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TAIPEI, June 6 (Reuters) – Taiwan needs to “spend smarter” on its defences and learn lessons from the Ukraine and Middle East wars on using drones to ensure the military balance with China, the de facto U.S. ambassador to Taipei said on Saturday. While Taiwan’s government has prioritised drones and other asymmetric systems for its military modernisation programme, the opposition-dominated parliament last month passed only two-thirds of the $40 billion […]

Lionel Messi, recovering from left hamstring soreness, is healthy enough to possibly appear in at least one of Argentina’s two warm-up matches ahead of the World Cup. Argentina manager Lionel Scaloni updated the superstar’s condition on Friday ahead of the team’s friendlies on Saturday against Honduras in College Station, Texas, and on Tuesday vs. Iceland in Auburn, Ala. “Leo is doing well,” Scaloni said. “Leo trained for a part (of […]

Chandler Simpson left in the third inning of the Tampa Bay Rays’ road game against the Miami Marlins on Friday with what the team called left thumb discomfort. It was the second time this week Simpson was forced out of a game early. On Monday against the Detroit Tigers, as he went to slide headfirst on an attempted steal of second base, his helmet slipped off, bounced and hit him […]

Kawhi Leonard has been interviewed as the NBA continues its investigation into the Los Angeles Clippers’ alleged circumvention of the salary cap circumvention to pay its star player, ESPN reported Friday. Leonard’s uncle and business adviser Dennis Robertson, Clippers owner Steve Ballmer, other team executives as well as executives from the now-defunct Aspiration have also been interviewed, ESPN reported. According to a document obtained by ESPN contributor Pablo Torre and […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles Dodgers on Friday unveiled a permanent display honoring LGBTQ+ trailblazers and former players for the team Glenn Burke and Billy Bean, who were the first two major leaguers to say they were gay. A brief ceremony with their families was held on the team’s 13th Pride Night, hours before the Dodgers hosted the Los Angeles Angels in the Freeway Series. “It’s brave of […]

CHICAGO (AP) — Matt Chapman joined some select San Francisco baseball company — including Willie Mays — with his massive day at the plate on Friday. The 33-year-old third baseman hit his fourth career grand slam, a three-run homer and added a sacrifice fly to finish with a career-high eight RBIs in the Giants’ 18-3 rout of the slumping Chicago Cubs. The eight RBIs tied the Giants’ San Francisco-era individual […]

BOSTON (AP) — A federal judge on Friday sided with 20 Democratic states and halted an effort by the Trump administration to force states to comply with a range of conditions to get billions of dollars from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. U.S. District Judge Myong Joun granted a preliminary injunction in the lawsuit challenging the conditions for getting SNAP funding. Among them are restrictions related to “gender ideology,” “immigration,” […]

(Corrects day of pardon to Thursday in paragraph 1; White House announced the pardon on Friday, paragraph 2) WASHINGTON, June 5 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump granted a pardon on Thursday to former U.S. Representative Stephen Buyer, who was sentenced to 22 months in prison for engaging in insider trading in 2018 as a consultant to T-Mobile US Inc ahead of its $23 billion merger with Sprint. The White House […]

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina on Friday said it was expanding its investigation into the origins of the hantavirus outbreak that struck an Atlantic cruise ship last month, sending scientists to trap and test rats in the western province of Mendoza while lab results are pending from the southernmost city of Ushuaia. Argentine authorities said biologists from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were joining the mission […]