NEW DELHI: The Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 is set to resume on May 17 after a week-long suspension triggered by escalating tensions between India and Pakistan. Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) will host defending champions Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in the first match of the resumption.As cricket returns, former India captain Sunil Gavaskar has called for a subdued atmosphere in the remaining matches to honour the sentiments of grieving families following recent terror attacks in Kashmir. Gavaskar’s appeal comes in the wake of ‘Operation Sindoor’, a retaliatory Indian military strike against terror camps in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir after a deadly attack in Pahalgam.Go Beyond The Boundary with our YouTube channel. SUBSCRIBE NOW!Speaking to Sports Today, Gavaskar said: “I would sincerely hope, because of what has happened and some families have lost their near and dear ones, there is no music. Let’s not have the DJs screaming in the middle of an over.”Who’s that IPL player?He added, “Let the games be played. Let the crowds come in. But just cricket — no dancing girls, nothing. That would be a really nice way to respect the sentiment of the families.”
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Gavaskar also endorsed the one-week suspension of the tournament, stating, “With hostilities, there was no place for sport. But now that there is a ceasefire, the tournament can resume.”
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The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) released the revised IPL schedule on Monday night. A total of 17 matches will be played across six venues, culminating in the final on June 3.
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A Milwaukee County Circuit Court judge has been indicted after being accused of helping an undocumented migrant flee arrest at her courthouse last month as President Donald Trump’s illegal immigration crackdown continues.
Judge Hannah Dugan, 66, was indicted Tuesday in federal court with obstructing or impeding a proceeding and concealing an individual to prevent his discovery and arrest, the former charge a felony and the latter a misdemeanor.
The two charges carry a maximum penalty of six years in prison and a $350,000 fine.
Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan. She has been indicted on accusation of helping an undocumented migrant flee a courthouse. (Lee Matz/Milwaukee Independent/AP)
She is expected to enter a plea at her next hearing set for Thursday.
Members of her defense team said in a short statement responding to the charges: “As she said after her unnecessary arrest, Judge Dugan asserts her innocence and looks forward to being vindicated in court.”
According to an affidavit filed by an FBI agent, the incident in question took place at the Milwaukee County Courthouse on April 18 when Eduardo Flores-Ruiz, 30, was expected to answer state-level misdemeanor charges of battery related to domestic violence.
When Dugan was informed by her clerk Alan Freed Jr that a group of six Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents had arrived with the intention of arresting and deporting Flores-Ruiz, alleging that he had entered the United States from Mexico illegally in 2013, she became “visibly angry” and called the situation “absurd,” the affidavit states.
It goes on to allege that she told the agents, with a “confrontational, angry demeanor,” that their administrative warrant was insufficient and that they would instead need a judicial warrant, signed by a judge, directing them to follow fellow justice Kristela Cervera to County Chief Judge Carl Ashley’s office to take up the matter.
When all but one of the agents departed, the judge allegedly directed Flores-Ruiz and his then-attorney Mercedes de la Rosa to exit the building via its non-public jury door, telling the defendant he could participate in his scheduled hearing on Zoom at a later date.
Supporters of Jugan hold a rally shortly after her arrest last month. (Lee Matz/Milwaukee Independent/AP)
After realizing what had happened, the remaining ICE agent and a colleague subsequently chased Flores-Ruiz and apprehended him at West State Street and North 10th Street downtown. He is currently being held at Ozaukee County Jail.
Federal authorities then returned a week later to arrest Dugan at the courthouse, an operation trumpeted on social media by FBI Director Kash Patel who shared a picture of her in handcuffs, seeking to deter others from following her example.
Dugan was suspended by the state Supreme Court and replaced by a reserve judge after her arrest.
ICE has attempted a number of arrests at Wisconsin courthouses, as well as others in Virginia, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Illinois, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts, inviting pushback.
“When federal immigration enforcement takes place in our courthouse complex, it sends families into hiding, deters survivors of violence from seeking protection and discourages tenants from asserting their rights,” Milwaukee County Board Chair Marcelia Nicholson said prior to Dugan’s arrest.
The county’s Board of Supervisors subsequently approved a non-binding resolution stating that it “stands firm in its opposition to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operating outside the limits of the law in and around the Milwaukee County Courthouse Complex.”
A Google corporate logo hangs above the entrance to the company’s office at St. John’s Terminal in New York City on March 11, 2025.
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Google agreed to pay nearly $1.4 billion to the state of Texas to settle allegations of violating the data privacy rights of state residents, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said Friday.
Paxton sued Google in 2022 for allegedly unlawfully tracking and collecting users’ private data.
The attorney general said the settlement, which covers allegations in two separate lawsuits against the search engine and app giant, dwarfed all past settlements by other states with Google for similar data privacy violations.
Google’s settlement comes nearly 10 months after Paxton obtained a $1.4 billion settlement for Texas from Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, to resolve claims of unauthorized use of biometric data by users of those popular social media platforms.
“In Texas, Big Tech is not above the law,” Paxton said in a statement on Friday.
“For years, Google secretly tracked people’s movements, private searches, and even their voiceprints and facial geometry through their products and services. I fought back and won,” said Paxton.
“This $1.375 billion settlement is a major win for Texans’ privacy and tells companies that they will pay for abusing our trust.”
Google spokesman Jose Castaneda said the company did not admit any wrongdoing or liability in the settlement. The deal covers allegations related to the Chrome browser’s incognito setting, disclosures related to location history on the Google Maps app, and biometric claims related to Google Photo.
Castaneda also said Google does not have to make any changes to products in connection with the settlement and that all of the policy changes that the company made in connection with the allegations were previously announced or implemented.
“This settles a raft of old claims, many of which have already been resolved elsewhere, concerning product policies we have long since changed,” Castaneda said.
“We are pleased to put them behind us, and we will continue to build robust privacy controls into our services.”
New Delhi: With the majority of the Australian contingent expected not to return for the remainder of the Indian Premier League (IPL), the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has allowed the franchises to sign temporary replacements, but those players will not be eligible for retention for the next season.“The IPL Governing Council and the BCCI have reworked the player replacement rules, and the franchises are now allowed to make replacements for the players unavailable due to the current situation, as their international calendars are overlapping with the rescheduled IPL,” a senior BCCI official told TimesofIndia.com.“So, the franchises can name replacements as of now, but those players will return to the auction pool and will not be up for retention.”TimesofIndia.com had reported that Australia opener Jake Fraser-McGurk will not be coming for the remainder of IPL 2025, which will restart on May 17, and Delhi Capitals had already announced Mustafizur Rahman as his replacement.
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Rahman has so far played 57 IPL matches and has 61 wickets to his name. He has played 106 T20Is for Bangladesh, picking up 132 wickets in those matches. The left-arm medium pacer will join Delhi Capitals for Rs 6 crore.Who’s that IPL player?It is also understood that left-arm quick Mitchell Starc is all set to pull out from IPL 2025 as well. Delhi Capitals will play their next match on Sunday against Gujarat Titans at the Arun Jaitley Stadium.It is also reliably learned that Punjab Kings players Marcus Stoinis and Josh Inglis are definitely not going back to India, whereas the chances of Aaron Hardie and Xavier Bartlett are 50-50. Punjab will take on Rajasthan Royals on Sunday at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium in Jaipur.
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Pete Buttigieg was caught blushing after a retired teacher praised his speaking skills—in an apparent jab at President Donald Trump.
“It’s a complete pleasure to be able to hear somebody speak in complete sentences,” the man told a town hall led by former transportation secretary Buttigieg in Iowa on Tuesday.
The room erupted in cheers and applause, and many people rose to their feet in appreciation of the former teacher’s quip, which didn’t mention Trump by name, but appeared to be aimed at the Republican president. A bashful Buttigieg responded, “I do my best.”
Members of the veterans’ group VoteVets Action Fund attended the town hall in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on Tuesday. It is where Buttigieg won a Democratic primary in his unsuccessful bid to run for president in 2020.
The former teacher asked Buttigieg to speak to a court case in Oklahoma about the separation of church and state, and about tax money being spent on religious schools.
In another quip, he told the audience, “I pay more taxes than Jeff Bezos does… I don’t mind paying taxes, but I would like to have it spent where it needs to be spent.”
Buttigieg said the separation of church and state was a “foundational principle” of the U.S. that was “being tested” in schools.
He described going to a Catholic school in South Bend, Indiana, but said that his parents never thought that their neighbors should have to pay for it through their taxes.
The former transportation secretary was asked whether he thought the Democrats would have fared better in the 2024 Presidential election if Joe Biden had not tried to run, to which he responded “maybe.”
“Right now, with the benefit of hindsight, I think most people would agree that that’s the case.”
Buttigieg has hinted he may run for president in 2028, saying he will “assess” a potential campaign and see “what I bring to the table,” during a live interview with Substack The Ink.
“There are times I’ve followed that process and decided to run, and there are times I’ve decided not to run. And the process can lead you to surprising places,” he told Anand Giridharadas.
Trump openly mocked Buttigieg’s potential candidacy last week, telling reporters: “He’s actually a contender for president, between him and [Jasmine] Crockett you can have that party.”
Israeli strikes killed dozens of Palestinians in northern Gaza overnight, Palestinian health officials said on Wednesday, as Israel threatens to ramp up its military campaign in the enclave despite mounting international pressure.
The bodies of more than 50 people killed overnight had arrived at the Indonesian Hospital by noon on Wednesday, according to Marwan Sultan, director of the medical facility in the town of Beit Lahia. He said dozens more had been injured. Gaza’s health ministry also said that dozens of people were killed overnight, without specifying where.
Gaza health officials do not distinguish between combatants and civilians when reporting death tolls.
The Israeli military did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Avichay Adraee, an Israeli military spokesman, had warned on Tuesday night of an impending attack on parts of northern Gaza where he said militants had been firing rockets at Israeli territory.
The Trump administration has been seeking to broker an end to the 18-month war, which Palestinian health officials say has killed more than 50,000 people and brought the enclave to the brink of starvation.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has threatened an “intensive” escalation in Gaza unless Hamas lays down its weapons and turns over the hostages it still holds. The Israeli military has called up thousands of additional soldiers to bolster the war effort, and the government has vowed to seize additional territory there until Hamas complies.
The leaders of Hamas have refused to disarm and have said that they will not free the remaining hostages unless Israel ends the war and withdraws from the Gaza Strip.
On Tuesday night, Israeli fighter jets bombarded the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis in an effort to kill Muhammad Sinwar, one of the group’s top remaining military commanders. The Israeli military said it had targeted a Hamas complex underneath the European Hospital near Khan Younis. Neither Israel nor Hamas have publicly commented on whether Mr. Sinwar was killed in the bombardment.
Israeli officials said they hoped eliminating Mr. Sinwar, one of Hamas’s most intransigent negotiators, would make the group more flexible on the demands for a truce. But Israel has assassinated numerous Hamas leaders since the beginning of the war, without compelling the group to accept its terms.
Mr. Sinwar’s older brother, Yahya Sinwar, led Hamas in Gaza and was one of the main planners of the Oct. 7, 2023, attack on southern Israel that ignited the war. After Yahya Sinwar was killed by Israeli forces last year, Muhammad Sinwar assumed a more prominent role inside the group.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk speak with U.S. President Donald Trump via phone during the so-called “Coalition of the Willing” meeting, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine May 10, 2025.
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Major European powers threw their weight behind an unconditional 30-day Ukraine ceasefire on Saturday, with the backing of U.S. President Donald Trump, and threatened President Vladimir Putin with “massive” new sanctions if he did not accept within days.
The leaders of Britain, France, Germany, Poland and Ukraine set the start of the ceasefire for May 12 at a meeting in Kyiv, during which they held a phone call with Trump.
“So all of us here together with the U.S. are calling Putin out. If he is serious about peace, then he has a chance to show it,” British Prime Minister Keir Starmer told a press conference.
“No more ifs and buts, no more conditions and delays.”
Soon after the European leaders’ announcement, the Kremlin appeared to pour scorn on it.
“We hear many contradictory statements from Europe. They are generally confrontational in nature rather than aimed at trying to revive our relations. Nothing more,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov was quoted as saying by Russian news agency Interfax.
Western sanctions against Russia have been toughened repeatedly since its full-scale invasion in 2022, without ending the war. But following through on the threat would be a sign of growing Western unity after months of unpredictability in U.S. policy since Trump’s return to the White House in January.
After engaging directly with Russian officials, clashing publicly with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and briefly cutting vital military aid to Kyiv, Washington has patched up ties with Ukraine and signed an agreement giving the U.S. preferential access to new Ukrainian minerals deals.
Trump, who did not immediately comment publicly on the European leaders’ remarks, has also signalled frustration with what Washington views as Putin’s foot-dragging over a ceasefire.
“In the event that the ceasefire is violated, massive sanctions will be prepared, in coordination between the Europeans and the United States,” French President Emmanuel Macron said.
By imposing new sanctions, the White House would be aligning itself more closely with western Europe, which has been rattled by a trade war in which Trump has imposed tariffs on them and other countries and has suggested he might not come to the defence of NATO allies that underspend on their defence.
Zelenskiy said he and the visiting leaders had agreed the unconditional ceasefire must start on Monday and cover air, sea and land. If Russia refused, it would face new sanctions, including the strengthening of punitive measures targeting its energy and banking sectors, he said.
Peskov had been quoted as saying on Friday that Russia supported the implementation of a 30-day ceasefire, but only with due consideration of “nuances”.
In remarks to U.S. broadcaster ABC broadcast earlier on Saturday, Peskov had suggested Western military assistance for Ukraine must stop for a temporary ceasefire to take effect. “Otherwise it will be an advantage for Ukraine,” he said.
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Macron said that if the ceasefire went ahead, it would be monitored mainly by the U.S. and European countries would contribute.
Dmitry Medvedev, a former Russian president who is now a senior security official, derided the idea of giving Russia an option between being sanctioned or giving Ukrainian forces an opportunity to rebuild.
“Shove these peace plans up your pangender arses!” he wrote on X.
The European leaders said the terms of a peace deal would be negotiated during the 30-day pause in fighting.
“We have no illusions that the ceasefire will be breached,” Zelenskiy said.
On the eve of the summit, the U.S. embassy in Kyiv warned of a “potentially significant” air attack in the coming days.
When the European leaders arrived in Kyiv by train on Saturday, a screen on the platform announced the arrival of the “Bravery Express”. Zelenskiy accompanied them as they paid their respects at a Kyiv memorial honouring Ukrainian soldiers killed in the war.
The visit falls on the final day of a May 8-10 ceasefire declared by Putin that Ukraine did not accept, denouncing it as a sham. Both sides have accused each other of violating it.
Reuters journalists at a field hospital near the front line in Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia region saw soldiers being brought in with combat injuries sustained since the Russian ceasefire began.
“There hasn’t been any ceasefire, shelling has continued just as before, drones are flying just like before, the same with explosives being dropped. Nothing has changed at all,” said a wounded soldier who gave his name as Stanislav.
