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Prosecturos On Karmelo Anthony Fought Victim for 4 Minutes before stabbing Published June 4, 2026 3:29 PM PDT Karmelo Anthony fought Austin Metcalf for four minutes under a tent at a Texas high school track
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Influencer Couple End Pregnancy Over Down Syndrome Concerns Published June 4, 2026 2:05 PM PDT Influencer couple Jesse and Ashley Ridgway are opening up about a devastating family decision ... revealing they terminated a pregnancy
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Noah Lyles of the US celebrates after winning the men's 100m final at the Diamond League at Stadio Olimpico, Rome, Italy. (Reuters) American Olympic champion Noah Lyles made a winning start to his Diamond League campaign in the men's 100 metres at the Rome meeting on Thursday, and Julien Alfred beat world champion Melissa Jefferson-Wooden in the women's 200 metres.Lyles was his usual confident self, soaking up the Stadio Olimpico crowd's applause before the final race of the night, and was typically bullish at the end."I had a great finish," Lyles said."I can go again. Who wants to go?"Lyles made his standard slow start from the blocks and had five runners ahead of him at the halfway stage, but he stormed to the line in a time of 9.88 seconds.Cameroon's Emmanuel Eseme ran 9.94 to claim a surprise second place, ahead of Olympic 200m champion Letsile Tebogo."I am not showing anywhere to lose. I am here to win," Lyles said."10 metres before the finish line I knew the race was over and I had already won it. I was thinking about how I was going to celebrate it."St Lucia's Alfred and American Jefferson-Wooden have dominated women's sprinting of late but this was their first meeting over the longer sprint distance.Jefferson-Wooden is world champion over the 100m and 200m, while Alfred is the 100m Olympic champion and 200m silver medallist, and the pair were neck-and-neck going into the final straight, but Alfred pulled away with ease and the American had no reply.Alfred posted a time of 21.93, with Jefferson-Wooden trailing in with 22.17."I wanted to go a bit faster but I will take the win," Alfred said."I am a lot stronger now than I used to be and that's why I could push a bit extra in the second part of the race."Likina Amebaw won the women's 5000m, leading home an Ethiopian 1-2-3. Expectations were high for Italy's Nadia Battocletti, who looked comfortable tucked in behind the pacemakers in the early stages. But once Bahrain's Winfred Yavi upped the pace, Battocletti drifted back down the field.Yavi's time at the front ended once the Ethiopians took over, with Freweyni Hailu taking the lead on the penultimate lap. Hailu had to settle for third, however, as Amebaw caught Aleshign Baweke before the line.Norway's Henriette Jaeger took victory in the women's 400m with a time of 49.60, in a race which saw Britain's Olympic 800m champion Keely Hodgkinson open her outdoor season after winning the world indoor 800m title.Jaeger came from behind to power to the line ahead of Czech Lurdes Gloria Manuel.Hodgkinson, who has the 800m world record in her sights this year, opted to run the shorter distance to work on her speed over the opening lap of the longer race, and came in seventh, posting a personal best of 51.14.American Trey Cunningham won the men's 110m hurdles in a personal best time of 12.98 seconds, ahead of Jamaican Orlando Bennett. Related Story
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Los Angeles Olympic organizers will use the city's 2026 World Cup matches as a key learning opportunity for transport, security and crowd movement as they prepare to stage the 2028 Games, LA28 chief executive Reynold Hoover has said.The World Cup will bring eight matches to Los Angeles, with games at SoFi Stadium, offering Olympic planners a live test of how the region handles a major global sporting event before the much larger Olympics and Paralympics arrive two years later.'It gives us an opportunity to look at transportation, it gives us an opportunity to look at security, it gives us an opportunity to look at how are they moving fans around,' Hoover said in an interview.'For us, we can take that and then scale it,' he added, noting that LA28 will involve 50 competition venues and about 15,000 Olympic and Paralympic athletes.Hoover said the organizing committee has developed a strong relationship with FIFA and expects lessons from the soccer tournament to feed directly into Olympic planning. EXCITEMENT BUILDING TOWARD LA OLYMPICSThe comments came following three days of meetings between LA28 and the International Olympic Committee Coordination Commission in Los Angeles to review preparations.Hoover said the IOC examined operations, venues, delivery models, community engagement, the torch relay, economic impact and sustainability.'The level of excitement is electric,' Hoover said. 'To have the IOC here with us ... and hear the results of where they assess that we are makes me even more confident that we're going to deliver a Games like none other.' NO PLAYBOOK FOR MASSIVE LA GAMESHe said the greatest challenge remains the sheer size and complexity of the event.The LA Games will be the largest ever in terms of programming, featuring 36 sports spanning over 800 events.'No one has done an Olympics to this size, to this scale and this scope,' Hoover said. 'There's no book that we can go to.'Organizers are drawing on experience from recent and future hosts, including Paris 2024, Milano Cortina 2026, Brisbane 2032 and Utah 2034, he said. UPCOMING MEETINGS AND TICKET DROPSSeveral planning milestones are approaching. National Olympic Committees are due in Los Angeles next month to inspect venues, the Olympic Village, accommodation plans and arrival operations at LAX.Broadcasters and media representatives are also expected to visit as organizers refine plans for global coverage.Hoover said the next Olympic ticket release is scheduled for August, after what he described as record-breaking initial demand. Paralympic tickets, the mascot, torch design and torch relay details are expected in 2027.The torch relay will visit all 50 U.S. states over 100 days, beginning in April 2028 and ending in Los Angeles on July 14, 2028, the day of the Olympic opening ceremony.
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North Korean leader Kim Jong-un shaking hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing. (AFP/File Photo) China said yesterday President Xi Jinping would visit North Korea on a two-day trip from June 8, his first in nearly seven years as Beijing looks to reassert ties with Pyongyang, its only formal treaty ally. Xi will meet North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and exchange views on bilateral relations and issues of common concern, China’s foreign ministry said. “Both sides will use the visit as an opportunity to promote greater development of China-North Korea relations in keeping with the times,” spokesperson Mao Ning told a press briefing. Beijing has worked to draw Pyongyang back into its fold after the Covid-19 pandemic froze exchanges and Kim deepened ties with Moscow by sending troops and weapons to support Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The two countries signed a co-operation and mutual assistance treaty 65 years ago, legally binding each to provide the other with military support if they came under attack. “The message implicit from the Chinese side is... we are still the principal actor when it comes to North Korea,” said John Delury, a senior fellow of the Asia Society. “One of the audiences is Russia.”Yesterday’s announcement by the international department of the ruling Chinese Communist Party follows Xi’s summits in Beijing last month with US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Kim was a guest at a massive military parade in Beijing last September, travelling to the Chinese capital on his signature green armoured train. Passenger train services between the capitals resumed in March, after a six-year suspension ushered in by the pandemic, while Air China later restarted flights between them.Bookings, however, have been limited to some business travellers and exchange students, with Chinese tourists still excluded.Xi’s visit to Pyongyang will be his first overseas this year. The 72-year-old, who makes fewer trips abroad, last travelled internationally in late October to Republic of Korea, where he also met Trump. Trump met Kim three times in his first term and has previously said he would be open to meeting the North Korean leader again.“At the symbolic level it is important for Xi to keep tabs on what’s going on in Pyongyang,” said Delury, who said Xi visiting both Koreas within a year would be a “big win” for the peninsula. “There’s a kind of symmetry that the Chinese like to keep up” regarding the two Koreas, he added. Republic of Korea views the trip solely as high-level bilateral exchanges unaligned to Moscow, an official from the presidential Blue House said. “We do not interpret this as a co-ordinated move by the three countries, nor are we sure how it would be linked to the US-China summit,” the official said.Seoul expects Beijing to continue its constructive role on peninsula issues, the Blue House said. Since Xi became China’s top leader in 2012, he has visited North Korea once, and its southern neighbour twice. He also visited Pyongyang in 2008 as vice-president, meeting its then leader Kim Jong-il, the father of the current leader. Kim called for an “exponential” expansion of Pyongyang’s atomic arsenal this week when he visited a new factory to make nuclear material, KCNA said.Experts have linked Kim’s site visit to the impending meeting with Xi. Before his September visit to Beijing, Kim inspected plans for a new intercontinental ballistic missile, the “Hwasong-20”.
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The US is preparing a draft resolution condemning Iran ahead of next week's meeting of the UN nuclear watchdog's Board of Governors, diplomats said yesterday, a step that could complicate wider talks between the US and Iran.Washington and Tehran are negotiating an extension of their ceasefire that would pave the way for talks on issues including Iran's nuclear programme, with US President Donald Trump insisting Iran must never develop a nuclear weapon.Iran says it never would.Israeli and US military strikes last June destroyed or badly damaged the three uranium-enrichment plants known to have been operating in Iran at the time. Much of its highly enriched uranium, however, is thought to have survived, though the UN nuclear watchdog has not had access to check.With a quarterly meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency's 35-nation board taking place next week, Washington is preparing a text, though it has yet to circulate it and details are therefore unclear, diplomats accredited to the IAEA said.Iran has bristled at previous resolutions the board has passed against it, often retaliating by escalating its nuclear activities or scaling back cooperation with the agency. A more imminent concern this time are the talks with the US"I believe it may antagonize the Iranian side," Russia's ambassador to the IAEA, Mikhail Ulyanov, told reporters.Russia and China are the two countries that have opposed all recent resolutions against Iran at the IAEA board, which were submitted jointly by the United States, Britain, France and Germany, and have passed by a clear margin."As far as I know, they are going to call upon Iran to provide access to the agency's personnel to nuclear facilities on the territory of Iran," said Ulyanov, while adding he did not believe the US would actually submit the draft.The U.S. mission to the IAEA declined to comment.The last time the IAEA passed a resolution against Iran was in November, to say Iran must inform the IAEA "without delay" of the status of its enriched uranium stock and bombed atomic sites, which it has yet to do.A resolution in June found Iran in breach of its non-proliferation obligations for the first time in almost 20 years, raising the prospect of reporting Tehran to the U.N. Security Council, but the board has yet to take that extra step.
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US Vice President JD Vance on Friday waded into a British dispute that has erupted over the murder of a student, blaming his death on what he said was civilizational decline and the failure to stop the 'mass invasion of migrants'.Last year, Henry Nowak, an 18-year-old white man, was handcuffed by police as he lay dying from stab wounds after his killer falsely alleged a racist attack. The killer, a Sikh man, was sentenced on Monday to life in prison.Video footage showed officers ignoring Nowak's pleas as he lay dying, sparking questions over why the police had believed the allegation of racism and not Nowak who said repeatedly that he had been stabbed and could not breathe.'Henry Nowak died the same way a civilization dies: abandoned, handcuffed by authorities who neither trusted nor cared for him, and accused of hate crimes he did not commit,' Vance said on X. 'Each time a life like his is lost, the proper response — the only response — is righteous anger.'Vance said Nowak would be alive today 'if the last few generations of European elites had stood their ground against the politics of self-hatred and the mass invasion of migrants, many of whom despise the West and the people who love it'.A spokesperson for Prime Minister Keir Starmer, responding to Vance's comments, said the Nowak family did not want his death to be used to create further division or hatred.'We should respect their wishes,' the spokesperson said. 'Even in the most terrible circumstances, our politics should bring people together. That is who we are as a country.'The case has sparked widespread anger in Britain, with populist political leader Nigel Farage and tech billionaire Elon Musk amplifying right-wing talking points that the country has 'two-tier policing' where fears of being called racist have led to ethnic minorities being given greater protections than others.Starmer has said police had serious questions to answer about their handling of the incident, including how accusations of racism informed police thinking, and an investigation is taking place.But he condemned a violent and disorderly protest that took place on Tuesday night and said it was 'unforgivable' to exploit the death to stir tension after Farage called for people to respond with 'pure cold rage'.He also told Musk to stop interfering in British politics on Thursday after the tech boss posted repeatedly about the case and said it showed that police were biased against white people in Britain.The local police force has rejected accusations of any bias, but police chiefs have said they would review guidelines that were drawn up in response to decades of well-documented incidents of racism in policing on how officers should treat ethnicities differently.Relations between the US and Britain — historically close allies — have publicly deteriorated since the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran began in February, with President Donald Trump repeatedly mocking Starmer for failing to provide greater support.Vance has previously accused European leaders of censoring free speech and failing to control immigration, and the US State Department on Thursday condemned what it called 'ideological conditioning and two-tiered policing' in Nowak's treatment.A spokesperson for Starmer said on Friday that Britain's relationship with the US remained 'incredibly strong' but rejected the State Department comments.Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy told Sky News on Friday that he welcomed the fact that the US government had extended its condolences to the Nowak family but said he did not recognise 'this caricature of Britain having a two-tier criminal justice system'.
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FILE PHOTO: Citizen candidates attend a U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) naturalization ceremony at the Brooklyn Cyclones Maimonides Park in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, U.S. May 3, 2022. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton/File Photo
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Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway smiles as she arrives for a reception of the Norwegian athletes who took part in the Paralympics in Milano Cortina 2026, at the Royal Palace in Oslo. (AFP/File Photo) Norway's Crown Princess Mette-Marit, who suffers from an incurable lung disease, has been placed on a waiting list for a lung transplant, ushering in a period of great uncertainty regarding her health.Mette-Marit, 52, was diagnosed in 2018 with a rare form of pulmonary fibrosis that causes breathing difficulties, which has repeatedly forced her to take sick leave or scale back her official duties.Her condition has deteriorated significantly over the past six months, Are Holm, a lung specialist at the Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet, told a press conference yesterday afternoon."We can see that there has been a significant increase in scar tissue in her lungs over the past year. And lung function tests show that her lung function has declined considerably in the last three months alone," Holm told reporters.Scarring of the lungs, known as pulmonary fibrosis, occurs when the alveoli (tiny air sacs) and the tissue between them become damaged and thickened, stiffening the lung and thereby hindering the passage of oxygen into the blood."This is dangerous," Holm said.This is why she was "being placed on the waiting list for a lung transplant", he added.To be placed on the list, one must be sick enough — it is reserved for patients who are believed to have only about a year to live without a transplant — but still in sufficiently good condition to handle such a major procedure and recover.— No guarantee —For an operation to go ahead, a compatible donor must first be found, meaning a lung of the right size and blood type to avoid organ rejection, and the patient must be the sickest one on the list.There is therefore no guarantee that Mette-Marit will be given priority, the doctor noted, but added that the waiting time for a lung transplant had become significantly shorter in recent months.While awaiting the operation, the crown princess will not be able to carry out her official duties, the palace said in a statement, adding that her ailing health would also affect the duties and activities of the crown prince and the rest of her family.The palace announced already in December that the crown princess might need a lung transplant.The couple's silver wedding anniversary celebration, which was to take place in August 2026, will be postponed, and the couple will not be able to attend the Swedish royal couple's golden wedding anniversary in Stockholm on June 13, the palace said.The princess's husband, Crown Prince Haakon, recently cut short a trip to Japan to be with his wife.Their daughter, Princess Ingrid Alexandra, also decided to interrupt her social sciences studies at the University of Sydney to join her mother in Norway and plans to continue her studies in Oslo throughout the autumn.The crown princess has recently appeared in public with a breathing tube connected to an oxygen device carried by a palace employee.
