• New York led the entire game in 121-108 win

• Jalen Brunson scored 30 points to lead the Knicks

• Finals appearance would be their first since 1999

Jalen Brunson scored 30 points, Mikal Bridges added 22 and the New York Knicks moved within one game of their first NBA Finals appearance since 1999 with a 121-108 victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers on Saturday night.

The Knicks can wrap up the Eastern Conference Finals and sweep their second straight series with a win on Monday night. Knicks fans – who were boisterous throughout the night – were chanting “Knicks in four” as the final seconds of Game 3 ticked away.

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Team buses trundling up to stadiums are these days afforded the same amount of coverage, and imbued with similar levels of importance, as red-carpet arrivals at Cannes. So we can exclusively reveal that the Tottenham Hostpur carriage has made it through a thousands-strong throng of wellwishers to dispatch the team at the front door, ready for work. Some atmosphere outside the ground. Expect similar inside it.

Oh Tottenham. How has it come to this? Champions League finalists in 2019, and Europa League winners just 12 months ago, one of the grandest clubs in England are now possibly 90 minutes plus fingernail-and-artery-bothering add-ons away from relegation to the second tier for the first time in nearly half a century.

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Holidays offering the newly-in-love stress tests are missing the point. Strife is inevitable, it’s how you deal with it over the long term that matters

‘Turbulence test” trips are a “romantic travel trend” for new couples, according to US Vogue. The magazine spoke to two women who had decided to stress-test fledgling relationships with trips, and a hotel in Charleston, South Carolina, that aims to “lean into couples’ curiosity about their connection” by offering a “turbulence test” package. It includes $100 (£74) of cocktails and a pack of conversation cards, which does indeed sound like a recipe for brewing trouble in paradise.

I can’t fault travel as a trial for new romance: coffin-sized shared spaces, upset schedules, tricky interactions, destination disappointments – and the unhelpful accepted wisdom that holidays should be better than real life when they’re less comfortable and way more expensive than staying home – make them into a Soltan-scented pressure cooker for couples. My husband and I nearly split after a horrific trip to Italy in our second year together – it started with unsuccessfully trying to hitchhike 20 miles in a thunderstorm after discovering no trains ran on 15 August and continued with a fortnight of rain, recriminations, tinned soup and cheap wine-fuelled fights.

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So, today is the day. No more procrastination, an end to doubt and vacillation. The single remaining relegation spot is by a margin the most significant position to be decided, and the crux of it is this: West Ham will go down if they don’t beat Leeds at home. They will also go down if Tottenham beat Everton at home, or if Spurs draw and West Ham win by fewer than 12 (twelve) goals. (The biggest margin of victory in the history of the Premier League is 9-0; in the history of the entire Football League there have been four victories by a margin big enough to save West Ham should Spurs win today, the most recent 80 years ago).

Meanwhile, though we know that Arsenal will finish first, Manchester City second and Manchester United third, no other position in the entire league is already determined. Liverpool need a point to seal a Champions League place, but if they beat Brentford at home and fourth-placed Aston Villa lose at Manchester City they would go to fourth, Villa drop to fifth and, thanks to Villa’s Europa League victory, a sixth Champions League spot will open up.

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The athlete on the joy of receiving her first bike, her lonely teenage years, and a life-changing phone call

Born in Bedfordshire in 1980, cyclist Victoria Pendleton is one of Britain’s most decorated athletes. As well as winning nine world championship golds, she won the gold medal in the sprint at the 2008 Olympics and the gold medal in the keirin (a sprint following a speed-controlled start), as well as a silver medal in the sprint in the 2012 Olympics. She retired from cycling in 2012 and is now a jockey. Her new book, The Fear Opportunity, is published on 21 May.

This was taken when cycling was a hobby and nothing more. My family were on holiday in the south of France, not far from Saint-Tropez. That was my first solo racing bike – it was secondhand and Dad got it custom sprayed. My twin, Alex, had one, too. We were very proud of them.

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The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts

• Next week’s question: if an alien landed and asked you, ‘What is this thing you call music,’ what would you play for them? And why?

You’re supposed to be quiet in the cinema. So why are the snacks so loud? Michael Rivera, London

Send new questions to nq@theguardian.com.

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The document is full of disclaimers and does not address fundamental issues, including Gaza and the Biden-to-Harris transition

When the Democratic National Committee finally released its autopsy on the 2024 election disaster, not even the DNC chair could defend it. “I don’t endorse what’s in this report,” Ken Martin conceded as the autopsy went public on Thursday. After several months of withholding the autopsy on the grounds of not wanting it to be a distraction, Martin fessed up at last: “When I received the report late last year, it wasn’t ready for primetime. Not even close. And because no source material was provided, fixing it would have meant starting over, from the beginning.”

In response, a former Obama speechwriter, Jon Favreau, summed up eight stages of Martin’s tortuous process that has spanned more than a year: “Promise to release autopsy; put incompetent friend in charge; incompetent friend produces incoherent product; announce you’re not releasing the autopsy; lie about why; gaslight people who ask, saying they’re the problem; face internal revolt; release autopsy.”

Norman Solomon is the director of RootsAction and executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy. His latest book is The Blue Road to Trump Hell: How Corporate Democrats Paved the Way for Autocracy

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At least four people died and dozens of others were injured in the attack

Russia used its powerful hypersonic Oreshnik ballistic missile for a third time in Ukraine as part of a massive attack on Kyiv and its surrounding region that killed at least four people and injured dozens.

Russia hit the city of Bila Tserkva in the Kyiv region with the missile, Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy said. He described a Russian assault that hit a water supply facility, burned down a market, damaged dozens of residential buildings and several schools, as well as the Oreshnik missile strike.

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Developers for several top videogames have joined unions under the Communication Workers of America — including Call of Duty, Fallout, Overwatch, Diablo and World of Warcraft. Last month workers on the online game Magic: The Gathering Arena team announced their own CWA union.

The gaming news site Aftermath shares some interesting details:

Owner Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast could have voluntarily agreed to the union, but instead the issue is going to an official vote with the National Labor Relations Board in June... [O]ne Arena developer shared on Bluesky that one of the reasons they were inspired to organize was because Wizards changed its remote work policy, requiring them to move across the country or to a more expensive state to remain employed. (Changes to remote work have been one of the big drivers of unionization and union action among video game developers.) If the union is successful, the company wouldn't be able to unilaterally change working conditions like remote work; it would have to negotiate with the union over the decision. There's no guarantee unionized employees would get what they want, but they'd have more of a say, and the opportunity to directly influence their work situation, than they would without a union.

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Een aanranding ’s nachts in de trein. Een 21-jarige vrouw stapt op 30 augustus 2025 rond 0.50 uur op Rotterdam Centraal in de trein. Ze moet naar Gouda. Naast haar komt een man zitten die niet alleen tegen haar praat, maar ook twee keer aan haar billen zit en er bovendien in knijpt.

Al maanden broeide er een machtsstrijd tussen president Bassirou Diomaye Faye en zijn premier Ousmane Sonko. Met Sonko’s ontslag is de breuk een feit en dreigt er voor Senegal, te midden van financiële crisis, nu ook een politieke crisis.

Mark Rutte is wrong to quash talk of one. The risks of the alliance unravelling are too great to ignore.

De marktwerking heeft de zorg geen goed gedaan, vindt Armand Girbes. Ziekenhuizen moeten zich steeds verder specialiseren, maar dat gaat ten koste van de patiënt.

Een honderden jaren oud vruchtbaarheidsritueel in Zuid-Limburg botst met natuurbeheer. Hoe lang kunnen jonge Limburgers nog ‘den halen’, een traditie die op de Unesco-lijst voor beschermwaardig immaterieel erfgoed staat?

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Welkom terug bij het tweejaarlijkse GeenStijl-topic waarin we uitleggen hoe het eigenlijk staat met de islamisering van Nederland. En wat blijkt? Die zet nog steeds door. Niet met een knal, maar wel met een wimper. In het jaar des heeren 2024 was het percentage moslims, dat volgens de kenners amper stijgt, volgens het CBS namelijk gegroeid tot maar liefst 7%. Dat hebben wij u niet gemeld in 2025, omdat het CBS het toen ook niet meldde. Het is pas op 13 maart van dit jaar aangepast op de website, en gemeld in een klein erratumpje dat wij toevallig tegenkwamen toen we een beetje in de cijfers naar aanleiding van het Vlaamse gepruts over de manosphere zaten te zoeken.   

Maar! Nou zijn wij er niet vies van om het CBS van van alles en nog wat te beschuldigen, toch vermoeden we hier geen opzet om een schokkend cijfer weg te moffelen. Ten eerste gaat het dus om een resultaat van een aanpassing van de weging van enquêteresultaten. Het is juist goed dat dat gebeurt en fijn dat er nu betere cijfers beschikbaar zijn. Ten tweede was de stijging niet zo schokkend, en bovendien op het (vermoedelijke) moment van de ontdekking alweer tenietgedaan, want het percentage daalde voor 2025 weer naar van 7 naar 6 procent.

Dat komt waarschijnlijk niet omdat na het verschijnen van het tweede boek van Lale Gül Nederlandse moslims zich massaal van hun geloof hebben gekeerd, maar zal eerder het gevolg zijn van een net andere samenstelling van de ondervraagde groep. Het gaat om cijfers uit de enquête Sociale samenhang en welzijn onder zo'n 7500 mensen. Dat is een flinke steekproef, maar zoals uit onderstaande tabel (bron, op 13 maart door het CBS gepubliceerd met een nieuwsbericht over Limburgers) blijkt, kunnen de uitkomsten voor kleinere subgroepen zeker een beetje schommelen. Vandaar dat wij "was in 2024 eventjes" in de kop tussen aanhalingstekens hebben gezet. 

Want wie door zijn oogharen naar de tabel kijkt ziet wel degelijk dat het percentage moslims in Nederland gestaag blijft groeien. Onder mannen (die gemiddeld jonger zijn dan vrouwen) is het percentage moslims al wel 7%, dus die 6 uit 2025 zit vermoedelijk dichter bij de 7 dan bij de 5 in de buurt. Onder 15- tot 18-jarigen is het percentage nu gestegen tot 15%, meer dan het dubbele daarvan. Zoals we twee jaar geleden ook al schreven: 

Wie nuchter naar de cijfers kijkt, ziet dat we morgen heus niet allemaal Ali heten, of Mohammed, maar doen alsof er in Nederland geen enkele sprake is van groei van de islam, is absurd. Het doet zelfs, mogen wij dat zeggen ja dat mogen wij zeggen, een beetje denken aan mensen die doen alsof de aarde niet opwarmt. Nou ja. En nu weer terug naar de onderbuik.
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