Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the U.S. is testing whether the Russians are serious in Ukraine peace talks, warning there's not time to waste.

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Gomez-Guallazaca suffered severe trauma throughout his body and was later pronounced dead at  Richmond University Medical Center.

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It's time for a rubber game in the Bronx.

A former disability support worker who alleges she was sent into urine and feces-covered homes by her employer has been left unable to speak for six years.

Projections suggest Bucharest mayor will win runoff vote but diaspora vote could change result

That’s a higher result for Nicușor Dan than perhaps expected. The turnout clearly plays a role here, too.

But these are just exit polls, and they do not seem to account for the crucial diaspora vote.

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The leader Scottie Scheffler tees it up. If he’s feeling nerves, they’re not betraying him on his face. A huge roar from the gallery for the big man from Texas. He gracefully larrups a gentle fade around the trees down the right and he’s in position A on the fairway. He’s going round with Alex Noren today. No nerves evident from the Swedish veteran, either, as he splits the fairway. A quiet start meanwhile for Bryson DeChambeau: par-par-par. The high-point so far a whip over a huge tree to get himself back into position on 3. He remains at -5.

Matt Fitzpatrick might have rendered himself realistically done and dusted. But that’s not going to stop him battling for every shot and a high finish. He’s responded to that bogey-bogey start by raking in long birdie putts on the next two holes to return to his starting point. Meanwhile Jon Rahm’s quest to “play well” begins with par; his playing partner Kim Si-woo drops a stroke, though. So this is where we are now, with the last match preparing to tee off.

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"Meghan went to Windsor Castle for a menu-tasting and ended up having a tense exchange with a member of staff," Katie Nicholl claimed in her book.

Benicio Del Toro and Michael Cera are essentially wingmen to Kate Winslet’s daughter, making a breakthrough big screen turn in Anderson’s enjoyable yet airless ensemble romp

Wes Anderson has contrived another of his elegant, eccentric, rectilinear comedies - as ever, he is vulnerable to the charge of making films that stylistically resemble all his others, and yet no more, surely, than all those other directors making conventional films that resemble all the rest of their own conventional work.

The Phoenician Scheme is enjoyable and executed with Anderson’s usual tremendous despatch, but it is somehow less visually detailed and inspired than some of his earlier work; there is less screwball sympathy for the characters, and it is disconcerting to see actors of the calibre of Tom Hanks, Willem Dafoe and Scarlett Johansson phoning in tiny, deadpan, almost immobile cameos. But there is a likeable lead turn from Mia Threapleton, an eerie visual and aural echo of her mother, Kate Winslet.

The absurdly opaque and pointless “Phoenician Scheme” of the title is a plan by notorious plutocrat-entrepreneur Zsa-Zsa Korda (Benicio Del Toro) to dominate the economy of a fictional Middle Eastern nation with an interlocking series of mining transportation and fishing ventures, by using exploitative slave labour and moreover manipulating the agricultural market in such a way as to cause famine.

To this end, he has signed investment deals with various relatives and associates, including Marty (Jeffrey Wright), Cousin Hilda (Scarlett Johansson), Marseille Bob (Mathieu Amalric) and his brother, Uncle Nubar, who may incidentally have murdered Zsa-Zsa’s wife – and is played by Benedict Cumberbatch with a fierce beard and kohl eyeliner, like Rasputin in a silent film.

His daughter is Liesl, a novitiate nun (Mia Threapleton) and in true Michael Corleone style, it appears to be her destiny to take over the business despite not wanting to. The Norwegian family tutor Bjorn Lund (Michael Cera) is deeply in love with Liesl.

But now the US government, in the form of Bobby-Kennedy-style buttoned-up apparatchik Mr Excaliber (Rupert Friend) tries to destroy the Scheme by driving up the cost of the “bashable rivets” on which the whole plan is predicated and now Zsa-Zsa must close the profitability gap by touring around each of his investors to persuade them to accept less profit than they agreed … and so the films gives us a sketch of each wacky figure in turn. Meanwhile Zsa-Zsa, who keeps nearly dying in government-schemed plane crashes, has persistent visions of heavenly judgment from a God played by Bill Murray.

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Chris Murphy says Trump strategically visited Gulf states ‘willing to pay him off’ as backlash rises against luxury offer

Donald Trump’s acceptance of a $400m Boeing jet from Qatar is the “definition of corruption”, a leading Democrat said on Sunday, as several senior Republicans joined in a bipartisan fusillade of criticism and concern over the luxury gift.

Chris Murphy, a Democratic senator for Connecticut, condemned the “flying grift” on NBC’s Meet the Press as he assailed the president’s trip to several Gulf states this week that included a stop in Qatar.

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The vote pitted front-runner George Simion, the 38-year-old leader of the hard-right Alliance for the Unity of Romanians, against incumbent Bucharest Mayor Nicusor Dan.

An early-morning crash has torn one family apart, Toronto police said Sunday as they announced three children had died in a collision allegedly caused by an impaired teen driver. Read More

The WNBA is investigating alleged racial comments directed at Angel Reese in the Sky’s game against the Fever.

One of the two fatal victims of Saturday’s Brooklyn Bridge ship crash was a 20-year-old female Mexican Navy cadet from Veracruz, the state’s governor said Sunday.

Family members said it took three hours for the mortuary to fix the mix-up so her uncle could finally be laid to rest.

Researchers have uncovered the reason an "unusual" 18th-century mummy was preserved so well in Austria – and it's highly abnormal.

• Alvarado tested positive for external testosterone
• Reliever is suspended for postseason, can return later this summer

Philadelphia Phillies closer José Alvarado was suspended for 80 games on Sunday after a positive test for external testosterone under Major League Baseball’s drug-testing program.

Alvarado, among the hardest-throwing relievers, became the second player suspended this year under the big league testing program after Atlanta outfielder Jurickson Profar.

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FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino delivered a scathing rebuke of the bureau's former director James Comey over his cryptic "86 47” message made in seashells that he posted on Instagram Friday.

"Having children changes everything," she said. "It's brutal and incredible."

Scottie Pippen and Larsa Pippen reunited to celebrate their son's big achievement.

Canada’s finance minister said the government kept 25 per cent retaliatory tariffs on tens of billions of dollars in U.S. goods, disputing a report from a research firm that suggested it had paused the vast majority of those levies. Read More

A Wisconsin angler fishing in the fog this week discovered the wreck of an abandoned tugboat submerged in the waters of Lake Michigan for more than a century, state officials announced Friday.

Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman tore into county Democrats who are suing to try to block his plan for a volunteer force of armed civilian deputies — calling it a politically motivated attack.

• Side were humbled by Barcelona in Champions League
• FA Cup secured with 3-0 win against Manchester United

Despite completing the treble ­without losing a domestic game in her first season managing in ­England, the Chelsea head coach, Sonia ­Bompastor, was still not fully ­satisfied as she set her sights on ­adding a first European title to club’s the honours list.

Bompastor’s team, who were 3-0 winners against Manchester United at Wembley to finish their 30-match home campaign unbeaten, were outclassed by Barcelona in the ­Women’s Champions League semi‑finals in April. They celebrated the club’s sixth Women’s FA Cup in 10 years on Sunday, but Bompastor said: “We are super happy but we didn’t win the Champions League, which was also one of our goals.

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“The guy just knows what an audience wants and how to sell stuff to an audience in every sense.”

A coming Supreme Court decision could prove fatal to the DEI agenda of discrimination to achieve “equity” in the workplace.

Global insurance and investment firm Starr is expanding into Silverstein Properties’ 1177 Sixth Ave. The new, 49,264 square-foot lease is in addition to Starr’s current space at 399 Park Ave., where it will remain. Sources said the asking rent was in the $80s per square foot. Starr signed a lease for the seventh and eighth...

The pop star allegedly began distancing herself from the actress after she was subpoenaed as a witness in Lively and Baldoni's upcoming trial.

After another campaign that will end without silverware, Mikel Arteta will be thankful for small mercies. Sealing second place in the Premier League for a third successive season is not exactly the scenario that the Arsenal manager would have envisaged for his side’s last home match of the season when they kicked off against Wolves back in August. But at least Arteta had the satisfaction of getting one over Eddie Howe, at the fourth attempt.

Another blockbuster from Declan Rice left Newcastle needing to beat Everton at home next week to ensure they join Arsenal in the Champions League next season. After ending their long wait for silverware by winning the Carabao Cup, Howe will be desperate for Alexander Isak to recover from a groin problem that forced him to miss this game and to put the icing on their season. Other than a goalmouth scramble in stoppage time when tempers threatened to boil over, Arsenal were able to see out victory relatively comfortably despite losing William Saliba to injury at half-time.

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Prime Minister Mark Carney had a brief audience with Pope Leo XIV Sunday afternoon at the Vatican following the pontiff’s inaugural mass in St. Peter’s Square. Read More

Federal transportation officials have launched an investigation into why a Mexican navy tall ship hit the Brooklyn Bridge in a collision that snapped the vessel’s three masts, killed two crew members and left some sailors dangling from harnesses high in the air. Read More

• Belgian beats Mexican rival in dash to the finish
• Primoz Roglic falls further behind after crash

Wout Van Aert battled to victory on stage nine of the Giro d’Italia on Sunday, holding off Isaac del Toro who moved into the overall lead after the pair went for broke and stole a march on the rest of the field.

Van Aert (Visma-Lease a Bike), riding his first Giro, used all his Strade Bianche experience to outsmart Del Toro (UAE Team Emirates), with Italy’s Giulio Ciccone (Lidl-Trek) coming in third.

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Cannes film festival
British-Nigerian film-maker Akinola Davies Jr makes a strong directorial debut with this deft and intriguing tale of an absent father briefly reunited with his two young sons

Once upon a time in Lagos might be an alternative title for this fervent and vividly intense child’s-eye-view movie from first-time film-maker Akinola Davies Jr. It’s a transparently personal project and a coming-of-age film in its (traumatised) way, a moving account of how, just for one day, two young boys glimpse the real life and real history of their father who has been mostly absent for much of their lives – and how they come to love and understand him just at the moment when they come to see his flaws and his weaknesses.

It is 1993 in Nigeria, a tense time with the country on the edge of disorder due to the imminent presidential election, the first since a military takeover 10 years previously. In a remote village far from Lagos, two young boys (played by bright-spark newcomers Godwin Chimerie Egbo and Chibiuke Marvellous Egbo) are awed at the sudden reappearance of their father, Fola, played by Sope Dirisu, who makes no explanation or apology for having been away for so long on business in Lagos, or for appearing now unannounced. He is a handsome, charismatic, commanding man to whom they make the instant obedient responses “Yes, daddy” and “No, daddy”.

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© Photograph: Courtesy: Cannes Film Festival

The WNBA started an investigation into alleged "hateful comments" made during the Indiana Fever's win over the Chicago Sky on Saturday afternoon.

House Republicans are negotiating bill agreements on green energy tax credits, Medicaid work requirements and more, with a Budget Committee meeting set for Sunday night.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough criticized then-Special Counsel Robert Hur for his report, which raised concerns about former President Biden's mental capabilities.

PGA Tour star Max Homa launched his club up the fairway in disgust on Sunday as his third-hole shot at the PGA Championship failed to make the green.

Texas real estate agent Ashlee Long's death involved William Kistler, who has a criminal history, and led to Kendrick Finch being charged with the Dallas murder.

The bombardment, which Ukrainian officials said mostly targeted Kyiv, came just a day before President Trump was expected to talk with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.

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