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By Andres Gonzalez and Abigail Summerville LONDON/NEW YORK, May 22 (Reuters) – U.S. cosmetics maker Estée Lauder and Spanish perfume group Puig had been finalising the details of a deal when talks fell apart late on Thursday, preventing a merger that would have created a $40 billion luxury beauty giant. The merged company would have put together brands such as Tom Ford, Clinique and MAC with Carolina Herrera and Charlotte […]

Colorado Avalanche star defenseman Cale Makar will miss Game 2 of the Western Conference finals against the visiting Vegas Golden Knights on Friday. Makar, who also missed Colorado’s 4-2 loss in Game 1 of the series on Wednesday, is nursing an upper-body injury. He was on the ice for an optional skate on Friday morning and took reps with the first power-play unit. Jack Ahcan recorded a minus-1 rating in […]

WASHINGTON, May 22 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday that Tulsi Gabbard’s deputy, Aaron Lukas, would become the acting director of national intelligence after she leaves the administration on June 30. “Tulsi has done an incredible job, and we will miss her,” Trump said in a Truth Social post in which he attributed Gabbard’s impending departure to the illness of her husband. (Reporting by Ismail Shakil and […]

COPENHAGEN, May 22 (Reuters) – Denmark’s acting Defence Minister Troels Lund Poulsen’s attempt to form a centre-right government broke down on Friday, he said, prolonging a post-election stalemate in the Nordic country’s parliament. A March election resulted in a fragmented assembly of 12 parties, with Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen resigning after her Social Democrats remained the largest party but suffered their worst election result since 1903. Poulsen, leader of the […]

WASHINGTON, May 22 (Reuters) – The White House forced U.S. intelligence official Tulsi Gabbard to resign from her post, a person familiar with the matter said on Friday. Gabbard posted her resignation letter on X on Friday. (Reporting by Jonathan Landay; Writing by Doina Chiacu; Editing by David Ljunggren) Brought to you by www.srnnews.com

NEW YORK (AP) — Josh Hart is the closest thing to a comedian on a New York Knicks team that’s been all business in these NBA playoffs. There was nothing to laugh about Thursday night early in Game 2 of the Eastern Conference finals, when Hart missed three 3-pointers to continue a postseason shooting slump. His frustration was evident as he slammed the ball down a few times, and he […]

BEIRUT (AP) — Israeli airstrikes on southern Lebanon Friday killed 10 people, including six paramedics and a Syrian girl, Lebanon’s Health Ministry said, the latest in near-daily attacks from both sides that have not stopped despite the fragile, U.S.-brokered ceasefire in the Israel-Hezbollah war. The first strike hit the village of Hanouiyeh, killing four paramedics working for Hezbollah’s Islamic Health Association and wounding two others including one paramedic, the ministry […]

CARLETON, Mich. (AP) — Chase Harvell rolled into the Airport High School parking lot Friday in southeastern Michigan one final time before next week’s graduation. Harvell was driving a family vehicle, just as he had countless times before. This set of wheels, though, topped out at around 25 mph (40 kph). Harvell and dozens of his fellow seniors eschewed their cars and trucks and arrived in tractors, ATVs, golf carts […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senior officials in the Food and Drug Administration’s tobacco center were blindsided by a recent decision that opens the door to allowing more unauthorized electronic cigarettes and nicotine pouches onto the U.S. market, The Associated Press has learned. The guidelines, posted online earlier this month before former FDA Commissioner Marty Makary resigned, will allow companies to launch certain nicotine-based products before they’ve been fully vetted by regulators. […]