- Raleigh News and Observer
Oklahoma softball beats Duke in six innings to open Women’s College World Series
The Blue Devils found success at the plate, but the Sooners capitalized on pitching miscues.
- Reuters
Senegal president says Mali 'not totally inflexible' on ECOWAS bloc
Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye, on his first official visit to Mali on Thursday, said he raised the question of remaining in regional bloc ECOWAS with his Malian counterpart, who was "not totally inflexible" on the matter. Mali and its neighbours Niger and Burkina Faso, all run by military juntas, announced in January they would leave ECOWAS, West Africa's main political and economic bloc, reversing decades of regional integration.
- Associated Press
Here's what you should know about Donald Trump's conviction in his hush money trial
Donald Trump’s conviction on 34 felony counts marks the end of the former president's historic hush money trial but the fight over the case is far from over. The Manhattan jury found Trump guilty of falsifying business records after more than nine hours of deliberations over two days in the case stemming from a hush money payment to porn actor Stormy Daniels during his 2016 presidential campaign. Trump angrily denounced the trial as a “disgrace,” telling reporters he's an “innocent man.”
