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By Rory Carroll LOS ANGELES, May 6 (Reuters) – Organizers of the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics plan to use the Games’ Cultural Olympiad to showcase the city’s neighborhoods, artists and immigrant communities, with programming spanning film, food, fashion, music, performance and visual arts, LA28 officials said. The Cultural Olympiad is a multi-year program designed to meld sports and culture in the host city. The program, required of Olympic host cities, […]

BRUSSELS, May 7 (Reuters) – European lawmakers and governments are making good progress in negotiations to finalise a deal scrapping duties on U.S. imports but “there is still some way to go”, the European Parliament’s chief negotiator Bernd Lange said on Thursday. The lawmakers and governments were aiming to finalise a deal under renewed pressure from U.S. President Donald Trump, with divisions over safeguards an overhang on the chances of […]

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Carolina Hurricanes coach Rod Brind’Amour figures the NHL has the best officials in the world. He still thinks they could use some help in sorting through the chaos — both before and after the whistle — that comes with the NHL playoffs. Brind’Amour has backed the idea of using more replay reviews to look not just at penalty calls but everything going on in those testier-with-every-round […]

DETROIT (AP) — Detroit Tigers pitcher Framber Valdez was suspended for five games and fined on Wednesday, one day after he was ejected for hitting Boston’s Trevor Story with a pitch during a 10-2 loss in which he allowed a career-high 10 runs. Valdez was at first banned for six games by MLB, which cited him for intentionally throwing a pitch at Story, but the penalty was reduced in an […]

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Congo’s president warned on Wednesday that the African nation will not be able to organize and hold elections after his term ends in two years unless the conflict that has gripped the country’s east is resolved and stability returns. The remarks by Congolese President Félix Tshisekedi, whose term expires in December 2028, came during a televised address to the nation in which he discussed a range […]

NEW YORK (AP) — When the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded in 1986, Beth Knobel, a future TV news correspondent, was in graduate school. Emerging from class, she saw TV sets had been set up in the lobby. They were tuned to CNN, the 24/7 news channel that Ted Turner had launched about five years earlier, which was carrying the launch live. “Shuttle launches were just kind of routine and the […]

ATLANTA (AP) — Ted Turner was a sportsman of all types, a world champion in sailing and a World Series-winning owner in baseball. He famously owned the Atlanta Braves, leveraging his ownership of the TBS superstation to broadcast their games across the country, all while showcasing his outsized personality at a time when many owners stayed behind the scenes. Turner, who died Wednesday, bought the struggling Braves in the 1970s, […]

By Casey Hall and Ellen Zhang SHANGHAI/BEIJING, May 7 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s visit to Beijing this month is none of her business, says Chinese salesperson Yu Yangxian, even though a large share of the electric lockers and vending machines sold by her company are destined for the United States. “As long as the United States continues to trade, it will have to do business with us,” said Yu, […]

By Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON, May 6(Reuters) – A U.S. judge on Wednesday ruled that the U.S. Justice Department can keep possession of 2020 election ballots seized during an FBI search in January, a victory for President Donald Trump’s administration as it pursues the president’s false claims of widespread voter fraud. Atlanta-based U.S. District Judge J.P. Boulee rejected Fulton County’s request for the return of original copies of the seized material. […]