USNEWS AND WORLD

The Los Angeles Lakers are seeking their 33rd trip to the NBA Finals. LeBron James is seeking his 11th. And the Denver Nuggets are seeking their first. Denver has been the team that everyone has chased in the Western Conference for most of the season. The Nuggets moved atop the conference standings in mid-December and … Read more

The Chicago Bears and a trio of school districts whose financial resources stand to be impacted by the football team’s proposed redevelopment of Arlington International Racecourse in Arlington Heights are deadlocked over how much the Bears should pay in property taxes for the site. Team President and CEO Kevin Warren said in a May 4 … Read more

LONDON (AP) — The European Union’s sweeping set of beefed-up cryptocurrency rules got final approval from member states Tuesday, giving the 27-nation bloc a global lead in regulating the freewheeling sector. The European Council adopted the package of rules — known as Markets in Crypto Assets, or MiCA — in the final step of the … Read more

Elon Musk has called himself a “free speech absolutist.” But the SpaceX and Twitter CEO has faced heavy criticism on his own social media platform for caving in to censorship requests from the Turkish government ahead of that country’s contentious presidential elections.  The uproar has drawn two elements of Musk’s business dealings into the spotlight — … Read more

Good morning. It’s Monday. We’ll look at something so fundamental it’s the first of the three R’s — and why New York City is about to change the way it is taught in public schools. Half of the children in grades three to eight in New York City fail reading tests. Why? David Banks, the … Read more

The latest battle over a widely used abortion drug is set to play out on Wednesday before a conservative appeals court in New Orleans that has become the testing ground for some of the most contentious policy fights in the nation. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit will … Read more

Thousands of Oakland students will return to school today, after about 3,000 striking public school educators reached a tentative deal with district officials to raise salaries for teachers and take some unconventional steps to improve students’ lives, including creating a Black reparations task force and using district property to help homeless students. Teachers, librarians, nurses … Read more

KYIV: Ukrainian air defenses thwarted an intense Russian air attack on Kyiv early Tuesday, shooting down all 18 missiles aimed at the capital, officials said.Loud explosions boomed over Kyiv as the nighttime attack combined Russian missiles launched from the air, sea and land in an apparent attempt to overwhelm Ukraine’s air defenses. No casualties were … Read more