By Ossian Shine NEW YORK, July 7 (Reuters) - The soundtrack surrounding the United States' World Cup on home soil was impossible to escape. Television adverts urged fans to believe in miracles. Marketing campaigns promised destiny. Every setback was framed as the prelude to a [...]

WASHINGTON, July 7 (Reuters) - Maine's embattled Democratic Senate nominee Graham Platner faced pressure to drop his candidacy on Tuesday following a sexual assault allegation he has denied. If Platner drops out by July 13, state law allows the Democratic Party to name a replacement [...]

By Jasper Ward and David Lawder WASHINGTON, July 7 (Reuters) - The U.S. Treasury Department is no longer planning to put anti-slavery crusader Harriet Tubman on a $20 bill, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has told Spectrum News. "We are not at present," Bessent said when [...]

July 7 (Reuters) - Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney mixed business with banter at the NATO summit in Turkey as he jokingly attempted to recruit Norway's star striker Erling Haaland for his country's next World Cup squad. Carney met Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere [...]

July 7 (Reuters) - Photographers for Reuters gathered in Washington on Saturday, preparing to cover the massive celebrations of the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence over the July 4 weekend - the scheduled and the unexpected. Around 9 a.m. on Saturday, photographer Nathan Howard started [...]

Cardinals right-hander Ryne Stanek left Tuesday's game against the Milwaukee Brewers in the seventh inning after the St. Louis reliever appeared to jam his foot or ankle into the first base bag while trying to cover on a bunt single by Joey Ortiz. Stanek, who [...]

PITTSBURGH (AP) - The Pittsburgh Pirates will have to try to stay in postseason contention without rookie shortstop Konnor Griffin. The club placed the 20-year-old rising star on the 10-day injured list on Tuesday due to an issue with the knuckle on the ring finger [...]

The U.S. game against Belgium in the round of 16 at the World Cup set another record as the most-watched soccer telecast in U.S. history, Fox said after preliminary ratings came out Tuesday. Fox said 30 million people watched the game, a 4-1 victory for [...]

Pittsburgh Pirates rookie shortstop Konnor Griffin is scheduled to be placed on the injured list Tuesday with a torn tendon in his left hand. Griffin, 20, had just returned last week from a stint on the injured list because of a right elbow strain. He [...]

Former All-Star reliever Al Holland, best known for his tenure with the Philadelphia Phillies, has died at 73, both the MLB club and North Carolina A&T confirmed. Al Holland Jr., told North Carolina A&T that his father died on Saturday at Fort Mill, S.C. The [...]