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BENGALURU, India (AP) — At least 11 people are dead and more than 30 injured after a stampede on Wednesday as crowds tried to enter a cricket stadium in southern India’s Karnataka state, authorities said.The crush happened as tens of thousands of cricket fans gathered outside the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru city to celebrate the winners of the Indian Premier League, the world’s most popular T20 cricket tournament. An ambulance arrives at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium as fans gather to celebrate Royal Challengers Bengaluru cricketers, winners of the Indian Premier League, in Bengaluru, India, Wednesday, June 4, 2025. (AP…

This as-told-to essay is based on a transcribed conversation in mid-May with 44-year-old Jason Finkelman, a business immigration lawyer in Austin. The following has been edited for length and clarity.These days, I feel like I’m half lawyer, half therapist for my clients.I help foreign nationals with employment and family immigration. On the employment side, I’m working with clients across a range of industries, including tech, semiconductor, energy, oil and gas, research, and video gaming. Many of these are international entrepreneurs or investors looking to get a visa to start a business in the US.There is an unfounded fear among so many people…

PARIS (AP) — Coco Gauff overcame 10 double-faults and the first set she’s dropped in the tournament to beat Madison Keys 6-7 (6), 6-4, 6-1 at the French Open on Wednesday, reaching the semifinals for the third time.It was a contest filled with plenty of mistakes by both Americans, who each has claimed one major championship. They combined for 101 unforced errors and just 40 winners across more than two hours under a closed roof at Court Philippe-Chatrier on a drizzly, chilly day.Nearly half of the games — 14 of 29 — featured breaks of serve. But from 4-all in…

Ace Bailey has been pegged as a can’t-miss prospect, an athletic 6-foot-8 forward who can score like few players in this year’s NBA draft.His decisions leading up to the draft may send him slipping further down the lottery.Once projected as a top-three pick, Bailey could find himself waiting a bit longer than his Rutgers teammate Dylan Harper after opting to decline workouts with several teams within his projected draft range.Bailey might not see a freefall like Colorado quarterback Shedeur Sanders in the NFL draft, but his actions could be causing doubt among NBA executives heading into the June 25 draft.1.…

EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — When the Stanley Cup was brought out onto the ice prior to Game 1 of the final, just as it was last year, everything the Edmonton Oilers expressed about this time being different came into focus.“Last year, I was kind of looking at it with googly eyes,” goaltender Stuart Skinner said. “ This year seeing it, it’s: ‘I was here last year, I saw it. It’s time to get back to work and do my thing.’ It definitely felt completely different.”The Oilers made the start of the series completely different, erasing a multigoal deficit to beat…

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Indiana Pacers and Oklahoma City Thunder have two of the NBA’s best offenses.But this year’s title hopes may swing on the other facet: Who has the better defense?While both teams made major improvements from last season’s respective rosters in the conference finals and conference semifinals, Pacers coach Rick Carlisle, who led Dallas on its only title run in 2010-11 knows just how difficult the challenge can be, especially against Oklahoma City.“Their depth of great defenders is staggering,” he said before listing names. “ Shai (Gilgeous-Alexander) is a great scorer, but he’s also a great competitor. You’ve…

“Today” host Al Roker says consistency and discipline help him stay fit at 70.Roker’s routine includes weight training, walking 10,000 steps a day, and not avoiding his favorite foods.”Sometimes you have to push yourself to do the things you need to do,” he said.More than 20 years after undergoing gastric bypass surgery and losing over 100 pounds, Al Roker says consistency helps him stay fit at 70.During an interview with People published on Tuesday, the “Today” host spoke about his workout and diet routines.”My mantra is ‘something is better than nothing,'” Roker told People. “Maybe you’ll be running marathons or entering weightlifting…

In 2023, co-founders Karim Jouini and Jihed Othmani sold their expense management startup Expensya to Swedish procurement software firm Medius in what is widely considered to be one of the largest acquisitions of an African startup. Some sources say the sum was just over $120 million, although deal terms were not disclosed. Success achieved, both founders swore off entrepreneurship, never intending to do another startup again, and Jouini assumed a CTO role in the merged software company, with other acquisitions spanning three continents. But the pull of a new technological wave — generative AI — and the thought that they…

Tesla could take a hit if President Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” becomes law.Elon Musk’s AI company, however, may get a boost.Many of Musk’s companies rely largely on federal regulations, subsidies, or contracts. That means the GOP’s federal spending bill, if signed into law, could directly impact his businesses.While Musk has previously shared his disapproval of the bill, the billionaire ratcheted up his criticism this week.”I’m sorry, but I just can’t stand it anymore,” Musk posted on X on Tuesday. “This massive, outrageous, pork-filled Congressional spending bill is a disgusting abomination.””Shame on those who voted for it: you know you…

Windsurf, the popular vibe-coding startup that’s reportedly being acquired by OpenAI, says Anthropic significantly reduced its first-party access to its Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude 3.5 Sonnet AI models. Windsurf CEO Varun Mohan said in a post on X Tuesday that Anthropic gave Windsurf little notice for this change, and the startup now has to find other third-party compute providers to run several of Anthropic’s most popular AI models on its platform. “We have been very clear to Anthropic that this is not our desire — we wanted to pay them for the full capacity,” said Mohan on X. “We…