Treats from Melania Trump’s White House beehive featured in state dinner menu for King Charles and Queen Camilla

The White House is serving a three-course meal, plus dessert made with honey fromMelania Trump’s beehive, during itsstate dinner with King Charles and Queen Camilla.

The first lady pulled out all the stops when planning the Tuesday night dinner to honor the special relationship between the U.S. and U.K. asAmericans celebrate 250 years of independence.

Guests will start with a hearts of palm salad and garden herb velouté sauce as the first course. The second course will feature handcrafted spring herb ravioli. And a third course of Dover sole meunière will be offered to guests. This French fish dish will include sweet snow peas and layered potatoes pavé.

The show-stopper will be the dessert course. Guests will enjoy a beehive-shaped chocolate gâteau, which is a French flourless cake, filled with vanilla bean crémeux custard. The dessert will also feature almond joconde, a French sponge cake, and will be served with crème fraîche ice cream andWhite House honey.

The king and queen landed in the U.S. Mondayfor their four-day visit. They werequickly welcomed by President Donald Trump and Melania, who walked the beekeeping enthusiasts across the White House South Lawn for a viewing of the first lady’s new beehive. The beehive is shaped like a miniature White House.

The White House beekeeping program began in 2009 under the Obama administration. Melania’s new hive adds two new bee colonies to the two existing colonies.

Melania’s new hive is expected to increase annual honey production by about 30 pounds, according to the White House. The honey will not only be used in White House culinary dishes, but will also be given as official gifts from the Trumps and donated to local food kitchens.

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The state dinner courses are being served on both the Clinton and Bush china services and paired with three different wines — Hopkins Riesling “Heritage” 2024, Penner-Ash Pinot Noir “Willamette Valley” 2022 and Newton Chardonnay “Unfiltered” 2022.

The star-studded guest list for the state dinner includes chief executives, conservative-leaningSupreme Courtjustices and severalFox Newshosts.

Amazon founderJeff Bezos, Apple CEO Tim Cook andParamountchief David Ellison were invited to the dinner, as were Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Sam Alito, Amy Coney Barrett, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Clarence Thomas.

Fox News’ Bret Baier, Maria Bartiromo, Laura Ingraham and Jesse Watters are also on the guest list. There were also members of Trump’s Cabinet, members of Congress and members of Trump’s family on the guest list.

On the British side, Foreign SecretaryYvette Cooperand Christian Turner, the British ambassador to the U.S., were invited.

Guests will enjoy music from performers in the Marine Corps, Army and Air Force.

After spending two days in Washington,Charles and Camilla will head to New Yorkto spend time with first responders and families of victims affected by the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The king and queen will conclude their visit Thursday in Virginia, where they will take part in several community events.

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Treats from Melania Trump’s White House beehive featured in state dinner menu for King Charles and Queen Camilla

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Jalen Brunson breaks free as Knicks take away Hawks' oxygen

NEW YORK — Through four games of their opening-round series with the New York Knicks, the Atlanta Hawks had succeeded in making life difficult for Jalen Brunson. A team-wide effort helmed by on-ball menaces Dyson Daniels and Nickeil Alexander-Walker had helped limit the All-NBA point guard to just 43% shooting inside the 3-point arc, with 14 turnovers mitigating his 21 assists.

The struggle to pop Brunson loose led the Knicks toreorient their offense in Game 4, running possessions through Karl-Anthony Towns and prominently featuring OG Anunoby — an approach that worked, but one necessitated by Atlanta selling out on Brunson.

“He can beat you so many ways,” Hawks head coach Quin Snyder said before Game 5. “You know, we'll keep putting different guys on him, changing matchups, trying to do anything you can to just make it hard on him [...] It's not easy.”

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On Tuesday, Brunson offered a reminder of exactly why that is.

Snyder opened Game 5 by juggling Atlanta’s defensive assignments, cross-matching Daniels onto Towns to try to interrupt the flow he found as a high-post hub in Game 4. That slid Alexander-Walker over to Brunson, and while the newly minted Most Improved Player did his level best — and while Daniels still saw his fair share of time in the matchup — Brunson proceeded to shake loose and put together his most composed, decisive, explosive and overwhelming performance of the series.

"Played well. Made shots,” Alexander-Walker said of Brunson’s play on Tuesday. “Gotta be better in his pick-and-roll coverage. Had a few lanes where he was able to get in the paint, get a half a step. Guys like him, that's all that they need."

The Hawks gave Brunson a half-step, and he took a mile, scoring a game-high 39 points on 15-for-23 shooting with 8 assists and just 1 turnover in 35 minutes of work — “a big game from a big-time player,” as Knicks head coach Mike Brown described it after the game — in an emphatic126-97 win, a near-wire-to-wire victory in which the Hawks’ last lead came when a Daniels tip-in made it … 4-2, with 10:39 to go in the first quarter.

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Mexico makes Liga MX call-ups ahead of pre-World Cup camp

Mexico's FIFA World Cup roster began to take shape Tuesday with a dozen Liga MX players invited to the camp that begins on May 6.

Manager Javier Aguirre's crew will be joined in training later in the month by players who are based in Europe and elsewhere. His final roster for this summer's tournament is due at the end of May.

The 12-member Liga MX contingent includes 17-year-old midfielder Gilberto Mora of Club Tijuana, Toluca forward Alexis Vega, Club America defender Israel Reyes and five players from Chivas: goalkeeper Raul "Tala" Rangel, forward Armando Gonzalez and midfielders Brian Gutierrez, Roberto Alvardo and Luis Romo.

Also on the list are goalkeeper Carlos Acevedo of Santos Laguna, defender Jesus Gallardo of Toluca, midfielder Erik Lira of Cruz Azul and forward Memo Martinez of Pumas.

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Mora is rounding into shape after missing two months with a groin injury and has a chance to become Mexico's youngest World Cup participant, supplanting 18-year-old Manuel "Chaquetas" Rosas in 1930. Seven 17-year-olds have participated in the tournament, including Brazil's Pele in 1958.

Mexico is co-hosting the FIFA World Cup along with the U.S. and Canada. Mexico is currently ranked No. 15 in the world, one spot ahead of the Americans.

Placed in Group A with South Africa, South Korea and the Czech Republic, Mexico opens the World Cup against South Africa on June 11 in Mexico City.

--Field Level Media

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Pistons-Magic takeaways: Detroit's problems are coming to a head as Orlando aims to dunk No. 1 seed

Can we just talk about Orlando Magic forward Jamal Cain's dunk on Detroit Pistons center Jalen Duren?

I mean, seriously, look:

Do we even care about the game? Like, who actually won? I genuinely don't remember.

That is one of the nastiest throw-downs ever and not just in a playoff context. Cain kept climbing and dunked on Duren, a man built like a Greek god, so hard the All-Star center backpeddled after coming down back to Earth.

(OK,the Magic took a commanding 3-1 series lead by winning 94-88, but that's definitely just a B-story to Cain's jam.)

In all seriousness, let's dive into Orlando's big win Monday night as it tries to become the seventh No. 8 seed to knock off a No. 1 in NBA history.

Cade Cunningham's turnovers are a team issue

As Cunningham entered Game 4, he had totaled 19 turnovers in the the series.

By halftime, he was up to 25 after turning it over six times in the first half.

While Cunningham is ultimately responsible for hanging on to the ball, the Pistons' roster construction isn't doing him any favors.

With both Duren and Ausar Thompson being almost entirely non-threats from the outside, Orlando has the freedom to double- and even triple-team Cunningham, swarming him whenever his feet are inside the 3-point line.

While Tobias Harris has done a solid job of adding spacing and overall scoring, the bottom line is simple: It shouldn't be this difficult for the Pistons to generate offense through Cunningham, but they have no other creators on the roster.

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Perhaps they should have made a play for someone at the trade deadline, instead of sitting still.

But here they are, shooting 37.8% from the floor and 20% from 3 in a crucial Game 4 as their season appears to be slipping away.

Wendell Carter Jr. is eating Jalen Duren's lunch

Throughout the regular season, it was never in doubt who, among Carter and Duren, had the best season. Duren was an All-Star, a double-double machine and one of the most exciting young players in the league.

Carter, who is far more of a role player than a featured star, apparently didn't get the memo.

During this series, the 6-foot-10 Carter has constantly outhustled, outworked and outdone Duren. It's not always reflected in his raw line (Carter had 12 points and 11 rebounds in Game 4), but his effort has put a spotlight on Duren as he enters free agency this summer.

Duren has struggled mightily all series, scoring a grand total of 39 points over the course of the four games, finding it difficult to get up shots, getting beat by Carter on backdoor lobs and overall having one heck of a troublesome series, which could cost him millions this July.

Dear Jamahl Mosley, make better use of Paolo Banchero

I may sound like a broken record here, but giving Banchero the ball high out on the floor and asking him to "do stuff" (which I'm guessing is his directive, because there doesn't seem to be anything close to a plan), is aching for punishment.

Banchero isn't a natural shooter, nor is he particularly effective as a spacer.

He is, however, ridiculously good near the rim, and when he ducks in for layups and dunks, he draws a ton of fouls and converts plays.

Orlando has one of the most inconsistent offenses in the league, and its plan is to use its most versatile offensive player, who is an athletic 6-10, 250-pound powerhouse, as an outside-in option?

It's been nonsensical for a while now, and it only looks worse after Banchero shot 4-of-18 from the floor and missed all four of his 3-point attempts Monday night.

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A South Sudan community is denied aid as government and opposition blame each other

CHUIL, South Sudan (AP) — Displaced people who took refuge from conflict in an isolatedSouth Sudanvillage weredenied lifesaving aidby the government even as deaths there mounted, eyewitnesses and aid groups said.

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The Associated Press spoke with people who fled to the swamp-encircled community of Nyatim in recent weeks. They described having little food and no clean water in a place so desolate that a Starlink connection was used to call for help.

When aid workers reached out to South Sudanese authorities with a request to deliver emergency relief, however, it was denied. Reports that dozens of people had died, including some of apparent starvation, made no difference.

"It was a ‘no’ from local and national authorities and from the military,” said Yashovardhan, the head of mission for Doctors Without Borders in South Sudan, who goes by one name. “Meanwhile, people are eating leaves and roots to survive.”

The U.N. World Food Program, usually reticent about an issue that has simmered for years in South Sudan, also told the AP it had been blocked despite “numerous engagements with both national and local authorities,” according to the agency’s country director, Adham Effendi.

People say aid has been weaponized for years

It has happened over and over in South Sudan, whose people fought for years for independence from Sudan and then turned on each other. Whatever side that controls aid is accused of withholding it from the other, and civilians suffer.

This time,fighting has surgedsince Riek Machar, alongtime rivalof President Salva Kiir, was suspended as first vice president and put under house arrest for alleged subversion last year. The two led opposing forces in a civil war that killed an estimated 400,000 people before a 2018 peace agreement brought them into a fragile unity government.

In December, opposition forces backing Machar seized military outposts in Jonglei state. Government forces struck back the following month.

On Feb. 7, soldiers reached the outskirts of Lankien town, where an aerial attack days earlier struck a hospital operated by Doctors Without Borders. Residents described artillery fire before soldiers stormed the town in armored vehicles.

Thomas Nim was among those who fled. With his pregnant wife, three children and mother, they made their way through swampland, hoping soldiers wouldn't chase them.

They and many others soon filled Nyatim, about a day’s walk away.

“Some of the most vulnerable, like the elderly and children, ended up in Nyatim because they couldn’t make it any farther," said Nim, a 43-year-old pharmacist.

As days passed and people began to die without food or good water, he called for help. But none came.

Opposition and authorities blame each other

Gatkhor Dual, an opposition official coordinating aid in Jonglei state, blamed county commissioner James Bol Makuei for blocking humanitarian access. Makuei does not want aid to reach people who “support the opposition,” Dual said, especially when they are near government-held areas.

Makuei acknowledged that access to Nyatim had been restricted but added that estimates of its evacuee-swollen population — 30,000, according to Doctors Without Borders — were exaggerated. He accused South Sudan’s main opposition group, known by its initials SPLM-IO, of holding civilians in Nyatim to attract aid and secure a foothold near the county seat of government.

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Nim, the pharmacist, said there were no opposition forces in the area.

Concerns about aid diversion are not without precedent. Armed groups in South Sudan, including the military, have a long history of diverting humanitarian supplies for military purposes. During recent fighting in Jonglei, fighters looted more than two dozen humanitarian-run health facilities, according to the U.N.

Doctors Without Borders said it first reached out for help to Nyatim on Feb. 22. It asked again on March 3 after hearing reports of deaths. At the end of March, the medical charity issued a statement drawing attention to its efforts.

Delivering aid in South Sudan is never easy. Infrastructure is poor. River traffic, where available, has been attacked. Clearance from authorities is required.

Meanwhile, the humanitarian crisis has deepened. In March, over half of the more than 1,000 children screened by Doctors Without Borders in Chuil, a community where South Sudan's government has allowed humanitarian access to enter, were acutely malnourished.

Aid workers have been overwhelmed. In February, Doctors Without Borders began expanding a four-bed facility, first to 60 beds, then 80. It is now growing to 100.

Other people are giving up on remote Nyatim and going home to ruins.

“People are returning to their homes,” said one of them, Koang Pajok. “There was no food and shelter.”

The World Food Program turns to airdrops

Unable to reach the area by road or river, the World Food Program has airdropped 415 metric tons of food to Chuil since March, country director Effendi said.

But as civilians come seeking assistance, so do young men wielding Kalashnikovs. Some people worry that could make Chuil a target.

On a morning in April, a plane circling overhead drew anxious onlookers.

“It’s a surveillance plane,” said Gal Wai Tut, who had arrived days earlier with his wife and newborn child. He recalled seeing a similar plane over Lankien on the day he said a December airstrike killed at least 11 civilians.

Don't gather in one place, an older man advised, saying a crowd is more likely to be targeted.

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5 bald eagles 'did not die from natural causes' in Michigan, state officials say

Multiple bald eagles were found dead in Michigan from what state officials described as something "not due to natural causes."

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR) said it is investigating the deaths of five bald eagles, which occurred in the Upper Peninsula’s Garden Peninsula between April 3 and April 17.

"It was confirmed that these deaths were not due to natural causes, predators, or vehicle collisions," the departmentwrote Monday in a Facebook post.

The deaths are the latest in a string of unusual circumstances impacting the bald eagle community. Severe weather has harmed the animals, leavingmultiple bald eagles missingin Tennessee after a storm. Additionally, twobaby eagletsin Alabama ware euthanized at the Auburn University Raptor Center after being swept from their nest.

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Do federal and state laws protect bald eagles?

Bald eagles are a protected species at the federal and state levels. According to Michigan's DNR, penalties in the state can include the following, in addition to court costs.

• 90-day misdemeanor charges.

• Fines ranging from $100 to $1,000 per eagle.

• Reimbursement of $1,500 per eagle.

The bald eagle wasofficially designated as the United States' national birdin 2024.

The department said anyone with information can contact itsReport All Poaching Hotlineby texting or calling 800-292-7800. Information can be submitted anonymously, and tips leading to an arrest and prosecution may be eligible for a cash reward.

Kate Perez covers national trends and breaking news for USA TODAY. You can reach her at kperez@usatodayco.com or on X @katecperez_.

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Malaysia's jailed ex-PM Najib withdraws appeal on house arrest, local media reports

KUALA LUMPUR, April 27 (Reuters) - Jailed former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak has withdrawn his appeal against a court ruling denying his request to ‌serve the remainder of his sentence at home, local media The Edge reported on ‌Monday, citing court documents.

Najib was found guilty of a string of graft offences in connection to his ​role in the multibillion-dollar 1MDB scandal.

• Najib has been serving a six-year jail sentence since August 2022 after being convicted of graft and money laundering in one of several cases linked to the alleged theft of billions of dollars from 1Malaysia Development Berhad - a state ‌fund he helped establish in ⁠2009 while he was premier.

• The ex-premier launched a legal bid for home detention after his sentence was halved by a pardons ⁠board decision chaired by Malaysia's former king in 2024.

• Najib insists the board's decision was accompanied by an addendum order issued by the king that allowed him to serve the remainder ​of ​his jail term at home, which he alleges was ignored ​by authorities.

• The Kuala Lumpur High ‌Court denied Najib's house arrest bid on December 22, a decision that Najib subsequently appealed.

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• Najib has since withdrawn the appeal without liberty to file a fresh appeal, with the Court of Appeal acknowledging the withdrawal, The Edge reported on Monday, citing letters from Najib's lawyers and the court, dated April 3 and April 6 respectively.

• Najib's ‌lawyers and the Attorney General's Chambers did not ​immediately respond to Reuters' requests for comment.

• The ​withdrawal of his appeal for home ​detention would mark yet another setback for Najib, after he was ‌jailed a further 15 years and fined $2.8 ​billion for abuse of ​power and money laundering in December following the biggest trial yet involving the 1MDB saga.

• Malaysia and U.S. investigators say at least $4.5 billion was stolen from ​the 1MDB state fund, ‌with more than $1 billion allegedly making its way into accounts linked to Najib.

• ​Najib has consistently denied wrongdoing and has apologised for mishandling the scandal.

(Reporting ​by Danial Azhar; Editing by David Stanway)

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