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Evoking the same do-it-yourself pop-rock feminism of her ’90s musical influences, Olivia Rodrigo raised $20 million for women’s well-being with a benefit show that activated her young audience. Daisy Chain Fields united a women-led lineup boasting queer pop star Chappell Roan, breakout rapper Doechii and riot grrrl pioneers Bikini Kill behind issues of women’s health, workplace protections and legal rights. Ahead of Saturday’s festival in Irvine, California, Rodrigo announced the […]

By Balazs Koranyi, Howard Schneider and Ann Saphir JACKSON HOLE, Wyoming, Aug 30 (Reuters) – Europe’s central bankers are leaving an annual getaway with their U.S. counterparts far from reassured that long-standing norms in global cooperation remain intact and worried that more turmoil is ahead for an already testy relationship with Washington, sources familiar with the discussion said. Federal Reserve policymakers went out of their way to ease their counterparts’ […]

BEIJING/TRISHULI, Nepal Aug 30 (Reuters) – China on Sunday said 261 foreign nationals from 23 countries were missing on the Tibetan side of a border crossing with Nepal following a mudslide which tore through the Himalayan region, while the death toll in Tibet has reached 16 people. Officials from China’s Tibet Autonomous Region said at a press conference that the highest number of missing foreigners was from Nepal at 104, […]

HONG KONG (AP) — Chinese university student Fleming Cheng found the political books he had only glimpsed online in a Hong Kong bookstore last year. Before visiting Greenfield Book Store, Cheng had only managed to see the books’ covers online after bypassing Beijing’s internet censorship using a VPN. At the store, he picked up a title offering a critical account of China. He stood there devouring dozens of pages from […]

SYDNEY, Aug 30 (Reuters) – Australia’s far-right One Nation party won a seat in a state parliament long held by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s centre-left Labor Party, continuing a surge that had gained the populist group its first seat in the national lower house. Gym owner Luke Herdegen scored One Nation’s first lower house seat in the Western Australia parliament, an official tally showed on Sunday, taking a seat in […]

Aug 29 (Reuters) – France’s Diane Parry stayed resilient to defeat Belgian second seed Elise Mertens 6-4 0-6 6-3 in the Monterrey Open final on Saturday, securing her maiden WTA singles title in her final tune-up ahead of the U.S. Open.  Parry, 23, took control of the match early at the WTA 500 event, racing to a 4-1 lead in the opening set before 30-year-old Mertens stormed back to level. […]

SEOUL, Aug 30 (Reuters) – South Korea’s Presidential Office named Vice Finance Minister Lee Hyoung-il as finance minister in a cabinet reshuffle on Sunday, Yonhap News reported. (Reporting by Cynthia Kim; Editing by William Mallard) Brought to you by www.srnnews.com

By Field Level Media Aug 30 (Field Level Media) – Michael Block ripped an eagle on his opening hole and kept the pressure on, finishing 7-under-par 65 to grab a two-stroke lead at the Ally Challenge in Grand Blanc, Mich. Block, perhaps most well known for his top-15 finish at the 2023 PGA Championship, is in pursuit of his first win on the PGA Tour Champions circuit, fresh off a […]

President Donald Trump says the United States has secured what he calls “the biggest oil deal in the world”—a historic agreement with Venezuela that could reshape America’s energy strategy, strengthen ties across the Western Hemisphere, and deliver a major victory for the administration’s America-first agenda. The agreement, announced by the President, reportedly gives the United States majority control of more than sixty-five billion barrels of proven Venezuelan oil reserves. The […]