(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Sunday’s sports events:
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
INTERLEAGUE Minnesota 8, Milwaukee 2
AMERICAN LEAGUE Toronto 3, N.Y. Yankees 1 Cleveland 9, Detroit 3 Baltimore 1,1 Boston 3 Texas 7, Kansas City 3 Houston 9, Oakland 2 L.A. Angels 7, Chicago White Sox 4
NATIONAL LEAGUE Philadelphia 2, Atlanta 1 Cincinnati 12, St. Louis 1 Chicago Cubs 4, Pittsburgh 3 L.A. Dodgers 4, Colorado 2 Arizona 3, San Diego 1 N-Y Mets at Washington 1:05 p.m. (Postponed)
NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION Chicago 115, Brooklyn 107 L.A. Clippers 104, L.A. Lakers 86 Boston 116, Charlotte 86 Memphis 116, Philadelphia 100 Atlanta 117, Golden State 111 New Orleans 122, Houston 115 Denver 119, Orlando 109 NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE Detroit 5, Tampa Bay 1 Washington 5, New Jersey 4 Florida 3, Columbus 0 Carolina 1, Dallas 0 Toronto 4, Calgary 2 Arizona 3, Anaheim 2 — OT Vancouver at Winnipeg 9 p.m. (Postponed)
Steven WorsterSam Hunt‘s known for his infectious grooves and rap-influenced rhymes on mega-hits like “Body Like a Back Road.” But the Georgia native’s going a little deeper and delivering some social commentary with his latest hit from Southside.
“‘Breaking Up Was Easy in the 90’s,’ that’s a song that kinda speaks to the times a little bit,” Sam explains. “My favorite line from that song is ‘Modern love leads to modern hearts breaking / I’m just a product of my generation.'”
“It’s just a fun kinda simple reflection on how much more difficult it is to be so connected — the downside of being so connected nowadays,” he adds.
When Southside came out almost exactly a year ago, “Breaking Up Was Easy in the 90’s” was among the last songs finished for Sam’s sophomore record.
“That was was one that was written in the ninth hour,” he reveals. “And it turned out pretty cool I thought, so we included it on the record.”
Fans who are anxious for new music from Sam can take heart. He’s teased that he has new music on the horizon, apparently avoiding the now-infamous more than five-year gap between his debut, Montevallo, and his second album.
ABC/Eric McCandless(LOS ANGELES) — American Idol is back — and they’ve brought some friends.
Sunday’s episode marked the first show where the remaining contestants performed in front of a live studio audience. Not only that, but judges Katy Perry, Lionel Richie, and Luke Bryan have officially handed over the reins to America to vote and decide who will become the next American Idol.
Of the remaining 24 contestants, Sunday’s episode saw 12 hopefuls join forces with pros Jimmie Allen, Ryan Tedder, Joss Stone, Brian McKnight, Ben Rector, and Katharine McPhee for their all-star duets. Of this group, only eight will make it through to the Top 16 and into next week’s shows — and it’s all up to America.
Here’s who performed so far.
Alanis Sophia – 19, Dade City, FL College Student Mentor: Jimmie Allen Solo: “Alive” Sia Duet: “Shallow” Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper
Alyssa Wray – 18, Perryville, KY, College Student Mentor: Katharine McPhee Solo: “Something in the Water” Carrie Underwood Duet: “I’m You’re Baby Tonight” Whitney Houston
Wyatt Pike – 20 Park City, UT, College Student Mentor: Ben Rector Solo: “rubberband” Tate McRae Duet: “Brand New” Ben Rector
Alana – 23, Lakewood Ranch, FL, Food Delivery Driver Mentor: Brian McKnight Solo: “Blow Your Mind (Mwah”) Dua Lipa Duet: “Back At One” Brian McKnight
Anilee List – 20, Los Angeles, CA, College Student Mentor: Joss Stone Solo: “my future” Billie Eilish Duet: “Tell Me Something Good” Rufus & Chaka Chan
Deshawn Goncalves – 20, Cleveland, OH, College Student Mentor: Ryan Tedder Solo: “Forever Young” Bob Dylan Duet: “I Lived” One Republic
Graham DeFranco – 28, Rockwall, TX, Aerial Survey Pilot Mentor: Ben Rector Solo: “Raye” John Splithoff Duet: “Love Like This” Ben Rector
Andrea Valles – 23, Houston, TX, Wedding Singer Mentor: Brian McKnight Solo: “Lo Vas A Olvidar” Billie Eilish & Rosalia Duet: “Careless Whisper” George Michael
Cecil Ray – 20, Cameron, TX, Machine Operator Mentor: Jimmie Allen Solo: “Paint Me A Birmingham” Tracy Lawrence Duet: “Freedom Was A Highway” Jimmie Allen
Willie Spence – 21, Douglas, GA, Caretaker Mentor: Katharine McPhee Solo: “Wind Beneath My Wings” Bette Midler Duet: “The Prayer” Céline Dion & Andrea Bocelli
Grace Kinstler – 20, Lakewood, IL, College Student Mentor: Joss Stone Solo: “Queen” Jesse J Duet: “Midnight Train to Georgia” Gladys Knight & the Pips
The remaining 12 contestants will perform when American Idol returns Monday, April 5 at 8 p.m. on ABC.
27th Annual SAG Awards/Getty Images for WarnerMedia(LOS ANGELES) — The 27th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards were presented Sunday night at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. Here are the winners: Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture The Trial of the Chicago 7
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role Chadwick Boseman, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role Viola Davis, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role Daniel Kaluuya, Judas and the Black Messiah
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role Yuh-jung Youn, Minari
Outstanding Action Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture Wonder Woman 1984
Television Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series The Crown
Outstanding Ensemble in a Comedy Series Schitt’s Creek
Outstanding Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Comedy or Drama Series The Mandalorian
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries Mark Ruffalo, I Know This Much Is True
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries Anya Taylor-Joy, The Queen’s Gambit
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series Jason Bateman, Ozark
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series Gillian Anderson, The Crown
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series Jason Sudeikis, Ted Lasso
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series Catherine O’Hara, Schitt’s Creek
(WASHINGTON) — The Biden administration is continuing to field lawsuits filed over Endangered Species Act decisions made by the Trump administration.
The Center for Biological Diversity sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Thursday over its failure to provide protections under the Endangered Species Act for 10 species “it admitted needed them,” according to the organization.
Among the species are the monarch butterfly, which in December the Trump administration decided that adding it to the list of threatened species was “warranted but precluded.” This meant that while the monarch butterfly became a candidate for listing as an endangered species, it was not yet listed as the agency prioritizes other candidates.
The monarch butterfly was added to the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List of Threatened Species in 2014 after it was determined that 90% of its population had declined from its original levels. While millions of the butterflies spent winters in the coastal groves of California in the 1980s, just 30,000 were counted in 2019.
The iconic butterfly’s numbers have drastically diminished due to increased use of farm herbicides, climate change and the destruction of milkweed plants, which is what monarch caterpillars eat and where monarch butterflies lay their eggs.
Other species that the lawsuit describe as being left in “regulatory purgatory” are the northern spotted owl, which was found in December to warrant an uplisting from threatened to endangered, and the Eastern gopher tortoise, which has been awaiting protections since 1982.
Northern spotted owl populations have continued to decline in the face of continued loss of old forests to logging and invasion of its habitat by barred owls, while the gopher tortoise, which need large, un-fragmented, long-leaf pine forests to survive, are severely threatened by development, which caused habitat loss and fragmentation.This limits food availability and options for burrow sites and exposes them to being crushed in their burrows during construction, run over by cars or shot, according to the Center for Biological Diversity.
There have been a number of additional lawsuits brought against the federal government since Biden took office.
Multiple conservation groups sued the USFWS on March 25 over a decision by the Trump administration to deny the north Oregon coast population of red tree voles protection under the Endangered Species Act. Red tree vole populations have been devastated by logging, wildfires and inadequate protections on state and private lands. The USFWS found the vole warranted protection in 2011 but deemed that the protection was precluded by listing other species. The vole was then denied protections in 2019.
The Center sued the USFWS on March 25 to challenge the Trump administration’s downlisting of the American burying beetle from endangered to threatened. The lawsuit requested that the endangered status be reinstated as the beetle continues to face threats from climate change and habitat destruction that are pushing it to the brink of extinction. The delisting came following the petition by the Independent Petroleum Association of America to delist the species, according to the Center.
Multiple conservation groups sued the USFWS on March 24 for refusing to designate critical habitat for the highly endangered rusty patched bumblebee. The USFWS stated in September that listing was “not prudent” because the availability of habitat does not limit the bee’s conservation. The bumblebee was protected in 2017, but the USFWS failed to designate critical habitat by the statutory deadline.
The Center sued the USFWS on March 3 for failing to designate critical habitat and develop a recovery plan for Hawaii’s threatened ‘i’iwi, or “honeycreeper” bird. The USFWS listed the species as threatened in 2017.
On Wednesday, the Center also filed a notice of intent to sue the National Marine Fisheries Service to make a decision on whether the Oregon coast spring-run chinook salmon warrants protection. Chinook salmon once thrived in all of Oregon’s coastal watersheds but have largely disappeared due to logging, roads and other sources of habitat degradation, such as dams and poorly run hatcheries, according to the Center. The decision has been overdue since September.
On Feb. 4 the Biden administration responded to a lawsuit filed by multiple conservation groups on Jan. 19 — one day before Inauguration Day — by delaying a rule finalized in the last weeks of Donald Trump‘s presidency to eliminate long-standing, vital protections for more than 1,000 species of waterfowl, raptors and songbirds. The decision was made over a reinterpretation of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act.
Only 25 species were give protections under the ESA during Trump’s four years in office, according to the Center.
In 2019, the Trump administration made changes to how the government handles endangered species, altering the requirements for how the government decides to add or remove species from the list of endangered animals that are regulated by the government, including limiting how much habitat must be protected.
The changes require separate plans for protecting any new species listed as threatened instead of granting them the same protections as those listed as endangered, a move that advocates say could make it more difficult to protect species that are threatened by human activity and climate change.
“The past four years were a dark period for endangered wildlife and the environment overall,” Noah Greenwald, endangered species director at the Center for Biological Diversity, said in a statement Thursday. “We’re bringing this lawsuit to ensure these 10 species that so desperately need help are prioritized by the Biden administration, which has its work cut out for it to undo the incredible harm done under Trump.”
A representative for USFWS declined to comment.
Bonnie Rice, a representative for the Sierra Club Endangered Species said to ABC News in a statement that “The Trump administration’s Fish and Wildlife Service made a major push to strip as many species as possible of endangered species protections” including other animals like the grey wolf.
Rice said the Sierra Club is challenging Trump’s rollbacks, some of which will be legal challenges.
The Sierra Club “is committed to protecting 30 percent of lands and waters by 2030 to halt extinction and we’re encouraged by the Biden administration’s early work to act on climate and review endangered species rollbacks,” Rice also said in the statement.
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