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"value": "# Man United coach Ruben Amorim is embarrassed and has raised doubts about his future\n\nBy James Robson \nMay 11th, 2025 07:34 PM\n\n---\n\nMANCHESTER, England (AP) — Ruben Amorim said he was \"embarrassed\" after Manchester United lost yet again in the Premier League on Sunday.\n\nUnited fell to a club record-extending 17th loss in the modern era after a 2-0 home defeat to West Ham and is languishing at 16th in the 20-team division.\n\nAmorim has already stated this could be the worst team in the club's history.\n\nThe United head coach went further on Sunday, saying he felt \"embarrassed\" and it was \"hard to accept\" the team's woeful domestic campaign.\n\n\"It's my fault, I'm responsible. If we cannot change that really fast, we should give our place to different people,\" he said, raising questions about his own future.\n\nUnited has suffered more defeats this season than in any campaign since the Premier League was launched in 1992. The joint-record 20-time English champion is also certain to record its worst-ever points total in that period, as well as its lowest finish.\n\n\"We need to be more aggressive and we need to feel that it is the end of the world when we are not winning a game,\" said Amorim, who was hired to replace former manager Erik ten Hag last November. \"We are not scared of losing a game as Manchester United. We don't have that fear anymore and that is the most dangerous thing that a big club can have. I think it's a concern.\"\n\nDespite a historically bad league campaign, United can still salvage the season by winning the Europa League later this month, which would also secure qualification to the Champions League.\n\nBut Amorim believes the upcoming final against Tottenham may have played a part in the latest loss at Old Trafford.\n\n\"Everybody is focused on the final. The final is not the biggest thing in our football club,\" he said. \"We need to change a lot of things. If we don't change the way we play and perform and feel this urgency of winning every game, we should not play in the Champions League.\"\n\nAmorim was hired after winning two Portuguese league titles with Sporting Lisbon. But he has not been able to turn United's fortunes around.\n\nTen Hag was fired despite winning a trophy in each of his first two years at Old Trafford — the English League Cup in 2023 and the FA Cup in 2024. He also oversaw United's worst season in 34 years last term — setting a new high for league losses with 14 defeats and a lowest finish of eighth.\n\nUnited's previous worst points total in the Premier League was 58 in the 2021-22 season.\n\nWith two rounds to go, the most it could amass this year is 45.\n\n___\n\nJames Robson is at https://twitter.com/jamesalanrobson\n\n___\n\nAP soccer: https://apnews.com/hub/soccer"
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"value": "# Man United coach Ruben Amorim is embarrassed and has raised doubts about his future\n\nBy James Robson \nMay 11th, 2025 07:34 PM\n\n---\n\nMANCHESTER, England (AP) — Ruben Amorim said he was \"embarrassed\" after Manchester United lost yet again in the Premier League on Sunday.\n\nUnited fell to a club record-extending 17th loss in the modern era after a 2-0 home defeat to West Ham and is languishing at 16th in the 20-team division.\n\nAmorim has already stated this could be the worst team in the club's history.\n\nThe United head coach went further on Sunday, saying he felt \"embarrassed\" and it was \"hard to accept\" the team's woeful domestic campaign.\n\n\"It's my fault, I'm responsible. If we cannot change that really fast, we should give our place to different people,\" he said, raising questions about his own future.\n\nUnited has suffered more defeats this season than in any campaign since the Premier League was launched in 1992. The joint-record 20-time English champion is also certain to record its worst-ever points total in that period, as well as its lowest finish.\n\n\"We need to be more aggressive and we need to feel that it is the end of the world when we are not winning a game,\" said Amorim, who was hired to replace former manager Erik ten Hag last November. \"We are not scared of losing a game as Manchester United. We don't have that fear anymore and that is the most dangerous thing that a big club can have. I think it's a concern.\"\n\nDespite a historically bad league campaign, United can still salvage the season by winning the Europa League later this month, which would also secure qualification to the Champions League.\n\nBut Amorim believes the upcoming final against Tottenham may have played a part in the latest loss at Old Trafford.\n\n\"Everybody is focused on the final. The final is not the biggest thing in our football club,\" he said. \"We need to change a lot of things. If we don't change the way we play and perform and feel this urgency of winning every game, we should not play in the Champions League.\"\n\nAmorim was hired after winning two Portuguese league titles with Sporting Lisbon. But he has not been able to turn United's fortunes around.\n\nTen Hag was fired despite winning a trophy in each of his first two years at Old Trafford — the English League Cup in 2023 and the FA Cup in 2024. He also oversaw United's worst season in 34 years last term — setting a new high for league losses with 14 defeats and a lowest finish of eighth.\n\nUnited's previous worst points total in the Premier League was 58 in the 2021-22 season.\n\nWith two rounds to go, the most it could amass this year is 45."
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"value": "# Sen. Cornyn of Texas says federal probe started into Muslim-centered community near Dallas\n\nBy Jim Vertuno \nMay 9th, 2025 09:45 PM\n\n---\n\nAUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The U.S. Department of Justice has opened a federal civil rights investigation into a Muslim-centered planned community around one of the state's largest mosques near Dallas, U.S. Sen. John Cornyn said Friday.\n\nCornyn requested the federal probe of the development last month, citing concerns it could discriminate against Christians and Jews. He announced in a post on X that U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi had notified him of the investigation.\n\nThe developers of the proposed planned community tied to the East Plano Islamic Center, which has not yet been built, have said they are being bullied because they are Muslim.\n\nThe Justice Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment or to confirm Cornyn's announcement.\n\nA federal probe would further escalate pressure on the proposed EPIC City, which is already facing mounting criticism and multiple investigations from Republican Gov. Greg Abbott and other GOP state officials who claim the group is trying to create a Muslim-exclusive community that would impose Islamic law on residents.\n\nAmong its chief critics is the state's hard-right Attorney General Ken Paxton, who is challenging Cornyn for his Senate seat in 2026.\n\n\"Religious discrimination and Sharia Law have no home in Texas,\" Cornyn, of Texas, wrote in his post on X. \"Any violations of federal law must be swiftly prosecuted, and I know under (President Donald Trump's) administration, they will be.\"\n\nDan Cogdell, an attorney for EPIC City who defended Paxton in his 2023 impeachment trial when he was acquitted by the state Senate, said the developers have \"done nothing illegal and we will cooperate fully with all investigations-regardless of how misguided and unnecessary they are.\"\n\nThe state investigations include whether the development is violating financial and fair housing laws and whether the mosque has conducted illegal funerals.\n\nCogdell has said none of the investigations would be happening if the community was planned around a church or temple.\n\nThe attacks on the project about Islamic law and other claims \"are not only completely without merit and totally misleading but they are dangerous as well,\" Cogdell said Friday. \"These folks are US Citizens, law abiding and Texans.\"\n\nThe Council on American-Islamic Relations in the Dallas area also has criticized the state probes as bullying the Muslim community and a violation of constitutionally protected religious expression.\n\nPlans for the mixed-used development include more than 1,000 homes and apartments, a faith-based school for kindergarten through 12th grade, a community college, assisted living for older residents and athletics fields.\n\nEPIC City would be near the community of Josephine, about 30 miles (48 kilometers) northeast of Dallas."
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"value": "# Sen. Cornyn of Texas says federal probe started into Muslim-centered community near Dallas\n\nBy Jim Vertuno \nMay 9th, 2025 09:45 PM\n\n---\n\nAUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The U.S. Department of Justice has opened a federal civil rights investigation into a Muslim-centered planned community around one of the state's largest mosques near Dallas, U.S. Sen. John Cornyn said Friday.\n\nCornyn requested the federal probe of the development last month, citing concerns it could discriminate against Christians and Jews. He announced in a post on X that U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi had notified him of the investigation.\n\nThe developers of the proposed planned community tied to the East Plano Islamic Center, which has not yet been built, have said they are being bullied because they are Muslim.\n\nThe Justice Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment or to confirm Cornyn's announcement.\n\nA federal probe would further escalate pressure on the proposed EPIC City, which is already facing mounting criticism and multiple investigations from Republican Gov. Greg Abbott and other GOP state officials who claim the group is trying to create a Muslim-exclusive community that would impose Islamic law on residents.\n\nAmong its chief critics is the state's hard-right Attorney General Ken Paxton, who is challenging Cornyn for his Senate seat in 2026.\n\n\"Religious discrimination and Sharia Law have no home in Texas,\" Cornyn, of Texas, wrote in his post on X. \"Any violations of federal law must be swiftly prosecuted, and I know under (President Donald Trump's) administration, they will be.\"\n\nDan Cogdell, an attorney for EPIC City who defended Paxton in his 2023 impeachment trial when he was acquitted by the state Senate, said the developers have \"done nothing illegal and we will cooperate fully with all investigations-regardless of how misguided and unnecessary they are.\"\n\nThe state investigations include whether the development is violating financial and fair housing laws and whether the mosque has conducted illegal funerals.\n\nCogdell has said none of the investigations would be happening if the community was planned around a church or temple.\n\nThe attacks on the project about Islamic law and other claims \"are not only completely without merit and totally misleading but they are dangerous as well,\" Cogdell said Friday. \"These folks are US Citizens, law abiding and Texans.\"\n\nThe Council on American-Islamic Relations in the Dallas area also has criticized the state probes as bullying the Muslim community and a violation of constitutionally protected religious expression.\n\nPlans for the mixed-used development include more than 1,000 homes and apartments, a faith-based school for kindergarten through 12th grade, a community college, assisted living for older residents and athletics fields.\n\nEPIC City would be near the community of Josephine, about 30 miles (48 kilometers) northeast of Dallas."
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"value": "# LA Rams announce plans to hold their June minicamp in Maui\n\nMay 7th, 2025 07:48 PM\n\n---\n\nLOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles Rams are moving their minicamp to Maui.\n\nThe Rams announced their plan Wednesday to hold their mandatory minicamp on Hawaii's second-largest island on June 16-19. The camp will feature two days of on-field workouts at War Memorial Stadium in Wailuku, with one day open to the public.\n\nThe Rams will also host a football clinic for local youth teams, and Rams players and staff will join Habitat for Humanity to rebuild four homes in Lahaina, which was largely destroyed by wildfires in 2023.\n\nThe Rams have a lengthy history of partnerships with the state of Hawaii and its individual islands. They played a preseason game against the Dallas Cowboys in Honolulu in August 2019 before the largest crowd in Aloha Stadium's history, and the team did extensive fundraising for Maui wildfire relief two years ago.\n\nThe Rams' international ambitions stretch all around the Pacific Rim. They will play the first regular-season game in Australia in 2026 at the historic Melbourne Cricket Ground, and the team also was the first to get NFL marketing rights to Japan last year.\n\n___\n\nAP NFL: https://apnews.com/NFL"
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"value": "# LA Rams announce plans to hold their June minicamp in Maui\n\nMay 7th, 2025 07:48 PM\n\n---\n\nLOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles Rams are moving their minicamp to Maui.\n\nThe Rams announced their plan Wednesday to hold their mandatory minicamp on Hawaii's second-largest island on June 16-19. The camp will feature two days of on-field workouts at War Memorial Stadium in Wailuku, with one day open to the public.\n\nThe Rams will also host a football clinic for local youth teams, and Rams players and staff will join Habitat for Humanity to rebuild four homes in Lahaina, which was largely destroyed by wildfires in 2023.\n\nThe Rams have a lengthy history of partnerships with the state of Hawaii and its individual islands. They played a preseason game against the Dallas Cowboys in Honolulu in August 2019 before the largest crowd in Aloha Stadium's history, and the team did extensive fundraising for Maui wildfire relief two years ago.\n\nThe Rams' international ambitions stretch all around the Pacific Rim. They will play the first regular-season game in Australia in 2026 at the historic Melbourne Cricket Ground, and the team also was the first to get NFL marketing rights to Japan last year."
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"value": "# Cincinnati Mayor Aftab Pureval to face Cory Bowman, JD Vance's half brother, this fall\n\nBy Julie Carr Smyth \nMay 6th, 2025 04:16 AM\n\n---\n\nCOLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Cincinnati Mayor Aftab Pureval will face Cory Bowman, the half brother of Vice President JD Vance, this fall after the pair were the top two vote-getters in Tuesday's primary.\n\nPureval placed a dominant first in the nonpartisan three-way contest, in which third-place finisher Republican Brian Frank was eliminated. Under the rules of the southwest Ohio city's nonpartisan primaries, only the top two primary finishers advance to the November general election.\n\nWith nearly all votes counted, Pureval led Bowman by about 70 percentage points Tuesday night, highlighting the uphill fight that Bowman will face in November.\n\nIf Bowman pulls an upset in this predominantly Democratic city, he would be the latest family member of a president or vice president to serve in office. That includes the brother of Mike Pence, President Donald Trump's first vice president, elected to Congress during their previous administration.\n\nIn a statement, Pureval said the city deserves a \"substantive and healthy debate of ideas about the future of our city\" headed into the fall.\n\n\"There is work ahead of us in Cincinnati, but I am incredibly proud of what we've accomplished over the past few years,\" he said. \"We have made meaningful, tangible progress for folks across our community, and this is a moment to keep building on the momentum we've worked so hard to create.\"\n\nBowman did not have an immediate comment. He has said he wants to improve his city, not get involved in national politics.\n\nPureval, 42, is viewed as a Democratic up-and-comer. A former special assistant U.S. attorney, congressional candidate and Hamilton County clerk of courts. He won the 2021 mayor's race with nearly 66% of the vote to lead Ohio's third-largest city.\n\nBowman, 36, co-founded an evangelical church on the city's West End and owns a coffee shop. He has never held public office but says his half brother's inauguration inspired him to enter politics.\n\nVance didn't take an active role in the campaign, but he posted a message of support for Bowman on Tuesday.\n\n\"He's a good guy with a heart for serving his community,\" the vice president wrote on X. \"Get out there and vote for him!\" Bowman thanked Vance in reply: \"Love you brother!\""
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"value": "# Cincinnati Mayor Aftab Pureval to face Cory Bowman, JD Vance's half brother, this fall\n\nBy Julie Carr Smyth \nMay 6th, 2025 04:16 AM\n\n---\n\nCOLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Cincinnati Mayor Aftab Pureval will face Cory Bowman, the half brother of Vice President JD Vance, this fall after the pair were the top two vote-getters in Tuesday's primary.\n\nPureval placed a dominant first in the nonpartisan three-way contest, in which third-place finisher Republican Brian Frank was eliminated. Under the rules of the southwest Ohio city's nonpartisan primaries, only the top two primary finishers advance to the November general election.\n\nWith nearly all votes counted, Pureval led Bowman by about 70 percentage points Tuesday night, highlighting the uphill fight that Bowman will face in November.\n\nIf Bowman pulls an upset in this predominantly Democratic city, he would be the latest family member of a president or vice president to serve in office. That includes the brother of Mike Pence, President Donald Trump's first vice president, elected to Congress during their previous administration.\n\nIn a statement, Pureval said the city deserves a \"substantive and healthy debate of ideas about the future of our city\" headed into the fall.\n\n\"There is work ahead of us in Cincinnati, but I am incredibly proud of what we've accomplished over the past few years,\" he said. \"We have made meaningful, tangible progress for folks across our community, and this is a moment to keep building on the momentum we've worked so hard to create.\"\n\nBowman did not have an immediate comment. He has said he wants to improve his city, not get involved in national politics.\n\nPureval, 42, is viewed as a Democratic up-and-comer. A former special assistant U.S. attorney, congressional candidate and Hamilton County clerk of courts. He won the 2021 mayor's race with nearly 66% of the vote to lead Ohio's third-largest city.\n\nBowman, 36, co-founded an evangelical church on the city's West End and owns a coffee shop. He has never held public office but says his half brother's inauguration inspired him to enter politics.\n\nVance didn't take an active role in the campaign, but he posted a message of support for Bowman on Tuesday.\n\n\"He's a good guy with a heart for serving his community,\" the vice president wrote on X. \"Get out there and vote for him!\" Bowman thanked Vance in reply: \"Love you brother!\""
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"value": "# Carson Hocevar earns 1st NASCAR Cup pole and becomes youngest polesitter ever at Texas\n\nMay 3rd, 2025 06:09 PM\n\n---\n\nFORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Carson Hocevar earned his first NASCAR Cup pole with a qualifying lap of 191.659 mph at Texas on Saturday.\n\nThe 22-year-old Hocevar is the youngest pole winner ever at Texas Motor Speedway, which will host its 45th Cup race on Sunday. The Spire Motorsports driver, making his 56th career Cup, is on the front row with Cup points leader William Byron, also in a Chevrolet.\n\nHendrick Motorsports driver Byron turned a qualifying lap of 191.564 mph, just ahead of the 191.523 by Austin Cindric, the Team Penske driver who won in his Ford at Talladega last week.\n\nByron's teammate, Kyle Larson, qualified fourth. Michael McDowell, who drives for Spire with Hocevar, will start fifth.\n\nChase Elliott, last year's winner at Texas, qualified 29th.\n\n___\n\nAP auto racing: https://apnews.com/hub/auto-racing"
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"value": "# Carson Hocevar earns 1st NASCAR Cup pole and becomes youngest polesitter ever at Texas\n\nMay 3rd, 2025 06:09 PM\n\n---\n\nFORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Carson Hocevar earned his first NASCAR Cup pole with a qualifying lap of 191.659 mph at Texas on Saturday.\n\nThe 22-year-old Hocevar is the youngest pole winner ever at Texas Motor Speedway, which will host its 45th Cup race on Sunday. The Spire Motorsports driver, making his 56th career Cup, is on the front row with Cup points leader William Byron, also in a Chevrolet.\n\nHendrick Motorsports driver Byron turned a qualifying lap of 191.564 mph, just ahead of the 191.523 by Austin Cindric, the Team Penske driver who won in his Ford at Talladega last week.\n\nByron's teammate, Kyle Larson, qualified fourth. Michael McDowell, who drives for Spire with Hocevar, will start fifth.\n\nChase Elliott, last year's winner at Texas, qualified 29th."
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"value": "# Australian PM Albanese to visit Indonesia in first overseas trip since re-election\n\nBy Rod Mcguirk \nMay 7th, 2025 12:52 PM\n\n---\n\nMELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australia's newly re-elected Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Wednesday he would visit Indonesia next a week to underscore a key bilateral relationship.\n\nAlbanese said he would meet with President Prabowo Subianto on May 14, a day after his new government is sworn in.\n\n\"That is … a signal to our region of the importance that we place on this region. We will in the fastest growing region of the world in human history,\" Albanese said in an interview with the Australian Broadcasting Corp.\n\nAlbanese described Subianto as a \"good friend of mine on a personal level as well as our countries being close.\"\n\n\"We have no more important relationship than Indonesia. We have an important economic relationship with them. They will grow to be the fourth largest economy in the world. We have an important defense and security relationship with them as well,\" Albanese said.\n\nAlbanese's center-left Labor Party won a second three-year term in an emphatic election victory on Saturday.\n\nNewly-elected Australian prime ministers typically make their first bilateral visit to Asia, usually Indonesia. But Albanese's election rival Peter Dutton, leader of the conservative opposition, had proposed breaking from tradition by making his first overseas trip as prime minister to the United States to strike a better tariff deal with President Donald Trump.\n\nAustralia was hit during the election campaign with a global-minimum 10% tariff on exports to the U.S. despite trading with its bilateral free trade partner at a deficit for decades.\n\nMedia reports last month that Russia had told Jakarta it wanted to base long-range warplanes in Papua, the most eastern Indonesian province, were also raised as a security issue during the election campaign. Indonesia has told Australia that no such Russian base would be allowed.\n\nCementing Australia's bilateral relationship with Indonesia is critical, according to Natalie Sambhi, a policy expert with the Sydney-based Asia Society Australia educational institute.\n\n\"Indonesia is our closest strategic partner in the region. Visiting again is just sending that message home that Indonesia really matters to Australia and that we have to work together given our proximity as emerging middle-powers in the region,\" Sambhi said.\n\nAlbanese will travel to Alberta, Canada, in June to attend a Group of 7 summit and is expected to meet Trump during a U.S. bilateral state visit while in North America."
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"value": "# Australian PM Albanese to visit Indonesia in first overseas trip since re-election\n\nBy Rod Mcguirk \nMay 7th, 2025 12:52 PM\n\n---\n\nMELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australia's newly re-elected Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Wednesday he would visit Indonesia next a week to underscore a key bilateral relationship.\n\nAlbanese said he would meet with President Prabowo Subianto on May 14, a day after his new government is sworn in.\n\n\"That is … a signal to our region of the importance that we place on this region. We will in the fastest growing region of the world in human history,\" Albanese said in an interview with the Australian Broadcasting Corp.\n\nAlbanese described Subianto as a \"good friend of mine on a personal level as well as our countries being close.\"\n\n\"We have no more important relationship than Indonesia. We have an important economic relationship with them. They will grow to be the fourth largest economy in the world. We have an important defense and security relationship with them as well,\" Albanese said.\n\nAlbanese's center-left Labor Party won a second three-year term in an emphatic election victory on Saturday.\n\nNewly-elected Australian prime ministers typically make their first bilateral visit to Asia, usually Indonesia. But Albanese's election rival Peter Dutton, leader of the conservative opposition, had proposed breaking from tradition by making his first overseas trip as prime minister to the United States to strike a better tariff deal with President Donald Trump.\n\nAustralia was hit during the election campaign with a global-minimum 10% tariff on exports to the U.S. despite trading with its bilateral free trade partner at a deficit for decades.\n\nMedia reports last month that Russia had told Jakarta it wanted to base long-range warplanes in Papua, the most eastern Indonesian province, were also raised as a security issue during the election campaign. Indonesia has told Australia that no such Russian base would be allowed.\n\nCementing Australia's bilateral relationship with Indonesia is critical, according to Natalie Sambhi, a policy expert with the Sydney-based Asia Society Australia educational institute.\n\n\"Indonesia is our closest strategic partner in the region. Visiting again is just sending that message home that Indonesia really matters to Australia and that we have to work together given our proximity as emerging middle-powers in the region,\" Sambhi said.\n\nAlbanese will travel to Alberta, Canada, in June to attend a Group of 7 summit and is expected to meet Trump during a U.S. bilateral state visit while in North America."
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"value": "# Premier League: New Newcastle beats Chelsea 2-0\n\nBy James Robson \nMay 11th, 2025 01:41 PM\n\n---\n\nArsenal and Newcastle set up a Premier League showdown next weekend as the race for the remaining Champions League spots intensified Sunday.\n\nAfter a weekend of upsets and comebacks in the Premier League, the six-way battle to qualify for European club soccer's top competition looks set to go down to the wire.\n\nWith the top five qualifying for the Champions League next season, just six points separate second-placed Arsenal and seventh-placed Nottingham Forest with two rounds to go. And only two points separate Arsenal and Newcastle in third ahead of their penultimate league game at the Emirates Stadium next Sunday.\n\nArsenal rallied from two goals down against champion Liverpool to draw 2-2 at Anfield on Sunday, and Newcastle beat Chelsea 2-0.\n\nManchester City is a point further back in fourth after being held 0-0 by last-placed Southampton on Saturday.\n\nForest's chances were hit by a 2-2 draw against relegated Leicester on Sunday that led to owner Evangelos Marinakis appearing to remonstrate with manager Nuno Espirito Santo on the field after the match.\n\nEuropa League finalists Manchester United and Tottenham maintained their woeful domestic form — both losing 2-0 at home.\n\nUnited was beaten by West Ham and Spurs lost to FA Cup finalist Crystal Palace.\n\n## Arsenal fightback\n\nDumped out of the Champions League semifinals by Paris Saint-Germain earlier in the week, Arsenal's main focus now is ensuring a return.\n\nBut trailing 2-0 after just 21 minutes against Liverpool, it looked like another sobering day for Mikel Arteta's team, which was already on a run of just one win from its last five league games.\n\nNow it's one in six, but Arsenal successfully avoided defeat after a second-half fightback through goals from Gabriel Martinelli and Mikel Merino, who was later sent off.\n\nThe Gunners paid the price for a lackluster start as they conceded twice in quick succession, with goals from Cody Gakpo and Luis Diaz.\n\n\"What we did in the first half is nowhere near the level, so to do it after is too late. We reacted, great, but the standards in those 20 minutes were unacceptable,\" Arteta said.\n\n## Boos for Trent\n\nSix days after confirming that he'll leave Liverpool as a free agent, Trent Alexander-Arnold was given a hostile reception by some Liverpool fans when he was booed when coming on against Arsenal as a second-half substitute.\n\n\"I said to everyone that asked me that question (about the reception) that it is a privilege to live in Europe, where everybody can have his own opinion and everybody can express his own opinion,\" Liverpool manager Arne Slot said. \"A few of them were not happy with him. I think all of them are not happy with him leaving the club. But a few of them showed it in a way that they booed him. And a few of them clapped.\"\n\n## Battle for second\n\nTwo points will guarantee Champions League soccer for Arsenal next season, but a third straight runner-up spot could be in doubt if it fails to beat Newcastle, which will have second place in its sights after victory against 10-man Chelsea at St. James' Park.\n\nSandro Tonali fired the home team ahead from close range in the second minute and Nicolas Jackson was sent off for Chelsea in the 35th, following a VAR review, for a foul on Sven Botman.\n\nChelsea pushed for an equalizer after the break, but Bruno Guimaraes' dipping shot from distance in the 90th killed off the visitors' hopes of a comeback.\n\n\"We still have two games to go and lots of twists and turns that could be around the corner,\" Howe said. \"We have to drive forward, reflect on our next game and make sure we're ready for Arsenal because that is a very, very tough match.\"\n\n## Forest held by Leicester\n\nForest's rise from relegation fighter to Champions League contender has been one of the surprise stories of the season.\n\nBut it looks in danger of falling away in the final weeks of the season after being held at home by relegated Leicester.\n\nWhile a point meant Forest will be playing European soccer of some description next term — in the Europa League or Conference League if it misses out on the big one — owner Marinakis didn't look to be in the mood to celebrate after the final whistle at the City Ground.\n\nApproaching Espirito Santo on the field, the Greek businessman looked frustrated and appeared to remonstrate during a brief exchange before they went their separate ways.\n\n\"It is because of the owner and his passion that we are growing as a club. He pushes us. He wants us to be better,\" said Espirito Santo, who explained Marinakis had been frustrated because of a miscommunication between the bench and medical staff after an injury to striker Taiwo Awoniyi late on.\n\nForest had come back from a goal down to lead 2-1 against Midlands rival Leicester, but Facundo Buonanotte leveled the game in the 81st.\n\n## Europa flops\n\nAs well as the top five, England will be represented by a sixth team in the Champions League next season after United and Tottenham advanced to an all-English Europa League final, with the winner also qualifying.\n\nBut based on domestic form, neither team looks like they should be mixing it with Europe's elite.\n\nUnited's latest defeat was a club-record extending 17th loss in the Premier League to leave it languishing in 16th place.\n\n\"Everybody is focused on the final. The final is not the biggest thing in our football club,\" said United coach Ruben Amorim. \"We need to change a lot of things. If we don't change the way we play and perform and feel this urgency of winning every game, we should not play in the Champions League.\"\n\nIt's even worse for Tottenham - now down to 17th with a club record 20th loss in a Premier League campaign.\n\n___\n\nJames Robson is at https://twitter.com/jamesalanrobson\n\n___\n\nAP soccer: https://apnews.com/hub/soccer"
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"value": "# Premier League: New Newcastle beats Chelsea 2-0\n\nBy James Robson \nMay 11th, 2025 01:41 PM\n\n---\n\nArsenal and Newcastle set up a Premier League showdown next weekend as the race for the remaining Champions League spots intensified Sunday.\n\nAfter a weekend of upsets and comebacks in the Premier League, the six-way battle to qualify for European club soccer's top competition looks set to go down to the wire.\n\nWith the top five qualifying for the Champions League next season, just six points separate second-placed Arsenal and seventh-placed Nottingham Forest with two rounds to go. And only two points separate Arsenal and Newcastle in third ahead of their penultimate league game at the Emirates Stadium next Sunday.\n\nArsenal rallied from two goals down against champion Liverpool to draw 2-2 at Anfield on Sunday, and Newcastle beat Chelsea 2-0.\n\nManchester City is a point further back in fourth after being held 0-0 by last-placed Southampton on Saturday.\n\nForest's chances were hit by a 2-2 draw against relegated Leicester on Sunday that led to owner Evangelos Marinakis appearing to remonstrate with manager Nuno Espirito Santo on the field after the match.\n\nEuropa League finalists Manchester United and Tottenham maintained their woeful domestic form — both losing 2-0 at home.\n\nUnited was beaten by West Ham and Spurs lost to FA Cup finalist Crystal Palace.\n\n## Arsenal fightback\n\nDumped out of the Champions League semifinals by Paris Saint-Germain earlier in the week, Arsenal's main focus now is ensuring a return.\n\nBut trailing 2-0 after just 21 minutes against Liverpool, it looked like another sobering day for Mikel Arteta's team, which was already on a run of just one win from its last five league games.\n\nNow it's one in six, but Arsenal successfully avoided defeat after a second-half fightback through goals from Gabriel Martinelli and Mikel Merino, who was later sent off.\n\nThe Gunners paid the price for a lackluster start as they conceded twice in quick succession, with goals from Cody Gakpo and Luis Diaz.\n\n\"What we did in the first half is nowhere near the level, so to do it after is too late. We reacted, great, but the standards in those 20 minutes were unacceptable,\" Arteta said.\n\n## Boos for Trent\n\nSix days after confirming that he'll leave Liverpool as a free agent, Trent Alexander-Arnold was given a hostile reception by some Liverpool fans when he was booed when coming on against Arsenal as a second-half substitute.\n\n\"I said to everyone that asked me that question (about the reception) that it is a privilege to live in Europe, where everybody can have his own opinion and everybody can express his own opinion,\" Liverpool manager Arne Slot said. \"A few of them were not happy with him. I think all of them are not happy with him leaving the club. But a few of them showed it in a way that they booed him. And a few of them clapped.\"\n\n## Battle for second\n\nTwo points will guarantee Champions League soccer for Arsenal next season, but a third straight runner-up spot could be in doubt if it fails to beat Newcastle, which will have second place in its sights after victory against 10-man Chelsea at St. James' Park.\n\nSandro Tonali fired the home team ahead from close range in the second minute and Nicolas Jackson was sent off for Chelsea in the 35th, following a VAR review, for a foul on Sven Botman.\n\nChelsea pushed for an equalizer after the break, but Bruno Guimaraes' dipping shot from distance in the 90th killed off the visitors' hopes of a comeback.\n\n\"We still have two games to go and lots of twists and turns that could be around the corner,\" Howe said. \"We have to drive forward, reflect on our next game and make sure we're ready for Arsenal because that is a very, very tough match.\"\n\n## Forest held by Leicester\n\nForest's rise from relegation fighter to Champions League contender has been one of the surprise stories of the season.\n\nBut it looks in danger of falling away in the final weeks of the season after being held at home by relegated Leicester.\n\nWhile a point meant Forest will be playing European soccer of some description next term — in the Europa League or Conference League if it misses out on the big one — owner Marinakis didn't look to be in the mood to celebrate after the final whistle at the City Ground.\n\nApproaching Espirito Santo on the field, the Greek businessman looked frustrated and appeared to remonstrate during a brief exchange before they went their separate ways.\n\n\"It is because of the owner and his passion that we are growing as a club. He pushes us. He wants us to be better,\" said Espirito Santo, who explained Marinakis had been frustrated because of a miscommunication between the bench and medical staff after an injury to striker Taiwo Awoniyi late on.\n\nForest had come back from a goal down to lead 2-1 against Midlands rival Leicester, but Facundo Buonanotte leveled the game in the 81st.\n\n## Europa flops\n\nAs well as the top five, England will be represented by a sixth team in the Champions League next season after United and Tottenham advanced to an all-English Europa League final, with the winner also qualifying.\n\nBut based on domestic form, neither team looks like they should be mixing it with Europe's elite.\n\nUnited's latest defeat was a club-record extending 17th loss in the Premier League to leave it languishing in 16th place.\n\n\"Everybody is focused on the final. The final is not the biggest thing in our football club,\" said United coach Ruben Amorim. \"We need to change a lot of things. If we don't change the way we play and perform and feel this urgency of winning every game, we should not play in the Champions League.\"\n\nIt's even worse for Tottenham - now down to 17th with a club record 20th loss in a Premier League campaign."
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"value": "# South Korea remains confident about $18b nuclear deal put on hold by Czech court\n\nMay 7th, 2025 08:49 AM\n\n---\n\nSEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean officials on Wednesday downplayed a Czech court's decision to put on hold an $18 billion project for South Korea to build two nuclear reactors in the country, describing it as a temporary setback and expressing confidence that the deal will eventually proceed.\n\nA South Korean consortium led by the state-run Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power had expected to finalize the deal this week with a subsidiary of CEZ, the Czech Republic's largest electricity supplier. However, a Czech court blocked CEZ from signing the contract while it reviews a complaint from French company EDF, which lost the bid to the South Koreans.\n\nSouth Korean Industry Minister Ahn Dukgeun told reporters in Prague that the court's decision would only delay the signing of the official contract, and that all other procedures would proceed on schedule, assuming that the deal goes through. He said that the Czech government clearly didn't anticipate the court's decision to pause the agreement, and that CEZ plans to appeal.\n\nIt is not clear when the Czech Supreme Administrative Court could rule on that appeal.\n\n\"The Czech government did not think of (EDF's claims) as a major problem and invited us for the scheduled\" signing ceremony, Ahn said. \"It seems that the Czech government's judgement did not align with the court's ruling.\"\n\nCzech Prime Minister Petr Fiala said Wednesday his government respects the court's decision, before adding: \"I believe that the judges and the court realize how important this decision is and its impact on security of the Czech Republic and our national interests.\"\n\nLee Ju-Ho, South Korea's acting president, said that Seoul would communicate closely with the Czech side to ensure that the deal is finalized quickly.\n\nIn July, CEZ selected KHNP over EDF as the preferred bidder to build two 1,000-megawatt nuclear reactors at the Dukovany plant. EDF filed a court complaint last week after the Czech Republic's competition regulator rejected its appeal over the bidding process.\n\nBefore he was ousted last month over an ill-fated martial law imposition in December, former conservative South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol had pledged to boost the country's nuclear power exports, arguing that they had suffered under the previous liberal government's push to reduce domestic reliance on nuclear energy. Yoon's government had set a goal of exporting 10 nuclear power reactors by 2030."
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"value": "# Timberwolves don't take playoff success for granted after booking another trip to the 2nd round\n\nBy Greg Beacham \nMay 1st, 2025 10:01 AM\n\n---\n\nLOS ANGELES (AP) — Playoff success was a largely foreign concept to the Minnesota Timberwolves during their first 34 years of existence. The 2003-04 team led by Kevin Garnett won two postseason rounds, but those were the only two series victories in team history until last spring.\n\nAfter Minnesota knocked off LeBron James and Luka Doncic on Wednesday night to reach the second round in consecutive seasons for the first time in franchise history, it's safe to say this current pack of Wolves has a bit more playoff tenacity than the teams that came before them.\n\nNow back in the Western Conference semifinals, Minnesota is anticipating an even higher climb.\n\n\"Our guys fought,\" coach Chris Finch said after their 103-96 victory over the Los Angeles Lakers. \"They fought through it. I'm happy that they are able to achieve something that no other team has been able to do in the history of the franchise, which is go back to the second round two years in a row. Now there's a lot bigger goals out there, but for the moment we'll be pretty happy about that.\"\n\nThe Timberwolves had an outstanding five-game series against the Lakers, demonstrating the team poise necessary to handle the inevitable adversity of a playoff run along with the cool implementation of tactics to slow down elite players — in this case, Doncic and James. After routing the Lakers in Game 1, Minnesota responded to a loss in Game 2 by hanging on for a pair of difficult fourth-quarter victories at home.\n\nThe clincher was a strange game, with the Lakers going fully to a small-ball lineup in an attempt to get scoring against the Wolves' aggressive team defense. That cleared the paint for center Rudy Gobert, who responded with playoff career highs of 27 points and 24 rebounds to keep Minnesota ahead even while his teammates missed 40 of their 47 3-point attempts.\n\n\"When (Gobert) does what he does tonight, you see how good we can be as a team,\" Julius Randle said.\n\nThe Wolves had to survive a nightmare shooting game from leading scorer Anthony Edwards, who missed all 11 of his 3-point attempts and finished 5 for 19 overall. They made up for it with team defense and balanced scoring, getting at least eight points from seven players in Finch's eight-man rotation.\n\nThe relative ugliness of the victory didn't bother the Wolves, who took satisfaction from answering every challenge presented by the star-studded Lakers. After last season's second-round series victory over defending champion Denver and their Western Conference finals loss to Doncic's Dallas Mavericks, the Wolves know they'll have to find previously unimagined ways to win in the postseason, and they're growing comfortable with it.\n\n\"I think what I'm super happy (about) with this team right now is we're not satisfied,\" Finch said. \"We've got a long way to go. We'll regroup, but we are certainly going to celebrate this because this team took a lot of (criticism) throughout the season. That was set against the backdrop of a really good run last year. But every team is different, every team has to come together, every team has to go through pain and every team has to figure it out. This team figured it out.\"\n\nMinnesota could even be the home team in the second round if Golden State takes advantage of its two additional chances to finish off second-seeded Houston after losing Game 5 on Wednesday night. Facing Stephen Curry and Jimmy Butler in the postseason might be even more daunting than this showdown with Doncic and James, but the Wolves are ready to keep rolling.\n\n\"It's just a start, but I feel good about it as well,\" Randle said. \"Especially the way we won, and how we were doubted. It just shows we've got a lot of character in the locker room.\"\n\n___\n\nAP NBA: https://apnews.com/NBA"
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"value": "# Timberwolves don't take playoff success for granted after booking another trip to the 2nd round\n\nBy Greg Beacham \nMay 1st, 2025 10:01 AM\n\n---\n\nLOS ANGELES (AP) — Playoff success was a largely foreign concept to the Minnesota Timberwolves during their first 34 years of existence. The 2003-04 team led by Kevin Garnett won two postseason rounds, but those were the only two series victories in team history until last spring.\n\nAfter Minnesota knocked off LeBron James and Luka Doncic on Wednesday night to reach the second round in consecutive seasons for the first time in franchise history, it's safe to say this current pack of Wolves has a bit more playoff tenacity than the teams that came before them.\n\nNow back in the Western Conference semifinals, Minnesota is anticipating an even higher climb.\n\n\"Our guys fought,\" coach Chris Finch said after their 103-96 victory over the Los Angeles Lakers. \"They fought through it. I'm happy that they are able to achieve something that no other team has been able to do in the history of the franchise, which is go back to the second round two years in a row. Now there's a lot bigger goals out there, but for the moment we'll be pretty happy about that.\"\n\nThe Timberwolves had an outstanding five-game series against the Lakers, demonstrating the team poise necessary to handle the inevitable adversity of a playoff run along with the cool implementation of tactics to slow down elite players — in this case, Doncic and James. After routing the Lakers in Game 1, Minnesota responded to a loss in Game 2 by hanging on for a pair of difficult fourth-quarter victories at home.\n\nThe clincher was a strange game, with the Lakers going fully to a small-ball lineup in an attempt to get scoring against the Wolves' aggressive team defense. That cleared the paint for center Rudy Gobert, who responded with playoff career highs of 27 points and 24 rebounds to keep Minnesota ahead even while his teammates missed 40 of their 47 3-point attempts.\n\n\"When (Gobert) does what he does tonight, you see how good we can be as a team,\" Julius Randle said.\n\nThe Wolves had to survive a nightmare shooting game from leading scorer Anthony Edwards, who missed all 11 of his 3-point attempts and finished 5 for 19 overall. They made up for it with team defense and balanced scoring, getting at least eight points from seven players in Finch's eight-man rotation.\n\nThe relative ugliness of the victory didn't bother the Wolves, who took satisfaction from answering every challenge presented by the star-studded Lakers. After last season's second-round series victory over defending champion Denver and their Western Conference finals loss to Doncic's Dallas Mavericks, the Wolves know they'll have to find previously unimagined ways to win in the postseason, and they're growing comfortable with it.\n\n\"I think what I'm super happy (about) with this team right now is we're not satisfied,\" Finch said. \"We've got a long way to go. We'll regroup, but we are certainly going to celebrate this because this team took a lot of (criticism) throughout the season. That was set against the backdrop of a really good run last year. But every team is different, every team has to come together, every team has to go through pain and every team has to figure it out. This team figured it out.\"\n\nMinnesota could even be the home team in the second round if Golden State takes advantage of its two additional chances to finish off second-seeded Houston after losing Game 5 on Wednesday night. Facing Stephen Curry and Jimmy Butler in the postseason might be even more daunting than this showdown with Doncic and James, but the Wolves are ready to keep rolling.\n\n\"It's just a start, but I feel good about it as well,\" Randle said. \"Especially the way we won, and how we were doubted. It just shows we've got a lot of character in the locker room.\""
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"value": "# Sonny Gray stars as the Cardinals beat the sliding Pirates 5-0\n\nMay 7th, 2025 07:53 PM\n\n---\n\nST. LOUIS (AP) — Sonny Gray pitched seven innings of two-hit ball, and the St. Louis Cardinals beat the slumping Pittsburgh Pirates 5-0 on Wednesday for their fifth straight victory.\n\nGray (4-1) struck out eight and walked one in his first win since April 14. The right-hander went 0-1 with a 5.51 ERA in his previous three starts.\n\nThe Cardinals returned to .500 at 19-19, including a 15-6 record at home. They are 4-2 against the Pirates this year after finishing a three-game sweep.\n\nMasyn Winn hit two RBI doubles. Lars Nootbaar had three hits, and Victor Scott II scored all the way from first twice.\n\nThe Pirates (12-26) were shut out for the eighth time. They have lost seven in a row and 10 of 11 overall.\n\nSt. Louis jumped in front with two runs in the third against Mitch Keller (1-4). Scott walked and scored on Nootbaar's hit-and-run single to right. Winn added a bloop RBI double.\n\nScott extended his hitting streak to a career-high eight games when he hit a leadoff single in the fifth. He scored on Winn's one-out double.\n\nJordan Walker added a two-run single in the eighth.\n\nKeller allowed seven hits in six-plus innings. He struck out six and walked three.\n\nThe Pirates finished with four hits.\n\nNolan Arenado was scratched from the St. Louis lineup with back spasms.\n\n## Key moment\n\nThe Pirates put runners on the corners with one out in the eighth. But Kyle Leahy struck out Bryan Reynolds and retired Andrew McCutchen on a bouncer to second.\n\n## Key stat\n\nOneil Cruz, Ke'Bryan Hayes and Reynolds each struck out twice for Pittsburgh.\n\n## Up next\n\nThe Pirates return home for three games against the Braves beginning on Friday. The Cardinals begin a nine-game trip at Washington on Friday night. RHP Erick Fedde (2-3, 4.78 ERA) starts the series opener against the Nationals.\n\n___\n\nAP MLB: https://apnews.com/hub/mlb"
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"value": "# Sonny Gray stars as the Cardinals beat the sliding Pirates 5-0\n\nMay 7th, 2025 07:53 PM\n\n---\n\nST. LOUIS (AP) — Sonny Gray pitched seven innings of two-hit ball, and the St. Louis Cardinals beat the slumping Pittsburgh Pirates 5-0 on Wednesday for their fifth straight victory.\n\nGray (4-1) struck out eight and walked one in his first win since April 14. The right-hander went 0-1 with a 5.51 ERA in his previous three starts.\n\nThe Cardinals returned to .500 at 19-19, including a 15-6 record at home. They are 4-2 against the Pirates this year after finishing a three-game sweep.\n\nMasyn Winn hit two RBI doubles. Lars Nootbaar had three hits, and Victor Scott II scored all the way from first twice.\n\nThe Pirates (12-26) were shut out for the eighth time. They have lost seven in a row and 10 of 11 overall.\n\nSt. Louis jumped in front with two runs in the third against Mitch Keller (1-4). Scott walked and scored on Nootbaar's hit-and-run single to right. Winn added a bloop RBI double.\n\nScott extended his hitting streak to a career-high eight games when he hit a leadoff single in the fifth. He scored on Winn's one-out double.\n\nJordan Walker added a two-run single in the eighth.\n\nKeller allowed seven hits in six-plus innings. He struck out six and walked three.\n\nThe Pirates finished with four hits.\n\nNolan Arenado was scratched from the St. Louis lineup with back spasms.\n\n## Key moment\n\nThe Pirates put runners on the corners with one out in the eighth. But Kyle Leahy struck out Bryan Reynolds and retired Andrew McCutchen on a bouncer to second.\n\n## Key stat\n\nOneil Cruz, Ke'Bryan Hayes and Reynolds each struck out twice for Pittsburgh.\n\n## Up next\n\nThe Pirates return home for three games against the Braves beginning on Friday. The Cardinals begin a nine-game trip at Washington on Friday night. RHP Erick Fedde (2-3, 4.78 ERA) starts the series opener against the Nationals."
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"value": "# Pacers, Nuggets trying to hold court after swinging playoff series with road victories\n\nBy Michael Marot \nMay 8th, 2025 10:07 PM\n\n---\n\nINDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Denver Nuggets accomplished one goal by stealing Game 1 of their second-round playoff series at Oklahoma City.\n\nThe Indiana Pacers were even more productive in Cleveland, sweeping both games.\n\nNow the two lower-seeded teams head home for their respective Game 3s on Friday with a new goal — taking advantage of those early road wins by keeping the upper hand in their series.\n\n\"The series isn't over, it's far from over,\" Pacers star Tyrese Haliburton said Thursday. \"This is a team that earned the No. 1 seed for a reason. It's probably rare they lose two games in a row. I don't know the exact number, but it probably doesn't happen often. So we're going to see a desperate team, a team that's coming in here to win two games.\"\n\nActually, the Cavaliers lost three straight during a four-day stretch in late January and four straight during a seven-day stretch in mid-March. Otherwise, they've been dominant on the road where they earned the league's third-best mark at 30-11.\n\nThe Cavs may not even be in this hole if the league's \"Last 2-Minute Report\" is correct.\n\nIt said Aaron Nesmith's late dunk off a missed free throw and Haliburton's final rebound should have been jump balls because of lane violations by both teams in both cases. Haliburton's rebound led to his winning 3-pointer with 1.1 seconds left.\n\nEven Donovan Mitchell's incredible game — 48 points, 17 made free throws and nine assists — wasn't enough to salvage a split. This time, though, Cleveland could be closer to full strength.\n\nNBA Defensive Player of the Year Evan Mobley and key backup De'Andre Hunter could both return. They both missed Game 2, Mobley with a sprained left ankle and Hunter with a sprained right thumb. The bigger question is starting guard Darius Garland. He's missed four straight games with a sprained left big toe.\n\nAll three are listed as questionable.\n\n\"They all touched the ball. They all got some reps up, but we didn't do anything live,\" Cavs coach Kenny Atkinson said after Thursday's practice. \"They kind of participated in the walkthrough and you know, hoping for the best.\"\n\nHaliburton said he intends to play despite with a heavily taped left wrist that he injured in Game 2. He's a perfect 9-0 when appearing in home playoff games.\n\nOne person who won't be at the game is Haliburton's father. This will be Indiana's first home game since John Haliburton confronted Giannis Antetokounmpo on the court moments after Haliburton's winning layup eliminated the Milwaukee Bucks in Game 5.\n\nOklahoma City's Game 2 performance also shows it can rally in its series.\n\nThe Thunder endured just two two-game skids this season, making sure it didn't happen a third time with a 43-point victory Wednesday in Game 3. The Thunder also went 35-6 on the road, including an early regular-season split in Denver.\n\nWinning the 2023 NBA crown also has given the Nuggets some perspective on how to turn the page after such an embarrassing loss.\n\n\"They were being aggressive, they were hitting us,\" three-time league MVP Nikola Jokic said. \"We weren't disciplined, and everybody was kind of doing their own thing and we can't play like that. Every single person needs to step up and be better.\"\n\nAnd playing at home should help — both the Nuggets and the Pacers.\n\n\"Cleveland's building was so loud,\" Pacers coach Rick Carlisle said. \"So we need our fans to bring every ounce of energy and noise and everything they have. Each game going forward is going to be a monumental challenge. Their support has meant a lot to us this year and it's important right now.\n\n## Thunder at Nuggets\n\nWhen/Where to Watch: Game 3, 10 p.m. EDT (ESPN)\n\nSeries: Series tied, 1-1.\n\nBetMGM says: Nuggets by 4.5.\n\nWhat to know: Oklahoma City became the first team to protect its home court in this round after road teams won each of the first five games, and they did it by setting franchise and league records with an 87-point first half. Nothing went right for the Nuggets. They shot 37.9% from the field, had 20 turnovers and never looked like the team that played Game 1. MVP finalist Shea Gilgeous-Alexander is averaging 33.5 points to lead the Thunder despite sitting out the fourth quarter Wednesday. Jokic knows what must be done: Watch the tape, learn the lessons and move on to a pivotal game that could swing the series. The Thunder need to replicate their Game 2 performance while the Nuggets need to rediscover their Game 1 form.\n\n___\n\nAP NBA: https://apnews.com/hub/NBA"
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"value": "# Pacers, Nuggets trying to hold court after swinging playoff series with road victories\n\nBy Michael Marot \nMay 8th, 2025 10:07 PM\n\n---\n\nINDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Denver Nuggets accomplished one goal by stealing Game 1 of their second-round playoff series at Oklahoma City.\n\nThe Indiana Pacers were even more productive in Cleveland, sweeping both games.\n\nNow the two lower-seeded teams head home for their respective Game 3s on Friday with a new goal — taking advantage of those early road wins by keeping the upper hand in their series.\n\n\"The series isn't over, it's far from over,\" Pacers star Tyrese Haliburton said Thursday. \"This is a team that earned the No. 1 seed for a reason. It's probably rare they lose two games in a row. I don't know the exact number, but it probably doesn't happen often. So we're going to see a desperate team, a team that's coming in here to win two games.\"\n\nActually, the Cavaliers lost three straight during a four-day stretch in late January and four straight during a seven-day stretch in mid-March. Otherwise, they've been dominant on the road where they earned the league's third-best mark at 30-11.\n\nThe Cavs may not even be in this hole if the league's \"Last 2-Minute Report\" is correct.\n\nIt said Aaron Nesmith's late dunk off a missed free throw and Haliburton's final rebound should have been jump balls because of lane violations by both teams in both cases. Haliburton's rebound led to his winning 3-pointer with 1.1 seconds left.\n\nEven Donovan Mitchell's incredible game — 48 points, 17 made free throws and nine assists — wasn't enough to salvage a split. This time, though, Cleveland could be closer to full strength.\n\nNBA Defensive Player of the Year Evan Mobley and key backup De'Andre Hunter could both return. They both missed Game 2, Mobley with a sprained left ankle and Hunter with a sprained right thumb. The bigger question is starting guard Darius Garland. He's missed four straight games with a sprained left big toe.\n\nAll three are listed as questionable.\n\n\"They all touched the ball. They all got some reps up, but we didn't do anything live,\" Cavs coach Kenny Atkinson said after Thursday's practice. \"They kind of participated in the walkthrough and you know, hoping for the best.\"\n\nHaliburton said he intends to play despite with a heavily taped left wrist that he injured in Game 2. He's a perfect 9-0 when appearing in home playoff games.\n\nOne person who won't be at the game is Haliburton's father. This will be Indiana's first home game since John Haliburton confronted Giannis Antetokounmpo on the court moments after Haliburton's winning layup eliminated the Milwaukee Bucks in Game 5.\n\nOklahoma City's Game 2 performance also shows it can rally in its series.\n\nThe Thunder endured just two two-game skids this season, making sure it didn't happen a third time with a 43-point victory Wednesday in Game 3. The Thunder also went 35-6 on the road, including an early regular-season split in Denver.\n\nWinning the 2023 NBA crown also has given the Nuggets some perspective on how to turn the page after such an embarrassing loss.\n\n\"They were being aggressive, they were hitting us,\" three-time league MVP Nikola Jokic said. \"We weren't disciplined, and everybody was kind of doing their own thing and we can't play like that. Every single person needs to step up and be better.\"\n\nAnd playing at home should help — both the Nuggets and the Pacers.\n\n\"Cleveland's building was so loud,\" Pacers coach Rick Carlisle said. \"So we need our fans to bring every ounce of energy and noise and everything they have. Each game going forward is going to be a monumental challenge. Their support has meant a lot to us this year and it's important right now.\n\n## Thunder at Nuggets\n\nWhen/Where to Watch: Game 3, 10 p.m. EDT (ESPN)\n\nSeries: Series tied, 1-1.\n\nBetMGM says: Nuggets by 4.5.\n\nWhat to know: Oklahoma City became the first team to protect its home court in this round after road teams won each of the first five games, and they did it by setting franchise and league records with an 87-point first half. Nothing went right for the Nuggets. They shot 37.9% from the field, had 20 turnovers and never looked like the team that played Game 1. MVP finalist Shea Gilgeous-Alexander is averaging 33.5 points to lead the Thunder despite sitting out the fourth quarter Wednesday. Jokic knows what must be done: Watch the tape, learn the lessons and move on to a pivotal game that could swing the series. The Thunder need to replicate their Game 2 performance while the Nuggets need to rediscover their Game 1 form."
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"value": "# Leo XIV's brother recalls feeling of 'disbelief' over his sibling becoming pope\n\nBy Obed Lamy and Hallie Golden \nMay 9th, 2025 05:00 AM\n\n---\n\nNEW LENOX, Ill. (AP) — When white smoke poured out of the Sistine Chapel revealing that a new pope had been chosen, John Prevost turned on his television in Illinois, called his niece and they watched in awe as his brother's name was announced.\n\n\"She started screaming because it was her uncle and I was in the moment of disbelief that this cannot be possible because it's too far from what we thought would happen,\" Prevost said Thursday in an interview with The Associated Press from his home in New Lenox, Illinois.\n\nNext, he said he felt an intense sense of pride that his brother, Cardinal Robert Prevost, had become the 267th pontiff to lead the Catholic Church, making the Chicago-born missionary the first U.S. pope.\n\n\"It's quite an honor; it's quite a once in a lifetime,\" he said. \"But I think it's quite a responsibility and I think it's going to lead to bigger and better things, but I think people are going to watch him very closely to see what he's doing.\"\n\nRobert Prevost, a 69-year-old member of the Augustinian religious order who spent his career ministering in Peru, took the name Leo XIV.\n\nJohn Prevost described his brother as being very concerned for the poor and those who don't have a voice. He said he expects him to be a \"second Pope Francis.\"\n\n\"He's not going to be real far left and he's not going to be real far right,\" he added. \"Kind of right down the middle.\"\n\nAt one point during the interview, John Prevost realized he had missed several calls from his brother, so he gave the new pope a call back.\n\nLeo told him he wasn't interested in being part of the interview and after a brief message of congratulations and discussion in which they talked like any two brothers about travel arrangements, they hung up.\n\nThe new pope grew up the youngest of three boys. John Prevost, who was only a year older than him, said he remembers Robert Prevost being very good in school as a kid and enjoying playing tag, Monopoly and Risk.\n\nFrom a young age, he said he knew his brother was going to be a priest. Although he didn't expect him to become pope, he recalled a neighbor predicting that very thing when Robert Prevost was only a first grader.\n\n\"She sensed that at 6 years old,\" he said. \"How she did that, who knows. It took this long, but here he is, first American pope.\"\n\nWhen Robert Prevost graduated eighth grade, he left for seminary school, his brother said.\n\n\"There's a whole period there where we didn't really grow up together,\" he said. \"It was just on vacations that we had contact together.\"\n\nThese days, the brothers talk on the phone every day, John Prevost said. Robert Prevost will call him and they'll discuss everything from politics to religion and even play the day's Wordle.\n\nJohn Prevost said he's not sure how much time his brother will have to talk as the new pope and how they'll handle staying in touch in the future.\n\n\"It's already strange not having someone to talk to,\" he said.\n\n___\n\nGolden reported from Seattle."
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"value": "# Leo XIV's brother recalls feeling of 'disbelief' over his sibling becoming pope\n\nBy Obed Lamy and Hallie Golden \nMay 9th, 2025 05:00 AM\n\n---\n\nNEW LENOX, Ill. (AP) — When white smoke poured out of the Sistine Chapel revealing that a new pope had been chosen, John Prevost turned on his television in Illinois, called his niece and they watched in awe as his brother's name was announced.\n\n\"She started screaming because it was her uncle and I was in the moment of disbelief that this cannot be possible because it's too far from what we thought would happen,\" Prevost said Thursday in an interview with The Associated Press from his home in New Lenox, Illinois.\n\nNext, he said he felt an intense sense of pride that his brother, Cardinal Robert Prevost, had become the 267th pontiff to lead the Catholic Church, making the Chicago-born missionary the first U.S. pope.\n\n\"It's quite an honor; it's quite a once in a lifetime,\" he said. \"But I think it's quite a responsibility and I think it's going to lead to bigger and better things, but I think people are going to watch him very closely to see what he's doing.\"\n\nRobert Prevost, a 69-year-old member of the Augustinian religious order who spent his career ministering in Peru, took the name Leo XIV.\n\nJohn Prevost described his brother as being very concerned for the poor and those who don't have a voice. He said he expects him to be a \"second Pope Francis.\"\n\n\"He's not going to be real far left and he's not going to be real far right,\" he added. \"Kind of right down the middle.\"\n\nAt one point during the interview, John Prevost realized he had missed several calls from his brother, so he gave the new pope a call back.\n\nLeo told him he wasn't interested in being part of the interview and after a brief message of congratulations and discussion in which they talked like any two brothers about travel arrangements, they hung up.\n\nThe new pope grew up the youngest of three boys. John Prevost, who was only a year older than him, said he remembers Robert Prevost being very good in school as a kid and enjoying playing tag, Monopoly and Risk.\n\nFrom a young age, he said he knew his brother was going to be a priest. Although he didn't expect him to become pope, he recalled a neighbor predicting that very thing when Robert Prevost was only a first grader.\n\n\"She sensed that at 6 years old,\" he said. \"How she did that, who knows. It took this long, but here he is, first American pope.\"\n\nWhen Robert Prevost graduated eighth grade, he left for seminary school, his brother said.\n\n\"There's a whole period there where we didn't really grow up together,\" he said. \"It was just on vacations that we had contact together.\"\n\nThese days, the brothers talk on the phone every day, John Prevost said. Robert Prevost will call him and they'll discuss everything from politics to religion and even play the day's Wordle.\n\nJohn Prevost said he's not sure how much time his brother will have to talk as the new pope and how they'll handle staying in touch in the future.\n\n\"It's already strange not having someone to talk to,\" he said."
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"value": "# Trump lawsuits: A simple guide to common legal jargon\n\nBy Rebecca Boone \nMay 7th, 2025 04:03 AM\n\n---\n\nIt may feel like you have to attend law school to understand the American legal system. However, that is not the case. We broke down some of the most common legal terms used in the lawsuits surrounding the Trump administration.\n\n## What's the general process for a lawsuit?\n\nLawsuits are sometimes called \" complaints \" for good reason: They tell a judge about something that allegedly caused you harm, and why you think someone else is to blame. Lawsuits also include a request for the kind of \"relief\" sought, like money or an order stopping the harmful actions.\n\nThe person being sued is always given a chance to respond. They might tell the judge the lawsuit is wrong, argue that someone else is to blame, or say the conduct wasn't actually harmful. Often, the person being sued will file a \" motion to dismiss,\" asking the judge to reject the lawsuit entirely.\n\n## What's a plaintiff?\n\nThe people who file a lawsuit are the \"plaintiffs,\" and the people being sued are the \"defendants.\" If a lawsuit is brought on behalf of a big group of people, it might become a \"class action\" lawsuit.\n\n## What's a TRO? And what's a PI?\n\nResolving a lawsuit can take months, so plaintiffs often ask the judge to temporarily stop the defendants from doing whatever allegedly caused the harm while the case is decided.\n\nA \" temporary restraining order \" or \"TRO\" is a short-term emergency order designed to stop immediate, irreparable harm.\n\nA \" preliminary injunction \" or \"PI\" lasts until the lawsuit is resolved. A PI typically isn't granted unless the plaintiff shows they are likely to \"succeed on the merits,\" or win the case.\n\n## What's the difference between an appeal and a stay?\n\nIf one side thinks the judge made the wrong call, they can \" appeal \" by asking a higher court to decide if the ruling was correct.\n\nThey can also ask for a \" stay,\" which puts a judge's order on pause while a dispute or appeal is worked out.\n\n## What does contempt of court mean?\n\nIf someone disobeys a court order or disrespects the judicial process, the judge might hold them in \" contempt of court.\"\n\nContempt of court convictions can carry big penalties, including fines or imprisonment. The punishments are designed to pressure the troublesome party to comply, so they typically end once the disobedience stops.\n\n## What's 'discovery,' and why is some 'privileged?'\n\n\" Discovery \" happens when both sides request information from each other as they search for facts supporting their side of the case. Discovery can include witness names, documents, or sworn statements from people.\n\nIf one side thinks something should be kept confidential, they might claim \"privilege.\" Attorney-client communications are generally privileged. \" State secrets \" privilege is invoked if the government thinks sharing the information would put national security at risk.\n\n## Why all the jargon?\n\nLegal terms carry very specific definitions. The jargon can feel fussy, but it's all meant to help lawyers and judges avoid any ambiguity.\n\nFor instance, the term \"jurisdiction\" refers to whether a court has the authority to decide a case. It might seem simpler to just use the word \"venue,\" but there are many different types of legal jurisdiction, and the word venue just doesn't cover it all.\n\nJurisdiction can be based on a geographic area or on the subject matter of the lawsuit. It can even be based on timing, or which court gets first dibs on a case."
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"value": "# Two judges rule Trump improperly used Alien Enemies Act for Venezuelan gang\n\nBy Nicholas Riccardi \nMay 6th, 2025 05:08 PM\n\n---\n\nTwo separate federal judges 2,000 miles apart ruled Tuesday that President Donald Trump improperly used an 18th century wartime law to try to speed the deportations of people his administration labels members of a Venezuelan gang, adding to mounting judicial skepticism over the president's attempt to avoid deportation hearings by invoking a measure last used in World War II.\n\nFirst, District Court Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein in New York found the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 cannot be used against the Tren de Aragua gang because it is not attacking the United States. \"TdA may well be engaged in narcotics trafficking, but that is a criminal matter, not an invasion or predatory incursion,\" Hellerstein wrote barring deportations from most of New York City and surrounding areas.\n\nHours later, District Court Judge Charlotte N. Sweeney reached a similar conclusion, expanding on an earlier order that barred the removals of Venezuelans accused of belonging to Tren de Aragua from Colorado. She was aghast at administration arguments that no one can second-guess the president's designation of the gang as a foreign invader.\n\nThat contention \"staggers. It is wrong as a matter of law and attempts to read an entire provision out of the Constitution,\" Sweeney wrote.\n\nThe double-barreled rejections of Trump come a week after a Trump-appointed judge in South Texas became the first in the nation to reject the president's use of the Alien Enemies Act, also barring the administration from removing people from that region. None of the orders prevent deportations for reasons other than the act.\n\nThe decisions are the latest in a long line of judicial setbacks for the Trump administration's effort to speed deportations of people in the country illegally. The president and his supporters have increasingly complained about having to provide due process for people they contend didn't follow U.S. immigration laws.\n\nIn his ruling, Hellerstein, who was appointed by President Bill Clinton, also ruled that the government cannot use the Alien Enemies Act to shortcut the legal process for deportations that Congress has laid out.\n\nSeveral other judges across the country are hearing cases challenging Trump's use of the Alien Enemies Act in their jurisdictions. Those follow a ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court last month that challenges to Trump's use of the law have to occur in areas where immigrants are being detained for deportation. The high court unanimously ruled that people held under the Alien Enemies Act had the right to contest their removal in court.\n\nThat led the Supreme Court to have to weigh in a second time, in an unusual post-midnight ruling that barred the deportation of people from northern Texas who, the ACLU argued, were about to be shipped out of the country without adequate chance to appeal their designation.\n\nThe Trump administration has deported people designated as Tren de Aragua members to a notorious prison in El Salvador where it argues U.S. courts cannot order them freed. Hellerstein referred to the facility as a \"notoriously evil jail.\""
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"value": "# Two judges rule Trump improperly used Alien Enemies Act for Venezuelan gang\n\nBy Nicholas Riccardi \nMay 6th, 2025 05:08 PM\n\n---\n\nTwo separate federal judges 2,000 miles apart ruled Tuesday that President Donald Trump improperly used an 18th century wartime law to try to speed the deportations of people his administration labels members of a Venezuelan gang, adding to mounting judicial skepticism over the president's attempt to avoid deportation hearings by invoking a measure last used in World War II.\n\nFirst, District Court Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein in New York found the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 cannot be used against the Tren de Aragua gang because it is not attacking the United States. \"TdA may well be engaged in narcotics trafficking, but that is a criminal matter, not an invasion or predatory incursion,\" Hellerstein wrote barring deportations from most of New York City and surrounding areas.\n\nHours later, District Court Judge Charlotte N. Sweeney reached a similar conclusion, expanding on an earlier order that barred the removals of Venezuelans accused of belonging to Tren de Aragua from Colorado. She was aghast at administration arguments that no one can second-guess the president's designation of the gang as a foreign invader.\n\nThat contention \"staggers. It is wrong as a matter of law and attempts to read an entire provision out of the Constitution,\" Sweeney wrote.\n\nThe double-barreled rejections of Trump come a week after a Trump-appointed judge in South Texas became the first in the nation to reject the president's use of the Alien Enemies Act, also barring the administration from removing people from that region. None of the orders prevent deportations for reasons other than the act.\n\nThe decisions are the latest in a long line of judicial setbacks for the Trump administration's effort to speed deportations of people in the country illegally. The president and his supporters have increasingly complained about having to provide due process for people they contend didn't follow U.S. immigration laws.\n\nIn his ruling, Hellerstein, who was appointed by President Bill Clinton, also ruled that the government cannot use the Alien Enemies Act to shortcut the legal process for deportations that Congress has laid out.\n\nSeveral other judges across the country are hearing cases challenging Trump's use of the Alien Enemies Act in their jurisdictions. Those follow a ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court last month that challenges to Trump's use of the law have to occur in areas where immigrants are being detained for deportation. The high court unanimously ruled that people held under the Alien Enemies Act had the right to contest their removal in court.\n\nThat led the Supreme Court to have to weigh in a second time, in an unusual post-midnight ruling that barred the deportation of people from northern Texas who, the ACLU argued, were about to be shipped out of the country without adequate chance to appeal their designation.\n\nThe Trump administration has deported people designated as Tren de Aragua members to a notorious prison in El Salvador where it argues U.S. courts cannot order them freed. Hellerstein referred to the facility as a \"notoriously evil jail.\""
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"value": "# Burleson's double lifts Cardinals past Pirates 2-1; Skenes' troubles against St. Louis continue\n\nBy Joe Harris \nMay 7th, 2025 02:12 AM\n\n---\n\nST. LOUIS (AP) — Alec Burleson hit a two-run double, Matthew Liberatore struck out eight in a season-high seven innings and the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 2-1 on Tuesday night.\n\nLiberatore (3-3) allowed just one run on three hits and three walks as the Cardinals won a season-high fourth game in a row. Gordon Graceffo earned his first career save with a perfect ninth.\n\nPaul Skenes (3-4) allowed two runs on three hits in six innings, striking out six and walking four as Pittsburgh lost its sixth straight game and for the ninth time in its last 10 games. Skenes fell to 0-4 in five career starts against St. Louis.\n\nBurleson's two-out double in the sixth inning off Skenes scored Nolan Arenado and Willson Contreras. Burleson (6 for 15) has more career hits off Skenes than any other major leaguer.\n\nKe'Bryan Hayes' opposite field double scored Oneil Cruz to give the Pirates a 1-0 lead in the sixth inning. Hayes has hit safely in 14 of his last 16 games and it was his third multihit game out of his last four.\n\nHayes' hit snapped a five-inning hitless stretch for Liberatore, who had retired 17 of the previous 19 batters he faced.\n\nContreras, who walked twice, extended his on-base streak to nine games.\n\n## Key moment\n\nAfter the Pirates took the lead in the top of the sixth, Skenes retired the first two batters before running into trouble in the bottom of the frame. Arenado started the rally with a single and Contreras walked before Burleson's double.\n\n## Key stat\n\nIn his five starts against the Cardinals spanning 32 2/3 innings, Skenes has received just three total runs of support.\n\n## Up next\n\nPirates RHP Mitch Keller (1-3, 4.38 ERA) starts Wednesday in the series finale, and RHP Sonny Gray (3-1, 4.12 ERA) goes for the Cardinals.\n\n___\n\nAP MLB: https://apnews.com/hub/mlb"
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"value": "# Burleson's double lifts Cardinals past Pirates 2-1; Skenes' troubles against St. Louis continue\n\nBy Joe Harris \nMay 7th, 2025 02:12 AM\n\n---\n\nST. LOUIS (AP) — Alec Burleson hit a two-run double, Matthew Liberatore struck out eight in a season-high seven innings and the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 2-1 on Tuesday night.\n\nLiberatore (3-3) allowed just one run on three hits and three walks as the Cardinals won a season-high fourth game in a row. Gordon Graceffo earned his first career save with a perfect ninth.\n\nPaul Skenes (3-4) allowed two runs on three hits in six innings, striking out six and walking four as Pittsburgh lost its sixth straight game and for the ninth time in its last 10 games. Skenes fell to 0-4 in five career starts against St. Louis.\n\nBurleson's two-out double in the sixth inning off Skenes scored Nolan Arenado and Willson Contreras. Burleson (6 for 15) has more career hits off Skenes than any other major leaguer.\n\nKe'Bryan Hayes' opposite field double scored Oneil Cruz to give the Pirates a 1-0 lead in the sixth inning. Hayes has hit safely in 14 of his last 16 games and it was his third multihit game out of his last four.\n\nHayes' hit snapped a five-inning hitless stretch for Liberatore, who had retired 17 of the previous 19 batters he faced.\n\nContreras, who walked twice, extended his on-base streak to nine games.\n\n## Key moment\n\nAfter the Pirates took the lead in the top of the sixth, Skenes retired the first two batters before running into trouble in the bottom of the frame. Arenado started the rally with a single and Contreras walked before Burleson's double.\n\n## Key stat\n\nIn his five starts against the Cardinals spanning 32 2/3 innings, Skenes has received just three total runs of support.\n\n## Up next\n\nPirates RHP Mitch Keller (1-3, 4.38 ERA) starts Wednesday in the series finale, and RHP Sonny Gray (3-1, 4.12 ERA) goes for the Cardinals."
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"value": "# Red Sox owner flies to KC to meet with disgruntled Devers\n\nBy David Smale \nMay 9th, 2025 11:57 PM\n\n---\n\nKANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Rafael Devers made his feelings known on Thursday. On Friday, it was Boston Red Sox owner John Henry's turn to share his opinions with the disgruntled slugger.\n\nA day after Devers told reporters about his refusal to play first base, Henry, team president Sam Kennedy and chief baseball officer Craig Breslow flew to Kansas City to meet with Devers and manager Alex Cora.\n\nBoston has an opening at first base after Triston Casas ruptured his left knee tendon and had season-ending surgery. Red Sox management approached Devers — who was moved from third base to designated hitter this spring — about filling in at first, and Devers declined.\n\nAfter he homered and drove in two runs in Thursday's 5-0 win over Texas, Devers said, \"They came to me and talked to me about it. I know I'm a ballplayer, but at the same time, they can't expect me to play every single position out there.\n\n\"In spring training, they talked to me and basically told me to put away my glove. I wasn't going to play another position other than DH. Right now, I don't think it would be an appropriate decision by them to ask me to play another position.\"\n\nDevers declined to comment on the meeting with Henry after Friday's 2-1, 12-inning loss to the Royals.\n\nThe 28-year-old Devers is in the second year of a 10-year, $313.5 million contract. He was Boston's regular third baseman before the Red Sox signed Alex Bregman, considered a defensive upgrade, in the offseason.\n\nDevers was reluctant to give up third, but was told he didn't have a choice.\n\n\"John spoke directly with Raffy,\" Breslow said before Friday's game. \"(He) felt like it was important, based on the situation that unfolded yesterday. (That included) an honest conversation about what we value as an organization, and that means to be great teammates for each other.\"\n\nBreslow would not give details about the conversation, but said: \"John had a productive conversation, and that's where we stand right now.\"\n\nDevers started at DH on Friday and went 1 for 5 with an RBI grounder in the 11th inning\n\n\"(Where he plays) is kind of secondary, I think, to the other conversations,\" said Breslow, who spent 12 years as a pitcher in the majors, including five with the Red Sox. \"That decision was never going to be made on a couch in an office in Kansas City.\"\n\nCora said it would be an ongoing discussion.\n\n\"Obviously, having everybody here and in the same place, it means a lot, not only for us that are on the ground, but the players and to Raffy too,\" the manager said. \"So I thought it was good.\"\n\nWhen asked if Devers would start taking grounders at first, Cora responded tersely.\n\n\"No, that's not the plan right now. The plan is to keep having conversations,\" he said.\n\nThe question now is whether those conversations will lead to a solution Devers can embrace.\n\n___\n\nAP MLB: https://apnews.com/hub/mlb"
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"value": "# Red Sox owner flies to KC to meet with disgruntled Devers\n\nBy David Smale \nMay 9th, 2025 11:57 PM\n\n---\n\nKANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Rafael Devers made his feelings known on Thursday. On Friday, it was Boston Red Sox owner John Henry's turn to share his opinions with the disgruntled slugger.\n\nA day after Devers told reporters about his refusal to play first base, Henry, team president Sam Kennedy and chief baseball officer Craig Breslow flew to Kansas City to meet with Devers and manager Alex Cora.\n\nBoston has an opening at first base after Triston Casas ruptured his left knee tendon and had season-ending surgery. Red Sox management approached Devers — who was moved from third base to designated hitter this spring — about filling in at first, and Devers declined.\n\nAfter he homered and drove in two runs in Thursday's 5-0 win over Texas, Devers said, \"They came to me and talked to me about it. I know I'm a ballplayer, but at the same time, they can't expect me to play every single position out there.\n\n\"In spring training, they talked to me and basically told me to put away my glove. I wasn't going to play another position other than DH. Right now, I don't think it would be an appropriate decision by them to ask me to play another position.\"\n\nDevers declined to comment on the meeting with Henry after Friday's 2-1, 12-inning loss to the Royals.\n\nThe 28-year-old Devers is in the second year of a 10-year, $313.5 million contract. He was Boston's regular third baseman before the Red Sox signed Alex Bregman, considered a defensive upgrade, in the offseason.\n\nDevers was reluctant to give up third, but was told he didn't have a choice.\n\n\"John spoke directly with Raffy,\" Breslow said before Friday's game. \"(He) felt like it was important, based on the situation that unfolded yesterday. (That included) an honest conversation about what we value as an organization, and that means to be great teammates for each other.\"\n\nBreslow would not give details about the conversation, but said: \"John had a productive conversation, and that's where we stand right now.\"\n\nDevers started at DH on Friday and went 1 for 5 with an RBI grounder in the 11th inning\n\n\"(Where he plays) is kind of secondary, I think, to the other conversations,\" said Breslow, who spent 12 years as a pitcher in the majors, including five with the Red Sox. \"That decision was never going to be made on a couch in an office in Kansas City.\"\n\nCora said it would be an ongoing discussion.\n\n\"Obviously, having everybody here and in the same place, it means a lot, not only for us that are on the ground, but the players and to Raffy too,\" the manager said. \"So I thought it was good.\"\n\nWhen asked if Devers would start taking grounders at first, Cora responded tersely.\n\n\"No, that's not the plan right now. The plan is to keep having conversations,\" he said.\n\nThe question now is whether those conversations will lead to a solution Devers can embrace."
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"value": "# Rights groups sue to free Venezuelans deported from the US and held in El Salvador\n\nBy Marcos Alemán and Christopher Sherman \nMay 9th, 2025 02:01 PM\n\n---\n\nSAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — International human rights organizations on Friday filed a lawsuit with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights asking that the commission order El Salvador's government to release Venezuelans deported from the United States and held in a maximum-security prison.\n\nIn March, the U.S. government deported more than 200 Venezuelan immigrants alleged to have ties to the Tren de Aragua gang to El Salvador, paying the Salvadoran government to imprison them.\n\nSince then, they have had no access to lawyers or ability to communicate with their families. Neither the U.S. nor Salvadoran governments have said how the men could eventually regain their freedom.\n\n\"These individuals have been stripped from their families and subject to a state-sponsored enforced disappearance regime, effectively, completely against the law,\" said Bella Mosselmans, director of the Global Strategic Litigation Council, which helped bring the suit.\n\nOne of them is Euder José Torres.\n\n## Tattoos flagged\n\nIn September, Torres boarded a Houston-bound flight in Quito, Ecuador with his 21-year-old stepson after successfully completing a monthslong screening process that included health exams and criminal history checks.\n\nThe 41-year-old Venezuelan and the young man he had raised since early childhood had been approved for family reunification through the U.N.'s International Organization for Migration and were headed to the U.S. to join his long-time partner and his stepson's brother.\n\nBut at the airport in Houston, immigration agents saw a tattoo of a compass on the stepson's forearm with the initials of his mother, father and brother in place of the cardinal directions. They said it signaled him as a member of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua. The next day he was on a flight back to Ecuador.\n\nBut Torres didn't have an Ecuadorian visa, so agents placed him in immigration detention in Texas. He had tattoos too, the name of his saint Elegua in script on one forearm – he is a practitioner of Santeria, a fusion of African religions and Catholicism – and skull on the other.\n\nTorres sought U.S. asylum and passed his credible fear interview, but at an immigration hearing in January the government lawyer told the judge, without providing evidence, he too was a member of Tren de Aragua. The judge issued a deportation order, according to his longtime partner, who requested anonymity due to fears of retaliation despite her legal status in the U.S.\n\nIn March, Torres found himself among more than 200 Venezuelans sent to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador.\n\nHis partner questions how the U.S. government could send him to a prison there without any evidence that he had broken the law or has a criminal record.\n\n## Lack of due process\n\nEl Salvador has been living under a state of emergency for more than three years, which has suspended some fundamental rights and given the administration of President Nayib Bukele extraordinary powers. More than 85,000 Salvadorans have been arrested over the period for alleged ties to the country's once-powerful street gangs.\n\nThe improvement in El Salvador's security has won Bukele widespread domestic support and some admirers in the region who seek to imitate his success. But the lack of due process and numerous arbitrary arrests have drawn international condemnation. Bukele has dismissed those critics as defenders of criminals.\n\nA spokesperson for Bukele's office declined to comment Friday.\n\nWith the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump taking a hard line on immigration and portraying migrants broadly as criminals, neither government has been swayed by legal maneuvers in their own country to seek the men's release or return to the U.S.\n\nA judge in Washington this week said he would order the U.S. government to provide more information about its prison deal with El Salvador as he moved closer to requiring the government to return the men to the U.S.\n\nThe human rights organizations hope that the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights will accept this emergency petition. The commission is an arm of the regional Organization of American States. The groups presented the case on behalf of the families of 18 of the men sent to El Salvador, who provided sworn statements about their cases.\n\nSome of the men had pending asylum applications in the U.S., while others had been vetted and approved for refugee resettlement by the U.S. government, still others had temporary protected status allowing them to work in the U.S., according to the lawsuit.\n\nBukele has said he has the room to hold the men and the payments from the U.S. will help cover the costs of his new prison.\n\n## Legal maneuvers unsuccessful\n\nWhile both the Venezuelan government and nongovernmental organizations have filed habeas corpus petitions — essentially compelling the government to prove someone's detention was justified — in El Salvador's courts, none have advanced.\n\nThe groups are asking the human right commission to order precautionary measures, basically an emergency action to prevent irreparable harm. Among them are the ability to communicate with their families, access to legal counsel and return to the United States. The commission would seek a response from El Salvador's government before making a decision, but is expected to move quickly.\n\nThe other organizations involved in the lawsuit are the Boston University School of Law International Human Rights Clinic, the Center for Gender & Refugee Studies and Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights.\n\n____\n\nFollow AP's coverage of Latin America and the Caribbean at https://apnews.com/hub/latin-america"
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"value": "# Rights groups sue to free Venezuelans deported from the US and held in El Salvador\n\nBy Marcos Alemán and Christopher Sherman \nMay 9th, 2025 02:01 PM\n\n---\n\nSAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — International human rights organizations on Friday filed a lawsuit with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights asking that the commission order El Salvador's government to release Venezuelans deported from the United States and held in a maximum-security prison.\n\nIn March, the U.S. government deported more than 200 Venezuelan immigrants alleged to have ties to the Tren de Aragua gang to El Salvador, paying the Salvadoran government to imprison them.\n\nSince then, they have had no access to lawyers or ability to communicate with their families. Neither the U.S. nor Salvadoran governments have said how the men could eventually regain their freedom.\n\n\"These individuals have been stripped from their families and subject to a state-sponsored enforced disappearance regime, effectively, completely against the law,\" said Bella Mosselmans, director of the Global Strategic Litigation Council, which helped bring the suit.\n\nOne of them is Euder José Torres.\n\n## Tattoos flagged\n\nIn September, Torres boarded a Houston-bound flight in Quito, Ecuador with his 21-year-old stepson after successfully completing a monthslong screening process that included health exams and criminal history checks.\n\nThe 41-year-old Venezuelan and the young man he had raised since early childhood had been approved for family reunification through the U.N.'s International Organization for Migration and were headed to the U.S. to join his long-time partner and his stepson's brother.\n\nBut at the airport in Houston, immigration agents saw a tattoo of a compass on the stepson's forearm with the initials of his mother, father and brother in place of the cardinal directions. They said it signaled him as a member of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua. The next day he was on a flight back to Ecuador.\n\nBut Torres didn't have an Ecuadorian visa, so agents placed him in immigration detention in Texas. He had tattoos too, the name of his saint Elegua in script on one forearm – he is a practitioner of Santeria, a fusion of African religions and Catholicism – and skull on the other.\n\nTorres sought U.S. asylum and passed his credible fear interview, but at an immigration hearing in January the government lawyer told the judge, without providing evidence, he too was a member of Tren de Aragua. The judge issued a deportation order, according to his longtime partner, who requested anonymity due to fears of retaliation despite her legal status in the U.S.\n\nIn March, Torres found himself among more than 200 Venezuelans sent to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador.\n\nHis partner questions how the U.S. government could send him to a prison there without any evidence that he had broken the law or has a criminal record.\n\n## Lack of due process\n\nEl Salvador has been living under a state of emergency for more than three years, which has suspended some fundamental rights and given the administration of President Nayib Bukele extraordinary powers. More than 85,000 Salvadorans have been arrested over the period for alleged ties to the country's once-powerful street gangs.\n\nThe improvement in El Salvador's security has won Bukele widespread domestic support and some admirers in the region who seek to imitate his success. But the lack of due process and numerous arbitrary arrests have drawn international condemnation. Bukele has dismissed those critics as defenders of criminals.\n\nA spokesperson for Bukele's office declined to comment Friday.\n\nWith the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump taking a hard line on immigration and portraying migrants broadly as criminals, neither government has been swayed by legal maneuvers in their own country to seek the men's release or return to the U.S.\n\nA judge in Washington this week said he would order the U.S. government to provide more information about its prison deal with El Salvador as he moved closer to requiring the government to return the men to the U.S.\n\nThe human rights organizations hope that the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights will accept this emergency petition. The commission is an arm of the regional Organization of American States. The groups presented the case on behalf of the families of 18 of the men sent to El Salvador, who provided sworn statements about their cases.\n\nSome of the men had pending asylum applications in the U.S., while others had been vetted and approved for refugee resettlement by the U.S. government, still others had temporary protected status allowing them to work in the U.S., according to the lawsuit.\n\nBukele has said he has the room to hold the men and the payments from the U.S. will help cover the costs of his new prison.\n\n## Legal maneuvers unsuccessful\n\nWhile both the Venezuelan government and nongovernmental organizations have filed habeas corpus petitions — essentially compelling the government to prove someone's detention was justified — in El Salvador's courts, none have advanced.\n\nThe groups are asking the human right commission to order precautionary measures, basically an emergency action to prevent irreparable harm. Among them are the ability to communicate with their families, access to legal counsel and return to the United States. The commission would seek a response from El Salvador's government before making a decision, but is expected to move quickly.\n\nThe other organizations involved in the lawsuit are the Boston University School of Law International Human Rights Clinic, the Center for Gender & Refugee Studies and Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights."
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"value": "# Americans in St. Peter's Square were stunned by choice of new pope\n\nBy Giada Zampano, Trisha Thomas, and Vanessa Gera \nMay 8th, 2025 08:46 PM\n\n---\n\nVATICAN CITY (AP) — Americans in St. Peter's Square were stunned and joyous when they learned that an American cardinal, Robert Provost, was elected pope Thursday and had taken the name Leo XIV.\n\n\"Who in our lifetime would have thought that we would see a North American Holy Father?\" said Father Thomas Montanaro, an American priest with the Legionaries of Christ.\n\nMontanaro was among the many tens of thousands of people who filled St. Peter's Square for the historic moment.\n\nCheers of \"viva il papa\" and applause rippled across the crowd to celebrate the new pope.\n\nFather Darius Lawrence, a priest from California, said the announcement caught him completely off guard.\n\n\"As an American, it's a huge surprise,\" he said. \"I would have never expected an American to be named as pope. He wasn't on any of the lists I'd seen — and I'd been looking into it a little bit.\"\n\nThe flags of many nations waved. But tellingly there very few American flags.\n\nThe Americans had not come prepared.\n\nThey also did not hear Leo speak to them in their native tongue. He used Italian to greet the crowds before turning to Spanish, using a language he used during years of missionary work in Peru, where he also obtained citizenship.\n\nPast popes have shaped the larger world beyond the Catholic Church, and it was not lost on some that Leo might too.\n\n\"I'm just hoping that the new pope can help steer us in a good direction and in terms of politics, you know, right now it's very complicated,\" said Andrea Gallardo, a Texan. \"I'm just hoping that he's able to rekindle a good relationship with our president and all the government officials so that we can start going into a good route, I would say.\"\n\nIn Washington, President Donald Trump said it was an honor for an American to be chosen.\n\n\"What greater honor can there be?\" Trump said. \"We're a little bit surprised and we're happy.\"\n\nOnce white smoke started billowing out from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel, \"an extraordinary influx of over 150,000 people\" came from elsewhere in Rome to fill the square, police said in a statement.\n\n\"I was at home, but as soon as the smoke went up, I put on my clothes and I came to the Vatican,\" said Thomas Nicolini, 22, a Peruvian from Lima, who is studying economics in Rome.\n\n\"I'm really happy about this. I know he's American, but he was in Peru for a long time, 20 years. He worked in the region of Chiclayo. That's a beautiful area, but one of the regions that needs lots of hope. So now I'm expecting that the new pope helps as many people as possible, and tries to reignite, let's say, the faith young people have lost.\""
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"value": "# Americans in St. Peter's Square were stunned by choice of new pope\n\nBy Giada Zampano, Trisha Thomas, and Vanessa Gera \nMay 8th, 2025 08:46 PM\n\n---\n\nVATICAN CITY (AP) — Americans in St. Peter's Square were stunned and joyous when they learned that an American cardinal, Robert Provost, was elected pope Thursday and had taken the name Leo XIV.\n\n\"Who in our lifetime would have thought that we would see a North American Holy Father?\" said Father Thomas Montanaro, an American priest with the Legionaries of Christ.\n\nMontanaro was among the many tens of thousands of people who filled St. Peter's Square for the historic moment.\n\nCheers of \"viva il papa\" and applause rippled across the crowd to celebrate the new pope.\n\nFather Darius Lawrence, a priest from California, said the announcement caught him completely off guard.\n\n\"As an American, it's a huge surprise,\" he said. \"I would have never expected an American to be named as pope. He wasn't on any of the lists I'd seen — and I'd been looking into it a little bit.\"\n\nThe flags of many nations waved. But tellingly there very few American flags.\n\nThe Americans had not come prepared.\n\nThey also did not hear Leo speak to them in their native tongue. He used Italian to greet the crowds before turning to Spanish, using a language he used during years of missionary work in Peru, where he also obtained citizenship.\n\nPast popes have shaped the larger world beyond the Catholic Church, and it was not lost on some that Leo might too.\n\n\"I'm just hoping that the new pope can help steer us in a good direction and in terms of politics, you know, right now it's very complicated,\" said Andrea Gallardo, a Texan. \"I'm just hoping that he's able to rekindle a good relationship with our president and all the government officials so that we can start going into a good route, I would say.\"\n\nIn Washington, President Donald Trump said it was an honor for an American to be chosen.\n\n\"What greater honor can there be?\" Trump said. \"We're a little bit surprised and we're happy.\"\n\nOnce white smoke started billowing out from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel, \"an extraordinary influx of over 150,000 people\" came from elsewhere in Rome to fill the square, police said in a statement.\n\n\"I was at home, but as soon as the smoke went up, I put on my clothes and I came to the Vatican,\" said Thomas Nicolini, 22, a Peruvian from Lima, who is studying economics in Rome.\n\n\"I'm really happy about this. I know he's American, but he was in Peru for a long time, 20 years. He worked in the region of Chiclayo. That's a beautiful area, but one of the regions that needs lots of hope. So now I'm expecting that the new pope helps as many people as possible, and tries to reignite, let's say, the faith young people have lost.\""
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"value": "# Aid group closes soup kitchens across Gaza due to dwindling supplies\n\nBy Wafaa Shurafa and Kareem Chehayeb \nMay 8th, 2025 08:25 AM\n\n---\n\nDEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza (AP) — Israel's ongoing blockade of humanitarian assistance for Gaza forced a leading aid group to shut its community soup kitchens Thursday as it faced empty warehouses and no replenishment of supplies in the war-battered enclave.\n\nU.S.-based World Central Kitchen, which was serving 133,000 meals per day, said there is almost no food left in Gaza with which to cook.\n\nThe ongoing hunger is threatening Gaza's population, already battered by 19 months of war. In April, the World Food Program said its food stocks in Gaza had run out under Israel's blockade, ending a main source of sustenance for hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in the territory.\n\nA UNICEF spokesperson said most of Gaza's water system is damaged, while fuel shortages make it harder to operate desalination plants or water trucks.\n\n## Shortages due to blockade drive hunger, malnutrition\n\nMalnutrition and hunger are becoming increasingly prevalent in the Gaza Strip as Israel's total blockade enters its third month, and aid agencies say supplies to treat and prevent malnutrition are running out.\n\nIsrael imposed the blockade on March 2, then shattered a two-month ceasefire by resuming military operations in the territory on March 18. It said both steps aim to pressure the militant Hamas group to release hostages. Rights groups call the blockade a \"starvation tactic\" and a potential war crime.\n\nWith restaurants and bakeries closed, community kitchens are often the only way for hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza to eat a daily meal. But a third of those supported by the U.N. have closed in the past 10 days for lack of food or fuel, according to the U.N. humanitarian office, or OCHA, which said more closures could be imminent.\n\n\"The hot meals provided by these kitchens constitute one of the last remaining lifelines\" for Palestinians, OCHA said.\n\nAt those still open, chaotic scenes of desperate men, women and children fighting to get meager rations are common.\n\n## Scarce water supplies\n\nUNICEF spokesperson Jonathan Crickx on Thursday said 65-70% of Gaza's water system is damaged. Aid workers have instead set up water distribution points that rely on trucking.\n\nBut it's difficult to reach people when fuel has become scarce, Crickx told The Associated Press.\n\n\"The children are, of course, bearing the brunt of this war,\" he said.\n\nWater availability has plummeted to an average of 3-5 liters per person per day, according to the Palestinian Water Authority. That's less than the 15 liters that the World Health Organization says people need to survive.\n\nA pipeline operated by Israel had been supplying 70% of Gaza City's water since the war began, but it was damaged with the renewed Israeli offensive in April. Desalination plants had supplied about 7% of Gaza's water needs before the war, until the aquifer became contaminated and depleted.\n\n## Aid is waiting on the borders\n\nSince the start of the war, World Central Kitchen said it has served more than 130 million meals and baked 80 million loaves of bread. On Thursday, the group said it had no flour left in their mobile bakery.\n\n\"Our trucks — loaded with food and supplies — are waiting in Egypt, Jordan and Israel, ready to enter Gaza,\" said José Andrés, the celebrity chef who founded the organization. \"But they cannot move without permission. Humanitarian aid must be allowed to flow.\"\n\nCOGAT, the Israeli defense body overseeing aid to Gaza, said the blockade would continue unless the Israeli government changed its policy.\n\n## 'Hamas is engineering hunger'\n\nIsraeli government spokesperson David Mencer said the government was concerned that Hamas controlled the humanitarian aid, and that Israeli officials were exploring ways to get it only to \"those in need.\"\n\nMencer said the hunger had been \"engineered by Hamas,\" and said the blockade would end when the group lays down its weapons, he said.\n\nHowever, Israel has provided no evidence that Hamas syphons off aid. The U.N and aid workers deny there is significant diversion of aid to militants, saying the U.N. strictly monitors distribution.\n\nSince the start of the year, more than 10,000 children have been treated for acute malnutrition, according to the World Health Organization. The number climbed dramatically in March, to 3,600 cases from 2,000 the month before, UNICEF reported.\n\nNearly half the 200 nutrition centers around Gaza have shut down because of displacement and bombardment.\n\nWorld Central Kitchen had previously suspended operations in April of last year after seven aid workers were killed in Israeli strikes on their convoy, before resuming weeks later.\n\n## Toll in Gaza continues to rise\n\nThe Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza said Thursday the bodies of 106 people killed by Israeli strikes have been brought to hospitals over the past 24 hours.\n\nHospitals also received 367 wounded, the ministry said in its daily report.\n\nThe overall Palestinian death toll from the Israel-Hamas war rose to at least 52,760 since Oct. 7, 2023, the ministry said. Another 119,264 have been wounded, it said.\n\nIt said the tally includes 2,651 dead and 7,223 wounded since Israel shattered the nearly two-month ceasefire on March 18.\n\nThe ministry does not differentiate between civilians and combatants, but says more than half of the dead were women and children.\n\nThe Israeli military said they are targeting Hamas infrastructure in Gaza. On Wednesday, chief of staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir told commanders that Israel plans to \"expand and intensify our operations\" in Gaza.\n\n## Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon\n\nAlso on Thursday, a series of Israeli airstrikes hit hilltops in the vicinity of the southern Lebanese city of Nabatieh, killing at least one person and wounding eight others, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry.\n\nThe Israeli military said it bombed infrastructure that belonged to the Hezbollah militant group and included weapons and tunnels. Israel said that Hezbollah's activities at the site violated a November ceasefire.\n\nHezbollah did not immediately comment on the strikes. Lebanon's state-run National News Agency said public institutions in the area were closed after the attacks as families rushed to schools to take their children home.\n\nSince the U.S.-brokered ceasefire in November stopped the war between Israel and Hezbollah, Israeli strikes on southern Lebanon have continued. Hezbollah says its has largely disarmed south of the Litani River, while Israel insists the militants are rearming themselves. Some 4,000 people in Lebanon were killed during the war, including many civilians.\n\n## Journalist from Jenin detained for six months\n\nA renowned Palestinian journalist arrested by the Israeli military and suffering from multiple chronic illnesses has been placed on six months of administrative detention, the Israeli military said.\n\nAli Samoudi, who has worked for international news outlets including CNN and Al Jazeera, was detained late last month by the Israeli military from his family home in the city of Jenin in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, and has spent part of the time in the hospital due to chronic health issues.\n\nThe Israeli military said Samoudi was detained based on involvement in \"actions endangering regional security\" but that a police investigation did not find sufficient evidence against him to issue an arrest. However, on Thursday, a military court decided to place him under administrative detention for six months.\n\nIsraeli authorities can renew administrative detentions indefinitely. Detainees are held without charge or trial. Israel says the controversial tactic is necessary for security reasons, but Palestinians and rights groups say the system denies due process and is widely abused.\n\n___\n\nChehayeb reported from Beirut. Associated Press writer Melanie Lidman in Tel Aviv, Israel, and Sally Abou AlJoud in Beirut, Lebanon contributed to this report."
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"value": "# Aid group closes soup kitchens across Gaza due to dwindling supplies\n\nBy Wafaa Shurafa and Kareem Chehayeb \nMay 8th, 2025 08:25 AM\n\n---\n\nDEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza (AP) — Israel's ongoing blockade of humanitarian assistance for Gaza forced a leading aid group to shut its community soup kitchens Thursday as it faced empty warehouses and no replenishment of supplies in the war-battered enclave.\n\nU.S.-based World Central Kitchen, which was serving 133,000 meals per day, said there is almost no food left in Gaza with which to cook.\n\nThe ongoing hunger is threatening Gaza's population, already battered by 19 months of war. In April, the World Food Program said its food stocks in Gaza had run out under Israel's blockade, ending a main source of sustenance for hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in the territory.\n\nA UNICEF spokesperson said most of Gaza's water system is damaged, while fuel shortages make it harder to operate desalination plants or water trucks.\n\n## Shortages due to blockade drive hunger, malnutrition\n\nMalnutrition and hunger are becoming increasingly prevalent in the Gaza Strip as Israel's total blockade enters its third month, and aid agencies say supplies to treat and prevent malnutrition are running out.\n\nIsrael imposed the blockade on March 2, then shattered a two-month ceasefire by resuming military operations in the territory on March 18. It said both steps aim to pressure the militant Hamas group to release hostages. Rights groups call the blockade a \"starvation tactic\" and a potential war crime.\n\nWith restaurants and bakeries closed, community kitchens are often the only way for hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza to eat a daily meal. But a third of those supported by the U.N. have closed in the past 10 days for lack of food or fuel, according to the U.N. humanitarian office, or OCHA, which said more closures could be imminent.\n\n\"The hot meals provided by these kitchens constitute one of the last remaining lifelines\" for Palestinians, OCHA said.\n\nAt those still open, chaotic scenes of desperate men, women and children fighting to get meager rations are common.\n\n## Scarce water supplies\n\nUNICEF spokesperson Jonathan Crickx on Thursday said 65-70% of Gaza's water system is damaged. Aid workers have instead set up water distribution points that rely on trucking.\n\nBut it's difficult to reach people when fuel has become scarce, Crickx told The Associated Press.\n\n\"The children are, of course, bearing the brunt of this war,\" he said.\n\nWater availability has plummeted to an average of 3-5 liters per person per day, according to the Palestinian Water Authority. That's less than the 15 liters that the World Health Organization says people need to survive.\n\nA pipeline operated by Israel had been supplying 70% of Gaza City's water since the war began, but it was damaged with the renewed Israeli offensive in April. Desalination plants had supplied about 7% of Gaza's water needs before the war, until the aquifer became contaminated and depleted.\n\n## Aid is waiting on the borders\n\nSince the start of the war, World Central Kitchen said it has served more than 130 million meals and baked 80 million loaves of bread. On Thursday, the group said it had no flour left in their mobile bakery.\n\n\"Our trucks — loaded with food and supplies — are waiting in Egypt, Jordan and Israel, ready to enter Gaza,\" said José Andrés, the celebrity chef who founded the organization. \"But they cannot move without permission. Humanitarian aid must be allowed to flow.\"\n\nCOGAT, the Israeli defense body overseeing aid to Gaza, said the blockade would continue unless the Israeli government changed its policy.\n\n## 'Hamas is engineering hunger'\n\nIsraeli government spokesperson David Mencer said the government was concerned that Hamas controlled the humanitarian aid, and that Israeli officials were exploring ways to get it only to \"those in need.\"\n\nMencer said the hunger had been \"engineered by Hamas,\" and said the blockade would end when the group lays down its weapons, he said.\n\nHowever, Israel has provided no evidence that Hamas syphons off aid. The U.N and aid workers deny there is significant diversion of aid to militants, saying the U.N. strictly monitors distribution.\n\nSince the start of the year, more than 10,000 children have been treated for acute malnutrition, according to the World Health Organization. The number climbed dramatically in March, to 3,600 cases from 2,000 the month before, UNICEF reported.\n\nNearly half the 200 nutrition centers around Gaza have shut down because of displacement and bombardment.\n\nWorld Central Kitchen had previously suspended operations in April of last year after seven aid workers were killed in Israeli strikes on their convoy, before resuming weeks later.\n\n## Toll in Gaza continues to rise\n\nThe Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza said Thursday the bodies of 106 people killed by Israeli strikes have been brought to hospitals over the past 24 hours.\n\nHospitals also received 367 wounded, the ministry said in its daily report.\n\nThe overall Palestinian death toll from the Israel-Hamas war rose to at least 52,760 since Oct. 7, 2023, the ministry said. Another 119,264 have been wounded, it said.\n\nIt said the tally includes 2,651 dead and 7,223 wounded since Israel shattered the nearly two-month ceasefire on March 18.\n\nThe ministry does not differentiate between civilians and combatants, but says more than half of the dead were women and children.\n\nThe Israeli military said they are targeting Hamas infrastructure in Gaza. On Wednesday, chief of staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir told commanders that Israel plans to \"expand and intensify our operations\" in Gaza.\n\n## Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon\n\nAlso on Thursday, a series of Israeli airstrikes hit hilltops in the vicinity of the southern Lebanese city of Nabatieh, killing at least one person and wounding eight others, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry.\n\nThe Israeli military said it bombed infrastructure that belonged to the Hezbollah militant group and included weapons and tunnels. Israel said that Hezbollah's activities at the site violated a November ceasefire.\n\nHezbollah did not immediately comment on the strikes. Lebanon's state-run National News Agency said public institutions in the area were closed after the attacks as families rushed to schools to take their children home.\n\nSince the U.S.-brokered ceasefire in November stopped the war between Israel and Hezbollah, Israeli strikes on southern Lebanon have continued. Hezbollah says its has largely disarmed south of the Litani River, while Israel insists the militants are rearming themselves. Some 4,000 people in Lebanon were killed during the war, including many civilians.\n\n## Journalist from Jenin detained for six months\n\nA renowned Palestinian journalist arrested by the Israeli military and suffering from multiple chronic illnesses has been placed on six months of administrative detention, the Israeli military said.\n\nAli Samoudi, who has worked for international news outlets including CNN and Al Jazeera, was detained late last month by the Israeli military from his family home in the city of Jenin in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, and has spent part of the time in the hospital due to chronic health issues.\n\nThe Israeli military said Samoudi was detained based on involvement in \"actions endangering regional security\" but that a police investigation did not find sufficient evidence against him to issue an arrest. However, on Thursday, a military court decided to place him under administrative detention for six months.\n\nIsraeli authorities can renew administrative detentions indefinitely. Detainees are held without charge or trial. Israel says the controversial tactic is necessary for security reasons, but Palestinians and rights groups say the system denies due process and is widely abused."
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"value": "# States compete for top billing on Democrats' 2028 election calendar\n\nBy Hannah Fingerhut, Meg Kinnard, and Holly Ramer \nMay 11th, 2025 11:29 AM\n\n---\n\nDES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Before they can name their next presidential nominee, Democrats will have to decide which state will weigh in first.\n\nIn 2022, President Joe Biden forced a shake-up of the 2024 election calendar, moving South Carolina's primary ahead of contests in Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada. Officials in those traditionally four early-voting states are now positioning themselves to get top billing nearly two years before the Democratic National Committee solidifies the order. Others may make a play, too.\n\nIt's a fraught choice for a party already wrestling with questions about its direction after losing November's White House election to Republican Donald Trump. Each state offers advantages to different candidates and elevates — or diminishes — different parts of the Democratic base.\n\nFor now, 2028 prospects are making early-state visits, giving a glimpse into what they may see as their own path to the nomination.\n\nIllinois Gov. JB Pritzker was the keynote speaker at adinner last month for New Hampshire Democrats, visiting a majority white state known for its engaged electorate and independent streak. Maryland Gov. Wes Moore, the state's first Black governor, will appear later this month at a similar party event in South Carolina, where Black voters are the party's most influential voting group.\n\nPete Buttigieg will join a VoteVets Action Fund gathering in Iowa on Tuesday, marking the former presidential candidate's first public in-person event since leaving his post as Biden's transportation secretary. Buttigieg performed well in the 2020 caucuses, which were marred by technical glitches that prevented the declaration of a winner.\n\n## Iowa looks past snub for 'fair' shot in 2028\n\nBiden and others pushed to open the 2024 cycle with a more diverse state than traditional leadoff Iowa, which is 90% white, according to census data.\n\nGone was a five-decade institution of Iowa Democrats engaging in a one-night spectacle where community members publicly signaled their support for a candidate. Last year, they held caucuses eight days before any other state's contest, as is required by Iowa law. But Democratic voters had cast their 2024 presidential preference ballots by mail, with results released that March on Super Tuesday alongside other states.\n\nBiden \"picked the calendar that worked for him,\" said Scott Brennan, who serves on the DNC's Rules and Bylaws Committee and previously chaired the Iowa Democratic Party. \"When you're the president, you can do those things. But I don't know that people in Iowa thought it was very fair.\"\n\nFor now, Iowa Democratic leaders emphasize that their focus is on the 2026 election, when two of Iowa's four congressional districts will be competitive opportunities to unseat Republicans. Democrats have recently struggled on all electoral fronts in Iowa and have significantly diminished party registration numbers, which some blamed on the loss of the caucuses.\n\nBut Brennan said many Iowa Democrats continue to believe that the presidential nominating process is well served by Iowa's early role in it, even if the 2028 format is up in the air.\n\n\"We took everyone at their word that all bets are off for 2028,\" Brennan said. \"We expect that there will be a fair process and that we will be given every consideration to be an early state.\"\n\nFormer U.S. Rep. Dave Nagle was more blunt in proposing that the state party commit to first-in-the-nation status regardless, as he did as chair in 1984 when the national party threatened to upend Iowa and New Hampshire's delegate selection process over noncompliance with timing rules. The two states formed an alliance, getting six of the presidential candidates on their side.\n\n\"All we have to do is look at the Democratic National Committee and say, 'Sorry, we're going first,'\" Nagle said. \"It's ours if we have the courage.\"\n\n## New Hampshire survives threats after rebellion\n\nNew Hampshire rebelled in 2024, holding an unsanctioned primary in January. Biden did not put his name on the ballot or campaign there but won as a write-in.\n\nThree months later, the DNC dropped its threat to not seat the state's national convention delegates.\n\nUntil Biden's formal request of the DNC to approve his proposed calendar, New Hampshire Democrats thought they were in a good place with work behind the scenes, said the state party chairman, Ray Buckley. He said that effort will continue heading into 2028.\n\n\"This is going to be much more of a level playing field,\" Buckley said. \"There's no reason to come in with a two-ton thumb and put it on the scale.\"\n\nIt does not hurt their case that New Hampshire law requires the primary to be scheduled before any other similar contest.\n\nKathy Sullivan, formerly a state party chair and member of the DNC's rulemaking arm, said it is possible that the \"train has left the station\" for Iowa's hope of returning to its first-place position, given the 2020 problems and the fact that it gave in to the DNC in 2024.\n\n\"I don't know if that helps them in terms of goodwill or hurts them in that they basically gave up the caucuses,\" she said. \"New Hampshire took the opposite tack, we had our primary despite what the DNC said, and our delegates ended up being seated despite the threats.\"\n\n## Never-first Nevada wants top billing\n\nDemocratic leaders in Nevada, which held its 2024 Democratic primary just days after South Carolina's, have also been pushing to keep their state early in the nominating conversation, although the state's location in the West has traditionally made it less-visited by White House hopefuls.\n\nIn a December statement, the state party chair, Daniele Monroe-Moreno, pointed to the state's nonwhite population, union representation and education-level diversity as reasons for Nevada to kick off the 2028 calendar. Nevada is 30% Latino, census data shows, and has significant Black and Asian populations.\n\n\"If Democrats want to win back working class voters and rebuild our broad coalition of voters of color, we should elevate the most working class and most diverse battleground state in the nation to be the first presidential preference primary for the 2028 cycle,\" Monroe-Moreno said.\n\n\"Nevada is the battleground state that best reflects our growing nation,\" she said, and the party \"cannot afford to let overwhelmingly college-educated, white or less competitive states start the process of winnowing the field again in 2028.\"\n\n## South Carolina seeks another go at No. 1\n\nAs the first-in-the-South primary state, where Black voters play a significant role in Democratic voting, South Carolina long promoted its role in picking a nominee after the first set of contests winnowed the field.\n\nBut Christale Spain, who is expected to win her second term as state party chair, said she will make the argument to national Democratic leaders that South Carolina should stay in the No. 1 slot.\n\n\"It's our plan to really work to stay first in the nation,\" Spain said.\n\nAt the end of May, Moore is set to headline the South Carolina Democratic Party's Blue Palmetto Dinner, a signature fundraiser that has recently hosted Democratic stars as its keynote speakers, including Jennifer Granholm, a former Michigan governor and Biden energy secretary, and Sens. Cory Booker of New Jersey and Raphael Warnock of Georgia.\n\nThen-Vice President Kamala Harris used her 2022 speech as an official \"thank you\" to South Carolina for providing the key primary support that revived Biden's flagging 2020 presidential campaign after a series of losses in other early-voting states.\n\nSpain will have to make her argument anew without Biden in the White House and Jaime Harrison, a South Carolina native who recently ended his term as national Democratic chair, helming the party.\n\n\"I think you get what you need from an electorate in South Carolina,\" Spain said. \"All those things matter — the stuff that's happening with the veterans, all our colleges and institutions, the role of Black folks — in a Democratic primary.\n\n\"We have more to offer than other states do,\" she said.\n\n___\n\nKinnard reported from Chapin, South Carolina, and Ramer from Concord, New Hampshire."
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"value": "# States compete for top billing on Democrats' 2028 election calendar\n\nBy Hannah Fingerhut, Meg Kinnard, and Holly Ramer \nMay 11th, 2025 11:29 AM\n\n---\n\nDES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Before they can name their next presidential nominee, Democrats will have to decide which state will weigh in first.\n\nIn 2022, President Joe Biden forced a shake-up of the 2024 election calendar, moving South Carolina's primary ahead of contests in Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada. Officials in those traditionally four early-voting states are now positioning themselves to get top billing nearly two years before the Democratic National Committee solidifies the order. Others may make a play, too.\n\nIt's a fraught choice for a party already wrestling with questions about its direction after losing November's White House election to Republican Donald Trump. Each state offers advantages to different candidates and elevates — or diminishes — different parts of the Democratic base.\n\nFor now, 2028 prospects are making early-state visits, giving a glimpse into what they may see as their own path to the nomination.\n\nIllinois Gov. JB Pritzker was the keynote speaker at adinner last month for New Hampshire Democrats, visiting a majority white state known for its engaged electorate and independent streak. Maryland Gov. Wes Moore, the state's first Black governor, will appear later this month at a similar party event in South Carolina, where Black voters are the party's most influential voting group.\n\nPete Buttigieg will join a VoteVets Action Fund gathering in Iowa on Tuesday, marking the former presidential candidate's first public in-person event since leaving his post as Biden's transportation secretary. Buttigieg performed well in the 2020 caucuses, which were marred by technical glitches that prevented the declaration of a winner.\n\n## Iowa looks past snub for 'fair' shot in 2028\n\nBiden and others pushed to open the 2024 cycle with a more diverse state than traditional leadoff Iowa, which is 90% white, according to census data.\n\nGone was a five-decade institution of Iowa Democrats engaging in a one-night spectacle where community members publicly signaled their support for a candidate. Last year, they held caucuses eight days before any other state's contest, as is required by Iowa law. But Democratic voters had cast their 2024 presidential preference ballots by mail, with results released that March on Super Tuesday alongside other states.\n\nBiden \"picked the calendar that worked for him,\" said Scott Brennan, who serves on the DNC's Rules and Bylaws Committee and previously chaired the Iowa Democratic Party. \"When you're the president, you can do those things. But I don't know that people in Iowa thought it was very fair.\"\n\nFor now, Iowa Democratic leaders emphasize that their focus is on the 2026 election, when two of Iowa's four congressional districts will be competitive opportunities to unseat Republicans. Democrats have recently struggled on all electoral fronts in Iowa and have significantly diminished party registration numbers, which some blamed on the loss of the caucuses.\n\nBut Brennan said many Iowa Democrats continue to believe that the presidential nominating process is well served by Iowa's early role in it, even if the 2028 format is up in the air.\n\n\"We took everyone at their word that all bets are off for 2028,\" Brennan said. \"We expect that there will be a fair process and that we will be given every consideration to be an early state.\"\n\nFormer U.S. Rep. Dave Nagle was more blunt in proposing that the state party commit to first-in-the-nation status regardless, as he did as chair in 1984 when the national party threatened to upend Iowa and New Hampshire's delegate selection process over noncompliance with timing rules. The two states formed an alliance, getting six of the presidential candidates on their side.\n\n\"All we have to do is look at the Democratic National Committee and say, 'Sorry, we're going first,'\" Nagle said. \"It's ours if we have the courage.\"\n\n## New Hampshire survives threats after rebellion\n\nNew Hampshire rebelled in 2024, holding an unsanctioned primary in January. Biden did not put his name on the ballot or campaign there but won as a write-in.\n\nThree months later, the DNC dropped its threat to not seat the state's national convention delegates.\n\nUntil Biden's formal request of the DNC to approve his proposed calendar, New Hampshire Democrats thought they were in a good place with work behind the scenes, said the state party chairman, Ray Buckley. He said that effort will continue heading into 2028.\n\n\"This is going to be much more of a level playing field,\" Buckley said. \"There's no reason to come in with a two-ton thumb and put it on the scale.\"\n\nIt does not hurt their case that New Hampshire law requires the primary to be scheduled before any other similar contest.\n\nKathy Sullivan, formerly a state party chair and member of the DNC's rulemaking arm, said it is possible that the \"train has left the station\" for Iowa's hope of returning to its first-place position, given the 2020 problems and the fact that it gave in to the DNC in 2024.\n\n\"I don't know if that helps them in terms of goodwill or hurts them in that they basically gave up the caucuses,\" she said. \"New Hampshire took the opposite tack, we had our primary despite what the DNC said, and our delegates ended up being seated despite the threats.\"\n\n## Never-first Nevada wants top billing\n\nDemocratic leaders in Nevada, which held its 2024 Democratic primary just days after South Carolina's, have also been pushing to keep their state early in the nominating conversation, although the state's location in the West has traditionally made it less-visited by White House hopefuls.\n\nIn a December statement, the state party chair, Daniele Monroe-Moreno, pointed to the state's nonwhite population, union representation and education-level diversity as reasons for Nevada to kick off the 2028 calendar. Nevada is 30% Latino, census data shows, and has significant Black and Asian populations.\n\n\"If Democrats want to win back working class voters and rebuild our broad coalition of voters of color, we should elevate the most working class and most diverse battleground state in the nation to be the first presidential preference primary for the 2028 cycle,\" Monroe-Moreno said.\n\n\"Nevada is the battleground state that best reflects our growing nation,\" she said, and the party \"cannot afford to let overwhelmingly college-educated, white or less competitive states start the process of winnowing the field again in 2028.\"\n\n## South Carolina seeks another go at No. 1\n\nAs the first-in-the-South primary state, where Black voters play a significant role in Democratic voting, South Carolina long promoted its role in picking a nominee after the first set of contests winnowed the field.\n\nBut Christale Spain, who is expected to win her second term as state party chair, said she will make the argument to national Democratic leaders that South Carolina should stay in the No. 1 slot.\n\n\"It's our plan to really work to stay first in the nation,\" Spain said.\n\nAt the end of May, Moore is set to headline the South Carolina Democratic Party's Blue Palmetto Dinner, a signature fundraiser that has recently hosted Democratic stars as its keynote speakers, including Jennifer Granholm, a former Michigan governor and Biden energy secretary, and Sens. Cory Booker of New Jersey and Raphael Warnock of Georgia.\n\nThen-Vice President Kamala Harris used her 2022 speech as an official \"thank you\" to South Carolina for providing the key primary support that revived Biden's flagging 2020 presidential campaign after a series of losses in other early-voting states.\n\nSpain will have to make her argument anew without Biden in the White House and Jaime Harrison, a South Carolina native who recently ended his term as national Democratic chair, helming the party.\n\n\"I think you get what you need from an electorate in South Carolina,\" Spain said. \"All those things matter — the stuff that's happening with the veterans, all our colleges and institutions, the role of Black folks — in a Democratic primary.\n\n\"We have more to offer than other states do,\" she said."
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"value": "# Japan's finance minister calls US Treasury holdings 'a card' in tariff talks with Trump\n\nBy Yuri Kageyama \nMay 2nd, 2025 08:57 AM\n\n---\n\nTOKYO (AP) — Japan's massive holdings of U.S. Treasurys can be \"a card on the table\" in negotiations over tariffs with the Trump administration, Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato said Friday.\n\n\"It does exist as a card, but I think whether we choose to use it or not would be a separate decision,\" Kato said during a news show on national broadcaster TV Tokyo.\n\nKato did not elaborate and he did not say Japan would step up sales of its holdings of U.S. government bonds as part of its talks over President Donald Trump's tariffs on exports from Japan.\n\nEarlier, Japanese officials including Kato had ruled out such an option.\n\nJapan is the largest foreign holder of U.S. government debt, at $1.13 trillion as of late February. China, also at odds with the Trump administration over trade and tariffs, is the second largest foreign investor in Treasurys.\n\nKato stressed that various factors would be on the negotiating table with Trump, implying that a promise not to sell Treasurys could help coax Washington into an agreement favorable for Japan.\n\nTrump has disrupted decades of American trade policies, including with key security allies like Japan, by i mposing big import taxes, or tariffs, on a wide range of products.\n\nA team of Japanese officials was in Washington this week for talks on the tariffs.\n\nThe U.S. is due to soon begin imposing a 25% tariff on imported vehicles and auto parts, as well as an overall 10% baseline tariff. The bigger tariffs will hurt at a time when Japanese economic growth is weakening.\n\nAsian holdings of Treasurys have remained relatively steady in recent years, according to the most recent figures.\n\nBut some analysts worry China or other governments could liquidate their U.S. Treasury holdings as trade tensions escalate.\n\nU.S. government bonds are traditionally viewed as a safe financial asset, and recent spikes in yields of those bonds have raised worries that they might be losing that status due to Trump's tariff policies."
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"value": "# Japan's finance minister calls US Treasury holdings 'a card' in tariff talks with Trump\n\nBy Yuri Kageyama \nMay 2nd, 2025 08:57 AM\n\n---\n\nTOKYO (AP) — Japan's massive holdings of U.S. Treasurys can be \"a card on the table\" in negotiations over tariffs with the Trump administration, Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato said Friday.\n\n\"It does exist as a card, but I think whether we choose to use it or not would be a separate decision,\" Kato said during a news show on national broadcaster TV Tokyo.\n\nKato did not elaborate and he did not say Japan would step up sales of its holdings of U.S. government bonds as part of its talks over President Donald Trump's tariffs on exports from Japan.\n\nEarlier, Japanese officials including Kato had ruled out such an option.\n\nJapan is the largest foreign holder of U.S. government debt, at $1.13 trillion as of late February. China, also at odds with the Trump administration over trade and tariffs, is the second largest foreign investor in Treasurys.\n\nKato stressed that various factors would be on the negotiating table with Trump, implying that a promise not to sell Treasurys could help coax Washington into an agreement favorable for Japan.\n\nTrump has disrupted decades of American trade policies, including with key security allies like Japan, by i mposing big import taxes, or tariffs, on a wide range of products.\n\nA team of Japanese officials was in Washington this week for talks on the tariffs.\n\nThe U.S. is due to soon begin imposing a 25% tariff on imported vehicles and auto parts, as well as an overall 10% baseline tariff. The bigger tariffs will hurt at a time when Japanese economic growth is weakening.\n\nAsian holdings of Treasurys have remained relatively steady in recent years, according to the most recent figures.\n\nBut some analysts worry China or other governments could liquidate their U.S. Treasury holdings as trade tensions escalate.\n\nU.S. government bonds are traditionally viewed as a safe financial asset, and recent spikes in yields of those bonds have raised worries that they might be losing that status due to Trump's tariff policies."
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"value": "# Michigan beats UCLA 2-0, completing improbable run to second straight Big Ten softball championship\n\nMay 10th, 2025 10:22 PM\n\n---\n\nWEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) — Jenissa Conway drove in the first run with a double in the top of the sixth inning and Lauren Derkowski and Erin Hoehn combined on a three-hitter as the eighth-seeded Michigan Wolverines completed an improbable run to the Big Ten Tournament championship with a 2-0 victory over the second-seeded UCLA Bruins on Saturday.\n\nThe Wolverines (38-19) advanced to the title game with a 5-0 victory over the No. 1 seed Oregon Ducks in the quarterfinals and a 4-2 semifinal win over the tournament host and 12th-seeded Purdue Boilermakers. It was Michigan's second straight Big Ten tourney title and its 12th overall.\n\nIndiana Langford started the rally for Michigan when she singled off UCLA starter Addisen Fisher (16-2) and took second on an error by left fielder Rylee Slimp. Conway plated Langford when she doubled to center and Ella Stephenson added an insurance run with a two-out infield single after Conway took third on a groundout.\n\nDerkowski (17-12) allowed three hits and two walks in five innings. Hoehn entered after Derkowski issued a walk to Jordan Woolery leading off the sixth. Hoehn retired all six batters she faced.\n\nThe Bruins advanced to the final after a 4-2 victory over third-seeded Nebraska in the semifinals.\n\nMichigan won its only softball title in 2005. They were runners-up in 2015. The Wolverines have appeared in 12 Women's College World Series in 30 previous NCAA Tournament appearances.\n\nUCLA (49-10) was playing in its third straight conference tournament final in its first season in the Big Ten with the previous two coming while the Bruins were members of the Pac-12.\n\nUCLA has won 13 NCAA softball championships — most recently in 2019 — as well as being runners-up seven times. The Bruins have advanced to the WCWS in 33 of 40 tournament appearances.\n\n___\n\nAP college sports: https://apnews.com/hub/college-sports"
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"value": "# Michigan beats UCLA 2-0, completing improbable run to second straight Big Ten softball championship\n\nMay 10th, 2025 10:22 PM\n\n---\n\nWEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) — Jenissa Conway drove in the first run with a double in the top of the sixth inning and Lauren Derkowski and Erin Hoehn combined on a three-hitter as the eighth-seeded Michigan Wolverines completed an improbable run to the Big Ten Tournament championship with a 2-0 victory over the second-seeded UCLA Bruins on Saturday.\n\nThe Wolverines (38-19) advanced to the title game with a 5-0 victory over the No. 1 seed Oregon Ducks in the quarterfinals and a 4-2 semifinal win over the tournament host and 12th-seeded Purdue Boilermakers. It was Michigan's second straight Big Ten tourney title and its 12th overall.\n\nIndiana Langford started the rally for Michigan when she singled off UCLA starter Addisen Fisher (16-2) and took second on an error by left fielder Rylee Slimp. Conway plated Langford when she doubled to center and Ella Stephenson added an insurance run with a two-out infield single after Conway took third on a groundout.\n\nDerkowski (17-12) allowed three hits and two walks in five innings. Hoehn entered after Derkowski issued a walk to Jordan Woolery leading off the sixth. Hoehn retired all six batters she faced.\n\nThe Bruins advanced to the final after a 4-2 victory over third-seeded Nebraska in the semifinals.\n\nMichigan won its only softball title in 2005. They were runners-up in 2015. The Wolverines have appeared in 12 Women's College World Series in 30 previous NCAA Tournament appearances.\n\nUCLA (49-10) was playing in its third straight conference tournament final in its first season in the Big Ten with the previous two coming while the Bruins were members of the Pac-12.\n\nUCLA has won 13 NCAA softball championships — most recently in 2019 — as well as being runners-up seven times. The Bruins have advanced to the WCWS in 33 of 40 tournament appearances."
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"value": "# A massive coastal restoration project is in peril amid claims Louisiana concealed a critical report\n\nBy Jack Brook and Jim Mustian \nMay 5th, 2025 04:04 AM\n\n---\n\nBATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — An ambitious project to restore a rapidly vanishing stretch of Louisiana coast that was devastated by the 2010 Gulf oil spill has been thrown deeper into disarray amid claims by Gov. Jeff Landry that his predecessor concealed an unfavorable study that it was feared could imperil the $3 billion effort.\n\nIt's a controversy that was even predicted by the previous administration as it grappled with how to handle conflicting environmental analyses for the project, according to a confidential memo obtained by The Associated Press.\n\nThe nine-page document, prepared by five attorneys working for then-Gov. John Bel Edwards' administration, sheds new light on a study Landry says was improperly withheld from the public and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers as it was approving a permit for the Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion.\n\nThe stakes were so high the attorneys even weighed whether state officials could face federal charges for withholding from the Corps a report that the diversion would generate significantly less land than another modeling projection used in a federal review.\n\nProsecution seemed \"extremely unlikely,\" the lawyers wrote to the heads of the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority, which oversees the diversion project, but they added that \"the severe consequences and criminalization of the action warranted mention.\"\n\nThe attorneys also warned that the Corps might suspend or revoke the permit if it discovered the study after the fact, the 2022 memo shows, foreshadowing actions taken last month when the Corps cited \"deliberately withheld\" information among its reasons for suspending its permit for the project. The move halts construction despite more than half a billion dollars already spent.\n\n\"They hid the bad stuff and only showed the (Corps) the version they liked,\" Landry wrote in a post on X. \"Science is easy when you just delete the inconvenient parts!\"\n\nEdwards denied his administration withheld information from the Corps and said \"Gov. Landry's accusations are demonstrably false.\"\n\n\"When all the facts are presented, the public will see that his administration has played political games and botched this important project,\" Edwards said in a statement to AP.\n\nLandry countered in his own statement that \"the facts speak for themselves.\"\n\nAmid the finger-pointing, conservation proponents have called the report in question a red herring that Landry is using to tank the project. The diversion, funded mostly from a settlement arising from BP's 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, is the largest of its kind in Louisiana's history.\n\n## Confidential memo warns of legal consequences\n\nThe Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion would puncture levees in southeast Louisiana, diverting some of the river's sediment-rich flow to restore wetlands. The long-delayed project was intended to mitigate a disappearing coastline caused by a range of factors such as climate change-induced sea-level rise and the river's vast levee system. Ground was broken in 2023, but state and federal litigation has stalled it.\n\nOpponents have blasted its ballooning cost and crippling effects on the local fishing and oyster industries. Landry has said the project would \"break\" Louisiana's culture of shrimp and oyster harvesting, likening it to government efforts a century ago to punish schoolchildren for speaking Cajun French.\n\nEarlier this year, Landry's administration approached the Corps with a list of concerns about the project, including a 2022 study it said \"does not appear to have been disclosed to the public nor considered by all necessary persons within the Corps.\"\n\nOfficials working for the state at the time defended their handling of the report in question, saying it had been focused on analyzing maintenance and operational costs related to the diversion and was not intended to be part of the federal environmental impact statement process.\n\nThe report, prepared by AECOM Technical Services and a subcontractor, produced \"inconsistent\" results such as a significantly lower projected land creation — as few as 7 square miles (18 square kilometers) compared to the 21 square miles (54 square kilometers) estimated under the primary model, according to the confidential memo.\n\nOfficials familiar with the study said its lower projection resulted from not properly accounting for sea level rise and underestimating the river's flow. The memo also pointed to the need for \"significant dredging\" to maintain the diversion channel, which Landry's administration now says will cost tens of millions of dollars.\n\nIn the memo, the attorneys outlined a series of \"reputational concerns\" about withholding the study and warned it would be more difficult to keep \"controlling the narrative\" if the Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority \"is on the defensive.\"\n\n## An informal discussion\n\nThe memo noted the Corps and other federal agencies could delay the project for years if they attempted to integrate the modeling results into their environmental impact analysis. Failing to formally disclose the modeling results to federal agencies like the Corps, the attorneys warned, also would leave the project vulnerable to litigation.\n\nThey suggested the Edwards administration \"informally discuss\" the issue with federal agencies and then strategize the best way to \"formally\" enter it into the public record for the agencies to review.\n\nThe report's findings eventually were verbally communicated to at least one Corps official, who indicated it was insignificant, according to multiple former Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority officials familiar with the exchange. But the complete analysis itself was not submitted into the public record, nor was the official's response at the time, they said.\n\nThe former state officials weren't authorized to discuss internal deliberations and spoke to the AP on the condition of anonymity.\n\nCol. Cullen Jones, head of the Corps' New Orleans District, told Landry's administration last month that the Corps recently conducted a \"technical review\" of the modeling analysis in question and concluded it \"would not affect\" the permit.\n\nBut Jones said the Corps suspended the project's permit in part because \"the State deliberately withheld information … that the State knew it should provide.\"\n\n## What does this mean for the future of the project?\n\nThe Corps also pointed to actions taken by Landry's administration, including a 90-day work stoppage announced last month amid plans to study an alternative \"smaller diversion\" and claims the state can't afford the project.\n\nIt's unclear how Landry intends to respond to the permit's suspension. The state has until Monday to take action to dispute the permit suspension. At that point, the Corps could revoke or modify the permit as it sees fit.\n\nLouisiana's coastal agency earmarked about $573 million in its 2025 budget for the project, an amount now being reviewed by the legislature. Last fall, federal agencies tasked with managing Deepwater Horizon settlement money warned that if Louisiana backs out of or alters the Mid-Barataria diversion, money allocated for it would need to be returned.\n\nLauren Bourg, director of the National Audubon Society's Mississippi River Delta program, told lawmakers that ending or altering the project \"sends the message that any infrastructure project in this state may be undone by a few stakeholders who engage in politics with the right people, distorting the scientific and engineering principles upon which all of these projects are grounded.\"\n\nBut many in southeast Louisiana's fishing industry applauded the move to halt the project.\n\n\"If all this water comes down, it's going to kill everything,\" said Mitch Jurisich, chairman of the Louisiana Oyster Task Force.\n\n__ Brook reported from New Orleans. He is a corps member for The Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues. Follow Brook on X at @jack_brook96"
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"value": "# A massive coastal restoration project is in peril amid claims Louisiana concealed a critical report\n\nBy Jack Brook and Jim Mustian \nMay 5th, 2025 04:04 AM\n\n---\n\nBATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — An ambitious project to restore a rapidly vanishing stretch of Louisiana coast that was devastated by the 2010 Gulf oil spill has been thrown deeper into disarray amid claims by Gov. Jeff Landry that his predecessor concealed an unfavorable study that it was feared could imperil the $3 billion effort.\n\nIt's a controversy that was even predicted by the previous administration as it grappled with how to handle conflicting environmental analyses for the project, according to a confidential memo obtained by The Associated Press.\n\nThe nine-page document, prepared by five attorneys working for then-Gov. John Bel Edwards' administration, sheds new light on a study Landry says was improperly withheld from the public and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers as it was approving a permit for the Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion.\n\nThe stakes were so high the attorneys even weighed whether state officials could face federal charges for withholding from the Corps a report that the diversion would generate significantly less land than another modeling projection used in a federal review.\n\nProsecution seemed \"extremely unlikely,\" the lawyers wrote to the heads of the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority, which oversees the diversion project, but they added that \"the severe consequences and criminalization of the action warranted mention.\"\n\nThe attorneys also warned that the Corps might suspend or revoke the permit if it discovered the study after the fact, the 2022 memo shows, foreshadowing actions taken last month when the Corps cited \"deliberately withheld\" information among its reasons for suspending its permit for the project. The move halts construction despite more than half a billion dollars already spent.\n\n\"They hid the bad stuff and only showed the (Corps) the version they liked,\" Landry wrote in a post on X. \"Science is easy when you just delete the inconvenient parts!\"\n\nEdwards denied his administration withheld information from the Corps and said \"Gov. Landry's accusations are demonstrably false.\"\n\n\"When all the facts are presented, the public will see that his administration has played political games and botched this important project,\" Edwards said in a statement to AP.\n\nLandry countered in his own statement that \"the facts speak for themselves.\"\n\nAmid the finger-pointing, conservation proponents have called the report in question a red herring that Landry is using to tank the project. The diversion, funded mostly from a settlement arising from BP's 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, is the largest of its kind in Louisiana's history.\n\n## Confidential memo warns of legal consequences\n\nThe Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion would puncture levees in southeast Louisiana, diverting some of the river's sediment-rich flow to restore wetlands. The long-delayed project was intended to mitigate a disappearing coastline caused by a range of factors such as climate change-induced sea-level rise and the river's vast levee system. Ground was broken in 2023, but state and federal litigation has stalled it.\n\nOpponents have blasted its ballooning cost and crippling effects on the local fishing and oyster industries. Landry has said the project would \"break\" Louisiana's culture of shrimp and oyster harvesting, likening it to government efforts a century ago to punish schoolchildren for speaking Cajun French.\n\nEarlier this year, Landry's administration approached the Corps with a list of concerns about the project, including a 2022 study it said \"does not appear to have been disclosed to the public nor considered by all necessary persons within the Corps.\"\n\nOfficials working for the state at the time defended their handling of the report in question, saying it had been focused on analyzing maintenance and operational costs related to the diversion and was not intended to be part of the federal environmental impact statement process.\n\nThe report, prepared by AECOM Technical Services and a subcontractor, produced \"inconsistent\" results such as a significantly lower projected land creation — as few as 7 square miles (18 square kilometers) compared to the 21 square miles (54 square kilometers) estimated under the primary model, according to the confidential memo.\n\nOfficials familiar with the study said its lower projection resulted from not properly accounting for sea level rise and underestimating the river's flow. The memo also pointed to the need for \"significant dredging\" to maintain the diversion channel, which Landry's administration now says will cost tens of millions of dollars.\n\nIn the memo, the attorneys outlined a series of \"reputational concerns\" about withholding the study and warned it would be more difficult to keep \"controlling the narrative\" if the Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority \"is on the defensive.\"\n\n## An informal discussion\n\nThe memo noted the Corps and other federal agencies could delay the project for years if they attempted to integrate the modeling results into their environmental impact analysis. Failing to formally disclose the modeling results to federal agencies like the Corps, the attorneys warned, also would leave the project vulnerable to litigation.\n\nThey suggested the Edwards administration \"informally discuss\" the issue with federal agencies and then strategize the best way to \"formally\" enter it into the public record for the agencies to review.\n\nThe report's findings eventually were verbally communicated to at least one Corps official, who indicated it was insignificant, according to multiple former Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority officials familiar with the exchange. But the complete analysis itself was not submitted into the public record, nor was the official's response at the time, they said.\n\nThe former state officials weren't authorized to discuss internal deliberations and spoke to the AP on the condition of anonymity.\n\nCol. Cullen Jones, head of the Corps' New Orleans District, told Landry's administration last month that the Corps recently conducted a \"technical review\" of the modeling analysis in question and concluded it \"would not affect\" the permit.\n\nBut Jones said the Corps suspended the project's permit in part because \"the State deliberately withheld information … that the State knew it should provide.\"\n\n## What does this mean for the future of the project?\n\nThe Corps also pointed to actions taken by Landry's administration, including a 90-day work stoppage announced last month amid plans to study an alternative \"smaller diversion\" and claims the state can't afford the project.\n\nIt's unclear how Landry intends to respond to the permit's suspension. The state has until Monday to take action to dispute the permit suspension. At that point, the Corps could revoke or modify the permit as it sees fit.\n\nLouisiana's coastal agency earmarked about $573 million in its 2025 budget for the project, an amount now being reviewed by the legislature. Last fall, federal agencies tasked with managing Deepwater Horizon settlement money warned that if Louisiana backs out of or alters the Mid-Barataria diversion, money allocated for it would need to be returned.\n\nLauren Bourg, director of the National Audubon Society's Mississippi River Delta program, told lawmakers that ending or altering the project \"sends the message that any infrastructure project in this state may be undone by a few stakeholders who engage in politics with the right people, distorting the scientific and engineering principles upon which all of these projects are grounded.\"\n\nBut many in southeast Louisiana's fishing industry applauded the move to halt the project.\n\n\"If all this water comes down, it's going to kill everything,\" said Mitch Jurisich, chairman of the Louisiana Oyster Task Force."
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"value": "# Angel City defender Savy King is stable after collapsing during game against Royals\n\nMay 10th, 2025 05:45 AM\n\n---\n\nLOS ANGELES (AP) — Angel City defender Savy King was hospitalized in stable condition Saturday, a day after she was stretchered off the field because of what the National Women's Soccer League called a \"medical event\" during a match against the Utah Royals.\n\nThe NWSL released a statement saying King also was stable when she was taken to the hospital after collapsing on the field during Friday night's match. She will undergo further evaluation. Further details were not disclosed.\n\n\"We are grateful to the Angel City medical staff as well as to local paramedics who handled this difficult situation seamlessly,\" the NWSL's statement said.\n\nPlayers on both sides were visibly shaken as trainers rushed to King's side after she went down in the 74th minute. She was attended to for some 10 minutes before she was taken from the field on a cart.\n\nAngel City issued a statement that said King \"was transported by EMS to the hospital following a medical event on the field. She is responsive and undergoing further evaluation. We thank everyone for their concern and support.\"\n\nAfter the match, both teams gathered in a circle at midfield in prayer for King. Some fans questioned why the match continued.\n\nIn an Instagram story, Washington Spirit national team forward Trinity Rodman offered prayers for King and her family, adding \"In no world should that game have continued.\"\n\nThe league said in its statement that it would review its policies to determine if changes need to be made.\n\nNWSL rules for 2025 state that the league \"recognizes that emergencies may arise which make the start or progression of a Game inadvisable or dangerous for participants and spectators. Certain event categories automatically trigger the League Office into an evaluation of whether delay or postponement is necessary.\"\n\nThere were 12 minutes of stoppage time added to the match. Angel City won the game 2-0.\n\nKing, 20, was the second overall pick in the 2024 NWSL draft by expansion Bay FC and played 18 games for the club. She was traded to Angel City in February and has started in all eight games for the team this season.\n\n___\n\nAP soccer: https://apnews.com/hub/soccer"
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"value": "# Angel City defender Savy King is stable after collapsing during game against Royals\n\nMay 10th, 2025 05:45 AM\n\n---\n\nLOS ANGELES (AP) — Angel City defender Savy King was hospitalized in stable condition Saturday, a day after she was stretchered off the field because of what the National Women's Soccer League called a \"medical event\" during a match against the Utah Royals.\n\nThe NWSL released a statement saying King also was stable when she was taken to the hospital after collapsing on the field during Friday night's match. She will undergo further evaluation. Further details were not disclosed.\n\n\"We are grateful to the Angel City medical staff as well as to local paramedics who handled this difficult situation seamlessly,\" the NWSL's statement said.\n\nPlayers on both sides were visibly shaken as trainers rushed to King's side after she went down in the 74th minute. She was attended to for some 10 minutes before she was taken from the field on a cart.\n\nAngel City issued a statement that said King \"was transported by EMS to the hospital following a medical event on the field. She is responsive and undergoing further evaluation. We thank everyone for their concern and support.\"\n\nAfter the match, both teams gathered in a circle at midfield in prayer for King. Some fans questioned why the match continued.\n\nIn an Instagram story, Washington Spirit national team forward Trinity Rodman offered prayers for King and her family, adding \"In no world should that game have continued.\"\n\nThe league said in its statement that it would review its policies to determine if changes need to be made.\n\nNWSL rules for 2025 state that the league \"recognizes that emergencies may arise which make the start or progression of a Game inadvisable or dangerous for participants and spectators. Certain event categories automatically trigger the League Office into an evaluation of whether delay or postponement is necessary.\"\n\nThere were 12 minutes of stoppage time added to the match. Angel City won the game 2-0.\n\nKing, 20, was the second overall pick in the 2024 NWSL draft by expansion Bay FC and played 18 games for the club. She was traded to Angel City in February and has started in all eight games for the team this season."
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"value": "# What's in Trump and Starmer's US-UK trade deal, and what's not\n\nBy Christopher Rugaber \nMay 8th, 2025 04:56 PM\n\n---\n\nWASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration announced a trade deal with the United Kingdom Thursday in grandiose terms, but with only limited details about what it will achieve.\n\nThe agreement will open up the British market to American beef, ethanol, and other agricultural products, the White House said. It will also allow British cars and steel better access to U.S. consumers.\n\nThe pact provides some support for President Donald Trump's arguments that his steep tariffs could lead to agreements that open up overseas markets. But economists' initial reactions were cool, with many noting that the United Kingdom isn't a large enough trading partner for the U.S. to really move the needle for the U.S. economy.\n\n\"It's more symbolic than economic,\" Beata Caranci, chief economist at the bank TD Economics, said in an email. \"What we have learned is that these initial announcements are going to be more fine-tuning around the edges and easing of pain points, rather than an end to the trade war.\"\n\nTrump said in the Oval Office Thursday that additional details will be worked out in the \"coming weeks.\" But in a fact sheet the administration said the deal is \"historic\" and \"a great deal for America.\"\n\nU.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer has said the deal would protect thousands of auto jobs and stressed the importance of the relationship between the two countries.\n\nThe U.K. is the United States' fourth largest export market, though has received just 4.5% of U.S. exports this year.\n\n## What's in the deal:\n\n—The United States will maintain the 10% duty on nearly all imports from the U.K., which Trump imposed April 2. Many economists had hoped that the tariff would be dropped as part of any trade deal, but Trump suggested that the 10% universal duty was likely to be a floor in any future talks with other countries.\n\n—The U.S. will cut its tariffs on car imports from the U.K. to 10% from 27.5%, according to the U.K. government, but only up to 100,000 cars. The U.K. exported 92,000 cars to the U.S. in 2024, which means the U.K. auto industry won't be able to boost its shipments without paying higher duties.\n\n—U.K. steel exports will enter the U.S. duty-free, rather than face the 25% tariff the White House has placed on imported steel.\n\n—The two countries have agreed to greater market access for each other's beef, with both nations able to export 13,000 metric tons of beef to each others' countries.\n\n—The U.K. will eliminate its tariff on ethanol from the U.S., up to 1.4 billion liters.\n\n—The U.S. will lift all duties on airplane engines and other aerospace parts from the U.K.'s Rolls Royce. In return, a U.K. airline will soon announce the purchase of $10 billion in planes from Boeing.\n\n—The U.K. will reduce its average tariff on U.S. goods to 1.8%, which would amount to a $200 million cut in duties, the British government said. The U.K. will also lower import taxes on about 2,500 U.S. products including olive oil, wine and sports equipment.\n\n—The U.K. will \"reduce or eliminate\" non-tariff barriers to U.S. exports, the White House said, though it did not provide details. The agreement creates opportunities for $5 billion in new exports of U.S. agricultural and other goods, according to the administration's fact sheet.\n\n## What's not in the deal, at least not yet\n\n—The agreement does not provide U.S. companies any additional access to the U.K.'s government-run national health service.\n\n—There also aren't any changes on the U.K.'s digital services tax, which hits U.S. tech giants such as Amazon, Alphabet's Google, and Facebook parent Meta. Trump has strongly criticized the tax. The U.K. government said, however, that the two nations have agreed to negotiate on a digital trade deal.\n\n—Trump said the deal did not exempt the U.K. from the 100% tariffs on foreign-made films he has proposed.\n\n—Negotiations are still ongoing in areas such as pharmaceuticals, semiconductors, critical minerals, copper and lumber, a British trade official said."
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"value": "# What's in Trump and Starmer's US-UK trade deal, and what's not\n\nBy Christopher Rugaber \nMay 8th, 2025 04:56 PM\n\n---\n\nWASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration announced a trade deal with the United Kingdom Thursday in grandiose terms, but with only limited details about what it will achieve.\n\nThe agreement will open up the British market to American beef, ethanol, and other agricultural products, the White House said. It will also allow British cars and steel better access to U.S. consumers.\n\nThe pact provides some support for President Donald Trump's arguments that his steep tariffs could lead to agreements that open up overseas markets. But economists' initial reactions were cool, with many noting that the United Kingdom isn't a large enough trading partner for the U.S. to really move the needle for the U.S. economy.\n\n\"It's more symbolic than economic,\" Beata Caranci, chief economist at the bank TD Economics, said in an email. \"What we have learned is that these initial announcements are going to be more fine-tuning around the edges and easing of pain points, rather than an end to the trade war.\"\n\nTrump said in the Oval Office Thursday that additional details will be worked out in the \"coming weeks.\" But in a fact sheet the administration said the deal is \"historic\" and \"a great deal for America.\"\n\nU.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer has said the deal would protect thousands of auto jobs and stressed the importance of the relationship between the two countries.\n\nThe U.K. is the United States' fourth largest export market, though has received just 4.5% of U.S. exports this year.\n\n## What's in the deal:\n\n—The United States will maintain the 10% duty on nearly all imports from the U.K., which Trump imposed April 2. Many economists had hoped that the tariff would be dropped as part of any trade deal, but Trump suggested that the 10% universal duty was likely to be a floor in any future talks with other countries.\n\n—The U.S. will cut its tariffs on car imports from the U.K. to 10% from 27.5%, according to the U.K. government, but only up to 100,000 cars. The U.K. exported 92,000 cars to the U.S. in 2024, which means the U.K. auto industry won't be able to boost its shipments without paying higher duties.\n\n—U.K. steel exports will enter the U.S. duty-free, rather than face the 25% tariff the White House has placed on imported steel.\n\n—The two countries have agreed to greater market access for each other's beef, with both nations able to export 13,000 metric tons of beef to each others' countries.\n\n—The U.K. will eliminate its tariff on ethanol from the U.S., up to 1.4 billion liters.\n\n—The U.S. will lift all duties on airplane engines and other aerospace parts from the U.K.'s Rolls Royce. In return, a U.K. airline will soon announce the purchase of $10 billion in planes from Boeing.\n\n—The U.K. will reduce its average tariff on U.S. goods to 1.8%, which would amount to a $200 million cut in duties, the British government said. The U.K. will also lower import taxes on about 2,500 U.S. products including olive oil, wine and sports equipment.\n\n—The U.K. will \"reduce or eliminate\" non-tariff barriers to U.S. exports, the White House said, though it did not provide details. The agreement creates opportunities for $5 billion in new exports of U.S. agricultural and other goods, according to the administration's fact sheet.\n\n## What's not in the deal, at least not yet\n\n—The agreement does not provide U.S. companies any additional access to the U.K.'s government-run national health service.\n\n—There also aren't any changes on the U.K.'s digital services tax, which hits U.S. tech giants such as Amazon, Alphabet's Google, and Facebook parent Meta. Trump has strongly criticized the tax. The U.K. government said, however, that the two nations have agreed to negotiate on a digital trade deal.\n\n—Trump said the deal did not exempt the U.K. from the 100% tariffs on foreign-made films he has proposed.\n\n—Negotiations are still ongoing in areas such as pharmaceuticals, semiconductors, critical minerals, copper and lumber, a British trade official said."
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"value": "# The bodies of a Belgian mother and her son were recovered in southern Jordan after flash flooding\n\nMay 5th, 2025 09:20 AM\n\n---\n\nAMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Search and rescue teams recovered the bodies of a Belgian mother and her son on Monday in Jordan, police said a day after the woman and her three children were reported missing in flash flooding. The other two children were found alive.\n\nSunday's flooding in southern Jordan also led to the evacuation of hundreds of tourists from the Petra archaeological site, the country's main tourist attraction.\n\nThe mother and children had been part of a group of 18 tourists who had been on an adventure trip in Wadi al-Nakhil when they were caught up in the flash flood, Ma'an district local governor Hassan al-Jabour told state media broadcaster Al-Mamlaka TV.\n\nFourteen tourists, all Czechs, were rescued on Sunday. Rescue crews located two of the children alive late Sunday, al-Jabour said. The search and rescue operation was suspended at about 2 a.m. because of the complicated weather conditions and terrain. The bodies of the woman and her son were found Monday morning after the search resumed, he said.\n\nFurther details about the family and the ages of the children weren't immediately available.\n\nJordan often experiences flash flooding as heavy seasonal rains send torrents of water through dry desert valleys. At least three people died in 2021 when floodwaters swept away their car, while more than 30 people in the Dead Sea region and other parts of Jordan were killed in flash flooding in 2018."
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"value": "# Hundreds of flights delayed by runway equipment issue at Atlanta airport\n\nMay 11th, 2025 05:18 PM\n\n---\n\nATLANTA (AP) — Hundreds of flights have been delayed at Atlanta's airport — one of the world's busiest — on Sunday because of a runway equipment issue.\n\nThe Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement that it has temporarily slowed arrivals into Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, while technicians work to address the problem.\n\nAs of 1 p.m. EDT, more than 200 departure flights were delayed, according to the flight-tracking website FlightAware. More than 250 incoming flights were also delayed."
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"value": "# Rubio takes on 2 top national security roles\n\nBy Matthew Lee and Farnoush Amiri \nMay 2nd, 2025 04:07 AM\n\n---\n\nWASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Marco Rubio has been thrown into two top national security jobs at once as President Donald Trump presses forward with his top-to-bottom revamp of U.S. foreign policy, upending not only longstanding policies that the former Florida senator once supported but also the configuration of the executive branch.\n\nTrump's appointment of Rubio to temporarily replace Mike Waltz as national security adviser is the first major leadership shake-up of the nascent administration, but Waltz's removal had been rumored for weeks — ever since he created a Signal group chat and accidentally added a journalist to the conversation where top national security officials shared sensitive military plans.\n\nSo, just over 100 days into his tenure as America's top diplomat, Rubio now becomes just the second person to hold both positions. He follows only the late Henry Kissinger, who served as both secretary of state and national security adviser for two years under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford in the 1970s.\n\nRubio — a one-time Trump rival and hawkish conservative who was derided by the president as \"Little Marco\" during the 2016 presidential campaign — has proven adept at aligning himself with Trump's \"America First\" foreign policy positions. Rubio has largely eschewed his staunch advocacy of providing foreign aid and promoting democracy overseas since taking over the State Department, repeating a refrain that every policy or program should make America safer, stronger or more prosperous.\n\n## Rubio leads during Trump's massive changes\n\nSince being confirmed in a 99-0 Senate floor vote, Rubio has presided over a radical reorganization of the State Department. That includes the dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development and plans to cut U.S. jobs by 15% while closing or consolidating more than 100 bureaus worldwide. He has also begun a major cull of the visa system, revoking hundreds, if not thousands, of visas issued to foreign students.\n\nHe has overseen the negotiation of agreements to send immigrants accused of crimes to third countries, most notably to El Salvador, in cases that are now being challenged in federal courts.\n\n\"Marco Rubio, unbelievable,\" Trump said Thursday before announcing on social media that Waltz would be nominated as ambassador to the United Nations and Rubio would take over as national security adviser in the interim. \"When I have a problem, I call up Marco, he gets it solved.\"\n\nThat's a far cry from 2016, when Rubio and Trump were competing for the GOP presidential nomination and Rubio warned that Trump was a threat. After Trump won, the relationship remained contentious, but eight years later, Rubio was an enthusiastic Trump supporter who worked his Florida bona fides to get into the president's inner circle.\n\nYet, even after Rubio was nominated to the top diplomatic job, doubts remained. Many pundits suggested he would last only a short time in office before Trump dismissed him in the same way he did his first-term secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, who was fired by tweet in 2018 just 18 months into the job.\n\nYet Rubio has been resilient. And as of Thursday, he oversees both the State Department and the National Security Council, which is responsible for coordinating all executive branch foreign policy functions, ranging from diplomatic to military and intelligence operations.\n\nThomas Wright, an NSC official during the Biden administration who is now a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, said the national security adviser post alone is \"more than a full-time job.\"\n\n\"It is just very hard to comprehend the idea that you can do this job sort of part time,\" Wright said.\n\nHe said he watched national security adviser Jake Sullivan and his deputy work 14-15 hour days, six to seven days a week: \"I think they felt that they had to do that to do the job properly.\"\n\n## Rubio says little so far on his additional role\n\nAppearing Thursday night on Fox News Channel's \"Hannity,\" Rubio was not asked to weigh in on the president's decision to tap him as national security adviser but did joke that he was barred from adding pope to his list of many jobs because he is married.\n\nBut as he marked the first 100 days of Trump's latest term, Rubio applauded the president for his vision.\n\n\"I am honored by the trust President Trump placed in me and I am proud of the work the Department of State has done over the past hundred days to implement his agenda and put the American people first,\" he wrote Wednesday in a State Department Substack post.\n\nOne of Rubio's former Florida statehouse colleagues, Dan Gelber, a Democrat, said of Rubio's increasing responsibilities that \"Marco is probably, to a certain extent, one of the more reliable Cabinet officers, if not the most reliable.\"\n\n\"And I can only believe those qualities are even more vital to his current confluence of positions and growing portfolio,\" Gelber said. \"He's not a chaos guy, and I've always sort of wondered how he's going to do in an administration where there seems to be so much chaos. And maybe that's why he's getting all these positions.\"\n\nRubio's dual-hatted role comes on top of him serving as acting administrator of the largely shut down USAID and as acting head of the National Archives. It puts him in a similar position to that of Trump's longtime personal friend and golfing buddy Steve Witkoff.\n\nAs a special envoy, Witkoff is the lead U.S. negotiator in the Iran nuclear talks and in administration peace efforts for the Israel-Hamas war and the Ukraine-Russia war.\n\nIn many ways, Rubio and Witkoff are following in the footsteps of Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, who had multiple roles in the first administration, ranging from the Middle East to Latin America and immigration.\n\n## How Rubio's expanded duties are seen at the State Department\n\nState Department officials appeared taken aback by Trump's appointment of Rubio as acting national security adviser. Spokeswoman Tammy Bruce said at a briefing Thursday that she learned the news from a journalist who asked her a question about Trump's post minutes after it appeared on social media.\n\nOfficials, however, have noted that Rubio in recent weeks has spent an increasingly large amount of time at the White House away from his posh seventh-floor State Department office in what is known as \"Mahogany Row,\" a corridor known for its wood paneling.\n\nAt the same time, these officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the personnel shift, said they did not expect Rubio's duties as secretary of state to change significantly. He still plans to travel on diplomatic missions abroad and likely will delegate at least some of the NSC management to others, they said.\n\n____\n\nAmiri reported from the United Nations."
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"value": "# Rubio takes on 2 top national security roles\n\nBy Matthew Lee and Farnoush Amiri \nMay 2nd, 2025 04:07 AM\n\n---\n\nWASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Marco Rubio has been thrown into two top national security jobs at once as President Donald Trump presses forward with his top-to-bottom revamp of U.S. foreign policy, upending not only longstanding policies that the former Florida senator once supported but also the configuration of the executive branch.\n\nTrump's appointment of Rubio to temporarily replace Mike Waltz as national security adviser is the first major leadership shake-up of the nascent administration, but Waltz's removal had been rumored for weeks — ever since he created a Signal group chat and accidentally added a journalist to the conversation where top national security officials shared sensitive military plans.\n\nSo, just over 100 days into his tenure as America's top diplomat, Rubio now becomes just the second person to hold both positions. He follows only the late Henry Kissinger, who served as both secretary of state and national security adviser for two years under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford in the 1970s.\n\nRubio — a one-time Trump rival and hawkish conservative who was derided by the president as \"Little Marco\" during the 2016 presidential campaign — has proven adept at aligning himself with Trump's \"America First\" foreign policy positions. Rubio has largely eschewed his staunch advocacy of providing foreign aid and promoting democracy overseas since taking over the State Department, repeating a refrain that every policy or program should make America safer, stronger or more prosperous.\n\n## Rubio leads during Trump's massive changes\n\nSince being confirmed in a 99-0 Senate floor vote, Rubio has presided over a radical reorganization of the State Department. That includes the dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development and plans to cut U.S. jobs by 15% while closing or consolidating more than 100 bureaus worldwide. He has also begun a major cull of the visa system, revoking hundreds, if not thousands, of visas issued to foreign students.\n\nHe has overseen the negotiation of agreements to send immigrants accused of crimes to third countries, most notably to El Salvador, in cases that are now being challenged in federal courts.\n\n\"Marco Rubio, unbelievable,\" Trump said Thursday before announcing on social media that Waltz would be nominated as ambassador to the United Nations and Rubio would take over as national security adviser in the interim. \"When I have a problem, I call up Marco, he gets it solved.\"\n\nThat's a far cry from 2016, when Rubio and Trump were competing for the GOP presidential nomination and Rubio warned that Trump was a threat. After Trump won, the relationship remained contentious, but eight years later, Rubio was an enthusiastic Trump supporter who worked his Florida bona fides to get into the president's inner circle.\n\nYet, even after Rubio was nominated to the top diplomatic job, doubts remained. Many pundits suggested he would last only a short time in office before Trump dismissed him in the same way he did his first-term secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, who was fired by tweet in 2018 just 18 months into the job.\n\nYet Rubio has been resilient. And as of Thursday, he oversees both the State Department and the National Security Council, which is responsible for coordinating all executive branch foreign policy functions, ranging from diplomatic to military and intelligence operations.\n\nThomas Wright, an NSC official during the Biden administration who is now a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, said the national security adviser post alone is \"more than a full-time job.\"\n\n\"It is just very hard to comprehend the idea that you can do this job sort of part time,\" Wright said.\n\nHe said he watched national security adviser Jake Sullivan and his deputy work 14-15 hour days, six to seven days a week: \"I think they felt that they had to do that to do the job properly.\"\n\n## Rubio says little so far on his additional role\n\nAppearing Thursday night on Fox News Channel's \"Hannity,\" Rubio was not asked to weigh in on the president's decision to tap him as national security adviser but did joke that he was barred from adding pope to his list of many jobs because he is married.\n\nBut as he marked the first 100 days of Trump's latest term, Rubio applauded the president for his vision.\n\n\"I am honored by the trust President Trump placed in me and I am proud of the work the Department of State has done over the past hundred days to implement his agenda and put the American people first,\" he wrote Wednesday in a State Department Substack post.\n\nOne of Rubio's former Florida statehouse colleagues, Dan Gelber, a Democrat, said of Rubio's increasing responsibilities that \"Marco is probably, to a certain extent, one of the more reliable Cabinet officers, if not the most reliable.\"\n\n\"And I can only believe those qualities are even more vital to his current confluence of positions and growing portfolio,\" Gelber said. \"He's not a chaos guy, and I've always sort of wondered how he's going to do in an administration where there seems to be so much chaos. And maybe that's why he's getting all these positions.\"\n\nRubio's dual-hatted role comes on top of him serving as acting administrator of the largely shut down USAID and as acting head of the National Archives. It puts him in a similar position to that of Trump's longtime personal friend and golfing buddy Steve Witkoff.\n\nAs a special envoy, Witkoff is the lead U.S. negotiator in the Iran nuclear talks and in administration peace efforts for the Israel-Hamas war and the Ukraine-Russia war.\n\nIn many ways, Rubio and Witkoff are following in the footsteps of Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, who had multiple roles in the first administration, ranging from the Middle East to Latin America and immigration.\n\n## How Rubio's expanded duties are seen at the State Department\n\nState Department officials appeared taken aback by Trump's appointment of Rubio as acting national security adviser. Spokeswoman Tammy Bruce said at a briefing Thursday that she learned the news from a journalist who asked her a question about Trump's post minutes after it appeared on social media.\n\nOfficials, however, have noted that Rubio in recent weeks has spent an increasingly large amount of time at the White House away from his posh seventh-floor State Department office in what is known as \"Mahogany Row,\" a corridor known for its wood paneling.\n\nAt the same time, these officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the personnel shift, said they did not expect Rubio's duties as secretary of state to change significantly. He still plans to travel on diplomatic missions abroad and likely will delegate at least some of the NSC management to others, they said."
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"value": "# 'Home of the American Circus' review: Allison Larkin's heartfelt story of small-town America\n\nBy Donna Edwards \nMay 12th, 2025 01:57 PM\n\n---\n\nA heartfelt presentation of small-town American life and the joys and struggles that go with it, \"Home of the American Circus\" centers on Freya who, at 30, must move back home and deal with the house her parents left her. As she addresses the neglected property, Freya faces memories of childhood neglect.\n\nAllison Larkin keeps her fifth novel close to home, set mostly in Somers, New York, where she was born. The title refers to the town, which boasts itself as the birthplace of the American circus. The novel is interspersed with snippets from a school paper on the history of Old Bet — the elephant whose statue marks the town center — and the more famous keeper of said elephant.\n\nThese asides challenge the spottiness of the historical record, reflecting the way Freya relates to Bet as someone whom history is not concerned with, when her tormentors get to write their own version of what happened.\n\nFlashbacks reveal a cascade of abuses suffered at the hands of her family, and seemingly gone unnoticed by the community. The present tense helps differentiate current happenings — with the novel starting in 2007 — from trips down memory lane that crop up as the town's people and places are introduced, stirring up the past like mud in a pond.\n\nThe silver lining: Somers has Freya's beloved niece, Aubrey, whom she hasn't seen in a decade since she left town. The exceptionally written, touching connection between these two characters is, by itself, worth picking up the novel.\n\nLarken abandons the typical story arc in favor of a more naturally flowing up-and-down journey that basks in beautiful moments like a slice-of-life story. Whether it's banter at the bar Freya's working or a leaking roof that is simply one more thing than she can possibly handle right now, the characters and their experiences are so real and pure that their joys and sorrows are amplified tenfold.\n\nAs the novel progresses and Freya starts to rebuild her life in Somers, we learn bit by bit the horrific events that led to her departure.\n\nReconnecting with childhood friends, avoiding the demons of her past, and navigating an entirely new level of adulthood via being thrust into homeownership, \"Home of the American Circus\" is Freya's journey of empowerment, to reclaim her life and the people and things she holds most dear; to recognize her own resilience and inherent self-worth. Larken builds a robust picture of Freya's life, her family, and a small American town home to a circus elephant.\n\n___\n\nAP book reviews: https://apnews.com/hub/book-reviews"
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"value": "# 'Home of the American Circus' review: Allison Larkin's heartfelt story of small-town America\n\nBy Donna Edwards \nMay 12th, 2025 01:57 PM\n\n---\n\nA heartfelt presentation of small-town American life and the joys and struggles that go with it, \"Home of the American Circus\" centers on Freya who, at 30, must move back home and deal with the house her parents left her. As she addresses the neglected property, Freya faces memories of childhood neglect.\n\nAllison Larkin keeps her fifth novel close to home, set mostly in Somers, New York, where she was born. The title refers to the town, which boasts itself as the birthplace of the American circus. The novel is interspersed with snippets from a school paper on the history of Old Bet — the elephant whose statue marks the town center — and the more famous keeper of said elephant.\n\nThese asides challenge the spottiness of the historical record, reflecting the way Freya relates to Bet as someone whom history is not concerned with, when her tormentors get to write their own version of what happened.\n\nFlashbacks reveal a cascade of abuses suffered at the hands of her family, and seemingly gone unnoticed by the community. The present tense helps differentiate current happenings — with the novel starting in 2007 — from trips down memory lane that crop up as the town's people and places are introduced, stirring up the past like mud in a pond.\n\nThe silver lining: Somers has Freya's beloved niece, Aubrey, whom she hasn't seen in a decade since she left town. The exceptionally written, touching connection between these two characters is, by itself, worth picking up the novel.\n\nLarken abandons the typical story arc in favor of a more naturally flowing up-and-down journey that basks in beautiful moments like a slice-of-life story. Whether it's banter at the bar Freya's working or a leaking roof that is simply one more thing than she can possibly handle right now, the characters and their experiences are so real and pure that their joys and sorrows are amplified tenfold.\n\nAs the novel progresses and Freya starts to rebuild her life in Somers, we learn bit by bit the horrific events that led to her departure.\n\nReconnecting with childhood friends, avoiding the demons of her past, and navigating an entirely new level of adulthood via being thrust into homeownership, \"Home of the American Circus\" is Freya's journey of empowerment, to reclaim her life and the people and things she holds most dear; to recognize her own resilience and inherent self-worth. Larken builds a robust picture of Freya's life, her family, and a small American town home to a circus elephant."
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"value": "# Pennsylvania governor's residence to get an 'anti-climb' fence\n\nBy Mark Scolforo \nMay 6th, 2025 11:02 PM\n\n---\n\nHARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A barrier described as an \"anti-climb fence\" is in the works for the Pennsylvania governor's official residence, the state police chief said Tuesday, less than a month after a late-night intruder jumped the existing fence, broke into the home and started a damaging fire.\n\nCol. Christopher Paris' letter to state lawmakers mentioned the fence as part of a series of changes to bolster security at the brick mansion that is the Harrisburg home of Gov. Josh Shapiro and his family.\n\nThe alleged intruder, an unemployed welder, faces charges that include attempted homicide and arson for the fire at about 2 a.m. on April 13. Shapiro and family members were awakened and evacuated, hours after participating in a Passover Seder in the residence. No one was hurt but the building's damage has been estimated to total millions of dollars.\n\nParis told lawmakers he does not intend to provide them with a security review conducted by consultant Jeffrey B. Miller, who led the state police about two decades ago.\n\nMiller's findings and his agency's own investigation, Paris told the legislators, have changed procedures, including \"more frequent security assessments,\" the establishment of a uniformed division to oversee building security at the residence and the installation of a no-climb fence.\n\nFences of metal and brick about 7-feet (2-meter) high already circle the residence along the Susquehanna River about a mile (1.6 kilometers) from the Capitol. Construction on the new fence did not appear to have begun Tuesday afternoon, although small marker flags along the property's perimeter indicated work is underway.\n\n\"While some of those improvements will be clearly visible to the public — such as the new anti-climb fence — many will not be,\" Paris wrote. He said Miller's report contained details about security operations that, if disclosed to the public, \"would obviously risk jeopardizing the safety\" of those the agency protects."
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"value": "# Pennsylvania governor's residence to get an 'anti-climb' fence\n\nBy Mark Scolforo \nMay 6th, 2025 11:02 PM\n\n---\n\nHARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A barrier described as an \"anti-climb fence\" is in the works for the Pennsylvania governor's official residence, the state police chief said Tuesday, less than a month after a late-night intruder jumped the existing fence, broke into the home and started a damaging fire.\n\nCol. Christopher Paris' letter to state lawmakers mentioned the fence as part of a series of changes to bolster security at the brick mansion that is the Harrisburg home of Gov. Josh Shapiro and his family.\n\nThe alleged intruder, an unemployed welder, faces charges that include attempted homicide and arson for the fire at about 2 a.m. on April 13. Shapiro and family members were awakened and evacuated, hours after participating in a Passover Seder in the residence. No one was hurt but the building's damage has been estimated to total millions of dollars.\n\nParis told lawmakers he does not intend to provide them with a security review conducted by consultant Jeffrey B. Miller, who led the state police about two decades ago.\n\nMiller's findings and his agency's own investigation, Paris told the legislators, have changed procedures, including \"more frequent security assessments,\" the establishment of a uniformed division to oversee building security at the residence and the installation of a no-climb fence.\n\nFences of metal and brick about 7-feet (2-meter) high already circle the residence along the Susquehanna River about a mile (1.6 kilometers) from the Capitol. Construction on the new fence did not appear to have begun Tuesday afternoon, although small marker flags along the property's perimeter indicated work is underway.\n\n\"While some of those improvements will be clearly visible to the public — such as the new anti-climb fence — many will not be,\" Paris wrote. He said Miller's report contained details about security operations that, if disclosed to the public, \"would obviously risk jeopardizing the safety\" of those the agency protects."
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"value": "# Mariners rally from 5-run deficit to beat Athletics 6-5 and win 9th straight series\n\nMay 7th, 2025 11:22 PM\n\n---\n\nWEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Leody Taveras hit a game-tying two-out single in the eighth inning of his debut with Seattle before scoring the go-ahead run on Dylan Moore's base hit and the Mariners rallied from a five-run deficit to beat the Athletics 6-5 on Wednesday and win their ninth straight series.\n\nAndrés Muñoz gave up a leadoff single to Luis Urías in the ninth, before striking out Jacob Wilson looking to earn his 13th save. Muñoz hasn't allowed an earned run in 18 innings.\n\nTaveras drove in pinch runner Miles Mastrobuoni with one out then stole second before scoring on Moore's single off Noah Murdock (1-1).\n\nWilson had two doubles and drove in a run in his first four-hit game to help the Athletics jump to a 5-0 fourth-inning lead off Mariners starter Bryan Woo. JJ Bleday had a two-run double, and Lawrence Butler added a solo homer.\n\nSeattle got a run back in the fifth when Moore singled, stole second and scored on Ben Williamson's double.\n\nGunnar Hoglund left leading 5-1 in his second career start after issuing a one-out walk to Cal Raleigh in the sixth. Mitch Spence entered and issued a walk before Rowdy Tellez hit his fifth homer to get the Mariners within 5-4. Hoglund was charged with two runs in 5 1/3 innings.\n\nWoo allowed a season-high five runs on eight hits in six innings. Eduard Bazardo (1-0) got four outs for the win.\n\n## Key moment\n\nTaveras struck out twice and flied out before hitting a single to left on a 1-2 pitch to tie it.\n\n## Key stat\n\nSeattle's J.P. Crawford went 1 for 5 to extend his hitting streak to a career-high 15 games.\n\n## Up next\n\nThe Athletics will start RHP Osvaldo Bido (2-2, 4.71 ERA) in the first of three against the Yankees beginning Friday. The Mariners begin a six-game homestand Friday with three against the Blue Jays.\n\n___\n\nAP MLB: https://apnews.com/hub/mlb"
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"value": "# Mariners rally from 5-run deficit to beat Athletics 6-5 and win 9th straight series\n\nMay 7th, 2025 11:22 PM\n\n---\n\nWEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Leody Taveras hit a game-tying two-out single in the eighth inning of his debut with Seattle before scoring the go-ahead run on Dylan Moore's base hit and the Mariners rallied from a five-run deficit to beat the Athletics 6-5 on Wednesday and win their ninth straight series.\n\nAndrés Muñoz gave up a leadoff single to Luis Urías in the ninth, before striking out Jacob Wilson looking to earn his 13th save. Muñoz hasn't allowed an earned run in 18 innings.\n\nTaveras drove in pinch runner Miles Mastrobuoni with one out then stole second before scoring on Moore's single off Noah Murdock (1-1).\n\nWilson had two doubles and drove in a run in his first four-hit game to help the Athletics jump to a 5-0 fourth-inning lead off Mariners starter Bryan Woo. JJ Bleday had a two-run double, and Lawrence Butler added a solo homer.\n\nSeattle got a run back in the fifth when Moore singled, stole second and scored on Ben Williamson's double.\n\nGunnar Hoglund left leading 5-1 in his second career start after issuing a one-out walk to Cal Raleigh in the sixth. Mitch Spence entered and issued a walk before Rowdy Tellez hit his fifth homer to get the Mariners within 5-4. Hoglund was charged with two runs in 5 1/3 innings.\n\nWoo allowed a season-high five runs on eight hits in six innings. Eduard Bazardo (1-0) got four outs for the win.\n\n## Key moment\n\nTaveras struck out twice and flied out before hitting a single to left on a 1-2 pitch to tie it.\n\n## Key stat\n\nSeattle's J.P. Crawford went 1 for 5 to extend his hitting streak to a career-high 15 games.\n\n## Up next\n\nThe Athletics will start RHP Osvaldo Bido (2-2, 4.71 ERA) in the first of three against the Yankees beginning Friday. The Mariners begin a six-game homestand Friday with three against the Blue Jays."
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"value": "# Cavaliers, Donovan Mitchell experience same heartbreak in conference semifinals\n\nBy Joe Reedy \nMay 13th, 2025 09:37 PM\n\n---\n\nCLEVELAND (AP) — Donovan Mitchell thought this Cleveland Cavaliers team would be the one to get him to a conference final for the first time.\n\nInstead, this trip ended with the same heartbreak as his other three to this point in the playoffs.\n\nMitchell started, played 38 minutes and scored 39 points despite a sprained left ankle, but it wasn't enough as the Indiana Pacers wore down the Cavaliers in the second half and eliminated the Eastern Conference's top seed 114-105 on Tuesday night.\n\nAbout 10 minutes after the game ended, Mitchell went back on the court at Rocket Arena and was still shocked over the sudden ending to the season.\n\n\"I just couldn't believe it. I didn't want to believe it. I still don't want to believe it,\" he said.\n\nThe All-Star guard was questionable two hours before tipoff after he did not play the second half of the Cavaliers' 129-109 loss at Indiana on Sunday after he reaggravated the ankle injury.\n\nMitchell provided an early clue about his status three hours before the game when he took to X with the Cavaliers' hashtag theme of #LetEmKnow.\n\nCoach Kenny Atkinson then said during his pregame availability that Mitchell participated in Tuesday morning's shootaround.\n\nAll doubts were then put to rest when Mitchell came out for his usual pregame shooting routine less than an hour before tipoff.\n\nMitchell didn't show any effects from the injury during the first quarter when he aggressively drove to the basket. Of his 13 points in the first 12 minutes, seven were at the foul line.\n\nHowever, Mitchell struggled from the field the entire game. He was 8 for 25, including 4 for 13 on 3-pointers.\n\nMitchell was 15 of 21 at the foul line, but missed all three shots with 1:49 remaining and the Cavs trailing 106-100. He would make a 3-pointer on the ensuing trip down the floor to get Cleveland within three before the Pacers went on an 8-2 run to close the game.\n\n\"We just didn't get the job done. Nothing else needs to be said. … We let the city down. We let each other down,\" he said.\n\nThe Cavaliers easily dispatched of Miami with a four-game sweep in the first round but could never find the answer against an Indiana squad that plays quick and wears teams down.\n\nMitchell thought the decisive moment of the series came in Game 1, when Indiana went on a 15-4 run during the fourth quarter of a 121-112 victory.\n\nCleveland was missing Evan Mobley, Darius Garland and De'Andre Hunter in Game 2, but blew a 20-point in the second half and lost 120-119.\n\n\"I think Game 1 set the tone. And obviously, guys are out for Game 2 and you're fighting an uphill battle,\" said Mitchell, who averaged 34.2 points in the series and 29.6 in the postseason. \"We had some mental lapses. You can't have that because you're fighting an uphill battle against a team with the fastest pace in history.\"\n\nCleveland was second in the league in the regular season with a 38.3% accuracy rate on 3-pointers, but was 29.4% against Indiana, including 9 for 35 on Tuesday night.\n\n\"The season was not a success in terms of where our goal was. Success would be going to the conference finals, but we didn't do that,\" Atkinson said. \"Quite honestly, I expected more coming off the Miami series (a four-game sweep). Now, we've got to figure out the next piece.\"\n\nIt is the second time Mitchell has been on a top-seeded team that didn't make it to the conference finals. In 2021, Utah lost to the LA Clippers in six games.\n\nAfter going 64-18 in the regular season — which included three winning streaks of 12 games or more — Mitchell and the Cavaliers will ponder what might have been in what is an open chase for the NBA title this year.\n\n\"We have a window with this group. I believe in this team. That's what just (stinks). We're a good team, but ultimately for three games, we didn't seem it,\" Mitchell said. \"There is going to be a long of talk (from media). We didn't capitalize, so everyone is going to write us off. It's, 'What are we going to do about it next year?'\"\n\n\"Y'all are going to say a lot of (stuff). And that's what it takes. I've been here.\"\n\n___\n\nAP NBA: https://apnews.com/nba"
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"value": "# Cavaliers, Donovan Mitchell experience same heartbreak in conference semifinals\n\nBy Joe Reedy \nMay 13th, 2025 09:37 PM\n\n---\n\nCLEVELAND (AP) — Donovan Mitchell thought this Cleveland Cavaliers team would be the one to get him to a conference final for the first time.\n\nInstead, this trip ended with the same heartbreak as his other three to this point in the playoffs.\n\nMitchell started, played 38 minutes and scored 39 points despite a sprained left ankle, but it wasn't enough as the Indiana Pacers wore down the Cavaliers in the second half and eliminated the Eastern Conference's top seed 114-105 on Tuesday night.\n\nAbout 10 minutes after the game ended, Mitchell went back on the court at Rocket Arena and was still shocked over the sudden ending to the season.\n\n\"I just couldn't believe it. I didn't want to believe it. I still don't want to believe it,\" he said.\n\nThe All-Star guard was questionable two hours before tipoff after he did not play the second half of the Cavaliers' 129-109 loss at Indiana on Sunday after he reaggravated the ankle injury.\n\nMitchell provided an early clue about his status three hours before the game when he took to X with the Cavaliers' hashtag theme of #LetEmKnow.\n\nCoach Kenny Atkinson then said during his pregame availability that Mitchell participated in Tuesday morning's shootaround.\n\nAll doubts were then put to rest when Mitchell came out for his usual pregame shooting routine less than an hour before tipoff.\n\nMitchell didn't show any effects from the injury during the first quarter when he aggressively drove to the basket. Of his 13 points in the first 12 minutes, seven were at the foul line.\n\nHowever, Mitchell struggled from the field the entire game. He was 8 for 25, including 4 for 13 on 3-pointers.\n\nMitchell was 15 of 21 at the foul line, but missed all three shots with 1:49 remaining and the Cavs trailing 106-100. He would make a 3-pointer on the ensuing trip down the floor to get Cleveland within three before the Pacers went on an 8-2 run to close the game.\n\n\"We just didn't get the job done. Nothing else needs to be said. … We let the city down. We let each other down,\" he said.\n\nThe Cavaliers easily dispatched of Miami with a four-game sweep in the first round but could never find the answer against an Indiana squad that plays quick and wears teams down.\n\nMitchell thought the decisive moment of the series came in Game 1, when Indiana went on a 15-4 run during the fourth quarter of a 121-112 victory.\n\nCleveland was missing Evan Mobley, Darius Garland and De'Andre Hunter in Game 2, but blew a 20-point in the second half and lost 120-119.\n\n\"I think Game 1 set the tone. And obviously, guys are out for Game 2 and you're fighting an uphill battle,\" said Mitchell, who averaged 34.2 points in the series and 29.6 in the postseason. \"We had some mental lapses. You can't have that because you're fighting an uphill battle against a team with the fastest pace in history.\"\n\nCleveland was second in the league in the regular season with a 38.3% accuracy rate on 3-pointers, but was 29.4% against Indiana, including 9 for 35 on Tuesday night.\n\n\"The season was not a success in terms of where our goal was. Success would be going to the conference finals, but we didn't do that,\" Atkinson said. \"Quite honestly, I expected more coming off the Miami series (a four-game sweep). Now, we've got to figure out the next piece.\"\n\nIt is the second time Mitchell has been on a top-seeded team that didn't make it to the conference finals. In 2021, Utah lost to the LA Clippers in six games.\n\nAfter going 64-18 in the regular season — which included three winning streaks of 12 games or more — Mitchell and the Cavaliers will ponder what might have been in what is an open chase for the NBA title this year.\n\n\"We have a window with this group. I believe in this team. That's what just (stinks). We're a good team, but ultimately for three games, we didn't seem it,\" Mitchell said. \"There is going to be a long of talk (from media). We didn't capitalize, so everyone is going to write us off. It's, 'What are we going to do about it next year?'\"\n\n\"Y'all are going to say a lot of (stuff). And that's what it takes. I've been here.\""
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