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Houston will once again have to try to postpone elimination without its biggest star, as the Rockets announced late Tuesday that Kevin Durant would be out for Game 5 against the Los Angeles Lakers. It will be the fourth game out of five missed by Durant in the first-round playoff series. The 16-time All-Star missed Game 1 because of a right knee contusion and sat out Games 3 and 4 […]

PHOENIX (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed a U.S. Department of Justice lawsuit against Arizona seeking access to the state’s detailed voter records, the latest legal setback in a nationwide effort by the Trump administration. U.S. District Judge Susan Brnovich, a Trump appointee, wrote that Arizona’s statewide voter registration list is “not a document subject to request by the Attorney General” under federal law. The judge dismissed the […]

April 28 (Reuters) – Goldman Sachs has barred its bankers in Hong Kong from using Anthropic’s AI models, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter. Employees of the U.S. bank were unable to access Claude models as of a few weeks ago, the newspaper added, citing four sources. While AI models like ChatGPT and Claude, built by U.S. firms, are prohibited in mainland China, Hong […]

By Jacob Bogage WASHINGTON, April 28 (Reuters) – If the ancestors of Donald Trump and King Charles could see them today, the U.S. president mused Tuesday, they “would surely be filled with awe and pride that the Anglo-American revolution in human freedom” had survived to the present day.  Trump moments later stepped back from the lectern at the White House to shake hands with Charles during the U.S. administration’s formal […]

By Deena Beasley April 28 (Reuters) – The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, overseen by Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., on Tuesday asked for nominations to the influential task force that decides which preventive medical care is provided at no cost to patients. The Preventive ‌Services Task Force, which typically has 16 members, last met over a year ago. Three successive planned meetings were canceled and new members […]

By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS, April 29 (Reuters) – EU countries and European Parliament lawmakers failed to reach a deal on watered-down landmark artificial intelligence rules after 12 hours of negotiations on Tuesday and will resume talks next month.  The changes to the AI Act, which entered into force in August 2024 with key elements set to be enforced in stages starting this year, are part of the European Commission’s Digital […]

Patrick Cantlay joined the list of marquee players who will miss this week’s signature event at the Cadillac Championship when he withdrew on Tuesday, citing an illness. He’ll be replaced in the field by Michael Thorbjornsen. Ranked 32nd in the world, Cantlay has enjoyed solid recent form that saw him tie for seventh at the Valspar Championship before tying for 12th at the Masters and tying for 8th at the […]

By Ted Hesson and Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON, April 28 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s administration has mandated what it calls “enhanced” security checks for immigration applicants, according to internal guidance sent to the employees of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, which is part of the Department of Homeland Security. Internal guidance by USCIS directed officers to refrain from approving any pending cases that have not undergone the expanded background […]

April 28 (Reuters) – Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square has raised $5 billion for its new closed-end ‌fund that is part of a combined U.S. initial public offering of the alternative asset management company, the firm said on Tuesday. The IPO marks the realization of Ackman’s long‑held dream of a flagship fund listed in New York. The new vehicle is Pershing Square’s first fund without performance fees marketed to both U.S. […]