INDY 500: New Ring for Newgarden

After 11 years of frustration, Josef Newgarden, of Team Penske, is this year’s Indy 500 champion. Newgarden spent Sunday morning posing for victory photographs, doing interviews and even getting his picture taken so that his face could be sculpted on the Borg-Warner Trophy. He passed Marcus Ericsson in a last-lap sprint to the finish. The 32-year-old is the first American to win the Indy 500 since 2016. He finished eighth in 2018, fourth the next year and fifth in 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic forced the race to be run in August. The last two years? Newgarden failed to finish in the top 10. “This is the single-most difficult race in the world to win,” Newgarden added. “I’ll stand by that. There’s no doubt.”

Russia Issues Arrest Warrant for Graham

Russia’s Interior Ministry has issued an arrest warrant Monday for U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham following his comments related to the fighting in Ukraine. After meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday, Zelenskyy’s office released an edited video of their encounter in which Graham notes that “the Russians are dying” and describes the U.S. military assistance to the country as “the best money we’ve ever spent.” The short video caused outrage in Russia. Graham commented on Twitter, saying that “to know that my commitment to Ukraine has drawn the ire of Putin’s regime brings me immense joy.”

“I will continue to stand with and for Ukraine’s freedom until every Russian soldier is expelled from Ukrainian territory,” he tweeted. “I will wear the arrest warrant issued by Putin’s corrupt and immoral government as a Badge of Honor.”

Northwest Illinois police fatally shoot man with knife

Police in Northwest Illinois fatally shot a man after they tried to arrest him. Officers responded to a call describing a man who had damaged a vehicle Sunday night at a residence in a Fox Lake neighborhood. “When Fox Lake officers told the man he was under arrest, the man pulled a knife out of his pocket and pointed it toward the police officers,” a Fox Lake task force said in a statement. Police fired when the 47-year-old Wauconda man refused to drop the knife and instead lunged at them, investigators said. A 43-year-old woman at the home was hit in the leg by a police gunshot, though the wound was not life-threatening.

Massachusetts beach reopens after series of weekend shootings

Massachusetts State Police temporarily closed Revere Beach because of a pair of shootings that injured three people as violence erupted over the holiday weekend. The popular beach reopened on Memorial Day, hours after bedlam erupted Sunday evening in Revere. Two people were shot and one person was grazed by a bullet, but none of the injuries were believed to be life-threatening, state police said. A teenager questioned in one of the shootings was arrested for illegal possession of a firearm, state police said, but the investigation was ongoing to determine whether the teen was involved in the incidents. The shootings happened about 15 minutes apart, but there’s no indication they were related. The first happened around 7:10 p.m. Sunday as a large fight was taking place with shots fired into a group of people, injuring a 17-year-old girl, police said. A short time later, a 51-year-old woman was shot nearby and a 17-year-old youth was grazed by a bullet, police said.