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Partly cloudy skies this morning will become overcast during the afternoon. Slight chance of an afternoon shower. High around 70F. Winds S at 5 to 10 mph..
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Cloudy skies early, then off and on rain showers overnight. Low 59F. Winds light and variable. Chance of rain 40%.
NEW YORK — MAGA comedian Roseanne Barr is being labeled a “horrible person” because of a video she posted to X mocking author E. Jean Carroll’s sex abuse claim against Donald Trump. However, some fans of the 71-year-old comic found the 42-second clip funny.
The video shows Barr inside an apparent Bergdorf Goodman department store, which is where Carroll claimed — and a jury agreed — she was sexually abused by Trump nearly 30 years ago. It begins with the former “Roseanne” star looking weak and being asked if she’s OK.
Two French prison officers have been killed and three others seriously injured when their prison convoy was attacked in Normandy. Officials say the attack occurred as the convoy was returning to Évreux jail after a court hearing in Rouen. Justice Minister Eric Dupond-Moretti said he would join a crisis unit to address the emergency. He said “All means are being used to find these criminals." French media reported that a prisoner being transported in the van may have escaped with the assailants. The incident has prompted a significant law enforcement operation in the northwestern region of France as authorities worked to secure the area and apprehend the assailants.
Donald Trump’s fixer-turned-foe is returning to the witness stand for a bruising round of questioning from the former president’s lawyers. Michael Cohen’s testimony on Monday linked Trump to all aspects of a hush money scheme that prosecutors say was aimed at stifling stories that threatened his 2016 campaign. He’s the prosecution’s star witness and will face questioning on Tuesday. Trump has pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts. The case is the first-ever criminal trial of a former U.S. president and the first of four prosecutions of Trump to reach a jury.
Downhill skier Breezy Johnson has been banned for 14 months for three violations of anti-doping rules and can't race until December. The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency has published its decision for Johnson’s failure to comply with the whereabouts rules. They oblige athletes to detail where they can be found for one hour each day to give a sample with no advance notice. Johnson’s whereabouts failures were from Oct. 29, 2022 to Oct. 10, 2023. She stopped racing on the World Cup circuit in December while under investigation. Johnson's ban expires on Dec. 9 before the first downhill next season.
By FADI TAWIL and KAREEM CHEHAYEB - Associated Press
More than 300 Syrians refugees are heading back home from northeastern Lebanon to an uncertain future in Syria as anti-refugee sentiment is surging in crisis-hit Lebanon. In the northeastern town of Arsal, Syrian refugees piled their belongings onto the back of trucks and cars on Tuesday as Lebanese security officers collected their U.N. refugee agency cards and other paperwork before clearing them to leave. Lebanon, in the throes of a severe financial crisis since 2019, hosts nearly 780,000 registered Syrian refugees and hundreds of thousands more who are unregistered. It's the world’s highest refugee population per capita. Leading Lebanese political parties have become increasingly vocal in recent months, demanding the Syrian refugees go back.
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Europe’s oldest monarch, King Harald V of Norway, has welcomed Denmark’s King Frederik and his Australian-born wife, Queen Mary, on their second official visit abroad after the Danish monarch’s mother abdicated this year. The 87-year-old Harald returned to work last month following two surgeries to implant pacemakers. Harald has said he has no plans to abdicate, unlike his second cousin Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, who stepped down after a 52-year reign. The Danish royal couple arrived in Oslo on their 10th wedding anniversary. Earlier this month, Frederik and Mary made their first state visit to Sweden.
European carmaker Stellantis says it will begin selling electric vehicles from its Chinese partner Leapmotor in nine European countries later this year. Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavres said Tuesday that sales will begin in September in European countries including Belgium, France, Italy and Germany, and later in the year in South America, Middle East and Africa, India and the Asia Pacific, Tavares said. The two companies said they're forming a joint venture to manufacture and sell Leapmotor’s electric vehicles outside of China. They did not say where the vehicles sold in Europe would be produced. Leapmotor CEO Zhu Jiangming said that geopolitical uncertainty may make it necessary for Chinese EV brands to manufacture globally.
A young Thai activist who went on a hunger strike after being jailed for advocating reform of the country’s system of monarchy has died in a prison hospital. Netiporn Sanesangkhom was a member of the activist group Thaluwang, known for their bold and aggressive campaigns demanding reform of the monarchy and abolition of the law that makes it illegal to defame members of the royal family. She appears to be the first political activist in Thailand to have died from a hunger strike. The Corrections Department said Netiporn, 28, suffered cardiac arrest early Tuesday morning.
The English Premier League chief executive says Everton is still in negotiations with 777 Partners over a takeover of the club despite the Miami-based investment group plunging into legal and financial turmoil. 777 reached an agreement with Everton in September to buy out the club majority shareholder Farhad Moshiri. The deal was subject to the approval of English soccer authorities and it has yet to be finalized. The prospective sale has been thrown into doubt because 777 is facing a $600 million fraud lawsuit in a federal court in New York and its Australian airline is grounded. Premier League CEO Richard Masters says Moshiri “wants to continue to have discussions with 777” over the possible sale.
By DAVID SHARP and JENNIFER McDERMOTT - Associated Press
Researchers around the world are racing to create large wind turbines and floating platforms as upcoming lease auctions bring offshore wind closer to reality. Floating turbines are the only way for some countries and U.S. states to capture a massive amount of offshore wind energy. As the technology advances, it could help the world shift away from fossil fuels to cut planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions. In Maine, researchers are focusing on a simple platform that could be made with materials like concrete readily available around the world. Eventually, they envision turbines rising hundreds of feet tall and capable of producing 15 to 20 megawatts of electricity apiece.
Police across the United States have been warned for decades that the common tactic of handcuffing someone facedown could turn deadly. An Associated Press investigation has found that what some officers are doing on the street conflicts with what has been recognized as safe. That's a deadly disconnect that highlights ongoing failures in police training. Each state writes its own standards, and individual departments and training centers determine what officers hear in classrooms and gyms. The safest techniques don’t always filter down to officers.
European Union nations have officially endorsed a major overhaul of the bloc’s failed asylum system. Tuesday's move wraps up years of work and comes just as campaigning for next month's Europe-wide elections gathers pace. Migration could be an important issue. The New Pact on Migration and Asylum lays out rules for handling people trying to enter Europe without authorization, from how to screen them to deporting them if they’re not allowed to stay. Mainstream political parties believe it solves the problems that have divided EU nations since well over 1 million migrants arrived in 2015. But the reforms will only enter force in 2026. Critics say the system is aimed at keeping people out and will restrict asylum rights.
For decades, police across the United States have been warned that the common tactic of handcuffing someone facedown could turn deadly if officers pin them on the ground with too much pressure or for too long. Yet failures in training of officers have created a deadly disconnect between what’s long been known as safe and what some police do on the streets. An investigation led by The Associated Press found that some officers aren’t being taught that holding someone facedown could impede breathing, and that others who were trained in the best practice of promptly rolling a person off their chest didn’t do so in an encounter that ended in death.
A Paris memorial honoring people who distinguished themselves by helping to rescue Jews in France during the country’s Nazi occupation in World War II has been defaced with painted blood-red hands. Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo decried the vandalism as “unspeakable.” She said the memorial was defaced overnight Monday to Tuesday. The attack on the Wall of the Righteous comes in the context of tensions and anger in France over the Israel-Hamas war. Antisemitic acts have surged in France, a country with the largest Jewish and Muslim populations in western Europe.
By JOHN SEEWER, REESE DUNKLIN and TAYLOR STEVENS - Associated Press
An Associated Press investigation found that police across the U.S. violated well-known guidelines for safely restraining people in hundreds of fatal encounters that didn’t involve a firearm. Police breached those safety warnings not just once or twice, but in three or more ways in roughly 45% of the 1,000 deaths identified by AP over a decade’s time. Most often, officers pinned people facedown in ways that could restrict their breathing or stunned them repeatedly with Tasers. Some officers had little choice but to break guidelines recommended by law enforcement groups and safety experts, known as best practices, to save or protect someone. But many decisions were harder to explain, happening after officers had people handcuffed and controlled.
“Bad Boys for Life” producer Doug Belgrad will join Netflix as its vice president of film as the streaming giant continues to beef up its movie ranks following a major shakeup.
NEW YORK — George Clooney will make his Broadway debut next spring in a stage adaptation of “Good Night, and Good Luck,” a historical drama about the venerated broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow, producers announced this week.
The U.S. government’s highway safety agency has opened another investigation of automated driving systems, this time into crashes involving Waymo’s self-driving vehicles. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration opened the probe after getting 22 reports of Waymo vehicles either crashing or doing something that may have violated traffic laws. In the past month, the agency has opened at least four investigations of vehicles that can either drive themselves or take on at least some driving functions as it appears to be getting more aggressive in regulating the devices. In the probe of Waymo, formerly Google’s self-driving vehicle unit, the agency said it has reports of 17 crashes and five other reports of possible traffic law violations.
The country artist known simply as Ernest is a couple of cocktails deep on a recent afternoon in the rooftop garden of West Hollywood's Soho House, a diamond pendant the size of a AA battery nestled within the open neck of his blue western shirt.
Caitlin Clark’s much anticipated WNBA debut is set for Tuesday night in Connecticut. The No. 1 pick in the WNBA draft is coming off a record-setting college career at Iowa. Even before playing a WNBA game, Clark has left her mark in the pros. The league's draft had record viewership and her No. 22 jerseys have been flying off the shelves. Three WNBA teams have already moved their games to bigger arenas to keep up with the demand for tickets to watch her play. Her debut in Connecticut is sold out — the first sellout for the Sun in an opener since they played their inaugural game at Mohegan Sun Arena in 2003 after moving from Orlando.
UEFA is offering a communications deal between referees and teams at the European Championship: We'll do more to explain decisions, you let only captains approach to discuss them. UEFA has brought Euro 2024 match officials to Frankfurt to prepare for the June 14-July 14 tournament. UEFA detailed on Tuesday the standards it expects. Yellow cards are promised for any player who is not the captain “showing any sign of disrespect or dissent” when approaching the referee. UEFA referees head Roberto Rosetti says “We are ready to speak and share more details with the players and coaches to help them understand how a decision was taken.”
A’ja Wilson and the Las Vegas Aces will begin the WNBA season Tuesday night as a heavy favorite to win a third straight title. The Aces, who were a unanimous choice at No. 1 in the preseason AP WNBA power poll, are plus-100 favorites to win the title again according to BetMGM. New York, at plus-230, is the only team close to the champs. Wilson, the WNBA Finals MVP, was a unanimous choice as the AP preseason player of the year. She has been a star on and off the court since being drafted first by Las Vegas in 2018. She wasn’t the only unanimous choice by the national media panel, who also chose Caitlin Clark as the preseason rookie of the year.
There's some uncertainly about whether Valhalla will get another PGA Championship now that the PGA of America no longer owns it. Another spectacular finish might make it hard to ignore. This is the fourth PGA Championship at Valhalla. Mark Brooks won a playoff after Kenny Perry was in the broadcast booth instead of staying sharp. Tiger Woods won a playoff after making the most pressure putt of his career. Rory McIlroy won in a bizarre finish when he played into the group ahead. Jim Nantz of CBS says the golfing gods must live over Valhalla because it delivers magic.
The Bayreuth Festival in Germany has announced it is retaining Katharina Wagner as its director for another five years. Wagner, who turns 46 on May 21 and is a great-granddaughter of Richard Wagner, became co-head of the festival in September 2008, along with her half-sister Eva Wagner-Pasquier. Katharina then took over as sole head in 2015. The festival announced an agreement with government officials in which a manager will be hired to run business operations, leaving the festival director to make artistic decisions within the budget set by the shareholders.
I have three kids under the age of 10, including two grade school-aged daughters, which means Taylor Swift music is unavoidable in our house (not that I mind).
