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By Steve Keating ROCHESTER, New York (Reuters) – The highlight of Lee Hodges’s third round at the PGA Championships on Saturday turned into the biggest disappointment after he was hit with a one-shot penalty for waiting too long for his ball to drop into the cup. Playing the 17th, Hodges’s putt rolled to the lip where it stopped and hung there as he walked up to the cup then waited […]

(Reuters) – A horse trained by Bob Baffert was euthanized on the track after going down with an injury and throwing Panamanian jockey Luis Saez during a race on the Preakness States undercard at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore on Saturday. Havnameltdown went down as he came around the final turn and sustained a “non-operable left fore fetlock injury” that led to the decision to euthanize the 3-year-old colt, 1ST […]

CAIRO/DUBAI (Reuters) -Air strikes hit outer areas of the Sudanese capital Khartoum overnight and on Saturday morning, as fighting that has trapped civilians in a humanitarian crisis and displaced more than a million entered its sixth week. The fighting between Sudan’s army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has led to a collapse in law and order that the two sides blame the other for. Stocks of food, cash […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Lawyers for Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, a Republican mulling a 2024 presidential run, are asking that a federal judge be disqualified from overseeing a dispute between DeSantis and Walt Disney Co, questioning the judge’s impartiality in the case. Lawyers for DeSantis, who is being sued for allegedly targeting Disney for company leadership’s political views, filed a motion on Friday in Tallahassee, Florida, asking U.S. District Judge Mark […]

By Steve Keating ROCHESTER, New York (Reuters) -Co-leaders world number two Scottie Scheffler, Norway’s Viktor Hovland and Canadian Corey Conners headed out for a soggy third round at the PGA Championship with umbrellas in hand on Saturday as rain continued to swamp Oak Hill Country Club. From the first players off at 8:10am ET (1210 GMT) until the last pairing of Scheffler and Conners almost seven hours later the East […]

By Amanda Ferguson BELFAST (Reuters) – Irish nationalists Sinn Fein followed up last year’s historic Northern Ireland Assembly victory by overtaking their unionist rivals by a wide margin in council elections on Saturday to become the biggest party at local level for the first time. It is the latest political milestone for the former political wing of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) who want to leave the United Kingdom and […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Martin Amis, a British writer of dark comedic novels, has died at the age of 73, according to the New York Times. His wife, Isabel Fonseca, said the cause was esophageal cancer, the newspaper said. (Reporting by Timothy Gardner; Editing by Cynthia Osterman) Brought to you by www.srnnews.com

By Martyn Herman LONDON (Reuters) – Roberto Firmino scored a late equaliser in his last home game for Liverpool to salvage a 1-1 draw for his side against Aston Villa that just about kept their hopes of a Premier League top-four finish alive on Saturday. Liverpool had won seven games in succession to make a late run for Champions League qualification but defeat by Villa would have guaranteed that Newcastle […]

By Martyn Herman LONDON (Reuters) – The only real surprise about Manchester City’s march to a fifth Premier League crown in six seasons is that a callow Arsenal side managed to keep Pep Guardiola’s serial winners honest for such a long time. Even until a few weeks ago the outcome of the title race looked, on paper at least, too close to call. The reality, however, is that once City […]