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By David Morgan May 16 (Reuters) – U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, a Republican moderate targeted for retribution by President Donald Trump, will find out whether he can survive a primary election in Louisiana on Saturday against two popular rivals, including a Trump-backed challenger, or become the first elected Senate incumbent to lose renomination in more than a decade.  Cassidy, a physician who first earned the president’s ire by voting for […]

By Lisa Baertlein LOS ANGELES, May 16 (Reuters) – Soaring diesel prices since the onset of the Iran war are draining already tight U.S. school district budgets, making it more expensive to bus students and run generators in a shock officials say they will not be able to afford for long. School districts from Yakima, Washington to Waco, Texas are tapping emergency funding reserves to keep buses running. In remote […]

By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON, May 16 (Reuters) – Democrats hoping to win control of Congress in November’s elections are seizing on Republicans’ support of President Donald Trump’s proposed $400 million White House ballroom to portray his party as out of touch with voters’ cost-of-living concerns. As Republicans move toward a vote that might include hundreds of millions of dollars for the ballroom, Democrats are pointing to a more than 50% jump […]

By Lisa Leutner VIENNA, May 16 (Reuters) – You will barely notice them on television, but a small band of stage hands nicknamed “ninjas” at the Eurovision Song Contest perform a feat as impressive as those on stage: swapping out countries’ sets in the 48 seconds between acts. Although a huge LED-screen stage and backdrop provide many of the visual cues, each of the 25 countries competing in Saturday’s final […]

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — In Senegal, wrestling, known as laamb in the native Wolof, is a national sport deeply rooted in village life. The country’s top wrestlers earn the title “King of the Arenas,” drawing massive crowds and TV audiences. Laamb is unique for its spectacle, featuring elaborate costumes, protective charms, and rituals. Fighters — draped in elaborate costumes and protective charms believed to ward off injury and channel spiritual […]

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — At 6 a.m., in the Mataderos neighborhood of Buenos Aires, workers unload sides of beef from a truck outside a butcher shop as customers line up for wholesale purchases. Inside, 73-year-old owner Jorge García and his staff prepare meat orders before dawn. Among the stacks of beef boxes and red meat cuts hanging from metal hooks, chicken and pork are increasingly present. Red meat consumption […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. and Nigerian forces killed a leader of the Islamic State group in Nigeria in a mission carried out Friday, U.S. President Donald Trump said. Trump announced the joint operation in Africa’s most populous country in a late-night social media post that offered few details. He said Abu Bakr al-Mainuki was second in command of the Islamic State group globally and “thought he could hide in Africa, […]

May 16 (Reuters) – The head of Harvard University’s nearly $57 billion endowment, N.P. Narvekar, has told its board that he plans to retire, the Wall Street Journal reported late on Friday, citing sources. The report said that Narvekar had not set a definitive departure date but discussed the possibility of stepping down in late 2027. Reuters could not immediately verify the report. Harvard Management Co, the university’s investment arm, […]

May 16 (Reuters) – Billionaire investor Bill Ackman said on Saturday that the sale of Google parent Alphabet’s shares was not a bet against the company. Ackman on Friday said his firm Pershing Square had built a new position in tech giant Microsoft after its stock price dropped recently, and sold his long-owned investment in Alphabet to help pay for it. “To be clear, our sale of Google was not […]