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At ballparks all across the country, groups consisting of mostly young men are joining in on the “Tarps Off” trend that’s loud, goofy, infectious and new to the baseball world. Joining in on the fun is simple: Go to the section where the party is happening, take off your shirt and start twirling it above …
May 20 (Reuters) – Ties between Russia and China are at an unprecedented level, President Vladimir Putin told his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in Beijing on Wednesday, and invited him to visit Russia next year. (Reporting by Jekaterīna Golubkova in Tokyo; Editing by Jacqueline Wong) Copyright 2026 Thomson Reuters. Photos You Should See – April …
May 19 (Reuters) – A hardline Republican congressman and a former college football coach who has never held elective office advanced to a runoff on Tuesday in Georgia’s U.S. Senate Republican primary election, extending a messy intra-party battle to determine who will face Democratic Senator Jon Ossoff in the November general election. • U.S. Representative …
PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona prisoner convicted of killing another man by throwing gasoline at him and lighting a match is set to be put to death Wednesday, the first of three executions planned this week around the U.S. Leroy Dean McGill, 63, is scheduled to receive a lethal injection of pentobarbital at the Arizona …
There aren’t many lawmakers like Thomas Massie left in Congress. The renegade Republican who rose to prominence as an idiosyncratic and stubborn outlier in his party, popular in the Kentucky district that repeatedly sent him to the House, lost his primary bid for reelection Tuesday after a vicious and costly attack by President Donald Trump. …
May 19 (Reuters) – Ed Gallrein, boosted by the backing of U.S. President Donald Trump, ousted incumbent Rep. Thomas Massie, a prominent Trump critic, on Tuesday to become the Republican Party’s nominee to represent Kentucky’s 4th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives, NBC News projected. Tuesday’s primary vote was seen as a test …
WASHINGTON, May 19 (Reuters) – Vice President JD Vance reassured Americans on Tuesday that President Donald Trump’s war with Iran will not become a “forever war,” using a White House briefing to defend his boss’s policies as speculation about his potential successor builds. Standing in for press secretary Karoline Leavitt, who is on maternity leave, …
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The first live MMA event broadcast on Netflix — featuring a double-comeback bout between Ronda Rousey and Gina Carano — attracted the most U.S. viewers in the sport’s history. Netflix and Jake Paul’s Most Valuable Promotions reported on Tuesday that Saturday’s event in Inglewood, California, drew as many as 17 million …
May 20 (Reuters) – Russia is concerned by U.S. and European Union efforts to secure access to rare earths and critical minerals in Central Asia, Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Galuzin told Izvestia newspaper. In an attempt to diversify from China, which dominates rare earths supply chains vital for technologies such as electric vehicles, renewable energy …
May 19 (Reuters) – Burt Jones and Rick Jackson advanced to a primary runoff in the Republican Party’s race to be candidate for governor of the U.S. state of Georgia in November’s election, media reported on Tuesday. They are hoping to take over from Brian Kemp, a Republican blocked from running again by term limits. …