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WEEKEND COVERAGE

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ONLY ON AP

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ELECTION 2024-TRUMP-RIGHT SIDE BROADCASTING — In less than a decade, Right Side Broadcasting Network has gone from upstart internet broadcaster to major player in Don Trump’s “Make America Great Again” universe. It has allowed the former president to bypass traditional media and convey his vision of America directly to his die-hard supporters. By Richard Lardner and Bill Barrow. SENT: 1,810 words, photos. With ELECTION 2024-TRUMP-RIGHT SIDE BROADCASTING-TAKEAWAYS.

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TOP STORIES

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SEVERE WEATHER-TORNADO SAFETY — When a tornado takes aim at your house and the sirens are sounding, experts say there are some last-minute precautions that could save your life and the lives of your loved ones. But they also recommend a few simple steps to prepare before the twister is on your doorstep. UPCOMING: Photos, 700 words by 10 a.m. With SEVERE WEATHER — Forecasters warn Oklahoma may see tornadoes; Texas could bake in triple-digit temperatures. SENT: Video, audio, photos, 450 words. Developing. With RUSSIA-WEATHER-SCHOOL — At least 12 children injured after strong wind blew off a school’s roof in Russia. (Sent.)

MED—BE WELL-MOSQUITO REPELLENTS — Mosquito season is starting to rev up across much of the United States. So you might want to pause summer vacation planning and consider what to look for in repellents, which keep bugs away from you, and insecticides, which kill them. By Mike Stobbe. UPCOMING: Photos, video, 700 words by 8 a.m. This story is the Sunday Spotlight.

MEMORIAL DAY-TRAVEL — A record was broken as the Memorial Day weekend began, with the most airline travelers ever screened at U.S. airports in a single day, the Transportation Security Administration said Saturday. SENT: Video, photos, 350 words. With MEMORIAL DAY-OPEN-CLOSED — What’s open and closed on Memorial Day? Grocery stores, banks and more. SENT: 250 words, photos.

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SPOTLIGHTING VOICES

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REL—ASIAN JEWISH STORYTELLING — A new theatrical production in Los Angeles titled “What Do I Do with All This Heritage?” is telling the stories of Asian American Jews. The show highlights the diversity among Jewish people who are Asian and hold multiple identities. By Deepa Bharath. SENT: 1,200 words, photos.

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ISRAEL-HAMAS WAR

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SYRIA-ISRAEL — Syria’s state media says a bomb attached to a car exploded in the western part of the Syrian capital that is home to several diplomatic missions, killing one person and causing material damage. SENT: 500 words, photo.

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RUSSIA UKRAINE WAR

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RUSSIA-UKRAINE-WAR — Ukrainian forces have secured “combat control” of areas where Russian troops entered the northeastern Kharkiv region earlier this month, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said. SENT: 400 words, photos.

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MORE NEWS

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INDIA-FIRE — A massive fire broke out Saturday in an amusement park in Gujarat state in western India, leaving at least 20 people dead, police said. SENT: Photos, 200 words.

BRITAIN-SMALL PLANE CRASH — A plane reported to be a World War II-era Spitfire crashes in a field in England. SENT: 300 words.

JAPAN-ISLAND OF THE CATS-PHOTO GALLERY — Shrine honors cats at a Japanese island where they outnumber humans. SENT: Photo gallery, 250 words.

KENYA-MINE COLLAPSE — Gold mine collapse in northern Kenya leaves 5 people dead. SENT: 150 words.

ITALY-BENETTON — Luciano Benetton says he’s stepping down as chairman of family-run brand as losses top $100 million. SENT: 250 words, photo.

AP-LT-PERU-CLOWN-DAY — With their unmistakable red noses, extravagant shoes, colorful outfits and unique makeup, hundreds of clowns Saturday gathered in the streets of Peru’s capital to mark Clown Day. They have sought for years to gain official recognition of the day. SENT: 225 words, photos.

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WASHINGTON/POLITICS

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ELECTION 2024-RANKED CHOICE VOTING — An effort to repeal Alaska’s 2-year-old election reforms is just one example of an intensifying fight over ranked voting that is driven by deep voter dissatisfaction with the status quo and opposition from political parties that fear losing power. SENT: 1,100 words, photos.

WORLD COURT-GAZA-US — An order by the top U.N. court for Israel to immediately halt its military offensive in the southern Gaza city of Rafah deepens a disconnect with the United States over an operation that faces mounting international condemnation but that American officials describe, at least for now, as limited and targeted. UPCOMING: 1,000 words, photos by 10 a.m.

US-BIDEN — President Joe Biden tells graduates of the U.S. Military Academy that their class is being called upon to tackle threats across the globe and preserve the country’s ideals at home “like none before.” SENT: Live feed, video edits, photos, 330 words.

ELECTION 2024-TRUMP — Donald Trump is using an appearance at the Libertarian National Convention to court a group of mostly conservative voters who are often skeptical of the former president. UPCOMING: Live feed, video edits, photos, text developing from speech set for roughly 9 p.m.

TRUMP-CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS — Prosecutors want the judge in the classified documents case against Donald Trump to bar him from public statements that pose a threat to law enforcement, a response to a distorted claim by Trump earlier this week that the FBI agents who searched his home in August 2022 were “authorized to shoot me.” SENT: 700 words, photos. Moved late Friday.

Find the AP’s latest Election 2024 coverage plans, including live video and text plans, our explanatory journalism and highlights from previous cycles and candidate schedules in The Daily Rundown, which publishes around 8 a.m. Monday through Friday.

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NATIONAL

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JACKIE ROBINSON STATUE STOLEN — A replacement for a bronze Jackie Robinson statue that was cut off at the ankles and found days later smoldering in a trash can in a city park in Kansas is being made this summer in Colorado by the same sculpting shop that did the original. SENT: Video, photos, 800 words.

ELECTION 2024-TEXAS RUNOFFS — Primary runoffs in Texas on Tuesday will test whether two prominent Republicans, Rep. Tony Gonzales and House Speaker Dade Phelan, can stay in office after hard votes against their party have put them on the outs with the GOP’s emboldened far right. SENT: Photos, 800 words.

GRACELAND ESTATE-LAWSUIT — Among the many questions surrounding the attempt to auction Graceland is how often cases pop up in which an entity emerges to claim assets of older or dead people. Experts say it’s more common than one might think. SENT: Photos, 1,000 words.

AP-US-SEXUAL-MISCONDUCT-HARVEY-WEINSTEIN — Prosecutors in New York have accused Harvey Weinstein’s lead defense lawyer of making public statements intended to intimidate a potential witness ahead of the fallen movie mogul’s retrial and asked a judge to take action. SENT: 520 words, photos.

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INTERNATIONAL

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AP-AF-SOUTH AFRICA-ELECTION-FINAL-CAMPAIGNING — South Africa’s four main political parties began the final weekend of campaigning Saturday before a possibly pivotal election that could bring the country’s most important change in three decades. SENT: 890 words, photos. With SOUTH AFRICA-ELECTION-FINAL RALLIES — South African parties hold their final election rallies ahead of the May 29 vote.

PAPUA-NEW-GUINEA-LANDSLIDE — Survivors searched through tons of earth and rubble by hand looking for relatives while an emergency convoy delivered food, water and other provisions Saturday at the site of a landslide that devastated a remote village in the mountains of Papua New Guinea and was feared to have killed 100 or more. SENT: Photos, 700 words.

HAITI-US MISSIONARIES KILLED-THINGS TO KNOW — The local director of a mission group in Haiti and a missionary couple from the U.S. were fatally shot by gang members after leaving a youth group activity at a church. Here are some things to know about the missionary work that focused on helping the children of Haiti, and the gang attack that took three lives. SENT: Photos, 700 words. With KENYA-HAITI-DEPLOYMENT — Kenyan police advance team leaves Haiti as international mission is delayed. SENT.

INDIA-ELECTION — Millions of Indians are voting Saturday, in the peak of Indian summer, in the next-to-last round of a grueling election with the opposition trying to rattle Hindu nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s campaign for a third straight term. SENT: Photos, 900 words.

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HEALTH & SCIENCE

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CICADA INVASION-PHOTO GALLERY — Up close and personal, cicadas display Nature’s artwork. Discerning beholders find beauty in the bugs, helped by a powerful lens. SENT: 500 words, photos.

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ENTERTAINMENT

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AP-US-NICKI-MINAJ-ARREST — Nicki Minaj’s concert in Manchester scheduled for Saturday night was postponed after police in the Netherlands discovered marijuana in her bags as she was preparing to leave the country. SENT: 300 words, photos.

AP-ENT-CANNES-AWARDS — TSean Baker’s “Anora,” a comic but devastating Brooklyn odyssey about a sex worker who marries the son of a wealthy Russian oligarch, won the Cannes Film Festival’s top award, the Palme d’Or. SENT: Photos, 1095 words.

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SPORTS

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SOC—FA CUP FINAL — Manchester United won the FA Cup after stunning defending champion Manchester City 2-1 in the final at Wembley on Saturday. SENT: Photos, 700 words.

BKN—CELTICS-PACERS — The Indiana Pacers are scrambling again after falling into a 2-0 deficit in the Eastern Conference finals. And this time they may have to do it against the top-seeded Boston Celtics without All-NBA guard Tyrese Haliburton. UPCOMING: Photos, 500 words. Developing from 8:30 p.m. tipoff.

BC-GLF--OBIT-MURRAY — Two-time PGA Tour winner Grayson Murray died Saturday morning at age 30, one day after he withdrew from the Charles Schwab Cup Challenge at Colonial. SENT: 550 words, photos.

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Indiana Fever guard Caitlin Clark (22) greets Ashton Kutcher after making a 3-pointer during the second half of a WNBA basketball game against the Los Angeles Sparks in Los Angeles, Friday, May 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)

New York Rangers center Barclay Goodrow (21) celebrates with teammates after scoring the game-winning goal against the Florida Panthers in overtime of Game 2 during the Eastern Conference finals of the NHL hockey Stanley Cup playoffs, Friday, May 24, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson)

FILE - Filmmaker Morgan Spurlock participate in the BUILD Speaker Series to discuss the film, "Go North", at AOL Studios on Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2017, in New York. Spurlock, an Oscar-nominee who made food and American diets his life’s work, famously eating only at McDonald’s for a month to illustrate the dangers of a fast-food diet, has died. He was 53. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

FILE - Demonstrators clash at a pro-Palestinian encampment at UCLA early Wednesday, May 1, 2024, in Los Angeles. An 18-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly taking part in the violent attack on a pro-Palestinian encampment, last month. UCLA police say the man was detained in Beverly Hills on Thursday, May 24, 2024, and was booked at the UCLA Police Department for felony assault with a deadly weapon. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope, File)

David Hobbs, an employee at Art Castings of Colorado, touches up a wax mold of Jackie Robinson's head in Loveland, Colo. on Wednesday, May 8, 2024. The original statue was cut off at the ankles and stolen from a park in Wichita, Kansas in January. The Colorado foundry cast that sculpture in 2019 and, luckily, still had the original plaster and rubber molds. (AP Photo/Thomas Peipert)

Retired Idaho deputy attorney general Brett DeLange leaves a mobile voting tent in Boise, Idaho, after taking part in early voting for the state primary on Monday, May 6, 2024. Idaho's primary elections are currently closed – meaning residents generally must choose the ballots associated with the political party they have affiliated with – but a voter initiative is likely to be on the ballot this fall that could switch the state to open primaries and create a ranked-choice voting system. (AP Photo/Rebecca Boone)

Daniel Gonzalez poses for a photograph Friday, May 24, 2024, in Magna, Utah. Gonzalez, the friend of a 21-year-old from Utah arrested in Congo this week for his alleged involvement in his father's failed effort to overthrow the government in Kinshasa, said he had turned down a six-figure offer to come on the trip as part of the family's security detail. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

FILE - Fans wait in line outside Graceland, Elvis Presley's Memphis home, in Memphis, Tenn., Aug. 15, 2017. A mysterious company has caused a stir for trying to auction Elvis Presley's Graceland in a foreclosure sale this week. A judge has blocked the sale after Presley's granddaughter filed a lawsuit alleging fraud. (AP Photo/Brandon Dill, File)

This photo provided by Brad Searcy Photography shows Davy and Natalie Lloyd. Three U.S. missionaries were killed in Haiti after being ambushed at the Port-au-Prince, officials with the mission organization said Friday, May 24, 2024. Two of the victims were a young married couple, Davy and Natalie Lloyd, according to a Facebook posting from Natalie Lloyd's father, Missouri state Rep. Ben Baker. The name of the third person killed wasn't immediately available. (Brad Searcy Photography via AP)

Julián Moreno, great-grandfather of Robb Elementary mass shooting victim Alexandria "Lexi" Rubio stands by her memorial cross at the town square on Friday morning, May 24, 2024, in Uvalde, Texas. Friday marked two years since 19 fourth-graders and two teachers were killed by an 18-year-old gunman at the Uvalde school. (Sam Owens/The San Antonio Express-News via AP)

In this photo provided by the International Organization for Migration, people cross over the landslide area to get to the other side in Yambali village, Papua New Guinea, Friday, May 24, 2024. More than 100 people are believed to have been killed in the landslide that buried a village and an emergency response is underway, officials in the South Pacific island nation said. The landslide struck Enga province, about 600 kilometers (370 miles) northwest of the capital, Port Moresby, at roughly 3 a.m., Australian Broadcasting Corp. reported. (Benjamin Sipa/International Organization for Migration via AP)

Tyler, a director at Right Side Broadcasting Network in Opelika, Ala., works as Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in North Carolina on Saturday, March 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi puts his arm around his mother and senior leader Sonia Gandhi as they leave a polling booth after casting their vote in the sixth round of polling in India's national election in New Delhi, India, Saturday, May 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

An Israeli female soldier sits atop a tank in a staging area near the Gaza border in southern Israel, Friday, May 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

FILE - Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike on buildings near the separating wall between Egypt and Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Tuesday, May 7, 2024. An order by the top United Nations court for Israel to halt its military offensive in the southern Gaza city of Rafah deepens its disconnect with the United States. (AP Photo/Ramez Habboub, File)

AP News Digest 3 a.m.

AP News Digest 3 a.m.

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Gretchen Walsh followed up a world record in the 100-meter butterfly with something that felt just as good.

Her first trip to the Olympics.

Walsh didn’t go quite as fast as a night earlier in the semifinals, but she touched in 55.31 seconds to claim the coveted Olympic berth against a loaded field at the U.S. Olympic swimming trials on Sunday.

“I was definitely nervous,” Walsh said. “There were a lot of what-ifs. Coming off breaking the world record, I was thinking, ‘Do I need to do that again just to make the team? What if I get third? What’s that even even going to look like?'”

No worries. She's heading to Paris.

So is Carson Foster. He made up for the disappointment of 2021, when he just missed out on the Olympics, with a victory in the men’s 400 individual medley.

And 30-year-old Nic Fink, whose wife is expecting a child, made it quite a Father’s Day — or should that be Expectant Father's Day? — by winning the 100 breaststroke on the second night of the trials.

Looking into the stands at massive Lucas Oil Stadium, he spotted Melanie Margolis Fink — herself a swimming gold medalist at the 2016 Rio Games — and made a rocking motion.

Clearly, Nic Fink's mind was on more than just a gold of his own. The couple's first child, a boy, is due in mid-September.

“It's one of those things that doesn't really make sense to me," Fink said. “I feel like I haven't earned it yet. But the next (Father's Day) will feel like one for sure after diapers and late nights and stuff like that."

Facing three medalists from the Tokyo Games, Walsh knew she had her work cut out for her — even after setting a world record in the semifinals with a time of 55.18 that broke the mark held by Sweden’s Sarah Sjöström since the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics.

Following the same strategy, Walsh went out strong again in the final and was under her world-record pace at the turn.

Then, it was a matter of hanging on for the 21-year-old native of Nashville, Tennessee, who swims for the University of Virginia.

She finished with the second-fastest time in history, while Torri Huske grabbed the second Olympic spot with a time of 55.52 that made her the third-fastest woman in swimming history.

“I couldn’t ask for a better start to the meet,” Walsh said.

Regan Smith became the fourth-fastest female ever at 55.62 — but the third-place showing wasn't enough to get her to Paris on the powerhouse American team. She'll have more chances later in the meet to claim her spot.

The first final of the night produced another first-time Olympian when Foster knocked off Tokyo gold medalist Chase Kalisz.

But Kalisz should get a chance to defend his gold in Paris, taking the runner-up spot to claim the expected second American slot.

Jay Litherland, the 400 IM silver medalist in Tokyo, missed out on his third Olympics with a third-place showing.

The 22-year-old Foster, a native of Cincinnati who swan collegiately at Texas, led the entire race to finish in 4 minutes, 7.64 seconds.

He appeared on the verge of tears as Kalisz reached over the lane rope to give him a hug, knowing how much this meant to the winner.

At the 2021 trials in Omaha, Nebraska, Foster was the top seed coming out of the preliminaries, only to get chased down by both Kalisz and Litherland in the final.

The third-place finish cost Foster a trip to the Tokyo Games. When the Americans went 1-2 at the Olympics, the missed opportunity hurt even more.

“As much as I've grown, there was still a fear because of what happened three years ago,” Foster conceded.

But, as he stepped to the block, with Kalisz on one side and Litherland on the other, a newfound confidence swept over Foster.

“I've struggled to stay in my lane in the past,” he said, speaking metaphorically. “The first thing that would go wrong, it was lights out for me. I've battled those inner negative voices. But tonight was different. I stayed in my own lane. I think I was smiling the whole last 50.”

Kalisz closed to within a tenth of a second on the breaststroke leg, but the 30-year-old simply didn't have enough in the tank to keep up with the younger Foster. The winner pulled away on the freestyle, with Kalisz touching in 4:09.39.

Litherland faded at the end for a time of 4:12.34.

Fink, who balances swimming with a 40 hour-a-week job, with parenthood soon to come, will be heading to his second Olympics after touching first in 59.08. He held off Charlie Swanson, who secured the expected second spot for Paris in 59.16.

“That's a win for me," Fink said, “but it's really a win for everybody in my life.”

A life that will soon have a new addition.

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Nic Fink and Jake Foster react after their heat in the Men's 100 breaststroke preliminaries Saturday, June 15, 2024, at the US Swimming Olympic Trials in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)

Nic Fink swims during the Men's 100 breaststroke finals Sunday, June 16, 2024, at the US Swimming Olympic Trials in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

Nic Fink reacts after winning the Men's 100 breaststroke finals Sunday, June 16, 2024, at the US Swimming Olympic Trials in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

Nic Fink swims during the Men's 100 breaststroke preliminaries Saturday, June 15, 2024, at the US Swimming Olympic Trials in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)

Nic Fink is congratulated by Charlie Swanson after winning the Men's 100 breaststroke finals Sunday, June 16, 2024, at the US Swimming Olympic Trials in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

Nic Fink reacts after winning the men's 100 breaststroke finals Sunday, June 16, 2024, at the US Swimming Olympic Trials in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

Gretchen Walsh swims during the Women's 100 butterfly finals Sunday, June 16, 2024, at the US Swimming Olympic Trials in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)

Carson Foster after swimming during the Men's 400 individual medley preliminary heat Sunday, June 16, 2024, at the US Swimming Olympic Trials in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)

Carson Foster swims during the Men's 400 individual medley preliminary heat Sunday, June 16, 2024, at the US Swimming Olympic Trials in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)

Gretchen Walsh swims during the Women's 100 butterfly finals Sunday, June 16, 2024, at the US Swimming Olympic Trials in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

Carson Foster swims during the Men's 400 individual medley preliminary heat Sunday, June 16, 2024, at the US Swimming Olympic Trials in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)

Gretchen Walsh is congratulated by Regan Smith after winning the Women's 100 butterfly finals Sunday, June 16, 2024, at the US Swimming Olympic Trials in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)

Carson Foster swims during the Men's 400 individual medley preliminary heat Sunday, June 16, 2024, at the US Swimming Olympic Trials in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

Gretchen Walsh reacts after winning the Women's 100 butterfly finals Sunday, June 16, 2024, at the US Swimming Olympic Trials in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

Carson Foster swims during the Men's 400 individual medley preliminary heat Sunday, June 16, 2024, at the US Swimming Olympic Trials in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

Carson Foster reacts after winning the Men's 400 individual medley finals Sunday, June 16, 2024, at the US Swimming Olympic Trials in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)

Gretchen Walsh swims during the Women's 100 butterfly finals Sunday, June 16, 2024, at the US Swimming Olympic Trials in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

Gretchen Walsh reacts after winning the Women's 100 butterfly finals Sunday, June 16, 2024, at the US Swimming Olympic Trials in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)