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 …
WASHINGTON, May 14 (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in an interview broadcast on Thursday that the United States is hoping for a positive response from China on U.S. appeals for the release of jailed media tycoon Jimmy Lai and others. (Reporting by Steve Holland and Kanishka Sing) Copyright 2026 Thomson Reuters.
BEIJING, May 15 (Reuters) – After talks on trade, Taiwan and Iran, Chinese President Xi Jinping showed off the centuries-old trees in Beijing’s walled-off Zhongnanhai compound, where he strolled with U.S. President Donald Trump in the concluding hours of their summit. A former imperial garden that now houses the offices of the ruling Communist Party …
SYDNEY, May 15 (Reuters) – An Australian court upheld a landmark decision for a transgender woman on Friday, ruling that her exclusion from a female-only app because she appeared to be a man amounted to an act of discrimination. The Full Federal Court of Australia also doubled damages against the Giggle for Girls app and …
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — 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 …
HAVANA (AP) — For nearly three decades, performances by Cuba’s Danza Voluminosa regularly filled prestigious venues like the 2,000-seat National Theater. Directed by Juan Miguel Mas, the troupe pioneered a new movement by working exclusively with larger-bodied dancers — a creative process that was captured in a Canadian documentary. Today, the 60-year-old dancer and choreographer …
“The history of nature is made up of both extreme beauty and violence, volcanoes and butterflies, shifting tectonic plates and marsupials, the bones of the stegosaurus and the light of Milky Way,” the author and bookseller said Thursday night as she stood before hundreds at the Manhattan-based cultural institution museum and accepted the PEN/Audible Literary …
PORT ISABEL, Texas (AP) — Until recently, young children ran in and out of their public housing homes in this Gulf Coast town, playing on sun-dappled lawns as mothers looked over their shoulders for the school bus to drop off their older kids. Suddenly, couches, dressers and refrigerators started appearing curbside for movers or garbage …
New U.S. House districts that could help Republicans win several additional seats in Florida are set to face their first test in court Friday against assertions that they violate a state constitutional ban on partisan gerrymandering. Lawsuits filed on behalf of voters ask a state judge to block the districts from being used in the …
May 15 (Reuters) – A Ukrainian drone attack killed three people in the central Russian city of Ryazan, damaged high-rise apartment buildings and hit an industrial enterprise, Regional Governor Pavel Malkov said early on Friday. “To our great regret, three people have been killed and 12 injured, including children,” Malkov wrote on the Telegram messaging …