MIAMI (ANP) - Tennisser Botic van de Zandschulp is uitgeschakeld op het masterstoernooi van Miami. In drie sets was de Amerikaanse top 10-speler Taylor Fritz in de tweede ronde te sterk voor de Nederlander: 6-3 6-7(2) 6-3.

Van de Zandschulp, 65e op de wereldranglijst, versloeg de Canadees Denis Shapovalov in de eerste ronde.

NEW YORK (ANP) - Het besluit van de regering-Trump om de activiteiten van verslaggevers in het Pentagon aan banden te leggen, is in strijd met de Amerikaanse grondwet. Dat heeft een rechter vrijdag bepaald in een zaak die was aangespannen door The New York Times, meldt de krant.

In oktober droeg het Pentagon journalisten die daar werkten op een document te ondertekenen waarin hun verslaggeving werd beperkt. Zo kan het ministerie van Defensie journalisten tot veiligheidsrisico bestempelen als zij informatie delen die niet specifiek is goedgekeurd door het ministerie. Dit zou ook gelden voor informatie die niet als vertrouwelijk is bestempeld.

Tientallen verslaggevers liepen daarop gezamenlijk de deur uit. The New York Times spande in december de rechtszaak aan. Volgens de krant bepaalde de rechter dat het Pentagon het nieuwe beleid niet mag blijven voeren, omdat het in strijd is met de persvrijheid. Ook moeten zeven journalisten van The New York Times weer toegang krijgen tot het gebouw.

PUTTEN (ANP) - Een fietser is om het leven gekomen bij een aanrijding met een auto aan de Beulekampersteeg in het Gelderse Putten. Het ongeluk gebeurde rond middernacht in de nacht van vrijdag op zaterdag, meldt de politie. Hulpdiensten arriveerden snel na het ongeluk, maar konden het leven van het slachtoffer niet meer redden.

De politie doet nog onderzoek naar de identiteit van het slachtoffer en naar de toedracht van de aanrijding.

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Nicholas Brendon, 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' Star, Dies at 54 Sorry for not coming up with some pithy title -- I know Nicholas battled alcoholism much of his adult life. I know he was (and is) part of a lot of people's growing up. If you did not see him in Coherence, please do. Too. Damn. Young. Rest in peace, Xander. Thanks for the ❤️.

"How a dachshund works" is an environmental message sent 55 years ago in the form of an absurdist experimental animation.

Chuck Norris, prolific martial artist and meme icon, has died at 86

Family says actor, who played Xander in hit TV series, died on Friday ‘in his sleep of natural causes’

Nicholas Brendon, the actor best known for playing Xander in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, has died. He was 54.

Brendon’s family issued a statement saying that he died on Friday “in his sleep of natural causes”.

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Compulsory evacuation of children begins in Sloviansk. Kyiv still expects first tranche of 90bn euro loan despite Hungary veto. What we know on day 1,487

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California jurors hand win to investors who sued billionaire saying he publicly disparaged social media platform in 2022

A California jury has ruled that Elon Musk is responsible for Twitter investors’ stock plummeting when he sought to buy the social media platform for $44bn in 2022. Jurors handed the win to a group of investors who sued the billionaire saying he publicly disparaged the company with the aim of bringing down Twitter’s stock price to get a better bargain.

The trial, which began earlier this month in federal court in San Francisco, focused on whether Musk intended to move the market with his comments. During a six-month period in 2022, after his offer to buy Twitter, he posted constantly to his millions of followers that the social network was rife with bots that produced spam and created fake accounts.

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Happily feeding on a tall clump of grass.

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Some genius realised that the postcode for Uralla was 2358 and that that was a Fibonacci series. It must be the only Fibonacci series in Australian postcodes. Accordingly they set about creating a park where the old Mcreas hardware store was based upon the spiral generated from Fibonacci series, and with panels of brilliant mosaics for each number. Then a whole lot of images appropriate to the theme and signs scratched into the concrete of the paths and the spiral. It is the most imaginative park I have seen anywhere.

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Showing some of the inventive scratched signs in the concrete.

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In Tasmania's central highland lakes district.

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Under London's Millennium Bridge

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photograph I acquired from a large archive of negatives from a San Francisco Bay based commercial photographer taken mostly in the 1960s to 1970s.

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CBS News is shutting down its nearly 100-year-old radio news service due to economic pressures and the shift toward digital media and podcasts. Longtime CBS News anchor Dan Rather said: "It's another piece of America that is gone." The Associated Press reports: When it went on the air in September 1927, the service was the precursor to the entire network, giving a youthful William S. Paley a start in the business. Famed broadcaster Edward R. Murrow's rooftop reports during the Nazi bombing of London during World War II kept Americans listening anxiously. Today, CBS News Radio provides material to an estimated 700 stations across the country and is known best for its top-of-the-hour news roundups. The service will end on May 22, the network said Friday.

"Radio is woven into the fabric of CBS News and that's always going to be part of our history," CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss said in delivering the news to the staff. "I want you to know that we did everything we could, including before I joined the company, to try and find a viable solution to sustain the radio operation." But with the radical changes in the media industry, she said, "we just could not find a way to make that possible."

It was unclear how many people will lose their jobs because of the radio shutdown. CBS News was cutting about 6% of its workforce, or more than 60 people, on Friday. It's not the end of turmoil at the network, as parent company Paramount Global is likely to absorb CNN as part of its announced purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery.

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