Republican AGs ask Supreme Court to block climate change lawsuits brought by several states (2024)

Manchester United manager Erik ten Hag has left Casemiro and Rasmus Hojlund out of his starting lineup for the FA Cup final against Manchester City. Both players have been named on the bench. Marcus Rashford starts in attack at Wembley and on-loan Sofyan Amrabat is also playing. Casemiro has endured a difficult campaign in his second season at United and was heavily criticized for his recent performance in United’s 4-0 defeat at Crystal Palace. City manager Pep Guardiola named Jack Grealish and Ruben Dias on the bench as he looks to complete back-to-back Premier League and FA Cup doubles.

A first-ever theater show to explore the lives of Asian American Jews tells 14 stories of people ranging in age from 12 to 75. This production is titled “What Do I Do with All This Heritage?” It's a collaboration between The Braid, a story company that highlights the Jewish experience, and The LUNAR Collective, the only national organization for Asian American Jews. The show runs through June 9 in Los Angeles, San Francisco and via Zoom. Its producers say it will take audiences into the unique struggles, dilemmas and joys of people holding these multiple identities.

An advance team of Kenyan police officials who were assessing preparedness before a multinational force is deployed to quell violence in Haiti is heading back home after the planned deployment was delayed over logistical issues. The team is due to arrive back from Haiti on Monday after recommending a deployment delay that was later announced by the president. A senior Kenyan official who declined to be named as they are not the official spokesperson said the bases were still under construction and crucial resources including vehicles are needed before deployment of the first 200 police officers from Kenya can happen. The deployment was due to take place this week, but President William Ruto said it would be delayed for three weeks.

Police say hundreds of Muslims in eastern Pakistan went on a rampage over allegations that a Christian man had desecrated the pages of Islam’s holy book, ransacking and burning his house and beating him before police officers rescued the man and his father. Police say the incident occurred Saturday in the Mujahid Colony residential area in Sargodha, a city in Punjab province. The incident brought back memories of one of the worst attacks on Christians in Pakistan in August 2023, when angry mobs burned churches and attacked dozens in Jaranwala, a district in Punjab province. Blasphemy accusations are common in Pakistan.

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Manchester United icon Wayne Rooney has been appointed manager of second division Plymouth Argyle. The former England international takes over four months after he was fired by Birmingham. Rooney lasted just 83 days as manager of Birmingham and was previously in charge of MLS team DC United and Derby County. Rooney enjoyed a decorated playing career as he won five Premier League titles and the Champions League. He is England’s most capped outfield player of all time after making 120 appearances for the national team.

With rich reds, gentle greens and basic blacks, Nature's screaming, crawling artwork is the epitome of rare beauty — at least in the eyes of some beholders. To others, it may seem just creepy.

What's open and closed on Memorial Day

In what had long been celebrated every May 30 to honor America’s fallen soldiers, Memorial Day officially became a federal holiday in 1971, observed on the last Monday in May. Businesses increasingly have chosen to stay open on the holiday, leading to what is now one of the biggest retail sales and travel weekends of the year. Government offices, post offices and schools are closed, as is the stock market, banks and a handful of businesses. The vast majority of retailers will be open, with many trying to lure customers with big promotional sales. Hours may vary by location.

This might not turn out to be Rafael Nadal’s last French Open, after all. The 14-time champion at Roland Garros said Saturday that he is not 100% sure that he will not play again at the Grand Slam tournament. Nadal has missed much of the last two seasons because of hip and abdominal muscle issues, and he is just 7-4 in 2024. There had been some doubt after a lopsided loss at the Italian Open two weeks ago whether he would even enter the clay-court event in Paris at all this year. But he did show up, and has been practicing this week. Nadal was drawn to face No. 4 seed Alexander Zverev in a showdown that will be everyone’s focus on Monday, Day 2 of the tournament.

Mosquito season is starting to rev up across much of the United States. So you might want to pause summer vacation planning and consider what to look for in insect repellents. U.S. officials say to look only at EPA-registered repellents. But those are only one line of defense. You should also wear long sleeves and long pants. And avoid going out at dusk and dawn, when some types of mosquito tend to be most active. Also, try to remove standing water from around your home if you can, because mosquitoes need to breed in water.

Syria's state media says a bomb attached to a car exploded in the western part of the Syrian capital that is home to several diplomatic missions, killing one person and causing material damage. Damascus’ Mazze neighborhood houses the Iranian consulate, destroyed last month in a strike blamed on Israel. State news agency, SANA, didn’t say on Saturday who the person killed. The opposition war monitor, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said the man killed in the explosion carried a card identifying him as a Syrian army officer. Hours after the blast in Damascus, an Israeli drone strike reportedly targeted a car and a truck outside the western Syrian town of Qusair, close to Lebanon's border.

At least five miners have died in an illegal gold mine collapse in northern Kenya. Police said the mine in the Dabel area near the Kenyan border with Ethiopia collapsed Friday because of a landslide. Interior Minister Kithure Kindiki in March declared the area disturbed and banned mining activities after clashes over a mining dispute led to the deaths of seven people. Residents told media outlets that mining had continued despite the ban and blamed authorities for allowing it.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Ukrainian forces have secured “combat control” of areas where Russian troops entered Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkiv region earlier this month. Zelenskyy’s comments on Friday evening appeared to be at odds with those made by Russian officials. Viktor Vodolatskiy, a member of Russia‘s lower house of parliament, said Russian forces now controlled more than half of the town of Vovchansk, three miles (five kilometers) inside the border, Russian state news agency Tass reported Friday. Russia’s Kharkiv push appears to be a coordinated new offensive that includes testing Ukrainian defenses in the Donetsk region further south, while also launching incursions in the northern Sumy and Chernihiv regions.

Only four drivers have attempted the Memorial Day weekend double — completing 1,100-miles of racing in a single day. Kyle Larson will try to become the fifth Sunday. Bad weather, mechanical problems and late arrivals have derailed some of the previous quests, leading to mixed results. Larson has a chance to rewrite history even with rain in the Indianapolis 500 forecast when he starts, fittingly, from the No. 5 spot before heading to Charlotte for the Coca-Cola 600 and his more familiar No. 5 Chevrolet. But if anyone can succeed, it's Larson, the 2021 Cup champion who is one of the world’s top and most versatile racers.

Kyle Larson's bid to race both the Indianapolis 500 and the Coca-Cola 600 on Sunday has plenty of supporters. Tony Stewart and Robby Gordon are two of the four drivers who have tried it. Both say Larson can not only do it but is a threat to win both races. Larson's 6-year-old daughter, Audrey, isn't feeling it. She says she is rooting for Alexander Rossi to win and hoping that her dad finishes second if he doesn't wreck.

The heat is off Caitlin Clark and the Indiana Fever. The WNBA rookie sensation and her team won their first game of the season on Friday The Fever rallied from 11 points down in the first half to beat Los Angeles 78-73 and snap a five-game skid in front a Sparks home record crowd of 19,103 at Crypto.com Arena. Clark had 11 points and 10 rebounds for her first WNBA double-double. She hit two clutch 3-pointers in the final minutes after missing her first seven attempts from long range. She had eight assists and just two turnovers.

It’s not just Rafael Nadal who has folks wondering how many more tennis matches remain in his career. As the French Open gets set to start Sunday, plenty of accomplished players are getting ready to bid adieu to the sport soon, including three-time Grand Slam champion Andy Murray, major finalist Danielle Collins and French fan favorite Alizé Cornet. Dominic Thiem and Diego Schwartzman also are ready to say goodbye this year. Both lost in qualifying in Paris. The current group chose different ways and times to let everyone know their plans. And there is always the chance of a comeback, especially in tennis.

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The pitch to the Nevada legislature was simple: If you provide the Oakland Athletics with $380 million in public funding toward a new ballpark, the A's will agree to move to Las Vegas and stay there for at least 30 years.

In the life of a major league relief pitcher, highs and lows are part of the landscape.

They met in the summer of 2017 near the bullpen at Gesa Stadium in Pasco, Wash.

NEW YORK — One way or another, the New York Knicks are going to have to do something with their draft picks.

MIAMI — For perspective on how productive this season was for Miami Heat forward Nikola Jovic, remember that he was logging more minutes in the G League than in the NBA in November and December.

Faced with an unfamiliar situation, Chase Griffin relied on natural instincts. He surveyed the scene, felt the pressure and stepped up to face it.

Local officials say strong wind has blown off the roof of a school in Russia’s southern Krasnodar region, injuring at least 12 children. A warning was issued across the region on Friday for hurricane-force winds, Russian state news agency Ria Novosti said. The regional prosecutor’s office in Krasnodar said in a statement that “a strong gust of wind” on Saturday morning tore off the roof, causing the children to “suffer shrapnel wounds of varying severity.” It added that an investigation under the article of “provision of services that do not meet safety requirements” has been ordered.

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is scheduled to make an official visit to Cambodia, one of China’s closest allies in Southeast Asia, after holding talks with his Chinese counterpart at an annual security conference in Singapore. The U.S. Defense Department said Austin would travel next week to Singapore, Cambodia and France. He will visit Cambodia June 4 after attending the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore. Among the talks he is planning there is one with his Chinese counterpart Adm. Dong Jun. The encounter would be part of an effort to patch up ties that have deteriorated over Beijing’s aggressive policies toward Taiwan and its vast territorial claims in the South China Sea.

LOS ANGHELES, Calif., May 25, 2024 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Scientology Network’s MEET A SCIENTOLOGIST, the weekly series spotlighting the everyday lives of Scientologists from around the world and all walks of life, announces an episode featuring professional classical trombonist Gianluca S…

Four people were hurt and one was arrested when supporters of Iran’s authorities clashed with anti-government protesters at a London event marking the death of President Ebrahim Raisi. The Metropolitan Police force said officers were called Friday evening to “reports of disorder” at a venue in the west London area of Wembley. The force said one person was arrested on suspicion of violent disorder. Four people were treated by paramedics for injuries that are not thought to be life-threatening or life-changing. Raisi died alongside the country’s foreign minister and six others in a crash in the country’s mountainous northwest on Sunday. London is home to a large Iranian community, most of whom left in the years since the country’s Islamic revolution in 1979.

UNDATED (AP) — When the NCAA lifted its longtime ban on college athletes monetizing their names, images and likenesses in 2021, there was no such thing as NIL collectives. Now the booster-funded organizations have become ubiquitous and a common way for athletes to cash in as NIL compensation…

Americans have started sleeping more than any time in the last 20 years, says a new survey of the way we use time. But wait — a new Gallup poll says we’re more stressed and sleeping less. Can both headlines be right?

The Florida Panthers host the New York Rangers in game three of the third round of the NHL Playoffs with the series tied 1-1.

KANSAS — The deadline to get a Real ID in order to fly in the United States is less than a year away.

THE DETROIT RIVER — A pair of federal fish experts braced themselves as they cradled a hulking fish over the side of their boat just north of the Grosse Ile Toll Bridge. Its kick would be strong enough to unhorse a novice angler, but the duo had performed this routine 31 times in a handful o…

ORLANDO, Fla. — Orange County Public Schools prides itself on providing laptops to all students, an effort that started in 2013 and aimed to make sure everyone had access to technology no matter their family’s income.

MIAMI — During a rally in Hialeah last fall, Donald Trump regaled supporters with a pledge to undertake “the largest domestic deportation operation in American history” if they helped put him back in the White House.

The Houston Astros lead 1-0 in a three-game series with the Oakland Athletics.

The Miami Marlins hit the road against the Arizona Diamondbacks aiming to prolong a three-game road winning streak.

The San Diego Padres aim to break their four-game home losing streak with a win against the New York Yankees.