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(Reuters) – The National Basketball Association fined the Dallas Mavericks $750,000 on Friday for resting multiple players during a game last week that had draft implications and while they were not mathematically eliminated from playoff contention. The NBA said Dallas violated the player resting policy and demonstrated through actions and public statements a desire to lose the contest in order to improve their chances of keeping their first-round pick in […]

By Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber GENEVA (Reuters) – Wearing her blue and yellow tracksuit from the 1994 Olympics, former figure skater Oksana Baiul-Farina displays the gold medal she won for Ukraine at those Games as a 16-year-old. That Olympic gold — Ukraine’s first after it gained independence from the Soviet Union in 1991 — carries even more meaning for Baiul-Farina, with the prospect of seeing athletes from Russia and Belarus competing at […]

BALLINA, Ireland (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden broke down in tears on Friday after a chance meeting at an Irish church with the priest who performed the last rites on his son Beau, a priest who accompanied Biden during the visit said. Father Richard Gibbons, who led Biden on a tour of the Catholic shrine of Knock, said he had not known that one of his colleagues, ex-US Army […]

By Tim McLaughlin and Sarah N. Lynch BOSTON (Reuters) -A 21-year-old member of the U.S. Air National Guard accused of leaking top secret military intelligence records online made his initial appearance before a federal judge in Boston on Friday to face charges he unlawfully copied and transmitted classified materials. Jack Douglas Teixeira of North Dighton, Massachusetts, who was arrested by heavily armed FBI agents at his home on Thursday, appeared […]

(Reuters) -Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Friday defended his country’s pursuit of Chinese communication and semiconductor technology, brushing off security concerns from Western nations led by the United States. “No one will prohibit Brazil from improving its relationship with China,” the leftist Brazilian president said on a state visit to Beijing, a day after visiting a research center of telecommunications giant Huawei Technologies Co Ltd. Lula said […]

DUESSELDORF, Germany (Reuters) – State prosecutors in Cologne are investigating a cyber attack on German armsmaker Rheinmetall, a spokesperson for the prosecutor’s cybercrime division said on Friday, confirming an earlier report by Spiegel magazine. The spokesperson declined to comment on how severe the cyber attack on Germany’s largest armsmaker was. Spiegel said that the origins of the attack were unknown. Rheinmetall declined to comment. The armsmaker supplies Germany’s army as […]

By Katharine Jackson and Luc Cohen (Reuters) – The United States has charged leaders of the Mexico-based Sinaloa Cartel with running a fentanyl trafficking operation fueled by Chinese chemical and pharmaceutical companies, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said on Friday. Three sons of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, the onetime leader of the Sinaloa Cartel now imprisoned in the United States, were among those charged in what authorities called one of […]

By Tim McLaughlin and Sarah N. Lynch BOSTON (Reuters) -A 21-year-old member of the U.S. Air National Guard accused of leaking top secret military intelligence records online made his initial appearance before a federal judge in Boston on Friday to face charges he unlawfully copied and transmitted classified materials. Jack Douglas Teixeira of North Dighton, Massachusetts, who was arrested by heavily armed FBI agents at his home on Thursday, appeared […]

(Reuters) – Federal Reserve Governor Michelle Bowman said on Friday that the recent failures of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank were not an indictment of the bank regulatory landscape, although she conceded that some changes may be warranted. In prepared remarks, Bowman said if the Fed identifies gaps in its bank supervision and regulation regime during its review of the failure of SVB, the central bank should address those […]