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• Headlines: Friday, May 3, 1:20 PM

• South Korean boy band Seventeen has another music video with 200 million views on YouTube. The K-pop group celebrated on social media after its video for "Super" reached the milestone Friday. "Super" is Seventeen's second video to pass 200 million views, following "Don't Wanna Cry." In addition to "Super" and "Don't Wanna Cry," Seventeen has four other music videos with more than 100 million views: "Very Nice," "Clap," "Left & Right" and "Hot." Seventeen released the "Super" music video alongside its EP FML in April 2023. The video shows the members of Seventeen perform with a group of masked backup dancers. Seventeen most recently released the greatest hits album 17 is Right Here and a music video for "Maestro" earlier this week. Seventeen consists of S.Coups, Jeonghan, Joshua, Jun, Hoshi, Wonwoo, Woozi, DK, Mingyu, The8, Seungkwan, Vernon and Dino. The group will celebrate the ninth anniversary of its debut in May.
• Free agent wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. agreed to a one-year contract with the Miami Dolphins, a league source told UPI on Friday. Beckham, 31, totaled 64 catches for 565 yards and three scores over 14 appearances last season with the Baltimore Ravens. The Ravens signed the three-time Pro Bowl selection to a one-year deal last off-season. Beckham should provide even more firepower for a Dolphins offense that already ranked No. 1 in yards per game (401.3) in 2023. He will join a wide receiver group that also includes Tyreek Hill, Jaylen Waddle and Braxton Berrios, among others. Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa, who led the NFL with 4.624 passing yards over 17 starts last season, could be on track to repeat similar success because of the injection of Beckham and other off-season acquisitions made by the Dolphins. The Dolphins, who ranked sixth in rushing last season, also selected former Tennessee running back Jaylen Wright in the fourth round of the 2024 NFL Draft. They snagged former Virginia wide receiver Malik Washington in the eighth round and former USC wide receiver Tahj Washington in the seventh round. They also signed veteran tight end Jonnu Smith earlier this off-season. Smith logged a career-high 582 yards on 70 catches last season for the Atlanta Falcons. He also scored three touchdowns. Beckham is set to play for his fourth different team in as many years. He split the 2021 campaign between the Cleveland Browns and Los Angeles Rams. He did not play in 2022 because of a torn ACL. The No. 12 overall pick by the New York Giants in the 2014 NFL Draft totaled at least 1,000 receiving yards in five of his first six seasons in the league. Beckham totaled 566 catches for 7,932 yards and 59 scores through his first nine seasons.
• Hugh Jackman and Jodie Comer will star in the new film The Death of Robin Hood. Deadline reported Friday that Jackman and Comer have joined the upcoming project from Pig and A Quiet Place: Day One director Michael Sarnoski. Variety confirmed the news. The Death of Robin Hood is a dark reimagining of the Robin Hood tale that finds the character "grappling with his past after a life of crime and murder." Jackman's Robin Hood is "a battleworn loner [who] finds himself gravely injured and in the hands of a mysterious woman, who offers him a chance at salvation," according to an official logline. Production will begin in February 2025. "It has been an incredible opportunity to reinvent and freshly innovate the story we all know of Robin Hood," Sarnoski said in a statement. "Securing the perfect cast to transform the script to screen was essential. I could not be more thrilled and trusting in Hugh and Jodie to bring this story to life in a powerful and meaningful way." The Death of Robin Hood will be presented at the Cannes film market, with WME Independent to handle worldwide sales rights. Jackman will also star with Ryan Reynolds in the upcoming film Deadpool & Wolverine, while Comer will appear alongside Austin Butler and Tom Hardy in The Bikeriders.
• Ukraine can use British weapons inside Russian territory, former British Prime Minister David Cameron said Friday. Cameron, currently the secretary of state for foreign, commonwealth and development affairs, made the comments during a trip to Kyiv Friday. "Just as Russia is striking inside Ukraine, you can quite understand why Ukraine feels the need to make sure it's defending itself," Cameron told reporters during the trip, where he also said Britain would supply Ukraine with $3.75 billion ( 3 billion) annually as long as necessary. Cameron said it should be up to Ukraine, saying it has the "right" to decide how it uses Western weaponry in its conflict with Russia, which entered day 800 Friday. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky stressed the need for more military aid while thanking Cameron for the financial commitment. "First of all, armored vehicles, ammunition, and missiles of various types," Zelensky said Friday during a meeting between the two, according to the president of Ukraine official website. Russia cautioned Britain's support could further escalate tensions across Europe. "This is a direct escalation of tension around the Ukrainian conflict, which would potentially pose a threat to European security," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters in Moscow Friday. Peskov was also responding to remarks made by French President Emmanuel Macron a day earlier. On Thursday, Macron said he was "not ruling anything out" when it comes to sending Western troops to Ukraine, should Russian forces break through the front line.
• A 9-foot alligator wandered up to a Florida elementary school and managed to buck a trapper off its back before being safely corralled. Witnesses Carolynn Jones and Mark Detrio captured video when the gator wandered onto the grounds of an elementary school in Wesley Chapel, prompting a response from a trapper contracted by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. The videos show the trapper attempting to sit on the gator's back and lift its snout while his helpers hold restraints, but the reptile flails out of his grip and throws the man from its back. The alligator was quickly subdued without further incident. The FWC said the 9-foot gator was removed from the scene.
• Luke Bryan will revive his Farm Tour in September. The country music singer, 47, announced the tour in a post Friday on social media. "Time to get your boots and those farmer's tans ready y'all: our 15th #FarmTour will be hitting the fields this fall," Bryan wrote on Instagram. Conner Smith, Tucker Wetmore, the Peach Pickers with Rodney Clawson and DJ Rock will join the tour as special guests. Tickets go on sale May 9 at 10 a.m. EDT, with pre-sales to begin May 6 at 10 a.m. The tour begins Sept. 21 at Huggins Store in Marshville, N.C. This year's tour marks Bryan's 15th Farm Tour, which is held at rural venues and supports American farming communities. As of 2023, Bryan has awarded 83 scholarships to students from farming families who are attending the local college or university near tour stops. Bryan is presently in the midst of his Mind of a Country Boy tour, which began in April. He will resume the tour June 13 in Jacksonville, Fla.
• One of Britain's largest water companies said the most unusual items found in its sewers include a Dora the Explorer action figure and a Ken doll. Severn Trent, which provides water services to regions including the Midlands, Bristol, the outskirts of Sheffield and north and mid-Wales, released a list of the "strangest and funny things that have made their way into the sewers." Toys including a Dora action figure "which obviously went on quite an explorative adventure" and a Ken doll topped the list, followed by pieces of a garden shed, false teeth, underwear, a chopped-up bed frame and pairs of glasses. Other out-of-place items found among the sewage included wallets, keys, cutlery and car tires. Grant Mitchell, head of sewer blockages for Severn Trent, said its "anyone's guess" how some of the larger items came to be in the sewer, but "it makes the job pretty entertaining for everyone." "Although we see items like this at times, the thing we see the most that cause blockages are wet wipes and other 'unflushable' items such as nappies and sanitary products. We would urge everyone to keep in mind that only the three P's should be put down the toilet -- pee, poo and paper -- and bin everything else," he said.
• The Securities and Exchange Commission Friday said the SF Borgers audit firm will pay $12 million for massive fraud and is barred from practicing before the SEC as accountants. Among its responsibilities, It's Trump Media's auditor. The SEC said SF Borgers is barred for false representation to clients, fabricating audit documentation and deliberate and systemic failure to comply with auditing standards. Benjamin Borgers, owner of the firm, will pay an addition $2 million civil penalty. Borgers and SF Borgers were permanently barred from practicing before the SEC as accountants. "As a result of their fraudulent conduct, they not only put investors and markets at risk by causing public companies to incorporate noncompliant audits and reviews into more than 1,500 filings with the commission, but also undermined trust and confidence in our markets," SEC Director of Enforcement Gurbir S. Grewal said in a statement. Grewal added that, "Borgers and his sham audit mill have been permanently shut down." The SEC said the massive fraud occurred in more than 1,500 SEC filings. The SEC action raised serious questions regarding the veracity and accuracy of financial information contained in those filings, including Trump Media financial filings. The SEC said, "We encourage all issuers that have previously engaged BF Borgers as their independent auditor to consider the findings and sanctions discussed in the order, taking into account their disclosure obligations under the federal securities laws." Trump Media spokeswoman Shannon Devine told CNBC, "Trump Media looks forward to working with new auditing partners in accordance with today's SEC order." Trump is the majority share holder in Trump Media. According to the SEC Borgers and his company "copied work papers from previous engagements for their clients, changing only the relevant dates, and then passed them off as work papers for the current audit period." The SEC order found that they violated antifraud, record keeping and other provisions of federal securities laws. These actions, the SEC said, failed to comply with required Public Company Accounting Oversight Board standards, while falsely representing to clients that the firm's work would comply. SF Borgers also were charged by the SEC of "fabricating audit documentation to make it appear that the firm's work did comply with PCAOB standards; and falsely stating in audit reports included in more than 500 public company SEC filings that the firm's audits complied with PCAOB standards."
• Netflix is giving a glimpse of the new film Atlas. The streaming service shared a sneak peek of the sci-fi action thriller Friday featuring Jennifer Lopez. Atlas is written by Leo Sardarian and Aron Eli Coleite and directed by Brad Peyton (San Andreas). Lopez stars as Atlas Shepherd, "a brilliant but misanthropic data analyst with a deep distrust of artificial intelligence." The teaser shows Atlas (Lopez) reluctantly team up with the computer program Smith after she crash lands on an uninhabitable planet. Netflix previously released a trailer that shows Atlas take on the renegade AI known as Harlan (Simu Liu). Sterling K. Brown, Gregory James Cohan, Abraham Popoola, Lana Parilla and Mark Strong also star. Atlas premieres May 24.
• The President of France is "not ruling anything out" when it comes to sending Western troops to Ukraine, which entered day 800 of its war with Russia Friday. French President Emmanuel Macron made the remarks in a story published late Thursday in The Economist. "I'm not ruling anything out, because we are facing someone who is not ruling anything out. We have undoubtedly been too hesitant by defining the limits of our action to someone who no longer has any and who is the aggressor," Macron said. "Otherwise we weaken ourselves, which is the framework within which we have been operating until now. In fact, many countries said that in the weeks that followed that they understood our approach, that they agreed with our position and that this position was a good thing." A Russian spokesperson said Thursday the country would not attend a peace summit scheduled for June in Switzerland. The Swiss government countered, saying Russia was not invited to the conference. Macron said any military intervention would only occur if Russian military forces were to make certain advances. In a post on its Telegram channel Friday, the Russian defense ministry said its troops foiled multiple attacks, knocking down six drones operated by Ukrainian forces. "If the Russians were to break through the front lines, if there were a Ukrainian request -- which is not the case today -- we would legitimately have to ask ourselves this question. So I think to rule it out a priori is not to learn the lessons of the past two years," Macron said in the article, which was published the same day the U.S. Treasury sanctioned nearly 300 targets in Russia, accusing the Kremlin of using chemicals "as a method of warfare" against Ukrainian troops. Macron's comments come just days before he is set to host Chinese President Xi Jinping for a state visit. The French President has issued several warnings about Russian aggression in the days ahead of Xi's visit to France on Monday and Tuesday. "If Russia wins in Ukraine, there will be no security in Europe," Macron said Thursday. "Who can pretend that Russia will stop there? What security will there be for the other neighboring countries, Moldova, Romania, Poland, Lithuania and the others?"