ST. LOUIS — The St. Louis Cardinals introduced that play will resume at 4:20 p.m. ET after their recreation Wednesday afternoon in opposition to the Orioles went right into a rain delay in the course of the fourth inning.

After starting the day taking part in the final three and a half innings of Tuesday evening’s suspended contest, a 3-1 St. Louis win, the groups stopped play with Baltimore main 3-0 at 2:56 p.m. EST to permit the grounds crew to roll out the tarp earlier than the rain started to fall. An prolonged delay might spell the second straight early exit for an Orioles beginning pitcher after Kyle Bradish’s day ended after 5 innings Tuesday. Left-hander John Means was by means of three frames with no runs allowed on one hit, two walks and a strikeout in 51 pitches.

After dropping the sequence opener, the Orioles’ historic streak of 106 consecutive sequence of not less than two choices with out being swept is at risk of being ended by St. Louis, the staff that holds the report for the longest such streak. Baltimore started its run, which stands because the American League report, in Could 2022. The one groups in MLB historical past to go longer and not using a sweep are the 1906-1909 Chicago Cubs (115) and the 1942-44 Cardinals (124).

The Orioles have had eight video games affected by climate this season, accruing 13 hours, 8 minutes’ price of rain delays. That whole solely consists of 1 hour, 31 minutes of the 15 hours between pitches Tuesday evening into Wednesday morning after the sport was formally suspended. After selecting up the competition with the rating tied 1-1, the Orioles coughed up two runs within the sixth to fall 3-1.

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut court docket on Thursday overturned a six-month suspension given to a lawyer for conspiracy theorist Alex Jones for improperly giving Jones’ Texas attorneys confidential paperwork, together with the medical data of family members of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary Faculty taking pictures.

The state Appellate Courtroom dominated {that a} choose incorrectly discovered that legal professional Norman Pattis violated sure skilled conduct guidelines and ordered a brand new listening to earlier than a special choose on doable sanctions. The court docket, nevertheless, upheld different misconduct findings by the choose.

Pattis defended Jones in opposition to a lawsuit by most of the Sandy Hook victims’ households that resulted in Jones being ordered to pay greater than $1.4 billion in damages after a jury trial in Connecticut in October 2022.

The households sued Jones for defamation and emotional misery for his repeated claims that the 2012 college taking pictures in Newtown, Connecticut, was a hoax. Twenty first graders and 6 educators had been killed. The households stated Jones’ followers harassed and terrorized them.

The trial choose, Barbara Bellis, suspended Pattis in January 2023, saying he did not safeguard the households’ delicate data in violation of a court docket order, which restricted entry to the paperwork to attorneys within the Connecticut case. She known as his actions an “abject failure” and “inexcusable.”

Pattis had argued there was no proof he violated any conduct guidelines and known as the data launch an “harmless mistake.” His suspension was placed on maintain in the course of the Appellate Courtroom assessment.

“I’m grateful to the appellate court docket panel,” Pattis stated in a textual content message Thursday. “The Jones courtroom was not like any I had ever appeared in.”

Bellis and the state judicial department declined to remark by a spokesperson.

The Sandy Hook households’ legal professionals gave Pattis practically 400,000 pages of paperwork as a part of discovery within the Connecticut case, together with about 4,000 pages that contained the households’ medical data. Pattis’ workplace despatched an exterior exhausting drive containing the data to a different Jones lawyer in Texas, at that legal professional’s request. The Texas lawyer then shared it with one other Jones legal professional.

The data had been by no means publicly launched.

NEW YORK — Sergei Bobrovsky stopped 23 photographs for his first shutout of the postseason, Matthew Tkachuk had a purpose and an help and the Florida Panthers beat the New York Rangers 2-0 on Wednesday evening in Recreation 1 of the Japanese Convention Ultimate.

Carter Verhaeghe and Sam Bennett additionally scored. Bobrovsky, who had six shutouts throughout the common season, had the second of his profession within the playoffs.

Igor Shesterkin completed with 24 saves for Presidents’ Trophy-winning Rangers. They misplaced for the third time in 4 video games after opening the postseason with seven straight victories.

Recreation 2 is Friday evening in New York.

The Panthers went 0 for two on the facility play to fall to 9 for 43 within the postseason. The Rangers had been 0 for 1.

With Florida main 1-0, Bobrovsky slid to his left to disclaim a one-timer with Kaapo Kakko 6 1/2 minutes into the third.

Oliver Ekman-Larsson appeared so as to add to the lead when he beat Shesterkin from the left aspect a number of minutes later. Nevertheless, the purpose was overturned after a problem for goalie interference as a result of the Panthers’ Ryan Lomberg ran into Shesterkin within the crease.

The Rangers had a flurry of possibilities with about seven minutes remaining. Alexander Wennberg was denied on two makes an attempt in shut, Jacob Trouba had a shot blocked and Wennberg missed on one other shot seconds later.

Bobrovsky made a kick save on a drive by Adam Fox throughout a New York energy play with 5:25 remaining.

The Panthers made it 2-0 when Verhaeghe’s centering cross for Tkachuk was deflected previous Shesterkin by Lafreniere with 3:48 to go. Verhaeghe bought credit score for his seventh of the playoffs.

The Rangers pulled Shesterkin for an additional skater with 3 1/2 minutes remaining, however couldn’t beat Bobrovsky.

The goalie stopped a slap shot by Mika Zibanejad to protect the shutout, and Bennett sealed the victory with an empty-netter with 1:19 left.

Bobrovsky made a proper pad save on Will Cuylle’s breakaway try within the opening minute of the second interval to protect the lead. Shesterkin gloved some extent shot by Gustav Forsling with 7 1/2 minutes left. Aleksander Barkov bought in shut however his backhand attempt went off Shesterkin’s glove.

The Rangers had 4 photographs on purpose within the first 1:55 of the second interval, after which went practically 14 1/2 minutes with out one till Adam Fox’s try with 3:42 left.

The Rangers bought their first energy play when Bennett was despatched off for holding the follow 1:26 left within the center interval. They managed two photographs on the benefit.

Tkachuk opened the scoring late within the first interval. Forsling introduced the puck up the left aspect and dropped a cross to Tkachuk, who beat Shesterkin from the left circle over the goalie’s glove with 3:34 left. It was his fifth purpose and fifteenth level of the playoffs.

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About 1:15 later, Schneider bought a breakaway and fired a shot previous Bobrovsky that hit off the goalpost.

The Rangers had ahead Filip Chytil again for the second time this postseason. He missed the ultimate 72 video games of the common season due to an damage believed to be a concussion earlier than returning for Recreation 3 of the second spherical in opposition to Carolina after which was out for the remainder of the sequence.

In a now-viral video from Cannes, Kelly Rowland was filmed having what gave the impression to be a tense alternate with an usher on the premiere of Marcello Mio on Tuesday night.

Within the clip that circulated on social media, the singer navigated the purple carpet, posing for photographs and waving to onlooking followers. An usher directed her to ascend the steps of the Palais des Festivals, curbing her time in entrance of the cameras. As she made her method up the staircase, a bunch of ushers signaled for her to stroll on the suitable aspect. One usher, a girl in a black go well with, appeared to hurry the Future’s Little one alum, touching her arm. The usher then by chance stepped on the singer’s robe.

Rowland then appeared to inform the usher to not fear, smiling. Nonetheless, the usher persistently stored touching the singer’s arm and stated one thing that appeared to upset the artist. Rowland then reprimanded her, although it had little impact.

Finally, a person intervened, talking with the usher whereas Rowland tried to proceed up the steps. A lady accompanying Rowland additionally confronted the usher, seemingly questioning her actions. The usher then touched the lady accompanying the singer, seemingly pushing the group towards the theater’s doorways.

A lip studying knowledgeable advised Web page Six that Rowland appeared to inform the usher throughout their alternate, “Don’t speak to me like that. Don’t speak to me like that. You’re not my mom. I advised you to not speak to me like that.”

Crimson carpet safety at Cannes is understood for being strict, typically speeding attendees into the theater so movies can begin promptly with out delaying the pageant’s schedule. In 2018, Cannes prohibited selfies on the purple carpet to stop company from lingering outdoors earlier than screenings; those that break the principles are sometimes met with their telephones being grabbed or safety protecting the digicam lens.

The Hollywood Reporter has reached out to Rowland’s rep.

Kelly Rowland appeared to admonish an usher on the Cannes crimson carpet on Tuesday night after being rushed up the steps by employees on the pageant.

Rowland was on the premiere of “Marcello Mio,” which is in competitors on the pageant, the place she made her method up the crimson carpet, stopping for the phalanx of photographers who had been snapping her image.

A video reveals one usher twice beckoning in direction of Rowland, apparently indicating for her to start out strolling up the steps on the Palais des Festivals.

Because the Future’s Baby star ascends the steps, a trio of different ushers, all clad in black, materialize round her, forming a barrier on one facet that forces her to the precise of the staircase.

At one level, as Rowland turns to wave at anyone within the crowd behind her, two extra ushers seem behind the singer with their fingers out to dam her view and drive her up the steps.

One of many ushers, a girl in a black swimsuit, continues to carry her arm out very near Rowland’s again, at which level the singer touches the usher’s outstretched arm with a smile, as if to inform her it’s not obligatory, and begins purposefully strolling up the steps.

However the usher continues to carry her arm aloft along with her fingers unfold out very near Rowland’s again, at which level Rowland turns once more to the usher and seems to admonish her. As Rowland walks off the steps and into the Palais, the usher pulls the identical transfer on a girl who seems to be with Rowland.

The pageant is thought for its strict crimson carpet insurance policies, together with its costume code. Girls had been allegedly as soon as banned from the Cannes crimson carpet in the event that they weren’t sporting heels, though the coverage has since modified after the pageant acquired some backlash throughout its 2015 version.

Cannes additionally began banning selfies on the crimson carpet in 2018. Officers stated the ban was meant to hurry up the circulation of individuals stepping into the Palais.

Company are additionally moved on in the event that they linger for too lengthy. In 2013 socialite Girl Victoria Hervey, a Cannes common, was reportedly advised to maneuver after spending too lengthy posing for photographers on the crimson carpet exterior the Palais.

A spokesperson for Cannes declined to remark. Representatives for Rowland didn’t reply by press time.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s supreme chief and representatives of militia teams he backs within the Center East prayed Wednesday over the coffins of the nation’s late president, overseas minister and different officers killed in a helicopter crash earlier this week. Lots of of 1000’s of individuals later adopted a procession honoring the useless down Tehran’s predominant boulevard.

Iran’s Shiite theocracy views mass demonstrations as essential proof of its legitimacy and the folks’s assist.

Nonetheless, Wednesday’s funeral service for President Ebrahim Raisi and others noticed a turnout that onlookers described as noticeably decrease than the 2020 procession honoring Revolutionary Guard normal Qassem Soleimani, who was killed in a U.S. drone strike in Baghdad.

Most of the individuals stated they got here to Tehran for the ceremony from different cities and cities throughout the Islamic Republic, a sign of how these in Iran’s capital seen Raisi, who received the presidency in a report low turnout and later oversaw repeated crackdowns on dissent — together with within the wake of the 2022 demise of Mahsa Amini that sparked road protests over Iran’s necessary hijab, or headband.

Supreme Chief Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who had brazenly wept for Soleimani, additionally remained composed whereas reciting the usual prayer for the useless.

“Oh Allah, we didn’t see something however good from him,” Khamenei stated in Arabic, the language of Islam’s holy e book, the Quran. Iran’s performing president, Mohammad Mokhber, stood close by and brazenly cried.

The demise of Raisi, International Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian and 6 others within the crash on Sunday comes at a politically delicate second for Iran, each at dwelling and overseas.

Raisi, who was 63, had been mentioned as a doable successor to Iran’s supreme chief, the 85-year-old Khamenei. None of Iran’s dwelling previous presidents — apart from Khamenei, who was president from 1981 till 1989 — might be seen in state tv footage of Wednesday’s prayers. The authorities gave no clarification for his or her obvious absence.

Following the lethal helicopter crash, Iran set June 28 as the following presidential election. For now, there’s no clear favourite for the place amongst Iran’s political elite — significantly nobody who’s a Shiite cleric, like Raisi.

Throughout Raisi’s time period in workplace, Iran launched an unprecedented assault on Israel final month as its battle on Hamas within the Gaza Strip rages on. Iran has supported Hamas all through the battle and offered weaponry to the militants.

Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh attended the prayers Wednesday morning, simply two days after the Worldwide Prison Courtroom’s prosecutor stated he’d search an arrest warrant for him and others over the Oct. 7 assault that sparked the most recent Israel-Hamas battle. Within the unprecedented assault on southern Israel, Hamas-led militants killed 1,200 folks and seized 250 hostage.

The ICC prosecutor can be looking for arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Protection Minister Yoav Gallant for his or her conduct within the battle, which has killed greater than 35,000 Palestinians within the Gaza Strip and likewise a whole lot within the West Financial institution.

Haniyeh recounted Raisi telling him this yr that the Oct. 7 assault was an “earthquake within the coronary heart of the Zionist entity.” In a later assembly with Khamenei, the supreme chief informed Haniyeh that the “destruction of the Zionist regime is possible and, God keen, the day through which Palestine will probably be created from the ocean to river will arrive.”

Haniyeh’s presence seemingly signaled Khamenei intends to proceed his coverage of arming militant teams within the wider Mideast — together with Hamas, Lebanon’s Hezbollah and Yemen’s Houthi rebels — as a strategy to strain its adversaries like Israel and america. Mourners on the ceremony chanted: “Demise to Israel!”

Hezbollah and Houthi representatives had been additionally in attendance.

Statesmen from the Mideast and past attended a later memorial service, together with Iraq’s Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani and Tunisian President Kais Saied.

Egyptian International Minister Sameh Shoukry was additionally there. Cairo and Tehran have been discussing reestablishing ties severed after the the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

A single black turban was positioned over Raisi’s casket through the morning service, which signifies he was thought-about a direct descendent of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad. Individuals then carried the coffins out on their shoulders as chants of “Demise to America!” erupted exterior.

Individuals brazenly wept through the procession and beat their chests, a standard signal of grief within the Shiite tradition. They tossed scarves and different possessions as much as the semitruck driving the caskets by means of Tehran, with coffin attendants brushing the gadgets towards the caskets in a gesture of blessing.

One man stated he and his mates took an almost seven-hour bus journey to attend the procession. Many expressed their sympathies for the useless, together with Raisi.

“He was our president, the others had been pilots and a minister, how can I be detached about their loss?” requested Sima Rahmani, a 27-year-old Tehran lady sporting a unfastened headband regardless of the chance of detention by police.

Prosecutors have warned folks towards displaying any public indicators of celebrating Raisi’s demise and a heavy safety power presence has been seen in Tehran for the reason that crash. Many retailers and shops noticeably remained open whereas some took off early for a protracted weekend regardless of bulk textual content messages and state TV broadcasting instances for the procession.

“I didn’t vote for Raisi in 2021 election, however he was the president of all folks,” stated Morteza Nemati, a 28-year-old physics pupil at Tehran Azad College. “My presence is a manner of paying tribute to him.”

In the meantime, an Iranian official provided a brand new accounting of Sunday’s crash, additional fueling the speculation that unhealthy climate had led to it. Gholamhossein Esmaili, who traveled in one of many two different helicopters in Raisi’s entourage, informed state TV that climate had been advantageous when the plane took off. However Raisi’s helicopter disappeared into heavy clouds and the others couldn’t attain the plane by radio.

The Friday prayer chief from town of Tabriz, Mohammad Ali Ale-Hashem, who was additionally on board, one way or the other answered two cell phone calls after the crash, saying he was damage, Esmaili stated.

It wasn’t clear why Iran couldn’t at that time monitor the cellphone sign. A Turkish drone helped discover the crash website. Tehran had even requested the U.S., its longtime foe, for assist.

“The situations of the our bodies discovered confirmed that they (died) instantly after the incident,” Esmaili stated. “However Ayatollah Ale-Hashem (died) a couple of hours after the incident.”

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Related Press writers Nasser Karimi in Tehran, Iran; Joseph Krauss in Dubai, United Arab Emirates; Samy Magdy in Cairo; and Munir Ahmed and Riazat Butt in Islamabad contributed to this report.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Nikki Haley stated Wednesday that she can be voting for Donald Trump within the common election, a notable present of help given their intense and sometimes private rivalry through the Republican main calendar.

However Haley additionally made it clear that she feels Trump has work to do to win over voters who supported her through the course of the first marketing campaign and proceed to solid votes for her in ongoing main contests.

“I can be voting for Trump,” Haley, Trump’s former U.N. ambassador, stated throughout an occasion on the Hudson Institute in Washington.

“Having stated that, I stand by what I stated in my suspension speech,” Haley added. “Trump can be good to achieve out to the thousands and thousands of people that voted for me and proceed to help me and never assume that they’re simply going to be with him. And I genuinely hope he does that.”

The feedback in her first public speech since leaving the race are one other sign of the GOP’s just about full consolidation of help behind Trump, even from those that have labeled him a menace up to now.

Haley shuttered her personal bid for the GOP nomination two months in the past however didn’t instantly endorse Trump, having accused him of inflicting chaos and disregarding the significance of U.S. alliances overseas in addition to questioning whether or not Trump, 77, was too previous to be president once more.

Trump, in flip, repeatedly mocked her with the nickname “Birdbrain,” although he curtailed these assaults after securing sufficient delegates in March to grow to be the presumptive Republican nominee.

Trump’s marketing campaign didn’t instantly reply to a request for touch upon Haley’s announcement.

President Joe Biden’s marketing campaign, in the meantime, has been working to win over her supporters, whom they view as true swing voters. Biden’s workforce is quietly organizing a Republicans for Biden group, which can ultimately embrace devoted employees and give attention to the a whole bunch of 1000’s of Haley voters in every battleground state, in keeping with individuals aware of the plans however not licensed to debate them publicly.

Regardless of Haley’s announcement Wednesday, the Biden marketing campaign made it clear they might proceed to courtroom voters who backed her in Republican primaries this 12 months.

“Nothing has modified for the thousands and thousands of Republican voters who proceed to solid their ballots towards Donald Trump within the primaries and care deeply about the way forward for our democracy, standing sturdy with our allies towards international adversaries, and dealing throughout the aisle to get issues performed for the American individuals — whereas additionally rejecting the chaos, division and violence that Donald Trump embodies,” Michael Tyler, the marketing campaign’s communications director, stated in an announcement. “Just one candidate shares these values, and just one marketing campaign is working exhausting day-after-day to earn their help — and that’s President Biden’s.”

In the meantime, Haley made a number of criticisms of Biden’s international coverage and dealing with of the U.S.-Mexico border in her speech Wednesday on the Hudson Institute, a conservative Washington assume tank she not too long ago joined as she reemerges within the political realm.

Earlier this month, Haley huddled in South Carolina with a few of her donors, an occasion characterised as a “thanks” to her prime supporters and never a dialogue about Haley’s future political plans or supposed to push her backers towards some other candidate.

If she runs for president once more, Haley will seemingly must win over former Trump supporters in a Republican main. However her help for him now dangers offending moderates and anti-Trump conservatives.

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Jill Colvin in New York and Seung Min Kim in Washington contributed reporting.

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Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley plans to vote for Donald Trump, she stated Wednesday in her first public remarks since exiting the Republican presidential main greater than two months in the past.

Haley stated Trump “has not been good” on insurance policies necessary to her, together with overseas coverage, immigration and the economic system, however President Joe Biden “has been a disaster.”

“So I will likely be voting for Trump,” stated Haley, who served as US ambassador to the United Nations beneath the previous president.

Haley’s remarks concerning the 2024 race got here throughout a Q&A session following a speech on the conservative Hudson Institute in Washington, DC, the place she now serves because the Walter P. Stern chair.

Haley stated she has “no regrets” about her GOP main bid: “We left all of it on the sphere.”

She additionally thanked the first voters who’ve continued to again her even after her departure from the race — a possible warning signal for Trump. And she or he reiterated the decision she’d made when exiting the race in March for the previous president to succeed in out to these voters.

“Trump could be good to succeed in out to the thousands and thousands of people that voted for me and proceed to help me, and never assume that they’re simply going to be with him. And I genuinely hope he does that,” Haley stated.

Earlier this yr, Haley and Trump had been engaged in what had develop into a bitter main feud. Haley, at one level, questioned the previous president’s psychological health. She informed CNN in January that Trump and Biden had been “equally dangerous.”

Her critiques of Trump through the main grew even sharper after the previous president mocked the absence of her deployed husband and known as for all of her donors to be “completely barred from the MAGA camp.”

“In that second, he confirmed that with that type of disrespect for the army, he’s not certified to be the president of the US, as a result of I don’t belief him to guard them,” Haley stated in February.

Then, days earlier than dropping out, she stated she not believed she was sure by the Republican Nationwide Committee pledge to help the celebration’s eventual presidential nominee.

As she ventured again onto the political stage Wednesday, after two months out of public view, Haley didn’t point out Trump in her Hudson Institute speech — solely addressing the previous president when requested about him afterward.

“A harmful worldview has risen on each side of the aisle,” she stated in her remarks. “As soon as once more, it threatens our prosperity and safety. We have to take this significantly.”

She provided full help for Israel’s battle with Hamas and strongly criticized Biden for putting circumstances on army help to the nation.

“Biden thinks he’s stopping a battle,” Haley stated. “Actually, he’s dragging out a battle, emboldening terrorists and making different wars extra seemingly.”

She was additionally important of her fellow Republicans, urging the celebration to help army help for Ukraine and Israel. However she didn’t criticize GOP members by title and praised Home Speaker Mike Johnson for the latest passage of a army help bundle.

“Sending weapons to Ukraine and Israel isn’t overseas help,” she stated. “It’s an funding in a world wherein authoritarian dictators can’t run roughshod over free international locations.”

Since leaving the race in March, the previous South Carolina governor has hung out reconnecting along with her household, aides say, together with her husband, Michael, who returned from a yearlong abroad deployment.

But even in her absence, she’s been successful votes in a single Republican main after one other. Her lingering help has uncovered a possible problem Trump faces to unifty the celebration in suburban areas of swing states – reminiscent of outdoors Philadelphia, the place Haley obtained practically 25% of the vote in each Chester and Montgomery counties.

Whereas Trump has not prolonged an olive department to Haley or her supporters, the Biden marketing campaign has intently studied the Republican main outcomes, aides say, even in deep-red states reminiscent of Indiana, the place Haley obtained about 22% of the vote earlier this month. The Biden marketing campaign has sought to succeed in Haley’s supporters by way of tv and digital advertisements in hopes of reminding them of Trump’s insults geared toward their candidate.

“The marketing campaign has the chance to focus on and interact high-information Republican voters like Nikki Haley supporters or different voters who voted for Donald Trump in ’20, however voted for Democratic candidates in ‘22 throughout battleground states,” a high Biden adviser informed CNN.

The Biden marketing campaign argued Wednesday that Haley’s backing of Trump doesn’t change the selection earlier than voters. “Nothing has modified for the thousands and thousands of Republican voters who proceed to forged their ballots towards Donald Trump within the primaries and care deeply about the way forward for our democracy, standing sturdy with our allies towards overseas adversaries, and dealing throughout the aisle to get issues accomplished for the American individuals – whereas additionally rejecting the chaos, division and violence that Donald Trump embodies,” marketing campaign communications director Michael Tyler stated in an announcement.

“Just one candidate shares these values, and just one marketing campaign is working exhausting daily to earn their help – and that’s President Biden’s.”

It’s an open query what number of of these voters backing Haley in main contests are lodging a short lived protest towards Trump or truly open to supporting Biden.

Republican Rep. Ralph Norman of South Carolina, who endorsed Haley within the main earlier than switching his help to Trump, stated he believes she must be on the GOP ticket.

“For Nikki Haley, in Indiana, to tug over 20% and never be on the poll is wonderful,” Norman informed CNN. “That’s why she would make an incredible VP candidate. And I made that pitch to President Trump and in addition to Nikki Haley.”

Norman stated that whereas Haley has not expressed curiosity in becoming a member of Trump’s ticket, he believes she would have an interest.

“Politics is an fascinating recreation. Individuals can overlook the previous and stay up for the long run,” Norman stated.

For his half, Trump has stated Haley “will not be into consideration” however stated he wished her effectively.

As different former Republican contenders have fallen in line behind Trump, Haley has deliberately stored her distance – not hostile, but additionally not hungry for his adulation.

The 2 haven’t spoken since her concession speech in March.

One longtime Haley good friend informed CNN that Trump “is aware of the way to attain her if he needs to make amends and attempt to begin successful over her supporters.”

Haley’s subsequent steps are unsure. She has neither dominated in – nor dominated out – a possible 2028 presidential bid. In her speech Wednesday, she provided few clues, at the same time as she struck an optimistic word to the long run.

“We’re blessed to dwell in America,” Haley stated. “And as each technology of Individuals proves, we at all times rally to defend that blessing.”

This story and headline have been up to date.

CNN’s Equipment Maher contributed to this report.

SEATTLE — After her Indiana Fever misplaced 85-83 to the Seattle Storm on Wednesday to fall to 0-5 this season, No. 1 total choose Caitlin Clark mentioned she’s “making an attempt to be as constructive as potential” in regards to the progress Indiana has made regardless of it not but translating into the win column.

“You are by no means glad to lose,” Clark mentioned. “It isn’t enjoyable, however on the similar time there’s simply a number of issues to construct on. I am simply making an attempt to be as constructive as potential, proceed to study, proceed to stack days. I do know that first win shall be proper across the nook.”

Following double-digit losses within the Fever’s first three video games, this was the second consecutive one that they had a possibility to win down the stretch. A wild closing minute noticed Clark commit a turnover — simply her second of the night time after averaging 6.5 within the season’s first 4 video games — and have a 3-pointer blocked, although she thought she was fouled.

Nonetheless, after Indiana efficiently challenged a go that went out of bounds and was initially dominated a leap ball, the Fever took possession down one with 11 seconds remaining and an opportunity to win. Kristy Wallace’s inbound go to Clark was a bit behind her, and Clark might solely shovel the ball to teammate Aliyah Boston, who obtained tied up and tipped the following leap ball out of bounds.

Boston’s heave from half courtroom on the buzzer was off, giving the Storm the win.

“In all probability the longest minute of a basketball recreation I have been part of in a very long time,” Clark mentioned of a stretch that featured a pair of evaluations and took greater than 20 minutes of actual time to play. “We undoubtedly gave ourselves an opportunity, however on the similar time there have been some little issues that we shot ourselves within the foot.”

With 21 factors, 7 rebounds and seven assists, Clark had her greatest all-around recreation within the WNBA. She began slowly, with 5 factors on 2-of-9 capturing within the first half, earlier than catching hearth after halftime. In a stretch of 1:17 late within the third quarter, going up primarily towards fellow rookie Nika Muhl in a rematch of their conflict within the NCAA Closing 4 final month, Clark had six factors and an help as Indiana took the lead.

Clark smiled postgame when requested whether or not that run, highlighted by a behind-the-back dribble right into a pull-up 3-pointer in transition, was a case the place “the Iowa Caitlin got here out.”

“It is a technique of getting there to have the ability to do this the entire recreation and making an attempt to navigate that with my teammates,” she mentioned. “It is nonetheless a technique of studying when to be assertive. Typically it is laborious while you begin off chilly.

“For positive, I believe that is after I’m at my greatest, is being just a little bit extra aggressive and creating my shot. I used to be in a position to create a few 3s there that sort of obtained me going. I used to be capable of finding Temi [Fagbenle] operating the ground a couple of instances. I believe the extra I can play with extra tempo, that is after I’m undoubtedly extra profitable.”

These pictures thrilled a sellout crowd listed at 18,343, the most important in Seattle franchise historical past and probably the most in a regular-season WNBA recreation since 2018, in accordance with the Storm. However so did a season-high 32 factors from reigning league scoring champ Jewell Loyd, who joined Breanna Stewart because the second participant in Storm historical past with at the least 30 factors, 10 rebounds and 5 assists in a recreation in accordance with ESPN Stats & Data.

“It is fairly unbelievable,” Clark mentioned. “That crowd and that atmosphere was nice. Simply trying round — a sea of individuals on either side and behind the basket. It was an awesome recreation. Clearly I might have liked if we’d have gained.”

On the heels of a four-point loss Monday at residence towards Connecticut, the shut end towards a veteran Seattle staff was one other signal of progress for Indiana. That is what Clark is hoping to remove from the frustration of shedding.

“These two undoubtedly damage probably the most,” she mentioned. “We’re, what, six factors away from being 2-3 as a substitute of 0-5? It is that shut. There’s so many situations of going again and watching the movie of like little issues you could simply repair and clear up that will go a very good distance, and probably it would not even come down to 1 possession.

“I believe you need to discover confidence in that, particularly at this level, being 0-5. If you happen to simply get upset by it, I do not assume that is going to be too helpful for us.”