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A South Korean national flag flutters in the wind at the unification observatory in Paju, South Korea, Tuesday, May 28, 2024. A rocket launched by North Korea to deploy the country’s second spy satellite exploded shortly after liftoff Monday, state media reported, in a setback for leader Kim Jong Un’s hopes to operate multiple satellites to better monitor the U.S. and South Korea. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

North Korea flies trash balloons over the South as leader Kim doubles down on satellite ambitions

North Korea flew hundreds of balloons carrying trash and manure toward South…

A South Korean national flag flutters in the wind at the unification observatory in Paju, South Korea, Tuesday, May 28, 2024. A rocket launched by North Korea to deploy the country’s second spy satellite exploded shortly after liftoff Monday, state media reported, in a setback for leader Kim Jong Un’s hopes to operate multiple satellites to better monitor the U.S. and South Korea. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
FILE - Former film producer Harvey Weinstein appears in court at the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center in Los Angeles, Calif., on Oct. 4 2022. Weinstein is expected to return to a New York court as he faces a retrial of his landmark #MeToo-era rape case in a matter of months. The fallen movie mogul has a court hearing Wednesday, May 29, 2024 to address issues related to the retrial, which is slated for sometime after Labor Day. (Etienne Laurent/Pool Photo via AP, file)

Harvey Weinstein to appear before judge in same courthouse where Trump is on trial

Harvey Weinstein is expected to appear before a judge Wednesday afternoon in…

FILE - Former film producer Harvey Weinstein appears in court at the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center in Los Angeles, Calif., on Oct. 4 2022. Weinstein is expected to return to a New York court as he faces a retrial of his landmark #MeToo-era rape case in a matter of months. The fallen movie mogul has a court hearing Wednesday, May 29, 2024 to address issues related to the retrial, which is slated for sometime after Labor Day. (Etienne Laurent/Pool Photo via AP, file)
Former President Donald Trump reacts as he walking back into the courtroom after a break during closing arguments in his hush money trial at Manhattan criminal court in New York, Tuesday, May 28, 2024. (Spencer Platt/Pool Photo via AP)

Trump jury set to start deliberations in hush money trial

Prosecutor says former president tried to hoodwink voters, defence says he’s innocent

Former President Donald Trump reacts as he walking back into the courtroom after a break during closing arguments in his hush money trial at Manhattan criminal court in New York, Tuesday, May 28, 2024. (Spencer Platt/Pool Photo via AP)
New York Rangers goaltender Igor Shesterkin blocks a shot during the first period of Game 4 during the Eastern Conference finals of the NHL hockey Stanley Cup playoffs against the Florida Panthers, Tuesday, May 28, 2024, in Sunrise, Fla. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

Reinhart in OT foils Shesterkin brilliance, Panthers tie series at 2 apiece

Florida wins early in the extra frame after Rangers goalie brilliant in the first 60 minutes

New York Rangers goaltender Igor Shesterkin blocks a shot during the first period of Game 4 during the Eastern Conference finals of the NHL hockey Stanley Cup playoffs against the Florida Panthers, Tuesday, May 28, 2024, in Sunrise, Fla. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
FILE - Palestinians displaced by the Israeli air and ground offensive on the Gaza Strip walk through a makeshift tent camp in Rafah on Jan. 27, 2024. The tent camps stretch for more than 16 kilometers (10 miles) along Gaza’s coast, filling the beach and sprawling into empty lots, fields and town streets. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair, file)

Palestinians struggle for food, shelter as Israel attacks Rafah

Tent camps stretch for kilometres in latest round of war-driven displacement

FILE - Palestinians displaced by the Israeli air and ground offensive on the Gaza Strip walk through a makeshift tent camp in Rafah on Jan. 27, 2024. The tent camps stretch for more than 16 kilometers (10 miles) along Gaza’s coast, filling the beach and sprawling into empty lots, fields and town streets. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair, file)
Tom Cochrane performs “The Wreck of The Edmund Fitzgerald” at “Celebrating Gordon Lightfoot,” a tribute concert to the Canadian musician, in Toronto, on Thursday, May 23, 2024. Cochrane is among the newest inductees announced for the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young

Sarah McLachlan, Tom Cochrane join Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame

Blue Rodeo’s Jim Cuddy and Greg Keelor also among the incoming class of inductees

Tom Cochrane performs “The Wreck of The Edmund Fitzgerald” at “Celebrating Gordon Lightfoot,” a tribute concert to the Canadian musician, in Toronto, on Thursday, May 23, 2024. Cochrane is among the newest inductees announced for the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young
Pope Francis seen here in Myanmar in 2017 has accepted an invitation to visit Canada as a step toward healing and reconciliation. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Pope apologizes after being quoted using vulgar term about gays regarding church ban on gay priests

Pope Francis apologized Tuesday after he was quoted using a vulgar term…

Pope Francis seen here in Myanmar in 2017 has accepted an invitation to visit Canada as a step toward healing and reconciliation. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
Former President Donald Trump speaks alongside his attorney Todd Blanche following the day’s proceedings in his trial Tuesday, May 21, 2024, in Manhattan Criminal Court in New York. (Michael M. Santiago/Pool Photo via AP)

Closing arguments underway in Trump hush money trial

Trump faces 34 counts of falsifying business records, punishable by up to 4 years in prison

Former President Donald Trump speaks alongside his attorney Todd Blanche following the day’s proceedings in his trial Tuesday, May 21, 2024, in Manhattan Criminal Court in New York. (Michael M. Santiago/Pool Photo via AP)
Storm clouds move across the sky as Environment Canada issued tornado warnings Thursday, July 13, 2023 in Montreal. A suspected tornado that touched down in southwestern Quebec has damaged homes and farm buildings, but a local fire official says there have been no injuries. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christinne Muschi

Suspected tornado damages homes and barns in Quebec, but no injuries reported

A suspected tornado that touched down in southwestern Quebec late Monday afternoon…

Storm clouds move across the sky as Environment Canada issued tornado warnings Thursday, July 13, 2023 in Montreal. A suspected tornado that touched down in southwestern Quebec has damaged homes and farm buildings, but a local fire official says there have been no injuries. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christinne Muschi
Johnny Wactor in October 2023. PHOTO: GILBERT CARRASQUILLO/GC IMAGES

Former ‘General Hospital’ actor Johnny Wactor killed in downtown Los Angeles shooting

Former “General Hospital” actor Johnny Wactor was shot and killed when he…

Johnny Wactor in October 2023. PHOTO: GILBERT CARRASQUILLO/GC IMAGES
A home damaged by a storm the night before is seen, Sunday, May 26, 2024, in Pryor, Okla. Powerful storms left a wide trail of destruction Sunday across Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas after obliterating homes and destroying a truck stop where dozens sought shelter in a restroom during the latest deadly weather to strike the central U.S. (Mike Simons/Tulsa World via AP)

Latest deadly weather in US kills at least 20 as storms carve path of ruin across multiple states

Powerful storms killed at least 20 people, injured hundreds and left a…

A home damaged by a storm the night before is seen, Sunday, May 26, 2024, in Pryor, Okla. Powerful storms left a wide trail of destruction Sunday across Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas after obliterating homes and destroying a truck stop where dozens sought shelter in a restroom during the latest deadly weather to strike the central U.S. (Mike Simons/Tulsa World via AP)
FILE - Filmmaker Morgan Spurlock participate in the BUILD Speaker Series to discuss the film, “Go North”, at AOL Studios on Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2017, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

Documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock, who skewered fast food industry, dies at 53

Documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock, an Oscar nominee whose most famous works skewered…

FILE - Filmmaker Morgan Spurlock participate in the BUILD Speaker Series to discuss the film, “Go North”, at AOL Studios on Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2017, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)
Villagers use heavy machinery to search through a landslide in Yambali in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea, Sunday, May 26, 2024. The International Organization for Migration feared Sunday the death toll from a massive landslide is much worse than what authorities initially estimated. (Mohamud Omer/International Organization for Migration via AP)

More than 2,000 believed buried in Papua New Guinea landslide

New government figure roughly triple U.N. estimate of 670 killed, as country pleas for help

Villagers use heavy machinery to search through a landslide in Yambali in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea, Sunday, May 26, 2024. The International Organization for Migration feared Sunday the death toll from a massive landslide is much worse than what authorities initially estimated. (Mohamud Omer/International Organization for Migration via AP)
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, center, waves as he boards the plane to leave after attending the trilateral meeting with South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and Chinese Premier Li Qiang, at the Seoul airport in Seongnam, South Korea, Monday, May 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

North Korea launches missile into the sea, Japan and South Korea say

U.N. bans North Korea from conducting satellite launches

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, center, waves as he boards the plane to leave after attending the trilateral meeting with South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and Chinese Premier Li Qiang, at the Seoul airport in Seongnam, South Korea, Monday, May 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
Police use water cannon to disperse demonstrators during a protest against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, and calling for the release of hostages held in the Gaza Strip by the Hamas militant group, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, May 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Palestinian medics say Israeli airstrikes kill 35 in Gaza’s Rafah

Strikes hit tents where displaced people are living, medics say

Police use water cannon to disperse demonstrators during a protest against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, and calling for the release of hostages held in the Gaza Strip by the Hamas militant group, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, May 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
Sweden’s Carl Grundstrom, left, celebrates with Sweden’s Adrian Kempe after scoring his sides third goal during the bronze medal match between Sweden and Canada at the Ice Hockey World Championships in Prague, Czech Republic, Sunday, May 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

Czech Republic shuts out Switzerland 2-0 to win hockey world championship

It was the seventh title won by the Czech Republic after the country was created in 1993

Sweden’s Carl Grundstrom, left, celebrates with Sweden’s Adrian Kempe after scoring his sides third goal during the bronze medal match between Sweden and Canada at the Ice Hockey World Championships in Prague, Czech Republic, Sunday, May 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)
The remains of Shell gas station damaged by a suspected tornado are seen, Sunday, May 26, 2024, in Valley View, Texas. Powerful storms killed at least seven people and left a wide trail of destruction Sunday across Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas after obliterating homes and destroying a truck stop where drivers took shelter during the latest deadly weather to strike the central U.S. (Elías Valverde II/The Dallas Morning News via AP)

At least 14 dead in southern U.S. after severe weather roars across region

Storm left trail of debris through Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas

The remains of Shell gas station damaged by a suspected tornado are seen, Sunday, May 26, 2024, in Valley View, Texas. Powerful storms killed at least seven people and left a wide trail of destruction Sunday across Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas after obliterating homes and destroying a truck stop where drivers took shelter during the latest deadly weather to strike the central U.S. (Elías Valverde II/The Dallas Morning News via AP)
FILE - A Qatar airways plane lands at the airport in Frankfurt, Germany, as the sun rises on Sept. 25, 2023. Twelve people were injured when a Qatar Airways plane flying from Doha to Dublin on Sunday May 26, 2024 hit turbulence, airport authorities said. (AP Photo/Michael Probst, File)

12 people injured after Qatar Airways plane hits turbulence on way to Dublin

Qatar Airways described the injuries as ‘minor’

FILE - A Qatar airways plane lands at the airport in Frankfurt, Germany, as the sun rises on Sept. 25, 2023. Twelve people were injured when a Qatar Airways plane flying from Doha to Dublin on Sunday May 26, 2024 hit turbulence, airport authorities said. (AP Photo/Michael Probst, File)
FILE - Composers Richard M. Sherman, left, who, along with his brother Robert, wrote the song “It’s a Small World” for the Disneyland ride of the same name, and Michael Giacchino, right, who composed the driving music for Disneyland’s newly-redesigned “Space Mountain” ride, work in a sound room at Walt Disney Imagineering offices in Glendale, Calif., July 5, 2005. Sherman, one half of the prolific, award-winning pair of brothers who helped form millions of childhoods by penning classic Disney tunes, died Saturday, May 25, 2024. He was 95. (AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian, File)

Richard M. Sherman, who fueled Disney charm in ‘Mary Poppins,’ dies at 95

Sherman also penned songs for ‘The Jungle Book’ and ‘Chitty Chitty Bang Bang’

FILE - Composers Richard M. Sherman, left, who, along with his brother Robert, wrote the song “It’s a Small World” for the Disneyland ride of the same name, and Michael Giacchino, right, who composed the driving music for Disneyland’s newly-redesigned “Space Mountain” ride, work in a sound room at Walt Disney Imagineering offices in Glendale, Calif., July 5, 2005. Sherman, one half of the prolific, award-winning pair of brothers who helped form millions of childhoods by penning classic Disney tunes, died Saturday, May 25, 2024. He was 95. (AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian, File)
Police use water cannon to disperse demonstrators during a protest against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, and calling for the release of hostages held in the Gaza Strip by the Hamas militant group, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, May 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Hamas rocket attack sets off sirens in Tel Aviv for first time in months

Attack thought to be first long-range rocket attack from Gaza since January

Police use water cannon to disperse demonstrators during a protest against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, and calling for the release of hostages held in the Gaza Strip by the Hamas militant group, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, May 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)