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By Nadine Schmidt, CNN A tornado swept through the German city of Paderborn Friday, injuring at least 30 people, authorities said, and blew away roofs, toppled trees and sent debris flying for miles. The twister created a path of destruction from west to east of the city, Paderborn police said, adding it caused 30 to
Continue ReadingBy Hilary Whiteman, CNN Votes are being counted in Australia to determine who will lead the country in an election that could see the center-right government lose its mandate after nine years. Scott Morrison is asking voters to give him a second term in office as Prime Minister after three years dominated by the pandemic,
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By Josh Campbell and Jason Kravarik, CNN Ryan Last received a message on a school night in February from someone he believed to be a girl. Within hours, the 17-year-old, straight-A student and Boy Scout had died by suicide. “Somebody reached out to him pretending to be a girl, and they started a conversation,” his
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By MATT CARLSON Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — On a perfect day to play home run derby at Wrigley Field, the big winner was Josh Rojas. Rojas launched his first three longballs of the season and the Arizona Diamondbacks powered past the Chicago Cubs 10-6 Friday. With a strong wind blowing out on a warm
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By MATT CARLSON Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — On a perfect day to play home run derby at Wrigley Field, the big winner was Josh Rojas. Rojas launched his first three longballs of the season and the Arizona Diamondbacks powered past the Chicago Cubs 10-6 Friday. With a strong wind blowing out on a warm
Continue Reading By TALES AZZONI AP Sports Writer MADRID (AP) — Real Madrid’s regular starters have been held by Real Betis to 0-0 in the team’s last match before the Champions League final. Madrid began with the team that is expected to face Liverpool on May 28 in Paris, where it will try to win a record-extending
Continue Reading CLEVELAND (AP) — The Detroit Tigers and the Cleveland Guardians will play the opener of a three-game series without their managers Friday night. Detroit’s A.J. Hinch is out because he isn’t feeling well but tested negative for COVID-19. Bench coach George Lombard will manage the team. Terry Francona will miss the game for Cleveland because
Continue Reading By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Roger Angell, the celebrated baseball writer and reigning man of letters who during an unfaltering 70-plus years helped define The New Yorker’s urbane wit and style through his essays, humor pieces and editing, has died. He was 101. Angell died Friday of heart failure, according
Continue Reading By IAN HARRISON Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — The Cincinnati Reds activated Canadian slugger Joey Votto off the injured list before Friday’s game in Toronto against the Blue Jays. Votto grew up in Toronto but has played only nine games at Rogers Centre. Also Friday, the Reds put left-hander Ross Detwiler on the bereavement list
Continue Reading ELKO, Nev. (AP) — An Elko County jury has found a 20-year-old man guilty of first-degree murder and sexual assault with a deadly weapon in the death of a Spring Creek teenager two years ago. The same jury will return to district court Monday for the penalty phase after convicting Bryce Dickey Thursday in the
Continue ReadingBy Paradise Afshar, Andy Rose and Sharif Paget, CNN A tornado quickly moved through the town of Gaylord in the northern Lower Peninsula of Michigan Friday afternoon, leaving one person dead and 43 injured, officials said. Lt. Jim Gorno of the Michigan Department of Natural Resources described the scene in the area as being “catastrophic,”
Continue Reading PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Phillies slugger Bryce Harper will miss his fifth straight contest when Philadelphia opens a three-game series against the Los Angeles Dodgers on Friday night. Harper had a platelet-rich plasma injection in his right elbow on Sunday. The Phillies originally hoped Harper could return on Tuesday. Philadelphia has lost three of four without
Continue Reading PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Phillies slugger Bryce Harper will miss his fifth straight contest when Philadelphia opens a three-game series against the Los Angeles Dodgers on Friday night. Harper had a platelet-rich plasma injection in his right elbow on Sunday. The Phillies originally hoped Harper could return on Tuesday. Philadelphia has lost three of four without
Continue Reading By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The conservative Catholic archbishop of San Francisco said Friday that he will no longer allow U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to receive Communion because of her support for abortion rights. Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone said in he sent Pelosi a letter April 7 expressing his concerns
Continue ReadingBy Priscilla Alvarez, CNN A federal judge in Louisiana has for now blocked the Biden administration from ending a Trump-era pandemic restriction, known as Title 42, at the US-Mexico border, thwarting plans to terminate the controversial public health authority. Since taking office, President Joe Biden’s administration has continued to rely on Title 42, a public
Continue ReadingBy Ben Morse, CNN Aaron Wise was hit on the head by a wayward tee shot from Australia’s Cameron Smith at the 2022 PGA Championship. Wise was walking down the fairway of the seventh hole during the second round at Southern Hills Country Club in Oklahoma when he was struck by Smith’s drive from the
Continue Reading LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) — Judge rules COVID-19 asylum restrictions must continue on southern US border; blocks US government plan to end them.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Friday: Ross Stores, Applied Materials fall; Palo Alto, Deckers rise.
Continue Reading By Cheri Mossburg, CNN A man convicted of starting California’s Dolan Fire — which critically injured a firefighter, destroyed several homes and killed a dozen of endangered condors — was sentenced to 24 years in prison, prosecutors announced. Ivan Gomez, 31, was found guilty of 16 felony counts, including arson, cultivating marijuana, throwing rocks at
Continue Reading SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge in California has dismissed a securities fraud and defamation lawsuit filed by a Tesla investor against CEO Elon Musk, one of Musk’s supporters and Tesla. In an order filed Thursday, Judge James Donato threw out the lawsuit by the investor, Aaron Greenspan, who runs a legal document website.
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