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MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund may have pulled back from golf, but on Thursday it deepened its investment in soccer by becoming an “official tournament supporter” of the World Cup. The kingdom’s public investment fund (PIF) announced this month that it was pulling the plug on future funding for LIV Golf, raising questions about its long-term plans for other sports after its enormous spending in recent […]

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Lawyers for Elon Musk and OpenAI began closing arguments Thursday in the landmark trial whose outcome could shape the future of artificial intelligence. Musk, the world’s richest man, was a co-founder of OpenAI, the company that launched in 2015 and went on to create ChatGPT. After Musk invested $38 million in its first years, his lawsuit filed in 2024 accused OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and his […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Drake has returned as the “Iceman.” And the stakes couldn’t be higher. His ninth studio album — and his first since his extravagant loss in a very public feud with Kendrick Lamar — arrives Friday. The beef between two of hip-hop’s biggest stars erupted in the spring of 2024, with the pair trading a series of vitriolic tracks that culminated with Lamar’s release of “Not Like […]

HAVANA (AP) — Cuba’s national energy grid suffered a major failure early Thursday that severed power to the island’s eastern provinces, authorities said, as residents in the capital Havana faced ongoing blackouts. Cuba’s aging power grid has eroded in recent years as it faces a prolonged economic crisis, recently made worse by a U.S. energy blockade of the island, where daily life can be an ordeal for many of the […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The head of the federal agency that patrols the borders of the United States says he is resigning. The U.S. Border Patrol chief, Michael Banks, told Fox News in an interview Thursday that his resignation was effective immediately. “It’s just time,” Banks was quoted as saying in a report on the Fox News website. “I feel like I got the ship back on course from the least […]

An Oklahoma judge on Thursday allowed former death row prisoner Richard Glossip to be released on bond while awaiting retrial over a 1997 killing that put him on the brink of execution three separate times. The decision clears the way for Glossip, 63, to leave a lockup for the first time since his arrest nearly 30 years ago. Last year, the U.S. Supreme Court threw out his conviction, and his […]

By Howard Schneider WASHINGTON, May 14 (Reuters) – U.S. Federal Reserve Governor Stephen Miran on Thursday said he would resign his seat on or shortly before Kevin Warsh is sworn in as the Fed’s next chair, a necessary step since there is no other open seat on the seven-member board for Warsh to fill and Miran’s term had technically expired in January. In a letter to President Donald Trump released […]

By Octavio Jones PALMETTO, Florida, May 14 (Reuters) – Police in Florida are investigating vandalism at a historic, predominantly African American cemetery where 17 gravesites were damaged, with headstones knocked down and “Trump” and “DeSantis” spray-painted in red letters on tombs, referring to the U.S. politicians.   Detectives believe the incident in Palmetto, a town around 31 miles (50 km) south of Tampa on Florida’s west coast, occurred within the past […]

LAGOS, May 14 (Reuters) – Nigeria’s human rights body on Thursday called on the military to launch a “thorough and prompt” investigation into what it called recurrent civilian casualties from military airstrikes. The National Human Rights Commission, a state body tasked with investigating alleged rights violations, said repeated reports of deaths and injuries raised serious concerns about compliance with humanitarian and human rights law. Amnesty International, citing witnesses, said on Tuesday […]