One 19-year-old suspect was in custody at a hospital in critical condition while officers searched for a second suspect, who was identified as 19-year-old Zara Jabbi and was considered armed and dangerous, Toronto Police Chief Myron Demkiw said at a news conference. “I urge you to turn yourself in,” Demkiw said.

Police officer Marc Pinizotto, who was 43 and had been on the force for 18 years, died of his wounds in a hospital, Demkiw said.

Canadian police had said in March that two individuals emerged from a at around 4:30 a.m. and fired multiple shots at the consulate building before fleeing. The shooting damaged the outside of the building but did not cause any injuries.

The consulate attack in March followed heightened tensions launched by the U.S. and Israel against Iran in late February, and it had followed gunfire the previous weekend.

The investigation that led to Pinizotto’s death “concerned a number of shootings, including the shooting at the United States consulate on University Avenue. There were several search warrants executed this morning,” Demkiw said.

Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow said she’s known the mother of the deceased officer for the 20 years.

“Their grief is shared across this city,” Chow said.

The officer was shot in the early morning in an apartment unit, said Monica Hudon of Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit, which investigates incidents involving police officers where there has been a death. The suspect shot first, Hudon said.

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Trump has said multiple times in recent weeks that the warring parties have been on the cusp of a deal without anything coming to fruition. A spokesperson for Iran’s Foreign Ministry said in a live phone call on state television that mediators were active and nothing had been finalized to end the conflict that began Feb. 28 when the U.S. and Israel jointly attacked Iran.

Trump opened an Oval Office event Thursday afternoon saying: “We just made a great settlement of the war with Iran.” He offered scant details, other than to say he expects an agreement to extend a fragile ceasefire that started in April to be finalized “over the next few days.”

Extending the terms of the ceasefire gives U.S. leaders more time to negotiate over Iran’s nuclear program, the main reason Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu used to justify launching the war.

The announcement came after two days of back-and-forth attacks between the U.S. and Iran had pushed the Middle East closer to the resumption of a .

Trump had threatened further escalation earlier Thursday, posting on social media that the U.S. would hit Iran “VERY HARD TONIGHT” and take “total control” of its . A few hours later, Trump posted on social media that significant points in the negotiations “have been brought to the highest level of Iranian leadership and approved.”

Esmail Baghaei, the spokesperson for Iran’s Foreign Ministry, said in his phone call on state television that text of a deal is “mostly finalized.”

“The problem is that the contradictions in America’s position has caused turbulence to this process,” he said Thursday night.

A major sticking point in negotiations has been Iran’s nuclear program, which the U.S. and Israel fear could lead to an atomic weapon, but which Tehran says is for peaceful purposes. Another key issue is Iran’s stranglehold on the Strait of Hormuz, a critical shipping lane for transporting oil and natural gas.

Trump again moves quickly from threats to negotiating

Trump’s rapid shift Thursday from dire threats to promoting peace negotiations again underscored his whipsaw approach to the war. He suggested on Monday that a deal to end the conflict could be reached in a matter of days.

Then back-and-forth strikes rattled the Middle East this week. The first involved , followed by the two rounds of fire between the U.S. and Iran, which targeted countries where U.S. troops are based. The U.S. strikes began after Trump blamed Iran for near the Strait of Hormuz. Both pilots were rescued safely.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry said the U.S. attacks had “effectively rendered the ceasefire … meaningless,” without saying it was abandoning it.

After Trump threatened more attacks were to come on Thursday, Iran’s parliamentary speaker, Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, responded on social media that “wrong strategies and impulsive decisions” would wreak havoc on energy markets and “create an endless quagmire that you will be stuck in for years.”

It wasn’t the first time Trump threatened escalation before giving negotiations another chance. In April, he warned Iran that “a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again” if it didn’t agree to his terms, before extending a ceasefire.

Trump threatened to seize Iran’s main oil terminal

Iran’s monthslong disruption of shipping through the Strait of Hormuz has crimped global energy supplies, driven up fuel prices and made more expensive well beyond the region.

Trump had threatened Thursday to seize Kharg Island, the heart of , through which 90% of its exports pass.

But Trump himself soon voiced doubts about taking over the oil terminal, saying in an interview with Fox News: “I don’t know that America has the stomach for it, to be honest.”

“I don’t want to have boots on the ground,” Trump said. “But if I wanted to, we could put a small group of soldiers and take over the place.”

Tensions persist over Iran’s nuclear program, Strait of Hormuz

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in a social media post that the U.S. would extract funds from frozen Iranian accounts to offset the costs of damage to American allies and any tolls Iran imposes for ships to transit the .

Beyond the deadlock over the strait, the two sides also remain at odds over Iran’s nuclear program. Tehran insists its nuclear efforts are peaceful. The U.S. and Israel fear Tehran’s stockpile of highly enriched uranium could be used to build an atomic weapon.

Iran has insisted that any deal to end the war must also end fighting in Lebanon between its ally militia Hezbollah and Israel. But Netanyahu appears of destroying the militant group.

Iranian student says hope dwindles as attacks escalate

A 25-year-old student in northern Iran says Iranians are fearing “chaos” amid the war with the U.S. and Israel and multiplying crises at home.

The student, who lives in the city of Babol, said many Iranians are struggling to afford groceries in the face of mass job losses and triple-digit food inflation. He spoke on the condition of anonymity out of security fears.

“Everything is going wrong and there is no hope among the people,” the student added.

The student first spoke to The Associated Press before the war when he participated in widespread anti-government protests. He now says his chief concern is that Iran “maintain territorial integrity and deterrence” in the face of attacks by the U.S. and Israel.

US fires on another merchant ship to enforce blockade

The U.S. military’s Central Command said Thursday that it struck a Guinea-Bissau-flagged tanker attempting to evade the American blockade on Iranian ports. It said the M/T Jalveer was transporting Iranian oil when it was disabled late Wednesday after its crew failed to obey U.S. orders.

It’s the ninth merchant vessel the U.S. military says it disabled to enforce the blockade.

Three Indian sailors were killed when American forces struck the Palau-flagged M/T Settebello on Tuesday, India’s minister overseeing ports and shipping said Thursday on X.

U.S. Central Command said American forces issued warnings before firing on the ship, which it accused of trying to evade the blockade.

The leader of the International Maritime Organization, a United Nations agency, condemned the attack.

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said ICE agents forced her to the ground after a May 19 car chase and crash, breaking her knee and causing other injuries that required emergency surgery. The agency claims she sustained the injuries in the crash itself. Medical records submitted by her attorneys appear to support her account. At the hospital a few hours after the incident, Moreno López repeatedly told doctors that she was injured after getting out of her vehicle.

Moreno López’s injuries fuel concerns that ICE’s tactics have become increasingly violent during President Donald Trump’s second term. Another migrant, Mohamd Salim Abdessamed, was last week after an apparent ICE car chase.

ICE has denied misconduct by its agents during Moreno López’s detention.

Moreno López and Abdessamed were both treated at hospitals in the Detroit area — the Detroit Medical Center’s Detroit Receiving Hospital and Corewell Health in Dearborn, respectively — that refused to share information about the patients’ medical statuses, even with family members, apparently .

Attorneys for Moreno López filed a petition for in federal court seeking her immediate release from the North Lake detention center, arguing that she was unlawfully detained and won’t receive adequate medical care.

Competing accounts

Moreno López, who entered the country through legal channels in 2024, had just left her home on Detroit’s eastside on May 19 when ICE agents attempted to pull her over.

, she tried to drive away before agents cut her off, causing her to crash her SUV into a parked car.

Jennifer Newby, an assistant attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice, asserted in federal court last week that Moreno López broke her kneecap in the crash.

But medical records submitted by her attorneys indicate she told hospital staff that her injuries occurred after.

“She was getting out of her car when she was tackled to the ground and hit her knees, right elbow/arm and left side of her face on the concrete,” one doctor wrote.

In her sworn statement, Moreno López said, “I exited my car. Two ICE agents tackled me to the ground. One, with orange hair and a beard, grabbed my hair and pulled my shirt.”

According to her medical records, Moreno López’s injuries include a fractured kneecap, a laceration on the other knee that required eight stitches, a large scrape on her right forearm, a blow to the head, and bruises on her neck and face. She did not lose consciousness during the incident, and scans found no severe brain injury, though she was diagnosed with head trauma.

‘Subpar medical care’

After Moreno López’s surgery, doctors prescribed orthopedic rehabilitation. They expected her to be discharged to an ICE facility in Cincinnati capable of meeting her medical needs, records show.

Instead, she was taken to North Lake, where held to access. are “pervasive and serious,” according to a recent report from the .

North Lake medical records filed by the government show that the facility’s initial care program for Moreno López involved walking down a hallway three times a day using a walker.

Her attorneys argue she should be freed immediately because the facility’s “subpar medical care” would cause her irreparable harm.

ICE attorneys argue that there is no evidence that Moreno López has received inadequate medical care at North Lake.

GEO Group, the for-profit company that operates North Lake, referred questions to ICE.

“These incidents are not just a matter of immigration policy, but also civil rights and healthcare for vulnerable individuals,” said Christine Sauvé, spokesperson for the Michigan Immigrant Rights Center. “It really is a public health crisis. Patients like Yerlys may suffer harm when returned to immigration detention where specialty medical care is routinely unavailable or inadequate, despite the laws and policies requiring it.”

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Yes, the quarterback could stay in Buffalo backing up Josh Allen with the Bills. Or, Trubisky could reunite with Daboll in his role as the new offensive coordinator and quarterback coach Shea Tierney in and help mentor another young quarterback in

“It was a tough decision, but in the end I felt like it was right for me and my family just to take this opportunity to come and really reunite with Dabes and Shea,” Trubisky said Thursday.

Trubisky worked with Daboll for only the 2021 season when Daboll was the Bills’ coordinator in Buffalo. Trubisky appeared in six games and completed six of eight passes with one touchdown that season as a backup.

But that one season impressed upon Trubisky just how player-friendly Daboll’s offensive scheme is with the coach calling plays and concepts that the quarterback likes.

“It’s just evolved over the years, and it has been proven everywhere he’s been that they put up points and it is very friendly for the quarterback,” Trubisky said. “So you just got to dive in, know the execution, go out there (and) find completions, and it’s a really fun system to play in.”

With the Titans bringing in their second new head coach in three seasons in along with revamping the coaching staff, having a backup quarterback familiar with was why Tennessee went after Trubisky.

Saleh called Trubisky a “calming presence.”

“He’s been with (Daboll), he understands the system, he can speak Daboll’s language and kind of translate it for the guys that are in there,” Saleh said. “He’s a tremendous help both on and off the field.”

Trubisky is going into his 10th season in the NFL, and a man who was the in the 2017 draft by Chicago is familiar with the pressure Ward faces being the No. 1 overall pick of the 2025 draft. Trubisky also has become comfortable being a backup since his first season in Buffalo in 2021.

“I’m at the point in my career where I feel like I have a lot to offer as a mentor and Cam being young, we’ve had a great relationship so far and I’m really looking forward to helping him in any way I can and just take the next step,” Trubisky said.

Assessing Ward

The quarterback was tracked in three practices open to reporters this week completing 32 of 63 passes with three touchdowns and two interceptions. As a rookie, Ward completed 59.8% of his passes throwing for 3,169 yards with 15 TDs and seven interceptions with only one pick over his final nine games.

Saleh said he thinks Ward has been great through the offseason program. The Titans wrap up with their mandatory minicamp next week. Saleh said this is the time of year for Ward to test what he can and can’t do learning a new offensive scheme.

“I’ll put myself out there,” Saleh said. “I think it’s very safe to say that we’ve got a really good quarterback and we’re in really good hands.”

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Consumer prices rose 2.1% last month compared with April, the government statistics agency INDEC reported — a rate hailed by Economy Minister Luis Caputo as the lowest monthly level in eight months.

But annual inflation rose marginally to 33.2% this May because monthly inflation in May 2025 hit a seven-year low of 1.5%. Since then, prices have climbed and stayed high, squeezing households and fueling public frustration with Milei’s government as it grapples with a and struggles to respond to a across the labor-intensive sectors of retail and manufacturing.

Last month, communications networks saw the biggest price increases with 3.4% on higher phone and internet bills, followed by education costs. accelerated by 2.5%.

Milei praised Minister Caputo, nicknamed Toto, on social media, posting the INDEC report with the comment, “Let’s goooooo Toto!”

Milei and Caputo also celebrated the news that S&P Global, one of the major credit ratings agencies, had upgraded Argentina’s sovereign credit rating late Wednesday to a stable B- from the CCC category, which is considered most at risk of defaulting, citing the government’s success in meeting debt repayments.

Although the upgrade leaves Argentina several notches below investment status, the vote of confidence advances Milei’s goal of bringing the crisis-prone economy six years after Argentina for the ninth time.

Milei came to office in late 2023 vowing to eliminate Argentina’s and reverse its chronic fiscal deficits.

More than two years later, his sweeping deregulation and austerity measures have produced a rare budget surplus, charmed investors and slowed inflation — the annual rate, now at 33%, when he took power.

But the inflation that makes the cost of living here in Buenos Aires comparable to that in European capitals outpaces real wages. Unemployment has ticked up as thousands of workers are laid off from national industries that can’t keep up with a .

Corruption scandals of the kind Milei vowed to eradicate upon taking office have struck a nerve against the backdrop of his efforts to defund , and .

Most recently, Milei’s close aide and cabinet chief, Manuel Adorni, came under investigation for alleged illicit enrichment over lavish travel — including an all-cash trip to Aruba — and real estate purchases despite his meager public salary. On Wednesday, he admitted to hiding $500,000 in undeclared savings and cryptocurrency investments.

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But it’s not just the same old, same old this year, not with Troy (38-30) and West Virginia (45-15) squaring off in Friday’s opener as first-time participants on college baseball’s biggest stage. North Carolina (50-12-1) plays Mississippi (41-21) in the other Bracket 1 game at Charles Schwab Field.

Play begins in the all-SEC Bracket 2 on Saturday with Oklahoma (38-22) meeting Alabama (42-19) and Georgia (51-12) facing Texas (45-13).

SEC dominance in baseball dates to the 1990s, long before the professionalization of college sports with name, image and likeness opportunities and revenue sharing. A popular belief was that the start of NIL in 2021 would make access to the CWS, always difficult for teams outside the power conferences, even more so for them.

After Cal State Fullerton reached Omaha in 2017, there wasn’t another mid-major in the field of eight until Oral Roberts in 2023. Last year, Murray State and Coastal Carolina made it, and Coastal got to the finals.

Troy, which received one of the last four at-large bids for the 64-team NCAA Tournament, carries the flag for the little guys this year.

Just don’t call the Trojans a Cinderella.

“Yeah, the crowd loves the Cinderella story, but us in the locker room and as a staff, we don’t really love that term,” said Jabe Boroff, who has hit six of his 11 home runs in the last five games. “We don’t really consider ourselves that. We know what type of firepower and talent we have in this locker room. It’s almost like a sour taste to hear Cinderella story.”

Troy has been aiming toward the CWS since coach Skylar Meade was hired five years ago from South Carolina, where he was pitching coach for four seasons. The Trojans, by design, played the toughest nonconference schedule in the country this season and sixth-toughest overall. They are the first 30-loss team to make the CWS, but that’s partly because they were, in Meade’s words, an “honorary member of the SEC.”

They went 4-4 against SEC teams with all but one of those games on the road. They have wins over fellow CWS teams Georgia and Alabama, and they outscored host Florida 26-13 over two games in regionals.

Meade said there are three critical pieces to his team’s success. Many of the Division I transfers who came in were underutilized at their previous schools and have thrived. He and his staff identified high school recruits overlooked by SEC schools who could be developed into stars, like Sun Belt Conference player of the year Jimmy Janicki. Teammates also developed strong bonds from playing such an ambitious schedule and overcoming adversity.

“If you do that, then runs such as this are actually possible,” Meade said. “I think without it, they’re not. You can’t just be a bunch of nomads that come together. You can maybe do that in the SEC. If you just procure the best-of-the-best talent and you have the elite coaching you have in there, it can happen, I believe. But I think for everyone else, you have to have a lot of pieces gelled together in the right way.”

Been there, done that

A total of 23 different schools have filled the combined 24 CWS spots since 2024. North Carolina is the only one to make it twice. Coach Scott Forbes doesn’t see that as much of an advantage because there are only two players left from the 2024 team that went 1-2 in Omaha.

Forbes said he’s better prepared this time. He showed his players documentaries about Super Bowl teams that got caught up in distractions around the event and lost but won in their second Super Bowl because they knew how to handle the atmosphere.

Look who’s back

Mississippi is back for the first time since it won the 2022 national championship. So is Hunter Elliott, who as a freshman started the Rebels’ title-clinching game against Oklahoma and pitched a strong 6 2/3 innings. Elliott missed most of the 2023 season and all of 2024 with an elbow injury. He’s been the No. 1 starter for all but one series this season. Coach Mike Bianco announced Taylor Rabe would start against the Tar Heels.

The SEC bracket

The NCAA has never re-seeded teams for the CWS, and this year that has created a significant power imbalance between the brackets.

Bracket 1 has national seeds in No. 5 North Carolina and No. 16 West Virginia. Bracket 2 has No. 3 Georgia, No. 6 Texas and No. 7 Alabama.

Oklahoma’s Justin Lebron has no gripe. “You’re going to be in tough moments throughout the season,” he said, “so it will really come out in the postseason.”

Alabama won two of three at Oklahoma in April. Texas and Georgia haven’t met since the Longhorns swept the Bulldogs in Austin in April 2025.

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In a 312-page recommendation to state regulators who will ultimately decide whether to approve the sale, Judge James Varchetti wrote that the deal “is inconsistent with the public interest,” “highly problematic” and “unreasonable and imprudent.”

Varchetti, who has spent months gathering evidence and testimony from Consumers and interest groups that support and oppose the sale, concluded that the transaction threatens public safety and may not be the cheapest option for ratepayers.

“For a transaction involving infrastructure like major hydroelectric dams to be in the public interest, it would be a transaction that ensured the new owner is financially committed and able to meet the dam’s full lifecycle needs, thereby protecting taxpayers from assuming future liabilities such as decommissioning costs,” Varchetti wrote. “This transaction fails that test.”

The advice comes nine months after Consumers first its aging dams in the AuSable, Grand, Kalamazoo, Manistee and Muskegon rivers to a Maryland-based private equity firm for $1 apiece, then inking a 30-year contract that would at twice the market rate, plus pay a profit to Consumers.

Spokespeople for Consumers Energy and its proposed buyer, Confluence Hydro, expressed disappointment in the recommendation but noted that it is not legally binding.

The Michigan Public Service Commission, a trio of utility regulators appointed by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, is expected to decide by September whether to approve the sale.

“We believe the judge did not appropriately recognize the major benefits of the sale, Consumers spokesperson Katie Carey said.

Arguing the deal would bring “significant cost savings” for ratepayers while “protecting the 13 communities and tens of thousands of people who depend on the dams,” Carey said Consumers officials will continue to advocate for sale approval.

All told, the deal would cost Consumers ratepayers $3.4 billion, or an average of $1,800 per person.

Consumers officials contend that’s a good deal because they would otherwise seek the MPSC’s permission to charge ratepayers billions to repair or demolish the unprofitable dams.

But critics have accused them of downplaying the risks. They fear the deal would repeat a longstanding pattern of utilities transferring unwanted dams to private owners who fail to invest in maintenance, raising the risk of dam failures while pushing repair or removal costs onto taxpayers.

The structures generate meager power while operating at a $152 million annual loss. The largest among them, the Hardy Dam on the Muskegon River, to comply with modern flood safety standards. All but one of the 13 dams are high-hazard, meaning a failure would likely kill people and inflict widespread property damage.

Confluence Hydro, the company set to buy the dams along with tens of thousands of surrounding acres, has vowed to modernize and relicense them to generate energy for decades to come.

In a statement Wednesday, Confluence spokesperson Natalie Joubert said the company “looks forward to continuing to demonstrate to the Michigan Public Service Commission our proven track record of success, owning and operating dozens of hydroelectric power facilities, improving their safety, increasing their sustainability, and generating clean, reliable energy for the communities we proudly serve.”

But critics are wary of the deal, arguing weak contract language and a maze-like corporate structure make it doubtful the company will uphold those vows.

Confluence, which itself is a subsidiary of Maryland-based private equity firm Hull Street Energy, proposes to further divide ownership of the dams by creating 13 of its own limited-liability subsidiaries. Company officials have described that as standard industry practice, but critics see it as a way for Hull to profit off the dams while avoiding liability for their upkeep.

Sale opponents hailed Wednesday’s ruling as a victory for Consumers ratepayers and Michigan taxpayers.

“The evidentiary record seems to support the position that the coalition has taken all along: That this sale would not be in the public interest,” said Bob Stuber, executive director of the Michigan Hydro Relicensing Coalition.

Hull Street has bought and sold dozens of dams and power plants across the US since its formation in 2014. More recently, the company the data center business.

The Consumers sale proposal culminated years of deliberations by the utility over whether to keep, sell or remove the dams, which average 106 years old.

The company had no easy options.

Beyond being expensive to maintain, the dams are destructive to rivers, blocking fish habitat while warming the water, depleting oxygen levels and trapping sediment upstream. Many environmentalists would like to see them removed.

But in their century-plus of existence, the lake-like impoundments created by the dams have become beloved fixtures of nearby communities. Homes, marinas and campgrounds have all cropped up along their shores.

The sale plan has support from some local governments and waterfront homeowners’ associations, whose leaders see it as a way to secure the reservoirs’ future.

Sale critics include Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, and utility regulators, ratepayer advocates and outside environmental groups, all of whom contend the deal .

Some argue it’s too costly for ratepayers. Others say the contract terms make it too easy for Confluence to sell or demolish the dams, parcel off the surrounding land or avoid spending money to keep the structures safe. Yet others balk at Consumers’ attempt to profit off the sale, accusing Consumers of on unwanted assets that ratepayers have already paid-off.

In his recommendation to the Public Service Commission, Varchetti appeared to share many of those concerns.

He wrote that Consumers has failed to prove that the sale is cheaper than keeping or decommissioning the dams and panned the company’s proposal to reap $270 million in ratepayer-funded profits off the deal.

Taken together, Varchetti wrote, the inflated power price and the proposed profit scheme would set “troubling precedent” that rewards Consumers “for shedding its own future obligations while placing substantial financial risk onto ratepayers and taxpayers.”

Consumers officials have , saying if regulators don’t approve the sale as-is, the utility will seek to demolish all 13 dams.

Stuber called that ultimatum “absurd,” saying he would like to see a community-based approach to decide the best course of action, dam-by-dam.

“All of these projects are unique in their own right,” Stuber said. “You have to sit down with the local community and the larger statewide community, and say what’s the best future?”

Both fans and foes of the sale plan have criticized the utility’s refusal to negotiate.

Coco Soodek, who represents the Lake Allegan Association, a pro-sale group representing landowners on the reservoir behind the Calkins Bridge Dam, called it “tin-eared” and called upon Consumers to start making concessions.

“I would like them to do this sale,” Soodek said. “But it sounds like if they want to do it, they have to be reasonable.”

If not, she said, “I don’t agree with the ALJ’s decision, but I understand it.”

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The S&P 500 jumped 1.8%, coming off a that had yanked it back to where it was in early May. The Dow Jones Industrial Average leaped 929 points, or 1.9%, and the Nasdaq composite rallied 2.5%.

Stocks immediately veered higher in midday trading after Trump said on his social media network that “discussions with the Islamic Republic of Iran have been brought to the highest level of Iranian leadership and approved” and that the time and place of a signing will “be announced shortly.”

A deal to end the war with Iran could reopen the Strait of Hormuz and allow oil tankers to carry crude again from the Persian Gulf to customers worldwide. The price for a barrel of benchmark U.S. crude sank 2.6% to $87.71. Brent crude, the international standard, fell 2.9% to $90.38, though it’s still above its roughly $70 price from before the war.

Worries had been high because the United States and Iran launched attacks over the past several days threatening a more than monthlong tenuous ceasefire.

High oil prices caused by the Iran war have sent inflation painfully upward, and a report on Thursday showed that prices at the U.S. wholesale level than economists expected. The effect is worldwide, and the on Thursday became the first major central bank to raise interest rates in response.

Higher rates can keep a lid on inflation. But they also and undercut prices for all kinds of investments, including stocks and cryptocurrencies. They hit investments seen as the most expensive in particular, and some critics are calling the industry a bubble where investment inflated too far.

Big swings for AI stocks have been yanking the U.S. stock market up and down over the last week, as they went from to . The big concern is whether such stocks shot too high, too fast because of AI mania, and their careening moves have sometimes reversed direction by the hour.

AI stocks had already been rolling back up their roller coaster early Thursday, before Trump made his announcement on Iran.

Marvell Technology climbed 11.1%. It’s coming off a manic stretch where it plunged 16.7%, soared 9.6% and then fell more than 5% for two straight days. Just before that, it had a one-day surge of 32.5% that was its best in history when Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang suggested it could be “the next trillion-dollar company.” It was worth a bit more than $190 billion at the time.

Companies involved in the making of chips, meanwhile, jumped to some of the market’s biggest gains. Lam Research leaped 12.7%, and KLA climbed 12.9%.

They helped offset an 8.5% drop for Oracle. It reported a stronger profit for the latest quarter than analysts expected, but it also said it expects to raise $40 billion in cash this fiscal year through borrowing and sales of its stock. That comes after it raised $48 billion last fiscal year to help pay for AI investments.

Other companies’ stocks have also been punished recently for announcing heavy spending on AI, as the question remains whether such investments will produce the profits and productivity that AI proponents are promising.

All told, the S&P 500 jumped 127.31 points to 7,394.30. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 929.97 to 50,848.75, and the Nasdaq composite rallied 640.16 to 25,809.66.

In the bond market, Treasury yields eased sharply as falling oil prices meant less upward pressure on inflation. The yield on the 10-year Treasury dropped to 4.45% from 4.55% late Wednesday, which is a significant move for the bond market.

A sustained drop in oil prices could allow the Federal Reserve to keep its main interest rate on hold this year, instead of hiking it as many traders suspected it may have to because of high inflation and . Following Trump’s announcement, traders ratcheted back their bets for a possible increase to the federal funds rate this year, according to data from CME Group.

The Fed could even resume its cuts to interest rates under its new chair, Kevin Warsh, if inflation pressures subside enough. Trump appointed Warsh, and Trump has been loudly calling for lower interest rates.

Stocks of smaller companies can feel the biggest benefit from easier interest rates because many need to borrow money to grow, and the Russell 2000 index of the smallest U.S. stocks jumped a market-leading 3%.

In stock markets abroad, indexes rose modestly in Europe following a mixed finish in Asia.

London’s FTSE 100 rose 0.5%, and Hong Kong’s Hang Seng fell 0.7% for two of the world’s bigger moves.

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So he’s giving them the benefit of the doubt.

The president of hockey operations — and now de facto general manager — plans to run it back next season behind a group that includes Nathan MacKinnon, Cale Makar and captain Gabriel Landeskog. Jared Bednar remains safe, too, with Sakic throwing his support behind the coach with the most wins in team history.

Sakic prefers to focus on a regular season that produced a franchise-most 121 points — and the Presidents’ Trophy — over one bad week of hockey in which the Avalanche were swept by Vegas in the Western Conference Final.

“We could panic and try and blow everything up and start all over,” Sakic said Thursday. “But this team, what they’ve done over the course of the year, was pretty remarkable. We want to give them an opportunity to try and do it again.”

The hot seat

Bednar appeared to be on the hot seat after a series against the Golden Knights in which the team didn’t make many in-game adjustments to counter a stingy Vegas defense. Bednar is entering the final year of his contract.

“He’s got the confidence from the players,” Sakic said. “It’s clear from everybody, from players, the staff, that he’s the right guy. They respect him, they love playing for him, and that’s a big thing. … The players really believe in him, and I’m going with the players.”

Sakic, who won two Cup championships with Colorado, steps back into the role of GM after left the organization last week to take over as president of hockey operations/general manager of the Nashville Predators. Sakic was the architect who built the Avalanche in 2021-22 when Bednar coached them to a Stanley Cup title.

Colorado was cruising along in this postseason, going 8-1 before running into a Golden Knights team that caught fire after took over as coach. Tortorella’s team held Colorado — the highest scoring squad in the regular season — to seven goals in the series.

“We all feel that we left something on the table, but you wake up the next day and you look to try and get better,” Sakic said. “We’ve got a great group. Yes, we had a tough last week of hockey, but we still, from September on, we won the Presidents’ Trophy. We had the most points in franchise history. We played really well against L.A., really well against Minnesota. We played against a (Vegas) team that, just for that time, played better than we did. No excuses, but we’ll be ready for next year.”

The Avalanche were hit by injuries in the playoffs, most notably to Makar, who missed two games against the Golden Knights.

“Everybody is going to be at training camp and 100%,” Sakic said. “Nobody going to miss any time.”

An extension for Makar?

One of the first orders of business for Sakic this offseason will be signing Makar to an extension. The conversations have already started. Makar turned in a 20-goal season for a third consecutive year.

“I mean, listen, Cale is going to finish his career here,” Sakic said. “We’re confident that something’s going to get worked out at some point.”

Is their style an issue?

Sakic downplayed any issues with the fast-paced style that’s made the Avalanche so successful in the regular season but hasn’t always translated in the playoffs (see: Dallas last season and Vegas this year).

“I don’t think the physical play is the reason we lost,” Sakic said. “It was just our lack of execution in moments of the games.”

Is anyone off limits?

At a season-ending news conference for the Denver Nuggets, Kroenke Sports and Entertainment vice chairman Josh Kroenke alluded to the fact that could be an option in a trade. Kroenke had a slightly different take with the Avalanche.

“You’re comparing fruit, but it’s much different fruit,” Kroenke said. “This core group of players on the Avs have, in a similar way, been drafted and developed. … There is an element of continuity that I always want to say we believe in, and I think continuity of that group is what has established them as an elite program in the NHL year-to-year. So hopefully that continuity continues.”

Even the assistant coaches will be back, including Dave Hakstol who oversaw an erratic power play.

“We have to be better in certain areas, and that’s an area we’re going to be better,” Sakic said. “This group’s come a long way. Now we’re in that window, and this team deserves to try and win, but we’re going to do whatever we can.

“If it’s to get younger, we’ll look to try and get younger. But we want to make sure this team has the right pieces to try and compete for the Cup.”

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First Half_1, Mexico, Quinones, (Lira), 9th minute.

Second Half_2, Mexico, Jimenez, (Alvarado), 67th.

Goalies_South Africa, Ronwen Williams, Sipho Chaine, Ricardo Goss; Mexico, Raul Rangel, Carlos Acevedo, Guillermo Ochoa.

Yellow Cards_Mokoena, South Africa, 17th; Gutierrez, Mexico, 23rd; Sibisi, South Africa, 74th.

Red Cards_Sithole, South Africa, 50th; Zwane, South Africa, 84th; Montes, Mexico, 90th+2.

Referee_Wilton Pereira Sampaio. Assistant Referees_Bruno Raphael Pires, Bruno Boschilia, Nicolas Gallo Barragan. 4th Official_Juan Gabriel Benitez.

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In a statement released before a scheduled Friday ribbon-cutting ceremony at the bridge, the Windsor-Detroit Bridge Authority said that “Canada and the United States have agreed to delay the opening of the bridge, taking the necessary time to resolve any outstanding issues.” It didn’t elaborate on what those issues are or how long the delay would last.

The 1.5-mile-long (2.4-kilometer-long) Gordie Howe International Bridge spans the Detroit River and connects the Motor City with Windsor, Ontario. The bridge is jointly owned by Canada and Michigan and was expected to open to traffic later this month.

But the opening had been thrown into question after Trump in February demanded in a social media post that Canada turn over at least half of the bridge’s ownership to the U.S. federal government and agree to other unspecified demands in one of the Republican president’s many salvos over cross-border trade issues.

Michigan officials and the White House had been in contact for months about the bridge following Trump’s post, with the understanding that the opening would move forward on Friday. Invitations for the bridge’s opening went out this week following a conversation between Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a Democrat, and White House chief of staff Susie Wiles.

“This project is a powerful example of bipartisan and international cooperation, and the governor looks forward to attending the ribbon-cutting ceremony when it happens,” a statement from Whitmer spokesperson Bobby Leddy said.

New bridge a “long-term play”

Internal disagreements within the Trump administration threw those plans into question, as Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick pushed back on the opening, according to two people with knowledge of the matter who insisted on anonymity to discuss the private talks.

The White House did not immediately return a request for comment on Thursday.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney hinted Wednesday that , while downplaying any concerns.

“There is no big drama. If it takes a little longer it will take a little bit longer, but this will benefit Canadians, Americans, business, tourists, residents for decades and decades to come,” Carney said on his way into Parliament.

Even with the delay, officials remained optimistic that the bridge — a roughly $4.4 billion project — is still expected to open.

“We need to keep this very much in perspective,” said Sandy Baruah, president of the Detroit Regional Chamber and former U.S. assistant secretary of Commerce. “Our organization, the state of Michigan and others have been working on this bridge for 20 years. If it opens July 1, Aug. 1 or Sept. 1, I’m not going to get overly agitated about it. This is a long-term play.”

Named after the late Canadian Hockey great Gordie Howe, who spent 25 seasons leading the Detroit Red Wings, the bridge is expected to be another vital economic artery between Canada and the United States.

The construction project was negotiated by Rick Snyder, the former Republican governor of Michigan, and paid for by Canada to help ease congestion at the existing Ambassador Bridge and the Detroit-Windsor tunnel. Work has been underway since 2018.

U.S. Sen. Elissa Slotkin, a Michigan Democrat, said she’s taking people at their word that the holdup is “a minor hiccup.”

“This is probably the most bipartisan issue in the state of Michigan, so it’s ridiculous that we can’t just seal the deal,” Slotkin said.

Commerce and border crossings

Detroit and Windsor have been neighborly for generations, with residents in both countries frequently crossing the shared river border for entertainment and shopping. Windsor’s population in 2021 was about 230,000. Like Detroit, the Canadian city’s economy has a strong focus on manufacturing and the auto industry.

Commercial trade between the two cities primarily has been across the nearly century-old and privately-owned Ambassador Bridge, which is closer to downtown Detroit than the Gordie Howe Bridge.

The Ambassador Bridge had been the busiest commercial border crossing between the United States and Canada until last year, when truck traffic along the Blue Water Bridge connecting Port Huron, Michigan, to Sarnia, Ontario, surpassed the Ambassador Bridge’s numbers, according to the Bridge and Tunnel Operators Association.

In 2025, about 2.1 million trucks crossed the Blue Water Bridge compared to just over 1.8 million that used the Ambassador Bridge. About 3.5 million passenger vehicles used the Ambassador Bridge last year, while 1.6 million crossed via the Blue Water Bridge.

Combined, more than 9.2 million vehicles crossed the border on those two bridges in 2025, according to the U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics.

More than 3.7 million cars and SUVs also traveled between the United States and Canada last year via the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel.

Both bridges and the tunnel are working at full capacity, and the new bridge will help improve the efficiency of commercial and personal traffic between the two countries, Baruah said.

“This is what government is supposed to do, make it easier for business to conduct commerce,” he said.

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“Obviously, I was biased toward the latter,” Luck, the school’s athletic director at the time, said this week.

It’s been apparent for years Luck made the right choice but never more than now with the Mountaineers set to play in the for the first time. They will face Troy, also making its CWS debut, on Friday.

For West Virginia, the trip to Omaha is the realization of the vision Randy Mazey had when he was hired as coach in June 2012, the summer before his team’s first Big 12 season. Relying on players from traditional recruiting areas in and around the state, as the Mountaineers continue to do, those early teams were surprisingly competitive.

The Mountaineers in 2017 earned their first NCAA Tournament bid in 21 years, hosted a regional in 2019 and were on the road for regionals in 2023. They reached their first super regional in 2024, and after Mazey retired and handed off the program to longtime assistant Steve Sabins, they made supers again in 2025 and 2026.

“Looking back, the 14-year timeline based on where the program was, on the brink of extinction, that’s probably the timeline that should have taken place,” Mazey said.

This year’s Mountaineers (45-15) set a school record for wins and their style of play fits well at Schwab Field. Teams that can take advantage of the gaps in the cavernous outfield are rewarded, and West Virginia ranks among the national leaders in doubles and, with over 100 steals, can take the extra base. Maxx Yehl (9-2, 2.10 ERA) and Chansen Cole (10-1, 2.81) lead a pitching staff that has a 3.76 ERA, best among the eight CWS teams.

“I said about halfway through this season that this team not only can go to Omaha but this is a team that can win it,” Mazey said.

Jedd Gyorko has seen the worst and the best of the program’s history. He was the Mountaineers’ star shortstop from 2008-10, played eight years in the major leagues and is now special assistant to Sabins.

It’s 980 miles from Morgantown to Omaha but, from a baseball perspective, the distance was far greater for Gyorko and his teammates.

“It was more of a pipe dream back then,” Gyorko said. “You thought about it and you wanted to make it happen. When you look at what it takes, we were pretty far away from being there back then.”

Until 2015, the Mountaineers played at the dilapidated Hawley Field. Bad bounces on the infield were common — “Hawley hops,” they called them — and there was no clubhouse. If a coach or player needed to use the restroom during a game, they would use the same one as the few fans who showed up. The Mountaineers had to play their 2013 home conference series more than 150 miles away, in Charleston or Beckley, because Hawley Field didn’t meet Big 12 standards.

“We used to change into our uniforms in the parking lot behind right field right next to the tennis courts,” Gyorko said. “That was our clubhouse back in the day. We wanted to play ball, and that’s what was most important.”

Now the Mountaineers have some of the best baseball facilities in the country. The Kendrick Family Ballpark, originally Monongalia County Ballpark, opened in 2015 and a state-of-the-art baseball biomechanics center used by Paul Skenes of the nearby Pittsburgh Pirates, among others, opened a year ago.

Luck, who lives in Colorado, planned to drive to Omaha to join the thousands of Mountaineers fans who have jumped on the team’s bandwagon. Luck signed off on West Virginia’s commitment to baseball 15 years ago, but he said it took Mazey, Sabins and a host of others to make the Omaha dream come true.

“It’s a great thing not just for the university community but the entire state,” he said. “The Mountaineers are the flagship school and there are no professional teams in the state. When WVU plays the major sports, the entire state rallies around it. As you can imagine, I’m over the moon.”

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This version corrects the spelling of Monongalia County Ballpark.

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