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SAO PAULO (AP) — The U.S. State Department announced it will designate two Brazilian criminal groups as foreign terrorist organizations on Thursday, a move that President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has repeatedly said he will interpret as interference favoring his rival, Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro, in October’s presidential elections. Ahead of elections, supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro and of his presidential hopeful son have called for the designation for […]

ATLANTA (AP) — A federal judge had an extramarital affair with a high-ranking police officer — including having sex in the judge’s chambers that was overheard by staff — and initially lied about the actions but remains on the bench after receiving a “private reprimand,” according to an investigation by the court system. The Judicial Council of the 11th Judicial Circuit, which includes Alabama, Florida and Georgia, said in a […]

FAYETTEVILLE, Ga. (AP) — Jozy Altidore arrived at the new U.S. Soccer National Training Center, a $250 million, 200-acre, 19-field complex south of Atlanta, far different from where his 2014 American team recovered from practice in a plastic cold tub on a paved path outside Stanford’s Cagan Stadium in California. “This is the culmination, right?” the retired striker said Thursday. “This is what I’m sure past players strived to want […]

DENALI NATIONAL PARK AND PRESERVE, Alaska (AP) — Rescuers are trying to reach four climbers who fell on Alaska’s Mount McKinley, North America’s tallest peak, the National Park Service said Thursday. The climbers’ conditions weren’t immediately known following the fall, which was reported to Denali National Park and Preserve rangers overnight, and rangers were seeking a weather window to allow them to reach the area by helicopter, a statement from […]

Texas Tech coach Joey Maguire replied to schedule ridicule with an offer he hopes Texas coach Steve Sarkisian won’t refuse. Maguire said Texas Tech has already received confirmation that Texas State and Abilene Christian — who are set to face Texas and Texas Tech, respectively, in Week 1 this fall — would be willing to accept a payment and play each other instead. The idea, of course, being Maguire would […]

May 29 (Reuters) – Electrical workers at BHP’s Port Hedland bulk port terminal will vote on work stoppages following six months of failed talks with management, the Electrical Trades Union said in a statement on Friday.   The ballot follows six months of stonewalling where workers found employer representatives who were unauthorised to negotiate an agreement, unwilling to do so, or both, the union said.  Workers are seeking to resolve significant […]

May 29 (Reuters) – Chinese biopharmaceutical firm Innovent Biologics and U.S. pharma giant Pfizer have struck a global licensing and collaboration deal worth up to $10.5 billion to research and develop 12 early-stage cancer medicines, the companies said on Friday. The deal also includes a $650 million upfront payment to Innovent and up to $9.85 billion in potential development, regulatory and commercial milestone payments. The partnership spans a portfolio of […]

HAVANA (AP) — Nearly 3 million Cubans experience water shortages every day because of a severe oil shortage that government officials blame on a U.S. energy blockade, authorities said late Wednesday during a roundtable discussion regarding the impact of the ongoing blockade. The island’s water system is operating with only 37% of the required fuel as Cuba faces its worse energy crisis. The water system is one of the sectors […]

SEOUL, May 29 (Reuters) – Samsung Electronics said on Friday it has started shipping samples of its latest high-bandwidth memory (HBM) chip, or the 12-layer HBM4E, marking what it said was the industry’s first shipment of such products. The South Korean tech company said the new chip represents a more than 20% increase in speed performance over its previous-generation HBM4 products. Samsung said the chip uses its latest 1c DRAM […]