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By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer LONDON — Coco Gauff and Carlos Alcaraz are helping usher in a new era for tennis. With Wimbledon beginning Monday, the sport’s most recent Grand Slam champions are Gauff, a 21-year-old American, and Alcaraz, a 22-year-old Spaniard, who are both at No. 2 in the rankings and are both coming off French Open titles secured in riveting finals against the sport’s No. 1 players. They are young, they are as charismatic as can be on the court and they are media-friendly off it. Gauff-Sabalenka, Alcaraz-Sinner give tennis rivalries as Wimbledon arrives Along with No.…

By ANNIE MA, AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — In parts of rural upstate New York, schools have more than 1,100 students for every mental health provider. In a far-flung region with little public transportation, those few school counselors often are the only mental health professionals available to students. Hennessey Lustica has been overseeing grant-funded efforts to train and hire more school psychologists, counselors and social workers in the Finger Lakes region, but those efforts may soon come to end — a casualty of the Trump administration’s decision to cancel school mental health grants around the country. “Cutting this funding…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER, AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — A key inflation gauge moved higher in May in the latest sign that prices remain stubbornly elevated while Americans also cut back on their spending last month. Prices rose 2.3% in May compared with a year ago, up from just 2.1% in April, the Commerce Department said Friday. Excluding the volatile food and energy categories, core prices rose 2.7% from a year earlier, an increase from 2.6% the previous month. Both figures are modestly above the Federal Reserve’s 2% target. The Fed tracks core inflation because it typically provides a better guide…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Friday put off ruling on a second Black majority congressional district in Louisiana, instead ordering new arguments in the fall. The case is being closely watched because at arguments in March several of the court’s conservative justices suggested they could vote to throw out the map and make it harder, if not impossible, to bring redistricting lawsuits under the Voting Rights Act. The case involves the interplay between race and politics in drawing political boundaries in front of a conservative-led court that has been skeptical of considerations of race in public life. Justice…

By BRIAN MAHONEY AP Basketball Writer NEW YORK — Johni Broome is like most basketball players, dreaming of being drafted as a kid and then working hard enough to make it possible. So the fact that it didn’t happen until the second round and a second day wasn’t going to dampen his enthusiasm. The Auburn All-American was taken by the Philadelphia 76ers with the No. 35 selection on Thursday night, five picks into the second round. “Being here, this is probably the most exciting moment of my life so far,” Broome said. “As a kid you always want to be drafted,…

Q: Is homeowner open forum a requirement in California or just handy for everyone involved? Or, should I speak with each board member individually to ask for that time in the monthly board meetings? Or, is that only an agenda item at the yearly membership meeting? — S.L., El Centro. A: An open forum opportunity is required by Civil Code Section 4925 in all open board meetings and in membership meetings. This is mandatory. The board “shall” establish a reasonable time limit for members to speak. A common limit is 3 minutes per speaker, with many boards allocating up to…

By MARK SHERMAN WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court ruled on Friday that Maryland parents who have religious objections can pull their children from public school lessons using LGBTQ storybooks. The justices reversed lower-court rulings in favor of the Montgomery County school system in suburban Washington. The high court ruled that the schools likely could not require elementary school children to sit through lessons involving the books if parents expressed religious objections to the material. The decision was not a final ruling in the case, but the justices strongly suggested that the parents will win in the end. The court ruled that policies like…

By W.G. RAMIREZ The Associated Press LAS VEGAS — Former featherweight champion Ilia Topuria will enter the octagon for potentially the biggest fight of his career on Saturday night, when he faces former lightweight titleholder Charles Oliveira for the vacant UFC lightweight championship. Just don’t tell him that. “I don’t know what to tell you, it feels exactly the same to be honest,” Topuria said with a coy smile during Wednesday’s media availability. Topuria (16-0) moves up to the 155-pound weight class for UFC 317 following a successful 2024 at featherweight. He claimed that belt with a second-round knockout of…

It will come as no surprise that Los Angeles hotel owners, faced with the prospect of an insanely high $30 minimum hourly wage for their workers — as passed by the L.A. City Council and signed into law by Mayor Karen Bass — are both cutting back their staffing and, as Inc. magazine reports, delaying “costly but necessary renovation work.” And thus, as anyone who has ever been to a hotel realizes, the quality of the guest experience will go down, and, well, fewer people will stay in Los Angeles hotels. This economic blow to hoteliers comes at a time…

By DAMIAN J. TROISE, AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks rose in morning trading Friday and put Wall Street on track to close a strong week at an all-time high. The S&P 500 rose 0.5% early Friday and is on track to surpass its record set in February. The Nasdaq composite rose 0.5% and is also on track for a record. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.6%, or 273 points, to 43,657 as of 9:58 a.m. Eastern. A record for the S&P 500 would mark a sharp turnaround from just three months ago, when the key measure…