(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Wednesday’s sports events:
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
INTERLEAGUE
Philadelphia 2, Toronto 1
Boston 5, Atlanta 2
Minnesota 4, San Diego 3
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Detroit 5, Cleveland 0
NY Yankees 11, Oakland 3
Texas 4, Seattle 3
Houston 5, LA Angels 4
Baltimore 2, Tampa Bay 1
Kansas City 9, Chi White Sox 1
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Colorado 4, Pittsburgh 3
LA Dodgers 8, Milwaukee 1
Washington 11, San Francisco 6
Final Miami 5 Arizona 4
NY Mets 2, Cincinnati 1
Chi Cubs 10, St. Louis 4
NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION PLAYOFFS
New York 112, Miami 103 (Miami leads 3-2)
Golden State 121, LA Lakers 106 (LA leads 3-2)
NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE PLAYOFFS
Edmonton 4, Vegas 1 (Series tied 2-2)
Toronto 2, Florida 1 (Florida leads 3-1)
(EL PASO, Texas) — U.S. Customs and Border Protection facilities in most regions along the southern border are over capacity even as the number of those in custody has declined, Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz said Wednesday.
As of Wednesday, there were 26,354 people in CBP custody, which Ortiz said was, “several thousand less” compared to earlier in the morning.
Five of the nine Border Patrol sectors in the southwest are over 125% capacity.
“But that means that there are four sectors that aren’t,” Ortiz said, adding that Border Patrol has been flying migrants from high-traffic areas to facilities with more capacity.
From the Mexico side of the border in Ciudad Juarez, the number migrants crossing into the El Paso area has declined since the weekend.
“The officials in Texas and other places in the US are exaggerating what is happening here for political reasons. There is no crisis here at the moment,” a city government spokesperson said. “We’ve had many other immigration waves that were far more impactful, when all of our shelter space was full and people were on the streets.”
Overall, Ortiz said authorities are tracking around 65K migrants in northern areas of Mexico and that the surge CBP has been expecting may soon subside.
“The increase that we have seen in the last 5 to 7 days was really the surge … I think that what we see now is a continued effort by some to message incorrectly that once Title 42 goes away, it’s going to be a free for all along the border,” Ortiz said. “I don’t see that being the case. Our agents will be out there performing their duties.”
Title 42, the pandemic-era policy which allowed the U.S. to expel upward of two million migrants from the border, expires Thursday.
Currently, 4,000 beds remain open in Ciudad Juarez shelters — well below 50% capacity. That number has been dropping for two weeks and continues to fall.
Ortiz said he believes the administration has shifted to a strategy that prioritizes enforcement and shows migrants the consequences of crossing illegally.
Asked whether heavy-handed measures were necessary for migrants sleeping in the streets of El Paso, Ortiz stood by his approach.
“It wasn’t about chasing people around down the streets, into churches, into a protected areas,” Ortiz said. “It was a very methodical approach. And I was very proud of everyone.”
(CLEVELAND) — The Cleveland Police Department has asked the public to help find a Cleveland EMT worker who’s missing and may be in danger.
Authorities said that 30-year-old Lachelle Jordan has been missing since May 6 and was last seen near Fairport Avenue in Cleveland.
Authorities said that at the time of her disappearance, Jordan was last seen wearing “a blue and white East Cleveland Fire Department sweatshirt with ECFD on the back and the Fire logo on the front, green and white tie dye pants and rainbow-colored Croc shoes.”
Mark Barrett, president of the Cleveland EMS Union, told ABC News that Jordan was a new employee and had filed reports with her job that she was being stalked.
Jordan’s job removed her from the truck where she worked and brought her to headquarters due to safety concerns for her and her co-workers, Barrett said.
Days before Jordan’s disappearance, Cleveland prosecutors charged 65-year-old Michael Stennett with stalking and violating an order of protection, according to a Cleveland Municipal Court case summary document.
A family member of Jordan’s told Cleveland 19 News that Jordan was going to testify in a rape case against Stennett, who was indicted on two counts of rape and one count of abduction in May 2022, according to Cuyahoga County court records.
Cleveland police said currently there isn’t any evidence connecting Stennett to Jordan’s disappearance, according to Cleveland 19 News.
According to ABC News Cleveland affiliate WEWS, prior to going missing, Jordan was planning to attend Stennett’s pre-trial hearing on Monday.
According to an arrest warrant for Stennett obtained by WEWS, Jordan noticed that Stennett followed her multiple times while she was in her personal vehicle when she was working, as well as waiting outside her home.
The arrest warrant stated that, two days before she went missing, Jordan allegedly noticed Stennett sitting outside her home, according to WEWS.
Stennett’s attorney did not respond to ABC News’ request for comment.
Crimestoppers is offering a $5,000 reward to anyone who has information on Jordan’s location. People can leave an anonymous tip by calling 216-252-7463.
Finger Eleven has premiered the video for “Together Right,” the band’s first single in eight years.
The clip finds a group of factory workers performing a tightly choreographed dance that’s interrupted when two people start performing their own routine.
“The video takes place in a world where everything is the same,” says guitarist James Black. “Efficiency and conformity are mistaken for unity. But real connection, between two people, is WAY more powerful than people idly following a routine.”
You can watch the “Together Right” video streaming now on YouTube.
Finger Eleven dropped the song “Together Right” in April. The track will be included on the “Paralyzer” group’s upcoming Greatest Hits compilation, due out June 16.
(COLUMBUS, Ohio) — Ohio food banks are reporting a surge in demand amid concerns about growing food insecurity and what it may signal for the overall U.S. economy.
“Right now we’re running 47% higher in ’23 than we did, you know, a year ago,” said Matt Habash, CEO of Mid-Ohio Food Collective. “And I thought it would drop after the pandemic.”
Serving 20 counties across central Ohio, the organization is one of the largest of its kind in the country, providing 170,000 meals a day to those in need. One of their locations, the Mid-Ohio Market, is set up like a regular grocery store that organizers say is to combat stigma associated with food insecurity.
Kayla Kraig, a mom of five, said she started volunteering there about three months ago. When she told her story to other volunteers, they encouraged her to use the food bank when she needed help putting food on the table.
“They were like, ‘You need to shop.’ I didn’t know that it was like that. I feel like that’s the first reaction is, ‘I’m embarrassed to ask for help,'” Kayla told ABC News’ Alex Presha.
Kayla said she ultimately decided to shop there twice in the last three months, giving her some much-needed breathing room.
“I can rest my shoulders instead of being like, ‘Oh my God, what am I going to do this month?'” Kayla said.
The Mid-Ohio Food Collective and its partner agencies had the highest number of people walk through their doors in March — more than 141,000 people, the organization said.
“We had to come to the pantry, and this is life-saving, because I don’t know what we would do. It’s a game changer,” one resident told ABC News.
Habash attributes some of the demand to pandemic federal problems being no longer available, like stimulus checks, child tax credits and emergency food stamp benefits, which ended in March. There’s also rising inflation — groceries are 23% more expensive now than they were at the start of the pandemic, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
“It doesn’t look like there’s any end in sight…it scares me to death,” Habash said.
In southeast Columbus, Community Kitchen, which provides people in need with a free meal, is also seeing an increase in demand. The organization’s president, MJ McCleskey, told ABC News that many of the people coming into the facility have never been there before. The need is so big, they’re now looking to open another facility, she said.
Some economists worry what’s playing out in Ohio and other parts of the country could be an indicator for the health of the U.S. economy. Mark Partridge, a rural and urban policy expert at Ohio State University, is also alarmed by the trend.
“It’s been a long time since we’ve seen this kind of pressure that you have to go back to the really early 1980s, in the 1970s to see anything like this with really rapid inflation, especially for food prices. And wages are not keeping up with inflation,” Partridge told ABC News.
ABC News’ Alex Presha and Katie O’Brien contributed to this report.
(WASHINGTON) — California Sen. Dianne Feinstein arrived at the Capitol for the first time in three months on Wednesday, gingerly emerging out of a gray sedan with the help of aides who assisted her into a black wheelchair.
The 89-year-old Democrat, welcomed back by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, said she was feeling “much better” after being absent while she recovered from shingles.
Feinstein’s arrival came just moments after a statement from her office confirmed that her long-awaited return, which notes that she will be working on a “lighter schedule” on doctor’s orders as she continues to recover.
She entered the Capitol about 3 p.m., following two of the day’s three series of Senate votes.
“Even though I’ve made significant progress and was able to return to Washington, I’m still experiencing some side effects from the shingles virus. My doctors have advised me to work a lighter schedule as I return to the Senate. I’m hopeful those issues will subside as I continue to recover,” Feinstein said in the statement.
On Wednesday, Feinstein asked aides repeatedly, “Why can’t I walk?” before being wheeled into the Capitol, with her right eye was visibly red. The senator said said she had something in it.
Feinstein’s return restores Democrats’ 51-49 majority in the Senate. After being hospitalized in February, Feinstein’s absence in the upper chamber had become a sticking point for some members of her party who become increasingly frustrated with the fact that — without her — Republicans could block Democrats from voting President Joe Biden’s judicial nominees out of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Some on the party’s left flank, including California Rep. Ro Khanna and New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, argued the federal judiciary could be harmed if Feinstein didn’t step down.
“I want to treat Dianne Feinstein fairly. I want to be sensitive to her family situation and her personal situation,” Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Dick Durbin said on CNN on Sunday. “But the bottom line is, the business of the committee and of the Senate is affected by her absence.”
Feinstein, in her statement, said she was looking forward to “resuming” her work on the Judiciary Committee.
“The Senate faces many important issues, but the most pressing is to ensure our government doesn’t default on its financial obligations. I also look forward to resuming my work on the Judiciary Committee considering the president’s judicial nominees,” she said.
CBS dropped the first trailer to Matlock, the reboot with Oscar and Emmy winner Kathy Bates in the title role. “I’m Madaline Matlock, a lawyer. Yes, Matlock like the old TV show,” she drawls.
Her expertise is met with skepticism, to say the least. “I need to be trained by senior partners, not senior citizens,” huffs a young attorney played by Leah Lewis.
“There’s this funny thing happens when women age,” Bates says in voice-over. “We become damn near invisible. It’s useful, because nobody sees us coming.” To that end, she’s seen feigning being flustered, and it gets her swiped into a secure building by a helpful employee.
The network teases Bates plays “a brilliant septuagenarian who achieved success in her younger years and decides to rejoin the workforce at a prestigious law firm, where she uses her unassuming demeanor and wily tactics to win cases.”
The show also stars Skye P. Marshall playing a high-ranking associate, and Jason Ritter playing the son of the head of the firm.
She Hulk: Attorney at Law executive producer and director Kat Coiro directed and produced the pilot episode of the reboot.
The original series starred the late Andy Griffith and ran for nine seasons from 1986 to 1992, six on NBC and a final three on ABC.
Niall Horan has a bunch of festival dates coming up, but when his own headlining tour in support of his new album, The Show, kicks off, he says he’d love to have his musical pals — and musical heroes — join him onstage.
Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, Niall says, “Any city I go to, if I’m friends with an artist from that city and they happen to be there, I’ll always see if I can get them to come up and sing one of theirs or one of mine with me … that would be my ideal: maybe someone I know from Chicago, or someone I know from San Fran, or whatever.”
Asked who would be his number one pick to perform with, Niall, who’s a classic rock fan through and through, replied, “Springsteen would be pretty sick. Imagine being up in Asbury Park [New Jersey] and playing with Bruce Springsteen.”
He added, “I performed with Taylor [Swift] before at Wembley Stadium, and that was magic. Obviously, I would love to do it again. She’s a busy lady at the moment.”
When EW points out Taylor’s had a few guests onstage during her Eras Tour, Niall jokes, “She knows where I am.”
The Show, Niall’s third solo record, is out June 9. Niall tells EW, “I would say this is probably the more mature-sounding album [of the three]. There’s no heartbreak on this one, which allows you to write different types of songs. That’s probably the biggest difference.”
Congratulations are in order for Spike Lee, who will be honored Wednesday night at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s 2023 Spring Gala. According to Vibe, he will be celebrated for making an impact in his field and in Brooklyn.
“It’s not an exaggeration to say, I would not have pursued a career in the arts if it were not for the work of Spike Lee,” BAM’s president, Gina Duncan, said in a statement. “His films opened my eyes at a young age, to the fact that films can be layered and complicated works of art that could be both artistically excellent and accessible.”
Lee has addressed issues of race, poverty, crime and more in his films, which include School Daze, Do The Right Thing, Malcolm X, Chi-Raq, BlacKkKlansman and Da 5 Bloods. He’s alsoproduced a slew of television shows.
He’ll be honored alongside musician David Byrne and BAM Board of Trustee Claire Wood. WizKid and Woody McClain are expected to attend.
On Wednesday, The CW Network announced its plans to say goodbye to two of its most popular programs.
Both Nancy Drew and Riverdale‘s final seasons will kick off the evening of Wednesday, May 31, and the shows will wrap up on Wednesday, August 23, according to the network.
Nancy Drew, a modern-day adaptation of the bestselling teen gumshoe books, stars Kennedy McMann in the title role. It will wind up when its upcoming fourth season ends.
Riverdale, spun from the classic Archie comics and starring Lili Reinhart, Cole Sprouse, KJ Apa and Camila Mendes, will be closing the books after its seventh season.
