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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 […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Local TV stations owned by ABC across the United States blasted the Federal Communications Commission on Thursday for launching an “unlawful, arbitrary and unconstitutional” early review of their broadcast licenses as a dispute between the network and the Trump-controlled agency intensifies. “It is an extraordinary demonstration of power and coercion directed at disfavored editorial voices which sends a clear warning to every broadcaster in America,” WABC in […]

NEW YORK (AP) — The former advice columnist E. Jean Carroll has been battling President Donald Trump in court for nearly seven years over her allegation that he sexually assaulted her in the dressing room of a fancy Manhattan department store in 1996. The fight has gone mostly in Carroll’s favor, with one jury finding Trump liable for attacking her and a second awarding her tens of millions of dollars […]

NEW YORK (AP) — There was no one in the courtroom on Thursday to speak on behalf of the four men Randy Santos bludgeoned to death with a metal bar as they slept on the New York City streets. No anguished friends or relatives to tell the judge about Florencio Moran, Nazario Vásquez Villegas, Anthony Manson and Chuen Kok ’s abruptly shortened lives. No one to confront Santos face-to-face about […]