By DICK SCANLON Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Drew Rasmussen struck out nine in six shutout innings, Kevin Kiermaier hit a two-run home run and the Tampa Bay Rays beat Seattle 3-2, ending the Mariners’ four-game winning streak. Rasmussen set career highs in innings pitched, pitches at 84 and strikeouts in his 14th
Continue ReadingBy Marshall Cohen, CNN Special counsel John Durham has an active and ongoing criminal probe into a tech executive who worked with a Hillary Clinton 2016 campaign lawyer to share claims of a cyber back channel between Donald Trump and Russia, prosecutors said in court Wednesday. Prosecutors said the Durham team is still “looking closely”
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By Kevin Conlon, CNN The judge in the sentencing of the shooter who pleaded guilty to killing 17 people in 2018 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, reversed course Wednesday, opting against starting over in selecting the jury that will decide whether Nikolas Cruz gets the death penalty or life in prison.
Continue Reading By Jaide Timm-Garcia, CNN A man who served 32 years in prison for murder walked free Wednesday when a Florida judge vacated his conviction and sentence after prosecutors found he never committed the crime. “We have determined that Thomas Raynard James is actually innocent,” Assistant State Attorney Christine Zahralban told the court Wednesday. James’ lifetime
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WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — A Delaware court sided with Tesla CEO Elon Musk in a bitter legal battle over whether he acted against the best interest of other shareholders when he steered the electric car maker into a $2.6 billion acquisition of a solar panel maker founded by two of his cousins. The 132-page decision
Continue Reading By The Associated Press The Mets have been drilled 19 times in 20 games this season, leading the league by a wide margin. Mets pitcher Chris Bassitt says bad baseballs are to blame. The actual problem is probably multifaceted, ranging from cold weather to bad luck. MLB-wide hit-by-pitch rates were actually down slightly heading into
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The 2022 NFL Draft is Thursday-Saturday this week in Las Vegas and a pair of former local stars are hoping to hear their name called. TAYLER HAWKINS – PALM SPRINGS HS “Excited to see what’s going to happen,” said Tayler Hawkins, former Palm Springs Indian star and NFL Draft hopeful. Just talked with @taylerhawkinsss, former
Continue ReadingBy Melanie Zanona, Manu Raju and Gabby Orr, CNN Donald Trump’s staunchest allies don’t like what they heard House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy saying on tape about the ex-President and some of their GOP colleagues after the Capitol attack. But they and the former President are holding their fire — at least for now. Most
Continue ReadingCNN By Melanie Zanona, Manu Raju and Gabby Orr, CNN Donald Trump’s staunchest allies don’t like what they heard House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy saying on tape about the ex-President and some of their GOP colleagues after the Capitol attack. But they and the former President are holding their fire — at least for now.
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By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rob Kardashian testified Wednesday that he feared for his life on a night in 2016 when his then-fiancée Blac Chyna pointed a gun at his head, pulled a phone-charging cable around his neck and repeatedly hit him with a metal rod while under the influence
Continue ReadingBy Paula Reid, Annie Grayer, Ryan Nobles and Zachary Cohen, CNN Rudy Giuliani is expected to appear next month before the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, insurrection, according to sources familiar with the matter. The expected appearance comes after months of negotiations between lawmakers and the former mayor of New York, who
Continue Reading PITTSBURGH (AP) — Pittsburgh Penguins CEO David Morehouse has stepped down. Morehouse’s decision ended a 16-year run with the franchise that included three Stanley Cup titles. Morehouse did not provide an explanation for his decision. The Penguins changed ownership last fall when Fenway Sports Group bought the club from Hall of Famer Mario Lemieux and
Continue Reading ATLANTA (AP) — All-Atlantic Coast Conference guard Cameron Swartz has transferred from Boston College to Georgia Tech. Yellow Jackets coach Nell Fortner announced the transfer, saying the 5-foot-11 player from suburban Marietta has decided to play closer to home next season. Swartz was selected as the league’s most improved player and made the All-ACC first
Continue ReadingBy Steve Contorno, CNN Coming off a showdown with Disney and a month of headlines for waging fights over hot-button social issues, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis introduced himself to Republican primary voters in Nevada during a Wednesday campaign stop for US Senate candidate Adam Laxalt. DeSantis recounted for a packed Las Vegas bar his battles
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Una quinta parte de todas las especies de reptiles se enfrentan al riesgo de extinción, según un nuevo y exhaustivo estudio, siendo los cocodrilos y las tortugas los más amenazados. Se trata del primer estudio de este tipo sobre reptiles, en el que participaron 961 científicos de 24 países de seis
Continue Reading By BARRY WILNER AP Pro Football Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — When some of the first-round picks at Thursday night’s NFL draft are on stage with Commissioner Roger Goodell, they won’t be alone. Just look for the guy painting portraits — with both hands, no less — of the players. Rob Prior, an acclaimed experiential
Continue Reading By BARRY WILNER AP Pro Football Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — When some of the first-round picks at Thursday night’s NFL draft are on stage with Commissioner Roger Goodell, they won’t be alone. Just look for the guy painting portraits — with both hands, no less — of the players. Rob Prior, an acclaimed experiential
Continue Reading BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — A University of California, Berkeley student has been charged with threatening to shoot university staff members in an incident last week that led to an hourslong campus-wide lockdown, court documents obtained Wednesday showed. Lamar Bursey, 39, was charged Monday with two counts of felony criminal threats after he allegedly sent an
Continue Reading LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles City Council on Wednesday approved a $300,000 lawsuit settlement for a man who lost part of a testicle after he was shot by a police projectile during a 2020 protest over the killing of George Floyd. The council approved a settlement of David Bond’s federal lawsuit alleging that
Continue Reading By HOWARD FENDRICH AP National Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Lucius Fox and Jazz Chisholm Jr. have become the first pair of Bahamas-born players to appear in the same Major League Baseball game since 1961. Chisholm, a second baseman, led off Wednesday night’s game for the Miami Marlins against the Washington Nationals, who started Fox at
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