UConn, South Carolina, coaches slated for rematch in November

Coaches Geno Auriemma of UConn and Dawn Staley of South Carolina will be on opposing benches just seven months after their fiery exchange at the end of their Final Four game in April.

The Huskies and Gamecocks will play as part of a doubleheader at the annual Basketball Hall of Fame Women's Showcase on Nov. 24 at Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Conn.

UCLA, which defeated South Carolina 79-51 for the program's first NCAA national championship last month, will face St. John's in the other game as the 13th annual event was altered from two days to one.

The Gamecocks had defeated the Huskies 62-48 on April 3 in Phoenix, earning a spot in the national final against UCLA and ending UConn's perfect season and 54-game win streak.

As the final seconds ticked down, the two head coaches walked toward each other as though they were about to shake hands.

However, Auriemma didn't put forward his hand, instead making a comment to Staley, who reacted angrily, and the two had to be separated. Auriemma was led away, but he soon came back past Staley, who continued to shout at him.

In his postgame interview, Auriemma complained about the Gamecocks' physical play, adding, "Their coach rants and raves on the sideline and calls the referees some names you don't wanna hear."

His initial apology the next day didn't mention Staley by name. Several days later, Auriemma apologized again, singling out Staley and saying he spoke with her about the incident. Staley issued a statement, saying she had moved on from the dispute.

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"With the college women's basketball season behind us, it's time to move forward and close the chapter on how our semifinal game with UConn ended," Staley wrote in her statement. "I spoke with Geno and I want to be clear -- I have a great deal of respect for him and what he's meant to the game. One moment doesn't define a career and it doesn't change the impact he's had on growing women's basketball."

Earlier this month, Auriemma said of his actions following the loss, "When I walked into the locker room afterward with the coaches, you are just shaking your head, thinking five more seconds, you couldn't keep it in for five more seconds. ... We are all human, and we all do dumb (stuff)."

South Carolina and UConn will meet in the regular season for the first time since Feb. 16, 2025, when the Huskies' ended the Gamecocks' 71-game home winning streak with an 87-58 rout. South Carolina was the defending national champion, and UConn went on to win the title that season in a rematch 82-59.

The Huskies lead the all-time series 11-6.

"It's always great to be back at an event tied to the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame because we know it will be a great experience for teams and fans from start to finish," Staley said in the event's news release on Tuesday. "The organizers do a great job of creating elite matchups and an amazing environment at Mohegan Sun."

UConn won last year's Hall of Fame Showcase, beating Michigan 72-69 and Utah 93-41 over two days.

"The Basketball Hall of Fame Women's Showcase is an event we're excited to participate in each season," Auriemma said in the release. "It featured some of the top nonconference games and has become a great stage for women's basketball. Fans will once again get to see some great basketball at Mohegan Sun."

UCLA is 3-0 against St. John's, with the last meeting in November 2021. The Bruins graduated their top six players, and all were selected in the WNBA draft.

--Field Level Media

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Tiger Woods’ lawyer and prosecutors are set to argue over prescription records in Florida DUI case

STUART, Fla. (AP) —Tiger Woods' attorney and prosecutors are set to argue Tuesday about whether the golfer's prescription drug records should be handed over to the state following hisMarch arrest in Floridaon suspicion of driving under the influence.

A hearing is scheduled for Tuesday morning in Martin County circuit court, just north of Palm Beach County. Prosecutors haveissued a subpoenaseeking copies of all prescription medication records for the legendary golfer at a Palm Beach pharmacy from the start of the year through the end of March. Defense attorney Doug Duncan said in a court filing last month that Woods has a constitutional right to privacy when it comes to his prescription medications.

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If the judge determines the drug records are necessary, Duncan has also asked for a protective order limiting their release only to prosecutors, law enforcement officers, state experts and Woods' defense team.

Woods has pleaded not guilty todriving under the influence. A sheriff’s office report said deputies found two pain pills in his pocket, and he showed signs of impairment after his SUV clipped a truck's trailer and rolled onto its side.

Woods was traveling at high speeds on a beachside, residential road on Jupiter Island with a 30 mph (nearly 50 kph) speed limit when his Land Rover caused $5,000 in damage to the truck, according to an incident report. Woods agreed to a Breathalyzer test that showed no signs of alcohol, but refused a urine test, authorities said.

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Trump promised to hold 30,000 migrants at Guantanamo. It's mostly empty.

Just eight days after returning to the White House last year, President Trumpannouncedplans to turn the U.S. military base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, into a massive detention center to hold 30,000 detainees facing deportation as part of his aggressive crackdown on illegal immigration.

But a CBS News review of internal government documents and information provided to Congress shows the detention facilities at Guantanamo Bay are sitting mostly empty over a year later, even though the highly publicized operation is projected to cost the American military over $70 million.

On May 11, the U.S. government was holding just six immigration detainees at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, all of them nationals of Haiti, according to federal documents obtained by CBS News. Over the past year, the documents show, 832 immigration detainees have been transferred to the base on more than 100flights.

In fact, there are significantly more government employees assigned to the immigration detention operation at Guantanamo than detainees, according to the documents. This week, government employees outnumbered detainees roughly 100 to 1.

Figures provided to Congress indicate the Department of Defense has 522 personnel to assist with immigration detention at Guantanamo. The internal federal documents show there are around 60 U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and non-military staff assigned to the mission, too.

Information provided by the Department of Defense to Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren in April also shows the Guantanamo immigration detention effort is expected to cost $73 million, just for the U.S. military. That is an increase from the previously publicly reported estimate of $40 million.

Mr. Trump said in January 2025 that officials would set up 30,000 detention beds at Guantanamo. But the internal federal documents indicate the base's capacity to hold immigration detainees is limited to roughly 400 beds. On May 11, fewer than 2% of the beds were occupied.

Together with the numbers provided to Congress, the documents shed light on the status of the controversial and largely secretive effort to hold civil immigration detainees at Guantanamo, where the indefinite detention of post-9/11 terrorism suspects gained infamy over allegations of abuse, due process violations and torture.

In a statement to CBS News, Warren, who received the projected cost for the Guantanamo operation, accused President Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth of "wasting billions in taxpayer funds on a cruel immigration agenda."

CBS News has reached out to the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security for comment, including on whether the Trump administration plans to continue the operation to hold immigrant detainees at the naval base.

"Political theater"

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Publicly, the Trump administration has released scant details about its operation to hold those awaiting deportation at the Guantanamo base, which sits on Cuban land that the U.S. has long argued is being leased. The Cuban government alleges the arrangement is illegal.

Before the second Trump administration, the U.S. government, under Republican and Democratic presidents, used Guantanamo to house some migrants intercepted at sea, including tens of thousands of Haitians during the Clinton administration.

But in February 2025, officials begansending groupsofdetaineesarrested by ICE in the U.S. to Guantanamo, so they could be held there pending their deportation. Initially, Mr. Trump and his top aides vowed to send the "worst" detainees and "high-priority criminal aliens" to Guantanamo. But subsequent reporting found that was not entirely accurate.

Soon after the effort started, CBS NewsrevealedGuantanamo was being used to hold both migrants with alleged gang or criminal histories, and detainees categorized as "low-risk" because they lacked serious criminal records — or any at all. Then, in April 2025, CBS News disclosed that theinternal government memogoverning the operation gave officials wide-ranging discretion to decide who to send to Guantanamo, including the ability to transfer non-criminal detainees there.

Officials have been housing the detainees considered to be "low-risk" at the Migration Operations Center, a barrack-like facility that had previously held asylum-seekers intercepted at sea. Meanwhile, those deemed to be "high-risk" immigration detainees have been detained at Camp VI, a section of the post-9/11 prison complex that still holds some terrorism suspects.

The legality of detaining civil immigration detainees at Guantanamo is still being litigated. In December, a federal judge in Washington, D.C., found ina preliminary rulingthat the immigration detention effort at Guantanamo was "impermissibly punitive" and likely unlawful, but stopped short of blocking the operation.

Lee Gelernt, the American Civil Liberties Union lawyer who filed the lawsuit, said "the use of Guantanamo is nothing more than political theater like so many other administration policies."

"Not only is the Trump administration's use of Guantanamo unprecedented and illegal, but it serves no legitimate policy goal given the financial and logistical burdens of using this notorious military base for immigration purposes," Gelernt said.

Theresa Cardinal Brown, a former DHS immigration official under presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, said the Trump administration set up Guantanamo and other controversial facilities, such as "Alligator Alcatraz" in Florida, to push people in the U.S. illegallyto self-deportand deter others from entering the country unlawfully.

Cardinal Brown said Guantanamo's deterrence effect is difficult to measure, beyond the low levels of illegal crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border. But she said it's clear the operation has been costly.

"Everything has to be shipped in there, right? It's not like we're importing things from Cuba," Cardinal Brown said. "Everything has to come from a U.S. source to that military installation. It's going to be much, much more expensive."

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Weightlifter Aaron Williams reflects on meeting with Chiefs Coach

This week, Chiefs Wire's Ed Easton Jr. spoke with Team USA Weightlifter Aaron Williams.

In his interview with Easton Jr., Williams discusses his recent offseason workout withKansas City Chiefslinebacker Jack Cochrane at USA Weightlifting's National Team Camp at the Olympic and Paralympic Training Center in Colorado Springs. He also reflected on meeting the Chiefs' head strength and conditioning coach/director of sports science, Ryan Reynolds, and his favorite NFL team.

"Ryan (Reynolds) was awesome. He was there, of course, and he had a blast. He was willing to let us give him some pointers here and there. " He's also very receptive," said Williams. "It shows that whenever you have a successful program, everyone tends to take in information rather than block it out and go with what they know." So it was really cool to see, also at the very high level of the NFL, that even your strength coaches are willing to take in information and then maybe even use it later on down the road for other athletes as well."

Reynolds watched Cochrane during his weightlifting workout, and is entering his 11th NFL season with the Chiefs. Williams opened up about his love for football growing up, including his favorite NFL team.

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"It's going to sound a little cheesy, but I grew up in Germany, and the only reason that I actually wanted to play football is because my dad played football, so he would be the reason that I really wanted to play football, and then he's a Dallas Cowboys fan," said Williams, "I was a Pittsburgh Steelers fan, so I don't know where we went wrong. He thought he was raising a Cowboys fan, but that was my favorite team to watch whenever I was playing football."

The USA Weightlifting Athlete Identification & Recruitment Initiative is not grassroots development and is not intended for mass participation. Its purpose is to support the high-performance pipeline by identifying outlier athletes—often nearing the end of high school or collegiate eligibility—who may be capable of transitioning into weightlifting and becoming difference-makers at the highest level of the sport.

For more information, visit the USA WeightliftingAthlete Identification & Recruitment Initiativeand learn more about Williams on hisWeightlifting profile.

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Donald Trump Addresses Possibility Of Barron Trump Entering Politics In The Most Trumpian Way

Donald Trump left the door open to his youngest son, Barron Trump, entering politics.

But the president sidestepped making a direct prediction and instead made a boast.

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In an interview with “Full Measure” host Sharyl Attkisson, shared online Sunday, the president was asked: “Do you see your son Barron going into politics someday?”

“Well, maybe, he’s certainly a popular guy,” replied Trump.

Then he hyped up other family members, and by extension himself, when he added: “But I have a lot of members of my family that are very popular, you know?”

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The president then concluded: “I have good kids, I have very good kids.”

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Barron Trump turned 20 in March. He is currently studying business at New York University’s Washington, D.C., campus.

He has largely stayed out of the political limelight but has reportedly taken a more prominent behind-the-scenes role in recent years, includingadvising his father on which “macho bro” podcaststo appear on in the run-up to the 2024 election in a bid to boost his popularity with young men.

Two of Barron’s older siblings, Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump Jr., have previously been floated for political roles.

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Lafayette-area baseball 2026 season comes to bitter end with no trips to Sulphur

This past weekend, the 2026high school baseballseason in the 337 came to an end.

Twenty-nine teams hailing fromLafayette Parishand its surrounding areas earned a spot in the LHSAA Baseball State Tournament, and all 29 have been eliminated before the coveted trip to Sulphur. Last year, the area was home to three state championship teams. That trend won’t continue this year.

A handful of teams came close seeing their postseason journey end in the semifinal and finals round of their respective brackets. In Non-Select, Rayne was the last standing area-teams with the Wolves falling to Lutcher 2-1 in the Division II semifinals series. This was the second deepest playoff run for the Wolves in over a decade since securing their state championship back in 1993. Delcambre, Erath, and Iota saw their seasons end in the quarterfinals of the Division IV and II brackets, respectively.

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Over in the Select brackets, Teurlings Catholic, Catholic-N.I., St. Thomas More, Acadiana Renaissance Charter, St. Edmund and Ascension Episcopal were the last standing area teams. The Rebels and Panthers were on the hunt for back-to-back state titles in Division II and Division III, but both lost their semifinals series 2-1.

The Cougars and Eagles also fell short in Division I and Division II semifinals, respectively, with STM losing to Brother Martin 2-1 and ARCA losing to Vandebilt Catholic 2-1. For the Eagles, their postseason run was one for the history books as they made their first semifinals appearance in progam history.

In the Class C bracket, Northside Christian was the last standing area team. The Warriors ended their season in the quarterfinals round with a 10-2 loss to Maurepas.

Shannon Belt covers high school sports and the Louisiana Ragin’ Cajuns for The Daily Advertiser as part of the USA TODAY Network. Follow her high school and Cajuns coverage on X, formerly known as Twitter: @ShannonBelt3. Got questions regarding HS/UL athletics? Send them to Shannon Belt at sbelt@gannett.com.

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SYDNEY, May 12 (Reuters) - Australia's centre-left Labor government has rolled out the biggest changes to investment taxes this century to help young people break into the housing market, along with cost-of-living relief to cushion the fallout from the Iran war.

Treasurer Jim Chalmers on Tuesday called his fifth ‌budget the most "important and ambitious" in decades, as a landslide election victory last year allowed the government to address the politically thorny problem of intergenerational inequity.

"I acknowledge ‌this is a controversial change, I acknowledge this is a government coming into a different view to the view we held 12 months ago," said Chalmers in a press conference.

"The main change in our thinking is the view that ​we cannot let the intersection of the housing market and the tax system continue to lock out so many people from getting a toehold in the housing market, particularly the young people."

The centre piece are proposals limiting capital gains tax discounts and negative gearing on assets, policies that have long been criticised for skewing home ownership towards older, wealthier investors and away from first-home buyers.

From 1 July 2027, the government plans to scrap the 50% capital gains tax (CGT) discount on assets held for more than a year, a benefit begun in 1999 that coincided with a sharp and lasting ‌acceleration in house price growth.

Instead, the CGT will return to the ⁠pre-1999 policy of taxing inflation-indexed gains, with a 30% minimum tax on net capital gains. It will apply to all assets including housing.

Negative gearing, which allows investment losses to be offset against taxable income, will be limited to newly built homes to support new housing supply.

There will also be ⁠a new tax cut for working Australians through a A$250 ($180.88) tax offset, as well as a new A$1,000 instant tax deduction. That is on top of already legislated tax cuts set to deliver up to A$536 in annual savings for taxpayers.

Ratings Agency S&P said in a note after the budget announcement that, since the new housing tax rules are not retroactive, there should be minimal effect on house prices ​and ​rents.

Here are the key highlights of the budget:

BUDGET BOTTOM LINE IMPROVES

The government said the investment tax reforms will ​save over A$3.5 billion over the next four years, with most savings ‌coming in later years.

They will be dwarfed by massive savings from an overhaul of its disability welfare programme - worth more than A$35 billion over the next four years - as well as higher commodity prices from the Iran war and elevated inflation.

Overall, the budget deficit is projected to be A$45 billion lower over the next four years, part of an effort to fight inflationary pressure caused by spiking oil prices.

The Reserve Bank of Australia has already lifted interest rates three times this year to head off the war-driven energy shock, fully reversing the policy easing from last year.

The budget deficit for the current 2025/26 financial year is expected to come in at A$28.3 billion, narrower than the $A36.8 billion tipped in December. This is projected to widen again slightly ‌to A$31.5 billion in the 2026/27 year.

Inflation is forecast to hit 5% by June as the Middle ​East conflict drives up energy costs, way above the central bank's target band of 2% to 3%. That will ​keep the RBA wary, raising the risk interest rates will stay high for longer.

Markets ​are wagering there is an 18% probability that the RBA will have to raise rates a fourth time in June, while a move by ‌September has been fully priced in.

"New fiscal spending could boost aggregate demand, ​complicating the job of the central bank," S&P said ​in its note.

Higher interest rates are expected to weigh on the economy, with the budget projecting growth slowing to a sub par rate of 1.75% next financial year. The unemployment rate, which has held low at 4.3%, is seen drifting up to 4.5%.

Treasury also studied a more severe scenario where the oil price peaks at $200 and takes ​three years to fall back.

"We would still avoid a recession, but ‌unemployment would spike to pre-pandemic levels and inflation would peak above 7%," said Chalmers. "Australians have been paying a hefty price for this war, at the bowser ​and beyond."

A A$14.8 billion "fuel security and price relief package" was also announced which the government said would to help boost fuel supply and aid households and ​businesses impacted by surging energy costs.

(Reporting by Stella Qiu; Editing by Sam Holmes and Andrew Heavens)

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