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By Jarrett Renshaw WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden and House Republican Speaker Kevin McCarthy are nearing a deal to lift the debt ceiling that would trim some U.S. federal spending. While talks are fluid, the general contours of the deal have taken shape. Here’s what we know so far: A CAP ON DISCRETIONARY SPENDING The deal under consideration would lift the debt ceiling in exchange for holding non-defense […]

By Jarrett Renshaw, Richard Cowan and Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Democratic and Republican negotiators struggled on Friday to reach a deal to raise the U.S. government’s $31.4 trillion debt ceiling, with a key Republican citing disagreements over work requirements for some benefit programs for low-income Americans. Time is running short for Democratic President Joe Biden and Republican House of Representatives Speaker Kevin McCarthy to reach an accord to raise the […]

(Reuters) – American Rose Zhang, who has earned virtually every women’s amateur golf accomplishment so far in her decorated career, announced on Friday that she is turning professional. The 20-year-old Stanford sophomore, who leaves the amateur ranks having held top spot in the women’s world amateur golf ranking for a record 141 consecutive weeks, will make her pro debut at the LPGA’s June 1-4 Mizuho Americas Open in New Jersey. […]

(Reuters) – American Rose Zhang, who has earned virtually every women’s amateur golf accomplishment so far in her decorated career, announced on Friday that she is turning professional. The 20-year-old Stanford sophomore, who leaves the amateur ranks having held top spot in the women’s world amateur golf ranking for a record 141 consecutive weeks, will make her pro debut at the LPGA’s June 1-4 Mizuho Americas Open in New Jersey. […]

(Reuters) – American Rose Zhang, who has earned virtually every women’s amateur golf accomplishment so far in her decorated career, announced on Friday that she is turning professional. The 20-year-old Stanford sophomore, who leaves the amateur ranks having held top spot in the women’s world amateur golf ranking for a record 141 consecutive weeks, will make her pro debut at the LPGA’s June 1-4 Mizuho Americas Open in New Jersey. […]

By Khalil Ashawi and Ali Kucukgocmen ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Like many Syrians in Turkey, Ghaith Sameer is awaiting the result of Sunday’s election runoff with trepidation, fearing a win for an opposition candidate who promises to swiftly repatriate migrants. Sameer fled Syria’s civil war in 2012 and is now one of over 3.4 million Syrians living in neighbouring Turkey, where economic woes have aggravated a rising tide of hostility that […]

By Alan Baldwin MONACO (Reuters) – Lewis Hamilton sounded encouraged by his upgraded Mercedes after the first day of Monaco Grand Prix practice on Friday, even though the principality’s tight and twisting streets were no place for a meaningful assessment. The seven times Formula One champion, who has not won a race since 2021, was third fastest in the first session and sixth in the second. “I’ve generally had an […]

By Sam Tobin LONDON (Reuters) – Microsoft is challenging Britain’s decision to block its $69 billion takeover of “Call of Duty” maker Activision Blizzard on the grounds of “fundamental errors” in the assessment of Microsoft’s cloud gaming services. Britain’s anti-trust regulator, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), vetoed the deal in April, saying it could hurt competition in the nascent cloud gaming market, sparking a furious row. Microsoft confirmed on […]

PARIS (Reuters) – Fresh from his maiden claycourt title at the Rome Masters, Daniil Medvedev is however taking nothing for granted before starting his French Open campaign at Roland Garros. The world number two, who has only recently improved on the slowest surface, has been finding his range on the red dirt to the point that he is now cited as one of the favourites to lift the Musketeers’ cup […]