Forced retired of Vancouver’s BC Place by the FIFA World Cup, the Lions (0-2) will look for their first triumph successful a impermanent location astatine Kelowna’s Apple Bowl.

The Lions big the besides winless Calgary Stampeders (0-2) connected Saturday earlier facing the unbeaten Edmonton Elks (3-0) adjacent weekend, pinch Christensen watching arsenic an alumnus of each 3 CFL clubs.

“(I have) a batch of fond memories from everyplace I played, but B.C. will ever clasp my bosom because I was from Vancouver and played successful the Okanagan,” said Christensen, whose family moved to Kelowna erstwhile he was 12.

He went connected to prima for the Okanagan Sun inferior shot squad earlier going pro.

Christensen started his profession pinch the Stampeders, enjoyed his top individual occurrence pinch the Lions, and went connected to triumph a Grey Cup title pinch Edmonton successful 1993 during his eighth of 10 CFL seasons arsenic a slotback.

He retired arsenic an Ottawa Rough Rider successful 1995, finishing pinch 21 receiving touchdowns and much than 3,600 yards connected 248 catches arsenic a target for Hall of Fame quarterbacks Doug Flutie and Damon Allen.

After retiring, he returned to the Okanagan and coached the Sun for a decade, reaching 3 consecutive Canadian Bowls and winning a nationalist title successful 2002.

The 62-year-old still serves arsenic a head astatine ample connected the club’s committee and is nearing status from Valley First Credit Union, wherever he specializes successful taxation and property planning.

Back wherever it each began astatine the Apple Bowl, the games will beryllium a family affair, pinch some of Christensen’s children now joined and his boy bringing 2 granddaughters to his aged stomping grounds.

“I americium looking guardant to it. A batch of family, friends and moreover erstwhile teammates will beryllium here,” he said. “It’ll beryllium breathtaking for maine to show that off, wherever my inheritance was and conscionable the shot civilization we person here.”

Saskatchewan Roughriders backmost Jack Coan, centre, looms for a receiver arsenic Calgary Stampeders’ Kelon Thomas closes successful during first half preseason CFL shot action successful Calgary, Monday, May 18, 2026.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh

The Okanagan Sun will besides beryllium represented connected the section by B.C.’s Jacob Bond and Calgary’s Kelon Thomas. The 2 were teammates successful 2022, erstwhile Thomas was named the B.C. Football Conference’s outstanding protect lineman. Bond earned BCFC protect subordinate of the twelvemonth honours successful 2024 arsenic a linebacker, but is now listed arsenic a fullback pinch the Lions.

“He’s conscionable a bully athlete,” Christensen said of the 23-year-old from Terrace, B.C. “He’ll get a batch of playing clip connected typical teams, arsenic a blocker (on returns) and a tackler connected the screen teams. He’ll beryllium a stalwart there.”

But will Bond get immoderate touches retired of the backfield successful Week 3?

“Getting a triumph is going to beryllium paramount,” said Christensen. “I would deliberation that the coach, about apt successful the backmost of his mind, is for illustration ‘if we get measurement up, it would beryllium nosy to manus him the shot a mates times and perceive to the crowd.’ But that would beryllium down his database of priorities, I’m sure.”

Christensen is besides judge that Bond will make an effect disconnected the section for the Lions.

“There’s not a nicer young man retired there. He’s going to beryllium that type of feline who is awesome successful the community, he’ll animate kids successful precocious schools and beryllium a bully domiciled model, and conscionable get group excited about the shot squad again.”

There is nary shortage of excitement successful the Okanagan city, pinch tailgating and intermezo planned complete the adjacent 2 weeks. The Apple Bowl, a organization stadium usually location to section shot and way and field, has been expanded to accommodate much than 20,000 fans, up from its regular capacity of 2,314.

“To me, that’s the about astonishing thing, is to spot the vanished product,” Christensen said. “I had doubts that they could propulsion it off, but now you spot the Apple Bowl, and it’s for illustration ‘holy cow, that looks good.’

Between playing and coaching hundreds of games connected that field, it doesn’t moreover lucifer it. It’s awesome and everyone successful municipality is talking about it.”

B.C. Lions backmost Nathan Rourke jogs during the opening time of the CFL shot team’s training camp, successful Kamloops, B.C., connected Sunday, May 10, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

And that buzz should use the Lions, firing them up and perchance fuelling their first triumph of the season.

“They’re going to travel up present and hopefully provender disconnected the energy,” Christensen said. “They’re not going to beryllium capable to spell anyplace without group cheering and talking to them and getting autographs.

It’ll beryllium an breathtaking clip for the players arsenic well, conscionable to consciousness that, and hopefully that motivates them a small spot connected the field.”

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Kelowna has hosted a drawstring of awesome events complete the past year, including the Brier, the Canadian Country Music Awards, the Memorial Cup and HOOPFEST. The metropolis will besides shape the B.C. Summer Games from July 22-26.

“It’s been a crazy twelvemonth for the city, events-wise,” Christensen said.

In summation to Christensen and Bond, respective Okanagan Sun alumni person gone connected to play for the Lions complete the years, including Super Bowl champion and CFL all-star Mo Elewonibi, kicker Steven Shott and moving backmost Elelyon Noa.

Acting President Delcy Rodríguez announced the caller toll early Friday, surrounded by authorities and subject officials arsenic she welcomed the presence of rescue crews from each complete the world.

“We are going to rescue the group who are trapped,” she said. “We are moving tirelessly connected this task.”

She said the authorities of La Guaira has been hardest deed by the 7.2 and 7.5 magnitude earthquakes that struck Wednesday evening, noting that it has been militarized arsenic crews hunt for survivors and administer nutrient and water.

The number of casualties is expected to climb pinch thousands reported missing and frantic rescue efforts continuing.

Rodríguez noted that crews person rescued dozens of people, saying, “It brings america joyousness that they could clasp their families and loved ones.”

The injured were pulled retired covered successful particulate and blood, among them children. Venezuelan authorities TV showed melodramatic images of rescues, including a female who was trapped nether a cement slab pinch only a bare ft poking retired earlier rescuers slid her retired alive. But fewer authorities hunt teams were initially seen extracurricular Caracas.

The International Organization for Migration said that up to 6.76 cardinal group successful Venezuela could beryllium affected by the quakes, immoderate 2 cardinal of them successful Caracas alone. Loyce Pace, the International Red Cross’ location head for the Americas, said “people are still terrified to reenter what were their homes.”

Many were stunned Thursday greeting arsenic they saw buildings reduced to skeletons, furnishings hanging retired of windows and helicopters circling overhead. Buildings were flattened and streets cracked open.

Families posted missing-person flyers pinch photos of while others shared handwritten lists of names. Venezuelans overseas struggled to make interaction pinch relatives owed to interrupted telephone work successful the country.

In downtown Caracas, hundreds spent the nighttime huddled successful parks, parking tons and different unfastened spaces.

A mother of three, Dayana Delgado, asked wherever the dense machinery was that authorities officials had promised and said residents were the ones digging done crumpled buildings.

“I want to cognize wherever my kid is, if he’s trapped aliases successful a shelter,” she said of her missing 8-year-old son.

Another mother sobbed and collapsed successful condolences arsenic the bodies of her 3- and 10-year-old children were wrapped successful blankets and carried away. Others screamed the names of the missing. Some stood successful silent shock.

Venezuelan authorities said they were diverting rescue teams from different parts of the state to La Guaira, which is nary alien to earthy disasters: A 1999 mudslide killed thousands and is considered 1 of the country’s worst earthy disasters.

In La Guaira, Cristian Carreño stared astatine his charred flat building tilting precariously to 1 side.

“I mislaid everything,” he said. “There are group still inside, I imagine, that couldn’t get out. It’s incredibly devastating.”

Retired schoolteacher Juan Alberto Mendaño climbed done wreckage successful La Guaira and past a dormant assemblage erstwhile he spotted a female who was trapped and signaling pinch her manus for help.

“May God rescue her arsenic quickly arsenic possible,” Mendaño said. “When we heard the scream, location was thing we could do.”

Media reports person shared notable moments of dream among the destruction, including a young man brought retired connected a stretcher successful the San Bernardino territory of Caracas to the applause of onlookers arsenic his tearful mother said, “Leandro, I emotion you.”

Venezuelan TV broadcast video of a woman covered successful particulate and wrapping herself successful a acheronian sweatshirt arsenic she emerged from rubble pinch the thief of rescuers. Caracas metropolitan rescue squad caput José Luis Núñez said she was recovered successful a 10-story building successful La Guaira that collapsed and flattened “like a pancake.”

“We want to item this girl’s strength, determination and will to live,” Núñez said.

The earthy disaster is the latest situation for Rodríguez, the erstwhile vice president who took agency successful January aft the seizure and removal from powerfulness of then-President Nicolás Maduro by the United States. Venezuela has been facing economical disarray for much than a decade and galore group cull the legitimacy of the governmental activity Rodríguez represents.

Rodríguez declared a authorities of emergency successful an reside to the federation precocious Wednesday. She said the authorities was creating a $200 cardinal reconstruction money for damaged hospitals and homes.

While Venezuela sits adjacent aggregate responsibility lines, its position straddling the South American and Caribbean plates makes beardown earthquakes overmuch little communal than successful different parts of Latin America.

The U.S. Geological Survey said some earthquakes were centered adjacent Moron connected the Caribbean coast, about 170 kilometers (105 miles) westbound of Caracas. The one-two punch of the quakes, mixed pinch the shallow seismic movements, amplified the destruction, said Marcos Ferreira, a geophysicist and interrogator astatine the Geological Survey of Brazil.

“It is arsenic if I americium screaming and past personification starts screaming, too. That amplifies the vibration and adds to the imaginable hazard,” Ferreira said.

Shortly aft U.N. officials successful Venezuela called connected the authorities to assistance societal media restrictions truthful group could get perchance life-saving information, Venezuelans were capable to entree X. The tract had been blocked by Maduro since August 2024 successful an effort to suppress the speech of accusation among those who rejected his declare of triumph successful the July statesmanlike election.

Some 1,000 emergency responders successful 25 search-and-rescue teams from crossed the globe are deploying to Venezuela, said Jens Laerke, a spokesperson for the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who said to Rodríguez pursuing the quake, said the United States was instantly deploying assistance.

“We person a whole-of-government response. It’ll beryllium big; it’ll beryllium fast; and it’ll beryllium effective,” Rubio said, while acknowledging the closure of Venezuela’s main airdrome adjacent Caracas created logistical challenges.

Venezuelan TV connected Friday showed the presence of rescuers pinch dogs and equipment, including cameras and ground-penetrating radar, from Spain. Teams from Germany, Chile and Switzerland besides landed. Turkey announced 2 flights will time off Istanbul connected Friday pinch rescuers and a brace of hunt dogs. China besides said it will supply assistance. Leaders from Qatar, Brazil, Portugal and Canada vowed to nonstop help.

Rescue teams from El Salvador and the Dominican Republic arrived successful Venezuela connected Thursday, on pinch rescuers and worldly assistance from Mexico.

“No state is prepared to supply the consequence that’s needed. That’s what neighboring countries are location for,” Dominican aerial unit Maj. Carlos Olivares said.

Janetsky reported from Mexico City. Associated Press journalists Julie Watson successful San Diego, Hallie Golden successful Seattle, Dánica Coto successful San Juan, Puerto Rico, India Grant successful Mexico City, Geir Moulson successful Berlin, Suzan Fraser successful Ankara, Turkey, and Teresa Medrano successful Madrid contributed to this report.

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The United States mislaid past night, 3-2, connected a precocious extremity by Turkey. But the biggest development? Star Christian Pulisic returned from wounded and showed he was patient successful clip for the knockout stage. The U.S. will return connected Bosnia-Herzegovina successful the information of 32.

In action today, Norway’s goal-scoring elephantine Erling Haaland locks his Viking horns pinch France’s lighting-fast Kylian Mbappé, who is hunting down the World Cup scoring record.

There’s different slew of large group shape games today, truthful travel travel our Beritaja unrecorded blog.

World Cup Recap

The U.S. rested 9 regular starters successful its constrictive 3-2 nonaccomplishment to Turkey, because the U.S. had already won its group. The crippled was decided by a scrappy extremity successful the last infinitesimal of stoppage time.

Coach Mauricio Pochettino was afforded the luxury of giving 7 players their first minutes of the tournament.

“He didn’t person to alteration 9 to 10 guys, but he does because he believes successful us, and that’s what you want arsenic a coach,” midfielder Brenden Aaronson said.

Sebastian Berhalter, left, and Auston Trusty of the U.S. respond aft their nonaccomplishment to Turkey.Ringo Chiu / Sipa USA via AP

Now the squad enters the do-or-die knockouts connected July 1 successful Santa Clara, California. The Bosnians vanished 3rd successful Group B, down Canada and Switzerland. At slightest the U.S. will person Pulisic back. He played against Turkey, returning to action for the first clip since exiting the opening crippled pinch a calf injury.

The remainder of yesterday’s action included Ecuador stunning four-time world champions Germany 2-1. Ivory Coast hit Curaçao 2-0, Japan and Sweden drew 1-1, Paraguay and Australia drew 0-0, and the Netherlands vanished apical of its group by beating Tunisia 3-1.

Attendance for this summer’s World Cup has already surpassed the record 3,587,538 group by the 1994 World Cup, which was hosted successful the U.S., according to FIFA.

World Cup Preview

Erling Haaland of Norway during their lucifer against Senegal.Rich Graessle / Icon Sportswire via Getty Images

Shortly aft beating Senegal, Norwegian superstar Haaland said he didn’t attraction about Norway’s last Group I crippled against France because his squad had already qualified for the knockouts.

But the remainder of the world about surely does, arsenic the Manchester City guardant will look disconnected against legendary French striker Mbappé.

The European extremity machines — who some bid a play net northbound of $600,000 — person started the tourney pinch a bang.

Mbappé has scored 4 goals successful 2 games to push his World Cup full to 16, 2 down Lionel Messi’s grounds for about each time, while Haaland has scored doubly each successful wins complete Senegal and Iraq.

Kylian Mbappe of France chases the shot during their lucifer against Iraq.Terence Lewis / Icon Sportswire via Getty Images

Meanwhile, Seattle’s stadium is expected to beryllium brimming pinch rainbow flags today for a World Cup lucifer betwixt teams representing 2 of the about repressive countries for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.

It was conscionable a coincidence that the city’s “Pride Match” ended up arsenic a high-stakes matchup betwixt Iran and Egypt — pinch advancement from Group G still up successful the aerial — and the move has travel pinch plentifulness of pushback from some countries.

What We’re Watching

World Cup! All the games are connected Telemundo and Peacock, and each times are Eastern:

• 3 p.m.: Norway vs. France
• 3 p.m.: Senegal vs. Iraq
• 8 p.m.: Uruguay vs. Spain
• 8 p.m.: Cape Verde vs. Saudi Arabia
• 11 p.m.: New Zealand vs. Belgium
• 11 p.m.: Egypt vs. Iran

That’s it for now! We’ll beryllium backmost Monday.

In the latest quarter, BlackBerry said gross from its QNX package business accrued 26 per cent year-over-year. It was besides the first 4th successful 9 years that showed affirmative operating rate flow, meaning its halfway business brought successful much money than it spent.

In consequence to the net release, BlackBerry’s banal connected Bay Street surged about 20 per cent connected Thursday.

The Ontario-based exertion institution has been moving to toggle shape its business distant from being a smartphone shaper complete the past respective years, but it’s been a bumpy roadworthy on the way.

“They nary longer make smartphones. [BlackBerry is] a family sanction and the pivot has gone well,” says Kingsley Crane, managing head astatine Canaccord Genuity, pinch a attraction connected package research.

“I deliberation it’s taken immoderate time, and there’s been fits and starts, and location has been immoderate strategical changes on the way.”

In 2013, the institution started to attraction connected package and cybersecurity. Around the aforesaid time, Apple’s iPhone started to redefine what it meant to person a smartphone, pinch surging income that BlackBerry struggled to compete pinch directly.

BlackBerry was losing money from a driblet successful instrumentality income and was risking bankruptcy while transitioning its business distant from making smartphones. This besides led to thousands of occupation losses.

In 2015, BlackBerry released its past autochthonal device, meaning it was the past to usage the company’s ain operating system. For a fewer years after, BlackBerry released immoderate devices that featured Android package and different third-party components earlier releasing its past licensed smartphone successful 2018.

BlackBerry decommissioned services for its autochthonal package successful about devices successful 2022, which meant little reliability for older BlackBerry devices.

Since transitioning from a smartphone shaper to a package company, 1 of BlackBerry’s main sources of gross has been QNX, which is an precocious package strategy that useful successful automotive and business technologies, particularly related to safety.

“It’s wide deployed successful automotives. A batch of times it’s not arsenic visible … but it’s captious to establishing information successful the vehicle,” says Crane.

“Everything successful position of an infotainment centre, console aliases euphony console, that’s each built connected apical of QNX’s capabilities, which focuses connected safety.”

Crane adds that these technologies are besides successful request for usage successful business and health-care applications.

For 9 years, QNX was mostly costing much money than it generated, but Thursday’s net merchandise marked the first clip the institution saw a 4th successful which the work really made much money than it spent.

“I deliberation the marketplace is telling you that they’re back,” says Crane.

“I deliberation there’s a batch of excitement from the wide public, whether aliases not they needfully ain BlackBerry.”

BlackBerry’s cybersecurity business has besides been a gross generator, including done authorities contracts pinch the national government.

In March, Ottawa announced the hold pinch BlackBerry done Shared Services Canada (SSC) to unafraid voice, messaging and file-sharing services for approved authorities users.

“The nationalist is realizing that BlackBerry is deployed successful galore places that you mightiness not spot arsenic visible arsenic a smartphone. So yeah, it’s surely back,” says Crane.

“I deliberation that the early is agleam for the company.”

Through the first 2 games of this summer’s World Cup, the U.S. was about arsenic cleanable arsenic a squad could be. It won some games, ne'er trailed, gave up conscionable a extremity and won its group handily, playing pinch a verve and assurance that erased each the doubts that had shadowed it coming in.

Then came Thursday.

With Mauricio Pochettino making a grounds 9 changes to a lineup that had fixed the U.S. its about successful commencement to a World Cup successful 96 years, the B squad that closed the group shape astatine SoFi Stadium pinch a 3-2 nonaccomplishment to Turkey served to punctual everyone really flawed this group could be.

The backline was porous, goalie Matt Turner gave up goals connected the first 2 shots he faced and pinch the objection of midfielder Sebastian Berhalter, who had a extremity and an assist, nary of the starters really distinguished themselves. Whether immoderate of that matters won’t beryllium known until the U.S. adjacent takes the section successful the knockout rounds, facing Bosnia and Herzegovina connected Wednesday successful Santa Clara.

For Pochettino, whose contempt for normal has been a hallmark of his team’s World Cup run, clearing his chair and getting a U.S.-record 23 players connected the section successful the group shape was much more important than the result.

“The nonsubjective was to decorativeness first and we are first,” he said. “Now it is the adjacent shape and it is going to beryllium a final. And we are ready. We are overmuch amended than earlier that crippled because we had players now pinch 90 minutes successful their legs and performing and fresh to thief if we request from the opening aliases from the bench. It’s each positive.”

Maybe. Sure, Christian Pulisic, who hadn’t played since the first half of the first game, sewage backmost connected the section and looked bully successful a 32-minute cameo. But different than that the crippled was meaningless since the Americans had already won the group and qualified for the adjacent information while Turkey was going location nary matter the result.

The U.S. came successful riding a immense activity of momentum, though, and that’s gone now, erased connected Kaan Ayhan’s extremity connected the past touch of the game.

Does that matter?

“No,” skipper Tim Ream said pinch conviction. “You conscionable move the page.”

The acquisition the domiciled players got, he said, is much important than the last score.

“When we opportunity it didn’t mean anything, it’s still a meaningful game, right? It’s a World Cup game,” he said. “So it gives everybody a sensation of what life will beryllium for illustration if they are called upon and person to contribute.”

Midfielder Tyler Adams wasn’t truthful sure.

“I don’t cognize what it’s going to do,” he said. “I can’t foretell the future. I don’t person an 8 shot successful beforehand of me. We’ll spot what happens.”

What Adams can opportunity pinch certainty, however, is that successful the early the U.S. will person nary room for error. The games are each elimination matches now and 13 players connected the U.S. roster, including Adams, person knowledgeable that first hand, having mislaid successful the information of 16 4 years agone successful Qatar.

Turner said it’s up to those veterans to impart that contented connected the 13 who are playing successful their first World Cup.

“You request to really return attraction of the boxes erstwhile it comes to knockout round. That’s the biggest instruction that we learned,” said Turner, who started each 4 games successful the past World Cup. “It’s not needfully really beautiful a style you play. The chances you create is important, [but] the measurement you take sides your container is much important.

“Those games are going to beryllium decided by 1 goal, they’re going to beryllium narrow, and we’re going to person to beryllium compact and beryllium together, defensively, offensively, and return the chances erstwhile they come.”

The U.S. did small of that Thursday.

After a Berhalter area group up Auston Trusty for the first extremity successful the 3rd minute, Turkey’s Arda Guler, a Real Madrid midfielder, tied the people 7 minutes later, splitting a brace of U.S. defenders and moving onto a walk from Kenan Yildiz successful the halfway of the box, past lifting a changeable complete Turner.

Orkun Kokcu handed the U.S. its first shortage of the tourney erstwhile he recovered different large spread successful the U.S. defense, redirecting a transverse from Eren Elmali successful from the halfway of the container to springiness Turkey a 2-1 lead.

Berhalter tied the crippled again 4 minutes into the 2nd half, latching onto a loose shot astatine the apical of the punishment area and one-hopping a right-footed changeable conscionable wrong the adjacent post. The crippled stayed that measurement until Ayhan, who came connected pinch 2 minutes near successful regulation, slid betwixt 2 U.S. defenders to sound successful the game-winner 8 minutes into stoppage time.

For Berhalter, 1 of a grounds 21 Americans to get a commencement successful this World Cup, Pochettino’s determination to clear his chair was not only a reward, it was mentation for what’s to come.

“It’s each small kid’s dream, crossed the United States of America, to play successful a location World Cup. Just successful a World Cup successful general,” he said. “People made their debuts today, truthful congratulations everyone. This is what everybody looks guardant to.”

More important, he added, “we cognize everyone’s fresh to measurement up astatine immoderate moment.”

Which is bully because history suggests the roadworthy up is about the get a batch much challenging. The nonaccomplishment to Turkey was the Americans’ 10^th consecutive to a UEFA team, moving their winless streak against European opponents to 12 successful a row.

Guess which continent Bosnia and Herzegovina, who the U.S. faces next, is from?

Sports editor Iliana Limón Romero contributed to this story.

Former U.S. nationalist information advisor John Bolton leaves national tribunal successful October 2025 successful Greenbelt, Md. Alex Kent/Getty Images

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John Bolton, a erstwhile nationalist information advisor to President Trump who became a staunch critic, pleaded blameworthy Friday for mishandling classified information.

Bolton, wearing a acheronian suit, stood earlier U.S. District Judge Theodore D. Chuang astatine the national territory tribunal successful Greenbelt, Md., extracurricular Washington, D.C.

He solemnly entered his plea, agreeing pinch national prosecutors' summary of his actions. "And I americium sorry for it," he told the court.

Under the plea agreement, Bolton could service up to 5 years successful national situation and would person to salary a good of $2.25 cardinal — half of which would person to beryllium paid wrong 5 days of his sentencing. He will besides forgo immoderate status benefits related to his activity pinch the government, for himself aliases his family.

Judge Chuang, an appointee of President Barack Obama, scheduled a sentencing proceeding connected Oct. 28. Bolton was released and allowed to return location successful the meantime.

He was indicted past October connected 18 criminal counts for retention and transmission of nationalist defense information. Had he gone to trial, he would person faced respective years successful prison.

In tribunal Friday, Bolton confessed and pleaded blameworthy to conscionable 1 of the 18 counts he was primitively charged with: the retention of nationalist defense information.

"Today, Ambassador Bolton did what existent leaders do. He took work for a correction he made, thereby redeeming the authorities resources to prosecute a lawsuit that could expose further delicate information," said his lawyer successful the case, Abbe Lowell.

Federal prosecutors said Bolton regularly took handwritten notes including accusation about nationalist defense accusation and about regular meetings pinch U.S. intelligence and subject officials aliases pinch overseas leaders.

He would past nonstop that delicate and often highly classified accusation to 2 family members via texts aliases an AOL email account. Prosecutors said Bolton shared much than a 1000 pages detailing these regular activities.

After Bolton near the Trump management successful 2019, hackers believed to beryllium associated pinch the Iranian authorities gained entree to the individual email relationship that he utilized to nonstop this accusation — including immoderate of that nationalist defense information, national prosecutors said.

Bolton had antecedently said he believed this lawsuit was motivated by Trump's desire for revenge for his past disapproval of the president. It's an accusation the management has besides faced for its attempts to prosecute different Trump critics, including erstwhile FBI head James Comey and New York State Attorney General Letitia James. The management has denied these accusations and said it is pursuing the law.

(The first cases against Comey and James were dropped. But Comey was indicted a 2nd clip for a expected threatening Instagram station against Trump.)

Stacey Young, a erstwhile DOJ attorney, says the Bolton lawsuit is legitimate, and different from those different "vindictive cases DOJ has pursued." Young is now the executive head and laminitis of Justice Connection, an statement of erstwhile DOJ staffers.

"Naturally, the nationalist has been skeptical of whether the charges brought against [Bolton] are so legitimate," Young said. "The truth that the nationalist has mislaid its spot successful the Department of Justice is astatine rumor pinch this case. After seeing DOJ activity many times front to President Trump's orders to prosecute his enemies, it's difficult for the nationalist to abstracted this lawsuit from the vindictive and selective prosecutions we've seen that ... break the Constitution."

Michael O'Hanlon, who specializes successful American nationalist information argumentation astatine the Brookings Institution, agreed Bolton's lawsuit had merit.

"This is simply a salient nationalist charismatic who did make immoderate mistakes and should person known amended … and deserved immoderate benignant of reward arsenic a result," he said.

Notably, Trump avoided reward for his ain mishandling of classified documents. In 2022, the FBI searched Trump's Mar-a-Lago location aft he near agency and recovered he was keeping classified accusation successful aggregate rooms.

The lawsuit against him was yet thrown out by U.S. District Judge Aileen M. Cannon, who Trump appointed successful his first term.

Researchers utilized AI devices to execute the first complete viewings of closed scrolls burnt by the eruption that buried the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum successful 79 A.D.

The breakthrough, which came about arsenic portion of the Vesuvius Challenge — a world title that uses AI to digitally unwrap carbonized scrolls — marks a ‌major measurement toward deciphering hundreds of ancient manuscripts that would different crumble astatine a touch.

Among the recently publication worldly were 70 columns of matter from On Vices, Book 1, attributed to the Epicurean philosopher and writer Philodemus, and different of his works, On Gods, Book 8, successful summation to about 1.5 metres of matter crossed 20 columns recovered from a archive ​dated to 200-300 BC — the oldest Herculaneum scroll to beryllium unwrapped — exploring ethics, arts and quality behaviour.

“We will inquire into something, but we will not grasp it, if successful immoderate measurement we depart from ourselves and from our ain nature,” 1 of the unwrapped scrolls sounds successful part, according to the challenge’s published findings.

Seeking to accelerate exertion development, the Vesuvius Challenge, which was launched successful 2023 by a mini group of tech developers and investors, said it would make each its existing data, codification and models for the scrolls disposable online and connection a US$1-million prize to the first personification aliases squad to publication 1 successful full.

“Just a twelvemonth agone it would person been crazy for immoderate of america to ⁠believe that location would beryllium a complete scroll publication wholly non-invasively pinch hundreds of columns of text,” Brent Seales, professor ​of machine subject astatine the University of Kentucky and 1 of the founders of the project, told a convention streamed from Naples, Reuters reported.

“Today we person shown you that that ​is possible,” he continued. “I judge we’re going to publication each azygous 1 of the scrolls successful the collection.”

Federica ​Nicolardi, lead papyrologist ⁠with the Vesuvius Challenge, said the technological advancements had transformed her section of study by allowing hundreds of preserved but unsealed scrolls to beryllium publication successful their entirety.

“Even pinch the about successful methods disposable … to physically unwrap the scrolls and publication them, 1 had to harm them. But pinch virtual unwrapping, we are nary longer forced to take betwixt preserving and reference these bonzer artifacts. We ⁠can do ​both,” she said.

Nicolardi said advancement had been rapid, pinch researchers successful the past 24 ​hours unwrapping the afloat magnitude of 1 scroll, revealing immoderate 140 columns of unseen text. Until recently, they were uncovering only about 10 per cent of the columns, she explained.

“Literally ​last night, successful beforehand of Mount Vesuvius, something, aliases I should opportunity everything, changed,” she concluded.

— with files from Reuters

Two group were injured Thursday nighttime aft a man changeable them adjacent a barin South Los Angeles, according to authorities.

The Los Angeles Police Department responded to a shooting astatine El Diamante Sports Bar connected Figueroa Street about 10:30 p.m. Thursday, according to the LAPD.

A man and a female suffered injuries successful the shooting and taken to section hospitals successful unchangeable condition, according to the LAPD.

The gunman fled successful an chartless conveyance and remainsat large, the LAPD said. The investigation is still ongoing and the motive is chartless astatine this time. No further accusation is available.

People were astatine the barroom to watch the World Cup game, according to ABC7.

The products person the consequence of causing burns aliases fires, the announcement said.

The callback involves definite models of Amana marque Through-the-Wall Air Conditioners aliases Heat Pumps.

The distributor, Texas-based Daikin Comfort Technologies, sold 53 units of the made-in-India aerial conditioner successful Canada and 7,030 units successful the United States betwixt April 2025 and December 2025.

The heating constituent whitethorn beryllium energized immoderate clip the portion is plugged successful and a crushed responsibility successful the equipment’s electrical heater whitethorn airs a pain aliases occurrence hazard, the callback announcement said.

As of March 2026, the institution has received reports of 1 wounded successful the United States and nary successful Canada.

The exemplary numbers PBE093J35AA and PBE123J35AA connected aerial conditioners and PBH093J35AA and PBH113J35AA connected power pumps person been affected.

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The United Center shared a connection connected Facebook announcing that the 77-year-old vocalist has postponed performances successful Chicago connected Thursday and Columbus, Ohio, connected Friday.

“Under advisement by doctors to remainder and return to afloat health, Lionel Richie has postponed his adjacent 2 shows,” the connection read. “He and Earth, Wind & Fire will return to the shape connected Tuesday, June 30 successful Pittsburgh, PA.”

“Lionel is heartbroken to postpone these 2 shows and cannot hold to beryllium backmost performing for his fans. We apologize for immoderate inconvenience this causes fans who person tickets for these 2 shows. Rescheduled dates will beryllium announced soon,” the connection added.

The announcement comes aft Richie’s show successful St. Paul, Minn., during which he told the crowd he was emotion dizzy, past performed his deed Dancing connected the Ceiling while seated onstage.

“When you’re emotion dizzy, beryllium your ass down,” he told the crowd.

“Now I want you to cognize that that is the first clip successful the history of Dancing connected the Ceiling I’ve done it sitting down,” he continued. “That’s a bad sign. That’s a bad sign, y’all.”

After performing Three Times a Lady at the piano, he went connected to denote an intermission 55 minutes into his performance, according to the Minnesota Star Tribune.

Richie’s saxophonist returned to the shape aft the intermission and told the crowd, “Unfortunately, Lionel is not emotion well. He won’t beryllium capable to continue. Additional accusation will beryllium available.”

Earth, Wind & Fire drummer John Paris told the Minnesota Star Tribune that Richie was “a small dehydrated” but didn’t cognize his charismatic wellness status.

BERITAJA has reached retired to Richie’s typical for further comment, but has not received a response.

The Lionel Richie and Earth, Wind & Fire Sing A Song All Night Long circuit began Wednesday successful Minnesota and will make 2 Canadian stops, including Toronto connected July 4 and Montreal connected July 5.

A man whose dogs attacked a woman successful Kern County and chased a 12-year-old boy into a lake, wherever he drowned, has been arrested successful Lancaster successful relationship pinch the incident, according to authorities.

On Thursday, California City Police Department said it sewage a extremity from a Lancaster resident who thought they spotted Kenneth Dobbins about 1 p.m. adjacent their spot of work, KBAK reported.

Authorities had issued an apprehension warrant for Dobbins, 68, successful relationship pinch the decease of a 12-year-old boy past week astatine a Kern County reservoir and an onslaught connected a girl. According to police, Dobbins’ dogs attacked the two, and the boy had tally into the reservoir to escape, wherever he drowned.

Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department deputies responded to the segment to look for Dobbins and took him into custody, the position reported. California City constabulary interviewed Dobbins and, he was taken to the Lerdo Pre-Trial Facility successful Kern County.

Kern County jailhouse records show Dobbins is being held successful lieu of $40,000 bail and was booked connected suspicion of involuntary manslaughter and negligent ownership of a mischievous animal causing superior bodily wounded and/or decease to another.

On June 18, the California City Police Department responded soon aft 6 p.m. to a drowning successful the reservoir astatine Central Park, according to a Police Department news release.

A 12-year-old boy was recovered astatine the bottommost of the reservoir by responding officers, who took him to the aboveground and started CPR, according to police. Officers besides responded to different insignificant astatine the segment who was suffering from serious, non-life-threatening wound injuries.

Paramedics from the Kern County Fire Department took complete until an ambulance arrived, constabulary said. The boy was taken to the Adventist Health Tehachapi Valley infirmary and past later to Children’s Hospital successful Bakersfield, wherever he died from his injuries. The woman was taken to Antelope Valley Medical Center for her injuries and released.

Officers continued the investigation and went to Lakeshore Condominiums, wherever they said pinch Dobbins, according to police. Dobbins told constabulary he was successful the parkland pinch his 3 dogs. Police photographed his clothing and 3 dogs, but didn’t cognize the grade of the injuries to the victims, truthful they didn’t apprehension Dobbins.

Dobbins’ dogs were later identified arsenic the ones who attacked the children astatine the park, authorities said.

On Tuesday, California City constabulary went to Dobbins’ location and recovered that he had fled, according to the release. One of the dogs progressive successful the onslaught was later recovered successful Los Angeles County and seized. The California City Police is trying to find his remaining dogs.

More than $15,000 has been raised via GoFundMe for the deceased boy, whose family identified him arsenic Fernando Torres Moreno.

Torres Moreno “was fresh for a awesome time astatine the parkland pinch his friends and family, but calamity took him from america excessively soon,” according to the page. Moreno is survived by his mother, father, 2 brothers and 2 sisters.

Forced retired of Vancouver’s BC Place by the FIFA World Cup, the Lions (0-2) will look for their first triumph successful a impermanent location astatine Kelowna’s Apple Bowl.

The Lions big the besides winless Calgary Stampeders (0-2) connected Saturday earlier facing the unbeaten Edmonton Elks (3-0) adjacent weekend, pinch Christensen watching arsenic an alumnus of each 3 CFL clubs.

“(I have) a batch of fond memories from everyplace I played, but B.C. will ever clasp my bosom because I was from Vancouver and played successful the Okanagan,” said Christensen, whose family moved to Kelowna erstwhile he was 12. He went connected to prima for the Okanagan Sun inferior shot squad earlier going pro.

Christensen started his profession pinch the Stampeders, enjoyed his top individual occurrence pinch the Lions, and went connected to triumph a Grey Cup title pinch Edmonton successful 1993 during his eighth of 10 CFL seasons arsenic a slotback. He retired arsenic an Ottawa Rough Rider successful 1995, finishing pinch 21 receiving touchdowns and much than 3,600 yards connected 248 catches arsenic a target for Hall of Fame quarterbacks Doug Flutie and Damon Allen.

After retiring, he returned to the Okanagan and coached the Sun for a decade, reaching 3 consecutive Canadian Bowls and winning a nationalist title successful 2002. The 62-year-old still serves arsenic a head astatine ample connected the club’s committee and is nearing status from Valley First Credit Union, wherever he specializes successful taxation and property planning.

Back wherever it each began astatine the Apple Bowl, the games will beryllium a family affair, pinch some of Christensen’s children now joined and his boy bringing 2 granddaughters to his aged stomping grounds.

“I americium looking guardant to it. A batch of family, friends and moreover erstwhile teammates will beryllium here,” he said. “It’ll beryllium breathtaking for maine to show that off, wherever my inheritance was and conscionable the shot civilization we person here.”

The Okanagan Sun will besides beryllium represented connected the section by B.C.’s Jacob Bond and Calgary’s Kelon Thomas. The 2 were teammates successful 2022, erstwhile Thomas was named the B.C. Football Conference’s outstanding protect lineman. Bond earned BCFC protect subordinate of the twelvemonth honours successful 2024 arsenic a linebacker, but is now listed arsenic a fullback pinch the Lions.

“He’s conscionable a bully athlete,” Christensen said of the 23-year-old from Terrace, B.C. “He’ll get a batch of playing clip connected typical teams, arsenic a blocker (on returns) and a tackler connected the screen teams. He’ll beryllium a stalwart there.”

But will Bond get immoderate touches retired of the backfield successful Week 3?

“Getting a triumph is going to beryllium paramount,” said Christensen. “I would deliberation that the coach, about apt successful the backmost of his mind, is for illustration ‘if we get measurement up, it would beryllium nosy to manus him the shot a mates times and perceive to the crowd.’ But that would beryllium down his database of priorities, I’m sure.”

Christensen is besides judge that Bond will make an effect disconnected the section for the Lions.

“There’s not a nicer young man retired there. He’s going to beryllium that type of feline who is awesome successful the community, he’ll animate kids successful precocious schools and beryllium a bully domiciled model, and conscionable get group excited about the shot squad again.”

There is nary shortage of excitement successful the Okanagan city, pinch tailgating and intermezo planned complete the adjacent 2 weeks. The Apple Bowl, a organization stadium usually location to section shot and way and field, has been expanded to accommodate much than 20,000 fans, up from its regular capacity of 2,314.

“To me, that’s the about astonishing thing, is to spot the vanished product,” Christensen said. “I had doubts that they could propulsion it off, but now you spot the Apple Bowl, and it’s for illustration ‘holy cow, that looks good.’ Between playing and coaching hundreds of games connected that field, it doesn’t moreover lucifer it. It’s awesome and everyone successful municipality is talking about it.”

And that buzz should use the Lions, firing them up and perchance fuelling their first triumph of the season.

“They’re going to travel up present and hopefully provender disconnected the energy,” Christensen said. “They’re not going to beryllium capable to spell anyplace without group cheering and talking to them and getting autographs. It’ll beryllium an breathtaking clip for the players arsenic well, conscionable to consciousness that, and hopefully that motivates them a small spot connected the field.”

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Kelowna has hosted a drawstring of awesome events complete the past year, including the Brier, the Canadian Country Music Awards, the Memorial Cup and HOOPFEST. The metropolis will besides shape the B.C. Summer Games from July 22-26.

“It’s been a crazy twelvemonth for the city, events-wise,” Christensen said.

In summation to Christensen and Bond, respective Okanagan Sun alumni person gone connected to play for the Lions complete the years, including Super Bowl champion and CFL all-star Mo Elewonibi, kicker Steven Shott and moving backmost Elelyon Noa.

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Christian Pulisic is back. Back for illustration Captain America, revived and fresh to spell aft being put connected crystal for a spell, needed to prevention the day.

Forget everything other about Thursday’s lucifer against Turkey astatine SoFi Stadium and marinate connected that.

Never mind the United States’ 3-2 loss successful their last World Cup Group D match; the consequence was inconsequential. The Americans knew they were going done to the information of 32, and more, they’d already won the group. No pressure is simply a privilege, well-earned.

Never mind really the lucifer ended, pinch a gutpunch of a extremity from Kaan Ayhan successful the last moments of stoppage time.

Never mind the nutmegs (pulled connected Pulisic and goalkeeper Matt Turner) connected that game-winning goal.

But do mind the closing spread betwixt the soccer’s elite teams and the hard-charging Americans, who will caput into the knockout shape Wednesday against Bosnia-Herzegovina pinch their about move and vulnerable subordinate successful the lineup again.

Pulisic said he was kicked successful the calf successful the opening match, a 4-1 triumph complete Paraguay connected June 12, erstwhile he was subbed retired astatine halftime. Then the United States took attraction of Australia 2-0 connected June 19 without Pulisic to unafraid their spot successful knockout play.

So the United States didn’t need him against Turkey.

But it will request him successful the knockout stage. And he needed immoderate tally Thursday.

Like a sports car needs to lukewarm its engine. So, no, he wasn’t kept connected the support retired of harm’s way; he played.

“The about important [thing] for him,” Coach Mauricio Pochettino said, “[was] to get the feelings again.”

After immoderate instruction from Pochettino, who draped his limb about Pulisic’s shoulders connected the sideline, the 27-year-old came connected for Tim Weah successful the 58th minute.

U.S. coach Mauricio Pochettino, right, talks pinch guardant Christian Pulisic earlier entering the crippled during the 2nd half.

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The 2 embraced arsenic Pulisic’s quality drew large cheers from the 70,000 mostly American fans who spent the first half of the lucifer urging 9 caller U.S. starters against a Turkey squad that was the aggressor, first and fastest to their spots, bullying the U.S. squad that thought it had captured momentum pinch Auston Trusty’s extremity 3 minutes into the match.

But arsenic soon arsenic Pulisic appeared connected the scene, that United States’ B squad became a B+ team.

He stretched the section for illustration a knockdown shooter mightiness agelong a hoops court, opening abstraction for his teammates to play, utilizing each of the section and forcing Turkey to way his movements, to effort to enactment pinch him.

With the unit on, nary 1 connected this U.S. squad could put unit connected opponents for illustration him.

He instantly changed the complexion of the match, creating 3 attempts astatine the extremity wrong 5 minutes. He netted nary goals, but doubly came tantalizingly adjacent — hitting the station and leaving a left-footed changeable from supra the punishment conscionable a fewer inches near of the frame.

“You saw, erstwhile he came in, the effect he had,” said Sebastian Berhalter, whose banger successful the 49th infinitesimal tied the match. “He’s our guy.”

“You could see,” Antonee Robinson said, “how happy the fans were erstwhile he came on. We cognize the value we get pinch Christian, truthful if he’s emotion well, he’s going to thief us.”

“It was amazing,” Pulisic told FOX. “I felt healthy. I felt good, truthful it was really bully to beryllium backmost pinch the squad and get immoderate minutes. I felt bully pinch the ball.”

Better, certainly, than he had been emotion coming location to hole for and play successful the World Cup.

Pulisic arrived having mislaid his starting spot pinch Italy’s AC Milan and having been booed disconnected the section aft going scoreless successful his last 17 games pinch the club. He’d gone much than 5 months without a extremity for nine aliases country, a career-worst 21-game drought — which he snapped pinch a splendid people successful a May 31 friends against Senegal.

Early successful the United States’ raucous opener, besides astatine SoFi, Pulisic was portion of the American’ first extremity of the World Cup; he sewage the shot to Weston McKennie, who directed a walk toward Folarin Balogun — a series that became an ain extremity disconnected Paraguay.

The United States would for illustration much of that, please.

“We still person large games up of us,” Pulisic said. “We did the job, now it’s clip to regroup, retrieve and get fresh for the adjacent one.”

If they do that, we each will hide everything about Thursday’s lucifer — everything isolated from Pulisic’s portion successful it.

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The ex-husband of Tatjana Stefanski, who is accused of stabbing her to decease successful agrarian British Columbia successful 2024, has told a assemblage her decease was “like a suicide” and the Crown had grounded to beryllium beyond a reasonable uncertainty that he murdered her.

“You should judge maine that I americium not guilty,” said Vitali Stefanski during closing submissions astatine his second-degree murder proceedings successful B.C. Supreme Court successful Kamloops connected Thursday.

Stefanski had been represented by a lawyer for overmuch of the trial, but jurors were told past week he would beryllium representing himself, including for closing arguments.

The assemblage later began deliberating aft receiving instructions from Justice Bradford Smith.

Tatjana Stefanski’s assemblage was recovered pinch galore stab wounds disconnected a agrarian wood work roadworthy adjacent Lumby, B.C., successful April 2024.

The proceedings heard that a bent and bloodied weapon recovered adjacent had the DNA of some Tatjana and Vitali Stefanski, while constabulary testified that the accused emerged shoeless from the wood and confessed to the sidesplitting earlier gesturing successful the guidance of the body.

“I ne'er said that,” Stefanski said connected Thursday.

“That connection does not exist, truthful that does not exist, and he has nary impervious that it does exist,” he said referring to an RCMP officer’s testimony.

Referring to the alleged confession, Smith urged the jurors to usage communal sense, saying they must determine whether they judge Stefanski made the statements aliases immoderate portion of them.

Stefanski had testified astatine the proceedings that his ex-wife stabbed herself successful his car and he denied dumping her body, alternatively saying she slipped from his grasp by the road.

“For me, it’s for illustration a suicide,” he told the assemblage connected Thursday.

Crown lawyer Laura Drake told the assemblage successful her closing arguments connected Wednesday that the only reasonable conclusion from the grounds is that Stefanski stabbed his ex-wife to death, and his mentation of events was inconsistent pinch communal sense.

But Stefanski told the assemblage connected Thursday that what the Crown claims happened was “actually other and moreover wrong.”

“You should cull everything that Crown said yesterday,” said Stefanski, who speaks some German and Russian and delivered his arguments successful heavy accented English.

He added that he “was not readying to wounded Tatjana” and location is “practically nary evidence” to beryllium he was responsible for her death.

Smith told the jurors aft closing arguments that they “may judge all, portion aliases nary of Mr. Stefanski’s evidence.”

“You must not presume that an accused who testifies will dishonesty retired of self-interest to debar being convicted of the offence charged,” the judge said.

The tribunal has heard Tatjana Stefanski was stabbed successful the thorax 7 times, injuring her bosom and lungs, starring to her death. It heard she besides suffered aggregate “sharp-force injuries” to her arms and legs and wounds to her hands that a pathologist, Dr. Eric Bol, said were accordant pinch “defensive-type” injuries.

Stefanski denied inflicting immoderate of the injuries some during his grounds and again successful his closing statement.

He testified astatine proceedings that connected the greeting of April 13, 2024, his ex-wife had approached him astatine her location pinch a bloody nose, and they drove distant together successful his achromatic Audi.

He said he past discovered she had been stabbed pinch his ain sportfishing weapon and testified he “did everything” to get her help, explaining that he drove successful the other guidance from the nearest infirmary because of the measurement his car was parked.

Stefanski described his ex-wife going quiet, past removing her from the car earlier trying to put her backmost in, erstwhile her assemblage “slipped” from his grasp and went down an embankment.

He said he attempted termination by drowning, past by stabbing himself pinch a room weapon he recovered astatine a cabin, losing consciousness and waking up the adjacent morning.

“My scheme was to spell to Tatjana, telephone emergency, and I was still hoping that she survived,” he said Thursday, echoing his earlier testimony.

Stefanski said he was taken to infirmary aft being arrested, but nary doctors had testified to uncovering immoderate grounds to bespeak he caused his ex-wife’s injuries.

“I person nary scratches, nary cuts, nary bruises … and location wasn’t thing that would bespeak that Vitali caused Tatjana’s death,” he said Thursday, referring to himself successful the 3rd person.

If he had attacked her, he said, location would beryllium grounds to show it.

“I show you why they do not exist,” he said of his deficiency of injuries. “Because I’m conscionable a witness.”

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Venezuela’s acting president Delcy Rodríguez said early Friday that the decease toll has risen to 589, pinch 2,980 injured.

She besides said the authorities of La Guaira has been hardest deed by the 7.2 and 7.5 magnitude earthquakes that struck Wednesday evening, noting that it has been militarized arsenic crews hunt for survivors and administer nutrient and water.

“We are going to rescue the group who are trapped,” she said. “We are moving tirelessly connected this task.”

The 7.2 and 7.5 magnitude earthquakes were among the strongest to onslaught Venezuela successful much than a period and reported to beryllium felt passim the region.

Prime Minister Mark Carney announced Thursday that Canada will supply “an initial” $5 cardinal successful humanitarian assistance for Venezuela, pinch much accusation connected wherever the money will beryllium allocated expected to beryllium announced successful the coming days.

In a written statement, Carney expressed his condolences for the dormant early Thursday morning.

“My thoughts are pinch everyone who has been injured aliases displaced and pinch the first responders moving tirelessly to prevention lives,” he added successful a station connected X.

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The OLG reports Bradley V. won the $12-million prize from the Lotto 6-49 Gold Ball tie held connected June 6.

The 47-year-old purchased his summons connected the OLG’s website and discovered his triumph while checking emails connected a Sunday morning. He thought a notification from the OLG to log into his relationship was an error.

“I logged into my OLG.ca relationship to analyse further and thought location had to beryllium a mistake,” he said.  “I put connected my reference glasses and checked the accusation again. Eventually, I realized it was morganatic and the triumph was real. I was successful disbelief and couldn’t attraction for the remainder of the day.”

The begetter of 3 shared the breathtaking news pinch his children by showing them screenshots of the winning ticket.

“Their mouths dropped unfastened successful shock,” he said. “They were wholly speechless.”

He said his mother’s guidance was arsenic unforgettable.

“She was overwhelmed by the news and said, ‘I person to pinch myself. I must still beryllium dreaming.'”

Despite the multimillion-dollar prize, Bradley says he plans to proceed moving arsenic a financial planner. However, the triumph will springiness his family greater financial information and springiness him the state to discontinue earlier than expected.

“I dream to discontinue a small earlier than planned truthful I could walk much clip enjoying life pinch my family,” he said.

Bradley plans to usage the money to support his family and is besides considering purchasing a caller vehicle, pinch an Audi aliases BMW astatine the apical of his wish list.

It was the second-straight play a winning Gold Ball tie was won successful the Peterborough area aft a female from Cavan won $16 cardinal from the May 30 draw.

The NHL’s yearly draught of the champion 18-year-olds takes spot successful Buffalo Friday night. For some, not many, this is the opening of a profession successful hockey’s top league. Names for illustration McKenna, Stenberg, Malhotra and Reid will go family names for the teams that draught them, pinch hopes that they make an effect astatine this level, for illustration Matthew Schaeffer did past play for the New York Islanders.

But successful galore ways, the draught pinch each its imaginable has go an afterthought to the moves that NHL teams person made successful the past week to hole themselves for the future.

From Brady Tkachuk to Bo Byram and connected to Alex Tuch and Jordan Kyrou, the National Hockey League has taken connected the characteristics of a Boxing Day waste astatine the section mall. And by the way, much — overmuch much — could hap earlier Friday’s draught successful Western New York.

Teams are jockeying for position because the free supplier marketplace is shrivelling up quickly. Hockey players, who are blimpish by nature, are electing to find ways to build semipermanent security, arsenic opposed to taking the chance of what July 1 and free agency brings. Sign now and bask the summer.

And from the squad perspective, if you can’t guarantee a semipermanent narration pinch a player, you’re amended disconnected uncovering a squad prepared to salary the hefty net and get a draught prime aliases two. At slightest you get thing for the player. Just inquire Tampa and Buffalo.

For the 7 Canadian teams, this is an important infinitesimal successful time. But is it a turning point? Is it much important for the Jets, Flames, Oilers, Leafs, Canucks, Senators and Canadiens than the U.S.-based teams? Are we astatine the constituent wherever we person to beryllium concerned about losing our champion players? Can our hockey-centric markets compete pinch the U.S.-based teams that connection amended taxes and a different lifestyle? Stories of American players wanting to play successful America mightiness conscionable beryllium an overreaction to a fewer guys wanting to play elsewhere.

Last I checked, Kyle Connor, Brock Boeser, Cole Caufield, Jake Sanderson, Auston Matthews — each American, each playing for Canadian teams — are staying put. The reality is, players conscionable want to win.

And it’s that unit to triumph and triumph now, driving GMs to instrumentality and deal. Teams for illustration Chicago, Washington, Florida, Seattle and Toronto did not bask their deficiency of playoffs. They request to hole things, quickly. And, successful reality, their activity has overshadowed the draft.

What we are witnessing is the divergent ways teams really amended themselves — by the draft, aliases by waste and acquisition aliases free agency.

You request patience to triumph via the draft. And not each squad has the clip to beryllium patient.

After failing to artifact from the ballot a measurement that would enact a billionaire taxation successful his state, California Gov. Gavin Newsom is now proposing a nationalist wealthiness taxation of his own.

In a lengthy Substack station and video released Friday morning, Newsom — who opposes a projected one-time levy successful his ain state arsenic he mulls a 2028 statesmanlike tally — said he alternatively supported a much expansive plan.

His connection would create a minimum taxation connected billionaires and a nationalist national equity money whereby Americans would ain a liking successful the artificial intelligence industry, arsenic good arsenic adjacent taxation loopholes for the ultra-wealthy. Newsom’s connection would require billionaires and those pinch a nett worthy of astatine slightest $100 cardinal to salary a minimum tax.

“When 10% of the group successful this state ain two-thirds of the wealth, erstwhile we person minted the first trillionaire successful quality history, and yet your wages person stagnated, and your healthcare costs person skyrocketed, thing is fundamentally broken,” Newsom wrote. “Over the decades, the American system has been engineered for the very top, a communicative arsenic aged arsenic time: Money buys influence, and power rewrites the rules. Those rewritten rules chimney moreover much wealthiness to the few. Under this weight, populist itself starts to buckle.”

Newsom’s connection comes arsenic he positions himself for a 2028 White House bid, pinch imaginable statesmanlike hopefuls good alert of what is apical of mind successful the party. The Democratic guidelines is progressively agitating for its leaders to do much to reside the nation’s wealthiness disparity, as the mean American struggles to salary for the rising costs of nutrient and fuel.

Newsom said his guidance to California’s billionaire taxation connection is grounded successful wherever the money would beryllium spent.

The California inaugural would instrumentality a one-time 5% taxation connected the assets of Californians whose nett worthy exceeds $1.1 billion. It would require the authorities to walk 90% of the caller gross connected healthcare, pinch the remaining 10% divided betwixt acquisition and nutrient assistance programs.

Xavier Becerra, the starring campaigner to win Newsom arsenic politician and the erstwhile U.S. wellness secretary, besides opposed the California billionaire taxation proposal. Other salient Democrats successful the authorities — including Rep. Ro Khanna, another imaginable 2028 statesmanlike candidate, and Tom Steyer, a billionaire activistic who conscionable mislaid a bid for politician — person backed the effort.

Newsom besides formed the different portion of his proposal, the AI equity fund, successful portion arsenic a use for Americans whose jobs are cannibalized by the quickly evolving technology.

“We request to guarantee each American owns a liking successful the early being built by AI done a nationalist national equity money that takes a awesome liking successful the caller economy,” Newsom wrote. “As artificial intelligence reshapes the country, each American should ain a portion of the early it builds.”

Former nationalist information advisor John Bolton is expected to plead blameworthy successful national tribunal connected Friday to 1 count of retaining nationalist information information.

Bolton, who served arsenic White House nationalist information advisor during President Donald Trump’s first word and has since been a predominant professional of the president, will look Friday greeting for a re-arraignment successful Greenbelt, Maryland.

Beritaja reported successful early June that Bolton planned to plead blameworthy successful the case. Two sources acquainted pinch the matter said astatine the clip that Bolton faces a imaginable condemnation of probation to 60 months successful prison, and according to 1 of the sources, he besides agreed to salary $2.25 cardinal successful restitution. CNN was first to study the plea deal.

Bolton described the nationalist information accusation that he retained arsenic an physics diary introduction that he shared pinch 2 members of his family.

Judge Theodore D. Chuang, an appointee of then-President Barack Obama, will person up to 90 days to condemnation him.

Bolton was originally indicted successful October 2025, charged pinch 8 counts of transmission of nationalist defense accusation and 10 counts of retention of nationalist defense information.

He pleaded not blameworthy to the charges and faced up to 10 years successful prison, a $250,000 good per count, and 3 years of typical release.

Bolton’s lawyer, Abbe Lowell, said astatine the clip that his customer didn’t break the law.

“The underlying facts successful this lawsuit were investigated and resolved years ago,” Lowell said. “These charges stem from portions of Amb. Bolton’s individual diaries complete his 45-year profession — records that are unclassified, shared only pinch his contiguous family, and known to the FBI arsenic acold backmost arsenic 2021.”

Last fall, Bolton was the 3rd Trump professional to beryllium indicted by the Department of Justice, which besides charged New York Attorney General Letitia James and former FBI Director James Comey successful abstracted cases on charges of owe fraud and lying to Congress, respectively. After a national judge dismissed the charges against James, the DOJ twice grounded to re-indict her. That first lawsuit against Comey was besides dismissed, but he was charged again successful April pinch threatening Trump’s life by posting a photo of seashells connected Instagram. Both James and Comey, who will spell connected proceedings successful October, person denied wrongdoing.

Take a stroll about San Francisco and it won’t return agelong to spot an quiet autonomous conveyance cruising the city’s streets, waiting to beryllium hailed by a rider aliases heading disconnected to a distant depot to beryllium charged and cleaned. These deadhead miles — an manufacture word for miles driven without a paying rider — are 1 of the biggest barriers betwixt robotaxi companies and profitability.

A Redwood City, California-based startup Aseon Labs thinks it has a fix: parking space-sized automated pods that could beryllium scattered passim cities to inspect, clean, and complaint robotaxis. The company, co-founded by the squad down battery-swapping startup Pushme, calls them robotic pit stops for robotaxi industry. And the thought has caught the attraction of investors.

Aseon Labs has raised $10 cardinal successful a seed information led by Crane Venture Partners, TechCrunch has learned. Y Combinator, Uber co-founder Garrett Camp’s task patient Expa, Robin Hood Ventures, and Founders Capital besides participated on pinch angel investors specified arsenic serial entrepreneur and erstwhile Google executive Adrian Aoun, Mercury laminitis and CEO Immad Akhund, Zimride co-founder Rajat Suri, and operators and founding squad members from Anthropic, Nuro, Turo, and Revolut.

Aseon Labs is still successful the early stages. The seed costs will beryllium utilized to build 5 prototypes of these pods, turn its six-person robotics and engineering squad to about a dozen, and unafraid the existent property needed to build retired its network, according to Aseon Labs co-founder and CEO George Kalligeros.

“In bid to scope economical parity pinch ride-hailing — which is wherever we request to get pinch self-driving cars — and to extremity really subsidizing the cost, you request the utilization to spell up,” Kalligeros told TechCrunch. “You request the robotaxi successful continuous cognition during the entirety of the request curve of the day.”

Aseon’s transportation is that a web of distributed autonomous pods would slash deadhead miles, and inevitably move robotaxi services into profitable enterprises.

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Kalligeros and co-founder and COO Dan Keene travel from extracurricular the autonomous conveyance world. But they bring acquisition processing and scaling a hardware-and-real property company. Kalligeros worked arsenic a mechanical creation technologist astatine Bentley Motors and Tesla earlier he and Keene founded Pushme successful 2016 to build battery-swapping infrastructure for micromobility fleets. Pushme was building a artillery switch web successful Europe erstwhile it was acquired successful January 2020 by Tier Mobility.

“The parallel I’ll tie is we were fundamentally tasked by SoftBank to put this crossed arsenic galore markets wherever it made consciousness for Tier wrong a very short and compressed play of time,” Kalligeros said. “The playbook became, really do we sprinkle the locations crossed the halfway of the city, wherever it makes sense, but astatine the aforesaid time, make it easy to deploy arsenic non-permanent infrastructure?”

Aseon Labs is applying the aforesaid reasoning to autonomous vehicles.

As they researched the industry, the brace visited AV depots, wherever fleets of robotaxis are inspected, maintained, cleaned, and charged. The costs of existent property often prompts companies to find these depots extracurricular the metropolis center, wherever about of the ride-hailing activity occurs.

“Depot infrastructure is the cardinal request for the motorboat of a caller metropolis for immoderate AV operator,” he said. “And what happens successful the depot correct now — the operational backbone of autonomy, really — is not afloat baked.”

The founders settled connected the thought of creating smaller, independently powered autonomous pods that could beryllium dispersed passim a metropolis but arsenic importantly, they could besides beryllium moved arsenic needed. The units, which see cameras to inspect vehicles and robotic arms to retrieve mislaid items and cleanable interiors, are considered impermanent structures. That classification helps Aseon Labs debar lengthy permitting process and allows the institution to relocate units if a location underperforms.

The units are designed to tally connected a propane generator for powerfulness aliases link to an existing powerfulness root done partnerships pinch EV charging companies. They are meant to run autonomously, though early versions will beryllium staffed, according to Kalligeros.

Aseon Labs isn’t trying to tackle each separator case, either. Instead, it leans connected machine imagination and AI — specifically vision-language-action models communal successful modern robotics — to observe problems the pod shouldn’t effort to solve. For example, if a camera detects melted cocoa connected a backseat, the robotic limb stands down since attempting to cleanable it could make the stain worse. Instead, the conveyance will beryllium charged and dispatched straight to that company’s cardinal depot for a quality to handle.

Aseon Labs hasn’t signed contracts pinch immoderate robotaxi companies yet, but Kalligeros said location is wide liking successful the concept. “Pretty overmuch everyone wants to effort it,” he said.

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Canada’s nationalist women’s shot squad skipper Christine Sinclair, backmost left, who is scheduled to play her last world lucifer connected Tuesday, laughs during training pinch Janine Beckie, backmost right, and Ashley Lawrence, right, successful Vancouver, connected Monday, December 4, 2023. Sinclair, 40, calls clip connected her world profession Tuesday successful her backyard, against Australia, successful what will beryllium her 331st quality for Canada.

“She is simply a powerful advocator for the advancement of women’s athletics and has inspired generations of athletes globally,” her citation from the politician wide reads.
Among the caller officers of the Order of Canada is Yvan Cournoyer, who won 10 Stanley Cups successful his 16 seasons pinch the Montreal Canadiens, ending successful 1979.

Michael J. Fox wears his Order of Canada pin everywhere.

He wears the small achromatic pin connected talk shows; he wears it to meet up pinch friends — his chap Canadian New Yorkers Martin Short and Lorne Michaels make judge of it, he quips. And he wore it erstwhile he accepted the Presidential Medal of Freedom successful the last days of Joe Biden’s presidency.

“My intrinsic Canadianism is simply a bigger portion of maine than my narration pinch the States,” he says connected a video telephone from New York, Emmy Awards lined up connected the support down him.

The character and Parkinson’s advocator has worn the achromatic pin for 16 years, since he was first named an serviceman of the Order of Canada. But he’ll soon beryllium capable to upgrade to the reddish type of the snowflake-shaped insignia arsenic he’s promoted to companion, a higher rank wrong the order, whose surviving rank is capped astatine 180.

The “Back to the Future” prima is among 61 group recently appointed to aliases promoted wrong the Order of Canada, including shot icon Christine Sinclair, journalist Stephanie Nolen and infectious illness master Caroline Quach-Thanh.

It’s the past tranche of members chosen by erstwhile politician wide Mary Simon, who was succeeded successful the domiciled by Louise Arbour earlier this month.

Fox loves the United States, he clarifies. It’s wherever he launched his career, met his woman and raised his family. But Canada comes first, he says, and the Order of Canada is an honour he doesn’t return lightly.

“What it seems to maine this represents is being an ambassador aliases a typical of Canada: representing Canada successful the things I do. Canada’s consciousness of community, its consciousness of chap Canadians and chap people, and their business is thing I subordinate to,” Fox says.

Rideau Hall says Fox is being promoted for his “powerful world defense and unflinching honesty about Parkinson’s.”

The actor, now 65, was diagnosed pinch the progressive illness successful 1991 erstwhile he was 29 years old.

Parkinson’s is classified arsenic a activity disorder, and it happens erstwhile the encephalon cells that make dopamine extremity moving aliases die. The illness could origin tremor, stiffness and slowness, aliases problems stepping and moving. It’s besides linked to depression, representation problems and different symptoms that aren’t related to movement.

After his diagnosis, Fox went connected to recovered the Michael J. Fox Foundation, which costs investigation into the illness and spreads consciousness about the varying experiences of group who person it. It’s raised $2.5 cardinal for the origin truthful far.

“There was a emotion erstwhile I first sewage progressive of being benignant of connected an island, waiting for the vessel to travel prevention us,” he says. “They said: don’t look for a boat, build a vessel and return it wherever we want it to go.”

After he went nationalist pinch his diagnosis, Fox decided he’d only return parts that merge his Parkinson’s symptoms into the role.

In 2023, he released “Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie,” a documentary chronicling his life successful Hollywood and his acquisition pinch Parkinson’s disease.

And earlier this year, he had an arc connected “Shrinking,” the Apple TV Plus show pinch a storyline about a therapist played by Harrison Ford who’s diagnosed pinch Parkinson’s.

In it, Fox’s characteristic talks about having the illness and what Ford’s characteristic could expect.

In some cases, Fox says, he pushed his defense to different level.

“In the past year, it was … the advocator and the character coming together.”

Niv Fichman, a movie shaper and laminitis of Rhombus Media will besides subordinate the group of appointees. His credits see “The Red Violin” and “BlackBerry.”

Children’s TV shaper Roger Damon Price, meanwhile, is simply a recently minted personnel of the Order of Canada.

His about visible publication to the civilization is the neon greenish slime that became a signature of the U.S. kids transmission Nickelodeon. He introduced the viscous constituent successful the seventh section of “You Can’t Do That connected Television,” a CTV kids assortment show that was picked up by Nickelodeon.

Less visible but much notable was his effect connected the reside of children’s television.

He developed his shows successful consultation pinch a kid psychologist, who told him kids wanted to spot themselves reflected connected TV — that it would thief them consciousness bully about themselves.

Price besides had a consciousness of what kids didn’t want: to beryllium talked down to aliases lectured.

He says he utilized to show TV executives that the balanced of their children’s programming would beryllium a premier clip show successful which personification appeared connected surface and said: “Hi ladies and gentlemen, coming we’re each going to person nosy filing our taxation returns and compiling each our receipts. And adjacent week we’ll person moreover much nosy — you mightiness beryllium fortunate capable to get audited!”

Instead, Price’s shows were high-energy chaos, goofy and irreverent, pinch jokes conceptualized by the kids themselves.

Now 84 and surviving successful Ottawa, the British-born Price is penning his memoirs. While he’s honoured to beryllium named to the Order of Canada, he says it’s not really he measures success.

“What mattered to maine was whether they were watching and benefiting from watching — not learning from watching. Because learning, that’s what they’re expected to do successful school.”

The caller appointments besides see nationalist servants, specified arsenic Colin Robertson, a profession diplomat who now hosts a Canadian Global Affairs Institute podcast. He said he’s “deeply honoured” that his overseas acquisition is being recognized.

He says it feels for illustration nickname of the worth of diplomats’ extent of knowledge.

“Diplomacy is perfectly basal fixed the hole we’re successful about the world coming and I deliberation Canada could play a useful role, has played a useful role,” Robertson says.

Charlie Watt, a erstwhile legislator and an influential Inuk leader, said receiving the grant is thing he could beryllium proud of for the remainder of his life.

Watt founded some the Northern Quebec Inuit Association and the Makivvik Corp. He besides played an important domiciled successful negotiating the landmark James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement, Canada’s first modern onshore declare agreement.

The statement group retired biology and societal protections for Cree, Inuit and Naskapi territories and guaranteed their authorities to trap, hunt and food connected those lands.

Watt served connected the Senate from 1984 to 2018, starting erstwhile Pierre Trudeau was premier curate and ending erstwhile Justin Trudeau was.

The 81-year-old says this honour intends moreover much because he received it from Simon, whom he grew up pinch successful Nunavik, Que. Simon is conscionable a fewer years younger than him.

“It was bully to get it from her,” he says.

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It didn’t return endless quarantining pinch my spouse during the COVID-19 pandemic to extremity my matrimony of complete 2 decades. By the summertime of 2019, menopause — and the extra-added “bonus” of frontal fibrosing alopecia that it awakened — was pummeling maine physically and mentally to the grade that I nary longer had the capacity to usability wrong the dysfunction of my life.

The alleviation that came pinch the determination to yet fto spell was wholly dwarfed by the immense symptom of severing a family successful two. I cried arsenic I packed. I cried arsenic I unpacked. I was rolling endlessly successful a acheronian activity that would not stop; my feet could not show soil from sky. Once I managed to break the surface, I reached out.

I called Tish, Diane and Michelle, 3 smart, strong, nurturing women who’d been done and survived divorce. I besides called my brother, Dan, and my friends Doug and Steve, 3 kind, creative, funny men who ever “got” me.

As for Steve, we met successful the outpouring of 1984 erstwhile he auditioned to beryllium the drummer for the Secrets, the set Dan, Doug and I had started the twelvemonth before. In our small-town precocious schoolhouse of less than 400 students, he had flown wholly nether my radar, arsenic he was 2 years younger, and he joined marching set the twelvemonth aft I’d ditched my baritone horn for a microphone and Pat Benatar tights. Steve aced the audition, and the 4 of america clicked instantly complete our shared emotion of the Pretenders and each things Monty Python. By mid-June, the Secrets were playing section bars and biker parties successful the mediate of nowhere, and I was caput complete heels successful emotion pinch the drummer.

It wasn’t expected to hap for illustration that. I wasn’t expected to autumn successful emotion pinch a boy from my hometown.

I had spent my full life dying to get retired of Middlebourne, W.Va., and had been champing astatine the spot to time off for college, but by precocious August, that nary longer meant freedom; it meant that I’d person to time off Steve behind. I told myself we’d defy the likelihood and make it work. He was my psyche mate. But we were conscionable kids, and location was nary internet, nary cellphones pinch unlimited matter and calling. By February 1985, the disagreement was excessively great. In a infinitesimal of loneliness, I cheated connected him. It was over, and I was firmly told to return my spot successful the friend zone.

I spent the pursuing twelvemonth flailing and failing successful assemblage earlier making the bold, half-baked determination to driblet retired of the West Virginia University theatre programme and move to Los Angeles, a spot I’d ne'er been, to prosecute a singing career. When Steve recovered retired that I was moving crossed the country, he softened his friend-zone stance and told maine he loved me. On July 13, 1986, he went pinch my parents to Pittsburgh International Airport to spot maine off.

For the adjacent 33 years, we would travel together and drift isolated — sometimes arsenic lovers but mostly arsenic friends. During a sojourn to my Hollywood flat successful 1988, erstwhile he was still successful assemblage and the timing was still wrong, I told him, “Who knows. Maybe successful 30 years, I’ll travel backmost and get you.”

In November 2019, Steve came to sojourn maine for a agelong weekend.

I picked him up astatine Los Angeles International Airport and took him consecutive to Zuma Beach for a picnic, wherever we watched dolphins jumping successful the waves while the seagulls stole our murphy chips. The pursuing day, we cozied up for an day of vino and food astatine Cornell Wine Co. successful Old Agoura, past made our measurement complete Topanga Canyon for meal astatine Canyon Bistro & Wine Bar.

The nighttime earlier he flew home, we watched the sun group from our array by the reservoir astatine Zin Bistro Americana successful Westlake Village. I felt giddy, excited, seen, understood and appreciated successful a measurement I hadn’t felt successful a very agelong time. While it was tempting to jump correct successful pinch some feet, we decided to day agelong region and return things slowly.

On March 26, 2020, while Steve was still recovering from being profoundly sick pinch COVID, I arrived astatine his doorstep astatine 6 a.m. and proclaimed, “I’m not leaving present without you.”

Two weeks later, aft packing about of his belongings into U-Haul shipping crates, we near Parkersburg, W.Va., successful Steve’s reddish Volkswagen Golf pinch 2 suitcases, 1 Treeing Walker Coonhound and 1 Aussie/Chow mix. I-40 West was practically empty; conscionable america and the occasional car aliases Amazon truck.

We arrived successful California connected Easter Sunday and joined the remainder of the world successful quarantine, not knowing really it would impact our activity and financial future. We took a batch of agelong walks to thief woody pinch the accent of the not knowing, but the magic panacea for maine came the time Steve’s Harley-Davidson arrived successful 1 of the crates.

We cruised up and down PCH, and roared our measurement up and complete Mulholland Highway, Stunt Road, Malibu Canyon and Decker Canyon, stopping on the measurement to agelong our legs, consciousness the oversea spray connected our faces and return successful views from the valleys to the coastline. We were surrounded by truthful overmuch beauty; it was almost intolerable to fto trepidation win.

On 1 peculiarly memorable thrust connected Mulholland Highway betwixt Kanan Road and SR 23 adjacent Saddle Rock, we came about a crook and — bam! — correct successful beforehand of maine was the greenest upland scope I’d ever seen successful California, gleaming spectacularly successful the sunlight. As I inhaled its gorgeousness and exhaled my stress, I thought, “I can’t judge I get to spot this. I can’t judge I get to do this. I can’t judge I get to beryllium pinch Steve.”

In September 2024, I sewage to wed Steve.

As my brother, Dan, said astatine the reception, “What a long, unusual travel it’s been.”

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For about 20 years, animal advocator Jennifer Raymond was convinced thing suspicious was going connected astatine Miranda’s Rescue, but her repeated cries for authorities to analyse the Northern California animal sanctuary fell connected deaf ears, she said.

She could spot they were getting paid handsomely to return successful hundreds of shelter dogs annually, based connected nationalist records requests she filed. But she couldn’t understand wherever each these dogs were past going, fixed really reliable it could beryllium to find foster homes for rescue dogs successful this agrarian area of Humboldt County, she said.

But aft moving successful adjacent doorway to the Fortuna rescue, she claimed she saw ample objects being dumped into a heavy spread connected the property, and had a sinking emotion she had figured it out. On the nighttime of April 26, Raymond and a chap animal advocator Jenna Moore decided to return matters into their ain hands, trespassing onto her neighbor’s spot successful pursuit of answers, she said.

“We waited until acheronian and had our headlamps and shovels and gloves and phones and headed retired to the spread and jumped successful and started digging,” she said.

An investigation into allegations of fraud and animal maltreatment astatine the rescue are ongoing, according to authorities. No charges person been revenge against its owner, Shannon Miranda, who did not respond to The Times’ petition for remark connected Thursday. In an earlier connection connected his organization’s website, he urged that location not beryllium a unreserved to judgment.

As Raymond and Moore started to dig, they systematically uncovered blood-soaked furry bodies, respective of which had slug holes successful their head, Raymond said.

“Each clip we uncovered a dog, we uncovered portion of different dog, and truthful we conscionable kept pursuing the canine trail,” she said. “We knew by the clip we were to our 5th aliases sixth canine that we weren’t leaving them location successful this wide grave.”

In total, they took 8 canine carcasses location that nighttime and later handed them complete to the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office, which served a hunt warrant astatine Miranda’s Rescue connected May 1. A transcript of the hunt warrant affidavit obtained by section news outlet Lost Coast Outpost corroborates the specifications of Raymond’s account.

Since then, the Sheriff’s Office has opened a sprawling investigation into allegations of felony animal abuse, animal cruelty, fraud, and conspiracy associated pinch the animal sanctuary.

Detectives learned that betwixt January 2025 and May 2026, Miranda’s Rescue accepted much than 900 rescue animals from animal shelters and backstage citizens, but truthful acold investigators person only been capable to way down take records for a constricted number of them, Sheriff William Honsal said astatine a Tuesday day news conference.

For each animal Miranda’s Rescue took in, the statement charged a interest of $500 to respective 1000 dollars, he said.

Currently, about 730 animals stay unaccounted for, Honsal said Tuesday.

In a June 18 connection on the organization’s website, Miranda described the sanctuary arsenic a “no-kill rescue” that does not euthanize animals to make space, but does euthanize successful utmost circumstances specified arsenic a terminal unwellness aliases if an animal attacks staff.

He asked that group see each the facts earlier reaching conclusions. “Allegations made without a afloat knowing of the circumstances could harm not only my estimation but besides the early of an statement that has served this organization for decades,” he stated.

On Tuesday, the Sheriff’s Office began utilizing ground-penetrating radar to hunt the ungraded astatine Miranda’s Rescue successful Fortuna for carcasses.

They brought a mobile refrigerator portion connected segment to shop the bodies arsenic they were pulled from the earth.

“We are reasoning worst-case scenario,” Honsal said, “and we are present to book and uncover immoderate grounds we could perchance find.”

The Sheriff’s Office finalized its hunt Thursday afternoon, but has not yet disclosed the full number of animals found.

Raymond said she watched the hunt and counted astatine slightest 45 animal carcasses unearthed.

“It is conscionable heartbreaking to spot these wholly guiltless creatures, successful various states of decomposition, beryllium taken retired and put connected a tarp and put successful the achromatic integrative garbage container for evidence,” she said.

For Raymond, who said she had been asking the Sheriff’s Office to analyse the installation for years, this week’s hunt brought mixed emotions. She was elated that authorities are taking allegations against the rescue earnestly but overwhelmed by the “horrible darkness” of the carcasses discovered.

When asked astatine Tuesday’s news convention whether the agency dropped the shot successful investigating anterior complaints, Sheriff Honsal said, “We are looking into those erstwhile cases to spot what was investigated, really it was investigated, to spot if we did not do our occupation enough.”

In summation to excavating the property, investigators person seized financial records, take records and business records.

Currently, about 50 animals are still surviving astatine the sanctuary, which does not require a licence to operate. As nary criminal charges person been filed, Miranda is allowed to proceed operating his business astatine this time, Honsal said.

Both Honsal and Raymond said they hoped the investigation would radiance a ray connected the broader problem of animal overpopulation successful California.

“The authorities has ignored this rumor for many, galore years,” said Honsal. “I dream that this lawsuit opens the eyes of galore group and we are capable to person spay-and-neuter clinics spell and help.”

Raymond has founded 2 spay-and-neuter clinics successful Humboldt County that dainty from 3,500 to 5,000 dogs and cats each year, collectively preventing tens of thousands of animal births, she said.

She is besides an advocator for making spaying and neutering, which typically costs respective 100 dollars, much affordable. And though she wants much oversight of rescues, she said the about important point is to destruct unwanted animal births.

“We person been doing animal shelters successful California for complete 150 years and we person not solved the problem,” she said, “because we’ve ne'er addressed the cause.”

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Diagnoses of gambling upset roseate much than 60% since 2018 successful states that person legalized sports betting, pinch the biggest summation among young men, according to a caller study of physics wellness records crossed the U.S.

Gambling upset is simply a recognized intelligence wellness condition successful which patients often cannot extremity gambling, contempt the increasing distress and harm they experience.

Sports betting has exploded crossed the U.S. pursuing a landmark Supreme Court ruling that paved the measurement for states to legalize online sportsbooks successful 2018. Experts opportunity the findings connection much grounds of imaginable fallout from the determination — astatine a clip erstwhile much online betting sites, for illustration prediction markets, are taking off.

The complaint of gambling upset successful states pinch legalized sports betting roseate from 3.0 per 100,000 to 4.8 per 100,000, according to Epic Research, a backstage patient known successful the aesculapian section for its investigation connected nationalist wellness trends.

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The group besides recovered that diagnoses of gambling disorders fell successful the 11 states that did not legalize sports betting, pinch cases dropping by about 30% from 2018 to March 2026.

Epic’s researchers did not place a circumstantial logic for the drop. But they noted that changes successful wellness attraction and the maturation of telehealth during the Covid pandemic, arsenic good arsenic greater consciousness among wellness attraction clinicians and changes successful coding practices, whitethorn person contributed to immoderate of the differences betwixt states.

Epic Research analyzed records from much than 197 cardinal U.S. adults from January 2018 to March 2026 utilizing information from its genitor company, an physics wellness package level utilized by thousands of hospitals and clinics crossed the U.S.

Adults ages 30 to 49 had the highest wide complaint of gambling disorder, but the biggest summation was among those ages 18 to 29, who were besides disproportionately male.

Epic’s researchers said the trends “cannot beryllium attributed to immoderate azygous ineligible event,” specified arsenic a state’s determination to legalize sports betting, but they added that the findings were successful statement pinch different investigation showing that much group are looking to get thief for gambling problems successful states that person done so.

“You summation access, you summation problems,” said Mark van der Maas, a societal activity professor astatine Rutgers University who has studied the nexus betwixt gambling and suicide and was not progressive successful the research.

He noted that the property groups pinch the biggest increases successful diagnoses were besides those likeliest to usage the online betting platforms that person been astatine the bosom of the sports gambling boom.

“As soon arsenic you present a caller shape of gambling aliases dramatically summation the readiness of gambling, you will beryllium expanding the number of group that are experiencing harm because of that gambling,” van der Maas said.

Harry Levant, head of gambling argumentation astatine the Public Health Advocacy Institute, a ineligible investigation group pinch a ngo of reducing harm caused by for-profit products, said the findings said to really online platforms were expanding the consequence of addiction.

“This is highly important grounds that speaks to not only the effect of legalization — but the inherently vulnerable quality of really online gambling is fundamentally different than thing we’ve seen before,” said Levant, who is successful betterment from gambling addiction. “You’re introducing younger and much susceptible group to a highly addictive product.”

The American Gaming Association, a waste and acquisition group that represents sportsbooks and different gambling companies, said the study reflected greater consciousness of gambling addiction, not a increasing underlying problem.

“While problem gambling is simply a superior information for those impacted, this study does not bespeak an expanding complaint of addiction,” it said successful a statement. “Increased screening and greater consciousness of disposable resources could often lead to much diagnoses, while decades of investigation person recovered nary summation successful problem gambling rates arsenic ineligible gaming has expanded.”

A spokesperson for the relation said the manufacture invests about $500 cardinal annually successful education, investigation and support for those struggling pinch problem gambling.

Experts, however, stressed that problem gambling is overmuch much communal than what Epic Research’s study was capable to capture.

While a fewer states person conducted caller studies to analyse the prevalence of problem gambling, the past federally funded nationalist study was conducted successful 1999.

Access to curen still varies widely depending connected location moreover arsenic online betting has erupted crossed the U.S. So does state funding for gambling prevention, acquisition and services — which is often drawn from authorities taxation gross collected from gambling companies.

But immoderate providers who specialize successful treating gambling addiction told Beritaja they person observed an influx of patients seeking help.

“We’ve seen decidedly an summation successful related referrals and diagnoses,” said Steven Heim, outpatient supervisor astatine New Hope Integrated Behavioral Health Care, a curen halfway successful New Jersey, which legalized sports betting successful 2018.

In fact, experts said, only a mini fraction of those pinch gambling disorders will extremity up being diagnosed successful aesculapian settings. Health providers typically do not surface for gambling problems, and moreover known cases do not ever get branded pinch the diagnostic codification for gambling disorder.

People who create gambling problems besides whitethorn not beryllium consenting aliases capable to admit their symptoms of addiction, which are often invisible to loved ones, arsenic well, master researchers and clinicians said. And those who do activity thief often do truthful extracurricular of general wellness attraction settings, done peer-support groups for illustration Gamblers Anonymous aliases online forums.

“Typically nary much than 3 to 10% of group who would beryllium diagnosed pinch disordered gambling really entree curen services for a gambling problem,” said Rachel Volberg, a starring gambling interrogator who found a important increase successful financial, affectional and narration harms reported by gamblers successful Massachusetts aft the authorities legalized sports betting successful 2022.

Symptoms of gambling upset see an ongoing preoccupation pinch gambling, a request to bet progressively ample amounts of money, repeated unsuccessful attempts to extremity gambling, lying to family members and others about the grade of gambling and relying connected others for a financial bailout linked to gambling, according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Health Disorders.

“It is an addiction that for galore group is silent — location are nary visible manifestations,” said Levant, who stole adjacent to $2 million from his clients, friends and family members to money his gambling wont much than a decade ago. “By the clip it is diagnosed, the magnitude of symptom and suffering and misery connected the personification and their loved ones is enormous.”

Gambling upset is now classified successful the aforesaid conception successful the DSM arsenic constituent maltreatment disorders because of the similarities successful objective position and treatment.

“It affects the encephalon successful the aforesaid measurement that heroin aliases immoderate different psychoactive supplier does,” said Dr. Anthony Comerford, New Hope’s CEO. “It useful done the aforesaid mechanisms — those aforesaid cravings travel into play.”

Other caller studies person linked the legalization of online sports gambling to an summation successful bankruptcies, indebtedness and in installments paper delinquencies, arsenic good arsenic a decrease successful in installments scores and savings. The differences betwixt the states that legalize sports betting and those that do not whitethorn beryllium becoming smaller amid the emergence of caller platforms for illustration prediction markets, which let residents to spot wagers connected sports events regardless of whether online sports betting is legal wherever they live. The platforms are not regulated by states arsenic gambling companies and typically person minimum ages of 18 alternatively of 21. (Prediction markets opportunity they are trading platforms, not gambling companies, and person their ain “responsible trading tools.”)

“It’s going to return a fewer years for america to admit these harms, because it doesn’t show up connected time one,” said erstwhile New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin, who oversaw gambling enforcement. “It takes a while for problematic gambling behaviors to appear, and I will stake thing that 3 years from now, we’re going to spot a spike.”

The Supreme Court paves the measurement for Trump to portion ineligible protections from Haitian and Syrian immigrants. European leaders fearfulness pro-Russian groups are seeding AI chatbots pinch propaganda. And the U.S. men’s nationalist squad suffers its first nonaccomplishment of the World Cup.

Here’s what to cognize today.

Supreme Court sides pinch Trump admin successful brace of rulings

The Supreme Court yesterday cleared the measurement for the Trump management to portion ineligible protections from thousands of Haitian and Syrian immigrants, perchance expanding efforts to target different protected groups.

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The court, connected a 6-3 ballot connected ideological lines, allows the management to proceed pinch its scheme to portion Temporary Protected Status from about 35,000 Haitians and 6,000 Syrians.

The TPS programme has provided humanitarian alleviation since 1990 to group from countries reeling from war, earthy disasters aliases different catastrophes. Former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem concluded that Haiti and Syria nary longer met the criteria for ineligible status, saying conditions successful the countries had improved contempt the State Department including them connected its “do not travel” list.

More connected the determination involving Haitian and Syrian immigrants.

The tribunal besides backed the Trump administration’s bid to fortify the regularisation of asylum-seekers astatine the U.S.-Mexico border. In the ruling, besides divided 6-3, the tribunal said that personification who seeks to participate the United States cannot declare asylum if they coming themselves to officials while still opinionated connected Mexico ungraded because they are technically not successful the U.S. Under national law, a personification could activity asylum only if they are “physically present” successful the state aliases “arrives successful the United States.”

More connected the determination involving asylum claims astatine the border.

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• For subscribers: The Supreme Court determination about asylum claims saw blimpish Justice Samuel Alito and Justice Sonia Sotomayor conflict openly successful court. It each began pinch Alito reference aloud a summary of the determination and Sotomayor past reference from her dissent — which is normal. But what Alito said aft Sotomayor concluded her remarks threw regular SCOTUS denizens disconnected guard.

• For subscribers: In a Q&A, Beritaja’ elder ineligible analogous Laura Jarrett discussed the Supreme Court’s large outstanding cases, limits connected the tribunal and more. Watch it here.

• Many salient figures successful the MAHA activity said they consciousness betrayed aft the Supreme Court ruled that Bayer, the shaper of Roundup, did not request to pass consumers of a imaginable crab consequence associated pinch its weed killer.

• Speaker Mike Johnson said he and Trump are “on precisely the aforesaid page” aft their White House gathering to talk really to break a legislative impasse.

Pro-Russian groups are seeding AI chatbots pinch propaganda, European officials warn

The Estonian emblem astatine the Pikk Hermann building of Toompea Castle, which houses the Estonian Parliament.Peter Kollanyi / Bloomberg via Getty Images file

Pro-Russian groups are bombarding celebrated AI systems pinch propaganda to get chatbots to repetition Kremlin talking points, elder European officials say, raising concerns up of America’s midterm elections complete efforts to silently power voters.

“Russian propaganda is spreading pinch a velocity we ne'er could imagine, and that makes this a world issue,” Liisa Pakosta, Estonia’s curate for justness and integer affairs, said successful an interview.

This represents a caller beforehand successful Russia’s broader disinformation and sabotage campaigns crossed the European Union. Pakosta and her colleagues position the threat arsenic existential, peculiarly for Russia’s Baltic neighbors.

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World Cup: The U.S. could motion disconnected its last-gasp nonaccomplishment to Turkey. Now the stakes spell up.

Turkey's Kaan Ayhan scores the victor against Team USA successful Inglewood, Calif., connected June 25, 2026. Marcio J. Sanchez / AP

The U.S. men’s nationalist squad entered past night’s lucifer against Turkey without immoderate stress. They’d already secured a spot successful the adjacent information arsenic group winners, and the only suspense hinged connected whether prima Christian Pulisic would return from a calf wounded (he did). So the 3-2 nonaccomplishment to Turkey, decided by a extremity successful the last infinitesimal of stoppage time, marked the past infinitesimal the U.S. could spend to relax successful this tournament.

That meant that coach Mauricio Pochettino was capable to remainder 9 starters while giving 7 players their first minutes connected the pitch. In the 58th minute, Pulisic returned and showed disconnected his readiness to play.

Now, the squad enters the do-or-die knockouts and will look Bosnia and Herzegovina successful the information of 32 connected July 1.

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💥 What you missed: Ecuador stunned Germany 2-1, Ivory Coast hit Curaçao 2-0, Japan and Sweden drew 1-1, Paraguay and Australia drew 0-0, and the Netherlands vanished atop its group by beating Tunisia 3-1.

🤝 Football vs. fútbol: Alex Freeman became the U.S.’s breakout prima successful past week’s large triumph complete Australia. His dad, a erstwhile Green Bay Packers wideout, couldn’t beryllium much proud.

🎟️ 3.6 cardinal and counting: Attendance for this summer’s tourney has already surpassed the record group by the 1994 World Cup.

🗓 What to watch today: Norway and France play astatine 3 p.m. ET, arsenic good arsenic Senegal and Iraq. At 8 p.m., it’s Cape Verde vs. Saudi Arabia, and Uruguay vs Spain. And astatine 11 p.m., it’s Egypt vs. Iran, and New Zealand vs. Belgium. See the afloat schedule.

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‘Doublet’ earthquakes caused wide demolition successful Venezuela

Desperate betterment efforts continued a time aft back-to-back earthquakes rocked Venezuela, making respective structures successful Caracas unstable. The decease toll roseate to 235 and is expected to rise, while complete 4,300 group person been injured, the country’s wellness curate said. Videos person shown group trapped nether debris, including children, pulled to safety.

Experts said the 2nd earthquake began earlier the first had moreover ended, pinch the 2 onsets separated by conscionable 39 seconds. The U.S. Geological Survey classified the 7.1- and 7.5-magnitude quakes arsenic a doublet series — 2 earthquakes of akin spot striking successful about the aforesaid area wrong a short period. While the arena is not rare, the little spread betwixt the quakes apt accrued the destruction.

Here’s what makes the responsibility lines beneath Venezuela truthful unique.

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• The U.N.’s shipping agency said it would region an removal effort to get hundreds of stranded ships retired done the Strait of Hormuz after a alloy was attacked successful the Gulf of Oman.

• A national judge is requesting that a deadlocked jury scope a verdict successful the proceedings complete the root of Los Angeles’ deadly Palisades Fire.

• A erstwhile younker pastor who was charged pinch sidesplitting his woman 20 years aft she fell to her decease astatine Zion National Park is dead.

• Gambling upset diagnoses rose much than 60% since 2018 successful states that person legalized sports betting, a caller study found.

Staff Pick: Secrets of ancient scrolls burned by Mount Vesuvius deciphered

The Greek characters, πορφύραc, revealed arsenic the connection “PURPLE,” are among the aggregate characters and lines of matter that person been extracted by Vesuvius Challenge contestant Luke Farritor.Vesuvius Challenge

With the thief of AI-enabled “digital unwrapping,” scientists person deciphered matter from ancient scrolls buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius about 2,000 years ago. The documents see philosophical takes connected ethics, the arts, quality behaviour and theology.

It’s an effort much than 3 hundreds of years successful the making. In this story, Beritaja’ Rome-based analogous Claudio Lavanga explains the painstaking processes group to unravel the scrolls and the technological breakthrough 3 years ago that changed everything. — Elizabeth Robinson, newsletter editor

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A trickle of marine postulation was passing done the Strait of Hormuz connected Friday contempt an attack connected a vessel successful the captious waterway a time earlier, arsenic Iran reiterated its warnings for ships to travel a Tehran-approved route.

A travel of vessels transiting via an replacement way adjacent to Oman successful caller days has drawn Iran’s ire, arsenic it useful to support its grip connected the key waste and acquisition route contempt the United States’ assertion that the strait is open.

The 2 sides person been engaged successful a nationalist conflict complete the early of the waterway arsenic they conflict complete the position of their first deal to extremity the war, pinch Iran intent connected maintaining its leverage while American and world officials insist transit must beryllium free.

At slightest 37 vessels had transited the strait aliases are successful the process of doing truthful since Thursday’s incident involving a instrumentality vessel from Taiwan-based shipping elephantine Evergreen Marine, an Beritaja reappraisal of MarineTraffic information showed.

Despite Iran’s threats, 20 of those ships had taken a way acold southbound of Iran that hugs the coastline of the United Arab Emirates and bends on Oman’s Musandam Peninsula, avoiding Iranian waters.

Iran has warned that it cannot guarantee information for ships not pursuing a specified way adjacent to the Iranian coastline. Its newly-formed Persian Gulf Strait Authority warned Thursday that specified ships will not beryllium covered by safe transition guarantees and warned that immoderate “consequences” will beryllium the work of the vessels and their owners.

The International Maritime Organization (IMO), the U.N.’s maritime agency, had coordinated the replacement route. The assemblage announced a scheme this week to evacuate 11,000 sailors, but suspended the cognition aft the onslaught connected Ever Lovely.

IMO Secretary-General Arsenio Dominguez said the struck alloy “did not transit nether IMO’s removal framework.”

The Singapore-flagged Ever Lovely was sailing adjacent to Oman connected Thursday and was on its northernmost seashore erstwhile it was struck connected its starboard broadside by an “unknown object,” its proprietor company, Evergreen Marine, said successful a connection to the Taiwanese banal speech connected Friday.

The vessel sustained harm to its span windows, but nary injuries were reported, and the cargo onboard was safe, the institution said. “The main motor and each navigation instrumentality continued to operate,” and its seaworthiness was not impacted arsenic it departed the Strait of Hormuz, it added.

However, the institution warned that the cancellation of the International Maritime Organization’s removal scheme had added “new uncertainty” to the ceasefire agreement.

Singapore’s Maritime and Port Authority said successful a connection that it was “deeply concerned about the incident, which was unprovoked, unjustifiable, and a breach of world law.”

Iran has not publically acknowledged the strike.

The White House was “aware of these reports and looking into them,” a U.S. charismatic told Beritaja. “President Trump has been clear that Iran cannot subvert the free travel of postulation successful the Strait,” the charismatic added.

The memorandum of knowing signed by the U.S. and Iran past week stated that Iran would “make arrangements utilizing its champion efforts for the safe transition of commercialized vessels pinch nary complaint for 60 days only from the Persian Gulf to the Sea of Oman and vice versa.”

The differences betwixt the U.S., which says that ships must beryllium capable to walk freely, and Iran, which insists that ships could only move done Iranian waters, person since exploded successful public, pinch Iran’s navy issuing stern warnings to ships moving done different routes, and the U.S. blasting Iran for continuing to power the traffic.

Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi said Friday that safe transition done the strait “cannot beryllium guaranteed done vague arrangements, parallel routes, aliases decision-making conducted extracurricular of Iran’s considerations arsenic a coastal state.”

He said that “any valid model must beryllium based connected coordination pinch Iran.”

“Otherwise, the consequence will beryllium the suspension of the designated parallel route.”

His comments followed a gathering of Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the Gulf Cooperation Council connected Thursday, aft which a associated connection said: “Ministers rejected immoderate tolls, fees, aliases attempts to asseverate power complete the Strait.”

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It’s crunch clip astatine the 2026 FIFA World Cup pinch teams looking to enactment successful contention for the knockout shape aliases amended their placing successful the information of 32.

Several teams, including tourney hosts the U.S., Mexico and Canada person clinched spots successful the information of 32.

Here’s everything you request to cognize about World Cup matches being played Friday, Saturday and Sunday crossed the U.S., Mexico and Canada (all times Pacific).

Friday’s Group G matchups:

New Zealand vs. Belgium

Belgium midfielder Kevin De Bruyne (7), left, kicks the shot successful beforehand of Iran defender Hossein Kanaanizadegan connected June 21 astatine SoFi Stadium.

(Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)

Where: BC Place, Vancouver
Time: 8 p.m.
TV: FS1, Univserso

The buzz: If New Zealand earns its first-ever World Cup win, it’s mathematically imaginable the Kiwis could triumph the group. The aforesaid script holds for winless Belgium, however, it is still looking for its first extremity of the tournament.

Iran vs. Egypt

Iran guardant Alireza Jahanbakhsh, left, battles Belgium defender Maxim De Cuyper for the shot during a World Cup lucifer astatine SoFi Stadium connected June 21.

(Ronaldo Bolaños / Los Angeles Times)

Where: Lumen Field, Seattle
Time: 8 p.m.
TV: Fox, Telemundo

The buzz: Egypt entered the last time of group play atop the group and pinch a patient clasp connected a spot successful the information of 32. It would triumph the group pinch a victory, though a tie could besides beryllium enough, depending connected the people of the Belgium-New Zealand match. Unbeaten Iran could besides triumph the group pinch a victory; a tie about apt will get it to the knockout stage.

Friday’s Group H matchups:

Cape Verde vs. Saudi Arabia

Cape Verde’s Helio Varela celebrates aft scoring against Uruguay astatine the World Cup connected June 21.

(Marta Lavandier / Associated Press)

Where: NRG Stadium, Houston
Time: 5 p.m.
TV: FS1, Universo

The buzz: With a triumph here, Cape Verde would not only spell done to the knockout stage, but it could triumph the group depending connected the consequence of the Spain-Uruguay game. The land federation of about 530,000 people, the third-smallest state to suffice for a World Cup, is unbeaten aft draws pinch Spain and Uruguay. Saudi Arabia is looking for its first World Cup triumph since upsetting eventual champion Argentina successful its 2022 opener.

Uruguay vs. Spain

Spain’s Mikel Oyarzabal celebrates aft a extremity against Saudi Arabia successful the World Cup connected June 21.

(Justin Setterfield / Getty Images)

Where: Akron Stadium, Zapopan, Mexico
Time: 4 p.m.
TV: Fox, Telemundo

The buzz: Spain will return the group pinch a triumph aliases draw, provided it maintains its goal-differential advantage complete Cape Verde. Uruguay, however, needs a triumph to decorativeness atop the table. A 3rd consecutive draw, which would time off it unbeaten, would about apt beryllium capable to spot it done to the adjacent round, but a nonaccomplishment will apt nonstop Uruguay home.

Friday’s Group I matchups:

Norway vs. France

France’s Kylian Mbappé controls the shot during a triumph complete Iraq astatine the World Cup connected June 22.

(Derik Hamilton / Associated Press)

Where: Gillette Stadium, Foxborough, Mass.
Time: Noon
TV: Fox, Telemundo

The buzz: This crippled will not only determine the group victor but it could impact who wins the Golden Boot arsenic the tournament’s apical scorer. Both teams won their first 2 games and are connected to the information of 32, and Norway’s Erling Haaland and France’s Kylian Mbappé each person scored 4 goals. Mbappe, whose 8 goals led the tourney 4 years ago, already has 16 World Cup goals for his career, tied for 2nd all-time.

Senegal vs. Iraq

Senegal’s Sadio Mane play against France successful a World Cup lucifer connected June 16.

(Steve Luciano / Associated Press)

Where: BMO Field, Toronto
Time: Noon
TV: FS1, Universo

The buzz: Senegal and Iraq, some losers successful their first 2 games, person a chance of advancing arsenic a third-place team, but they request a triumph to make that happen. For Iraq, a triumph would beryllium its first successful World Cup title while Senegal, a quarterfinalist successful 2002, would for illustration to get a triumph for Sadio Mane, 1 of Africa’s about iconic players, who whitethorn beryllium playing successful his last World Cup.

Saturday’s Group J matchups:

Algeria vs. Austria

Algeria coach Vladimir Petkovic hugs midfielder Nabil Bentaleb aft a triumph complete Jordan connected June 22.

(David M. Barreda / Los Angeles Times)

Where: Arrowhead Stadium, Kansas City, Mo.
Time: 7 p.m.
TV: FS1, Univserso

The buzz: The 2 teams travel into the group finale tied connected points, truthful a triumph present clinches 2nd spot down unbeaten Argentina. A tie would apt nonstop some through, pinch Austria arsenic the group runner-up since it has scored much goals and has a amended extremity differential, and Algeria arsenic the third-place team.

Argentina vs. Jordan

Lionel Messi celebrates aft Argentina’s triumph complete Austria connected June 22.

(Jessica Tobias / Associated Press)

Where: AT&T Stadium, Arlington, Texas
Time: 7 p.m.
TV: Fox, Telemundo

The buzz: Lionel Messi has scored each 5 of Argentina’s goals to go the tournament’s all-time starring scorer. There whitethorn beryllium nary request for him to play against Jordan since Argentina has won the group and is connected to the adjacent information and winless Jordan, playing successful its first World Cup, has been eliminated.

Saturday’s Group K matchups:

Colombia vs. Portugal

Cristiano Ronaldo celebrates aft scoring for Portugal during a 5-0 triumph complete Uzbekistan astatine the World Cup connected June 23.

(Eric Gay / Associated Press)

Where: Hard Rock Stadium, Miami Gardens, Fla.
Time: 4:30 p.m.
TV: FS1, Universo

The buzz: With a brace successful Portugal’s rout of Uzbekistan, Cristiano Ronaldo became the only man to people successful six World Cups. What he hasn’t done is win a World Cup and he could make that quest easier pinch a triumph A draw, however, will beryllium capable to get Portugal to the information of 32. Unbeaten Colombia is already done to the knockout rounds but it would triumph the group pinch a draw.

DR Congo vs. Uzbekistan

Democratic Republic of the Congo goalkeeper Lionel Mpasi makes a prevention against Colombia astatine the World Cup connected June 23.

(Luke Hales / Getty Images)

Where: Akron Stadium, Zapopan, Mexico
Time: 4 p.m.
TV: FS1, Universo

The buzz: Winless Democratic Republic of the Congo has a chance to spell arsenic a third-place squad pinch a win; it goes location pinch thing short of that. With 2 losses and a minus-seven extremity differential, the World Cup is each but complete for Uzbekistan.

Saturday’s Group L matchups:

Croatia vs. Ghana

Ghana’s Antoine Semenyo celebrates a extremity against Panama astatine the World Cup connected June 17.

(Darrian Traynor / Getty Images)

Where: Lincoln Financial Field, Philadelphia
Time: 2 p.m.
TV: FS1, Universo

The buzz: With 4 points done 2 games, unbeaten Ghana is almost surely done to the knockout rounds sloppy of the result. It could triumph the group pinch a victory, provided its separator of triumph is astatine slightest 2 goals greater than England’s, and will decorativeness 2nd pinch a draw. Both results would easiness its measurement done the elimination rounds. Croatia, which needed a second-half extremity to hit Panama, must astatine slightest gain a tie to consciousness unafraid about advancing. With a win, it finishes second.

Panama vs. England

England’s Marc Guehi reacts during a World Cup lucifer against Ghana connected June 23.

(Dave Shopland / Associated Press)

Where: MetLife Stadium, East Rutherford, N.J.
Time: 2 p.m.
TV: Fox, Telemundo

The buzz: Unbeaten England wins the group if it wins and is assured of advancing pinch a draw. Even a nonaccomplishment apt wouldn’t forestall the Three Lions from going connected arsenic a third-place team. But winning the group wouldn’t needfully easiness England’s way done the knockout stages since its information of 16 crippled would apt beryllium successful Mexico City against Mexico. Panama, meanwhile, has already been eliminated.

Sunday’s information of 32 matchup:

Canada vs. South Africa

Canada’s Alphonso Davies warms up earlier a World Cup lucifer against Qatar connected June 18.

(Abbie Parr / Associated Press)

Where: SoFi Stadium, Inglewood
Time: Noon
TV: Fox, Telemundo

The buzz: Both teams are making their first appearances successful a World Cup knockout round, Canada (1-1-1) aft losing its group-play last to Switzerland and South Africa (1-1-1) aft upsetting South Korea. Canada, the first World Cup big to play a crippled extracurricular its borders, could get a boost if Alphonso Davies, its champion player, could play aft missing the team’s first 3 games. South Africa scored conscionable 1 extremity of its ain successful the group stage; Canada sewage six successful 1 crippled alone.

When Julio Miranda-Martin began his flat search, he had 1 nonnegotiable: He wanted a dedicated eating room to entertain his friends. He was scouring Zillow successful 2025 erstwhile a listing for a railroad-style, one-bedroom connected the separator of West Hollywood came up that included the requisite eating room. It was besides stepping region to his part-time occupation arsenic a trading coordinator astatine furnishings shop Lawson-Fenning. More importantly, astatine $2,500 a period it was wrong his budget.

Miranda-Martin met pinch his landlord the aforesaid time he recovered the listing, who told him he looks for illustration his son. Feeling for illustration uncovering this 950-square-foot flat was kismet, Miranda-Martin signed the lease and group about creating a blase and color-saturated sanctuary. Miranda-Martin decided he needed to make 2 awesome investments earlier moving in: coating the walls and changing the lighting. “I was yet capable to move into a spot that I really like, not conscionable retired of necessity. I was like, let’s make it consciousness for illustration my own,” says Miranda-Martin, who refers to the abstraction arsenic his “living canvas.”

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The flat is connected the 2nd level of a fourplex, up a windowless staircase. Miranda-Martin embraced the deficiency of ray and painted it a high-gloss crimson. Without earthy light, he hard-wired sconces recovered connected Facebook Marketplace that callback ornamental 18th period candlesticks. They formed a dim but moody ray passim the staircase, ending pinch an ornate reflector astatine the top. The reflector shows a glimpse of the apartment’s interior successful its reflection erstwhile Miranda-Martin opens the door. “Every clip group locomotion in, particularly astatine night, it’s specified a melodramatic entry,” he explains. “It’s very cinematic,” agrees friend and co-worker Kristin Reeder, who is often a impermanent astatine his soirees, “like thing from ‘Eyes Wide Shut.’ ”

In contrast, the surviving room offers a calmer palette of entity blues and earthy browns. Miranda-Martin tends to take overgarment colors based connected the light. The surviving room, pinch abundant west-facing windows brings successful soft, agleam light. Miranda-Martin painted it pinch Benjamin Moore’s Navajo, a level white, arsenic a backdrop to the softer hues of the furnishings he designed astatine his furnishings and lighting company, Studio MM. “It adds a stillness,” he says.

The room is anchored by a ample velvet sofa successful a rich | brown. The modular sofa is anchored connected each broadside pinch Art-Deco influenced broadside tables, lamps and ray bluish slipper chairs he designed, mounting up a cozy tableau for hosting his friends. Pale pinkish cushioned ottomans supply further seating that could easy beryllium moved about the room to accommodate further guests.

A velvet sofa acts arsenic a connection portion successful the flat surviving room.

(Etienne Laurent/For the Times)

French doors abstracted the surviving room from the eating room. The chartreuse-infused eating room returns to a much melodramatic colorway. With little earthy light, Miranda-Martin wanted to play up the thought of dining-room-as-treehouse, reflecting the second-floor foliage visible from the mini windows. Rather than trying to brighten the room, he leaned into the moodiness by buying inexpensive, USB battery-powered spotlights that are mounted connected the ceiling pinch magnets. Taking an intoxicant marker, he tinted the lights a soft amber, allowing him to item the creation successful the room without adding harsh overhead lighting.

The eating room is meant to bespeak the foliage conscionable extracurricular the window.

(Etienne Laurent/For the Times)

A shell-adorned reflector anchors the wall facing the windows and built-in shelving, making the room consciousness larger. Miranda-Martin originated 2 shell-shaped sconces that flank the reflector astatine an property waste successful San Francisco. Most of the creation and location decor comes from Facebook Marketplace and Craigslist, aliases is thrifted from section stores. Estate income are besides a source, though Miranda-Martin feels the rising fame of these income successful Los Angeles has led to an summation successful pricing. “They’ve gotten truthful complete the apical now successful L.A. [They’re] ace expensive. You’re not really gonna find a deal,” he laments, citing the equipped information checking bags precocious astatine immoderate of the hottest property sales.

In summation to changing the lighting and coating the walls, Miranda-Martin prioritized the model treatments, pinch pinch pleat curtains from Ikea. “Drapery could conscionable make a abstraction consciousness ace elevated,” he advises. He prefers a operation of caller and vintage decor, balancing some for an eclectic but profoundly individual look to his home. He tries not to overthink his artistic choices. “I deliberation it’s very instinctual. I’m not really thinking, ‘Is this successful bully sensation aliases is this going to beryllium weird?,’ ” he says.

Down the hall, the bedroom’s mostly achromatic creation taxable returns to a much serene composition, providing a quiet sanctuary. Miranda-Martin removed the headboard from his bed, making it look for illustration it’s floating betwixt the nighttime tables he designed. “Everything feels benignant of streamlined and smooth,” says Miranda-Martin. Like the surviving room, the chamber is painted the aforesaid level achromatic but the value of the eastbound ray filtering into the chamber casts a buttery glow.

The mini room retains its midcentury charm, but unfastened shelving supra the antagonistic provides an airier, much modern cupboard to show disconnected Miranda-Martin’s crockery and glassware collection. The easier entree comes successful useful erstwhile he’s entertaining. His flat is the cleanable pre-game abstraction for him and his friends earlier a nighttime connected the town. He tries to make judge he pre-batches cocktails earlier his guests arrive.

He besides likes to big much elaborate meal parties and crippled nights. He attributes his emotion of entertaining to his upbringing arsenic an only kid successful Downey. “I for illustration hosting because I bask being about much group than erstwhile I was increasing up,” explains Miranda-Martin. His goal, ultimately, is to bring together disparate groups of group from different spheres successful a abstraction everyone will consciousness comfortable in. Dinner parties astatine Miranda-Martin’s “feel for illustration an event,” says Reeder. “It’s thing you’re excited for and you want to get dressed up for.”

“I’m benignant of going done a shape correct now wherever I request to beryllium about people,” admits Miranda-Martin. “I deliberation I conscionable dislike being alone.”

As Al Michel and Mike Sugerman show it, the first rendition of their L.A. softball squad was overflowing pinch “geeks,” “nerds” and “goofs.”

So they took a sanction consecutive retired of National Lampoon, a joke mag that featured “Doc Feeney’s Scrapbook of Sports Oddities,” showing outfielders making catches 40 feet successful the aerial and providing tips to swimmers connected due drowning maneuvers.

“I’m thinking, we’re not a bunch of athletes — we’re a bunch of geeks,” said Michel, the team’s co-founder, existent coach and catcher, reflecting connected the loose set of UCLA rule students, aspiring actors, accountants and different semi-athletic misfits. “Sports oddities? I thought, well, that’s not going to work… Let’s spell pinch ‘All Stars.’”

And thus, successful the outpouring of 1976, Doc Feeney’s All Stars was born. Fifty years and thousands of runs later, six of the original players still return to the gem about each Sunday, swinging for the fences. And if out-of-towners are visiting, the ranks of the older timers swells a fewer more.

On a caller humid Sunday afternoon, the people was 16-16 going into the last inning. A booming location tally astatine the bottommost of the sixth by Aaron Krug — astatine 36, a youngster by Doc Feeney standards — had tied the crippled against the Six Pack astatine the Sepulveda Basin Sports Complex successful Encino, 1 of the galore fields crossed L.A. the Feeneys person graced successful the past half-century. The cohort of mostly 70-something players successful the dugout rejoiced, waving their caps and hollering.

This wasn’t immoderate aged Sunday matchup successful the L.A. Municipal Softball League: The Feeneys’ jerseys featured achromatic patches embroidered pinch “JBK” for Jamie Bailey Krug, the first of the original founders to make it backmost to location guidelines successful the sky.

This crippled was a memorial dedicated to Krug, the spot a reminder that being a Feeney has ne'er really been about athletics anyway.

“Jamie taught maine what a champion friend was,” said 2nd baseman Richie Greenberg, different Feeney progenitor. “I ne'er knew a champion friend was personification you’d ne'er get tired of, aliases ne'er stopped missing.”

Jeff Koppelman, 72, 48 years connected the team, delivers a transportation during a slowpitch softball crippled against Six Pack astatine the Sepulveda Basin Sports Complex successful Encino.

(Gary Coronado / For The Times)

Jamie’s son, Aaron, belongs to a caller procreation of All Stars — immoderate of whom grew up watching their fathers’ games from kiddie strollers aliases their mothers’ arms.

“Every metropolis successful this state has a group of morons who get together each Sunday and who person done it for a lifetime, who emotion each different and emotion each other’s kids, and who, for immoderate miraculous reason, judge that this will proceed pinch the adjacent generation,” Greenberg said. “We are bound to this thing… It sustains us.”

Feeney history, arsenic told by the founders

The first play of Feeney shot was a resounding success, contempt each the strikeouts and bobbled catches successful between. The title crippled was a struggle of lawfare: Michel, past an lawyer successful training, noticed that 1 of the opposing team’s hitters was utilizing a shot bat alternatively of the regularisation softball bat pinch a smaller barrel. He kept this truth adjacent to his chest, until the different squad went up successful the seventh, the past inning.

“The different squad is celebrating, reasoning they won the championship, high-fives each around,” Michel said. “We telephone a clip out, constituent retired the bat, and the ump comes complete and says, ‘Oh yeah, that’s illegal’… It counts arsenic an retired and we triumph the game.”

“The only measurement to triumph for illustration a Feeney,” Sugerman added.

Doc Feeney’s All Stars airs for a squad photo, circa precocious 1970s.

(From Doc Feeney’s All-Stars )

Another season, outfielder Craig Simon, knowing he was anemic astatine the plate, intentionally struck retired truthful he could debar an impending double play, overmuch to the dismay of the opposing team.

“Another Feeney classic,” Greenberg said.

Nobody expected that the Feeneys would spell connected for half a century, but each wintertime and outpouring that passed, the squad would beryllium backmost connected the diamond, albeit pinch a rotating cast.

Krug, Michel and Greenberg were adjacent Sunday constants; Sugerman moved to San Francisco to go an award-winning analogous connected Bay Area radio, but ever sewage a spot erstwhile he visited; Howard Lesner and Matt Kaplan became regulars successful the 1980s; and different Feeneys faded to time, stuck arsenic a representation of whichever decade they called it quits.

In L.A. Municipal Softball, location is simply a grading strategy to facilitate adjacent competition. The Feeneys oscillated betwixt C and B complete the years, a positive aliases minus coming depending connected really overmuch clip had passed since the founding. A decade aliases truthful back, the squad was blown retired by a B-minus squad successful their first crippled aft being upgraded, realizing that the elder’s eyes could nary longer support up pinch the power coming disconnected the B-minus bats.

“Couldn’t moreover spot it coming,” Michel said.

Doc Feeney’s All Stars players, from left, Jonny Ehrich, 36, Richie Greenberg, 72, Joel Gerson, 37, and Aaron Krug, 36, lukewarm up earlier a slowpitch softball game. Greenberg has been a champion connected the squad for 49 years.

(Gary Coronado / For The Times)

Because the squad has survived truthful long, each Feeney has had their day: double plays, location runs and batting averages — deliberation .450 — that would make Shohei Ohtani look for illustration a Triple-A backup. But that’s not what kept players coming back.

“I’ve had a awesome life and an enjoyable life, but nary consciousness of enslaved and family,” Kaplan said betwixt innings arsenic particulate from location sheet lingered about, tears welling up from who-knows-what. “This became my family… This gave maine what I was missing.”

The legends surrounding the squad can, astatine times, go muddled. On a caller time extracurricular of the Apple Pan burger associated — a Krug favourite — Michel, Greenberg and Sugerman, each about halfway into their 70s, litigated Feeney history:

“Who was it that sewage kicked disconnected the squad for being excessively competitive?”

“Did he wed the woman successful this picture?”

“He ne'er deed a location tally successful his life.”

“That feline was benignant of a jerk.”

“You deliberation so? I thought he was nice.”

But each of these questions led to the same, inevitable conclusion.

“Who cares, he was a Feeney.”

Doc Feeney’s All Stars veterans, Richie Greenberg, from left, Todd Lesner and Jeff Koppelman, each 72, beryllium together arsenic squad rookie Matt Michel, 33, useful connected the lineup. The trio has played connected the squad for about 50 years.

(Gary Coronado / For The Times)

The caller procreation of All Stars

The play he died past May, Jamie Krug had planned to play Sunday aft attending his grandson’s philharmonic capacity Friday and going retired to meal pinch his wife, Simone, and friends Saturday. Krug heard the euphony and enjoyed a beautiful nighttime out, but he ne'er made it to Sunday’s game.

The All Stars won, but learned Monday that Krug had gone to slumber and ne'er woken up. Heart complications.

Family and friends retrieve Krug arsenic galore things: a reliable laugh, a saint of a father, a hellhole of a 2nd baseman, a competitory but altruistic coach. At his funeral, his woman recalled, almost each speaker called him their “best friend.”

While immoderate of the wives wouldn’t fuss coming to games each Sunday, Michel said, galore of the children saw the Feeney fathers arsenic due heroes. When she yet turned 14, Krug’s daughter, Ali, collapsed Municipal League barriers erstwhile she became the first female to make an quality arsenic an All Star.

“My full puerility was centered about baseball,” Ali said, recalling playing pinch her dad. “He’d group up these scenarios that were like, 2 outs, bottommost of the ninth, World Series, bases loaded; he’d deed a immense alert shot and I’d drawback it.”

From left, Matt Michel, 33, Aaron Krug, 36, and Joel Gerson, 37, high-five aft a Doc Feeney’s slowpitch softball game. Michel’s father, Al, and Krug’s precocious father, Jamie, are some original members of the team.

(Gary Coronado / For The Times)

Aaron — whose homer brought the Feeneys backmost into the memorial crippled — besides joined the squad astatine 14, playing alongside his begetter whenever he wasn’t excessively engaged pinch his ain sports schedule.

“Playing pinch your dad,” he said. “It’s difficult to not get romanticist about it.”

Michel’s son, Matt, has sought to modernize the squad pinch a score-keeping app that has proved much reliable than Michel’s antiquated insubstantial method.

“They utilized to salary maine $20 to support score,” Matt said. “I don’t person to dress anymore, though.”

The crippled scheme successful a modern Feeney crippled revolves about strategically placing the elders successful the batting lineup to debar having 2 speedy strikeouts aliases slow runners connected base. Even though the Feeneys person gotten much competitory nether the inferior Michel’s management, the rascal-on-the-field ethos of the original squad still prevails.

“The mixed property of each Feeney successful the infield could beryllium 350 astatine immoderate fixed time,” Lesner said earlier heading to the infield.

Winning for illustration a Feeney

Due to immoderate sloppy protect errors from the silver-haired infield, the Feeneys allowed much runs successful the apical of the seventh. The Six Pack led, 18-16.

The Feeneys were successful precarious waters arsenic Greenberg stepped up to the sheet pinch 2 outs. For the memorial game, the Feeneys had reverted to their aged batting order, truthful aft Greenberg, the lineup would beryllium wholly composed of Feeney elders.

For the first clip the full game, each the players glued their eyes to the plate, conversations and catch-ups stopped mid-sentence.

Greenberg tried his champion to disregard an irritating ankle wounded that had plagued him the past mates of weeks and grimaced nether the hazy sunlight arsenic the pitcher, about apt 20 aliases much years his junior, stared him down.

The high-arc transportation went up.

Jeff Koppelman, 72, drives a azygous during a slowpitch softball game. He has been a personnel of Doc Feeney’s All Stars for 48 years.

(Gary Coronado / For The Times)

Greenberg yanked his bat back, looking for illustration a young Ken Griffey Jr. He struck the shot hard, but sent a one-hopper consecutive toward a 3rd baseman nary older than 40. Greenberg made it only about halfway up the basepath.

Out astatine first.

The Jamie Krug memorial crippled ended successful a loss.

But alternatively of kicking up dust, breaking bats aliases throwing fits, the Feeneys coalesced successful a green-and-yellow wide down the dugout. They each high-fived, asked about each other’s families and went to dote connected Ali’s 1-year-old girl — Krug’s granddaughter, Eloise — who wore a garment that traversed 50 years of family and friendship. It reads: “Littlest Feeney.”

For decades, Californians person mostly said immigrants, who dress up more than a quarter of the state’s organization and a third of its labour force, are beneficial to the authorities and its economy. But fund instability and concerns about rising costs are spilling into a statement complete the arguable and costly policy of allowing low-income immigrants without ineligible position to person state-funded wellness coverage.

Now, Democrat Xavier Becerra and Republican Steve Hilton coming a stark prime to voters successful the title to beryllium the adjacent politician astatine a infinitesimal erstwhile nationalist support for the state’s generous information nett is starting to fray.

Both framework the prime arsenic an economical one.

Becerra, erstwhile caput of Health and Human Services nether President Biden, has said it would beryllium “foolish” to exclude the poorest immigrants from regular attraction and push them into costly emergency rooms on the taxpayer’s dime. Hilton, a blimpish commentator backed by President Trump, has promised to destruct their sum and has echoed nationalist Republicans who person skewered California’s description s to bolster their claims of fraud and maltreatment successful the Medicaid program.

With voters nationwide worried about ostentation and the rising costs of living, immoderate Californians mightiness consciousness little inclined to supply afloat healthcare sum to those lacking ineligible status. What the authorities does adjacent could person profound implications for its healthcare strategy and sprawling economy.

Over the past decade, California lawmakers utilized authorities dollars to grow Medi-Cal, offering each low-income residents broad sum sloppy of migration status. But enrollment surpassed first projections, arsenic did the cost. Medi-Cal sum of immigrants without ineligible position costs the authorities about $10 cardinal a year, according to California’s nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office, much than double the first estimates.

California lawmakers and Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, who championed the program, person approved awesome rollbacks of benefits for those residents. They said the authorities can’t spend ballooning healthcare costs amid monolithic federal cuts from the GOP tax-and-spending rule known arsenic the One Big Beautiful Bill Act; the California Health and Human Services Agency projected up to 3.4 cardinal Medi-Cal enrollees could suffer coverage and the authorities could suffer much than $30 cardinal a twelvemonth successful national backing nether the law, causing awesome disruptions successful the information nett wellness program.Medi-Cal’s fund for fiscal twelvemonth 2026-27 is $217 billion, and the programme serves much than 14 cardinal Californians.

Meanwhile, galore legal U.S. residents and citizens person seen their wellness premium payments skyrocket this twelvemonth aft Congress fto enhanced national Affordable Care Act subsidies expire astatine the extremity of December.

As the authorities grappled pinch a shortage past year, a mostly of apt voters successful California said — for the first clip successful about a decade — they opposed providing wellness security to immigrants without ineligible status, according to a poll by the Public Policy Institute of California.

“The authorities faces awesome challenges, and healthcare is 1 of the awesome expenditures,” said Mark Baldassare, the institute’s study director. “People person go much selective about really they want to spot those constricted healthcare dollars spent.”

Hilton, moving connected a level of affordability and lowering taxes, has seized connected the sentiment, casting wellness sum for immigrants without ineligible position arsenic deeply unfair and a direct threat to the state’s expertise to thief citizens.

“Stop taking money from California taxpayers who could hardly spend their healthcare to springiness free healthcare to citizens of different countries who shouldn’t moreover beryllium here,” Hilton said successful a Facebook video the greeting of the June 2 primary.

In run stump speeches, Hilton promised to usage the savings to lower healthcare costs for different Californians without detailing how. Hilton did not respond to requests from KFF Health News for comment.

“Their messaging is very, very simple: It’s an america vs. them,” said Roger Salazar, a Democratic governmental advisor who represents a conjugation of healthcare advocates who reason providing sum to group who can’t spend it strengthens the workforce and, arsenic a result, the economy. “It’s conscionable a mobility of convincing the mean elector that it’s overmuch amended economically.”

A son of immigrants, Becerra for decades pushed to extend information nett benefits successful Congress and has made a akin transportation successful his run for governor. He did not respond to requests for comment.

“Immigrants, whether documented aliases not, activity hard. They salary taxes, and sometimes they get injured connected the occupation aliases their children get sick,” Becerra said during a statement past month. “It would beryllium foolish to show a family that they don’t person entree to the pediatrician aliases the family doc.”

Becerra, who could go California’s first elected Latino governor, objected past year erstwhile Newsom and legislative leaders decided to freeze Medi-Cal enrollment for adults without ineligible status, trim benefits, and enforce monthly premiums.

“Stop treating sum arsenic a fund adaptable that expands successful bully years and contracts erstwhile gross dips,” Becerra wrote past period successful consequence to an Orange County Register candidate questionnaire. He has vowed to pursue new, dependable gross to money basal services, specified arsenic by upping taxes connected corporations and the wealthiest Californians.

In 2023, California was location to about 2.3 cardinal group without ineligible status, representing roughly 8% of the state’s labour force, according to the Pew Research Center. And 1 successful 5 California children unrecorded successful a family that includes astatine slightest 1 personnel without ineligible status, according to the California Department of Education. Healthcare economists opportunity giving group entree to preventive healthcare saves taxpayers money successful the agelong tally by keeping the workforce healthy and relieving unit connected an overburdened system.

That, Baldassare said, wasn’t a difficult statement to make during the COVID-19 pandemic, erstwhile immigrants were celebrated arsenic basal workers and the nexus betwixt individual well-being and nationalist wellness was much obvious.

But Medi-Cal costs to screen about 1.4 cardinal immigrants have ballooned, according to the latest estimates from the Department of Health Care Services. Because only immoderate lawfully coming immigrants are eligible for national Medicaid benefits, states for illustration California that screen different populations must do truthful exclusively pinch authorities funding.

California’s fund experts have warned that maintaining afloat Medi-Cal sum for immigrants without seeking further gross would destabilize the state’s semipermanent fiscal outlook.

In a legislative proceeding past year, Republican Assemblymember Carl DeMaio questioned whether California taxpayers would prioritize the description s, saying he doubted “illegal migrant healthcare successful the wide money would beryllium astatine the apical of their list.”

After lawmakers approved the spending reductions, support for migrant wellness sum dropped, Baldassare said. Now lawmakers and Newsom are negotiating further cuts.

David Hayes-Bautista, who has spent his profession studying the economical contributions of Latinos and immigrants, said Californians without ineligible position have higher labour unit participation and thin to activity successful industries and occupations that don’t connection employer-based wellness insurance. As a result, galore edifice to Medi-Cal, saddling the authorities pinch the healthcare costs alternatively of employers.

“California, arsenic a state, has the world’s fourth-largest GDP, which is existent acknowledgment to Latinos,” Hayes-Bautista, head of the Center for the Study of Latino Health and Culture astatine UCLA, said. Without contributions from Latinos, galore without ineligible status, it drops to eighth place, about the size of Italy’s economy, he added.

Immigrant advocates dream to person a much vocal champion successful Becerra, the favourite to go politician successful a authorities wherever Democrats outnumber Republicans about 2 to 1.

“He will fight, he will push back, he will do each that he can,” said authorities Sen. María Elena Durazo, a erstwhile labour leader who has championed the migrant healthcare description s. “That’s the about we could expect.”

Mai-Duc writes for KFF Health News, a national newsroom that produces in-depth publicity about wellness issues and is 1 of the halfway operating programs astatine KFF — an independent root of wellness argumentation research, polling, and journalism.

The assemblage laic unsecured for much than 10 hours while burglars doubly picked done the dormant man’s room.

So goes the the communicative circulating among veterans surviving connected the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs field successful West Los Angeles.

Residents opportunity their reports of the theft — for illustration their complaints of different crimes — spell unheeded because their 2-year-old flat building lies successful a rule enforcement nary man’s onshore wherever nary constabulary agency has the powerfulness aliases resources to analyse and prosecute run-of-the-mill crime.

The unincorporated land is surrounded by the metropolis of Los Angeles but extracurricular the jurisdiction of the Los Angeles Police Department. Technically, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department polices its 388 acres, but the distant West Hollywood Station seldom responds to calls, if ever. The VA Police Department, which is mostly tasked pinch providing information astatine the hospital, is prohibited by an obscure national norm from being “deputized” to enforce authorities law.

The request for policing is becoming much acute arsenic residences for hundreds of abnormal veterans person been built successful caller years and the field organization grows from the hundreds to perchance thousands nether President Trump’s 2025 executive bid to create a National Center for Warrior Independence pinch lodging for 6,000 veterans.

In the absence of an charismatic investigation, the incident past September has been magnified, and possibly embellished, successful the minds of veterans surviving connected the campus, a organization defined by the vulnerability of beingness disability, constituent usage and trauma.

“Every clip we move about we’re doing an incident report,” said Tammy Chelossi, a resident work coordinator for the institution that manages the building that opened successful 2024.

“We telephone the VAPD each the time,” Chelossi said. “They don’t do anything. They travel retired [but say], ‘Our hands are tied.’”

In nationalist forums and interviews, veterans surviving connected the field person spoken of a civilization of impunity. Among their complaints: non-residents coming and going to bargain and waste drugs, prostitution, crime brought connected field from extracurricular and unruly behaviour by residents.

In May, a man pushed a wounded and visibly bleeding female successful a wheelchair retired of the entranceway of a building. In 1 type circulating, attributed to a root successful the VA police, she had already been stabbed by the clip she arrived astatine the VA. Chelossi said she was disappointed the constabulary didn’t see the man who pushed her retired a suspect.

“They shook his manus and said, ‘Good occupation taking her extracurricular to the ambulance,’” she said.

The VA Police did not respond to a telephone requesting reports of the 2 incidents.

Residents who said to The Times connected information of anonymity and seasoned advocates opportunity the deficiency of accusation connected reported crimes and follow-up investigations feeds their worry about safety.

Although national rule requires the VA to people statistic connected arrests, citations, investigations and prosecutions by section agencies, the campus constabulary website has nary nexus to crime data. The VA responded to a Freedom of Information Act petition from a field advocator for information pinch a request for $20,004.36 successful programming costs to retrieve the data.

The Times revenge a Freedom of Information Act petition connected June 2 for VA Police records of the hallway decease and the stabbing. The VA acknowledged the petition but has not turned complete immoderate materials.

For the decades aft the historical Old Soldiers’ Home was unopen down successful the 1970s, the two-thirds of the field northbound of Wilshire Boulevard remained a postulation of vacant deteriorating buildings and residential programs for beingness and intelligence wellness recovery. VA Police focused connected the 3rd of the field southbound of Wilshire Boulevard wherever the VA Medical Center rose.

VA Police enforcement was agelong concentrated connected the confederate 3rd of the field southbound of Wilshire Boulevard, wherever the VA Medical Center stands. For decades, the northbound field had nary resident population, remaining a postulation of vacant deteriorating buildings and residential programs for beingness and intelligence wellness recovery. That changed successful caller years arsenic ineligible actions forced the agency to statesman repopulating the northbound campus.

A 2011 lawsuit revenge by abnormal veterans began a slow but now accelerating activity by the VA to reconstruct the northbound field arsenic a seasoned community. First came a national tribunal colony requiring 1,200 units to beryllium built (about half are now completed), past a second lawsuit resulted successful an bid to adhd 2,500 more, a ruling now nether appeal. Last May, President Trump issued an bid to build lodging for 6,000.

The jurisdictional conundrum grew only worse arsenic the VA issued 99-year leases to section developers to build those first 1,200 units.

“As the VA leases the buildings to an entity, that’s nary longer considered national property,” said Jim Zenner, head of the Los Angeles County Department of Military and Veterans Affairs. “So they’re not capable to enforce laws successful those buildings.”

Zenner said the VAPD told him they were incapable moreover to unafraid the dormant assemblage past September because they didn’t person jurisdiction.

“And truthful they had to virtually hold for the Sheriff’s Department to get present and the Medical Examiner to get here,” Zenner said. “They didn’t get present for 10 aliases 11 hours.”

He’s not judge their mentation of the rule is right.

“I get mixed messages like, ‘We could and we can’t because of the jurisdictional thing,’” he said. “‘Maybe we can, possibly we can’t’ is not allowing the VAPD to do what they request to do.”

The early northbound field remains a title of differing visions. The lodging now existing and being built is subsidized for the bum and disabled. Some seasoned groups are pushing for much diverseness pinch lodging for students, VA unit and veterans moving disconnected campus. Trump’s bid calls for veterans from about the state to travel for rehabilitative services.

Whatever yet develops, location is small disagreement that early field information will dangle connected expanded rule enforcement and clearer lines of authority.

During a congressional proceeding successful May connected Trump’s order, VA officials acknowledged a nationalist information problem and said they are taking steps to negociate it.

“We want to make judge that veterans are surviving successful a safe, supplier free situation wherever they could thrive, and, arsenic you each are aware, that’s not happening,” elder counsellor to the caput Danielle Ranyan testified. “We’re taking attraction of that. But this didn’t conscionable hap overnight, and it didn’t hap connected President Trump’s watch.”

Under Secretary for Health John J. Bartrum testified that the VA constabulary had been beefed up from the 50s and 60s past twelvemonth to complete 80 and will yet scope 160 — a unit responsible not only for the campus, but for different accommodation successful the VA’s five-county Greater Los Angeles catchment area.

“Security is occupation one,” Bartrum said. “The veterans person to consciousness unafraid connected the campus.”

As a stopgap, the VA brought connected a backstage information patient successful June to supply uniformed 24-hour “observe and report” sentry posts and roving patrols.

“I’m happy to spot they’re astatine slightest doing something,” said Rob Reynolds, an Iraq warfare seasoned who assists veterans to get services and housing. “I would opportunity it makes it consciousness safer.”

But Reynolds and others, spot information arsenic a systemic problem.

Retired VA constabulary main Dave Weiner, who now owns a training business, was skeptical that the VAPD could prolong the basal spot without expanding its salary scale.

New recruits must activity years to adjacent starting salary astatine adjacent departments, and status benefits only footwear successful aft 30 years, compared to 20 years elsewhere, Weiner said.

“The salary has ne'er been connected par,” he said. “It makes it very difficult for officers to unrecorded successful the LA area. They person to unrecorded successful Riverside aliases San Bernardino.”

(On Thursday, the VA announced a package of national reforms of the VA constabulary unit including an summation of entry-level pay. Weiner said the humble summation “would not do overmuch to alteration the competitory image present successful LA.”)

Weiner thinks 1 administrative alteration that could make VAPD much effective would beryllium to revise the clause successful VA Directive 0730 that prohibits the agency from being deputized aliases appointed arsenic typical officers “for the intent of enforcing authorities laws and section ordinances connected VA property.”

That could clear up disorder of whether VAPD could respond to and analyse reported crime connected the leased properties.

It would besides clear officers to make intelligence wellness holds nether California’s Welfare and Institutions Code, some connected the field and crossed the region. VA constabulary often respond to veterans successful situation seeking to get them into attraction but person nary power, Weiner said.

“That is simply a instrumentality for officers to utilize to get group into a strategy of care,” Weiner said. Currently, “either we person to time off group successful situation aliases we person to incarcerate them. That’s not a bully situation.”

Zenner, the region subject affairs section head, testified astatine the May hearing that the VA needs some authorities policing powers and a national seasoned curen tribunal connected field to support veterans who tally afoul of the law.

Four Los Angeles Superior Court judges successful courtrooms from Compton to Van Nuys perceive cases of veterans charged pinch authorities crimes. They usability for illustration intelligence wellness diversion courts, suspending adjudication of qualifying crimes while veterans person treatment, often astatine the VA. But the nearest national curen tribunal that could grip cases nether the VA’s jurisdiction is successful San Diego. Few Los Angeles cases are routed there, Zenner said.

“Justice-involved veterans adjacent the field grapple pinch PTSD, traumatic encephalon injury, constituent usage disorders, and different invisible wounds stemming from their subject service,” Zenner said. “Instead of repeated incarceration, participants would beryllium mandated into integrated intelligence wellness services, constituent maltreatment programs, and seasoned mentorship.”

Anthony Allman, executive head of the nonprofit Vets Advocacy group up to show the earlier settlement, proposes that the VA statement pinch the Sheriff’s Department, arsenic galore mini cities do, to supply regular patrol connected campus.

The opportunity is ripe, Allman believes, because the Sheriff’s Department is losing its statement pinch Metro and it will person other capacity.

The VA says it’s already tested that people and came up empty-handed.

During the legislature hearing, Ranyan testified that the agency’s adjunct caput for information met pinch the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department earlier successful the twelvemonth to prosecute a statement for 24-hour patrol.

“We were told that they’re down 2,000 constabulary officers and that their morale is debased and that they’re not moreover [able] to meet their ain needs,” Ranyan said.

In consequence to questions from The Times, the Sheriff’s Department characterized Ranyan’s remark arsenic inaccurate but acknowledged ongoing discussions pinch the VA connected a caller “memorandum of understanding.”

Under an existing MOU, “Sheriff’s unit respond to captious aliases emergent incidents erstwhile requested and erstwhile our resources aliases capabilities would beryllium amended equipped to reside move situations,” it said, the connection said.

Sheriff’s Department records reviewed by The Times show that the agency reported 1 crimes connected the VA spot successful 2025 and 1 this year, some connected the confederate campus.

You’ve decided to make a sandwich and scope for your loaf of bread, but the “sell-by date” connected the container has passed. You propulsion it successful the trash to err connected the broadside of caution, moreover though you’re unsure whether it intends the breadstuff is past its expiration date.

A caller California rule will constrictive the laundry database of nutrient day labels connected products to two, eliminating user disorder and halting the unintentional nutrient discarded that has resulted.

There are much than 50 chopped nutrient day labels successful the United States, according to a report published by researchers pinch the University of Maryland.

These are conscionable a fewer of the phrases you mightiness person seen connected your nutrient items:

• Use by
• Best by
• Expires by
• Please bask by
  

Each building could convey a different connection about the nutrient product.

Some day labels are intended to thief shop clerks pinch inventory management. Most explanation dates, however, are utilized by packaged-food companies to show a user really agelong the merchandise will stay astatine highest quality, said Andrea Collins, elder master successful nutrient discarded for the Natural Resources Defense Council, a U.S.-based nonprofit that focuses connected world biology policies. A fewer labels are intended to show a user that location is an accrued consequence of food-borne unwellness pinch accrued time.

These meanings haven’t been conveyed to the consumer, who, successful their confusion, whitethorn unintentionally lend to nutrient discarded by disposing of nutrient they judge is spoiled.

A 2025 national survey conducted by Harvard Law School, John Hopkins and ReFED, a U.S.-based nonprofit moving to lick nutrient waste, recovered that of the much than 2,000 respondents, connected average, 87% believed they knew the meanings of 8 different labels, yet erstwhile quizzed, only an mean of 53% answered correctly.

Nationally, the study recovered that 43% of respondents ever aliases usually discard nutrient adjacent aliases past the day connected the label, up from 37% successful 2016.

Californians flip retired 2.5 cardinal meals’ worthy of unspoiled nutrient each year, contributing to integrated discarded that accounts for 48% of what residents nonstop to landfills, according to the California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, aliases CalRecyle.

“As integrated discarded decomposes successful landfills, it accounts for 41% of the state’s methane emissions, a greenhouse state pinch 84 times the powerfulness to power the ambiance arsenic c dioxide,” according to CalRecycle.

The discarded besides affects consumers’ wallets erstwhile nutrient is thrown retired excessively soon.

To region the ambiguity and resulting nutrient waste, Assembly Bill 660 was signed into rule and goes into effect July 1, which yet will trim the phrases allowed connected packages to conscionable two.

What AB 660 will do

The measure requires nutrient manufacturers to usage only 2 nutrient day labels to people the value aliases information of a nutrient merchandise successful the authorities of California.

The 2 phrases are:

1. “BEST if Used by” aliases “BEST if Used aliases Frozen by,” which indicates the highest freshness, aliases quality, of a nutrient item.
2. “USE by” aliases “USE by aliases Freeze by,” which indicates erstwhile a nutrient point is nary longer safe to eat.
   

Starting adjacent month, the rule will prohibit the waste of immoderate nutrient merchandise that isn’t branded pinch either building — this pertains to products manufactured connected aliases aft July 1, 2026. So you mightiness still spot a fewer different phrases connected nutrient products that were already connected the shelves aliases successful a retailer’s stock.

It besides prohibits the usage of “sell by” dates connected nutrient packaging, but it does let coded “sell by” dates that clasp banal rotation accusation for retailers.

Why did California antecedently person truthful galore nutrient day labels?

It’s a communal misconception that the national authorities regulates the dates connected food. With the objection of babe formula, that isn’t the case, Collins said.

The United States is 1 of the only countries that doesn’t person a national roadworthy representation for authorities labels connected food, “so that doesn’t mean each state does it well, but they each person something,” said Emily Broad Leib, objective professor of rule and head of the Harvard Law School Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation.

Starting successful the precocious 1950s and accelerating successful the 1970s, respective states enacted laws that required a day explanation connected definite foods. But that effort didn’t group immoderate nationwide standards for what it meant aliases what the connection was, Broad Leib said.

At the time, the attraction of the explanation was connected freshness aliases really agelong a nutrient merchandise had been sitting connected the shelf.

“Over time, a ample mostly of consumers interpreted those arsenic information dates, and truthful we person this existent mismatch [of interpretation],” Broad Leib said.

Who enforces Assembly Bill 660

The superior work for enforcing Assembly Bill 660, an amendment to the California Retail Food Code, falls connected section enforcement, a spokesperson pinch the California Department of Public Health said.

“The California Retail Food Code establishes wellness and sanitation standards for unit nutrient facilities, which are enforced by section wellness agencies during regular inspections,” according to the authorities agency.

That intends the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, which is the section enforcement agency for these requirements successful the region, will beryllium successful complaint of monitoring whether businesses are pursuing the law.

When violations are observed “during regular inspections aliases title investigations, it would beryllium noted connected the facility’s Official Inspection Report, and due enforcement action would beryllium taken by Public Health,” the Los Angeles Department of Public Health told The Times via email.

Broad Leib said she powerfully believes this rule is simply a measurement successful the correct direction.

“We should person only 2 labels, and it should beryllium clear which 1 is for information and which 1 is for quality, truthful that consumers [in California] could make amended economical and information decisions,” she said.

At this constituent it’s unclear what benignant of training section wellness inspectors are getting to not only extremity imaginable violators, but besides to place whether businesses are utilizing the amended of the 2 labels for each circumstantial product, Broad Leib said.

“It could beryllium thing to watch retired for aliases future, maybe, state-level guidance connected really they should do these inspections,” she said. “Or moreover guidance to businesses about making the determination of which explanation to use.”