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WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., said Tuesday he’s increasingly concerned about President Joe Biden’s unwillingness to negotiate on lifting the nation’s borrowing authority, saying in a letter to the president that the White House position could “hold dire ramifications for the entire nation.” Rather than open direct talks on the debt ceiling, which the Democrats agree must be raised, Biden and his party’s lawmakers are challenging Republicans […]

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A powerful weather system from the Gulf of Alaska pushed into Northern California on Tuesday, bringing more wind, rain and snow to a state battered by months of storms. Forecasters warned of heavy snow in coastal mountains and the Sierra Nevada, where accumulations up to 4 feet (1.2 meters) were possible, highway chain requirements took effect and a backcountry avalanche warning was issued for the greater […]

MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Athletes who agitate against sponsorships from certain companies for ethical reasons harm the growth of sport, a senior Australian media executive said on Wednesday. Michael Miller, the Executive Chairman of News Corp Australasia, said in a panel discussion at the SportNXT conference that “stars” were a sports’ greatest strength but also potentially its greatest liability. “When sporting stars become activists, it has a negative impact on the […]

NEW YORK (AP) — The Manhattan grand jury investigating alleged hush money paid on Donald Trump’s behalf is not expected to take up that inquiry again this week, meaning any potential vote on an indictment probably won’t happen until next week at the earliest, two people familiar with the matter said Tuesday. The panel did meet Monday, and a longtime Trump friend and potential key witness in the investigation was […]

By Kevin Buckland TOKYO (Reuters) – The safe-haven U.S. dollar remained on the back foot on Wednesday following two days of losses as global financial markets regained a measure of stability on hopes a full-blown banking crisis can be averted. The dollar index, which tracks the currency against six major peers, was flat in early Asian trading, following drops of about 0.3% in each of the past two sessions. The […]

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The transgender shooter who killed three students and three staff members at a Christian school in Nashville legally bought seven weapons in recent years and hid the guns from their parents before carrying out the attack by firing indiscriminately at victims and spraying gunfire through doors and windows, police said Tuesday. The violence Monday at The Covenant School was the latest school shooting to roil the […]

SANTIAGO DEL ESTERO, Argentina (Reuters) – Lionel Messi surpassed the 100-goals mark for World Cup champions Argentina on Tuesday by scoring a hat-trick in their 7-0 friendly win over Curacao. Argentina’s leading scorer reached a century of international goals when he opened the scoring after 20 minutes, Giovani Lo Celso setting him up in the centre of the box to slot home a low shot. Nicolas Gonzalez doubled the hosts’ […]

Israeli Protests Against Judicial Reform To Continue Despite Time Out for Negotiations The Media Line  Negotiations between officials representing Israel’s government and some opposition parties hosted by Israeli President Isaac Herzog began on Tuesday night, but Israelis opposed to the judicial reform legislation that is the subject of the talks continue to protest in the streets of Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and throughout the country. The demonstrations led Israeli Prime MInister […]

(Reuters) – Summer McIntosh set a world record in the 400m freestyle on the opening night of the Canadian swimming trials on Tuesday, the 16-year-old shaving 0.32 seconds off the mark set by Australia’s Ariarne Titmus last year. McIntosh finished in a time of 3:56.08 at the Toronto Pan Am Sports Centre to beat Titmus’s time of 3:56.40. “I’m not a crier but this world record, I didn’t think this […]