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MIDDLESBROUGH, England (Reuters) -Burnley secured automatic promotion to the Premier League with seven games to spare after Friday’s 2-1 victory at Middlesbrough ensured Vincent Kompany’s side will finish in the second-tier Championship’s top two. Burnley will return to the Premier League after one season, having been relegated on the final day of the 2021-22 campaign, in which they finished third-bottom. Promotion can be worth over 300 million pounds ($372 million) […]

By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) – An Indiana high school did not break the law by allegedly forcing a music teacher to quit after he refused on religious grounds to use transgender students’ preferred names, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Friday. The rights of the teacher, John Kluge, to exercise his religious beliefs were outweighed by the potential disruption that his conduct could have on the learning environment at Brownsburg […]

By Laura Sanicola (Reuters) – Real estate magnate Harlan Crow has come under scrutiny after ProPublica reported on Thursday that U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas accepted luxury trips over decades from the Republican donor despite a federal law requiring the disclosure of most gifts. The following are some key facts about Crow. WHO IS HARLAN CROW? Crow, 74, is the chairman and former CEO of Crow Holdings, a Texas-based […]

By Stephen Nellis (Reuters) – (This April 5 story has been corrected to clarify that Neuchips did not beat Qualcomm and Nvidia in one category of testing as it didn’t compete in the categories previously described, and Qualcomm’s results and rankings have been rectified in paragraphs 6-8) Artificial intelligence chips from Qualcomm Inc beat Nvidia Corp in two out of three measures of power efficiency in a new set of […]

By Philip Pullella and Crispian Balmer ROME (Reuters) -Pope Francis presided at one indoor service on Good Friday, but doctors ordered him to skip an outdoor evening “Way of the Cross” procession at Rome’s Colosseum after being hospitalised last week for bronchitis. Francis was following the service from his residence in the Vatican as a precaution after the temperature fell in Italy in recent days and a light snow fell […]

AUGUSTA, Georgia (Reuters) – Second-round action of the Masters was suspended for a second time on Friday as a storm moved into the area of Augusta National on Friday with Brooks Koepka safely in the clubhouse with a four-shot lead over amateur Sam Bennett. The horn sounded to clear players and spectators from the course at 4:22 p.m. ET (2022 GMT) as winds picked up and lightning moved into the […]

TEL AVIV (Reuters) -One tourist was killed and five others were wounded in a Tel Aviv car ramming attack on Friday, Israeli authorities said. A police officer who was nearby arrived at the scene to find several people wounded and an overturned car near a Tel Aviv promenade. The officer “neutralized” the driver when he tried to pull a gun, police said. It was the second deadly attack on Friday, […]

By Frank Pingue AUGUSTA, Georgia (Reuters) – Clubhouse leader Brooks Koepka said he was questioned by Augusta National officials following his second round on Friday after TV footage appeared to show the LIV Golf player giving a five-fingered signal to Gary Woodland on the opening day of play. Koepka used a five-iron from 237 yards out to find the green at the par-five 15th hole during the first round on […]

TEL AVIV (Reuters) -One tourist was killed and five others were wounded in a Tel Aviv car ramming attack on Friday, Israeli authorities said. A police officer who was nearby arrived at the scene to find several people wounded and an overturned car near a Tel Aviv promenade. The officer “neutralized” the driver when he tried to pull a gun, police said. It was the second deadly attack on Friday, […]