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OAKLAND The sun was out.A cool breeze was blowing.It was the perfect day for some jazz and blues in the park.On Monday afternoon, the First Presbyterian Church of Oakland brought a free music festival to the Mosswood Park Amphitheater.Like most concerts, this one provided foot-tapping tunes and general merriment.

There are nearly 8,500 subreddits that are private or read-only right now in protest over Reddit's upcoming API price hike.The protest started on June 12, crashed Reddit for three hours, and is scheduled to continue until June 14.Reddit CEO Steve Huffman, according to an internal memo reportedly viewed by The Verge today, isn't too worried, though, since it hasn't hurt Reddit's pockets yet.

Perhaps more than any other American city, New York relies on a growing army of delivery workers who have braved successive waves of Covid, extreme weather and toxic air as remote work has reshaped the economy.Now, they're getting a raise.Starting July 12, New York City's app-based delivery workers must be paid at least $17.96 an hour, not including tips the first such minimum pay-rate in the country for an industry that exploded in popularity during the pandemic.

A 30-year-old man died on Monday afternoon after he was placed in a chokehold by another man during a fight on the subway, the police said.The police arrived at the Broadway-Lafayette station bordering SoHo around 2:30 p.m. in response to a report about a physical fight that had broken out on an F train traveling north.

The former publisher of The National Enquirer testified on Monday before the Manhattan grand jury hearing evidence about Donald J. Trump's role in a hush-money payment to a porn star, according to people with knowledge of the matter.The publisher, David Pecker, also testified in January, soon after the grand jury was impaneled by the Manhattan district attorney, Alvin L. Bragg.

After 90 minutes, Juventus and Sevilla are all square.It was a Thursday night of Europa League semifinal football that was very different from the first half to the second.It took a Federico Gatti stoppage-time goal to pull Juventus even and give the Bianconeri a shot to advance to their first European final in nearly a decade.

A studio founded by the actors Matt Damon and Ben Affleck denounced former President Donald J. Trump's use of audio from its movie Air in a campaign video posted online over the weekend.The video, shared on Truth Social early Saturday, featured a nearly two-and-a-half-minute monologue from the movie that played alongside photos and videos depicting Mr. Trump throughout his life.

WASHINGTON The Biden administration announced on Monday that it would seek to require airlines to compensate passengers for extensive flight delays and cancellations.The proposed rule would require airlines to provide cash payments rather than merely refunds for significant travel disruptions that were within the airline's control.

A state representative in Montana asked a court on Monday to allow her to return to the House floor for the rest of the state's legislative session, arguing that her First Amendment rights had been violated after an escalating standoff over her remarks on transgender issues.Representative Zooey Zephyr, a Democrat from Missoula, was barred last week from participating in deliberations in the House chamber after she made impassioned comments in opposition to a ban on hormone treatments and surgical care for transgender minors.

Classes were canceled for more than 420,000 students on Tuesday as school employees and teachers kicked off a three-day strike in Los Angeles, facing off against administrators in the nation's second-largest school district.The work stoppage began before dawn, with bus drivers walking a picket line outside a Los Angeles Unified School District lot where they normally would be starting their routes.

The city has erected new fences with police insignia around the Mission District McDonald's late last week, in an apparent effort to push street vendors and unhoused residents out of the area altogether.In recent months, unlicensed vendors have proliferated at the 24th and Mission BART plazas and spilled over onto nearby blocks.

Police have arrested a man after another man was critically hurt in a stabbing in Etobicoke on Monday afternoon.The incident happened near Bloor Street West and Gardenvale Road at 12:04 p.m.The victim, a man, was taken to hospital and is in life-threatening condition, Toronto police spokesperson Const.

A man has died in hospital after he was stabbed in a laneway on Monday afternoon, Toronto police say.The man was stabbed just after 4 p.m. in a laneway near Charles Street and Yonge Street, according to police.The suspect is still at large and police don't know yet if it was a random attack or if there is any threat to public safety, Const.

A man was arrested Monday afternoon after he allegedly crashed his car into a Lake Forest home, then threatened his roommate and chased neighbors with a pickax, according to Orange County sheriff's deputies.The suspect was injured in the crash, but no one else was hurt in the incidents, authorities said.

The Mercury provides news and fun every single daybut your help is essential.If you believe Portland benefits from smart, local journalism and arts coverage, please consider making a small monthly contribution, because without you, there is no us.Thanks for your support!GOOD MORNING, PORTLAND!Let's start with the obvious: the weather.

A woman fell from an interstate overpass near downtown Chicago with a young girl Monday afternoon, leading police to temporarily shut down ramps on the Dan Ryan Expressway, authorities said.Chicago Fire Department paramedics responded to the fall around 1 p.m., fire department spokesman Larry Langford said.

To call Monday's report about Kyrie Irving asking the Mavericks to trade for LeBron James illogical would be quite the understatement.The Lakers aren't trading LeBron and if they are, it won't be to Dallas.There are numerous reasons for that sentence to be true, but none more so than the fact that the Mavericks don't have anything attractive in a trade.

President Biden and Speaker Kevin McCarthy will meet on Monday afternoon in an effort to revive talks to avert a default on the nation's debt after negotiations faltered over the weekend.The meeting, which is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. at the White House, comes after negotiators clashed over Republicans' demands to cut spending in exchange for raising the debt limit.

Virginia Democratic Rep. Gerry Connolly said two staffers were injured Monday by a man wielding a bat who came into his district office in Fairfax.Connolly told CNN that the assailant who entered his office and attacked two of his aides did so with a metal bat.The attacker struck one senior aide in the head with the metal bat, he said.

WASHINGTON The Federal Reserve's vice chair for supervision blamed Silicon Valley Bank's demise on poor internal management and excessive risk-taking and detailed the steps that Fed supervisors took to address the snowballing problems that ultimately killed the company, according to prepared remarks ahead of a congressional hearing on Tuesday.

A petition to introduce a legal duty of care from universities and colleges towards their students will be debated by MPs on Monday afternoon.The debate was called after signatures on the petition, started by 25 families whose children killed themselves while at university, exceeded 100,000.They want the existing duty of care for staff to also cover adult students.

Humza Yousaf has been elected the first minority ethnic leader of the Scottish National party after a tumultuous campaign that exposed deep divisions in the party that has dominated Scottish politics under his predecessor, Nicola Sturgeon.He is almost certain to be confirmed as Scotland's next first minister in a nominal vote at Holyrood on Tuesday.

Sorin Giubega's grandfather was a potter.So was his father.And at 8 years old, Mr. Giubega said, he started to play on a pottery wheel, too.Mr. Giubega, now 63, and his wife, Marieta Giubega, 48, are potters in Horezu, Romania, a town in the foothills of the Capatanii Mountains about three hours by car from Bucharest.

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After a 14-4 shellacking on Monday afternoon, the San Francisco Giants will face the Pittsburgh Pirates with a chance to win their fifth consecutive series.And if they lose - which I hope they don't!- they'll get another chance on Wednesday.I'd prefer if that game were for a sweep!The Giants are turning to right-handed pitcher John Brebbia to serve as the opener.

A six-year-old boy who went viral for attempting to climb 12 of the highest mountains in the UK to help poorly children to go on holiday has completed his final hike.Oscar Burrow, from Lancaster, reached the top of Ben Nevis, Scotland's highest mountain, on Monday afternoon after around four-and-a-half hours, being welcomed by a bit of snow at the summit.

Close Police investigating disappearance of Madeleine McCann to search reservoir' Divers searching for Madeleine McCann probe the Barragem do Arade reservoir in Portugal for the second day as they look for the pink pyjamas the toddler was wearing when she vanished.Investigators believe the 45-year-old killed Madeleine, then aged three, after abducting her from a holiday apartment.

Suella Braverman should quit if found to have breached the ministerial code by asking civil servants to arrange a private speed awareness course for her, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said.The Prime Minister is expected to speak to the Home Secretary on Monday following suggestions her alleged request for help from officials to arrange a one-to-one course instead of taking penalty points breached the ministerial code.

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The Dodgers have only themselves to blame for the beating they've taken from the left and the right over the decision to first invite to Pride Night - and then disinvite - a charity organization fronted by drag queens dressed as nuns.The team's apology to the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence on Monday afternoon doesn't erase the damage done.

Note: RMNB will get a tiny percentage of anything purchased through the following MLB Shop links in this article.Those funds will be used to pay our writers, improve our infrastructure, and help us create more great content for you.It's one of the easiest ways to support the site.The Baltimore Orioles unveiled their City Connect jersey on Monday, becoming the fifth MLB team this season and 19th team overall to debut a design.

B lack smoke was visible from across London on Monday afternoon as around 60 firefighters tackled a huge fire at a metal scrapyard.Eight fire engines were scrambled to the scene in Burnham Way in Lower Sydenham around 3pm on Monday, where they found a car on fire.Around seven tonnes of scrap metal was ablaze by 4pm, said London Fire Brigade (LFB).

School has visited the scene of the attack and has initiated "significant disciplinary procedures" against a number of students
The attack, which took place on Monday afternoon in Navan, Co Meath, was filmed and has gone viral on social media.The assault did not happen on school grounds, but occurred as the teenager was walking across a nearby green.

Parliamentary security guards confiscated reports and leaflets about Hong Kong from attenders of an event in Westminster in case they caused political upset, the Guardian has learned, in a move condemned by a senior Conservative MP as completely daft.Officers on the parliamentary estate forced people attending a meeting of the all-party parliamentary group on Hong Kong last Monday to hand over copies of a report by the group about press freedom there, as well as leaflets campaigning for the release of the media tycoon Jimmy Lai.

Jake Alu, shown during spring training in February, joined the Nationals in San Francisco.(Jonathan Newton/The Washington Post)SAN FRANCISCO - Jake Alu stood in the visitors' clubhouse at Oracle Park on Monday afternoon.He wore a red shirt with a Washington Nationals logo on the upper left corner.He was surrounded by teammates and had a child-like grin on his face.

I am a regional food obsessive originally from the Midwest.So when someone on a recent episode of the charming Kansas-set HBO comedy Somebody Somewhere showed up to a school event with a conversation piece appetizer I had never heard of called "St.Louis sushi," I immediately started researching whether this was actually a thing.

01:29 Smoke rises from a wildfire in Valleyview, Alberta, Canada May 6, 2023 in this screen grab obtained from a social media video.TJ Kennedy via Reuters Cooler weather across Alberta on Monday helped firefighters battling widespread wildfires in Canada's main oil-producing province, but the government said it could be months before all the blazes are brought under control.

A bee swarm in Encino on Monday afternoon sent two people to a hospital and prompted warnings for residents to stay inside and shut their doors and windows, officials said.The swarm, described as thousands of bees in strength, was reported in the 17100 block of Adlon Road, near Encino Reservoir, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department.

Special counsel John Durham, the prosecutor appointed to investigate potential government wrongdoing in the early days of the Trump-Russia probe, arrives to the E. Barrett Prettyman Federal Courthouse in Washington on May 16, 2022.Evan Vucci/AP The special counsel-led investigation looking into the FBI's probe of Russian interference in the 2016 Trump campaign has ended, the Department of Justice announced Monday, and in a 306-page final report, concludes the FBI did not have enough intelligence to merit a full Trump-Russia probe investigation.

CALGARY, Alberta Judy Greenwood did not want to leave.But when the evacuation alerts on her phone blared repeatedly and emergency officials knocked on her door, she and her husband loaded their four cats into the car and drove away from their rural hamlet to escape approaching wildfires.In much of the western province of Alberta, this time of year has long been wildfire season.

Barry Chin/The Boston Globe via Getty Images One of the main talking points following the Celtics' 116-115 overtime loss to the Philadelphia 76ers on Sunday was whether Boston coach Joe Mazzulla should've called a timeout ahead of his team's final possession.Following James Harden's three-pointer with 19 seconds remaining, Mazzulla opted to let his team play on.

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Boston Celtics coach Joe Mazzulla admitted Monday he should have called a timeout before the final possession of his team's 116-115 overtime loss to the Philadelphia 76ers in Game 4, walking back what he originally said about the decision following the game.

In the first quarter of 2023, California-based lender Guild Mortgage, which announced a leadership transition in March, continued to face pressures from high mortgage rates and low inventory levels - just like its peers.Ultimately, the company's revenues declined more than its expenses in the period, leading to another quarterly loss.

The NFL's regular-season schedule for 2023 will be released on Thursday night.Unless it isn't.Peter King explains in his latest Football Morning in America column that, while the schedule is "still likely to be done" before Thursday night, he was told over the weekend that " it may not be finished in time."

New York Islanders' Hudson Fasching (20) smiles after a goal against the Montreal Canadiens during the first period of an NHL hockey game Wednesday, April 12, 2023, in Elmont, N.Y.(AP Photo/Frank Franklin II) EAST MEADOW, N.Y.On Monday afternoon during his exit interview, Hudson Fasching admitted that he loved playing with the New York Islanders this season and was hoping his agent and the team would figure out a way to keep the pending unrestricted free agent around for a little while longer.

Prime minister Rishi Sunak and Labour leader Keir Starmer are among the mourners attending the funeral of Baroness Betty Boothroyd, the first-ever woman elected speaker of the Commons.Baroness Boothroyd, a former Labour MP, died in February at the age of 93.Her funeral is taking place at a church near her home in Cambridgeshire on Monday afternoon.

Juventus ' month of March was over with more than just a few days before the actual month comes to a close.With springtime arriving in Italy, the same can pretty much said about an incredibly important Month of April when Juve gets back to business.We just don't know what shape the squad will be in come April 1.

Another day, another homer-laden offensive outburst by the Braves in Grapefruit League action.On Monday afternoon in North Port, it was time for Eddie Rosario, Matt Olson, and Sean Murphy to leave the yard as the Braves cruised to a 6-1 win over the Red Sox.No one really cares, but suffice to say, Red Sox starter Tanner Houck did not have the most aesthetically-pleasing tune-up for the regular season.

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Police are searching for the gunman who shot two people in Fort Greene on Monday afternoon, which sent the NYPD on a neighborhood-wide chase to find the shooter.According to authorities, cops arrived on the scene near 24 Monument Walk, within the confines of the NYCHA complex to the north of Fort Greene Park, at around 11:10 a.m.

If Donald J. Trump is indicted in New York in the coming days as expected, the political and legal bombshell would defy historical precedent, upend the former president's reality and throw the race for the 2024 Republican nomination into highly uncertain territory.With the grand jury in a Manhattan court expected to return on Monday afternoon, and an indictment possible as soon as that day, perhaps the biggest electoral question is whether Mr. Trump would continue to rally his supporters in the G.O.P. primary to his side.

Voting has closed in the race for the SNP leadership, with Nicola Sturgeon's replacement to be announced on Monday afternoon.Health Secretary Humza Yousaf, Finance Secretary Kate Forbes and former community safety minister Ash Regan have taken part in about 16 hustings as they vied for the top job.The First Minister announced in February that she would resign after more than eight years in the job once her successor had been chosen.

Nicola Sturgeon has said that she will probably write a book about her experiences during the last 30 years.The First Minister spoke on a BBC Sounds podcast about her next steps after her resignation as SNP leader, a role which she has held for the last eight years.She announced that she was stepping down during a press conference at Bute House in Edinburgh last month.