May 19 (UPI) -- Spanish La Liga power Barcelona will battle MLS teams Inter Miami and the New York Red Bulls in two soccer exhibition games this summer, the teams announced Thursday.

May 19 (UPI) -- Initial claims for unemployment insurance reached a seasonally adjusted 218,000 last week, marking the highest total in four months, according to a new study by the Labor Department.

May 19 (UPI) -- Penn Badgley and Leighton Meester, who played Dan Humphrey and Blair Waldorf on "Gossip Girl," reunited and recalled how they first met.

May 19 (UPI) -- President Biden welcomed the leaders of Finland and Sweden to the White House on Thursday after both Scandinavian countries formally applied to join NATO this week, as a direct result of Russia's war in Ukraine.

ORLANDO, Fla., May 19 (UPI) -- A ULA Atlas V rocket is scheduled to blast off Thursday from Florida at 6:54 p.m. EDT for Operation Flight Test-2 of Boeing's Starliner spacecraft in an uncrewed mission to the International Space Station.

May 19 (UPI) -- Ford Motor Company said Thursday it is recalling 39,013 Ford Expedition and Lincoln Navigator SUVs from model year 2021 because they pose a risk of under-hood fires after 16 vehicles caught fire.

May 19 (UPI) -- Police say that one person was killed in a shooting late on Wednesday at a high school graduation ceremony in central Tennessee, and another person was seriously injured by the gunfire.

May 19 (UPI) -- "Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" star Erika Jayne said Dorinda Medley, Kenya Moore and Kandi Burruss supported her during her divorce from Tom Girardi and their legal issues.

May 19 (UPI) -- The Senate on Thursday is expected to pass a package worth tens of billions of dollars to send more aid and equipment to Ukraine to fend off Russian advances in the Eastern European nation.

MIAMI, May 19 (UPI) -- Miami Marlins infielder Jazz Chisholm Jr. says he doesn't feel well, but he continues to shine at the plate. The infielder recorded his MLB-best fourth triple and homered in a recent extra innings loss to Washington.

May 19 (UPI) -- Budget carrier Spirit Airlines on Thursday made a third attempt to reject a proposed sale to JetBlue Airways, this time which is in the form of a hostile takeover.

May 19 (UPI) -- Marnie Schulenberg, an actress who played Alison Stewart on "As the World Turns," died after a battle with stage 4 breast cancer.

May 19 (UPI) -- Left wing Matthew Tkachuk scored three goals to help the Calgary Flames beat the Edmonton Oilers 9-6 in Game 1 of their Western Conference semifinal series.

May 19 (UPI) -- The Oklahoma City Zoo and Botanical Garden has announced that its adult female okapi, named Kayin, will be giving birth to her first calf this fall.

May 19 (UPI) -- A 43-year-old climber from Japan is presumed dead after he fell into a crevasse in Denali National Park and Preserve in Alaska, officials said.

May 19 (UPI) -- Illinois on Wednesday became the first state in the Midwest to enact a ban on ghost guns -- those that are manufactured privately and without serial numbers, which authorities are seeing more often in crimes.

May 19 (UPI) -- A current of warm tropical water is looping unusually far into the Gulf for this time of year, with the power to turn tropical storms into monster hurricanes.

May 19 (UPI) -- An unidentified man from Michigan was unaware that he had won a $3.39 million lottery jackpot for weeks.

May 19 (UPI) -- The Senate confirmed Bridget Brink late on Wednesday as President Joe Biden's U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, filing the diplomatic post for the first time in three years.

May 19 (UPI) -- John Mulaney and Andy Samberg served as the guest hosts of "Jimmy Kimmel Live" and interviewed each other.