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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 […]

By Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss NEW YORK, May 6 (Reuters) – The U.S. Treasury said on Wednesday it does not expect to increase auction sizes for notes and bonds for several more quarters, in line with market expectations, as it detailed a $125 billion refunding for May to July 2026. The financing package will raise new cash of $41.7 billion from private investors. In a statement, the Treasury said it will keep […]

By Michael S. Derby May 6 (Reuters) – Supply chain pressures in April hit their highest level since July 2022, as the Middle East war heavily impacted firms’ ability to move goods around the world freely, data from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York released on Wednesday showed. The Global Supply Chain Pressures index moved up sharply to 1.82 in April, from March’s 0.68. The New York Fed did […]

WOODS HOLE, Mass. (AP) — Green cells whirl around a red-light chamber, propelled by a blade through bubbling water. These little seaweed cells, called gametophytes, will develop into a strain of fast-growing kelp — part of what was once a government-funded initiative to develop sustainable biofuels for American transport. Electricity from solar and wind energy can power cars, however ships and aircraft largely run on liquid fuels made with a […]

Five months ago, President Donald Trump was stinging from one of the first political defeats of his second term as Republican state senators defied him on redistricting in Indiana. Now he has proved he can still punish wayward party members after he endorsed a slate of challengers who defeated almost every one of those lawmakers he wanted to dislodge. The results will likely bolster Trump’s confidence heading into upcoming Republican […]