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Ben Rice drove in four runs, and Trent Grisham and Max Schuemann each had two RBIs as the New York Yankees rode a 13-run third inning to a 13-8 victory over the Athletics in West Sacramento, Calif., on Sunday. The Yankees sent 18 hitters to the plate and took a 13-3 lead in the third on 11 hits and four walks. The inning opened with 12 straight batters reaching base, […]

Just one WNBA coach has totaled 150 career wins faster than Las Vegas’ Becky Hammon, who reached the milestone Sunday thanks to the Aces’ 91-81 win over the Golden State Valkyries. Hammon hit 150 wins – regular season and playoffs — in 205 games as a coach, all with the Aces. Currently coaching in her fifth year, Hammon’s victory pace trails only Van Chancellor, the former Houston Comets top charge […]

NAIROBI, June 1 (Reuters) – Ethiopia will hold parliamentary and regional elections on Monday that analysts expect Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s party to win in a landslide, despite significant unrest in much of the country.  More than 50 million of Ethiopia’s people are registered for the elections, but voting will not take place in the northern Tigray region, where the electoral board has cited “unfavourable conditions” following a 2020 to […]

By Wayne Cole SYDNEY, June 1 (Reuters) – Asian share markets firmed on Monday as the boom in all things AI continued to drive demand, offsetting a lack of progress in Gulf peace talks that challenged optimism on a re-opening of the Strait of Hormuz and lifted oil prices. While negotiators from Washington and Tehran are apparently working to hammer out a deal, President Donald Trump has been notably silent […]

By Jihoon Lee SEOUL, June 1 (Reuters) – South Korea’s exports grew more than expected in May at the strongest annual rate in more than four decades, as chip sales hit a record on a global boom in AI investment, bolstering optimism about the trade-reliant economy and its world-beating stock market rally. Exports from Asia’s fourth-largest economy, a bellwether for global trade, rose 53.2% from a year earlier to a […]

By Rocky Swift TOKYO, June 1 (Reuters) – The U.S. dollar held steady on Monday after a weekly loss as markets awaited the results of peace talks in the Middle East and signals on the timing of central bank rate hikes. The dollar index edged lower last week on hopes for a deal between the United States and Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz shipping lane for oil. Oil […]

By Howard Schneider WASHINGTON, May 31 (Reuters) – U.S. Federal Reserve Governor Jerome Powell on Sunday warned about the impact of a politicized Fed and made a broader call for the defense of democratic institutions in his first public remarks since the end of his eight-year stint as head of the central bank.  “Democratic institutions take much time, effort, and patience to build but can be torn down all too […]

FRANKFURT, June 1 (Reuters) – The increased use of stablecoins could reinforce the dollar’s global dominance, undermine some nations’ ability to set monetary policy and even diminish the role of the euro, European Central Bank board member Isabel Schnabel said on Monday. The use of stablecoins, a type of cryptocurrency pegged to certain assets and designed to maintain a stable value, is still relatively low but has increased quickly and […]

WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The New York Yankees scored 13 runs in an inning for the first time in nearly 21 years Sunday as their first 12 batters in the third reached safely against an overwhelmed pitching staff for the Athletics. The game began well for A’s starter Jacob Lopez, who retired all six New York batters in the first two innings. But then trouble came quickly in the […]