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By HOWARD FENDRICH AP National Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Second-year right-hander Tylor Megill has been given the opening day starting assignment for the New York Mets against the Washington Nationals. The Mets do not have Cy Young Award winners Jacob deGrom and Max Scherzer available for Game 1. And Scherzer’s status for Game 2 is
Continue Reading By MICHAEL MAROT AP Sports Writer INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Thad Matta only stayed for one season the last time Butler hired him as head coach. Over the next decade, the Bulldogs celebrated unprecedented success including two straight national runner-up finishes. Now athletic director Barry Collier believes his 54-year-old former assistant can recreate the script —
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Alexandra Ferguson Nueva York (CNN Business) — La vista desde Wall Street es terriblemente deprimente. Los agentes están haciendo grandes apuestas contra los minoristas a medida que los temores de recesión ganan fuerza. Los inversores son cada vez más escépticos con respecto a los valores energéticos tras la subida de los precios del petróleo, según S&P
Continue ReadingBy Vasco Cotovio and Frederik Pleitgen, Byron Blunt and Daria Markina, CNN A gray car speeds on a highway near Kyiv, heading towards the Ukrainian capital. As it approaches a Russian position, it does a sharp U-turn, stopping shortly after. A man then opens the door. A second later, he is on the ground. “He
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By ADAM BEAM and STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California’s capital city is mourning the six people who were gunned down last weekend in a gang dispute that turned into a mass shooting. Huge photographs wreathed in flowers and garlands lined a downtown Sacramento street on Wednesday. Each had a small memorial
Continue Reading By STEPHEN HAWKINS AP Baseball Writer ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — The Texas Rangers have arrived in Toronto for their season-opening series. They had their entire expected opening-day roster on the trip to the country that requires all visitors to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 at least 14 days prior to entry. Before returning to the
Continue Reading By JIMMY GOLEN AP Sports Writer BOSTON (AP) — The NCAA Frozen Four features a foursome of western teams. It’s the first time since 2011 that the Eastern schools were shut out. Michigan will play Denver in the early semifinal on Thursday, with Minnesota and Minnesota State meeting in the nightcap. The field has already
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By Maya Brown, CNN After Tyson and Regina Bates put their kids to bed, they begin a nightly routine of reviewing paperwork in the exhausting process of attempting to buy a historic Black high school in a gentrified area. They had been planning to restore the Torrence-Lytle School to its original condition to turn it
Continue Reading By ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A compromise $10 billion measure buttressing the government’s COVID-19 defenses has stalled in the Senate. It seems all but certainly sidetracked in that chamber for weeks, victim of a campaign-season fight over the incendiary issue of immigration. There was abundant finger-pointing Wednesday but no signs that the
Continue Reading By ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A compromise $10 billion measure buttressing the government’s COVID-19 defenses has stalled in the Senate. It seems all but certainly sidetracked in that chamber for weeks, victim of a campaign-season fight over the incendiary issue of immigration. There was abundant finger-pointing Wednesday but no signs that the
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By WILL WEISSERT and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has signed into law plans for a sweeping overhaul of the U.S. Postal Service. The measure is meant to shore up the popular but beleaguered agency’s financial future and cement six-days-a-week mail delivery. The legislation cleared Congress last month after years
Continue Reading NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball and NBC agreed to a new Sunday morning package of broadcast streams that will start at 11:30 a.m. and noon EDT. The deal that requires all other big league games on those days to be scheduled to start no earlier than 1:30 p.m. The package announced starts May
Continue ReadingCNN By Jeremy Herb, CNN Polish President Andrzej Duda said on Wednesday that it’s “hard to deny” that Russian forces are committing genocide in Ukraine following the horrific images that have emerged from cities like Bucha showing civilians brutally killed. “It is hard to deny this, of course. This is a crime which fulfills the
Continue ReadingBy Shawna Mizelle, CNN Fifty-two percent of Americans say Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas should recuse himself from cases related to the 2020 election in the wake of recently revealed texts Thomas’ wife, Ginni, had sent about the efforts to overturn the election, according to a Quinnipiac poll released on Wednesday. The slight majority of
Continue ReadingBy Sam Fossum and Maegan Vazquez, CNN President Joe Biden signed a sweeping bill into law on Wednesday that will overhaul the US Postal Service’s finances and allow the agency to modernize its service. “It’s no exaggeration to say that the Postal Service delivers democracy. And it’s no exaggeration to say the Postal Service is
Continue Reading MILWAUKEE (AP) — The Milwaukee Brewers have acquired Victor Caratini from the San Diego Padres to address their catching depth as Pedro Severino serves an 80-game suspension to begin the season. Milwaukee sent minor-league outfielder Korry Howell and catcher Brett Sullivan to the Padres in the Wednesday trade that brought Caratini to the Brewers. This
Continue Reading MILWAUKEE (AP) — The Milwaukee Brewers have acquired Victor Caratini from the San Diego Padres to address their catching depth as Pedro Severino serves an 80-game suspension to begin the season. Milwaukee sent minor-league outfielder Korry Howell and catcher Brett Sullivan to the Padres in the Wednesday trade that brought Caratini to the Brewers. This
Continue Reading ATLANTA (AP) — The Atlanta Dream have acquired the No. 1 overall pick in the WNBA draft from the Washington Mystics. The Mystics acquired the No. 3 overall pick Monday and the No. 14 selection in the second round. Washington also has the right to swap its 2023 first-round pick with Atlanta’s first-round pick acquired
Continue Reading By ACACIA CORONADO and PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says the state will provide migrants arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border bus charters to Washington, D.C. The move announced Wednesday amounts to a taunt at President Joe Biden and Congress over what the Republican governor calls a failure
Continue ReadingBy Elaine Emerson Click here for updates on this story LAS VEGAS, Nevada (KVVU) — A Clark County School District Police Officer fired his gun three times at juveniles in a car who reportedly were involved in a fight on campus. CCSDPD Lt. Bryan Zink showed the dramatic body camera video of the shooting on
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