Today is Sunday, May 4, the 124th day of 2025. There are 241 days left in the year.

Today in history:

On May 4, 1970, Ohio National Guardsmen opened fire on student demonstrators during an anti-war protest at Kent State University, killing four students and wounding nine others.

Also on this date:

In 1886, at Haymarket Square in Chicago, a labor demonstration for an 8-hour workday turned into a deadly riot when a bomb exploded, killing seven police officers and at least four civilians.

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In 1904, the United States took over construction of the Panama Canal from France.

In 1942, the Battle of the Coral Sea, the first naval clash fought entirely with carrier aircrafts, began in the Pacific during World War II. (The outcome was considered a tactical victory for Japan, but ultimately a strategic victory for the Allies.)

In 1961, the first group of “Freedom Riders” left Washington, D.C., to challenge racial segregation on interstate buses and in bus terminals.

In 1998, Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski was given four life sentences plus 30 years by a federal judge in Sacramento, California, under a plea agreement that spared him the death penalty.

In 2006, a federal judge sentenced Zacarias Moussaoui to life in prison for his role in the 9/11 attacks, telling the convicted terrorist, “You will die with a whimper.”

In 2011, President Barack Obama said he had decided not to release death photos of Osama bin Laden because their graphic nature could incite violence and create national security risks. Officials told The Associated Press that the Navy SEALs who stormed bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan shot and killed him after they saw him appear to reach for a weapon.

In 2023, former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio and three other members of the far-right extremist group were convicted of a plot to attack the U.S. Capitol in a desperate bid to keep Donald Trump in power after the Republican lost the 2020 presidential election. (Tarrio was later sentenced to 22 years in prison, but was pardoned by Trump on January 20, 2025, the first day of Trump’s second term in office.)

Today’s Birthdays:

Jazz musician Ron Carter is 88.
Pulitzer Prize-winning political commentator George Will is 84.
Actor Richard Jenkins is 78.
Country singer Randy Travis is 66.
Comedian Ana Gasteyer is 58.
Actor Will Arnett is 55.
Basketball Hall of Famer Dawn Staley is 55.
Rock musician Mike Dirnt (Green Day) is 53.
Designer and TV personality Kimora Lee Simmons is 50.
Sportscaster/TV host Erin Andrews is 47.
Singer Lance Bass (NSYNC) is 46.
Actor Ruth Negga is 44.
Golfer Rory McIlroy is 36.

AUSTIN, Texas — Anthony Markanich and Joaquín Pereyra each scored a goal and Minnesota United FC took advantage of an own goal to earn three points with a 3-0 victory over Austin FC on Saturday.

Austin midfielder Ilie Sánchez was credited with an own goal from left of the box at 22 minutes for a 1-0 Minnesota (5-2-4) lead. His mild deflection of a shot attempt by Pereyra created back spin on a ball that slowly rolled through the hands and legs of keeper Brad Stuver.

Markanich scored 13 minutes later on a header from the center of the box for a two-goal lead. Pereyra ended the scoring in the first minute of extra time in the second half with a left-footed shot from the middle position outside the box.

Julian Gressel made his Loons debut as a substitute just days after being acquired after a waiver claim. He made his entrance as a wingback, allowing Bongokuhle Hlongwane to move up the field. Gressel, 31, helped seal the clean sheet with a decisive block from inside the goal, sending Brandon Vázquez’s shot out of the danger zone.

Austin has now been shut out five times in 11 games this season, and Loons goalkeeper Dayne St. Clair earned his sixth clean sheet of the season — tied for first in MLS.

The Loons bounced back from a 3-1 loss to Vancouver last week, a setback that snapped an eight-game unbeaten streak. They will travel to face Louisville City FC in the Round of 32 of the 2025 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup on Wednesday. If Minnesota wins, the Loons will host their Round of 16 game at Allianz Field.

BOSTON — As he assessed the first 20% of the Twins’ season, one which has seen them start the year 14-20, Derek Falvey kept coming back to two words.

“Frustrating” and “disappointing” were the two most commonly used descriptors from the Twins’ president of baseball and business operations as he addressed the team’s performance.

Even still, Falvey projected confidence in the team’s core — one which the front office did not deal from, despite a 12-27 collapse to finish last season.

“Where we are right now is incredibly disappointing,” Falvey said before the team’s 4-3 win in Boston on Saturday. “Everyone in that room is disappointed. Staff’s disappointed. (Manager Rocco Baldelli’s) disappointed. I am, too. Ultimately, it’s my responsibility for us to be where we need to be.”

What’s particularly frustrating, Falvey said, is everything the Twins did this spring to get guys prepared, to make sure they were ready to hit the ground running right when the season started.

While they’ve gotten good performances from their pitching — particularly the starting staff, which rebounded after a tough first go through the rotation  — but they haven’t had the offense to match.

Entering Saturday’s game, the Twins’ offense in the bottom third of the majors in many offensive categories (21st in average, 22nd in on-base percentage, 23rd in OPS, 26th in home runs).

“We feel by and large that that group has pitched well,” Falvey said. “To not match it up with the offense that we know that we know this capable of is incredibly frustrating. … We feel like we need to have those things match for us to be successful this year. There is some urgency because it’s May now.”

Shortstop Carlos Correa has had a particularly tough go of it, hitting .207 with a .546 OPS, one home run and just nine runs driven in. Jose Miranda hit so poorly that he was optioned to Triple-A. Edouard Julien is hitting under .200.

Injuries to Matt Wallner, who had been the Twins’ most productive hitter at the time of his hamstring strain, Willi Castro and Luke Keaschall, who debuted, jolted the team for a week, and then suffered a fractured forearm when he got hit by a pitch, haven’t helped.

And Royce Lewis has yet to play in a major league game because of a hamstring injury suffered in spring training. Castro and Lewis are expected back soon, perhaps as soon as Tuesday when the team returns home.

“Getting everything going at the same time has been really hard for us,” Falvey said. “I can’t figure it out. I just know that our group, I know the work they’re putting in every day and I believe in that part of the process and I know the players do, too.”

The Twins left their core intact, supplementing the position-player groups with veteran free agents Ty France and Harrison Bader, who have been among the bright spots early.

Instead, they dismissed their three hitting coaches, and they’ve wound up with similar results.

“At the end of the day, we still believe that the core of that team in there has the ability to be successful,” Falvey said. “It just hasn’t been for an extended period of time to start the year.”

Briefly

The Triple-A St. Paul Saints were rained out for the 11th time in 37 games on Saturday. That means that Royce Lewis (hamstring), whom the Twins hoped to have play consecutive rehab games in the field, will now play Sunday instead. Tuesday still appears to be the target date for his return. … Chris Paddack will take the ball for the final game of the Twins’ series in Boston opposed by Red Sox ace Garrett Crochet. …  Red Sox first baseman Triston Casas suffered a ruptured patellar tendon in Friday’s game.

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BOSTON — As a member of the Red Sox for 13 years, Roger Clemens has no shortage of memorable moments at Fenway Park. It was where he began one of the most dominant careers of all time. It was the site of his first 20-strikeout game. It was his home where he won the first three Cy Young Awards of his career.

Now, his son has a memorable Fenway moment of his own.

In his very first game at Fenway Park, with his father in attendance, Kody Clemens hit a go-ahead home run in the sixth inning on Saturday evening, lifting the Twins to a 4-3 win over the Red Sox.

Clemens visited Fenway Park as a Tiger a few years back but did not get a chance to play. Saturday, he made the most of his opportunity. With the Twins and Red Sox tied 1-1, Clemens launched a slider into the right field stands with his parents and wife looking on.

“Let’s go!!! Proud dad moment,” Roger tweeted.

It was a meaningful home run personally, to be sure, and also an important one for the Twins, who were on a four-game skid and had found offense hard to come by earlier in the game, yet again. The Twins scored one more in the inning after Clemens’ home run, with a Trevor Larnach single bringing in their fourth run of the game.

The Twins had missed out on a chance to break the game open an inning earlier when Carlos Correa flew out with the bases loaded.

The late offense made a winner of Bailey Ober, who turned in his fifth straight quality start. In this one, he allowed just a run — which came in the third inning — and fanned six. Shortly after Ober recorded the final out of the sixth inning, it started raining at Fenway Park, leading to a 1:12 delay.

After the game picked back up, the Red Sox tightened it up, scoring a pair of runs off Brock Stewart, who hit a batter and allowed a triple before Rafael Devers’ single brought home two runs to bring the Red Sox within a run.

Each team threatened in the eighth inning — the Twins had a runner thrown out at home on the contact play and the Red Sox had a pair of runners on with just one out — but neither broke through and in the ninth, Jhoan Duran was able to work around a leadoff single to seal the save.

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