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VANCOUVER, British Columbia — A Canadian judge on Friday ordered a man accused of ramming his sport utility vehicle through a Filipino heritage festival crowd, killing 11 people and injuring dozens, to receive a mental health assessment to determine if he’s fit to stand trial.

A publicity ban prevents the publication of why Judge Reginal Harris made the decision.

Kai-Ji Adam Lo, 30, appeared in provincial court via video link. He wore an orange short-sleeved jumpsuit and sat on a blue couch. He is expected to return to court on May 30.

Lo faces eight counts of second-degree murder after allegedly driving an SUV through a crowd of people at the Filipino community’s Lapu Lapu Day Street festival on Saturday in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Attending Friday’s hearing was Marco Harder, vice consul for the Consulate General of the Philippines.

Lo had previously been scheduled to appear in court on May 26, after making his first appearance by video on Sunday, the day after the attack.

Damienne Darby with the British Columbia Prosecution Service said that Lo’s lawyer had requested the next appearance be moved ahead.

Lo’s court appearance came just hours before a memorial Mass to pray for victims of the tragedy.

The B.C. provincial government had declared Friday a provincial day of mourning for the victims.

In a statement, Premier David Eby extended his “deepest and most heartfelt condolences” to anyone who had lost a loved one. He also wished a speedy recovery for those injured.

“To anyone suffering: Your pain is our pain,” the statement said. “Your loss is our loss. We stand with you.”

Mayor Ken Sim also released a statement saying the tragedy has touched people of all backgrounds.

“We are devastated,” the statement said. “We are heartbroken. And we are standing together in grief and solidarity.”

WASHINGTON — Secretary of state is a big job. But try piling on top of that acting administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, acting head of the National Archives and Records Administration and acting national security adviser.

That’s Marco Rubio’s resume right now, and it might be that way for awhile.

Rubio gained his latest title after President Donald Trump announced that Mike Waltz — who has been under scrutiny since his central role in the Signal chat leak — would be stepping down and instead be nominated for U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.

The White House raised the possibility of Rubio taking over Waltz’s job more than a month ago, according to a senior administration official. But it was tabled until recently, when Trump decided he’d had enough of Waltz.

There is a very real possibility that Trump keeps Rubio in the national security adviser role for the long term, according to three people familiar with the matter, including two administration officials. Trump appears to be in no hurry to find a replacement. 

“The president has assembled an incredibly talented team that is fully committed to putting America and Americans first,” a senior State Department official said in a statement. “Secretary Rubio looks forward to serving as his interim National Security Advisor while ensuring the mission critical work at the State Department continues uninterrupted.”

A former senior cybersecurity official who refuted President Donald Trump’s lies that the 2020 election was “rigged” is under federal investigation, according to a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson.

Chris Krebs is facing an unspecified government investigation, the DHS spokesperson said. As a result, Krebs was expelled from a U.S. customs program that allows expedited clearance for pre-approved American travelers at airports, known as Global Entry.

“Chris Krebs is under active investigation by law enforcement agencies,” the DHS spokesperson told NBC News. “That is a fact disqualifying him for global entry.”

Officials declined to say why Krebs was under investigation or which federal agencies were leading the probe. CNN first reported Krebs’ suspension from the Global Entry program.

The White House referred NBC News to the DHS and Justice Department for comment. The Justice Department declined to comment. 

Refuting Trump’s election fraud claims

Krebs, who served as head of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency during Trump’s first term, declined to comment. Trump fired Krebs after he said in a statement that the 2020 election was the “most secure in American history.”

Krebs added, “There is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised.”

The investigation of Krebs comes after President Trump issued a memorandum on April 9 directing the attorney general and the homeland security secretary to “take all appropriate action to review” Krebs’ activities during his time in government. The memo also revoked Krebs’ security clearance.

The memo targeting Krebs, and a similar memo naming former senior DHS official Miles Taylor, marked an escalation in President Trump’s campaign of retribution against perceived political enemies. It was the first time the president had requested possible government investigations against individuals. 

The presidential memorandum accused Krebs of seeking to suppress “conservative viewpoints” on social media about the 2020 election and the COVID-19 epidemic, by allegedly coercing social media platforms under the “guise of combatting supposed disinformation.”

The memo claimed Krebs “falsely and baselessly denied that the 2020 election was rigged and stolen, including by inappropriately and categorically dismissing widespread election malfeasance and serious vulnerabilities with voting machines.”

Trump has repeatedly claimed that the 2020 election was “stolen” but there is no evidence that the vote was plagued by widespread fraud.

More than 50 lawsuits brought by Trump or his allies alleging fraud and irregularities have been withdrawn, dismissed or denied by state and federal judges.

After Trump signed the memorandum last month cancelling Krebs’ security clearance, Krebs stepped down from his role at the cyber security firm SentinelOne to prepare his legal defense. Security clearances are crucial for employees working on federal cyber security contracts.

Over 40 cybersecurity experts signed an open letter on April 29 condemning what they called “the political persecution” of Krebs. 

“By placing Krebs and SentinelOne in the crosshairs, the President is signaling that cybersecurity professionals whose findings do not align with his narrative risk having their businesses and livelihoods subjected to spurious and retaliatory targeting,” the letter stated, “the same bullying tactic he has recently used against law firms.”

The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to pause a lower court’s order restricting affiliates of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency from accessing sensitive Social Security Administration data, arguing in a Friday filing that the judicial order limits President Donald Trump’s executive authority.

“This emergency application presents a now-familiar theme,” Solicitor General D. John Sauer wrote. “A district court has issued sweeping injunctive relief without legal authority to do so, in ways that inflict ongoing, irreparable harm on urgent federal priorities and stymie the Executive Branch’s functions.”

Sauer urged the court to lift an injunction issued by U.S. District Judge Ellen Hollander blocking DOGE from accessing the data, which includes Social Security numbers, medical records and tax and banking information.

In a separate filing seeking an immediate pause on Hollander’s order while the Court considers a longer term stay, Sauer argued that the order prevents the Musk-led agency from carrying out its stated function of detecting waste and fraud, describing that effort as “time sensitive.”

“The district court’s flawed injunction forecloses the Executive Branch from carrying out the pressing priorities of modernizing government information systems and ferreting out fraud, waste, and abuse—all at the behest of plaintiffs who gave their information to the agencies with the knowledge that other government employees may access their data. The district court has now blocked these time-sensitive efforts for over a month, without any legal basis for doing so,” he wrote.

Earlier this week, the full Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals denied the Trump administration’s request for a stay in this matter.

PORTLAND, Maine — President Donald Trump’s administration on Friday agreed to halt all efforts to freeze funds intended for a Maine child nutrition program after initially suspending those dollars due to a disagreement between the state and Trump over transgender athletes.

In response, the state will drop its lawsuit that had been filed against the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey announced.

“It’s unfortunate that my office had to resort to federal court just to get USDA to comply with the law and its own regulations,” Frey said in a statement. “But we are pleased that the lawsuit has now been resolved and that Maine will continue to receive funds as directed by Congress to feed children and vulnerable adults.”

An email message seeking comment was sent Friday to the Agriculture Department.

The settlement closes a dispute first sparked by the federal government’s decision to freeze federal funds to Maine for certain administrative and technological functions in the state’s schools.

A letter from Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins explained that the decision stemmed from a disagreement between the state and federal governments over whether Maine was complying with Title IX, the federal law that bans discrimination in education based on sex. Trump had accused Maine of failing to comply with his executive order barring transgender athletes from sports.

Soon after the secretary’s letter was sent, Maine’s Department of Education could not access several sources of federal funds for a state nutrition program, according to the court’s written order.

Maine quickly sued the Trump administration, where the state’s attorneys argued that the child nutrition program received or was due to receive more than $1.8 million for the current fiscal year. Prior year funds that were awarded but are currently inaccessible total more than $900,000, the lawsuit states. The lawsuit also said that the program was anticipating about $3 million that is typically awarded every July for summer meal program sponsor administration and meal reimbursement.

A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to unfreeze funds last month after finding that Maine was likely to succeed in its legal challenge.

A law firm hired by Indiana University has concluded that former basketball team doctor Bradford Bomba Sr. did not act “in bad faith or with an improper purpose” when he performed rectal exams on hundreds of young players during routine physicals.

But the medical experts brought on by the Jones Day law firm to help conduct an independent investigation into the allegations against Bomba wrote that “it was uncommon” for physicians to perform invasive exams like this on “college-age student athletes without pertinent history of complaints.”

Still, the experts wrote in the 874-page report, Bomba’s method of doing these exams was “professional and clinical.”

“We uncovered no evidence — no witness interview, player account, documentation, or evidence regarding any general predilection of Dr. Bomba — that indicated Dr. Bomba had any sexual purpose or derived any sexual gratification from administering the DREs,” the report states, using the acronym for digital rectal exams.

IU hired Jones Day in September to look into the allegations against the now 88-year-old retired doctor after a former player named Haris Mujezinovic sent the school a letter accusing Bomba of performing unnecessary rectal exams on heathy young athletes and saying school officials did nothing to stop him.

“The report did not help me understand the rationale for Dr. Bomba Sr.’s actions or for IU’s failure to act,” Mujezinovic said in a statement released by his lawyers Kathleen DeLaney, Matthew Gutwein and Alexander Pantos after the Jones Day report was released Thursday. “It seems to me that IU stayed quiet at the expense of me and the other players.”

Mujezinovic is one five former Indiana players, including one-time NBA player and former Toronto Raptors coach Butch Carter, who are suing the university trustees and former athletic trainer Tim Garl for allegedly ignoring warnings about Bomba, who they allege performed medically unnecessarily rectal exams on the young men.

Delaney, in an email Friday to NBC News, said “this report helps our litigation case and we are continuing to pursue the case with vigor.”

“The Jones Day report is flawed in many respects, but it unequivocally confirms that Dr. Bomba, Sr. routinely abused IU student athletes for decades and that the university’s Head Athletic Trainer knew about it at the time and did nothing to stop it,” Delany wrote. “Even the hired experts Jones Day engaged — two out of three of them — stopped short of endorsing Dr. Bomba, Sr.’s digital rectal examinations as ‘medically appropriate.’” 

Delaney said the Jones Day investigators did not interview Bomba and noted that in December the retired doctor invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination dozens of times during a deposition for the lawsuit.

The Jones Day report, Delaney added, also called Garl’s behavior “unprofessional” for “razzing” players about the rectal exams at the hands of Bomba.

Garl, who had been the head men’s basketball trainer at the school since 1981, was informed last month that IU would not be renewing his contract.

NBC News has reached out to attorneys for Bomba, Garl and IU spokesperson Mark Bode for comment on the findings in the Jones Day report.

Bomba, who is not listed as a defendant, provided medical care to all its sports teams from 1962 to 1970 and was the Hoosier’s men’s basketball team physician from 1979 until the late 1990s.

Mujezinovic and Charlie Miller, who played for the Hoosiers in the 1990s under the late and legendary coach Bob Knight, were the first of the former players to file a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for Southern Indiana alleging that their coaches and trainers were aware that Bomba was subjecting basketball players to unnecessary prostate examinations and did nothing to stop him.

They sued under Title IX, a federal law that requires all colleges and universities that receive federal funds to put safeguards in place to protect students from discrimination based on sex, including sexual harassment and sexual violence.

“Dr. Bomba, Sr.’s routine sexual assaults were openly discussed by the Hoosier men’s basketball players in the locker room in the presence of IU employees, including assistant coaches, athletic trainers, and other Hoosier men’s basketball staff,” according to the lawsuit.

Former “Project Runway” production assistant Miriam Haley stormed out of a New York criminal courtroom Friday, moments after breaking down in tears and cursing on the stand during her fourth day at Harvey Weinstein’s sex crimes retrial. 

Haley, 48, was about 30 minutes into her testimony when Weinstein’s lawyer Jennifer Bonjean began grilling her on what she was wearing the night she alleges Weinstein forcibly performed oral sex on her at his SoHo home in July 2006. She had previously testified that, weeks later, Weinstein raped her in a Tribeca hotel room. 

“He took my clothes off … I didn’t take my clothes off,” Haley testified about the apartment incident. “He was the one who raped me, not the other way.”

“That’s for the jury to decide,” Bonjean responded, escalating the exchange.

As tears began to stream down her face, Haley stressed it was her experience and yelled: “Don’t tell me I wasn’t raped by that f––ing a––hole!”

The outburst prompted Haley to request a break, which Judge Curtis Farber allowed. The jurors were sent out of the courtroom for a 10-minute recess before Haley briskly walked out through a side door.

When court resumed Friday afternoon, Haley was not crying as Bonjean once again began to question her about the clothes she was wearing and how they were removed. 

“I did not remove my clothes,” she responded. “I was on my period … I did not remove my clothes.”

This is the second time that Haley has faced Weinstein in criminal court. In 2020, Haley testified in Weinstein’s first trial, which resulted in a landmark 2020 conviction that was overturned last year.

“He put his mouth on my vagina, before and after he pulled out the tampon, he put his mouth on my vagina forcefully,” Haley testified earlier this week about the 2006 encounter. “I was mortified, I was embarrassed, in disbelief.”

Weinstein, 73, has pleaded not guilty to one count of engaging in a criminal sex act in connection with Haley’s allegations that he forcibly performed oral sex on her in 2006. He is also charged with one count of third-degree rape in connection with an alleged assault on actress Jessica Mann, who is expected to testify, in 2013. 

He is also facing a charge in connection with the alleged 2006 assault of a Polish former model named Kaja Sokola, who is expected to testify.

“He knew how addictive Hollywood dreams were,” Assistant District Attorney Shannon Lucey said during opening statements, alleging that Weinstein used his power to lure young women. “He knew how the promises of success worked.”

Weinstein has denied all allegations, and his lawyers argued the sexual encounters with the accusers were all “transactional” and “consensual.”

Andy Le, now the sole survivor of his family and the brother of Katie Le, the 5-year-old who was killed in the Vancouver festival attack, is donating half the proceeds from his GoFundMe to other survivors and their families. 

Andy Le — the 16-year-old whose stepmother and father were also killed in the deadly attack on the Filipino festival last weekend — announced in a video released this week that he is giving away more than $266,000 Canadian dollars from a fundraiser set up for him. It had raised over half a million Canadian dollars as of its close on Tuesday.

Le’s uncle, Toan Le, told NBC News the funds would be donated in the coming weeks and that they are searching for an organization to give to. 

“From the bottom of my heart, thank you all so much. I truly appreciate each and every one of you,” Andy Le said. “I know that many other families are hurting too, which is why I would like to donate $266,000 to the other victims from my GoFundMe campaign.” 

Gregg Popovich will no longer coach the San Antonio Spurs and will transition to be the president of basketball operations, the team announced Friday.

Popovich, 76, suffered a stroke in November. He has not coached a game since Oct. 31.

“While my love and passion for the game remain, I’ve decided it’s time to step away as head coach,” he said in a statement.

“I’m forever grateful to the wonderful players, coaches, staff and fans who allowed me to serve them as the Spurs head coach and am excited for the opportunity to continue to support the organization, community and city that are so meaningful to me.”

Popovich has 1,422 regular season wins, the most in league history, and five NBA championships. That mark is tied for third all-time behind Phil Jackson (11) and Red Auerbach (9). He was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2023.

Spurs owner Peter J. Holt called Popovich’s impact on the team and community “extraordinary” and “profound.”

“His accolades and awards don’t do justice to the impact he has had on so many people,” Holt said in a statement. “He is truly one-of-one as a person, leader and coach. Our entire family, alongside fans from across the globe, are grateful for his remarkable 29-year run as the head coach of the San Antonio Spurs.”

Blake Lively is speaking out about what she’s going through.

The “Another Simple Favor” star made an appearance on the May 1 episode of “Late Night With Seth Meyers” and spoke about the highs and lows she’d experienced.

Host Seth Meyers first mentioned to Lively that he was “not totally informed” about the details of what she said was an “intense” year.

“I’m thrilled you’re not doing ‘Weekend Update’ right now, because you’d be totally informed,” Lively joked.

Meyers followed with a prompt to see what Lively was willing to share. “But were I to ask you about it I’d imagine you’re in a situation where you can’t say much,” he said.

Lively characterized using her “voice” as a fight to “make the world safer for women in girls.”

“What I can say without going too into it is that this year has been full of the highest highs and the lowest lows of my life. I see so many women around afraid to speak, afraid to share their experiences. Fear is by design. It’s what keeps us silent,” she said.

“I acknowledge that many people don’t have the opportunity to speak,” Lively continued. “I feel fortunate that I have been able to. It’s the women who have had the ability to use their voice that have kept me strong and have helped me in my fight to make the world safer for women and girls. It’s a pretty simple thing,” she said.

Following her comments, Lively received a round of applause from the audience.