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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The off days added up for the Carolina Hurricanes after they swept their way to another Eastern Conference Final, leading to the longest between-rounds playoff break in more than a century. They started out Thursday night like a team that had been waiting around for nearly two weeks, too. And that …
HONG KONG (AP) — Asian shares advanced Friday following modest gains on Wall Street, while oil prices rose as efforts to end the Iran war yielded limited results. Oil prices had eased Thursday in U.S. trading, alleviating pressure from the bond market as yields fell. Earlier this week yields climbed so high they threatened to …
ANKARA, May 22 (Reuters) – Turkey has revoked the operational licence for Istanbul Bilgi University, effectively forcing it to close, according to a decision published in the Official Gazette on Friday, after the university was seized by the state in a criminal investigation last year. • Istanbul Bilgi University was established in 1996 and bought …
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico Gov. Jenniffer González pledged Thursday during her annual address to boost the amount of electric energy available to power the U.S. territory as chronic outages persist, angering and frustrating many across the island. She said a bidding process to install 3,000 megawatts of additional power generation capacity …
SEOUL, May 22 (Reuters) – South Korea’s Interior Minister said his ministry would stop offering products from companies that “make light” of the country’s democratic history, after a public outcry over a Starbucks Korea marketing campaign that evoked a brutal 1980 military crackdown on pro-democracy protesters. The coffee chain launched its “Tank Day” campaign on …
May 22 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he would speak with Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te, an unprecedented move for a U.S. leader that could roil U.S. relations with China and maybe prompt more Chinese war games around the island. It was the second time in a week Trump had said he …
WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Marco Rubio is on his latest mission to assuage nervous U.S. allies in Europe about the Trump administration’s intentions with NATO or at least put a friendlier face on whipsawing changes and uncertainty about American troop reductions. Rubio will attend a NATO foreign ministers’ meeting in Sweden on Friday …
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is heading to a toss-up congressional district in New York on Friday to test his midterm message on the economy, even as voters largely disapprove of his stewardship of it. Trump will travel to the Hudson Valley area to appear with Republican Rep. Mike Lawler, who is up for …
NEW YORK (AP) — After more than a decade of mixing and kneading dough in his family’s Brooklyn pizzeria, Salvatore Lo Duca recently made a distressing discovery: A key component of their thin-crust pies, bromated flour, contained a suspected carcinogen already banned in much of the world. So, in the back kitchen of Lo Duca …
House Republicans on Thursday pulled a vote on a measure that would compel President Trump to withdraw from the war with Irandelaying action on the issue as the Trump administration struggles to maintain congressional backing for the war. The House had scheduled a vote on a war powers resolution, brought by Democrats, that would rein …