VIENNA, May 16 (Reuters) – You will barely notice them on television, but a small band of stage hands nicknamed “ninjas” at the Eurovision Song Contest perform a feat as impressive as those on stage: swapping out countries’ sets in the 48 seconds between acts. Although a huge LED-screen stage and backdrop provide many of …
WASHINGTON, May 16 (Reuters) – Democrats hoping to win control of Congress in November’s elections are seizing on Republicans’ support of President Donald Trump’s proposed $400 million White House ballroom to portray his party as out of touch with voters’ cost-of-living concerns. As Republicans move toward a vote that might include hundreds of millions of dollars …
A long-serving Hamas commander who replaced Mohammed Sinwar and helped plan the October 7 attacks in Israel was killed on Friday, Israeli officials said Saturday. Haddad was head of Hamas’ military wing, the Israel Defense Forces said in a news release. The IDF said that he “was involved in the holding of many Israeli hostages in …
LOS ANGELES, May 16 (Reuters) – Soaring diesel prices since the onset of the Iran war are draining already tight U.S. school district budgets, making it more expensive to bus students and run generators in a shock officials say they will not be able to afford for long. School districts from Yakima, Washington to Waco, …
May 16 (Reuters) – U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, a Republican moderate targeted for retribution by President Donald Trump, will find out whether he can survive a primary election in Louisiana on Saturday against two popular rivals, including a Trump-backed challenger, or become the first elected Senate incumbent to lose renomination in more than a decade. …
PHOENIX (AP) — Beginning in the 1970s, just about every Filipino household in America was either hauling balikbayan boxes in person or mailing them to relatives back in the Philippines. These care packages that held goodies from the U.S. were seen as an expression of support during hard economic times — as well as one …
By Lucinda Elliott and Marco Aquino LIMA, May 15 (Reuters) – Roberto Sanchez, a left-wing congressman whose plans to overhaul the mining sector have sparked investor concerns, will face conservative frontrunner Keiko Fujimori in Peru’s June 7 presidential runoff. After weeks of delayed vote counting following an April general election, official results showed Sanchez secured …
Washington — Louisianans are voting Saturday in the state’s Senate primaries as Sen. Bill Cassidy fights to hold onto his seat. A handful of Republicans are facing off Saturday in a competitive primary to win the GOP nomination as Cassidy — a Republican who has occasionally broken with his party — seeks a third term …
Mahomes tore the ACL and LCL in his left knee on Dec. 14 and has said his goal is to be back in time for Week 1 of the season. The Chiefs host the Denver Broncos on “Monday Night Football” to open the season on Sept. 14 and then play Indianapolis at home on Sunday …
PEA RIDGE, Ark. (AP) — Walmart and Amazon are racing to speed up online order deliveries in rural areas of the U.S., a rich source of untapped sales that major retailers long wrote off as too sparsely inhabited, too remote or too impoverished to serve profitably. Walmart has a running start in the contest to …