Sunday, May 19th
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Domestic Glance
The previous women's hoops mark was 12.3 million for last Monday's Iowa-LSU game in the Elite Eight. Game 7 of the 2018 Eastern Conference finals between Cleveland and Boston was ESPN's most-watched basketball game at 13.51 million.
That also makes it one of the most-viewed games in any sport other than college football and the NFL over the past couple years. Last year's NCAA men's title game between San Diego State and UConn averaged 14.79 million.
The Tennessee Attorney General’s office asked that the case be dismissed because the argument presented by the plaintiffs lacks merit and the Tennessee state constitution does not guarantee any right to an abortion.
The panel — Judge Sandra Donaghy, Chancellor Patricia Head Moskal and Chancellor Kasey Culbreath — will issue a ruling after they’ve deliberated over the arguments presented. The two sides spoke for over eight hours on Thursday.
Two people died and seven people were injured after a fight turned into a shooting at a Miami-Dade mall early Saturday morning.
A fight broke out at Martini Bar in CityPlace around 3:30 a.m. when a gunman shot and killed a security guard who tried to intervene, WSVN reported.
Two City of Doral Police Officers, who were part of security, responded and one officer was shot and the gunman was killed. Six other bystanders were also injured. Two are in critical condition, and four are stable.
The City of Doral Police Officer who was shot in the leg was a member of the force for four years and put a tourniquet on himself during the incident, CBS reported. Miami-Dade Fire Rescue transported him to HCA Kendall Trauma Center in critical condition, according to a news release.
Actors Joaquin Phoenix and Elliott Gould and producer Joel Coen joined more than 150 Jewish professionals in Hollywood who have signed an open letter in support of writer and director Jonathan Glazer, who was widely denounced for sharing his perspective on the Israel-Gaza conflict at the Oscars last month.
The letter, addressing concerns of “silencing” dissent, was shared Friday with Variety and was signed by a plethora of renowned artists, among them directors Todd Haynes and Mike Leigh; actors David Cross, Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson; and writers Boots Riley and Tom Stoppard.
Thieves in Los Angeles pulled off one of the largest cash heists in city history over the weekend, stealing as much as $30m from a money storage facility on Easter Sunday, authorities said on Wednesday.
The break-in unfolded at an unnamed facility in the Sylmar area of the San Fernando Valley that handles and stores cash from businesses across the region. Burglars were able to enter without immediate detection and breached a safe, said Elaine Morales, a Los Angeles police department commander, to the Los Angeles Times.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Los Angeles police department are investigating the incident.
The Wisconsin governor has signed a bill requiring K-12 schools to teach Asian American history, according to a press release from the governor’s office.
The bill, which Gov. Tony Evers (D) signed Thursday, also requires schools to teach Hmong American history, per the release. In the release, Evers said that “[t]he Hmong and Asian American communities are a critical part of our state’s history, culture, economy, and our future.”
Donald Trump used a campaign stop in Grand Rapids, Michigan, to describe meeting the family of a woman killed by an immigrant in order to spin a narrative about what he calls “Biden’s border bloodbath” – except Ruby Garcia’s family now say he never did.
Garcia, 25, was found shot to death on highway US-131 on 22 March of this year. Court records later showed that her boyfriend confessed to killing her and dumping her body.
The man, Brandon Ortiz-Vite, had come to the US as a child and was allowed to stay as a so-called “Dreamer”. He was deported in 2020 before re-entering again without documents.
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