By Dana O’Neil, CNN

Newtown Square, Pennsylvania (CNN) — Doug Siberski grew up on Boulder Creek Lane, in a house his father designed and had built back in 1961. Stanley Siberski was a dentist – for some time the only one in Newtown Square – who loved to serenade his patients with country songs. He was especially partial to Loretta Lynn and Conway Twitty.

Like Stanley, his house is decidedly quirky, and as the decades have passed and Newtown Square has risen in its socioeconomic status, it stands out even more among the traditional homes along the street. Doug moved into the house after Stanley and Doug’s mom Regina passed away, determined to keep it in the family. He’s even kept some neighbors at bay, who have promised him a song if he wants to sell the property.

Because like any good piece of real estate, Doug’s house is all about location, location, location: The backyard shares a border with the fairway on the first hole of Aronomink Golf Club.

Especially this week, there is no sweeter place to live than the club, which hosts the PGA Championship.

Siberski and his fellow enterprising folks along Boulder Creek have turned their backyards into private viewing parties. At the suggestion of Jai Biljani, they went in and rented platforms and scaffolding that rise above the eight-foot fence erected by the PGA, giving them an unimpeded view of the entirety of the first hole and clear across the course.

“The last time this event was here, it was 1962,” Siberski said. “My sister was one. And now we’ll all be here today, watching it again.”

Doug’s yard stretches long enough that he’s got a double-vantage point. At one end, he put actual construction scaffolding – think yellow paint, straight out of Home Depot – and built some makeshift steps, laying a piece of plywood to access them. “I have to keep it a little redneck,’’ he said with a laugh.

He plopped an American flag at the end, so people could find it, nestled among the trees. That offers a nice shaded view of the tee and fairway.

But ever ingenious, the family also made it possible to get eyeballs on the green as well. Doug’s nephew, Pat Corcoran, stood atop a ladder and watched the golf.

“It probably came with the house,” Corcoran said when asked about the ladder’s age.

Next to him, his buddy Joe Spence and two of Siberski’s business partners, Theresa Supe and Dietmar Freyhammer, hopped in the bed of a Dodge Ram 2500 truck, perfectly backed up to the fence. Supe, from Germany, and Freyhammer, from Austria, purposely picked this week for “business,’’ knowing they’d get to watch some golf.

“I’m more of a golf addict than him,” Freyhammer said.

Doug hilariously isn’t even a member at Aronomink and says he’s a golfer in the sense that “I beat a ball around the course. I have a 12 handicap, which means I bring 12 balls and lose them all.”

But he loves a good party, and happily joined in. “I thought, ‘Why not?’’ he said. “Sounded like fun.”

His neighbors, Jim and Eileen Hageney, are longtime Aronomink members (their daughter, Claire, is getting married there in August), but only just bought their house on Boulder Creek Lane in the past year and aren’t even living in it. Upon purchase, they took upon a full renovation. There’s still no running water and workers were crawling about the place on Friday morning. Some, who are working on rebuilding the chimney, used the actual work scaffolding to pause and catch some golf, too.

As members, they’ll actually go onto the course and watch from areas reserved for Aronomink members but even that exclusive perch doesn’t beat the privacy of their own backyard. They were all too happy to go in on the platforms, joining with three other families for the rentals that ran about $2,000.

Theirs is slightly fancier than Doug’s, with handrails up the sides and stairs. They

By Patrick Svitek, CNN

(CNN) — President Donald Trump’s drive for political revenge faces a key test Saturday in Louisiana, where he is looking to defeat Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy five years after Cassidy voted to convict him in his second impeachment.

Trump has backed Rep. Julia Letlow against Cassidy, though a second challenger — Louisiana State Treasurer John Fleming — has run a spirited race and made it likely that no candidate receives a majority of the vote, which would trigger a June 27 runoff.

It is a crucial time for Trump’s ability to show he can unseat fellow Republicans who cross him. The Louisiana election comes three days before Trump hopes to beat Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie in his primary, a race that has drawn more attention.

Trump reiterated his endorsement of Letlow in a social media post Friday, saying he has “seen her tested at the highest and most difficult levels, and she is a TOTAL WINNER!”

Cassidy is one of the few Republicans left in Congress who voted to convict Trump over his role in the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol. He represents a solidly red state that backed Trump by 22 percentage points in 2024.

More recently, Cassidy – a physician – has had tension with Trump as chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee. While Cassidy voted to confirm Trump’s health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., he has split with the administration on other parts of its “Make America Healthy Again” agenda.

Last month, after Trump had to pull his nominee for surgeon general, Casey Means, the president blamed Cassidy and called him “very disloyal.”

On the campaign trail, Cassidy has sought to portray the race as about “the present and the future” and has boasted about having a good working relationship with Trump despite the impeachment vote.

“I’m not claiming the president loves me — no — but you can work with people even if you don’t love each other if you’ve got a common goal,” Cassidy said Friday on CNN’s “Situation Room.” “And my goal is to make my country and my state — and everybody who lives here — better off.”

Cassidy has long had a large financial advantage in the primary and used it to almost exclusively attack Letlow, saying the race is hers to lose. He has focused on her background in higher education and past efforts to promote diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives that are now toxic in the GOP.

Yet in the final days of the primary, his two challengers have been battling one another.

Fleming, a former congressman who has been involved in Louisiana politics for decades, has sought to portray himself as more aligned with Trump than Letlow, especially after working in the White House during Trump’s first term.

Letlow’s campaign has labeled Fleming a “Never Trumper” and, along with an outside group, targeted him on a range of other issues, including his work as a lobbyist before he became state treasurer.

Cassidy has been endorsed by Senate GOP leaders, as is custom for incumbents, though national Republicans have otherwise kept their distance from the primary. Not only is Trump backing Letlow, but so is the state’s Republican governor, Jeff Landry.

The election is occurring under new and unusual circumstances. Landry recently postponed House primaries – but kept the Senate primary scheduled for Saturday – in response to a Supreme Court ruling on redistricting. The election also is the first under a new closed primary system where unaffiliated voters – a key bloc f

Por René Marsh y Audrey Ash, CNN

Una propuesta abandonada hacía mucho tiempo en el Departamento de Seguridad Nacional —tan ambiciosa que la agencia nunca la había llevado a cabo— fue reactivada bajo el liderazgo de la entonces secretaria Kristi Noem.

Los funcionarios invirtieron decenas de millones de dólares de los contribuyentes para que el departamento adquiriera su propia flota de aeronaves y comenzaron a sentar las bases para dejar de depender de las compañías chárter para los vuelos de deportación, como lo habían hecho durante décadas.

En última instancia, planeaban crear su propia mini aerolínea para ayudar a cumplir el objetivo del presidente Donald Trump de deportar a un millón de inmigrantes indocumentados al año.

Ahora, el Departamento de Seguridad Nacional (DHS) ha comunicado en exclusiva a CNN que planea comenzar a utilizar los aviones para vuelos de deportación próximamente, contratando a empresas externas para su operación, luego de que el nuevo secretario de Seguridad Nacional, Markwayne Mullin, reevaluara el plan.

Mullin, quien reemplazó a Noem en marzo, había llevado a cabo una revisión exhaustiva de los contratos firmados durante su mandato.

“Prevemos que podremos integrar estos aviones en nuestros esfuerzos de deportación en las próximas semanas”, declaró un portavoz del DHS en un comunicado.

Bajo la dirección de Noem, los funcionarios del DHS argumentaron que la medida ahorraría a los contribuyentes US$ 280 millones, en parte al permitir que el departamento utilizara rutas más eficientes, aunque no especificaron un plazo para esos ahorros.

Sin embargo, algunos funcionarios actuales y anteriores del DHS, así como fuentes de la industria aeronáutica, cuestionan la viabilidad a largo plazo de esta iniciativa sin precedentes y la consecución de los ahorros prometidos.

Algunos críticos señalan datos del sector que sugieren que el departamento podría haber pagado más del valor de mercado por al menos algunos de los aviones.

“Es difícil ver esto como otra cosa que un despilfarro de dinero público”, declaró a CNN un ejecutivo de la industria de la aviación.

Según los registros, el Departamento de Seguridad Nacional (DHS) adquirió 10 aviones entre enero y marzo de este año.

Desde entonces, la flota ha permanecido prácticamente inactiva —en algunos casos, durante meses— en un centro de mantenimiento en Louisiana, según una fuente con conocimiento del asunto y datos públicos de seguimiento de vuelos.

Si bien algunos de los aviones se utilizaron para vuelos de evacuación en los primeros días de la guerra de Irán, ninguno se ha utilizado para deportaciones.

William Walters, CEO de Daedalus Aviation, la empresa que proveyó los aviones al DHS, declaró a CNN que se vendieron a precio de coste más gastos generales, incluido el importe de adaptar los aviones de pasajeros para fines de inmigración.

Walters y el Departamento de Seguridad Nacional se negaron a proporcionar un desglose de los costos de los aviones.

El portavoz del DHS afirmó que los aviones proporcionarán un “apoyo vital” a la aplicación de las leyes de inmigración, pero que “cualquier decisión relacionada con la compra de estos aviones se tomó antes del cambio en la dirección del DHS”.

El departamento añadió que, si bien Mullin y su equipo trabajaron con el Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas para “evaluar el plan operativo para la utilización de estas aeronaves”, los aviones han estado “sometidos a mantenimiento y controles de seguridad, así como a cualquier modificación necesaria para satisfacer las necesidades de la misión de deportación”.

“El secretario Mullin está totalmente centrado en garantizar que se satisfagan las necesidades de nuestro Departamento, al tiempo que administra de la mejor manera posible el dinero de los contribuyentes”, declaró el DHS en otro comunicado a CNN.

By Emma Tucker, CNN

(CNN) — “Why would you be sorry? Why would you be sorry, Patience?”

Patience Rousseau, then 26, was shivering on the doorstep of the house she was living in with her two children as the sheriff’s deputy repeated her question.

The Humboldt County, Nevada, sheriff’s deputy was questioning Rousseau about a Facebook post she had made a few weeks earlier that expressed grief about her stillbirth and mentioned the name she gave her baby posthumously, body camera footage shows.

“I’m so sorry, Abel,” Rousseau had written in the post.

The mother was in shock that day in May 2018 as several law enforcement officers, some in tactical gear, stood outside the rural Winnemucca home to serve a search warrant.

“I had a miscarriage, OK? A miscarriage. Why are you guys here over a f**king miscarriage?” Rousseau responded to the deputy.

The single mother, who was already struggling to afford care for her two young boys, was dealing with complicated feelings of ambivalence and guilt about her unplanned pregnancy and stillbirth, her attorney said. Rousseau told the deputies she had been taking large quantities of cinnamon and lifting heavy things while pregnant “to have a miscarriage.”

Deputies walked to a cross that was painted red with Abel’s name written in black on a green plot behind the house, according to the police body camera footage and a police report. They dug up the remains and carried them to a law enforcement vehicle, the report said.

Two days later, Rousseau was arrested and charged with felony manslaughter before she was convicted in Nevada, where abortion is legal, under what legal experts say is a vague and broadly written statute that makes it a crime for any woman to take drugs with the intent to terminate a pregnancy. She was also charged with concealing birth, a misdemeanor, but was not convicted on that charge.

Rousseau’s case fits into an emerging pattern where women are swept up in criminalization – even in states where abortion is legal – by prosecutors reaching for antiquated statutes or laws that were never intended to punish pregnant women and those experiencing pregnancy loss or birth, including abuse of a corpse, child neglect or even homicide, according to several abortion law experts CNN spoke with.

“There’s been a really dedicated effort to criminalize pregnancy outcomes alongside abortion,” said the legal director of nonprofit Pregnancy Justice, Karen Thompson.

There has been a notable uptick in these cases, in a separate but parallel lane to cases linked to stricter anti-abortion laws, since the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022 and stripped the federal constitutional right to abortion, the experts said. The US saw the highest number on record of people criminally charged for conduct related to pregnancy in the first year after the decision, according to data from nonprofit legal advocacy organization Pregnancy Justice.

For Rousseau, the entire ordeal was traumatic, from the stillbirth to being arrested. “I thought I was doing what was right for my circumstances, and then to be told that I was wrong, right after going through all of that alone … and then to be punished for all of it without getting any sort of help mentally has hurt me so much,” she told CNN.

Rousseau served over two years in prison before her conviction was vacated in 2021, with the judge saying her public defender was overworked and ineffectively advised her to enter a guilty plea. She was awarded a $100,000 settlement this February, according to court documents.

Judge Charles McGee wrote in a strongly worded decision that Rousseau’s case “ranks right up there with a thankfully precious few cases involving a total miscarriage of justice.”

‘I didn’t

By Maureen O’Hare, CNN

(CNN) — In our roundup of travel stories this week: the Wyoming monument made famous by “alien encounters,” the rise of solo dining, and the lowdown on the “Schengen Shuffle.”

Rock of ages

The Sicilian village of Gibellina was destroyed by an earthquake in 1968, but its ruins were to be reborn as a spectacular piece of land art.

Artist Alberto Burri poured concrete over 926,000 square feet of hillside, freezing the streets and pathways for eternity, transforming this disaster site into a modern Pompeii.

This year, Gibellina is Italy’s first ever Capital of Contemporary Art and locals hope 2026 will strengthen the legacy of this “magical place.”

Much older stone masterpieces are to be found at the Mount Nemrut UNESCO World Heritage site in southeastern Turkey, where colossal limestone heads guard a 2,000-year-old mystery.

The giant sculptures were commissioned by Antiochus I, king of the region in the first century BCE, and the ruler wished that his tomb would sit among the deities for eternity.

In Uganda, the Kasubi Tombs UNESCO World Heritage site has finally reopened to the public following reconstruction after a devastating fire in 2010.

The giant basket-like thatch structure is the spiritual heart of the Buganda kingdom and, for believers, marks a portal to an ancient, invisible realm.

Movie monoliths

Wyoming’s Devils Tower, a startling 867-foot-tall geological formation, is a spiritual site for Native Americans and in 1906 became the United States’ first national monument.

What really gave it status on the tourist map, however, was its starring role in Steven Spielberg’s 1977 movie “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.”

The tower was created by cooling magma, rather than industrious aliens, but its mystique is no less majestic for that. CNN went to visit.

Over in Northern Ireland, the 50-million-year-old mountainous “Kingdom of Mourne” has appeared in movies and TV as everywhere from Westeros in “Game of Thrones” to Transylvania in “Dracula Untold.”

Perhaps the mountains’ grandest claim to fame, though, is that they’re the real-life inspiration for the Narnia books by Belfast-born writer C.S. Lewis.

Fine dining but coarse behavior

When chef René Redzepi stepped down earlier this year from the world-famous Noma restaurant amid abuse allegations, the news made headlines around the world.

But in an era of superstar chefs celebrated for high passion and exacting standards, accusations of toxic behavior will, for many, simply reinforce preconceptions of life in a Michelin-starred kitchen.

Some chefs and industry figures believe the Redzepi moment was a potential turning point — and a long-overdue reckoning is underway.

Another trend to come under scrutiny recently is restaurants discriminating against solo diners.

One noodle eatery in Seoul recently went so far as to tell single diners to bring a friend or order for two, posting a sign saying, “We don’t serve loneliness.”

The fear of dining alone is so real that there is a name for it: solomangarephobia. Yet with solo living on the rise around the world, and likewise solo dining, it’s time to call last orders on the stigma.

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