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Brigid Lynch was working along a wooded creek in a mountainous part of the San Francisco Bay Area when something that didn’t look like the rocks she’d been studying caught her eye. It turned out to be the fossilized tooth of a Pacific mastodon. “I keep joking it wasn’t hard to find,” Lynch, a geomorphologist at Balance Hydrologics, said Friday. “It was just sitting there in the middle of the […]

By Janina Nuno Rios NEW YORK, Sept 11 (Reuters) – Alexander Zverev went from wondering whether his U.S. Open campaign was “pointless” to preparing for a second final at Flushing Meadows on Friday, as his dramatic turnaround had given him a chance to win a second Grand Slam title. The German had been pushed to dramatic five sets in each of his first two rounds but has since won four […]

By Dan Catchpole SEATTLE, Sept 11 (Reuters) – Boeing and its engineering union reached a tentative contract agreement on Friday, union officials said.  The four-year offer includes higher general wage increases than the first offer, which members of the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace (SPEEA) overwhelmingly rejected in an Aug. 21 vote. (Reporting by Dan Catchpole in Seattle; Editing by Tom Hogue and Kim Coghill) Brought to you […]

Sept 12 (Reuters) – Iraq ordered the closure of the Shalamcheh border crossing between Iraq and Iran as a precautionary measure after the latest drone attacks on Saudi Arabia, two security sources told Reuters on Saturday. The sources said a wide-scale operation was underway to pursue perpetrators of the attack on Saudi Arabia. Riyadh said on Friday its vital East-West pipeline was attacked by drones that were launched from Iraq. […]

Sept 11 (Reuters) – Talks between Israel and Lebanon that were scheduled to take place in Rome next week have been postponed and will occur instead in October, Axios reported on Friday, citing a U.S. official. Jewish holidays, a Paris conference and UN General Assembly preparations meant participants could not convene in Rome, Axios cited a source as saying. The Lebanese and Israeli ambassadors are due to meet in Washington, […]

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Before Sean McVay jumped on his second 15-hour flight in less than two days, he insisted the Los Angeles Rams ’ unorthodox travel plan for Australia wasn’t the reason his Super Bowl-contending team took a thrashing from the San Francisco 49ers in its season opener. If the coach is right, that’s actually more dismaying and concerning than the other scenario. That means the Rams were completely […]

A pastor kicked off a recent campaign stop for Michael Whatley, the Republican nominee for Senate, with a prayer that asked God to bestow “integrity and honesty” upon the event and to right wrongs “hammered down on the conservative movement.” The prayer was hardly unusual by North Carolina political standards. What was surprising was the man who delivered it. Pastor Daimon L. King is a registered sex offender, twice sentenced […]

By Krystal Hu and Milana Vinn Sept 11 (Reuters) – Anthropic is in talks to bring Nvidia as an anchor investor into what could be the largest IPO in history, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters. Anthropic is seeking to raise as much as $100 billion that could value the artificial intelligence startup at around $2 trillion, the people said. Nvidia is considering investing up to $10 billion […]

Sept 11 (Reuters) – Apollo Global Management is in talks to acquire Johnson & Johnson’s orthopedics unit in a deal that could value it at close to $20 billion, Bloomberg News reported on Friday, citing sources. Several private equity firms are interested to potentially buy out the unit, Bloomberg News said, adding that an agreement could be reached within weeks. Reuters could not immediately verify the report. Apollo Global Management […]