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“Life is full of unsolved mysteries,” says the title character in “Diarra from Detroit” on BET+, “and as I once heard this guy at the post office say, minding your own business is a full-time job — and everybody needs to stay employed. But I had to get to the bottom of this one, even if it killed me.”
Created by and starring Diarra Kilpatrick, the eight-episode series defies categorization in all the right ways. Part missing person mystery, part comedy about a middle school teacher coming to grips with her impending divorce and part drama about long-buried secrets, it has tremendous style right from the start — sardonic, knowing and self-deprecating. The answers to the central mystery may not pack a satisfying punch by the end, but the road there is as entertaining and absorbing as they come.
Donald Trump is not the president, but that doesn't stop many of his most loyal supporters and even his lawyers from calling him the commander-in-chief. New research published Tuesday by Syracuse University finds the phenomenon is apparent in online advertisements too. An analysis of thousands of ad buys on Facebook and Instagram shows that pro-Trump ads typically refer to the twice-impeached Trump as the president, while dismissing the current officeholder simply as Biden or Joe. The findings show that while Americans may not wear uniforms proclaiming their political loyalties, the language they use can offer a subtle but simple reminder of the polarization that has gripped our politics.
More than 80% of residents in Brazil's southern city of Porto Alegre do not have running water, one week after after massive flooding that has left at least 90 people dead and more than 130 missing. Five of the city’s six water treatment facilities aren’t working, and Mayor Sebastião Melo has ordered the rationing of potable water indefinitely. Melo’s decree says running water should be used exclusively for “essential consumption.” Local shops have also been short on water supplies. More rain is expected in Rio Grande do Sul state into next week.
A deadline is looming for millions of businesses who may be entitled to a payout in a $5.5 billion antitrust settlement with Visa and Mastercard. Any businesses that accepted Visa and/or Mastercard credit or debit cards in the U.S. between January 1, 2004 and January 25, 2019 may be eligible to receive part of the settlement. Applicable owners whose businesses have closed can also submit a claim. The settlement stems from a 2005 lawsuit that alleged merchants paid excessive fees to accept Visa and Mastercard credit cards, and that Visa and Mastercard and their member banks violated antitrust laws.
The PGA Tour goes to the Wells Fargo Championship for another $20 million signature event. This one does not feature the No. 1 player in golf. Scottie Scheffler is sitting out due to the impending birth of his first child. The event is a warmup for the second major of the year next week at Valhalla. The winner gets into the PGA Championship next week if not already eligible. Elsewhere, Nelly Korda is playing and has LPGA history on her mind. Korda goes after a record sixth straight victory when she plays the Cognizant Founders Cup. The PGA Tour Champions has the first of its five majors on the schedule with the Regions Tradition in Alabama.
Voters went to the polls in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state of Gujarat in the third phase of India’s election, with campaigning becoming increasingly acrimonious between the two main parties.
The United States has repatriated 11 of its citizens from sprawling camps in northeastern Syria that house tens of thousands of family members of suspected Islamic State militants. The U.S. State Department said Tuesday that the repatriation was the largest Washington has carried out from the camps to date. Although the pace of repatriations has picked up -- neighboring Iraq recently returned hundreds of its citizens -- many countries remain reluctant to bring back citizens from the camps, which now hold about 30,000 people from more than 60 countries, most of them children.
A bad season just keeps on getting worse for Manchester United. The 20-time English champion was routed 4-0 by Crystal Palace on Monday and faces the prospect of its lowest finish in the Premier League era. It also potentially faces a season without European soccer. Champions League qualification was already beyond Erik ten Hag’s troubled team before its latest defeat. Now his team is sitting eighth in the standings and even the third-tier Europa Conference League could end up out of reach. One of the world’s most storied clubs is in a mess and the humiliation at the hands of Palace was the latest evidence of that.
By TARA COPP and FREIDA FRISARO - Associated Press
The U.S. Air Force says a 23-year-old Airman supporting its Special Operations Wing at Hurlburt Field, Florida, was shot and killed during an incident involving the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office. U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Roger Fortson died Friday at his off-base residence after a deputy responding to a call of a disturbance in progress “reacted in self defense.” According to the Sheriff’s office the deputy reacted after "he encountered a 23-year old man armed with a gun and after the deputy had identified himself as law enforcement.” Fortson was taken to the hospital were he died. The deputy involved has been placed on administrative leave pending an investigation into the incident.
LOS ANGELES — It is shaping up to be perhaps the biggest case in the history of the UCLA Police Department: how to identify dozens of people who attacked a pro-Palestinian camp at the center of campus last week.
Vladimir Putin, who’s ruled Russia for the whole of the 21st century so far, was sworn in for a fifth term as president, amid renewed nuclear saber-rattling with the West over his war in Ukraine.
Two-time defending Tour de France champion Jonas Vingegaard is back on his bike, just a month after a bad crash that left him several broken ribs and a collapsed lung. And the Danish rider is still hoping to compete at this year’s Tour, which starts in seven weeks. Vingegaard's team posted a video of him standing by his bike after his first outdoor ride since the accident. He said "it’s really nice to finally be able to ride like normal again.” Before the crash, Vingegaard had been considered one of the top favorites at the Tour again alongside his rival Tadej Pogacar.
Caroline Kubzansky and Nell Salzman - Chicago Tribune (TNS)
CHICAGO — University of Chicago Police cleared a pro-Palestine protest encampment in a brief raid at the South Side university early Tuesday morning, organizers said.
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit by a Maine woman who accused school officials of encouraging her teen’s gender expression without consulting her. The mother says a school counselor gave her 13-year-old a chest binder and officials were calling her by a new name. U.S. District Judge Jon Levy acknowledged that parents might expect to be informed about “matters related to gender identity.” But the judge said the suit failed to establish any legal claims for liability. The mother has since begun home-schooling the teenager.
Long before his son Lin-Manuel's Tony Award-winning musical “Hamilton” brought his family international recognition and unexpected fortune, Luis A. Miranda Jr. had dedicated his life to expanding opportunity and representation for Latinos in the United States. He recounts his decades of work as a community organizer, political strategist and philanthropist in a new memoir, “Relentless: My Story of the Latino Spirit that Is Transforming America." The Associated Press spoke to Miranda about the role giving can play in lifting up communities and the lessons learned in his family's own quest to help Puerto Rico recover from Hurricane Maria.
Authorities in Spain’s Catalonia region say they will ease restrictions on water use for a wide area including Barcelona after recent rainfall palliated a prolonged drought. Catalonia declared a drought emergency in February when its reservoirs fell under 16% capacity. But steady rain in recent weeks has boosted reserves to nearly 25%. Spain’s reservoirs overall are at 66% full. The loosened restrictions announced Tuesday mean that some 6 million people will now see individual use limits increased from 53 to 61 gallons per day. Famers will only have to reduce their average uses by 40%, instead of 80%, while industrial users will only have to save 15% compared to 25%.
Roger Penske has suspended the president of Team Penske along with three others for two races for their roles in the cheating scandal that has rocked IndyCar ahead of the Indianapolis 500. Tim Cindric oversees all of Team Penske’s operations and is the strategist for Indy 500 defending champion Josef Newgarden. Cindric is the top name suspended. Also suspended are team managing director Ron Ruzewski, Newgarden engineer Luke Mason and senior data engineer Robbie Atkinson. Ruzewski and Atkinson both work on Will Power’s car and Power is the only of the three Penske drivers not accused of any wrongdoing in the push-to-pass scandal.
A Chinese court sentenced the former head of one of the country’s three major state-owned phone carriers to 16 years in prison on charges of accepting bribes and abusing his authority, part of leader Xi Jinping’s politically-tinged anti-corruption campaign. Li Guohua, formerly general manager of China Unicom, was sentenced Tuesday and fined nearly $831,000 and forced to return the roughly $6.2 million that he received in bribes, with interest, the court said. Xi’s campaign has ensnared thousands of Chinese officials and executives of state-owned companies in a long-running crackdown on embezzlement, taking bribes and other misbehavior. It has also allowed the Chinese president to sideline political rivals.
Pakistan’s military says a suicide bombing that killed five Chinese engineers and a Pakistani driver in March was planned in neighboring Afghanistan and that the bomber was an Afghan citizen. The army spokesman says four men behind the attack in Bisham, a district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, have been been arrested. The spokesman says the attack that killed the Chinese engineers, who were working on Pakistan’s biggest Dasu Dam, was an attempt to harm friendship between Pakistan and China. There is no immediate comment from the Afghan Taliban government, which has previously denied allegations of giving sanctuary to militants carrying out attacks in other countries.
Colm Tóibín’s “Long Island,” the Irish novelist’s follow-up to the acclaimed immigrant tale “Brooklyn,” is Oprah Winfrey’s latest book club pick. “Long Island,” published Tuesday, continues the story of Eilis Lacey, who left Ireland for New York City in the 1950s and is now trapped in an unhappy marriage to Tony Fiorello, the Italian plumber she met in “Brooklyn.” Tóibín, 68, is a three-time Booker Prize finalist who has received numerous honors, from the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and International Dublin Literary Award for “The Master,” to the Costa Novel Award for “Brooklyn.”
Ukrainian counterintelligence investigators say they have foiled a Russian plot to assassinate President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other top military and political figures. A statement Tuesday from Ukraine’s state security service says Two colonels in the State Guard of Ukraine, which protects top officials, were detained on suspicion of enacting the plan drawn up by Russia’s Federal Security Service. It quoted the head of the State Security Service, Vasyl Maliuk, as saying the scheme foresaw an attack ahead of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s inauguration for a fifth term in power Tuesday. Ukrainian claims of Russian efforts to kill Zelenskyy are not new. Zelensky said in 2022 there has been at least 10 attempts to assassinate him as the war with Russia stretches into a third year.
Nottingham Forest has been unsuccessful in its appeal against a decision to deduct the team four points for breaching the Premier League’s financial rules. The league says an appeal board has upheld the decision which was taken by an independent commission in March and dropped Forest into the relegation zone. Forest has since climbed back out of the bottom three and is in 17th place in the 20-team league. The team is three points above the relegation zone with two games remaining.
