The Preakness Stakes will feature its biggest field in 15 years Saturday with 14 horses in the middle jewel of horse racing’s Triple Crown. After history was made earlier this month at the Kentucky Derbywhere the winning trainer was a woman for the first time, a different trainer could accomplish a similar feat at the …
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is caught between his Make America Healthy Again supporters who want him to do more to advance their priorities, including curtailing vaccines, and a White House trying to combat President Trump’s unpopularity. Protesters’ chants could be heard from inside the Cleveland City Club, where Kennedy was …
Kinshasa, Congo — Africa CDC, the continent’s top public health body, on Friday confirmed a new Ebola outbreak in Congo’s remote Ituri province, with 246 suspected cases and 65 deaths recorded so far. The deaths and suspected cases have been recorded mainly in the Mongwalu and Rwampara health zones, the Africa Centres for Disease Control …
Prosecutors on Thursday charged a Salt Lake City-area police officer with manslaughter, alleging he violated police department policy and law enforcement standards when he shot an unarmed man through the back window of a pickup truck. An expert who reviewed the Oct. 9, 2024, shooting concluded that Taylorsville police officer Jimmy Jeremy Haas did not …
MANILA, May 15 (Reuters) – The Philippines anti-graft chief has ordered a six-month suspension of the head of Senate security following a chaotic shootout inside the upper chamber on Wednesday that later led to the “escape” of a politician wanted by the International Criminal Court. “It’s a preventive suspension meant to make things easier for …
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Friday that a Russian missile attack on a Kyiv apartment building the previous day killed 24 people, including three children. Emergency workers finished digging through the building’s rubble after more than a day, Zelenskyy said on X. The cruise missile hit the nine-story corner block amid …
KYIV, May 15 (Reuters) – Ukraine has brought home 205 service personnel from Russian captivity in the first stage of a bigger prisoner of war swap, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Friday. Russia and Ukraine have agreed to swap 1000 POWs each as part of a three-day ceasefire, which was brokered by U.S. President Donald …
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, May 15 (Reuters) – Militants stormed a security outpost in Pakistan’s northwest, ramming a vehicle filled with explosives into the camp before waging a gun battle that killed at least eight troops and injured 35 others, two security officials said on Friday. The bombing on Thursday night follows three militant attacks in recent …
May 14 (Reuters) – The six people found dead inside a sweltering railroad boxcar in Laredo, Texas, over the weekend were stowaway migrants from Mexico and Honduras who fell victim to the perils of human smuggling, officials said on Thursday. Preliminary medical reports determined that all six died from severe heat stroke hours before the …
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — IndyCar driver Pato O’Ward finally saw his name at the top of the Indianapolis 500 leaderboard Thursday. He’s hoping his name is still in the No. 1 spot on May 24. The Mexican driver who finished second in 2022 and 2024 and third last year in IndyCar’s biggest race of the season …