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Cloudy this morning. A few showers developing during the afternoon. Thunder possible. High 67F. Winds SE at 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 30%..
Tonight
Rain showers early will evolve into a more steady rain overnight. Low near 55F. Winds SE at 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 70%. Rainfall around a quarter of an inch.
SPRINGFIELD, Il. — Gov. J.B. Pritzker called for an “evolution of the leadership” at the CTA, as embattled agency President Dorval Carter has looked to Springfield for solutions to a looming budget crisis.
Carter has found himself in the hot seat as the CTA struggled in recent years to provide frequent, reliable and safe service. At the same time, the Illinois General Assembly is weighing a sweeping set of recommendations about what Chicago-area transit could look like in the future, including whether the CTA should be consolidated with Metra and Pace into one agency and how to address a transit fiscal cliff expected when federal pandemic aid runs out.
The IOC has suspended former Olympic power broker Sheikh Ahmad of Kuwait for 15 years after his conviction for forgery was upheld on appeal this year at a Swiss criminal appeals court. His sanction for “a betrayal of his IOC Member’s oath, as well as the seriousness of the damage to the IOC’s reputation” was approved by the Olympic body’s executive board. The ruling has been seen by The Associated Press. The sheikh will be 74 when the IOC ban expires. He was a longtime ally of current IOC president Thomas Bach. Sheikh Ahmad was convicted in Geneva in 2021 of forgery in a case relating to Kuwaiti domestic politics.
A Chinese truck driver has been praised in local media for parking his vehicle across a highway and preventing more cars from tumbling down a slope after a section of the road in the country’s mountainous south collapsed and killed at least 48 people. Wang Xiangnan was driving Wednesday along the highway in Guangdong province, a vital economic hub in southern China. At around 2 a.m., Wang saw several vehicles moving in the opposite direction of the four-lane highway and a fellow driver soon informed him about the collapse. Reacting swiftly, Wang, a former soldier, positioned his truck to block the highway, effectively stopping dozens of vehicles from advancing into danger.
The 150th Kentucky Derby has a couple early favorites, such as Fierceness and Sierra Leone. Beyond them, it's a wide-open race. The forecast for Churchill Downs in Louisville calls for a 60% chance of scattered showers and thunderstorms. Both Fierceness and Sierra Leone have won on messy tracks before, and so have four others in the 20-horse field. For the second straight year, Japan has two entries that will be looking to deliver the country's first derby win.
Vancouver coach Rick Tocchet won’t deny that being among the NHL's final eight teams still alive means a lot. An all-Canadian showdown against the Edmonton Oilers in the second round is even better. Tocchet says they know the next series will be tough. His Canucks advanced by downing Nashville 1-0 in Game 6. Tocchet took the Canucks from a team that missed the postseason a year ago finishing 11th in the Western Conference to third in the West this season. They won the Pacific Division with 109 points, winning all four games with Edmonton.
Kyrie Irving's big second half has helped carry the Dallas Mavericks into the second round. Luka Doncic's co-star fueled a 114-101 victory over the Los Angeles Clippers for a 4-2 series victory. Dallas beat LA for the first time in three first-round tries over the past five seasons in the first postseason together for Irving and Doncic. Dallas is the No. 5 seed and opens the Western Conference semifinals at top-seeded Oklahoma City on Tuesday. Irving is now 13-0 in elimination games in his career.
PHILADELPHIA — Once the 76ers’ season had ended and their locker room at the Wells Fargo Center was open to the media early Friday morning, Joel Embiid and Tyrese Maxey spent several minutes together seated in a corner, the foundations of the franchise conversing about fouls uncalled and opp…
Ken Sugiura - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (TNS)
ATLANTA — If you are a Falcons fan, you probably know a lot about Matt Ryan. You may have seen him throw all 367 touchdown passes that he completed for the Falcons. You likely heard him give countless postgame interviews from locker rooms around the NFL. Perhaps you learned about his backgro…
PITTSBURGH — There's the story about his high school team's lopsided victory where Zach Frazier and another team leader, furious over a lackluster second half, made everyone run before coaches arrived for film study on Saturday morning.
STORRS, Conn. — Two years ago, the UConn men were coming off a stinging first-round loss in the NCAA Tournament and the roster was in upheaval; players impatient about development were moving on. A conversation with Dan Hurley evolved into a long lament about the new ways of college basketba…
SEATTLE — The Seattle Mariners’ home, T-Mobile Park, opened on July 15, 1999, as the crown jewel of the Sodo District. On vintage Seattle summer days, you won’t find a better environment anywhere in America to take in a ballgame. The scene can be truly stunning — baseball paradise for some —…
London takes center stage as the counting of votes is underway in the capital city’s mayoral contest, a day after Britain’s governing Conservative Party suffered a drubbing in local election results. Sadiq Khan, the Labour Party mayor who is chasing a historic third straight election win, had been widely expected to win easily, but there are some concerns that the race may be tighter than previously thought. The result is due around lunchtime Saturday. Overall, the results of Thursday’s array of local elections cemented expectations that the Labour Party will return to power after 14 years in a U.K. general election that will take place in the coming months.
Drone footage obtained by The Associated Press shows the devastation inflicted on the Ukranian village of Ocheretyne. It has been a target for Russian forces as they continue to advance in the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine. Ukraine's military has acknowledged that the Russians have gained a “foothold” in Ocheretyne — which had a pre-war population of about 3,000 — but says that fighting continues. No building in Ocheretyne appeared to have been left untouched by the fighting. Most houses, apartment blocks and other buildings look damaged beyond repair, and many houses have been pummeled into piles of wood and bricks.
Alex DeMarban - Anchorage Daily News, Alaska (TNS)
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola of Alaska this week unexpectedly pulled her support for a Republican-led bill that seeks to pave the way for more oil drilling in the state, opening her up to criticism from opponents who claim she's supporting a pro-Biden agenda.
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — The NCAA and major college conferences are considering a possible settlement of an antitrust lawsuit that could cost them billions in damages and force schools to share athletics-related revenue with their athletes. But even if college sports leaders create a new, mo…
In a repatriation ceremony at the Consulate of Mexico in Philadelphia on Wednesday, a collection of culturally significant archaeological pieces — some going back almost 2,500 years — was returned to the Mexican people by the family of a private collector.
Jamie Landers and Kelli Smith - The Dallas Morning News (TNS)
ALLEN, Texas — Allen Fire Chief Jonathan Boyd was only minutes into a funeral service at the McKinney ISD football stadium when a text from his wife lit up his phone. She heard there was a shooting at Allen Premium Outlets. Was it real?
Tyronn Lue says he wants to be coach of the Los Angeles Clippers longterm and declined to address directly speculation that the Lakers would target him in their search after firing Darvin Ham. Lue was asked about his future with the Clippers and the talk of the Lakers after Dallas ended LA’s season with a 114-101 victory in Game 6 of a first-round series. Lue says he feels strong support from owner Steve Ballmer and team president Lawrence Frank among others. Lue has two years remaining on his contract.
South Sudan has removed recently imposed taxes and fees that had triggered the suspension of U.N. food airdrops. The United Nations had earlier this week urged South Sudanese authorities to remove the new taxes, introduced in February. Thousands of people in the country depend on aid from the outside. However, the government on Friday said it was keeping charges on services rendered by firms contracted by the U.N peacekeeping mission in South Sudan. The United Nations had warned that suspending food aid deliveries would affect 135,000 people by May. The new taxes had applied to charges for electronic cargo tracking, security escort fees and fuel.
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — The NCAA and major college conferences are considering a possible settlement of an antitrust lawsuit that could cost them billions in damages and force schools to share athletics-related revenue with their athletes. But even if college sports leaders create a new, mo…
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — The NCAA and major college conferences are considering a possible settlement of an antitrust lawsuit that could cost them billions in damages and force schools to share athletics-related revenue with their athletes. But even if college sports leaders create a new, mo…
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — The NCAA and major college conferences are considering a possible settlement of an antitrust lawsuit that could cost them billions in damages and force schools to share athletics-related revenue with their athletes. But even if college sports leaders create a new, mo…
