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 …
Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet with Chinese leader Xi Jinping on a two-day trip to Beijing next week, the Kremlin said Saturday. The announcement comes less than 24 hours after U.S. President Donald Trump finished his own state visit to China, where he also met Xi to discuss trade and the U.S. and Israel’s …
CAIRO, May 16 (Reuters) – Mosques in northern Gaza on Saturday announced that Hamas’ military wing commander had died, a day after Israel’s military said that it had targeted the armed wing chief in airstrikes. Witnesses said that mosques in Gaza City had announced Izz al-Din al-Haddad’s “martyrdom”. There was no immediate comment from Hamas …
MOSCOW, May 16 (Reuters) – Russian troops have taken control of the settlements of Borova and Kutkivka in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region, the RIA state news agency reported on Saturday, citing the Defence Ministry. Reuters could not independently verify the battlefield reports. (Reporting by Reuters, Editing by Louise Heavens) Copyright 2026 Thomson Reuters. Photos You Should …
By Umaru Fofana and Robbie Corey-Boulet FREETOWN, May 16 (Reuters) – Sierra Leone has agreed to take in hundreds of West African migrants who are being deported by the United States, its foreign minister told Reuters, the latest such deal by the Trump administration as it tries to accelerate removals. The first flight of so-called …
A 22-wolf cap is the fewest number of wolves available to licensed Wyoming hunters since the state began allowing wolf hunting after Endangered Species Act protections were lifted in 2012. The limit also marks a significant decrease from last fall’s wolf hunting season. “As far as the overall mortality limit, it’s exactly half,” Wyoming Game …
GREENBURGH, N.Y. (AP) — Mike Brown was hired for this moment. Whoever replaced Tom Thibodeau would do so knowing he was inheriting a seat that was already warm, taking an undeniable win-now job where the only way he could demonstrate he made the team better was by reaching the NBA Finals. The pressure grew even …
A federal judge in Great Falls ruled to release Froid diesel mechanic Roberto Orozco-Ramirez from jail on Wednesday evening, siding with his lawyers on their argument that his continued detention was unlawful. On Thursday around 10:50 a.m., after more than 100 days behind bars, Orozco-Ramirez walked out of the Cascade County Detention Center and embraced …
NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa. (AP) — The paint-splattered wood ladder had to be decades old, yet for a cheap seat at the PGA Championship, the top cap would have to do. Pat Concannon and his friends — two who made the trip from Europe just to watch the golf major — positioned their ladder and the …
CANNES, France, May 15 (Reuters) – Asghar Farhadi, director of the first Iranian film to win the Oscar for best foreign language movie, on Friday described as deeply painful the deaths of thousands of people in a January crackdown on protesters and the ongoing war affecting Iran. “I was actually in Tehran last week, and …