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By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) – (This March 31 story has been corrected to clarify that the labor agency is alleging that Activision violated the law but has not yet issued a final ruling in the headline and paragraph 1, to fix the name of the union to say ‘Communications Workers of America’ in paragraph 3, and to add that the election petition by Boston workers was withdrawn in paragraph 12) […]

Tampa Bay’s Brandon Lowe drove in the only run with a late homer to lead the Rays — the major league’s only unbeaten club — to their 10th consecutive win, beating the Boston Red Sox 1-0 on Monday night in St. Petersburg, Fla. In the eighth inning, Lowe, who went 1-for-3 with a walk, stroked a one-out, 96-mph middle-in fastball from Chris Martin (0-1) to right-center field for the game-winning […]

Claude Giroux collected his 1,000th NHL point and the game-winning score while recording two goals and an assist to lead the Ottawa Senators to a 3-2 win over the visiting Carolina Hurricanes on Monday. Giroux entered the game with 998 points but reached the milestone before the first intermission. The veteran forward scored at 5:51 of the first period, then picked up his 1,000th point assisting Tim Stutzle’s goal at […]

By Kevin Buckland TOKYO (Reuters) – The U.S. dollar eased on Tuesday following its best rally this month against major peers as a resilient U.S. labour market bolstered the case for a Federal Reserve rate hike next month. At the same time, bets for a peak in U.S. rates in coming months spurred leading cryptocurrency bitcoin to top $30,000 for the first time since June. The Australian dollar jumped 0.46% […]

By Sandra Stojanovic and Omar Younis NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) -Tennessee state Representative Justin Jones returned to the state House on Monday, pumping his fist and declaring “power to the people” as a Nashville-area council restored him to office following his expulsion over a gun protest. Republican lawmakers ousted Jones and another young, Black legislator last week over their gun control protest on the House floor, capturing national attention with Democrats […]

SEOUL (Reuters) -About 300 people evacuated from their homes in South Korea’s eastern coastal city of Gangneung as strong winds and dry weather fanned a wildfire on Tuesday, officials said. Firefighters were struggling to control the blaze that started at around 8:30 a.m. local time (2330 GMT on Monday) in Gangneung, with water-bombing aircraft unable to take off due to the winds, officials said. The flames had consumed more than […]

SEOUL (Reuters) – More than 150 people evacuated from their homes in South Korea’s eastern coastal city of Gangneung as strong winds and dry weather fanned a wildfire on Tuesday, officials said. Firefighters were struggling to control the blaze that started at around 8:30 a.m. (2330 GMT) on Monday in Gangneung, officials said. The flames had prompted the evacuation of 152 residents in the city of more than 200,000 people […]

(Reuters) -Apple Inc resolved issues that had caused a brief outage with its music services, the iPhone-maker said early Tuesday. Users had earlier complained of not being able to stream Apple Music while also reporting issues with several other services of the company. More than 3,300 users had reported issues with streaming Apple Music at peak of the outage and nearly 2,200 reported problems with App Store in the United […]

JAKARTA (Reuters) – An Indonesian court was due on Tuesday to decide an appeal by the country’s election commission against a controversial lower court order to delay 2024 presidential and general elections by two years. Proceedings were underway on Tuesday at the Jakarta High Court ahead of the ruling on the appeal by the commission, or KPU, which could either ease or deepen uncertainty over whether the elections can go […]