By PATRICK DONNELLY Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Carlos Correa broke out of a slump with three hits and three RBIs and the Minnesota Twins completed a three-game sweep of the Detroit Tigers with a 7-1 victory on Thursday. Gio Urshela, Trevor Larnach, and Gilbert Celestino each had two hits for the Twins. Minnesota has
Continue Reading CINCINNATI (AP) — Ha-Seong Kim hit a tiebreaking, three-run double in the sixth inning and the San Diego Padres beat the Cincinnati Reds 7-5 Thursday to complete a season sweep in the series. Left fielder Tommy Pham just missed a diving catch of Kim’s two-out, sinking line drive, which gave San Diego infielder five RBIs
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CINCINNATI (AP) — Ha-Seong Kim hit a tiebreaking, three-run double in the sixth inning and the San Diego Padres beat the Cincinnati Reds 7-5 Thursday to complete a season sweep in the series. Left fielder Tommy Pham just missed a diving catch of Kim’s two-out, sinking line drive, which gave San Diego infielder five RBIs
Continue ReadingBy Forrest Brown, CNN The image is simply mesmerizing and deceptively simple: a street vendor cooking kekabs. But linger on it for a minute. There’s so much more. While visually arresting, the image stimulates all the senses the longer you look. You can smell the smoke. You can almost feel the heat of the grill.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Thursday: McDonald’s, Qualcomm rise; Ford, Domino’s fall.
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By Nicole Chavez, CNN In the aftermath of George Floyd‘s killing, several nooses were left around Saginaw, Michigan. Nearly two years later, a man is facing federal hate crime charges for it, the Justice Department says. Kenneth David Pilon, 61, was charged this week with six counts of interfering with federally protected activities, a misdemeanor
Continue ReadingBy Tami Luhby, CNN Medicare Advantage plans, which are swiftly growing in popularity among senior citizens, have at times delayed or denied beneficiaries’ access to medical care — even though the requests met Medicare coverage rules, a federal watchdog said Thursday. The report from the inspector general’s office of the Department of Health and Human
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson Nota del editor: Yulia Gorbunova es abogada e investigadora principal de Human Rights Watch en Ucrania, donde ha investigado anteriormente el conflicto armado en el Donbás, los abusos de los derechos humanos en Crimea y, más recientemente, las atrocidades en Bucha y Mariúpol. Las opiniones expresadas en este comentario le pertenecen únicamente a
Continue Reading WASHINGTON (AP) — The money that President Joe Biden has asked Congress to approve for Ukraine is designed to help with a range of needs — military equipment for the immediate fight, economic aid for the future and much more. Altogether, Biden is seeking $33 billion. Roughly two-thirds of it would be to keep weapons
Continue Reading LINDSBORG, Kan. (AP) — Police in the central Kansas town of Lindsborg announced two boys are suspected of being involved in the contamination of a water cooler used by the Kansas Wesleyan baseball team during a doubleheader at Bethany College last weekend. Both schools contacted police to file a report about a foreign substance found
Continue Reading By WILL GRAVES AP Sports Writer PITTSBURGH (AP) — Andrew McCutchen’s go-ahead two-run single in the top of the ninth inning rallied the Milwaukee Brewers past the Pittsburgh Pirates 3-2 to complete a three-game sweep. McCutchen, a five-time All-Star in Pittsburgh, began the game with a leadoff home run. In the ninth, he delivered a
Continue ReadingBy Allison Morrow, CNN Business Nearly two months after losing his spot among the world’s 10 richest rich people, Mark Zuckerberg is clawing his way back. Shares of Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, shot up more than 17% Thursday, making Zuckerberg nearly $11 billion wealthier in a single day. The stock had
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Hansler, CNN The Russian war on Ukraine has “driven US-Russia relations into the depths,” US Ambassador to Russia John Sullivan told CNN on Thursday. Although the top envoy did not say that the relationship between Washington and Moscow was at its absolute lowest point, Sullivan noted that it was “about as bad as
Continue Reading By HOWARD FENDRICH AP National Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Trevor Rogers provided his longest outing of the season by allowing one run in six innings, and the Miami Marlins stretched their winning streak to five games with a 3-2 sweep-completing victory over the reeling Washington Nationals. Rogers gave up just two hits against a Nationals
Continue ReadingBy Eric Levenson, Amir Vera and Jacob Lev, CNN The Jacksonville Jaguars made Travon Walker, a defensive lineman from the University of Georgia, the first pick in the NFL draft Thursday on a glitzy night in Las Vegas. Walker just came off a championship season with the Bulldogs, where he recorded 37 total tackles for
Continue Readingmacamilarincon Región de Jersón, Ucrania (CNN) –– Cuando Dasha y otros niños salieron del sótano en el que se refugiaron y entraron a su pueblo recién ocupado, fue por comida. Se escondían de los rusos, quienes disparaban al aire, a los autos… y a la gente. Sin embargo, en el momento en que los niños
Continue ReadingBy Annie Grayer, Daniella Diaz and Ryan Nobles, CNN Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson, who chairs the House select committee investigating the January 6 Capitol Hill insurrection, told reporters Thursday that the committee will hold eight hearings spread out through the month of June. Thompson said the hearings will be a “mixture of some prime time
Continue Reading By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer Tiger Woods is at Southern Hill three weeks before the start of the PGA Championship. It’s the first step toward deciding whether his right leg that was badly damaged in a February 2021 car accident can allow him to compete in another major. Woods made a positive return from
Continue Reading By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s upbeat message that the economy is cruising along hit a troublesome speed bump on Thursday when the federal government reported that U.S. gross domestic product shrank during the first three months of 2022. Economic activity declined at annual rate of 1.4%, a sharp reversal
Continue Reading By Mark Morales, CNN Prosecutors are pushing back against allegations that the accused Brooklyn subway shooter‘s constitutional rights were violated when FBI agents took DNA samples from him, according to court fillings. Federal public defender Mia Eisner-Grynberg said FBI agents entered Frank James’ cell at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn on Tuesday and took
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