Matt Olson, Baseball’s Iron Man, Stars for the Braves on Lou Gehrig Day

ATLANTA (AP) — On Lou Gehrig Day, baseball’s reigning iron man came through with the biggest blow for the Atlanta Braves. Olson’s towering shot — his 17th homer of the season — got a big assist from a strong breeze blowing toward the right-field corner. The slugging first baseman thought he got under the ball, …

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Swiss Voters Look Set to Reject Plan to Limit Population at 10 Million, Poll Shows

ZURICH, June 3 (Reuters) – Swiss voters look ⁠set ⁠to reject a referendum ⁠proposal to cap the country’s population at 10 ​million people, according to an opinion poll published on Wednesday. Concern about ‌rapid growth in Switzerland’s ‌population, which climbed to 9.1 million last year from 7.3 ⁠million ⁠in 2002, and its impact on public …

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US Supreme Court Clears Way for Alabama to Use Pro-Republican Voting Map

WASHINGTON, June 2 (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way on Tuesday for Alabama to use a ⁠pro-Republican ⁠congressional map that eliminates one of its two districts where Black ⁠voters make up a majority or near-majority, giving a boost to President Donald Trump as his party defends its control of Congress in November’s …

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Supreme Court Allows Alabama to Use Congressional Map Favoring Republicans in This Year’s Elections

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed Alabama to use a congressional map favoring Republicans in this year’s elections, blocking a lower court ruling that the redistricting plan intentionally discriminates against Black people. The justices granted the state’s emergency appeal to use a map it adopted three years ago that has a majority-Black …

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Russia Repels Drone Attack Over Leningrad Region as Economic Forum Kicks Off

June 3 (Reuters) – Russia has downed ⁠30 ⁠drones over the Leningrad ⁠region northwest of Moscow and continues to ​repel the attacks, Governor Alexander Drozdenko said, as a ‌major annual economic forum was ‌about to start. The Leningrad region, home to ⁠crucial energy ⁠export infrastructure and a major oil refinery, is hosting ​its fifth wartime …

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CBS News fires longtime “60 Minutes” correspondent Scott Pelley

CBS News has fired longtime “60 Minutes” correspondent and former “CBS Evening News” anchor Scott Pelley one day after he had a tense and confrontational exchange with new “60 Minutes” executive producer Nick Bilton during a staff meeting. Bilton informed Pelley of the termination in a letter Tuesday evening. “Yesterday’s performative display of hostility—enacted in …

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Scott Pelley Fired From ’60 Minutes,’ Deepening Turmoil at CBS News

CBS News fired longtime “60 Minutes” correspondent Scott Pelley on Tuesday, a day after he allegedly said Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss was “murdering the show” and accused its new producer of having “slender qualifications” for the job. The move deepened the turmoil at the nation’s most influential TV news program and the news unit that oversees …

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