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Judge lifts block of teacher raise plan Law firm representing education advocates disqualified

BY PATRICK WALL Staff writer

Gov. Jeff Landry’s plan to cut public school budgets to pay for teacher stipends can proceed after a judge on Monday lifted an order blocking the plan, which is set to take effect Wednesday.

Judge Richard “Chip” Moore, of the 19th Judicial District Court in Baton Rouge, also granted a

motion by the state to disqualify Baker Donelson, the law firm representing education advocates who sued to stop the funding cut.

Lawyers for the state argued, and the judge agreed, that the firm should be disqualified because it is representing the state in a federal court case while at the same time representing plaintiffs suing the state in the school funding case.

Under Landry’s plan, which

lawmakers approved last week, the state will reduce funding for public schools by $168 million this school year, and instead use the money to give $2,000 stipends to teachers and $1,000 to school support staff.

In a statement Monday, state Attorney General Liz Murrill praised the judge’s ruling, and said the state had canceled its existing contracts with Baker Donelson.

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“A law firm cannot represent the governor in one courtroom and sue him in another without proper consent,” she said, adding that, with the court order lifted, “I am hopeful we can all move forward with the pay raise that our teachers Beuerman deserve.”

Greg Beuerman, a spokesperson for the plaintiffs, said they plan to swiftly review

Purple and gold LSU New Orleans banners adorn light poles near the campus.

their options with the hope of potentially taking action before Landry’s plan goes into effect Wednesday.

“I think they’re going to be deciding very, very quickly what their next move is going to be,” he said, adding that the advocates believe Landry’s order raises important legal questions about the governor’s authority to reallocate education dollars. “I would be surprised if there’s not more to be played out

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State Supreme Court upholds overturning of death sentence Duncan is 10th prisoner freed over discredited testimony

BY JAMES FINN Staff writer

Louisiana’s Supreme Court on Monday affirmed a lower court decision overturning a Ouachita Parish man’s death sentence, ruling that the man’s conviction 28 years ago rested on discredited science that “no rational juror” would use to reach a guilty verdict today.

The 33-page high court ruling in favor of former death row prisoner Jimmie “Chris” Duncan represents a potential landmark victory for supporters of a post-conviction law Louisiana approved in 2021. The law sought to give prisoners who obtain fresh evidence of their innocence easier paths to jettisoning unjust sentences.

Penned by Justice Cade Cole, the ruling excoriates state prosecutors’ use of “bite mark analysis” during Duncan’s 1998 trial, which ended with Duncan’s conviction on first-degree murder for

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The new LSU New Orleans sign in front of the University Center waits to be unveiled as the University of New Orleans transitions to the LSU system.

BY MARIE FAZIO Staff writer

LSU New Orleans banners already lined Elysian Fields Avenue on the way to campus last week as three workers plastered a new purple and gold decal across the University of New Orleans’ library windows.

In the bookstore, merchandise with UNO logos had big markdowns as “This racks were beuniversity ing readied for must succeed new gear. In the for New administration Orleans’ sake. building nearby, a It just must.” slew of new hires, including an interim chancellor, JEANETTE WEILAND, interim had taken charge.

LSU New Orleans The liberal arts building, deemed chancellor unsafe with $20 million of needed repairs, had been shuttered. And exterminators were back on campus to remove raccoons that had made their home in the library’s ceiling.

Signs of change were spread across the University of New Or-

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Margaret Woodard, a University of New Orleans student who works at the campus Rec Center, holds up her old blue and white work shirt as she wears the new purple and gold version on Friday. leans campus this month ahead of its highly anticipated move to the LSU system. The transition from the University of Louisiana system, which has overseen UNO since 2011, will officially take place on Wednesday, when political leaders and dignitaries are set to arrive on campus for a ceremony to mark the occasion.

The move was initiated last year by state legislators alarmed by UNO’s teetering finances, which led

La. center leading research on GLP-1 drugs

BY HALEY MILLER Staff writer

to furloughs, budget cuts and worries about whether the school could survive at all. For UNO, soon to be LSU New Orleans, a lot is riding on the change to a new overseer.

The transition came with a $20 million infusion of state funds to pay down the school’s debt and will give LSU New Orleans access to the massive LSU system’s financial

GLP-1 medications like Ozempic and Wegovy have been hailed as near-miracle drugs that have revolutionized how people lose weight.

The drugs mimic a hormone produced by the body that manages blood sugar and triggers a feeling of fullness. People who take the medication generally lose between 15% and 25% of their body weight in a year, studies found.

But what about the drawbacks that can come with such dramatic transformations?

In addition to short-term side effects like nausea and constipation, some patients experience

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Zelenskyy condemns Russia’s ‘horrific attacks’

KYIV, Ukraine — Russian missiles and drones killed at least 12 civilians and injured 40 others in Ukraine on Monday in what President Volodymyr Zelenskyy described as “horrific attacks.”

Since Russia launched its allout invasion of its neighbor more than four years ago, its forces have conducted bombing in an effort to destroy Ukraine’s infrastructure and sap morale. More than 16,000 Ukrainian civilians have been killed, according to the U.N. A Russian missile targeting infrastructure struck the central city of Dnipro, killing six people and wounding 29, Dnipropetrovsk regional head Oleksandr Hanzha said. Russian drones also hit a passenger minibus in the southern city of Zaporizhzhia, killing three and wounding six, including a child, Zelenskyy said on social media.

Russian drones also killed a 69-year-old woman and a 77-yearold man in the northeastern Sumy region, National Police said.

Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov said a daytime Russian strike killed one person and wounded five others in the northeastern city.

Other deadly attacks occurred in at least six other regions of Ukraine, authorities said. No further details were immediately available.

Israeli strikes kill at least 8 in Gaza, officials say

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — Israeli strikes in southern and central Gaza on Monday killed at least eight people, including two children, and wounded at least 20 others, according to health officials and emergency services.

In Khan Younis, a strike hit a tent in the Al-Mawasi neighborhood after a warning call, killing a 23-year-old mother and her 1-year-old daughter west of Khan Younis, according to Nasser Hospital.

Another strike on the town of Qarara, northwest of the city earlier in the day killed a 31-year-old man, according to Nasser Hospital. The hospital said he had married only a few months ago and left behind a pregnant wife.

In a separate incident in the same area, a strike hit a tent sheltering displaced people along the coastal area of Khan Younis, killing two people and wounding 13 others, according to Nasser hospital and the Palestinian Red Crescent. The wounded were transferred to a field hospital run by the Palestinian Red Crescent in Al-Mawasi.

In central Gaza, a drone strike hit a tent in Deir al-Balah, killing at least three Palestinians, including an 8-year-old boy and his grandfather, medical officials said.

Director sentenced in fraud case over show

NEWYORK — Hollywood writer-director Carl Rinsch was sentenced Monday to 21/2 years in prison after being convicted of defrauding Netflix out of $11 million for a never-finished sci-fi series. Supporters including Keanu Reeves had asked the court to show him leniency.

Rinsch, best known for the 2013 samurai fantasy film “47 Ronin,” was convicted in December of federal wire fraud and other charges. According to prosecutors and trial testimony, he told Netflix he needed $11 million to finish a show called “White Horse” but diverted the money into a personal account and ultimately spent whopping sums on luxury cars, watches, clothes and household goods, including $638,000 on two mattresses.

Rinsch, 48, and his lawyers told the court Monday that his behavior was fueled by mental health struggles and medication problems, which they said he is now addressing with a new care provider.

“This process has forced me to confront things about my health, my judgment and my life,” Rinsch said. He apologized for his behavior, acknowledged that “real harm was caused,” and explained: “I failed to recognize the danger of the state I was in.”

His psychological troubles weren’t described in court, and he and his lawyers declined to detail them afterward.

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U.S. and Iran pause strikes But both disagree over next steps on talks

BY JON GAMBRELL and JOSH BOAK Associated Press

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The United States and Iran on Monday separately announced they will send delegations to Qatar this week, though Tehran insisted it has not agreed to meet with the U.S. “at any level” after attacks across the Persian Gulf over the weekend challenged negotiations to end the war.

U.S. President Donald Trump said the Islamic Republic had requested a meeting with U.S. counterparts and that they planned to convene Tuesday in Doha, Qatar.

But one of Iran’s senior negotiators denied talks had been scheduled. And the spokesman for Iran’s Foreign Ministry said Tehran was sending its delegation to Qatar, a key mediator in the negotiations, to discuss terms of the interim deal without involving the U.S. The U.S. president has tried to preserve a fragile interim deal, but hostilities mounted in recent days in the Strait of Hormuz, through which a fifth of the world’s oil had been shipped before war began. After four days of trading strikes, both sides appeared to pause

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Women talk in front of a banner with a graphic depicting the slain Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei kissing the head of the late commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard expeditionary Quds Force, Gen. Qassem Soleimani, who was killed in a U.S. drone attack in 2020 in Iraq, as they wait for the green light to cross an intersection Monday in downtown Tehran, Iran. their attacks Monday.

The U.S. and Iran agreed to an interim deal earlier this month that calls for Tehran to dilute its stockpile of enriched uranium.

It also waives U.S.-backed sanctions on the country, opens the Strait of Hormuz and gives each side 60 days to hammer out broader agreements.

Confusion mounts After Trump said Monday morning on social media that the U.S. and Iran planned to meet, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told Fox News’ “Fox & Friends” that special envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, the

president’s son-in-law, were flying to Qatar.

Pakistan, also a key mediator, had said talks between Iran and the U.S. would resume Tuesday.

But Kazem Gharibabadi, a senior negotiator for Iran, said in comments published by Iranian state media that no talks had been confirmed. And Esmail Baghaei, spokesman for Iran’s Foreign Ministry, said that its delegation was traveling to Qatar this week to discuss the planned release of frozen Iranian assets and other issues related to the deal.

“There are no negotiation meetings with the U.S. side at any level scheduled in

the coming days,” Baghaei said. “The fact that U.S. representatives are traveling to Qatar has no connection with the visit of the Iranian delegation.”

Tension in waterway During the war that began Feb. 28, Iran’s attacks and threats stopped cargo ships and tankers from moving through the Strait of Hormuz, creating a global energy crisis.

In recent days, Iran has twice attacked vessels in the strait — including a tanker filled with Qatari crude — following efforts to open Oman’s territorial waters to both inbound and outbound traffic from the

Persian Gulf.

The attacks drew retaliatory American airstrikes and raised concerns that negotiations to reach a formal end to the war could be disrupted. Iran launched drone and missile attacks targeting Bahrain and Kuwait on Sunday.

The strait has long been considered an international waterway despite its location in Iran and Oman’s territorial waters.

The Trump administration was operating Monday on the understanding that the U.S. and Iran are standing down after the recent back-and-forth strikes and that vessels can move freely through the Strait of Hormuz, said a U.S. official who requested anonymity to discuss the sensitive negotiations.

$6 billion coming to Iran The U.S. official also said that Qatar planned to release $6 billion in frozen Iranian assets that would be used to purchase U.S. food products for the Iranian people.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian had announced the expected release of funds earlier Monday in comments published by the state-run IRNA news agency. He called it “a great victory for the Iranian people.”

Pezeshkian, a reformist within Iran’s theocracy, is the highest-ranking official within Iran to reference the release of the funds held by Qatar, a key mediator along with Pakistan in the negotiations.

Venezuelans search more earthquake ruins Attention turns to humanitarian crisis

BY JUAN PABLO ARRAEZ and ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press

LA GUAIRA, Venezuela — With the window for finding survivors shrinking fast, Venezuelans combed Monday through more ruins of buildings toppled by last week’s powerful back-toback earthquakes, and attention turned to the country’s humanitarian crisis that could persist for years.

Relief organizations say the first 72 hours after a natural disaster is the most crucial time period for rescues, though survival can be extended if people have access to food and water. Five days after the twin quakes, questions loomed about whether the cash-strapped government will be able to coordinate the effort needed

had set up 15 temporary encampments for displaced people.

Many Venezuelan news reports have avoided politically delicate questions related to the earthquake, such as the widespread collapse of buildings, sticking instead to safer stories about heroic rescues. Delcy Rodríguez, who came to power in January after President ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO By MATIAS DELACROIX Donald Trump’s administraResidents watch rescuers’ efforts to reach survivors on tion seized former President Monday beneath the rubble of a building that collapsed Nicolás Maduro, shared footage Monday of emerin the earthquakes in La Guaira, Venezuela.

gency workers lifting a man out of the ruins to applause after a 43-hour search effort.

“Each life saved is a victory for hope,” she wrote on X. But such bright spots are rare at the quake’s epicenter, where families keep vigil at search sites.

“We have to stay strong, even without food, without sleep,” said Ana Rada, watching as civil defense workers looked for her brother. “Until I see the body, I still have hope.”

little, too slowly, government officials aggressively promoted their recovery and rescue efforts.

In a speech Monday, Jorge Rodríguez, the leader of the Venezuelan National Assembly and brother of acting President Delcy Rodríguez, said electricity had been restored to 90% of the hard-hit state of La Guaira. He said authorities were racing to evaluate damaged buildings that still posed a danger and

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to care for thousands of people who have been left homeless.

In other developments, a 4.6 magnitude aftershock rumbled through the disaster zone in the northern state of La Guaira.

The death toll stood at more than 1,700 people, according to the government, which has long retained tight control over coverage of major events by Venezuelan news outlets.

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Firefighters killed in wildfire tried to shield themselves from flames

BY TY ONEIL, MATTHEW BROWN and JOHN SEEWER Associated Press

BEAVER, Utah — Three firefighters killed over the weekend in a wildfire along the Colorado-Utah border were trying to shield themselves from flames by deploying tent-like shelters when they were overcome, authorities said.

They were part of a specialized crew that goes into remote areas to quickly put out new and rapidly escalating wildfires, federal officials said Monday.

Their deaths on Saturday came almost 13 years to the day since an elite crew of 19 wildland firefighters died when they were trapped in a steep canyon in Yarnell, Arizona.

Like this weekend’s victims, the men in Arizona had tried to deploy emergency shelters that are a “last resort” for firefighters when there’s no other way out. Investigators didn’t blame anyone in the deaths but did cite radio communication problems that contributed to the Granite Mountain Hotshots becoming trapped.

Arizona’s workplace safety commission also fined the state’s forestry division for not pulling them out.

Wildfires have erupted over the past week all across the West, fueled by months of dry weather and a record lack of snow this past winter in some places. Wildfire experts have been warning for months that extreme fire dangers are likely this summer.

With more than two dozen large fires burning, almost 8,000 wildland firefighters and dozens of firefighting helicopters have been deployed. About half the largest blazes are in Alaska while the rest are mostly in Western states.

Evacuations were ordered near seven fires, including in Arizona, Washington state, New Mexico, Colorado and Utah.

The U.S. Forest Service identified the firefighters killed as Emily Barker, 38, of Clinton Township, Michigan; Nick Hutcherson, 27, of Glendale, Arizona; and Sydney Watson, 26, of Warrior, Alabama.

Two others who were with them suffered burn injuries. Federal authorities would not release any information about their conditions.

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SUPREME COURT RULINGS

Justices uphold most of Trump’s firings But high court says Fed’s Cook can keep her job for now

BY MARK SHERMAN Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday dramatically expanded presidential power, upholding President Donald Trump’s firings of the heads of independent federal agencies with one important exception: the Federal Reserve.

The justices allowed Fed governor Lisa Cook to stay in her job while she fights the Republican president’s effort to fire her over al- Cook legations of mortgage fraud, which she has denied.

But other than at the nation’s central bank, with its role of setting interest rates, the court held that presidents have free rein to fire agency heads at will, despite federal laws that require a cause for such dismissals and a

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The Supreme Court on Monday expanded presidential power, upholding President Donald Trump’s firings of the heads of independent federal agencies with one important exception: the Federal Reserve.

91-year-old decision that had limited executive authority.

With the six conservative justices in the majority, the nine-member court jettisoned its unanimous decision in Humphrey’s Executor that had limited when presidents can fire agencies’ board members — in part to try to ensure decision-making free of political influence.

“We hold that such protection from removal is contrary to the separation of powers enshrined in the Constitution,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote for the court.

The justices ruled in the case of former Federal Trade Commission member Rebecca Slaughter, whom Trump fired without cause despite a provision of federal law that requires a reason. The logic of the decision extends to other agencies, including the National Labor Relations Board, the Merit Systems Protection Board and the Consumer Product Safety Commission, where Trump also has fired board members.

Trump voiced his approval in a Truth Social post. “It is

such an Honor to be the sitting President who won this Historic and Unprecedented Ruling, one of the most important ever given with respect to Presidential Powers,” he wrote.

The court already had signaled its support for the Trump administration’s position, over the liberals’ objection, by allowing Slaughter and the board members of other agencies to be removed from their jobs even as their legal challenges continued.

No president before Trump had sought to wrest control

of the agencies that regulate wide swaths of American life, including nuclear energy, product safety and labor relations. But at arguments in Slaughter’s case in December, the six conservatives, including three appointed by Trump, seemed more concerned about issuing a ruling that would endure than handing too much power to Trump.

Their rhetoric was reminiscent of the presidential immunity case in 2024 that allowed Trump to avoid prosecution for his efforts to undo his 2020 presidential election loss to Democrat Joe Biden. The court is writing a decision “for the ages,” Justice Neil Gorsuch said then.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor, in a dissent she summarized aloud in the courtroom, said the ruling could lead to “submission, instability, and even oppression.”

“The president, to be sure, emerges with more power than ever before. That power was given to him by six justices on this court, not the people or the Constitution,” Sotomayor said.

In Cook’s case, the court voted 5-4 to reject the Trump administration’s effort to get Cook out of her job now.

Roberts, Justice Brett Kavanaugh and the three liberal justices were in the majority.

Allowing Cook to be ousted now, Roberts wrote, “would allow the President to remove a member of the Federal Reserve at any time, for any reason, without any notice before, and without any judicial check after. That would turn for-cause protection into little more than atwill employment.”

Roberts did include a footnote in his opinion noting that nothing forbids Trump from “trying again” to fire her, provided she is given proper notice and a chance to contest it.

Trump suggested he would take Roberts up on the offer, saying on Truth Social that “we will take appropriate action immediately to make sure that someone who has committed wrongdoing will not be making vital decisions concerning the Welfare of the United States of America!”

Cook, who was nominated to the Fed’s Board of Governors by Biden, can continue in her post at least as long as her lawsuit challenging her firing goes on, the court said.

The Trump administration is appealing a lower-court ruling in her favor.

Ruling allows states to count late-arriving mailed ballots

BY MARK SHERMAN Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that states can count ballots that arrive after Election Day, a persistent target of President Donald Trump.

The 5-4 decision rejected a Republican-led attack on laws in more than half the states and the District of Columbia that permit mailed ballots to arrive and be counted some number of days after the election, provided they are postmarked by

Election Day. The outcome spares officials the headache of changing their ballot rules just a few months before the 2026 midterm congressional elections.

In just over half those states, the more forgiving deadlines apply only to ballots cast by military and overseas voters.

Justice Amy Coney Barrett wrote the court’s majority opinion, joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and the three liberal justices.

Federal laws setting a single Election Day “leave open

when those votes must be received,” Barrett wrote.

Congress could change the law, she said. “If varied deadlines for ballot receipt similarly call for a national solution, the American people must choose it through their elected representatives,” Barrett wrote.

Justice Samuel Alito wrote the dissent for four justices.

“Not only is today’s decision inconsistent with statutory text, legal context, historical practice, and precedent; it also threatens to produce lamentable consequences,”

Alito wrote. “The majority’s holding spawns a slurry of troubling election-law questions and risks further undermining Americans’ confidence in election integrity.”

The legal challenge was part of Trump’s broader attack on most mail balloting, which he has said breeds fraud despite strong evi-

dence to the contrary and years of experience in numerous states. Trump has repeatedly claimed that his loss to Joe Biden in 2020 resulted from fraud even though more than 60 court decisions and his own attorney general said that argument had no merit.

Trump called the court

ruling a “tremendous loss” and renewed his call for Congress to pass the SAVE America Act, which has made it through the House of Representatives but not the Senate.

“There is only one reason to oppose — CHEATING!” Trump wrote on Truth Social.

Court rules privacy protections apply to cellphone users’ location history

BY MARK SHERMAN Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court held Monday that constitutional privacy protections extend to cellphone location information, ruling in the case of a bank robber whose identity was discovered through a geofence warrant.

Justice Elena Kagan wrote for the 6-3 court that people don’t forfeit expectations of privacy even when they opt into Google’s location history.

“A cellphone user is not to be viewed as sharing private information with third

parties — which then can be freely passed on to the government — just by doing the ordinary things cellphone users do,” Kagan wrote.

Justice Samuel Alito wrote in dissent that Okello Chatrie had no expectation of privacy in information he voluntarily turned over to Google.

The decision is the court’s latest effort to apply a constitutional provision ratified in 1791 to technology the nation’s founders could not have envisioned.

Police obtained a geofence warrant after a bank robbery in a suburb of Richmond, Virginia, and used it to locate

cellphones that were near the bank around the time it was robbed in May 2019.

One of those phones belonged to Chatrie, who had eluded the police until they turned to the powerful technological tool.

The warrant kick-started the investigation. After determining that Chatrie was among those near the Call Federal Credit Union in Midlothian at the time, police obtained a search warrant for his home. They found nearly $100,000 in cash, including bills wrapped in bands signed by the bank teller.

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Sweltering Midwest heat cancels outdoor plans

BY HANNAH FINGERHUT and KATHY MCCORMACK Associated Press

DES MOINES, Iowa — Summer camp and other outdoor activities were canceled or delayed Monday as a heat wave held its grip on the Midwest and spread eastward. Communities opened cooling centers and urged people to take it easy and stay hydrated.

“Overall, we’re looking at just a really hot and humid pattern. It’s going to be with us through most of the week,” Andrew Ansorge, a meteorologist in Des Moines, Iowa, said of the first prolonged period of heat this summer.

Much of Iowa and big chunks of the Midwest were under an extreme heat warning through at least Tuesday.

Temperatures were forecast to reach the 90s, with heat index values, or “feels-like” temperatures, expected to top 100 degrees in the region, Ansorge said.

Visiting Des Moines with family, Rachel Washburn searched for things to do with kids during a heat wave. They landed at a water sprayground before

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Children play at a water sprayground on Monday in Des Moines, Iowa. lunch, where her children played tag in the cool water to escape a heat index forecast to reach 109 degrees.

“My kids were quite shocked at the heat and humidity,” said Washburn of her seven children ages 18 months to 17 who are used to more temperate weather in Bemidji, Minnesota. “We

were hoping for some good weather, but we’ll make do.”

Some of the worst conditions are expected by Thursday and Friday as the heat moves through the Ohio Valley, the Mid-Atlantic and into the Northeast, with the potential for some record-high temperatures, said Scott Kleebauer, a me-

teorologist with the Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland.

On Monday morning, Tom and Cindy Youngblood walked around an outdoor sculpture park in Des Moines, enjoying brief moments of shade and a helpful breeze. The couple, both 67 and from Rogers, Arkansas,

returned from a camping trip in Wisconsin and chose a hotel over their camper van Sunday.

“We did not want to camp last night because we knew it would be too hot,” Cindy Youngblood said.

Kleebauer said one of the center’s biggest recommendations is to stay hydrated and have access to shady areas and air conditioning.

“It just so happens to be coinciding with a time frame where a lot of people are away and a lot of people are going away for vacation” during the Fourth of July holiday week, he said.

Extreme heat has also taken its toll in Europe, where temperature records were set and many heat-related deaths were reported in France.

People can be caught off guard by the first heat wave of the year, said Dr. Roy Elrod, chief of staff at DMC Detroit Receiving Hospital.

“You’re happy winter’s gone, you’re ready to enjoy the summer, you’ve just been aching for it,” Elrod said.

“And so, I think we slip into kind of a position where we think it’s got to be OK.” But heat-related injuries

can happen in a matter of minutes, especially to those who don’t prepare for the weather by hydrating, wearing light clothing, avoiding the hottest times of the day and minimizing exposure to the sun, he said.

“We’re just not always prepared for it and it just takes an incident that rattles you and shakes you up that you understand that it can get serious very quick,” he said.

In the Midwest, some camp programs on Monday rearranged their schedules.

Other outdoor activities, like a farmers market in Michigan and a drive-in theater in Minnesota, were canceled on Monday because of the heat.

In Flint, Michigan, the city activated four cooling centers through Wednesday, with the potential to extend operations if the heat persists.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison said it was closing 23 buildings to the public starting Tuesday, allowing only limited access to 11 others. It was relocating some summer classes after a broken water line at its cooling plant earlier this month severely reduced the ability to provide air conditioning across campus.

Trump’s push to toss $5M verdict in District judge delays federal trial Carroll sexual abuse case rejected in UnitedHealthcare CEO’s slaying Supreme Court declines to take up case

BY LINDSAY WHITEHURST

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a push by President Donald Trump to throw out a jury’s $5 million finding that he sexually abused the writer E. Jean Carroll at a New York City department store in the mid-1990s and later defamed her.

The high court de- Carroll clined to take up the case in a brief, unexplained order, as is typical. There were no noted dissents.

Trump also plans to appeal another $83.3 million verdict awarded to Carroll by a different jury after a second defamation trial, his lawyers have said.

The decision comes as the court hands down its biggest opinions, including a ruling that expands his firing power over the federal bureaucracy with the exception of the Federal Reserve.

Trump called the decision to pass on the Carroll case “surprising” in a social media post, and he said he would continue to fight the defamation claims. “This Case is really against the United States of America, and all it stands for,” he wrote.

Trump’s lawyers had argued that allegations leading to the verdict were propped up by “highly inflammatory” evidentiary rulings, including those that allowed the testimony of two other women who accused Trump of sexual abuse decades ago. Trump has denied all three women’s allegations.

Trump’s attorneys argued the judge broke federal evidence rules in the case. They framed it as a distraction from Trump’s unique duties as president, though the verdict came before his return to the White House.

“This mistreatment of a President cannot be allowed to stand,” Attorney Justin D. Smith wrote in court documents. Trump, a Republican, has since nominated Smith to be an appeals court judge.

His lawyers called the case “Liberal Lawfare” in a statement on Monday.

Carroll’s lawyers had urged the justices to pass on the case. They argued that the women’s testimony was relevant because the allegations were similar and that Judge Lewis Kaplan’s decisions were in line with others around the country.

“This question is not worthy of review,” wrote attorney Roberta Kaplan, who is not related to the judge.

Monday’s decision affirms the jury’s verdict will stand, she said in a statement Monday. “His multiple efforts to appeal that verdict have all failed and today’s ruling ends his quest to avoid accountability for his actions,” she said.

Carroll, a longtime advice columnist and former TV talk show host, testified at a 2023 trial that Trump turned a friendly encounter in spring 1996 into a violent attack in the dressing room at Bergdorf Goodman, a luxury retailer across the street from Trump Tower in Manhattan. The jury also found Trump liable for defaming Carroll when he denied her allegation in 2022.

Democrats in half of states sue over Medicaid work rules

BY ALI SWENSON

Associated Press

NEW YORK — Democrats in 25 states and the District of Columbia on Monday sued the Trump administration over its recent guidance on new Medicaid work requirements, arguing the strict rules will prevent eligible Americans from accessing the care they need.

The attorneys general and governors who filed the lawsuit allege that an interim final rule released earlier this month by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services oversteps the text of the law last summer that set in motion the changes to Medicaid.

They claim the Republican administration’s narrow interpretation of parts of the statute, including new limits to a medical frailty exemption, will create harmful coverage barriers and chaos in states that have been rushing to implement new systems by the January deadline.

“Added administrative burdens will cause individuals who are eligible for Medicaid to lose or be denied coverage,” the plaintiffs write. “People with disabilities, patients in the middle of

cancer treatment, or those struggling with another serious or complex health condition, shouldn’t be at risk of losing the care that helps maintain their health.”

Spokespeople for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and CMS, the agencies named in the lawsuit, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. The Trump administration has promoted the new rules as commonsense measures to eliminate government freeloading and preserve benefits for those who need them most.

The new Medicaid restrictions, which Democrats have criticized, were part of Trump’s big tax and policy law in 2025. The change affects those covered through an expansion in most states that gave more lower-income people access to the government’s safety net healthcare program.

Starting Jan. 1, expansion enrollees age 19 to 64 will have to show that they work or do community service at least 80 hours a month or are in school at least half the time. There are exceptions for those considered medically frail or in addiction treatment programs, among others.

This month’s announcement from CMS caught states off guard with a new definition of medical frailty.

The law had said medically frail people include those who have substance use disorders, disabilities or serious medical conditions. But the CMS rule went further, saying someone’s condition must “significantly impair” their ability to work, volunteer or attend school at the rates required in the law for them to be granted an exemption.

In 2027 and once in 2028, the patient can attest that they meet this definition.

But when they try to renew coverage in 2028, they’ll need to prove it. Health analysts and state Medicaid directors have said they aren’t clear on what existing documentation could prove that point.

In the lawsuit, states allege that this change came “contrary to months of regular communications with CMS and preliminary guidance materials upon which Plaintiff States based their implementation plans.”

They say CMS has still not provided states with enough clarity on how they can update their systems appropriately.

BY MICHAEL R. SISAK, LARRY NEUMEISTER and JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press

NEW YORK — Luigi Mangione’s federal trial in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson will now begin in January instead of the fall, a judge said Monday at a hearing that started late because Mangione got stuck in a courthouse elevator.

U.S. District Judge Margaret Garnett said she was postponing the federal trial so Mangione’s lawyers can focus on his state murder trial, which is scheduled to begin on Sept. 8.

Jury selection in the federal case will begin on Jan. 5, instead of Oct. 13, followed by opening statements and testimony on Jan. 25, instead of Nov. 4, Garnett said at a

hearing in Manhattan.

Garnett said she will not release the questionnaire that prospective jurors will be required to fill out until after the panel is chosen.

Having it circulating online for months before jury selection “would only make what promises to be a difficult task more difficult,” she said.

Wearing a beige jail suit, Mangione looked bemused as a pair of deputy U.S. Marshals led him into the courtroom about 20 minutes after the hearing was supposed to start. He briefly gazed at the courtroom gallery, where about two dozen of his supporters were sitting.

“Mangione was late due to elevator problems,” the court said in a statement.

It was the second mishap involving Mangione’s arrival to a court hearing in

recent weeks.

A June 16 hearing in the state case was delayed a day after prosecutors failed to inform his jail that he was needed in court.

Garnett said she had hoped “with perhaps undue optimism” to hold the federal trial in the fall but that “we can no longer wait to see what happens” in the state case.

“In my view it’s simply impossible to be moving through the jury selection process in this case while the defendant and his counsel are fully occupied by conducting the state trial,” Garnett said.

Mangione’s lawyers declined to comment to reporters afterward.

Mangione has pleaded not guilty to state and federal charges in the Dec. 4, 2024, killing.

Man known for ‘torture memos’ to advise probe focused on perceived Trump foes

By The Associated Press WASHINGTON — A law professor known for his expansive views of presidential power and for decades-old memos that justified harsh interrogation techniques after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks says he will be advising a team of prosecutors investigating whether former law enforcement and intelligence officials conspired against President Donald Trump.

John Yoo confirmed in an

email to The Associated Press on Monday that he would be assisting Joe diGenova in an ongoing investigation into whether officials who over the last decade scrutinized Trump participated in a criminal conspiracy against the Republican president.

“He’s a lawyer. He’s going to be helping us,” diGenova said in a brief telephone interview about Yoo. DiGenova served as the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia between 1983 and 1988 and was enlisted

in April to return to government as a counselor to the attorney general.

A law professor at the University of California, Berkeley, Yoo was a senior Justice Department official in the George W. Bush administration who served as an author of the so-called “torture memos” that government officials used to justify using “enhanced interrogation” techniques on potential terror suspects. The Justice Department later rescinded the memos.

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Still, there are challenges ahead, specifically the need to quickly stanch a decade of enrollment declines. And some UNO students and alumni worry about the potential loss of the school’s identity as it joins LSU. Faculty members said they are hopeful for stability after years of chaos, though some have raised concerns about the university’s future academic offerings.

For now, LSU officials are banking that the purple-and-gold makeover will bring a new sense of optimism to the lakefront campus.

They say they’re also confident that after enrollment fell to 5,700 students last year, they’ll be able to reach their goal of 6,000 students when the new academic year begins in August.

“This university must succeed for New Orleans’ sake. It just must,” said Jeanette Weiland, interim LSU New Orleans chancellor and chief administrative officer, in an interview to discuss the transition. “I think being part of a system that has great accountability and processes and brand recognition is just going to catapult us.”

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Work is underway across the University of New Orleans campus on Friday as LSU prepares to take over. massive cuts, including more than 30 layoffs and hundreds of furloughs. They decommissioned the dilapidated Milneburg Hall and consolidated the university’s five colleges into the College of Sciences & Engineering and the College of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies.

State legislators thought shifting UNO from the UL system back to LSU could stabilize the school’s finances and help boost enrollment.

LSU officials credit the $20 million influx from the state with saving the university from financial demise. But even earlier this year there were signs of ongoing financial struggle. LSU system President Wade Rousse told the Board of Regents this month that six months ago it was unclear if the university had enough cash to make it to the end of the academic year. Custodial and pest control services had been slashed. Faculty didn’t have budgets to print exams.

Students regularly reported issues with financial aid reimbursement and registering for classes.

LSU officials got the green light from the UL system to start making changes before July 1. They appointed Weiland, who joined the university in January as a chief administrative officer, as interim

What’s happened so far?

Founded in 1956 as an LSU campus, UNO is often credited with expanding the middle class in New Orleans. At its peak before Hurricane Katrina, the university enrolled about 17,000 students, but it struggled to attract the same numbers after the storm. Enrollment crept back up to 8,400 students in 2020 but was decimated during the pandemic.

Last year, as UNO was careening toward a full-blown financial crisis, state lawmakers stepped in.

At the time, the university faced up to $30 million in debt and had been operating at a deficit for years. University officials enacted

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School boards and superintendents have argued that reducing state funding by more than 4% would wreak havoc on their budgets, and could lead to program cuts and even layoffs.

The Louisiana Federation of Teachers, a statewide educators union, said most of its members support the stipends but oppose Landry’s plan to pay for them by slashing school budgets, according to a recent survey.

Moore put the plan on hold earlier this month after a group of education advocates filed a lawsuit challenging Landry’s executive order. They argued that Landry overstepped his legal authority by effectively reallocating education funding, which is controlled by the Legislature and the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education.

They also contended that the Legislature’s approval of the plan is invalid because lawmakers, who are not currently in session, submitted ballots electroni-

cally without a public hearing.

The temporary pause expired Monday, when plaintiffs were set to ask the judge to indefinitely halt the funding cut. However, the judge ended the hearing immediately after disqualifying the law firm and dissolving the temporary restraining order.

Landry’s June 2 order calling for the school funding cut did not even come up for debate Monday. Instead, the hearing focused entirely on the law firm’s alleged conflict of interest.

Since 2024, Baker Donelson has represented Louisiana in a class-action lawsuit arguing that the state’s foster care system has failed the children in its care. The firm entered a pleading defending the state as recently as June 12, according to the motion by state attorneys to disqualify the firm.

On June 18, clients represented by Baker Donelson sought a restraining order to stop Landry’s proposed school funding cut. The plaintiffs in the funding case are Katie Baudouin, an Orleans Parish School Board member; Belinda Davis, a former BESE member; and Mike Faulk, a former school

chancellor.

Weiland has replaced a slew of other administrative positions with new hires, including CFO Norman Barnum, athletic director Michael Giorlando and band director Eddie Williams Jr. The school also has a new director of university advancement and police chief.

University officials cut or modified nine academic programs, raised tuition and shrunk the campus footprint from 2.9 million to 2.5 million square feet, saving the university more than $2 million dollars in maintenance costs, Rousse said earlier this month.

Weiland said university leadership leveraged the LSU oversight to renegotiate lower payments on its debt, which freed up some cash.

They also signed a long-term lease allowing Ben Franklin High School to expand into one of its buildings.

These moves, Weiland said, have allowed the university to reinstate maintenance services that had been cut. They also freed up funds to hire some faculty and staff to help address frequent complaints about student services. And in addition to addressing some longdeferred maintenance, they’ve begun to address the student campus experience, including repairing the fireplaces at The Cove, a cam-

superintendent.

Baker Donelson attorneys said a 2023 “waiver of conflicts” allowed the firm to represent clients taking legal action against the state while also defending the state in separate cases.

The waiver was signed by Landry, who at the time was Louisiana’s attorney general.

The firm has represented clients opposing the state in more than 50 legal matters since 2023, but the state has not accused Baker Donelson of a conflict of interest until the school funding case, the firm said in a court filing.

Barbara Irwin, an attorney representing Baker Donelson, told the judge Monday that the firm has been “forthcoming” and “professional at all levels” in dealing with the state. She also argued that the school funding lawsuit and foster care cases are unrelated, adding that there would be no “cross-contamination” between them.

But attorneys for the state said Baker Donelson is clearly conflicted and argued that the 2023 waiver is no longer binding. In a message to the firm quoted in a court filing, Murrill

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Kamille Isom has watched the recent changes taking place around her on campus. A Lutcher High School graduate, Isom started as an undergraduate at UNO in 2022. At that point, she noticed the school’s financial struggles, including its quickly depleting budget for hiring student workers. She lived through former President John Nicklow’s failed attempt to start a UNO football team — which was vetoed by students who rejected a fee increase that would have supported the team — and Kathy Johnson’s attempts to manage the budget crisis.

Isom, who was recently elected president of the Student Government Association and will pursue a master’s degree at LSU New Orleans, said she’s excited about joining LSU and hopes it helps galvanize student pride, particularly at sports events.

“UNO does need some good change happening on campus,” she said, “and I’m hoping the LSU transition will be able to bring that to students.”

What comes next?

Even with LSU backing, the university has challenges ahead.

The campus needs nearly $60

said Baker Donelson “cannot possibly believe that an advance waiver of unknowable future conflicts is viable,” adding that a waiver signed by the prior attorney

million in maintenance, including a near total overhaul of its IT infrastructure. Rousse said the buildings in need of repair should harvest parts — from air conditioning pumps to doorknobs — from decommissioned buildings.

Rousse acknowledged that cuts, including closing buildings and changing programs, can be difficult to swallow. But school leadership, he said, needs to stay focused on keeping the campus afloat.

“When it comes down to managing the cash positions,” he said, “we’ve got to figure out what are we doing that has the biggest impact on our community, on our workforce but also how do we keep the doors open.”

The surest way to keep the doors open is to boost enrollment, Weiland said. Earlier this year, LSU New Orleans began offering automatic acceptance to any student who was not accepted to LSU in Baton Rouge. Rousse said the strategy has been working.

The school has also deployed ads urging students to apply, with snappy slogans including “Death Valley Energy Meets Crescent City Swagger” and “Get the LSU degree, Live the 504 life.”

Christopher Summa, professor and president of the faculty senate who joined UNO in 2007, said he is “cautiously hopeful” that LSU can turn around UNO. He said faculty got assurances that LSU New Orleans would remain an R2 institution, a distinction from the Carnegie Foundation and American Council on Education based on research funding and doctorate graduates.

“We’re trying to be jealously protective of programs and the academic mission,” Summa said, “because I feel that’s what makes us great.”

With the official changeover ahead, Weiland and other officials said more improvements are ahead. The cosmetic changes around campus are just the first steps, but are critical to building momentum.

“People finally have hope,” Weiland said. “And they have not had hope for a long time.”

general “is obviously not binding.”

Moore, a Republican who was reelected to the bench in 2020, sided with the state on Monday.

“You have to go and get a new waiver from the governor if you want to sue the governor,” he said before disqualifying the firm from the case.

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Price of corn drops ahead of USDA report

Corn tumbled as traders looked past potential crop stress from the building heat dome to a U.S. Department of Agriculture report due Tuesday that’s expected to show the largest American stockpile since 1988.

The agency is set to publish quarterly stocks data along with annual acreage data showing how much U.S. farmers were able to plant in the spring. While growers pared back on corn planting in favor of soybeans, existing supplies of the yellow grain are seen 17% higher than a year ago after a record autumn harvest, according to a Bloomberg survey of analysts.

The excess supply has contributed to a bearish sentiment on corn with the growing season off to a relatively smooth start prior to the arrival of warmer-than-normal temperatures this week. Still, even with hot conditions that are boosting energy demand, there still could be precipitation to benefit fields.

Corn for December delivery fell as much as 2.5%, the biggest intraday decline in about six weeks, to a fresh contract low of $4.305 a bushel.

July is considered the most crucial month of the U.S. corn crop’s development.

Warner exec is one of highest-paid CEOs LOS ANGELES — Even before Warner Bros. Discovery’s sale to Paramount Skydance Corp. closes, David Zaslav has already made a big payday.

His executive compensation package — which includes stock options, salary, bonuses and other perks — was valued at $165 million last year, placing him as the eighth-highest-paid CEO for a large U.S. publicly traded company, according to research firm Equilar.

Tech companies dominated the list led by Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk with a pay package worth nearly $132.3 billion. RJ Scaringe, CEO of Rivian, the Irvine-based EV truck company, came in fifth with $402.6 million.

Zaslav has previously ranked among America’s highest-paid CEOs and that was true last year, when his total pay was more than three times what he earned at the company in 2024, Equilar said. He was the only Hollywood executive on the list of the 10 highest-paid CEOs in 2025.

“If he were an animal, he’d be a Cheshire cat with this big grin ear to ear,” said Lloyd Greif, chief executive of the Los Angeles investment bank Greif & Co. “It’s unprecedented. It’s a huge payday.”

WhatsApp to allow usernames as handles LONDON — WhatsApp users will soon get the option of going by usernames instead of phone numbers, the company said Monday, announcing plans to address a privacy blind spot.

The app said it has started allowing users to reserve unique usernames, which can be used to contact WhatsApp users when the feature is launched later this year.

WhatsApp, which says it has more than 3 billion users globally, has until now allowed users to be contacted by anyone who has their phone number.

The app, owned by Meta Platforms, said in a blog post that over the “coming months” users will get the option to be found and contacted only by their username, and not their number. It wasn’t more specific about the timeline.

“We have designed this as a core privacy feature,” Alice Newton-Rex, WhatsApp’s vice president of product, told reporters.

There won’t be a directory of usernames on the app, and the app won’t suggest names as you type.

“People will need to know your exact username to contact you for the first time,” she said.

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Stocks rise, recover from a losing week

BY STAN CHOE

AP business writer NEW YORK — U.S. stocks rose Monday and recovered some of their losses from a rare losing week.

The S&P 500 climbed 1.2% and broke a five-day losing streak. It was coming off just its second losing week in the last 13. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 306 points, or 0.6%, and the Nasdaq composite rallied 2.1%.

Several stocks boosted by the ar-

tificial-intelligence boom rose after Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix said they will invest roughly $518 billion in a new chipmaking hub in South Korea, as its president hopes to capitalize on surging AI demand.

Applied Materials, whose equipment helps make semiconductors, rallied 10.8% to vault its gain for the year so far above 170%.

AI stocks have been on a rollercoaster ride recently after soaring to tremendous heights. They’re under pressure because of wor-

ries that their profits can’t possibly keep pace with the huge gains for their stock prices. And the moves have an outsized effect on investors because AI stocks have become some of Wall Street’s largest and most influential, giving them more weight on indexes than others.

Nvidia was one of the strongest forces lifting the S&P 500, for example, after its stock rose 1.3%.

That’s because it’s Wall Street’s biggest stock with a total value of more than $4.7 trillion.

SpaceX, which owns the xAI business along with rockets, has already become worth more than $2 trillion after its stock’s ballyhooed debut on the Nasdaq earlier this month, with sharp rises and falls along the way.

It’s become big enough that Nasdaq said Elon Musk’s company will join the Nasdaq 100 index before trading begins on July 7, which will force funds tracking the index to buy the stock. SpaceX climbed 7.2%.

Comcast plans to split into two public companies It will spin off NBCUniversal and Sky

BY WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS and MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP business writers

NEW YORK — Communications giant Comcast is planning to split itself into two: one mediacentered business that would include brands like NBCUniversal and Sky and a separate company focused on broadband and wireless services.

In a Monday announcement, Comcast said the breakup will put both of these operations in a better position to pursue their own priorities and growth. The move arrives as communications companies continue to wrestle with years of cord-cutting, and shifting habits in how consumers now buy subscriptions for anything from their phone plans to streaming budgets more broadly.

“The world is changing faster than ever,” Comcast Chairman and co-CEO Brian Roberts said on a Monday call — adding that it “has become clear” the company’s technology and media businesses each “have compelling opportunities in front of them that are distinct in nature and best pursued with dedicated focus.”

Upon the spinoff’s completion, both businesses would become their own publicly traded companies. Comcast said it expects to complete the process in about a year, pending regulatory approvals and a final greenlight from its board.

That means consumers shouldn’t feel immediate impacts. But a host of major brands currently sit under Comcast’s umbrella — from internet and wireless provider Xfinity to streaming platform Peacock, NBC News and Universal Studios. And analysts are eyeing what those businesses could look like further down the road.

“In the short term, bundles, pricing, and distribution will likely hold,” said Mike Proulx, a vice president and research director at market research firm Forrester. For NBCUniversal — set to head the mediacentered company Comcast is spinning off — the split in itself carries little effect on its current business, he noted, and is “more to do with what it becomes longer term.”

Proulx is bracing for future acquisitions in this space, adding that “Comcast is following a playbook we have already seen.”

He pointed to Warner Bros. Discovery, which announced its own intention to split just last June — before becoming a takeover target that erupted into a messy tug-of-war between Netflix and Skydance-owned Para-

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‘The world is changing faster than ever,’ Comcast Chairman and co-CEO Brian Roberts said Monday — adding that it ‘has become clear’ the company’s technology and media businesses each ‘have compelling opportunities in front of them that are distinct in nature and best pursued with dedicated focus.’ mount. Paramount eventually became victorious, and is now edging closer to closing its $81 billion buyout of Warner’s entire company.

Comcast executives have appeared to so far dismiss the possibility of heading toward a similar fate.

When asked on Monday’s call whether investors should view the separation as a step toward “potential strategic transactions” for either business, Roberts said: “Absolutely not.”

His co-CEO Mike Cavanagh — who is set to become the chief executive of the NBCUniversal spinoff — echoed that sentiment. Cavanagh reiterated plans to “build and invest for growth” with more freedom as a standalone business.

Still, analysts like Proulx speculate that even if NBCUniversal doesn’t become a takeover target, “it’ll likely be the company doing the acquiring.”

“As it stands, traditional TV is dying, and Peacock alone isn’t enough to compete at scale against the biggest streaming services,” Proulx said via email. “One way or the other, NBCU’s entertainment business will look different within the next couple of years.”

Like other companies, Comcast in recent years has shifted its business emphasis away from traditional cable toward streaming and

other sources of revenue, such as its movie studio, theme parks and home wireless and internet services.

NBCUniversal includes that theme parks division, Universal film and television studios, NBC and Telemundo networks, Peacock, and Bravo — and with the spinoff, European media business Sky will also be part of that portfolio led by Cavanagh.

Meanwhile, Philadelphia-based Comcast will continue providing internet services to residential and business customers. Comcast’s former Chief Financial Officer Michael Angelakis will become the CEO of that company following its separation.

Comcast has split off assets before. Monday’s move arrives just months after the company officially completed its separation of Versant Media Group — which, as first announced in November 2024, is the new home of networks like USA, Oxygen, E!, SYFY and Golf Channel, as well as CNBC and MSNBC (now MS NOW). Movie ticketing platform Fandango and the Rotten Tomatoes movie rating site were also included.

Once the latest split is complete, Comcast shareholders will own shares in both Comcast and NBCUniversal.

Comcast expects to keep a stake of up to 19.9% ownership position in NBCUniversal for up to one year after the spinoff is complete.

South Korean tech giants to build a $518B chipmaking hub Investment to serve soaring AI demand

BY KIM TONG-HYUNG

Associated Press

SEOUL, South Korea — South Korean tech giants Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix said Monday they will invest a combined $518 billion in building a new computer chipmaking hub in the country’s southwest region, capitalizing on surging artificial intelligence-driven demand.

President Lee Jae Myung joined the companies’ chairs Monday in announcing the plan, which dovetails with the government’s efforts to expand investment beyond the greater Seoul metropolitan area, the country’s economic center and heart of its semiconductor sector.

The southwest has been a particular focus, as it lacks major industrial hubs and has historically trailed in economic development.

The region has long been a political base for Lee’s liberal Democratic Party.

Samsung and SK Hynix, which together produce about two-thirds of the world’s memory chips, said they will each build two fabrication plants Lee Jae Myung in the southwest, expanding beyond their existing manufacturing complexes in Gyeonggi Province, south of Seoul.

Samsung Chairman Lee Jaeyong said the company’s new fabs will be built in the southwestern city of Gwangju, where experts have proposed several potential sites, including the grounds of a military air base slated for relocation.

The companies didn’t specify when the fabs in the southwest regions would be completed. SK Hynix’s Chairman Chey Tae-won

said the project would be a complex, large-scale effort requiring “vast sites, along with sufficient power, water and skilled workers.”

He said it took nine years for SK Hynix to establish its major manufacturing cluster in Gyeonggi Province.

Still, a significant expansion of manufacturing facilities is needed for the company to keep up with global demand, Chey said.

Government officials dismissed questions about whether the southwest has enough power and water to support major semiconductor fabs. They said the region’s strength in renewable energy would give the chipmakers an edge as they face growing global pressure to use cleaner sources of electricity.

Samsung and SK Hynix have reported record profits in recent months as soaring global investment in data centers and other AI infrastructure has fueled demand for memory chips.

Government officials and business experts expect AI-driven demand to continue increasing as the technology spreads to AI-powered industrial robots and autonomous vehicles. The chipmakers’ existing semiconductor complexes in Gyeonggi Province may reach capacity sooner than expected, they say.

During Monday’s event, government officials outlined plans to build what they called a nationwide semiconductor ecosystem, with existing manufacturing hubs in the southeast expanding production of chip components and materials, the central Chungcheong region specializing in chip packaging, while data centers are built across the country.

“We must establish the core building blocks of artificial intelligence faster than any other country. Semiconductors, physical AI and AI data centers are the three pillars of our next great leap forward,” the president said.

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Israeli troops face resistance in southern Syria Tensions over buffer zone have flared into violence in recent days

BY OMAR SANADIKI and GHAITH ALSAYED Associated Press

ABDIN, Syria — As Israeli troops and vehicles entered the town of Abdin in southern Syria, residents blocked the roads with rocks, and some young men and boys threw stones to push back the military patrol.

Tensions in this part of the country created by a buffer zone occupied by Israeli forces have flared into violence in recent days, leaving residents anxious that more escalation is coming. Residents of Abdin, located near a U.N.-patrolled buffer zone now controlled

by Israeli troops, tried to resist against a military incursion Sunday.

Residents said Israeli troops fired warnings shots at walls and between the angry protesters, before firing artillery rounds at the village. No one was harmed in the

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Continued from page 1A muscle loss and a slowing of their metabolism. With a state obesity rate of 40%, more and more Louisianans will have to manage those outcomes.

One potential solution might lie at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center, where Ravussin D r. E r i c Ravussin is both measuring the extent to which the medications affect muscle mass and exploring a way to prevent the drugs from decreasing patients’ metabolic rate.

“They have spectacular weight loss,” Ravussin said. But pharmaceutical companies “want to know, what does it do to your body composition, and what does it do to your energy expenditure?”

His study will track the resting metabolic rate, or the number of calories

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Continued from page 1A the death of his former girlfriend’s 23-month-old daughter, Haley Oliveaux.

A district court judge in north Louisiana, Alvin Sharp, vacated Duncan’s sentence last May after finding there were “not sufficient grounds” to have prosecuted him for first-degree murder. Duncan was freed on bail in November after 27 years on death row at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola.

Prosecutors from the 4th Judicial District Attorney’s Office asked the Louisiana Supreme Court to reinstate Duncan’s capital sentence.

But the high court’s decision Monday, which came in response to that request, broadly affirms Sharp’s order.

Duncan proved “by clear and convincing evidence that no rational juror would have found him guilty beyond a reasonable doubt of first-degree murder had the new evidence been presented at trial,” Cole wrote.

Duncan admits to leaving Oliveaux in a bathtub the morning she died, but has denied any other role in her death.

“An innocent man, Mr. Duncan endured unimaginable trauma from a deeply flawed conviction built largely on unreliable forensic evidence and expert testimony that has now been thoroughly discredited and undermined,” said Duncan’s legal team in a statement.

He was represented by lawyers from the Innocence Project, the Mwalimu Center for Justice and Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP. “Although nothing can restore the decades stolen

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Two boys walk along a road near a damaged building in the village of Abdin, Syria, on Monday. Local residents said Israeli forces carried out an incursion into the area a day earlier. exchange, but most residents fled, and most were still too afraid to return on Monday. Many fear that there will now be more intense incursions and raids following the skirmish.

“They come into the village regularly, every few days,” said resident Mohammad al-Hassan,

standing not far from a group of children looking at an exploded shell. “They come in armored 4x4 vehicles, they roam around the village and search some houses, they knock on doors and if people don’t answer the door they break it down and enter the houses. Women and children start screaming, it’s

a terrifying thing, them coming here.”

Israel seized control of a U.N.patrolled buffer zone in southern Syria in December 2024, following the ouster of former Syrian President Bashar Assad in an insurgent offensive. Israeli officials initially described the move as temporary to protect their borders from militant groups, but more recently top Israeli officials have said they plan to occupy the buffer zone in Syria indefinitely.

The Israeli military presence in southern Syria is part of a shift to a more aggressive strategy by Israel after the deadly October 2023 Hamas-led attacks in southern Israel. The Israeli military took over large portions of Gaza as part of a broad invasion, and later seized control of chunks of Lebanon — where the Hezbollah militant group has fired missiles and drones across the border — and Syria. Israel calls these areas “buffer zones” and says they are needed to prevent future attacks by militant groups.

There have been no cross-border attacks from Syria into Israel since Assad’s ouster, except for two

ing to the GLP-1 mixture (though he emphasized he wouldn’t recommend caffeine specifically).

He also seeks to study the effect on muscle mass. The public and many scientists believe the drugs decrease muscle mass profoundly without truly measuring that impact, he said.

“The hypothesis is you don’t lose as much muscle as people think because we don’t measure the muscle,” Ravussin said. “To measure PHOTO PROVIDED By PENNINGTON BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER the muscle, you need to do Pennington Biomedical Research Center is one of a handful an MRI.” Baton Rouge General phyof institutions around the world to own metabolic chambers, where participants of Dr. Eric Ravussin’s study will spend 23 sician Drake Bellanger, who specializes in obesity medihours at a time to calculate their metabolism. cine, said doctors spend a lot of time with patients burned while at rest, and vussin said — too efficient to debunking myths or exagmuscle mass while partici- continue shaving off pounds. gerations around GLP-1s, in“You lose maybe 20% cluding fears about muscles pants receive a weight loss over six months, then the deteriorating. He said that if drug.

The research tackles next three months you lose patients eat enough protein what’s known as “metabol- only 2% of your weight, and ic adaptation,” a survival the rest of the year you stay mechanism to protect the stable, or you even regain,” body from starvation that Ravussin said. “Part of the can cause some people using regain is due to the lowering the medications to plateau in of your metabolism.”

But other substances, like their weight loss.

As people lose weight on caffeine, speed up metabothe drugs, the body becomes lism, which is why Ravussin very “energy efficient,” Ra- is experimenting with add-

from Mr. Duncan, this ruling provides some brief solace for Mr. Duncan, his family and friends,” his lawyers added.

Fourth Judicial District Attorney Robert “Steve” Tew did not respond to a phone message Monday.

Chief Supreme Court Justice John Weimer in a concurrence to Cole’s ruling likened the use of bite mark analysis to “trial by water” — a pre-Enlightenment practice of binding and throwing accused witches into lakes to see whether they had demonic powers that would enable them to float.

“We now look back at those practices as asinine and absurd,” Weimer wrote.

Duncan’s victory before the state Supreme Court comes a little more than a year since Louisiana used nitrogen gas to perform its first execution in 15 years, part of a push by Gov. Jeff Landry and Attorney General Liz Murrill to hasten the pace of executions in the state.

Duncan’s case, Weimer wrote in his concurrence, “demonstrates we cannot be too careful in determining whether the death penalty should be implemented in cases such as this case because of the finality of the sentence and the impossibility of rectification.”

“Such an irreversible and tragic consequence is inimical and deleterious to our system of justice if carried out based on evidence that is devoid of legitimacy,” he wrote. “The laws of post-conviction relief have served the purpose of preventing the inappropriate application of the ultimate punishment.”

The “bite mark” analysis prosecutors used to convict Duncan during his trial came under scrutiny follow-

ing investigations by several news outlets into the practice, which forensic experts have increasingly recognized as based on shoddy science.

After responding to the scene of Oliveaux’s death at Duncan and his thengirlfriend’s West Monroe apartment, authorities sent the little girl’s body to Jackson, Mississippi, for forensic examination by pathologist Steven Hayne. Hayne told detectives he observed bite marks on her body, a claim he supported by consulting an odontologist, Michael West.

West and Hayne have since been widely discredited and sanctioned by various medical boards. The Supreme Court’s ruling noted West was captured on video pushing a mold of Duncan’s teeth onto Oliveaux’s body — a method only he was known to have used, according to experts cited in the order, and one that destroyed evidence and “created marks” on Oliveaux’s skin.

Duncan is the 10th death row prisoner freed in part due to the two doctors’ nowdiscredited testimony, according to the news services and the nonprofit Death Penalty Information Center.

Hayne had also determined that Oliveaux suffered sexual assault and died from forcible drowning, which multiple other experts later refuted.

Duncan’s attorneys noted in their statement Monday that Tew, the district attorney in Ouachita Parish, has promised to retry their client.

“If Mr. Tew chooses to pursue a new trial, our team will continue to stand alongside Mr. Duncan and will not stop pressing forward until he is fully and completely exonerated,” they said.

rockets from a little-known militant group. But Israel’s military incursions into southwestern Syrian towns have sometimes sparked resistance by residents that has spiraled into deadly clashes.

Syria’s interim president, Ahmad al-Sharaa, has called on Israel to withdraw from the area that the U.N. says is 91 square miles.

The Syrian government also condemned the Israeli incursion and shelling in Abdin.

The clashes in Abdin were the second outbreak of violence in less than 24 hours. Earlier on Sunday, the Israeli military announced that it had killed armed men in southern Syria without giving details.

An Israeli military official said Monday that Israeli soldiers had killed two militants who were planning on attacking Israeli troops.

The official who spoke on condition of anonymity under military briefing rules did not specify where in Syria the incident took place.

The mayor of the Syrian village of Hadar said two unknown people driving a pickup truck just south of the village were killed in an attack, and that their bodies were taken by the Israeli military.

and exercise, muscle loss is less of an issue than it’s perceived to be by the public.

“If you’re above 80 grams of protein per day, you’re in the safe zone,” Bellanger said. “As long as you’re doing some exercise, some resistance training, making sure your muscles are stimulated, you should lose a minimal amount.”

He sees the short-term side effects show up more regularly, with about 1 to 2 out of every 10 patients reporting nausea, he said.

Ravussin’s study will last 11/2 years and make use of Pennington’s metabolic chamber, a research environment that tracks the inhabitant’s oxygen consumed and carbon dioxide expelled to provide sophisticated data on how many calories they are burning and what kind.

Pennington is one of a handful of institutions around the world to own metabolic chambers, which cost millions of dollars. Participants of Ravussin’s study will spend 23 hours at a time in the chamber to calculate their metabolism.

“It means we do studies with or without the drug and measure your energy expenditure doing basically nothing for 24 hours in a metabolic chamber,” Ravussin said.

Minimizing the impact on metabolism and muscle mass are key questions for the next generation of GLP1s, he said.

“Is there a way to lose the least possible muscle mass, and is there a way not to drop your resting metabolic rate, or your basal metabolic rate, too much?” Ravussin said.

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Kenner to manage center Pontchartrain operator backs out of decades-long contract

BY LARA NICHOLSON Staff writer

The company that operates the Caesars Superdome and other event spaces said it will no longer manage Kenner’s Pontchartrain Center after Tuesday due to failed contract negotiations.

The city of Kenner will take over Pontchartrain Center opera-

tions starting Wednesday after Legends Global issued a 30-day termination notice to Mayor Michael Glaser on May 27, a move that has prompted criticism from some City Council members and Legends employees.

In the letter, the company said it was “left with no alternative” after multiple attempts to discuss a new contract with the city had

gone unanswered.

Kenner officials, on the other hand, say they engaged with Legends Global in meetings but couldn’t come up with a financially feasible agreement.

Kenner’s chief financial officer, Elizabeth Herring, said in an interview Friday the company wanted an additional monthly fee added to the agreement, even

though the city was subsidizing the facility for about $600,000 per year.

For the 2026 fiscal year alone, Kenner’s city budget projected a net loss of $608,774 on the civic center.

Legends Global had been managing the 72,000-square-foot

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My husband and I spent a recent Sunday afternoon looking for the dead.

The idea had been rattling around in my head for weeks. Baton Rouge was the site of a Revolutionary War battle. Somewhere in the city, I figured, a soldier from that war had to be buried. I wanted to find the oldest marked grave in the city and, if possible, pay homage to a soldier of the American Revolution.

I did my research and knew that Highland Cemetery was home to the oldest known marked graves in Baton Rouge, but I wanted to visit as many of the old places as possible to see for myself.

So, we started at Baton Rouge National Cemetery on North 19th Street. The grounds were immaculate — white headstones in long, even rows, orderly as a military formation. We read names and dates — soldiers from war after war but not the Revolution.

From there, we drove to Sweet Olive, then Magnolia, then Lutheran. We found old grave sites, still beautiful and moving, but not as tended as the first — still no Revolutionary War graves.

But we did find something else.

In one family plot, I saw the marker for three young siblings

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Judge slated for removal sues over cuts

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New Orleans Archbishop James Checchio receives a pallium from Pope Leo XIV during Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican on Monday.

Blessing

Legislature votes not enough to slash bench, justice claims

BY BOB WARREN Staff writer

New Orleans Archbishop James Checchio joined 53 other archbishops from around the world Monday morning for a special Mass in Rome, during which they received a special cloth from Pope Leo XIV signifying their authority and pastoral responsibility.

Each of the new archbishops re-

BY MATT BRUCE Staff writer

New Orleans Criminal Court Judge John Fuller has sued Gov. Jeff Landry and other officials over recent cuts to the city’s criminal bench, arguing that state lawmakers failed to reach a required two-thirds vote before Landry signed a law to nix three judicial seats.

But Sen. Jay Morris, R-West Monroe, who sponsored the legislation, said Fuller’s legal claim doesn’t overcome a hurdle Louisiana lawmakers carved out specifically for Orleans Parish back in the 1970s.

Landry signed Act 748 into law this month, days after the Louisiana House signed off on a slate of 11th-hour tweaks to the measure on the final day of the session.

That came by a vote of 62-34 with nine state representatives absent.

But the state constitution requires two-thirds supermajority votes from both the House and the Senate to change the number of judges in any judicial district, Fuller argued in his petition for an injunction. Fuller says only the state Senate reached the supermajority mark of 26 votes on April

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ceived a pallium from the pope during the annual Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican to celebrate the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul.

Checchio The pallium is a white, 2-inch-wide band woven from lamb’s wool and decorated with six black crosses that Chec-

Archbishop Checchio receives pallium from Pope Leo during Vatican Mass on Monday chio and the other archbishops will wear over their shoulders during important Masses.

Only current archbishops and the pope can wear the pallium.

“It’s kind of a symbol of your unity with the pope and with Peter,” Checchio told The Times-Picayune before leaving for Rome.

“It’s like a yoke. It goes over your

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French Quarter business owners file lawsuit

residents say disorganized work federally funded project to businesses.

Group seeks changes lion, “Local businesses have been and unnecessary barricades have replace century-old underground infrastructure on Decatur forced to close, are on the preci- already led to the closure of the to Decatur project water between Esplanade Avenue and pice of closing, and/or have lost restaurants Café Sbisa and Lufu

BY RICH COLLINS

Staff writer

A group of French Quarter business owners is suing the Sewerage & Water Board, claiming the agency’s nearly 10-month construction project on lower Decatur Street has harmed their businesses and damaged their property.

In documents filed Friday in Orleans Parish Civil District Court, nine business owners say they should be compensated financially due to problems that have resulted from S&WB’s nearly $10 mil-

Dumaine Street.

The work, initially scheduled to wrap up in May, will hit its oneyear anniversary in September.

The business owners, represented by attorney Robert Ellis, of the firm Bivalacqua, Gelé + Ellis, are also asking the court to force the utility to speed up work, remove barricades from areas where there’s no construction activity and make other changes that will improve living and working conditions for a section of the French Quarter that’s home to dozens of bars, restaurants and other small

significant revenue,” wrote Ellis in a 20-page document submitted to the court. “Access to residents’ homes has been substantially obstructed. The damage continues unabated with no definite end in sight. Plaintiffs are now forced to seek court intervention to obtain relief.”

Representatives of the Sewerage & Water Board did not respond to a request for comment before this story was published.

The lawsuit is the latest sign of distress on lower Decatur, where frustrated business owners and

NOLA and the retail store Dead on Decatur.

Late last week, Mayor Helena Moreno announced a grant program to help small businesses affected by the project. But while some merchants said the effort was appreciated, it did not deter them from filing suit.

“The grants devised by the mayor are only a part of the package of fixes we’ve committed to assist businesses in the lower Decatur area,” a spokesperson for Moreno

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Betsy Fischer Martin was top producer on ‘Meet the Press’ Betsy Fischer Martin, a New Orleans native and former executive producer of NBC’s “Meet the Press,” was named the director of the Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics, university officials announced Monday.

Fischer Martin spent more than two decades at NBC News, including 11 years as executive producer for the top-rated Sunday morning political show “Meet the Press.”

She later became the managing editor of NBC’s political program-

ming.

During her time at NBC, she helped cover six presidential campaigns, won three News and Documentary Emmys and worked closely with “Meet the Press” host Tim Russert, according to a news release by the Harvard Kennedy School.

She will assume her new role in mid-August.

A graduate of American University for both undergraduate and graduate school, Fischer Martin is the daughter of a former pastor of First Union Presbyterian Church in Luling, according to her 2012 wedding announcement in The New York Times. Her mother was a member of the New Orleans Opera chorus.

She splits her time between Washington, D.C., and New Or-

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shoulders and hangs down,” he said, adding that it symbolizes a “yoking” to Christ and to Peter, which the Roman Catholic Church considers the first pope.

Among the family and friends on hand to watch Checchio receive the pallium was his 89-year-old mother, Helen.

Checchio is close to his mother, who lives in New Jersey.

Checchio is the 15th archbishop of New Orleans. He came to New Orleans from New Jersey, where he had been bishop of the Diocese of Metuchen since 2016.

Checchio formally took the reins of the Archdiocese of New Orleans in February.

In an interview with Catholic News Service, Checchio described taking part in Monday’s Mass as being “a bit surreal.”

“It was a beautiful day, of course, receiving the pallium from Pope Leo,” Checchip said.

“An American pope made it extra special, I think.”

Checchio, a former rector of the North American College in Rome, had attended annual pallium Masses.

“But it was a little surreal, especially when you’re going up the steps to go get the pallium. You know, it was very moving.”

who died within days of each other in 1858. Then we noticed the same year again. And again.

I had known about the yellow fever epidemics the way most people know history, but standing there, I could feel traces of the grief so many must have experienced then.

I considered the parents whose sorrow seemed present all these years later.

The “Old American Cemetery” near the State Capitol was still marked on some maps. We looked but did not find it.

Later, I learned why we never found the American Cemetery. In the early days of Baton Rouge as a European settlement, it was likely the first burial ground. Over the years, it fell to ruin. Around 1931, the land was cleared for Huey Long’s new State Capitol, and many of the graves were moved to other cemeteries.

We saved Highland Cemetery for last.

On our way, we drove through LSU’s campus and past the Indian Mounds — earthworks older than the pyramids.

When we reached Highland, a small cemetery in a residential area, we found what we were looking for.

Armand Allard Duplantier served as aide-de-camp to the Marquis de Lafayette during the

LAWSUIT

BY MARCO CARTOLANO Staff writer

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Continued from page 1B said a statement Monday announcing that the stabilization fund is now accepting applications. “We’re accelerating construction, holding Sewerage and Water Board accountable, and clearing obstacles for businesses as fast as we can.”

Increased frustration The lawsuit is the latest action to draw attention to the plight of Decatur Street business owners from work S&WB officials say was delayed by high water on the Mississippi River, which makes it more likely groundwater will seep into trenches, and the discovery of historical artifacts on the site.

The plaintiffs in the lawsuit include the owners of seven Decatur Street establishments — the Original French Market Restaurant & Bar, Frank’s Restaurant, Minnow

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Continued from page 1B venue on a month-to-month basis after its last contract with the city expired in June 2025. The company and its predecessors have operated the Laketown facility since it opened in 1991.

“Given the absence of a long-term agreement and a mutually acceptable management fee structure, it is no longer viable for Legends Global to continue operating the facility under the current arrangement,” the letter states.

The termination comes as the building undergoes $5 million in upgrades to welcome the New Orleans Pelicans’ G-League team, renamed the Laketown Squadron, in time for this year’s basketball season.

Kenner spokesperson Valerie Brolin said in a statement the city was working “under an extremely compressed timeline” to transition operations while continuing scheduled renovations.

“Given the circumstances surrounding the transition and the challenges the City has experienced obtaining timely information and coordination throughout the

leans with her husband, Jonathan Martin, POLITICO’s politics bureau chief and senior political columnist. She’s appeared as both a moderator and presenter several times at Tulane University’s Book Festival.

Fischer Martin currently leads the Women and Politics Institute at American and served as a faculty member at American’s School of Public Affairs, teaching courses on campaigns, politics and media.

She was previously an Institute of Politics resident fellow in the fall of 2023.

She is also a former co-host of Bloomberg Politics’ “Masters in Politics Podcast” and founded the consulting business Fischer Martin Media, which specializes in media training for corporate executives.

Fischer Martin is a member of The Times-Picayune’s community advisory board.

The Institute of Politics is a renowned program at the Harvard Kennedy School, often hosting the most influential people in government and politics. Fischer Martin’s appointment comes after a nationwide search conducted by Kennedy School faculty and staff and former Institute of Politics fellows.

She succeeds interim co-directors Ned Price and Beth Myers, the former deputy to the U.S. representative to the United Nations under former President Joe Biden and the former senior adviser to Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign, respectively. Price will stay on as a counselor at the Institute of Politics.

Revolution. Years after carrying the general’s orders, Duplantier helped welcome Lafayette to Louisiana on the hero’s grand tour. Duplantier was Lafayette’s host.

Nearby lay Pierre Joseph de Favrot, who fought in the Revolutionary 1779 Battle of Baton Rouge — when Spanish governor Bernardo de Galvez, allied with the American cause, captured Britishheld forts in the area. Favrot’s stone notes 42 years of service to France and Spain.

We also found lots of Kleinpeters — a whole dynasty of them, names and dates stacked across the better

part of two centuries.

Some will call this a strange way to spend a Sunday. I thought so too, at first.

But something happened that afternoon. History wasn’t just something I read about. I could feel it.

Three hours among the dead made me feel more connected to Baton Rouge than plenty of afternoons spent chasing what’s new.

Once home, I kept thinking about the names — especially the Kleinpeters. I wondered whether Graham Kleinpeter, the 17-year-old son of a friend, had ever visited Highland Cemetery. Stories can travel a long way down a family, or they can thin and disappear from one generation to the next.

Graham is entering his senior year at St. Michael High School in August. He told me he knew some of his family’s story, but he wasn’t “real clear on the details.”

I told him I’d like to go with him to Highland Cemetery sometime.

I wondered whether standing there would change something for him. Whether seeing Johann George Kleinpeter — the German settler who arrived in 1784 — or reading about generations that followed would make family stories feel less abstract.

Even though he’s in the throes of senioritis and focused on getting ready for this fall’s football season, I have a feeling seeing it all in person may do to him what it did to me.

History can be handed down, but sometimes it’s pieced together.

Jewelry Bar, Sidney’s, the Abbey Bar, Turtle Bay and Gold Leaf Investments. Two other nearby businesses, Cornet and Huge Ass Cantina, also joined the suit.

The plaintiffs are asking the court to force the S&WB to provide advance notice before any new road closures, to “deploy a twenty-fourhour, seven-day-a-week work schedule,” and suspend all water and sewerage billing for businesses and residents in the construction zone.

They also want S&WB leaders to appear before the New Orleans City Council to discuss the project’s construction schedule, cost and other details.

“The Decatur Project is chaotic,” Ellis wrote. “(S&WB) has not required its contractors to proceed with construction sequentially or logically. Rather, contractors have abandoned work on some portions of this project to work on other blocks; work has been inexplicably delayed at other locations. Completion deadlines have been missed and

extended, exacerbating the damage to businesses and historic properties.”

Ellis also wrote that his clients’ “businesses and homes have been shaken to their core for months by heavy machinery, jack hammering and earth-moving activities, causing excessive vibrations, settlement, and physical damage.”

On June 16, two dozen business owners and others met at the Original French Market Restaurant & Bar to commiserate about inconsistent contractor hours, poor communications with the S&WB and seemingly unnecessary street closures. They expressed dismay at the S&WB’s decision to tear up several blocks of the lower French Quarter at once, as opposed to moving block by block.

S&WB Executive Director Randy Hayman, who attended the meeting, said recently the utility is targeting a late September completion date for the work.

Christina Marullo, a second-

generation co-owner of the French Market Restaurant, said she joined the lawsuit and hosted that meeting because she’s seen the disastrous effect that the project has had on a longstanding family-run business.

“We used to have $80,000 weeks and now we’re having $16,000 weeks,” Marullo said. “I don’t like seeing my 86-year-old father-in-law Anthony Marullo Jr., who founded the business, have to come out of pocket to keep it afloat.”

Marullo said the restaurant’s sales have been down 70%, equaling about $1.5 million in lost revenue, since August. It’s been so bad, she said, that the family closed the restaurant’s second floor, where the balcony ordinarily offers a nice view of passersby on Decatur below.

“Right now, if you look down, it’s not pretty,” she said. “There’s a big hole in the ground, which is full of water and all the workers dump their Red Bull cans and to-go boxes in it.”

process, it would not be surprising if legal issues ultimately arise,” Brolin said.

Herring said the city hired four Legends employees to continue managing the Pontchartrain Center full time, while city departments would take over day-to-day operations like finance and maintenance.

extension so the city had more time to coordinate the transition.

“They say they are going to have a collaborative government and then do something like this. It shows me that they are trying to hide the ball,” LaHatte said.

Glaser said in response to Dupuy that the city was not given any prior warning of the contract termination before the notice was sent, and that the city had no control over Legends Global terminating its employees.

Brolin, meanwhile, cited a June 1 email to the City Council notifying them of the contract termination notice.

Legends Global said in a statement it remains “committed to conducting this transition in a professional and respectful manner, consistent with the standards we have upheld throughout our time serving the Kenner community.”

restaurants and shops, like in New Orleans.

In New Orleans, the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center reported a net operating loss of $62.5 million for 2024 that was offset by over $78 million in tax revenue and other revenue sources, according to the most recently available state legislative audit.

Former Kenner Mayor Mike Yenni proposed having city employees run the center as a way to save money as he weighed management proposals from its current operator, then called SMG, and another private firm in 2011.

At that point, SMG had collected over $100,000 per year from the city on top of subsidies and was operating on a temporary basis after its previous contract lapsed.

Yenni instead secured a new contract with SMG in 2013, which eliminated annual management fees and tied payments to whether the company can keep the annual operating deficit under a baseline of at least $350,000.

Under that payment structure, which is still used today, the company receives 100% of the first $75,000 it saves beneath that baseline, followed by a sliding portion of any additional savings.

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‘Trying to hide the ball’ At a Kenner City Council meeting last week, several Pontchartrain Center employees said they received a one-week termination notice from Legends and criticized the city for not offering them support.

“They feel like villains,” said Melanie Dupuy, a 26-year employee at the Pontchartrain Center who was among those fired. “They feel like they were made out to be the enemy in all of this.”

City Council member Joey LaHatte, who represents Laketown, said he’s been kept in the dark on the Pontchartrain Center and wasn’t included in a recent meeting that included representatives from Legends and the Pelicans.

In an interview after the meeting, he criticized the mayor’s handling of the contract termination and said the mayor should have sought an

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Grave marker of Pierre Joseph de Favrot, who fought in the Revolutionary 1779 Battle of Baton Rouge

History Kenner leaders have previously contemplated putting city employees in charge of the Pontchartrain Center, as the facility has never broken even or turned a profit in its 35-year history. Officials have long said the center wasn’t meant to be a moneymaker, but rather a way to boost spending at Kenner’s hotels,

20, when that body advanced Morris’ bill to the House for consideration.

“At no stage of the legislative process did the House of Representatives adopt any version of Senate Bill No. 217 by a two-thirds vote of its elected members, and the conference committee text that became Act 748, including the abolition of Sections A, E, and J, was never adopted by a two-thirds vote of the elected members of either house,” attorney Jerome Matthews Jr. wrote in the petition, filed Monday in the 19th Judicial District Court in Baton Rouge.

Morris said Monday he researched the path to passage when he drafted the legislation.

The supermajority requirement cited in Fuller’s lawsuit is outlined in Article V, Section 15 of the state constitution. Morris said that provision didn’t apply because of an exception delegates carved out specifically for Orleans Parish courts and municipal offices during Louisiana’s 1974 Constitutional Convention.

The exception, found in Section 32 of the same judicial bylaws, made the courts “subject to change by law” with a majority vote.

“I did my research ahead of time to make sure it doesn’t require a supermajority vote, and it doesn’t,” he said Monday.

While Morris argued the covenant made at the 1974 convention trumps the supermajority requirement, Fuller and his attorney say the exception doesn’t “excuse” the need for a two-thirds vote.

“The contrary construction would make Orleans Parish the only judicial district in Louisiana whose number of district judges may be reduced without the constitutional protection Article V, Section 15(D) affords to ‘any judicial district,’ ” the lawsuit states.

Fuller, one of three judges the new law eliminated, collected 65% of the vote in a May 16 special election to secure his Section J seat, earning the right to finish the last seven months of retired Judge Darryl Derbigny’s unexpired term.

But when the term ends Dec. 31, Fuller will be ousted along with fellow judges Simone Levine and Rhonda GoodeDouglas. Levine presides over Section A while Goode-Douglas handles the court’s Section E docket.

One of the late changes to the legislation put Goode-Douglas on the chopping block to the consternation of Landry.

Judge Leon Roche was previously slated for removal as part of a “last-in, first-out” approach that had been used in selecting the three sections of court to be ousted, but the Legislature ditched that seniority approach on the eve of the session’s end.

Lawmakers have offered little explanation for the late swap.

Fuller and his attorney are asking a state judge to nullify Act 748, which they claim was “never validly enacted.” They also want a judge to order elections officials to keep the removed judges’ names and sections on the ballots for the upcoming Nov. 3 races.

A spokesperson for the governor did not immediately return a comment on Monday.

Landry, Attorney General Liz Murrill, Secretary of State Nancy Landry and Orleans Clerk of Court Chelsey Richard Napoleon are listed as defendants.

A rep for the Secretary of State declined to comment. Napoleon could not be reached for comment.

Murrill’s office issued a statement late Monday.

“The state constitution has special exemptions for Orleans Parish that permit the legislature to legislate in the ordinary manner. The Court just affirmed the legislature’s power to do so regarding the clerks.

I’m sure this matter will also be resolved quickly,” the statement said.

Baton Rouge Judge Tarvald Smith was assigned to handle the lawsuit. He hadn’t yet set a date for a preliminary hearing on the matter.

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Logan Gibson. Daughter of the late Marie Duet Gibson and Clinton J. Gibson Sr. Also survived by her beloved friend, Angela Winchester along with other loving relatives and friends.

She was a lifelong resident of the Westbank, serving as a public servant with the Jefferson Parish Streets Department for 34 years and Registrar of Voters for 13 years. She will be sadly missed.

Family and friends are invited to gather at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church, 4401 Seventh Street in Marrero on Thursday, July 2, 2026 from 9 AM to 11 AM. A Funeral Mass will follow.

Interment Westlawn Memorial Park in Gretna.

Condolences and memories may be shared by visiting Ann's memorial page at: www.mothefunerals.com.

Obituaries Butler, Ann Marie Gibson

DeGrange, Antoinette Dinet

Ann Marie Gibson Butler, passed away peacefully at her home, surrounded by her loved ones, on June 28, 2026 at the age of 73 years.

Beloved wife of the late Harry Simpson Butler Jr. Loving mother of Jennifer Butler Abercrombie (George) and Lizabeth Ann Johnston (Michael).

Grandmother of William Abercrombie, Isabel Abercrombie, Margaret Abercrombie, Mason Johnston, and Jackson Johnston. Sister of Diane Hasley (Jimmy), Clinton J. Gibson Jr. (Sarah), and Kenneth A. Gibson (Belinda). "Auntie Ann" to Daniel Hasley, Laurie Hasley, Maria Cooper and

dedicated many years of service as a Federal Civil‐ ian employee for the De‐ partment of the Navy, be‐ fore retiring in 2002. She is survived by her siblings: Sister Rachel Dinet OSF, Rene Dinet Sr. (Gail), and Celina Dinet Nourse (Leslie). She was a caring and devoted mother to An‐ gela Llorens McGee (Bryan), Regina Llorens Heisser (Asa), and Katrina Llorens Joseph (Albert Jr).

She was also a loving step‐ mother to Paul DeGrange.

Antoinette was affection‐ ately known as “Ma‐ maNette”, a proud grand‐ mother to Stephanie Hub‐ bard, Stephen McGee, Christine McGee, Patrick Cuba, Danielle Joseph, and Jasmine Portuondo. She was also a cherished great-grandmother to Han‐ nah, Shawn, Nicholas, Alexandra, Noah, Andre, and Zahra. Antoinette’s memory will forever be treasured by her nieces, nephews, cousins, ex‐ tended family, and many friends whose lives she touched with her love and kindness.

Family and friends are invited to join in celebrating her life at a Mass of Christian Burial at Corpus Christi-Epiphany Catholic Church, 2022 St. Bernard Avenue, New Or‐ leans, LA on Wednesday, July 1, 2026 at 10:00 AM. Visitation will be held at 8:00 AM. Interment will take place at St. Louis # 2 Cemetery, 300 N. Claiborne Ave., New Orleans, LA. Please sign the online guestbook at www.cha rbonnetfuneralhome.com.

Charbonnet Labat Glapion Directors, (504) 581-4411.

Hicks, Arthur

Arthur Hicks Jr., son of the late Arthur Hicks Sr. and the late Lois Preston Hicks, was born on February 28, 1956, and departed this life on May 22, 2026, at the age of 70 in Metairie, Louisiana. He proudly served his country as a veteran of the United States Marine Corps.

Those left to cherish his memory include his children, Robin, Trey, and Troy Hicks; 10 grandchildren, his siblings, Shelia H. Offray, Denise Hicks, and Wesley Hicks; along with a host of other relatives and friends.

Cremation will take place privately, and no formal services will be held.

The family kindly asks that you keep them in your thoughts and prayers during this difficult time.

Smith, Henry Louis

His military service was recognized with numerous honors and commenda‐ tions, including the Bronze Star, Purple Heart, Air Medal, Combat Infantry Badge, Vietnam Service Medal, Vietnam Campaign Medal, Parachute Badge, Overseas Bars, and the Good Conduct Medal (Sec‐ ond Award). Following his military career, Mr. Smith earned a Bachelor of Sci‐ ence in Business Adminis‐ tration, with concentra‐ tions in finance and man‐ agement. He subsequently served with distinction at the United States Postal Service, where he held managerial and supervi‐ sory roles at the Loyola Main Station for several years. Mr. Smith was a de‐ voted husband and father, remembered for his stead‐ fast compassion, generos‐ ity, and sense of duty. He provided dedicated care to his wife, Brenda Smith, throughout her prolonged illness until her passing.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Brenda Smith; his parents; and his sib‐ lings, Ronald and Guss. Mr. Smith will receive the honor of commemorative interment with presidential recognition in acknowledg‐ ment of his distinguished military service. In lieu of flowers, memorial contri‐ butions may be made in his name to the Wounded Warrior Project. Arrange‐ ments by Jacob Schoen & Son Funeral Home. Condo‐ lences may be expressed

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Sickle cell breakthrough opens new world for patients When Daniel Cressy rang the bell on June 22 at Manning Family Children’s in New Orleans, his long fight was complete as the first person declared functionally cured from sickle cell disease in Louisiana. But for many others, the road to recovery is just beginning.

Cressy benefited from a transformational gene-editing technology that saw doctors harvest his own stem cells, ship them off to a genetics lab in Scotland, which modified them to protect from the disease, then reintroduce the cells into his body. It is one of a suite of sickle cell gene therapies that is changing the future for these patients.

It’s the kind of thing that would be thought of as science fiction not too long ago, but the rapidly evolving science is proving to be effective in the real world. That has given new hope to thousands of patients with sickle cell disease, a chronic condition that causes unpredictable, debilitating pain that prevents many from maintaining jobs or performing basic tasks.

For Cressy, the disease was preventing him from living out his dream to become a pilot. But now, the doors of opportunity are open to him.

He said he plans to get back to flight training, and he hopes to be a beacon for other sickle cell patients.

We congratulate Cressy and the team of doctors at Manning Family Children’s who have seen this process through to the end. Their dedication and skill will no doubt draw more patients to Louisiana seeking treatment. It is fitting that Louisiana’s largest children’s hospital should be pioneering these breakthrough therapies. Louisiana has one of the highest rates of sickle cell disease in the country, and it affects Black children disproportionately.

We also note that the cost of treatment is something that the state will have to grapple with. The bill can run from $2.2 million to $3.1 million per patient, depending on the therapy.

The state is using a registry to find out how many patients could benefit.

In the meantime, we are grateful and awed by the scientific advancements that we are so fortunate to witness, making a difference in our lives today. Once, so many families of children born with the disease lived with little hope. But they persevered, dreaming of a day when their sons or daughters could live lives free of pain.

Now that day is here. We can only imagine their joy and relief. To those families who lost loved ones to the disease before this day arrived, the only comfort is in knowing that in the future, no one needs to suffer as they did.

Such a life-changing medical intervention should be available to as broad a population as possible. We hope that officials in our state and nation will work to make that happen.

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Geothermal must be part of state’s new energy reality For Louisiana, geothermal must play a role in the energy equation.

Can Louisiana still dominate American energy production if we don’t adapt? The going theory is no.

For decades, Louisiana has been synonymous with world-class energy production, particularly in the petrochemical industry. But without the adoption of new power sources like geothermal energy to augment our existing power supply, we risk being left behind— overlooked in favor of competitors with more diverse energy portfolios and reliant on foreign sources to supply our energy needs.

Energy demand is increasing, and it won’t be slowing any time soon. AI data centers and new technologies place greater demands on our energy infrastructure, and total reliance on traditional fossil fuels will not be enough.

America’s “old guard” of fossil fuels isn’t going away for the foreseeable future, but it needs some help. Louisiana (and America writ large) needs to open the door for new, additional energy “heroes” such as geothermal energy that

can provide reliable 24/7 baseload power.

With Louisiana’s existing drilling expertise from the oil and gas industry, thousands of skilled workers already trained in subsurface engineering and two viable hotspots in northern and central Louisiana, the Bayou State must be at the forefront of geothermal energy development and investment.

State Rep. Joe Orgeron brought House Resolution 279 this legislative session, which “[r]ecognizes geothermal energy as a strategic opportunity for Louisiana and commits to building the conditions necessary to scale the state’s geothermal resources.”

State leaders know the opportunity in geothermal is here, and we can’t cede it to other states.

In Louisiana, our existing energy pedigree leveraged to adopt geothermal will create jobs, increase energy affordability and continue our energy dominance and independence well into the future.

WILL HARDY state director, Conservatives for Clean Energy Louisiana

Thomas got the name wrong, and the climate predictions more wrong Cal Thomas, in his column published May 27, cited findings from the International Panel on Climate Change, claiming their dire predictions on climate change are now “implausible.” He refers to them as the IPCC. The IPCC is actually the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a well-respected international body of scientists from 195 countries, and its predictions remain as dire as ever.

The conclusions he refers to are from the nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change, a conservative advocacy group that seeks to undermine U.N. climate science and touts, among other things, the benefits of increasing CO2 and a warming planet. Clearly, natural disasters have been reading the wrong reports.

The most charitable explanation for this confusion is a combination of ignorance and sloppy reporting.

Cal complains that those who reject mainstream scientific findings “were to be ostracized to the land of the ignorant.” Well, if it walks like a duck and fact-checks like a duck.

An alternative, and unfortunately, more plausible explanation is the purposeful obfuscation and peddling of misinformation, which appears to be the foundation upon which the modern Republican Party is built.

Considering the main thrust of his commentary is that liberals can’t admit when they are wrong, I hope Thomas is actively working on an apology letter, but I find that “implausible.”

BRENT BARNIDGE New Orleans

The White House is the people’s house Imagine that you and a large number of your brothers and sisters have inherited a historic house, which you’ve rented to a tenant. One day, you hear that your tenant is planning to build a huge addition to your house. He has not asked permission to do this, either from you, any of the other owners of the house or the historical commissions that would have to approve any modification to such a historic structure.

When asked, your tenant says that the structure he has planned, a ballroom, will not touch the exterior of your house, and he assures you that the construction will be funded entirely by donations from his friends. You wonder what his friends will be getting in return for their donations and what use they will be making of your property, but he doesn’t say. You don’t give your permission for the project.

The next month, you see that a wing of your historic house has been demolished.

The historical commission has not issued any permits for the demolition — in fact, it has not even been consulted.

Eight months later, you and the other owners of the house are approached and asked to chip in $1 billion towards the construction. You’re told it’s necessary for security reasons, as your tenant has been shot at on several occasions, but your tenant plays golf regularly and attends rallies, meetings and public sporting events, such as the Super Bowl and MMA matches outside the house.

Tell me, how long would you put up with this before you evicted your tenant?

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Giving Trumps immunity from IRS was the goal of lawsuit Now that the Department of Justice slush fund has been canceled, attention must be placed on the other part of the Trump-IRS “settlement:” President Donald Trump, his family members and all their business interests are to be granted immunity from any IRS scrutiny.

This is the real action that Trump Inc. wanted from his bogus lawsuit. It is known as bait-and-switch. All con men know the technique, and now the American public does, too.

Contact your elected senators to stop this scam.

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COMMENTARY Shrinking the electorate a solution in search of a problem America was born from a simple but powerful principle: Government derives its legitimacy from the consent of the governed.

That principle inspired our Declaration of Independence, shaped our Constitution and has been defended by generations of Americans willing to sacrifice everything to preserve our right to elect our leaders. Louisiana families have sent their sons Garret and daughters to fight Graves in every major conflict in our nation’s history GUEST COLUMNIST to protect a system in which citizens choose their representatives and government remains accountable to its people.

That is why Louisiana’s recent experience with closed congressional primaries should give us pause. When voters had an opportunity to weigh in on the U.S. Senate race in 2022, approximately 1.4 million citizens participated. When they next had that opportunity in 2026 under the state’s new closed-party primary system, participation fell to approximately 746,000 voters. Nearly half the electorate disappeared.

Many factors affect turnout, and no single election tells the whole story.

But the question deserves an honest answer: If our goal is to maximize citizen participation in the selection of our leaders, where did those voters go?

For more than 50 years, Louisiana’s open primary system represented one of the most democratic election models in America. Every voter received the same ballot. Every candidate competed before the same electorate. Republicans, Democrats, independents and unaffiliated voters all participated in a common contest. Candidates were required to persuade not only their most loyal supporters, but voters from across the political spectrum.

In many respects, it was the purest form of free-market politics in America today.

Success depended on building broad coalitions. The skills required to win were the same skills required to govern, producing remarkable results.

Consider the results of Louisiana’s open primary system. Today, the state’s congressional delegation includes both the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and the House majority leader. This is the first time in American history that both

row slice of voters who determine the primary outcome — rather than to the broad constituency they will actually represent if elected. That misalignment matters because elected officials do not represent political parties once they take office. They represent everyone in their districts, regardless of party registration.

Louisiana voters are rightfully frustrated. Each disruption gave them another reason to feel alienated from the FILE PHOTO By BILL FEIG very process meant to represent them.

A worker pulls signs as voting machines Within a short span, U.S. House primaries yo-yoed from open to closed, back are sorted for delivery from a storage to open, and now set to be closed again warehouse in Baton Rouge. in the next election cycle.

In addition to the understandable confusion and chaos that created, top leadership positions belong to the the new closed primary system is exsame state — an extraordinary distinction for a state of Louisiana’s size. pected to cost taxpayers $135 million Speaker Mike Johnson and Majority over 10 years — money that I’d argue Leader Steve Scalise were both electwould be better spent on actual prioried and reelected under the open prities like flood protection and traffic mary system. Whatever one’s political problems.

Throughout my time in Congress, views, their rise to national leadership I fielded thousands of requests, but demonstrates that Louisiana’s model wasting taxpayer funds, adding burewarded candidates who could build diverse coalitions, earn the confidence reaucracy and reducing legitimate of a broad electorate and ultimately voter participation were never among gain the trust of their colleagues in them.

Congress. Louisiana should be proud There is also a telling inconsistency. of that record.

Many legislators who spent years The United States Constitution campaigning under Louisiana’s tradinever mentions political parties. The tional open primary chose not to apply Framers envisioned representatives the closed-primary model to their own chosen by the people. While parties state and local races. That decision emerged naturally over time, they speaks volumes. If the open primary were never intended to become the system remains effective for selectprimary gatekeepers between citizens ing state legislators and local officials, and their elected officials. why abandon it when we are choosing Closed primaries make them exactly the people who represent Louisiana in that. But we were warned. In his fare- Washington?

No election system is perfect. But well address, President George Washington cautioned that the rise of politi- at a time when Americans increascal parties “will enable subverting the ingly distrust institutions and question power of the people and to usurp for the integrity of elections, a system in themselves the reins of government.” which primary participation drops by Overly empowering political parties nearly half demands serious scrutiny. through distorted elections disempow- The question is not which party beners voters. efits; it is whether dividing Louisiana Under the system Louisiana used voters into separate partisan electorthis year for U.S. Senate, voters were ates serves our state better than our divided into separate partisan contests system that guided us for more than before they ever reached a general half a century. election.

For nearly 250 years, Americans Instead of having the freedom to have fought to preserve the principle vote for whichever candidate for evthat authority flows from the consent of the governed. The answer to our poery office, voters were restricted to one party’s ballot. And while the unaf- litical challenges is not fewer voices. filiated voters could participate, there It is more consent from the governed. were widespread reports of voter Garret Graves served five terms in the confusion.

U.S. Congress, representing Louisiana’s In a closed party primary system, 6th Congressional District from 2015candidates are incentivized to appeal 2025. first to their partisan base — the nar-

Mamdani’s victory strut is premature Yes, Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s take the presidency from Trump two socialist picks recently knocked off years later. some Democratic incumbents in New The Democratic left sold these York City. They included surprising results as a thumbs-up for its radidefeats, especially that of Rep. Adria- cal agenda. But those same views — things like defunding police no Espaillat, chair of the Conand obsession with transgender gressional Hispanic Caucus. issues — turned off the middle Espaillat lost to Darializa Avila America voters who gave Biden Chevalier, whose social media his win in 2020. swims with past calls to abolTwo years later, Republicans ish the police, free prisoners retook the House majority by and stop deportations for any Froma weaponizing the dumbest things reason, presumably including Harrop left-wingers had said. Similar murder. dynamics powered Trump’s It’s not like Espaillat’s district was dominated by the young pro- return to the presidency in the 2024 election. It is dangerous to assume fessionals who flocked to Mamdani. that disgust with Trump translates His electorate is 52% Hispanic and into a desire to stop immigration enincludes such non-hipster neighborhoods as Harlem, Washington Heights forcement. and parts of the Bronx.

The recently elected Mamdani, Nonetheless, Mamdani may have meanwhile, is enjoying an overly seriously misread the national mood long honeymoon. The reality is sure when he said right before the primato overtake the massive publicity he attaches to the smallest of achieveries: “When does the race for 2028 begin? It starts now.” That was an ments. New Yorkers are noticing that awesome display of grandiosity for there are still no free buses, as proma guy who didn’t get even 50% of the ised. The rents are not frozen. And vote even though he was the official universal childcare has not happened.

Democratic candidate in a very Demo- Mamdani has also antagonized the ficratic city. nancial business leaders, jeopardizing The New York primaries may indeed the prospects of the young grads seekbe kicking off the presidential contest ing white-collar jobs, that is, much of in 2028, but not in a way Democrats his base. would like. Look at recent history.

Democrats seeking victories in the Backlash against Donald Trump’s erheartland should fear having the exratic governing style returned control cesses of coastal socialists hanging of the House to the Democrats in 2018. around their neck. The veteran New Similar forces helped Joe Biden to York political analyst Errol Louis de-

scribed the dangers New York’s far left pose to the Democrats’ future. As an anchor at Spectrum News NY1, he has interviewed them all.

“They’ve got some ideas that will not sell in Des Moines or in, you know, Cleveland,” Louis said. Their strategists tell him that they’re “gonna fight, fight, fight ... get themselves arrested, introduce legislation, whether or not it has a chance of getting a hearing or ever becoming law.”

Barack Obama understands well the radicals’ lack of appeal outside choice urban corridors. He’s called out affluent progressives who think they earn halos by pushing polices deemed to help the less fortunate but end up costing Democrats at the polls. They can embrace left-liberal politics without personally paying a price, Obama said last year. “You could still make a lot of money. You could still hang out in Aspen and Milan and travel and have a house in the Hamptons and still think of yourself as a progressive.”

Democrats have fine hopes that this year’s midterms will deliver at least a House majority. The growing dislike of Trump puts wind in their sails.

Come the 2028 presidential contest, however, Trump will presumably not be running. But the Democrats’ aggravating radicals will still be at it. If the race for 2028 starts now, Democrats should be concerned.

Letlow’s campaign worked out exactly as Trump intended

U.S. Rep. Julia Letlow’s bid to become the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate kicked off in January not with her own announcement, but with a social media post from President Donald Trump.

Saturday night, as she claimed her spot in the fall general election, Letlow started her victory speech off by thanking Trump for recruiting her into the race — and, for good measure, calling him “the greatest president this country has ever had.”

And thus, the primary season ended as it began, as a case study in just how nationalized Stephanie our politics have become.

The months of campaigning Grace among GOP hopefuls — including incumbent and third-place primary finisher Bill Cassidy, who Trump never forgave for his 2021 vote to convict for inciting the Jan. 6 attack on Congress, and state Treasurer John Fleming, Letlow’s runoff opponent — amounted to little more than a contest to prove who was the most loyal.

Campaigns are often unserious, but this one was especially so, with misleading accusations flying about who was more woke, even if woke was nowhere on the GOP ballot. Other than Fleming’s attempt to inject carbon capture politics into the conversation, the campaign could have happened in any state with a large pro-Trump base and a party primary system that amplified that base’s overall voting power.

In Louisiana, this was a sigLetlow nificant change; it was the first party primary for Congress since 2010, when a previous shift from open primaries was so unpopular that it was quickly reversed. That may well happen this time too.

In the meantime, it worked as its proponents intended.

Gov. Jeff Landry, an eager Trump disciple, was the lead architect of the new voting rules, and he was all over Letlow’s campaign. Most other members of the party establishment lined up with her, too, including Attorney General Liz Murrill and several fellow members of Congress. Trump may be the greatest disruptor in modern American politics, but the GOP’s supposed institutionalists here, like elsewhere, are fully on board.

And with all voters no longer able to choose among all candidates, the turnout was relatively select. Only registered Republicans and no-party voters could participate in the two-stage GOP selection process, and not that many did. Letlow won the runoff Saturday night with support from roughly 180,000 votes, out of about 1.8 million who were eligible to take part.

There was a Democratic primary runoff, too, and farmer Jamie Davis easily won that one, so he’ll be Letlow’s general election opponent in a November midterm election that’s shaping up as a national referendum on the second Trump presidency. In Louisiana, that and overall voting patterns give Letlow a massive edge.

She doesn’t really need to, but it would be nice if she spent the next four months putting herself out there and trying to build a broader coalition than the MAGA-dominated one that got her here. She could try to counter arguments that she’s indebted to Trump and Landry, as even some influential Republicans, such as radio hosts Moon Griffon and Newell Normand, have charged. She could expound on what she means when she says she’ll always put Louisiana first. She could even agree to a television debate, something she avoided during primary season.

The truth is that if she wins come fall, there will be plenty of time for her to move from under Trump’s shadow. He’s got just two years left; a Senate term runs six, and Letlow, at 45, could be in Washington much longer. At some point, she’ll answer to more than one person, or even 180,000 of them.

Now’s as good a time as any to get started.

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True blue no more; La. officially a red state think that accelerated the and politically viable, he said.

There are 819,203 unaffiliRegistered Republicans now outnumber Democrats Ifinal shift to where RepubliEven before Bill Clinton, a ated no-party voters who are

BY ALYSE PFEIL Staff writer

Louisiana has been a solidly red state for years, but you wouldn’t know it if you looked at voter registration numbers.

Even though Louisiana has voted for the Republican presidential candidate in every election since 2000, and even as the GOP has swept all the statewide offices and holds supermajorities in the Legislature, Democratic voters continued to outnumber Republicans on paper.

But that changed last month.

Voter registration data

from June from the Secretary of State’s Office shows there are now 1,062,897 registered Republicans and 1,062,861 registered Democrats.

“This is the first time in the state’s modern history that the Republican Party has the most registered voters,” said Secretary of State spokesperson Trey Williams.

The numbers have been trending that way for decades.

Monthly voter registration data going back at least 20 years has consistently shown Republicans gaining voters and Democrats losing them, said John Couvillon, a Loui-

siana pollster and political consultant.

Couvillon said this year’s closed primary for U.S. Senate — a major Republican showdown that first saw the ouster of incumbent Sen. Bill Cassidy and then a fierce runoff between U.S. Rep. Julia Letlow and Treasurer John Fleming — finally tilted the numbers in the GOP’s favor.

Under the state’s new closed party primary system, people who are registered Democrats cannot vote in Republican primary elections.

“When you have party primaries for the Senate and other top-of-the-ballot races,

cans got the plurality,” Couvillon said.

He said two big changes brought Louisiana to this point. The first “crack in the armor” was Louisiana’s switch in 1975 from closed primaries to open jungle primaries after a century of Democratic dominance.

“What happened is Republicans got to participate in the same primaries as Democrats did, which basically put them on technically equal footing,” he said.

And in recent years, as Louisianans began voting for Republicans in presidential elections, voting and running as a Republican became more culturally acceptable

former Arkansas governor with a Southern drawl, won Louisiana in the 1990s, Republican presidential candidates won Louisiana in the 1980s.

And in 2000, George W. Bush captured 53% of the Republican vote to the Democratic ticket’s 45%.

In 2008, Republican presidential candidate John McCain captured almost 60% of the vote, as did President Donald Trump during his presidential bids in 2016, 2020 and 2024.

This year, as of June, Louisiana has a total of 2,969,683 registered voters, with Republicans having a razor-thin advantage.

allowed to decide whether they want to cast a ballot in either the closed Republican primary or Democratic primary.

There are also 14,567 members of the Libertarian Party, 2,711 members of the Green Party and 7,444 voters registered with a slew of other parties.

Republican Party of Louisiana Chair Derek Babcock said the milestone is a reflection of the GOP’s commitment to “conservative, common-sense values.”

The Louisiana Democratic Party said the latest shift in voter registration figures doesn’t accurately reflect the political moment.

Report: State’s response to sexual assault needs improvement

BY MEGHAN FRIEDMANN Staff writer

Louisiana should create a more cohesive system for responding to sexual assault cases to comply with state law, and it lacks the resources to consistently provide adequate services to victims, a report from the Legislative Auditor’s Office found.

The study, released Monday, was the result of a bill passed in 2025 that required the state to audit sexual assault services.

In Louisiana, organizations such as law enforcement agencies, healthcare providers and advocacy centers are all involved in responding to reports of sexual assault.

The report found that a lack of coordination between such entities creates a fragmented system of care for survivors.

Each of the state’s nine Louisiana Department of Health regions has a Regional Sexual Assault Response Plan, auditors said, adding that they “identified instances where

the SAR plans do not comply with state law and could be improved to better respond to survivors of sexual assault.”

Some plans do not meet a state requirement that they be approved by the coroner — and, even when they technically comply with the law, the plans often lack detail about which entities are responsible for implementing state requirements.

The report also found that four parishes were not served by an accredited sexual assault advocacy center. Under state law, survivors are all supposed to have access to such facilities, but “gaps and challenges” limit that access.

A lack of consistent access to Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners — specialized nurses who conduct forensic medical examinations of survivors — represented another challenge for Louisiana’s system of care, according to auditors.

“The biggest takeaway is what we already knew — that everything is inconsistent,” said Morgan Lamandre, CEO

of Sexual Trauma Awareness and Response, a Louisiana nonprofit advocacy center for victims of sexual assault. “Everything is siloed.”

The state Legislature has already taken steps to address some of the problems raised in the report. This year, lawmakers passed House Bill 1247, now Act 724, which creates the position of a SANE coordinator within the Attorney General’s Office.

That position will be responsible for getting a statewide picture of how the sexual assault response system is working, identifying regions that lack resources and reviewing sexual assault response plans, said state Rep. Annie Spell, D-Lafayette, who authored the bill.

Spell, who was elected to the Legislature in the spring of 2025, is a clinical psychologist who said she formerly volunteered with Hearts of Hope, a sexual trauma center in Acadiana. In that role, she saw the state needed a more “robust” system for helping

sexual assault survivors that would ensure access to forensic exams, she said.

“It was one of the reasons why I ran” for office, Spell said.

Spell’s law creates a mobile SANE team, requires regional Health Department medical directors to submit annual reports that identify gaps in access to the forensic exams and establishes a panel to help create statewide standards for sexual assault response services. The panel, known as the Louisiana Sexual Assault Oversight Subcommittee, will be a subcommittee of the Louisiana Sexual Assault Oversight Commission.

But Lamandre said the Legislature needs to pass laws that add “accountability” to enforce the standards the state is setting for sexual assault services, and feels Spell’s legislation did not go far enough.

“We need more teeth behind things,” she said. “We need consequences.”

For example, all sexual as-

sault survivors are supposed to be allowed to have accredited advocates present at medical exams, so long as they are available.

The audit recommends the state do more to ensure that happens.

Spell said she will likely bring more legislation to strengthen care for survivors, but that she believes it needs to be done “wisely” — and after a “statewide framework” is in place.

The audit also recommends the Legislature consider finding a consistent funding source for sexual assault advocacy centers, strengthen oversight of the state’s sexual assault response system and centralize that system.

“Louisiana should assign clear statutory authority and responsibilities at the state level to one or more entities to oversee and strengthen the state’s response to survivors of sexual assault,” the report says.

The parts of the state where people are less likely to have

access to accredited sexual assault victim advocates include Catahoula, Winn, LaSalle and Concordia parishes, according to the audit, which says those parishes aren’t served by accredited advocacy centers. Still, they have some of the state’s highest rates of forensic medical examinations being performed, the report says.

The state also ought to consider improving access to medical exams performed

by SANEs as opposed to other medical providers, as it is considered best practice when those specialists collect rape kits, even increasing the odds for prosecutors, auditors said.

Rape kit collection often takes over four hours and must be performed in a way that properly preserves evidence, per the report.

Between 2024 and 2026, the Lafayette and New Orleans areas had the lowest percentages of exams conducted by SANEs, according to the report.

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These 4 transfers can propel Tigers defense

BY REED DARCEY Staff writer

LSU will have transfers all over the field in 2026, but most of them will be concentrated on offense — the unit Lane Kiffin overhauled once he began his tenure as head coach.

As for the defense? That side of the ball managed to keep a large chunk of its coaching and roster talent intact during the transition from coach Brian Kelly to Kiffin. Third-year defensive coordinator Blake Baker is back. So, too, are starters Whit Weeks, DJ Pickett, Tamarcus Cooley, PJ Woodland and Dashawn Spears.

Each played a key role on a unit that improved from 61st among FBS teams in total defense in 2024 to 25th in 2025.

The group could take another step forward in 2026, especially if a few newcomers step into roles alongside the returners and enjoy productive campaigns for a unit that’s come a long way since its disastrous 2023 season.

“Blake does a great job,” Kiffin said

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Pelicans head coach Jamahl Mosley poses with draft pick Jaron Pierre after a news conference on Monday at the Ochsner Sports Performance Center in Metairie. Pierre is a St. Aug grad.

Full-circle ‘grind’ St. Aug grad and newest Pelican took long path back home

BY ROD WALKER

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LSU safety Ty Benefield stands on the field before a drill at spring practice on March 26 at the LSU football practice facility.

Gleason offers support to ex-NFL RB

BY JEFF DUNCAN Staff writer

Steve Gleason wants Chris Johnson to know he is not alone.

The former New Orleans Saints standout and global advocate for ALS patients issued a statement Monday in response to the news that the former NFL running back has been diagnosed with ALS. Gleason “Chris is my NFL brother, but more importantly, he is my fellow human,” Gleason, who was diagnosed with ALS in 2011 at the age of 34, said in a statement.

“When ALS enters your life, it is a tsunami of Johnson emotions. I want Chris and his family to know they are not alone. We are here for them.

“Every person living with ALS has a story, a family, a purpose, and a future that matters. Chris has spent his life showing strength, speed and heart. Now, he and everyone diagnosed with this disease deserve all of that strength, heart

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Long before Jaron Pierre wanted the NBA life, he simply wanted a T-shirt.

So when he would attend New Orleans Pelicans games in the Smoothie King Center as a kid, his sole mission was to catch one of the souvenirs launched from the T-shirt cannon during timeouts.

One night, he got lucky and snatched one.

“The shirt was a size 3X, down to my feet,” Pierre said. “I was dancing so hard.

I wasn’t even watching the game anymore. I was just happy I had a shirt.”

But the joy from his childhood doesn’t come close to the joy Pierre had Monday morning at his introductory news conference when he stood beside Joe Dumars and held up his No. 10 Pelicans jersey.

“I almost dropped a tear,” Pierre said of when he got the news of his selection. “It felt surreal.”

Pierre, drafted with the No. 58 overall pick Wednesday, is a Pelican now.

This time, his Pelicans gear doesn’t drape down to his feet. It fits perfectly,

“We’re trying to hit on every pick that we bring in here. We don’t take any of them for granted. There’s a certain type of player that we are looking for. We are looking for guys who are competitive. We are looking for guys who have toughness. And we are looking for guys who really want to be here in New Orleans. Jaron checks the box for all of those.”

JOE DUMARS, executive vice president of basketball operations for Pelicans which is just how Dumars expects the nearly 24-year-old guard from SMU to fit on the roster. Dumars, heading into his second season as the executive vice president of basketball operations, had just one pick in this year’s draft.

“We’re trying to hit on every pick that we bring in here,” Dumars said. “We don’t take any of them for granted. There’s a certain type of player that we are looking for. We are looking for guys who are competitive. We are looking for guys who have toughness. And we are looking for guys who really want to be here in New Orleans. Jaron checks the box for all of those.”

The city of New Orleans made Pierre whom he is today. That’s evident by the

shiny chain with the glistening “5” dangling around his neck. That five represents the 5th Ward, the part of the city that raised him. He wore that number at St. Augustine High School. He also wore that number at SMU, where he averaged 17.6 points, 4.9 rebounds and 2.1 assists during his one season playing with the Mustangs.

Now that kid with the big dreams from the 5th Ward is back in his hometown.

His road to the NBA was a long and winding one, with stops at four schools in six years. When he graduated from St. Aug in 2020, he first attended Southern Mississippi. He wore No. 55 there both sea-

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All eyes again on LeBron in free agency

BY TIM REYNOLDS

AP basketball writer

NBA free agency in 2010: Everyone waited for LeBron James to make a decision.

NBA free agency in 2026: Everyone is waiting again for James to make a decision.

James was the biggest domino to fall in the NBA’s offseason player movement period 16 years ago when he decided to join Miami, and he may be the biggest domino to fall — at least in free agency — this summer as well. Free agency opens in the NBA on Tuesday evening, with James’ future atop the list of most intriguing storylines that will be solved over the coming days and weeks.

It seems like retirement isn’t happening yet, which would mean the NBA’s all-time leader in points scored, minutes played and games played coming back for a record-extending 24th season and potentially — when including playoff contests — appearing in the 2,000th game of his career.

neuverability to add players in the coming days, a person with knowledge of the situation told The Associated Press.

“When the time comes, you guys will know what I decide to do,” James said when the Lakers were eliminated this spring by Oklahoma City in a 4-0 sweep.

The time is coming.

The window when teams can begin talking with free agents — other than the ones on their own team, those talks could begin when the NBA Finals ended — opens at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, and deals could be flying not long afterward.

In most cases, any new deals cannot be executed until at least the end of the offseason moratoSTAFF FILE PHOTO By BRETT DUKE rium next Monday.

Los Angeles Lakers forward LeBron James dunks the ball against the “This period we’re in right now, kind of from mid-May to Pelicans at the Smoothie King Center on Jan. 6. mid-July, it’s a two-month sprint His options would figure to in- Curry and Draymond Green to through the draft, combine, free agency, Summer League, all clude staying with the Los Ange- chase one more title.

Green — who is not expected that,” Warriors general manles Lakers, returning to Miami or Cleveland or even thinking to leave Golden State — on Mon- ager Mike Dunleavy Jr. said about moving elsewhere such day declined his $27.6 million earlier this month. “We’re super as Golden State and teaming up option for next season, doing so ä See NBA, page 3C with longtime friends Stephen to give the Warriors more ma-

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Hovland beats Scheffler in Travelers They played one playoff hole in delayed conclusion

BY DOUG FERGUSON Associated Press

CROMWELL, Conn. — Viktor Hovland got all the validation he needed Monday that his game was on track again, and a whole lot more.

He beat Scottie Scheffler in a playoff at the Travelers Championship, had both parents from Norway watch him win for the first time and even did the “row” with the Norwegian soccer fans who cheered him all the way to the surprising end.

Hovland capped off a gritty rally when he made a 7-foot birdie putt on the first playoff hole and won the Travelers when Scheffler missed a 4-foot birdie putt.

“Winning in the playoff against Scottie — best player in the world — that was pretty satisfying,” said Hovland, who won for the first time since the Valspar Championship in March 2025.

The surprise was Scheffler going from a big advantage — an 8-iron to 4 feet on the 18th on the first playoff hole — to missing a hard-sliding putt on the high side that made Hovland a winner.

“Maybe I hit it a little firmer than I intended to,” said Scheffler, whose putt caught the left edge and rolled out some 7 feet by the hole. “It looked like it got pretty far by the hole and I was playing it outside the hole, so I hit it down my line, just maybe the speed was a touch off.”

It was a big disappointment for Scheffler, who on Sunday made an 8-foot par putt on the 72nd hole in near darkness to force the playoff.

He was first to hit from the 18th fairway and some 3,000 fans on the hillside around the green erupted in cheers. Hovland responded, just like the 28-year-old Norwegian had done on the back nine Sunday when he rallied from a two-shot deficit.

Hovland’s birdie putt was snapping off to the right when it curled in the right side and he let out a big fist pump.

“It’s one of those putts that if I

LSU signee and outfielder Nathaneal Davis has decided to withdraw his name from the 2026 MLB Draft and come to school, he announced on social media Monday.

Davis, a center fielder at Bishop Moore Catholic High in Orlando, Florida, is the No. 125 player in ESPN’s draft rankings and the No. 138 player on MLB.com’s list. He’s a left-handed hitter with excellent speed, stealing 78 bags during his high school career.

He’s projected to be a center fielder at the next level and is known for his athleticism. One scout who spoke to The Advocate compared him to Chris Stanfield.

“First time I saw him, I was like, ‘This guy is toolsy as all get out,’ ” another scout told The Advocate.

“He can run, he can throw. Very interesting guy.”

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Viktor Hovland holds the Travelers Championship trophy on Monday at TPC River Highlands in Cromwell, Conn. make mine, his gets significantly tougher, and if I miss, he probably will make his,” Hovland said.

“Yeah, it was definitely no gimmies there, so to put the pressure on him was awesome.”

It was the first Monday finish on the PGA Tour since The Players Championship in 2025, which involved a three-hole aggregate playoff won by Rory McIlroy.

This turned out to be one hole and 15 minutes, but it did not lack for drama, or atmosphere.

There was lively banter for the playoff. A group of Norwegian fans, who had been in Boston for the World Cup, wore their soccer jerseys and chanted, “Hov-land!” as he approached his golf ball in the fairway. The Americans began the “Scot-tie Scheff-ler!” chants to drown them out.

The Norwegians also brought the “row,” which has gone viral in the stadium and subway stations and wherever they go. They sit shoulder to shoulder, arms out and then forcefully pull them in. Hovland had never seen it in person until Saturday.

When it was over, he sat with his

people and they showed him how it’s done.

“You definitely get adrenaline from it,” he said.

Hovland had plenty of that Sunday afternoon when he returned from a 90-minute rain delay and made three straight birdies to catch up to Scheffler and eventually get into the playoff. He closed with a 69, while Scheffler had a 68.

They finished at 21-under 259.

Hovland is rarely satisfied with a swing that has given him a reputation for making solid contact.

He felt it gaining momentum with a third-place finish in Canada, and even in the U.S. Open despite missing the cut. There was always one bad swing that allowed doubts to creep in.

Those were gone at the TPC River Highlands, particularly at the end. He was first to hit in the playoff and drilled it down the middle, just as he had done all week.

“I’ve been playing golf with Viktor for a long time. We’ve had some good battles in college and out here as a pro,” Scheffler said.

“He’s a guy that has a lot of talent and works really hard. So those

are the types of guys you like to see have success.”

For Scheffler, it was his fourth runner-up finish this year after opening his season with a victory at The American Express in the California desert. But he felt a little momentum, even in a playoff loss, as he gets ready for a three-week stretch that includes the British Open, the final major of the year.

“Ball striking is definitely in a good spot. That was some of the best I hit it all season,” Scheffler said. “Obviously, I think just a little disappointed with the results of today. But, yeah, I did a good job of keeping myself in the tournament last night, made the nice putt to close out last night, and so trying to remember that one.”

Hovland headed home for Norway with his parents. As for his throng of flag-waving, rowing supporters? Norway plays Ivory Coast on Tuesday in Dallas, the hometown of Scheffler.

“That was probably more coincidental,” Hovland said with a laugh. “That should be a good game.”

Van Gisbergen seeks improvement on ovals Driver known for road, street racing must shore up skills on circular tracks

Kyle Larson has runner-up finishes in the two most recent races at the 1.5-mile track in Joliet, Illinois.

The reigning Cup Series champion, who lost a bruising last-lap battle to Kyle Busch in 2018, finished fourth at Sonoma to earn his fourth consecutive top-five finish — his longest streak in more than a year.

“It’s definitely the best we’ve been all year,” said Larson, whose winless streak stands at 42 races, the longest since he joined Hendrick Motorsports in 2021.

By The Associated Press SONOMA, Calif. — NASCAR might sometimes seem like an endless series of left turns, but Shane van Gisbergen can attest that oval racing is filled with variables.

The 22 circular tracks on the Cup Series schedule feature different lengths, banking and shapes. For a New Zealand native who raced exclusively on road and street courses until three years ago, it’s been a slog to figure out.

“Some weeks, I can run 10th to 15th pretty easily, and other weeks it’s a battle to run 30th,” he said.

“As a team, we definitely need to be better and prepare as well as we can. I just need to keep getting better and make no mistakes. I’m still the weak link as a driver, but I’ve got good teammates in the other cars, and they’re struggling as well.”

With eight races remaining in the regular season, van Gisbergen is the highest-ranked Trackhouse Racing driver at 14th in the standings — ahead of teammates Ross Chastain (22nd) and Connor Zilisch (34th) — and in a provisional spot for the Chase.

But to make the 10-race title run that is contested among the top 16 drivers, van Gisbergen knows he’ll need to shore up his results on the left-turn circuit. Sunday at Sonoma Raceway marked his eighth win in 15 career starts on road and street courses, but the final 18 races in 2026 will be held only on ovals.

During his second full season in the Cup series, van Gisbergen is improving. In 14 oval starts this

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Shane van Gisbergen performs his traditional victory celebration by punting a rugby ball into the stands after winning a NASCAR Cup Series race on Sunday at Sonoma Raceway in Sonoma, Calif. year, he has an average finish of 20.9, up from 24.8 in 30 oval races last year. He earned his first topfive oval finish with a fifth at Nashville Superspeedway on May 31.

Noting that van Gisbergen has finished in the top 15 the past three races when he started in the top 10, crew chief Stephen Doran said the team is focused on qualifying well with the No. 97 Chevrolet.

“If we can qualify up there, we can stay up there all day,” Doran said. “That’s just the last piece of the puzzle with the ovals is to qualify good. I feel like we have the speed to maintain that.”

Because stage points are awarded to the top 10 twice during each

NASCAR held a test session in April at Chicagoland and has spent more than $5 million to refurbish the facility, which has been dormant since the pandemic, aside from a SuperMotocross event in 2023.

There were 38 drivers in the June 30, 2019, race at Chicagoland. Of those 38, there are 18 who will be in Sunday’s race at a track that still has its original 2001 asphalt surface. Cody Ware, who will be making his Cup debut at Chicagoland, will be one of many relying on driving simulators to navigate the layout.

“The sim tells us where the bumps are and how to attack the track,” the Rick Ware Racing driver said. “Every little angle of your steering, your arc on corner entry and how aggressively you’re picking up the throttle, all those things matter.”

race, it’s also easier to build a Chase cushion by starting toward the front and increasing the chances of a clean race.

Mistakes that led to crashes have factored into van Gisbergen’s six finishes outside the top 30 on ovals this season.

“I’ve still got a long way up the hill to go,” he said. “I’m getting Points bubble there, and I see the glimpses, and Team Penske’s Austin Cindric I feel them, and I know it’s com- holds the 16th and final provisioning, but I still need to get a lot bet- al spot in the Chase, 12 points in ter, and I still have a lot to learn.” front of Erik Jones and 25 ahead of 2012 champion Brad KeselSweet home Chicagoland owski. Three-time champion Joey For the first time in seven years, Logano is 31 points behind in 20th NASCAR will return this weekend and in danger of missing the playto Chicagoland Speedway, and offs for the first time since 2017.

BOULDER, Colo. — Deion “Coach Prime” Sanders says he feels like his old — and younger — self again a year after undergoing surgery to remove his cancerous bladder.

“I consider myself cancer-free,” thanks to robotic surgery that also reconstructed his bladder using part of his intestine, Sanders told The Associated Press after getting a tutorial in the surgical system that was used in his operation.

“I was fighting” last year at this time, the University of Colorado football coach recalled. “I was walking out on the property with a bag of blood and also urine and trying to get back. But this expedited the process. Last year at this time I was in a whole different place, and I’m just thankful.”

Lions release CB Arnold after kidnapping charges

The Detroit Lions on Monday released cornerback Terrion Arnold, only days after his arrest over allegations that he orchestrated the abduction and beating of three men who prosecutors believe he wrongly suspected of having stolen goods and $100,000 in cash from him.

The announcement came the same day a Florida judge set Arnold’s bail at $1 million. Prosecutors say the three victims, including a man who worked as a driver for Arnold, were robbed while being held at gunpoint in a Tampa apartment in February.

Prosecutors had wanted Arnold held without bond on the eight felony charges. But Chief Circuit Court Judge Christopher Sabella granted bond. He won’t be required to wear an ankle monitor because it would prevent him from taking the field for games and training.

Blue Jays shut down OF Barger due to back injury

TORONTO — Toronto Blue Jays outfielder Addison Barger will be shut down for several more weeks because of a stress reaction in his back, further delaying his return in an injury-plagued season.

Blue Jays manager John Schneider said Monday that Barger experienced back pain while hitting at the team’s spring training facility in Florida. Barger came to Toronto for an MRI, which revealed the stress reaction, a bone injury that leads to swelling and irritation.

Barger, out since May 10 because of a sore elbow, has played just nine games this season. He’s batting .045 with no homers and two RBIs. He had one hit in eight games in March and April before missing 29 games because of a sprained left ankle.

Czech Republic coach resigns after early Cup exit

PRAGUE — Czech Republic coach Miroslav Koubek resigned on Monday after the team’s early exit from the World Cup. The decision was mutual, Koubek and Czech Football Association head David Trunda said in a statement.

“The coach offered me his position at a personal meeting today and I decided to accept his offer after an open and fair debate,” Trunda said.

Koubek said he was responsible for the poor results at the World Cup, where the Czechs lost to South Korea and Mexico and drew with South Africa. The Czechs finished on the bottom of Group A with one point.

Koubek’s resignation followed the retirement of team star Patrik Schick just hours after elimination.

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Two former NBA players indicted on gambling charges JOHN ANNESE

New york Daily News (TNS) NEW YORK — Former NBA players Malik Beasley and Ed Davis were indicted Monday on federal allegations related to a sports gambling scheme that focused on at least four games during the 202324 season, making them the latest players to face charges in a widespread sports betting scandal.

Beasley, 29, most recently a guard with the Detroit Pistons before the gambling investigation derailed his free agency last year, and Davis, 37, are charged alongside four others with wire fraud conspiracy, bribery in sporting contests, honest services wire fraud conspiracy and money laundering conspiracy.

Beasley is accused of fixing three games in 2024, when he played for the Milwaukee Bucks.

Davis, a former teammate of Beasley on the Minnesota Timberwolves, acted as his “gatekeeper,” and Beasley owed him gambling debts, according to federal prosecutors. Davis last played in the NBA for the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2022.

The two decided which games Beasley would underperform and overperform in when it came to statistics such as rebounds and points scored, according to the indictment. In exchange, Beasley’s debts would be reduced or paid off, the indictment alleges.

“Only way you can beat Vegas is sports betting. Everything else they got the edge,” Davis told Beasely in a text message exchange on Dec. 29, 2023 — about a month before he agreed to tamp down how many rebounds he would get in a Jan. 25, 2024, game against the Cavaliers.

Davis then asked to take the conversation to Snapchat, explaining: “Better to talk on there.

We can make some good money,” the indictment alleges.

The indictment names four other suspects who were allegedly in on the bets: William Brown, 39, of Nebraska; Robert Gorodtesky, 34, of Illinois; Ernesto Plascencia, 39, of California, who’s pals with Davis and other NBA players; and Paolo Zamorano, 39, a former Division I men’s college basketball player and Davis’ former agent.

“As alleged, the defendants turned professional basketball into a criminal betting operation, bribing then-NBA player Malik Beasley to fix his performance in multiple games in order to place fraudulent wagers, enrich themselves and cheat legitimate

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Continued from page 1C busy right now. But it’s a fun time of year. This is where we get to make decisions, shape the roster, do all that stuff.”

The NBA finalists — champion New York and runner-up San Antonio — both will have moves to make in the coming days, though they are expected to keep their cores largely intact.

Plenty of decisions and rostershaping already has happened around the league, either by trades (such as the Giannis Antetokounmpo blockbuster) or teams re-signing or extending their own players (such as Trae Young’s $212 million deal with Washington and Austin Reaves’ $185 million deal with the Lakers).

Miami will land Antetokounmpo and Bobby Portis in a trade that sends Tyler Herro, other players and draft capital to Milwaukee, but that won’t be finalized until that moratorium date passes. But in the interim, the Heat will look to add shooters — Tim Hardaway Jr., whose father’s number is retired in Miami, and longtime Antetokounmpo favorite Khris Middleton make a lot

Boston Celtics forward Jaylen Brown moves with the ball during a playoff game April 30 in Philadelphia.

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sportsbooks,” U.S. attorney Joseph Nocella said Monday.

Four of the suspects have been arrested, while two others, Beasely and Zamorano, are not yet in federal custody.

“An indictment is nothing but a probable cause one-sided charging document. It is not evidence and Malik maintains his presumption of innocence,” Beasley’s attorney, Steven Haney, said Monday. “We ask that people reserve judgment until all the facts are known.”

The conspirators placed tens of thousands of dollars on bets that Beasley would underperform on rebounds in the Jan. 26, 2024, game. He ended up tallying three points, one assist and three rebounds, the indictment says. The oddsmakers had set Beasely’s betting line at 3.5 rebounds.

Almost a month later, Plascencia asked Davis when Beasley would next fix a game for them and Davis responded, “Whenever I say. Just going to chill tonight but after this it’s go time,” the indictment says.

They waited for a game that wasn’t nationally televised — the Feb. 27, 2024, game between the Bucks and the Charlotte Hornets, when Beasley agreed to get fewer points and grab more rebounds, the indictment alleges.

The gamblers collectively profited about $100,000 on that game, the indictment says.

Things didn’t go as smoothly the third go-around, when the Bucks played the L.A. Clippers on March 10, 2024, according to the indictment.

Beasley agreed to overperform when it came to getting rebounds but some of the co-conspirators mistakenly thought the plan was for him to underperform.

He played 39 minutes, scoring 17 points with one assist and four rebounds — clearing the 3.5 rebound betting line with 1.1 seconds left in the game.

The scheme fell apart on March 21, 2024, when Beasley failed to underperform on rebounds as planned in a game against the Brooklyn Nets, the indictment says.

Plascencia demanded Davis either compensate the losing bets or make Beasley fix more games, according to the indictment.

Davis agreed to keep fixing the games — but news got out that Toronto Raptors player Jontay Porter was under investigation for fixing games so he abandoned that plan, the indictment alleges.

of sense.

The Heat will keep Andrew Wiggins, who on Monday exercised his $30 million option for this coming season and, according to a person familiar with the talks between the sides, has agreed in principle on a $34 million deal for the following two seasons — with 2028-29 at his option.

More trades could be coming, with a person familiar with the negotiations confirming to the AP that Toronto has spoken with the Los Angeles Clippers on the possibility of Kawhi Leonard — who led the Raptors to the 2019 NBA title — returning to Ontario next season. And Boston is still believed to be holding talks about the possibility of trading 2024 NBA Finals MVP Jaylen Brown, who was the centerpiece of the Celtics’ ultimately futile offer to land Antetokounmpo in trade discussions with Milwaukee.

“Nobody has won more combined regular-season and playoff games since I entered the league 10 years ago,” Brown posted on social media over the weekend.

He’s right: The Celtics have won 523 games with Brown in the lineup, including playoff contests, which is six more than Denver has won with Nikola Jokic over that span.

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Memphis Grizzlies guard Ja Morant plays against the Atlanta Hawks on Jan. 21 in Memphis, Tenn.

Blazers acquire Morant from Grizzlies in trade

BY TIM REYNOLDS AP basketball writer

Ja Morant is headed to Portland after the Trail Blazers and Memphis agreed on a trade Monday that sees the Grizzlies starting anew and gives the two-time AllStar a chance to revive his career, a person with knowledge of the agreement told The Associated Press.

Portland is sending forwards Jerami Grant and Kris Murray to the Grizzlies as part of the deal.

It’s a big swing by the Trail Blazers and could suggest Portland — with new owner Tom Dundon, whose Carolina Hurricanes just won the Stanley Cup — might not be done making moves. Morant adds to a logjam at point guard right now for Portland, with Jrue Holiday, Damian Lillard and Scoot

Henderson also on the current roster.

Morant has averaged 22.4 points for his career but has played only 79 games over the last three seasons because of injuries and suspensions — including a 25-game banishment after he was seen on a livestream holding a gun while he was in the passenger seat of a vehicle. That came not long after an eight-game suspension for flashing a gun in a Denver-area nightclub, also captured on social media.

The suspensions, combined, cost Morant — who was Rookie of the Year after being the No. 2 selection in the 2019 draft — about $9 million in lost salary. He said in April 2025 that he’s made his peace with being a lightning rod for constant criticism.

“I’m kind of used to it,” Morant said at that time. “I was pretty

much a villain for two years now.

Every little thing, if somebody can say something negative about me, it’s going to be out there. So, yeah.

I don’t care no more.”

Grant averaged 18.6 points last season for Portland and will join his sixth team by going to Memphis. Murray averaged 5.8 points per game this past season for the Trail Blazers.

In the 2021-22 season, Memphis win 56 games, tying a franchise record. That team was built around a young core four — Morant, Dillon Brooks, Jaren Jackson and Desmond Bane.

Now, they’re all gone. Brooks played only one more season with the Grizzlies after that and has changed teams twice since; Bane was traded to Orlando last summer; and Jackson was traded to Utah in February.

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Continued from page 1C sons in Hattiesburg. From there, he transferred to Wichita State and then Jacksonville State before finishing up at SMU. There’s a simple message in his resilience.

“Never giving up,” Pierre said.

“Staying the course. Keeping my head down and working.”

It’s a path that former NBA guard and St. Aug alum Avery Johnson knows well.

“I’m incredibly proud of Jaron and all his hard work and tenacity,” Johnson said.” Like Jaron, I transferred colleges before finding my home at Southern University. Sometimes, the journey isn’t a straight line. But good things come to those who grind.”

That’s’ what Pierre did to make it this far. And for him, the grind will continue.

He worked out for the Pelicans last year and then again this year.

He felt like he did well in his predraft workouts. Besides being a player who can score at all three levels, Pierre also believes his leadership can be an asset.

“Being an older guy, I’m very seasoned already,” Pierre said.

“I bring a lot of things. Defense.

Toughness. Competitiveness. Energy. I bring a lot of things to the table that I know (Dumars) wants to see.”

Pierre has leaned on the advice of another Louisiana guard who made it to the NBA — Gretna native and former Pelican Elfrid Payton. Payton’s advice to him has been simple.

“Stay consistent. Stay level-headed. Keep the distractions out. Stay locked in and your time will come.”

For Pierre, his time came last week when he got the phone call letting him know he was being drafted by the Pelicans.

He admits he started getting a bit nervous the longer the draft lasted. Only two players were drafted behind him at picks No. 59 and 60, but Pierre doesn’t mind. He just wants to make the most of this opportunity to play in the Smoothie King Center just 3 miles away from his high school at 2600 A.P. Tureaud Ave. Instead of being the fan trying to catch T-shirts, Pierre gets to help provide the entertainment.

“It means everything,” Pierre

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Pelicans executive vice president of basketball operations Joe Dumars gives Jaron Pierre his jersey during a news conference on Monday. The Pelicans drafted Pierre in the second round last week.

St. Aug graduate Jaron Pierre poses with his family after his introductory news conference Monday. said. “From watching those games when I was young to now everybody coming and watching me play is a big life change. Full circle for me. I grew up watching the Peli-

cans. So playing for the Pelicans is beautiful.”

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TODAY’S GAMES IVORY COAST VS. NORWAY noon, Fox | FRANCE VS. SWEDEN 4 p.m., Fox | MEXICO VS. ECUADOR 8 p.m., Fox

Paraguay stuns Germany in upset

By The Associated Press

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — José Canale wasn’t in the starting lineup in either of his previous two appearances for Paraguay in this World Cup. He made his first start a memorable one.

Canale scored on the first sudden-death penalty kick, Orlando Gill made two key saves in the shootout, and Paraguay beat Germany 4-3 on penalties Monday to earn the biggest upset of the 2026 World Cup. It was a major triumph for the landlocked South American country of 7 million people that’s surrounded by soccer giants like Argentina and Brazil.

“I think we deserved one more game, to be honest, considering everything that was said, everything we went through,” Canale said.

“What I want to highlight from our team is how united we are. ... Today was a game we really needed to show our true colors.”

Germany missed three of six tries in the shootout, the last by Jonathan Tah, who blasted his attempt high over the crossbar in the first sudden-death round, setting up Canale for the winner. Tah’s miss followed a save by German goalkeeper Manuel Neuer of Fabian Balbuena’s attempt that would have won it for Paraguay.

Paraguay was without defender Omar Alderete, who left with an injury in the second half of its 0-0 draw against Australia. Canale started in his place.

The round of 32 match ended 1-1 after extra time. Paraguay took the lead when Julio Enciso scored on a header late in the first half, but Kai Havertz equalized in the 52nd minute for four-time cham-

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Fabian Balbuena, left, and Gustavo Gomez celebrate after Paraguay won the World Cup round of 32 match against Germany on Monday in Foxborough, Mass.

ROUNDUP pion Germany.

Germany had won six of seven penalty shootouts in major tournaments, including six straight since losing to Czechoslovakia in the 1976 European Championship final.

“It’s not enough for German football,” coach Julian Nagelsmann said.

BRAZIL 2, JAPAN 1: In Houston, Gabriel Martinelli scored the winning goal late in injury time to give fivetime champion Brazil a win over Japan.

Martinelli, who had come on as a second-half substitute, scored in the sixth minute of stoppage time as the match appeared to be headed to extra time.

“Above all else we wanted to freshen up the field because Martinelli has a lot of intensity as a

player,” Brazil coach Carlo Ancelotti said through a translator.

“When he goes in the match, he’s always on his top game.”

Brazil will next face either the Ivory Coast or Norway on Sunday in East Rutherford, New Jersey, in the round of 16.

“We can never be content with what we’re doing,” Ancelotti said.

“We’re doing a good job. We are performing. But you can never be content because we want to play

better. We want to play at the highest level.”

Casemiro had earlier equalized for Brazil on a header in the 56th minute off an assist from Gabriel Magalhães after just missing another chance two minutes earlier.

The shot sailed just out of reach of the outstretched hand of Japan goalkeeper Zion Suzuki and into the net.

Kaishu Sano stole a misplaced pass at midfield and took it down the field before a right-footed shot from above the half circle put Japan ahead in the 29th minute.

“There is not making mistakes because nobody is perfect,” Ancelotti said. “But you have to overcome it, and you have to push it forward. The team did a good job of that in the second half.”

Vinícius Júnior, who has scored four goals so far in this year’s tournament, had a chance to put Brazil on top in the 58th minute but his shot from the left box was deflected by Suzuki and went off the far post.

Casemiro left in the first minute of second-half stoppage time with what appeared to be a leg injury.

Brazil great Neymar didn’t play Monday after making his first appearance for the team since 2023 in the last game against Scotland.

He played only 14 minutes in that 3-0 win after missing the first two group matches at the World Cup with a right calf injury.

“I was seriously considering putting him on the pitch,” Ancelotti said. “In the end, we did not need him.”

Japan has never won a knockout match at the World Cup, going 0-4 in the round of 16 — including also taking the lead the past two times in 2018 and 2022 before losing.

France, Norway, Mexico look to stay alive in knockout round

BY DAVID BRANDT Associated Press

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Belgium’s Romelu Lukaku celebrates his goal during a game against New Zealand on Friday in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Belgium striker ‘happy to be here’

BY OWEN CAMEROS

Associated Press

SEATTLE — Belgium striker Romelu Lukaku’s fitness remains a concern as the team prepares to take on Senegal in the round of 32 at the World Cup on Wednesday.

The 33-year-old Lukaku, who leads his nation in goals scored, withdrew from Belgium’s friendlies in the United States in the spring to get healthy. He missed the majority of the club season because of a hamstring injury. Lukaku appeared only seven times across all competitions for Italian club Napoli last season.

“I’m going with the flow.

I train hard, and in the end, I’m happy to be here,” Lukaku said Monday in French. “Especially when you see where I come from.

I try to have my impact when I need to.”

Lukaku started Belgium’s second group match against Iran and struggled

to keep up with the tempo.

He did not register a shot, picked up a yellow card and was replaced after 73 minutes.

However, in his two substitute appearances against Egypt and New Zealand, Lukaku fared much better. The striker forced an own-goal just 23 seconds after entering in a 1-1 draw against Egypt and added a goal and an assist in a cameo against New Zealand.

“When I’m on the bench, I have a lot of time to analyze everything that’s happening on the field,” Lukaku said. “Helping the team is the most important thing for me.”

Lukaku’s contract with Napoli expires in June 2027. He has had a strained relationship with the club, including a March training absence that prompted Napoli to consider punishing the player.

The two sides held constructive talks a few weeks later, and Lukaku reaffirmed his desire to stay

with Napoli through next season.

Senegal, Belgium’s looming opponent, finished third in Group I with three points and a plus-2 goal differential. The African team navigated one of the toughest groups in the tournament, one that featured favorite France and the Erling Haaland-led Norway.

Senegal finished as the eighth-best third-place team — the last of the thirdplace finishers to reach the round of 32.

“We know it will be a tough match. Senegal has a lot of top-level players, and the coach (Pape Thiaw) is, too,” Lukaku said. “I think it’s 50-50. We really shouldn’t underestimate them.”

At 33, Lukaku could be playing in his final World Cup. Midfielder Kevin De Bruyne, 35, and goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois, 34, each could sit out the 2030 World Cup as well — a possible end to the team’s “Golden Generation.”

Formidable France is back on the field for the World Cup round of 32, welcoming its coach back to the sideline after a one-game absence.

So is Norway, which rowed into North Texas for its first knockout match in 28 years.

Meanwhile, host Mexico hopes a raucous home crowd and playing at altitude can help it prevail in Mexico City.

Elimination games continue on Tuesday with three matchups: France-Sweden, Ivory Coast-Norway and Mexico-Ecuador.

Coach Didier Deschamps is back with France after traveling to Europe for his mother’s funeral. Assistant Guy Stéphan led Les Bleus to a 4-1 win over Norway in Deschamps’ absence.

Star striker Erling Haaland scored four goals in Norway’s first two groupstage games before sitting out the loss to France. He will try to lead his country to a win over Ivory Coast.

Mexico will have the home crowd behind it at Estadio Azteca after winning all three of its games in Group A.

Norway rows into Texas A rested Norway was greeted by about a dozen local law enforcement officials making a rowing motion on the tarmac when the team landed in Dallas ahead of its round of 32 game against Ivory Coast.

Norway coach Ståle Solbakken said he was on the wrong side of the plane and

didn’t see it, but called it a “surreal” moment for the squad.

Haaland was among 10 regulars not in Norway’s starting lineup for its groupstage finale. While some fans were disappointed, the loss to France was only four days after a 3-2 win over Senegal, and Norway had already secured a spot in the knockout stage for the first time since 1998.

“We have to do what’s best for the team. And the manager was clear and we agreed with him, that we had a really tough game before and we have a really hard game tomorrow, and we had the chance to rotate a little bit,” team captain Martin Odegaard said Monday before a training session. “We have to think about ourselves, how we can go as far as we can in this competition.”

“Some rest, I think that was the sensible thing to do.

So I’m very, very happy we did that,” midfielder Patrick Berg said.

Ivory Coast, in its fourth World Cup, will play its first knockout game.

France seeks deep run Deschamps learned of his mother’s death the day after France’s win over Iraq on June 22, which clinched advancement.

“I’m here. I’m good, and it’s good to be busy since Friday evening when I arrived back in the United States,” Deschamps said Monday through an interpreter.

France swept its group matches for the first time

since 1998, joined by Argentina and Mexico as the only nations to win all three games. Seeking their third title after 1998 and 2018, Les Bleus would face Paraguay in the round of 16 if they get past the Swedes.

France striker Marcus Thuram won’t be available against Sweden because of a calf injury, and midfielder N’Golo Kanté is uncertain.

Sweden defender Isak Hien will miss the match with a hamstring injury that forced him from last Thursday’s game against Japan in the 37th minute.

Mexico’s advantage Mexico’s best World Cup performances came when hosting the tournament in 1970 and 1986, reaching the quarterfinals both times.

The current squad will play Ecuador, aiming to win its first knockout-stage match since June 1986, when it defeated Bulgaria in the round of 16.

“I don’t know if we’re favorites, but playing at home and with our fans behind us, we want to do things right,” left back Jesús Gallardo said Monday.

The Mexicans also benefit from the altitude — 7,350 feet above sea level — a factor that has helped the team lose only two matches in its history at Estadio Azteca.

“We have a 90-minute match ahead of us, plus extra time and possibly penalties, so we shouldn’t focus on the altitude but rather on playing football the way we have so far,” Gallardo said.

GLANCE ROUND OF 32

Wednesday

Canada 1, South Africa 0

England vs. Congo, 11 p.m.

Belgium vs. Senegal, 3 p.m.

United States vs. Bosnia, 8 p.m.

Brazil 2, Japan 1 Paraguay 1 (4-3 PK), Germany 1 Netherlands vs. Morocco, n

Spain vs. Austria, 2 p.m.

Portugal vs. Croatia, 6 p.m.

Switzerland vs. Algeria, 10 p.m.

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Monday

Tuesday

Ivory Coast vs. Norway, noon France vs. Sweden, 4 p.m.

Mexico vs. Ecuador, 8 p.m.

Thursday

Friday

Australia vs. Egypt, 1 p.m.

Argentina vs. Cape Verde, 5 p.m.

Colombia vs. Ghana, 8:30 p.m.

ROUND OF 16 Saturday

Canada vs. TBD, noon Paraguay vs. TBD, 4 p.m.

Sunday

Brazil vs. TBD, 3 p.m.

TBD, 7 p.m.

July 6

TBD, 2 p.m.

TBD, 7 p.m.

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Serena’s return creates hot ticket at Wimbledon

BY ANDREW DAMPF

AP sportswriter

ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO By KIN CHEUNG

Jannik Sinner of Italy celebrates after winning his match against Miomir Kecmanovic of Serbia on Monday at Wimbledon in London.

Sinner survives upset in five sets

BY ANDREW DAMPF AP sportswriter

LONDON — Defending champion Jannik Sinner had to come back from a set down twice and regain his composure after a worrisome tumble to the grass in a five-set victory over 50th-ranked Miomir Kecmanovic in the first round of Wimbledon on Monday.

A month after his French Open meltdown, the top-ranked Sinner produced a 4-6, 6-3, 6-7 (6), 6-2, 6-3 win that lasted 3 hours and 30 minutes in the opening match on Centre Court, which by custom is reserved for the past year’s men’s singles champion.

Sinner said he was “a little tight in the beginning,” noting that it was his first grass-court match of the season.

“I’m happy that I turned it around,” Sinner said.

Lleyton Hewitt, the 2002 champion, remains the only Wimbledon men’s singles winner in the professional era (since 1968) to lose in the first round the next year. The Australian was defeated by Ivo Karlovic in his 2003 opener.

In another Centre Court match, seven-time champion Novak Djokovic had Bad Bunny cheering him on during a 6-4, 5-7, 6-4, 6-4 victory over 102nd-ranked Wu Yibing that ended with the retractable roof closed and the lights turned on due to darkness.

Djokovic improved to a perfect 21-0 in the opening round at Wimbledon.

Serena Williams will play her opening match on Tuesday against 20-year-old Maya Joint of Australia — marking the first time she competes in singles in nearly four years.

Sinner hadn’t played an official match since he struggled with dizziness during a heat wave at Roland Garros, where after being within one game of concluding his second-round match in straight sets, he was beaten by Juan Manuel Cerundolo in five.

The match with Kecmanovic was played in ideal conditions, with

GLEASON

Continued from page 1C and urgency returned to them.”

Gleason, who is on vacation in the Pacific Northwest near his hometown of Spokane, Washington, also messaged Johnson directly after learning of his diagnosis.

Johnson announced his diagnosis during an interview on ABC’s “Good Morning America.”

The former Tennessee Titans standout revealed his battle with the motor neuron disease, which is also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, in a sit-down interview with former New York Giants defensive end Michael Strahan, who works as a host for the program. Johnson said he was diagnosed last year,

LONDON — Anticipation is building at Wimbledon for Serena Williams’ first singles match in nearly four years.

The 44-year-old Williams is scheduled to play an opponent less than half her age, 20-year-old Maya Joint of Australia, in the third match Tuesday on Centre Court — the patch of grass where the American standout won seven of her 23 Grand Slam singles titles.

“I think everyone’s feeling the same way: Cannot wait to be watching Serena back on Centre Court again,” Sally Bolton, the chief executive of the All England Club, said Monday.

Wimbledon organizers took the unusual step of holding up an eighth and final wild-card spot for Williams until she accepted the invitation at almost the last possible moment the weekend before qualifying began.

“We were all sitting there sort of quietly keeping our fingers crossed that that’s what would happen,” Bolton said when asked how anxious the club was while Williams pondered her decision. “She is such an icon of the sport and particularly here at the championship, she’s one of our most special champion. So it really will be the ticket to have tomorrow when she walks back on Centre Court.”

Whether it was related to Williams or not, the line of would-bespectators camping out overnight for the daily batches of Wimbledon tickets on offer had reached 10,000 people by Monday morning.

“We are advising people if they haven’t already set off to travel, not to travel because the queue is effectively full,” Bolton said. “By comparison to last year, it is really busy.”

AP PHOTO By KIN CHEUNG

Serena Williams plays a return during a practice session ahead of Wimbledon. Her first-round match is Tuesday.

Williams will also play doubles with older sister Venus Williams later in the week.

Since Serena last won Wimbledon a decade ago, eight different women have won the title.

“It was needed a wee bit to kind of reinvent the women’s game,” said Lauren Byrne, a 26-year-old spectator at Wimbledon from near Dublin. “She’s definitely going to bring a bit more excitement back.”

Added Byrne’s father, Anthony: “It’s just great to see her. She still has the appetite, hasn’t she, to play at this level? Age isn’t a barrier.”

Gibran Chenia, a London resident who described himself as “50-plus,” called Williams “a legend.

“And if she’s half as good as she was, she is going to be great for tennis,” Chenia said. “It’s great to have legends back.”

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Jannik Sinner of Italy reacts after falling down during a match against Miomir Kecmanovic of Serbia on Monday in London. sunny skies and the temperature 75 degrees.

Sinner is a big favorite to repeat as Wimbledon champion since his main rival Carlos Alcaraz, who he beat in last year’s final, is missing the championships due to a right wrist injury.

Sinner felt the pressure from the honors reserved for the defending champion.

“It was a very, very different feeling,” he said. “There’s a lot of nerves when you go down the stairs behind the court. Also mentally knowing it’s such a prestige court and such a historical court.”

Early in the third set, Sinner drew a loud applause when he executed a sliced stop-volley drop shot that was so good Kecmanovic didn’t even run for it. But in the same game, Sinner then fell hard to the grass when he lost his footing trying to change directions. He went down on his knees and fell backwards grimacing in pain as he grasped what appeared to be his left hip area. But he quickly got up and resumed playing.

As the match wore on, Sinner appeared to be bleeding through his right shoe.

“I’m good,” Sinner said. “It just

when he was 39 years old.

Johnson, 40, played 10 seasons with the Tennessee Titans, New York Jets and Arizona Cardinals from 2008-17. In 2009, he became just the sixth running back in NFL history to rush for more than 2,000 yards in a season and was named the NFL Offensive Player of the Year. He also earned three consecutive Pro Bowl invitations during that time.

“There’s no history of ALS in my family,” Johnson said during his interview. “My doctors believe my case is what’s called sporadic ALS, which is actually how the vast majority of ALS cases happen. That’s one of the reasons this disease can be so shocking. It can happen to someone who never expected it.”

Gleason, who is remembered and celebrated for his iconic blocked

seems much worse than it is. … It’s just a nail.”

Kecmanovic saved a set point in the third-set tiebreaker with a wild point that ended with Sinner down on the ground again after he first retrieved a short ball and then retreated to run down a ball over his shoulder into the corner. It evened the tiebreaker at 6-6 and Sinner and Kecmanovic slapped hands on the ensuing change of ends as the players appeared to appreciate each other’s effort.

Two points later, a backhand from Sinner sailed long and Kecmanovic had a two-sets-to-one lead.

“The third set,” Sinner said, “was a very tough one to swallow.”

But Sinner cleaned up his game in the final two sets to earn his first five-set victory since he came back from two sets down to beat Daniil Medvedev for his first Grand Slam trophy in the 2024 Australian Open final.

In other matches Monday, Medvedev defeated Marin Cilic 6-1, 6-2, 6-4 in a matchup of Grand Slam champions; 12th-seeded Andrey Rublev was beaten by Roman Safiullin 6-4, 6-7 (6), 3-6, 6-3, 7-6 (12); and rising Spanish teenager Rafael Jodar, in his Wimbledon debut, beat Felix Gill 6-3, 6-3, 7-5.

punt that symbolized the city’s post-Katrina resilience in 2006, founded the nonprofit organization Team Gleason to empower people living with the disease.

The foundation has provided tens of millions of dollars in assistive technology, specialized equipment, care services and adventure excursions to help patients live purposeful and independent lives. Gleason’s extensive advocacy work inspired federal legislation — specifically the Steve Gleason Act — to ensure Medicare patients have access to critical communication devices Gleason is currently spearheading research to learn why professional athletes are diagnosed with ALS 25% more often than the general population in an effort to develop targeted treatments.

LSU

Continued from page 1C in April. “The players play really hard for him. He’s a great motivator, so I really like that because it creates a competitive atmosphere out there.”

Let’s highlight four transfers expected to play important roles in 2026 as LSU tries to break back into the upper echelon of FBS defenses.

S Ty Benefield Benefield, a safety from Boise State, was one of the clear standouts of spring practice, and Kiffin said in a recent appearance on Tyrann Mathieu’s podcast that he was “gonna be one of those legends to play here.”

That’s lofty praise for Benefield, the former All-Mountain West Conference senior who’s expected to man one of LSU’s starting safety spots.

“He’s wired right,” Kiffin told Mathieu. “Unbelievable range, great ball skills. I’m like, ‘You gotta get him up here to meet you,’ just to connect it. Like, you’re gonna be (one of) these iconic names, hopefully.”

Benefield started at safety next to Cooley in spring practices, but he also could spend some time at the Star spot — the hybrid defensive back-linebacker position that Spears, a junior, played throughout those sessions.

At Boise State, Benefield excelled around the line of scrimmage. He recorded 8.5 tackles for loss last season, which led all Mountain West defensive backs.

DE Princewill Umanmielen It’s no secret that Baker wants his defenses to create havoc. It’s just difficult to accomplish that goal consistently without a capable four-man pass rush.

That’s why Umanmielen was one of LSU’s most important signings during the transferportal cycle. At Ole Miss in 2025, he recorded nine sacks and 51 pressures — almost as many as the Tigers’ top two edge rushers combined last year (61). Only two SEC defenders brought down opposing quarterbacks

more times than he did.

Expect Umanmielen and the rest of the LSU defensive linemen to be more disruptive than they were in 2025. The group has a nice mix of proven veterans and promising young players.

“We’re a very versatile room,” Umanmielen said during spring practices in April. “Lot of different guys, lot of different aspects of different games that you can put on the field when it comes to us. I like our room a lot.”

DE Jordan Ross LSU already had a key role planned for Ross even before redshirt sophomore Gabe Reliford tore his ACL during spring practices, forcing the Tigers to move the Tennessee transfer into an even more prominent position.

Now Ross is expected to start at edge rusher opposite Umanmielen. He’ll likely play more snaps than he did in 2025, when he rotated onto the Tennessee defensive line behind four other pass rushers.

Five-star freshman Lamar Brown could push Ross for snaps, but it looks like the 6-foot5, 246-pound junior has an opportunity to enjoy a career year anyway. He’s always had potential. Ross was one of the 25 most highly rated players in his high school signing class, according to 247Sports composite rankings.

LB TJ Dottery Dottery was the leading tackler in the SEC at Ole Miss in 2025.

Now he’s expected to start at linebacker next to Weeks to form what has the potential to be a dangerous pairing at the second level of the LSU defense.

There are areas in which Dottery can improve. According to Pro Football Focus, the fifth-year senior missed 16 tackles last season, which was the fourth-most among SEC linebackers who played more than 500 snaps.

But the Tigers were looking for an experienced, reliable veteran to replace West Weeks, and they got that in Dottery — a proven SEC defender who’s started 27 games across the last two years.

247Sports said Dottery was one of the 15 best linebackers to enter the transfer portal.

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Texas Seattle Houston Athletics Los Angeles

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Los Angeles San Diego Arizona San Francisco Colorado

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Monday’s Games

Las Vegas at New York, 6 p.m. (2026 Commissioner’s Cup Final)

Tennis Wimbledon Results Monday

At All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club London Purse: £30,060,000 Surface: Grass Results Monday from the Championships at All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club (seedings in parentheses):

Men’s Singles

First Round Marton Fucsovics, Hungary, def. Luca Van Assche, France, 6-3, 4-0, ret.

Shintaro Mochizuki, Japan, def. Max Basing, Britain, 6-3, 6-0, 6-0.

Jenson Brooksby, United States, def. Aleksandar Vukic, Australia, 7-6 (7), 6-1, 6-1.

Rafael Jodar (23), Spain, def. Felix Gill, Britain, 6-3, 6-3, 7-5.

Pablo Carreno Busta, Spain, def. Denis Shapovalov, Canada, 6-3, 7-6 (7), ret.

Tommy Paul (21), United States, def. Alexandre Muller, France, 6-1, 6-2, 6-1.

Ignacio Buse (31), Peru, def. Emilio Nava, United States, 7-6 (3), 3-6, 7-5, 6-0.

Botic Van de Zandschulp, Netherlands, def.

Aleksandar Kovacevic, United States, 6-3, 6-7 (2), 6-4, 6-0.

Learner Tien (16), United States, def. Dalibor Svrcina, Czechia, 6-1, 6-4, 6-7 (4), 6-3.

Martin Damm Jr, United States, def. Marco Trungelliti, Argentina, 7-6 (5), 6-7 (5), 7-6 (2), 7-6 (5).

Daniel Merida, Spain, def. Camilo Ugo Carabelli, Argentina, 4-6, 3-6, 6-2, 3-0, ret.

Roman Safiullin, Russia, def. Andrey Rublev (12), Russia, 6-4, 6-7 (6), 3-6, 6-3, 7-6 (12).

Hubert Hurkacz, Poland, def. Casper Ruud (11), Norway, 6-4, 6-2, 7-6 (7).

Sebastian Ofner, Austria, def. Hamad Medjedovic, Serbia, 1-6, 6-2, 4-6, 6-3, 6-4.

Nuno Borges, Portugal, def. Tristan Boyer, United States, 6-3, 7-5, 7-5.

Joao Fonseca (24), Brazil, def. Roberto Bautista Agut, Spain, 7-6 (4), 6-4, 6-3.

Michael Zheng, United States, def. Cameron Norrie (26), Britain, 6-7 (7), 6-2, 6-7 (2), 6-3, 7-6 (4).

Stefanos Tsitsipas, Greece, def. Hugo Gaston, France, 6-1, 6-4, 6-2.

Jannik Sinner (1), Italy, def. Miomir Kecmanovic, Serbia, 4-6, 6-3, 6-7 (6), 6-2, 6-3.

Ethan Quinn, United States, def. Luciano Darderi (14), Italy, 7-6 (7), 7-5, 6-2.

Kwon Soon Woo, South Korea, def. Martin Landaluce, Spain, 6-4, 6-3, 6-3.

Daniil Medvedev (8), Russia, def. Marin Cilic, Croatia, 6-1, 6-2, 6-4.

Fabian Marozsan, Hungary, def. Thiago Agustin Tirante, Argentina, 7-5, 6-3, 6-4.

Jan-Lennard Struff, Germany, def. Sebastian Baez, Argentina, 6-1, 7-6 (4), 4-6, 2-6, 7-5.

Dino Prizmic, Croatia, def. Adam Walton, Australia, 4-6, 7-6 (3), 6-4, 6-2.

Arthur Rinderknech (25), France, def. Oliver Tarvet, Britain, 7-6 (4), 7-6 (4), 4-6, 7-5.

Felix Auger-Aliassime (3), Canada, def. Aleksandr Shevchenko, Russia, 6-3, 6-1, 6-4.

Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (22), Spain, def.

Juan Manuel Cerundolo, Argentina, 6-4, 6-4, 7-6 (2).

Nicolas Mejia, Colombia, def. Adolfo Daniel Vallejo, Paraguay, 4-6, 6-4, 7-5, 7-6 (2).

Novak Djokovic (7), Serbia, def. Yibing Wu, China, 6-4, 5-7, 6-4, 6-4.

First Round Belinda Bencic (11), Switzerland, def. Mika Stojsavljevic, Britain, 6-2, 6-1.

Jessica Pegula (4), United States, def. Darja Vidmanova, Czechia, 7-5, 6-3.

Sara Sorribes Tormo, Spain, def. Victoria Jimenez Kasintseva, Andorra, 6-2, 6-3.

Iva Jovic (16), United States, def. Jaqueline Cristian, Romania, 7-6 (1), 6-0.

Mananchaya Sawangkaew, Thailand, def.

Maja Chwalinska (20), Poland, 2-6, 7-5, 6-2.

Wang Xinyu, China, def. Elisabetta Cocciaretto, Italy, 6-3, 2-6, 6-2.

Zeynep Sonmez, Turkiye, def. Ann Li (28), United States, 7-5, 1-6, 6-4.

Tatjana Maria, Germany, def. Yulia Putintseva, Kazakhstan, 6-4, 6-4.

Alycia Parks, United States, def. Alicia Dudeney, Britain, 6-3, 6-3.

Jelena Ostapenko, Latvia, def. Harriet Dart, Britain, 6-3, 3-6, 6-4.

Zhang Shuai, China, def. Bianca Andreescu, Canada, 7-6 (3), 7-6 (6).

Antonia Ruzic, Croatia, def. Darja Semenistaja, Latvia, 6-3, 3-6, 6-3.

Naomi Osaka (14), Japan, def. Elsa Jacquemot, France, 6-1, 7-5.

Claire Liu, United States, def. Hanne Vandewinkel, Belgium, 4-6, 6-3, 6-4.

Janice Tjen, Indonesia, def. Leylah Fernandez (22), Canada, 6-1, 7-6 (3).

Aryna Sabalenka (1), Belarus, def. Teodora Kostovic, Serbia, 6-2, 6-3.

McCartney Kessler, United States, def. Oleksandra Oliynykova, Ukraine, 6-0, 6-0.

Barbora Krejcikova, Czechia, def. Hannah Klugman, Britain, 6-1, 6-4.

Daria Kasatkina, Russia, def. Mingge Xu, Britain, 6-2, 3-6, 6-2.

Nikola Bartunkova, Czechia, def. Peyton Stearns, United States, 6-4, 3-6, 7-5.

Lanlana Tararudee, Thailand, def. Lilli Tagger, Austria, 7-6 (3), 5-7, 6-4.

Anna Kalinskaya (19), Russia, def. Magdalena Frech, Poland, 7-6 (5), 6-4.

Karolina Muchova (10), Czechia, def. Anastasia Zakharova, Russia, 6-3, 6-2.

Coco Gauff (7), United States, def. Tamara Korpatsch, Germany, 6-2, 6-1.

Mirra Andreeva (5), Russia, def. Magda Linette, Poland, 7-5, 6-4.

Ekaterina Alexandrova (18), Russia, def.

Panna Udvardy, Hungary, 6-4, 6-2.

Anastasia Gasanova, Russia, def. Emiliana Arango, Colombia, 6-3, 6-1.

Katerina Siniakova (32), Czechia, def. Zheng Qinwen, China, 6-4, 6-4.

Dayana Yastremska, Ukraine, def. Aoi Ito, Japan, 7-6 (1), 4-6, 7-5.

Jessica Bouzas Maneiro, Spain, def. Anasta-

Sunday’s Games

Chicago White Sox 8, Baltimore 2 Detroit 7, N.Y. Yankees 3 Toronto 2, N.Y. Mets 1 Boston 6, Washington 3 Texas 6, Cleveland 3 Minnesota at Houston, n L.A. Angels at Seattle, n L.A. Dodgers at Athletics, 8:40 p.m.

Pittsburgh 11, Philadelphia 7 Toronto 2, N.Y. Mets 1 Boston 6, Washington 3 Cincinnati at Milwaukee, n San Diego at Chicago Cubs, n Miami at Colorado, n L.A. Dodgers at Athletics, n San Francisco at Arizona, n

Chicago White Sox (Fedde 2-6) at Baltimore (Gibson 1-2), 5:35 p.m.

Texas (deGrom 6-5) at Cleveland (Bibee 2-8), 5:40 p.m.

Detroit (Skubal 3-4) at N.Y. Yankees (Schlittler 8-4), 6:05 p.m.

N.Y. Mets (McLean 4-5) at Toronto (Gausman 4-6), 6:07 p.m.

Washington (Cavalli 4-4) at Boston (Early 7-5), 6:10 p.m.

Tampa Bay (Jax 3-5) at Kansas City (Cameron 4-5), 6:40 p.m.

Minnesota (Ryan 5-4) at Houston (Burrows 3-8), 7:10 p.m.

L.A. Angels (Soriano 8-4) at Seattle (Woo 6-6), 8:40 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (Wrobleski 9-2) at Athletics (Springs 3-7), 8:40 p.m.

Pittsburgh (Chandler 3-7) at Philadelphia (Sánchez 9-3), 5:40 p.m.

N.Y. Mets (McLean 4-5) at Toronto (Gausman 4-6), 6:07 p.m.

Washington (Cavalli 4-4) at Boston (Early 7-5), 6:10 p.m.

St. Louis (Liberatore 3-5) at Atlanta (Pérez 6-4), 6:15 p.m.

Cincinnati (Lowder 3-5) at Milwaukee (Sproat 2-4), 6:40 p.m.

San Diego (Sears 1-0) at Chicago Cubs (Boyd 2-1), 7:05 p.m.

Miami (Pérez 3-6) at Colorado (Freeland 1-7), 7:40 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (Wrobleski 9-2) at Athletics (Springs 3-7), 8:40 p.m.

San Francisco (Roupp 5-7) at Arizona (TBD), 8:40 p.m.

Monday’s Games

Tuesday’s Games

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No games scheduled.

Tuesday’s Games

West Division

Tampa Bay 5, Arizona 1 Washington 6, Baltimore 4 St. Louis 2, Miami 1 Minnesota 3, Colorado 2 Pittsburgh 9, Cincinnati 4 Philadelphia 5, N.Y. Mets 4 Chicago Cubs 4, Milwaukee 3, 10 innings San Francisco 3, Atlanta 2 L.A. Dodgers 4, San Diego 2

Tuesday’s Games

Minnesota 85, Dallas 77 Las Vegas 107, Chicago 99 Washington 124, Portland 123, 4OT Golden State 76, New York 67

Central Division

Tampa Bay 5, Arizona 1 Texas 3, Toronto 2 Washington 6, Baltimore 4 Minnesota 3, Colorado 2 Cleveland 6, Seattle 5 Kansas City 5, Chicago White Sox 4 Houston 7, Detroit 5, 10 innings L.A. Angels 4, Athletics 1 Boston 5, N.Y. Yankees 4, 10 innings

Monday’s Games

Atlanta New York Indiana Washington Toronto Chicago Connecticut

East Division

Tampa Bay New York Toronto Baltimore Boston

Sunday’s Games

WNBA Glance

Women’s Singles

East Division

West Division

Pro basketball

Sunday’s Games

American League

Central Division

Tuesday

American League FAVORITE LINE at BALTIMORE -146 Texas -117 at N.Y YANKEES -145 Tampa Bay -121 Minnesota -120 at SEATTLE -176 National League FAVORITE LINE at PHILADELPHIA -228 at ATLANTA -163 at MILWAUKEE -181 at CHICAGO CUBS -155 Miami -150 San Francisco OFF Interleague FAVORITE LINE at TORONTO -126 at BOSTON -143 LA Dodgers -152

MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL

Pittsburgh Pirates hitter Endy Rodríguez reacts after hitting a three-run home run against the Philadelphia Phillies on Monday in Philadelphia.

The Pirates won after roughing up former LSU pitcher Aaron Nola for eight runs in less than five innings. sia Potapova (27), Russia, 6-2, 6-3.

Diane Parry, France, def. Francesca Jones, Britain, 6-4, 6-4.

Solana Sierra, Argentina, def. Anna Bondar, Hungary, 6-3, 5-7, 7-5.

Golf Travelers Championship Sunday At TPC River Highlands Cromwell, Conn.

Purse: $20 million Yardage: 6,844; Par: 70 Final Round

(x-won on first playoff hole)

x-V. Hovland $3,600,000 65-61-64-69—259 S. Scheffler $2,160,000 64-60-67-68—259 C. Morikawa $1,360,000 69-66-64-61—260 M. Fitzpatrick $960,000 64-66-67-64—261 A. Bhatia $760,000 66-62-67-67—262 W. Clark $760,000 68-64-65-65—262 C. Conners $623,333 65-68-67-63—263 A. Fitzpatrick $623,333 69-66-64-64—263 J.J. Spaun $623,333 66-65-68-64—263 Ben Griffin $520,000 64-66-67-67—264 R. MacIntyre $520,000 67-65-67-65—264 Sam Burns $440,000 66-66-66-67—265 R. Henley $440,000 66-70-65-64—265 K. Bradley $310,000 67-65-70-64—266 P. Cantlay $310,000 65-66-64-71—266 Bud Cauley $310,000 64-66-70-66—266 T. Fleetwood $310,000 67-64-70-65—266 N. Hojgaard $310,000 71-66-67-62—266 H. Matsuyma $310,000 67-67-66-66—266 D. McCarthy $310,000 67-68-66-65—266 J. Thomas $310,000 68-66-65-67—266 S. Lowry $206,833 68-65-64-70—267 K. Mitchell $206,833 68-67-63-69—267 K. Reitan $206,833 64-68-68-67—267 D. Berger $154,500 70-67-65-66—268 B. Harman $154,500 66-70-63-69—268 K. Kitayama $154,500 69-63-69-67—268 Justin Rose $154,500 65-66-67-70—268 Nick Taylor $154,500 68-71-64-65—268 N. Echavarria $114,625 64-69-68-68—269 C. Gotterup $114,625 71-65-63-70—269 Sungjae Im $114,625 68-66-66-69—269 Michael Kim $114,625 68-67-68-66—269 M. McCarty $114,625 69-70-63-67—269 A. Novak $114,625 67-72-67-63—269 Aaron Rai $114,625 65-68-67-69—269 J. Suber $114,625 68-67-64-70—269 Eric Cole $82,167 63-65-69-73—270 Harris English $82,167 66-66-70-68—270 Rickie Fowler $82,167 69-66-68-67—270 Ryo Hisatsune $82,167 68-70-64-68—270 Tom Hoge $82,167 67-70-65-68—270 B. Snedeker $82,167 65-69-70-66—270 Ryan Gerard $64,000 68-68-70-65—271 Si Woo Kim $64,000 69-64-65-73—271 M. Meissner $64,000 70-66-67-68—271 J. Bridgeman $52,000 70-70-66-66—272 B. Campbell $52,000 68-63-72-69—272 Alex Smalley $52,000 71-66-71-64—272 C. Young $52,000 72-71-66-63—272 Harry Hall $46,750 67-70-68-68—273 X. Schauffele $46,750 67-69-68-69—273 S. Theegala $46,750 74-67-67-65—273 J. Vegas $46,750 69-65-72-67—273 Ludvig Aberg $44,250 70-67-69-68—274 Jason Day $44,250 70-68-67-69—274 Tony Finau $44,250 70-66-68-70—274 Jake Knapp $44,250 74-67-64-69—274 M. McNealy $44,250 67-64-71-72—274 Alex Noren $44,250 69-66-70-69—274 T. Pendrith $42,500 67-67-72-69—275 B. James $41,500 68-64-71-73—276 Min Woo Lee $41,500 68-73-69-66—276 Sam Stevens $41,500 68-71-69-68—276 Adam Scott $40,500 71-71-64-71—277 Ryan Fox $39,500 71-71-71-67—280 Lucas Glover $39,500 75-69-68-68—280 Jordan Spieth $39,500 71-69-73-67—280 J.T. Poston $38,000 67-67-71-76—281 M. Hubbard $37,500 69-71-72-70—282 G. Woodland $37,000 69-70-74-72—285

PGA Tour Statistics Through June 28

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FedExCup Season Points 1, Scottie Scheffler, 3,111. 2, Matt Fitzpatrick, 2,870. 3, Cameron Young, 2,572. 4, Wyndham Clark, 1,911. 5, Si Woo Kim, 1,844. 6, Collin Morikawa, 1,826. 7, Ludvig Aberg, 1,763. 8, Rory McIlroy, 1,631. 9, Jacob Bridgeman, 1,622. 10, Sam Burns, 1,613.

Scoring Average 1, Scottie Scheffler, 69.029. 2, Rory McIlroy, 69.466. 3, Jake Knapp, 69.663. 4, Collin Morikawa, 69.729. 5, Matt Fitzpatrick, 69.756.

6, Cameron Young, 69.932. 7, Ludvig Åberg, 69.940. 8, Xander Schauffele, 69.960. 9, Sam Burns, 69.995. 10, Tommy Fleetwood, 70.020.

Driving Distance 1, Aldrich Potgieter, 328.8. 2, Rory McIlroy, 327.8. 3, Michael Brennan, 325.4. 4, Gary Woodland, 324.1. 5, Chris Gotterup, 323. 6, Nicolai Højgaard, 322.8. 7, Rasmus Højgaard, 321.4. 8, Marco Penge, 320.8. 9, 2 tied with 320.3.

Driving Accuracy Percentage 1, Aaron Rai, 72.35%. 2, Russell Henley, 72.29%. 3, Si Woo Kim, 69.91%. 4, Andrew Putnam, 69.95%. 5, Tommy Fleetwood, 69.29%. 6, Lucas Glover, 68.95%. 7, Corey Conners, 68.46%. 8, Emiliano Grillo, 68.41%.

9, Kensei Hirata, 67.97%. 10, Collin Morikawa, 67.52%.

Greens in Regulation Percentage 1, 10 tied with .00%.

Total Driving 1 (tie), Scottie Scheffler and Ludvig Åberg, 50. 3, Kurt Kitayama, 59. 4, Michael Brennan, 62. 5, Neal Shipley, 66. 6, Cameron Young, 67.

7, Jordan Smith, 72. 8, William Mouw, 74. 9, Min Woo Lee, 77. 10, Matt Fitzpatrick, 78.

SG-Putting 1, Vince Whaley, .780. 2, Jacob Bridgeman, .759. 3, Jake Knapp, .730. 4, Sam Burns, .687.

5, Harris English, .666. 6, Eric Cole, .660. 7 (tie), A.J. Ewart and Beau Hossler, .632. 9, Akshay Bhatia, .629. 10, Robert MacIntyre, .543.

Birdie Average 1, Scottie Scheffler, 4.71. 2, Si Woo Kim, 4.56. 3, Wyndham Clark, 4.43. 4 (tie), Collin

Morikawa and Ludvig Åberg, 4.4. 6, Eric Cole, 4.38. 7, Jacob Bridgeman, 4.37. 8, Rory McIlroy, 4.32. 9, Harris English, 4.27. 10, Ryan Gerard, 4.24.

Eagles (Holes per) 1, Jake Knapp, 46.3. 2, Nicolai Højgaard, 78.

3, Tommy Fleetwood, 81.8. 4, Matt Wallace, 82. 5, Shane Lowry, 82.8. 6, Sahith Theegala, 84. 7, Sungjae Im, 88. 8 (tie), Max Greyserman and Aldrich Potgieter, 90. 10, Brandt Snedeker, 93.

Sand Save Percentage 1, 10 tied with .00%.

All-Around Ranking 1, Scottie Scheffler, 157. 2, Ludvig Åberg, 218.

3, Wyndham Clark, 244. 4, Collin Morikawa, 268. 5, Sam Burns, 277. 6, Si Woo Kim, 312. 7, Min Woo Lee, 317. 8, Keith Mitchell, 322. 9, Chris Gotterup, 334. 10, Jake Knapp, 335.

LPGA Tour Statistics Through June 28

Scoring 1, Nelly Korda, 68.51. 2, Haeran Ryu, 69.71. 3, Hyo Joo Kim, 69.81. 4, Hannah Green, 70.22.

5, Miyu Yamashita, 70.29. 6, Jeeno Thitikul, 70.33. 7, Ina Yoon, 70.36. 8, Ruoning Yin, 70.49.

9, Lydia Ko, 70.51. 10, Sei Young Kim, 70.55.

Driving Distance 1, Julia Lopez Ramirez, 290.89. 2, Riley Smyth, 288.74. 3, Polly Mack, 283.48. 4, Auston Kim, 280.82. 5, Helen Briam, 280.63. 6, Laney Frye, 277.63. 7, Suvichaya Vinijchaitham, 277.59.

8, Ina Yoon, 277.54. 9, Nelly Korda, 277.19. 10, Nanna Koerstz Madsen, 277.16.

Greens in Regulation 1, Haeran Ryu, .80%. 2, Helen Briem, .75%.

3 (tie), Isabello Fierro, Nelly Korda, Jeeno Thitikul and Lottie Woad, .74%. 7 (tie), Hannah Green and Dongeun Lee, .73%. 9, 2 tied with .72%.

Putts per GIR 1 (tie), Hyo Joo Kim and Stephanie Meadow, 1.69. 3, Minjee Lee, 1.72. 4 (tie), Mi Hyang Lee, Chiara Tamburlini and Angel Yin, 1.73.

7 (tie), Nelly Korda, Minjee Lee and Gaby Lopez, 1.74. 10, Brooke Matthews, 1.75.

Birdies 1, Aki Iwai, 197. 2, Lottie Woad, 186. 3, Miyu Yamashita, 185. 4 (tie), Minami Katsu, Jennifer Kupcho and Haeran Ryu, 177. 7, 4 tied with 175.

Eagles 1, Nelly Korda, 9. 2 (tie), Hye-Jin Choi and Brooke M. Henderson, 8. 4 (tie), Ariya Jutanugarn, Minji Kang, Ryann O’Toole and Weiwei Zhang, 7. 8, 9 tied with 6.

Sand Save Percentage 1 (tie), Pornanong Phatlum and Patty Tavatanakit, .62%. 3 (tie), Minjee Lee and Lucy Li, .61%. 5, Ryann O’Toole, .60%. 6 (tie), Peiyun Chien, Youmin Hwang, Minami Katsu and Nelly Korda, .59%. 10, Jing Yan, .58%.

Rounds Under Par 1, Nelly Korda, .86%. 2, Haeran Ryu, .71%.

3, Miyu Yamashita, .57%. 4, Aki Iwai, .54%.

5, Rio Takeda, .62%. 6, Lottie Woad, .60%. 7, Hye-Jin Choi, .59%. 8, Gaby Lopez, .65%. 9, Jeeno Thitikul, .60%. 10, Ruoning Yin, .58%.

11, Jin Hee Im, .53%. 12, Cassie Porter, .60%.

13, Chizzy Iwai, .54%. 14, Ina Yoon, .62%.

Transactions Major League Baseball

American League HOUSTON ASTROS — Reinstated SS Nick Allen from the 10-day IL. Optioned 2B Raynel Delgado to Sugar Land (PCL).

LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Acquired RHP Zach Kirby from the Washington Wild Things of the Frontier League.

MINNESOTA TWINS — Placed LHP Anthony Banda on the 15-day IL. Recalled RHP Cody Laweryson from St. Paul (IL).

NEW YORK YANKEES — Placed RHP David Bednar on the paternity list. Recalled RHP Jake Bird from Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (IL).

SEATTLE MARINERS — Acquired 1B Buddy Kennedy from the San Francisco Giants in exchange for cash.

TEXAS RANGERS — Agreed to terms with RHP Chris Paddack on a contract. Designated RHP Joe Ross and RF Jarred Kelenic for assignment. Selected the contract of SS Cameron Cauley from Round Rock (PCL).

National League ATLANTA BRAVES — Agreed to terms with OF Cardell Thibodeaux and SS Junior Tilien on minor league contracts.

LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Reinstated LF Teoscar Hernández from the 10-day IL. Optioned LF Ryan Ward to Oklahoma City (PCL).

NEW YORK METS — Recalled RHP Joey Gerber from Syracuse (IL). Optioned RHP Tobias Myers to Syracuse.

SAN DIEGO PADRES — Reinstated 2B Jake Cronenworth from the 7-day IL. Placed RHP David Morgan on the 15-day IL, retroactive to June 28. Recalled RHP Bradgley Rodriguez from San Antonio (TL). Optioned DH Will Wagner to El Paso (PCL).

WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Agreed to terms with LHP Kai Peterson on a minor league contract. Placed LHPs Mitchell Parker and Richard Lovelady on the 15-day IL. Recalled LHP Carson Palmquist and RHP Riley Cornelio from Rochester (IL). Sent RHP Jhancarlos Lara outright to Harrisburg (EL).

BASKETBALL

National Basketball Association BROOKLYN NETS — Signed G Chaney Johnson to a two-way contract.

FOOTBALL

National Football League CLEVELAND BROWNS — Hired Ryan Grigson as senior football advisor. Promoted Chris Cooper to senior vice president of football administration.

DETROIT LIONS — Released CB Terrion Arnold.

HOCKEY

National Hockey League COLORADO AVALANCHE — Signed F Taylor Makar to a two-year contract.

BOX SCORES Toronto 2, N.Y. Mets 1

Pittsburgh 11, Philadelphia 7

New York

Pittsburgh

Toronto

Philadelphia

ab r h bi ab r h bi Benge rf 4 0 1 0 Springer dh 4 1 1 0 Soto lf 3 0 1 0 Lukes rf 3 0 0 0 Bichette 2b 4 0 0 0 Guerrero 1b 4 0 1 0 Lindor ss 4 1 1 1 Okamoto 3b 3 0 0 0 Young 1b 4 0 1 0 Clement 2b 3 0 1 0 Ewing cf 2 0 0 0 Valnzula c 3 0 0 0 Vientos dh 4 0 0 0 Urías 2b 2 1 1 0 Baty 2b 2 0 0 0 Varsho cf 0 0 0 0 Wagaman 3b0 0 0 0 Piñango lf 3 0 0 0 Mauricio 2b 2 0 0 0 Giménez ss 0 0 0 0 Alvarez c 3 0 1 0 Straw cf-lf 2 0 0 1 Taylor pr 0 0 0 0 Torrens c 0 0 0 0 Totals 32 1 5 1 Totals 27 2 4 1 New York 000 000 100 — 1 Toronto 100 010 00x — 2 E_Ewing (2), Lindor (3), Yesavage (1).

DP_New York 1, Toronto 0. LOB_New York 7, Toronto 7. 2B_Soto (8), Alvarez (7), Urías (1). 3B_Springer (1). HR_Lindor (3).

SF_Straw (3).

IP H R ER BB SO New York 2 2 4 Manaea L,1-3 5 2⁄3 3 2 0 2 2 Warren 1 1⁄3 1 0 Gerber 1 0 0 0 0 2 Toronto 1 0 3 Yesavage W,4-3 6 2⁄3 3 1 1 ⁄3 0 0 0 0 0 Fluharty H,11 Rogers H,18 1 1 0 0 1 0 Varland S,17-17 1 1 0 0 1 2 HBP_Manaea (Okamoto), Yesavage (Ewing).

ABS Challenge_Yesavage (Ball-Overturned to Strike); Springer (Strike-Confirmed); Vientos (Strike-Confirmed).

Pitch timer violations_Rogers (pitcher).

Umpires_Home, James Hoye; First, Sean Barber; Second, John Libka; Third, D.J. Reyburn.

T_2:24. A_41,634 (39,150).

ab r h bi ab r h bi Griffin dh 5 1 2 0 Turner ss 5 2 2 1 Lowe 2b 4 0 0 1 Schwarbr dh 3 0 0 1 Reynolds lf 4 2 1 0 Harper 1b 4 1 1 2 O’Hearn 1b 5 2 2 1 Marsh lf 5 2 2 2 Valdez rf 3 2 2 2 Bohm 3b 4 0 0 0 Cook pr-cf 0 1 0 0 Stott 2b 4 1 1 0 Rodríguez c 3 1 2 4 Realmuto c 3 0 1 1 Callihan 3b 3 0 0 1 Rincones rf 2 0 0 0 Gonzales 3b 2 0 0 0 Hill ph-rf 0 0 0 0 Triolo ss 4 1 1 1 Crawford cf 4 1 2 0 Mangum cf-rf4 1 1 0 Totals 37 11 11 10 Totals 34 7 9 7 Pittsburgh 000 260 003 — 11 Philadelphia 203 000 020 — 7 E_Realmuto (5), Turner (11). LOB_Pittsburgh 5, Philadelphia 6. 2B_Griffin (10), Reynolds (20), Mangum (8), Valdez (4).

HR_Valdez (6), Triolo (1), Rodríguez (4), Turner (8), Marsh 2 (14), Harper (20). SB_ Crawford (10). SF_Lowe (6), Schwarber (1). S_Hill (3).

IP H R ER BB SO Pittsburgh Ashcraft W,8-3 6 5 5 5 1 8 Sisk H,5 1 1 0 0 0 1 2 Soto H,7 ⁄3 2 2 2 0 1 1 Ramírez H,5 ⁄3 1 0 0 1 1 Montgomery 1 0 0 0 1 2 Philadelphia Nola L,3-5 4 1⁄3 8 8 7 2 5 Johnson 1 2⁄3 0 0 0 1 4 Mayza 2 1 0 0 1 2 Shugart 1 2 3 3 1 2 HBP_Sisk (Realmuto). WP_Ramírez.

ABS Challenge_Harper (Strike-Confirmed); Gonzales (Strike-Overturned to Ball); Mayza (Ball-Overturned to Strike); Soto (Ball-Overturned to Strike); Crawford (Strike-Confirmed); Valdez (Strike-Overturned to Ball).

Umpires_Home, Andy Fletcher; First, Alex Tosi; Second, Cory Blaser; Third, Jansen Visconti.

T_3:03. A_39,791 (42,901).

Texas 6, Cleveland 3

Boston 6, Washington 3

Texas

Cleveland

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ab r h bi Bazzana 2b 5 0 0 0 Rocchio ss 5 1 2 0 DeLauter dh 4 0 2 1 Hoskins 1b 3 0 1 0 Manzardo 1b1 0 0 0 Watson rf 4 0 1 0 Fry lf 2 0 1 0 Schnmnn cf 2 0 0 0 Kwan cf-lf 4 0 1 0 Arias 3b 3 1 1 1 Hedges c 4 1 1 0 37 3 10 2 Totals 36 6 11 5 Totals Texas 000 101 202 — 6 Cleveland 000 020 100 — 3 E_Cauley (1), Kwan (2). DP_Texas 1, Cleveland 0. LOB_Texas 5, Cleveland 8.

2B_Jung (20), Foscue 2 (6), DeLauter (13).

3B_Cauley (1). HR_Arias (3). SB_Rocchio (14). S_Carter (4).

IP H R ER BB SO Texas Alexander 1 1 0 0 0 2 Paddack 4 7 2 2 0 1 Ahlstrom W,3-0 1 0 0 0 1 0 Junis H,11 1 2 1 1 0 1 Latz S,17-19 2 0 0 0 0 1 Cleveland Messick L,7-5 6 2⁄3 8 4 4 0 5 Holderman 1 1⁄3 0 0 0 0 3 2 Sabrowski ⁄3 3 2 1 1 1 1 Festa ⁄3 0 0 0 0 1 Paddack pitched to 1 batter in the 6th.

WP_Ahlstrom, Junis.

ABS Challenge_DeLauter (StrikeOverturned to Ball); Hoskins (StrikeOverturned to Ball); Ahlstrom (Ball-Overturned to Strike).

Pitch timer violations_Ahlstrom (pitcher).

Umpires_Home, Erich Bacchus; First, Brian O’Nora; Second, Chris Segal; Third, Laz Diaz.

T_2:43. A_20,379 (34,788).

Washington

Boston

ab r h bi ab r h bi Wood lf 4 1 1 1 Yoshida dh 4 0 1 0 Chaparro dh 2 1 1 0 Rafaela cf 4 1 2 0 Tena ph-dh 1 0 0 0 Abreu rf 3 1 1 1 Mead 3b 4 0 2 0 Contreras 1b2 1 1 3 Abrams ss 4 0 1 2 Monastero 1b2 0 0 0 Crews rf 4 0 0 0 Duran lf 4 0 0 0 Young cf 3 0 0 0 Durbin 3b 3 1 1 1 Lile ph 1 0 0 0 Seigler 2b 3 1 2 0 García 1b 3 0 1 0 Narváez c 2 0 0 1 Nuñez 2b 3 0 0 0 Cheng ss 3 1 1 0 Vivas ph 1 0 0 0 Ruiz c 3 1 1 0 Totals 33 3 7 3 Totals 30 6 9 6 Washington 100 002 000 — 3 Boston 411 000 00x — 6 DP_Washington 0, Boston 1. LOB_Washington 5, Boston 3. 2B_Abrams (16), Seigler (4). HR_Wood (21), Contreras (18), Durbin (7). SB_Seigler (1). SF_Abreu (4), Narváez (2).

IP H R ER BB SO Washington Mikolas L,2-7 7 9 6 6 0 3 Kent 1 0 0 0 1 1 Boston Suarez W,4-3 6 5 3 3 1 8 Coulombe H,7 1 0 0 0 1 0 Guerrero H,7 1 1 0 0 0 2 Whitlock S,1-2 1 1 0 0 0 2 ABS Challenge_Young (Strike-Overturned to Ball); Mead (Strike-Confirmed); Wood (Strike-Overturned to Ball); Guerrero (Ball-Confirmed); Kent (Ball-Confirmed).

Ejected_Contreras.

Umpires_Home, Edwin Moscoso; First, Nic Lentz; Second, Hunter Wendelstedt; Third, Vic Carapazza.

T_2:22. A_32,000 (37,755).

THIS DATE IN BASEABLL June 30

1908 — Cy Young of the Boston Red Sox pitched the third no-hitter of his career at age 41, an 8-0 win over the New York Highlanders.

1948 — Cleveland’s Bob Lemon pitched a 2-0 no-hitter against the Detroit Tigers for the first American League no-hitter at night.

1962 — Sandy Koufax of the Los Angeles Dodgers struck out 13 New York Mets en route to the first of four career no-hitters, a 5-0 victory at Dodger Stadium.

1970 — Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati was dedicated, but Henry Aaron spoiled the show for the crowd of 51,050 with a first-inning homer off Jim McGlothlin to send Atlanta past the Reds 8-2.

1978 — Willie McCovey became the 12th player in major league history to hit 500 home runs. His shot off Atlanta’s Jamie Easterly wasn’t enough, with the Braves beating the visiting San Francisco Giants 10-5 in the second game of a doubleheader.

1986 — 1985 Heisman Trophy winner Bo

Jackson makes his professional baseball debut with the Memphis Chicks of the AA Southern League and goes 1 for 4 with two strikeouts.

1995 — Eddie Murray of the Cleveland Indians became the second switch-hitter and the 20th player in baseball history to reach 3,000 hits when he singled against the Minnesota Twins. Murray joined Pete Rose, the career hits leader with 4,256, as the only switch-hitters to get 3,000.

1997 — Bobby Witt of Texas hit the first home run by an American League pitcher in a regular-season game in almost 25 years, connecting off Ismael Valdes in the Rangers’ 3-2 interleague victory over Los Angeles.

1998 — Sammy Sosa hit his 20th home run in June, extending his major league record for most homers in a month with an eighth-inning shot for the Cubs against Arizona.

2005 — Chad Cordero earned his 15th save in June in the Washington Nationals’ 7-5 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates. He tied a major league record set by Lee Smith in 1993 and matched by John Wetteland in 1996.

LIVING N O L A.C O M

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Morris Bart, families and other attendees watch as kids slide the dragon slide at City Park’s Storyland in New Orleans on Thursday.

STAFF PHOTOS By SOPHIA GERMER

Fabled return

Puff the Magic Dragon comes back to Storyland with vibrant color and a safer slide

BY VIOLET BUCARO Staff writer

A scaly green, fire-breathing dragon once again calls Storyland home after City Park officials on Thursday christened a new slide to replace the iconic — and screamingly steep — dragon slide that had delighted New Orleans kids for decades.

As kids climbed up to soar down the dragon’s flames, local celebrity attorney and sponsor of the slide renovation Morris Bart and his wife, Cathy Bart, joined in the fun. They helped the City Park Conservancy replace the slide, which was one of the original attractions when Storyland opened in 1956.

The new slide is 2 feet wide and features a softer landing pad, shorter length and a less intense incline. The wider design also allows for a dual ride between a caregiver and kid.

City Park Conservancy worked with Swift Recreation and Soft Play on the design

James yenni, 2, takes a turn sliding down the dragon slide.

and installation to “preserve the spirit and character of the original Dragon while meeting today’s safety and accessibility standards,” the Conservancy said in a statement.

Morris Bart slides down the new dragon slide at City Park’s Storyland.

There were safety concerns about the previous slide, as the steep height could launch kids into the air.

“It’s safer and more vibrant,” Bart said at Thursday’s unveiling. “It’s shorter than the other one, but it still gets a lot of speed.”

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Redefining romance AP ILLUSTRATION By PETER HAMLIN

finds difficult on dating apps deArtificial intelligence adopters have been spite being comfortable doing in person. Although she’s opusing chatbots in varied ways to find love sotimistic about the possibilities,

BY KAITLYN HUAMANI

cluding some help from artificial intelligence.

AP technology writer AI chatbots have become — Marie Lansley recently start- for her and many others — de ed a new job in a new city while facto dating coaches and relasearching for a new partner. In tionship experts. her dating pursuits, the freshly Lansley, 36, consults AI chatminted San Franciscan said she’s bots for help in starting converbeen “trying everything”— in- sations, something she said she

she acknowledges the incongruency between the art of romance and the precision of technology.

“I am open to AI finding me the love of my life, but I’m also not fully convinced that it can,” Lansley said. “AI is great at making dating more efficient.

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2D ✦ Tuesday, June 30, 2026 ✦ nola.com ✦ The Times-Picayune

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Wise words on attire when seeking lobster shells husband was in convulsions.

Dear Miss Manners: My husband Now mind you, it was summer, and I were on the coast and so of course I was wearing white stopped at a quaint place for pants. lunch. I ordered a lobster I tried to calm my hustail, which came with the shell on. When I started to band, acknowledging that open it, it suddenly flew off it was indeed quite not my plate and out into the normal for people’s lunch dining room somewhere. to fly into the center of a Being an independent dining room. But he said Judith and adventurous woman, I it was not so much that I Martin went looking for my lunch, decided to go track it down MISS and found myself wanbut the deep gooey brown MANNERS stain I had all over my dering around the venue, backside that had been on peering sidewise under display throughout my search. tables until I finally located the Horrified, I peered around to orange shell. I picked it up and check, and indeed, there was went back to my table where my

a thick gooey dark substance smeared all over the seat of my pants. I then discovered additional evidence of there having been brown droppings on the chair where I had been seated.

The question I am left with is: What kind of a tip should one be expected to leave in such a situation?

Gentle reader: Aren’t you going to charge entertainment tax? And perhaps request alimony?

Leaving aside the marital failing for the moment, Miss Manners can assure you that you needn’t indulge in retrospective embarrassment. Small accidents, although no fault of your own,

may cause this. Had you merely walked around peering under people’s tables, unkind people may have snickered — and resolved not to order the lobster.

But adding the pants display made it so awful that no one would have had the emotional freedom to make fun of you. They were all too busy being grateful that it had not happened to themselves.

To answer your question: One should always tip extra when causing extra work. Presumably the staff will have to clean up that chair — although, how did the mess get there?

But there is another question you should be asking. It is a sacred marital duty to rescue one’s spouse from a difficult, not to say ludicrous, situation. What was yours doing while you went lobster hunting? Laughing? Eating his own lobster? Pretending he was not with you?

Send questions to Miss Manners at her website, www. missmanners.com; to her email, dearmissmanners@gmail.com; or through postal mail to Miss Manners, Universal Uclick, 1130 Walnut St., Kansas City, MO 64106.

TODAY IN HISTORY

By The Associated Press Today is Tuesday, June 30, the 181st day of 2026. There are 184 days left in the year.

Today’s highlight in history: On June 30, 1934, Adolf Hitler launched his “blood purge” of political and military rivals in Germany in what came to be known as the “Night of the Long Knives.”

Also on this date: In 1918, labor activist and socialist Eugene V. Debs was arrested in Cleveland, charged under the Sedition Act of 1917 for a speech in which he denounced U.S. involvement in World War I. (Debs was sentenced to 10 years in prison and disenfranchised for life; President Warren G. Harding commuted Debs’ sentence to time served in 1921.)

In 1921, President Warren G. Harding nominated former President William Howard Taft to be chief justice of the United States, succeeding the late Edward Douglass White.

In 1936, Margaret Mitchell’s novel “Gone With the Wind” was released.

In 1958, the U.S. Senate passed the Alaska statehood bill.

In 1971, the Supreme Court ruled, 6-3, that the government could not prevent The New York Times or The Washington Post from publishing the Pentagon Papers.

In 1971, a Soviet space mission ended in tragedy when three cosmonauts aboard Soyuz 11 were found dead of asphyxiation inside their capsule after it had returned to Earth.

In 1985, 39 American hostages from a hijacked TWA jetliner were freed in Beirut after being held for 17 days.

In 1994, the U.S. Figure Skating Association stripped Tonya Harding of the national championship and banned her for life for her role in the attack on rival Nancy Kerrigan.

In 2009, U.S. Army Pfc. Bowe R. Bergdahl went missing from his base in eastern Afghanistan, and was later confirmed to have been captured by insurgents after walking away from his post.

(Bergdahl was released on May 31, 2014, in exchange for five Taliban detainees; he pleaded guilty to desertion and misbehavior before the enemy, but was spared a prison sentence by a military judge.)

In 2016, then-Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced that transgender people would be allowed to serve openly in the U.S. military, ending one of the last bans on service in the armed forces.

In 2020, then-Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves signed a bill retiring the last U.S. state flag bearing the Confederate battle emblem. The same day, Boston’s arts commission voted to remove a statue depicting a freed slave kneeling at Abraham Lincoln’s feet.

In 2022, Ketanji Brown Jackson was sworn in to the U.S. Supreme Court, shattering a glass ceiling as the first Black woman on the nation’s highest court.

Today’s birthdays: Actor Nancy Dussault is 90. Olympic track champion Billy Mills is 88.

Oceanographer Robert Ballard is 84. Singer-songwriter Glenn Shorrock (Little River Band) is 82. Jazz musician Stanley Clarke is 75. Actor David Garrison (“Married … with Children) is 74. Conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen is 68. Actor Vincent D’Onofrio is 67. Actor Deirdre Lovejoy (“The Wire”) is 64. Actor Rupert Graves is 63. Boxer Mike Tyson is 60. Actor Monica Potter is 55. Actor Rick Gonzalez is 47. Actor Lizzy Caplan is 44. Country music singersongwriter Cole Swindell is 43.

Singer and actress Fantasia is 42. Olympic swimming champion Michael Phelps is 41.

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Carolyn Thomas coaxes her grandkids to slide down the dragon slide at City Park’s Storyland in New Orleans on Thursday.

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Continued from page 1D Many generations of New Orleanians share memories of the slide, Bart said, and he hopes his grandkids, and their kids, will enjoy the slide for many more decades.

“For me, it is nostalgic, I mean, I slid on that dragon when I was a little girl,” Cathy Bart said. “It’s a core memory.”

Designed by Mardi Gras floatmaker Blaine Kern, along with all the other original attractions, the old slide was based on the “Puff the Magic Dragon” children’s tale.

On Thursday, the Conservancy invited

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Continued from page 1D But the chemistry — that’s always going to be analog.”

AI adopters have been using the tech in varied ways to find romance. Some patronize AI matchmaking services. Others use AI tools to help build their dating profiles. But the most common way is enlisting chatbots to draft messages to potential matches and interpret messages they receive.

Lansley goes back and forth between OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude. Others turn to Elon Musk and X’s Grok, Google’s Gemini and other chatbots. Dating apps and AI companies are leaning into it. ChatGPT and Gemini have posted content on TikTok showcasing their chatbots’ customized, personality-laden relationship advice.

“Claude is the new Cyrano,” said dating coach Carey Gaynes, referencing the 19th-century French play “Cyrano de Bergerac” in which the titular character is the brains behind another man’s romantic words.

“You’re using a voice that isn’t yours.”

Gaynes said she has heard of daters of all ages turning to the technology, both from her client base and her following on her YouTube channel, Coffee with Carey.

She sees how it could be useful in dating, but like many others, she worries about overreliance.

Like the platitude used to describe many a modern dating arrangement, it’s complicated when it comes to people’s feelings about AI’s role in romance. There’s a range of excitement, resistance

families to celebrate the slide’s return with sno-balls and a reading of “Puff the Magic Dragon.”

City Park Party and Event Supervisor Carol Dolliole said visitors have come to the park asking where the slide had gone.

She said the new one is an improvement.

“The kids are lovin’ it,” Dolliole said.

The dragon slide can be found near the Jack and the Beanstalk attraction at the back of Storyland at 5 Victory Ave., near the Besthoff Sculpture Garden and Carousel Gardens.

Storyland is open from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday; and 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Friday and Saturday. Kids under 36 inches tall and park members can enter for free, otherwise it’s $8 per person.

and skepticism.

AI writing suggestions Lansley said she has been startled by how chatbots can appear to display emotional intelligence.

When doing an onboarding call with the AI matchmaker on the app Known, she said the questions the bot asked went “one or two levels deeper” than traditional dating app questions and it seemed to be striving for empathy.

It doesn’t necessarily lead to better results — her first match was not a perfect fit.

Mason Naung, a 25-year-old student in Los Angeles, said he doesn’t use chatbots for message ideas, but could see the benefit of it for “icebreakers” during the early back-and-forth with someone.

“I’ve been on Hinge on and off for a year or two, and sometimes I kind of struggle to think about what the opening line should be like with this girl, right?” he said. But if the AIwritten messages go beyond those initial exchanges, that would be a “small red flag” in his mind.

Just as chatbots can help start conversations, they also can help end things. Dani Cohen, a 27-yearold business owner in San Diego, said she would much rather be sent an AI-written farewell message by someone she’s been on a few dates with than be “ghosted,” or cut off without a word.

“Obviously, in a perfect world, everyone knows exactly what they want to say and how to say it in the kindest way possible and they do that. That’s not the world we live in,” she said. “Anything to get people to communicate, and to communicate their thoughts kindly and effectively, is great.”

Skepticism persists Several people who spoke with

A new sign is placed by the renewed dragon slide at City Park’s Storyland.

The Associated Press, including those who have turned to AI for dating help, expressed reservations about using the technology to help with deeply personal aspects of their life. Many adopters said they had a line they wouldn’t cross when it would be inappropriate to use AI for dating.

Others couldn’t dream of turning to a chatbot for help with their love life at all.

Clara Sullivan, a 22-year-old student in Los Angeles, said she would not reply to a potential partner if she knew they were sending her AI-written messages.

“I think it’s really scary how reliant people are on it,” Sullivan said. “It’s completely gotten rid of people’s ability to think creatively and on their own.”

Many feel the same way. A 2025 survey from the Pew Research Center found 53% of U.S. adults say AI will worsen people’s ability to think creatively. Half of those polled said they feel AI will worsen people’s ability to form meaningful relationships.

Still, the marriage of AI with the highly lucrative dating industry was likely inescapable. Many dating apps have been integrating AI into their platforms for years.

Tinder has an AI-powered feature called Chemistry that suggests profiles tailored to a user’s interests. Hinge has AI-powered conversation starters and feedback tools to help build users’ profiles and make interactions smooth.

The founder of the app Bumble recently said the platform will soon ditch the well-known swipe feature, instead pivoting toward AI-driven matchmaking. After facing some backlash to the decision, Bumble CEO and founder Whitney Wolfe Herd wrote in a

statement that said what they’re building “is rooted in a simple belief: technology should make love and connection feel more human, not less.”

Some see tradeoffs to AI’s role Mohammed Nizami, 23, said he turns to AI for some things in his life, but not his dating pursuits.

“We’re all craving for some degree of authentic connection. Certainly with your partner, you want that,” he said. “If there’s some filter or barrier between you and your partner or potential partner, I think that’s just not a great way to start a relationship.”

Nizami said chatbots may not even provide the best guidance.

The sycophantic nature of many chatbots, he said, might be “good for your own mental comfort” but does not necessarily lead to the soundest advice.

AI is likely going to play a growing role in modern dating life, despite the hesitations.

“It’s kind of a sad commentary on the state of the world. Dating is supposed to be one of the things that cannot be replaced, right?” said Jake Clay, a 30-year-old content creator in New York City. “It’s kind of sad to think that something so pivotal to your life journey is being outsourced to an AI who can’t understand the emotions around it.”

Clay did say he’s been receiving fewer texts from friends asking him to decode a message from potential partners, as they now turn to chatbots.

Clay wryly said he appreciates AI “lifting the load” there but also called the situation a “Catch-22” since it’s “circumventing some of the normal processes in life that I feel like should be a little bit more sacred.”

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LEo (July 23-Aug. 22) Don't wait for someone else to make the first move. If you look on the bright side and let your smile and positive attitude lead the way, those you encounter will find it hard to resist you.

VIRGo (Aug. 23-sept. 22) Engage in activities that encourage you to expand your circle of friends and to participate in a cause that helps you make a difference in your community. Don't make abrupt changes or spontaneous decisions.

LIBRA (sept. 23-oct. 23) Put emotions aside and dedicate more time to finding out the truth and making whatever adjustments are necessary to clear a path forward.

Once you display your options, you'll get a sense of what's possible. scoRPIo (oct. 24-nov. 22) Take the high road, speak up for those who can't and make a difference. Protect your reputation and your physical well-being from careless individuals or those contesting your beliefs. sAGIttARIus (nov. 23-Dec. 21) Whether it's visiting a place you've never been or reaching out to someone who can shed light on a subject you want to incorporate into your life, what you encounter will help build momentum. cAPRIcoRn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Sort matters through before you address issues

involving other people. Choosing the right words will make a difference to the outcome.

AQuARIus (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) Set the tone for what's to come. Speak up, make a to-do list and execute your plans with finesse.

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PIscEs (Feb. 20-March 20) Sit tight, regardless of what others choose to do. Pay more attention to self-preservation, health, exercise and overall happiness.

Ease your stress, and pick your pastimes to suit your mood and ensure peace of mind.

ARIEs (March 21-April 19) Rethink your professional strategies first. Keep your dialogue simple, honest and upbeat. The highest return will come from how you present and deliver what you want to pursue. tAuRus (April 20-May 20) Choose positive support instead of criticism when dealing with friends, family and colleagues.

Offering enthusiasm will help further your agenda and assist those in your personal or professional circles.

GEMInI (May 21-June 20) Make a powerful statement, and get things done on time.

Step outside your comfort zone, try new things and explore unique ways to utilize your skills and personality to reach your heart's desires.

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Sudoku InstructIons: sudoku is a number-placing puzzle based on a 9x9 grid with several given numbers.

The object is to place the numbers 1 to 9 in the empty squares so that each row, each column and each 3x3 box contains the same number only once. The difficulty level of the sudoku increases from monday to sunday.

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By PHILLIP ALDER Jon Bon Jovi said, “Success is falling nine times and getting up 10.”

Success in three no-trump is getting up nine tricks and falling four times. How should South plan to do that in this deal after West leads the spade king?

South starts with eight top tricks: one spade, two hearts, four diamonds and one club. The extra winner might come from hearts or clubs. In isolation, in hearts, one would cash dummy’s king, then take a finesse; or, in clubs, take two finesses.

The snag is that all of those finesses are into the West hand, the defender who presumably has long and strong spades (to be leading declarer’s known four-card suit). Is there anything better?

Of course! South should duck the first two rounds of spades to find out if the suit is 4-3 or worse. If it is worse, he had better run his diamonds to try to bring pressure to bear on West, then probably hope that the heart finesse works.

Here, though, spades are 4-3. Now it cannot hurt declarer to take the third spade and return his fourth spade, pitching a heart and a club from the board.

If West shifts to a heart or club, it concedes the contract. So let’s assume he safely leads a diamond. South takes the trick on the board and runs the club 10.

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today’s thought “Many sorrows shall be to the wicked: but he that trusts in the Lord, mercy shall compass him about.” Psalms 32:10

The choice is yours. Sorrow or mercy? G.E. Dean

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“Blanks” used as any letter have no point value. all the words are in the Official sCraBBlE® players Dictionary, 5th Edition.

Yesterday’s Puzzle Answer

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PUBLIC NOTICE --24TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA NO.: 848 - 180 DIVISION “ O “ SUCCESSION OF BETTY BOWMAN SANDERS NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Shantella Martin, the duly ap‐ pointed and qualified ad‐ ministrator for the Suc‐ cession of Betty Bowman Sanders is applying for au-thority to sell at pri‐ vate sale, the whole in‐ terest of the Succession of Betty Bowman Sanders in and to the below described prop‐ erty on the terms of at the minimum Ninety Thousand dollars and no cents ($90,000.00) with seller to pay sellers clos‐ ing costs and buyer to pay buyers closing costs.

The property is de‐ scribed as follows: THAT CERTAIN PORTION OF GROUND, together with all the buildings and improvements thereon, and all the rights, ways, privileges, servitudes, appurtenances and ad‐ vantages thereunto be‐ longing or in anywise ap‐ pertaining, situated in the Parish of Jefferson, State of Louisiana, in that part thereof known as HIGH-LAND WOODS SUB‐ DIVISION all in accor‐ dance with plan of subdi‐ vision by William Maier, C. E., dated March 15,

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1965, revised and amended October 5, 1965, registered in COB 626, folio 54 of Jefferson Parish, Louisiana and as shown on survey of William Maier, C. E., dated November 22, 1966, redated May 14, 1969, and according lo survey of R. L. Schumann & As‐ sociates L. S., dated March 1, 1978, is further designated and de‐ scribed as follows, towit: LOT NO. 4, SQUARE NO. 3, which said square is bounded by Highland Drive, North Line of Sub‐ division, Glenwood Drive (side), and Barataria Blvd., and the said lot commences at a dis‐ tance of 189.61 feet from the comer of Old R/W Line on Barataria Boule‐ vard and Highland Drive and measures thence 61 foot front on Highland Drive, a width in the rear of 61.0037 feet by a depth on the side line nearer to Barataria Boulevard of 106.96 feet by a depth on 107.65 feet on the oppo‐ site side lot line. Com‐ mencement also 154.15 feet from the corner of additional R. W., acquired

by State. All in accor‐ dance with the survey of Gilbert, Kelly and Cou‐ ture, Inc. dated February 18, 1987.

The improvements thereon bear the Munici‐ pal Number 5012 High‐ land Drive, Marrero, Louisiana 70072.

Being the same property acquired by Betty Bow‐ man A/K/A Betty Jenn Bowman WID/W/O John Henry Sanders by act d d b

Public Notices Successions y y dated February 18, 1987 registered in COB 1672, folio 182 and by act dated December 7, 2004 registered in COB 3136, folio 514.

All parties with an inter‐ est in the above de‐ scribed property or the Succession of Betty Bow‐ man Sanders , which in‐ cludes heirs, creditors, and the like must make any op-position which they have or may have to such application, at any time, prior to the is‐ suance of the order or judgment authorizing, approving and homolo‐ gating such application and that such order or judgment may be issued after the expiration of ten (10) days, from the date of the publication of this notice, all in accor‐ dance with law.

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OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS REGULAR SESSION CITY HALL: MAY 21, 2026 The Council of the City of New Orleans met this day in Regular Session, at 10:04 A.M., in the Council Chamber, City Hall, Council President, JP Morrell, presiding.

On calling the roll, the following members answered to their names: PRESENT: MORRELL (PRESIDENT) WILLARD (VICE PRESIDENT) HARRIS GREEN HUGHES ABSENT: MCCARRON (Arrived later in the meeting).

KING FIVE MEMBERS PRESENT, CONSTITUTING A QUORUM. ROLL CALL AISHA R. COLLIER CLERK OF COUNCIL INVOCATION BISHOP TYRONE JEFFERSON ABUNDANT LIFE TABERNACLE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE JP MORRELL COUNCILMEMBER-AT-LARGE ZONING PETITION ZONING DOCKET NO. 40/26 - 2613 MARAIS, LLC - Requesting a conditional use to permit a commercial short-term rental (CSTR) in an HUMU Historic Urban Neighborhood Mixed-Use District and the Transient Lodging Interim Zoning District, located on Square 487, Lot 4, in the Third Municipal District, bounded by Franklin Avenue, Marais Street, Port Street, and Iroquois Street (Municipal addresses: 2613-2615 Marais Street). The recommendation of the City Planning Commission being “FOR APPROVAL”.

WITHDRAWN. (At the applicant’s request).

ORDINANCES ON FINAL PASSAGE CAL. NO. 35,432 - BY: COUNCILMEMBERS HARRIS, MCCARRON, KING, GREEN, HUGHES, MORRELL AND WILLARD - An Ordinance to establish Division 56 of Chapter 70, Article III of the Code of the City of New Orleans to create the 2026 Caesars Lease Rent Strip Sale Proceeds Fund, dedicated to housing the City’s proceeds anticipated from the sale of certain future lease payments from Jazz Casino Company, L.L.C. for the Caesars New Orleans Casino, to create restrictions on expenditures; and otherwise to provide with respect thereto.

ROLL CALL: YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, McCarron, Morrell, Willard - 6 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: King - 1 RECUSED: 0 AND THE ORDINANCE WAS ADOPTED. CAL. NO. 35,435 - BY: COUNCILMEMBERS HARRIS, MORRELL, WILLARD AND MCCARRON (BY REQUEST) - An Ordinance to amend Ordinance No. 30530 M.C.S., as amended, entitled “An Ordinance Providing an Operating Budget of Revenues for the City of New Orleans for the Year 2026”, to appropriate grant funds to promote healthy behaviors and access to high quality healthcare. The grant supports the Health Department with providing these services through community outreach staff; and otherwise to provide with respect thereto.

ROLL CALL: YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, McCarron, Morrell - 5 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: Willard, King - 2 RECUSED: 0 AND THE ORDINANCE WAS ADOPTED. CAL. NO. 35,436 - BY: COUNCILMEMBERS HARRIS, MORRELL, WILLARD AND MCCARRON (BY REQUEST) - An Ordinance to amend Ordinance No. 30531 M.C.S., as amended, entitled “An Ordinance Providing an Operating Budget of Expenditures for the City of New Orleans for the Year 2026”, to appropriate grant funds to the Health Department to promote healthy behaviors and access to high quality healthcare. The grant supports the Health Department with providing these services through community outreach staff; and otherwise to provide with respect thereto.

ROLL CALL: YEAS: Green, Harris, McCarron, Morrell, Willard - 5 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: Hughes, King - 2 RECUSED: 0 AND THE ORDINANCE WAS ADOPTED. CAL. NO. 35,437 - BY: COUNCILMEMBERS HARRIS, MORRELL, WILLARD AND MCCARRON (BY REQUEST) - An Ordinance to amend Ordinance No. 30530 M.C.S., as amended, entitled “An Ordinance Providing an Operating Budget of Revenues for the City of New Orleans for the Year 2026”, to appropriate private grant funds to the Health Department from the Robert Wood Johnson grant for operating expense; and otherwise to provide with respect thereto.

ROLL CALL: YEAS: Green, Harris, McCarron, Morrell, Willard - 5 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: Hughes, King - 2 RECUSED: 0 AND THE ORDINANCE WAS ADOPTED. CAL. NO. 35,438 - BY: COUNCILMEMBERS HARRIS, MORRELL, WILLARD, AND MCCARRON (BY REQUEST) - An Ordinance to amend Ordinance No. 30531 M.C.S., as amended, entitled “An Ordinance Providing an Operating Budget of Expenditures for the City of New Orleans for the Year 2026”, to appropriate private grant funds to the Health Department from the Robert Wood Johnson grant for operating expense; and otherwise to provide with respect thereto.

ROLL CALL: YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, McCarron, Morrell, Willard - 6 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: King - 1 RECUSED: 0 AND THE ORDINANCE WAS ADOPTED. CAL. NO. 35,439 - BY: COUNCILMEMBERS HARRIS, MORRELL, WILLARD AND MCCARRON (BY REQUEST) - An Ordinance to amend Ordinance No. 30530 M.C.S., as amended, entitled “An Ordinance Providing an Operating Budget of Revenues for the City of New Orleans for the Year 2026”, to appropriate private grant funds to the New Orleans Health Department’s Office of Violence Prevention for professional services related to violence prevention and victim support initiatives.; and otherwise to provide with respect thereto.

ROLL CALL: YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, McCarron, Morrell, Willard - 6 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: King - 1 RECUSED: 0 AND THE ORDINANCE WAS ADOPTED. CAL. NO. 35,440 - BY: COUNCILMEMBERS HARRIS, MORRELL, WILLARD AND MCCARRON (BY REQUEST) - An Ordinance to amend Ordinance No. 30531 M.C.S., as amended, entitled “An Ordinance Providing an Operating Budget of Expenditures for the City of New Orleans for the Year 2026”, to appropriate private grant funds to the New Orleans Health Department’s Office of Violence Prevention for professional services related to violence prevention and victim support initiatives; and otherwise to provide with respect thereto.

ROLL CALL: YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, McCarron, Morrell, Willard - 6 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: King - 1 RECUSED: 0 AND THE ORDINANCE WAS ADOPTED. CAL. NO. 35,442 - BY: COUNCILMEMBERS HARRIS, MORRELL, WILLARD AND MCCARRON (BY REQUEST) - An Ordinance to amend Ordinance No. 30531 M.C.S., as amended, entitled “An Ordinance Providing an Operating Budget of Expenditures for the City of New Orleans for the Year 2026”, to transfer funds within the NORDC FY 2026 budget from Personnel Services to Other Operating Expenses to correct a classification error and allow the funds to be used for operational, programmatic, and facility maintenance needs without increasing the overall budget; and otherwise to provide with respect thereto.

ROLL CALL: YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, McCarron, Morrell, Willard - 6 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: King - 1 RECUSED: 0 AND THE ORDINANCE WAS ADOPTED. CAL. NO. 35,443 - BY: COUNCILMEMBERS HARRIS AND KING (BY REQUEST) - An Ordinance to amend Ordinance No. 30530 M.C.S., as amended, entitled “An Ordinance Providing an Operating Budget of Revenues for the City of New Orleans for the Year 2026”, to appropriate funds to allow the City of New Orleans to implement components of the French Quarter Economic Development District’s 2026 adopted budget; and otherwise to provide with respect thereto.

ROLL CALL: YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, McCarron, Morrell, Willard - 6 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: King - 1 RECUSED: 0 AND THE ORDINANCE WAS ADOPTED.

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CAL. NO. 35,444 - BY: COUNCILMEMBERS HARRIS AND KING (BY REQUEST) - An Ordinance to amend Ordinance No. 30531 M.C.S., as amended, entitled “An Ordinance Providing an Operating Budget of Expenditures for the City of New Orleans for the Year 2026”, to appropriate funds to allow the City of New Orleans to implement components of the French Quarter Economic Development District’s 2026 adopted budget; and otherwise to provide with respect thereto.

ROLL CALL: YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, McCarron, Morrell, Willard - 6 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: King - 1 RECUSED: 0 AND THE ORDINANCE WAS ADOPTED. CAL. NO. 35,445 - BY: COUNCILMEMBERS GREEN AND HARRIS (BY REQUEST) - An Ordinance to amend and re-ordain Ordinance No. 30,532 M.C.S., entitled “An Ordinance Providing a Capital Budget for the Year 2026”, to effect the following change to the 2026 Capital Budget: to de-appropriate funds from the Department of Public Works and the Department of Property Management; to appropriate funds to the Chief Administrative Office; and otherwise to provide with respect thereto.

ROLL CALL: YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, McCarron, Morrell, Willard - 6 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: King - 1 RECUSED: 0 AND THE ORDINANCE WAS ADOPTED. MOTION (LYING OVER) NO. M-25-239 CITY HALL: April 24, 2025 BY: COUNCILMEMBERS HARRIS, WILLARD, MORRELL, MCCARRON AND KING WHEREAS, at its meeting on March 14, 2025, the Civil Service Commission adopted the following amendments to the Classified Pay Plan (Police).

In accordance with Article X, Section 10 of the Constitution of Louisiana, this agency is submitting for Council approval, the following amendments to the Classified Pay Plan as adopted by the Civil Service Commission at its meeting of March 14, 2025 as outlined below: New Classifications: Class Code

Class Title

Grade/Step

C5263

CODIS Administrator

81/45

Annual $88,344

C5264

CODIS Specialist

79/41

$79,987

C5265

CODIS Support

77/33

$68,909

Grade/Hiring Rate/Title Adjustment: Class Code

Class Title

Grade/ Step

Annual

To: Grade/ Step

Annual

C5259

DNA Technical Leader (Section Supervisor) Retitle of DNA Technical Leader

83/51

$100,030

85/55

$110,481

At the request of the Police Department, the Civil Service Commission approved the aforementioned new classifications to establish a CODIS Specialist series whose focus would be on managing the operations of the CODIS (Combined DNA Index System) database within the DNA unit.

In addition, the grade/hiring rate/title adjustment to the classification of DNA Technical Leader reflect the additional supervisory requirements expected of the position which will need be expected to supervise the CODIS Administrator; and WHEREAS, the Chief Administrative Office has certified that funds are available to implement the above proposed amendments to the Classified Pay Plan; NOW THEREFORE BE IT MOVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, That in accordance with Article X, Section 10 of the Constitution of Louisiana, the amendments to the Classified Pay Plan is approved to be effective April 20, 2025.

BE IT FURTHER MOVED, That the Clerk of Council shall forward a certified copy of this motion to the Director of the Civil Service Commission and the Chief Administrative Officer.

MAY 21, 2026 THE FOREGOING MOTION WAS READ IN FULL, THE ROLL WAS CALLED ON THE ADOPTION THEREOF, AND RESULTED AS FOLLOWS: YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, McCarron, Morrell, Willard - 6 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: King - 1 AND THE MOTION WAS ADOPTED. MOTIONS/RESOLUTIONS NO. M-26-196 BY: COUNCILMEMBER HARRIS SECONDED BY: COUNCILMEMBER GREEN BE IT MOVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, that, having received the City Planning Commission’s report and effective denial for lack of a legal majority regarding ZONING DOCKET 14/26, initiated by 2400 Napoleon Avenue, LLC, requesting consideration of an Amendment to Ordinance No. 29,359 MCS (Zoning Docket 084/22, which granted a conditional use to permit a reception facility over 10,000 square feet in an HU-MU Historic Urban Neighborhood Mixed-Use District) to permit a Planned Development authorizing a Live Performance Venue, on Square 584, Lot 1A-3, in the Sixth Municipal District, bounded by La Salle Street, Freret Street, Jena Street, and Napoleon Avenue (Municipal Address: 2400 Napoleon Avenue), the request is hereby APPROVED AND MODIFIED as follows: 1.

The development shall remain primarily a reception and privateevent facility. Ticketed live performances shall not exceed 33% of all events hosted at the facility annually, ensuring that for each ticketed live performance there are at least two reception events.

2. The operator may host ticketed live performances provided only if the development remains primarily a reception facility. Should the development cease to operate as a primarily reception and privateevent facility for a period of more than six months, except in a force majeure event, the facility shall be prohibited from hosting ticketed live performance events.

3. Live performance events shall be limited to a maximum of 13 per quarter.

4. Ticketed live performances shall conclude no later than 10:00 pm Sunday through Thursday and 12:00 am Friday and Saturday.

5. All live performance events shall be limited to a maximum of 800 attendees.

6. The operator shall maintain a minimum of one security guard for every 250 guests attending a ticketed live performance event.

7. During each event, the operator shall maintain a manager on duty with a publicly available cellular telephone number that may be used by neighbors to report concerns. The manager shall make reasonable efforts to respond to issues in real time during events.

8. Following each event, the operator shall perform street cleaning, including, but not limited to, sweeping, trash removal, and other reasonable measures to maintain the cleanliness of the public right-ofway around the perimeter of the property, including on: a. Napoleon Avenue (West Side) between Freret Street and South Liberty Street; and b. La Salle Street between Napoleon Avenue and Jena Street.

9. The development shall secure a traffic study for submission to the City of New Orleans for consideration of turning La Salle Street into a one-way street in the direction of downtown.

BE IT FURTHER MOVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, that the Clerk of Council is directed to forward copies of this motion to the Law Department, which is directed to prepare an ordinance to effectuate this motion and is granted flexibility to make any changes necessary to achieve the will of the Council as set forth in this motion.

THE FOREGOING MOTION WAS READ IN FULL, THE ROLL WAS CALLED ON THE ADOPTION THEREOF, AND RESULTED AS FOLLOWS: YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, McCarron, Morrell, Willard - 6 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: King - 1 AND THE MOTION WAS ADOPTED. NO. M-26-197 BY: COUNCILMEMBER WILLARD SECONDED BY: COUNCILMEMBER HARRIS BE IT MOVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, That the appointment of Arthur Morrell (vice Holly Sharp), as a member of the Parking Facilities Corporation, effective upon approval by the Council of the City of New Orleans, for a term that will expire on December 31, 2029, be, and the same is hereby ratified, confirmed and approved.

BE IT FURTHER MOVED, That the Clerk of Council shall immediately provide a certified copy of this motion to Arthur Morrell, the Parking Facilities Corporation, and the Mayor’s Office of Intergovernmental Relations.

THE FOREGOING MOTION WAS READ IN FULL, THE ROLL WAS CALLED ON THE ADOPTION THEREOF, AND RESULTED AS FOLLOWS: YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, McCarron, Morrell, Willard - 6 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: King - 1 RECUSED: Morrell - 1 AND THE MOTION WAS ADOPTED. NO. M-26-199 BY: COUNCILMEMBERS HARRIS AND KING (BY REQUEST)

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WHEREAS, Section 70-10 of the Code of the City of New Orleans requires that certain contracts providing for the aggregate expenditure of more than $1,000,000.00 in city funds during the initial term and all allowable renewal terms or having an initial term of more than one year or providing for legal services must be signed by the President of the City Council; and WHEREAS, Section 70-10 further provides that the President of the City Council shall not execute any such contract unless authorized to do so

by Council motion; and WHEREAS, The City of New Orleans, Chief Administrative Office; the Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office; and Wexford Health Sources, Inc. desire to extend a contract for comprehensive correctional health services for inmates at the jail, for an additional one (1) year, with the maximum aggregate amount payable by the City for the term of the Agreement (i.e. June 1, 2026, through May 31, 2027) is $24,267,264.00; NOW THEREFORE BE IT MOVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, That the President of the Council shall be added as a signatory to the Amendment No.1 to the contract between the City of New Orleans and Wexford Health Sources, Inc. and BE IT FURTHER MOVED, That the President of the Council is hereby authorized to sign the Amendment No. 1 to the contract between the City of New Orleans and Wexford Health Sources, Inc., as attached hereto as Exhibit A; and BE IT FURTHER MOVED, That the Clerk of Council shall forward copies of this motion, including Exhibit A, to the City Attorney’s Office to effectuate this request.

THE FOREGOING MOTION WAS READ IN FULL, THE ROLL WAS CALLED ON THE ADOPTION THEREOF, AND RESULTED AS FOLLOWS: YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, McCarron, Morrell, Willard - 6 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: King - 1 AND THE MOTION WAS ADOPTED. NO. M-26-200 BY: COUNCILMEMBERS MORRELL, MCCARRON, HARRIS, GREEN AND HUGHES (BY REQUEST) BE IT MOVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, That Susannah Kirby, be, and hereby is confirmed as the Director of the Department of Safety and Permits, in accordance with Section 4-106 of the Home Rule Charter.

BE IT FURTHER MOVED, That the Clerk of Council shall forward copies of this motion to Susannah Kirby and Chief Administrative Officer Joseph Giarrusso.

THE FOREGOING MOTION WAS READ IN FULL, THE ROLL WAS CALLED ON THE ADOPTION THEREOF, AND RESULTED AS FOLLOWS: YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, McCarron, Morrell, Willard - 6 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: King - 1 AND THE MOTION WAS ADOPTED. NO. M-26-201 BY: COUNCILMEMBERS MORRELL, MCCARRON, HARRIS, GREEN AND HUGHES (BY REQUEST) WHEREAS, Section 70-10 of the Code of the City of New Orleans requires that certain contracts providing for the aggregate expenditure of more than $1,000,000.00 in city funds during the initial term and all allowable renewal terms or having an initial term of more than one year or providing for legal services must be signed by the President of the City Council; and WHEREAS, Section 70-10 further provides that the President of the City Council shall not execute any such contract unless authorized to do so

by Council motion; and WHEREAS, on June 1, 2023, the City and Hammerman & Gainer, LLC (the “Contractor”) entered into a Professional Services Agreement for the Contractor to provide services for the management and administration of the City’s Self Insured Worker’s Compensation (the “Agreement”); WHEREAS, the City an the Contractor, each having the authority to do so, desire to enter into an amendment to extend the term of the Agreement for one year, from April 31, 2026 through April 30, 2027 and increase the maximum amount payable by the City by $649,000.00 to a total not to exceed $2,596,000 (“Amendment No. 3”) NOW THEREFORE, BE IT MOVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, That the President of the Council shall be added as a signatory to Amendment No. 3 to the contract between the City of New Orleans and Hammerman & Gainer, LLC; and BE IT FURTHER MOVED, That the President of the Council is hereby authorized to sign Amendment No. 3 the contract between the City of New Orleans and Hammerman & Gainer, LLC, as attached hereto as Exhibit A; and BE IT FURTHER MOVED, That the Clerk of Council shall forward copies of this motion, including Exhibit A, to the City Attorney’s Office to effectuate this request.

THE FOREGOING MOTION WAS READ IN FULL, THE ROLL WAS CALLED ON THE ADOPTION THEREOF, AND RESULTED AS FOLLOWS: YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, McCarron, Morrell, Willard - 6 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: King - 1 AND THE MOTION WAS ADOPTED. **Copies of the attachment may be seen in full in the Clerk of Council’s Office, 1300 Perdido Street, Room 1E09, City Hall.

NO. M-26-202 BY: COUNCILMEMBERS MORRELL, MCCARRON, HARRIS, GREEN AND HUGHES (BY REQUEST) WHEREAS, Section 70-10 of the Code of the City of New Orleans requires that certain contracts providing for the aggregate expenditure of more than $1,000,000.00 in city funds during the initial term and all allowable renewal terms or having an initial term of more than one year must be signed by the President of the City Council; and WHEREAS, Section 70-10 further provides that the President of the City Council shall not execute any such contract unless authorized to do so

by Council motion; and WHEREAS, The City of New Orleans, Information Technology and Innovation, and Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc., desire to enter into an amendment to a contract for the Licensing Agreement of the sole source of GIS software and mapping software that maintains mapping capabilities during and prior to emergencies, for an additional period of 3 years, and adding an additional compensation of $1,350,000.00, bringing the total compensation to $3,805,000.00; NOW THEREFORE BE IT MOVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, That the President of the Council shall be added as a signatory to Amendment No. 5 to the contract between the City of New Orleans and Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc.; and BE IT FURTHER MOVED, That the President of the Council is hereby authorized to sign Amendment No. 5 to the contract between the City of New Orleans and Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc., as attached hereto as Exhibit A; and BE IT FURTHER MOVED, That the Clerk of Council shall forward copies of this motion, including Exhibit A, to the City Attorney’s Office to effectuate this request.

THE FOREGOING MOTION WAS READ IN FULL, THE ROLL WAS CALLED ON THE ADOPTION THEREOF, AND RESULTED AS FOLLOWS: YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, McCarron, Morrell, Willard - 6 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: King - 1 AND THE MOTION WAS ADOPTED. NO. M-26-203 BY: COUNCILMEMBER HARRIS SECONDED BY: COUNCILMEMBER HUGHES BE IT MOVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, That the appointment of Stephanie Burks (vice Scott Polakoff), nominee of the District B councilmember, as a member of the Downtown Development District, effective August 8, 2026 upon approval by the Council of the City of New Orleans, to serve a term ending August 8, 2031, be, and the same is hereby ratified, confirmed, and approved.

BE IT FURTHER MOVED, That the Clerk of Council shall immediately provide a certified copy of this motion to Stephanie Burks, the Downtown Development District, the Law Department, and the Mayor’s Office of Intergovernmental Affairs.

THE FOREGOING MOTION WAS READ IN FULL, THE ROLL WAS CALLED ON THE ADOPTION THEREOF, AND RESULTED AS FOLLOWS: YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, McCarron, Morrell, Willard - 6 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: King - 1 AND THE MOTION WAS ADOPTED. NO. M-26-204 BY: COUNCILMEMBER HARRIS SECONDED BY: COUNCILMEMBER HUGHES BE IT MOVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, That the appointment of Ayame Dinkler (vice Lisa Mazique), nominee of the District B councilmember, as a member of the Industrial Development Board, effective upon approval by the Council of the City of New Orleans, to serve a term ending January 1, 2029, be, and the same is hereby ratified, confirmed, and approved.

BE IT FURTHER MOVED, That the Clerk of Council shall immediately provide a certified copy of this motion to Ayame Dinkler, the Industrial Development Board, the Law Department, and the Mayor’s Office of Intergovernmental Affairs.

THE FOREGOING MOTION WAS READ IN FULL, THE ROLL WAS CALLED ON THE ADOPTION THEREOF, AND RESULTED AS FOLLOWS: YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, McCarron, Morrell, Willard - 6 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: King - 1 AND THE MOTION WAS ADOPTED.

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NO. M-26-205 BY: COUNCILMEMBER MORRELL (BY REQUEST) SECONDED BY: COUNCILMEMBER HUGHES BE IT MOVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, That the reappointment of Ryan King, nominee of the New Orleans Chamber of Commerce, as a member of the Downtown Development District, effective upon approval by the Council of the City of New Orleans, to serve a term ending August 8, 2030, be, and the same is hereby ratified, confirmed, and approved.

BE IT FURTHER MOVED, That the Clerk of Council shall immediately provide a certified copy of this motion to Ryan King, the Downtown Development District, the Law Department, and the Mayor’s Office of Intergovernmental Affairs.

THE FOREGOING MOTION WAS READ IN FULL, THE ROLL WAS CALLED ON THE ADOPTION THEREOF, AND RESULTED AS FOLLOWS: YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, McCarron, Morrell, Willard - 6 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: King - 1 AND THE MOTION WAS ADOPTED. NO. M-26-206 BY: COUNCILMEMBER MORRELL (BY REQUEST) SECONDED BY: COUNCILMEMBER HUGHES BE IT MOVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, That the reappointment of Kenneth Rubenstein, nominee of State Representative Alonzo Knox, as a member of the Downtown Development District, effective upon approval by the Council of the City of New Orleans, to serve a term ending August 8, 2030, be, and the same is hereby ratified, confirmed, and approved.

BE IT FURTHER MOVED, That the Clerk of Council shall immediately provide a certified copy of this motion to Kenneth Rubenstein, the Downtown Development District, the Law Department, and the Mayor’s Office of Intergovernmental Affairs.

THE FOREGOING MOTION WAS READ IN FULL, THE ROLL WAS CALLED ON THE ADOPTION THEREOF, AND RESULTED AS FOLLOWS: YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, McCarron, Morrell, Willard - 6 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: King - 1 AND THE MOTION WAS ADOPTED. NO. M-26-207 BY: COUNCILMEMBER MORRELL (BY REQUEST) SECONDED BY: COUNCILMEMBER HUGHES BE IT MOVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, That the appointment of Michael DiSimone, nominee of the Louisiana Restaurant Association, fulfilling the unexpired term of Miles Tully, as a member of the Downtown Development District, effective upon approval by the Council of the City of New Orleans, to serve a term ending August 8, 2028, be, and the same is hereby ratified, confirmed, and approved.

BE IT FURTHER MOVED, That the Clerk of Council shall immediately provide a certified copy of this motion to Michael DiSimone, the Downtown Development District, the Law Department, and the Mayor’s Office of Intergovernmental Affairs.

THE FOREGOING MOTION WAS READ IN FULL, THE ROLL WAS CALLED ON THE ADOPTION THEREOF, AND RESULTED AS FOLLOWS: YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, McCarron, Morrell, Willard - 6 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: King - 1 AND THE MOTION WAS ADOPTED. NO. M-26-208 BY: COUNCILMEMBER HUGHES (BY REQUEST) SECONDED BY: COUNCILMEMBER MCCARRON BE IT MOVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, That the Mayor’s reappointment of Margaret Washington as a member of the Sanford “Sandy” Krasnoff New Orleans Criminal Justice Council (community representative for victims and survivors), effective upon approval by the Council of the City of New Orleans, for a term that will expire on December 31, 2026, be, and the same is hereby ratified, confirmed, and approved.

BE IT FURTHER MOVED, That the Clerk of Council shall immediately provide a certified copy of this motion to Maragret Washington, the Sanford “Sandy” Krasnoff New Orleans Criminal Justice Council, the Law Department, and the Mayor’s Office of Intergovernmental Affairs.

THE FOREGOING MOTION WAS READ IN FULL, THE ROLL WAS CALLED ON THE ADOPTION THEREOF, AND RESULTED AS FOLLOWS: YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, McCarron, Morrell, Willard - 6 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: King - 1 AND THE MOTION WAS ADOPTED. NO. M-26-209 BY: COUNCILMEMBERS KING (BY REQUEST) AND MORRELL BE IT MOVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, That the Mayor’s appointment of Pike Howard vice Elizabeth Boh (representing the New Orleans Business Council), as a member of the Sanford “Sandy” Krasnoff New Orleans Criminal Justice Council, effective upon approval by the Council of the City of New Orleans, for a term that will expire on December 31, 2026, be, and the same is hereby ratified, confirmed, and approved.

BE IT FURTHER MOVED, That the Clerk of Council shall immediately provide a certified copy of this motion to Pike Howard, the Sanford “Sandy” Krasnoff New Orleans Criminal Justice Council, the Law Department, and the Mayor’s Office of Intergovernmental Affairs.

THE FOREGOING MOTION WAS READ IN FULL, THE ROLL WAS CALLED ON THE ADOPTION THEREOF, AND RESULTED AS FOLLOWS: YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, McCarron, Morrell, Willard - 6 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: King - 1 AND THE MOTION WAS ADOPTED. NO. M-26-210 BY: COUNCILMEMBERS KING (BY REQUEST) AND MORRELL BE IT MOVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, That the Mayor’s appointment of Renard Thomas vice Troy Glover as a member of the Sanford “Sandy” Krasnoff New Orleans Criminal Justice Council (citizen representative-reentry), effective upon approval by the Council of the City of New Orleans, for a term that will expire on December 31, 2026, be, and the same is hereby ratified, confirmed, and approved.

BE IT FURTHER MOVED, That the Clerk of Council shall immediately provide a certified copy of this motion to Renard Thomas, the Sanford “Sandy” Krasnoff New Orleans Criminal Justice Council, the Law Department, and the Mayor’s Office of Intergovernmental Affairs.

THE FOREGOING MOTION WAS READ IN FULL, THE ROLL WAS CALLED ON THE ADOPTION THEREOF, AND RESULTED AS FOLLOWS: YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, McCarron, Morrell, Willard - 6 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: King - 1 AND THE MOTION WAS ADOPTED. NO. M-26-211 BY: COUNCILMEMBER GREEN (BY REQUEST) SECONDED BY: COUNCILMEMBER HUGHES BE IT MOVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, That the Mayor’s appointment of Austin Lavin (vice Andrea Neighbours) as a member of the New Orleans Public Library, effective upon approval by the Council of the City of New Orleans, to serve a term ending June 30, 2034, be, and the same is hereby ratified, confirmed, and approved.

BE IT FURTHER MOVED, That the Clerk of Council shall immediately provide a certified copy of this motion to Austin Lavin, the New Orleans Public Library, the Law Department, and the Mayor’s Office of Intergovernmental Affairs.

THE FOREGOING MOTION WAS READ IN FULL, THE ROLL WAS CALLED ON THE ADOPTION THEREOF, AND RESULTED AS FOLLOWS: YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, McCarron, Morrell, Willard - 6 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: King - 1 AND THE MOTION WAS ADOPTED. NO. M-26-212 BY: COUNCILMEMBER MCCARRON (BY REQUEST) SECONDED BY: COUNCILMEMBER HUGHES BE IT MOVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, That the Mayor’s appointment of Joseph Wilson (vice Xavier Angel) as a member of the Audubon Commission, effective upon approval by the Council of the City of New Orleans, to serve a term ending June 30, 2030, be, and the same is hereby ratified, confirmed, and approved.

BE IT FURTHER MOVED, That the Clerk of Council shall immediately provide a certified copy of this motion to Joseph Wilson, the Audubon Commission, the Law Department, and the Mayor’s Office of Intergovernmental Affairs.

THE FOREGOING MOTION WAS READ IN FULL, THE ROLL WAS CALLED ON THE ADOPTION THEREOF, AND RESULTED AS FOLLOWS: YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, McCarron, Morrell, Willard - 6 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: King - 1 AND THE MOTION WAS ADOPTED. NO. M-26-213 BY: COUNCILMEMBER GREEN (BY REQUEST) SECONDED BY: COUNCILMEMBER HUGHES BE IT MOVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, That the Mayor’s appointment of Adrian Bruneau (vice Sophia Harris Vorhoff) as a member of the Regional Planning Commission, effective upon approval by the Council of the City of New Orleans, to serve a term ending June 30, 2030, be, and the same is hereby ratified, confirmed, and

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BE IT FURTHER MOVED, That the Clerk of Council shall immediately provide a certified copy of this motion to Adrian Bruneau, the Regional Planning Commission, the Law Department, and the Mayor’s Office of Intergovernmental Affairs.

THE FOREGOING MOTION WAS READ IN FULL, THE ROLL WAS CALLED ON THE ADOPTION THEREOF, AND RESULTED AS FOLLOWS: YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, McCarron, Morrell, Willard - 6 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: King - 1 AND THE MOTION WAS ADOPTED. NO. M-26-214 BY: COUNCILMEMBERS KING (BY REQUEST) AND MORRELL BE IT MOVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, That the Mayor’s appointment of Dernell Johnson (vice Vonda FlentroyRice) as a member of the New Orleans Public Library, effective upon approval by the Council of the City of New Orleans, to serve a term ending June 30, 2033, be, and the same is hereby ratified, confirmed, and approved.

BE IT FURTHER MOVED, That the Clerk of Council shall immediately provide a certified copy of this motion to Dernell Johnson, the New Orleans Public Library, the Law Department, and the Mayor’s Office of Intergovernmental Affairs.

THE FOREGOING MOTION WAS READ IN FULL, THE ROLL WAS CALLED ON THE ADOPTION THEREOF, AND RESULTED AS FOLLOWS: YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, McCarron, Morrell, Willard - 6 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: King - 1 AND THE MOTION WAS ADOPTED. NO. M-26-215 BY: COUNCILMEMBER MCCARRON (BY REQUEST) SECONDED BY: COUNCILMEMBER HUGHES BE IT MOVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, That the Mayor’s appointment of Richard Freeman (vice Victor Jones) as a member of the Audubon Commission, effective upon approval by the Council of the City of New Orleans, to serve a term ending June 30, 2031, be, and the same is hereby ratified, confirmed, and approved.

BE IT FURTHER MOVED, That the Clerk of Council shall immediately provide a certified copy of this motion to Richard Freeman, the Audubon Commission, the Law Department, and the Mayor’s Office of Intergovernmental Affairs.

THE FOREGOING MOTION WAS READ IN FULL, THE ROLL WAS CALLED ON THE ADOPTION THEREOF, AND RESULTED AS FOLLOWS: YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, McCarron, Morrell, Willard - 6 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: King - 1 AND THE MOTION WAS ADOPTED. NO. M-26-216 BY: COUNCILMEMBER MCCARRON (BY REQUEST) SECONDED BY: COUNCILMEMBER HUGHES BE IT MOVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, That the Mayor’s appointment of Amanda Berger (vice Frances Fayard) as a member of the Audubon Commission, effective upon approval by the Council of the City of New Orleans, to serve a term ending June 30, 2031, be, and the same is hereby ratified, confirmed, and approved.

BE IT FURTHER MOVED, That the Clerk of Council shall immediately provide a certified copy of this motion to Amanda Berger, the Audubon Commission, the Law Department, and the Mayor’s Office of Intergovernmental Affairs.

THE FOREGOING MOTION WAS READ IN FULL, THE ROLL WAS CALLED ON THE ADOPTION THEREOF, AND RESULTED AS FOLLOWS: YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, McCarron, Morrell, Willard - 6 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: King - 1 AND THE MOTION WAS ADOPTED. NO. M-26-217 BY: COUNCILMEMBERS KING (BY REQUEST) AND MORRELL BE IT MOVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, That the Mayor’s reappointment of Thelma French (representing community TCA), as a member of the Sanford “Sandy” Krasnoff New Orleans Criminal Justice Council, effective upon approval by the Council of the City of New Orleans, for a term that will expire on December 31, 2026, be, and the same is hereby ratified, confirmed, and approved.

BE IT FURTHER MOVED, That the Clerk of Council shall immediately provide a certified copy of this motion to Thelma French, the Sanford “Sandy” Krasnoff New Orleans Criminal Justice Council, the Law Department, and the Mayor’s Office of Intergovernmental Affairs.

THE FOREGOING MOTION WAS READ IN FULL, THE ROLL WAS CALLED ON THE ADOPTION THEREOF, AND RESULTED AS FOLLOWS: YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, McCarron, Morrell, Willard - 6 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: King - 1 AND THE MOTION WAS ADOPTED. NO. R-26-218 (AS CORRECTED) BY: COUNCILMEMBER HARRIS (BY REQUEST) SECONDED BY: COUNCILMEMBER MCCARRON WHEREAS, the City Council retained the audit firm Carr, Riggs & Ingram CPAs and Advisors (“CRI”) to conduct the City of New Orleans’ (“City”) 2025 comprehensive annual financial audit; and WHEREAS, the Louisiana Legislative Auditor requires the City to submit a completed Louisiana Compliance Questionnaire that must be adopted by resolution of the governing authority; and WHEREAS, the Department of Finance has completed the Louisiana Compliance Questionnaire, which is signed by the Mayor, and has submitted the completed Questionnaire to the City Council; NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, That the City Council hereby approves the completed Louisiana Compliance Questionnaire prepared by the Department of Finance as part of the 2025 annual audit.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That the Clerk of Council shall forward a certified copy of this resolution to the Louisiana Legislative Auditor, CRI, the Director of Finance, and the Council Fiscal Office.

THE FOREGOING RESOLUTION WAS READ IN FULL, THE ROLL WAS CALLED ON THE ADOPTION THEREOF, AND RESULTED AS FOLLOWS: YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, McCarron, Morrell, Willard - 6 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: King - 1 AND THE RESOLUTION WAS ADOPTED. NO. M-26-219 BY: COUNCILMEMBERS MORRELL AND WILLARD BE IT MOVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, That Rules 15 and 15.1 of the Council Rules are hereby suspended; and BE IT FURTHER MOVED, That Councilmember Freddie King III (vice Oliver Thomas) is hereby appointed to the district councilmember seat of the Sanford “Sandy” Krasnoff New Orleans Criminal Justice Council.

THE FOREGOING MOTION WAS READ IN FULL, THE ROLL WAS CALLED ON THE ADOPTION THEREOF, AND RESULTED AS FOLLOWS: YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, McCarron, Morrell, Willard - 6 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: King - 1 RECUSED: 0 AND THE MOTION WAS ADOPTED. NO. R-26-220 BY: COUNCILMEMBERS MCCARRON, MORRELL, WILLARD, HARRIS, GREEN, KING AND HUGHES RESOLUTION AND ORDER ESTABLISHING RULEMAKING TO CONSIDER REVISING THE INTEGRATED RESOURCE PLAN RULES WITH RESPECT TO DISTRIBUTED ENERGY RESOURCES DOCKET NO. UD-26-01 WHEREAS, pursuant to the Home Rule Charter of the City of New Orleans, the Council of the City of New Orleans (“Council”) is the governmental body with the power of supervision, regulation, and control over public utilities providing service within the City of New Orleans; and WHEREAS, pursuant to its powers of supervision, regulation and control over public utilities, the Council is responsible for fixing and changing rates and charges of public utilities, making all necessary rules and regulations governing the terms and conditions of service, applications for the fixing and changing of rates and charges of public utilities, and all other regulatory proceedings; and WHEREAS, Entergy New Orleans, LLC (“ENO”) is a public utility providing electric service to all of New Orleans; and WHEREAS, in July of 2017, the Council adopted Resolution R-17-332, adopting new IRP rules, which were later amended in R-17-429 to add a statement of purpose to the rules and clarify what actions the Council might take in response to the filing. The rules adopted in R-17-429, the “Electric Utility Integrated Resource Plan Rules of the Council of the City of New Orleans” (“IRP Rules”) are the currently effective IRP Rules for New Orleans; and WHEREAS, on December 18, 2025, the Council adopted Resolution No. R-25-629 accepting and approving ENO’s 2024 IRP Final Report and its Action Plan, and granting parties 90 days to comment on certain recommendations made by the Advisors for future IRP proceedings; and WHEREAS, in their Advisors’ Report on the 2024 IRP Final Report, the Advisors noted that other ongoing Council dockets regarding distributed energy resources (“DERs”) are likely to implement changes to Council policies around DERs that will impact the IRP analyses, and that technological and market changes regarding DERs have occurred since

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the Council’s current IRP Rules were adopted.1 The Advisors identified several areas where the current IRP Rules need to be revised to better reflect these changes, and recommended that the Council consider opening a proceeding to evaluate revising the IRP Rules with respect to how DERs are included in both the DSM Potential Study and the IRP analyses to reflect these recent developments;2 and WHEREAS, on March 18, 2026, ENO submitted the Comments of Entergy New Orleans, LLC’s on Advisor Recommendations for Future IRP (“ENO Comments”). The ENO Comments were generally supportive of the Advisors’ recommendations to update the IRP Rules to account for developments in the types and characteristics of DERs since the most recent IRP Rules were adopted in 2017, and set forth proposed edits to the definition of “Distributed Energy Resources” under the IRP Rules, as well as an explanation of the different types of distributed resources that are either currently deployed in New Orleans or planned for deployment in the future, and how Entergy’s System Planning & Operations group treats each of the distributed resources in developing portfolios through the IRP analyses; and WHEREAS, no other comments were filed regarding the Advisors’ recommendations; and; WHEREAS, in light of the Advisors’ recommendations, ENO’s comments, developments in other Council dockets regarding DERs, and technological and market changes to DERs since the Council last amended the IRP Rules in 2017, the Council hereby wishes to establish a docket and procedural schedule to evaluate revising the IRP Rules with respect to how DERs are included in both the DSM Potential Study and the IRP analyses to reflect these recent developments; NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, That: 1. The Council hereby establishes Docket No. UD-26-01 to consider revising the IRP Rules with respect to how DERs are included in both the DSM Potential Study and the IRP analyses.

2. The Council appoints the Honorable Jeffrey Gulin as Hearing Officer in this docket, who shall, for good cause shown, and as required by the circumstances of the proceedings, have authority to change or amend the procedural dates set forth herein.

3. ENO is designated as a party to these proceedings.

4. The Council’s Advisors are directed to participate fully in the proceeding, including submitting comments, and/or drafting reports as needed to ensure that the Council’s objectives for this docket are achieved.

5. The following procedural schedule is adopted: a. Stakeholders desiring to intervene shall file a motion to intervene with the Clerk of Council no later than Friday, June 5, 2026, with a copy submitted electronically to Byron Minor (byron.minor@nola.gov). The Council’s requirements for motions to intervene may be found in the City Code at sections 158-27, 158-29, 158-30, 158-31, and 158-32.

Objections to motions to intervene shall be filed within 5 days of such requests. Timely filed motions to intervene not objected to within that time period shall be deemed GRANTED. b. The Parties, CURO and the Advisors shall convene a virtual technical conference June 9, 10, or 11 between 10:00 am and 2:00 pm, to discuss revising the IRP Rules with respect to how DERs are included in both the DSM Potential Study and the IRP analyses. The Parties are encouraged to work toward consensus regarding necessary changes. c. By Thursday, June 18, 2026, Parties and Advisors shall submit their proposals for specific language changes to the IRP Rules with respect to how DERs are included in both the DSM Potential Study and the IRP analyses. d. By Friday, July 17, 2026 Parties and Advisors shall submit comments regarding the proposed changes. e. By Friday, July 31, Parties and Advisors shall submit reply comments on the proposed changes. f. By Friday, August 7, the Hearing Officer shall certify the record and submit it to the Council for final consideration.

THE FOREGOING RESOLUTION WAS READ IN FULL, THE ROLL WAS CALLED ON THE ADOPTION THEREOF, AND RESULTED AS FOLLOWS: YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, McCarron, Morrell, Willard - 6 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: King - 1 AND THE RESOLUTION WAS ADOPTED. NO. R-26-221 BY: COUNCILMEMBERS MORRELL AND WILLARD WHEREAS, on March 16, 2006, the Council of the City of New Orleans, adopted Ordinance No. 22,163, M.C.S., authorizing the fourth amendment to the lease agreement between Rivergate Development Corporation, the City of New Orleans, and Jazz Casino Company, L.L.C. (successor to Harrah’s Jazz Company); and WHEREAS, said amendment included the commitment from Jazz Casino Company, L.L.C. to provide $225,000 annually to fund the Caesars New Orleans Casino Community Support Grant Program; and WHEREAS, on March 21, 2013 the Council adopted Ordinance No. 25256 M.C.S., which established the City Council/Cox Communications Louisiana’s Community Grant Program and among other things, established eligibility guidelines for the program; and WHEREAS, as noted in Ordinance No. 25256 M.C.S., the Cox Cable Franchise provides for the annual contribution of $140,000.00 by Cox Communications Louisiana, LLC to community, non-profit organizations, focused upon education, technology training, communications, and similar programs benefitting the youth of the City of New Orleans; and WHEREAS, on May 21, 2020, the Council approved Ordinance Calendar Number 32,965 and Resolution R-20-127 establishing electronic application processes for both the Cox and Caesars grants; and WHEREAS, the Council desires to establish the deadline and application process for these grant applications for the year 2026; NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, That the application deadline for Caesars New Orleans Casino Community Support Grant and the City Council/Cox Communications Louisiana’s Community Grant is Friday, July 10, 2026.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, That all applications shall be submitted through the Council’s website at council.nola.gov.

THE FOREGOING RESOLUTION WAS READ IN FULL, THE ROLL WAS CALLED ON THE ADOPTION THEREOF, AND RESTULTED AS FOLLOWS: YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, McCarron, Morrell, Willard - 6 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: King - 1 AND THE RESOLUTION WAS ADOPTED. NO. M-26-222 BY: COUNCILMEMBER HARRIS SECONDED BY: COUNCILMEMBER HUGHES BE IT MOVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, that the City Planning Commission’s report and recommendation of approval subject to two provisos, related to ZONING DOCKET 26/26, initiated by 420 Julia Property Holder, LLC, requesting a conditional use to permit a social club in a CBD-6 Urban Core Neighborhood Intensity Mixed-Use District, on Square 123, Lot SE, in the First Municipal District, bounded

by Constance Street, Julia Street, Saint Joseph Street, and Tchoupitoulas Street (Municipal Address: 420 Julia Street), is hereby APPROVED AND MODIFIED with the following additional provisos: 1. Outdoor speakers shall be prohibited.

2. Special Event applications shall be submitted to the city no later than thirty days in advance of the proposed event.

3. Neighbors shall be notified of special event applications contemporaneously with the special event application.

BE IT FURTHER MOVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, that the Clerk of Council is directed to forward copies of this motion to the Law Department, which is directed to prepare an ordinance to effectuate this motion and is granted flexibility to make any changes necessary to achieve the will of the Council as set forth in this motion.

THE FOREGOING MOTION WAS READ IN FULL, THE ROLL WAS CALLED ON THE ADOPTION THEREOF, AND RESULTED AS FOLLOWS: YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, McCarron, Willard - 5 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: King, Morrell - 2 AND THE MOTION WAS ADOPTED. NO. M-26-223 BY: COUNCILMEMBER MCCARRON (BY REQUEST) SECONDED BY: COUNCILMEMBER HUGHES BE IT MOVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, That the Mayor’s appointment of Tracie Haydel Griffin (vice Minh Thanh Ngyuen) as a member of the Audubon Commission, effective upon approval by the Council of the City of New Orleans, to serve a term ending June 30, 2030, be, and the same is hereby ratified, confirmed, and approved.

BE IT FURTHER MOVED, That the Clerk of Council shall immediately provide a certified copy of this motion to Tracie Haydel Griffin, the Audubon Commission, the Law Department, and the Mayor’s Office of Intergovernmental Affairs.

THE FOREGOING MOTION WAS READ IN FULL, THE ROLL WAS CALLED ON THE ADOPTION THEREOF, AND RESULTED AS FOLLOWS: YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, McCarron, Morrell, Willard - 6 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: King - 1 AND THE MOTION WAS ADOPTED. NO. R-26-224 BY: COUNCILMEMBER HARRIS SECONDED BY: COUNCILMEMBER WILLARD A RESOLUTION calling an election in the Touro Bouligny Security District for November 3, 2026.

1 Advisors’ Report at 37.

2 Advisors’ Report at 37-38.

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WHEREAS, the Louisiana State Legislature enacted La. R.S. 33:9091.10, creating the Touro Bouligny Security District (“District”), for the purpose of authorizing the collection of a millage not to exceed sixteen and twotenths mills on all taxable real property located within the District, and allowing a renewed term not to exceed eight years, when authorized by the District and approved by the majority of the District’s registered voters; and WHEREAS, the Board of Commissioners of the District met on May 19, 2026, and adopted a resolution requesting the City Council to levy this renewed millage, with the exact amount as requested by duly adopted resolution of the board of commissioners, for eight years, commencing on January 1, 2027, and ending December 31, 2034, subject to the majority approval of the District’s registered voters at the November 3, 2026, election; NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, That SECTION 1. Election Call. Subject to the approval of the State Bond Commission and under the authority conferred by La. R.S. 33:9091.10 and the Louisiana Election Code, an election is hereby called for Tuesday, November 3, 2026, between the hours of 6:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. and at said election the electorate of the Touro Bouligny Security District (“District”) may approve or disapprove the levy of a renewed millage not to exceed sixteen and two-tenths mills, with the exact amount as requested by duly adopted resolution of the board of commissioners, on all taxable real property located within the District, comprised of the area of the City of New Orleans bounded by Louisiana Avenue to St. Charles Avenue (river side only) to Napoleon Avenue (both sides) to Magazine Street (both sides) and back to Louisiana Avenue (excluding all municipal numbers on Louisiana Avenue), for eight years, beginning January 1, 2027 through December 31, 2034, which is estimated to generate $460,000 annually. Any fee levied upon a parcel in the District shall be in addition to any ad valorem tax affecting real property, or any charge (including, but not limited to, a sanitation charge), fee, license, permit or rate imposed or levied pursuant to the regulatory authority of the City of New Orleans in the operation of the city, its departments, agencies, boards and commissions, whether attached or unattached, including, but not limited to, the Sewerage and Water Board. The proceeds of any fee collected shall be used exclusively for the purpose of promoting and encouraging security in the area included within the District; however, the City of New Orleans may retain one percent of the amount collected as a collection fee. The affairs of the District are managed by the Touro Bouligny Board of Commissioners (“Board”) which shall adopt an annual budget in accordance with the Local Government Budget Act, La. R.S. 39:1301, et seq. The members of the Board serve without compensation. The official ballot used in the voting machines for the election shall be as follows: TOURO BOULIGNY SECURITY DISTRICT PROPOSITION Shall the City of New Orleans levy a renewed millage not to exceed sixteen and two-tenths mills (subject to the homestead exemption), on all taxable real property located within the Touro Bouligny Security District (“District”), as delineated by 33:9091.10(B), for eight years, beginning January 1, 2027 and ending December 31, 2034, which is estimated to generate $460,000 annually, with the exact amount as requested by duly adopted resolution of the board of commissioners, to be used exclusively for the purpose of promoting and encouraging security in the area included within the District, except for a 1% City collection fee, and provided that, if used to fund additional law enforcement or security personnel and services, such personnel and services shall be supplemental to and not in lieu of those provided by the New Orleans Police Department?

SECTION 2. District Boundaries. The boundaries of the District are Louisiana Avenue to St. Charles Avenue (river side only) to Napoleon Avenue (both sides) to Magazine Street (both sides) and back to Louisiana Avenue (excluding all municipal numbers on Louisiana Avenue).

SECTION 3. Publication of Notice of Election. Notice of this election shall be published in the City of New Orleans’ official journal once a week for four consecutive weeks, with the first publication occurring between 45 and 90 days prior to the election date, as provided in Exhibit “A”.

Exhibit “A” is hereby incorporated as if the same were set forth in full.

SECTION 4. Canvass. The Council, acting under the powers granted to it by the City Charter and state statutes, shall meet, in open session, in the Council Chamber, City Hall, 1300 Perdido Street, New Orleans, Louisiana on Thursday, December 17, 2026, beginning at 10:00 a.m. to examine and canvass the returns and declare the election result.

SECTION 5. Polling Places. The polling places set forth in the aforesaid notice of election are hereby designated as the polling places at which to hold the said election, and the commissioners-in-charge and commissioners will be the same persons as those designated in accordance with law.

SECTION 6. Election Commissioners; Voting Machines. The officers designated to serve as commissioners-in-charge and commissioners pursuant to Section 5 hereof, or such substitutes therefor, as may be selected and designated in accordance with La. R.S. 18:1287, shall hold the said election as herein provided, and shall make due returns of said election to the City Council. All registered voters in the District are entitled to vote at said election and voting machines shall be used thereat.

SECTION 7. Authorization of Officers. The Clerk of Court is hereby empowered, authorized and directed to arrange for and to furnish to said election officers in ample time for the holding of said election, the necessary equipment, forms and other paraphernalia essential to the proper holding of said election and the President and Clerk of the City Council and the City Attorney are authorized, empowered and directed to take any and all further action required by state and/or federal law to arrange for the election.

SECTION 8. Furnishing Election Call to Election Officials. Certified copies of this resolution shall be forwarded to the Secretary of State, the Clerk of Court and ex-officio parish custodian of voting machines in and for the Parish of Orleans, State of Louisiana, and the Registrar of Voters in and for said parish, as notification of the election herein called, in order that each may prepare for said election and perform their respective functions as required by law.

SECTION 9. Application to State Bond Commission. Application is made to the State Bond Commission for consent and authority to hold the aforesaid election as herein provided, and in the event said election results in approval of the proposition, for further consent and authority to levy and collect the special fee provided for therein, and a certified copy of this resolution shall be forwarded to the State Bond Commission on behalf of the City Council requesting prompt consideration and approval of the application.

THE FOREGOING RESOLUTION WAS READ IN FULL, THE ROLL WAS CALLED ON THE ADOPTION THEREOF, AND RESULTED AS FOLLOWS: YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, McCarron, Morrell, Willard - 6 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: King - 1 AND THE RESOLUTION WAS ADOPTED. **Copies of the attachment may be seen in full in the Clerk of Council’s Office, 1300 Perdido Street, Room 1E09, City Hall.

ORDINANCES ON FIRST READING CAL. NO. 35,447 - BY: COUNCILMEMBER MORRELL - AN ORDINANCE to amend and reordain section 154-777 of the Code of the City of New Orleans to increase the fee for immobilization of unoccupied vehicles; and otherwise to provide with respect thereto.

CAL. NO. 35,448 - BY: COUNCILMEMBER KING - AN ORDINANCE to temporarily waive certain fees, permit fees, and requirements within and around Hunter’s Field Playground located at 1659 North Claiborne Avenue, New Orleans, Louisiana in conjunction with the Social Aid & Pleasure Club Coalition Picnic event on Sunday, June 14, 2026 from 8:45 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., to specify the duration and boundaries of said waiver; and otherwise to provide with respect thereto.

CAL. NO. 35,449 - BY: COUNCILMEMBER KING - AN ORDINANCE to amend and reordain Article 18 of the Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance (Ordinance No. 4264 M.C.S., as amended by Ordinance No. 26,413 M.C.S. and subsequent amendments) to establish a new overlay district called the Behrman Mixed-Use Integrity Overlay District, the intent of which is to ensure that any multi-family developments proposed within the S-MU Suburban Neighborhood Mixed-Use District and the MU-1 Medium Intensity Mixed-Use District, bounded by Wall Boulevard, Holiday Drive, and General De Gaulle Drive, contain non-residential uses which align with the mixed-use goal of those districts; and otherwise to provide with respect thereto. (Zoning Docket NO. 34/26) CAL. NO. 35,450 - BY: COUNCILMEMBER KING (BY REQUEST) AN ORDINANCE to amend Ordinance No. 30530 M.C.S., as amended, entitled “An Ordinance Providing an Operating Budget of Revenues for the City of New Orleans for the Year 2026”, to appropriate funds for the implementation of NOPD 8th District Drone Program within the French Quarter Economic Development District; and otherwise to provide with respect thereto.

CAL. NO. 35451 - BY: COUNCILMEMBER KING (BY REQUEST) AN ORDINANCE to amend Ordinance No. 30531 M.C.S., as amended, entitled “An Ordinance Providing an Operating Budget of Expenditures for the City of New Orleans for the Year 2026”, to appropriate funds for the implementation of NOPD 8th District Drone Program within the French Quarter Economic Development District; and otherwise to provide with respect thereto.

CAL. NO. 35,452 - BY: COUNCILMEMBER GREEN (BY REQUEST) - AN ORDINANCE to authorize the Mayor of the City of New Orleans to enter into Amendment No. 1 to a previously executed Cooperative Endeavor Agreement (CEA) between the City of New Orleans (“City”) and University Medical Center Management Corporation (UMC), relative to a Data Sharing Agreement with UMC, desire to modify the provisions of the CEA and extend the term thereof for an additional 5 years, as more fully set forth in the Amendment No. 1 form as Exhibit “A” and made a part hereof; and otherwise to provide with respect thereto. **Copies of the attachment may be seen in full in the Clerk of Council’s Office, 1300 Perdido Street, Room 1E09, City Hall.

THE FOREGOING ORDINANCES WERE LAID OVER AS REQUIRED

BY LAW.

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There being no further business, on motion of Councilmember Willard, seconded by Councilmember Harris, and without objection, the Council meeting adjourned at 12:22 P.M. AISHA R. COLLIER CLERK OF COUNCIL NRM/jmr NOCP 9121 ORDINANCE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS CITY HALL: May 7, 2026 CALENDAR NO. 35,432 NO. 30656 MAYOR COUNCIL SERIES BY: COUNCILMEMBERS HARRIS, MCCARRON, KING, GREEN, HUGHES, MORRELL AND WILLARD AN ORDINANCE to establish Division 56 of Chapter 70, Article III of the Code of the City of New Orleans to create the 2026 Caesars Lease Rent Strip Sale Proceeds Fund, dedicated to housing the City’s proceeds anticipated from the sale of certain future lease payments from Jazz Casino Company, L.L.C. for the Caesars New Orleans Casino, to create restrictions on expenditures; and otherwise to provide with respect thereto.

WHEREAS, the City is currently in the midst of a fiscal crisis that has severely depleted its on-hand funds (“Fund Balance”), both impeding its ability to meet certain payment obligations and leaving the City without adequate financial reserves to address emergency needs; and WHEREAS, maintaining such reserves is key to a stable budget and structurally balanced financial operations – the basis of credit rating agencies’ assessment of the City’s fiscal health and therefore its bonding capacity; and WHEREAS, the City is undertaking several major initiatives to restore its Fund Balance, including the sale of certain future lease payments from Jazz Casino Company, L.L.C. (“the Sale”), as authorized in Ordinance Calendar Number 35,426, which will generate at least $100,000,000 in immediate capital; and WHEREAS, the stated purpose of the Sale is indeed “immediately and dramatically improving the City’s long-term financial health without the need to incur debt or sacrifice vital services,” and, to that end, the Moreno Administration has publicly committed to transparency, public reporting, and City Council oversight of expenditures from the Sale’s proceeds; and WHEREAS, holding such proceeds in a segregated, interest-bearing account, and in a separate codified Fund, as established herein, will better ensure these commitments are fulfilled, and will facilitate the ability of not only the City Council but also the public to monitor the responsible use of income from the Sale; NOW, THEREFORE SECTION 1. THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS HEREBY ORDAINS, That Division 56 of Chapter 70, Division III of the Code of the City of New Orleans, Louisiana is hereby established and ordained to read as follows: “CHAPTER 70 – FINANCE  DIVISION III. – FUNDS  DIVISION 56. – 2026 CAESARS LEASE RENT STRIP SALE PROCEEDS FUND Sec. 70-415.350. - Created.

There is hereby created a special fund designated as the 2026 Caesars Lease Rent Strip Sale Proceeds Fund (hereinafter “fund”).

Sec. 70-415.351. - Funding sources.

The full amount of the sale of certain future lease payments from Jazz Casino Company, L.L.C. for the Caesars New Orleans Casino, authorized

by Ordinance Calendar Number 35,426 on May 7, 2026, shall be deposited into the fund immediately upon its creation.

Sec. 70-415.352. - Administration of the fund.

The fund shall be administered by the director of the department of finance (“Director”) and shall be kept in an interest-bearing account, whose contents shall be limited to the sources specified in Sec. 70-415.351.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing provided herein shall be construed to prevent the City from investing the contents of the fund in a manner that benefits the City pursuant to all applicable laws and policies, including but not limited to Sec. 70-601 et seq.

All interest earned on the fund and returns from its investment shall accrue to the benefit of and become part of the fund, subject to the expenditure restrictions in Sec. 70-415.353.

Sec. 70-415.353. - Restrictions on expenditures.

Monies shall remain in the fund until designated for expenditure by ordinance and approved by the Council. Any transfer of the funds described herein into another of the City’s funds or accounts shall also require Council approval by ordinance.

Sec. 70-415.354. - Required reporting.

The Director shall maintain accurate books in the administration and provide regular reports to the chief administrative officer and City Council, as required in Sec. 70-84, Sec. 70-87, and otherwise as may be required by law.

Additionally, the Director shall give a complete and detailed written accounting of the revenues in the fund, interest and investment returns earned thereon, and expenditures made pursuant to Council ordinance since the previous report. This report shall be submitted annually through the clerk of council to the chair of the budget, audit, and board of review committee.”

ADOPTED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS MAY 21, 2026 JP MORRELL PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL DELIVERED TO THE MAYOR ON MAY 21, 2026 APPROVED: MAY 28, 2026 HELENA MORENO MAYOR RETURNED BY THE MAYOR ON MAY 29, 2026 AT 10:35 A.M. AISHA R. COLLIER CLERK OF COUNCIL ROLL CALL VOTE: YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, McCarron, Morrell, Willard - 6 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: King - 1 RECUSED: 0 ORDINANCE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS CITY HALL: May 7, 2026 CALENDAR NO. 35,435 (AS CORRECTED) NO. 30657 MAYOR COUNCIL SERIES BY: COUNCILMEMBERS HARRIS, MORRELL, WILLARD AND MCCARRON (BY REQUEST) AN ORDINANCE to amend Ordinance No. 30530 M.C.S., as amended, entitled “An Ordinance Providing an Operating Budget of Revenues for the City of New Orleans for the Year 2026”, to appropriate grant funds to promote healthy behaviors and access to high quality healthcare. The grant supports the Health Department with providing these services through community outreach staff; and otherwise to provide with respect thereto.

SECTION 1. THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS HEREBY ORDAINS, that Ordinance No. 30530 M.C.S., as amended, be amended to authorize and direct the Director of Finance, notwithstanding any provision therein contained to the contrary, to transfer funds allocated therein as follows: FROM: INTERGOVERNMENTAL REVENUES – FUND 6699 Intergovernmental Revenues Grants, Contributions, and Fund Transfers $5,000 TOTAL $5,000 TO: LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES – FUND 4405 Total Louisiana Dept. of Health and Human Services $5,000 TOTAL $5,000 ADOPTED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS MAY 21, 2026 JP MORRELL PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL DELIVERED TO THE MAYOR ON MAY 21, 2026 APPROVED: MAY 28, 2026 HELENA MORENO MAYOR RETURNED BY THE MAYOR ON MAY 29, 2026 AT 10:35 A.M. AISHA R. COLLIER CLERK OF COUNCIL ROLL CALL VOTE: YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, McCarron, Morrell - 5 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: King, Willard - 2 RECUSED: 0 ORDINANCE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS CITY HALL: May 7, 2026 CALENDAR NO. 35,436 NO. 30658 MAYOR COUNCIL SERIES BY: COUNCILMEMBERS HARRIS, MORRELL, WILLARD AND MCCARRON (BY REQUEST) AN ORDINANCE to amend Ordinance No. 30531 M.C.S., as amended, entitled “An Ordinance Providing an Operating Budget of Expenditures for the City of New Orleans for the Year 2026”, to appropriate grant funds to the Health Department to promote healthy behaviors and access to high quality healthcare. The grant supports the Health Department with providing these services through community outreach staff; and otherwise to provide with respect thereto.

SECTION 1. THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS HEREBY ORDAINS, that Ordinance No. 30531 M.C.S., as amended, be amended

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to authorize and direct the Director of Finance, notwithstanding any provision therein contained to the contrary, to transfer funds allocated therein as follows: FROM: INTERGOVERNMENTAL REVENUES - FUND 6699 INTERGOVERNMENTAL 600 – GRANTS, CONTR. AND FUND TRANSFERS $5,000 TOTAL $5,000 TO: LOUISISNA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES – FUND 4405 HEALTH DEPARTMENT 200-OTHER OPERATING $5,000 TOTAL $5,000 ADOPTED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS MAY 21, 2026 JP MORRELL PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL DELIVERED TO THE MAYOR ON MAY 21, 2026 APPROVED: MAY 28, 2026 HELENA MORENO MAYOR RETURNED BY THE MAYOR ON MAY 29, 2026 AT 10:35 A.M. AISHA R. COLLIER CLERK OF COUNCIL ROLL CALL VOTE: YEAS: Green, Harris, McCarron, Morrell, Willard - 5 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: King, Hughes - 2 RECUSED: 0 ORDINANCE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS CITY HALL: May 7, 2026 CALENDAR NO. 35,437 NO. 30659 MAYOR COUNCIL SERIES BY: COUNCILMEMBERS HARRIS, MORRELL, WILLARD AND MCCARRON (BY REQUEST) AN ORDINANCE to amend Ordinance No. 30530 M.C.S., as amended, entitled “An Ordinance Providing an Operating Budget of Revenues for the City of New Orleans for the Year 2026”, to appropriate; and otherwise to provide with respect thereto.

SECTION 1. THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS HEREBY ORDAINS, that Ordinance No. 30530 M.C.S., as amended, be amended to authorize and direct the Director of Finance, notwithstanding any provision therein contained to the contrary, to transfer funds allocated therein as follows: FROM: INTERGOVERNMENTAL REVENUES – FUND 6699 Intergovernmental Revenues Grants, Contributions, and Fund Transfers $16,231 TOTAL $16,231 TO: PRIVATE GRANTS – FUND 4900 Total Private Grants $16,231 TOTAL $16,231 ADOPTED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS MAY 21, 2026 JP MORRELL PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL DELIVERED TO THE MAYOR ON MAY 21, 2026 APPROVED: MAY 28, 2026 HELENA MORENO MAYOR RETURNED BY THE MAYOR ON MAY 29, 2026 AT 10:35 A.M. AISHA R. COLLIER CLERK OF COUNCIL ROLL CALL VOTE: YEAS: Green, Harris, McCarron, Morrell, Willard - 5 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: King, Hughes - 2 RECUSED: 0 ORDINANCE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS CITY HALL: May 7, 2026 CALENDAR NO. 35,438 NO. 30660 MAYOR COUNCIL SERIES BY: COUNCILMEMBERS HARRIS, MORRELL, WILLARD, AND MCCARRON (BY REQUEST) AN ORDINANCE to amend Ordinance No. 30531 M.C.S., as amended, entitled “An Ordinance Providing an Operating Budget of Expenditures for the City of New Orleans for the Year 2026”, to appropriate private grant funds to the Health Department from the Robert Wood Johnson grant for operating expense; and otherwise to provide with respect thereto.

SECTION 1. THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS HEREBY ORDAINS, that Ordinance No. 30531 M.C.S., as amended, be amended to authorize and direct the Director of Finance, notwithstanding any provision therein contained to the contrary, to transfer funds allocated therein as follows: FROM: INTERGOVERNMENTAL REVENUES - FUND 6699 INTERGOVERNMENTAL 600 – GRANTS, CONTR. AND FUND TRANSFERS $16,231 TOTAL $16,231 TO: PRIVATE GRANTS– FUND 4900 HEALTH DEPARTMENT 200-OTHER OPERATING $16,231 TOTAL $16,231 ADOPTED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS MAY 21, 2026 JP MORRELL PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL DELIVERED TO THE MAYOR ON MAY 21, 2026 APPROVED: MAY 28, 2026 HELENA MORENO MAYOR RETURNED BY THE MAYOR ON MAY 29, 2026 AT 10:35 A.M. AISHA R. COLLIER CLERK OF COUNCIL ROLL CALL VOTE: YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, McCarron, Morrell, Willard - 6 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: King - 1 RECUSED: 0 ORDINANCE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS CITY HALL: May 7, 2026 CALENDAR NO. 35,439 NO. 30661 MAYOR COUNCIL SERIES BY: COUNCILMEMBERS HARRIS, MORRELL, WILLARD AND MCCARRON (BY REQUEST) AN ORDINANCE to amend Ordinance No. 30530 M.C.S., as amended, entitled “An Ordinance Providing an Operating Budget of Revenues for the City of New Orleans for the Year 2026”, to appropriate private grant funds to the New Orleans Health Department’s Office of Violence Prevention for professional services related to violence prevention and victim support initiatives.; and otherwise to provide with respect thereto.

SECTION 1. THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS HEREBY ORDAINS, that Ordinance No. 30530 M.C.S., as amended, be amended to authorize and direct the Director of Finance, notwithstanding any provision therein contained to the contrary, to transfer funds allocated therein as follows: FROM: PRIVATE GRANTS– FUND 4900 Total Private Grants $430,088 TOTAL $430,088 TO: PRIVATE GRANTS– FUND 4900 Total Private Grants $430,088 TOTAL $430,088 ADOPTED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS MAY 21, 2026 JP MORRELL PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL DELIVERED TO THE MAYOR ON MAY 21, 2026 APPROVED: MAY 28, 2026 HELENA MORENO MAYOR RETURNED BY THE MAYOR ON MAY 29, 2026 AT 10:35 A.M. AISHA R. COLLIER CLERK OF COUNCIL ROLL CALL VOTE: YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, McCarron, Morrell, Willard - 6 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: King - 1 RECUSED: 0 ORDINANCE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS CITY HALL: May 7, 2026 CALENDAR NO. 35,440 NO. 30662 MAYOR COUNCIL SERIES BY: COUNCILMEMBERS HARRIS, MORRELL, WILLARD AND MCCARRON (BY REQUEST) AN ORDINANCE to amend Ordinance No. 30531 M.C.S., as amended, entitled “An Ordinance Providing an Operating Budget of Expenditures for the City of New Orleans for the Year 2026”, to appropriate private grant funds to the New Orleans Health Department’s Office of Violence Prevention for professional services related to violence prevention and victim support initiatives; and otherwise to provide with respect thereto.

SECTION 1. THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS HEREBY ORDAINS, that Ordinance No. 30531 M.C.S., as amended, be amended to authorize and direct the Director of Finance, notwithstanding any provision therein contained to the contrary, to transfer funds allocated therein as follows:

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FROM: PRIVATE GRANTS - FUND 4900 OFFICE OF THE MAYOR 200 – OTHER OPERATING $430,088 TOTAL $430,088 TO: PRIVATE GRANTS– FUND 4900 HEALTH DEPARTMENT 200-OTHER OPERATING $430,088 TOTAL $430,088 ADOPTED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS MAY 21, 2026 JP MORRELL PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL DELIVERED TO THE MAYOR ON MAY 21, 2026 APPROVED: MAY 28, 2026 HELENA MORENO MAYOR RETURNED BY THE MAYOR ON MAY 29, 2026 AT 10:35 A.M. AISHA R. COLLIER CLERK OF COUNCIL ROLL CALL VOTE: YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, McCarron, Morrell, Willard – 6 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: King - 1 RECUSED: 0 ORDINANCE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS CITY HALL: May 7, 2026 CALENDAR NO. 35,442 NO. 30663 MAYOR COUNCIL SERIES BY: COUNCILMEMBERS HARRIS, MORRELL, WILLARD AND MCCARRON (BY REQUEST) AN ORDINANCE to amend Ordinance No. 30531 M.C.S., as amended, entitled “An Ordinance Providing an Operating Budget of Expenditures for the City of New Orleans for the Year 2026”, to transfer funds within the NORDC FY 2026 budget from Personnel Services to Other Operating Expenses to correct a classification error and allow the funds to be used for operational, programmatic, and facility maintenance needs without increasing the overall budget; and otherwise to provide with respect thereto.

SECTION 1. THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS HEREBY ORDAINS, that Ordinance No. 30531 M.C.S., as amended, be amended to authorize and direct the Director of Finance, notwithstanding any provision therein contained to the contrary, to transfer funds allocated therein as follows: FROM: GENERAL FUND- FUND 1000 NEW ORLEANS RECREATION DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION 100 – PERSONAL SERVICES $1,593,000 TOTAL $1,593,000 TO: GENERAL FUND– FUND 1000 NEW ORLEANS RECREATION DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION 200-OTHER OPERATING $1,593,000 TOTAL $1,593,000 ADOPTED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS MAY 21, 2026 JP MORRELL PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL DELIVERED TO THE MAYOR ON MAY 21, 2026 APPROVED: MAY 28, 2026 HELENA MORENO MAYOR RETURNED BY THE MAYOR ON MAY 29, 2026 AT 10:35 A.M. AISHA R. COLLIER CLERK OF COUNCIL ROLL CALL VOTE: YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, McCarron, Morrell, Willard – 6 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: King - 1 RECUSED: 0 ORDINANCE

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CITY OF NEW ORLEANS CITY HALL: May 7, 2026 CALENDAR NO. 35,443 NO. 30664 MAYOR COUNCIL SERIES BY: COUNCILMEMBERS HARRIS AND KING (BY REQUEST) AN ORDINANCE to amend Ordinance No. 30530 M.C.S., as amended, entitled “An Ordinance Providing an Operating Budget of Revenues for the City of New Orleans for the Year 2026”, to appropriate funds to allow the City of New Orleans to implement components of the French Quarter Economic Development District’s 2026 adopted budget; and otherwise to provide with respect thereto.

SECTION 1. THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS HEREBY ORDAINS, that Ordinance No. 30530 M.C.S., as amended, be amended to authorize and direct the Director of Finance, notwithstanding any provision therein contained to the contrary, to transfer funds allocated therein as follows: FROM: INTERGOVERNMENTAL REVENUES – FUND 6699 Intergovernmental Revenues Grants, Contributions, and Fund Transfers $556,974 TOTAL $556,974 TO: FRENCH QUARTER DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT – FUND 5128 Total French Quarter Development District $556,974 TOTAL $556,974 ADOPTED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS MAY 21, 2026 JP MORRELL PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL DELIVERED TO THE MAYOR ON MAY 21, 2026 APPROVED: MAY 28, 2026 HELENA MORENO MAYOR RETURNED BY THE MAYOR ON MAY 29, 2026 AT 10:35 A.M. AISHA R. COLLIER CLERK OF COUNCIL ROLL CALL VOTE: YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, McCarron, Morrell, Willard – 6 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: King - 1 RECUSED: 0 ORDINANCE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS CITY HALL: May 7, 2026 CALENDAR NO. 35,444 NO. 30665 MAYOR COUNCIL SERIES BY: COUNCILMEMBERS HARRIS AND KING (BY REQUEST) AN ORDINANCE to amend Ordinance No. 30531 M.C.S., as amended, entitled “An Ordinance Providing an Operating Budget of Expenditures for the City of New Orleans for the Year 2026”, to appropriate funds to allow the City of New Orleans to implement components of the French Quarter Economic Development District’s 2026 adopted budget; and otherwise to provide with respect thereto.

SECTION 1. THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS HEREBY ORDAINS, that Ordinance No. 30531 M.C.S., as amended, be amended to authorize and direct the Director of Finance, notwithstanding any provision therein contained to the contrary, to transfer funds allocated therein as follows: FROM: INTERGOVERNMENTAL REVENUES - FUND 6699 INTERGOVERNMENTAL 600 – GRANTS, CONTR. AND FUND TRANSFERS $556,974 TOTAL $556,974 TO: FRENCH QUARTER DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT – FUND 5128 HEALTH DEPARTMENT 100 – PERSONAL SERVICES $131,463 MISCELLANEOUS PROGRAM 200-OTHER OPERATING $425,511 TOTAL $556,974 ADOPTED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS MAY 21, 2026 JP MORRELL

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PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL DELIVERED TO THE MAYOR ON MAY 21, 2026 APPROVED: MAY 28, 2026 HELENA MORENO MAYOR RETURNED BY THE MAYOR ON MAY 29, 2026 AT 10:35 A.M. AISHA R. COLLIER CLERK OF COUNCIL ROLL CALL VOTE: YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, McCarron, Morrell, Willard – 6 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: King - 1 RECUSED: 0 ORDINANCE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS CITY HALL: May 7, 2026 CALENDAR NO. 35,445 NO. 30666 MAYOR COUNCIL SERIES BY: COUNCILMEMBERS GREEN AND HARRIS (BY REQUEST) AN ORDINANCE to amend and re-ordain Ordinance No. 30,532 M.C.S., entitled “An Ordinance Providing a Capital Budget for the Year 2026”, to effect the following change to the 2026 Capital Budget: to de-appropriate funds from the Department of Public Works and the Department of Property Management; to appropriate funds to the Chief Administrative Office; and otherwise to provide with respect thereto.

SECTION I. THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS HEREBY ORDAINS, that Ordinance No. 30,532 M.C.S., entitled “An Ordinance Providing a Capital Budget for the Year 2026”, be amended and reordained to authorize and direct the Director of Finance, notwithstanding any provision therein contained to the contrary, to transfer funds therein as follows: DE-APPROPRIATION DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS 2024 A Bonds 60093 - Almonaster St. Bridge Rehabilitation $1,500,000 DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS Total $1,500,000 DEPARTMENT OF PROPERTY MANAGEMENT 2024 A Bonds 60094 - Climate Pollution Reduction - Municipal Building Decarb $100,000 DEPARTMENT OF PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Total $100,000 DE-APPROPRIATION Total $1,600,000 APPROPRIATION CHIEF ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE 2024 A Bonds 60094 - Desire Square $1,600,000 CHIEF ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE Total $1,600,000 APPROPRIATION Total $1,600,000 Grand Total $ ADOPTED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS MAY 21, 2026 JP MORRELL PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL DELIVERED TO THE MAYOR ON MAY 21, 2026 APPROVED: MAY 28, 2026 HELENA MORENO MAYOR RETURNED BY THE MAYOR ON MAY 29, 2026 AT 10:35 A.M. AISHA R. COLLIER CLERK OF COUNCIL ROLL CALL VOTE: YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, McCarron, Morrell, Willard – 6 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: King – 1 RECUSED: 0 NOCP 9122 192376-662447-jun 30-1t $ 2,858.63

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