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By Alasdair Pal SYDNEY, May 15 (Reuters) – Solomon Islands parliament on Friday elected opposition leader Matthew Wale as prime minister, after incumbent Jeremiah Manele was ousted from power last week in a no-confidence vote. Wale defeated Peter Shanel Agovaka by 26 votes to 22 in a ballot of the country’s members of parliament, Governor General Sir David Tiva Kapu, who acts as a representative of the country’s head of […]

May 15 (Reuters) – The United States expects China to sign up to buy “double-digit billions” worth of U.S. agricultural products following a summit between Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping in Beijing, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said on Friday. Greer noted the 25 million metric ton per year soybean deal agreed last October and said the U.S. also expects to “see an agreement for double-digit billion purchases of […]

By Jana Winter WASHINGTON, May 14 (Reuters) – The United States plans to indict Cuba’s Raul Castro, a U.S. Department of Justice official said late on Thursday. The timing of the potential indictment, which would need to be approved by a grand jury, was not immediately clear. The potential indictment of the 94-year-old former president of Cuba and brother of Fidel is expected to focus on the downing of aircraft, […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump exceeded his authority when he issued an executive order to restrict voters’ ability to cast ballots by mail, attorneys for Democrats and civil rights groups told a federal judge on Thursday. U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols didn’t rule from the bench on the plaintiffs’ request for an order blocking officials from implementing Trump’s March 31 order, his second related to elections since winning his […]

SEATTLE (AP) — A tourist from Washington state is facing federal charges after a witness recorded what prosecutors say was a video of him hurling a coconut-sized rock at an endangered Hawaiian monk seal just off a Maui beach last week. Igor Mykhaylovych Lytvynchuk, 38, made arrangements to surrender in the Seattle area on Wednesday as special agents with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration were seeking to arrest him, […]

The cities of Boston and Philadelphia will be hosting World Cup matches in a few short weeks, but when they do, they’ll insist that a certain essential gameday activity, namely tailgating, has a different look. Officials for both venues revealed on Wednesday that tailgating will be restricted to ticket holders, a change from usual policy at Lincoln Financial Field and Gillette Stadium, respectively. “The people who should come to Gillette […]

By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON, May 14 (Reuters) – Muslim American groups said congressional hearings that Republican lawmakers cast as aimed at making the U.S. “sharia-free” are being weaponized against Muslim minorities in the United States by stoking fear against them. Republicans, who hold a majority in both chambers of Congress, titled a Wednesday hearing by a House Judiciary Subcommittee as “Sharia-Free America: Why Political Islam and Sharia Law are Incompatible […]

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By Blake Brittain May 14 (Reuters) – A federal judge on Thursday pressed lawyers for more information on several points of artificial intelligence company Anthropic’s proposed $1.5 billion settlement with authors who accused it of misusing their books to train its AI chatbot Claude. U.S. District Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin did not grant final approval at the hearing in San Francisco, instead asking for more detail on issues including lawyers’ fees […]