Police update number of people injured in Madison rooftop shooting to 12 (2024)

A fleet of Russian warships and aircraft have entered the Caribbean in what some see as a projection of strength as tensions grow over Western support for Ukraine. The U.S. military expects the exercises will involve a handful of Russian ships and support vessels, which may also stop in Venezuela. Russia is a longtime ally of Venezuela and Cuba, and its warships and aircraft have periodically made forays into the Caribbean. But this mission comes less than two weeks after President Joe Biden authorized Ukraine to use U.S.-provided weapons to strike inside Russia to protect Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city.

Sparta Prague has promoted assistant coach Lars Friis to lead the Czech champion. He replaces coach Brian Priske who is moving to Dutch champion Feyenoord. Sparta said the 48-year-old Friis was given a multi-year contract. Before joining the coaching staff 18 months ago as assistant to Priske, Friis was head coach of Danish clubs Viborg and Aalborg. Both Friis and Priske are Danish.

Kosovo is celebrating what it considers a liberation day, marking the 25th anniversary of the withdrawal of Serb forces after a NATO bombing campaign. Thousands of ethnic Albanians had died under Serbian repression. Neighboring Serbia refuses to officially accept the independence of its former province. More than 100 countries have recognized Kosovo, including the U.S. and most other Western countries, but not Russia and China, which have shut it out of the United Nations. But Kosovo’s prime minister has said that “the European Union is our political goal while NATO is our military destination.”

Russian warships and aircraft enter the Caribbean for military drills as tensions grow over Western support for Ukraine.

Bestselling author V.E. Schwab has a 7-figure book deal. Tor Books announced Wednesday that it has agreed to terms on a two-book, $2 million contract with the science fiction/fantasy novelist. The first book, “Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil,” is scheduled for June 2025. Schwab’s novel will span from 16th century Santo Domingo to 21st century Boston as it tracks the entangled stories of three women whose bodies are “planted in the same soil.” The 37-year-old author is known for such series as “Shades of Magic” and “The Near Witch” and for the novel “The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue.”

Lionel Messi is undoubtedly the face of this year’s Copa America. But there are other players to watch when the South American soccer championship starts this month in the United States with 16 teams from the Western Hemisphere competing. Among those are Brazil's Vinicius Júnior, Uruguay's Federico Valverde, Ecuador's Kendry Páez, United States' Christian Pulisic and Mexico's Santi Gimenez.

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Coming out of the pandemic, millennials are economically worse off at 35 than baby boomers with comparable careers and lives were at that age. Conversely, higher-paid millennials with upward career trajectories accumulated substantially more wealth than their boomer counterparts.

Amdocs' Customer Experience Suite migration to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure enables AT&T Mexico to facilitate new business models and reduce operational costs as its network evolves

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Southern Baptists already can kick out churches that believe women can serve as pastors. They did it last year. And they have done it again this week. Now, it is the final day of the Southern Baptist Convention’s two-day annual meeting in Indianapolis. Thousands of voting delegates will decide whether to enshrine that ban on such churches in the Southern Baptist Convention’s constitution. If approved, Southern Baptists would be stiffening its position on an issue that has caused years of consternation in the largest Protestant denomination in the U.S.. The SBC’s nonbinding statement of faith already declares only men are qualified for the role of pastor. It’s interpreted differently across the convention.

The Spanish tennis federation says Rafael Nadal and Carlos Alcaraz will play doubles together for Spain at the Paris Olympics. The announcement comes three days after the 21-year-old Alcaraz won the French Open for the first time. It was his third Grand Slam trophy. The 38-year-old Nadal has won at Roland Garros a record 14 times. He already owns Olympic gold medals in singles (2008) and doubles (2016 with Marc López) to go alongside his 22 Grand Slam titles.

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The Spanish tennis federation says Rafael Nadal and Carlos Alcaraz will play doubles together at the Paris Olympics.

India says it has urged Russia to return Indian citizens recruited by Russia’s army after two were killed recently in the war in Ukraine. India previously said its authorities were in talks with Russia about the return of its citizens who it said had been duped into working for the Russian army. Its federal investigation agency said it had broken up a human trafficking network that lured people to Russia under the pretext of giving them jobs. Sri Lanka and Nepal also have raised concerns about recruitment of their citizens to fight.

A recent surge in violence around soccer games is contributing to concerns over security when Germany hosts the European Championship. Some 22,000 police officers will be on duty each day for the tournament. This is the largest deployment for the federal police. German police will be supported by foreign police officers from countries participating in the tournament. Will police measures be enough to quell fan violence during a month-long tournament when soccer-related violence has been increasing around Europe? Last season started and ended with brutal clashes and intense soccer rivalries even carried into other sports.

Russian forces have fired missiles and drones at the Kyiv region and five other areas of Ukraine in a nighttime attack. The barrage came ahead of several days of intense diplomatic activity around the war that is now in its third year. Ukraine’s air force said it shot down 29 out of 30 air targets, including four cruise missiles, one ballistic missile, and 24 Shahed drones. Several people were reported injured. How best to support Ukraine’s efforts to stop Russia’s invasion will be a central issue in international meetings in coming days as Kyiv’s outgunned and outnumbered forces battle to hold back the bigger Russian army.

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A Russian woman has been detained and questioned in Denmark for allegedly helping a foreign intelligence agency to operate in the country. The Scandinavian nation's domestic security service said Wednesday that the woman, who has not been named, faces preliminary charges of enabling a foreign intelligence service to operate in Denmark, including aiding it in propaganda activities. It was unclear if the woman had been released. The agency stressed the case was “related to a story in several European media about a Russian state fund.” Danish broadcaster DR said the woman was a Russian citizen, calling her “a central figure in the Russian community in Denmark,” who had received money from a Moscow-based organization. Russia has called for her immediate release.

Ariarne Titmus has broken the world record in the women’s 200-meter freestyle at Australia’s Olympic swimming trials. Titmus finished in 1 minute, 52.23 seconds in Wednesday's final. Her winning time beat Mollie O’Callaghan’s mark of 1:52.85 set at last year’s world championships. O’Callaghan placed second at the Australian titles in 1:52.48.

Celtics' Porzingis has rare tendon issue in lower left leg, is questionable for Game 3 of NBA Finals

The British economy failed to grow in April in a blow to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak who has made the return of growth a central pillar of the Conservative Party’s election campaign. The Office for National Statistics said Wednesday that wet weather dampened consumer spending and construction during the month. The flat monthly reading came after a 0.6% increase during the first quarter of the year, which Sunak has made much of on the campaign trail. On Tuesday, Sunak pledged to cut taxes and reduce immigration in the Conservative Party’s manifesto for government if reelected on July 4. Labour, which is ahead in opinion polls, is due to publish its manifesto on Thursday.

Ariarne Titmus breaks the world record in the women’s 200-meter freestyle at Australia’s Olympic swimming trials.

Dutch court convicts 3 men of murder in fatal shooting of investigative reporter Peter R. De Vries in 2021.

German energy company Uniper says a tribunal has awarded it more than 13 billion euros (nearly $14 billion) in damages for gas that Russia's Gazprom hasn’t supplied since 2022. Uniper said Wednesday that the arbitration tribunal based in Stockholm also ruled on June 7 that it has the right to terminate long-term gas supply contracts with state-owned Gazprom Export, and it is now formally ending the relationship. The German government nationalized Uniper at the end of 2022 after Russia cut gas supplies to the country. Uniper incurred huge costs as a result of those cuts because it was forced to buy gas at far higher market prices to meet its supply contract obligations.

The Edmonton Oilers are not just Canada's last team standing in the hopes of ending the country's 31-year Stanley Cup drought. They are comprised almost entirely of homegrown players. The lineup that takes the ice in Game 3 of the Cup final on Thursday night could have as many as 16 Canadians among the 20 players in uniform. That's the most of any team to get this far in the NHL playoffs over the past two decades. They'll need to come back from down 2-0 against Florida to bring Lord Stanley's chalice back to Canada for the first time since 1993.

PHILADELPHIA — The billion-dollar music industry is in the middle of a number of significant changes. Artists are canceling tours, TikTok is driving song popularity, and the introduction of AI raises questions about ownership and how music is made.

Austria’s government says the Alpine country’s next parliamentary election will be held on Sept.29. The government, which is coming to the end of its five-year term, made the announcement Wednesday. This comes in the wake of a narrow win by the far-right Freedom Party over Chancellor Karl Nehammer’s conservative Austrian People’s Party in last week’s European Parliament election which saw hard-right parties achieving major gains across the 27-nation bloc. Polls regarding the coming general election have predicted in recent months a wider gap between the two, with the Freedom Party expected to lead. The country’s last national election took place in Sept. 2019.

Japanese architect Fumihiko Maki, who won the prestigious Pritzker Prize for designs praised as smartly and artfully fusing the East with the West, has died. He was 95. His office, Maki & Associates, said Wednesday he died on June 6. It declined to give further details. The National Museum of Modern Art in Kyoto is considered one of Maki's classic designs, with floating forms of glass, metal and concrete. In the U.S., his projects included the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco and 4 World Trade Center in New York. He also designed the Makuhari Messe exhibition hall in Japan.

The Malawi government says that Vice President Saulos Chilima will be honored with a state funeral after he was killed along with eight other people in a plane crash. President Lazarus Chakwera had already announced 21 days of national mourning on Tuesday, when the wreckage of the small military plane carrying Chilima and a former first lady was discovered in a mountainous area in the north of the country. There were no survivors. The government also clarified Wednesday that there were nine people on board when the plane crashed, not 10 as initially announced by the president.

Xander Schauffele may exude a California chill vibe, but don’t let that easygoing demeanor fool you into believing there isn't an intensive competitive fire that drives him. Schauffele made that perfectly clear on Tuesday, saying he’s not content with winning just one major and that last month’s win at the PGA Championship simply checked one box on his resume. He clearly wants more. The world’s No. 2-ranked player takes aim at making it two in a row at the U.S. Open this week at the Pinehurst Resort and Country Club — although a power-packed field stands in his way including world No. 1 Scottie Scheffler.

Aaron Judge prides himself as an old-school New York Yankee, and now he has a road uniform to match. His suggestion three years ago led to the team jettisoning the away jerseys used for the past half-century in favor of a return to retro, without the white piping instituted during a bleak period in the early 1970s. When the Yankees played in the initial Field of Dreams game in August 2021 at Dyersville, Iowa, Major League Baseball outfitted the teams in throwback attire. Judge liked the look so much, he mentioned it to Rob Cucuzza, the Yankees' home clubhouse manager since 1998.

Breece Hall sees where Christian McCaffrey is at in his NFL career and ponders the possibilities. The New York Jets running back is entering his third season as one of the league’s top players at his position. But his ultimate goal is being as consistently productive and dominant as McCaffrey, the San Francisco 49ers’ do-at-all backfield star. Hall says McCaffrey is a top-10 player in the NFL and calls him “the standard” for running backs. The 23-year-old Hall bounced back from a torn ACL in 2022 and says he has potential to trend toward having the type of impact McCaffrey has had.

"Presumed Innocent," which premiered Wednesday on Apple TV+, is a television adaptation of the 1987 Scott Turrow novel previously adapted as a 1990 Harrison Ford film (or an Alan J. Pakula film, to identify the director). A semi-erotic legal thriller, with the indefatigable David E. Kelley a…

LOS ANGELES — There's no question that Hollywood is in the midst of a slowdown.

Q. Bouncing off the thrift store finds column, could you post a list of speaker brands to look for when thrift store/garage sale hunting? As a “not an audiophile” musician, I know there are quality brands I have never heard of.

LAS VEGAS — When the cast and crew of “The Hangover” rolled into Las Vegas in the fall of 2008, people were not impressed.

The European Union has threatened to hike tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles, escalating a trade dispute over Beijing’s subsidies for the exports that Brussels worries is hurting domestic automakers. The European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, said it would impose provisional tariffs that would result in Chinese automakers facing additional duties of as much as 38%, up from the current level of 10%. The Commission said it has reached out to Chinese authorities to discuss the findings of its investigation into the subsidies and “explore possible ways to resolve the issues.” Should the discussions not lead to an "effective solution,” the new rates would take effect on a provisional basis by July 4.