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BUDAPEST — Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán was in Kyiv on Tuesday for talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, his first visit to the country since Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022. Orbán’s press chief confirmed to Hungarian news agency MTI that the Prime Minister had arrived in the Ukrainian capital in the morning for the talks.

The Fourth of July holiday can often be a great opportunity to visit the seaside for a sandy getaway. But local governments across the U. S. have issued warnings and closures to stay away from certain shores due to alarmingly high bacteria levels. As of Monday afternoon, at least 29 beaches in Massachusetts have been reported closed due to “bacterial exceedance,” according to the state’s Department of Public Health Beach Water Quality Dashboard. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] In California’s San Diego County, one beach in the Coronado area has been closed since May as “bacterial levels exceed health standards,” according to its Department of Environmental Health and Quality’s Beach and Bay Water Quality Monitoring Program. In New York’s Nassau County, Crescent Beach has been closed for swimming as of Monday evening due to high levels of enterococci bacteria found in samples. Michigan’s Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy also reports that four beaches have been closed since last week, due to high bacterial levels.

Copa América was not supposed to end this way. The U. S. men’s national soccer team (USMNT) was set up for success this summer. The U. S. was hosting Copa América, the quadrennial soccer championship of South America, and was once again invited to participate along with a few other central and North American teams.

The Brewers dared the Cave Man, but he brought the big club in the clutch on Monday night. Jake Cave’s walk-off single in the 10th inning lifted the Rockies to an 8-7 win over the NL Central-leading Brewers in the series opener at Coors Field, giving the Rockies consecutive wins for the first time in a month. Prior to Cave’s at-bat, the Brewers walked both Brenton Doyle and Nolan Jones to load the bases and get to the veteran, who made Milwaukee pay by lacing former Rockies prospect Joel Payamps’ first-pitch slider to center.

Thomas Addington on Monday was found guilty a second time of second-degree murder in the shooting death of 40-year-old Amanda Yellico in Fremont County District Court. A jury found Addington, 65, guilty of murder in the second degree on Jan. 31, 2020. On April 1, 2020, he was sentenced to 38 years in the Department of Corrections. A three-judge panel for the Court of Appeals on Oct.

By REGINA GARCIA CANO CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela’s government plans to resume negotiations with the U. S. government this week, President Nicolás Maduro announced Monday, less than a month before a highly anticipated election in which he and his party are facing their toughest challenge in decades. Maduro, who is seeking a third term, wants the U.