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NATIONAL

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US--BOULDER-ATTACK

Vigil held for victims of Boulder firebombing attack as suspect’s family fights deportation

SUMMARY: Hundreds of people have gathered at the local Jewish Community Center for a vigil to support the victims of the firebombing attack in Boulder. The event Wednesday evening featured prayer, singing and emotional testimony from a victim and witnesses. Mohamed Sabry Soliman has been charged in Sunday’s attack and is scheduled to appear again in state court on Thursday afternoon. A federal judge has ordered the government to immediately halt deportation proceedings against his wife and five children. None of his family members have been charged in the attack that injured 15 demonstrators calling for the release of Israeli hostages in Gaza.

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US--SEXUAL MISCONDUCT-DIDDY

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ ex-girlfriend ‘Jane’ is going to testify at his sex trafficking trial

SUMMARY: Another ex-girlfriend who alleges she was abused by Sean “Diddy” Combs and forced to participate in drug-fueled sex marathons is expected to testify at the music mogul’s sex trafficking trial in New York. The woman, testifying under the pseudonym “Jane,” is set to take the stand Thursday. She is one of several witnesses accusing Combs of violence toward them. Combs has pleaded not guilty to charges of running his business empire as a racketeering enterprise, allegedly using employees to enable and conceal the sexual and physical abuse of women over two decades. Testimony resumed Thursday with the continued cross-examination of another woman who claimed Combs once dangled her off an apartment balcony.

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US--CALIFORNIA-EXPLOSION

Man charged with supplying explosive chemicals to bomber of Palm Springs fertility clinic

SUMMARY: Federal authorities say they have arrested a Washington man who provided chemicals to make explosives used to bomb a California fertility clinic in May. Authorities arrested 32-year-old Daniel Park on Tuesday night in New York upon his extradition from Poland. U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli say Park sent more then 250 pounds of ammonium nitrate to Guy Edward Bartkus, who bombed the clinic. The chemical compound is an explosive precursor that can be used to make homemade bombs. Park also traveled to Southern California in late January to experiment with explosives with Bartkus, who was killed in the explosion.

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US--IMMIGRATION-DEPORTATIONS

Guatemalan man deported to Mexico returns to US after court orders Trump administration to do so

SUMMARY: Attorneys for a Guatemalan man deported to Mexico say he has landed in California. President Donald Trump’s administration had said they were working to bring him back to the United States after a court ordered facilitation of his return. His lawyers say that after landing, he was taken into custody and was being transported to a detention facility in Arizona. The man, who is gay, was protected from being returned to his home country under a U.S. immigration judge’s order at the time. The administration in court documents last month says a significant public benefit parole packet had been approved.

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US--BOULDER-ATTACK-THINGS TO KNOW

What we know about the Colorado attack on demonstrators for the release of Israeli hostages

SUMMARY: Officials say the man charged in an attack on a group demonstrating in Boulder, Colorado, for the release of Israeli hostages in Gaza was living in the U.S. illegally and told police his initial plan was to kill them all. Mohamed Sabry Soliman faces federal hate crime charges and state charges of attempted murder. Police say Soliman, a native of Egypt, threw two Molotov cocktails during Sunday’s attack in which he yelled “Free Palestine.” A federal judge issued an order Wednesday to halt the deportation of Soliman’s wife and five children, who are in the custody of U.S. immigration officials. The family members have not been charged in the attack.

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US--SEXUAL MISCONDUCT-WEINSTEIN

Jury deliberations near in Weinstein sex crimes retrial

SUMMARY: Jurors in Harvey Weinstein’s sex crimes retrial are due to start deliberating Thursday. The seven-woman, five-man jury will start its private discussions after getting legal instructions from the judge. Closing arguments concluded Wednesday. The 73-year-old Weinstein has pleaded not guilty to raping a woman in 2013 and forcing oral sex on two others in 2006. Jurors will be sifting through what they gleaned from dozens of witnesses, scores of documents and two days of closing arguments. Weinstein is being retried because a New York appeals court overturned his 2020 conviction.

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US--KAREN READ-TRIAL-THINGS TO KNOW

Things to know about the retrial of Karen Read in the killing of her police officer boyfriend

SUMMARY: Attorneys in Karen Read’s second murder trial are questioning their list of witnesses, including bringing in a snowplow driver. Read is accused of fatally striking her boyfriend, Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe, with her SUV and leaving him to die in the snow outside another officer’s home after dropping him off at a party in January 2022. Her lawyers say she was framed in a police conspiracy and that someone inside the house killed him, and that a family dog bit him. The snowplow driver said Wednesday that he didn’t see a body while removing snow when prosecutors say O’Keefe was hit by Read’s vehicle.

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US--TRUMP-DOGE PLAYBOOK-INSTITUTE OF PEACE-ABRIDGED

Elon Musk is gone, but DOGE’s actions are hard to reverse. The Institute of Peace is a case study

SUMMARY: Elon Musk is leaving the Department of Government Efficiency behind, but its playbook has impacted dozens of agencies, departments and organizations and left thousands of federal workers unemployed or in limbo. The U.S. Institute of Peace is one organization that suffered through a DOGE blitz but has, for the moment, been put back in place by a judge’s opinion. The question is, even if agencies and personnel win the right to return to work, is some of the damage so severe that it creates irrevocable harm? As the Institute of Peace tries to ramp back up its operations, the answer is yes.

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US--TRUMP-CHINA

Trump says after Xi call that US and China will resume trade talks

SUMMARY: President Donald Trump says his first conversation with Chinese leader Xi Jinping since returning to the White House had a “very positive conclusion,” announcing the two countries will hold trade talks in hopes of breaking an impasse over tariffs and global supplies of rare earth minerals. The Chinese foreign ministry says Xi asked Trump on Thursday’s call to “remove the negative measures” the U.S. has taken against China. The discussion followed the Republican president suggesting it was tough to reach a deal with Xi. Trade negotiations between the United States and China stalled shortly after a May 12 agreement between both countries to reduce their tariff rates to have talks.

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US--SUPREME COURT-DISCRIMINATION-LAWSUIT

Supreme Court makes it easier to claim ‘reverse discrimination’ in employment, in a case from Ohio

SUMMARY: A unanimous Supreme Court has made it easier to bring lawsuits over so-called reverse discrimination, siding with an Ohio woman who claims she didn’t get a job and was demoted because she’s straight. The justices’ decision Thursday affects lawsuits in 20 states and the District of Columbia where, until now, courts had set a higher bar when members of a majority group, including those who are white and heterosexual, sue for discrimination under federal law. The court ruled in an appeal from Marlean Ames, who’s worked for the Ohio Department of Youth Services for years. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson says federal civil rights law draws no distinction between members of majority and minority groups.

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US--FLORIDA-GOVERNOR-JOLLY

David Jolly, a Trump critic and former GOP congressman, to run for Florida governor as a Democrat

SUMMARY: A former Republican congressman and vocal critic of Donald Trump says he wants to become governor in the president’s adopted home state of Florida and is running as a Democrat. David Jolly made the announcement on Thursday. Jolly is the latest party convert hoping to wrest back control of what had been the country’s premier swing state, which in recent years has made a hard shift to the right. Jolly says he’s running because “Republicans in Tallahassee have gone too far in dividing us.” Under state law, term-limited Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis can’t run for reelection in 2026.

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US--CONGRESS-BIDEN

Trump orders investigation into Biden’s actions as president, ratcheting up targeting of predecessor

SUMMARY: President Donald Trump is directing his administration to investigate Joe Biden’s actions as president, alleging aides masked his predecessor’s “cognitive decline” and raising questions about his use of the autopen to sign pardons and other documents. The order Wednesday marks a significant escalation in Trump’s targeting of political adversaries, and it could lay the groundwork for claiming that a range of Biden’s actions were invalid despite the president’s pardon power being enshrined in the U.S. Constitution. Biden responded, “Let me be clear: I made the decisions during my presidency,” adding, “Any suggestion that I didn’t is ridiculous and false.”

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US--TRUMP-TRAVEL BAN

Trump announces travel ban and restrictions on 19 countries set to go into effect Monday

SUMMARY: President Donald Trump is again banning people from countries his administration deems dangerous from coming to America. The travel ban issued Wednesday is a repeat of an order of his first administration that led to widespread confusion at airports. This version includes Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, the Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen. The Republican president’s first travel ban was issued in 2017 and banned travel to the U.S. by citizens of seven predominantly Muslim countries. The order was retooled until a version was upheld by the Supreme Court in 2018.

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US--CONGRESS-TAX CUTS-CBO

Trump tax bill will add $2.4 trillion to the deficit and leave 10.9 million more uninsured, CBO says

SUMMARY: President Donald Trump’s big bill is likely to unleash trillions in tax cuts and slash spending, but also spike deficits by $2.4 trillion over the decade and leave some 10.9 million more people without health insurance. That’s according to a new analysis released Wednesday by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. The findings are raising political stakes for the GOP’s signature domestic priority. Senate GOP Leader John Thune said after a meeting with Trump at the White House that they’re committed to getting it done. Republican leaders are determined to muscle the package through Congress by Trump’s July Fourth deadline. But billionaire Elon Musk is trashing the package, posting “Kill the bill,” and Democrats are piling on their own opposition.

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US--TRUMP-DEPORTATIONS

Judge says migrants sent to El Salvador prison must get a chance to challenge their removals

SUMMARY: A federal judge says the Trump administration must give migrants sent to an El Salvador prison a chance to challenge their removals. U.S. District Court Chief Judge James Boasberg ruled Wednesday that the administration has to give people a way to contest their deportations under under an 18th-century wartime law. He said they must also be able to dispute allegations that they are members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua. The ruling is the latest milestone in a monthslong legal saga over the fate of deportees imprisoned at El Salvador’s notorious Terrorism Confinement Center.

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US--CONGRESS-CBO-EXPLAINER

What is the CBO? A look at the small office inflaming debate over Trump’s tax bill

SUMMARY: A small government office with some 275 employees has found itself caught in the political crossfire as Congress debates President Donald Trump’s “one big beautiful bill.” The Congressional Budget Office has projected that the legislation would increase federal deficits by about $2.4 trillion over 10 years. That’s a problem for a Republican Congress that has spent much of the past four years criticizing Joe Biden and Democrats for the nation’s rising debt levels. The White House and Republican leaders in Congress are taking issue with CBO’s findings. Meanwhile, Democrats are touting them as evidence of the bill’s failings.

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EU--RUSSIA-UKRAINE-WAR

Russian strike kills 5 in Ukraine, including a 1-year-old, hours after Trump-Putin call

SUMMARY: Ukrainian officials say at least five people, including a 1-year-old child, his mother and grandmother, were killed in a Russian drone strike on a northern Ukrainian overnight. Local authorities say six Shahed-type drones struck residential areas of Pryluky shortly before dawn Thursday. The attack came just hours after U.S. President Donald Trump spoke by phone with Russian leader Vladimir Putin. According to Trump, Putin said “very strongly” that Russia will retaliate for Ukraine’s stunning drone attacks on Russian military airfields on Sunday. Officials also said Thursday that 19 people were wounded in a Russian drone strike on the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, including children, a pregnant woman, and a 93-year-old woman.

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ML--MIDEAST WARS

Israel says it has recovered the bodies of 2 Israeli-American hostages from the Gaza Strip

SUMMARY: Israel has recovered the bodies of two Israeli-American hostages taken in Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack that ignited the war in the Gaza Strip. Israeli strikes overnight and into Thursday meanwhile killed at least 13 people, including three local journalists who were in the courtyard of a hospital, according to health officials in the territory. The military said it targeted a militant in that strike. Israel said the remains of Judih Weinstein and Gad Haggai were recovered in a special operation by the army and the Shin Bet internal security agency. The military says they were killed in the Oct. 7 attack. Hamas-led militants are still holding 56 hostages, around a third of them believed to be alive.

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NATO-SPENDING

NATO’s chief says the alliance is on the cusp of accepting Trump’s 5% defense investment demand

SUMMARY: NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte says that most allies endorse President Donald Trump’s demand that they invest 5% of gross domestic product on their security needs. Speaking Thursday after chairing a meeting of NATO defense ministers, Rutte said he has “total confidence that we will get there” by the next NATO summit in three weeks. The aim would be to spend 3.5% on defense budgets and an extra 1.5% on things like the roads, bridges, airfields and seaports needed to deploy armies more quickly. The ministers also approved purchasing targets to stock up on more weapons and military equipment to better defend Europe, the Arctic and North Atlantic.

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EU--RUSSIA-UKRAINE-HYBRID WARFARE

Ukraine’s drone attack on Russian air bases is a lesson for the West on its vulnerabilities

SUMMARY: Ukraine said its “Operation Spiderweb” attacked Russian warplanes worth hundreds of millions of dollars, utilizing drones that each cost under $1,000 and were launched from wooden containers carried on trucks. Officials in Kyiv said it damaged or destroyed over 40 aircraft parked at remote air bases across Russia on Sunday, although Moscow disputes that. Aside from embarrassing the Kremlin, it’s unclear what impact the attack will have on the war in Ukraine. Experts, meanwhile, say it’s a wake-up call for the West to bolster its defense systems against such hybrid tactics. They say the spectrum of threats has only gotten broader due to relatively inexpensive drone technology that has advanced rapidly in recent years.

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AS--INDONESIA-NARCOTICS

Indonesia arrests foreign nationals in Bali on drugs charges that could carry the death penalty

SUMMARY: Indonesian authorities on the tourist island of Bali have announced the arrests of several foreign nationals, including an Australian, an Indian, and an American, on suspicion of possessing narcotics, charges that could carry the death penalty. The Australian, identified by the initials H.V., and the Indian, with the initials P.R., are suspected of dealing in narcotics, including hashish and marijuana. The American, whose initials were given as W.M., is suspected of possessing amphetamines. The Southeast Asian country has extremely strict drug laws, and convicted smugglers can face severe penalties, including the possibility of execution by firing squad

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AS--NEW ZEALAND-HAKA-PROTEST

New Zealand Parliament suspends 3 Māori Party lawmakers for haka protest

SUMMARY: New Zealand legislators have voted to enact record suspensions from Parliament for three lawmakers who performed a Māori haka to protest a proposed law. Hana-Rāwhiti Maipi-Clarke on Thursday received a seven-day ban and her colleagues Debbie Ngarewa-Packer and Rawiri Waititi have been barred for 21 days. Three days previously had been the longest ban from New Zealand’s Parliament. The lawmakers from from Te Pāti Māori, the Māori Party, performed the haka in November to oppose a bill they say would reverse Indigenous rights.

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AS--CHINA-TIANANMEN

A quiet Tiananmen Square anniversary shows China’s ability to suppress history

SUMMARY: The 36th anniversary of a bloody crackdown that ended pro-democracy protests in China passed like any other weekday for most Chinese. And that’s how the ruling Communist Party wants it. Security was tight Wednesday around Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, where weeks of student-led protests shook the party in 1989. Hundreds and possibly thousands of people were killed in a June 4 crackdown. The Communist Party bans any public commemoration of the events. In recent years, that ban has been extended to Hong Kong. It is only in Taiwan that June 4 gatherings can still take place.

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AS--INDIA-STADIUM-STAMPEDE

At least 11 people die in a stampede outside a cricket stadium in India after IPL win

SUMMARY: At least 11 people are dead and more than 30 injured in a stampede outside a cricket stadium in southern India. The crush on Wednesday happened as tens of thousands of cricket fans gathered outside a stadium in Bengaluru to celebrate the winners of the Indian Premier League. That’s the world’s most popular T20 cricket tournament. Karnataka state’s chief minister says the stampede took place after the crowd tried to break one of the stadium’s gates and enter to take part in celebrations. The cricket team had given away free passes to fans but urged them to follow guidelines set by authorities.

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ML--IRAN-US

Iran’s supreme leader criticizes US proposal in nuclear talks but doesn’t reject the idea of a deal

SUMMARY: Iran’s supreme leader has criticized an initial proposal from the United States in negotiations over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program. He stopped short of entirely rejecting the idea of an agreement with Washington. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Wednesday described the U.S. proposal as “100% against the idea of ‘we can,’” using an Iranian government slogan. He also insisted that Tehran needed to keep its ability to enrich uranium. Reaching a deal is one of the several diplomatic priorities for U.S. President Donald Trump and his Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff. In a Wednesday call with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Trump said they’d discussed “the fact that time is running out on Iran’s decision pertaining to nuclear weapons.”

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BUSINESS

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EU--EUROPE-ECONOMY

ECB cuts benchmark interest rate by quarter point as Trump tariffs threaten economy

SUMMARY: The European Central Bank is cutting its benchmark interest rate for an eighth time, aiming to support businesses and consumers with more affordable borrowing as U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war threatens to slow already tepid growth. The bank’s rate-setting council cut interest rates by a quarter of a point Thursday at the bank’s skyscraper headquarters in Frankfurt. Analysts expected a cut, given the gloomier outlook for growth since Trump announced a slew of new tariffs April 2.

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FINANCIAL MARKETS

Wall Street drifts ahead of Friday’s jobs report

SUMMARY: U.S. stocks are drifting ahead of Friday’s highly anticipated jobs report. The S&P 500 fell 0.3% Thursday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 34 points, and the Nasdaq composite slipped 0.4%. Stocks have been flip-flopping throughout the day. They turned briefly higher, but then lost steam, after President Donald Trump said he and China’s leader agreed to resume talks on trade shortly. That signals an easing of tensions between the world’s two largest economies. The next big move for stocks could arrive on Friday, when the latest jobs report will show how much Trump’s tariffs have affected hiring.

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NINTENDO SWITCH 2

Fans get in line, long lines, for highly anticipated launch of the Nintendo Switch 2

SUMMARY: Eager customers have lined up outside electronics stores hours in advance in Tokyo to collect Nintendo’s much-anticipated Switch 2 video game consoles. The Switch 2 is an upgrade to its eight-year-old predecessor, with new social features meant to draw players into online gaming. The new consoles were sold through a competitive lottery system that Nintendo said got about 2.2 million applications in Japan alone. Outside the official draw, some retailers offered their own lottery to pre-order the devices. The new console comes with a larger and higher resolution screen than its predecessor, with improved processing power, offering smoother and more vivid graphics.

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NINTENDO SWITCH-WHAT TO KNOW

What to know about the much-anticipated Nintendo Switch 2 on launch day

SUMMARY: The Nintendo Switch 2 finally hit store shelves on Thursday, eight years after the initial release of Japanese video-game maker Nintendo’s popular video-game console. Even with a hefty $450 price tag, fans around the world, from Japan to the U.S., lined up outside stores to pick-up pre-orders or have a chance to buy the device. The release ends months of anticipation that included pre-order hiccups and fears that tariffs would delay the release of the Switch 2. Nintendo said it expects to sell 15 million Switch 2 consoles for the fiscal year through March 2026.

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HEALTH/SCIENCE

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SCI--JAPAN-MOON LANDING

Private Japanese lunar lander heads toward a touchdown in the moon’s far north

SUMMARY: A private lunar lander from Japan is closing in on the moon, aiming for a touchdown in the unexplored far north. Friday’s planned moon landing by the company ispace is the latest entry in the rapidly expanding commercial lunar rush. The encore comes two years after the company’s first moonshot ended in a crash landing, Launched in January, the Resilience lander holds a 11-pound rover with a shovel and a Swedish artist’s toy-size red house that will be dropped onto the dusty surface. The moon became a target of private outfits in 2019, with more flops than wins along the way.

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US-MED--MEASLES-VACCINATION RATES

Measles vaccination rates drop after COVID-19 pandemic in counties across the US

SUMMARY: Childhood vaccination rates against measles fell in the years after the COVID-19 pandemic in nearly 80% of the more than 2,000 U.S. counties with available data. That includes counties in states that are battling outbreaks this year. The Johns Hopkins University study was published in JAMA this week. It illustrates where more vulnerable communities are located. The results mirror trends established at state and national levels: Routine childhood vaccination rates are dropping. Most of the measles cases in the U.S. this year — 1,088 nationally as of Friday — are in unvaccinated people. Three people have died.

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US--CANADA WILDFIRES-SMOKY SKIES

Air quality worsens in eastern US as Canadian wildfire smoke hangs over Midwest

SUMMARY: Smoke from Canadian wildfires is beginning to worsen air quality in the eastern U.S. as several Midwestern states battle conditions deemed unhealthy by the federal government. The fires have forced thousands of Canadians to flee their homes, with smoke extending as far as Europe. In the U.S., the worst of the unhealthy air is lingering over the Midwest. An Environmental Protection Agency map shows a swath of that region affected by unhealthy air quality Wednesday.

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RELIGION

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EU-REL--VATICAN-SEX ABUSE

Pope meets with child protection advisory board amid survivor calls for zero tolerance on abuse

SUMMARY: Pope Leo XIV has met with members of the Vatican’s child protection advisory commission for the first time amid questions about his past handling of abuse and demands from survivors that he enact a true zero tolerance for abuse policy across the Catholic Church. The Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors is made up of religious and lay experts in child protection, as well as abuse survivors. The commission called the hourlong audience a “significant moment of reflection, dialogue, and renewal of the church’s unwavering commitment to the safeguarding of children and vulnerable people.” The Vatican did not provide the text of Leo’s remarks or make the audio of the audience available to reporters.

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EDUCATION

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US--EDUCATION-INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS

Trump promised to welcome more foreign students. Now, they feel targeted on all fronts

SUMMARY: Students from around the world say being an international student in American today comes with feelings of fear, anxiety and insecurity that have made them more cautious in their daily lives. To attract the brightest minds to America, President Donald Trump proposed during his campaign he would grant green cards to all foreign students who graduate from U.S. colleges. But that promise never came to pass. International students have found themselves at the center of an escalating campaign to kick them out or keep them from coming as his administration merges a crackdown on immigration with an effort to reshape higher education.

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US--TRUMP-HARVARD

Trump moves to block US entry for foreign students planning to study at Harvard University

SUMMARY: President Donald Trump is moving to block nearly all foreign students from entering the country to attend Harvard University, his latest attempt to choke the Ivy League school from an international pipeline that accounts for a quarter of the student body. In an executive order signed Wednesday, Trump declared that it would jeopardize national security to allow Harvard to continue hosting foreign students on its campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It’s a further escalation in the White House’s fight with the nation’s oldest and wealthiest university.

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SPORTS

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TEN--FRENCH OPEN

French Open: Coco Gauff beats Loïs Boisson to set up a 1 vs. 2 final against Aryna Sabalenka

SUMMARY: Coco Gauff has reached her second final at Roland-Garros by beating Loïs Boisson 6-1, 6-2 to end the surprising, upset-filled run by a French wild-card entry who is ranked No. 361. The victory on Thursday by No. 2 Gauff sets up a blockbuster championship match against No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka. It will be just the second 1 vs. 2 women’s final at the French Open in the last 30 years. Sabalenka got there by ending Iga Swiatek’s 26-match winning streak at the clay-court Grand Slam tournament. Sabalenka’s 7-6 (1), 4-6, 6-0 win in the semifinals prevents Swiatek from becoming the first woman to win four consecutive championships at Roland-Garros.

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HKN--STANLEY CUP

Draisaitl scores in OT, Oilers beat Panthers in Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final

SUMMARY: Leon Draisaitl scored on the power play in overtime, Stuart Skinner made 29 saves and the Edmonton Oilers erased a multigoal deficit to beat the defending champion Florida Panthers 4-3 in Game 1 of their Stanley Cup Final rematch. After Tomas Nosek’s penalty for putting the puck over the glass, Draisaitl’s goal 19:29 into OT sent the home fans into a frenzy and made sure the Oilers would not start this series the way they did a year ago, when they fell behind three games to none.

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BKN--NBA FINALS

NBA Finals: Game 1 of Thunder-Pacers set to happen in Oklahoma City

SUMMARY: Winning Game 1 of the NBA Finals does not guarantee anything. The 79th title series in league history — it has been called different names over the years — starts Thursday night, when the Oklahoma City Thunder play host to the Indiana Pacers. And the winner of Game 1 will obviously leave the floor feeling good about themselves. But in the past 78 years, only 55 Game 1 winners have gone on to eventually win the title, or just about 71%.

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BKN--ALL-STAR FORMAT

NBA working on plan for US-vs.-world format at All-Star Game next season, AP source says

SUMMARY: The NBA is working on a plan to turn next season’s All-Star Game into a U.S.-vs.-world competition. That’s according to a person with knowledge of the situation who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the league has not made any final determinations. Speaking to FS1 earlier Wednesday, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver was asked if U.S. vs. the world was possible, and he said, “Yes.” Silver has talked about such a game on several occasions. International players have spoken enthusiastically about the possible format. The NHL had success with countries competing against each other at the 4 Nations Face-off.

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