Police begin dismantling pro-Palestinian camp at Wayne State University in Detroit (2024)

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The World Health Organization says member countries approved new steps to boost global preparedness for pandemics like COVID-19 and mpox and better respond to dangerous outbreaks. WHO said Saturday that countries agreed to amend the International Health Regulations such as by defining a “pandemic emergency” and helping developing countries better access financing and medical products. The IHR was adopted in 2005. The new agreement came as the U.N. agency wrapped up its six-day World Health Assembly this year. Plans to adopt a more sweeping pandemic “treaty” at the meeting have been shelved. They were abandoned largely over disagreements between developing countries and richer ones about better sharing of technology and the pathogens that trigger outbreaks.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — With under four minutes on the countdown clock, teams scrubbed a launch attempt Saturday of a pair of NASA astronauts seated in what was supposed to be the first human spaceflight of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner.

Nicki Minaj’s Sunday show in Amsterdam has been canceled a week after she was arrested for allegedly “carrying drugs,” as local law enforcement deny she was targeted due to race.

Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck are trying to put their blended family first amid ongoing marital issues that have led many to speculate they’re headed for divorce.

Prior to being accused of and acquitted in the 1994 slayings of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman, O.J. Simpson physically assaulted his first wife, Marguerite Whitley, according to a former cop.

Josef Newgarden continued a busy week Saturday with a third-place qualifying run in Detroit and a contract extension with Penske Racing. It has been a wild year for Newgarden and Team Penske. After they teamed up to win the 24 Hours of Daytona, Newgarden was disqualified after winning the season-opening race in St. Petersburg. The three Penske cars were caught with illegal modifications to the push-to-pass engine-boost system.

Saturday

Nearly 80,000 Real Madrid fans have packed the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium in Madrid to watch the Champions League final against Borussia Dortmund. Large video screens were placed at midfield to broadcast the match being played at Wembley Stadium in London. The Bernabeu’s newly renovated videoboards were also showing the match in the Spanish capital. Fans chanted Madrid’s traditional fight songs and constantly reacted to the images coming from England. Madrid was trying to win a record-extending 15th European Cup title, while Dortmund was going for its second Champions League title.

DETROIT — U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., has accused Wayne State University officials of targeting pro-Palestinian protesters whose encampment was cleared from campus Thursday, and the university board is standing by President Kimberly Andrews Espy.

Moose Jaw Warriors forward Jagger Firkus was honored as the David Branch Player of the Year Award winner Saturday at the Canadian Hockey League awards ceremony. The first Moose Jaw player to win the award, Firkus — drafted 35th overall by the Seattle Kraken in 2022 — led the CHL with 126 points on 61 goals and 65 assists in 63 regular-season games to also earn the top scorer award. He led Moose Jaw to the Western Hockey League title and a spot in the Memorial Cup where the Warriors fell to the host Saginaw Spirit on Friday night in the semifinal game. Easton Cowan of the London Knights and Mathieu Cataford of the Halifax Mooseheads were the other two finalists.

Ryan Nugent-Hopkins has never been this close to playing for a Stanley Cup since the Edmonton Oilers took him with the first overall draft pick in 2011. It's been even longer for the franchise with five Cup titles. The Oilers will be home Sunday night with a chance to wrap up the Western Conference final in Game 6 against top-seeded Dallas. The Oilers were in the middle of a span of 10 consecutive seasons without making the playoffs when Nugent-Hopkins was drafted; their last Stanley Cup Final was 2006. The Stars will try to avoid getting eliminated in Game 6 in the West final for the second year in a row.

Randal Diaz and Adam Pottinger each hit a solo home run to help Indiana State beat Western Michigan 6-4 in an elimination game at the Lexington Regional. Indiana State (43-14) will move on to face the Kentucky-Illinois loser. In the top of the second, Diaz hit his 18th homer of the season and extended his hitting streak to 30 consecutive games. Pottinger hit a two-out home run in the top of the third to give the Sycamores a 6-0 lead. Dylan Nevar had an RBI single, hit a solo home run and walked twice for Western Michigan (32-23).

Park officials say a Malaysian climber likely died of exposure and altitude-related illness as he sheltered in a snow cave at the top of Denali, North America’s tallest mountain in Alaska. Denali National Park and Preserve in Alaska on Saturday identified the climber as 36-year-old Zulkifli Bin Yusof. He likely died Wednesday. One of his climbing partners was rescued Tuesday night after descending lower on Denali. The other survivor spent another two days holed up with Yusof's body before being rescued at 19,600 feet Friday. A park spokesperson says Yusof's remains were also recovered Friday. All three climbers had experience with high-altitude treks.

A U.N. development specialist tasked with restoring order to Haiti has arrived to the Caribbean nation to take up his new post as prime minister. A transitional council seeking to pave the way for an election in Haiti named Garry Conille this week. He replaces interim prime minister Michel Patrick Boisvert. A government statement said that Conille met with Boisvert upon arrival Saturday to the capital Port-au-Prince.. Conille has been UNICEF’s regional director for Latin America and previously served as Haiti’s prime minister a decade ago. Gang violence is still surging in parts of Haiti’s capital and beyond as Conille takes over the helm of the troubled country. Haiti is awaiting the U.N.-backed deployment of a police force from Kenya and other countries.

Garry Conille, the longtime United Nations civil servant tapped to lead Haiti’s latest political transition, finally made his way back to his country on Saturday.

The Toronto Blue Jays put All-Star closer Jordan Romano on the 15-day injured list because of a sore right elbow and recalled left-hander Brendon Little from Triple-A Buffalo. Romano’s stint on the IL is retroactive to Thursday. The right-hander wasn’t available in Friday’s 14-inning win over Pittsburgh because he was still sore from Wednesday’s save against the White Sox, his eighth in nine chances. Romano missed part of spring training and the first 17 games of the season because of elbow soreness.

As he’s trying to race his way into the NASCAR Cup series playoffs, Chase Briscoe now faces a fresh challenge with the potential for his Stewart-Haas Racing team to deteriorate around him. Owners Tony Stewart and Gene Haas announced this week that the four-team garage would cease operations at the end of the season, leaving the future up in the air for Briscoe and teammates Josh Berry, Noah Gragson and Ryan Preece. Briscoe will enter the race Sunday at World Wide Technology Raceway 16th in the points standings, but just outside the 16-driver playoffs because Daniel Suárez has claimed a playoff spot with a victory at Atlanta. Berry is 19th and Gragson 21st.

The Champions League final was halted inside the first minute because of pitch invaders at Wembley Stadium. One of them took a selfie with Real Madrid star Vinicius Junior. The final between Madrid and Borussia Dortmund was stopped almost immediately after kickoff. Two people were quickly removed by security staff but then another person ran onto the field to the visible annoyance of some players. It took four security staff to apprehend the last invader.

Europe’s biggest club soccer game got a taste of America when rocker Lenny Kravitz performed at Wembley Stadium before kickoff at the Champions League final. The 60-year-old Kravitz performed shortened versions of three songs in a six-minute set in the center of the field before Real Madrid played Borussia Dortmund. Kravitz, whose daughter is actress Zoë Kravitz, began with “Fly Away” and finished with “Are you Gonna Go My Way.”

Niko Mazza pitched a two-hit shutout, Davis Gillespie hit a two-run home run and Southern Miss defeated Northern Kentucky 6-0 in an elimination game at the Knoxville Regional. Southern Miss stayed alive to play Sunday against the loser of Saturday’s later game between Indiana and Tennessee. Northern Kentucky was eliminated. Mazza struck out three and walked two batters. He had seven 1-2-3 innings and only one baserunner reached third base. Gillespie went 3-for-5 and his home run in the fourth inning staked the Golden Eagles to a 2-0 lead.

Kuwait’s ruling emir has named the small nation’s new crown prince, nearly six months after he took the throne. Sheikh Sabah Khalid Al Sabah will become next in line to the throne. That's according to a report Saturday night from the state-run KUNA news agency. The 71-year-old Sheikh Sabah previously served as prime minister and as foreign minister in the country. The announcement offered no other details or comments from Kuwait’s ruling emir, Sheikh Meshal Al Ahmad Al Jaber. The 83-year-old Sheikh Meshal recently dissolved parliament for as many as four years amid the widespread political dysfunction that’s gripped Kuwait.

NEW YORK — The story of the Trump Tower doorman in the hush money saga is often overlooked amid Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal’s tales of Trumpian trysts. But on Thursday, as America gained its first felon ex-president, Dino Sajudin assumed his place in the history books.

BOISE, Idaho — Chad Daybell has been sentenced to death.

Colton Herta won the 12th pole of his IndyCar career on Saturday at the Detroit Grand Prix, finishing ahead of defending champion Alex Palou and Indy 500 winner Josef Newgarden. Herta, who crashed last weekend in Indianapolis, finished only third in his first-round qualifying group, but he topped the Fast 12 and Fast Six rounds at the 1.6-mile track that winds around the Renaissance Center on downtown streets. Sunday's race is the second on the streets of Detroit after years of racing on nearby Belle Isle.

Military forces from the United States and nearly three dozen countries have wrapped up the largest annual joint training exercise in Africa after two weeks in Tunisia, Ghana, Senegal and Morocco. During Africa Lion, the U.S. military showcased part of what they offer countries facing instability inside and just beyond their borders. Along with African militaries, they celebrated partnerships and training to combat growing instability and violence throughout the region. But despite the spectacle, parts of Africa are getting more dangerous and new questions are circulating about how Western countries engage with the continent with the backdrop of new competition from Russia and China.

NaLyssa Smith scored 18 points and Caitlin Clark had 11 points, eight rebounds and six assists to help the Indiana Fever win their first home game of the season, 71-70, over the Chicago Sky. Indiana snapped a three-game losing streak and improved to 1-4 at home. The Fever closed it out with Erica Wheeler running down the final 6.6 seconds on the clock before passing to Clark, who tossed the ball high into the air. Dana Evans had a chance to force overtime but missed the first of two free throws. Chicago never got the ball back and finished the game on a 12-2 run. Chennedy Carter had 19 points and six assists to lead the Sky.

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A 23-acre farm located amid lush green meadows and stands of pine is where Elaine Heath, an ordained elder in the United Methodist Church and a former dean of the Duke Divinity School, started a new monastic community known as the Church at Spring Forest. The farm cultivates three acres of fruits and vegetables but is also organized as a faith community, with four families living on site and others remotely. Its larger mission is to support refugee resettlement and provide outdoor retreats for the larger community. It is sometimes called a “farmastery,” a farm and monastery.

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Chuck Ingram drove in five runs, Jaden Parsons and Kaelen Culpepper drove in four each, and Kansas State rolled past Louisiana Tech 19-4 in the completion of a Fayetteville Regional game that was suspended from the night before. Ingram went 3-for-5 with two runs scored and Parsons and Culpepper were both 4-for-5 with four runs scored. Kansas State, seeded third in the regional, advanced to play Arkansas on Saturday night. No. 2 regional seed Louisiana Tech had to turn around and play SE Missouri State in an afternoon elimination game.

Bayer Leverkusen’s German Cup defense will begin at fourth-tier side Carl Zeiss Jena while Bayern Munich was drawn at fast-rising second-division club SSV Ulm 1846. Ulm was promoted as champion last season after just one season in the third division. The Bavarian club was promoted as champion of the regional southwest league the season before that. Stuttgart, which finished second in the Bundesliga ahead of Bayern last season, was drawn on Saturday at second-division club Preußen Münster. Borussia Dortmund will open its cup campaign at fourth-tier team Phönix Lübeck, Eintracht Frankfurt visits namesake Eintracht Braunschweig, Hertha Berlin is at Hansa Rostock and Union Berlin has been dealt a trip to east German rival Greifswalder FC.

BALTIMORE — Larry Hogan’s campaign said Friday that the Republican former governor has accepted two debates in his U.S. Senate race against Democrat Angela Alsobrooks.

Jurgen Klopp has been warmly received by Borussia Dortmund fans inside Wembley Stadium before kickoff of the Champions League final against Real Madrid. The former Liverpool manager led Dortmund to the final in 2013, also at Wembley. Dortmund lost to Bayern Munich 2-1. Klopp has left Liverpool after nearly nine seasons. He was seated in what appeared to be a corporate box. He was shown on the big screen and drew cheers when he smiled and pumped both fists in the air. Klopp took Liverpool to three finals and won one, in 2019. He’s said he’s taking time off from coaching.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party is set to win a decisive majority in India’s election for the third time in a row, several exit polls showed, extending his decade in power atop the world’s fastest-growing major economy.

Chad Daybell sentenced to death for murder of wife and girlfriend’s 2 youngest children in Idaho doomsday plot.

South Africa’s governing African National Congress is set to cede its parliamentary majority for the first time after voters dealt a historic rebuke to the party Nelson Mandela led to power at the end of apartheid.

A crowd of students protesting the war in Gaza walked out of the University of Chicago’s commencement. And the school is withholding the diplomas of four seniors over their involvement with a pro-Palestinian encampment that was cleared last month. The disruption to the rainy two-hour ceremony was brief, with calls to “Stop Genocide.” Dozens walked out in between speeches. Four seniors were informed by email in recent days that their degrees would be withheld pending a school disciplinary process related to involvement complaints about the encampment. University officials say the students were still allowed to participate in commencement but their degrees are being withheld pending further review.