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NATIONAL

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US--LGBTQ POLL

Most LGBTQ+ adults feel Americans don’t accept transgender people, Pew poll finds

SUMMARY: LGBTQ+ people in the U.S. see lower social acceptance for transgender people than those who are lesbian, gay or bisexual, a new Pew Research Center poll found. The survey found that most LGBTQ+ adults believe there is a great deal or fair amount of acceptance for lesbian and gay people. But about half said that’s not true for transgender and nonbinary Americans. The survey was conducted in January. That was just before President Donald Trump returned to office and started rolling out a series of policies aimed at transgender people, including a ban from the military and some sports competitions, as well as blocking federal spending on gender-affirming health care for those under 19.

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US--SEXUAL MISCONDUCT-DIDDY

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ ex-personal assistant says she was too traumatized to answer his 2023 call

SUMMARY: Sean “Diddy” Combs’ former personal assistant says she was so terrified when she saw the music mogul calling her in late 2023 that she threw her phone across the room. Testifying for a second day Friday, a woman identified in Manhattan federal court by the pseudonym “Mia” said she remains so traumatized by sexual abuse from Combs that she can’t work. The woman who worked for Combs from 2009 to 2017 is the second of three women expected to testify about sexual abuse. The 55-year-old Combs has pleaded not guilty. Prosecutors say he tried to contact potential witnesses to his crimes after his ex-girlfriend sued him in November 2023.

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US--EX-POLICE-CHIEF-PRISON-ESCAPE

Bloodhounds hunting ‘Devil in the Ozarks’ fugitive are seen as key part of manhunt

SUMMARY: Authorities say a bloodhound picked up Grant Hardin’s scent shortly after prison guards learned that he’d slipped past a gate. But the dog lost the scent as heavy rains blew through the area on Sunday. That meant the inmate known as the ‘Devil in the Ozarks’ could have gone in any direction. Despite that early failure, experts say bloodhounds are playing a key role in the search for Hardin, now in its sixth day. They have clothing and other items Hardin left behind, which is used to give the hounds the scent they will search for.

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US--SPELLING BEE

Faizan Zaki overcomes a shocking, self-inflicted flub and wins the Scripps National Spelling Bee

SUMMARY: Faizan Zaki has seized the title of best speller in the English language at the Scripps National Spelling Bee. The 13-year-old from Allen, Texas, was runner-up last year after he lost in a lightning-round tiebreaker. He ousted eight other accomplished spellers to win the title on Thursday night, including two that he let back into the competition after his own careless flub. Told to take a deep breath before his final word, “eclaircissement,” he didn’t ask a single question before spelling it correctly. He pumped his fists and collapsed to the stage after saying the final letter.

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US--SEXUAL MISCONDUCT-WEINSTEIN

Harvey Weinstein weighs whether to testify in sex crimes retrial

SUMMARY: Harvey Weinstein’s defense has started presenting its own witnesses in his sex crimes retrial. But it’s unclear whether the ex-studio boss himself will be one of them. He’s decide in the coming days whether to testify. If he does, it would be a remarkable chapter in the yearslong saga of the onetime Hollywood honcho-turned-#MeToo outcast. The 73-year-old is being retried on rape and sexual assault charges because New York’s highest court overturned his 2020 conviction. He denies the allegations. His attorneys maintain that anything that happened between him and his accusers was consensual.

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US--SPELLING BEE GUIDE

Scripps National Spelling Bee guide: How to watch, who the notable spellers are, rules and prizes

SUMMARY: The best young spellers in the English language are competing at the Scripps National Spelling Bee, which celebrates its 100th anniversary this year. The first bee was held in 1925, when the Louisville Courier-Journal invited other newspapers to host spelling bees and send their champions to Washington. The bee is now held just outside the nation’s capital, at a convention center on the banks of the Potomac River in Oxon Hill, Maryland. This is the 97th bee. It was canceled from 1943 to 1945 because of World War II and again in 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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US-- VIRGINIA- PRESIDENT JOHN TYLER GRANDSON

Harrison Ruffin Tyler, preserver of Virginia history and grandson of 10th US president, dies at 96

SUMMARY: Harrison Ruffin Tyler died on Sunday. He is the last living grandson of U.S. President John Tyler known for preserving his grandfather’s plantation and nearby Union Civil War fort. The cause of Tyler’s death on Sunday was not immediately available. Tyler’s grandfather was a Democrat nicknamed the “Accidental President” after unexpectedly assuming the presidency when President William Henry Harrison died in office. The time between the president’s birth and his grandson’s death spans 235 years.

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US--TRUMP-IMMIGRATION-PAROLE

Supreme Court lets Trump strip legal protections from 500,000 people, exposing more to deportation

SUMMARY: The Supreme Court has again cleared the way for the Trump administration to strip temporary legal protections from hundreds of thousands of immigrants for now. This pushes the total number of people who could be newly exposed to deportation to nearly 1 million. The justices on Friday lifted a lower-court order that kept humanitarian parole protections in place for more than 500,000 migrants from four countries: Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela. The court has also allowed the administration to revoke temporary legal status from about 350,000 Venezuelan migrants in another case.

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US--WILES-PHONE BREACH

US government is investigating messages impersonating Trump’s chief of staff, Susie Wiles

SUMMARY: The U.S. government is investigating after elected officials, business executives and other prominent figures received messages in recent weeks from someone impersonating Susie Wiles, President Donald Trump’s chief of staff. A White House official speaking on condition of anonymity said Friday the matter is under investigation and the White House takes cybersecurity of its staff seriously. The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday that people began receiving text messages and phone callsfrom someone who seemed to have gained access to the contacts in Wiles’ personal cellphone. The newspaper reported the messages and calls were not coming from Wiles’ number.

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US--TRUMP-CONSPIRACY THEORIES

Trump has long warned of a government ‘deep state.’ Now in power, he’s under pressure to expose it

SUMMARY: President Donald Trump has built a coalition by promising to demolish a so-called deep state that he claims is behind dark government conspiracies. But four months into his second term, his administration hasn’t arrested hordes of corrupt officials or revealed massive crimes from within its ranks. As a result, some of the president’s supporters who took him at his word are getting restless. They are asking why his administration, which now holds the keys to chasing down these alleged government secrets, is denying them the evidence and retribution they expected. One conservative commentator lamented: “People are tired of not knowing.”

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US--HOMELAND SECURITY-SANCTUARY CITIES

Trump administration increases pressure on ‘sanctuary jurisdictions’ with public listing

SUMMARY: The Department of Homeland Security is putting hundreds of “sanctuary jurisdictions” across the country on notice. The department Thursday is publishing a list of the jurisdictions and said each one will receive formal notification that the government has deemed them noncompliant and if they’re believed to be in violation of any federal criminal statutes. There’s no specific definition of a “sanctuary jurisdiction” but the term is often used to refer to communities that don’t cooperate with immigration enforcement. Those communities often say it’s because immigrants feel safer coming forward if they’re a witness to or victim of a crime and they need to focus their limited dollars on fighting crime.

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US--TRUMP PARDONS

Trump’s latest pardons benefit an array of political allies and public figures

SUMMARY: The latest pardons by President Donald Trump are another example of him flexing his power to bestow clemency on political allies and prominent public officials, including those convicted of defrauding the public. The moves not only take aim at criminal cases once touted as just by the Justice Department but also come amid a continuing Trump administration erosion of public integrity guardrails, including the firing of the department’s pardon attorney and the near-dismantling of a prosecution unit established to hold public officials accountable for abusing the public trust.

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US--MUSK’S EXIT

Elon Musk came to Washington wielding a chain saw. He leaves behind upheaval and unmet expectations

SUMMARY: Elon Musk arrived in the nation’s capital with the chain saw-wielding swagger of a tech titan who had never met a problem he couldn’t solve with lots of money, long hours or a well-calibrated algorithm. Now that’s over. Musk said this week that he’s leaving his job as a senior adviser, an announcement that came after he revealed his plan to curtail political donations and he criticized the centerpiece of Trump’s legislative agenda. It’s a quiet exit after a turbulent entrance, and he’s trailed by upheaval and unmet expectations.

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US--MUSK’S EXIT-ABRIDGED

Musk came to Washington wielding a chain saw. He leaves behind upheaval and unmet expectations

SUMMARY: Elon Musk arrived in the nation’s capital with the chain saw-wielding swagger of a tech titan who had never met a problem he couldn’t solve with lots of money, long hours or a well-calibrated algorithm. Now that’s over. Musk said this week that he’s leaving his job as a senior adviser, an announcement that came after he revealed his plan to curtail political donations and he criticized the centerpiece of Trump’s legislative agenda. It’s a quiet exit after a turbulent entrance, and he’s trailed by upheaval and unmet expectations.

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INTERNATIONAL

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ML--MIDEAST WARS-THE LATEST

Live updates: Hamas is reviewing a ceasefire proposal as Israeli strikes kill at least 27 in Gaza

SUMMARY: Medics in Gaza say Israeli airstrikes have killed at least 27 people while Hamas is reviewing a new Israeli-approved ceasefire proposal after giving it an initial cool response. President Donald Trump’s Mideast envoy had expressed optimism this week about brokering an agreement that could halt the Israel-Hamas war, allow more aid into Gaza, and return more of the 58 hostages still held by Hamas, around a third of whom are alive. Experts say a nearly three-month Israeli blockade of Gaza has pushed the population of roughly 2 million Palestinians to the brink of famine.

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AF--NIGERIA-FLOODS

At least 111 people dead after floods submerge a market town in Nigeria

SUMMARY: At least 111 people have been confirmed dead in central Nigeria after floods submerged the market town of Mokwa in the country’s Niger State following torrential rains, officials said. The heavy rains starting Thursday lasted for several hours, and media reports quoting local government officials say a dam collapse in a nearby town had worsened the situation. The flooding has displaced large amounts of people. Niger State emergency agency spokesman IIbrahim Audu Husseinit told The Associated Press in the afternoon that searchers were continuing to find more bodies Friday afternoon and that the confirmed death toll had reached 111.

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AS--JAPAN-CHINA

China set to resume imports of Japanese seafood halted over Fukushima water discharge

SUMMARY: Japan says China will resume Japanese seafood imports it banned in 2023 over worries about Japan’s discharge of treated but slightly radioactive wastewater from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the sea. China said Friday that talks this week made “substantial progress” but did not confirm an agreement on the issue that has been a significant political and diplomatic point of tension for the wary Asian powers. Agriculture Minister Shinjiro Koizumi said the two sides reached an agreement after Japanese and Chinese officials met in Beijing and the imports will resume once the necessary paperwork is done.

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EU--BRITAIN-BBC-GERRY ADAMS

Former Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams wins libel case against BBC over claim he sanctioned killing

SUMMARY: Former Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams has won a libel suit against the BBC over a claim he authorized the killing of an informant. A jury at the High Court in Dublin found in Adams’ favor on Friday and he was awarded 100,000 euros ($113,000) in damages. Adams sued Britain’s public broadcaster over a claim in a documentary and online article that he sanctioned the killing of Denis Donaldson, a long-serving Sinn Fein official who acknowledged in 2005 that he had worked for British intelligence. Adams denies any involvement and called the allegation a “grievous smear.”

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AS--NEW ZEALAND-FLAG ARTWORK

A controversial flag invited art gallery visitors to ‘please walk on me.’ It lasted 19 days

SUMMARY: A New Zealand flag printed with the words “please walk on me” and displayed on the floor of an art gallery in the city of Nelson has been removed from display after protests. The work by Māori artist Diane Prince was shown at The Suter Art Gallery for just 19 days of a five-month exhibition. Its removal Thursday comes 30 years after protests prompted the removal of the same work from an Auckland gallery. The work reflects on theft of Māori land during the country’s colonization by Britain. Police say they’re investigating complaints about the art.

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EU--RUSSIA-UKRAINE-WAR

Ukraine says it’s ready to resume talks with Russia but needs clarity on Kremlin’s terms

SUMMARY: A Ukraine presidential adviser says Ukraine is ready to resume direct peace talks with Russia in Istanbul on Monday but insists that the Kremlin provide a promised memorandum setting out its position on ending the war. Andrii Yermak said in a statement that it’s important for Kyiv to receive Russia’s draft and there was still enough time to send it before the planned talks. The foreign ministers of Ukraine and Turkey meeting in Kyiv also suggested the possibility of a future meeting between Presidents Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Vladimir Putin, possibly also including U.S. President Donald Trump.

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EU--BRITAIN-RUSSELL BRAND

Russell Brand pleads not guilty to charges of rape and sexual assault in London court

SUMMARY: Actor and comedian Russell Brand has pleaded not guilty in a London court to rape and sexual assault charges involving four women dating back more than 25 years. Brand, who turns 50 next week, denied two counts of rape, two counts of sexual assault and one count of indecent assault. His trial was scheduled for June 3, 2026. Prosecutors said the offenses took place between 1999 and 2005 — one in the English seaside town of Bournemouth and the other three in London. Brand did not speak to reporters as he arrived at Southwark Crown Court wearing dark sunglasses.

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ML--SYRIA-IS

Islamic State group claims first attack on Syrian government forces since Assad’s fall

SUMMARY: The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for two attacks in southern Syria. One of them was an attack on government forces that an opposition war monitor described as the first on the Syrian army to be carried by the extremists since the fall of Bashar Assad. IS said in statements issued late Thursday that the attacks occurred over the past days in the al-Safa area in southern Syria. IS once controlled large parts of Syria and Iraq. The militant group is opposed to the new authority in Damascus led by President Ahmad al-Sharaa.

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AS--INDONESIA-QUARRY-COLLAPSE

Officials say at least 10 people are dead and 6 are missing after stone quarry collapse in Indonesia

SUMMARY: A natural stone quarry in Indonesia’s West Java province collapsed on several people who were working in it, killing at least 10 people and leaving six workers missing, officials say. More than two dozen people were trapped in the rubble when the mine in Cirebon district collapsed, and rescuers were able to pull a dozen injured people from the debris during a grueling search effort. The search was suspended Friday as darkness fell and will be resumed early Saturday. Illegal or informal mining operations are commonplace in Indonesia, providing a tenuous livelihood to those who labor in conditions with a high risk of injury or death.

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ML--MIDEAST WARS

Witnesses in Gaza describe more chaos at food distribution sites

SUMMARY: Chaos erupted again as tens of thousands of desperate Palestinians tried to collect food from distribution sites in the Gaza Strip run by a new U.S.- and Israeli-backed foundation. Multiple witnesses on Thursday reported a free-for-all of people grabbing aid, and they said Israeli troops opened fire to control crowds. In central Gaza, Associated Press video showed smoke bombs arching through the air around a distribution center, and gunfire was audible as an Israeli tank moved nearby. Witnesses said it was Israeli troops who fired the projectiles to clear large crowds of Palestinians after the center ran out of supplies. The Israeli military said Hamas was responsible for the crisis by stealing aid and refusing to release the remaining hostages in Gaza.

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CB--PUERTO RICO-GOVERNOR ADDRESS

Puerto Rico governor pledges to improve island’s crumbling power grid after repeated outages

SUMMARY: Puerto Rico’s governor has pledged to improve the island’s crumbling electric grid and boost the economy in her first address after being elected as anger intensifies over chronic power outages and an increase in cost-of-living expenses. Gov. Jenniffer González Colón, of the pro-statehood New Progressive Party, spoke for nearly two hours on Thursday as she listed her accomplishments since taking office in January and announced multimillion-dollar investments to improve Puerto Rico’s health, education and public safety sectors.

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ML--MIDEAST WARS-CEASEFIRE TALKS-EXPLAINER

Israel accepts a US proposal for a temporary Gaza ceasefire and Hamas gives a cool response

SUMMARY: The White House says Israel has accepted a new U.S. proposal for a temporary ceasefire with Hamas. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt on Thursday said special envoy Steve Witkoff and President Donald Trump submitted a ceasefire proposal that Israel has “backed and supported.” Hamas officials gave the Israeli-approved draft a cool response, but said they wanted to study the proposal more closely before giving a formal answer.

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ML--SYRIA-US

Long-shuttered US ambassador’s residence in Damascus is reopened as Washington mends ties with Syria

SUMMARY: The U.S. flag has been hoisted outside of the long-shuttered ambassador’s residence in Damascus. It’s a sign of growing ties between Washington and the new Syrian government. Syrian state-run news agency SANA reported on Thursday that U.S. ambassador to Turkey Tom Barrack arrived to inaugurate the residence. He has also been appointed special envoy to Syria. Washington hasn’t formally reopened its embassy in Damascus, which closed in 2012 after protests against the government of then-President Bashar Assad. Assad was unseated in December in a lightning rebel offensive. But Barrack’s visit and the raising of the flag were a significant signal of warming relations.

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LT--ARGENTINA-MARADONA

Argentine court declares a mistrial in the death of soccer star Maradona

SUMMARY: An Argentine court has declared a mistrial in the case of seven health professionals accused of negligence in the death of soccer legend Diego Maradona. It was the latest dramatic twist in a trial that has captivated the soccer world for more than two months. The whiplash decision comes after one of the three judges overseeing the trial stepped down over criticism surrounding her participation in a forthcoming documentary about the case. Her withdrawal compelled the court to either appoint a new judge in her place or to retry the entire case from scratch. The judges have decided the latter.

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US-GOOGLE-ANTITRUST-SEARCH

Google, Justice Department face off in climactic showdown in search monopoly case

SUMMARY: Google will return to federal court Friday to fend off the U.S. Justice Department’s attempt to topple its internet empire at the same time it’s navigating a pivotal shift to artificial intelligence that could undercut its power. The legal and technological threats facing Google are among the key issues that will be dissected during the closing arguments of a legal proceeding that will determine the company’s fate in the wake of its dominant search engine being declared an illegal monopoly. The Justice Department is trying to persuade a federal judge to order a radical shakeup that would ban Google’s lucrative deals with Apple and force the sale of its Chrome browser

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US-MUSK-BACK TO BUSINESS

Think your return to the office was rough? Musk faces some big challenges

SUMMARY: Elon Musk is leaving Washington after a short but turbulent stint in government and getting back to his numerous businesses, each with their own set of issues for the billionaire to address. While how much Musk accomplished in his role as President Donald Trump’s chief cost-cutter is up for debate, it’s clear his association with right-wing politics damaged Tesla’s brand and tanked sales. Musk’s social media platform X, formerly Twitter, needs to rebuild its advertising base. His aerospace company SpaceX appears to be financially promising but has seen some recent setbacks. And it’s unclear if his satellite business Starlink can keep striking deals without Trump nearby.

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FINANCIAL MARKETS

Wall Street drifts toward the end of what could be its best month since 2023

SUMMARY: Wall Street is drifting toward the end of its winning week and month. The S&P 500 fell 0.1% Friday but is still on track for its first winning month in four and potentially its best since 2023. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 10 points, and the Nasdaq composite sank 0.3%. Gap weighed on the market after saying tariffs could add up to $300 million to its costs this fiscal year. Hopes had been climbing through the month that the worst of the pain caused by tariffs may have already passed. Treasury yields edged lower following encouraging reports on inflation and consumer sentiment.

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US--CONSUMER SPENDING

US inflation gauge cools with little sign of tariff impact, so far

SUMMARY: A key U.S. inflation gauge slowed last month as President Donald Trump’s tariffs have yet to noticeably push up prices, while American incomes jumped. Friday’s report from the Commerce Department showed that consumer prices rose just 2.1% in April compared with a year earlier, down from 2.3% in March and the lowest since September. Excluding the volatile food and energy categories, core prices rose 2.5% from a year earlier, below the March figure of 2.6%. Economists track core prices because they typically provide a better read on where inflation is headed. The figures show inflation is still declining from its post-pandemic spike, which reached the highest level in four decades in July 2022.

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US--TRUMP-TARIFFS-LAWSUITS-WHAT TO KNOW

What happens to Trump’s tariffs now that a court has knocked them down?

SUMMARY: President Donald Trump has audaciously claimed virtually unlimited power to bypass Congress and impose sweeping taxes on foreign products. Now a federal court has said: Not so fast. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of International Trade ruled Wednesday that Trump overstepped his authority when he invoked the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act to declare a national emergency and plaster taxes – tariffs – on imports from almost every country in the world. The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on Thursday allowed the president to temporarily continue collecting the tariffs under the emergency powers law while he appeals the trade court’s decision.

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US--FEDERAL RESERVE-POWELL

Trump meets with the Federal Reserve chairman he has repeatedly scorned

SUMMARY: President Donald Trump met with Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and the two discussed the economy but not Powell’s outlook for interest rates, the Fed said. Powell told Trump on Thursday that the central bank would make decisions about the short-term interest rate it controls “based solely on careful, objective, and non-political analysis.” The Fed’s rate typically influences borrowing costs across the economy, including for mortgages, car loans, and business borrowing.

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US-MED--SALMONELLA-CUCUMBERS

Dozens sickened in expanding salmonella outbreak linked to recalled cucumbers

SUMMARY: Federal health officials say at least 45 people in 18 states have been sickened in an expanding salmonella outbreak tied to recalled cucumbers. The cucumbers were produced by Florida-based Bedner Growers and distributed to restaurants, hospitals, cruise ships and grocery stores. Health authorities said Friday at least 16 people have been hospitalized to date. The outbreak includes reports of illness from people aboard six different cruise ships that departed from Florida ports between late March and mid-April. The outbreak was detected as part of a follow-up inspection to a 2024 outbreak linked to the same company.

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US-MED--COVID VACCINES

CDC removes language that says healthy kids should get COVID shots

SUMMARY: The nation’s top public health agency has posted new recommendations that healthy children may — but no longer should — get COVID-19 vaccinations. The change comes days after U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that COVID-19 vaccines will no longer recommended for healthy children and pregnant women. The CDC website did not appear to substantially change recommendations for pregnant women, however. Federal health officials on Friday did not immediately respond to questions about the update.

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US--CLIMATE-EXTREME HEAT

Half of world’s population endured extra month of extreme heat due to climate change, experts say

SUMMARY: Scientists say 4 billion people, about half the world’s population, experienced at least one extra month of extreme heat because of human-caused climate change from May 2024 to May 2025. The extreme heat caused illness, death, crop losses, and strained energy and health care systems, according to the analysis from World Weather Attribution, Climate Central and the Red Cross. The scientists say that without major cuts to greenhouse gas emissions, global temperatures will continue to rise, heat waves will become more frequent and severe, and adaptation measures will become less effective at protecting people.

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RELIGION

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REL--SHAPE NOTE-HYMNAL REVAMP

It’s not a reprint. Why Sacred Harp singers are revamping an iconic pre-Civil War hymnal

SUMMARY: A new edition of “The Sacred Harp,” a Christian hymnal first published in 1844, is being released this year. It helps carry on the more than 180-year-old American folk singing tradition that is as much about the community as it is the music. The shape-note songbook with music notes that look like triangles, ovals, squares and diamonds is core to the a cappella group singing practice. Over time, groups of Sacred Harp singers have periodically worked together to revise the songbook, preserving its history and breathing new life into it. The book is precious to its singers. The nine-member revision committee working on the new book feels a tremendous responsibility to get it right.

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EDUCATION

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US--HARVARD GRADUATION

Harvard grads cheer commencement speakers who urge the school to stand strong

SUMMARY: Harvard graduates are celebrating commencement at a pivotal time for the Ivy League school. The cap and gown-clad students cheered speakers Wednesday who stressed the importance of maintaining a diverse and international student body while standing up for the truth at a time the esteemed university is under threat by the Trump administration. Harvard’s battles with President Donald Trump over funding and restrictions on teaching and admissions are just the latest challenge for graduates who began school as the world was emerging from the pandemic. Yurong Luanna Jiang, a Chinese graduate who studied international development, told attendees she grew up believing the “world was becoming a small village.” Now, though, she wonders if that worldview is under threat.

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US--TRUMP-HARVARD

Federal judge extends order blocking Trump administration ban on foreign students at Harvard

SUMMARY: A federal judge on Thursday extended an order blocking the Trump administration’s attempt to bar Harvard University from enrolling foreign students. U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs extended the block she imposed last week with a temporary restraining order on the government action. Harvard sued the Department of Homeland Security on Friday after Secretary Kristi Noem revoked its ability to host foreign students at its campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts.Harvard sued the Department of Homeland Security after Noem revoked its ability to host foreign students at its campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts. On Wednesday, the Trump administration announced a new effort to revoke Harvard’s certification to enroll foreign students.

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ENTERTAINMENT

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ENT--MUSIC-TAYLOR SWIFT

Taylor Swift has regained control of her music, buys back first 6 albums

SUMMARY: Taylor Swift says she’s has regained control over her entire body of work. In a lengthy note posted to her official website on Friday, Swift announced that all the music she’s ever made now belongs to her. According to the note, the pop star has purchased her catalog of recordings — originally released through Big Machine Records — from their most recent owner, the private equity firm Shamrock Capital. She did not disclose the amount. Over the last few years, Swift has been rerecording and releasing her early albums in an attempt to regain control of her music.

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SPORTS

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TEN--FRENCH OPEN-NO WOMEN AT NIGHT

French Open: Only 2 women’s matches have been scheduled at night with Amélie Mauresmo in charge

SUMMARY: French Open tournament director Amélie Mauresmo has been asked again about a lack of women’s matches during the tournament’s night sessions. And Mauresmo again dismissed the questions on Friday. There was one women’s match at night at Roland-Garros in 2022, one in 2023, zero in 2024 and, as of Friday, zero in 2025. The two other Grand Slam tennis tournaments that sell separate tickets for night sessions tend to feature two singles matches for that part of the daily schedule — one involving women and one involving men. Roland-Garros added night sessions starting three years ago.

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TEN--FRENCH OPEN-NASAL STRIPS

French Open tennis players say nasal strips aren’t just for snoring

SUMMARY: Carlos Alcaraz has been wearing nasal strips in some matches since last season. That’s sparked an interest in the better-breathing adhesives among other tennis players — even if the four-time Grand Slam champion has skipped using them so far at the French Open heading into his third-round match on Friday night. The bandages open the nostrils to ease nasal breathing. Nicolás Jarry wears them daily both for practice and competition. Mirra Andreeva and Jessica Pegula are among the players who have noticed Alcaraz using them and are curious whether the strips could help. Science isn’t so sure of the benefits.

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