ROME and LONDON — Pope Francis appeared on Sunday in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican for an Easter Sunday blessing, after a brief earlier meeting with Vice President JD Vance.
Vance arrived at Casa Santa Marta in the Vatican shortly after 11:30 a.m. local time, the Vatican’s Holy See Press Office said in a statement.
The motorcade of Vice President JD Vance is seen en route to the Vatican, in Rome, Italy, April 20, 2025.
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“The meeting, which lasted a few minutes, gave them the opportunity to exchange Easter greetings,” the office said.
At about noon, the 88-year-old pontiff arrived at St. Peter’s Basilica, overlooking the square where Easter celebrations were taking place.
Pope Francis appears on the main balcony of St. Peter’s basilica for the Urbi et Orbi message and blessing to the city and the world as part of Easter celebrations, at St. Peter’s Square in the Vatican on April 20, 2025.
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Seated in his wheelchair, he blessed the crowd and said, “Buona Pasqua!” or “Happy Easter!” The pope’s Easter blessing included a call for an end to conflicts in the Middle East, Europe and Africa.
“May the principle of humanity never fail to be the hallmark of our daily actions,” his blessing said in part. “In the face of the cruelty of conflicts that involve defenseless civilians and attack schools, hospitals and humanitarian workers, we cannot allow ourselves to forget that it is not targets that are struck, but persons, each possessed of a soul and human dignity.”
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The quiet city of Medford, Oregon was shaken by Maggie Friar’s desperate 911 call in the early morning hours of Oct. 2, 2017.
MAGGIE FRIAR to 911: I don’t know where my ex-husband or my oldest daughter is.
911 OPERATOR: I understand that.
MAGGIE FRIAR to 911: Something happened at the house. Something happened over there.
Ellie Friar, left, and her father Aaron.
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Maggie Friar’s ex-husband, Aaron Friar, and their 15-year-old daughter Ellen, nicknamed Ellie, were missing.
MAGGIE FRIAR (to 911): My concern is for the both of them. We don’t know where they are …
Maggie Friar: You can only imagine … all the things that were running around in my mind. I didn’t know who was dead, and who was alive.
When Medford Police Officer Logan Boyd arrived at Aaron Friar‘s house,he found a gruesome scene: blood spattered walls, shattered glass, and a trail of blood — to nowhere.
OFFICER BOYD (bodycam/outside by the front door): It starts from there, kinda goes all the way out in the dirt.
DETECTIVE: Goes out towards the carport.
OFFICER BOYD: Yeah.
DETECTIVE: That’s not good.
This led investigators to notice what also was missing: Aaron Friar’s car — seen on a neighbor’s security camera leaving the Friar home around 5:30 that morning.
Officer Logan Boyd: We’re kind of dealing with what I would describe as like a two-headed monster.
A FATHER AND DAUGHTER DISAPPEAR
An all-hands-on-deck call went out to every Medford Police detective, including to Det. Bill Ford.
Det. Bill Ford: We didn’t know at that particular time whether this was a missing person case or a kidnapping. … We just didn’t know.
Det. Shannon Reynolds, Ford’s colleague and wife of 20 years, had a different take.
Det. Shannon Reynolds: In my mind, I automatically assumed that the 15-year-old daughter was the victim … of a … homicide.
Natalie Morales: So, a case like this — where did this one sort of fit in?
Det. Shannon Reynolds: Probably one of the most interesting, heinous crimes I’ve seen in my career.
Investigators hoped Ellie’s younger sister, 11-year-old Sierra, might shed light on the unknown. Reynolds, who specializes in crimes against children, was tasked with interviewing her.
Det. Shannon Reynolds: Sierra wasn’t like outright crying, but you could tell, she was worried.
Natalie Morales: Who was she worried about?
Det. Shannon Reynolds: Her dad and Ellie.
Sierra Friar: I try not to really think about that time a lot, but …
Sierra, 18 years old at the time of this exclusive interview, still finds it difficult to speak about the day her father and sister vanished.
Sierra Friar: I was, you know, just a child and, um — I’m sorry. (cries)
The second of three girls, Sierra says she loved being in the middle.
Sierra Friar: I get to be an older sister and a younger sister, so I get like the best of both worlds. … I like the connection and the bonds that we have.
Sierra says her older sister Ellie loved music and could play many instruments — a skill Ellie seemed to have picked up from their father.
Sierra Friar: One time, he tried to teach me how to play the drums, but I wasn’t very good at it, so. (smiles)
In 2016, Sierra’s parents, Maggie and Aaron Friar, ended their marriage. Sierra says the divorce took a toll on her and her sisters.
Sierra Friar: It affected us a lot. It was actually not a very great experience for everyone involved.
Sierra says that when her parents separated, her dad moved into that small two-bedroom house. Maggie and Aaron Friar shared custody, and the girls would stay with their dad every other weekend.In September 2017, Sierra decided to live with her dad full-time.
Sierra Friar: I wanna be around him and fill my life with him.
Then, around 5:30 a.m. on Oct. 2, 2017, the Friar family was forever broken. Sierra was asleep in the bedroom she shared with her younger sister.
Sierra Friar: I woke up and it was just pitch black. … I remember waking up … to — like a dinging noise over and over and over again … then I heard … glass shatter. … And I heard the fight that occurred.
The sound was coming from the living room.
Natalie Morales: So then what does she hear? Because she really is sort of an earwitness to all that happened.
Det. Shannon Reynolds: Yes. Yes. … She heard her dad yell the f-word. … She heard dragging. She heard things being moved.
Sierra Friar: After that, it was completely silent.
Natalie Morales: Did she have any idea what was going on at the time?
Det. Shannon Reynolds: No. … She was frightened enough to stay in her room until … she felt like it was OK to come out.
Sierra Friar was 11 when she became an earwitness to what happened in her father’s home on Oct. 2, 2017.
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When Sierra finally did come out, she found that horrific scene.
Natalie Morales: Had to be so scary, though.
Det. Shannon Reynolds: So scary.
Sierra told Reynolds that before leaving her room, she had seen something out of her bedroom window.
Shannon Reynolds: She … could see people walking back and forth.
Sierra saw two young men outside of her dad’s house — one was a person Sierra didn’t know. The second was someone Sierra immediately recognized. It was Gavin MacFarlane.
Ellie Friar and Gavin MacFarlane
Sierra Friar: He was Ellen’s boyfriend at the time. … This was her big love. … According to her, he was a great guy. But according to my parents, he was not a great guy.
Det. Shannon Reynolds: Sierra insinuated this was a little bit of a forbidden love. Dad had forbade … Ellie from seeing Gavin.
This was the break investigators had been hoping for.
Det. Bill Ford: Once we have a name: Gavin MacFarlane. Now we got a picture. … Now we know who we’re looking for.
The search for Aaron and Ellie Friar — and now Gavin MacFarlane — was on.
Det. Bill Ford: We probably had … 70, 75 people out on the streets of Medford.
Ellie and Aaron Friar’s phones were found in the house. Investigators now began tracking MacFarlane’s phone.
Det. Bill Ford: We started getting cellphone tower hits up in the East Medford area.
Patrol officers immediately headed in that direction.
Det. Bill Ford: A patrol sergeant locates the car. … That was huge.
As the officers approached Aaron Friar’s vehicle, they realized that something wasn’t right.
Det. Bill Ford: We could see … there was blood on the outside of the bumper that had been dripping down … When this trunk is opened up … there is large amounts of blood. I mean it is soaked into the carpet.
But no Aaron Friar — and no Ellie. But the car was still warm, so the police knew they were close.
Det. Bill Ford: We had tons of people up there driving around, looking for them.
And then, just an hour later, investigators couldn’t believe who they found next.
THE SEARCH FOR AARON FRIAR
Then just four hours after that 911 call reporting her missing, Medford Police found Ellie Friar.She was alive, seemingly unharmed, and had been walking down a busy street with Gavin MacFarlane.
Det. Bill Ford: They’re walking down the sidewalk.
Natalie Morales: In plain sight.
Det. Bill Ford: Plain sight. … So, now we know Ellie is safe.
Which made two things clear: Aaron Friar was the victim, and, based on all that blood in his car and at the house, time was quickly running out to find him.
Det. Bill Ford: We had Aaron … out there, either seriously injured or deceased.
Walking along with MacFarlane and Ellie, was someone investigators hadn’t been looking for.
OFFICER (bodycam): Do you have ID with your name on there?
RUSSELL JONES: Uh, no. I don’t — I hardly ever carry my ID around.
OFFICER: OK.
He turned out to be Russell Jones, a friend of MacFarlane’s.
RUSSELL JONES (bodycam/in police car): I won’t make it hard on you.
OFFICER: (laughs) Alright.
Jones had apparently made an impression on Sierra, says Reynolds. He matched the description of that second young man she saw at her father’s house that morning.
Natalie Morales: So, she got a really good —
Det. Shannon Reynolds: Yes.
Natalie Morales: — look at this person.
Det. Shannon Reynolds: Yes.
Investigators now had a witness placing MacFarlane and Jones at the crime scene. Ford says he wasn’t sure what to make of Ellie being found with them.
Det. Bill Ford: That doesn’t mean that Ellie is involved in something.
But Ford says that she, MacFarlane, or Jones might hold the key to finding Aaron Friar.
Det. Bill Ford: Ellie, Gavin, and Russell are separated, detained, and transported to the Medford Police Department for questioning.
Det. Stephanie Jackson was tasked with getting Ellie Friar’s account of the previous 24 hours.
Ellen “Ellie” Friar is questioned about what she knew about her father’s whereabouts.
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DET. STEPHANIE JACKSON (interrogation): So what have you been up to today?
ELLIE FRIAR: I haven’t been home and now I’m really concerned about what’s been going on.
DET. STEPHANIE JACKSON: Mm-hmm. Where were you?
ELLIE FRIAR: Out.
Ellie was saying everything had seemed normal when she left her father’s house for a long walk.
DET. STEPHANIE JACKSON (interrogation): And you were walking down the street, it sounds like today?
ELLIE FRIAR: Mm-hmm.
DET. STEPHANIE JACKSON: Who were you with?
ELLIE FRIAR: I was with my friends.
According to Ellie, she had run into those “friends”— MacFarlane and Jones—only by chance not long before being spotted by police.
DET. STEPHANIE JACKSON (interrogation): And so everybody’s really concerned … because we actually don’t know where your dad is right now.
ELLIE FRIAR: That’s really … disturbing to hear. … Maybe he was looking for me.
DET. STEPHANIE JACKSON: We are very worried about your dad.
ELLIE FRIAR: So am I.
Ellie was saying she had no idea where her father was or what happened at the house.
DET. STEPHANIE JACKSON (interrogation): So where did all the blood come from in your house?
ELLIE FRIAR: I don’t know.
Around that time, Ford was preparing to interrogate the other two detainees. Strategically, he decided to let Gavin wait in a holding cell and began interviewing Russell.
Det. Bill Ford: He’s a talker … very, very talkative. … so I kind of knew … he would … have a hard time keeping his mouth shut.
DET. BILL FORD (interrogation): Spin around in the chair there and face me, so I can talk to ya.
RUSSELL JONES: Yeah, I have nothing to hide …
Jones was ready to talk. But he wanted something first: a cigarette.
RUSSELL JONES (interrogation): I talk better when I have a cigarette.
Det. Bill Ford and Russell Jones seen talking outside in the parking garage
Medford Police Department
The camera didn’t record audio, but Ford says Jones began telling him that he and MacFarlane had gone over to the Friar house early that morning.
Det. Bill Ford: He told us that he was trying to help get Ellie out of a bad situation.
That “bad situation,” according to Jones, was Aaron Friar.
Det. Bill Ford: And the first thing that he tells us is, “he’s not a good person.”
Natalie Morales: Aaron Friar is not a good person?
Det. Bill Ford: Correct.
He didn’t elaborate further about Aaron Friar, but Jones was claiming he and MacFarlane were only there to secretly move Ellie out.
Det. Bill Ford: So, the next thing I tell him is “look, Russell, we got detectives out there right now pulling video from every house, the alleys … So if this ain’t the truth … you need to be truthful with me right now.” And he looks me square in the eyes and he says, “Well, 95% of it’s the truth and … 5% of it is a lie.” So, I’m thinking automatically, what’s the lie here?
Ford decided it was time for a new tactic and tried appealing to Jones’s conscience.
Det. Bill Ford: I look at him and I’m like, “You know, Russell, I don’t want a child to find Aaron … out there somewhere, come across something like that.” … I said, “Can you take us to Aaron?” … he didn’t beat an eye. He’s just like, “Yeah, I’ll take you to him.”
The veteran detective wasted no time.
Det. Bill Ford (to Morales): We load Russell up. He’s actually sitting in the seat that you’re sitting in now.
Det. Bill Ford: We got him handcuffed in front. … he’s basically telling us, OK, turn right, turn left.
They were ascending a rural mountain pass 20 miles outside town.
Det. Bill Ford: And then all of a sudden Russell says “Stop.” … “Stop right here.”
THREE SUSPECTS, THREE DIFFERENT STORIES
DET. FORD (bodycam at the site where Aaron Friar’s body was found): Where did you stop your car and back up?
RUSSELL JONES: Uh — Probably right where that rock is.
DET. FORD: Right here in this green tarp?
Natalie Morales (at the site where Aaron Friar’s body was found): Do you see the body right away?
Det. Bill Ford: You could see the tarp; you couldn’t see any portion of the body.
Detectives descended the wooded ravine and pulled back that tarp revealing that, just six hours after that 911 call, they had found Aaron Friar.
Det. Ford: It was … obvious that he was deceased.
Russell Jones led investigators to the site where Aaron Friar’s body was disposed after his murder.
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Natalie Morales: When you found out your husband was dead, what did you think?
Maggie Friar: Uh … I was completely shocked; I didn’t know what to think.
Maggie Friar says the police hadn’t yet told her Ellie was in their custody being questioned — or even that she had been found.
Maggie Friar: I was very worried about the fate of my daughter. … I had no idea if my daughter was even alive, too.
Maggie Friar then faced the unimaginable task of sharing the news of Aaron’s death with their two younger daughters. The reality was almost too much for then-11-year-old Sierra.
Sierra Friar: I just really didn’t wanna believe it for a really long time.
While investigators began processing the scene, Ford drove Russell Jones back to police headquarters. He says Jones was claiming that all he had done was help dispose of Aaron Friar’s remains.
Det. Bill Ford: He’s like … I’m not gonna be a witness against Gavin.
Russell Jones taunts investigators while alone in the interrogation room.
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Russell was saying Gavin MacFarlane was Aaron Friar’s killer, but that MacFarlane had been provoked.
Det. Bill Ford: His story was … that Aaron had a rifle and was pointing it at Gavin.
Natalie Morales: So making it seem like a self-defense … because of — he had a gun pointed at him.
Det. Bill Ford: Exactly.
Back at the station, Ford returned Jones to the interrogation room, while detectives gathered for a briefing.
That’s when Russell began taunting them through the camera.
RUSSELL JONES (alone in interrogation room): you’re listening in on my conversations, aren’t you?
RUSSELL JONES (alone in interrogation room): I can still twist your little mind. Don’t piss me off.
Natalie Morales: This, I imagine, got everybody to stop what they were doing and gather around the monitor —
Bill Ford: Yeah.
Natalie Morales: — and watch this.
Det. Bill Ford: Yeah. That’s what you do.
RUSSELL JONES (alone in interrogation room): So we can play it the easy way or the hard way.
Det. Bill Ford: He would go into these rants and … makingdemands and stuff.
RUSSELL JONES (alone in interrogation room): Gavin and Ellie are to be released to me.
And Jones was claiming he still hadn’t been totally truthful.
RUSSELL JONES (alone in interrogation room): And Mr. Ford, you want the whole story? ‘Cause I did miss a few parts.
For her part, Ellie was now saying Jones was the one responsible.
ELLIE FRIAR (interrogation): I believe that Russell’s the one that killed my father.
With the conflicting claims, Ford decided it was finally time to interview MacFarlane.
GAVIN MACFARLANE (interrogation): I know I’m in serious trouble, aren’t I?
DET. BILL FORD: Well, we need to figure out what happened.
MacFarlane started by saying how volatile Aaron Friar could be.
GAVIN MACFARLANE (interrogation): He’s threatened my life … He’s like, no, stay away from my daughter. … I’m gonna kill you.
One month earlier, MacFarlane had called the police claiming Aaron Friar had shown up at his house, banging on his door, threatening to kill him.
GAVIN MACFARLANE (interrogation): I don’t know what caused him to not like me anymore.
Detectives discovered at least one reason: MacFarlane’s age. He was 19 years old, dating 15-year-old Ellie. And making things worse, MacFarlane was now claiming Ellie was going to have his baby.
DETECTIVE: She told you she was pregnant?
GAVIN MACFARLANE (interrogation): I’ve known for about two weeks now.
While MacFarlane was admitting to having a sexual relationship with a minor — itself a crime — he was accusing Aaron Friar of being the one who had been abusive to Ellie.
GAVIN MACFARLANE (interrogation): The anger had just been building up ’cause of the things that Ellie had been telling me.
DET. BILL FORD: Mm-hmm.
GAVIN MACFARLANE: I was just trying to protect Ellie.
DET. BILL FORD: OK.
GAVIN MACFARLANE: And my possible child.
MacFarlane was claiming he and Jones had gone to the house that morning, but unlike what Jones said — that Aaron Friar had not confronted him with a gun. Instead, MacFarlane was saying Aaron Friar had been in the living room asleep on the couch and that MacFarlane had crept in armed with a baseball bat. Then, MacFarlane made a startling admission.
GAVIN MACFARLANE (interrogation): I just acted on instinct.
DET. BILL FORD: OK. Tell us what happened.
GAVIN MACFARLANE: I just swung the bat downwards. It was dark, I couldn’t see.
DET. BILL FORD: How many times do you think you hit him?
GAVIN MACFARLANE: Like five or six maybe.
DET. BILL FORD: Five or six times?
GAVIN MACFARLANE: Yeah.
The physical evidence would back up MacFarlane’s story. Aaron Friar had died from blunt force trauma to his head, and a bloodied baseball bat was recovered from a tree branch above where his remains had been found.
Aaron Friar
Testing would confirm the blood was Aaron Friar’s.
Det. Bill Ford: And he demonstrated for us in the interview room. … how hard he swung it down on … Aaron’s head.
GAVIN MACFARLANE (demonstrating during interrogation): I went over the shoulder the first time. And then I started going up above my head.
Det. Bill Ford: I mean, there were five distinct blows to his head.
Explaining that dinging sound Sierra had heard.
Det. Bill Ford: It fractured his skull. Caved his skull into his brain.
And investigators soon found evidence that Aaron’s murder had been meticulously plotted for weeks. They discovered notes — some in Russell’s handwriting — at Gavin’s house.
Investigators found evidence that Aaron Friar’s murder had been meticulously plotted for weeks.
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Det. Bill Ford: We found … several murder plans. … And they actually had plan A, plan B, there were multiple plans. And I think ultimately, they come up with the bat.
Natalie Morales: And based on what you could see from the planning … who’s the mastermind of all of this?
Det. Bill Ford: Ellie, believe it or not.
Ford says he believes it was Ellie who wanted Aaron Friar murdered, pointing to messages Ford says she sent to MacFarlane. In one she says, “We need to make sure he’s dead by the time we leave his house.” And in another, she asked “You want to kill him now dont you”… and then “…You can kill him in less than a min,right?”
Det. Bill Ford: She’s pushing it all. … She wants to be with Gavin. … She wants to be out from underneath the authority of her father.
GAVIN MACFARLANE (interrogation): Ellie wanted me to kill him, but I didn’t want to.
Ford says Ellie might have made up those abuse allegations possibly as a way to motivate MacFarlane to kill her father.
Det. Bill Ford: She is very manipulative.
Det. Bill Ford: For me watching that entire interview … she lied and lied and lied.
DET. STEPHANIE JACKSON (interrogation): Are you Ellie?
ELLIE FRIAR: No.
DET. STEPHANIE JACKSON: How old are you?
ELLIE FRIAR: 18.
DET. STEPHANIE JACKSON: How did Gavin get in the house this morning?
ELLIE FRIAR: He wasn’t in the house.
After several hours, Ellie did eventually admit some of her role — even saying that she had handed MacFarlane the murder weapon.
DET. STEPHANIE JACKSON (interrogation): And what do you say to Gavin?
ELLIE FRIAR: I said, “I’m ready when you are.”
STEPHANIE JACKSON: OK. What did you mean by that?
ELLIE FRIAR: “When you do this, we’re in it together.”
STEPHANIE JACKSON: What did you mean when you said, “when you do this?”
ELLIE FRIAR: Kill my dad.
From left, Gavin MacFarlane, Russell Jones, and Ellie Friar were charged with the murder of Aaron Friar.
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With evidence they all conspired to kill Aaron Friar, Gavin MacFarlane, Russell Jones, and Ellie Friar were charged with his murder.
Aliza Kaplan|Ellie Friar’s defense attorney: From the day after she was arrested … there was this narrative and her side was never told
Until now.
Aliza Kaplan: The story that the state has … why is it the right one?
ELLIE FRIAR’S DEFENSE
Maggie Friar: My daughter left to go stay at my ex-husband’s house for the weekend, and never came home.
Natalie Morales: I imagine that moment haunts you still.
Maggie Friar (emotional): Of course, it does. My child never came home.
After hours of worry, Maggie Friar was finally told her 15-year-old daughter, Ellie, had been located.
Maggie Friar: I got a phone call from a police officer … that they’d found her.
But worry morphed into anger, when she was then told Ellie had been arrested for her father’s murder.
Maggie Friar: And I said, “So you’ve had my daughter in your custody, and you’re interrogating her? And you never once called me to let me know so I can maybe get her some representation?”
Ellie Friar
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Aliza Kaplan eventually became one of Ellie’s attorneys. She says the narrative about Ellie Friar has been wrong from the very beginning.
Aliza Kaplan: In this case … she was made out to be the — the … mastermind or something, you know? … She planned all of this, when she was 15 years old, and they were 19 and 22.
Natalie Morales: She was the manipulator.
Aliza Kaplan: She was the manipulator, right? And that this was all because of her relationship with an older man.
But Kaplan says this crime actually happened because of the alleged abuse Ellie suffered at the hands of her father, Aaron Friar.
Aliza Kaplan: She was sexually abused, emotionally abused, and physically abused.
Abuse that Ellie described in her police interrogation.
ELLIE FRIAR (interrogation): He used to be a good father, but he started getting abusive about three years ago.
Aliza Kaplan: I picked out a bunch of things, but …
Reading from the case file, Kaplan recounted several allegations of molestation and abuse. Warning: the following may be disturbing.
Aliza Kaplan (reading): Her father would grab at her breasts. … He told her to give in to him.
ELLIE FRIAR: He tried to take my clothes off. And I slapped him away. (crying)
Aliza Kaplan (reading): He would masturbate on top of her when he thought she was sleeping.
ELLIE FRIAR: I felt so dirty. … And so ashamed of myself.
Aliza Kaplan: He pushed her down stairs. Called her whore, idiot, stupid, slut shamed her.
ELLIE FRIAR: And he would pin me up against the wall and he would call me those names.
Aliza Kaplan: And then, when he would get drunk, it would all get worse.
According to the police report, three of Ellie’s friends told investigators that … “Ellie said her dad abuses her” … Ellie shared “that her dad was rough on her and emotionally and physically abused her” … and Ellie said “her dad mentally and verbally abused her.” But Ellie admits she never told her friends about the sexual molestation, and neither Ellie nor her friends told the police about any kind of abuse before her father’s murder.
Natalie Morales: And as far as allegations of abuse … was there … any evidence whatsoever that your detectives could find to back up what Ellen Friar was saying happened to her?
Det. Bill Ford: No, there was none.
Ford says with Aaron’s death, the possibility of proving abuse may have died with him.
Det. Bill Ford: We can’t go to Aaron and ask “Aaron, were you abusing your daughter?” … We may never know the truth. If she told her mom, did she tell her mom ahead of time?
DET. STEPHANIE JACKSON (interrogation): Have you thought about having a conversation with your mom about that?
ELLIE FRIAR: No. I’m horrified to even talk about it. …
DET. STEPHANIE JACKSON: Who have you talked to about your dad masturbating?
ELLIE FRIAR: I told Gavin about it, but that’s it.
Ellie told Det. Jackson that the first time she had told Gavin was two days before he bludgeoned her father to death.
DET. STEPHANIE JACKSON (interrogation): I know this is hard to talk about. I know.
ELLIE FRIAR: (crying) Why me? Why did he do it to me? I don’t — I have no idea what he’s done to my sisters. (crying)
Aliza Kaplan: I see … a teenager who … would do anything to survive and to protect her sisters.
Det. Shannon Reynolds says 11-year-old Sierra was asked if there were any problems at home.
Det. Shannon Reynolds: She actually only had good things to say about her father.
When Reynolds interviewed the youngest Friar daughter, she recalled the last conversation she had with Ellie minutes after their father’s murder.
Det. Shannon Reynolds: She had said that Ellie had woken her up … [Ellie] said she was leaving, and that she was leaving because mom and dad were abusive.
Before Reynolds could say anything, the 8-year-old gave her opinion on the matter.
Det. Shannon Reynolds: And she told me, “My mom and dad were not abusive.”
Both of Ellie’s sisters told Reynolds that what Ellie had called “abuse” was actually their parents disciplining her for sneaking around with Gavin.
Det. Shannon Reynolds: Because they took her electronics away and they yelled at her.
Natalie Morales: What do you say to that?
Aliza Kaplan: Yeah … Well, they were younger … right? … This is actually very common in families where there’s abuse. That there’s one child who takes on the majority of it … and … want to protect the others in the family.
Natalie Morales: You know, you, you described her as this protective older sister, but yet … she left them there at the house. How is that protecting them?
Aliza Kaplan: Yeah. … And I think, you know, those are things that Ellen will live with … for the rest of her life. … And she clearly understands how much damage she has caused her sister.
Ellie Friar and Gavin MacFarlane seen shopping for a pregnancy test hours after her father’s murder
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Ford says that with no evidence to back up Ellie’s abuse claims, he remains suspicious that she may have made it all up to manipulate MacFarlane. And it turns out, Ellie was never pregnant.
Det. Bill Ford: I think you got to look at it two ways: maybe she thought she was pregnant or maybe she’s using that to influence Gavin to kill her dad.
Ellie’s legal team says Ellie did think she was pregnant, which is why she bought a pregnancy test at a store hours after her father’s murder.
Investigators say it’s clear Ellie has an issue with the truth.
Det. Shannon Reynolds: She lied during that interview for no reason.
Kaplan says much has been made of the many lies Ellie told during her police interrogation.
Aliza Kaplan: As a parent, we — we all know that our kids sometimes do that.
But Kaplan says the real focus should be on the hours, and hours, and hours Ellie spent in that interview room.
ELLIE FRIAR (interrogation): I have a right to remain silent.
Aliza Kaplan: She asked to not talk. She said, “I wanna remain silent,” right? … She was there for 10 hours — straight.
DET. STEPHANIE JACKSON: But with your wishing to remain silent, it’s really difficult to kinda get to the bottom of all of that.
ELLIE FRIAR: Then let’s talk.
A minor without a guardian or attorney.
Natalie Morales: Is it normal to keep a 15-year-old in an interrogation room … for 10 hours like that?
Det. Bill Ford: Yeah. I mean there’s no law against it. So we gave her breaks. … There was times where she laid on the floor and slept.
Kaplan says that although it may have been legal in Oregon, it wasn’t right.
Aliza Kaplan: And look, police have their jobs to do. I get it. I just think the rules are really different when you have a kid. And in that, she looks like a kid. She’s acting like a kid. She’s in fear like a kid would be.
A kid who Kaplan says was taken advantage of by someone she calls another abuser: 19-year-old Gavin MacFarlane.
Aliza Kaplan: A grown man reaching over to a 15-year-old girl who was so vulnerable. … No matter what her, text messages said, no matter what her involvement was … I don’t even understand how you don’t look at that as, him being the controller.
Reynolds says she saw some of that controlling behavior on display in letters MacFarlane wrote to Ellie after they were arrested.
Det. Shannon Reynolds: He was, saying that … she needed to be sure to say that her dad was abusing her. … And he was telling her, “We’re going to take this to a jury and we’re going to win the jury over, and the way to do that is to cry. Make sure you cry.”
WHO WAS THE MASTERMIND?
ELLIE FRIAR (interrogation): I’ve given everything I can. And when this goes to court, I would like to be tried as an adult.
But there would be no trial. In January of 2019 — a little more than a year after her father’s death — Ellie Friar took a plea deal.
Natalie Morales: How did you feel about that decision?
Maggie Friar: I didn’t like it, ’cause I’m pretty sure that she did it ’cause she was scared. … I don’t think she wanted to go to court.
Ellie Friar pleaded guilty to an adult charge of conspiring to murder her father, Aaron.
ELLIE FRIAR (in court): I would first like to say that I’m sorry for all the pain that I’ve caused to others through this whole ordeal.
The deal was brokered by a different defense attorney. According to court documents, that attorney wrote that Ellie Friar’s co-defendants, Gavin McFarlane and Russell Jones, “were going to be testifying against” her and say that she “was the mastermind behind all of this; it was her idea from the beginning.” Ellie’s text messages would have been used against her at trial too.
Aliza Kaplan began working on Ellie Friar’s behalf in 2024.
Aliza Kaplan: I run the Criminal Justice Reform Clinic. … We are looking at Ellen’s case … mostly because we believe that she has an excessive sentence.
Natalie Morales: And what is her sentence?
Aliza Kaplan: 25 years.
Gavin MacFarlane and Russell Jones also took plea deals, with Gavin MacFarlane pleading guilty to murder and murder conspiracy charges. He was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison. Russell Jones entered a no-contest plea to conspiracy to commit murder. He was sentenced to 15 years.
Kaplan is fighting to reduce Ellie Friar’s sentence. She says Ellie should not have been sentenced to 10 more years than Jones for the same crime.
Aliza Kaplan: She was 15, he was 22 and her sentence is so much bigger than his.
Natalie Morales: The idea that Ellen is the master manipulator, I mean she’s a 15-year-old. I mean, don’t [MacFarlane and Jones] bear more responsibility because they’re the adults?
Det. Bill Ford: Uh, I don’t — I wouldn’t agree with that. … Ellie is absolutely just as responsible as Gavin, except Gavin was the one that took and held the bat in his hands.
Detective Shannon Reynolds isn’t as certain as her husband about Ellie’s role.
Det. Shannon Reynolds: I go back and forth … The mastermind of it … I initially thought was Ellie. … Then reading the letters from Gavin that he wrote to Ellie, telling her what she needed to say … then I started to think maybe Gavin was the mastermind of all of this. I go back and forth.
Ford says regardless of who crafted the plan, all three are responsible in the eyes of the law.
Det. Bill Ford: Because without her, this wouldn’t have happened. Without Gavin, this wouldn’t have happened. I doubt without Russell, it could have happened.
Aliza Kaplan: I wanna be very clear, she was involved. She participated, she was a co-conspirator, no doubt, right? She takes full accountability for her role in this crime.
Ellie Friar, now 23, has been serving her sentence in a juvenile detention center. In December 2026, she will be moved to an adult prison. She recently earned two master’s degrees: one in psychology and another in justice studies.
Aliza Kaplan: Which, by the way, is not that easy to do when you’re in prison. … She’s really incredible.
Maggie Friar: I’m very proud of her. I’ve always been proud of her … after what she went through.
Det. Bill Ford: Aaron’s dead. …Who’s gonna speak out for Aaron?
“I’ve never spoken publicly before… about any of this … I never really fully healed from any of what happened. It’s like waking up every morning and having the same phone call,” Sierra Friar told “48 Hours.” “It’s still like an open wound every day.”
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Sierra Friar will.
Sierra Friar: My dad was a kind man who loved me and my sisters and always tried to fill my life with joy. … He was a great father to me. … He goes with me wherever I go.
Sierra has joined the National Guard — something she says her father always wanted for her.
Det. Shannon Reynolds: It’s mind-blowing that the little girl I interviewed is now grown up. The fact that she is joining … the National Guard lets me know … she didn’t let this, you know, derail her life.
A life Sierra has had to live without her father, whose memory has been marred by those abuse allegations. A “48 Hours” producer asked Sierra about them.
Lauren A. White| “48 Hours”: Ellie claims that your father abused her. What do you have to say to that?
Sierra Friar: Uh, I don’t wanna talk about that just ’cause I have my own feelings about it.
Sierra is just as guarded when it comes to her thoughts about her sister, Ellie, though the two have maintained a relationship over the years.
Sierra Friar: It’s very hard to explain because a lot of people wouldn’t understand. … I’ve got my own feelings about her.
But Sierra’s feelings about her father are very clear.
Sierra Friar: I love him and I’m so sorry for everything that happened. (crying) … I have faith and I have hope that one day, that we’ll meet again. (voice cracks, nods)
Ellie Friar will be eligible for parole in 2032. She will be 30 years old.
Produced by Richard Fetzer and Lauren A. White. Greg Fisher is the development producer. Megan Kelly Brown is the associate producer. Grayce Arlotta-Berner, Diana Modica and Mike Baluzy are the editors. Peter Schweitzer is the senior producer. Nancy Kramer is the executive story editor. Judy Tygard is the executive producer.
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Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Sunday that Russian attacks had continued after Vladimir Putin ordered his army to suspend combat operations in Ukraine over the Easter holiday.
Putin declared a unilateral 30-hour “Easter ceasefire” for “humanitarian reasons” on Saturday in a meeting with Valery Gerasimov, his top military officer, according to footage published by the Kremlin. The truce took place at 6pm Moscow time on Saturday and was due to end at midnight on Sunday.
On Sunday Zelenskyy said Ukraine’s military had reported continued Russian attacks along parts of the front line including combat engagements and drone strikes.
From 6pm until midnight there had been 387 cases of shelling and 19 assaults by Russian forces, while drones were used 290 times, Ukraine’s president said in a post on X, citing a report from Oleksandr Syrsky, the commander-in-chief of Ukraine’s armed forces.
“Overall, as of Easter morning, we can state that the Russian army is attempting to create the general impression of a ceasefire, while in some areas still continuing isolated attempts to advance and inflict losses on Ukraine,” Zelenskyy said.
Putin’s declaration of a halt came a day after US President Donald Trump threatened to end peacemaking efforts in Ukraine if quick progress was not made, was the second time Putin has declared a full suspension of hostilities since ordering the invasion of Ukraine three years ago.
Putin announced a similar truce to mark the Orthodox Christmas in January 2023, which Ukraine claimed was a ploy to stop its advances against Russian forces.
While Kyiv has agreed to Trump’s proposal of a 30-day ceasefire, Putin has refused to back away from his maximalist demands for ending the war.
Zelenskyy said Ukraine’s proposal to implement and extend the ceasefire for 30 days after midnight tonight remained on the table.
He said Ukraine “will act in accordance with the actual situation on the ground”.
Ukraine’s troops “are responding as the enemy deserves, based on the specific combat situation. Ukraine will continue to act symmetrically”, Zelenskyy wrote.
Both sides have accused each other of repeatedly violating a moratorium on energy strikes brokered by the US in March. Russia also said it would not sign up to a similar agreement on maritime security in the Black Sea unless a number of western sanctions were repealed.
Putin said Russia expected Ukraine to “follow our example” but told Gerasimov he wanted his forces to be “prepared to repel any ceasefire violations, provocations and aggressive actions by the enemy”.
He thanked Trump, Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Brics nations for their efforts to find a settlement to the war in Ukraine and said the ceasefire would show whether Kyiv was serious about “participating in peace negotiations aimed at resolving the initial reasons for the Ukrainian crisis”.
Putin’s stated conditions for ending the war include Ukraine surrendering four partially occupied southeastern regions to Russia and, in effect, ceasing to exist as an independent state.
Russia has also demanded that Nato roll back almost all of its deployments east of the Berlin Wall as part of a deal, which would rewrite the post-Cold War security order.
Shortly before Putin’s ceasefire announcement, Russia and Ukraine carried out one of the largest exchanges of prisoners of war since the start of Moscow’s all-out invasion in February 2022. Zelenskyy said that 277 Ukrainian troops had been returned following a deal brokered by the United Arab Emirates.
He added that 4,552 Ukrainian soldiers had been freed from Russian captivity since the start of the invasion.
One person was killed and four others injured in a crash in northern Orange County on the Santa Ana (5) Freeway near the 91 Freeway interchange Saturday night.
The crash was first reported to the California Highway Patrol at 7:11 p.m. on the northbound 5 Freeway just north of Magnolia Avenue, near the borders of Anaheim, Fullerton and Buena Park.
Witnesses told the CHP a white SUV was being driven recklessly before the collision with a dark-colored SUV, which caused both vehicles to roll over and caused the white SUV to go over a guardrail.
One person was pronounced dead at the scene and four trauma patients were taken by ambulance to hospitals, Orange County Fire Authority Capt. Sean Doran told City News Service.
Caltrans closed all lanes but the HOV lane on the northbound Santa Ana Freeway and traffic was diverted onto the westbound Riverside (91) Freeway and the Magnolia Avenue off-ramp.
LOS ANGELES — The stage was set for the Lakers to kick off the playoffs in a memorable manner.
Areas near and leading to the Lakers’ locker room were redecorated with purple playoff signage.
Golden T-shirts with the Lakers’ playoff slogan “Unleash Joy” were on every seat for every fan inside Crypto.com Arena – the first time the Lakers have opened a first-round playoff series in Los Angeles since April 2012.
But by the time those same fans got back to their seats shortly after halftime, the Lakers were close to being run out of the gym, eventually falling to the Timberwolves, 117-95, in a Game 1 matchup they trailed by as much as 27.
Luka Doncic led the Lakers with 37 points on 12-of-22 shooting (5 for 10 from 3-point range) and eight rebounds, but it wasn’t enough to prevent the Lakers from losing home-court advantage to begin the best-of-seven series. Game 2 is Tuesday night.
The sixth-seeded Timberwolves knocked down a franchise playoff-record 21 3-point shots – shooting a blistering 50% from behind the arc – and overwhelmed the third-seeded Lakers with their physical play, shot-making and veteran poise.
Reigning Sixth Man of the Year Naz Reid (23 points, five rebounds off the bench) led the Timberwolves with six 3-pointers.
All-NBA guard Anthony Edwards (22 points, nine assists, eight rebounds) shot 4 for 9 from long range, while Jaden McDaniels, who led the Timberwolves with 25 points and nine rebounds, made all three of his attempts from behind the arc.
LeBron James finished with 19 points, five rebounds and three assists, while Austin Reaves had 16 points (5-of-13 shooting), but both of the Lakers’ stars had slow starts.
And the Timberwolves took advantage – not only of James’ and Reaves’ slow starts, but the Lakers regularly left shooters wide open while prioritizing protecting the paint.
The Timberwolves weathered a 16-point first quarter from Doncic, then made 15 3-pointers during the second and third, when they turned what had been a seven-point deficit after one period into an 88-61 lead midway through the third.
The Lakers’ cut their deficit to 12 multiple times, but couldn’t get any closer.
Minnesota, which won for the 18th time in its past 22 games, scored 25 fast-break points and 23 second-chance points.
It’s almost the end of Holy Week, the annual Christian commemoration of the betrayal, crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus. Faithful across the world are attending services to hear the Gospel, see reenactments of the key moments in the last seven days of his life and rejoice in the Good News — or at least have a big brunch with the family and let the kids look for eggs and chocolate bunnies.
Easter is supposed to be a happy time, but all I can think of is the people who persecuted Jesus. At a time when Christians are called upon to embrace Jesus’ message of love and charity, our president continues to revel in a cruelty that’s, well, biblical.
Even if you’re not a Christian, you’re probably familiar with the Holy Week sayings and characters that illustrate the worst of humanity.
A Judas, for instance, is as terrible a traitor as the apostle who turned Jesus over to the authorities. We accuse people of “washing their hands” when they’re in charge of a bad situation but refuse responsibility — a reference to Pontius Pilate, the Roman governor who ordered the execution of Jesus despite his initial reluctance, as described in the Gospels. Commentators sometimes compare dictators to Herod, the king who ordered the massacre of children in his quest to kill the infant Christ.
President Trump is embodying all of this and worse with his campaign against undocumented immigrants and anything remotely associated with them.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has live-tweeted deportations while wearing makeup better suited for a Real Housewife and sporting a shiny Rolex watch. On Valentine’s Day, the official White House Instagram account said, “Roses are red/Violets are blue/Come here illegally/And we’ll deport you,” complete with a pink background, hearts and headshots of Trump and his border czar, Tom Homan. Earlier this month, the White House shared a video on X of handcuffed migrants being escorted by ICE agents, scored to “Na Na Hey Hey (Kiss Him Goodbye).”
This nastiness has reached a crescendo with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national who crossed the border at age 16 to escape gang violence. An immigration judge denied his request for asylum in 2019 but allowed him to remain in the U.S. Since then, he has married, had a child and obtained a work permit.
Abrego Garcia is now imprisoned in El Salvador, booted out of the U.S. without a court hearing and called a “terrorist” and MS-13 member by Trump, even though he’s never been convicted of a crime. The Trump administration admits that deporting him was an “administrative error.”
Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen, right, speaks with Kilmar Abrego Garcia at a hotel Thursday in El Salvador’s capital.
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But instead of doing everything they can to return him to the U.S., they’re doing everything possible not to — damn the law. And damn the human cost of leaving Abrego Garcia to languish in a prison sytem where inmates are crammed into cells and are increasingly being used as photo ops by Republican lawmakers.
Don’t take my word for it. Federal judges have described Trump’s actions as “illegal” or “shocking,” with one judge calling the administration’s insistence that it has no obligation to return Abrego Garcia to the U.S. a “fallacy.”
There’s a reason Trump is using illegal immigration to push the boundaries of America law, if not outright spitting on them: A big chunk of the American population is cheering him on. His supporters think they’re not affected — that the only people being targeted are criminals. And even if immigrants without criminal records are mistreated — like Garcia and hundreds of others who didn’t have a chance to contest their deportations — they had it coming anyway, since they never should have come to this country.
If Trump’s advisors are his apostles in selling his anti-immigrant crusade, the Pontius Pilate in this Passion play is El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, adored by the American right as the ne plus ultra of modern-day Latin American strongmen. Unlike the Roman prelate, though, Bukele is more than happy to keep his hands filthy with an unjust persecution.
In an Oval Office chat this week, Trump said that only Bukele could return Abrego Garcia to the U.S., and the Salvadoran president vowed that wouldn’t happen. When Trump suggested that El Salvador should build more prisons to hold American citizens, Bukele agreed, adding that in order to “liberate” the American people, “you have to imprison some.”
Instead of shuddering at these words, too many Trump supporters — many of whom are professed Christians — simply shrug.
The persecution of Abrego Garcia and other deported migrants reminds me of another Christian — German theologian Martin Niemöller, who wrote the poem that begins, “First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out — Because I was not a socialist.”
Niemöller was decrying the complacency of his countrymen as the Nazis rose to power by first targeting the most despised groups in German society. The prose is as famous as it is cliched, but Niemöller’s message is the same one that we Christians take to heart during Holy Week.
Tyrants never want to stop. Only by standing with the least among us can good win — otherwise, evil rules.
A group of property owners affected by the January wildfires is suing major California insurer carriers, including the state’s largest, State Farm, for allegedly violating California’s antitrust and unfair competition laws.
The group complaint and demand for jury trial filed Saturday in the Los Angeles Superior Court alleges that in a “nefarious conspiracy,” major insurers conspired to “eliminate competition between them,” thereby “intentionally and systematically” forcing homeowners to accept the California FAIR Plan.
On the same day, lawyers filed a separate class action lawsuit alleging the same thing.
“Insurance is a product that homeowners hope never to need, but rely on for peace of mind in normal times and for critical help rebuilding after a catastrophe,” Michael J. Bidart of Shernoff Bidart Echeverria LLP, one of the law firms representing the plaintiffs, said in a statement. “The complaints allege that, by colluding to push plaintiffs and so many like them to the FAIR Plan, the defendants have reaped the benefits of high premiums while depriving homeowners of coverage that they were ready, willing, and able to purchase to ensure that they could recover after a disaster like January’s wildfires.”
Representatives of the major insurance companies meet regularly to “discuss issues that we would consider to be market issues,” including the administration of the FAIR Plan, said Jamie Court, president and chairman of the board of Consumer Watchdog, a Santa Monica-based, progressive nonprofit. “This was clearly a concerted attempt by the entire industry to push people in high-risk areas to lower benefit policies, and at the same time keep collecting higher premiums from everyone else.”
The FAIR Plan was established in the wake of the 1965 Watts riots, after fleeing insurers highlighted the need for a new type of carrier. The goal was to provide an insurance option for California homeowners living in places that open-market carriers refused to cover — including in communities vulnerable to wildfire.
The FAIR Plan has its own reserves, but is backstopped by California’s licensed property insurers, which are required to pay claims when FAIR runs through its funds. The plan has proved pivotal due to increasingly disastrous fires in the state, including after the 2018 Camp fire that destroyed the town of Paradise and cost insurers $12.5 billion.
However, with many insurers canceling coverage for homeowners in fire-risk zones, the FAIR plan has become overwhelmed. The number of FAIR Plan policyholders has skyrocketed from about 200,000 residential policyholders in 2020 to nearly 560,000 as of March 2025. The plan has estimated that it will lose some $4 billion dollars on claims related to the January fires in L.A., draining its reserves and reinsurance.
In response, Lara signed a policy put in place last year which allows the FAIR Plan to assess its member companies $1 billion for residential claims. Those private insurers can then temporarily add surcharges to the premiums paid by their own policyholders to recoup 50% of that, or $500,000.
Those increases in premiums apply to homeowners everywhere in California — not just fire-prone areas. That said, Lara must approve those surcharges separately.
Opponents of the policy call it an industry “bailout” that burdens consumers.
“Homeowners across the state should not be on the hook for the L.A. fires because insurance companies abandoned those neighborhoods and dumped homeowners on the FAIR Plan,” Carmen Balber, executive director of Consumer Watchdog told The Times in January.
The new suits allege that the state’s top insurers — those required by law to back FAIR — colluded together to cancel plans, leaving homeowners underinsured under FAIR, which has higher premiums than most plans on the commercial market, yet is capped at the lower coverage limit of $3 million. The plaintiffs are seeking three times the damages each has sustained.
“This is exactly the type of action that needs to happen for us to break up what is clearly cartel-like behavior,” said Court.
As of publication, representatives from State Farm and Allstate did not respond to requests for comment.
Hilary McLean, a spokesperson for the FAIR Plan, told The Times that “while the California FAIR Plan is not named in these lawsuits, the FAIR Plan does not comment on active litigation.”
Gabriel Sanchez, representing Lara’s office, said in an email, “The Department of Insurance is not involved in this matter as a party and cannot comment on the lawsuit. Our focus is, and always will be, protecting California consumers.”
Earlier this month, State Farm proposed a 17% emergency rate hike — down from an initial 22% request to state officials in February — that it said is necessary to “help stabilize State Farm General’s financial position” and prevent the carrier from having to “further constrain” its ability to provide home insurance in California.
Meanwhile, many who lost their homes in the L.A. fires are calling for a formal government investigation of major insurance providers, alleging that delays and denials have kept them in dire financial straits and housing limbo.
Times staff writer Laurence Darmiento contributed to this report.
From Yo Gabba Gabba! to Travis Scott, the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival has something for everyone on day two of weekend two at the Empire Polo Club in Indio Saturday, April 19.
Follow along with us as we photograph the bands, the fashion and the art of the music festival through the night.
Ed Sheeran performs during the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, CA on Saturday, April 19, 2025.(Photo by Andy Holzman, Contributing Photographer)
Ed Sheeran performs during the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, CA on Saturday, April 19, 2025.(Photo by Andy Holzman, Contributing Photographer)
Ed Sheeran performs during the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, CA on Saturday, April 19, 2025.(Photo by Andy Holzman, Contributing Photographer)
Prison Affair performs during the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, CA on Saturday, April 19, 2025.(Photo by Andy Holzman, Contributing Photographer)
Festivalgoers make their way through SPECTRA during the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio on Saturday, April 19, 2025.(Photo by Andy Holzman, Contributing Photographer)
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Ed Sheeran performs during the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, CA on Saturday, April 19, 2025.(Photo by Andy Holzman, Contributing Photographer)
BEIJING — In one small step for robot-kind — thousands of them, really — humanoid robots ran alongside actual humans in a half-marathon in the Chinese capital on Saturday.
The bipedal robots of various makes and sizes navigated the 21.1-kilometer (13.1-mile) course supported by teams of human navigators, operators, and engineers, in what event organizers say was a first. As a precaution, a divider separated the parallel courses used by the robots and people.
While flesh-and-blood participants followed conventional rules, the 20 teams fielding machines in the Humanoid Robot Half-Marathon competed under tailored guidelines, which included battery swap pit stops.
The Sky Project Ultra robot, also known as Tien Kung Ultra, from the Tien Kung Team, claimed victory among the nonhumans, crossing the finish line in 2 hours, 40 minutes and 42 seconds.
Awards were also given out for best endurance, best gait design and most innovative form.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Drew Greenblatt is fully on board with the Trump administration’s use of tariffs to rebalance a global trading system that it says favors foreign companies over U.S. manufacturers.
Greenblatt is the president and owner of Marlin Steel Wire Products in Baltimore, Maryland, which makes baskets and racks for medical device manufacturers, aerospace companies, food processing companies and others. It has 115 employees and makes its products in three locations in Maryland, Indiana and Michigan. The steel is sourced from Tennessee, Illinois and Michigan.
Currently, it’s hard to compete with baskets made overseas., Greenblatt says, because the countries he competes against have an “unfair advantage.” For example, due to European tariffs and taxes, it costs much more for a German consumer or company to buy Marlin wire baskets than it does for Americans to buy a German-made basket, creating an uneven playing field, Greenblatt said.
“It’s wildly unfair to the American worker,” he said. “And this has, by the way, been going on for decades.”
The Trump administration has called U.S. manufacturing an “economic and national security” priority. U.S. manufacturing has been declining for decades. In June 1979, the number of manufacturing workers peaked at 19.6 million. By January of 2025, employment was down 35% to 12.8 million, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Small manufacturers, which make up 99% of all American manufacturing, have been hit particularly hard.
The administration has implemented some tariffs against major U.S. trading partners, while putting a hold on other tariffs pending negotiations. The Trump administration says tariffs will force companies to have more products made in the U.S. to avoid steep price increases on their imports, which will mean “better-paying American jobs,” for people making cars, appliances and other goods.
Greenblatt agrees, saying he could double his staff if “parity” in tariffs becomes a reality.
While other small manufacturing businesses also support the tariffs, other owners have concerns. The Trump tariffs threaten to upend the existing economic order and possibly push the global economy into recession. And the uneven rollout of the policy has created uncertainty for businesses, financial markets and U.S. households.
For Corry Blanc, the injection of uncertainty around the economy outstrips any potential benefit.
He started his business, Blanc Creatives in Waynesboro, Virginia, in 2012. He makes handcrafted cookware such as skillets and other kitchenware and bakeware with American steel and wood and employs 12 staffers. He gets his steel from a plant in South Carolina and a distributor in Richmond. Wood comes from local regional sawmills near the company’s headquarters in Waynesboro, Virginia.
He said he’s been fielding worried calls from customers in Canada and overseas. And he says the infrastructure isn’t in place to increase production if more people do start buying American-made goods.
Blanc said he survived the pandemic and other tough times, but conditions now are the hardest they’ve ever been.
“There’s so much uncertainty and not a lot of direction,” he said.
Michael Lyons is the founder of Rogue Industries, a company that makes wallets and other leather goods in a workshop in Standish, Maine, with a staff of nine. He uses leather from Maine and the Midwest. About 80% of his products are made in Maine and 20% are imported.
He said the uncertainty around the tariffs is outweighing any potential long-term benefit. A long-time customer from Canada recently told Lyons that he would no longer be buying from Rogue Industries because of the friction between the two countries.
“Hopefully this will pass, and he’ll be able to come back,” he said. “But I did think that was kind of an interesting indicator for him to reach out.”
Lyons would like to expand his business, but says, “at the time being, it’s probably going to be, we hold with what we have.”
American Giant CEO Bayard Winthrop takes a more positive view. He founded his clothing company in 2011 after watching the textile industry go offshore, and seeing a lack of quality, affordable American-made clothing. He started by selling one sweatshirt, and now sells a wider range of clothing, mostly direct-to-consumer, but he also has a contract with Walmart.
He sources cotton from Southeastern states like Georgia, Florida and North Carolina and has a factory in North Carolina and a joint partnership facility in Los Angeles.
“People forget that in about 1985 that all the clothing that Americans bought was made in America,” he said. “It is only in the last 40 years that that we really pursued as a country a very aggressive approach to globalization.”
In 1991, more than half of U.S. apparel, about 56%, was made in the U.S., according to statistics from the American Apparel and Footwear Association. By 2023 that number had shrunk to less than 4%.
Winthrop hopes the tariffs will bring about a return to more American-made products.
“The imbalances between our trading, in particularly with China, particularly the textiles, it’s just shocking, to be honest with you,” he said, adding that he hopes Trump’s policies “put domestic manufacturers on a bit more of a competitive footing.”
Winthrop understands people’s concerns but said it’s important to think longer term.
“Americans are worried about tariffs, and I think there’s a lot of justification for the worry because I think the administration can be volatile and unpredictable,” he said. But he added that people should put that aside.
“The idea that we’re going to be more protective of our domestic marketplace and have an industrial policy that includes manufacturing jobs is, an old idea. It’s not a new idea,” he said.
BALTIMORE — It was almost instinctual for Ray Kelly to jump into action when he heard about a group of high school students clashing with police. He wanted to help protect the kids and de-escalate things, but instead, he watched his neighborhood burn.
Unrest broke out after Freddie Gray died from spinal injuries sustained during transport in a police van in April 2015. The protesters stormed through majority-Black west Baltimore, setting police cars ablaze and looting businesses. They were fighting the generations of oppression experienced by Black Americans, from racist housing policies and crumbling schools to limited job opportunities, rampant gun violence and poor living conditions.
A community activist from Gray’s neighborhood, Kelly had focused on police accountability for years. As federal investigators launched a probe into the Baltimore Police Department and local prosecutors charged the officers involved, he doubled down in calling for stronger oversight at a time of growing national outrage over police brutality.
Ten years later, his ongoing efforts illustrate Baltimore’s progress — and lack thereof.
Among the positive changes, Kelly said, there are more mechanisms to address police misconduct and hold officers accountable. Homicides and shootings are trending downward after a prolonged surge that began in the wake of Gray’s death. And while west Baltimore still faces widespread poverty and neglect, he said, at least elected officials are paying more attention.
“People have to hear us out, because there is now this possibility that we can organize and elevate our voices,” Kelly said. “I think Freddie Gray’s death put that in motion.”
But progress is often painfully slow and woefully insufficient. Meanwhile city leaders face new obstacles from the Trump administration’s escalating attacks on civil rights and diversity initiatives.
For Gray’s family, a decade has passed since their private loss played out on national news.
Joined by the mayor and other dignitaries Saturday morning, his twin sister Fredricka laid a wreath of flowers near the site of his arrest, marking the anniversary of when he died in the hospital.
“It’s still justice for Freddie Gray,” she said, repeating what became a rallying cry in 2015. “Ten years now.”
Baltimore has a long history of mistreating its Black residents. In 1910, city leaders enacted the country’s first residential segregation ordinance restricting African American homeowners to certain blocks.
Kelly grew up during the height of the crack cocaine epidemic of the 1980s and the national war on drugs, when police routinely conducted “street sweeps” or mass arrests in west Baltimore. When he started selling drugs to support himself during high school, the police were just another obstacle in an already uphill battle. He later struggled with addiction and served time in prison.
After coming home in the early 2000s, Kelly started working with a neighborhood advocacy group to improve public safety. That put him in a unique position when the U.S. Department of Justice launched its probe of city police: Knowing residents would be wary about cooperating with federal investigators, Kelly helped make introductions and encouraged people to participate.
“It was a gamble,” he said. “It wasn’t really what this community does.”
But the gamble paid off. The investigation uncovered longstanding patterns of excessive force, unlawful arrests and discriminatory policing practices, especially against Black people.
The findings resulted in a 2017 consent decree mandating a series of reforms for the department, which promised to overhaul its policies and training.
The agency celebrated a milestone this week when a federal judge terminated two of the consent decree’s 17 sections after finding full and sustained compliance — including with rules for transporting people in police vans. Gray was handcuffed, shackled and transported without a seatbelt as officers repeatedly ignored his calls for medical attention.
Department leaders say large-scale change is happening, though not overnight. Officers have increased foot patrols, decreased low-level arrests and even undergone training on emotional regulation. They’re less likely to use force when taking people into custody, and they’ve contributed to historic reductions in homicides by partnering with service providers to address the root causes of gun violence.
Police Commissioner Richard Worley said that over the course of his career, he’s watched the culture of policing shift from “warriors to guardians.”
Nonetheless, many Baltimore residents still don’t trust the police to act with compassion and integrity. They don’t believe the department has undergone a significant cultural change.
“It’s going to take years and years to redefine the police department in the eyes of the community,” U.S. District Judge James Bredar said during Thursday’s consent decree hearing. “This work is critical, even if it doesn’t bear fruit immediately.”
Gray, 25, was arrested near his home in west Baltimore’s Sandtown-Winchester neighborhood, a once-thriving community that had fallen into disrepair.
In its heyday, nearby Pennsylvania Avenue was a Black entertainment district with renowned jazz clubs, upscale shops and vibrant nightlife. Its cultural artifacts include the childhood home of Thurgood Marshall, the first African American appointed to the Supreme Court, and a bronze statue of jazz legend Billie Holiday, who also had roots in west Baltimore.
A confluence of factors contributed to its decline, including urban flight and chronic disinvestment. Some businesses left after unrest following the 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
Open-air drug markets moved in, and over-policing became a common complaint from residents. So when Gray was violently taken into custody after making eye contact with officers and running away, that longstanding frustration boiled over. Officials responded to the 2015 protests by bringing in the Maryland National Guard and imposing a citywide curfew.
Many residents celebrated when prosecutors later announced criminal charges against the six officers involved, but none were convicted.
In the meantime, political leaders visited Sandtown and pledged to invest in housing, youth programs and more. Those big promises have largely failed to materialize.
“It’s still the same damn place with the same damn issues,” Kelly said, gazing down the street outside the former church rectory that houses his advocacy organization, the Citizens Policing Project. “We’ve heard a lot of talk, but this is what we see.”
When the city closed the neighborhood’s recreation center in 2021, Sandtown youth were basically left with nowhere to go, said 17-year-old Ryeheen Watson, whose childhood unfolded in the shadow of Gray’s death.
“It was like, nothing good comes for our community,” he said. “But when you’re starting as an underdog, there’s nowhere to go but up.”
The second Trump administration will likely create even more challenges for communities like Sandtown as the White House slashes federal initiatives aimed at advancing racial equity.
Baltimore attorney Billy Murphy, who represented the Gray family, said that while Black people continue fighting for their collective future, a resurgence of white supremacism is infecting national politics.
“Where are we today? That’s where we are,” Murphy said at a recent event commemorating Gray’s death. “We are heading backwards.”
But at least on the local level, political discourse now includes more progressive Black voices, said Dayvon Love, director of public policy for the grassroots think tank Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle. In his view, Gray’s death was a turning point.
“That has advanced our ability to advocate unapologetically for Black people in ways that before the uprising were shut out,” Love said.
Mayor Brandon Scott says his administration is achieving long-awaited progress by investing in historically neglected neighborhoods, including a $15 million plan to renovate Sandtown’s recreation center and upgrades to Gilmor Homes, the public housing complex where Gray was arrested.
However, Scott said in an interview, “We’re not celebrating here, because the work is not complete.”
For Kelly, discussions of politics and progress often miss the point by failing to acknowledge Gray himself, the young man from west Baltimore who died after a tragic encounter with police a decade ago.
Instead of marking the anniversary of his death, Kelly suggested, perhaps it’s his birthday that should be celebrated: Aug. 16, 1989.
ATLANTA — ATLANTA (AP) — Allergy season can be miserable for tens of millions of Americans when trees, grass, and other pollens cause runny noses, itchy eyes, coughing and sneezing.
Where you live, what you’re allergic to and your lifestyle can make a big difference when it comes to the severity of your allergies. Experts say climate change is leading to longer and more intense allergy seasons, but also point out that treatments for seasonal allergies have become more effective over the last decade.
Here are some tips from experts to keep allergy symptoms at bay — maybe even enough to allow you to enjoy the outdoors.
The Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America issues an annual ranking of the most challenging cities to live in if you have allergies, based on over-the-counter medicine use, pollen counts and the number of available allergy specialists.
This year, the top five cities are: Wichita, Kansas; New Orleans; Oklahoma City; Tulsa, Oklahoma; and Memphis.
There are three main types of pollen. Earlier in the spring, tree pollen is the main culprit. After that grasses pollinate, followed by weeds in the late summer and early fall.
Some of the most common tree pollens that cause allergies include birch, cedar, cottonwood, maple, elm, oak and walnut, according to the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America. Grasses that cause symptoms include Bermuda, Johnson, rye and Kentucky bluegrass.
Pollen trackers can help you decide when to go outside. The American Academy of Allergy Asthma and Immunology tracks levels through a network of counting stations across the U.S. Counts are available at its website and via email.
The best and first step to controlling allergies is avoiding exposure. Keep the windows in your car and your home closed, even when it’s nice outside.
If you go outside, wearing long sleeves can keep pollen off your skin to help ward off allergic reactions, said Dr. James Baker, an allergist at the University of Michigan. It also provides some sun protection, he added.
When you get home, change your clothes and shower daily to ensure all the pollen is off of you — including your hair. If you can’t wash your hair every day, try covering it when you go outside with a hat or scarf. Don’t get in the bed with your outside clothes on, because the pollen will follow.
It’s also useful to rinse your eyes and nose with saline to remove any pollen, experts said. And the same masks that got us through the pandemic can protect you from allergies — though they won’t help with eye symptoms.
Over-the-counter nasal sprays are among the most effective treatments for seasonal allergies, experts said.
But the vast majority of patients use them incorrectly, irritating parts of the nose, said Dr. Kathleen Mays, an allergist at Augusta University in Georgia. She suggested angling the nozzle outward toward your ear rather than sticking it straight up your nose.
Over-the-counter allergy pills like Claritin, Allegra and Zyrtec are helpful, but may not be as effective as quickly since they’re taken by mouth, experts said.
Experts also said that if your allergy symptoms are impacting your quality of life, like causing you to lose sleep or a lack focus at work or school, it might be time to consider an allergist appointment for immunotherapies.
Some remedies for allergy relief that have been circulating on social media or suggested by celebrities — like incorporating local honey into your diet to expose yourself to pollen — have been debunked.
Dr. Shayam Joshi, an allergist at Oregon Health and Science University, said that’s because the flowers that bees pollinate typically don’t contain the airborne pollen that causes allergy symptoms.
With climate change, winters are milder and growing seasons are longer, meaning there’s more opportunity for pollen to stay in the air, resulting in longer and more severe allergy seasons.
In many areas across the country, pollen counts have broken decades of records. In late March, the Atlanta Allergy and Asthma Center measured a pollen count of over 14,000 grains per cubic meter, which is considered extremely high.
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The Florida State University community is reeling and police are searching for a motive after a gunman opened fire on the Tallahassee campus on Thursday, killing two and injuring six.
Tallahassee police have laid out how the shooting unfolded.
Students hold a vigil near the scene of a shooting near the Florida State University student center on April 17, 2025 in Tallahassee, Florida.
Ikner left the garage at 11:51 a.m., police said, and then between 11:56 and 11:57 a.m. he started firing a handgun, police said. The shooting was reported to 911 by 11:58 a.m., police said.
At noon, Ikner was shot by officers and taken into custody, police said. He’s expected to survive and remains hospitalized as of Saturday morning.
“When I heard what had happened, I was frantic — thought he might be the one hurt. And then when I found out it was him I just collapsed at work,” Ikner’s biological mother, Anne-Mari Eriksen, told ABC News on Friday in her first comments since the shooting. “There’s so much that needs to be said about this, but I just can’t talk without crying. We need time to process all this.”
Police investigate the scene of a shooting near the student union at Florida State University on April 17, 2025 in Tallahassee, Florida.
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One slain victim was identified as Tiru Chabba, a 45-year-old husband and father of two who was an employee of a campus vendor.
“Chabba’s family is going through the unimaginable now,” their family attorney Bakari Sellers said in a statement. “Instead of hiding Easter eggs and visiting with friends and family, they’re living a nightmare.”
Florida State University shooting victim Tiru Chabba.
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The other victim was identified as Robert Morales.
Morales was formerly an assistant football coach at Leon High School, where he demonstrated “dedication, integrity, and a true passion for mentoring young athletes,” Leon High Athletics said in a statement.
“His commitment to the game and to shaping the lives of his players extended far beyond the field,” the statement said. “His legacy of leadership, compassion, and service will forever remain a part of the Leon Lions tradition.”
Florida State University shooting victim Robert Morales.
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Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare officials said the hospital received six patients, all in good condition. One patient has been discharged, the hospital said Saturday.
All six are expected to make full recoveries and two of them may be released on Friday, officials said.
Officials revealed that the suspect’s stepmother, Jessica Ikner, is a current deputy with the local Leon County Sheriff’s Office. While authorities identified Jessica Ikner as the suspect’s mother, court documents indicate she is his stepmother.
Students hold a vigil near the scene of a shooting near the Florida State University student center on April 17, 2025 in Tallahassee, Florida.
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Phoenix Ikner had access to one of his stepmother’s personal guns, which was one of the weapons found at the scene, Sheriff Walter McNeil said. He is still in the hospital and will not be charged or arraigned until he is discharged, police said. He’s also invoked his right to remain silent.
Jessica Ikner — who was on duty as a school resource officer at a middle school at the time of the shooting — has taken an indefinite personal leave of absence, the sheriff’s office said.
The sheriff’s office said it’s launched an internal investigation, but so far has not found any signs that the veteran deputy violated any policies.
Police investigate the scene of a shooting near the student union at Florida State University on April 17, 2025 in Tallahassee, Florida.
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In a statement to the Florida State University community, President Richard McCullough called the shooting a “tragic and senseless act of violence.”
FSU canceled classes and sporting events through the weekend, but said classes and business operations will resume Monday.
“Our hearts are heavy after the tragedy that took place April 17,” McCullough said in a statement Saturday. “We are grieving with the families and friends who lost someone they love. And we are with all those who were injured and are now recovering. This has shaken all of us, and I want you to know: We are here for you.”
The university said it was offering mental health support services and other counseling services for students and employees.
President Donald Trump said Thursday he has an “obligation to protect” the Second Amendment when asked by a reporter in the Oval Office if he sees anything “broken” with America’s current gun laws.
“Look, I’m a big advocate of the Second Amendment. I have been from the beginning. I protected it, and these things are terrible, but the gun doesn’t do the shooting. The people do. It’s a phrase that’s used probably too often,” Trump said.
“I will tell you that it’s a shame,” he said of the shooting.
ABC News’ Alex Faul, Faith Abubey and Fritz Farrow contributed to this report.
President Trump and his team are studying whether firing Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is an option, according to National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett.
Though appointed by the president and approved by Congress, the Federal Reserve chair is an independent role. Powell was nominated to lead the Fed by Mr. Trump in 2017 and was renominated to serve another 4-year term by President Joe Biden in November 2021. Powell’s term as Fed chair ends May 15, 2026.
“The President and his team will continue to study that matter,” Hassett said when asked during a press gaggle on Friday if removing Powell from his post was likely.
Mr. Trump on Thursday took aim at Powell in a social media post, writing that the Fed should be cutting interest rates, and adding that his “termination cannot come fast enough.”
In a speech delivered on Wednesday, Powell warned that the Trump administration’s trade war could result in a combination of higher inflation and slower growth. That economic mix describes stagflation — a mashup of “stagnation” and “inflation” that characterizes periods when economic growth falters while price hikes accelerate.
On Wednesday, Powell also reiterated that the central bank plans to hold interest rates steady for now, also sparking pushback from Mr. Trump.
“He’s too late. Always too late. A little slow and I’m not happy with him. I let him know it and — if I want him out, he’ll be out of there real fast, believe me,” Mr. Trump said Thursday at the White House.
Can Mr. Trump fire Powell?
A landmark ruling by the Supreme Court in 1935 affirmed Congress’ authority to create independent federal agencies whose board members could only be forced out before their terms expired “for cause.”
After Mr. Trump was elected in November, Powell said he wouldn’t step down if asked by the president, who has previously criticized his performance. Powell has also noted that presidents may not legally fire or demote the Fed chair.
But Mr. Trump this week fired two Democrats on the board of another financial regulator, the National Credit Union Administration, reported Reuters on Wednesday. And in March, the White House dismissed two Democratic members of the Federal Trade Commission, which historically has operated as an independent, bipartisan commission.
Even if Mr. Trump were able to remove Powell, it’s not clear that doing so would change the direction of the central bank’s decisions on interest rates. Those calls are made by the Federal Open Market Committee, or FOMC — a 12-member group tasked with setting monetary policy — and not at Powell’s discretion.
Who would replace Powell?
Fed governor Kevin Warsh, 55, is a former Morgan Stanley executive who was nominated to the Fed’s board of governors by President George W. Bush.
Mr. Trump is considering selecting Warsh as Powell’s replacement, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday. However, Warsh has advised Mr. Trump to allow Powell to remain through the end of his term, the publication added.
Widely respected, Warsh is considered to be even more hawkish — or willing to allow interest rates to remain high to control inflation — than Powell, according to a January blog post by Harvard economist Kenneth Rogoff.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced a temporary “Easter truce” in the three-year conflict in Ukraine that will last until midnight Sunday.
“On humanitarian grounds, today from 6 p.m. to midnight from Sunday to Monday, the Russian side announces an Easter truce,” Putin said in a televised statement released by the Kremlin. The statement has been translated. “For this period, I order to stop all fighting. We assume that the Ukrainian side will follow our example. At the same time, our troops should be prepared to reflect possible violations of the truce and provocations by the enemy, any aggressive actions.”
Putin first announced the ceasefire in a meeting with Chief of the General Staff Velary Gerasimov, the Kremlin Press Service said.
Russia’s Defense Ministry said in a translated statement that the ceasefire is imposed “for humanitarian purposes and will be observed by the Russian Unified Group of Troops (forces) provided that it is mutually respected by the Kiev regime.”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy criticized the announcement as “Putin’s next attempt to play with people’s lives,” saying an “air alert is now spreading across the territory of Ukraine” because of Russian drone strikes recorded in the sky at 5:15 local time.
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks with Russian Chief of General Staff Gen. Valery Gerasimov during their meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Saturday, April 19, 2025.
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“Ukrainian air defense and aviation have already started working to protect. ‘Shaheeds’ in our sky are Putin’s true attitude to Easter and to people’s lives,” Zelenskyy said.
“Shaheeds” may be a reference to Shahed drones, which have been extensively used by Russia during the war.
The Ukrainian leader did not confirm if he would observe the proposed truce.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiga said Ukraine was waiting for “actions, not words” from Putin.
“Putin has now made statements about his alleged readiness for a ceasefire,” Sybiga wrote on social media, adding: “We know his words cannot be trusted and we will look at actions, not words.”
Previous attempts at holding ceasefires for Easter in April 2022 and Orthodox Christmas in January 2023 were not implemented after both sides failed to agree on them. Ukraine last month agreed to President Trump’s proposal for a full and unconditional 30-day ceasefire, only for Putin to reject it.
Russia and Ukraine conduct prisoner exchange
Also Saturday, Russia and Ukraine conducted a prisoner swap that was mediated by the United Arab Emirates, Russian state news agency TASS reported.
Russia’s Ministry of Defense said 246 Russian service members were returned from territory controlled by Kyiv, and that as a “gesture of goodwill,” 31 wounded Ukrainian prisoners of war were transferred in exchange for 15 wounded Russian soldiers in need of urgent medical care.
Zelenskyy said 277 Ukrainian “warriors have returned home from Russian captivity.” He thanked the United Arab Emirates for mediating the exchange.
It was the largest exchange since Russia invaded Ukraine over three years ago.
Announcement follows frustration from Trump administration
The announcement came the day after U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said President Trump’s administration was ready to “move on” from peace talks between Russia and Ukraine if progress was not made in the coming days. Rubio made the comments in Paris, after landmark talks among U.S., Ukrainian and European officials.
“We are now reaching a point where we need to decide whether this is even possible or not,” Rubio told reporters while departing Paris. “Because if it’s not, then I think we’re just going to move on.”
“It’s not our war,” Rubio added. “We have other priorities to focus on.” He said the U.S. administration wants to decide “in a matter of days.” Another meeting is expected next week in London.
U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff (second from left), Secretary of State Marco Rubio (center), U.S. Special Envoy Keith Kellogg and Germany’s national security advisor Jens Ploetner (second from right) attend a meeting with French officials at the Elysee presidential palace in Paris, April 17, 2025.
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Later Friday, Mr. Trump echoed Rubio’s frustrations with the pace of the talks. When asked about Rubio’s comments on Friday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that “fairly complex” negotiations were ongoing between the U.S. and Russia, though he said no direct talks between Mr. Trump and Putin were scheduled for the coming days.
Fighting before ceasefire
Earlier Saturday, Russia’s Defense Ministry said its forces pushed Ukrainian forces from one of their last remaining footholds in Russia’s Kursk region. Russian forces took control of the village of Oleshnya, on the border with Ukraine, the ministry said. Gerasimov said Russian troops had retaken 99% of the territory seized by Ukraine.
“In the areas of the Kursk region where Ukraine armed force mounted an incursion, the main part of the territory… is now liberated. That’s 1,260 square kilometres, 99.5 percent,” Gerasimov told Putin.
The Associated Press was unable to immediately verify the claim. In the same statement where he reacted to the ceasefire, Zelenskyy said that Ukrainian forces “continued their activity” and are “maintaining their positions” in the Kursk region. He also said that military forces “advanced and increased our zone of control” in Belgorod, a Russian city about 24 miles from the Russia-Ukraine border.
According to TASS, Russia is still fighting to push Ukrainian forces out of the village of Gornal, some 7 miles south of Oleshnya.
“The Russian military has yet to push the Ukrainian armed forces out of Gornal … in order to completely liberate the Kursk region. Fierce fighting is underway in the settlement,” the agency reported, citing Russian security agencies.
In other developments, the Ukrainian air force reported that Russia fired 87 exploding drones and decoys in the latest wave of attacks overnight into Saturday. It said 33 of them were intercepted and another 36 were lost, likely having been electronically jammed.
Russian attacks damaged farms in the Odesa region and sparked fires in the Sumy region overnight, Ukraine’s State Emergency Service said Saturday. Fires were contained, and no casualties were reported.
Russia’s Ministry of Defense, meanwhile, said its air defense systems shot down two Ukrainian drones overnight into Saturday.
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French football is racing to find new broadcast arrangements owing to a bitter dispute with existing media partner DAZN, threatening more financial pain for clubs and undermining the standing of the country’s top-flight league.
UK-based DAZN has said it will not respect its five-year contract with Ligue 1, despite only being in the first year, because it is losing money and has failed to attract enough subscribers.
It also blames the clubs for depriving it of the access to players and games to make the subscription product attractive, as well as failing to combat piracy.
Mediation between the league and DAZN broke down last week.
Ligue 1, which is Europe’s fifth-biggest league in terms of club revenue, has been in almost permanent crisis since 2020 when its then broadcaster Mediapro went bust during the coronavirus pandemic.
The UK group had won the contract over French pay-TV operator Canal+, which was the league’s broadcaster for decades before being dumped for Mediapro.
Since then relations between the league, which is dominated by Paris Saint-Germain, and Canal+ have broken down with the channel filing a lawsuit for damages. Canal+ has repeatedly warned it has no intention of rescuing French football.
Club shareholders, football executives and a senior politician, who last year co-led a damning inquiry into the mismanagement of the league’s business model, have warned of grave consequences from a break-up with DAZN.
French senator Laurent Lafon told the Financial Times that Ligue de Football Professionnel, which operates the top two tiers of football, was on a “cliff edge” with smaller clubs at risk of going bust because of falling broadcast revenues. Some league executives fear DAZN will not pay up the remaining €140mn it owes for this season.
“It’s going to be a very, very difficult road ahead of the league,” Lafon said. “There are going to be few alternatives for a broadcast deal after DAZN.”
Private equity firm CVC is involved because in 2022 it invested €1.5bn in a commercial entity co-owned by the league that markets the broadcast rights globally. That entity recently hired a veteran French TV executive Nicolas de Tavernost to come in to fix the problems.
Canal+ boss Maxime Saada welcomed the hire in an interview this week with French newspaper L’Équipe.
“Having him at the negotiating table is a good way to make me reconsider the Ligue 1 issue. We can [have a] dialogue and I will do so. But that doesn’t mean that I will forget the damage committed against us in a previous contract,” he said.
One option is the launch of the league’s own channel with games distributed through online platforms and deals with broadcasters, say people familiar with the situation.
However, such a project would not solve the immediate cash crunch at some of the smaller clubs as it would require upfront capital investments.
François Godard, an analyst with Enders Analysis, added that starting a channel from scratch was risky.
“If the league wanted to launch their own channel, I think it’s a dead end. You’ll end up doing contracts with Canal+ and DAZN to distribute it, so it’s back to square one,” he said. “And it’s not a business you’re good at as a league.”
Others still hope to mend relations with Canal+, the people said.
“There is nothing desperate or destined to failure about this whole situation,” said a person involved with the league. “But it will take two years of pain to get the house of French football back in order.” The person added: “I think it is possible to mend things with Canal+.”
DAZN is majority-owned by Sir Leonard Blavatnik, one of the world’s richest men. The company has accumulated a range of sports rights and expanded into multiple countries, but its move into French football has disappointed.
The company, which sold a minority stake to an investment firm owned by Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund in February, will screen this summer’s Fifa Club World Cup.
DAZN declined to comment. Canal+ did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The league said a solution would be found and there would be no blackout of games next season.
The Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival kicked off its second weekend on Friday, April 18, with a more relaxed and toned-down version of last weekend’s Friday, with some similarities and differences.
Lady Gaga delivered the same campy but fancy theatrical performance in the opera-esque house, with gothic art-pop undertones and passionate backup dancers.
While the “Bad Romance” singer showcased her spectacular stage show, three reporters roamed the festival grounds. Here are a few of the other moments that caught their attention.
Marina delivered a dazzling and nostalgic performance on the Coachella Stage. She was the perfect act to catch for longtime fans and passersby alike.
She delivered on classic songs like “How to Be a Heartbreaker” and “Primadonna,” with her unmistakable, dramatic vocals. She also teased her sixth studio album, “Princess of Power,” long anticipated after her 2021 album “Ancient Dreams in a Modern Land.”
The Go-Go’s Belinda Carlisle told fans during their weekend two performance that some of the songs they were playing were probably written before most of them were born. But even if that was true, it didn’t seem to matter to the crowd, who embraced the iconic band as the all-female group took them to the early 1980s with an energetic and nostalgic performance Friday afternoon.
Carlisle, and fellow founding members Charlotte Caffey, Gina Schock, Kathy Valentine, and Jane Wiedlin performed a setlist full of their fun hits hits starting the set with “Vacation,” and following with tunes like “Our Lips Our Sealed” “Head Over Heals,” and of course “We Got The Beat.”
Saint Jhn, the Guyanese-American rapper, came out with an elaborate stage production that featured a red cross lying center stage in the Mojave tent that he walked back and forth on. His performance featured backup dancers and a groovy bassist, which added layers of excitement to the songs “Guyanese Moshpit,” “Best Part of Life,” and “Circles.”
LISA evoked every meaning of the term “popstar,” with elaborate outfit changes, tight choreography and a stunning stage performance. The Thai rapper and singer – notably known for her membership in K-pop girl group Blackpink– brought unmissable energy to the Sahara stage.
Yo Gabba Gabba was also spotted at the Do Lab ahead of their day two performance.
D4vd, the indie-alternative rocker, came out at the Gobi tent. After his opening song, “Take Me To The Sun,” he addressed the viral video of him after a backflip attempt. He told the crowd he’d try it again, but that he would need help from them to hype him up to land it. After a few songs, he did it, successfully redeeming himself from last week’s blunder. He even thanked Benson Boone after landing the flip.
Speaking of which, Benson Boone’s set was mostly the same, except instead of having Queen guitarist Brian May come out for a cover of the band’s iconic “Bohemian Rhapsody,“ Boone sang the cover with a cardboard cutout of the guitarist.
One of the most significant differences this weekend was at the Heineken House, where rapper Cordae took The Pharcyde’s headlining spot.
Before Cordae took the stage, DJ WattyJay warmed the crowd up with some mixes from Black Eyed Peas, Charli XCX and Frank Ocean. About 15 minutes into the set, Cordae performed some hyped hits, including “C Carter,” “Have Mercy,” and “Kung Fu.” He also performed “Doomsday,” a collaboration with Juice WRLD and Lyrical Lemonade, and “RNP” with Anderson. Paak but had WattyJay rap the parts of his collaborators.
The Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival kicked off its second weekend on Friday, April 18, with a more relaxed and toned-down version of last weekend’s Friday, with some similarities and differences.
Lady Gaga delivered the same campy but fancy theatrical performance in the opera-esque house, with gothic art-pop undertones and passionate backup dancers.
While the “Bad Romance” singer showcased her spectacular stage show, three reporters roamed the festival grounds. Here are a few of the other moments that caught their attention.
Marina delivered a dazzling and nostalgic performance on the Coachella Stage. She was the perfect act to catch for longtime fans and passersby alike.
She delivered on classic songs like “How to Be a Heartbreaker” and “Primadonna,” with her unmistakable, dramatic vocals. She also teased her sixth studio album, “Princess of Power,” long anticipated after her 2021 album “Ancient Dreams in a Modern Land.”
The Go-Go’s Belinda Carlisle told fans during their weekend two performance that some of the songs they were playing were probably written before most of them were born. But even if that was true, it didn’t seem to matter to the crowd, who embraced the iconic band as the all-female group took them to the early 1980s with an energetic and nostalgic performance Friday afternoon.
Carlisle, and fellow founding members Charlotte Caffey, Gina Schock, Kathy Valentine, and Jane Wiedlin performed a setlist full of their fun hits hits starting the set with “Vacation,” and following with tunes like “Our Lips Our Sealed” “Head Over Heals,” and of course “We Got The Beat.”
Saint Jhn, the Guyanese-American rapper, came out with an elaborate stage production that featured a red cross lying center stage in the Mojave tent that he walked back and forth on. His performance featured backup dancers and a groovy bassist, which added layers of excitement to the songs “Guyanese Moshpit,” “Best Part of Life,” and “Circles.”
LISA evoked every meaning of the term “popstar,” with elaborate outfit changes, tight choreography and a stunning stage performance. The Thai rapper and singer – notably known for her membership in K-pop girl group Blackpink– brought unmissable energy to the Sahara stage.
Yo Gabba Gabba was also spotted at the Do Lab ahead of their day two performance.
D4vd, the indie-alternative rocker, came out at the Gobi tent. After his opening song, “Take Me To The Sun,” he addressed the viral video of him after a backflip attempt. He told the crowd he’d try it again, but that he would need help from them to hype him up to land it. After a few songs, he did it, successfully redeeming himself from last week’s blunder. He even thanked Benson Boone after landing the flip.
Speaking of which, Benson Boone’s set was mostly the same, except instead of having Queen guitarist Brian May come out for a cover of the band’s iconic “Bohemian Rhapsody,“ Boone sang the cover with a cardboard cutout of the guitarist.
One of the most significant differences this weekend was at the Heineken House, where rapper Cordae took The Pharcyde’s headlining spot.
Before Cordae took the stage, DJ WattyJay warmed the crowd up with some mixes from Black Eyed Peas, Charli XCX and Frank Ocean. About 15 minutes into the set, Cordae performed some hyped hits, including “C Carter,” “Have Mercy,” and “Kung Fu.” He also performed “Doomsday,” a collaboration with Juice WRLD and Lyrical Lemonade, and “RNP” with Anderson. Paak but had WattyJay rap the parts of his collaborators.
The U.S. Supreme Court temporarily blocked the removal of Venezuelan detainees accused under a wartime law of being foreign gang members early Saturday morning, after the ACLU argued the men were at risk of imminent removal to an El Salvadoran prison.
“The Government is directed not to remove any member of the putative class of detainees from the United States until further order of this Court,” the court stated in an unsigned order.
Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito dissented.
The ACLU had asked multiple courts on Friday to temporarily halt the detainees’ removal — arguing in one filing that the Trump administration was busing many of them presumably to an airport to be deported.
In a Friday hearing, Drew C. Ensign, a lawyer for the U.S. Department of Justice, told U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg in Washington, D.C., that there were no current plans to deport individuals Friday or Saturday by plane presumably to El Salvador, but the Trump administration reserved the right to remove people on Saturday.
The ACLU asked the courts for an emergency order after Venezuelan detainees from across the country, including California, were transferred to the Bluebonnet Detention Facility in Anson, Texas, and, according to their filings, told they will be removed as soon as Friday night.
The Trump administration flew hundreds of Venezuelan immigrants deemed members of Tren de Aragua last month to El Salvador, where they are being held in a notorious mega-prison called the Terrorism Confinement Center. Families of many of the men sent to El Salvador on the earlier planes say they are not gang members.
The deportations kicked off a high-stakes legal battle testing the limits of President Trump’s deportation plans and his power.
The Supreme Court ruled earlier this month that the wartime authority invoked by the administrationcould resume, but immigrants must be given proper notice and a chance to make their case in places where they were being detained.
Boasberg, who had heard the earlier case about the administration’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act, had ordered a temporary halt to removals. But despite the order, deportation planes were sent to El Salvador, where more than 200 people remain in prison.
The Trump administration has said that once individuals are outside of U.S. jurisdiction, there is little they can do to bring them back to the United States.
“If these people are removed to a foreign prison, perhaps for the rest of their lives, without any due process, it would be in clear violation of the Supreme Court’s opinion,” Lee Gelerent, ACLU attorney leading the case, told the Times Friday.
The case began in a Texas federal court earlier in the week, when the ACLU asked Judge Wesley Hendrix to temporarily stop any removal on behalf of two individuals because they didn’t have a chance to challenge their cases.
Hendrix denied the request. By Friday, lawyers learned of more individuals being held and asked again, after reports circulated that removals were imminent. When lawyers didn’t get a response that afternoon, they sought help from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th District and asked the Supreme Court to step in.
ACLU lawyers argued that the move was necessary because officials at Bluebonnet told detainees they will be deported and asked them to sign notices of removal in English based on their alleged affiliation with Tren de Aragua.
One man at the facility sent his wife a TikTok video depicting various detainees, according to a declaration submitted by ACLU lawyers from Michelle Brané, executive director of a nonprofit that provides services for asylum seekers. In it, one young man says they are all being labeled as members of Tren de Aragua. They aren’t allowed to call their families, and the detainees don’t know where they will be removed to, he says in the video.
“They’re saying we have to be removed, quickly, because we are a terrorist threat to the country,” he says.
Another detainee says they were given a paper to sign but were told that, whether they signed or not, they would be removed from the country.
A third detainee says, “We are not members of Tren de Aragua. We are normal, civil people.” A fourth says, “I don’t have a deportation order. I have all my paperwork in order. I have my American children here,” he says. “I was arrested with no arrest warrant and they want me deported.”
Instead of hanging 10, some surfers in Newport Beach had to cut and run after they were accosted by an aggressive sea lion.
The sea lion chased the beachgoers out of the water and onto shore, FOX 11 L.A. reported Thursday. The animal was most likely suffering from the effects of domoic acid poisoning, the station reported.
Domoic acid is a neurotoxin produced by harmful algal blooms that accumulates in filter-feeding fish — including anchovies and sardines — which are then eaten by seals, sea lions and dolphins.
Sea lions have a 50% to 65% survival rate when they’re taken in for treatment in a timely manner, experts say. However, doing so can be difficult, as an adult female can weigh up to 250 pounds and an adult male up to 1,000 pounds, requiring several people to move each animal.
A domoic acid event occurred two years ago in California, resulting in the deaths of more than 1,000 sea lions.
The Marine Mammal Care Center in San Pedro has taken in more than 100 sickened sea lions, according to the organization. Dolphins also suffer from the effects of the poison but tend to get stranded on the beaches and almost always die.
Domoic acid blooms usually happen every three to seven years. However, they are getting worse over time due to human activity and climate change, which has resulted in warmer ocean temperatures.
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