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HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The artificial intelligence boom is leading to fights in some states over growing utility profits, as governors, attorneys general and others protesting rising electricity bills say cash-strapped residents are stuck in a broken system. Officials and lawmakers in at least six states — including Arizona, Indiana, Maryland, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania — are going to new lengths to try to block rate increases proposed […]

WAIALUA, Hawaii (AP) — The reddish-brown mud that smothered Bok Kongphan’s Hawaii farm has hardened in the tropical sun. Irrigation tubes lie in a tangle where his lemongrass, cucumber and okra once flourished. His niece, Jeni Balanay, lost her crops too — a mustardy green called choy sum, bitter melon, tomato. The leaves of her recently planted banana, coconut and mango have gone yellow, the trees unlikely to survive. Across […]

By Philip O’Connor May 16 (Reuters) – Former two-weight mixed martial arts world champion Conor McGregor will make his long-awaited return to the UFC octagon on July 11 in Las Vegas, UFC President Dana White announced during Saturday night’s UFC card.  The Irishman, who has not fought since breaking his leg against Dustin Poirier in July 2021, faces Hawaiian Max Holloway in the main event at UFC 329 in the […]

INGLEWOOD, California, May 17 (Reuters) – Former UFC champion Ronda Rousey came roaring out of the traps in her first mixed martial arts fight in almost a decade, securing her trademark armbar submission in the opening seconds to defeat Gina Carano on Saturday night. The 39-year-old, an Olympic bronze medallist in judo in 2008, wasted no time when the fight began at the Intuit Dome in the first MMA card […]

MOSCOW, May 17 (Reuters) – At least three people were killed in a Ukraine drone attack overnight in the wider Moscow region, while 12 people were injured, mostly near the entrance to the Moscow oil refinery in other drone strikes, authorities said on Sunday. Moscow city Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said the refinery’s “technology” was not damaged. (Reporting by Vladimir Soldatkin; Editing by Raju Gopalakrishnan) Brought to you by www.srnnews.com

Veteran Astros infielder Jose Altuve is set to undergo imaging Sunday morning after exiting Houston’s 4-1 win over the Texas Rangers on Saturday with a left side injury. Altuve left the game in the eighth inning after sustaining the injury on a swing. He hit the ball, grounding it to third but did not run out the play, instead grimacing in pain and walking back toward the dugout. “It’s not […]

CANNES, France (AP) — The day John Lennon was shot, on Dec. 8, 1980, he and Yoko Ono gave an interview to a San Francisco radio crew from their home in New York’s Dakota Apartments. They were promoting their new album “Double Fantasy,” but the two-hour conversation was wide ranging. Though the interviewers had been warned “no Beatles questions,” Lennon and Ono were thrillingly open. That day, Annie Leibovitz also […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — A proposal to fund $1 billion in security additions for the White House campus and the president’s new ballroom fails to meet procedural rules, according to the Senate parliamentarian, dealing a blow to Republican plans to include it as part of a bill to fund immigration enforcement agencies for the next three years. The parliamentarian’s ruling, described late Saturday by Senate Democrats, said that funding for a […]

SEOUL, May 17 (Reuters) – South Korea will pursue all options, including emergency arbitration, to avoid a labour strike at the country’s biggest employer Samsung Electronics and to minimise any damage if one does occur, its prime minister said on Sunday. The world’s largest memory chip maker and its South Korean labour union will resume pay talks on Monday with a government mediator, in a move that could ease concerns […]