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LAS VEGAS (AP) — Retired Air Force Lt. Col. David Flippo has won the Republican primary in Nevada’s 2nd Congressional District after securing President Donald Trump’s endorsement in the closing weeks of the campaign. The race, which was called Wednesday, put Trump opposite Republican Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo and retiring Rep. Mark Amodei, who both backed former state Sen. James Settelmeyer. Amodei announced he was retiring after 15 years, opening […]

By Anton Bridge and Miho Uranaka TOKYO, June 11 (Reuters) – Japan’s Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities (MUMSS) aims to increase assets managed for retail clients by 10 trillion yen ($62 billion) over the medium to long term, its president told Reuters. The securities firm and investment bank – a joint venture between Japan’s largest banking group, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, and Morgan Stanley – also plans to expand its […]

June 10 (Reuters) – OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told staff in a message earlier this week that he expected the AI startup to go public “within the next year,” The Information reported on Wednesday. The ChatGPT maker on Monday said it had confidentially filed for a U.S. initial public offering recently, joining rival Anthropic in a push toward a stock market listing as it looks to tap into insatiable investor […]

ZONNEBEKE, Belgium (AP) — A postcard belonging to a World War I soldier whose body was found with five comrades during an excavation has helped reunite distant descendants more than a century after his death on the Western Front. Dozens of mourners attended a memorial service in western Belgium on Wednesday during which six new white marble headstones were dedicated to the British soldiers whose remains were recently identified through […]

TOKYO (AP) — Yohei Kono, a veteran Japanese politician who as top government spokesperson offered a historic apology to Asian women over sexual abuses by Japan’s wartime military, has died, officials said. He was 89. Kono had placed great importance on promoting friendly ties with China, South Korea and other Asian countries that suffered Japanese atrocities before and during World War II. He died of old age Monday, according to […]

By Frank Pingue TORONTO, June 10 (Reuters) – Canada will carry immense pressure into their World Cup opener when, in perhaps the most seminal moment in the country’s soccer history, they face Bosnia and Herzegovina on Friday in front of a partisan home crowd with both teams seeking a first-ever knockout stage berth. Canada’s quest for respectability on the global stage has been nothing short of painful, and six defeats […]

By Ananda Teresia JAKARTA, June 10 (Reuters) – Deadly floods and landslides in Indonesia’s Sumatra last year have wiped out at least 7% of the total population of the critically endangered Tapanuli orangutan, a new report released on Wednesday showed. The cyclone-induced floods and landslides killed at least 1,200 people and damaged around 300,000 homes, with environmental groups blaming the extent of the damage on the rapid deforestation of Sumatra […]

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, June 10 (Reuters) – Researchers working to solve the mysteries of neutrinos have unveiled the first scientific findings from a new underground facility in China – the most precise measurements yet of certain aspects of these ghostly subatomic particles. The data comes from the JUNO – short for Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory – facility using a particle detector built under about 2,130 feet (650 meters) of […]

By Anna Pruchnicka June 10 (Reuters) – Ukraine’s police chief has accused Russia of recruiting teenage Ukrainian girls to kill Ukrainian military personnel, following the arrest of a 17-year-old suspected of murdering a serviceman on the instructions of a Russian operative. In an interview published on Wednesday by Ukrainian media outlet Cenzor.NET, national police chief Ivan Vyhivskyi said there had this year been six cases of contract killings arranged via […]