Motor racing-McLaren can hope to win at Imola, says Piastri
IMOLA, Italy (Reuters) - McLaren can hope to win Sunday's Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, Australian Oscar Piastri said on Saturday after qualifying on the front row alongside Red Bull's triple world champion Max Verstappen. Pole-sitter Verstappen has s...
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Report: Wes Unseld Jr. joining Bulls coaching staff
Wes Unseld Jr. is joining the Chicago Bulls coaching staff, ESPN reported Saturday. The former head coach of the Washington Wizards, Unseld will serve as the top assistant to head coach Billy Donovan, per the report. In January, the Wizards moved Uns...
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Rays acquire LHP Richard Lovelady from Cubs
The Tampa Bay Rays acquired Richard Lovelady from the Chicago Cubs on Saturday in exchange for fellow left-handed pitcher Jeff Belge. The Rays transferred right-hander Jacob Waguespack to the 60-day injured list in order to include Lovelady on their 4...
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One killed, six injured in clashes in western Libyan city, TV channel says
TRIPOLI (Reuters) - At least one person was killed and six injured when fierce clashes broke out on Saturday in the city of Zawiya in western Libya, prompting calls for a ceasefire to rescue families trapped in the conflict area, a Libyan TV channe...
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Penguins boss Mike Sullivan to coach 2026 U.S. Olympic hockey team
USA Hockey named Pittsburgh Penguins head coach Mike Sullivan to lead Team USA for the 2025 Four Nations Face-Off and the 2026 United States Men's Olympic hockey team on Saturday morning. The Four Nations Face-Off will be played next Feb. 12-20 and fe...
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Golf-Scheffler back at PGA Championship chasing halfway leader Schauffele
(Reuters) - The third round of the PGA Championship got underway on Saturday at Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Kentucky where Scottie Scheffler, set to play a day after being released from jail, will be chasing halfway leader Xander Schauffele. ...
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Director Paul Schrader knew from start that 'New Hollywood' would change cinema
CANNES, France (Reuters) - Director Paul Schrader said on Saturday that he knew back in the late 1960s that he and contemporaries in the "New Hollywood" movement, several of whom are also at this year's Cannes Film Festival, were changing the indus...
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Georgian president vetoes 'foreign agents' bill, TASS reports
TBILISI (Reuters) - Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili has announced that she has vetoed a draft law on foreign agents, Russia's state-run TASS news agency reported on Saturday. Zourabichvili had said previously that she would veto the bill, w...
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Dozens killed and wounded as Israeli forces thrust deeper in Gaza's Jabalia and Rafah
By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO (Reuters) - Israeli troops and tanks pushed on Saturday into parts of a congested northern Gaza Strip district that they had previously skirted in the more than seven-month-old war, killing and wounding dozens of Palestin...
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Houston area grapples with heat, power cuts after major storms
(Reuters) - Thousands of people in the Houston area faced sweltering heat without power on Saturday following severe storms that claimed at least seven lives, according to local media and the National Weather Service. The NWS predicted temperatures...
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