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CLEVELAND (AP) — Browns owners Dee and Jimmy Haslam have donated $12.5 million toward blood cancer research and treatment. The donation includes $10 million to the Oxford-Harrington Rare Disease Centre in England for research and drug development focused on chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) and other rare blood cancers. The other $2.5 million will go to Cleveland’s University Hospitals Seidman Cancer Center, which will establish an endowed chair in CLL research […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — A man accused of firing a gun at law enforcement officers near the Washington Monument this week made a vulgar remark about the White House after the confrontation, according the top federal prosecutor for the nation’s capital. The man will be charged with assaulting a federal officer and discharging a firearm during a violent crime, U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro told ABC News in an interview that aired […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Ted Turner, a brash and outspoken television pioneer who raced yachts, owned huge chunks of the American West and transformed the news business by launching CNN in 1980, has died at age 87. The network reported Turner died Wednesday, citing a news release from Turner Enterprises. Turner owned professional sports teams in Atlanta, defended the America’s Cup in yachting in 1977 and donated a stunning $1 […]

Women’s professional hockey is coming to Hockeytown, with the PWHL on Wednesday designating Detroit as the first of what could become four expansion markets for next season. Detroit’s selection is the result of the tight relationship the PWHL has with the city’s Ilitch family, whose holdings include the Red Wings. And it reflects the success the league has enjoyed in playing four neutral-site games at the NHL team’s home. “I […]

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Los Angeles Lakers forward Jarred Vanderbilt injured his right pinkie when he attempted to block a dunk by Oklahoma City Thunder center Chet Holmgren during Game 1 of their Western Conference semifinal matchup on Tuesday night. Several players on the Thunder bench immediately looked away at the sight of the finger. “I mean, it just — it looked pretty gruesome in my opinion,” Thunder guard Jared […]

PRAIA, Cape Verde (AP) — Three people from a cruise ship at the center of a deadly hantavirus outbreak, including the ship’s doctor, were being flown to the Netherlands for medical care on Wednesday as the ship with some 150 passengers prepared to head to Spain’s Canary Islands. Three people have died, and the World Health Organization says eight cases have been recorded in all. Passengers on the Dutch ship, […]

By Corina Pons, Charlie Devereux and Borja Suarez MADRID, May 6 (Reuters) – The arrival this weekend of a cruise ship hit by an outbreak of hantavirus is reviving memories for residents of Spain’s Canary Islands of the quarantines they experienced during the Covid pandemic. The MV Hondius, carrying 150 people, is expected to reach Tenerife on Saturday, where it will dock after Spain agreed to requests from the World […]

By Isla Binnie and Prakhar Srivastava NEW YORK, May 6 (Reuters) – Apollo Global Management crossed $1 trillion in assets under management and beat Wall Street expectations for first-quarter profit on Wednesday after posting record quarterly fee-related earnings. CEO Marc Rowan had set a lofty five-year target in 2021 to double Apollo’s AUM to $1 trillion by pushing hard into retirement services and credit. Those efforts seem to have paid […]

BENGALURU, May 6 (Reuters) – Indian fintech firm Paytm reported a profit for the fourth quarter on Wednesday, helped by growth in its core financial services distribution business and payments segment. The digital payments firm posted a consolidated net profit of 1.84 billion rupees ($19.45 million) for the quarter ended March 31, compared with a loss of 5.4 billion rupees a year earlier. In the year-ago quarter, its results were […]