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(Reuters) – A Russian drone attack injured four people and sparked a large fire in a hotel and restaurant complex and other buildings late on Friday in the southeastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro, the regional governor said. Serhiy Lysak, governor of the surrounding Dnipropetrovsk region, said the injured were being treated in hospital. Firefighters were bringing the blaze under control. “A large fire has broken out in the restaurant complex,” Lysak wrote on the Telegram messaging app.

(Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump has pardoned the three co-founders of cryptocurrency exchange BitMEX, a White House official said on Friday. CNBC was the first to report earlier in the day that on Thursday, Trump granted pardons to Benjamin Delo, Arthur Hayes and Samuel Reed, who had pled guilty to money-laundering charges. The pardons come at a time of optimism in the crypto industry about looser regulation under Trump, who courted crypto donors during his campaign and promised support.

By Dawn Chmielewski, Katie Paul and Kane Wu (Reuters) -Private equity firm Blackstone is evaluating taking a small minority investment in TikTok’s U.S. operations, according to two people familiar with the matter. Blackstone is discussing joining Chinese parent company ByteDance’s existing non-Chinese shareholders, led by Susquehanna International Group and General Atlantic, in a bid for TikTok’s U.S. business. The group has emerged as front-runners.

(Reuters) – Brazilian Finance Minister Fernando Haddad said on Friday that President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will not adopt unorthodox policies with next year’s presidential election in mind, where he is seen as the leading left-wing candidate. “We will stay the course, meeting our targets and pursuing our goals because this is the right path,” he said.

By Rory Carroll LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The flag football and lacrosse competitions at the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics will be held at BMO Stadium, Games organisers said on Friday after an updated plan was approved by the Los Angeles City Council. The 22,000-seat soccer stadium in Exposition Park sits adjacent to the LA Memorial Coliseum and is the home of Major League Soccer’s Los Angeles FC and the National Women’s Soccer League’s Angel City FC.

UConn star Paige Bueckers confirmed Friday she will enter the 2025 WNBA Draft. Some had speculated she might delay entering the draft until next year, believing she didn’t want to play for the Dallas Wings, who hold the No. 1 pick. She is projected to be taken first. However, Bueckers, 23, told ESPN that she will put her name in the draft. She has one year of college eligibility remaining. She has unfinished business with UConn first, however.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. federal judge ruled Friday that the Trump administration must halt efforts to dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson in Washington issued a preliminary injunction, ordering the administration to reinstate and preserve agency contracts, retain data, and protect agency employees’ ability to perform legally required work.

Deion Sanders will remain the head coach at Colorado through the 2029 season under terms of a contract extension announced Friday. He will earn a base salary of $10 million in 2025, making him the highest-paid football coach in the Big 12 and among the top 10 highest-paid head football coaches in the country, the university announced. ESPN reported that his total compensation over five years will be $54 million, with his pay rising to $11 million annually in 2027 and $12 million in 2029.

The NASCAR Cup Series will see the pack tightly bunched and organized Sunday when the seventh race of the 2025 season takes to the track at the famed “Paperclip” that is Martinsville (Va.) Speedway. Martinsville has been on the NASCAR schedule since the first season of competition in 1948. The half-mile oval, known for its long straightaways and tight corners, is famous for pushing man and machine to their absolute limit over the course of an afternoon.

By Tim McLaughlin (Reuters) – Dominion Energy CEO Robert Blue missed out on taking home more than $4 million in cash after the utility’s shareholder return and operating profit during 2022-2024 failed to meet performance targets. Blue received $438,240, just 9% of the potential target payout of nearly $5 million, the company disclosed on Friday in a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing. The company did not respond to a message seeking comment.