Mercedes-Benz workers in Alabama vote against UAW union membership

The results are a blow to the UAW's organizing efforts a month after the Detroit union won an organizing drive of Volkswagen plant workers in Tennessee.

Supreme Court Justice Alito urged to step off Trump election case over U.S. flag controversy

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito and the other justices are considering if Donald Trump is immune from prosecution for 2020 election crimes.

England v Pakistan: second women’s T20 international – live

• England post 144-6 in second game of three at Northampton
• Email Daniel with your thoughts on the match and series

Right then. Maia Bouchier is taking guard. Waheeda Akhtar has the ball in her hand. We’re ready to go….

Really intersting chat on Sky right now focussing on the difference between the two sides’ power hitting.

Alito urged to recuse himself from Trump cases over reports of upside-down US flag outside his house – live

Senate judiciary committee chair says supreme court justice biased after report says flag linked to Trump’s baseless 2020 election fraud claim was flying outside his house

• Upside-down US flag reportedly hung outside Samuel Alito’s home days after Capitol attack

The Hawaii Democratic senator Brian Schatz also had strong words for Samuel Alito after the New York Times reported that a flag associated with Donald Trump’s election lies flew outside his house:

On X, Alicia Bannon, the director of the judiciary program at the non-partisan Brennan Center for Justice, warned that Samuel Alito’s display of a flag associated with Donald Trump’s election lies was “a five-alarm fire”:

This week on "Sunday Morning: By Design" (May 19)

We present our annual edition touching on all aspects of design, hosted by Jane Pauley.

US PGA Championship 2024: Scottie Scheffler in second-round action after arrest – live

• Start delayed by fatal accident involving bus and pedestrian
• World No 1 charged with assault after trying to get around jam
• Live scoreboard | And feel free to drop Matt an email

Sky Sports commentator Wayne Riley has been on the driving range to gauge opinion among the early starters. “The energy is zapped,” he reports. His Sky colleague Rich Beem is competing this week as a former champion, and Beem told Riley that “no-one had seen Scottie Scheffler … everyone was on their phone … they’d hit a shot, hit a putt, then look on their phone … they were caring for Scottie Scheffler, they were worried.”

Riley also spoke of the “person who was coming to the golf, if he was coming, lost his life … that is a terrible thing … you’re looking forward to the PGA Championship here at Valhalla and someone is not going to be with us today … so many players have said to me, ‘I can’t believe they’re actually playing today’ … I’m getting that vibe … I’m getting a lot of vibe that people are going ‘woah, somebody’s lost their life here today, Scottie has been taken away, do we go into Monday?’ ”

Mercedes workers vote no to union, putting the brakes on UAW's march South

More than 5,000 Mercedes-Benz workers who build luxury SUVs in Alabama were eligible to vote on whether to join the UAW. Workers faced intense anti-union messaging from Mercedes in the run-up.

French post office releases scratch-and-sniff baguette stamp

‘Bakery scent’ added via microcapsules to postage stamp celebrating ‘jewel of French culture’

The French Post Office has released a scratch-and-sniff postage stamp to celebrate the baguette, once described by President Emmanuel Macron as “250 grams of magic and perfection”.

The stamp, which costs €1.96, depicts a baguette decorated with a red, white and blue ribbon. It has a print run of 594,000 copies.

David DePape, who bludgeoned Nancy Pelosi’s husband, sentenced to 30 years

DePape, a rightwing conspiracy theorist, broke into the Pelosis’ San Francisco home in 2022 and hit Paul Pelosi with a hammer

David DePape, a rightwing conspiracy theorist who broke into Nancy Pelosi’s northern California home in 2022 and bludgeoned her husband with a hammer, has been sentenced to 30 years in prison.

A federal jury convicted him of attempted kidnapping of a federal official and assault on the immediate family member of a federal official in November 2023, just over a year after the attack in the former House speaker’s San Francisco home.

OpenAI dissolves team focused on long-term AI risks, less than one year after announcing it

OpenAI has dissolved its Superalignment team amid the high-profile departures of both team leaders, Ilya Sutskever and Jan Leike.

Guardiola’s obsessive will to win takes Manchester City to verge of history

Arsenal have been impressive challengers but a unique fourth English title in a row is there for the taking at the Etihad

The Manchester City fanbase like it to be known that they’re “not really here”. But as the club stand on the verge of history, it is a line from Pep Guardiola which offers the clarity, the explanation; a sense of wonder, too.

“We are there,” City’s manager has said repeatedly over the course of this season and those that have gone before. His team are pushing yet again to secure the Premier League title and he has often posited that the very act of being there and competing, the sheer consistency, is the real measure of them, the thing that must be celebrated.

Former Facebook and Nike diversity manager gets 5 years in prison for $5 million fraud

Barbara Furlow-Smiles, a Georgia resident who was a diversity manager for Facebook and Nike, was ordered to pay restitution for her theft scheme.

FBI testimony about search of Menendez's home continues at trial

The FBI seized 11 one-ounce gold bars, two one-kilogram gold bars and $486,461 from the New Jersey Democrat's home.

Trump to campaign in Minnesota after son's graduation

Former President Donald Trump heads to Minnesota to campaign Friday after his son Barron Trump's high school graduation. Trump obtained permission to attend the ceremony in a break from his "hush money" criminal trial in New York. CBS News politics reporter Hunter Woodall reports from St. Paul.

Scottie Scheffler arrested for allegedly assaulting cop before PGA Championship

Footage showed top-ranked golfer Scottie Scheffler handcuffed and walking toward a police car in the morning darkness. He later teed off at the PGA Championship.

Video shows Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs assaulting singer Cassie in 2016

Hotel surveillance cameras at InterContinental Hotel in Los Angeles captured incident Combs had vehemently denied

A newly released video shows Sean “Diddy” Combs manhandling and kicking singer Cassie Ventura – his former girlfriend – in plain view of hotel surveillance cameras in 2016, before the rapper, music producer and businessman rapidly settled a lawsuit that she brought against him this past November, according to footage exclusively obtained by CNN.

The video in question illustrates in the most graphic nature possible one of the beatings alleged and described in Ventura’s lawsuit, which Combs had vehemently denied.

Last pandas in the U.S. have a timetable to fly back to China

Atlanta received Lun Lun and Yang Yang from China in 1999 as part of a 25-year loan agreement that will soon expire.

AI infrastructure startup CoreWeave raises $7.5 billion in debt deal led by Blackstone

CoreWeave's $7.5 billion debt financing follows a $1.1 billion funding round the startup announced two weeks ago.

Former Trump lawyer John Eastman pleads not guilty in Arizona election case

John Eastman, Donald Trump, and Trump allies such as Rudy Giuliani, also are charged in Georgia with crimes related to the 2020 election loss to Joe Biden.

The week around the world in 20 pictures

War in Gaza, the Russian offensive in Kharkiv, protests in Georgia, the Northern lights and the Cannes Film Festival: the last seven days as captured by the world’s leading photojournalists

Warning: this gallery contains images that some readers may find distressing

Three tourists and an Afghan shot dead in Afghanistan attack

Four suspects arrested at scene of shooting in major tourist area of Bamiyan

Three foreign tourists and an Afghan civilian have been killed in a shooting attack in Bamiyan province, central Afghanistan, the interior ministry said.

Four suspects were arrested at the scene in Bamiyan, a major tourist area, and officials said an investigation was under way. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the late-evening attack.

Teen who texted 911 rescued after she was trafficked to California from Mexico

In texts received in Spanish and translated to English, the girl tried to describe her location, though she did not know where she was

Authorities rescued a 17-year old girl after she was trafficked to Ventura county, California, from Mexico two months ago and texted 911 for help.

On Thursday, the Ventura county sheriff’s office announced that on 9 May authorities rescued the girl after she sent messages to 911. The text message correspondence began with a call taker at a 911 communication center, according to the sheriff’s office, which added that the messages were received in Spanish and translated into English.

Mayoral candidate and five others killed in shooting at campaign rally in Mexico

Young girl was among six people killed in gunfire in an area of Chiapas where shootings have become common and widespread

A mayoral candidate and five other people have been killed when gunmen opened fire at a campaign rally in the violence-racked southern Mexico state of Chiapas.

State prosecutors said a young girl was among the six people killed in the gunfire late on Thursday, along with the mayoral candidate Lucero López Maza. Two others were injured, they said.

Lewis Hamilton has mixed first day in front of Ferrari faithful at Imola

• Hamilton at Imola for first time since agreeing 2025 Ferrari move
• Max Verstappen angry after Hamilton blocked him in practice

Lewis Hamilton, for so long the thorn in Ferrari’s side, takes to the track this weekend in Italy as a potential hero in waiting. The Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix at Imola will be Hamilton’s first race in front of the Ferrari faithful since he signed for the Scuderia in February and, while still driving a Mercedes, for the tifosi Hamilton embodies visions of a return to glory in scarlet.

Hamilton shocked F1 and Mercedes when he announced he had done a deal to join Ferrari in 2025, the team he has battled with since his career began. The Scuderia last won the drivers’ championship in 2007, when Kimi Raikkonen pipped Hamilton to the title in the British driver’s debut season. A year later Hamilton denied Ferrari’s Felipe Massa the crown in a nail-biting finale in Brazil.

Graduate workers in California to strike over treatment of Gaza protesters

Widespread disruption expected after workers vote to hold series of strikes, starting Monday with UC Santa Cruz

California’s huge university system is facing widespread disruption after workers voted to hold a series of strikes in protest of its treatment of Gaza protesters.

The University of California (UC) has more than 280,000 students and 227,000 faculty and staff on campuses across the state.

Harrison Butker's jersey among top-selling NFL jerseys after speech

Harrison Butker's jersey is currently among the top sellers on the NFL's online store, beating out popular Chiefs teammates such as Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce.

Nancy Pelosi asks for "very long" sentence for man who attacked her husband

David DePape, convicted of trying to kidnap Pelosi and attacking her husband with a hammer in October 2022, was sentenced Friday to 30 years in prison.

Buenos Aires metro fare jumps 360% amid Argentina’s harsh austerity measures

Libertarian president Javier Milei has slashed public spending as he wrestles to tame hyperinflation, now at 289% annually

Commuters in Buenos Aires have been hit by an overnight 360% increase in subway fares, in one of the most dramatic price hikes in a harsh budget austerity campaign launched by Argentina’s libertarian president, Javier Milei.

After weeks of hearings, a judge on Thursday lifted an order that had temporarily blocked the scheduled increase in subway fares. That cleared the way for the change to take effect on Friday morning as office workers across Buenos Aires streamed through the turnstiles of South America’s oldest underground metro.

Chevy Bolt owners win $150 million settlement after EVs caught fire

Some owners of the electric vehicle will be eligible for compensation of up to $1,400 because of a battery problem that caused fires.

This wholesome banger from a group of Irish kids is the spark you need

A shot of pure joy to start off the weekend: a charming video of kids from Cork, Ireland, rapping about finding and following their creative voice.

College honors popular campus cat with "doctor of litter-ature" degree

A Vermont university has bestowed the honorary degree of "doctor of litter-ature" on a cat named Max who has become a beloved member of its community.

Map shows states where COVID is "likely growing"

Health authorities are watching for signs the virus might be starting to accelerate again after a springtime lull in COVID rates.

Israel recovers bodies of three hostages taken by Hamas, including Shani Louk

Bodies of Amit Buskila and Itzhak Gelerenter also recovered from Gaza as Israel says 129 hostages remain in captivity

The bodies of three hostages kidnapped by Hamas, including the German-Israeli Shani Louk, have been retrieved from Gaza by the Israeli military, it announced.

The other two hostages were identified as Amit Buskila, 28, and Itzhak Gelerenter, 56, according to the military spokesperson Rear Adm Daniel Hagari, who said the three victims were taken to Gaza after being killed by Hamas at the Nova music festival.

Scottie Scheffler: golf’s straight man grabs attention in most unexpected way

World No 1’s unlikely brush with the law has raised his profile to a level that his playing abilities alone would never be able to

For 27 years, 10 months, and 26 days the most interesting thing about Scottie Scheffler was his golf. And given that’s what he’s paid for, you might think it ought to be enough. But the truth is that ever since Scheffler rose to the top of the world rankings in March 2022 the game has wanted more from him. Trouble is, besides his faith, his family, and his attachment to a beaten-up old 2012 GMC Yukon, he does not have much else to give. Whisper it, but the truth is that a lot of people in the game worry that Scheffler, who many reckon is the best player of his generation, is just a little bit too boring to carry the sport.

And then he decided to take a detour into the westbound lane on his way through the gates to Valhalla on Friday morning. Last month Scheffler explained that he believed his victory at the Masters was meant to be because God had laid out “today’s plans many years ago, and I could do nothing to mess them up”. Well, either the Lord also takes his marching orders from Kentucky traffic cops, or this is more proof, if we needed it, that he moves in mysterious ways.

Frontier Airlines does away with change fees in budget airline pricing overhaul

The budget airline's changes come amid the Biden administration's crackdown on so-called "junk fees."

TikTok says it's testing letting users post 60-minute videos

TikTok is allowing select users to upload longer-form videos as the social media app looks to compete with YouTube.

Kinds of Kindness review – sex, death and Emma Stone in Lanthimos’s disturbing triptych

Cannes film festival
Yorgos Lanthimos reinforces how the universe keeps on doing the same awful things with a multistranded yarn starring Emma Stone, Willem Dafoe and Jesse Plemons

Perhaps it’s just the one kind of unkindness: the same recurring kind of selfishness, delusion and despair. Yorgos Lanthimos’s unnerving and amusing new film arrives in Cannes less than a year after the release of his Oscar-winning Alasdair Gray adaptation Poor Things. It is a macabre, absurdist triptych: three stories or three narrative variations on a theme, set in and around modern-day New Orleans.

An office worker finally revolts against the intimate tyranny exerted over him by his overbearing boss. A police officer is disturbed when his marine-biologist wife returns home after months of being stranded on a desert island, and suspects she has been replaced by a double. Two cult members search for a young woman believed to have the power to raise the dead.

Three Kilometres to the End of the World review – brutal self-denial in deepest Romania

Cannes film festival
A drama of despair plays out in a remote village, as a debt-ridden father is mortified to discover his son is gay

Here is a self-laceratingly painful tale of repression and denial in a remote Romanian village in the Danube delta, directed by Emanuel Parvu. It’s in the gimlet-eyed observational and satirical style of the new Romanian cinema, a kind of movie-making that in extended dialogue scenes seeks out the bland bureaucratic language of the police and church authorities; their evasive mannerisms, their reactionary worldviews and lifelong habits of indicating opinions in quiet voices and in code, things they don’t want to be held responsible for, and for things they want to keep enclosed in silence.

The drama concerns a careworn guy, Dragoi (Bogdan Dumitrache), who owes money to a local tough guy and is badly behind with the debt. Then he discovers that his 17-year-old son Adi (Ciprian Chiujdea), the apple of his eye – whom he is planning to send to military school next year, and whom he fondly imagines to be dating a local girl – has been badly beaten up by the money-lender’s sons. With icy rage, Dragoi takes this to be the man’s unforgivably violent way of demanding his money.

Tyson Fury: ‘There’s a lot to be said for a normal job. Me? I can’t go anywhere. I’m tortured’

The heavyweight on why he’s happier picking up dog mess than facing life in the limelight before his fight against Oleksandr Usyk

Tyson Fury can be boorish and crass. He can make you squirm and shudder with his outbursts and prejudices. The giant WBC world heavyweight champion can also seem petty and ridiculous when insulting his opponents. But there is a telling difference between the cartoon version of the Gypsy King and the reflective man who talks with stark candour about his life away from the hubbub of fight week.

In the early hours of Sunday morning in Riyadh, around 1am local time, Fury will fight Oleksandr Usyk, the IBF, WBA and WBO king. The winner will become boxing’s first undisputed world heavyweight champion this century and everything will seem wild and outlandish compared to Fury’s contemplative mood now.

Dodge and Ram boss Tim Kuniskis, father of the Hellcat, to retire from Stellantis

Stellantis' Dodge and Ram brands CEO Tim Kuniskis is retiring after a nearly 32-year career with the automaker, the company announced Friday.

Trump aides plot deportation effort inspired by UK Rwanda plan – report

Wall Street Journal notes that British example may not be a good one, as ‘plan hasn’t gone into effect yet ‘amid legal challenges’

Aides to Donald Trump working to transform US immigration policy should he return to power are pursuing goals including “the largest mass deportation in US history” while “part-inspired” by the UK government’s deal to ship asylum seekers to Rwanda, the Wall Street Journal reported.

The Conservative UK government reached an agreement with the African country in 2022. Since then, however, the Rwanda policy has proved politically controversial, legally vulnerable, highly inefficient and vastly expensive.

Boeing shareholders re-elect departing CEO Calhoun to board

New board chair Steve Mollenkopf said he has sought feedback on Calhoun's successor from investors and Boeing customers.

Biden is set for the Morehouse graduation. Students are divided

Ahead of Biden's address at Morehouse, students share their frustrations

Beware the Biden factor, Keir Starmer: you can govern well and still risk losing the country | Jonathan Freedland

Politics is about achieving things and telling a compelling story. But neither the president – nor Starmer – can match Trump’s gift for narrative

The smile was the giveaway. Asked whether he was “just a copycat” of Tony Blair at the launch of his Blair-style pledge card on Thursday, Keir Starmer positively glowed. He was delighted with the comparison, which the entire exercise was surely designed to encourage. Blair “won three elections in a row”, Starmer said, beaming. Of course, he’s thrilled to be likened to a serial winner. And yet the more apt parallel is also a cautionary one. It’s not with Starmer’s long-ago predecessor, but with his would-be counterpart across the Atlantic: Joe Biden.

It’s natural that the sight of a Labour leader, a lawyer from north London, on course for Downing Street after a long era of Tory rule, would have people digging out the Oasis CDs and turning back the clock to 1997: Labour election victories are a rare enough commodity to prompt strong memories. But, as many veterans of that period are quick to point out, the circumstances of 2024 are very different. The UK economy was humming then and it’s parlous now. Optimism filled the air then, while too few believe genuine change is even possible now. And politics tended to be about material matters then, tax and public services, rather than dominated by polarising cultural wars as it is now.

Jonathan Freedland is a Guardian columnist

Harrison Butker’s jersey sales rise as right wing lauds Chiefs kicker after rant

Josh Hawley among conservatives delighted by football player’s commencement speech pummeling Pride and working women

Harrison Butker’s university commencement address at Benedictine College excoriating Pride month, working women, abortion rights activists and others has prompted the National Football League to disavow his remarks – but the Kansas City Chiefs placekicker’s jersey sales have spiked as conservatives seize on their latest culture war.

Butker has also drawn an impassioned statement of support from Josh Hawley, the far-right US senator from Missouri known for his opposition to abortion and a viral video which showed him running away from the mob he incited during the US Capitol attack on 6 January 2021.

The Associated Press contributed reporting

Campus protests have called for schools to divest from Israel. Here's how that would actually work

Protesters on campuses nationwide have called on universities to divest from Israel due to the war in Gaza. Here's how divestment would actually work.

Here's what has driven the Dow rally to 40,000, and why it could keep going

The Dow Jones Industrial Average passing the 40,000 barrier makes for a nice headline, but market experts do not take much else from the move.

Rafah is running out of food, even as the U.S. pier starts operating in Gaza

The first trucks of aid entered Gaza via a pier built by the U.S. But it's challenging to move aid around Gaza, and humanitarian groups operating in Rafah warn they don't have food to distribute.

As Tesla layoffs continue, here are 600 jobs the company cut in California

Tesla has eliminated another 600 jobs across its operations in Fremont and Palo Alto, California.

The Cannes red carpet so far: from Naomi Campbell in 90s Chanel to Anya Taylor-Joy in Dior – in pictures

Jane Fonda in an animal print coat, Lily Gladstone in Gucci and Chris Hemsworth in an old Hollywood jacket – there was a lot to enjoy on the Croisette this week

The FBI investigated David Copperfield for two years. The claim that he was ‘exonerated’ was widely embraced. Was he?

A woman alleged that the magician sexually assaulted her on his private island in 2007. His lawyers said he was falsely accused

Lacey Carroll headed straight to Harborview medical center after touching down in Seattle following a three-day stay on David Copperfield’s private island in the Bahamas. It was August 2007 and – according to police records – she had gone to get medical treatment for sexual assault.

The 20-year-old later alleged to Seattle police and in court filings that she had embarked on the long journey to Musha Cay – the islands in the Bahamas that Copperfield reportedly bought for $50m in 2006 – because she had been offered a chance to do promotional work and some modeling there along with a team of others. Instead, she claimed, she found herself alone with Copperfield and a few members of his staff. Copperfield, she alleged, raped and assaulted her multiple times.

The Guide #139: From Megalopolis to Furiosa, here’s what Cannes 2024 is buzzing for

In this week’s newsletter: Even if Francis Ford Coppola’s long-awaited passion project is the turkey some critics say it is, the French film festival remains the most exciting date in cinema

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The Cannes film festival is raging away on the Riviera, and, for me, the fomo is strong. I went to Cannes a handful of times in what now seems like ancient pre-Covid history, and always had a blast. Admittedly, much of its appeal comes from the slightly elitist thrill of getting to see a hotly anticipated film – Once Upon a Time in Hollywood or Parasite – long before the rest of the world.

But it’s all the weird ephemera around those premieres that I really miss: the gaudy super yachts parked alongside the Palais des Festivals with man from Del Monte-attired businessmen doing deals on the front deck; the giant billboards that would usually be advertising McDonald’s or H&M instead trumpeting the latest arthouse effort from Jacques Audiard; and, of course, the Marché du Film, the festival’s evil twin, locked away in the basement of the Palais, where distributors try to drum up interest in the likes of Killer Sofa, Tsunambee or Santa Stole Our Dog.

Giro d’Italia 2024: Jonathan Milan pounces for third stage victory of race

• Lidl-Trek’s team tactics work to perfection after sprint
• Pogacar maintains firm grip at head of overall standings

Jonathan Milan of Lidl-Trek maintained his excellent form at the Giro d’Italia to win stage 13 in a sprint finish, the Italian’s third stage victory. His team’s tactics worked perfectly, leading him out into the last kilometre with Milan well placed in second as they rounded the final bend.

It initially looked as if Fernando Gaviria would grab the win as he took to the front, but Milan showed why he is the points classification leader as he pounced late on, with Poland’s Stanislaw Aniolkowski finishing strongly in second and Phil Bauhaus third.

Looking to purchase a home? These U.S. cities are the most buyer-friendly.

A wave of new construction has turned cities in Texas and Florida into the country's friendliest markets for homebuyers.

Francis Ford Coppola: US politics is at ‘the point where we might lose our republic’

Speaking at Cannes, the director says Megalopolis, his reworking of ancient Rome’s Catiline conspiracy, has become ever more prescient

Megalopolis review – Coppola’s passion project is megabloated and megaboring

The US, whose founders tried to emulate the laws and governmental structures of the Roman republic, is headed for a similarly self-inflicted collapse, director Francis Ford Coppola has said at the premiere of his first film in more than a decade.

“What’s happening in America, in our republic, in our democracy, is exactly how Rome lost their republic thousands of years ago,” Coppola told a press conference at the Cannes film festival on Friday. “Our politics has taken us to the point where we might lose our republic.”

Vatican tightens rules on supernatural phenomena in crackdown on hoaxes

Updated guidelines strip bishops of power to recognise ‘supernatural’ nature of purportedly divine events

Apparitions of the Virgin Mary and weeping statues have been part of Catholicism for centuries, but the age of social media has prompted the Vatican to issue a crackdown against potential scams and hoaxes.

New rules issued on Friday say that only a pope, rather than local bishops, can declare apparitions and revelations to be “supernatural”. The document, Norms for Proceeding in the Discernment of Alleged Supernatural Phenomena, updates previous guidance issued in 1978 that is now considered “inadequate”.

Mercedes-Benz workers cast final votes in high-stakes UAW election

Alabama Mercedes employees have voted on whether to join the labor group as the United Auto Workers barrels into union-averse Southern states.

‘The genie is out of the bottle’: Robert Fico shooting highlights far wider crisis in Slovakia

Attack on prime minister lifts lid on divided politics of ‘one of the most polarised countries in Europe’

On Friday morning, Father Tomáš stood solemnly in the small Catholic church nestled near a park along the banks of the Danube River in Bratislava.

He had seen an increase in visitors since Wednesday’s shock shooting of Slovakia’s prime minister, Robert Fico, which has prompted soul-searching among the country’s deeply divided society. The priest, who did not wish to give his full name, planned to hold his weekly Sunday service to pray “for peace in Slovakia, so that we find mutual respect and understanding”.

Scottie Scheffler is arrested outside PGA Championship after interaction with police

Scheffler, who won the Masters last month, was arrested and charged after an interaction Friday morning with a police officer directing traffic into to the golf club where the PGA event is being held.

Martin Rowson on climate change, and the price of olive oil – cartoon

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A kangaroo, a possum and a bushrat walk into a burrow: research finds wombat homes are the supermarkets of the forest

Scientist discovers a cast of recurring characters using burrows in the aftermath of bushfire, after sifting through more than 700,000 images

First came a picture of an inquisitive red-necked wallaby, then an image of a bare-nosed wombat, followed by a couple of shots of the wombat’s burrow with nothing else in the frame.

By the time research scientist Grant Linley had looked through a further 746,670 images, he had seen 48 different species visiting the 28 wombat burrows that he had trained his cameras on.

Think before you click – and three other ways to reduce your digital carbon footprint | Koren Helbig

The invisible downside to our online lives is the data stored at giant energy-guzzling datacentres

It’s been called “the largest coal-powered machine on Earth” – and most of us use it countless times a day.

The internet and its associated digital industry are estimated to produce about the same emissions annually as aviation. But we barely think about pollution while snapping 16 duplicate photos of our pets, which are immediately uploaded to the cloud.

Cocktail of the week: the Mandrake’s Hibiscus – recipe | The good mixer

An Aperol spritz/cosmo hybrid that’s equal parts refreshing and bubbly

A glorious combination of classic ingredients that is equal parts refreshing and bubbly – think a fruity yet refined Aperol spritz/cosmopolitan hybrid with a sparkling edge. Enjoy with friends on a sunny afternoon and embrace those fragrant citrus flavours.

Jouzas Jonauskas, head of food and beverage, Waeska Bar, The Mandrake, London W1

Forget the Maga caps – check out Trump’s new Courtroom Collection! | Fiona Katauskas

Who says (alleged) crime doesn’t pay?

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Arne Slot confirms he will replace Jürgen Klopp as Liverpool manager

• ‘I will become the trainer there,’ says Feyenoord coach
• Liverpool expected to announce appointment next week

Feyenoord’s coach, Arne Slot, has confirmed for the first time that he will succeed Jürgen Klopp as Liverpool’s manager.

An agreement for Slot to replace Klopp has been in place for three weeks but there has been no official announcement while Liverpool prepare to give their legendary manager a fitting send-off at Anfield on Sunday. However, at a press conference on Friday for Sunday’s match against Excelsior, Slot said: “I can confirm that I will become the trainer there next year.

‘Her stories are life itself’: Yiyun Li on the genius of Alice Munro

The Chinese American author of The Book of Goose pays tribute to the late writer, reflecting on the rich rewards of revisiting her stories over many years

• A life in quotes: Alice Munro
• Five of the best Alice Munro short stories

Two days after Alice Munro died, I went to an event in New York, and found myself among strangers. A woman asked me if I’d heard that the great “Janet Munro” had died. Janet? The confusion was cleared up, and a man told me about Munro’s life story, with a detailed description of the photo used for her obituary in the New York Times. Another woman told me that, unlike most writers, Munro did not write novels, only stories. “Isn’t that interesting?” Next came the inevitable question, which people often ask of someone who writes novels and stories: “Which is easier for you?”

Easy? That’s an adjective that I’ve never associated with literature.

Honduran city’s air pollution is almost 50 times higher than WHO guidelines

San Pedro Sula is rated ‘dangerous’ as effects of forest fires, El Niño and the climate crisis cause a spike in respiratory illnesses

The air quality in San Pedro Sula, the second-largest city in Honduras, as been classified as the most polluted on the American continent due to forest fires and weather conditions aggravated by El Niño and the climate crisis.

IQAir, a Swiss air-quality organisation that draws data from more than 30,000 monitoring stations around the world, said on Thursday that air quality in the city of about 1 million people has reached “dangerous” levels.

Man jailed for life after Israel-Gaza ‘revenge’ murder in Hartlepool

Ahmed Alid, 45, stabbed Terence Carney, 70, and tried to kill another man in attacks described as terrorism

A terrorist who murdered a pensioner in Hartlepool town centre as “revenge” for the 7 October attacks in Israel has been jailed for 45 years.

Ahmed Alid, 45, an asylum seeker from Morocco, stabbed 70-year-old Terence Carney, a complete stranger he encountered on the street, eight days after the Hamas atrocity.

Biden and Trump are betting on debates to help magnify the other’s weaknesses

Trump will look to again cast Biden as greatly diminished while Biden will aim to remind voters why they rejected Trump in 2020

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It’s game on for a pair of presidential debates between two unpopular candidates most Americans wish weren’t running for the nation’s highest office.

In a ratatat social media exchange on Wednesday, Joe Biden and Donald Trump agreed to participate in two debates on 27 June, hosted by CNN, and on 10 September, hosted by ABC.

Putin seeking to weaponise threat of mass migration, warns Estonian PM

‘Adversaries know migration is our vulnerability,’ says Kaja Kallas, spelling out negative consequences to Europe of Ukrainian defeat

Vladimir Putin is seeking to weaponise the threat of mass migration to divide and weaken Europe as supporters of Ukraine struggle to maintain unity to defeat Russia, Kaja Kallas, the Estonian prime minister, says.

“What our adversaries know is migration is our vulnerability,” she said. “The aim is to make life really impossible in Ukraine so that there would be migration pressure to Europe, and this is what they are doing.”

Defense attacks Michael Cohen's past in cross-examination at Donald Trump's criminal trial

The defense for former President Donald Trump pointed to Michael Cohen's past conviction for lying under oath in an attempt to discredit his testimony on his third day on the stand.

French police kill armed man who set synagogue on fire in Rouen

Mayor calls for show of solidarity against attack after synagogue damaged in blaze amid rising antisemitism in France

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French police shot dead a man armed with a knife and an iron bar who set fire to a synagogue in the Normandy city of Rouen on Friday.

The interior minister, Gérald Darmanin, travelling to visit the fire-damaged synagogue, said France was “deeply affected” by what he called an antisemitic act. He said the government was “extremely determined to continue to fully protect Jewish people in France, wherever they are, and Jews should practice their religion without fear”.

Teen trafficked into U.S. rescued after texting 911, describing area

Information provided by the teenager allowed deputies to launch a search and locate her in minutes.

Country superstar Kenny Chesney reflects on his tour and music journey

Kenny Chesney recently kicked off his summer tour. The country superstar talks with "CBS Mornings" about his historic career and shares how his music continues to evolve.

Benjamina Ebuehi’s recipe for blueberry and halva loaf | The sweet spot

In this blueberry-studded cake, halva melts into the batter during baking to give it a velvety crumb and a hint of sesame

My local Turkish grocers have about half an aisle devoted to halva. There are tubs and tubs of the stuff, in all manner of flavours from almond and vanilla to pistachio and chocolate, and I like to pick up a different type each time I go. I use halva in bakes and, of course, I eat it neat, too. In today’s loaf, I’ve used a vanilla one that, as the cake bakes, melts into the batter, bringing a velvety texture to the sponge and a toasty, sesame flavour. The pops of blueberries brighten everything up and make this a perfect pick-me-up.

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Economic damage from climate change six times worse than thought – report

A 1C increase in global temperature leads to a 12% decline in world gross domestic product, researchers have found

The economic damage wrought by climate change is six times worse than previously thought, with global heating set to shrink wealth at a rate consistent with the level of financial losses of a continuing permanent war, research has found.

A 1C increase in global temperature leads to a 12% decline in world gross domestic product (GDP), the researchers found, a far higher estimate than that of previous analyses. The world has already warmed by more than 1C (1.8F) since pre-industrial times and many climate scientists predict a 3C (5.4F) rise will occur by the end of this century due to the ongoing burning of fossil fuels, a scenario that the new working paper, yet to be peer-reviewed, states will come with an enormous economic cost.

This article was amended on 17 May 2024 to correct the last quotation from Gernot Wagner.

Kindness 101: Reciprocity

In the series "Kindness 101," Steve Hartman and his kids share stories built around kindness and character, and the people who've mastered those qualities. This week the lesson is on reciprocity. For that lesson, Steve reconnects with a Harvard graduate who wanted to not only recognize support staff at his university, but also celebrate them.

‘Times have changed’: is the writing on the wall for the British seaside postcard?

Popularity of traditional holiday memento hit by smartphones, ‘rude rock’ and rising price of stamps

A trip to the British seaside may not always have been something to write home about, but these days you might struggle even if you wanted to.

At the Little Gems gift shop in Blackpool town centre, all the usual seaside wares are on display – beach towels, plastic buckets and spades, sticks of rock – but one item is notably missing.

4 dead as storms slam Houston again; hundreds of thousands lose power

The Houston Mayor's Office confirmed to CBS News that there were at least four weather-related deaths from the storms.

Will Taylor Swift provide a £1bn boost to the UK economy?

Barclays’ analysis may be slightly off the mark, but the megastar is tapping into a new trend in spending

Taylor Swift has long been credited with an outsized influence on music, celebrity culture – even politics. But reviving the UK’s flagging economy may be too much to ask, even of the sequinned megastar.

Research published this week by analysts from Barclays pointed to the extraordinary spending surge that ensues when Swift touches down, and suggested she could bring a £1bn boost to the UK.

I’m happily remarried, but am haunted by my ex’s long-ago betrayal | Ask Annalisa Barbieri

Your first husband robbed you of a lot, and you have some mourning to do. But there seems to be a part of you that thinks you don’t deserve happiness

• Every week Annalisa Barbieri addresses a family-related problem sent in by a reader

I met my ex in our last year of high school. After a year of university we married when we were only 18. The first 10 years were rocky, with many family crises that put stress on our relationship, and at one point I left my husband. We reunited within a few months and changed our attitudes and goals. From then on I vowed to accept and find the good. We were married for 25 years, through his many infidelities and my anxieties. We didn’t have any children because he didn’t want to be a father. Finally, there was a mistress he wouldn’t set aside, and after three years I gave him an ultimatum, as gently as I could. He chose her, and divorced me. Some of the most painful words I have ever heard were: “You are a wonderful wife, beautiful and brilliant, but I don’t want you. And you deserve better than this.”

I remarried 13 years later and for 23 years have been wife to a fine man. But he is emotionally distant, while I am emotionally overflowing. I relive my first husband’s betrayal in my dreams nearly every night. In my nightmares, I am frightened when he appears and feel under his control. I wake up full of fear.

Revolutionary War barracks, chewed-on ammunition unearthed in Virginia

The barracks included chimney bricks, officers' jewelry and musket balls that soldiers chewed on because of their sweet taste.

Texas barge crash spills "environmentally toxic" oil into water

The barge was carrying vacuum gas oil, which has been linked to skin cancer and lung issues and is considered "environmentally toxic."

Morehouse students divided over Biden Israel policy ahead of president's commencement speech

President Biden is set to deliver the commencement speech at Morehouse College this weekend. The well-known historically Black college for men has seen protests over the war in Gaza, but students are divided over the president's Israel policy and plans to visit.

Marking 70 years since Supreme Court ruling on Brown v. Board of Education

Today marks the 70th anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education. The ruling declared racial segregation in public school is unconstitutional. Decades later in Topeka, Kansas, where the case originated, the local school district's first Black superintendent works to serve the city's diverse population inside and outside school walls.

Billie Eilish, dogs and lift-off: photos of the day – Friday

The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world

Bill to ban most public mask wearing advances in North Carolina

North Carolina Republicans are pushing forward with their plan to repeal a pandemic-era law, citing crime and recent campus protests.

Thousands without power after deadly storms strike Texas

Powerful wind and rain slammed the southeastern part of Texas for the second time this month. At least four people were killed in the storm and more than 800,000 customers are still without power.

Why isn’t sake more popular? | Fiona Beckett on drinks

If Japanese food is all the rage, why isn’t sake? After all, it is an appealing and surprisingly versatile drink

Given how popular Japanese food is now, it’s kind of surprising that sake hasn’t taken off in tandem. But it’s also understandable, seeing as this is not exactly the easiest drink to get your head around: there’s the complex classification, and the fact that, until relatively recently, the labels have tended to be in Japanese. There’s also confusion over what temperature to serve it at (the general impression is that it’s served warm, but finer sakes are traditionally served cool or cold). The supermarkets, which are often helpful in popularising new drinks such as kombucha, haven’t come on board, either. Look up sake on the Asda website, for example, and you get 752 results for cake. Even Waitrose, which has an extensive range of Japanese food, stocks more Japanese gin and whisky than sake – and then only the not-especially-interesting Sawanotsuru (14.5%) at £13.

But there’s a lot to like about sake. For one thing, it’s smoother and less sharp than many white wines. Delicately sweet, but also savoury, it’s versatile with food, too, and not just with sushi (the Japanese wouldn’t traditionally serve it with rice). Being rich in umami, it’s also surprisingly good with steak and cheese.

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Rhythm Nation: how music gives Haiti hope amid the chaos

The country has been hit by decades of crises and catastrophe, but its culture continues to thrive across the diaspora. Here, Haitian musicians celebrate its ’sounds of freedom’

Even before March this year, when gun-toting gangs overran the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince, dictatorships, poverty, health crises and earthquakes had defined the country in the eyes of global media. It passes for the archetypal failed state, a place where Unicef has declared that 3 million children urgently need humanitarian aid. Yet there is an alternative to this narrative of disaster and chaos: the beauty of Haitian culture. Music and visual art remain enduring symbols of hope.

Over the years, the population and its diaspora in North America have been extraordinarily creative. In the 80s, Jean-Michel Basquiat, whose father was Haitian, took the art scene by storm with his outre graffiti, otherworldly painting and barbed political commentary, while today Haitian-born artists Myrlande Constant and Frantz Zephirin are producing exhilarating canvases. Between the 1950s and 80s, musicians Nemours Jean-Baptiste, Coupé Cloué and Boukman Eksperyans excelled in genres such as compas, manba and rasin, which all have entrancing dance rhythms derived from Africa and provocative lyrics in the Creole language born of contact between French settlers and enslaved people.

Dow rises above 40,000 for first time in history

For the first time ever on Thursday, the Dow Jones average rose about 40,000, providing new optimism about the economy. CBS News business analyst Jill Schlesinger breaks down what it means.

Air Up: scent-flavoured water bottle becomes latest playground craze

School must-have is setting pressured parents back £30 but could help keep kids off sugary drinks

From loom bands to fidget spinners, playground crazes are usually cheap and cheerful, but the latest must-have is an expensive drinks bottle that comes with scent pods that trick your brain into thinking water is cola or fruit juice.

The growing popularity of Air Up, with the cheapest bottles starting at about £30, is a dilemma for parents.

New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez reveals his wife is battling breast cancer amid his ongoing trial

New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez announced his wife, Nadine Menendez, is being treated for grade 3 breast cancer. Her trial is on hold as she undergoes treatment. The couple is accused of engaging in a bribery scheme.

Did a topless photo lead a California IVF doctor to kill his wife?

Susann Sills had posted a topless photo in a political chatroom that enraged her husband, Dr. Eric Scott Sills, according to prosecutors.

UK engineering firm Arup falls victim to £20m deepfake scam

Hong Kong employee was duped into sending cash to criminals by AI-generated video call

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The British engineering company Arup has confirmed it was the victim of a deepfake fraud after an employee was duped into sending HK$200m (£20m) to criminals by an artificial intelligence-generated video call.

Hong Kong police said in February that a worker at a then-unnamed company had been tricked into transferring vast sums by people on a hoax call “posing as senior officers of the company”.

Robert Fico’s allies warn of political war – they will use it to justify the dismantling of our democracy | Monika Kompaníková

In Slovakia, we know what ‘restoring order’ means. After the PM’s shooting, it will be an excuse to suppress any opposition

• Monika Kompaníková is a Slovakian writer and editor

Shortly after the shooting of Robert Fico, I received a phone call from my sister. She was extremely upset – not just about the shocking attack, but also about an incident on the bus on the way home from work in the moments after the news had broken. Two elderly fellow passengers reacted to the attempted assassination by blaming liberals and progressives in general, and in particular Michal Šimečka, an opposition politician and former vice-president of the European parliament. One passenger called for the death penalty to be reinstated and order to be restored.

At that point, the circumstances of the shooting were entirely unclear, information was partial, and it was too early to condemn or point the finger at anyone. My sister, who considers herself a liberal, spoke up to argue against the other passengers.

Biden focuses on outreach to Black Americans; Billie Eilish finds herself

President Biden will cap off a week of outreach to Black Americans with commencement at Morehouse College. Billie Eilish tells Morning Edition how she found herself on her newest album.

Thai high: the rise of a newfound cannabis culture – a photo essay

Photographer Dougie Wallace has been looking at the impact of the decriminalisation of cannabis in Thailand, from Khaosan Road to the beach resorts, such as Krabi and Phuket, that attract tourists

The decriminalisation of cannabis in Thailand in June 2022 has led to an explosion in marijuana shops across the country – especially in its tourist areas. It is sold at trendy dispensaries in Bangkok, at beachside bars across resort islands and even on river cruises. On bustling streets, green leaf logos glow in neon above shop fronts, and small stalls, set up with rows of glass jars, dot the pavement.

Tourists and street advertiser in Patong, Phuket

‘We were all going through traumas under one roof’: the drag queen adoption drama inspired by real life

Daf James’s life was upended when he and his husband adopted three kids – and he knew he had to write about it. As Lost Boys & Fairies hits the screen, the writer and cast talk about queer lives, Welshness and what makes a family click

Lost Boys & Fairies is not a true story. But like most drama and fiction, it draws heavily on the real-life experiences of the people who made it. Daf James, the Welsh playwright and screenwriter behind the story, also adopted three children with his husband when those children were aged between two and five. As in the show, he went to activity days to meet children who needed carers, got interrogated by social workers and had plenty of sleepless nights. So when we see his protagonist Gabriel getting hit in the head with a football by a seven-year-old in a Cardiff park, are we watching fiction here or reality?

“Everything I write is personally inspired,” Daf tells me, over Zoom from his attic bedroom, just minutes after we have both put our children to bed. “But I’ve learned how to adapt my lived experience into fiction. Andy is a fictitious character; the father is a fictitious character; the children are fictitious characters.” Andy, the saint-like husband of Gabriel, is played by Hawkeye star and Northern Irish actor Fra Fee, who tells me that his role in Lost Boys & Fairies was “genuinely the honour of my life”. It’s a statement that, like the show itself, hits a note of radical sentimentality. “I’ve never played a gay man on screen before,” Fee goes on, “which sounds a bit mad as a gay man myself. So to get the opportunity to do something that felt so positive was such a gift.”

New Caledonia riots: parts of territory ‘out of state control’, French representative says

Days of unrest in the French Pacific territory – sparked by a plan to change voting rules – have left five dead

Tensions remained high in Nouméa, the capital of New Caledonia, on Friday after days of riots as the French government’s representative said areas of the Pacific territory have “escaped” state control.

Louis Le Franc, high commissioner of the Republic in New Caledonia, announced new security deployments. The number of police and gendarmes on the island will rise to 2,700 from 1,700 by Friday evening.