By Thomas Schlachter, CNN

(CNN) — They say three things are certain in life. Scottie Scheffler being among the frontrunners at a major championship is definitely one of them.

With favorites falling to the wayside all over the undulating greens at Aronimink Golf Club, the ever-unflappable Scheffler sits atop the leaderboard after the opening day’s golf in Philadelphia.

Scheffler is joined at the top of the pile by six other players on 3-under-par, who will all look to do their best to stay close to the World No. 1 over the next few days.

Scheffler helps set the pace

Sport, particularly golf, is loved for its unexpected nature. But these rules don’t apply to Scheffler.

There is now an air of inevitability whenever the four-time major champion walks to the first tee box at one of golf’s premier events. And today was no different.

The 29-year-old was the big favorite coming into the second major of the year and all the talk seemed to be about who could keep up with the reigning champ.

But these expectations seem to weigh very little upon the shoulders of Scheffler as he ticked off another brilliant day of golf.

An opening round of 67, featuring five birdies, has put Scheffler in a great spot to retain his title.

“Definitely the best start I’ve gotten off to this year, maybe besides American Express maybe,” Scheffler said after the round.

“Yeah, I felt like, especially going into the weekend, when you look at like the Masters and Hilton Head and Cadillac, finishing second was probably not all that bad from where I was starting the weekend. Yeah, definitely nice to get off to a better start this week.”

The greatest compliment you can give to Scheffler is that he makes a sport so fraught with danger seem somewhat sedate at times.

But Scheffler isn’t alone shooting three-under.

Aldrich Potgieter, Stephan Jaeger, Min Woo Lee, Ryo Hisatsune, Martin Kaymer and Alex Smalley all share the first-round lead.

With it looking like it will only get more challenging out there, Friday could see a lot of movement among the frontrunners.

McIlroy’s day of mishaps

But while a whole host of players made moves towards the leading pack, Rory McIlroy struggled throughout his opening round.

Just over a month from winning his second consecutive Masters title, McIlroy came into the PGA Championship as one of the favorites – and rightly so.

What materialized on the course at Aronimink Golf Club, however, was far from the form of a contender.

The six-time major champion was miles from his best and shot an opening round of 74, leaving himself on 4-over-par and seven shots behind the leaders.

When asked to sum up his round, McIlroy’s answer was simple.

“Sh*t,” the Northern Irishman said of his opening 18 holes.

McIlroy said the root of his problems came from repeatedly not finding fairways.

The rough at Aronimink is unforgiving at its best and McIlroy found this out firsthand on the first hole of his day.

The two-time PGA Championship winner missed his target by mere inches and had to punch out from the damp, long first cut.

It didn’t get any better for McIlroy from there and the World No. 2 will now have his work cut out to make the cut heading into the weekend.

Time is of the essence

Conditions at Aronimink seem to be difficult enough already.

They then become even harder when you have to factor in a two-stroke penalty for poor timekeeping.

And that’s exactly what happened to Garrick Higgo.

In a move all too familiar to amateur golfers, the South African golfer was late to his tee time but, rather than being given a slight telling off, Higgo had to accept a costly punishment.

But time is a construct after all, and Higgo made sure

VENTURA COUNTY, Calif. (KEYT) – Kristian Fonseca has been sentenced to life in prison without parole plus 114 years to life for the 2020 first-degree murders of Jose Estrada and Daniel Zuniga and two attempted murders.

On March 20 of this year, a Ventura County jury found Fonseca guilty of the two murders, two attempted murders, and one count of being in possession of a firearm less than ten years following a conviction.

On October 12, 2019, Fonseca and two others were driving along Ventura Avenue in Santa Paula when they stopped at an East Simpson Street liquor store stated the Ventura County District Attorney's Office.

The trio spotted two men standing near a food truck and one of the men who had arrived with Fonseca asked the other men "Where are you from?" before Fonseca opened fire with a shotgun detailed the local prosecutor's office.

One of the men was hit multiple times and suffered life-threatening injuries that required emergency surgery and led to medical complications to this day shared the Ventura County District Attorney's Office.

Surveillance video captured some of the incident and officers later recovered four spent shotgun shells from the scene noted the Ventura County District Attorney's Office.

A little over one year later, on October 24, 2020, Fonseca was attending a party in a Santa Paula front yard when three rival gang members approached from down the street after a series of earlier verbal confrontations explained the Ventura County District Attorney's Office.

A physical altercation ensued at the scene in which Fonseca and one of the rival gang members fought in the street detailed the Ventura County District Attorney's Office.

After the fight, Fonseca retrieved a firearm and opened fire on the three men stated the Ventura County District Attorney's Office.

Two of the men died from their injuries and the third was injured, but survived shared the Ventura County District Attorney's Office.

According to the Ventura County District Attorney's Office, evidence showed that Fonseca continued to fire at close range after the victims has fallen, including while one of the men could be heard pleading for his life.

A total of ten 9mm shell casings were recovered from the scene, a majority near the final resting place of the two deceased men noted the local prosecutor's office.

The firearm used during the shooting was never recovered added the Ventura County District Attorney's Office.

"Fonseca believed he could avoid capture and accountability for his crimes, but through the dedicated work of Detective Anthony Reginato and our law enforcement partners, justice ultimately caught up with him," said Supervising Senior Deputy District Attorney Blake Heller. "This sentence ensures he will spend the rest of his life paying for the devastation he caused to these victims, their families, and the community."

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Por John Fritze y Devan Cole, CNN

La Corte Suprema permitió el jueves que las mujeres sigan accediendo a la píldora abortiva mifepristona mediante consultas de telesalud, manteniendo el statu quo mientras funcionarios en Louisiana continúan presionando para limitar la disponibilidad del fármaco en tribunales inferiores.

La Corte Suprema conservadora impuso una suspensión a una decisión del 1 de mayo del Tribunal de Apelaciones del 5.º Circuito de EE.UU. que exigía abruptamente que las mujeres obtuvieran el fármaco mediante visitas presenciales. Ahora la atención volverá al tribunal de apelaciones con sede en Nueva Orleans, que decidirá sobre el fondo de la impugnación de Louisiana.

El tribunal no explicó su razonamiento ni reveló la votación. Los jueces Clarence Thomas y Samuel Alito discreparon de la decisión.

La orden se emitió casi media hora después de que expirara a las 5 p.m. (hora de Miami), una suspensión “administrativa” anterior que extendía el acceso generalizado al fármaco.

“La orden sin razonamiento del tribunal que concede suspensiones en este caso es notable”, escribió Alito en su disenso.

“Lo que está en juego”, añadió, “es la ejecución de un plan para socavar nuestra decisión” que revocó Roe v. Wade hace cuatro años.

Thomas escribió en un breve disenso en solitario que consideraba que una ley del siglo XIX, largamente inactiva, que prohíbe el envío por correo de fármacos usados para abortos, así como la estricta prohibición del aborto del estado, impedían que los fabricantes lograran que los tribunales intervinieran en su nombre.

Las compañías, escribió, “no tienen derecho a una suspensión de una orden judicial adversa basada en las ganancias perdidas de su empresa criminal. No pueden, en ningún sentido legalmente relevante, sufrir un daño irreparable por una orden judicial que les dificulta cometer delitos”.

También llamó la atención que el tribunal no aceptara escuchar argumentos en el caso, como ambas partes le habían pedido que hiciera. En su lugar, la decisión significa que el fondo del caso ahora se dirimirá en un tribunal federal de apelaciones y es probable que el asunto llegue nuevamente a la Corte Suprema en el futuro.

El caso es el más significativo relacionado con el aborto que llega al máximo tribunal desde la revocación de Roe v. Wade, el precedente de 1973 que estableció un derecho constitucional al aborto. Y tanto el caso como la mifepristona están estrechamente vinculados a esa decisión. Tras la caída de Roe en 2022, muchos estados conservadores prohibieron los abortos en clínicas, lo que aumentó la demanda de mifepristona.

Las mujeres han podido obtener mifepristona —uno de los dos fármacos utilizados en el aborto con medicamentos— mediante citas de telesalud desde la pandemia de covid-19. La Administración de Alimentos y Medicamentos del presidente Joe Biden formalizó esa situación en 2023, poniendo fin al requisito de que el medicamento se obtenga mediante una visita presencial al médico.

A medida que los estados conservadores respondieron a la decisión de la Corte Suprema prohibiendo o limitando el acceso a abortos en clínicas, aumentó la demanda del uso de la telesalud para acceder a la mifepristona. Los abortos con medicamentos ya eran la opción más común —representan más del 60 % de los abortos en EE.UU., según investigaciones del Instituto Guttmacher. Y la Society of Family Planning, un grupo de investigación que se ha opuesto a las restricciones a la mifepristona, estima que aproximadamente uno de cada cuat

VENTURA COUNTY, Calif. (KEYT) – Fire crews are responding to a one-acre fire in the northernmost portions of Ventura County along the border with Kern County, east of Ventucopa and southwest of Pine Mountain Club Thursday.

According to the Los Padres National Forest, crews are on the scene of the fire which has a slow rate of spread in the Apache Canyon area.

This is an evolving fire response and more information will be added to this article as it is received.

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OXNARD, Calif. (KEYT) – A 32-year-old Oxnard man was taken into custody after a foot chase Thursday in connection with an April shooting incident at the Oxnard Mobile Home Lodge on Commercial Avenue.

On April 12, 2026, around 6:50 p.m., officers were dispatched to the Oxnard Mobile Home Lodge at 1301 Commercial Avenue for a report of shots fired in the area stated a press release from the Oxnard Police Department.

Arriving officers found a vehicle and a residence, both with people inside, had been hit by gunfire, but nobody was injured at the scene shared the local police agency.

Investigators with the Violent Crimes Unit took over the response and gathered enough evidence to identify a 32-year-old Oxnard man as the suspected shooter detailed the Oxnard Police Department.

On May 14, around 2 p.m., officers located the man in the 4100 block of Maulhardt Road and when they attempted to take him into custody, he fled the area on foot noted the Oxnard Police Department.

According to Oxnard Police, Police Service Dog Joey apprehended the 32-year-old who was treated for moderate injuries at the scene before being taken to a local hospital for further medical treatment.

During the chase, a loaded, semi-automatic firearm fell from the man's waistline and, once he is medically cleared, he will be booked into the Ventura County Jail on charges connected to the April shooting as well as multiple firearm-related violations explained the Oxnard Police Department.

The investigation into the incident is ongoing and anyone with more information is asked to contact Detective Diego Estrada at 805-385-8291 or via email at [email protected].

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