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Bumper AFL draft class delivers another debut

Three more players selected in the first round of last year’s AFL draft will make their senior debut in round 5. Another budding star picked in the first round of last year’s AFL draft will make his senior debut this weekend. Essendon has confirmed midfielder Ben Hobbs, the No.13 selection, will play his first game, a day after the Giants announced they were unleashing No.3 pick Finn Callaghan against Melbourne. The last footballer snapped up in the first round, Kai Lohmann, also made his debut for Brisbane on Thursday night. Eight of the first 12 players taken in the 2021 draft appeared in the AFL during the first month, with Nick Daicos and Josh Rachele scoring the past two Rising Star nominations. Twelve of the top 20 will have played by the end of round 5. Western Bulldogs father-son selection Sam Darcy (No.2), Gold Coast’s Mac Andrew (No.5) and Docker Jye Amiss (No.8) are still waiting for a call-up among the top 10, but are either injured or had interrupted pre-seasons

Russia invades Ukraine, Kharkiv endures heavy shelling

Firefighters work to extinguish fire at an apartment building after a Russian attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Sunday, April 17. (Andrew Marienko/AP) The northeastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv endured another day of heavy shelling, according to regional officials. Oleg Synegubov, head of the Kharkiv regional administration, said on Telegram: “Today, in broad daylight, there were shellings of the central part of the city, the residential area of Saltivka from MLRS [multiple rocket systems] and artillery. Unfortunately, 20 people were injured, 5 people were killed. Apartment buildings and other civilian infrastructure were damaged.” Ihor Terekhov, the city’s mayor, said residential areas came under attack in the morning, and missiles were fired at the city center in the afternoon. He said dozens of buildings had been damaged, and the casualties included dead and wounded. Terekhov said the Russians had not given up on “attempts to destroy the civilian population of Kharkiv, sow

House GOP Kills Bid to Honor Pioneering Black Judge

WASHINGTON — In a bitterly divided Congress, it was a rare measure that had been expected to sail through without a fight. A bill to name a federal courthouse in Tallahassee after Justice Joseph W. Hatchett, the first Black man to serve on the Florida Supreme Court — sponsored by the state’s two Republican senators and backed unanimously by its 27 House members — was set to pass the House last month and become law with broad bipartisan support. But in a last-minute flurry, Republicans abruptly pulled their backing with no explanation and ultimately killed the measure, leaving its fate unclear, many of its champions livid and some of its newfound opponents professing ignorance about what had happened. Asked what made him vote against a measure that he had co-sponsored, Representative Vern Buchanan, Republican of Florida, was briefed and blunt: “I don’t know,” he said. The real answer is as much an allegory about the state of House Republicans in 2022 as it is about a federal

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