abinader, a newsroom located inside the National Palace in Santo Domingo was closed and journalists are now required to request access to press conferences and other events up to a week in advance. Under previous presidents, access was automatically granted to the palace with a verified press identification.\n\nJournalists also complain that government security has become more aggressive during press conferences.\n\n\"We have seen how politicians repeatedly want to curtail the freedoms we have,\" Jaime Rinc\u00f3n, a reporter with El Nuevo Diario newspaper, told The Associated Press. \"We are marching today for that reason, but also for the repeated abuse we have seen against our colleagues.\"\n\nDuring the march, journalists held signs and chanted, \"No to censorship! Freedom of press!\"\n\nRinc\u00f3n said the bill not only affects journalists' freedom of speech: \"It is a freedom that all Dominicans have, because with the internet, you can express yourself through any social network.\"\n\nRosalba Escalante, a reporter with ACD Media, who was recently pushed and stepped on by the security detail of Vice President Raquel Pe\u00f1a, who publicly apologized for the incident, also participated in Tuesday's march.\n\n\"Stealthily, access to the presidential press is becoming increasingly limited,\" she told the AP.\n\nAbinader has not responded to the journalists' allegations, although when asked about the bill during a press conference on Monday he said he was not involved in its creation. \"I didn't even add a comma,\" he said.\n\nThe protest march ended at the National Palace where a manifesto was presented calling for proper access to public records and elected officials, as well as an end to \"harassment, censorship or reprisals\" against journalists, among other things."}
{"prompt_hash": "7f23819900de57fe8242db5bc636929f52457d068f5eba1bc37246ab0cd82217", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 19:07:22+00:00", "topics": ["Cincinnati Bengals", "Compensation in sports", "College sports", "Northwestern Wildcats", "Christian Sarkisian Alex Sarkisian", "College football", "Northwestern Wildcats football", "Alex Sarkisian", "Sports", "Christian Sarkisian", "Athlete recruiting", "Pat Fitzgerald", "Mark Jackson"], "text": "# Northwestern hires Bengals scout Christian Sarkisian as its athletic department general manager\n\nMay 13th, 2025 07:07 PM\n\n---\n\nEVANSTON, Ill. (AP) \u2014 Northwestern hired Cincinnati Bengals scout Christian Sarkisian as the athletic department's general manager on Tuesday to oversee the school's salary cap and revenue-sharing issues.\n\nSarkisian, who spent the past seven years as a scout for the Bengals, will help Northwestern navigate a changing landscape. Schools would be allowed to share millions in revenue directly with student-athletes if a $2.8 billion antitrust settlement against the NCAA is approved by a federal judge. Sarkisian's primary focus will be on football.\n\nSarkisian will lead athlete evaluations and contract negotiations, and oversee Northwestern's name, image and likeness clearinghouse. He also will work with coaches on scholarship budgets and analyze future recruiting class needs.\n\n\"After seven years learning from the greatest of football minds and leaders, I feel ready to help add to the legacy of Northwestern's athletic programs,\" Sarkisian said in a statement. \"From growing up never missing a Saturday at Ryan Field to helping build rosters that won bowl games and went to the Big Ten Championship, I've learned, and have been raised by, the Northwestern standard of excellence, and I look forward to doing my part to elevate our athletic programs.\"\n\nSarkisian is from the Chicago area and has a master's degree in sports administration from Northwestern. He was the Wildcats' assistant director of player personnel and recruiting assistant from 2015 to 2017 under former coach Pat Fitzgerald.\n\nHis grandfather Alex Sarkisian was captain of the 1948 Rose Bowl team and was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame. During his time with the Bengals, Cincinnati played in a Super Bowl and two AFC championship games.\n\n\"Christian brings a wealth of experience from his time in the NFL and his previous work here in Evanston, particularly in areas such as student-athlete evaluation, recruitment and strategic resources,\" athletic director Mark Jackson said. \"His perspective and leadership will be instrumental as we navigate a rapidly changing college athletics environment and continue to support our student-athletes at the highest level.\""}
{"prompt_hash": "5c50cecd8cd73767966a263d0cd13dae86192e133d3fbfff8a1b9ef5cd080ee9", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 19:03:09+00:00", "topics": ["Qatar", "Nicaragua", "Dominican Republic", "Carmelo Anthony", "Sports", "Dirk Nowitzki", "Andreas Zagklis", "Basketball"], "text": "# US to open World Cup qualifying this fall against Dominican Republic and Nicaragua; 3rd team TBA\n\nBy Tim Reynolds  \nMay 13th, 2025 07:03 PM\n\n---\n\nThe U.S. will open qualifying for the 2027 Basketball World Cup in November against the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua and a third nation that will be determined later this summer by the results of a pre-qualifier tournament.\n\nThe groups \u2014 and 68 of the 80 nations that are in the mix for the 31 open World Cup berths \u2014 were announced at Doha, Qatar, on Tuesday. Qatar is the only nation to have a World Cup spot assured; it has one because it will host the tournament in the summer of 2027.\n\nThe other 12 nations \u2014 eight from Europe, four from the Americas \u2014 that will play in qualifying will be determined this summer.\n\n\"The qualifiers are a special part of this journey,\" FIBA secretary general Andreas Zagklis said. \"The World Cup is not a three-week event. The World Cup is in reality more than two years, as you can see. ... This is the key moment on the way to Doha.\"\n\nGermany is the defending champion, having topped Serbia for the gold medal at Manila in 2023. Canada beat the U.S. in that tournament for the bronze.\n\n\"When I started playing for the German national team in the late '90s, we would have never thought this was possible \u2014 that Germany will be World Cup champions,\" said German great Dirk Nowitzki, the longtime Dallas Mavericks star who brought the World Cup trophy onto the stage for the draw on Tuesday night. \"I think that shows the growth of basketball in Germany and the rest of the world, in Europe, all over the place. It's been fun watching basketball grow the last two decades and more. And really, anything is possible in the world now in basketball.\"\n\nThe Americans have won the tournament five times, but not since 2014 \u2014 after finishing a record-worst seventh at China in 2019 and missing the medal stand again at Manila in 2023. It has been a challenge for the U.S. to field its best possible team for the World Cups, given that most stars tend to prefer playing in the Olympics and many can't commit to a plan where they would be playing in a World Cup one summer and the Olympics the following year.\n\n\"I'm excited,\" USA Basketball great and 2025 Basketball Hall of Fame enshrinee Carmelo Anthony said. \"I think the world is excited. I think players are excited. I just think that intensity level, from what I've experienced in the previous World Cups, has shot up 10 times more than what it was before. I think the energy, I think that intentionality of the game, you see the passion of winning, not just from certain teams, you see it from all teams that are playing.\"\n\nA breakdown of the qualifying by region:\n\n## Americas\n\nTeams: 16 for 7 World Cup spots.\n\nFirst-round qualifying dates: November 2025, February 2026, July 2026.\n\nSecond-round qualifying dates: August 2026, November 2026, February 2027.\n\nFormat: Four groups of four teams in the first round (six games per team). The top three teams from each group will move on to the second round.\n\nGroup A: United States, Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, TBD.\n\nGroup B: Canada, Puerto Rico, Bahamas, TBD.\n\nGroup C: Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia, TBD.\n\nGroup D: Argentina, Uruguay, Panama, TBD.\n\n(There are four teams still yet to qualify, and those teams will be determined at a pair of pre-qualifying tournaments in August.)\n\n## Europe\n\nTeams: 32 for 12 World Cup spots.\n\nFirst-round qualifying dates: November 2025, February 2026, July 2026.\n\nSecond-round qualifying dates: August 2026, November 2026, February 2027.\n\nFormat: Eight groups of four teams in the first round (six games per team). The top three teams from each group will move on to the second round.\n\nGroup A: Spain, Georgia, TBD, TBD.\n\nGroup B: Greece, Montenegro, Portugal, TBD.\n\nGroup C: Serbia, Turkey, Bosnia and Herzegovina, TBD.\n\nGroup D: Britain, Italy, Iceland, Lithuania.\n\nGroup E: Germany, Israel, Cyprus, TBD.\n\nGroup F: Latvia, Poland, TBD, TBD.\n\nGroup G: France, Belgium, Finland, TBD.\n\nGroup H: Slovenia, Czech Republic, Sweden, Estonia.\n\n(There are eight teams still yet to qualify, and those teams will be determined at pre-qualifying tournaments this summer.)\n\n## Asia\n\nTeams: 16 for 7 World Cup spots. (Qatar already qualified as host nation, and will be the eighth World Cup team from Asia.)\n\nFirst-round qualifying dates: November 2025, February 2026, July 2026.\n\nSecond-round qualifying dates: August 2026, November 2026, February 2027.\n\nFormat: Four groups of four teams in the first round (six games per team). The top three teams from each group will move on to the second round.\n\nGroup A: Australia, New Zealand, Philippines, Guam.\n\nGroup B: Japan, China, South Korea, Taiwan.\n\nGroup C: Iran, Jordan, Syria, Iraq.\n\nGroup D: Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, India, Qatar.\n\n## Africa\n\nTeams: 16 for 5 World Cup spots\n\nFirst-round qualifying dates: November 2025, February 2026, July 2026.\n\nSecond-round qualifying dates: August 2026, November 2026, February 2027.\n\nFormat: Four groups of four teams in the first round (six games per team). The top three teams from each group will move on to the second round.\n\nGroup A: Cameroon, South Sudan, Libya, Cape Verde.\n\nGroup B: Senegal, Congo, Madagascar, Ivory Coast.\n\nGroup C: Nigeria, Rwanda, Guinea, Tunisia.\n\nGroup D: Mali, Angola, Uganda, Egypt."}
{"prompt_hash": "dc342bd642935f06d2b92e3386e7020f3186bc67c492e55bb9e57bd5f2e0cf29", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 11:50:05+00:00", "topics": ["Womens college basketball", "College sports", "Public opinion", "Womens National Basketball Association", "JWD-evergreen", "Womens sports", "Associated Press", "Sports", "Bernard Seltzer", "Oregon Ducks", "Providence Friars", "Matthew Behr", "Meghan Sells", "Portland Pilots", "Caitlin Clark"], "text": "# About 3 in 10 Americans follow women's sports, poll finds\n\nBy Maya Sweedler  \nMay 13th, 2025 11:50 AM\n\n---\n\nWASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 When Meghan Sells heads to Providence Park to watch Oregon's professional women's soccer team, she finds herself among a fairly mixed crowd \u2014 groups of young women, dads bringing their children, youth players checking out the Thorns' latest match.\n\nThe physician's assistant is a self-described lifelong sports fan and former softball player who \"will watch any sport.\" That includes both collegiate and professional sports for women, putting Sells squarely in a fan base that suddenly has more options than ever before and is seen as fertile ground for teams and advertisers eager to ride the rising interest in the women's game.\n\nAbout 3 in 10 U.S. adults follow women's professional or college sports \"extremely,\" \"very\" or \"somewhat\" closely, according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. That's lower than the share who follow men's sports by the same measurements \u2014 about half \u2014 but it also shows that Sells is far from alone.\n\nAs interest and investment in women's sports have picked up in recent years, so have the entry points for fans. The meteoric rise of Caitlin Clark, the University of Iowa phenom-turned-WNBA star, helped bring wider attention to women's basketball, and increased streaming availability, international success and name, image and likeness deals have elevated the value and viewership of women's sports.\n\n\"Growing up, I feel like the only sports I was able to really see on TV were men's \u2014 which is fine, I like men's sports,\" Sells said. \"But I enjoy watching women's sports more. ... I think the more that you see it on TV, the more you're going to have younger people interested in it.\"\n\nThe poll found that women's sports fans \u2014 those who follow women's sports at least \"somewhat\" closely \u2014 are different from men's sports fans. Fans of women's sports, while not a majority-female group, are more gender balanced than men's sports fans. Those who follow women's pro sports also are more casual in their fandom than men's pro sports fans, tending to say they attend or watch games occasionally rather than frequently. People who follow men's sports, by contrast, are more likely to identify attachments to teams as opposed to players.\n\nThe survey was conducted just before the start of the 2025 WNBA season, an expansion year for the league. Coming off a season in which attendance records were set (and reset ), the league will debut a new franchise \u2014 the Golden State Valkyries \u2014 and up the number of regular season games from 40 to 44.\n\nIn 2026, two additional teams will join the league, including one in Portland, Oregon. Sells, who's been in the city for about a decade, said she is prepared to get season tickets.\n\n## Different fan bases\n\nMen's sports at both the collegiate and professional levels remain more popular than women's sports, the poll found. About one-third of U.S. adults said they watch, listen to or read about men's collegiate sports at least \"somewhat\" closely, and more than 4 in 10 say they follow men's pro sports. By contrast, about 2 in 10 say they follow women's collegiate sports at least \"somewhat\" closely, and a similar share say they follow women's pro sports.\n\nA greater share of men than women say they follow professional or collegiate sports overall, but the gender balance was more even among women's sports fans. Around half of fans of women's sports are male, the survey found, compared with about two-thirds of fans of men's sports.\n\nThis could be in part due to the overlap between the fandoms: About 90% of U.S. adults who follow women's sports at least \"somewhat\" closely also say the same about men's sports, though about half of people who follow men's sports said they also followed women's sports.\n\nAs women's sports increase in popularity and accessibility, a relatively large share are casual fans. While close to 9 in 10 of both men's and women's pro sports fans say they frequently or occasionally watch, listen to or read about their respective professional sports, a higher percentage of women's sports fans say they are only occasional consumers.\n\nThat includes people like Matthew Behr, 58, a lifelong fan of the Green Bay Packers and Milwaukee Brewers in his home state of Wisconsin. He doesn't watch a lot of basketball, he said, but when the sport crosses into news coverage, he will read up on it.\n\nThat's how he started following Clark, whose final seasons at Iowa were credited with bringing new viewers to the sport and who now plays for the Indiana Fever.\n\n\"I was seeing it on MSNBC,\" he said. \"I don't watch a lot of basketball. It's not a men's and women's thing. If she was playing in a women's football league, I'd probably watch that.\"\n\n## Attending games\n\nMen's sports \u2014 with larger leagues, bigger TV deals and a more expansive media ecosystem \u2014 have a more fervent audience. About two-thirds of men's sports fans said they \"frequently\" or \"occasionally\" attend a professional sporting event in person, compared with roughly half of women's sports fans.\n\nOne possible reason women's sports fans aren't showing up at sporting events is they're less likely to be attached to a specific team. Only about one-third of women's sports fans said the teams they support or follow are \"extremely\" or \"very\" important to why they follow the sport. For men's fans, the figure was around 50%.\n\nHowever, nearly identical shares of men's and women's sports fans said that certain athletes they support were at least \"very\" important to why they follow women's sports.\n\nBernard Seltzer, a high school administrator and math and science teacher in Tampa, Florida, considers himself a general sports fan and said he enjoys watching the most skillful athletes, regardless of their gender. Even at the high school level, he is impressed by the finesse he sees female athletes demonstrate.\n\n\"Sometimes it's more impressive than watching masculine people banging their heads against the wall,\" he said."}
{"prompt_hash": "50dc134f55735c9226e313d013035208bf8268a7906f02ae50f96ee3b3d3aeca", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 12:16:11+00:00", "topics": ["Books and literature", "Oprah Winfrey", "Fiction", "Entertainment", "Poetry", "Ocean Vuong"], "text": "# Ocean Vuong's new novel, 'The Emperor of Gladness,' is Winfrey's latest book club pick\n\nBy Hillel Italie  \nMay 13th, 2025 12:16 PM\n\n---\n\nNEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Oprah Winfrey's latest book club pick is a new novel from Ocean Vuong, one of the country's most admired young writers.\n\nWinfrey announced Tuesday that she has chosen Vuong's \"The Emperor of Gladness,\" in which the Vietnamese American author tells of the bond between a suicidal teen and an elderly widow with dementia. Winfrey's video podcast interview with Vuong can be seen on her YouTube channel, among other outlets. The interview was held in Chicago at a Starbucks, which is partnering with Winfrey for the current edition of her book club.\n\n\"Ocean draws from his own personal experiences of being born in Vietnam, raised in a working-class family in Connecticut, and working as a fast-food server as inspiration for this story, which features an unlikely cast of truly unforgettable characters,\" Winfrey said in a statement. \"This award-winning author and acclaimed poet has written in stunning prose, a heartfelt and powerful examination of those living on the fringes of society, and the unique challenges they face to survive and thrive.\"\n\nVuong, 36, has received numerous honors, including the T.S. Eliot Prize and Pushcart Prize for his poetry, a MacArthur Fellowship and a Whiting grant awarded to promising writers. His other books include the novel \"On Earth We Were Briefly Gorgeous\" and the poetry collections \"Night Sky with Exit Wounds\" and \"Time Is a Mother.\"\n\nIn a statement Tuesday, he said that receiving \"the call\" from Winfrey was one of the highlights of his life, with a poignant echo of his childhood.\n\n\"Sitting in my mother's nail salon, I watched women see Oprah featuring an author on her show, which played each day in the salon, and literally rise from their seats with poise and confidence, saying they're gonna walk to the Barnes and Noble across the street and buy a book, suddenly armed with access to the discourse, and thereby in possession of the cultural center,\" he said.\n\n\"To think of my book being invited to join such a profound lineage is truly awe-inspiring. I only wish my mother were alive to see it. Among all the literary achievements in an author's life, this would be the one she truly recognizes.\""}
{"prompt_hash": "2f23d19dfb6b4f413d566f6d540986060cd68d392a64259cf238b813af39e4e7", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 10:27:59+00:00", "topics": ["Bangkok", "Thailand government", "Building collapses", "Earthquakes", "Thailand", "Xin Ke Yuan Steel"], "text": "# Bangkok officials end search operation at the skyscraper that collapsed following an earthquake\n\nMay 13th, 2025 10:27 AM\n\n---\n\nBANGKOK (AP) \u2014 Thai authorities on Tuesday officially ended the search operation at the building under construction in the capital, Bangkok, that collapsed following an earthquake that killed dozens over a month ago.\n\nThe 7.7 magnitude quake on March 28 centered in Myanmar, more than 800 miles (1,200 kilometers) away, killed at least 96 people in Bangkok, mostly at the collapsed site. More than 3,000 were killed in Myanmar.\n\nEighty-nine bodies have been retrieved from the rubble while seven people remain unaccounted for at the site, officials said. They said they would continue to test hundreds of pieces of human remains to identify those still missing.\n\nThe collapse sparked questions about the enforcement of construction safety and corruption. The high-rise building, meant to be the new office of the State Audit Office, was the only building that suffered a total collapse that day.\n\nThe police on Tuesday said they are still investigating and will continue to collect evidence from the collapse site until the end of this month.\n\nAuthorities are probing several companies and individuals for any wrongdoing in relation to the collapse, including the state-run Chinese contractor, China Railway No. 10 Engineering Group. The investigation has led to the arrest of its Chinese executive in Thailand, identified as Zhang, and three Thai shareholders on suspicion of operating the business through the use of nominees.\n\nForeigners can operate a business in Thailand, but it must be a joint venture with a Thai partner, and they cannot own more than 49% to protect local competitiveness.\n\nAnother Thai-Chinese company, Xin Ke Yuan Steel, also came under scrutiny over the quality of the steel rods provided for the building. Industry Minister Akanat Promphan said two types of steel rods found at the collapse site did not pass safety standards and that Xin Ke Yuan supplied both. The company has denied any wrongdoing."}
{"prompt_hash": "7f459eddc561152aab863362bc3336717fddbe6604c3100d1f55901c040516a3", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 09:52:11+00:00", "topics": ["Syria", "Iraq", "Ahmad al-Sharaa", "Baghdad", "Bashar Assad", "Abu Mohammad al-Golani", "Iraq government", "Arab League", "Politics", "Indictments", "Al-Qaida", "Rebellions and uprisings", "Syria government", "Terrorism", "Islam"], "text": "# Syrian president will not attend Arab summit in Baghdad after invitation triggers divisions\n\nBy Ghaith Alsayed  \nMay 13th, 2025 09:52 AM\n\n---\n\nDAMASCUS, Syria (AP) \u2014 Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa will not attend an Arab League summit in Iraq this week and the country's delegation will be headed by the foreign minister, the president's office said Tuesday.\n\nA short statement released by the office of President Ahmad al-Sharaa did not give a reason why he will not attend the summit but an invitation by the Iraqi government last month trigged sharp political divisions in Iraq. The summit is scheduled to be held in Baghdad on Saturday.\n\nAl-Sharaa and his interim government in Syria have been scrambling to establish ties with countries across the Middle East in a bid to ease skepticism about his former ties to al-Qaida and to convince Washington to lift crippling economic sanctions on the battered country.\n\nAttending the Arab Summit would have been a major symbolic diplomatic victory for Damascus as well, as Al-Sharaa struggles to deal with opponents in the countries, largely from non-Sunni Muslim minority groups, as he tries to exert state authority across Syria.\n\nAl-Sharaa took power after leading a lightning rebel offensive that unseated his predecessor, Bashar Assad, in December. Since then, he has positioned himself as a statesman aiming to unite and rebuild his country after nearly 14 years of civil war, but his past as a Sunni Islamist militant has left many \u2014 including Shiite groups in Iraq \u2014 wary.\n\nFormerly known by the nom de guerre Abu Mohammed al-Golani, al-Sharaa joined the ranks of al-Qaida insurgents battling U.S. forces in Iraq after the U.S.-led invasion in 2003 and still faces a warrant for his arrest on terrorism charges in Iraq.\n\nDuring Syria's conflict that began in March 2011, several Iraqi Shiite militias fought alongside Assad's forces, making al-Sharaa a particularly sensitive figure for them."}
{"prompt_hash": "dff4b99f19c5e8d9a34ad6ef291b905df4b69a424246bee3ba6c99539d52cfbc", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 05:43:34+00:00", "topics": ["Xi Jinping", "South America", "Donald Trump", "China", "Colombia", "International trade", "China government", "Gustavo Petro", "Shigeru Ishiba", "Japan government", "World Trade Organization", "Government policy", "Tariffs and global trade", "Business", "Politics"], "text": "# China seeks a united front with Latin America in countering Trump's trade war\n\nBy Simina Mistreanu  \nMay 13th, 2025 05:43 AM\n\n---\n\nTAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) \u2014 China is moving to strengthen its alliances with other countries as a counterweight to President Donald Trump's trade war, presenting a united front with Latin American leaders a day after China and the U.S. agreed to a 90-day truce in their tariffs stalemate.\n\nChina's leaders have positioned the world's second-largest economy as a reliable trade and development partner, in contrast to the uncertainty and instability from Trump's tariff hikes and other policies.\n\nOn Monday, Beijing and Washington announced their breakthrough on tariffs after weekend talks in Geneva, Switzerland, where they agreed to cut sky-high import duties on both sides for 90 days to allow for negotiations.\n\nStill, Beijing's ire over the trade war remains apparent. Speaking to officials from China and Latin America on Tuesday, Chinese leader Xi Jinping reiterated Beijing's stance that nobody wins a trade war and that \"bullying or hegemonism only leads to self-isolation.\"\n\nHaving moved to defuse antagonisms with the U.S., Xi said China stands ready to \"join hands\" with Latin countries \"in the face of seething undercurrents of pure political and bloc confrontation and the surging tide of unilateralism and protectionism.\"\n\n\"There are no winners in tariff wars or trade wars,\" Xi said, reiterating a phrase China has used repeatedly when referring to Trump's policies.\n\nWhen Trump began raising tariffs on Chinese products during his first term in office, China retaliated by diversifying its purchases of key farm products, such as soybeans and beef, away from U.S. suppliers. Brazil and other Latin American countries have benefited from that strategy.\n\nAlso Tuesday, the head of the World Trade Organization appealed to Japan to fight disruptions to world commerce from Trump's fast-changing tariffs and other policies.\n\n\"Trade is facing very challenging times right now and it is quite difficult,\" Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, director-general of the Geneva-based WTO, told Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba while on a visit to Tokyo.\n\nJapan, as \"a champion of the multilateral trading system\" must help maintain, strengthen and reform the WTO, the Japanese Foreign Ministry cited her as saying.\n\nJapan is among many countries yet to reach a deal with the Trump administration on hikes to U.S. tariffs, including those on autos, steel and aluminum.\n\nThe WTO played a pivotal role in past decades as the U.S. and other major economies crusaded for the more open markets that facilitated the growth of global supply chains, many of which are anchored in China.\n\nBy dismantling many protectionist barriers to trade, it has aided the ascent of Japan and China, and many other countries, as export manufacturing hubs.\n\nSince taking office for a second time, Trump has prioritized higher tariffs to try to reduce U.S. imports and compel companies to locate factories in the United States, doubling down on a trade war that he launched during his first term.\n\nThe realities of Trump's global trade offensive overshadowed an initial burst of optimism over the China-U.S. deal among investors, as rallies in stocks and oil prices faded on Tuesday.\n\nSpeaking to the China-CELAC, or Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, Forum, Xi, the Chinese leader, announced plans to build closer ties with Latin America through political, economic, academic and security exchanges.\n\nHe promised to boost imports from the region, to encourage Chinese companies to increase their investments, and said Beijing plans to expand cooperation in clean energy, 5G telecommunications and artificial intelligence. He also announced a new 66 billion yuan ($9.2 billion) credit line to support Latin American and Caribbean financing.\n\nChina's trade with the region has been growing rapidly, exceeding $500 billion for the first time last year, as it imported more farm products such as soybeans and beef, energy resources such as crude oil, iron ore, and critical minerals.\n\nBeijing's investments in the region through Xi's Belt and Road Initiative, or BRI, have included installing 5G networks and building ports and hydropower plants.\n\nColombian President Gustavo Petro announced Monday that his country would formally join the BRI \u2013 in a vote of confidence after several Chinese projects in Latin America hit snags in recent months.\n\nIn other pledges, Beijing plans to invite 300 members from Latin American political parties to China annually for the next three years and facilitate 3,500 government scholarships and various other types of exchanges.\n\nFive Latin American countries will receive visa exemptions for travel to China, with more to follow, Xi said. It was not immediately clear which countries would become visa exempt."}
{"prompt_hash": "cb2b4c6eaf6c6ced988f4907393e49682a1c6624dd3b041c6cf57944454c9f54", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 11:14:01+00:00", "topics": ["Antonio Costa", "Aleksandar Vucic", "Serbia", "Europe", "Russia", "European Union", "Vladimir Putin", "War and unrest", "Business", "Politics", "European Council", "Russia Ukraine war", "Rail accidents"], "text": "# European Council president says Serbia's leader has vowed to stay on the EU path despite Russia trip\n\nBy Ivana Bzganovic  \nMay 13th, 2025 11:14 AM\n\n---\n\nBELGRADE, Serbia (AP) \u2014 European Council President Ant\u00f3nio Costa on Tuesday criticized Serbia populist president's trip to Russia's Victory Day ceremonies last week, but said that he received assurances that the troubled Balkan nation nonetheless will remain on the path toward European Union accession.\n\nCosta said in Belgrade \u2014 at the start of his tour of six Western Balkan membership hopefuls \u2014 that \"a lot of people asked me not to come\" to Serbia. But he said that he decided to come, and that he wanted to \"clarify\" President Aleksandar Vucic's visit to Moscow last week.\n\nVucic, Costa said, \"explained to me it was a moment to celebrate an event from the past.\"\n\n\"We cannot rewrite the history, and (we) fully understand that Serbia celebrates (its) liberation\" by Soviet troops, Costa said, before referring to the Russia-Ukraine war. \"But we cannot celebrate the liberation 80 years ago and don't condemn an invasion of another country today.\"\n\nNow, Costa said, \"we can reaffirm, and it's important to hear from him (Vucic) to publicly reaffirm, that he is fully committed with the European Union and with the accession path.\"\n\nVucic, a former extreme nationalist criticized at home and abroad over alleged increasingly authoritarian ways, has maintained close relations with both Russia and China while formally saying that he wants Serbia to join the EU.\n\nVucic has said his decision to attend Russian President Vladimir Putin's military parade marking the World War II victory over Nazi Germany, was part of efforts to maintain \"traditional friendships\" \u2014 Russia is a fellow Slavic and Orthodox Christian nation \u2014while seeking EU entry.\n\nSerbia, which relies almost fully on Russia for energy, has refused to join Western sanctions on Russia over the full-scale invasion of Ukraine and hasn't supported most EU statements condemning the aggression. Belgrade instead has backed a U.N. resolution criticizing Russia's attack.\n\nCosta warned that \"a clear condemnation of the Russian brutal invasion of Ukraine\" is a key element of EU's security and foreign policy, and that Serbia must fully align in order to join the bloc.\n\nVucic said that he expected \"reaction and attacks\" over the Moscow trip at an upcoming European Political Community summit in Albania. He pledged that Serbia will soon pass media and anti-corruption laws needed to move forward in the accession process.\n\nSerbia, he said, \"sees itself now and in the future as on the EU path and as a member of the European Union.\"\n\nVucic also has been under pressure at home following six months of major anti-corruption protests that erupted after a train station tragedy in Serbia's north that killed 16 people and which many in the country blamed on graft in infrastructure construction.\n\nA group of Serbian university students \u2014 who have been a key force behind the protests \u2014 were in Brussels this week after running a relay-style marathon there to draw EU attention to their struggle for justice and the rule of law that they say has been dismantled under Vucic's tight rule in the country.\n\nCosta later also met with Serbia's opposition politicians, who said that they informed him about government repression and demanded the EU's clear support for protesting citizens. Politician Marinika Tepic said that Costa's meeting with Vucic could be viewed as EU support for him.\n\nFrom Belgrade, Costa will travel later on Tuesday to Bosnia-Herzegovina where separatist policies of a Serb-run entity's president have revived ethnic tensions long after a 1992-95 war, and stalled pro-EU reforms.\n\nMontenegro and Albania have been at the forefront of the membership path while Serbia, Bosnia, Kosovo and North Macedonia are lagging behind. The EU's willingness to accept new members has grown since the all-out war in Ukraine started on Feb. 24, 2022, fearing the conflict could fuel instability in the volatile Balkans."}
{"prompt_hash": "44aeb619bee60ae72ed84ee759fcc72337cb640ed31bc61a98d1bf02e61edaa7", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 12:40:12+00:00", "topics": ["Rory McIlroy", "Golf", "John Daly", "Bryson DeChambeau", "Xander Schauffele", "Jordan Spieth", "PGA Championship", "Jeeno Thitikul", "Joaquin Niemann", "Justin Thomas", "Fiona Xu", "Y.E. Yang", "Charles Schwab", "Chisato Iwai", "Billy Horschel", "Takahiro Hataji", "Arnold Palmer", "David Duval", "Jana Melichova", "Jack Nicklaus", "Missouri", "Kansas City", "Angel Jimenez", "Bryson Nimmer", "Doug Barron", "Davis Love III", "Kieran Vincent", "Sports", "Stewart Cink", "Sepp Straka", "Martin Couvra", "Tiger Woods", "Harry Higgs", "Hank Lebioda", "Vijay Singh", "Steve Stricker", "North Carolina Tar Heels"], "text": "# Golf gets 2 majors in the same week with PGA Championship and PGA Tour Champions major\n\nBy The Associated Press  \nMay 13th, 2025 12:40 PM\n\n---\n\n## PGA of America\n\nPGA CHAMPIONSHIP\n\nSite: Charlotte, North Carolina.\n\nCourse: Quail Hollow Club. Yardage: 7,626. Par: 71.\n\nPrize money: TBA ($18.5 million in 2024). Winner's share: TBA ($3.3 million in 2024).\n\nTelevision (all times EDT): Thursday-Friday, 7 a.m. to noon (ESPN+), noon to 7 p.m. (ESPN); Saturday-Sunday, 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. (ESPN+), 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. (ESPN), 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. (CBS).\n\nDefending champion: Xander Schauffele.\n\nLast year: Schauffele made a 6-foot birdie putt on the last hole at Valhalla Golf Club to win by one shot over Bryson DeChambeau for his first major.\n\nLast time at Quail Hollow: Justin Thomas won his first PGA Championship in 2017.\n\nNotes: The second major of the year is held at Quail Hollow Club for the second time. Quail Hollow has held a PGA Tour event since 2003 except for when it held the PGA Championship (2017, 2025) and the Presidents Cup (2022). ... Masters champion Rory McIlroy is a four-time winner at Quail Hollow. The only other course where he has won four times is Emirates Golf Club for the Dubai Desert Classic. ... McIlroy will try to become only the fifth player since 1960 to win the first two legs of the Grand Slam. The others were Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, Tiger Woods and Jordan Spieth. ... Spieth lacks the PGA Championship for the career Grand Slam. This is his ninth try. ... The field features 99 of the top 100 players in the world. Missing is Billy Horschel, who is out with hip surgery. ... This is the second straight year for a major in North Carolina. Bryson DeChambeau won the U.S. Open at Pinehurst No. 2 last year.\n\nNext year: Aronimink Golf Club.\n\nOnline: https://www.pgachampionship.com/\n\n---\n\n## PGA Tour Champions\n\nREGIONS TRADITION\n\nSite: Birmingham, Alabama.\n\nCourse: Greystone Golf & CC. Yardage: 7,249. Par: 72.\n\nPrize money: $2.6 million. Winner's share: $390,000.\n\nTelevision: Thursday-Friday, 3-6 p.m. (Golf Channel); Saturday-Sunday, 2-5 p.m. (Golf Channel).\n\nDefending champion: Doug Barron.\n\nLast tournament: Stewart Cink won the Insperity Invitational.\n\nCharles Schwab Cup leader: Miguel Angel Jimenez.\n\nNotes: This is the start of five majors for the PGA Tour Champions. ... In a peculiar move, the Regions Tradition is being held the same week as the PGA Championship. That has led to several past PGA champions skipping a major for which they are exempt for life. The list includes John Daly, Vijay Singh, Y.E. Yang and Charlotte native Davis Love III. ... David Duval was supposed to be the lead analyst for ESPN at the PGA Championship. Instead he is playing the PGA Tour Champions major. ... Steve Stricker is playing for the first time since the season opener in Hawaii in January. He has been dealing with neck and back pain. ... This is the first of consecutive weeks of majors for the PGA Tour Champions. Next week is the Senior PGA Championship at Congressional. ... This is the only senior major in which the winner does not get into a regular major of The Players Championship.\n\nNext week: Senior PGA Championship.\n\nOnline: https://www.pgatour.com/pgatour-champions/\n\n---\n\n## Korn Ferry Tour\n\nADVENTHEALTH CHAMPIONSHIP\n\nSite: Kansas City, Missouri.\n\nCourse: Blue Hills CC. Yardage: 7,383. Par: 72.\n\nPrize money: $1 million. Winner's share: $180,000.\n\nTelevision: None.\n\nPrevious winner: Harry Higgs.\n\nPointers leader: Hank Lebioda.\n\nLast tournament: Bryson Nimmer won the Tulum Championship.\n\nNext week: Visit Knoxville Open.\n\nOnline: https://www.pgatour.com/korn-ferry-tour\n\n---\n\n## PGA Tour\n\nLast week: Sepp Straka won the Truist Championship.\n\nNext week: Charles Schwab Challenge.\n\nFedEx Cup leader: Rory McIlroy.\n\nOnline: https://www.pgatour.com/\n\n---\n\n## LPGA Tour\n\nLast week: Jeeno Thitikul won the Mizuho Americas Open.\n\nNext week: Mexico Riviera Maya Open.\n\nRace to CME Globe leader: Jeeno Thitikul.\n\nOnline: https://www.lpga.com/\n\n---\n\n## European Tour\n\nLast week: Martin Couvra won the Turkish Airlines Open.\n\nNext week: Soudal Open.\n\nRace to Dubai leader: Rory McIlroy.\n\nOnline: https://www.europeantour.com/dpworld-tour/\n\n---\n\n## LIV Golf League\n\nLast tournament: Bryson DeChambeau won LIV Golf Korea.\n\nNext tournament: LIV Golf Virginia on June 6-8.\n\nPoints leader: Joaquin Niemann.\n\nOnline: https://www.livgolf.com/\n\n## Other tours\n\nEpson Tour: Copper Rock Championship, Copper Rock GC, Hurricane, Utah. Defending champion: Fiona Xu. Online: https://www.epsontour.com/\n\nJapan Golf Tour: Kansai Open, Hino GC, Shiga, Japan. Defending champion: Takahiro Hataji. Online: https://www.jgto.org/en/\n\nLadies European Tour: Dutch Ladies Open, Goyer Golf & CC, Eemnes, Netherlands. Defending champion: Jana Melichova. Online: https://ladieseuropeantour.com/\n\nSunshine Tour: Kit Kat Cash & Carry Pro-Am, Irene CC, Gauteng, South Africa. Defending champion: Kieran Vincent. Online: https://sunshinetour.com/\n\nJapan LPGA: Sky RKB Ladies Classic, Fukuokaraizan GC, Fukuoka, Japan. Defending champion: Chisato Iwai. Online: https://www.lpga.or.jp/en/\n\nKorea LPGA: Doosan Match Play, Ladena GC, Chuncheon, South Korea. Defending champion: Hyunkyung Park. Online: https://klpga.co.kr/web/"}
{"prompt_hash": "5c2fc0c2e2106ecd06ec191d0980282003a2ea1ce6696e21f08dc44933c77d79", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 12:16:25+00:00", "topics": ["Cricket", "South Africa", "Keshav Maharaj", "Tristan Stubbs", "Sports", "David Bedingham", "Tony de Zorzi", "Ryan Rickelton", "Aiden Markram", "Kyle Verreynne", "Marco Jansen"], "text": "# Rabada picked by South Africa for test cricket final after serving ban\n\nMay 13th, 2025 12:16 PM\n\n---\n\nJOHANNESBURG (AP) \u2014 Kagiso Rabada was picked by South Africa for the World Test Championship final against Australia next month after serving a one-month suspension for using a recreational drug.\n\nThe fast bowler has already been cleared to return to play and is back in the Gujarat Titans squad ahead of the restarting of the Indian Premier League on Saturday.\n\nRabada was banned for testing positive for a recreational drug during a domestic Twenty20 competition in South Africa in January.\n\nThe South African Institute for Drug-Free Sport said Rabada was eligible for a reduced one-month ban because he completed a substance-abuse treatment program. Rabada has said in a statement he is \"deeply sorry\" for his conduct.\n\nWhen announcing the 15-man squad on Tuesday, South Africa said the group will assemble in England on May 31 and play a warm-up match against Zimbabwe from June 3-6, before heading to London ahead of the WTC final starting June 11.\n\nThe Proteas' pace attack will also include Lungi Ngidi, who returns to the test fold for the first time since October 2024 after injury problems.\n\n__\n\nSquad: Temba Bavuma (captain), David Bedingham, Corbin Bosch, Tony de Zorzi, Marco Jansen, Keshav Maharaj, Aiden Markram, Wiaan Mulder, Senuran Muthusamy, Lungi Ngidi, Dane Paterson, Kagiso Rabada, Ryan Rickelton, Tristan Stubbs, Kyle Verreynne."}
{"prompt_hash": "079e8beeb3a3dc19c9824ce98a908f0e35d2d84a3662951254dbec2219583bcf", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 11:50:49+00:00", "topics": ["Donald Trump", "New Jersey", "Jack Ciattarelli", "Phil Murphy", "U.S. Republican Party", "United States Senate", "Jon Bramnick", "Politics", "Kim Guadagno", "U.S. Democratic Party", "Political endorsements", "Bill Spadea", "United States government", "Elections"], "text": "# Trump backs Jack Ciattarelli in New Jersey's Republican primary for governor\n\nMay 13th, 2025 11:50 AM\n\n---\n\nTRENTON, N.J. (AP) \u2014 President Donald Trump endorsed Republican Jack Ciattarelli in New Jersey's GOP primary, saying he's gone \"ALL IN\" on the \"Make America Great Again\" agenda.\n\nTrump's endorsement came Monday in a Truth Social post and gives Ciattarelli's campaign a boost as he competes against two other Trump supporters and a state senator who has been critical of the president.\n\nThe president's endorsement and Ciattarelli's gratitude to Trump in a social media post of his own reflect the president's influence in the party, even in Democratic-leaning New Jersey.\n\nTrump's endorsement hinted at Ciattarelli's earlier criticism of Trump during his first run for the White House a decade ago, when he said Trump wasn't fit for the presidency.\n\n\"Jack, who after getting to know and understand MAGA, has gone ALL IN, and is now 100% (PLUS!),\" Trump said in the Truth Social post.\n\nCiattarelli said in a post on X that he was \"truly humbled and honored\" by the endorsement.\n\n\"It's time to unite our party, win big in November, and make New Jersey affordable and safe again,\" he said.\n\nBill Spadea, a former radio host who's also running in the June 10 primary and has called for replicating the president's approach in New Jersey, suggested the president was backing Ciattarelli because some polling indicated he was in the lead.\n\n\"(Trump) endorsed a poll not a plan,\" he said on X. \"We have the only plan and core principles to restore common sense to New Jersey government.\"\n\nTrump's endorsement comes after he met earlier this year with Ciattarelli at his Bedminster, New Jersey, golf club.\n\nCiattarelli's campaign has said it sought the president's endorsement and pointed to his performance in the 2024 election in which the president flipped former blue counties red.\n\nNew Jersey has been reliably Democratic in U.S. presidential and Senate elections. But its odd-year gubernatorial contests have seesawed between Democrats and Republicans.\n\nDemocratic Gov. Phil Murphy, a two-term incumbent, cannot seek a third-straight term under state law. Democrats are also locked in competitive primary.\n\nIn addition to Ciattarelli and Spadea, former Englewood Cliffs Mayor Mario Kranjac and state Sen. Jon Bramnick are seeking their party's nomination.\n\nCiattarelli, 63, is an accountant and small business owner who served in the state Assembly and county office. He ran unsuccessfully for governor in the previous two cycles. In 2021, he came within a few percentage points of defeating Murphy. In 2017, he lost in the GOP primary to then-Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno."}
{"prompt_hash": "fa43cc61f95d0c005e2bd6baddc1efba65dc54d910fde2dcfeadb38a189081d1", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 11:56:10+00:00", "topics": ["Kashmir", "India government", "India", "New Delhi", "War and unrest", "South Asia", "Associated Press", "Military and defense"], "text": "# India's military says it killed 3 militants in a gunfight in disputed Kashmir\n\nMay 13th, 2025 11:56 AM\n\n---\n\nSRINAGAR, India (AP) \u2014 Three suspected militants were killed in a gunfight with government forces in Indian-controlled Kashmir, the Indian military said Tuesday.\n\nIt is the first reported gunbattle between Indian troops and militants in the region since last month's massacre that left 26 tourists dead, and which India has blamed on Pakistan. Islamabad has denied the charge.\n\nIndia's military said in a statement soldiers acting on a tip carried out a \"search and destroy\" operation in the Keller area of the southern Shopian district early Tuesday, during which militants \"opened heavy fire and a fierce firefight ensued,\" it said.\n\nThe army hasn't provided further details or casualties among soldiers, but stated that soldiers continued their search operation.\n\nThe Associated Press couldn't independently verify the incident.\n\nThe Himalayan territory is claimed in its entirety by both India and Pakistan. Militants in the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir have been fighting New Delhi's rule since 1989. Many Muslim Kashmiris support the rebels' goal of uniting the territory, either under Pakistani rule or as an independent country. Tens of thousands of civilians, rebels and government forces have been killed in the conflict.\n\nBefore the April 22 gun massacre in the Kashmiri resort town of Pahalgam, the fighting had largely ebbed in the region's Kashmir Valley, the heartland of anti-India rebellion and mainly shifted to mountainous areas of Jammu in the last few years.\n\nThe massacre spiked tensions between the nuclear-armed rivals last week, leading to the worst military confrontation in decades and the death of dozens of people until a ceasefire was reached on May 10 after U.S mediation.\n\nSince 2019, the territory has simmered in anger when New Delhi ended the region's semi-autonomy and drastically curbed dissent, civil liberties and media freedoms while intensifying counterinsurgency operations."}
{"prompt_hash": "0159e6a952b035cfe9cfe430618a8650977096b2d4706acefa59c284aa4fc4f9", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 11:39:35+00:00", "topics": ["Antonio Guterres", "United Nations", "Donald Trump", "Cyprus", "South Sudan", "Lebanon", "Politics", "Kosovo", "Johann Wadephul", "Democratic Republic of the Congo"], "text": "# UN chief pleads with countries to pay their share for peacekeeping, points to financial problems\n\nMay 13th, 2025 11:39 AM\n\n---\n\nBERLIN (AP) \u2014 U.N. Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres told countries that the world body's peacekeeping operation is \"only as strong as member states' commitment to it\" as he pleaded with them Tuesday to pay their share.\n\nThe United Nations' peackeeping department currently leads 11 operations, in countries including Congo, the Central African Republic, South Sudan, Lebanon, Cyprus and Kosovo. The budget for nine of those operations during the fiscal year that ends on June 30 totals $5.6 billion, 8.2% lower than a year earlier. Each of the U.N.'s 193 member countries is legally obliged to pay its share toward peacekeeping.\n\nGuterres argued that, with a budget \"representing a tiny fraction of global military spending \u2014 around one half of one per cent \u2014 U.N. Peacekeeping remains one of the most effective and cost-effective tools to build international peace and security.\"\n\n\"But it's only as strong as member states' commitment to it,\" he added at the opening of a two-day, German-hosted conference of ministers to discuss the future of peacekeeping. \"Unfortunately, peacekeeping operations have been facing serious liquidity problems. It is absolutely essential that all member states respect their financial obligations, paying their contributions in full and on time.\"\n\nGuterres didn't offer details of the problems, but acknowledged that \"these are tough times for the financing of our work across the board.\"\n\nMore broadly, the U.N. has been scrambling to respond to funding cuts for aid operations from its biggest donor, the United States, under President Donald Trump's administration.\n\nGerman Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul said that his country, like many others, \"is prepared to pledge additional resources\" for peacekeeping. But he said there should also be an effort to make missions \"more efficient and more focused\" through clearer mandates, cutting back on bureaucracy and avoiding duplication."}
{"prompt_hash": "c25e383952bc52b97f130730bb8267e71a4848ffbac1bd2c2ff1418c8d480177", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-12 20:36:15+00:00", "topics": ["Hip hop and rap", "Megan Thee Stallion", "Tory Lanez", "Celebrity", "Kylie Jenner", "California", "Shootings", "Crime", "Music", "Legal proceedings", "Prisons", "Gun violence", "Beyonce Knowles", "Entertainment", "Michel", "Jay-Z", "Cardi B"], "text": "# Rapper Tory Lanez attacked at California prison\n\nBy Andrew Dalton  \nMay 12th, 2025 08:36 PM\n\n---\n\nLOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 Rapper Tory Lanez was hospitalized after an attack Monday at a California prison where he's serving a 10-year sentence for shooting hip-hop star Megan Thee Stallion in the feet, authorities said.\n\nLanez, whose legal name is Daystar Peterson, was attacked at a housing unit at the California Correctional Institution in Tehachapi, at about 7:20 a.m., Pedro Calderon Michel, spokesman for the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, said in an email.\n\nMichel did not specify how Lanez was attacked, but a message posted on the rapper's Instagram account Monday evening said Lanez was stabbed 14 times and both his lungs collapsed. The post said Lanez is breathing on his own.\n\n\"Despite being in pain, he is talking normally, in good spirits, and deeply thankful to God that he is pulling through,\" the post said, adding Lanez was stabbed in his back, torso, head and face.\n\nStaff immediately gave Lanez medical aid and called 911, and he was taken to an outside hospital, Michel said. The prison's investigative unit and the Kern County District Attorney's Office are investigating, he said.\n\nThe prison is about 100 miles (160 kilometers) north of Los Angeles in the mountains of the Mojave Desert and houses about 1,700 medium- and maximum-security inmates.\n\nIn December 2022, Lanez was convicted of three felonies: assaul/t with a semiautomatic firearm; having a loaded, unregistered firearm in a vehicle and discharging a firearm with gross negligence.\n\nMegan, whose legal name is Megan Pete, testified during the trial that in July 2020, after they left a party at Kylie Jenner's Hollywood Hills home, Lanez fired the gun at the back of her feet and shouted for her to dance as she walked away from an SUV in which they had been riding.\n\nShe had bullet fragments in both feet that had to be surgically removed. It wasn't until months after the incident that she publicly identified Lanez as the person who had fired the gun.\n\nA judge rejected a motion for a new trial from Lanez's lawyers, who are appealing his conviction. They did not immediately respond to a request for comment.\n\nMegan recently alleged that Lanez was harassing her from prison through surrogates, and in January a judge issued a protective order through 2030 ordering him to stop any such harassment or any other contact.\n\nThe 32-year-old Canadian Lanez began releasing mixtapes in 2009 and saw a steady rise in popularity, moving on to major label albums, two of which reached the top 10 on Billboard's charts.\n\nThe case created a firestorm in the hip-hop community, churning up issues including the reluctance of Black victims to speak to police, gender politics in hip-hop, online toxicity, and the ramifications of misogynoir, a particular brand of misogyny Black women experience.\n\nThe often dramatic trial was packed with friends and family members of Lanez who felt he was a victim of both the justice system and the powerful people around Megan, who his managed by Jay-Z's Roc Nation.\n\nWhen the verdict was announced, Lanez's father, Sonstar Peterson, jumped up and angrily denounced prosecutors and the system before he was dragged from the chaotic courtroom where many in the audience were shouting similar things. He later apologized to the judge.\n\nMegan Thee Stallion, 30, was already a major rising star at the time of the shooting, and her music's popularity has soared since. She won a Grammy for best new artist in 2021, and she had No. 1 singles with \"Savage,\" featuring Beyonc\u00e9, and as a guest on Cardi B's \"WAP.\""}
{"prompt_hash": "1786c318479d3ee2f0ce287c526e0b6d49d927f849802c89bcab5e48deffb16a", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 10:51:07+00:00", "topics": ["OpenAI Inc", "Donald Trump", "Artificial intelligence", "China", "Tokyo", "Government policy", "Finance", "Finance  Business", "Earnings", "SoftBank Corp.", "Business", "Yuri Kageyama", "Technology", "ByteDance Ltd.", "Economic policy", "SoftBank Group Corp."], "text": "# Japanese tech giant SoftBank records its first profit in 4 years\n\nBy Yuri Kageyama  \nMay 13th, 2025 10:51 AM\n\n---\n\nTOKYO (AP) \u2014 Japanese technology company SoftBank Group posted its first profit in four years Tuesday, as it raked in gains from its investment portfolios.\n\nSoftBank warned of major uncertainties ahead because of President Donald Trump's tariff policies, tensions between the U.S. and China, and other global conflicts.\n\nTokyo-based Softbank's profit for the fiscal year through March totaled 1.15 trillion yen ($7.8 billion), a reversal from the 227.6 billion yen loss it racked up the previous year.\n\nAnnual sales climbed 7% to 7.2 trillion yen ($49 billion).\n\nSoftBank has a wide-ranging partnership with OpenAI, the U.S. artificial intelligence research organization behind ChatGPT. It said it remains focused on promoting technology related to artificial intelligence.\n\nThe company said it will continue to aggressively invest in new AI companies like Glean and Helion, both U.S. companies.\n\nSoftBank also recently decided to acquire the total equity of Ampere, a U.S. cloud-and AI-focused semiconductor design company, for $6.5 billion. It expects to complete the transaction in the second half of this year.\n\nIts investments include stakes in Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba and T-Mobile, a European mobile communications outfit. Both gained value over the latest period.\n\nAlso helping its bottom line were strong results and royalties at Arm, a British semiconductor and software design company in which SoftBank is a major investor.\n\nThe company also logged gains from its SoftBank Vision Funds.\n\nSoftBank invests in various companies, including ByteDance, the Chinese multinational that's behind TikTok, and PayPay, a popular Japanese mobile payment application.\n\nSoftBank said it was planning an IPO for PayPay. Launched in 2018, PayPay is now used by more than 68 million people, according to SoftBank. Japan's population is about 125 million."}
{"prompt_hash": "2532b5f344aba61d188d46a5a8d17699b6f2fbe54f47c5bd2f10472c0ee7268f", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 08:16:51+00:00", "topics": ["Donald Trump", "Toshihiro Mibe", "Hybrid vehicles", "Japan", "Economic policy", "Government policy", "Tokyo", "Finance", "Finance  Business", "Business", "Honda Motor Co.", "Ltd.", "China", "Mexico", "Compensation and benefits", "Yuri Kageyama", "Auto industry", "Nissan Motor Co.", "Mitsubishi Motors Corp."], "text": "# Japan's Honda projects plummeting profits due to Trump's tariffs\n\nBy Yuri Kageyama  \nMay 13th, 2025 08:16 AM\n\n---\n\nTOKYO (AP) \u2014 Honda's profit for the fiscal year through March slipped 24.5% from the previous year, as its vehicle sales in China dropped, and the Japanese automaker warned Tuesday that President Donald Trump's tariffs will worsen its earnings.\n\nTokyo-based Honda Motor Co., which dropped talks to integrate its business with Japanese rival Nissan Motor Corp. earlier this year, said its annual profit totaled 835.8 billion yen ($5.6 billion), down from 1.1 trillion yen in the previous fiscal year.\n\nAnnual sales edged up 6.2% to nearly 21.69 trillion yen ($147 billion).\n\nResearch and development costs hurt, despite Honda's record global motorcycle sales for the fiscal year, which topped 21 million motorcycles.\n\nHybrid vehicle sales also did well, especially in the U.S., and Honda's profitability per vehicle was also improving, according to the maker of the Accord sedan and CR-V sports-utility vehicle.\n\nExecutive Vice President Noriya Kaihara acknowledged that Trump's tariffs were likely to hurt, erasing 650 billion yen ($4.4 billion) from its operating profit for the fiscal year through March 2026. That's mainly because of U.S. tariffs on vehicles from Canada and Mexico. Honda's vehicle shipments from Japan to the U.S. are negligible.\n\nOfficials stressed major uncertainties remain, but said they felt it was important to give a realistic projection, no matter how pessimistic it might be.\n\nChief Executive Toshihiro Mibe said Honda will do its best to minimize the impact from tariffs. In the long term, Honda will transfer auto production to U.S. plants and rethink its investment plans. All decisions will be made \"very carefully,\" Mibe told reporters.\n\nHe also said Honda was sticking to its plans to produce more electric vehicles.\n\nVarious automakers have said they are baffled by Trump's opposition to EVs and his tariffs, and some companies are trimming back their ambitious electrification plans.\n\nHonda is projecting a 70% nose-dive in profit for the fiscal year through March 2026, at 250 billion yen ($1.7 billion), on 20.3 trillion yen ($137 billion) in sales, down 6%.\n\nHonda and Nissan announced in December they were going to hold talks to set up a joint holding company. Mitsubishi Motors Corp., another Japanese automaker, had said it was considering joining that group. But the plans quickly unraveled, with Nissan saying it wanted out because it would be at a disadvantage.\n\nNissan, which has slipped into red ink lately, reports financial results later Tuesday."}
{"prompt_hash": "4c1903dccde387d1ec9944baf55f9177dd7d0ee4f1751d0e1e8844f619bc4f7f", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 09:48:28+00:00", "topics": ["United Kingdom", "International agreements", "United Kingdom government", "Courts", "Israel government", "Finance", "Finance  Business", "International", "Benjamin Netanyahu", "Charlotte Andrews-Briscoe", "2024-2025 Mideast Wars", "Israel-Hamas war", "Sacha Deshmukh", "Business"], "text": "# UK High Court hears challenge to British government's role arming Israel\n\nBy Sylvia Hui  \nMay 13th, 2025 09:48 AM\n\n---\n\nLONDON (AP) \u2014 Human rights groups launched a court fight Tuesday challenging the U.K. government's decision to supply parts for F-35 fighter jets, saying they are being used by Israel in Gaza in violation of international law.\n\nThe legal challenge in the High Court alleges that the government is breaking domestic and international law and is complicit in atrocities against Palestinians by allowing essential components for the warplanes to be supplied to Israel.\n\n\"There's such clear evidence of the use of weapons parts from the U.K. being used in war crimes, including in genocide,\" Sacha Deshmukh, chief executive of Amnesty International UK, said at a rally outside the Royal Courts of Justice in London. \"Until this case reaches its judgment, right now as we speak, there are significant human rights violations being delivered by British-made weapons and bombs.\"\n\nThe government said in September that it was suspending about 30 of 350 existing export licenses for equipment deemed to be for use in the conflict in Gaza because of a \"clear risk\" that the items could be used to \"commit or facilitate a serious violation of international humanitarian law.\" Equipment included parts for helicopters and drones.\n\nBut an exemption was made for some licenses related to components of F-35 fighter jets, which have been linked to Israel's bombardment campaign in the Gaza Strip.\n\nRights groups argue that the United Kingdom shouldn't continue to export parts through what they call a \"deliberate loophole\" given the government's own assessment of Israel's compliance with international humanitarian law.\n\nPalestinian human rights organization Al-Haq and the U.K.-based Global Legal Action Network, which brought the legal challenge, say the components are indirectly supplied to Israel through the global spare parts supply chain.\n\nU.K. officials have argued that stopping the export of F-35 fighter jet components would endanger international peace and security.\n\nCompared to major arms suppliers such as the U.S. and Germany, British firms sell a relatively small amount of weapons and components to Israel.\n\nThe Campaign Against Arms Trade nonprofit group estimates that the U.K. supplies about 15% of the components in the F-35 stealth combat aircraft, including its laser targeting system.\n\n\"British-made F-35s are dropping multi-ton bombs on the people of Gaza, which the U.N. secretary-general has described as a 'killing field,'\" said Charlotte Andrews-Briscoe, a lawyer for the Global Legal Action Network.\n\n\"The U.K. government has expressly departed from its own domestic law in order to keep arming Israel. This decision is of continuing and catastrophic effect,\" she added.\n\nThe hearing is expected to last four days and a decision is expected at a later date.\n\nIsrael resumed its bombardment in Gaza in March, shattering a two-month ceasefire with Hamas. More than 52,800 people, more than half of them women and children, have been killed in Gaza, according to the territory's health ministry. The ministry's count doesn't differentiate between civilians and combatants. Israel says it has killed thousands of militants, without giving evidence.\n\nThe war began on Oct. 7, 2023, when Hamas militants attacked southern Israel, killing 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages.\n\nIn November, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Hamas' military chief, accusing them of crimes against humanity in connection with the war in Gaza."}
{"prompt_hash": "91273739500e4908882ebb5d49acad5cbed0161998363a2f42c78ed6c20c02c0", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 08:27:26+00:00", "topics": ["Donald Trump", "United Kingdom", "Emmanuel Macron", "Diplomacy", "Economic policy", "France government", "Politics", "Government policy", "Nicolas Sarkozy", "Royalty", "Carla Bruni", "Queen Elizabeth II"], "text": "# Buckingham Palace says French President Macron has accepted invitation for state visit in July\n\nBy Danica Kirka  \nMay 13th, 2025 08:27 AM\n\n---\n\nLONDON (AP) \u2014 French President Emmanuel Macron will make a state visit to the United Kingdom in July, as the two countries seek to bolster ties to counter Russian aggression and the economic fallout from U.S. President Donald Trump's aggressive trade policy.\n\nMacron and his wife, Brigitte, will stay at Windsor Castle for the visit, which will take place from July 8 to July 10, Buckingham Palace said Tuesday.\n\nThe dates mean that Macron will likely beat Trump to London. Charles in February invited Trump to make an unprecedented second state visit to Britain, but a date hasn't yet been set.\n\nCharles and Queen Camilla traveled to France in September 2023 in a visit that highlighted the historic ties between Britain and its closest European neighbor. The trip came after years of sometimes prickly relations strained by Britain's exit from the European Union and disagreements over the growing number of migrants crossing the English Channel on small boats.\n\nSpeaking to French lawmakers in the Senate chamber in Paris on the second day of that visit, Charles said the alliance between Britain and France was more important than ever as he recalled how they had worked together to defeat Nazi Germany.\n\nCharles was a frequent visitor to France before becoming king, making 35 official visits to the country as heir to the throne.\n\nThe last time a French head of state made a state visit to Britain was in March 2008, when President Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, were the guests of Queen Elizabeth II.\n\nState visits are ceremonial meetings between heads of state that are used to honor friendly nations and sometimes smooth relations between rivals. While the king formally issues the invitation for a state visit, he does so on the advice of the elected government.\n\nState visits to Britain are particularly prized by some heads of state because they come with a full complement of royal pomp and circumstance, including military reviews, carriage rides and a glittering state banquet hosted by the monarch.\n\nThe events normally take place in and around Buckingham Palace in central London. But the Macrons will stay at Windsor Castle, to the west of the capital. Buckingham Palace is undergoing extensive remodeling."}
{"prompt_hash": "faa0213b3d0b6c5d2a10d474b25469586760ad310e3584877546ec4fef78fdee", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-14 10:00:06+00:00", "topics": ["Scottie Scheffler", "Golf", "PGA Championship", "Xander Schauffele", "Rory McIlroy", "Virginia", "Virginia Beach", "Sports", "Nick Taylor", "Sahith Theegala"], "text": "# Rupe Taylor turns life around after a DWI. Now the golf pro is playing in the PGA Championship\n\nBy Doug Ferguson  \nMay 14th, 2025 10:00 AM\n\n---\n\nCHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) \u2014 Rupe Taylor had 10 days to contemplate his most improbable path to the PGA Championship, and that wasn't enough to prepare the golf professional when he arrived at Quail Hollow.\n\nHe walked 18 holes with a wedge and a putter to get comfortable. And then he stepped into the locker room and found himself face-to-face with Scottie Scheffler.\n\n\"I had to do a double take because I was like 'I can't believe this is happening,'\" said Taylor, a 35-year-old whose \"Play Better Golf Now\" instruction business in Virginia is affiliated with Virginia Beach National. \"He was so kind. He was authentic. I talked to him for a couple of minutes and he asked me about me.\"\n\nIt was only for a couple of minutes, not nearly enough time for Taylor to tell him about a life he feared he had squandered through alcohol until he woke up in a hospital room, his arms and legs tied to the bed and his mother sitting beside him with her head in her hands.\n\nTaylor was 23, a graduate of the Professional Golf Management program at North Carolina State, working at a Virginia golf course. He had been drinking since high school \u2014 \"Anything, anytime, any reason to drink,\" he said \u2014 until he was arrested for driving while intoxicated.\n\nHe had no memory of how he wound up in a hospital.\n\n\"I was completely incoherent,\" Taylor said. \"I didn't know what happened, so the only thing I knew to ask her was if I killed someone.\"\n\nThere was relief to find out there was only minor damage to his car and another vehicle. And there was a second chance he couldn't afford to pass up.\n\nHe attended Alcoholic Anonymous meetings practically every day. He met a girl through a social media app, Baylee, who trusted the process and stayed by him on the road to recovery, to finding work in the golf business.\n\nTaylor has been sober for 12 years now. They are married with an 18-month-old daughter, Noah. He worked at golf courses on Kiawah Island in South Carolina and back home in Virginia. That's when he decided to spend his working time giving lessons to a cross-section of people who wanted to get better, allowing more time with his wife and young daughter.\n\nYes, it's been a journey.\n\nTaylor is among the 20 club professionals at the PGA Championship who will take on Quail Hollow alongside Scheffler and Rory McIlroy and defending champion Xander Schauffele. The strongest field of the majors has 99 of the top 100 players in the world ranking.\n\nAnd the field includes Rupe Taylor, a recovering alcoholic and teaching professional who still can't believe he has his name plate in a locker room next to PGA Tour winners Nick Taylor and Sahith Theegala.\n\nPGA professionals have come under scrutiny over the years for diluting a field at a major championship. They are among some 31,000 members of the PGA of America who work long hours giving lessons, folding shirts, organizing club competitions. This is their reward.\n\nTaylor qualified at the PGA Professional Championship in Florida on April 30, making a double bogey on the 11th hole that made him sweat, recovering with consecutive birdies to easily finish in the top 20 to earn a spot in the field.\n\nScheffler recalls meeting Taylor on Sunday when he arrived.\n\n\"It's a lot of fun to have those guys in this tournament,\" Scheffler said. \"I think the PGA pros do a lot for the game of golf, running tournaments all over the country, teaching people all over the country, and it's a huge organization, and they do a lot for our game.\"\n\nTaylor mentioned being on Cloud 9 on more than one occasion, but actions speak louder than cliches. He showed up Monday at 7:30 a.m. in the rain and played 18 holes.\n\n\"Nothing is going to faze me,\" he said. \"We have rain gear. We have umbrellas. I'm at the PGA Championship. I'm going to play.\"\n\nIt was his second time at the PGA Professional Championship, the first experience a decade ago when he was just starting to get his life back in order. That wasn't easy on its own. And then a year into sobriety, Taylor lost his grandfather to cancer. Ten days later, his father died. He had diabetes from a young age and wasn't in the best shape.\n\n\"He had low blood sugar, got into a car accident and I never go to speak to him again,\" Taylor said, his voice cracking slightly.\n\nIt was a devastating time in his life, and yet he never felt stronger.\n\n\"At that point, I had my sobriety in order and I think in some ways it helped me deal with the grief,\" he said. \"A lot of what we discussed in AA is you can't let circumstances influence your desire to drink or give you an excuse.\n\n\"Without sobriety, I would have fallen into a deep depression and gotten into another bender.\"\n\nHis given name is Robert. Turns out he was playing Little League at age 10 and his coach had bad handwriting. He was called \"Rupert,\" which became Rupe. And it stuck. It's a name worth noting this week, even if it likely won't be found on the leaderboard.\n\nHis expectations are minimal. Quail Hollow is a big course for anyone, much less a professional who spends more time giving lessons than honing his own game. Taylor at times wonders how good he could have become had he chosen a different path in golf.\n\nThen again, he wonders how in the world he got from a hospital bed in a drunken state to teeing it up against Scheffler and McIlroy in the PGA Championship.\n\n\"I'm just going to do the best I can and have as much fun as I can,\" Taylor said. \"At the end of the day, it doesn't matter what I do. I feel like I won already just by being here.\""}
{"prompt_hash": "e7881b59ee29d662b1f705cad463bcf278dbecedac66f7f65e76e4387ee45c80", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-14 09:48:37+00:00", "topics": ["James Cook", "Australia", "United Kingdom", "Melbourne", "Stephen Jolly", "Politics", "Brad Battin", "Bill Lang", "Sydney Cove", "Indictments", "International agreements"], "text": "# Australian local government removes often-vandalized monument to renowned British explorer\n\nBy Rod Mcguirk  \nMay 14th, 2025 09:48 AM\n\n---\n\nMELBOURNE, Australia (AP) \u2014 An Australian local government has decided against repairing an often-vandalized monument to renowned British explorer James Cook because it would be destroyed again. But the mayor on Wednesday rejected accusations that the vandals have won.\n\nStatues and monuments to the 18th century naval officer are common in Australia and are often defaced by opponents of Britain's settlement of the country without a treaty with its Indigenous people. In 1770, then Lt. Cook charted the Australian east coast where Sydney would become the first British colony on the continent.\n\nThe granite and bronze monument to the master navigator and cartographer in an inner-city Melbourne park was vandalized days after the anniversary of the first British settlers' arrival at Sydney Cove was commemorated on Jan. 26. Opponents of Australia Day celebrations denounce the public holiday as \"Invasion Day.\" There are growing calls for the country to find a less divisive national day.\n\nThe monument in Melbourne's Edinburgh Gardens was snapped at its base and spray painted with the words \"cook the colony.\"\n\n## Local councilors vote unanimously against repairing monument\n\nMayor Stephen Jolly, head of the Yarra City Council, which is a municipality near the heart of Melbourne, said his fellow councilors had voted unanimously on Tuesday night against spending 15,000 Australian dollars ($9,700) on repairing the monument, which remains in storage.\n\nJolly said the decision to permanently remove the monument, which included an image of Cook's face cast in bronze, was about economics rather than taking a position in Australia's culture wars.\n\n\"It's about being economically rational. It's AU$15,000 a pop every time we have to repair it and it's persistently getting either demolished or vandalized or tagged,\" Jolly told Australian Broadcasting Corp.\n\n\"It's just a waste of ratepayers money. We can't afford to do that,\" Jolly added.\n\nBut Victoria state's Melbourne-based conservative opposition leader Brad Battin condemned removing such memorials as surrendering to vandals.\n\n\"We need to stand strong and remember the fact that this is part of our history,\" Battin told reporters.\n\n\"If you start to remove the history of our state and our country because of activists, then you're actually giving in to those that are campaigning against it,\" Battin added.\n\nJolly disagreed that his council had given the vandals what they wanted.\n\n\"No, I think they would've loved for us to put it back up and then they could've just tagged it again or destroyed it again and just had this ongoing sort of little war going on in Edinburgh Gardens,\" Jolly said.\n\n\"I think they're probably the most disappointed people that it's not going to be there anymore,\" Jolly added.\n\n## Monument base remains attached to a traffic cone\n\nThe base of the monument remained at the entrance of the park on Wednesday with a traffic cone attached to warn cyclists, joggers and pedestrians of the trip hazard it presents. Someone has scrawled a smiling face and a torso on the cone in an apparent reference to the memorial that had once stood in its place.\n\nJolly said a local branch of the Captain Cook Society, an international group that celebrates the explorer, have offered to preserve the bronze plaques.\n\nMelbourne-based society member Bill Lang said discussions were under way to find a short-term home for the monument, such as a museum.\n\nLang said the council's decision not to repair the monument was disheartening.\n\n\"It's very disappointing for every open-minded Australian that believes that there are lots of things that we can learn about and learn from our history that we should celebrate,\" Lang said."}
{"prompt_hash": "4658b8b9205f60a6a5d2b0740aa3a5c84b6995631cf179b3793f5a0628df8509", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-14 04:10:51+00:00", "topics": ["Hiroki Totoki", "Animation and comics", "Movies", "Comedy", "Tokyo", "Streaming media", "Media and entertainment industry", "Earnings", "Travis Scott", "Business", "Martin Lawrence", "Donald Trump", "Technology", "Japan", "SZA", "Entertainment", "Beyonce Knowles", "Yuri Kageyama", "Sony Group Corp."], "text": "# Sony racks up record profit on robust performance for music, movies and games\n\nBy Yuri Kageyama  \nMay 14th, 2025 04:10 AM\n\n---\n\nTOKYO (AP) \u2014 Japanese technology and entertainment company Sony logged an 18% rise in profit for the fiscal year through March on healthy results at its music and video-game operations.\n\nIts chief executive, Hiroki Totoki, outlined the company's strategy for growth Wednesday, stressing that collaboration among Sony Corp.'s various segments, like animation and music, were crucial to deliver the \"kando,\" or emotional engagement, that lies at the core of the company's vision and strength.\n\n\"Building on our momentum and results to date and working with a laser-like focus to realize our long-term Creative Entertainment Vision will be at the core of our corporate strategies moving forward,\" he told reporters.\n\nSony's movies division has strong offerings in the pipeline, including Spider-Man films and biopics about The Beatles, while animation remains a driver of growth centered around the popular anime streaming service Crunchyroll, Totoki said.\n\nTokyo-based Sony reported a record annual profit of 1.14 trillion yen ($7.8 billion), up from 970.6 billion yen in the previous fiscal year. Annual sales were virtually unchanged, inching down to 12.957 trillion yen ($88 billion) from 13.020 trillion yen.\n\nOne area that lagged among Sony's sprawling businesses was the financial segment, where revenue stalled. But its film division and its imaging and sensor solutions segment did well.\n\nSony officials said they were studying how to respond to President Donald Trump's tariffs, although that was a challenge because of uncertainties and constant changes. But they said the negative impact from U.S. trade policy will be kept to 10% of Sony's operating profit in the coming fiscal year by adjusting the allocation of shipments, among other measures.\n\nTotoki stressed that Sony plans to leverage its content creating technology, like virtual reality and image sensors, to feed into its entertainment products, including working on immersive experiences. Sony also has powerful collaborative relations with various entertainment companies like Kadokawa, which includes publishing as well as films and animation, and Bandai Namco, a video game maker, he added.\n\nSony will emphasize the \"diversity\" of its workers, helping bring out people's creative potential, Totoki said.\n\nAmong the Sony movies that fared well at the box office for the fiscal year through March were \"Venom: The Last Dance,\" featuring the Marvel Comics superhero, and \"Bad Boys: Ride or Die,\" an action comedy, where Will Smith and Martin Lawrence return in their popular cop roles in the fourth installment in the series.\n\nSony, which makes the PlayStation console and game software played on that machine, also posted healthy results in the gaming business.\n\nIts music operations, which also held up, include recordings, streaming services and music for games. The top-selling recorded music projects for the latest fiscal year globally was SZA's \"SOS Deluxe: LANA,\" followed by Beyonce, Future & Metro Boomin and Travis Scott.\n\nThe top seller in its Japan music business was Kenshi Yonezu's \"Lost Corner\" album, followed by offerings from Stray Kids and Six Tones.\n\nFor the January-March quarter, Sony posted a 197.7 billion yen ($1.3 billion) profit, up 5% from 189 billion yen the same quarter in the previous fiscal year. Sales were 2.6 trillion yen ($17.7 billion), down 24% from 3.48 trillion yen.\n\nSony is forecasting a nearly 13% drop in profit for the fiscal year through March 2026, to 930 billion yen ($6.3 billion), on 11.7 trillion yen ($80 billion) sales, down 2.9% on-year.\n\nSony Group Corp. stocks, which fell in Tokyo morning trading, rebounded to finish 3.7% higher after its financial results were announced."}
{"prompt_hash": "a67d1b4384b18199f6f2f9a306dbecf59d00cb9bb0097c7b93aed11eb6a507b4", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-14 08:50:34+00:00", "topics": ["Oscar Piastri", "Lando Norris", "Franco Colapinto", "Charles Leclerc", "Pierre Gasly", "Jack Doohan", "Automobile racing", "Miami", "Italy", "Formula One", "Auto Racing", "Sports", "Roland Ratzenberger", "Jack Brabham", "Max Verstappen", "Lewis Hamilton", "Dino Ferrari", "Formula One racing", "Oliver Oakes"], "text": "# Formula 1: How to watch the Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix on TV and what to know\n\nMay 14th, 2025 08:50 AM\n\n---\n\nIMOLA, Italy (AP) \u2014 Here's a guide that tells you what you need to know about Sunday's Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix. It's the seventh round of the 2025 Formula 1 season.\n\n## How to watch the Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix on TV\n\n\u2014 In the U.S., on ESPN.\n\n\u2014 Other countries are listed here.\n\n## What is the Emilia-Romagna GP schedule?\n\n\u2014 Friday: First and second practice sessions.\n\n\u2014 Saturday: Third practice and qualifying.\n\n\u2014 Sunday: Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix, 63 laps on the 4.91-kilometer (3.05-mile) Imola circuit. Starts at 9 a.m. ET (1300 GMT).\n\n## Where is the Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix taking place?\n\nThe Imola circuit \u2014 officially the Autodromo Internazionale Enzo e Dino Ferrari \u2014 is a narrow, old-school circuit which is a favorite with many drivers. It's a venue with a history of tragedy after three-time F1 champion Ayrton Senna and Austrian driver Roland Ratzenberger were both killed during the 1994 race weekend. Italy is the only country other than the United States with more than one race on the 2025 F1 calendar. The Italian Grand Prix name belongs to Monza, which hosts in September, so this week's race is named after the Emilia-Romagna region. Imola is in the last year of its contract.\n\n## What happened in the last race?\n\nOscar Piastri extended his standings lead with his third win in a row, taking victory at the Miami Grand Prix. That came after his teammate and title rival Lando Norris went head-to-head with defending champion Max Verstappen and ran off track. Norris had taken valuable points a day earlier by winning the sprint race.\n\n## What do I need to know about F1\n\nGet caught up:\n\n\u2014 Oscar Piastri wins at Miami for 3rd straight F1 victory, 4th win of season for championship leader\n\n\u2014 Franco Colapinto is back in F1 with Alpine after the team dropped Jack Doohan\n\n\u2014 Alpine team principal Oliver Oakes' resignation came days after police charged brother\n\n\u2014 Ferrari frustration mounts as Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc struggle at Miami Grand Prix\n\n\u2014 Cadillac F1 makes its entrance as official team at Miami Grand Prix as questions swirl about lineup\n\n## Key stats at Imola\n\n6 \u2014 The win in Miami was the sixth of Piastri's career, taking him past teammate Norris' five career victories. It's Piastri's third season in F1, and Norris is in his seventh year.\n\n4 \u2014 Piastri can become the first Australian to win four F1 races in a row since Jack Brabham in 1966.\n\n2 \u2014 Franco Colapinto has been a mid-season replacement twice now in F1, first with Williams last year and now with Alpine, replacing Pierre Gasly. Just like in 2024, his first race of the year is in Italy.\n\n## What they're saying\n\n\"I've got good momentum behind me and I'm extremely focused heading into this first race of the European swing of the season.\" \u2014 Oscar Piastri.\n\n\"I am very excited to be going into race week for the first time since December. I am very grateful for this opportunity and now I have to get up to speed and showcase what I am capable of doing in the car.\" \u2014 Franco Colapinto."}
{"prompt_hash": "7201c8a78f69d7bdf2647a6def574639c9894b3baa77f7a298b4cd55a77588e7", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-14 05:41:30.412000+00:00", "topics": ["JWD-evergreen"], "text": "# Meet the Mount Athos monks living at Simonos Petra monastery in northern Greece\n\nBy Costas Kantouris  \nMay 14th, 2025 05:41 AM\n\n---\n\nMount Athos, a verdant peninsula in northern Greece, has been a center of Christian Orthodox monasticism for more than 1,000 years.\n\nThe all-male autonomous community, known in Greek as Agion Oros, or Holy Mountain, is no stranger to non-Greeks. Of its 20 monasteries, one is Russian, one is Bulgarian and one is Serbian, and the presence of monks from other nations is not unusual.\n\nBut it is in one monastery \u2014 Simonos Petra \u2014 that the greatest range of nationalities reside.\n\nHere is a look at four of Simonos Petra's monks, and how they view Mount Athos:\n\n## Archimandrite Eliseos, 74: Greek\n\nAbbot of Simonos Petra since 2000, Eliseos has been living in the monastery since 1973.\n\nOn Mount Athos: \"Truly Mount Athos spiritually has no borders. It is a place, a center of Christian monasticism. Not just now, since a long time ago. And it has the name Agion Oros (Holy Mountain).\n\nAnd indeed, spiritually we cannot say it has borders. And this is proven through its survival through the centuries, that Mount Athos \u2026 has a sacred mission to unite people in peaceful coexistence, where between them there will be true relationships, love and harmonious cooperation.\"\n\n## Father Isaiah, 50: Chinese, born in Vietnam\n\nIsaiah has been living in Simonos Petra since 2006, arriving there from an affiliated monastery in France as part of a spiritual quest.\n\nOn what brought him to Mount Athos: \"It was in essence a deep searching of spiritual life, which is the answer for the meaning of life. And I have searched for that since my youth. Because I am a diaspora Chinese and I left Vietnam where I was born as a refugee and then we were accepted with my family in Switzerland and I grew up there.\n\nAnd in that Swiss environment, I was trying to understand what I'm doing, where I'm going, what is the meaning of life. And in searching, I found some answers through virtue, and this virtue was connected with the face of Orthodoxy.\"\n\n## Father Makarios, 73: French\n\nMakarios has been living in Simonos Petra since 1979, after beginning a spiritual quest triggered by the 1968 student uprisings in Paris.\n\nOn what brought him to Mount Athos: \"Initially it is the search for truth. I am of the generation of 1968 in Paris, where everyone was thinking of revolution, of political revolution. With some friends, we felt that the problem the young people had back then was not political, that it was spiritual, that our society had forgotten the meaning of tradition, of the holiness of God.\n\n\u2026 I found in an intellectual search that in the end, fulfillment, the fulfilment of truth, is in Christianity, but in the initial Christianity, in the fathers of the Church, in the Apostles. And while searching, I found that this was not just a reference, a nostalgia of the past, but that it exists, it lives in the Orthodox Church.\"\n\n## Father Serafeim, 46: Syrian-Lebanese\n\nSerafeim has been living in Simonos Petra since 2010.\n\nOn what Mount Athos means to him: \"The Holy Mountain is a place, I'd say, where you truly find spiritual peace. You see, monasticism has always sought peaceful places to find itself and thus to seek God. The Holy Mountain is primarily a place which for many centuries has kept this character.\""}
{"prompt_hash": "5e0af8a2628d1fa700023eb38dbae48cb0544e8e3a6eadf4345e416185473804", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-14 08:00:34+00:00", "topics": ["Migrant workers", "Saudi Arabia", "Labor", "Donald Trump", "Human Rights Watch", "Qatar", "Persian Gulf", "Finance", "Finance  Business", "Qatar government", "Politics", "United States government", "Mohammad bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud", "Business", "James Lynch"], "text": "# Rights groups say migrant workers are dying on Saudi job sites as kingdom prepares for World Cup\n\nBy Gabe Levin  \nMay 14th, 2025 08:00 AM\n\n---\n\nDUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) \u2014 Scores of laborers from countries including India, Bangladesh and Nepal have faced preventable deaths from electrocution, road accidents, falling from heights, and more while working in Saudi Arabia, according to a report Wednesday by the advocacy group Human Rights Watch.\n\nHuman Rights Watch and another rights group, FairSquare, released separate investigations Wednesday detailing preventable deaths of migrant workers from job-site accidents and work-related illnesses.\n\nThe reports accuse Saudi authorities of often misreporting such deaths and failing to investigate, preventing families from receiving compensation from the kingdom that they are entitled to and knowing how their loved ones died.\n\nAs Saudi Arabia pushes ahead with hundreds of billions of dollars in infrastructure and development initiatives \u2014 including the 2034 men's soccer World Cup and the futuristic city Neom \u2014 rights groups warn of thousands more avoidable deaths in the coming years.\n\nIn one case, Human Rights Watch said a Bangladeshi worker was electrocuted on the job. But his employer allegedly withheld the body, telling the family they would be compensated only if they agreed to a local burial.\n\nAnother family reported waiting nearly 15 years before they were compensated by the Saudi government.\n\n\"It's very urgent that the Saudi authorities and FIFA put in place basic labor rights protections,\" Minky Worden, Human Rights Watch's director of global initiatives, told The Associated Press, referring to soccer's world governing body.\n\nAuthorities in Saudi Arabia did not respond to a request for comment.\n\nFairSquare, which looked into the deaths of 17 Nepali contractors in Saudi Arabia over the last 18 months, warned in its report that without accountability, \"thousands of unexplained deaths\" of low-paid foreign workers are likely to follow.\n\n\"In some cases, you have families being pursued by money lenders for the loans that their (dead) husband or father took out in order to migrate to the Gulf,\" said James Lynch, who co-directs FairSquare.\n\nSaudi Arabia has long faced allegations of labor abuses and wage theft tied to its Vision 2030 project, a big-money effort to diversify its economy beyond dependence on oil.\n\nFIFA shared with the AP a letter it sent Human Rights Watch last month defending the selection of Saudi Arabia as host of the 2034 World Cup.\n\nThe letter cited the Saudis' commitments to establishing \"a workers' welfare system\" and enhancing \"country-wide labor protections including through a strengthened collaboration\" with the United Nations' International Labor Organization.\n\nThe kingdom is not the only Gulf Arab state to be accused of abusing migrant laborers in the run-up to a World Cup. Rights groups also criticized Qatar, which hosted the competition in 2022, saying they tallied thousands of unexplained worker deaths.\n\nBut this time has the potential to be even worse for foreign workers, Worden said, noting that the 2034 World Cup has plans to require more stadiums and infrastructure with more teams competing.\n\nQatar established an oversight board called the Supreme Committee, which monitored FIFA construction sites and took reports of unsafe work conditions.\n\n\"There's no such committee like that in Saudi Arabia,\" Worden said, adding, \"In the end, Qatar did have concrete policies like life insurance and heat protection. Those aren't in place now\" in Saudi Arabia.\n\nThe details of the investigations from Human Rights Watch and FairSquare come a day after FIFA President Gianni Infantino joined U.S. President Donald Trump on his official visit to Saudi Arabia, where Trump met with Saudi Arabia's de facto ruler Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman."}
{"prompt_hash": "d40f6e6c081166b4ec0c64be7696948e4333ccc0e370e1500bb1c061a5f76338", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 23:06:23+00:00", "topics": ["Agriculture", "Des Moines", "Argentina", "Biochemistry", "Future of food", "JWD-evergreen", "Business", "Norman Borlaug", "Science"], "text": "# Food grown with fewer chemicals? A Brazilian scientist wins $500,000 for showing the way\n\nBy Scott Mcfetridge  \nMay 13th, 2025 11:06 PM\n\n---\n\nDES MOINES, Iowa (AP) \u2014 A Brazilian scientist who pushed back against chemical fertilizers and researched biologically based approaches to more robust food production has been honored with this year's World Food Prize, the organization announced Tuesday.\n\nMicrobiologist Mariangela Hungria's research helped her country become an agricultural powerhouse, an accomplishment that has now won her $500,000 from the Iowa-based World Food Prize Foundation. Hungria has been researching biological seed and soil treatments for 40 years, and has worked with Brazilian farmers to implement her findings.\n\n\"I still cannot believe it. Everybody said, my whole life, it's improbable, you are going the wrong way, just go to things like chemicals and so on. And then, I received the most important prize in the world of agriculture,\" Hungria said in an interview. \"Sometimes I still think I'll wake up and see that it's not true.\"\n\nNorman Borlaug, who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 for his work to dramatically increase crop yields and reduce the threat of starvation in many countries, founded the World Food Prize. Since the first prize was handed out in 1987, 55 people have been honored.\n\nHungria said she grew up wanting to alleviate hunger. Early in her career, she decided to focus on a process called biological nitrogen fixation, in which soil bacteria could be used to promote plant growth. At that time, farmers in Brazil and around the world were reluctant to reduce their use of nitrogen fertilizers, which dramatically increase crop production but lead to greenhouse gas emissions and pollutes waterways.\n\nHungria studied how bacteria can interact with plant roots to naturally produce nitrogen. She then demonstrated her work on test plots and began working directly with farmers to convince them that they wouldn't have to sacrifice high crop yields if they switched to a biological process.\n\nThe work is credited for increasing yields of several crops, including wheat, corn and beans, but it has been especially affective on soybeans. Brazil has since become the world's largest soybean producer, surpassing the United States and Argentina.\n\nAlthough Hungria's research could be applied on farms in other countries, soybean production in the U.S. is different than it is in Brazil; American farmers typically rotate crops on their land between growing corn and soybeans. Enough nitrate fertilizer applied to corn still remains in the soil when soybeans are planted that little or no fertilizer needs to be applied, Hungria said.\n\nBrazilian agricultural companies have faced fierce criticism for clearing forested land to create farmland, largely to grow soybeans.\n\nMuch of that criticism is justified, Hungria said, but she added that her biological approach builds up the soil and makes further encroachment into forested areas less necessary.\n\n\"If you manage the crop well, the crop will enrich the soil with nitrogen. Soil health improves if you do the right things,\" she said.\n\nHungria will be awarded her prize at an annual October gathering in Des Moines, Iowa, of agricultural researchers and officials from around the world.\n\nGebisa Ejeta, chair of the World Food Prize Laureate Selection Committee, credited Hungria for her \"extraordinary scientific achievements\" that have transformed agriculture in South America.\n\n\"Her brilliant scientific work and her committed vision for advancing sustainable crop production to feed humanity with judicious use of chemical fertilizer inputs and biological amendments has gained her global recognition both at home and abroad,\" Ejeta said in a statement."}
{"prompt_hash": "61ab1b776fa7bd4819f7b603350b636714d7e0b677c03733a1e7bda8f65e8779", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 10:00:36+00:00", "topics": ["Financial services", "Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation", "Financial markets", "Business", "Lifestyle", "Christine Benz", "Stocks and bonds", "Morningstar", "Inc."], "text": "# The best places to park your short-term investments\n\nBy Christine Benz Of Morningstar  \nMay 13th, 2025 10:00 AM\n\n---\n\nAs you sift among the various options for your short-term investments, keep these key items on your dashboard: yield, guarantees, liquidity and your individual situation.\n\nThe short-term investments that promise the highest yields often come with at least some risk and/or constraints on your daily access to funds. It may be that you're just looking for the highest safe yield and don't care that much about liquidity. Or maybe having ready access to your funds is the name of the game.\n\nAlso think through whether you value an ironclad guarantee or are willing to go without in exchange for a potentially higher yield. Some cash instruments are fully FDIC-insured, while others are not. On the short list of FDIC-insured investments are checking and savings accounts, CDs, money market accounts (not to be confused with money market mutual funds), and online savings accounts.\n\n## Certificates of deposit\n\nCDs will typically offer the most compelling yields of all cash instruments, and they're also FDIC-insured.\n\nYet there are a couple of caveats. One is that minimum deposits for the highest-yielding CDs might be $25,000 or even higher. There's also a trade-off on the liquidity front: You'll usually pay a penalty if you need to crack into your holdings before the maturity date. The longer the term of the CD, the bigger the penalty for cashing out early.\n\n## Online savings accounts\n\nIf you want daily liquidity, a decent yield, and FDIC protection, your best bet will tend to be a high-yield savings account through an online bank or a savings account through a credit union. The former offers FDIC protection, up to the limits, whereas credit union accounts are insured by another entity, the National Credit Union Administration.\n\n## Money market mutual funds\n\nMoney market mutual funds also offer daily liquidity and the convenience of having those funds live side by side with your long-term investments. But money market fund yields are still generally below those of online savings accounts today. Additionally, money market mutual funds aren't FDIC-insured, though in practice most funds have done an excellent job of maintaining stable net asset values.\n\nDon't confuse money market mutual funds with brokerage sweep accounts, though both are offered by investment providers. Interest rates on brokerage sweep accounts, which hold investors' cash that hasn't yet been invested, have ticked up a bit recently but are still well below other cash options.\n\n## Stable-value funds\n\nStable-value funds are another example of an investment that offers an often-decent yield in exchange for not checking the liquidity and guarantee boxes.\n\nStable-value funds are only accessible inside of company retirement plans. They invest in bonds, so they're not FDIC-insured; to protect investors' principal, they employ insurance wrappers to help maintain a stable net asset value. Just bear in mind that stable-value funds carry drawbacks. Because you can only own such a fund within a 401(k), you'll pay taxes and penalties to withdraw your money before retirement unless you meet certain criteria. So don't think of a stable-value fund as an emergency fund unless you're already retired or close to it.\n\n## Honorable mention: I Bonds\n\nIn contrast with the preceding investment types, I bonds are the only safe investment vehicles that will guarantee to make investors whole with respect to inflation. I bonds are Treasury bonds that pay a fixed rate of interest as well as another layer of interest that varies with the current inflation rate, as measured by the Consumer Price Index.\n\nAs attractive as that is, it comes with a few asterisks. If you redeem an I bond within five years of buying it, you'll forfeit three months' worth of interest. Purchase constraints are another drawback for large investors."}
{"prompt_hash": "53a0e5810779c2ef9cf99bcdc8f2de77817eecddd8970cfd518e701530f035b9", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 04:29:40+00:00", "topics": ["Rodrigo Duterte", "Sara Duterte", "Ferdinand Marcos Jr.", "Philippines government", "Legal proceedings", "The Hague", "Netherlands", "Global elections", "Jean Franco", "Courts", "International Criminal Court", "Indictments", "Elections", "Politics", "Impeachment"], "text": "# Detained Philippines ex-President Duterte wins mayoral race in his home city\n\nBy Teresa Cerojano  \nMay 13th, 2025 04:29 AM\n\n---\n\nMANILA, Philippines (AP) \u2014 Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte was elected as mayor in his home city by a landslide, official results showed Tuesday, despite his detention by the International Criminal Court.\n\nThe Davao election board proclaimed Duterte won the race for Davao mayor, with the official tally showing that he garnered over 660,000 votes, or eight times as many as his closest rival. Elated supporters chanted \"Duterte, Duterte\" when the result was announced.\n\nHis youngest son, Sebastian, the incumbent mayor of Davao, was declared Davao vice mayor. His eldest son, Paolo, was reelected as a member of the House of Representatives, and two grandsons won in local races, an indication of the family's continued influence.\n\n\"Duterte landslide in Davao!\" his youngest daughter Veronica posted on Facebook\n\nPartial unofficial results showed at least five candidates backed by the Duterte family were also among those leading the race for 12 Senate positions, in a stronger-than-expected showing in Monday's midterm elections. Pre-election surveys had indicated only two of them would emerge victorious.\n\nThe results come as a boost for Duterte's daughter, Vice President Sara Duterte, ahead of an impeachment trial in the Senate in July over a raft of charges including alleged misuse of public funds and plotting to assassinate President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., his wife and the House speaker.\n\nSara Duterte is considered a strong contender for the 2028 presidential race. But if convicted by the Senate, she will lose her job and will be disqualified from holding public office forever. To be acquitted, she needs at least nine of the 24 senators to vote in her favor.\n\nResults of the Senate race will be known in a week. Apart from the five Duterte-backed candidates, the others leading in the top 12 included five others endorsed by Marcos and two opposition candidates.\n\nWhile the senate race outcome was encouraging for Sara Duterte, the jury is still out on how the impeachment trial will go for her, said Jean Franco, a political science professor from the University of the Philippines. If damning evidence were raised against her, Franco indicated it could hurt her chances of an acquittal.\n\nThe Senate race unofficial results also showed that support for Marcos, whose approval rating fell in April, is dwindling and could turn up surprises in the 2028 elections, Franco added.\n\nIn a statement, Marcos thanked Filipinos who voted, saying \"our democracy has renewed itself \u2014 peacefully, orderly and with dignity.\"\n\n\"We may not have won every seat, but our work and mission continue,\" he added.\n\nThe impeachment and Rodrigo Duterte's arrest and transfer to the tribunal in The Hague came after Marcos and Sara Duterte's ties unraveled over political differences and their competing ambitions. Duterte supporters slammed Marcos's government for arresting and surrendering the former leader to a court whose jurisdiction his supporters dispute.\n\nNicknamed \"the Punisher\" and \"Dirty Harry,\" Duterte served as Davao's mayor for two decades before becoming president. He has been in the custody of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, since March, awaiting trial for crimes against humanity over a brutal war on illegal drugs that left thousands of suspects dead during his 2016-2022 presidency.\n\nUnder Philippine law, candidates facing criminal charges, including those in detention, can run for office unless they have been convicted and have exhausted all appeals.\n\nSara Duterte had told reporters after voting Monday that she was in talks with her father's lawyers on how he could take his oath as mayor despite being behind bars. She had said the vice mayor would likely be the acting mayor."}
{"prompt_hash": "c1c6340a5356368f85c8cd2d853fe9cdc15cf527ba916926d22d198ad6a6a7de", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 04:15:39+00:00", "topics": ["California", "Homelessness", "Government budgets", "Legislation", "Carolyn Coleman", "Daniel Lurie", "Jay Joshua", "Health", "Matt Mahan", "Politics", "Alex Visotzky"], "text": "# What to know about California Gov. Gavin Newsom's move to ban encampments\n\nBy Janie Har  \nMay 13th, 2025 04:15 AM\n\n---\n\nSAN FRANCISCO (AP) \u2014 California's governor called upon the state's cities and counties to ban homeless encampments this week, even providing blueprint legislation for dismantling the tents lining streets, parks and waterways throughout much of the state.\n\nGov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, made homelessness a priority of his administration when he took office in 2019. It had previously been an issue primarily for mayors and other local officials, but Newsom pumped money into converting old motels into housing and launched other initiatives to tackle the issue.\n\nStill, he has repeatedly called out cities and counties to do their part, and on Monday, he unveiled draft language that can be adopted by local governments to remove encampments. Here is what to know:\n\n## What does the model ordinance say?\n\nNewsom's model ordinance includes prohibitions on \"persistent camping\" in one location and encampments blocking sidewalks and other public spaces. It asks cities and counties to provide notice and make every reasonable effort to identify and offer shelter before clearing an encampment.\n\n## What do local governments say?\n\nOrganizations representing California's cities and counties balked at the suggestion that they are to blame for street conditions. They say they need dedicated, sustained funding over multiple years for permanent projects instead of sporadic, one-time funding.\n\nCarolyn Coleman, executive director and CEO of the League of California Cities, said that eight in 10 cities have policies to address encampments but they need money to address the root causes of homelessness, such as more housing.\n\nThe California State Association of Counties said the state has not provided as much money to address homelessness as it says it has and that half of the money has gone to housing developers.\n\n## What do homeless advocates say?\n\nStudies have shown that encampment bans and other punitive measures make it even harder for people to find stable housing and work, said Alex Visotzky with the National Alliance to End Homelessness.\n\nPeople may lose critical documents or lose contact with a trusted case manager, forcing them to start all over again.\n\nIn Los Angeles, Jay Joshua watches over a small encampment in which he also lives. He says encampments can be a safe space for those living there.\n\n## What are California cities doing about encampments?\n\nMajor cities with Democratic mayors have already started cracking down on encampments, saying they present a public health and safety hazard.\n\nIn San Francisco, new mayor Daniel Lurie vowed to clean up city sidewalks. In San Jose, Mayor Matt Mahan has proposed arrests if a person refuses shelter three times.\n\n## Do cities and counties have to adopt it?\n\nNewsom can't make cities and counties adopt an encampment ban.\n\nBut the proposed encampment legislation was paired with an announcement of $3.3 billion in grant money for facilities to treat mental health and substance abuse disorders, suggesting that he could condition state funding on compliance.\n\nIn 2022, he paused $1 billion in state money for local government, saying that their plans to reduce homelessness fell short of the acceptable."}
{"prompt_hash": "b782a78e57b36b389c1ac4b68a6172c67efaae4f3ef8c20fb4444bcd415f98f7", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 08:29:29+00:00", "topics": ["Ivan Espinosa", "Yokohama", "Auto industry", "Donald Trump", "Japan", "Labor", "Japan government", "China", "Earnings", "Yuri Kageyama", "International trade", "Business", "Nissan Motor Co.", "Ltd.", "Jeremie Papin"], "text": "# Nissan slashes 15% of its global work force as the Japan automaker sinks into losses\n\nBy Yuri Kageyama  \nMay 13th, 2025 08:29 AM\n\n---\n\nTOKYO (AP) \u2014 Nissan is slashing about 15% of its global work force, or about 20,000 employees, as the Japanese automaker reported a loss Tuesday for the fiscal year that just ended amid slipping vehicle sales in China and other nations, and towering restructuring costs.\n\nNissan Motor Corp. said it will reduce the number of its auto plants to 10 from 17, under what it called its recovery plan to carry out \"decisive and bold actions to enhance performance and create a leaner, more resilient business that adapts quickly to market changes.\" It did not say which plants were being closed but confirmed the closures will include factories in Japan.\n\n\"We have a mountain to climb,\" its Chief Executive Ivan Espinosa told reporters, stressing the task will not be easy, requiring discipline and team work. \"Starting today, we build the future for Nissan.\"\n\nThe job cuts to be done by March 2028 include the 9,000 head count reduction announced last year. Nissan also previously announced the scrapping of plans to build a battery plant in Japan.\n\nEspinosa, who took the helm earlier this year, said the latest plans followed a careful review of operations, to align production with demand, including coming up with market and product strategies. Nissan will also leverage its partnerships such as the one with Renault SA of France in Europe and Dongfeng Nissan in China, he said.\n\nThe Yokohama-based automaker said U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs on auto imports also hurt its results.\n\nNissan racked up a loss of 670.9 billion yen ($4.5 billion) for the fiscal year through March, down from a 426.6 billion yen profit recorded the previous fiscal year.\n\nFor the latest quarter through March, Nissan recorded red ink totaling 676 billion yen ($4.6 billion). It also said its recovery plan includes trying to reduce costs by 500 billion yen ($3.4 billion) compared to current costs.\n\n\"As new management, we are taking a prudent approach to reassess our targets and actively seek every possible opportunity to implement and ensure a robust recovery,\" Espinosa said.\n\n\"All employees are committed to working together as a team to implement this plan, with the goal of returning to profitability by fiscal year 2026,\" he said.\n\nBut Nissan Chief Financial Officer Jeremie Papin acknowledged the automaker faces serious challenges. Nissan did not give a profit projection for the fiscal year through March 2026, citing uncertainties."}
{"prompt_hash": "eb0d1e25ecb7e838f771b77e58ddc9249b42ddb69b28613fea65f173949246c5", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 08:08:32+00:00", "topics": ["Mike Hesson", "Cricket", "Gary Kirsten", "New Zealand", "Pakistan", "Azhar Mahmood", "Sports"], "text": "# Pakistan appoints Mike Hesson of New Zealand as white-ball head coach\n\nMay 13th, 2025 08:08 AM\n\n---\n\nISLAMABAD (AP) \u2014 Pakistan appointed Mike Hesson of New Zealand as the head coach of its white-ball cricket team on Tuesday.\n\nThe position had been vacant since South African Gary Kirsten quit last year, with Jason Gillespie and Aaqib Javed `being appointed as interim coaches.\n\n\"Mike brings with him a wealth of international experience and a proven track record of developing competitive sides,\" Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Mohsin Naqvi said in a statement Tuesday. \"We look forward to his expertise and leadership in shaping the future of Pakistan's white-ball cricket. Welcome to the team, Mike!\"\n\nHesson had previously served as head coach of New Zealand and Kenya. He is also currently serving as head coach of Islamabad United, who are the defending champions of the Pakistan Super League.\n\nSeveral former cricketers, including Azhar Mahmood, had applied for the job.\n\nThe PCB formed a four-member committee to select the new head coach, with Javed as one of the members. The PCB named Javed as the director of its High Performance Center in Lahore.\n\nPakistan is due to host Bangladesh for a five-match Twenty20 series later this month. However, the tour could be rescheduled after Pakistan announced that the PSL would resume from Saturday after the ceasefire between India and Pakistan, with the final now to be held on May 25."}
{"prompt_hash": "778e8479aa6e89c02bdbd7c4753e27bb587914110351c48a3a9b67ea195b8793", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 01:38:10+00:00", "topics": ["Senegal", "Public health", "Metals and mining", "Poisoning", "Mali", "Guinea", "Children", "Womens health", "AFRICA PULSE", "Annika Hammerschlag", "Climate and environment", "Duke University-led", "Health", "Semiconductor manufacturing", "Technology"], "text": "# Mercury fuels gold mining in Senegal. And it's poisoning the people who use it\n\nBy Annika Hammerschlag  \nMay 13th, 2025 01:38 AM\n\n---\n\nKEDOUGOU, Senegal (AP) \u2014 The quickest way to separate gold from rock, Sadio Camara says, is with a drop of mercury. She empties a dime-sized packet of the silvery liquid into a plastic bucket of muddy sediment outside her home in southeastern Senegal. With bare hands and no mask, she swirls the mixture as her children look on.\n\n\"I know mercury isn't good for your health \u2014 that's why I don't drink the water it comes into contact with,\" she said. \"I only process small amounts of gold, so there's no danger.\"\n\nBut even small-scale exposure can carry serious risks.\n\nAcross West Africa, mercury \u2014 a potent neurotoxin \u2014 remains the dominant method for extracting gold from ore in the region's booming informal mining sector, much of it illegal and unregulated. In Senegal's gold-rich Kedougou region, women like Camara use the metal regularly, often without protective gloves and masks, to make a living.\n\nMercury exposure can cause irreversible brain damage, developmental delays, tremors and loss of vision, hearing and coordination. Once released, it spreads easily through air, water and soil. Particularly after heavy rains, it contaminates rivers, poisons fish and accumulates up the food chain.\n\nA 2018 Duke University-led study found mercury levels in soils, sediments and water near artisanal gold mining villages in southeastern Senegal that exceeded safety thresholds set by the World Health Organization and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency by 10 to 100 times.\n\nIn artisanal mining, mercury is prized for its ability to bind quickly and easily to gold. Miners mix the liquid metal into crushed ore, and the mixture is then heated \u2014 often over open flames \u2014 to evaporate the mercury and leave behind a lump of gold. The process is cheap, effective and dangerous.\n\n\"If it hurt right away, like a knife, people would stop. But the issue is that it takes years for the dangers to manifest,\" said Doudou Dram\u00e9, president of the Observatoire Territoriale du Secteur Extractif, an organization that advocates for safer conditions for gold miners in Kedougou. \"People are dumping it directly into the river. They're burning it in the open, releasing toxic smoke into the air. It's extremely dangerous.\"\n\nArtisanal and small-scale gold mining is the largest global source of mercury emissions, even more than the burning of coal, according to the UN Environment Programme. In Senegal alone, artisanal mines are estimated to release between 12 and 16 metric tons of mercury each year.\n\n\"Kedougou has rich land \u2014 very rich land,\" Dram\u00e9 said. \"Now mercury is everywhere. Our animals consume it, and it comes back to us. Even the soil is no longer fertile.\"\n\n## For women, a life that puts them in mercury's way\n\nAlong the muddy banks of a rust-colored pond, dozens of women wade knee-deep as they rinse piles of sediment in search of gold. Children dart between mounds of earth while the runoff pools around their feet. With little access to clean water, many women spend long hours in local waterways to work, bathe their children, wash clothes and clean dishes.\n\n\"Women are much more exposed than men,\" said Modou Goumbala, the monitoring and evaluation manager at La Lumiere, an NGO that supports community development in southeastern Senegal.\n\nThat exposure can be especially dangerous for pregnant and nursing women. Mercury can cross the placenta, putting fetuses at risk of developmental delays and birth defects. Infants may also absorb the toxin through contaminated breast milk.\n\nInside her kitchen hut not far from the stream, Camara heats a nugget of mercury-laced sediment with a metal spoon over an open flame. The toxic metal evaporates and leaves behind a kernel of gold. There's no mask, no gloves \u2014 just the raw materials and her bare hands. Her children stand just a few feet away, watching and breathing the fumes.\n\nCamara said she doesn't usually handle the burning herself; that task is typically left to men. But she and other women regularly mix and shape the mercury amalgam with no protection. One of her children suffers from frequent stomachaches, though she hasn't noticed any other symptoms. Still, the risks loom.\n\n## Why take the risks? Because gold pays\n\n\"The easiest way to earn money today is gold mining,\" Camara said. \"Subsistence agriculture will not provide you enough for food or other needs.\"\n\nIn Senegal, gold processors like Camara typically process between 5 and 10 grams of gold per month, earning the equivalent of $370 to $745 \u2014 more than double the national average salary of about $200.\n\nSenegal ratified the Minamata Convention on Mercury in 2016, pledging to reduce mercury use and pollution. But the substance remains widely accessible. Most of the country's supply comes from Guinea, Mali, Burkina Faso and Ghana, with smaller amounts smuggled from dental clinics in Dakar, according to a 2022 report by the Institute for Security Studies.\n\nIn 2020, the government promised to build 400 mercury-free gold processing units. So far, only one has been constructed \u2014 in Bantaco, about 15 miles from Camara's home. The facility uses gravity to separate gold from ore, eliminating the need for mercury by relying on sluices and shaking tables.\n\nDuring a recent visit, the rusting slab of metal sat unused beneath a corrugated roof.\n\n\"People used it for a while, but then they stopped, because one single unit can't cover an entire community,\" Goumbala said. \"Naturally, those who were nearby could use it. But for those who are very far away, they can't afford to transport the ore all the way, process it and then go back. It's extra work. That's a problem.\"\n\nCamara said she tried the unit, but in addition to being far away, it was less effective at isolating gold \u2013 some was lost in the process.\n\nRepeated efforts to schedule an interview with Senegal's director of artisanal and small-scale mining were unsuccessful. The director later said the department had been suspended. He did not provide a reason.\n\nSenegal swore in a new president in 2024, but residents say the problems remain.\n\n\"There's a new administration in place, but promises are still just promises,\" Goumbala said. He believes the lack of progress is due to limited funding.\n\nIn an effort to curb pollution, authorities temporarily suspended mining within 500 meters (1,640 feet)of the Faleme River, which cuts through Senegal's gold belt and forms part of the border with Mali.\n\nBut enforcement is weak as officials struggle to stem the influx of informal miners, many of whom arrive from neighboring countries. Critics say the measure barely scratches the surface of the problem.\n\n\"The solution is to install the gold processing units within the communities \u2014 at least one per village,\" Goumbala said.\n\nEven so, he acknowledged the challenges: The machines are expensive, difficult to maintain and require replacement parts that are only available abroad.\n\nThere's also resistance among miners, who say mercury is more efficient and profitable.\n\n\"We need to convince communities that even if they make more money using mercury, in the end, they'll spend that profit on treating illnesses caused by it,\" Goumbala said. \"The long-term consequences are far worse.\""}
{"prompt_hash": "cc756762b0c3d50500e6c6985232863178211d2560742ad8c5fa0ae7c371c07c", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 05:19:42+00:00", "topics": ["Nigeria", "Agriculture", "Africa", "Nigeria government", "Future of food", "AFRICA PULSE", "Climate and environment", "World Food Programme", "Business", "Bola Tinubu", "Daniel Obiora", "Yusuf Isah Sokoto", "Climate"], "text": "# Nigeria has a food security problem as water for crops is harder to find\n\nBy Dyepkazah Shibayan  \nMay 13th, 2025 05:19 AM\n\n---\n\nKWALKWALAWA, Nigeria (AP) \u2014 After two decades of working his farm in northwestern Nigeria, Umaru Muazu now struggles to find water for his crops.\n\nA murky puddle is all that remains of a river near his 5-hectare farm and those of others in this community in arid Sokoto state. Because the 62-year-old Muazu can't afford to dig a well to keep crops like millet and maize from withering, he might abandon farming.\n\n\"Before, with a small farm, you could get a lot,\" he said.\n\nClimate change is challenging agriculture in Nigeria, Africa's most populous country. With long dry spells and extreme heat, water bodies are drying because the arid season is becoming longer than usual. The wet season, though it can dump excessive rain, is short.\n\nIt's fresh pain in a country where the World Food Program says 31 million people already face food insecurity. Efforts to recover from one climate shock are overlapped by the next, said WFP spokesperson Chi Lael.\n\nThe challenges faced by farmers in the north, who account for most of what Nigeria eats, are affecting food prices and availability in the booming coastal south that's home to the megacity of Lagos.\n\nMore than 80% of Nigeria's farmers are smallholder farmers, who account for 90% of the country's annual agricultural production. Some work their fields with little more than a piece of roughly carved wood and their bare hands.\n\nFarmers are facing low yields because the government has failed to develop infrastructure like dams to help mitigate the effects of climate change, said Daniel Obiora, national president of the All Farmers Association of Nigeria.\n\nThere is little data available on the drying-up of smaller water bodies across the north. But farmers say the trend has been worsening.\n\nIn Adamawa state, water scarcity caused by higher temperatures and changing rain patterns has affected over 1,250 hectares (3,088 acres) of farmland, disrupting food supply and livelihoods, Nigeria's National Emergency Management Agency said last year.\n\nOver-extraction of water and deforestation are other factors contributing to northern Nigeria's drying rivers, according to Abdulsamad Isah, co-founder of local Extension Africa nonprofit that often works with farmers.\n\nElsewhere in Sokoto state, Nasiru Bello tilled his farm to cultivate onions without assurance of a meaningful harvest. With nearby rivers and wells drying up, he has resorted to pumping groundwater for the farm that provides the sole income for his family of 26. But the cost of pumping amid soaring gas prices has become unbearable.\n\n\"The plants do not grow well as it did,\" he said.\n\nNigeria is forecast to become the world's third most populous nation by 2025, alongside the United States and after India and China.\n\nWith Nigeria's population expected to reach 400 million by 2050, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization has been encouraging climate-smart agriculture to help ensure food security, including drip irrigation, which delivers water slowly and directly to roots and helps conserve water, instead of traditional irrigation systems that flood entire fields.\n\n\"There should be more orientation for farmers about climate change,\" said Yusuf Isah Sokoto, director of the College of Environmental Science at Sokoto's Umaru Ali Shinkafi Polytechnic.\n\nAt least two-thirds of the trees in the state have been lost due to deforestation, contributing to rising temperatures, Sokoto said.\n\nData from the government-run statistics agency show that local agriculture contributed 22% of Nigeria's GDP in the second quarter of 2024, down from 25% in the previous quarter. While the trend has fluctuated in recent years, experts have said agricultural production still does not reflect growing government investment in the sector.\n\nHousehold food imports, meanwhile, rose by 136% from 2023 to 2024, government statistics show.\n\nThe decreasing farm yields are being felt elsewhere in Nigeria, especially the south.\n\nIn Lagos, the price of several items grown in the north have nearly doubled in the last two years, partly due to decreasing supplies. A head of cabbage grown in the north is selling for 2,000 naira ($1.2), nearly double its price a year ago and more than five times the price in Sokoto.\n\nNigerian authorities acknowledge the problem. Many farmers who once harvested up to 10 tons are hardly able to get half that these days, agriculture minister Aliyu Abdullahi said earlier this year.\n\nNigeria's President Bola Tinubu and his government have touted agriculture as a means for economic prosperity. Shortly after he took office in May 2023, Tinubu's government declared a food security state of emergency and announced plans to activate 500,000 hectares of farmland in Nigeria's land banks, which are mostly in the north.\n\nThe land banks, however, are yet to be activated."}
{"prompt_hash": "83196cd1069a07b7b9a42345ec6a36ca6e7dc2ea673f855414f2bc70737ed035", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 03:32:25+00:00", "topics": ["Yesenia Lara Gutirrez", "Persian Gulf", "Mexico", "Claudia Sheinbaum", "Mexico government", "Political violence", "Politics", "Elections", "Terrorism", "Cruz Morales"], "text": "# Second mayoral candidate killed in Mexico's Veracruz state ahead of June 1 elections\n\nBy Iv\u00e1n S\u00e1nchez and Alba Alem\u00e1n  \nMay 13th, 2025 03:32 AM\n\n---\n\nTEXISTEPEC, Mexico (AP) \u2014 Gunmen killed a mayoral candidate from Mexico's governing party in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz and four others who accompanied her, the second such local candidate killing in the state ahead of the June 1 election, authorities confirmed Monday.\n\nThere were reports later Monday that two federal agents were killed in another part of the state.\n\nThe attack on candidate Yesenia Lara Guti\u00e9rrez of the Morena party occurred Sunday when she was leading a caravan of supporters through Texistepec. Three more people were wounded.\n\nVeracruz Gov. Roc\u00edo Nahle, also of the Morena party of President Claudia Sheinbaum, said Monday that Lara Guti\u00e9rrez's daughter was among those killed.\n\nTexistepec is a town of 20,000 southwest of the important petroleum industry port of Coatzacoalcos.\n\n\"No (elected) position is worth dying for,\" Nahle said in a press conference Monday, where she promised justice.\n\n\"All of the state's power will be present in coming days so that the elections are free and democratic,\" she said.\n\nAt a wake Monday in Texistepec, family and friends mourned Lara Guti\u00e9rrez and spoke about the fear the violence stirred around the election.\n\n\"We can't continue with the insecurity, we're tired of all of this, this is terrorism,\" said supporter Joaqu\u00edn Fonseca. \"There are five people dead, not one. We're living the worst of the terrorism.\"\n\nFamily friend Cruz Morales said the violence is so bad that \"we're afraid to go into the fields, to go see our family in the evening, because we don't know what's going to happen to us on the way.\"\n\nLara Guti\u00e9rrez was the second mayoral candidate killed in Veracruz during the campaign. On April 29, the first official day of campaigning, gunmen killed Germ\u00e1n Anuar Valencia, also from the governing party at his campaign headquarters in Coxquihui in the northern part of Veracruz.\n\nNahle said that 57 local candidates had requested security offered by the state and federal government. It was not immediately clear if Lara Guti\u00e9rrez had.\n\nMunicipal elections are scheduled in Veracruz's 212 municipalities for June 1.\n\nLocal candidates are historically the most vulnerable to election violence as organized criminal groups seek to gain control of local governments.\n\nLater Monday, local press reported that two federal agents and a third person were killed in an attack in the coastal city of Boca del Rio, Veracruz. An Associated Press photojournalist saw federal agents and soldiers maintaining a perimeter around the scene of the shooting.\n\nNeither state nor federal authorities immediately responded to requests to confirm the toll."}
{"prompt_hash": "d95abe23043f166845630a4cc66969cd7ac16f7d39283dfe01352eff2b41238e", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 07:06:11+00:00", "topics": ["Volcanoes", "Science"], "text": "# Philippine volcano briefly erupts, belching ash plume into the sky\n\nMay 13th, 2025 07:06 AM\n\n---\n\nMANILA, Philippines (AP) \u2014 A restive volcano in central Philippines briefly erupted Tuesday, spewing a 4.5-kilometer (2.8-mile) ash plume and debris into the sky as its rumblings were heard nearby.\n\nThe Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said a moderately explosive eruption occurred at the summit crater of Kanlaon Volcano before dawn, lasting five minutes based on seismic and infrasound data.\n\n\"The eruption generated a greyish voluminous plume that rose approximately 4.5 kilometers above the vent before drifting to the southwest,\" the institute's bulletin added.\n\nAsh fell in at least nine villages southwest of the volcano on Negros island, but no injuries or damage was reported.\n\nA level 3 alert -- out of a scale of five -- that was put in place during Kanlaon's eruption in December remained unchanged, with officials keeping a 6-kilometer (3.7-mile) danger zone off limits. The alert means the volcano is in a state of magmatic unrest, with increased chances of short-lived, moderately explosive eruptions that could generate volcanic hazards.\n\nKanlaon also briefly erupted in April. Its eruption in December prompted the evacuation of thousands of villagers to emergency shelters as the volcano continued showing signs of restiveness.\n\nThe 2,435-meter (7,988-foot) volcano is one of the country's 24 most active volcanoes. In 1996, three hikers were killed near the peak and several others were later rescued when Kanlaon erupted without warning, officials said then.\n\nThe Philippines is located in the so-called Pacific \"Ring of Fire,\" a region prone to earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. The archipelago is also lashed by about 20 typhoons and storms a year, making it one of the world's most disaster-prone countries."}
{"prompt_hash": "5d0fb9ce058b3cbf49a8f93f372b36e36656ed4e517f7fb96b4d9b91ec8a9d08", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 01:02:35+00:00", "topics": ["China", "Migrant workers", "Beijing", "Hospitality and leisure industry", "Labor", "Lifestyle", "Business", "China government", "Feng Yong"], "text": "# China's army of food delivery drivers get by with help from discount 'loving meals'\n\nBy Tian Macleod Ji  \nMay 13th, 2025 01:02 AM\n\n---\n\nBEIJING (AP) \u2014 After the lunchtime rush, it's time for China's food delivery drivers to eat.\n\nLiu Lijie, halfway through a 13-hour workday, parked his electric scooter in front of a restaurant in Beijing for his go-to choice, lamb noodle soup with a side of pickles, for 12 yuan ($1.65), a discount of 6 yuan off the regular price.\n\nThe reduced-price meal is part of a movement that offers free or discounted meals to people in need, no questions asked.\n\nKnown as \"aixincan\" (eye-sheen-zan), or \"loving meals,\" they are available at some restaurants in major Chinese cities, home to large populations of migrant workers who come looking for jobs.\n\n\"There is a lot of pressure in life since I came to Beijing to work, so eating aixincan is both economical and practical,\" said the 40-year-old Liu, who arrived two years ago from nearby Shanxi province.\n\nEager to get back to earning money, he digs into his meal at a branch of the Yushiji restaurant chain without even stopping to remove his helmet, branded with the name of the popular Ele.me food delivery app.\n\nThe movement, also known as \"suixincan\" or \"follow-the-heart meals,\" can be traced back to the early 2000s. It has been featured in China's government-run media and on social media, including posts in which influencers pose as hungry customers in need to highlight the generosity of the restaurants.\n\nLuo Shuai, a driver for Meituan, China's largest food delivery service, learned of Yushiji's discounted meal initiative through colleagues and has since become a daily customer at the Beijing chain, which serves food from his native Henan province.\n\n\"It reminded me of my hometown,\" said the 27-year-old Luo, who moved to Beijing at the end of last year.\n\nAmong China's nearly 300 million migrant workers, an increasing preference for gig-based work such as delivery driving over factory work has emerged in recent years. There are now more than 200 million gig-economy workers, according to government data.\n\nFor a full-time driver, the average monthly pay at Meituan can reach more than $1,500. But only 11% of the app's drivers work full-time. Part-timers in the biggest cities, such as Beijing and Shanghai, averaged closer to $1,000 a month in 2024.\n\nThe existence of discounted meals reflects a shift in China's urban landscape, according to Xiang Biao, head of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Germany.\n\nPreviously, migrant workers could carve out their own spaces by helping each other, he said, but those networks have disappeared with the erosion of informal restaurants in cities for hygiene and safety reasons.\n\n\"They will have to seek help from strangers,\" Xiang said.\n\nThe state-implemented cleanup since the late 2000s of \"urban villages\" \u2014 spaces where migrant workers would live that grew alongside urban development \u2014 has increased those pressures.\n\nThe stigma of asking for free food exists in all societies, Xiang said, though it may not be an issue for delivery drivers in China, as they are already socially marginalized.\n\nFeng Yong, the 43-year-old manager of \"Doornail Meat Pie\" \u2014 so named because its food resembles the round wooden nail covers on classical Chinese doors \u2014 spends much of his day kneading, filling and wrapping the pies at the Muslim Chinese restaurant in Beijing.\n\nHe said the restaurant began serving aixincan to help people in need and inspire others to do the same. A Shandong province native who moved to the Chinese capital more than 20 years ago, Feng said he has a deep understanding of being an outsider struggling in a new city.\n\nThe key, he said, is to avoid any embarrassment for customers who are in need. Some hesitate at the entrance. The staff do what they can to help and don't inquire about a potential customer's circumstances.\n\n\"We don't refuse them anything, just as long as they're full,\" Feng said."}
{"prompt_hash": "4581f2e8d2051ebbcffa2f06d3256ec5147dca0a2d5578d05d1c00c5c3e1261c", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 05:21:44+00:00", "topics": ["Anthony Edwards", "Steve Kerr", "Julius Randle", "Gary Payton II", "Golden State Warriors", "Jonathan Kuminga", "Stephen Curry", "Draymond Green", "Minnesota Timberwolves", "NBA Playoffs", "NBA", "NBA basketball", "Minneapolis", "Jimmy Butler", "Sports", "Basketball"], "text": "# Warriors struggle again to stop Timberwolves stars Edwards and Randle\n\nBy Janie Mccauley  \nMay 13th, 2025 05:21 AM\n\n---\n\nSAN FRANCISCO (AP) \u2014 Anthony Edwards shook both hands at his sides in celebration after knocking down his second consecutive 3-pointer over a 33-second span midway through the third quarter as the Minnesota Timberwolves took over and ran away from the Golden State Warriors.\n\nNo matter the matchup, Edwards is having his way with Golden State's defense. And Julius Randle, too.\n\nCoach Steve Kerr keeps stressing how if the Warriors are going to win their playoff series against the T-Wolves it will be because of defense. That defense isn't getting it done, and the Warriors lost 117-110 on Monday night for a second straight home defeat at Chase Center.\n\nThey now face a 3-1 deficit in the best-of-seven Western Conference series and will try to stave off elimination heading back to Minneapolis for Game 5 on Wednesday.\n\n\"The mindset and the mood is still very high,\" Warriors forward Jonathan Kuminga said.\n\nEdwards and Randle each shot 11 for 21 and they combined for 10 3-pointers as the Timberwolves went 16 of 34 from long range.\n\nRandle routinely made it look easy going to the basket in Game 4, then Edwards lit up the scoreboard by scoring 11 points in a 17-0 third-quarter surge.\n\n\"I think we just panicked because they were making everything,\" Kuminga said. \"We let our guard down.\"\n\nThat 1-2 punch is more than Golden State can handle, especially without an injured Stephen Curry on the floor keeping everything together. Jimmy Butler and Draymond Green can't do it all themselves.\n\nComing off a triple-double in a 102-97 Game 3 win, Randle had 31 points \u2014 19 of those by halftime. He shot 10 of 23 for 24 points in Game 3 after scoring 18 and 24 the first two games.\n\nSlowing Edwards was just as important for the Warriors, who held the dynamic guard to making five of 14 shots in the first half Monday two days after he went off for 36 points while making 13 of 28 shots with five 3-pointers.\n\nBut Edwards' 3 to beat the halftime buzzer Monday pulled Minnesota within 60-58 at the break and gave the Wolves momentum.\n\nKerr liked the energy of his defense and Gary Payton II's effort.\n\n\"It was a big shot. I thought the way we defended it, it was great. Gary was all over him,\" Kerr said. \"Draymond came out to double and he hits a step-back 30-footer. There's not much you can do about that.\"\n\nHe split two defenders in the key for a floating jumper and three-point play at the 7:45 mark of the third quarter, then hit consecutive 3-pointers on his way to six made 3s.\n\nBefore the game, Kerr specifically mentioned Edwards and Randle.\n\n\"We've got to figure out a way to slow them down,\" he said, \"especially late.\""}
{"prompt_hash": "3b8b517d3f6374f6c6c5c801cade601147879b5ec6aafee07eb79cda4d607d8f", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 04:56:15+00:00", "topics": ["Adin Hill", "Vegas Golden Knights", "Stuart Skinner", "Edmonton Oilers", "Connor McDavid", "Zach Hyman", "Calvin Pickard", "Jack Eichel", "Edmonton", "Las Vegas", "Stanley Cup", "NHL", "Adam Henrique", "Stanley Cup Playoffs", "Sports", "NHL hockey", "Connor Brown", "Reilly Smith", "Evander Kane", "Kris Knoblauch"], "text": "# Henrique scores twice as the Oilers beat the Golden Knights 3-0 in Game 4 of playoff series\n\nMay 13th, 2025 04:56 AM\n\n---\n\nEDMONTON, Alberta (AP) \u2014 Adam Henrique had two goals, Stuart Skinner made 23 saves and the Edmonton Oilers beat the Vegas Golden Knights 3-0 on Monday night to take a 3-1 lead in their second-round NHL playoff series.\n\nEvander Kane had a goal and an assist for Edmonton. Connor McDavid picked up an assist, extending his point streak to eight games.\n\nThe Oilers, who bounced back after allowing the winning goal Saturday night with just 0.4 seconds remaining, need one more win to advance. Game 5 is on Wednesday in Las Vegas.\n\n\"I just think everybody was dialed in (after a) huge disappointment from Game 3, the way we played and the way it ended,\" Oilers coach Kris Knoblauch said. \"They knew they had to step it up tonight.\"\n\nSkinner was once again in net for Edmonton after replacing backup Calvin Pickard, who had rattled off six consecutive wins before getting injured in Game 2. Skinner, who had a 5.36 goals-against average coming into the game, improved to 1-3 in the postseason.\n\n\"We just put on our work boots and our hard hats and went to work,\" Skinner said. \"The way that we've competed over a number of games is pretty incredible. It's hard to do that and the way that we've been doing it on a consistent basis just shows a lot of pride in this group.\"\n\nAdin Hill made 29 stops for the Golden Knights, who are one loss from being eliminated.\n\n\"Be better, that's sort of it,\" said Golden Knights forward Jack Eichel, who had his points streak halted at six games. \"We go home and you're at home, Game 5, win a game and go from there. That's really all that matters at this point. Collectively as a group, I just think it needs to be better, cleaner and with more urgency.\"\n\nEdmonton got off to a quick start. Connor Brown stole a puck behind the net and sent it out front to Henrique in the slot. He blasted a one-timer past Hill at 1:27 for his second goal of the playoffs.\n\nThe Oilers scored again with 6:57 left in the first. Zach Hyman wrestled a puck from behind the net to Henrique in front and he chipped it in, setting off a scrum after Kane bowled over Hill on the play.\n\nIt was Henrique's first multigoal playoff game since his rookie season in 2012.\n\nKane helped close it out when he elected to shoot on a 2-on-1, and it hit a defender's skate and deflected in 7:38 into the second. It was his fourth of the postseason.\n\nThe Oilers have won all eight of their Game 4s since 2023.\n\nVegas forward Reilly Smith pointed out the Golden Knights were down 2-1 to Minnesota in the first round before marching back with three straight wins to advance.\n\n\"I mean, we did it last series,\" he said, \"so we have a lot of faith in this group and we'll just take it one at a time.\""}
{"prompt_hash": "4b5d97f8d7840d1e153edff11091d3f4ea028752f29b81ca5332c11589f96103", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 02:34:27+00:00", "topics": ["Paul Skenes", "Brandon Nimmo", "Pete Alonso", "Pittsburgh Pirates", "Francisco Lindor", "Juan Soto", "New York Mets", "Mitch Keller", "Baseball", "MLB", "New York City Wire", "David Bednar", "MLB baseball", "New York", "David Peterson", "Sports", "Isiah Kiner-Falefa", "Kodai Senga", "Jeff McNeil", "KeBryan Hayes", "Bryan Reynolds", "Joey Bart", "Shohei Ohtani"], "text": "# Alonso pushes Mets past Pirates 4-3 after solid outing by Skenes\n\nBy Mike Fitzpatrick  \nMay 13th, 2025 02:34 AM\n\n---\n\nNEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Pete Alonso hit a game-winning sacrifice fly in the ninth inning and the New York Mets took advantage of a costly error by shortstop Isiah Kiner-Falefa to beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 4-3 on Monday night.\n\nPirates ace Paul Skenes pitched out of trouble all night and exited after six innings with a chance to win. But the Mets scratched across two runs against Pittsburgh's bullpen in the seventh to take a 3-2 lead.\n\nJuan Soto tied it with an RBI groundout, and speedy rookie Luisangel Acu\u00f1a raced home from second when Alonso's groundball single trickled into shallow left field after glancing off the mitt of Gold Glove third baseman Ke'Bryan Hayes.\n\nMets left fielder Brandon Nimmo robbed Joey Bart of a leadoff homer in the eighth, but Pittsburgh evened it 3-all in the ninth after an error by star shortstop Francisco Lindor.\n\nWith the infield playing in, Hayes drove in the tying run when Acu\u00f1a couldn't handle a grounder to third that was scored an infield single.\n\nWith one out in the bottom half, Kiner-Falefa let Lindor's grounder scoot under his glove just behind second base. Lindor dashed to third on Soto's single to right-center off David Bednar (0-4), then scored easily on Alonso's long flyout to right field.\n\nHuascar Brazob\u00e1n (2-0) allowed just an unearned run in the ninth.\n\nKiner-Falefa homered off Mets starter David Peterson in his first plate appearance since coming off the injured list.\n\nNew York tied it at 1 when Nimmo and Jeff McNeil doubled off Skenes in the fourth. Bryan Reynolds gave Pittsburgh a 2-1 lead with an RBI groundout in the seventh.\n\nSkenes yielded one run and six hits in six innings, with six strikeouts and three walks.\n\n## Key moment\n\nAfter the Pirates tied it, Brazob\u00e1n got Reynolds to ground into an inning-ending double play with runners at the corners in the ninth.\n\n## Key stats\n\nPittsburgh failed to score more than four runs for the 18th straight game, setting a franchise record since at least 1901. ... Skenes hasn't permitted more than six hits in any of his 32 major league starts. That's the longest such streak to begin a career (excluding openers), according to OptaStats. Shohei Ohtani went 31 starts from 2018-21.\n\n## Up next\n\nPirates RHP Mitch Keller (1-4, 4.40 ERA) faces RHP Kodai Senga (4-2, 1.16) in the middle game of the series Tuesday night."}
{"prompt_hash": "7883fb45d13d77be349b93111502201171e895c80759f33cef4c3a393222b629", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-12 23:11:09+00:00", "topics": ["Los Angeles Angels", "Pittsburgh Pirates", "New York Mets", "Don Kelly", "Alexander Canario", "Paul Skenes", "Francisco Lindor", "Baseball", "MLB", "New York City Wire", "Liover Peguero", "MLB baseball", "Sports", "Oneil Cruz", "Tommy Pham", "Isiah Kiner-Falefa", "David Bednar"], "text": "# Pirates OF Tommy Pham serves 1-game suspension; Cruz still out but Kiner-Falefa returns\n\nBy Mike Fitzpatrick  \nMay 12th, 2025 11:11 PM\n\n---\n\nNEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Pittsburgh Pirates outfielder Tommy Pham served a one-game suspension Monday night against the New York Mets for conduct directed at Los Angeles Angels fans last month.\n\nPham was disciplined by Major League Baseball and fined an undisclosed amount on April 25 for \"inappropriate actions toward\" Angels fans during a game two days earlier. The penalty was upheld after his appeal went to a hearing, a Pirates spokesman said Monday.\n\nThe 37-year-old Pham reportedly made an obscene gesture to a fan who touched him while he was tracking down a ball in the left-field corner during a 3-0 win over the Angels.\n\nThe 12-year veteran is batting .176 with no homers, six RBIs and a .475 OPS in 34 games during his first season with the Pirates.\n\nPham, who played 79 games for the Mets in 2023, is a .331 career hitter with 10 home runs in 169 at-bats and 55 games at Citi Field.\n\nIn other news, Pirates center fielder Oneil Cruz sat out for the second consecutive game after leaving Saturday's 11-inning loss to Atlanta with lower back tightness.\n\n\"He's getting better. He's day to day. We'll see what his availability is tonight,\" manager Don Kelly said before the game.\n\nAlexander Canario, acquired from the Mets for cash on March 31, started in center again.\n\nPittsburgh also reinstated shortstop Isiah Kiner-Falefa from the 10-day injured list. He batted sixth and had an eventful evening during a 4-3 loss to the Mets.\n\nHis first time up, Kiner-Falefa led off the second inning with his first home run since Aug. 17. He had been sidelined since May 1 with a right hamstring strain.\n\n\"You guys see it every time he's out there \u2014 the energy he brings, the defense, the contact ability, the way he can hit,\" Kelly said prior to the game. \"He can do a lot of different things. He's a leader on the field for us, and it's good to have him back out there at short.\"\n\nKiner-Falefa started two double plays that helped Pirates ace Paul Skenes out of jams. But the shortstop also committed a costly error on Francisco Lindor's grounder up the middle in the ninth, leading to the winning run against reliever David Bednar.\n\n\"If it doesn't hit the base, I make that play easily,\" Kiner-Falefa said. \"I just felt bad because it cost Bednar the loss. So that was obviously tough for me. But it hit the base there. Nothing I could have done about it.\"\n\nThe 30-year-old Kiner-Falefa began the night batting .280 with seven RBIs and a .663 OPS in 30 games this season.\n\nIn a corresponding move, infielder Liover Peguero was optioned to Triple-A Indianapolis following Sunday's 4-3 win over the Braves.\n\nPeguero went 2 for 9 in four games with Pittsburgh after being called up May 2 from Indianapolis."}
{"prompt_hash": "6fec9f721ed8a963f4f15ffbfbdc72198866b60326b9ce112614f95083b1a2c0", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 06:12:14+00:00", "topics": ["Scott Kiner", "Pittsburgh Pirates", "New York Mets", "Baseball", "Hawaii", "MLB", "New York City Wire", "MLB baseball", "Ohio", "Sports", "Nancy Chaffee", "Mary McPherran Kiner", "Isiah Kiner-Falefa", "Ralph Kiner"], "text": "# Family ties: Kiner-Falefa homers after meeting his 2nd cousin for the 1st time, Ralph Kiner's son\n\nBy Jerry Beach  \nMay 13th, 2025 06:12 AM\n\n---\n\nNEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Ever since he was a kid, Isiah Kiner-Falefa has heard all about the cousin who was a Hall of Fame slugger for the Pittsburgh Pirates years ago.\n\nNow he finally knows kin from Ralph Kiner's side of the family.\n\nIn a touching rendezvous Monday at Citi Field, the 30-year-old shortstop greeted Scott Kiner \u2014 son of the former Pittsburgh outfielder \u2014 before Kiner-Falefa and the Pirates played the New York Mets.\n\nSecond cousins once removed, the two exchanged hugs and gifts in the Shannon Forde Press Conference Room. An emotional Kiner-Falefa, who grew up in Hawaii, said it was the first time he'd ever met anyone from Ralph Kiner's part of the clan.\n\n\"This is something that I've always dreamed about,\" Kiner-Falefa said.\n\nPromoting a book he authored about his famous family, Scott Kiner traveled to New York City from his Ohio home for the occasion \u2014 and staffers from both teams helped facilitate the introduction.\n\n\"Kind of felt that was a bond that had to be established,\" Scott Kiner said.\n\nAfter his playing career ended in 1955, Ralph Kiner spent 51 years as a beloved Mets broadcaster on television and radio. He hosted a popular postgame show called \"Kiner's Korner,\" and Kiner-Falefa was 12 when he attended Ralph Kiner night at Shea Stadium on a 2007 trip to New York.\n\nTwo years later the Mets moved into Citi Field, where a marker honoring Ralph Kiner the announcer hangs alongside the team's retired numbers atop the stadium.\n\nSo it was fitting when Kiner-Falefa, reinstated from the injured list Monday after recovering from a right hamstring strain, was accompanied by the \"Kiner's Korner\" jingle as he stepped to the plate in the second inning.\n\nKiner-Falefa said that's a touch he often hears in opposing ballparks. This time, though, he launched a home run to left-center field in his first plate appearance since coming off the IL.\n\n\"After everything that we did today, for me to hit a homer right there, that was a huge moment for me. That was surreal,\" Kiner-Falefa said. \"That was really special for me. Something I'll remember for the rest of my life, for sure.\"\n\nThe 382-foot drive was his first home run since Aug. 17 last season.\n\n\"I don't think I've hit a ball that hard all year,\" Kiner-Falefa said. \"So I was like, man, I don't even know where that came from.\"\n\nAs for the Mets playing the \"Kiner's Korner\" theme for him?\n\n\"I know they're never going to do that again,\" he said with a grin.\n\nKiner-Falefa later made a costly error at shortstop in a 4-3 loss, but that hardly spoiled his special day.\n\nBefore the game, he presented an autographed Pirates jersey to Scott Kiner, who wrote \"One Of A Kiner\" about his parents, Ralph Kiner and tennis star Nancy Chaffee.\n\nScott Kiner then gave Kiner-Falefa a Ralph Kiner jersey and a charcoal painting of the six-time All-Star. He also showed Kiner-Falefa a portrait of Mary McPherran Kiner, who was born in Pennsylvania in 1850. She is Ralph Kiner's great-grandmother, Scott Kiner's great-great grandmother and Kiner-Falefa's great-great-great grandmother.\n\n\"So there is Pennsylvania Dutch in this guy,\" Scott Kiner said with a smile. \"Not much. But he is Pennsylvania Dutch.\"\n\nKiner-Falefa's maternal grandfather went to college in Hawaii and remained there, where he had two daughters. Isiah Kiner-Falefa's mother and father never married, so their son took on both last names.\n\n\"It's actually a blessing because if they were married, I'd only have the Falefa,\" Kiner-Falefa said. \"So I'm still able to have the Kiner and pass that on.\"\n\nKiner-Falefa's grandfather regaled him with stories of Ralph Kiner, who led the National League in home runs during each of his first seven seasons with the Pirates from 1946-52.\n\nProud of the family connection, Kiner-Falefa learned all about Ralph Kiner's baseball accomplishments long before breaking into the big leagues with the Texas Rangers in 2018.\n\nBut the Honolulu native hardly resembles the former slugger, who died at 91 in February 2014. So when Kiner-Falefa told others about it, he had a difficult time convincing them.\n\n\"Everybody thought I was lying,\" he said. \"I would tell everybody and nobody ever believed me.\"\n\nMaybe that's why Kiner-Falefa was so visibly moved as he stood alongside his cousin Scott for the first time.\n\n\"For me to not meet anybody on my grandfather's side, it kind of felt like something was kind of missing,\" Kiner-Falefa said. \"To finally meet Scott is like, full circle. I'm a little emotional right now. This is incredible. Incredible moment that I never thought would happen.\"\n\nAnd now that he plays for the Pirates, Kiner-Falefa said he often visits the statue of Ralph Kiner at PNC Park in Pittsburgh.\n\n\"I always look at the statue (and) the hands \u2014 try to get the power because that's something that's always been missing in my game,\" Kiner-Falefa said. \"I think my cousin took all the power from me.\""}
{"prompt_hash": "205798f1325568a3a17347c9e9af86cf1ec2fbafcf28ce08bfd81645a0e59d42", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 05:15:45+00:00", "topics": ["Golden State Warriors", "Minnesota Timberwolves", "Stephen Curry", "NBA Playoffs", "Anthony Edwards", "Julius Randle", "Buddy Hield", "Jonathan Kuminga", "Draymond Green", "NBA", "Sports", "Jaden McDaniels", "Chris Finch", "Jimmy Butler", "NBA basketball"], "text": "# Edwards, Randle lead the way again as Timberwolves beat Warriors 117-110 for 3-1 playoff series lead\n\nBy Janie Mccauley  \nMay 13th, 2025 05:15 AM\n\n---\n\nSAN FRANCISCO (AP) \u2014 Anthony Edwards let it fly from 30 feet just before the halftime buzzer and his 3-pointer provided some much-needed momentum that Minnesota took right into a commanding third quarter.\n\nEdwards also spoke up to his team at halftime and Chris Finch credited that pep talk for setting the tone ahead of an impressive second half.\n\n\"At halftime, Coach came in and said we're playing like we already won the series pretty much, I don't really like that,\" Edwards said, adding, \"I told them we've only got two wins.\"\n\nEdwards scored 30 points, Julius Randle had 31 and the Timberwolves beat the Golden State Warriors 117-110 on Monday night for a 3-1 lead in their Western Conference playoff series.\n\nStaying close at halftime was key.\n\n\"It was huge because it felt like one of those games where we were going to struggle to find a rhythm,\" Finch said. \"I thought we might be down eight, 10 at halftime with the way that we had played. Fortunately, I thought his shot made it pretty much an even game and if we came out with the type of purpose that we needed to I felt we were going to be OK.\"\n\nNow, it's back home to Minneapolis for the Wolves with a chance to clinch the best-of-seven Western Conference semifinal series in Game 5 on Wednesday night.\n\nThe Warriors will still be without Stephen Curry, who sat out his third game in a row and is scheduled to have his strained left hamstring re-evaluated that day.\n\n\"We're not going to Superman this thing,\" Draymond Green said. \"If he's in a place where he can play, I'm sure he will.\"\n\nEdwards made consecutive 3-pointers and scored 11 total points in a decisive 17-0 Minnesota run that put the Timberwolves ahead 85-68 late in the third. They led 97-77 going into the fourth and the Warriors couldn't catch up.\n\nEdwards \u2014 coming off a 36-point performance in a Game 3 \u2014 hit that big shot that pulled Minnesota within 60-58 at the break. And the Wolves delivered in the second half again after also trailing by two points at halftime in a 102-97 victory in Game 3.\n\nJonathan Kuminga came off the bench to score 23 points and convert 11 of 12 free throws for the Warriors, following up his 30-point performance in Game 3 with another gem.\n\nJaden McDaniels added 10 points and 13 rebounds for Minnesota.\n\nBuddy Hield went down briefly 4:17 before halftime after McDaniels grabbed at the guard's neck and pulled the back of his jersey. The play went to replay review as fans chanted \"You can't do that!\" but was deemed a common foul rather than a flagrant.\n\nGolden State has now dropped three in a row since Curry hurt his leg early in Game 1 last Tuesday night.\n\nThe Warriors were slow getting their offense and 3-point shooting going in a 102-97 loss Saturday and it was much of the same this game.\n\nJimmy Butler and Green scored 14 points apiece and Hield 13.\n\nEven without Curry, Finch's defensive game plan focused on keeping the Warriors from their dangerous 3-point flurries \u2014 and Golden State wound up 8 of 27 from deep."}
{"prompt_hash": "07b77ec5f014493bb37d1af9078f74bf01412be8c9a059573981beb83fcacb54", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 05:28:58+00:00", "topics": ["Cricket", "Sam Konstas", "Sports", "Cameron Green", "Josh Hazlewood", "Alex Carey", "Usman Khawaja", "Mitchell Starc", "Sri Lanka", "Travis Head", "Matt Kuhnemann", "Pat Cummins", "Australia", "Scott Boland", "Nathan Lyon", "George Brent Bailey", "Jr.", "Steve Smith", "Pakistan", "Josh Inglis", "India"], "text": "# Cummins and Green set to return for Australia in cricket's World Test Championship final\n\nMay 13th, 2025 05:28 AM\n\n---\n\nBRISBANE, Australia (AP) \u2014 Pace bowlers Pat Cummins and Josh Hazlewood and allrounder Cameron Green have been recalled from injury and young batter Sam Konstas has been retained in Australia's squad for the World Test Championship final against South Africa next month.\n\nAustralia is the defending WTC champion and finished the league stage with an away win over Sri Lanka after a home series victory against India.\n\n\"Those series capped a consistent performance across the two-year cycle and now presents us with the incredibly exciting opportunity to defend the World Test Championship,\" Australia's chief selector George Bailey said in a statement Tuesday. \"It means a lot to the group to reach the final and they are very much looking forward to the challenge South Africa will present at Lord's.\"\n\nThe same squad will head to the Caribbean for a three-test series against the West Indies following the June 11-15 WTC final.\n\nGreen hasn't played international cricket since September because of back surgery, but the 25-year-old allrounder is making a graduated return and currently batting at county level in England.\n\nSkipper Cummins missed the two-test series in Sri Lanka with an injured ankle and Hazlewood hasn't played a test since developing a side strain in November, early in the series against India.\n\nBoth veteran pacemen have been playing in the Indian Premier League, which was suspended last week because of the border tension between India and Pakistan but is set to resume this weekend.\n\n\"We are fortunate and looking forward to having Pat, Josh and Cam back in the squad,\" Bailey said.\n\nOpening batter Konstas made an impressive debut against India with a half-century in the Boxing Day test in Melbourne but was dropped ahead of the subsequent tour to Sri Lanka."}
{"prompt_hash": "6c372e95efb5b24446b21f7790e4c43b93e7b8835904e51aacbb924c7c0a3fac", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-12 17:13:16+00:00", "topics": ["Pope Leo XIV", "Vatican City", "Catholic Church", "Gerhard Mueller", "Conservatism", "Papal conclave", "Georg Gaenswein", "Liberalism", "Elections", "George Weigel", "Raymond Burke", "Pope Francis", "Religion", "Pope Benedict XVI", "Regina Caeli Latin"], "text": "# Conservatives see some optimism after election of Pope Leo XIV\n\nBy Nicole Winfield  \nMay 12th, 2025 05:13 PM\n\n---\n\nVATICAN CITY (AP) \u2014 They went into last week's conclave vastly outnumbered and smarting after being sidelined by Pope Francis for 12 years.\n\nAnd yet conservatives and traditionalist Catholics are cautiously optimistic over the historic election of Pope Leo XIV, hopeful that he will return doctrinal rigor to the papacy, even as progressives sense he will continue Francis' reformist agenda.\n\nCardinal Gerhard Mueller, a titan of the conservative bloc, said Monday he was very pleased with the election and expected that Leo would heal the divisions that escalated during Francis' pontificate. Mueller, who was fired by Francis as the Vatican's doctrinal chief, suggested as a first step that Leo should restore access to the old Latin Mass that his predecessor had greatly restricted.\n\n\"I am convinced that he will overcome these superfluous tensions (which were) damaging for the church,\" Mueller said in an interview with The Associated Press. \"We cannot avoid all the conflicts, but we have to avoid the not necessary conflicts, the superfluous conflicts.\"\n\nHis sense of hope is significant, given that conservative cardinals went into the conclave at a numerical disadvantage. Francis appointed 108 of the 133 electors, including the former Cardinal Robert Prevost and other pastors in his image.\n\nBut in the secret dynamics of the conclave, the Augustinian missionary who spent most of his priestly life in Peru secured far more than the two-thirds majority needed on the fourth ballot in an exceptionally quick, 24-hour conclave. The speed and margin defied expectations, given that this was the largest, most geographically diverse conclave in history and the cardinals barely knew each other.\n\n## A 'good impression' in the conclave\n\n\"I think it was a good impression of him to everybody, and in the end it was a great concordia, a great harmony,\" Mueller said. \"There was no polemics, no fractionizing.\"\n\nSpeaking in an interview in his apartment library just off St. Peter's Square, Mueller said Francis' crackdown on traditionalists and the old Mass created unnecessary divisions that Leo knows he must heal.\n\nPope Benedict XVI had loosened restrictions on celebrations of the Latin Mass, which was used for centuries before the modernizing reforms of the 1960s Second Vatican Council, which allowed the liturgy to be celebrated in the vernacular. Francis reversed Benedict's signature liturgical legacy, saying the spread of the Latin Mass had created divisions in dioceses. But the crackdown had the effect of galvanizing Francis' conservative foes.\n\n\"We cannot absolutely condemn or forbid the legitimate right and form of the Latin liturgy,\" Mueller said. \"According to his character, I think (Leo) is able to speak with people and to find a very good solution that is good for everybody.\"\n\n## A pleasant surprise over the name 'Leo'\n\nMueller is not alone in his optimism.\n\nBenedict's longtime secretary, Archbishop Georg Gaenswein, who also was fired by Francis and exiled from the Vatican, said he was pleasantly surprised by Leo's election and hopeful for the future.\n\nIn an interview with Corriere della Sera, Gaenswein said the new pontiff's choice of his name, referencing Pope Leo XIII, who led the church from 1878-1903, as well as Leo the Great and other popes, sent a signal that he would respect tradition, restore doctrinal clarity and pacify divisions.\n\n\"Pope Prevost gives me great hope,\" Gaenswein was quoted as saying.\n\nIn newspaper stories, social media posts, TV interviews and private conversations among friends, some of Francis' most vocal critics also are sounding cautiously optimistic, rejoicing over some of the smallest \u2014 but to them significant \u2014 gestures.\n\nThey liked that Leo read a written statement when he emerged from the conclave on the loggia of St. Peter's Basilica, rather than improvise. They liked that his first words referenced Jesus Christ. They loved that he decided to wear the formal red cape, or mozzetta, of the papacy, which they viewed as a show of respect for the office that Francis had eschewed.\n\nAnother plus: He sang the noontime Regina Caeli Latin prayer on Sunday, instead of reciting it.\n\nMany point to a report in Corriere that one evening before the conclave began, Prevost was seen entering the apartment building of Cardinal Raymond Burke, another tradition-minded cardinal whom Francis fired as the Vatican's supreme court chief. Burke, who didn't respond to a request for comment, could have played the role of a \"kingmaker\" in the conclave, rallying conservative votes behind a particular candidate.\n\nMueller said he knew nothing about such a meeting and insisted he was unaware of behind-the-scenes pushing of Prevost. Such lobbying occurred when Jorge Mario Bergoglio had more progressive cardinals promoting his candidacy in 2005 and 2013.\n\nAsked if he voted for Prevost, Mueller demurred.\n\n\"Oh, I cannot say. But I am content, no?\" he replied.\n\nAnd yet Prevost also pleased moderates, with many seeing in his first words a continuation of Francis' priorities to build bridges. The buzzwords signal to some a pope who reaches out to the LGBTQ+ community and people of other faiths. But to others, it is the literal meaning of \"pontifex\" and a sign of internal bridge-building to heal divisions.\n\n\"The pope, as successor of St. Peter, has to unite the church,\" Mueller said.\n\nMueller said he expected Leo would move into the papal apartments at the Apostolic Palace, which he said was the proper place for a pope. Francis chose to live in the Vatican's Domus Santa Marta hotel because he said he needed to be around people. But the decision had the practical effect of taking over the entire second floor of the hotel, reducing rooms for visiting priests.\n\n## Both progressives and conservatives see what they want in Leo\n\nPart of the dynamic at play in these early days of Leo's papacy is that it appears progressives and conservatives can see in Leo what they want. He has virtually no published history, and played his cards very close to his vest while in Rome as head of the Vatican's bishops office. He granted few interviews and shied away from the public appearances that fill Vatican cardinals' days after hours: book presentations, conferences and academic lectures.\n\nGeorge Weigel, the biographer of St. John Paul II and senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, said Leo's doctrinal position should be self-evident: that \"a man who spent a lot of his life in the Peruvian missions believes in the truth of the Gospel and the truth of the world.\"\n\nAs for the papal cape and stole, it means \"we have a pope who understands the nature of the Petrine Office, which should not be bent to personal idiosyncrasies,\" Weigel said in an email."}
{"prompt_hash": "5964da4752d0f89b1cbea83d41c9a26e74110f918dd286db482bd242c2527131", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 05:38:04+00:00", "topics": ["Oswaldo Cabrera", "Cody Bellinger", "Emerson Hancock", "New York Yankees", "Seattle Mariners", "Aaron Judge", "New York", "Baseball", "Athlete injuries", "MLB", "New York City Wire", "Trent Grisham", "Cal Raleigh", "Julio Rodriguez", "Jorge Polanco", "Sports", "Paul Goldschmidt", "MLB baseball", "Austin Wells", "Clarke Schmidt"], "text": "# Grisham hits 2 homers to lead Yankees past Mariners 11-5, New York's Cabrera leaves in ambulance\n\nBy Andrew Destin  \nMay 13th, 2025 05:38 AM\n\n---\n\nSEATTLE (AP) \u2014 Trent Grisham hit a pair of home runs, including one during New York's six-run fifth inning, and the Yankees beat the Seattle Mariners 11-5 on Monday night.\n\nThe win was overshadowed by Yankees third baseman Oswaldo Cabrera needing to be taken off the field in an ambulance after he got hurt in the ninth inning.\n\nCabrera got hurt on an awkward slide when he scored on Aaron Judge's sacrifice fly. He appeared to injure his left leg when he reached back for the plate.\n\nGrisham, in the midst of a resurgent start to the year after a down 2024 season, hit a solo shot in the third inning to put the Yankees on the board that was just out of the reach of leaping center fielder Julio Rodriguez. New York's offensive outburst in the fifth inning began with another homer by Grisham.\n\nPaul Goldschmidt and Cody Bellinger hit back-to-back RBI singles off Emerson Hancock (1-2) before Austin Wells put the game out of reach with a three-run homer.\n\nThe Mariners, meanwhile, struggled to do much against Clarke Schmidt (1-1) outside of a pair of solo homers from Rodriguez and Jorge Polanco. Cal Raleigh added a two-run homer in the eighth.\n\nThe loss marked was Seattle's season-worst fourth in a row. The Athletics now trail the Mariners by 1 1/2 games in the AL West.\n\n## Key moment\n\nThough Wells fell behind in the count to Hancock in the fifth, he pounced on a changeup that caught too much of the plate for his eighth homer, which increased the Yankees' advantage to five runs.\n\n## Key stat\n\nGoldschmidt continued his road success with his fifth-inning single. The veteran first baseman has hit safely in each of his 20 games away from Yankee Stadium. In those contests, Goldschmidt has seven doubles, two home runs and 11 RBIs.\n\n## Up next\n\nSeattle RHP Bryan Woo (4-1, 3.25) starts Tuesday night. LHP Max Fried (6-0, 1.05) will start for the Yankees in the second game of the three-game set."}
{"prompt_hash": "296d78c49487a4f2b607c9b75e6b2840f733157bd90997454351127b0c95365a", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-12 22:49:28+00:00", "topics": ["Donald Trump", "Gulf of Mexico", "Middle East", "Karoline Leavitt", "Associated Press", "Business", "Retail and wholesale", "Entertainment", "Politics", "Protests and demonstrations", "News media"], "text": "# White House correspondents protest lack of wire reporters on Air Force One\n\nBy The Associated Press  \nMay 12th, 2025 10:49 PM\n\n---\n\nThe group representing White House journalists said Monday it was disturbed that the Trump administration barred any wire service news reporters from traveling with the president on Air Force One to the Middle East.\n\nNo reporters from The Associated Press, Bloomberg or Reuters were on the plane, where presidents often take questions from traveling members of the press.\n\n\"Their reports are distributed quickly to thousands of news outlets and millions of readers throughout the world every day, so all have equal access to coverage of the presidency,\" the White House Correspondents' Association said in a statement. \"This change is a disservice to every American who deserves to know what their highest elected leader is up to, as quickly as possible.\"\n\nThe White House has been fighting in court with the AP, after the news service was blocked from covering smaller \"pool\" events when it decided not to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America, as Trump had called for in an executive order.\n\nIn response to a ruling in that case, the White House instituted a new media policy that lumped the wire services in with print reporters in a rotation for space on Air Force One or Oval Office events. A Reuters reporter accompanied the president when he traveled to Pope Francis' funeral.\n\nWhite House press secretary Karoline Leavitt did not return messages seeking comment."}
{"prompt_hash": "5b70160bf5a96421158c4ee863703e27e08f3b811718259c98a809fd94c524e1", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 04:14:29+00:00", "topics": ["Sabrina Ionescu", "Kelly Graves", "WNBA", "New York Liberty", "Oregon Ducks", "Sandy Brondello", "Angel Reese", "Natasha Cloud", "Basketball", "New York City Wire", "Sports", "Oregon", "Eugene Mayor Kaarin Knudson", "New York", "Matthew Knight", "Eugene", "Caitlin Clark", "WNBA basketball", "Womens National Basketball Association"], "text": "# Liberty guard Sabrina Ionescu plays at Oregon for the first time as a pro in preseason game\n\nBy Anne M. Peterson  \nMay 13th, 2025 04:14 AM\n\n---\n\nEUGENE, Ore. (AP) \u2014 Playing at Oregon's Matthew Knight Arena for the first time in five years, New York Liberty star Sabrina Ionescu drew a roar from the capacity crowd by proclaiming, \"Go Ducks!\"\n\nIonescu, a three-time WNBA All-Star, made the return trip to Eugene along with Liberty teammate and fellow former Oregon standout Nyara Sabally for a preseason game against the Toyota Antelopes of Japan.\n\nIt was the fourth time this preseason the WNBA has reunited college fans with their former stars. Caitlin Clark returned to Iowa, Angel Reese went back to LSU and a trio of former Notre Dame stars visited South Bend, Indiana.\n\nIonescu scored 25 points, including six 3-pointers, in the 84-61 victory over the Antelopes. Sabally had 7.\n\n\"This was just a thank you,\" Ionescu said. \"This wasn't any kind of celebration for me. I think it was just me wanting to celebrate the University of Oregon and what they've done for me in my career.\"\n\nThe crowd gave Ionescu a standing ovation after she hit a 3-pointer from the midcourt logo with 6:03 left. She waved to the crowd and put her hand on her heart before going to the bench.\n\n\"It's great to be back home,\" Ionescu told the sellout crowd before the game.\n\nIonescu was a senior in 2020 for then-No. 2 Oregon when the season ended prematurely because of the COVID-19 pandemic.\n\nOregon defeated No. 7 Stanford in the Pac-12 Tournament championship that year and the Ducks were expected to be among the top-seeds in the NCAA Tournament. Sabally was a redshirt freshman that year, but did not play because of an ACL injury.\n\nIonescu ended her college career as the NCAA's all-time triple-doubles leader, among both men and women, with 26. She was drafted No. 1 by the Liberty in the 2020 WNBA draft.\n\nEugene Mayor Kaarin Knudson declared Monday \"Sabrina Ionescu Day\" in honor of Ionescu, who won a WNBA title with the Liberty last year as well as a gold medal at the Paris Olympics.\n\n\"I'm glad they're getting their love,\" teammate Natasha Cloud said of Ionescu and Sabally. \"They deserve it. Both of them have grown so much from being here, and obviously being able to win the (WNBA) championship last year, to come back here and celebrate with the fans.\"\n\nThe Liberty announced earlier Monday it exercised Sabally's fourth-year option, which will keep her with the team through the 2026 season.\n\nLiberty owner Clara Wu Tsai and Oregon coach Kelly Graves were among those at the game.\n\n\"It is a really cool idea. The preseason has been going to a lot of the college campuses of their star players and Sabrina is a franchise player for us and has done wonderful things,\" Liberty coach Sandy Brondello said. \"So it's great to come back where it all started.\"\n\nGraves noted that if the opening rounds of NCAA Tournament had been played in 2020, Ionescu would have had at least one more game in Eugene to thank the fans.\n\n\"There would have been a bit of closure. She would have known, 'This is my last game at Matthew Knight Arena,' and she just never got that opportunity,\" Graves said. \"So that's why I thought this was really cool to do.\"\n\nThe WNBA returns to Oregon next year, when an as-yet unnamed expansion team kicks off in Portland."}
{"prompt_hash": "a0d8193d1a7dd3ead5b9db14421f7000287dc0b35e541e4ede89f7925ff5e217", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 05:21:35+00:00", "topics": ["Jorge Soler", "Los Angeles Angels", "San Diego Padres", "Yusei Kikuchi", "Fernando Tatis Jr.", "Alek Jacob", "Baseball", "San Diego", "MLB", "Robert Suarez", "Brock Burke", "Zach Neto", "Sports", "Matthew Lugo", "Xander Bogaerts", "Taylor Ward", "Jos Soriano", "Jackson Merrill", "Kenley Jansen", "MLB baseball", "RHP Dylan Jos Soriano", "Gavin Sheets"], "text": "# Taylor Ward's grand slam caps 6-run ninth inning as the Angels beat the Padres 9-5\n\nMay 13th, 2025 05:21 AM\n\n---\n\nSAN DIEGO (AP) \u2014 Taylor Ward hit a grand slam to cap a six-run ninth inning, and the Los Angeles Angels beat the San Diego Padres 9-5 on Monday night.\n\nThe Angels rallied against Robert Suarez, who had converted 18 consecutive save opportunities \u2014 including 15 this season. Alek Jacob replaced Suarez and struck out Jorge Soler before Ward delivered.\n\nSuarez (0-1) yielded a one-out single before walking four straight batters, forcing in two runs. The right-hander allowed just one run in his first 18 appearances this year.\n\nZach Neto hit a two-run homer for Los Angeles in the third. But San Diego scored three runs in the bottom half.\n\nJackson Merrill hit an RBI single, and left-hander Yusei Kikuchi committed a throwing error on Xander Bogaerts' comebacker, bringing home two more runs. Gavin Sheets then singled to left but Matthew Lugo threw Bogaerts out at home.\n\nSan Diego star Fernando Tatis Jr. led off the fifth with his 10th homer, and a Bogaerts sacrifice fly made it 5-3 in the eighth.\n\nKikuchi allowed four runs \u2014 two earned \u2014 and seven hits in six innings. Brock Burke (4-0) pitched the eighth, and Kenley Jansen fanned two in a scoreless ninth.\n\nKing struck out eight in 5 2/3 innings. He was charged with three runs \u2014 two earned \u2014 and four hits.\n\nIt was San Diego's first home game this month after a 6-3 road trip.\n\n## Key moment\n\nWard drove a 2-2 pitch deep to left for his fifth career grand slam.\n\n## Key stat\n\nSuarez had never walked more than two in a game and had just four in his first 17 2/3 innings.\n\n## Up next\n\nRHP Jos\u00e9 Soriano (2-4, 4.00 ERA) starts Tuesday for the Angels against RHP Dylan Cease (1-2, 4.91 ERA)."}
{"prompt_hash": "9ded1ec620e8f0eb5b285d718172307422e33c921a26ea87d05a525d1cb48a91", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 08:10:40+00:00", "topics": ["Senegal", "Animals", "Migration", "Environmental science", "Spain government", "Climate and environment", "Hunting and fishing", "Politics", "Karim Sall", "Business", "Climate"], "text": "# Foreign overfishing in Senegal fuels migration to Spain, a report finds\n\nBy Jack Thompson  \nMay 13th, 2025 08:10 AM\n\n---\n\nDAKAR, Senegal (AP) \u2014 Overfishing by foreign vessels is decimating fish stocks in the West African country of Senegal, which is in turn fueling migration to Spain, according to a report released Tuesday.\n\nThe Environmental Justice Foundation, a London-based group specializing in environmental and human rights issues, said illegal overfishing and destructive practices by foreign vessels are responsible for increased irregular migration to Spain. It based its conclusions on interviews with fishermen in Spain and Senegal and its prior research on foreign overfishing.\n\nThe group found that 57% of fish stocks in Senegal are in a \"state of collapse,\" with foreign vessels playing a significant role in declining numbers. Its analysis showed 43.7% of licensed vessels in Senegal are foreign-controlled, predominantly of Spanish and Chinese origin.\n\nAs fish populations dwindle, local fishermen are facing income loss, and many have turned to migration as a last resort. Fishing is an important economic sector in Senegal that employs 3% of the workforce.\n\nIrregular migration to the Canary Islands almost doubled in 2024, according to the Spanish Interior Ministry, reaching 46,843. While exact figures aren't known due to a lack of information on departures from West Africa, Senegal is one of the top three nationalities of arrivals to the Spanish islands.\n\nThe Atlantic route from West Africa to the Canary Islands is one of the deadliest in the world. The Spanish migrant rights group Walking Borders estimates the victims were in the thousands last year.\n\nMigrants and former fishermen in the Canary Islands told the Environmental Justice Foundation that the treacherous journey to Spain was a last resort, a way to provide for families when fishing in Senegal could no longer put food on the table.\n\n\"If I was able to gain enough money in fishing, I would never have come to Europe,\" said Memedou Racine Seck.\n\nLocal activists in Senegal have voiced their frustration with foreign overfishing and its contribution to the migration crisis. Karim Sall, President of AGIRE, a Senegalese organization operating in the Joal-Fadiouth marine protected area, condemned foreign nations for their role in the crisis.\n\n\"I get so angry when (foreign nations) complain about immigration because they are the real pirates and what they did is worse than clandestine immigration. It's theft, plundering our resources to feed their own inhabitants while we suffer,\" said Sall.\n\nIndustrial foreign fleets, many of which use bottom trawling techniques, are exacerbating the crisis. These vessels drag heavy nets across the seafloor, indiscriminately catching young fish and destroying marine ecosystems like seagrass and coral reefs, which are vital for fish reproduction. As a result, fish stocks are unable to recover, deepening the hardships of local fishing communities and eaters. Fish plays an important role in food security in Senegal, especially for protein consumption. Due to declining fish stocks, consumption per capita in Senegal has fallen from 29 kilograms per year to 17.8 kilograms per person.\n\nThe report also pointed to a lack of transparency in fishing licenses and inadequate government management of fisheries as contributing factors. Despite efforts by the Senegalese government to address the crisis, experts warn that without stricter regulations on industrial foreign fleets, the situation will worsen.\n\nMigrant and former fisherman Souleymane Sady, who arrived in the Canary Islands in 2020, summed up the situation fishermen in Senegal face: \"Since the government cannot regulate the boats and we cannot work normally, we choose to run away from the country to come for stability,\" he said."}
{"prompt_hash": "ac70c655633f0c94cf32eb12543330511cf2cb7889a33b2d4d01fa0674114223", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 05:11:00+00:00", "topics": ["Muhammad Yunus", "Bangladesh", "Sheikh Hasina", "Bangladesh government", "South Asia", "Violence", "Elections", "Rebellions and uprisings", "Politics", "Protests and demonstrations"], "text": "# Bangladesh's interim government strips former ruling party of registration, barring it from polls\n\nBy Julhas Alam  \nMay 13th, 2025 05:11 AM\n\n---\n\nDHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) \u2014 Bangladesh's Election Commission has cancelled the registration of the former ruling party of ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, preventing it from participating in the next national election, which is expected to be held by June next year.\n\nThe decision on Monday came hours after the country's interim government headed by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus issued an official notification banning the Awami League party and its affiliated bodies from conducting activities online and elsewhere.\n\nMonday's formal notification from the Ministry of Home Affairs was issued two days after the interim Cabinet decided to ban all activities of the party under the country's Anti-Terrorism Act until a special tribunal concludes a trial for the party and its leaders.\n\nIn the notification, the government said it outlawed all activities \"including any kind of publication, media, online and social media\" as well as \"any kind of campaign, procession, meeting, gathering (or) conference until the trial of the leaders and activists \u2026 is completed.\"\n\nIt said the decision was effective immediately.\n\nSeparately, the Election Commission said Monday it would not allow the Hasina-led party to contest the next election. Political parties must be registered with the Election Commission to take part in elections.\n\nA government adviser said Monday that anyone who posts comments online in support of the Awami League party would face arrest.\n\nOn Sunday, the Awami League accused the interim government of \"stoking division\" and trampling on \"democratic norms\" by banning its activities. It said in a statement that the ban \"stoked division within society, strangled democratic norms, fueled ongoing pogrom against dissenters and strangled inclusivity, all undemocratic steps.\"\n\nThe Awami League is one of two major parties in Bangladesh, which has a fractious parliamentary democracy with a violent history of coups and political assassination.\n\nHasina, the daughter of Bangladesh's independence leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, fled the country on Aug. 5 last year and has been in exile in India since then along with many senior party colleagues and former Cabinet minsters and lawmakers. They have been accused of killing protesters during an uprising against Hasina's 15-year rule in July-August last year.\n\nThe United Nations human rights office said in a report in February that up to 1,400 people may have been killed during three weeks of anti-Hasina protests. But the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner of Human Rights recommended in a report to \"refrain from political party bans that would undermine a return to a genuine multi-party democracy and effectively disenfranchise a large part of the Bangladeshi electorate.\"\n\nThe Awami League, which led a nine-month war against Pakistan for independence in 1971, has been under severe pressure since Hasina's ouster. Protesters have attacked and torched many of its offices including its headquarters in Dhaka. It accuses the interim government of sponsoring mobs to attack the homes and businesses of their activists and leaders. It said thousands of its supporters have been arrested across the country and that many have been killed.\n\nYunus has said the next election will likely be held either in December or in June next year."}
{"prompt_hash": "cfe0d2bdfeda78f9ad2b8ff921609455d240582ed8eaea2d1b7f32f1dff2b051", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 05:06:25+00:00", "topics": ["Carlo Ancelotti", "Real Madrid", "Soccer", "Paulo Roberto Falco", "Brazil", "FIFA World Cup", "Gabriel Magalhes", "Cafu", "Matheus Cunha", "Lucas Paquet", "Sports", "Luiz Felipe Scolari", "Andreas Pereira", "Marcus Vinicius", "Eder Milito", "Alisson Becker", "Fernando Diniz"], "text": "# Brazil squad mired in trouble as time ticks for Ancelotti before the World Cup\n\nBy Mauricio Savarese  \nMay 13th, 2025 05:06 AM\n\n---\n\nSAO PAULO (AP) \u2014 Carlo Ancelotti faces myriad problems as Brazil coach and only about a dozen games to deal with them before the World Cup if he wants to have a decent shot at the 2026 title.\n\nThe initial challenges will be solving the defensive woes, bolstering the midfield and fielding a lineup that won't be over-reliant on Neymar, who has been struggling with injuries.\n\nBrazil's soccer confederation on Monday said the 65-year-old Italian will leave Real Madrid one year before the end of his contract and take over Brazil's national team on May 26, the day after the final round of the Spanish league. Details of the deal were not released.\n\n\"Ancelotti's impact goes beyond results; he is a strategist who turns teams into legends. Brazil, with its unique tradition, and Ancelotti, with his revolutionary vision, will make a partnership that will go down in history,\" CBF President Ednaldo Rodrigues said. \"He is the greatest coach in history and, now, he will be in charge of the biggest national team on the planet.\"\n\nRodrigues' optimism doesn't entirely ring true for those who've watched Brazil over the last two years.\n\nAncelotti's first challenge will be reigniting belief in a squad sitting fourth in South American World Cup qualifying after a heavy 4-1 loss at archrival Argentina. After a series of poor performances Dorival J\u00fanior was fired as coach, just like his predecessors Ramon Menezes and Fernando Diniz.\n\nAncelotti's tenure reportedly has already started in conversations with two key Brazil players of the previous World Cup campaigns: Neymar, still recovering at Santos following his ACL tear, and Manchester United midfielder Casemiro.\n\nThere's no standout successor to either player in the national setup. If Ancelotti wants to bring the pair of 33-year-old veterans back into the squad, he'll need gameplans to play with and without them.\n\n## Creativity crisis\n\nBrazil's creative midfield is also an issue, which has frustrated the team's several top strikers.\n\nLucas Paquet\u00e1, who seemed set to take that position in the starting line up, is facing charges by English soccer authorities amid allegations he had deliberately received cards during Premier League matches to influence betting markets. Paquet\u00e1 denies any wrongdoing.\n\nOther players tested in that role, including Madrid's Rodrygo, Fullham's Andreas Pereira, Flamengo's Gerson, haven't so far delivered performances to reassure fans. That lack of a high performing creative midfield has limited the scoring ability of strikers Vinicius J\u00fanior, Raphinha, Matheus Cunha, and Endrick.\n\nBrazil's defensive midfield is also expected to be an issue for Ancelotti \u2014 hence the call to veteran Casemiro, with whom he won several titles at Madrid. Newcastle's Bruno Guimar\u00e3es and Joelinton were the latest attempt for a change.\n\nThere's other players who could take that role but no clear choices for Brazil. Ancelotti will have to go looking.\n\n## Defensive collapse\n\nBrazil's defensive woes are shocking compared with the six years under coach Tite, between 2016 and 2022. The Selecao has conceded 31 goals in 25 matches since Qatar. That is one more than in 81 matches under Tite. Even if the team's stars don't deliver, Ancelotti's performance will be judged by how he fixes Brazil's defense, as he has done in the clubs where he's worked.\n\nUnlike Brazil's attacking force, which has several top players and some good options for the bench, the team's defense has lacked talent at right- and left-back for years. None of the players tested since 2022 have echoed Brazil's tradition in those positions of attacking players who also know how to block opponents.\n\nA possible solution, which was used by Luiz Felipe Scolari in the 2002 World Cup for different reasons, would be for Ancelotti to pick three defenders and choose two wingers to play close to the team's midfield. But Brazil would also struggle to find three top defenders in good shape.\n\nThe current defensive duo of Marquinhos and Gabriel Magalh\u00e3es has not inspired confidence, as numbers suggest, and Eder Milit\u00e3o, another Ancelotti favorite, is still returning from injury.\n\nEven in goal there will be big decisions for Ancelotti to make.\n\nAlisson held the position in the last two World Cups, when Brazil was eliminated in quarterfinals. As the new cycle began and the Liverpool goalkeeper was injured, Ederson took over. But then Ederson was injured and Alisson reclaimed his starting spot. As they competed for the starting place, both were injured and that resulted in Bento taking over against Argentina.\n\n## History\n\nAnd these are only the on-field problems that Ancelotti will have to deal with. Legal woes involving the CBF President, Ednaldo Rodrigues, could also be a distraction. Fans have little patience with poor performances and there's still a slight chance the team won't make it to the World Cup for the first time ever \u2014 the top six teams in South America will have direct berths.\n\nTV Band commentator Galvao Bueno, often regarded as a spokesman for Brazil fans, said Ancelotti will need local help to navigate the challenges.\n\n\"Ancelotti will bring his assistants, but he has friends in Brazil; Cafu, Kak\u00e1 and, above all, Paulo Roberto Falc\u00e3o,\" Bueno said, referring to three former internationals who reportedly might join the coaching staff. \"Ancelotti will take over the national team at moment in which the CBF is facing tremendous headwinds!\"\n\nThat's not exactly new for Brazil.\n\nIf history means anything, Brazil has won only one of its five World Cup titles as the favorite going into the tournament \u2014 in 1962, as defending champion.\n\nIn 2001, one year before the team's last World Cup title, Scolari's Brazil lineup get knocked out in a Copa America by Honduras. Stars Ronaldo and Rivaldo were struggling with injuries. Pundits were highly critical of the 3-5-2 formation for the simple reason that Brazil hadn't won a trophy with such strategy.\n\nAncelotti might have to look at history for some inspiration, and maybe his phone book for some local friends who could help, before his actual work with Brazil begins."}
{"prompt_hash": "b1efb6d7b50f50fcf5c1af270763bae753cbc8abd12c75196953edab2917e6e6", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 03:39:13+00:00", "topics": ["Bruce Bochy", "Corey Seager", "Texas Rangers", "Colorado Rockies", "Kyle Farmer", "Baseball", "MLB", "Chris Martin", "MLB baseball", "Sports", "Josh Jung", "Luke Jackson", "Michael Toglia", "Athlete injuries", "Sean Bouchard", "Ryan McMahon", "Tyler Mahle", "Matt Lucero", "Jacob Webb", "Brenton Doyle"], "text": "# Rangers closer Luke Jackson takes comebacker off pitching hand on his only pitch against Rockies\n\nBy Stephen Hawkins  \nMay 13th, 2025 03:39 AM\n\n---\n\nARLINGTON, Texas (AP) \u2014 Texas closer Luke Jackson took a 111-mph comeback liner off his pitching hand on the only pitch he threw after coming on in the ninth inning of the Rangers' 2-1 win over the Colorado Rockies on Monday night.\n\nRangers manager Bruce Bochy said X-rays were negative, but that the right hand \"swelled up pretty good.\" He said a stint on the injured list was certainly a possibility, but that the Rangers would know more Tuesday.\n\nRyan McMahon was leading off the ninth when he hit the ball right back at Jackson. The ball struck the pitcher's hand and popped up in the air before falling to the ground on what became an infield single.\n\nJackson left the game almost immediately after Bochy and athletic trainer Matt Lucero came out of the dugout to check on the pitcher.\n\n\"We'll see how he responds. But that thing blew up right away, so do have some concern,\" Bochy said.\n\n\"I mean 60 feet away is not that far, especially when those guys can hit as hard as they can,\" said Rangers starter Tyler Mahle, who threw 6 1/3 innings for the win. \"He was just out there trying to do what he does, and then something crappy like that happens. It just sucks.\"\n\nTexas was again without shortstop Corey Seager, who was out of lineup for the fourth time in five games because of hamstring soreness. He homered twice Saturday in the only game he has played in that stretch.\n\nBochy had said before the game that there could be a pregame move with Seager, but nothing happened then. The two-time World Series MVP missed 10 games when on the IL with a right hamstring strain from April 23 until being reinstated May 3.\n\nAsked after the game if there was any update on Seager, Bochy responded, \"No, no. We'll know more tomorrow.\"\n\nThe comebacker that struck Jackson came an inning after Brenton Doyle's hard liner was snagged by Chris Martin, the 6-foot-8 Rangers reliever who was going down to a knee when he made the catch on the ball coming right back at him.\n\nJacob Webb replaced Jackson, who has eight saves in nine chances, and immediately got a fielder's choice out. The Rockies then loaded the bases on a single by Michael Toglia and a four-pitch walk to Sean Bouchard.\n\nThe game ended and Webb had his first save when Kyle Farmer hit a chopper to third baseman Josh Jung, who stepped on the bag and then threw across to first to complete a double play.\n\n\"That walk put him in a jam there,\" Bochy said. \"He lost it there for four pitches, but then made a pitch when he had to to get the big double play.\""}
{"prompt_hash": "802173c1968df7702cb22ad673a92792eb32475f5c177a52bf62681e7da5e599", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 04:31:20+00:00", "topics": ["Mixed martial arts", "College sports", "Pacific Tigers", "New Zealand", "Peter Murray", "Sports", "Patrice Evra"], "text": "# Professional Fighters League launches an MMA division in Australia and New Zealand\n\nMay 13th, 2025 04:31 AM\n\n---\n\nSYDNEY (AP) \u2014 The Professional Fighters League has launched a new international division in Australia and New Zealand to showcase mixed martial arts competitors in the Oceania region.\n\nThe PFL Pacific was launched in Sydney on Tuesday, expanding the league's reach into the southern hemisphere.\n\n\"It has been a priority of ours to bring the Professional Fighters League to Australia and the Pacific region,\" PFL chief executive Peter Murray said in a statement. \"With the launch of PFL Pacific, we're also building a foundation for long-term growth and aiming to crown more Aussie champions than any other league over the next three years.\"\n\nThe PLF is partnering with the streaming service Stan and Australia's Nine Network in a broadcasting deal that covers subscription, pay-per-view and free-to-air TV.\n\nThe first PFL Pacific tournament will take place next year across four live events featuring regional fighters in single-elimination brackets and using the league's \"win and advance\" format.\n\nThe PFL Pacific launch was days after it emerged former France and Manchester United player Patrice Evra's PFL Europe debut scheduled for May 23 had been postponed.\n\nThe 43-year-old Evra, who retired from soccer in 2019, has been training in combat alongside MMA star C\u00e9dric Doumb\u00e9."}
{"prompt_hash": "f2516a734272476ea2c10caf2784cd67015f6b662ef23ee0498763207a07100a", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 04:25:50+00:00", "topics": ["Willy Adames", "Arizona Diamondbacks", "San Francisco Giants", "Robbie Ray", "Christian Koss", "Aaron Judge", "Baseball", "MLB", "Jalen Beeks", "Geraldo Perdomo", "Brandon Pfaadt", "Kyle Schwarber", "San Francisco", "MLB baseball", "Sports", "Justin Verlander", "Luis Matos", "Walter Johnson", "Corbin Carroll", "Merrill Kelly", "Shelby Miller", "Gus Weyhing"], "text": "# Corbin Carroll homers twice off Justin Verlander and the Diamondbacks beat the Giants 2-1\n\nMay 13th, 2025 04:25 AM\n\n---\n\nSAN FRANCISCO (AP) \u2014 Corbin Carroll hit two homers off Justin Verlander and the Arizona Diamondbacks beat the San Francisco Giants 2-1 on Monday night.\n\nCarroll hit a 2-1 pitch from Verlander over the wall in left-center in the third. He went deep again \u2014 a 419-foot shot to center, his 13th of the season \u2014 on a 1-1 pitch leading off the fifth for a 2-0 lead.\n\nThe Giants got their lone run in the bottom half off Diamondbacks starter Merrill Kelly. Willy Adames led off with a double and scored on a two-out single to right by Christian Koss, who was thrown out by Carroll trying for a double.\n\nVerlander (0-3) was pulled after allowing a leadoff single to Geraldo Perdomo in the seventh. He gave up nine hits.\n\nKelly (4-2) threw 103 pitches to get through seven innings. He gave up one run on eight hits with eight strikeouts. He's allowed two runs or fewer in seven of nine starts. Jalen Beeks pitched a scoreless eighth and Shelby Miller worked the ninth for his second save.\n\nCarroll is one homer behind the Phillies' Kyle Schwarber and the Yankees' Aaron Judge for the major league lead.\n\nSan Francisco has lost four straight. The Giants were swept in three games at Minnesota before beginning this nine-game homestand.\n\n## Key moment\n\nThe Giants had two on and one out in the seventh against Kelly, who then struck out Luis Matos and retired Koss on a popup.\n\n## Key stats\n\nVerlander struck out five. He's 10th on the career strikeout list and the active leader with 3,456. He needs 54 to pass Walter Johnson.\n\nVerlander also leads active players with 262 wins. He needs three to pass Gus Weyhing (1887-1901) for 40th in major league history.\n\n## Up next\n\nBrandon Pfaadt (6-2, 3.28 ERA) will start Tuesday for Arizona against San Francisco's Robbie Ray (5-0, 2.84)."}
{"prompt_hash": "a59b30a04eaf26cbc31b0c32f1369924f2a639e51bdffc60f08895d54cd7f055", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 04:11:34+00:00", "topics": ["Donald Trump", "Protests and demonstrations", "Colleges and universities", "Benjamin Netanyahu", "Activism", "District of Columbia", "Associated Press", "Colombia", "Palestinian territories government", "Politics", "United States government", "Israel government", "Education", "Israel"], "text": "# Things to know about pro-Palestinian campus protests this spring\n\nBy Collin Binkley  \nMay 13th, 2025 04:11 AM\n\n---\n\nWASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Campus activism has flared as the academic year winds down, with pro-Palestinian demonstrations leading to arrests at several colleges.\n\nCompared with last spring, when more than 2,100 people were arrested in campus protests nationwide, the demonstrations have been smaller and more scattered.\n\nBut the stakes are also much higher. President Donald Trump's administration has been investigating dozens of colleges over their handling of protests, including allegations of antisemitism, and frozen federal grant money as leverage to press demands for new rules on activism.\n\nColleges, in turn, have been taking a harder line on discipline and enforcement, following new policies adopted to prevent tent encampments of the kind that stayed up for weeks last year on many campuses.\n\n## What are protesters demanding?\n\nMore are pushing for the same goal that drove last year's protests \u2014 an end to university ties with Israel or companies that provide weapons or other support to Israel.\n\nProtesters who took over a Columbia University library this month issued demands including divestment from \"occupation, apartheid and genocide\" and amnesty for students and workers targeted for discipline by the university. About 80 people were arrested at the protest, which also called for police and federal immigration officials to stay off campus.\n\nA protest at the University of Washington days earlier demanded the school end ties with Boeing, a supplier to the Israeli Defense Forces. Activists wanted the school to return any Boeing donations and bar the company's employees from teaching at the school. Thirty people were arrested.\n\nOther protests have sparked up at schools including Swarthmore College, Rutgers University, the University of California, Los Angeles and Brooklyn College.\n\n## Tensions break out as the academic year ends\n\nThe timing of recent protests may owe to developments in the war itself and the approaching end of the school year, said Robert Cohen, a professor of history and social studies at New York University.\n\nCohen said activists may be energized by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's discussion of an escalation of the war, at a time many Palestinians already are at risk of starvation amid an Israeli blockade of food and other goods. \"And the fact that it is the end of the semester \u2014 maybe it seems like the last chance they have to take a stance, to publicize this,\" he said.\n\nStill, he sees the latest flare-up as a return to the kind of protests that campuses occasionally saw even before the Israel-Hamas war. As colleges have imposed stricter rules, many students may be unwilling to risk punishment, he said.\n\n\"Essentially, you have a small core of people, and the larger mass movement has been suppressed,\" he said of the latest activism. \"These are small, scattered protests.\"\n\n## The stakes are much higher this spring\n\nColleges navigating protests risk losing federal grants for research if their response runs afoul of the government.\n\nThe handling of last year's protests has been at the center of the Trump administration's fight with Columbia, Harvard and other universities.\n\nSome schools have had money frozen for what the administration calls a failure to root out campus antisemitism. Federal officials have demanded tougher action against protesters, new limits on protests and other changes aimed at pro-Palestinian activism along with diversity, equity and inclusion policies.\n\nAfter the University of Washington protest, a federal antisemitism task force said it was launching a review. It applauded quick action from police but said it expected campus leaders to \"follow up with enforcement actions and policy changes that are clearly necessary to prevent these uprisings moving forward.\"\n\nThe stakes are also higher for international students as the federal government moves to deport students with ties to pro-Palestinian activism.\n\n## Colleges are cracking down aggressively\n\nAfter calling police to clear the library occupied by protesters last week, Columbia University suspended 65 students and barred 33 others from campus.\n\nColumbia's response drew praise from the Trump administration's task force, which said it was encouraged by the university's \"strong and resolute statement\" condemning the protest.\n\nEven before the latest protest, Columbia had agreed to other changes amid pressure from federal officials, including a ban on face masks used to conceal identities and the hiring of new public safety officers empowered to make arrests on campus.\n\nThe University of Washington protest also drew a swift response, with 21 students later suspended."}
{"prompt_hash": "b8bb82ae031775b71d71dd706eab1eafa45df99adb49f483ecc5e435abc96a90", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 03:55:07+00:00", "topics": ["Sean Walker", "Carolina Hurricanes", "Taylor Hall", "Washington Capitals", "Jack Roslovic", "Logan Thompson", "Frederik Andersen", "Spencer Carbery", "Andrei Svechnikov", "Alexander Ovechkin", "Mikko Rantanen", "Jakob Chychrun", "DC Wire", "Stanley Cup", "NHL", "Sports", "Rasmus Sandin", "Stanley Cup Playoffs", "Matt Roy", "Rod BrindAmour", "NHL hockey"], "text": "# Timely 3rd-period goals from Hall, Walker keep Hurricanes in control of playoff win against Capitals\n\nBy Aaron Beard  \nMay 13th, 2025 03:55 AM\n\n---\n\nRALEIGH, N..C. (AP) \u2014 The Carolina Hurricanes twice found their two-goal margin halved in the third period of their latest playoff game with the Washington Capitals.\n\nEach time they found a prompt response.\n\nAnd that pushed the Hurricanes within a win of the Eastern Conference final for the second time in three seasons.\n\nTaylor Hall scored on a breakaway chance roughly three minutes after the Washington Capitals scored their first goal, then Sean Walker added one minutes after NHL all-time goals leader Alex Ovechkin struck with a 5-on-3 one-timer. Those kept the Hurricanes in control on the way to a 5-2 win Monday night, securing a 3-1 lead in the best-of-seven second-round series.\n\n\"We get an individual effort, and that's really what those were, good plays,\" Carolina coach Rod Brind'Amour said. \"But burying it, finishing your chances at a crucial time in the game. ... Both of those goals were huge for us.\"\n\nBoth Hall and Walker finished with two points, with Walker getting the second assist on Hall's score and Hall returning the favor by springing Walker's surge up the ice on the way to the first career postseason goal. But the timing of the goals stood out, with each blunting the momentum of a Washington team that had been shutout for five straight periods going back to Saturday's 4-0 loss in Game 3.\n\nCarolina carried a 2-0 lead into the third before Jakob Chychrun beat Frederik Andersen on a feed from Matt Roy after Roy had denied Carolina's chance to clear the zone. That score came at the 5:18 mark of the third to add a jolt of tension rippling through the Lenovo Center after Carolina had kept a firm grip on the game to that point.\n\nBut Hall \u2014 acquired in January in the blockbuster deal that brought in Mikko Rantanen as the headliner \u2014 made a veteran read to blunt that momentum.\n\nAfter being knocked to the ice in the offensive zone, Hall was getting up as the Capitals pushed the puck toward the other end. But as Hall got to center ice, he was completely alone \u2014 Washington coach Spencer Carbery said the defense lost track of Hall behind the forecheck and were too deep in the zone \u2014 and the Hurricanes were on the verge of collecting the puck as it went around the wall.\n\nSo Hall turned in back toward the blue line, straddling it long enough to stay onside until Jack Roslovic's long pass arrived to spring the breakaway chance.\n\n\"Yeah, everyone's asking me if I was cheating for offense,\" Hall said, adding; \"I thought it was just something to try.\"\n\nHall skated in and beat Logan Thompson to the glove side at the 8:24 mark, pushing the margin back to 3-1.\n\n\"It's a read, we had possession of the puck,\" Brind'Amour said. \"So that's actually a good play by him.\"\n\nThe Capitals again kept the pressure on with Ovechkin's blast past Andersen on the two-man advantage at the 12:14 mark, dampening the rowdy zeal in Carolina's home arena. But that's when Hall and Walker teamed up for the goal that would reassert control.\n\nIt started on a puck battle and the unusual sight of Washington's Rasmus Sandin skating in to get the puck from Walker, only to get the blade of his stick stuck in a gap along the boards. Walker got to his feet as Hall collected the puck, then flipped a pass to Walker as he charged up the left side.\n\nWalker hesitated to cut inside Roslovic toward the slot and beat Thompson at the 16:45 mark, pushing the lead back to 4-2 in what became a back-breaking score.\n\n\"I feel like they were backchecking really hard, so I kind of just read that,\" Walker said. \"Tried to be patient. Once I stepped inside, I felt like I had a good lane so I shot it, and just happy it went in.\"\n\nAndrei Svechnikov added the empty-net clincher less than a minute later to deny Washington's bid to retake home-ice advantage, the capper to Carolina's steady response amid growing third-period danger.\n\n\"I think that's something that's really important, especially this time of year,\" Walker said. \"You've got to answer when teams are making their push.\""}
{"prompt_hash": "48fa8b839c35c69d8d8224b8195ead87d5772610c40133d707e3968e1f3933ab", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-12 20:30:30+00:00", "topics": ["Donald Trump", "Benjamin Netanyahu", "Iran", "Marco Rubio", "Narendra Modi", "Vladimir Putin", "Steve Witkoff", "Bashar Assad", "District of Columbia", "Syria", "Damascus", "Middle East", "Syria government", "United States government", "Mohammad bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud", "Terrorism", "Edan Alexander", "Kaja Kallas", "Hamas", "Russia Ukraine war", "Iran government", "Ahmed Al-Sharaa", "Abbas Araghchi", "War and unrest", "Diplomacy", "Politics", "Recep Tayyip Erdogan", "Volodymyr Zelenskyy", "India government"], "text": "# Trump starts his foreign trip with a crush of problems \u2014 and outsized certainty he has the answers\n\nBy Aamer Madhani and Darlene Superville  \nMay 12th, 2025 08:30 PM\n\n---\n\nWASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 President Donald Trump set out on a three-nation visit to the Middle East on Monday, a trip he had originally intended to use to focus on his efforts to press wealthy Gulf nations to pour billions in new investment into the United States.\n\nBut now Trump finds himself navigating a series of geopolitical crises \u2014 and searching for glimmers of hope in the deep well of global turmoil \u2014 that are casting greater import on the first extended overseas trip of his second term.\n\n\"This world is a lot safer today than it was a week ago,\" Trump crowed to reporters as he sized up the foreign policy challenges he's facing as he heads to Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. \"And a lot safer than it was six months ago.\"\n\nThe president was brimming with an overabundance of confidence about some of the world's most intractable problems, from tensions in South Asia to the future of sanctions in Syria to the war in Ukraine.\n\nBut behind closed doors, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Qatar Emir Sheikh Tamim al-Thani, and Emirati President Mohammed bin Zayed will be looking to get a read on how Trump intends to push ahead on resolving the war in Gaza, dealing with Iran's rapidly progressing nuclear program and addressing India-Pakistan tensions.\n\nAnd after weeks of threats and cajoling, it remains to be seen if Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will listen to Trump, who is demanding they meet in Istanbul this week to discuss ending Russia's war on Ukraine.\n\nTrump, for his part, projected confidence that the meeting will happen and even seemed somewhat optimistic that the end to the conflict is near. He floated the idea of making a detour from his itinerary to visit Turkey if he thinks his presence would be constructive.\n\n\"I was thinking about flying over. I don't know where I am going be on Thursday,\" Trump said. \"I've got so many meetings. \u2026 There's a possibility there, I guess, if I think things can happen.\"\n\nBut Ukraine's allies remained deeply skeptical Monday about prospects for talks and whether Putin was serious about peace.\n\n\"If there is no ceasefire, there cannot be talks under fire,\" European Union commission vice president Kaja Kallas told reporters at a meeting on Ukraine in London. \"We want to see that Russia also wants peace. It takes two to want peace, it takes only one to want war, and we see that Russia clearly wants war.\"\n\n## Trump sees opening in Gaza\n\nJust as Trump was preparing to depart Washington for the Saudi capital of Riyadh, the last living American hostage in Gaza, Edan Alexander, was released.\n\nTrump and administration officials framed the moment \u2014 a goodwill gesture toward Trump by Hamas \u2014 as a chance to get foundering peace negotiations between Israel and Hamas back on track.\n\n\"This was a step taken in good faith towards the United States and the efforts of the mediators \u2014 Qatar and Egypt \u2014 to put an end to this very brutal war and return ALL living hostages and remains to their loved one,\" Trump posted on social media after Hamas extended the offer Sunday. \"Hopefully this is the first of those final steps necessary to end this brutal conflict.\"\n\nWhile Trump pumped up Alexander's release as a potential turning point, Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was far more subdued. Israel, notably, has not stepped back from plans to expand its war in Gaza.\n\nNetanyahu's office, in a statement Monday, underscored it had \"not committed to a ceasefire of any kind or the release of terrorists\" in exchange for Alexander.\n\n\"The negotiations will continue under fire, during preparations for an intensification of the fighting,\" the prime minister's office statement said.\n\n## Trump takes a different tone on Syria\n\nAs he prepared to leave Washington, Trump also said he's weighing removing sanctions on the Syrian government. It's an issue that's top of mind for the three Gulf leaders, who have rallied behind the new government in Damascus and will want Trump to follow through.\n\n\"We may want to take them off of Syria, because we want to give them a fresh start,\" said Trump, adding that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has urged him to do so.\n\nThe comments marked a striking change in tone from Trump, who has been deeply skeptical of Syrian President Ahmed Al-Sharaa.\n\nAl-Sharaa took power after his Islamist group, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), led an offensive that toppled former President Bashar Assad in December.\n\nThe Trump administration has yet to formally recognize the new Syrian government. Sanctions imposed on Damascus under Assad also remain in place.\n\n## Cajoling India and Pakistan with trade\n\nTrump also took credit for his administration keeping India and Pakistan from returning to a state of all-out war amid the deadliest fighting in six years between the nuclear-armed neighbors.\n\nThe president said he and aides were ultimately able to talk sense to India and Pakistan's leadership and guide them away from further escalation by dangling carrots, while also threatening both nations with sticks.\n\n\"I said, 'Come on, we're going to do a lot of trade with you guys,'\" Trump said. \"'If you stop it, we'll do trade. If you don't stop it, we're not going to do any trade.' People never use trade the way I used it.\"\n\nThe situation remains tenuous. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Monday that his country has only \"paused\" its military action and will \"retaliate on its own terms\" if there is any future terror attack on the country.\n\n## Big differences remain in Iran nuclear talks\n\nThe president will arrive in the region after his special envoy, Steve Witkoff, held the fourth round of nuclear talks Sunday in Oman with Iran's foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi.\n\nAs the talks continue, the Trump administration has sent mixed messages about what nuclear work Iran would be allowed to do under a potential deal.\n\nSenior administration officials, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio, have said that Tehran would be required to import enriched material to run nuclear reactors for civilian purposes. Trump, however, said last week that his administration hasn't made a decision on the issue.\n\nIt's also unclear if Trump will insist that Tehran give up support of Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon and Houthi militants in Yemen as part of any nuclear deal.\n\nWhatever his negotiating frame may be, Trump seemed confident that Iran is engaging rationally, and that he will cement a deal soon.\n\n\"You can't have a nuclear weapon,\" Trump said of his demand for Iran. \"But I think that they are talking intelligently.\"\n\nHowever, the two sides still appear a long way from any deal, even as time passes on a two-month deadline imposed by Trump."}
{"prompt_hash": "642060c4e2f5f7ec18b80be9b8b8b9cca47fff2ab02308ab5404fe0f35bfc520", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 03:36:52+00:00", "topics": ["Irene Guerrero", "Scarlett Camberos", "Soccer", "Womens sports", "Womens soccer", "Mexico", "Sports", "Mexico City"], "text": "# Pachuca beats America on aggregate to capture its first Liga MX Femenil title\n\nMay 13th, 2025 03:36 AM\n\n---\n\nMEXICO CITY (AP) \u2014 Pachuca won its first Liga MX Femenil Apertura championship 3-2 on aggregate over America despite a 2-0 loss in the return leg on Monday.\n\nIrene Guerrero, a midfielder who plays for Spain's national team, and striker Scarlett Camberos scored goals for America but it wasn't quite enough for the Aguilas to overcome a 3-0 deficit from the first leg of the final series.\n\nPachuca had lost in its three previous appearances in finals series, in the Apertura 17 and the Clausura 2022 and '23 tournaments.\n\n\"It was fundamental to have won at home. We did not come here to defend the lead, but America played great and pushed us,\" said Pachuca's goalkeeper Esthefanny Barreras, who was voted the Player of the Match. \"It's a nice and historic moment to win the first title for us.\"\n\nThe women's professional league in Mexico played its first season in 2017 a nd it has kept growing in popularity.\n\nAmerica was trying to capture its third title. The Mexico City based team has lost four of the last six finals series."}
{"prompt_hash": "8d062165fe9c8af322220c2663f78fd10044210815eff1a01b156919d5f3b571", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 03:18:45+00:00", "topics": ["Jonathan India", "Houston Astros", "Bobby Witt Jr.", "Kansas City Royals", "Jose Altuve", "Ryan Gusto", "Baseball", "MLB", "Sports", "Kansas City", "Framber Valdez", "Kyle Isbel", "Kris Bubic", "MLB baseball", "Yainer Diaz", "Vinnie Pasquantino", "Drew Waters", "Michael Massey", "Carlos Estevez", "Christian Walker", "Michael Wacha", "Zach Dezenzo", "Isaac Paredes", "Jeremy Pea", "Jake Meyers"], "text": "# Witt and India each drive in 2 runs as the Royals beat the Astros 7-5\n\nMay 13th, 2025 03:18 AM\n\n---\n\nHOUSTON (AP) \u2014 Bobby Witt Jr. and Jonathan India each drove in two runs to help Michael Wacha and the Kansas City Royals beat the Houston Astros 7-5 on Monday night.\n\nMichael Massey homered as Kansas City improved to 8-2 in its last 10 games. India finished with three hits, and Witt, Vinnie Pasquantino and Kyle Isbel each had two.\n\nWacha (3-4) allowed two runs and eight hits in 6 1/3 innings. Carlos Est\u00e9vez got three outs for his 12th save.\n\nMassey sparked Kansas City's four-run second with a leadoff drive against rookie Ryan Gusto (3-2) for his second homer. India hit a two-out RBI single and scored on Witt's first triple of the season. Pasquantino added a run-scoring single.\n\nThe Royals added three more in the third. Drew Waters and India each hit an RBI single, and Witt drove in Waters with a sacrifice fly.\n\nJake Meyers had two hits and scored two runs for Houston, which had won three of four.\n\nZach Dezenzo hit an RBI double in the seventh for the Astros, and Jeremy Pe\u00f1a added a sacrifice fly. Meyers' RBI single helped his team close to 7-5 in the eighth.\n\nGusto allowed seven hits and walked three in 2 1/3 innings.\n\n## Key moment\n\nJose Altuve hit a leadoff single in the ninth for Houston. But Isaac Paredes flied out, Christian Walker struck out and Yainer Diaz flied out.\n\n## Key stat\n\nWacha entered with the least run support among starters at 1.79 runs per game. The Royals had not scored more than two runs with him on the mound in any of his eight starts.\n\n## Up next\n\nLHP Kris Bubic (4-2, 1.69 ERA) starts on Tuesday for the Royals against LHP Framber Valdez (2-4, 3.94 ERA)."}
{"prompt_hash": "a3e481e3b98ffa43286a23326fe30197ee0bc820f4d7b17ffea8e3eecfba83b0", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-12 16:17:30+00:00", "topics": ["Donald Trump", "New Jersey", "Edan Alexander", "Hamas", "2024-2025 Mideast Wars", "Hostage situations", "Israel-Hamas war", "Gaza", "Israel", "War and unrest", "Israel government", "Gaza Strip", "Middle East", "Alexanders", "Inc.", "International agreements", "Adam Boehler", "Prisoner exchange", "Religion"], "text": "# Who is Edan Alexander, the Israeli-American hostage released by Hamas?\n\nBy Julia Frankel and Melanie Lidman  \nMay 12th, 2025 04:17 PM\n\n---\n\nJERUSALEM (AP) \u2014 Edan Alexander was 19 when Hamas militants stormed the Israeli military base where the American-Israeli from New Jersey was a soldier and dragged him into the Gaza Strip.\n\nHamas released Alexander, the last living American hostage in Gaza, on Monday ahead of President Donald Trump's visit to the region this week. The militant group called it a goodwill gesture aimed at reviving mediated efforts to end the 19-month war.\n\nAlexander was among 251 people taken hostage in Hamas' Oct. 7, 2023, attack that ignited the war. Fifty-eight remain in Gaza. Around a third are believed to be alive. Most of the rest were released in ceasefire agreements or other deals.\n\nAfter Hamas announced on Sunday he would be released, Alexander's family said it \"received the greatest gift imaginable \u2014 news that our beautiful son Edan is returning home after 583 days in captivity in Gaza.\"\n\nAlexander's parents flew to Israel on Monday. Trump's hostage negotiator, Adam Boehler, posted a picture on social media showing Alexander's mother, Yael, aboard the flight.\n\nA native of Tenafly, a suburb of New York City, Edan Alexander moved to Israel in 2022 after high school and enlisted in the military. Hamas militants seized him from his military base after he volunteered to stay there over the Jewish Sabbath.\n\nIn a video Hamas released of Alexander over Thanksgiving weekend in November 2024, he cried and pleaded for help. Though the video was difficult to watch, his family said, it came as a relief to see he was alive.\n\nHostages freed since then have given the family more news, his father said. Some said Alexander had lost a lot of weight. Others said he'd been an advocate for fellow hostages, standing up for captive Thai workers and telling their captors that the workers weren't involved in the conflict and should be freed.\n\nAlexander, like other male soldiers held in Gaza, was not included among hostages released during a ceasefire earlier this year. Hamas released 25 Israeli hostages and the bodies of eight others in January and February in return for nearly 1,800 Palestinian prisoners. The sight of some emaciated hostages among those freed brought fresh despair to families whose loved ones remained in Gaza.\n\nHamas has said it will only release the remaining hostages in exchange for a lasting ceasefire and an Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, along with the release of more Palestinian prisoners. Israel has rejected those terms, saying it will continue the war until all the hostages are freed and Hamas is defeated.\n\nHamas said in March it would release Alexander and the bodies of four other hostages if Israel recommitted to the stalled ceasefire agreement. Alexander's father, Adi, said at the time he was speaking with Trump's hostage negotiators almost daily, pressing for his son's release.\n\nDays later, Israel shattered the truce with a surprise bombardment that killed hundreds of Palestinians. Israel called the renewed bombardment a tactic to pressure Hamas to negotiate different ceasefire terms. Hamas said the offensive puts remaining hostages at risk.\n\nIn April, Hamas published another video of Alexander in which he spoke from a dark room. His family believes he has been held in Hamas' vast tunnel network.\n\nDays later, Hamas said it had lost contact with the militants holding Alexander after an Israeli airstrike targeted their location. Israeli officials have not commented on the claim.\n\nThe Alexander family Monday urged the Israeli government to continue efforts to free all the hostages \u2014 a plea that other families have echoed since the Hamas announcement on Sunday.\n\n\"Please don't stop,\" Alexander's family said. \"We hope our son's release begins negotiations for all 58 remaining hostages, ending this nightmare for them and their families.\""}
{"prompt_hash": "48f43e263f29a9f74453af70ca174218fd51814bd61e666c2c792d7a886b8161", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-12 21:35:32+00:00", "topics": ["Sarah Jessica Parker", "Michelle Obama", "Kate Middleton", "Nonfiction", "Cindi Leive", "Fashion", "Children", "Books and literature", "New York", "Asia", "Asia Pacific", "New York City Wire", "Design", "Race and ethnicity", "Nepal", "Donna Karan", "Cynthia Rowley", "Entertainment", "Lifestyle", "Bill Blass", "Prabal Gurung", "George Floyd", "Bibhu Mohapatra", "Race and Ethnicity"], "text": "# Prabal Gurung reflects on resilience and runway success in new memoir\n\nBy Brooke Lefferts  \nMay 12th, 2025 09:35 PM\n\n---\n\nNEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Designer Prabal Gurung has always been a storyteller. First, it was through the colorful, Nepal-inspired designs that helped him find early success in the cutthroat fashion world. Now, he's sharing his life story in words with his bold new memoir, \"Walk Like A Girl.\"\n\nThe book, out Tuesday from Penguin Random House, traces his South Asian roots \u2014 born in Singapore, he grew up in Nepal and spent time in India \u2014 and difficult childhood. He would eventually move to New York to study at the Parsons School of Design, interning for Donna Karan and later working for Cynthia Rowley and Bill Blass. He started his own label in 2009, and has dressed celebrities including Michelle Obama, Kate Middleton, Zoe Salda\u00f1a and Sarah Jessica Parker.\n\nGurung, 46, says processing his childhood experiences with an abusive father at home and bullies and predators at school in order to write and record the book was the hardest thing he's ever done.\n\n\"I really hadn't told too many people, not even my close friends. To relive that part and to write it down \u2026 it was harrowing, I won't lie,\" Gurung told The Associated Press.\n\n\"It really brought back so many memories and \u2026 it's less of an anger. It's more like the injustice of the situation. More than anything else, I just wanted to go back to that kid and like, give him a hug \u2026 and just be like, 'You're gonna be OK,'\" Gurung said, choking back tears.\n\n## From Nepal to New York\n\nDespite being teased and struggling academically, Gurung always thought he was destined for a bigger life: \"I don't know, I just had it in me. I think it was survival also a lot of times.\"\n\nOne bright light that kept him going was the unwavering love and support of his mother, Durga Rana. She's the hero of the book, encouraging him to follow his passions and find joy wherever possible, even though his interest in fashion and experimentation with makeup and feminine clothing was highly unconventional in Nepal at the time.\n\nSurviving a marriage with an unfaithful, abusive husband, she essentially raised three young children on her own. Rana developed several successful businesses and eventually got into politics, telling her kids to use their platforms to make an impact.\n\n\"She's a blueprint of my strength. Watching her carry the weight of the world with such elegance, you know, was really inspiring,\" Gurung said. \"The way she built the world around us, unbowed, unapologetic, was, I would say, my first lesson in resilience.\"\n\n## A deep love of women\n\nThe book's title and cover are a purposeful nod to the designer's love of women. \"Walk Like a Girl\" was something kids said to tease him at school.\n\n\"I just didn't understand it as an insult in the beginning because I think 'Great, I'm like my mother, my sister, all these women.' 'Wonder Woman' was my favorite action hero, and 'Charlie's Angels,'\" Gurung said.\n\nHe decided to reclaim the phrase and chose his strength pose for the cover in honor of Rosie the Riveter and other \"iconic, feminist women.\"\n\nCindi Leive, the former editor-in-chief of Glamour and Self magazines, championed Gurung early on because of his authenticity on and off the runway.\n\n\"It became clear to me that he was incredibly interested not just in fashion as fashion, but in the women who would wear the clothes,\" Leive told the AP. \"I also noticed that every time I would have a conversation with him, he would end up talking about his mom.\"\n\nGurung couldn't wait to get to the U.S.; he felt immediately at home in New York, a place he sees as the best culmination of people, cultures and creative freedom, he writes. But he was surprised and disappointed by the general lack of diversity on runways and at social events.\n\n\"My recollection is he was one of the first to use models who more closely resembled the diversity of people that you actually see in America \u2026 in size, race and everything else,\" Leive said.\n\nGurung's runway casting was only part of his commitment to inclusion. Now a Met Gala mainstay, Gurung uses his platform to speak out about injustice and women's rights issues, which, at the beginning of his career was not a popular stance, leaving him feeling \"like a lone ranger.\" He recalled the emails and messages he used to get saying, \"Oh, stay in your lane, you're a fashion designer ... not a politician.\"\n\n\"He was very open about his support for issues that mattered to women, long before it was a thing. Eventually, I think, every designer had some, you know, slogan T-shirt proclaiming their support of women's causes. He did it before anybody, but it went way deeper than the T-shirt,\" Leive said.\n\n\"I'll never forget when Cindi Leive at a dinner said to me \u2014 right after George Floyd's murder and all of that stuff that happened, the Black Lives Matter movement,\" Gurung said. \"She pulled me aside, she said, 'How does it feel now \u2026 to see the world catching up to you? You've been at it for such a long time.' I didn't even think about it.\"\n\n## Authenticity, on and off the runway\n\nPart of Gurung's story is being a proud immigrant, and his connection to his Nepali roots come through in his designs. Indian-born American designer Bibhu Mohapatra has been friends with Gurung since they were both starting out, bonding over their South Asian roots. He says Gurung is \"naturally curious\" and has always been a great storyteller.\n\n\"Whether he's doing a jewelry collection, whether it's a piece of clothing or a whole collection, it's always sort of backed by receipts of his experiences that are his tools of telling a story \u2026 whether about craft, whether it's about color, whether it's about his heritage, or simply people in his life, the designer said. \"You believe it because it comes from a very authentic place.\"\n\nMohapatra also admires Gurung's \"naturally rebellious streak\" and his courage to speak out for causes he values.\n\n\"He's brave to be the first one or join the force with people who are starting a movement,\" the designer said.\n\nMohapatra also suggests Gurung's spiritual side and roots add to his work and his ability to empathize: \"There is an aspect of slowing down, really attention to the core and looking back at the path and \u2026 there is a bit more spirituality woven into the daily lives of people of Nepal.\"\n\nGurung says he hopes the book resonates with readers and encourages them to share their own stories.\n\n\"I want people to really understand that their existence, their story is worthy of being told, that they don't have to hide themselves, they're no longer invisible,\" he said. \"I know I'm on the cover, it's my name and my story, but it really is a story about, for, and of so many people.\""}
{"prompt_hash": "a5909a6b690376b40b63f45b64979c607baf37e7c7c58ef298d2364fec0954dc", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 02:00:22+00:00", "topics": ["Sean Walker", "Taylor Hall", "Andrei Svechnikov", "Carolina Hurricanes", "Washington Capitals", "Jakob Chychrun", "Alexander Ovechkin", "Logan Thompson", "Shayne Gostisbehere", "Spencer Carbery", "Seth Jarvis", "Connor McMichael", "Jack Roslovic", "Aliaksei Protas", "Frederik Andersen", "DC Wire", "Stanley Cup", "NHL", "Stanley Cup Playoffs", "Sports", "Rasmus Sandin", "NHL hockey", "Rod BrindAmour"], "text": "# Walker, Svechnikov score late as Hurricanes push Capitals to brink of elimination in 5-2 win\n\nBy Aaron Beard  \nMay 13th, 2025 02:00 AM\n\n---\n\nRALEIGH, N.C. (AP) \u2014 Sean Walker cut to the middle of the ice and beat Logan Thompson for a critical late goal, then Andrei Svechnikov followed with an empty-net clincher to help the Carolina Hurricanes beat the Washington Capitals 5-2 on Monday night and take a 3-1 lead in their second-round playoff series.\n\nCarolina improved to 5-0 at home in the playoffs and can clinch a second trip to the Eastern Conference final in three years by winning Game 5 in Washington on Thursday.\n\n\"If I'm just honest with how I feel about it, I thought our first two games (on the road) might've been better than some of these games \u2014 just the chances we've given up, a little too much here for me,\" Hurricanes coach Rod Brind'Amour said. \"But obviously at this time of year, it's about results. I like where we're at, that's for sure.\"\n\nWalker's score was a big one, coming after the Capitals had pulled to within 3-2 on Alex Ovechkin's one-timer blast on a 5-on-3 power play with about eight minutes left. It started on a puck battle and the unusual sight of Washington's Rasmus Sandin skating in only to get the blade of his stick stuck in a gap along the boards, allowing Taylor Hall to collect the puck and flip a pass to the surging Walker up the left side.\n\nWalker hesitated to cut behind Jack Roslovic and score at the 16:45 mark to push the lead back to 4-2, marking his first career postseason goal.\n\nSvechnikov followed with his seventh postseason goal shortly after the Capitals pulled Thompson, the capper after Carolina twice led by two goals but had to hold on through the final 10 minutes.\n\n\"I think as a whole, we kind of kept our composure,\" Walker said. \"Didn't really panic, just stuck to our systems.\"\n\nHall, Seth Jarvis and Shayne Gostisbehere also scored for the Hurricanes, while Frederik Andersen carried a shutout into the third before finishing with 19 saves.\n\nJust as importantly, the Hurricanes twice responded as the Capitals inched within a goal in the third. Hall's score on a 1-on-1 chance came less than three minutes after Jakob Chychrun had brought the Capitals to within 2-1, sprung on a long pass from Roslovic after he was slow coming back and Washington's defense lost track of him.\n\nWalker's score came about 4 1/2 minutes after Ovechkin's goal.\n\nOvechkin's blast got the NHL's career goals leader on the scoresheet for the first time this series. Thompson finished with 32 saves.\n\n\"We're giving ourselves some opportunities, we're just not executing, making the play, whatever you want to call it,\" Washington coach Spencer Carbery said. \"And making some mistakes \u2014 and they're capitalizing.\"\n\nTo that point, the Eastern Conference's top seed got a quick start after a Game 3 shutout, starting with Connor McMichael getting a 1-on-1 chance on Andersen in the opening minute. Aliaksei Protas followed by ringing the right post shortly after.\n\nWashington also managed just one shot on goal during a 4-minute power play, the first 3 1/2 minutes of those coming to close the first period.\n\n\"Their penalty kill is excellent, best in the league, has been for the last, whatever, five years call it,\" Carbery said. \"But it can't look like that. It cannot look like that.\""}
{"prompt_hash": "512f3eec95e1ed6823f85cd6d8d7972624642fdb526c669b91201ee5de045de2", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 02:41:30+00:00", "topics": ["Warren Gatland", "Rugby", "Damian McKenzie", "Sports", "Bernard Foley"], "text": "# Kyohei Yamasawa sets a benchmark as the top regular season scorer in Japan Rugby League One\n\nMay 13th, 2025 02:41 AM\n\n---\n\nWELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) \u2014 Flyhalf Kyohei Yamasawa has become the first home grown player to top the regular season scoring list in Japan Rugby League One in his first full season for the Saitama Panasonic Wild Knights.\n\nThe 26-year-old emerged from the shadow of his test-capped elder brother, Takuya, by scoring 209 points in 16 appearances in the Japanese professional tournament which attracts some of the world's best players.\n\nHe finished the regular season ahead of Toyota Brave Lupus fullback Takuro Matsunada with 174 points and Bryn Gatland, the New Zealand-born son of former Wales and British and Irish Lions coach Warren Gatland, who scored 169 points for the Kobelco Kobe Steelers.\n\nFormer Wallabies flyhalf Bernard Foley was sixth on the list this season with 145 points.\n\nJapan League One is in its fourth season and Yamasawa is the fourth different player to lead the regular season scoring list, following Gatland, Foley and All Blacks flyhalf Damian McKenzie.\n\nYamasawa became the Wild Knights' only goalkicking option when his brother, Takuya, was sidelined by injury after only two matches.\n\nBrave Lupus winger Jone Naikabula was the leading try-scorer in the regular season with 15."}
{"prompt_hash": "9bd3cf87843a9dc6793c5fd12afb300ab1654e30a3846ca78645f8b23e1e8b02", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-12 15:32:15+00:00", "topics": ["London", "Keir Starmer", "United Kingdom", "Law enforcement", "Fires", "International", "Politics", "United Kingdom government", "Dave Pares", "Counterterrorism"], "text": "# UK police investigate a fire at Prime Minister Keir Starmer's private house\n\nMay 12th, 2025 03:32 PM\n\n---\n\nLONDON (AP) \u2014 British police on Monday were investigating an overnight fire at the London house where Prime Minister Keir Starmer lived before he was elected to lead the country.\n\nSince taking office in July, Starmer has lived in the prime minister's official Downing Street residence, renting out the family home in the Kentish Town neighborhood.\n\nThe fire's cause was considered suspicious, and London's Metropolitan Police force said counterterrorism officers were involved in the investigation.\n\nFirefighters were called to \"a small fire\" just after 1 a.m., the city's fire department said. Two engines responded, and the blaze was out within a half-hour.\n\nPolice said officers who responded to the scene found damage \"to the property's entrance,\" but that nobody was hurt.\n\nA cordon of police tape was visible outside the house Monday.\n\nStarmer's house has attracted protesters in the past. Last year, three pro-Palestinian activists were arrested and charged with public order offenses after unfurling a banner covered in red handprints outside the building.\n\nStarmer's spokesman, Dave Pares, said that \"the prime minister thanks the emergency services for their work.\"\n\nHe said the fire \"is subject to a live investigation, so I can't comment any further.\""}
{"prompt_hash": "e242f269d2d4213027a25acd1543b37adf5345274028cbdd778615e7e7560c97", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 02:35:16+00:00", "topics": ["Stephen Vogt", "Baseball", "Cleveland", "MLB", "Kenny Lofton", "MLB baseball", "Jose Ramirez", "Sports", "Milwaukee", "Andruw Monasterio", "Terry Turner", "Omar Vizquel", "Gabriel Arias"], "text": "# Jos\u00e9 Ram\u00edrez moves up on Guardians stolen bases list with his 3rd career 3 steal game\n\nBy Joe Reedy  \nMay 13th, 2025 02:35 AM\n\n---\n\nCLEVELAND (AP) \u2014 Jos\u00e9 Ram\u00edrez has shown he can turn a game around with one swing of the bat.\n\nOn Monday night, the Guardians All-Star third baseman did it with his glove and legs.\n\nRam\u00edrez made a nice play to get Milwaukee's Andruw Monasterio out at second base with the bases loaded for the final out. In the home half, he stole two bases after getting aboard with a single and scored on Gabriel Arias' double with the bases loaded to put the Guardians up 3-0.\n\nRam\u00edrez ended up with three stolen bases and moved into third on Cleveland's all-time list as the Guardians opened the series with a 5-0 victory over the Brewers.\n\n\"Try to find a way how to do damage any way I can. And today that was the case (with the stolen bases),\" Ram\u00edrez said through an interpreter. \"So it's always the same focus with all the teams, try to do damage in different ways.\"\n\nRam\u00edrez is the fifth player in the majors to have three stolen bases in a game. It is the third time in his 13-year career he has done it, and first since 2021 against Texas.\n\nRam\u00edrez's hit and aggressive base running also helped wake up a Cleveland offense that had scored only one run in its last 21 innings.\n\n\"Jos\u00e9 knows when he needs to do that stuff. We're having a hard time getting offense going off (Freddy) Peralta. He gets on base, let me make something happen,\" manager Stephen Vogt said. \"And that's so much homework that goes into knowing when he can go looking at the jump. He's a cerebral player. He knows when he needs to get us going, and boy did he, and it's just fun to watch him.\"\n\nRam\u00edrez has 255 steals and moved past Terry Turner, who had 254 from 1904 through 1918. Kenny Lofton is the franchise leader with 452 followed by Omar Vizquel's 279.\n\nRam\u00edrez also has an 11-game on-base streak and is hitting .375 (15 for 40) with one home run and four RBIs during that span. He is sixth in the majors with 12 stolen bases.\n\nIn the seventh inning, Ram\u00edrez got aboard again with an intentional walk, but had no thoughts about getting his first four-steal game.\n\n\"You have to also take into consideration the score of the game, but also staying healthy because stealing basically is always a risk at that time. The game wasn't calling for that situation,\" he said."}
{"prompt_hash": "a8e758fd96d6ac3b656d627e897b53a0935b71f7b033896f569ccfc2b0df74fa", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 02:30:10+00:00", "topics": ["Daniel Palencia", "Colin Rea", "Dansby Swanson", "Miami Marlins", "Chicago Cubs", "Baseball", "MLB", "Drew Pomeranz", "Sports", "Nico Hoerner", "Miguel Amaya", "MLB baseball", "Cal Quantrill", "Kyle Tucker", "Derek Hill", "Athlete injuries", "Connor Norby", "Seiya Suzuki", "Anthony Veneziano"], "text": "# Swanson and Suzuki homer as the Cubs beat the Marlins 5-2\n\nBy Matt Carlson  \nMay 13th, 2025 02:30 AM\n\n---\n\nCHICAGO (AP) \u2014 Dansby Swanson and Seiya Suzuki homered in the fifth inning to help the Chicago Cubs beat the Miami Marlins 5-2 on Monday night.\n\nMiguel Amaya went 3 for 3 for Chicago, and Kyle Tucker hit an RBI triple. The NL Central leaders had dropped four of five.\n\nCubs right-hander Colin Rea (3-0) allowed two runs and six hits in a season-high 6 2/3 innings.\n\nRea was replaced by Daniel Palencia after Derek Hill hit a two-run homer for Miami. Palencia got four outs before Drew Pomeranz handled the ninth for his first save since 2020.\n\nLast-place Miami lost for the 12th time in 15 games.\n\nMarlins right-hander Cal Quantrill (2-4) was charged with three runs and four hits in 4 1/3 innings.\n\nThe Cubs grabbed control in the fifth. Nico Hoerner singled and scored on Swanson's ninth homer, a drive to left-center. Tucker tripled home Amaya and Suzuki followed with his 10th homer against Anthony Veneziano.\n\nHill returned on Monday after missing 22 games with a left wrist sprain.\n\n## Key moment\n\nMiami put a runner on with two out in the ninth when Connor Norby reached on a pinch-hit single. But Pomeranz struck out Hill looking.\n\n## Key stat\n\nThe Cubs entered with an NL-leading 233 runs, but they had scored two or fewer runs in four of their previous seven games.\n\n## Up next\n\nMiami RHP Valente Bellozo (0-2, 3.50 ERA) faces Chicago RHP Ben Brown (3-3, 4.95 ERA) on Tuesday."}
{"prompt_hash": "fa29971c234d1ee65da0adc5bba1215ea8a46bc8fe048501f9be4c545eeac666", "publisher": "Associated Press News", "publishing_date": "2025-05-13 02:29:47+00:00", "topics": ["Bud Black", "Colorado Rockies", "Texas Rangers", "Colorado", "Baseball", "Sports transactions", "MLB", "Ryan McMahon", "Wyatt Langford", "Jake Leiter", "Sports", "Hunter Goodman", "Warren Schaeffer", "MLB baseball", "Nick Martini", "Tyler Mahle", "Jacob Webb", "Kyle Freeland"], "text": "# Langford homer ends no-hit bid and gives Rangers 2-1 win over Colorado after Rockies fired manager\n\nBy Stephen Hawkins  \nMay 13th, 2025 02:29 AM\n\n---\n\nARLINGTON, Texas (AP) \u2014 Wyatt Langford hit a two-run homer in the sixth inning for Texas to end a no-hit bid by the Colorado Rockies in their first game after manager Bud Black was fired, and the Rangers went on to a 2-1 win Monday night.\n\nRockies rookie right-hander Chase Dollander (2-4) walked the first batter he faced in his seventh big league start, then retired 15 in a row before getting into trouble in the sixth. He issued another leadoff walk, though there with two outs when Langford went deep.\n\nThe Rockies fell to 7-34 with their ninth loss in 10 games.\n\nTexas starter Tyler Mahle (4-1) struck out five and walked one in his 6 1/3 innings.\n\nJacob Webb finished the ninth and worked out of a bases-loaded jam for his first save. Closer Luke Jackson was struck on his right hand by a 111-mph comeback liner on his first pitch and an infield single for Ryan McMahon.\n\nColorado had taken a 1-0 lead in its first game with interim manager Warren Schaeffer, who had been the third base coach. Hunter Goodman had a leadoff single in the second and scored on a two-out single by Nick Martini.\n\nLangford's homer was the only hit allowed by Dollander in his six innings. The ninth overall pick from the 2023 amateur draft struck out seven while throwing 49 of his 85 pitches for strikes.\n\n## Key moment\n\nLangford's seventh homer of the season was a 412-foot drive into the Rangers bullpen in right-center field.\n\n## Key stat\n\nMahle's 1.47 ERA is the second-best in the majors, but this was his first win in his five starts. The Rangers were shut out twice at home during that span.\n\n## Up next\n\nColorado lefty Kyle Freeland (0-4, 6.41 ERA) pitches Tuesday night. Rangers right-hander Jake Leiter (2-2, 5.09) is winless in his last three starts since winning his first two."}