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June 5 (Reuters) – Former world 100 metres silver medallist Marvin Bracy-Williams has received a 12-year suspension for his third anti-doping rule violation, the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency announced on Friday.  The 32-year-old American, who won silver at the 2022 World Championships, was suspended for three whereabouts failures that occurred on July 1 2025, February 24 2026 and April 1 2026. Whereabouts protocol requires an athlete to inform anti-doping authorities where […]

The Milwaukee Brewers moved left-handed pitcher DL Hall to the 15-day IL with a left pectoral strain as part of several moves made Friday. Hall, 27, was one of two Brewers relievers to suffer injuries in Thursday’s 12-9 home loss to the San Francisco Giants. In the fifth inning, Hall hopped after releasing his 27th pitch of the day, and after meeting with Brewers manager Pat Murphy and the Milwaukee […]

June 5 (Reuters) – Russian attacks killed five people in Ukraine’s southern Kherson region in three separate incidents on Friday, the regional governor said. Oleksandr Prokudin, writing on Telegram, said a strike on a district of the region’s main city, also called Kherson, killed three people in their 70s and 80s whose bodies were found in damaged homes. An attack on a petrol station north of the city killed one […]

Before the Carolina Hurricanes made their comeback, before the Vegas Golden Knights needed a goal with 81 seconds left in regulation to tie it and before Seth Jarvis scored in overtime, the sound of Game 2 of the Stanley Cup Final was silence. The same crowd that roared at the start of the series was stunned, with their beloved Hurricanes shut out through the first two periods for the first […]

ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (AP) — President Donald Trump on Friday indicated that he may still speak with Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te — even after China has publicly urged him not to directly engage with the leader of the self-ruled island that Beijing claims as its own. Trump first raised the idea last month on his way back from meeting President Xi Jinping in Beijing, saying that he intended to […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military said it shot down four Iranian drones that were launched toward the Strait of Hormuz on Friday and then struck some of the Islamic Republic’s coastal surveillance radar sites in response. “The attack drones posed an immediate threat to regional maritime traffic,” U.S. Central Command said on social media. The military is enforcing a blockade on Iranian ports in response to Tehran’s chokehold on […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The U.S. attorney’s office in Los Angeles said Friday it had opened “multiple election fraud investigations” related to California’s elections and sent a prosecutor to the county’s vote-counting center. The developments came a day after President Donald Trump made baseless claims of mass fraud in California’s drawn-out vote count from Tuesday’s primary. Late-tallied Democratic-leaning mail ballots were continuing to eat into the vote totals for the […]

Four players on the 2024-25 Alabama State men’s basketball team committed sports betting integrity violations, the NCAA announced on Friday. Amarr Knox, Shawn Fulcher, Corey Hines and Tony Madlock engaged in game manipulation on Dec. 5, 2024, when Southern Miss, a six-point favorite, pulled away in the second half and defeated the Hornets, 81-64. In NCAA enforcement staff interviews with Knox, he reported that Fulcher put the four players in […]

By Ahmed Elimam, Jana Choukeir and Phil Stewart DUBAI/WASHINGTON, June 6 (Reuters) – U.S. forces struck Iranian coastal radar sites on Saturday after shooting down drones launched by Iran toward the Strait of Hormuz, the U.S. military said, in the latest escalation complicating efforts to end the war between the two countries. The U.S. military believes the four Iranian drones were targeting regional maritime traffic, a U.S. official told Reuters. […]