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KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — A Sherpa guide who survived a week on the treacherous slopes of Mount Everest was recovering at a hospital in Nepal’s capital on Friday, while his family angered by a delay in rescue efforts sought legal action against those responsible. Dawa Sherpa was found Thursday crawling in the snowy slopes around the Khumbu Icefall, just above Everest base camp, a week after he went missing. The […]

FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — A Virginia man who was having an affair with the family’s Brazilian au pair is scheduled to be sentenced Friday for the murder of his wife and a man who was lured to the couple’s home as a fall guy. Brendan Banfield, a former IRS law enforcement officer, claimed that he shot Joseph Ryan after he came across Ryan attacking his wife on the morning of […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The last time Washington, D.C., residents chose a new delegate to Congress and a new mayor in the same election, gas was $1.33 a gallon and George H.W. Bush was president. This fall they will do it again — under starkly different circumstances. As the city heads toward pivotal primaries this month to pick candidates for those roles, President Donald Trump’s influence on the nation’s capital is […]

By Patturaja Murugaboopathy June 5 (Reuters) – Private credit’s rapid expansion is losing momentum, with U.S.-focused direct lending issuance slowing in recent months and fundraising still below its recent peak, industry data shows. PitchBook data indicates new loan issuance by private credit lenders fell to $44.76 billion in the three months ended May 2026, down about 40% from $74.56 billion in the first quarter. Issuance to private equity-backed borrowers dropped […]

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. (AP) — Miles from shore, Chris Kemp pumps and reels as he battles a fish 150 feet below. Eventually, it gives up, and the 10-pound red snapper is hauled aboard the Jodie Lynn II. There’s barely time to rejoice. As Kemp raises his trophy for a picture, the charter boat’s captain rushes over and then drives a knifelike tool into the fish’s gas-filled bladder. The procedure, required […]

When Southern Baptists gather Tuesday in Florida for their annual meeting, they’ll debate for the fourth year in a row whether to formally ban churches with a woman serving in any role resembling that of pastor — not just the top job. One thing they are unlikely to debate is the politics of many Southern Baptists, the vanguard of broader white conservative evangelical support for President Donald Trump. Officials for […]

DIBBINE, Lebanon (AP) — Israel’s air force struck different parts of southern Lebanon on Friday as the military issued evacuation warnings for nine villages, including one that has been spared much of the destruction and was sheltering thousands of people displaced by the three-month war. Six people were killed, Lebanon’s state news agency reported. The warnings forced hundreds of families to flee the village of Anqoun and the area of […]

GALPATHA, Sri Lanka (AP) — The site of the deadly fire at an unregistered nursing home for people with mental illnesses in Western Sri Lanka lay abandoned Friday as the death toll rose from 12 to 13 after one of the injured succumbed to injuries at the hospital, an official said. Glasses cases, medicines and reclining chairs lay strewn around the burned-out shell of the home in Anguruwatota, a small […]

ST PETERSBURG, Russia, June 5 (Reuters) – A Russian amusement park in St Petersburg has named one of its rides the “Oreshnik”, after a nuclear-capable hypersonic missile that Moscow has fired three times at Ukraine. Visitors to the rocket-shaped attraction are repeatedly lifted into the air and plunged into sudden stomach-churning drops. Not everyone is pleased with the name, however. “I don’t think it fits. The best name for it […]