Chinese leader Xi Jinping celebrated the 25th anniversary of Hong Kong’s handover from Britain. WSJ’s Selina Cheng walked around the city during Friday’s events to see how his visit symbolizes Beijing’s increasing authority over Hong Kong. Photo: Selim Chtayti/Pool via Reuters
The PGA Championship officially has Tiger Woods in a field released Tuesday that includes invitations to seven players from Saudi-funded LIV Golf, giving the major the entire top 100 in the world ranking at Valhalla next week. The PGA of America strives to have the top 100 in the world to maintain its reputation for having the strongest field of the four majors, although it is not part of the criteria. Instead, the PGA uses a catch-all category of “special invitations.”
A tennis player was awarded $9 million in damages by a jury in federal court in Florida after accusing the U.S. Tennis Association of failing to protect her from a coach she said sexually abused her at one of its training centers when she was a teenager. The lawsuit, filed by Kylie McKenzie in March 2022, said Anibal Aranda, who was employed by the sport's national governing body for about seven years and later fired, used his position as a USTA coach to get access to vulnerable female athletes and commit sexual battery against them.
Fox Business NetworkIn what has devolved into the TV equivalent of tweeting through it, Kristi Noem appeared for yet another cable news interview on Tuesday morning. The beleaguered South Dakota governor seems to be on a mission to salvage her exceedingly slim hopes of becoming Donald Trump’s running mate.It did not go well for her.Having already enjoyed friendly sitdowns with other Fox News and Newsmax stars, the MAGA governor joined Trump-friendly Fox Business Network anchor Stuart Varney on T
Prince Harry will not be reuniting with King Charles during his time in the UK. The Duke of Sussex is back in the country to mark the tenth anniversary of the Invictus Games
The governor of the Italian region surrounding the port city of Genoa was placed under house arrest Tuesday as part of a corruption investigation by prosecutors alleging he granted political favors in exchange for money. Giovanni Toti, president of the Liguria region, was “serene and convinced he’ll be able to explain everything,” said his lawyer, Stefano Savi. According to the judge’s order signing off on the arrest, Toti was accused of doing favors for local figures in exchange for money to fund four local elections in 2021 and 2022.
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Peter Abbott called the victim a ‘sl**’ and a ‘wh***’ and put his head up against the windscreen.
Traces of banned Chinese cotton were found in 19% of a sample of merchandise selling at U.S. retailers in the past year, a study showed, highlighting the challenges of complying with the U.S. law aimed at blocking imports of cotton linked to forced labor in China. In the study released on Tuesday, researchers from natural resource analytics firm Stratum Reservoir and isotope testing firm Applied DNA Sciences analyzed garment samples, cotton swabs and shoes from U.S. big box retailers and e-commerce platforms that ship merchandise into the U.S. The firms declined to name the retailers whose merchandise they tested. The U.S. enacted a law in 2021 to safeguard its market from products potentially tainted by human rights abuses in Xinjiang, where the U.S. government says China is committing genocide against Uyghur Muslims.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden condemned the “ferocious surge of antisemitism in America and around the world” during a Tuesday ceremony to remember victims of the Holocaust at a time when the Hamas attack on Israel and controversy over the war in Gaza have sparked new waves of violence and hateful rhetoric toward Jews. “We’re at risk of people not knowing the truth," Biden said of the horrors of the Holocaust, when 6 million Jews were systematically killed by Nazi Germany and its collabo
NWT Fire says it's seeing campfires left unattended in the Yellowknife area and that even though there's still some ice on the lakes, those fires pose serious risk. "It is so discouraging to see this sort of thing – especially after what was experienced last year," N.W.T. wildfire information officer Mike Westwick said in an emailed fire update. Westwick said crews saw that threat in action with a fire spotted near Dettah that NWT Fire suspects started from a campfire and was abandoned over wint
Donald Trump demanded that federal prosecutors reveal details about how they handled boxes seized during a search of his Florida home in 2022 as he seeks to delay the case accusing him of illegally holding onto classified documents, according to a court filing made public on Tuesday. The new demands came after prosecutors working with Special Counsel Jack Smith acknowledged in a court filing on Friday that material in some of the boxes is not in the same order as it was when it was analyzed shortly after the August 2022 search. That admission was contrary to what prosecutors had previously told U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee who is overseeing the case.
What message is the A-lister sending to young girls? It’s 2024 – should we really be showing off waists small enough to fit your hand around; women reduced to grimacing, gurning versions of themselves who can’t eat, speak or do anything but stand there and be admired?
After selling in April, traders are buying in May. The Dow Jones Industrial Average is on track for its best first five days of May in five decades. It would be the best five-day start to May since 1973, when it rose 3.2%, according to Dow Jones Market Data. The Dow is on track for its best start to a month since November 2023, when it rose 3.3%.
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Prince Harry arrived in London on Tuesday to mark the 10th anniversary of the Invictus Games but won’t see his father during the visit, a spokesperson said. King Charles III, who returned to his official duties last week after being sidelined for three months with cancer, is too busy to meet up with his youngest son, the spokesperson for the Duke of Sussex said. “The duke of course is understanding of his father’s ... commitments and various other priorities and hopes to see him soon,” a statement said.
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New proposed federal rules governing marijuana has so far failed to spark fresh buying interest in exchange traded funds (ETFs) tracking the shares of North American cannabis companies, despite strong performance this year. Marijuana ETFs and cannabis stocks shot higher last week after the U.S. Justice Department said it plans to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug. Big gainers included the Roundhill Cannabis ETF, AdvisorShares Pure Cannabis ETF and Amplify U.S. Alternative Harvest ETF, which are all sitting on year-to-date gains of 29.6% to 36.6%, putting them among the top ETF performers of 2024.
The South Dakota governor suggested she couldn't discuss it — after writing about it in her book.
Apple on Tuesday unveiled its next generation of iPad Pros and Airs — models that will boast faster processors, new sizes and a new display system as part of the company's first update to its tablet lineup in more than a year. The showcase at Apple’s headquarters in Cupertino, California, comes after the company disclosed its steepest quarterly decline in iPhone sales since the pandemic’s outset, deepening a slump that’s increasing the pressure on the trendsetting company to spruce up its produc
KU football landed its second spring transfer commitment in a Michigan State defensive end who was a top-100 recruit coming out of high school.
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