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Mother’s Day chaos at a steakhouse includes knives thrown at waiters and a touching mother-daughter arrest
An upscale steakhouse in West Little Rock, Arkansas, descended into chaos on Mother’s Day when the staff failed to show the proper level of respect to the TikTok food influencers who entered their establishment.
Words were exchanged between the influencers and staff; other customers got involved in the verbal exchange; it got heated and turned physical. According to the Little Rock Police Department, knives were thrown.
Asia, Allyssia and Alivia Yarbrough, who, according to the Daily Mail, all have large numbers of followers, had an issue with how their steaks had been cooked at Arthur’s Prime Steakhouse on Sunday.
A TikTok influencer and her mom get arrested on Mother’s Day after causing a scene at an Arkansas steakhouse. (Getty)
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They asked the restaurant staff to have all three of the steaks remade to their specifications, reports KATV. The manager initially refused to remake one of them, then later brought it out and shoved it in one of their faces, saying, “this is how it’s done.”
There’s a chance you can get away with that when dealing with regular customers, but it’s not going to fly with disrespected food influencers. They have millions of followers and can’t stand for that.
At minimum a scene will be caused. A scene where you’re going to find out from a proud momma that her kids have tens of millions of social media followers.
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Allyssia, 25, reportedly said that she shoved her phone into a 62-year-old waiter’s face. He grabbed the phone, and she said she responded by punching him in self-defense.
She added that the elderly waiter slapped her back using two hands and that’s when another waiter, 57, jumped in to assist his co-worker. The LRPD’s investigation into the matter found that a third steak could not be fixed because it had already been cut into.
The police department’s reports also stated that the security camera footage showed the Yarbroughs “causing a disturbance throughout the restaurant.”
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According to the police report, Asia Yarbrough, 22, threw knives at two waiters during the madness. None of the videos that went viral on social media after the incident appear to show the alleged knife throwing.
The same can’t be said for Kimberly Forga, the mother of the influencers. She’s accused of causing $2,500 in damage to the restaurant’s grand piano by slamming the top of it. In one of the videos, it does appear as if the piano’s top is being slammed.
Although it’s hard to tell what, if any, damage was done. The legal system will have to sort all of that out.
According to the Arkansas Times, the daughter was charged with two felony counts of aggravated assault and one misdemeanor count of disorderly conduct. Mom was hit with a felony charge of criminal mischief and a misdemeanor count of disorderly conduct.
That’s about as touching as a Mother’s Day visit to an upscale steakhouse gets. On Monday, both mom and daughter pleaded not guilty and were released on bond. They’re due back in court on July 7.
They’ve created a real problem for themselves, aside from any upcoming legal issue they may face. The bigger problem is how do you make Mother’s Day next year as memorable as this one?
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Security pros doubt Canvas attackers really deleted stolen student data
FEATURE When Instructure “reached an agreement” with data theft and extortion crew ShinyHunters this week, the education tech giant assured Canvas users after attackers claimed to have stolen data tied to 275 million students, teachers, and staff that their private chats and email addresses would not turn up on a dark-web marketplace, and that they would not be extorted over the incident.
“We received digital confirmation of data destruction (shred logs),” Instructure assured the nearly 9,000 affected universities and K-12 schools. “We have been informed that no Instructure customers will be extorted as a result of this incident, publicly or otherwise.”
Not a single responder that The Register spoke with believes this is true.
“Do I believe they deleted the data? No. They’re criminals and scumbags,” Recorded Future threat intelligence analyst Allan Liska, aka the Ransomware Sommelier, told us.
“But, this is part of what Max Smeets calls ‘The Ransomware Trust Paradox,’” he added. “Ransomware groups have to, minimally, not post data they claimed to have deleted or no one will pay them in the future, but this is done knowing that the data is likely not deleted.”
Halcyon Ransomware Research Center SVP Cynthia Kaiser, who previously spent two decades at the FBI, said she doesn’t think that anyone who studies ransomware groups’ operations believes the gang actually destroyed the stolen files.
The operational reality at 3 a.m. during finals week or enrollment season can push institutions toward a very different calculation
“‘We destroyed the data’ is a standard line from extortion groups once a payment is made or negotiations conclude, but time after time it has proven untrue,” Kaiser told The Register. “ShinyHunters in particular has a documented history of recycling, reselling, and re-leveraging stolen data across campaigns – data they claimed was contained from earlier intrusions has resurfaced on criminal forums months and years later.”
Kaiser also doesn’t think this is the last threat that the schools will face from the Canvas breach.
“Halcyon expects targeted phishing waves against staff, students, and parents over the next six to 12 months using leaked names, email addresses, and Canvas chat context to make the lures convincing,” she said.
To be clear: Instructure execs never directly said the company paid the ransom, and we don’t know the exact amount of money the criminals demanded from the digital learning biz.
We do know, however, that “reached an agreement” is corporate-speak for the victim paid up. Doug Thompson, chief education architect at cybersecurity firm Tanium, estimates the figure sits somewhere between $5 million and $30 million.
Meanwhile, this latest extortion attack illustrates the impossible choice facing organizations entrusted with protecting people’s data when digital thieves breach their networks and steal sensitive information.
“The FBI says don’t pay,” Thompson told The Register. “But the operational reality at 3 a.m. during finals week or enrollment season can push institutions toward a very different calculation. Until that incentive structure changes, education is likely to remain unusually vulnerable to extortion pressure.”
To pay, or not to pay?
The US federal government, law enforcement agencies, and private-sector threat intelligence analysts all advise victims not to pay a ransom.
“Paying ransoms rewards and incentivizes the criminals, funding their search for new victims, and I’ve long advocated before for a ban on ransomware payments,” Emsisoft threat analyst Luke Connolly told us. “But in the absence of regulation applying to all organizations, the stark reality is that Instructure faced a crisis, and they negotiated to try to minimize risk and harm.”
No company wants to pay a ransom to its attackers, and most say they won’t – at least in principle – because they don’t want to fund criminal operations and incentivize the crooks.
There’s also no guarantee that paying will guarantee the return of their data or prevent additional extortion attempts. CrowdStrike surveyed 1,100 global security leaders last summer, and of the 78 percent who said they experienced a ransomware attack in the past year, 83 percent of those that paid ransoms were attacked again. Plus 93 percent lost data regardless of payment.
While data suggests that fewer organizations are paying criminals’ ransom demands – Chainalysis found the percentage of paying victims in 2025 dropped to an all-time low of 28 percent, despite attacks hitting record highs – when faced with extortion or a ransomware infection, the “to pay or not to pay” debate becomes much more complicated.
“Most organizations still say publicly that they won’t pay, and many genuinely don’t, but when the alternative is mass downstream harm to students, parents, and thousands of customer institutions, the calculus shifts,” Kaiser said. “Pay-or-leak groups like ShinyHunters specifically engineer that calculus by creating intense financial and reputational pressure, and when demands go unmet, they escalate to direct harassment of victim companies, employees, and clients.”
ShinyHunters did just that. The crew initially compromised Instructure in late April, and after the initial pay-or-leak deadline passed on May 6, ShinyHunters switched tactics to school-by-school extortion. They injected a ransom message into about 330 Canvas school login portals, causing Instructure to take the platform offline for a day – during final exams and Advanced Placement testing for many.
Other ransomware scum have gone to horrifying extremes, posting pictures and addresses of preschool children in an effort to get a payday, leaking cancer patients’ nude photos and threatening them with swatting attacks.
Mandiant Consulting CTO Charles Carmakal previously told The Register that ransomware infections have morphed into “psychological attacks” with crooks SIM swapping executives’ kids to pressure their parents into paying.
Calculating risk
In addition to responding to criminals directly harassing their students, patients, customers and employees, victim organizations also have to take into account potential lawsuits if the crooks dump individuals’ personal or health data, and the reputational hit from seeing all of this protected information published online.
The decision about what to do in a ransomware attack revolves around risk reduction, Liska said.
“Not paying a ransom means an increased risk of data exposure, which in this case could cause serious harm,” he told us. “While there is no good decision in most ransomware negotiations, the idea is to protect as many people as possible and that may mean that paying is the least bad option.”
While he didn’t respond to or investigate the Instructure case, “protecting children’s data is absolutely a critical factor in these types of decisions, especially when the attacks originate from one of the groups associated with The Com,” Liska added.
The Com, a loosely knit group of primarily English speakers who are also involved in several interconnected networks of hackers, SIM swappers, and extortionists such as ShinyHunters and Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters, has been known to blackmail kids and teens into carrying out shootings, stabbings, and other real-life criminal acts.
“These groups are known to coerce victims using threats of physical harm, including bricking and swatting,” he said. “Not paying may have increased the risk of serious harm to the children whose data was exposed.”
Ed sector ‘more likely to pay’
Instructure’s intrusion follows several other high-profile attacks against education-sector software providers.
In December 2024, PowerSchool suffered a breach, affecting tens of millions of students. The company reportedly paid about $2.85 million in bitcoin in exchange for a video supposedly showing the attackers destroying the data. But about five months later, in May 2025, the ed-tech provider’s school district customers received individual extortion threats from either the same ransomware crew that hit PowerSchool or someone connected to the crooks.
Earlier this year, ShinyHunters claimed it stole data from K-12 software provider Infinite Campus as part of a broader wave of Salesforce-related intrusions.
“Education keeps emerging as one of the sectors where organizations are still more likely to pay under pressure,” Thompson said.
In addition to students’ – especially minors’ – data containing highly sensitive personal details, and therefore presenting an attractive target for attackers, this is also driven in part by market pressure and economics.
There will be future attacks, without a doubt
It’s costly and inconvenient for schools to switch learning management systems, and they are typically locked into multi-year contracts with these software vendors, according to Thompson.
“The other issue is concentration,” he said. “A relatively small number of vendors hold data for enormous portions of the education system. PowerSchool, Infinite Campus, Canvas, Blackboard; those four hold records on something close to every American student, and hackers know it. Three of the four have been breached at a multi-million-record scale in the last 18 months.”
Thompson said he expects to see additional attacks against major education platforms to follow.
“The economics are good. Instructure paid. PowerSchool paid last year. Every other ed-tech vendor’s board just had a conversation about what their number would be,” he told us. “The pattern is established.”
According to Connolly, the universities and K-12 schools affected by the Canvas hack shouldn’t consider their data safe, regardless of Instructure’s assurances or the crooks’ promises to delete it. “There will be future attacks, without a doubt.” ®
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Canada is welcome to join Eurovision, says song contest director | Eurovision
Canada is welcome to join Eurovision if it wishes, its director has said, months after the country revealed it wanted to “explore” joining the song contest in its federal budget.
Eurovision director Martin Green told the BBC on Wednesday that Canada hadn’t yet applied, but would be welcome to.
“We know that Mark Carney wants to sort of embrace Europe,” he said.
“We will welcome anyone through those doors who wants to share the values of this wonderful occasion and stand on our stage with friends,” he added.
As the name suggests, Eurovision is mainly a showcase for European talent but it is open to countries with broadcasting organisations that are members of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). Canada’s national broadcaster, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) is not a full member, but is eligible as an “associate member”.
The only associate member ever approved to join Eurovision is Australia, which was granted permission to enter in 2015 due to the contest being hugely popular there.
The CBC has confirmed it has sent staff to this year’s contest as “observers”.
Canada’s prime minister, Mark Carney, first raised the idea of Canada joining the song contest in November in his 2025 federal budget – yet another sign of his government’s strategic realignment away from the US and towards Europe.
A single line tucked in the nearly 500-page document revealed the government was working with CBC to “explore participation in the Eurovision”.
Two government sources told the CBC that Carney – who spent years studying and living in the UK, most recently as the governor of the Bank of England – was personally involved in Canada’s push.
“I think it’s a platform for Canada to shine,” the country’s finance minister, François-Philippe Champagne said in November. “This is about protecting our identity – yes, we want to protect our sovereignty, but you also want to help people in the arts sector and in the film industry to make sure they can shine around the world. And we have a lot to offer as Canadians.”
Canada has mulled participating in the song contest before; in 2022, the CBC ruled out the idea after deciding it was “prohibitively expensive”.
While Canada has never formally participated in Eurovision, the contest has hosted an array of Canadian artists. Most famously was Céline Dion, who won the contest for Switzerland in 1988 with the song Ne Partez Pas Sans Moi. In 2001, Natasha St-Pier represented France, as did La Zarra in 2023.
Contestants do not have to be citizens of the country they are representing, although some participating countries do mandate it.
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McMaster convenes South Carolina special session on redistricting maps
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South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster, a top Trump ally and fellow Republican, announced Thursday that he is convening the state legislature in Columbia, South Carolina, starting Friday for a special session to “address the state budget and congressional districts” in his largely Republican state.
“I have issued an Executive Order calling the General Assembly back for an extra legislative session to address the state budget and congressional districts beginning Friday, May 15, at 11:00 AM,” McMaster wrote on X.
The move comes amid intraparty Republican tensions over the Trump-backed effort to redraw the state’s congressional map — a push that could threaten the tenure of Democratic Rep. James Clyburn, the man credited with reviving former President Joe Biden’s 2020 campaign.
Senate Majority Leader Shane Massey, R-Edgefield, and four other senators originally joined Democrats to defeat a proposal that would have allowed the chamber to vote on redistricting after the South Carolina legislative session closed Thursday at 5 p.m. Eastern Time.
The roadblock came hours after President Donald Trump warned he is “watching closely” the redistricting effort that proponents hope will ultimately rid the state’s congressional delegation of its lone Democrat, while advising lawmakers to move the primary for House members to August.
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Clyburn, the octogenarian Orangeburg lawmaker considered a kingmaker in Palmetto State Democratic politics — and credited with reviving then-candidate Biden’s floundering campaign with his endorsement in 2020 — may not be long for Capitol Hill, as a redraw would almost certainly redistribute the state’s heavy Republican advantage across its seven districts.
President Joe Biden awarded the Medal of Freedom to Rep. James Clyburn during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., on May 3, 2024. (Kevin Dietsch / Getty Images)
Clyburn said he remains confident he can win re-election even under a new map.
“I don’t know why people think I could not get re-elected if they redistrict South Carolina,” Clyburn said in a CNN interview. “I have a district that’s about 45 percent African American. I have no idea what the number will be after the legislature finishes, but whatever that number is, I will be running on my record and America’s promise.”
Massey argued in a floor speech that following Trump’s lead on redistricting would run counter to the interests of the Palmetto State.
“South Carolina has always punched above their weight,” Massey said. “Doing this will diminish that influence.”
But he also acknowledged that he will likely face political payback from Trump and the president’s allies.
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“There are likely consequences for me, personally, taking the position that I am right now,” Massey said. “I’m comfortable with that. I may not like it, but I’m comfortable with it…My conscience is clear on this one.”
The recent Callais decision at the Supreme Court — which eliminated Louisiana’s race-conscious map that provided for two largely minority-heavy Democratic strongholds — has already spurred action in Tennessee, Alabama and Mississippi, and with Clyburn’s district itself reportedly the product of a George H.W. Bush Justice Department request regarding racial makeup, its days may be numbered.
The DOJ in 1992 recommended creating a majority-Black district in South Carolina, and Clyburn swiftly won the seat upon the retirement of fellow Democratic Rep. Robin Mooneyhan Tallon of Hemingway, according to a Government Printing Office publication on Black Americans in Congress.
President Joe Biden, left, Rep. James Clyburn, right. (Mandel Ngan/Getty Images)
Clyburn is also reportedly a relative of the previous Black South Carolina congressman, Republican George Washington Murray, who served in the 1890s.
The 85-year-old recently signed documents to make his run for re-election official, quipping that he is in good health and simply celebrating the 47th anniversary of his 39th birthday soon.
If redistricting fails and Clyburn is able to run again, he will join a growing list of octogenarian — and some nonagenarian — lawmakers who remain bullish about their political prospects.
The oldest sitting member is Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, who is 92, while elderly lawmakers facing re-election in 2026 besides Clyburn include Rep. Hal Rogers, R-Ky., who is 88, and Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., who is 87. Sen. James Risch, R-Idaho, is 83 and running for re-election, which would make him 89 at the end of his next term.
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Alabama convened a special session earlier in May that House Speaker Nathaniel Ledbetter, R-Rainsville, correctly predicted would force the courts to rule on the validity of a special-case redistricting referendum there.
Tennessee successfully redrew its map, which is likely to result in the ouster of longtime Shelby County Democratic Rep. Steve Cohen, while Mississippi hit a snag in its own efforts after Gov. Tate Reeves pumped the brakes on a Callais-spurred effort to boot former House Jan. 6 Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson in the Delta.
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Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Iranians will ‘not bow down’, warning there is no military solution to disputes with Tehran.
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NYC councilwoman rips Mayor Mamdani’s antisemitism office as a ‘black hole’
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As anti-Israel agitators take to the streets in New York City, a councilwoman is calling out the Mayor’s Office to Combat Antisemitism, saying that it lacks public-facing resources.
“Mayor Mamdani continues to gaslight the Jewish community in New York City by creating a black hole of an office — the Mayor’s Office to Combat Antisemitism — an office that has no website, no phone number, no resources,” New York City Councilwoman Inna Vernikov, R-District 48, told Fox News Digital. “There’s nobody to reach out to, there’s nobody to talk to. The public has no sense of how this office can help Jewish New Yorkers.”
The councilwoman said that after a recent hearing, she feels that “the office does nothing to combat antisemitism.”
However, Vernikov said that the issue was not merely a matter of access and stated that even those who reach out to the mayor’s office “really don’t get a response that makes them feel safer or their children feel safer.”
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NYC Councilwoman Inna Vernikov says Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s office for antisemitism is a “black hole” without resources. (Fox News Digital/Getty)
Vernikov, a Jewish Republican, serves as a co-chair of a bipartisan task force aimed at combatting antisemitism alongside Councilman Eric Dinowitz, D-District 11. The task force, which was formed earlier this year, is separate from the Mayor’s Office to Combat Antisemitism.
An online search for the Mayor’s Office to Combat Antisemitism leads to a page on the New York City government’s website that includes a press release announcing the office, a description of its goals and a list of “recent events and services.” One of the items on the events and services list is a “listening tour,” the findings of which will be used to “inform a report and a subsequent strategy on combatting antisemitism in New York City.”
Other events and services include Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s visit to the Jewish Children’s Museum in Crown Heights, Passover Seders, Food Distribution with Chasdei Lev and an Orthodox Community Leaders Roundtable.
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Anti-Israel protesters gather at a “Stop the Sale of Stolen Palestinian Land” protest against “Great Israel Real Estate” event for Palestinian land sale at the Park East Synagogue in Manhattan on Tuesday, May 5, 2026, in New York City. (Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images)
In recent weeks, New York City has seen a slew of antisemitic incidents, including swastika graffiti in Queens and protests outside a Manhattan synagogue and in a Jewish neighborhood of Brooklyn. Following the protest outside Park East Synagogue in Manhattan, Mamdani said that his administration was committed to ensuring New Yorkers could safely enter or exit a house of worship. However, he said that he “firmly” disagreed with the event taking place inside the synagogue, a statement that critics interpreted as support for the protesters.
“When we have a real estate expo that is promoting the sale of land which includes the sale of land in the occupied West Bank, in settlements that are a violation of international law, that is something that I firmly disagree with,” Mamdani said in response to a reporter’s question. The mayor added that he saw the land sales as something that “has been at the heart of an ongoing effort to displace Palestinians from their homes.”
The proximity of the protests to Jewish institutions has many Jewish New Yorkers concerned for their safety, something Vernikov said she has heard from her constituents. Vernikov argued that the debate over where protests take place is not about restricting freedoms, but preventing intimidation.
“This has nothing to do with the First Amendment. It has everything to do with trying to intimidate and harass Jews, and that’s all these protesters are fighting for,” Vernikov said.
The NYPD increased security and established a perimeter around the Park East Synagogue in Manhattan on E. 67th and E. 68th Streets on May 5, 2026, in New York City. (Selcuk Acar/Anadolu)
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Amid the protests and vandalism, Mamdani has faced criticism for his decision to veto a bill that would have created a “buffer zone” around educational institutions to protect them from protests. The City Council also passed a version of the bill aimed at protecting houses of worship, which Mamdani did not veto.
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Australia’s housing affordability expected to worsen and homelessness soar under fossil-fuelled future | Housing
Global heating could worsen housing affordability, push up rents and quadruple homelessness in a decade without fairer housing policies and action to reduce emissions, new research has found.
Home prices and rents in Australia are influenced by a complex mix of factors, from incomes and mortgage rates to insurance premiums, available land and population.
University of Sydney researchers modelled the housing market system, using two decades of public data, and tested its response under different climate scenarios, publishing their results in Cities.
They found climate change affected housing and rental affordability under both high and low-emission scenarios, but vulnerable households were worst-hit under a fossil-fuelled future.
Homelessness could be four times higher by 2036 under a high-emissions future, as homes become more expensive and rents rise relative to incomes.
The scenarios were based on five plausible social and economic pathways developed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The low-emissions scenario describes a future where collective action leads to a more sustainable future consistent with the Paris agreement goal to keep global heating below 2C and aim to limit the increase to 1.5C, whereas fossil fuel resources continue to be exploited under the high-emissions path.
Australia, together with other countries, has committed to the Paris agreement and has set targets to cut emissions to 43% below 2005 levels by 2030, and 62-70% by 2035 and “net zero” by 2050.
Associate Prof Nader Naderpajouh from the University of Sydney said the impacts of global heating on housing were “very unequal” and particularly affected renters and people experiencing homelessness.
Climate change does not feature prominently in housing policy discussions, he said, but it should. “We’re showing that climate change has an impact, and the impact is very divergent, [it] increases the gap.”
“We cannot address the housing system by one blanket policy,” he said. Policies or interventions should prioritise and tailor support for renters on low incomes, and to address homelessness.
The federal budget’s investment in social housing for more than 4,000 young people was an example of a targeted measure, Naderpajouh said, but a “drastic increase” in social housing was needed.
Measuring progress was important, he said, as well as ensuring any housing delivered was high quality and secure.
“The pressure is already on for Australians in the housing market and we see worsening social inequities in the future. We need to design fairer housing policies or this is the trajectory we’re heading towards,” said Peyman Habibi-Moshfegh, lead author of the paper.
“Our findings show that any new housing policies need to undergo climate-change simulations to make sure they don’t deepen inequality.”
Economist Nicki Hutley, a councillor with the Climate Council, said climate change “should be front and centre” as a consideration of housing policy, both in terms of emissions reduction – through energy efficiency and better building standards – as well as the resilience of homes, livelihoods and communities to extreme weather.
The federal government’s recent national climate risk assessment “laid bare some pretty uncomfortable truths about the level of risk our homes are at”, Hutley said.
Among its many findings, the risk assessment said 10% of residential housing would be located in areas considered very high risk by 2030, and that longstanding inequalities were being worsened by the climate crisis.
Hutley said the housing and tax changes in the budget showed the federal government was capable of acting on issues beyond one electoral cycle.
“We need them to take the same approach to climate change.”
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Shohei Ohtani might be on his way to even more history with 0.82 ERA and Cy Young discussion
If it seems like there’s a new astonishing fact about Shohei Ohtani every few days, that’s because there is.
Ohtani is a one-of-one player, someone who’s already accomplished virtually everything a player can accomplish in Major League Baseball.
He’s won back-to-back World Series championships after joining the Los Angeles Dodgers ahead of the 2024 season. He’s won three straight Most Valuable Player awards, becoming the first player ever to win multiple MVPs in different leagues. His most recent win, for the 2025 season, made him the second player ever to win four MVP awards, along with Barry Bonds.
Ohtani won the Rookie of the Year award in 2018 with the Los Angeles Angels. Then followed it up by getting selected to five straight All-Star teams. He’s a four-time Silver Slugger winner. He’s been selected to six straight All-MLB first teams.
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Shohei Ohtani of the Los Angeles Dodgers celebrates after hitting a home run during the seventh inning against the Toronto Blue Jays in game three of the 2025 World Series at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, Calif., on Oct. 27, 2025. (Sean M. Haffey/Getty Images)
In 2024, Ohtani had one of the greatest offensive seasons in baseball history, becoming the first player ever to hit more than 50 home runs and steal more than 50 bases. And it wasn’t close; he finished with 54 home runs and 59 steals. Oh, and he hit .310, with a .390 on-base percentage and .646 slugging percentage. Good for 79 runs of production above an average player, per FanGraphs.
Then, he followed it up in 2025 by hitting 55 more home runs, setting a new career high. All while returning to the mound for the first time since 2023, putting up a 2.87 ERA and 1.90 FIP, with 62 strikeouts in 47 innings and 1.9 wins above replacement.
What could possibly be left to accomplish? Just one thing: a Cy Young Award. And after yet another outstanding start on Wednesday night, Ohtani might be well on his way to making more history there too.
Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Shohei Ohtani walks to the dugout against the Toronto Blue Jays during the fifth inning in Game 4 of the World Series in Los Angeles, Calif., on Oct. 28, 2025. (Brynn Anderson/AP Photo)
Ohtani faced off against the San Francisco Giants at Dodger Stadium on Wednesday, and was once again dominant. He went seven shutout innings, allowing just four hits and two walks, while striking out eight hitters. The performance lowered his ERA through mid-May to an incredible 0.82.
It’s still early, of course. The Dodgers have played 43 games out of 162, meaning there’s just over 73% of the season remaining. But if the season were to end today, it’s hard to argue with Ohtani as the National League Cy Young winner. And if that happens, it would be the latest in a long line of historic accomplishments for baseball’s best player.
Ohtani, should he win, would become the first player ever to win an MVP as a hitter and pitcher. He’d become the first player ever to win multiple MVP awards, and win a Cy Young. There have been 11 pitchers who won a Cy Young and MVP in the same season, but no pitcher has ever won a second MVP. And his manager and teammates are already talking about it.
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“Like I’ve said for a long time, he’s a different person when he’s pitching,” manager Dave Roberts said after the 4-0 win over the Giants. “I think he wants to win the Cy Young. I think that that helps the Dodgers, too, in 2026. When he’s pitching, I just sort of let him go and…he’s in a zone.”
Santiago Espinal, who hit a home run to give LA the lead, added, “When he’s pitching, everybody expects a Cy Young. When he’s hitting, everybody expects an MVP and all that stuff. That’s what he showed tonight. It’s just Cy Young-caliber.”
Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Shohei Ohtani delivers a pitch against the Toronto Blue Jays during the first inning of Game 7 in the World Series in Toronto on Nov. 1, 2025. (Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press via AP)
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Again, there’s a long way to go. And the National League has several other pitchers having great starts to the 2026 season. Defending Cy Young winner Paul Skenes has seen his ERA drop from 1.97 in 2025 all the way to … 1.98 so far in 2026. Christopher Sanchez has once again been excellent, and Jacob Misiorowski has often looked unhittable with over 14 strikeouts per nine innings.
But it’s yet another reminder that what Ohtani does, night in and night out, is essentially unprecedented. A top five pitcher in the sport, and a top two or three hitter. At the same time. It’s remarkable, and his already remarkable career may somehow become even more historic this year.
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