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By DAN GELSTON AP Sports Writer PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Trea Turner’s $300 million, 11-year contract with the Philadelphia Phillies was finalized on Thursday after the All-Star shortstop passed his physical. Turner gets salaries of $27,272,727 in each of the next 10 seasons and $27,272,730 in 2033. Turner will make a $100,000 annual contribution to Phillies
Continue Reading KALAMAZOO, Mich. (AP) — Western Michigan has hired Louisville offensive coordinator Lance Taylor to lead its football program. Athletic director Dan Bartholomae made the announcement Thursday. The 41-year-old Taylor coached running backs for three seasons each at Notre Dame and Stanford. He was also an assistant at Appalachian State and with the NFL’s Carolina Panthers
Continue ReadingBy Dani Masten Click here for updates on this story LAS VEGAS, Nevada (KVVU) — Clark County voted Tuesday to ban pet store sales of most animals across the county. Pet stores have one year to sell the animals until they have to stop. The decision has created a whirlwind of emotions for some in
Continue ReadingBy Rett Nelson Click here for updates on this story IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (eastidahonews.com) — Friends and family are mourning the death of a local girl who succumbed to a rare medical condition last week a few weeks shy of her 12th birthday. Zion Waynewood of Idaho Falls passed away on Dec. 1 from thrombotic
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High pressure over the region will keep skies clear, breezes light, and highs on the cool side today through Saturday. Expect temps to reach the upper sixties, as they have all week, falling short of the 70 degree mark. A front moves in late Saturday into Sunday, bringing the threat of rain, wind and mountain
Continue ReadingBy Nicole Goodkind, CNN Business US stocks surged higher on Thursday as investors staged a comeback from their current losing streak, spurred on by recession and interest rate hike fears. The Dow closed 184 points, or 0.6% higher. The S&P 500 gained 0.8%, while the Nasdaq Composite added 1.1%. Gains in semiconductor stocks such as
Continue ReadingCNN By Jennifer Hansler, CNN Biden administration officials met virtually on Monday with Elizabeth Whelan, whose brother Paul Whelan remains detained in Russia, to discuss “next steps of the strategy” to bring him home ahead of a planned “high-level” conversation between the United States and Russia. National security adviser Jake Sullivan said Monday that “with
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By Mark Morales and Dakin Andone, CNN The “Boy in the Box” finally has a name. Police on Thursday publicly identified a boy found dead in a box in Philadelphia 65 years ago as four-year-old Joseph Augustus Zarelli, the victim of what police say is one of the city’s oldest unsolved homicides. The identification, made
Continue ReadingBy Matt Egan, CNN Business The Keystone Pipeline has been shut down following a leak discovered near the border of Kansas and Nebraska. The shutdown of the major oil pipeline that carries crude from Canada triggered volatility in the energy market on Thursday, with oil prices briefly surging as much as 5% before retreating. Federal
Continue ReadingBy Amy Cassidy, Ivana Kottasová and Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN American citizen Anne Sacoolas was sentenced to eight months imprisonment, suspended for 12 months, at the Old Bailey in London for causing the death of British teenager Harry Dunn in a fatal traffic collision in August 2019, meaning she will not have to go to
Continue ReadingBy Oliver Darcy, CNN News publishers are getting in on the TikTok trend. That’s according to a brand new survey published Wednesday evening by the Reuters Institute and University of Oxford. The survey found that, from a global standpoint, about half of the world’s top newsrooms are now regularly posting on the ByteDance-owned app. The
Continue ReadingCNN By Oliver Darcy, CNN News publishers are getting in on the TikTok trend. That’s according to a brand new survey published Wednesday evening by the Reuters Institute and University of Oxford. The survey found that, from a global standpoint, about half of the world’s top newsrooms are now regularly posting on the ByteDance-owned app.
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Hansler, CNN Detained American Paul Whelan expressed his frustration that more has not been done to secure his release in an exclusive CNN interview hours after another detained American, Brittney Griner, was freed. Whelan said he was happy that Griner was released, but told CNN, “I am greatly disappointed that more has not
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s Parliament has approved a budget that includes reforms aimed at improving the country’s finances as it attempts to recover from its worst economic crisis. The $15-billion budget includes a $117-million relief package for those affected by the crisis. It provides for a restructuring of state-owned enterprises, reduced subsidies
Continue ReadingBy Chloe Melas, CNN Jerrod Carmichael has been named host of the 2023 Golden Globes. “We’re so excited to have Jerrod Carmichael host the historic 80th Golden Globe Awards. His comedic talents have entertained and thrilled audiences while providing thought-provoking moments that are so important in the times we live,” said Helen Hoehne, President of
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Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Es un final humillante para el breve tiempo que el ahora expresidente de Perú Pedro Castillo estuvo en el cargo. Ahora, Dina Boluarte es desde este miércoles la primera mujer presidenta de Perú, culminando un día dramático en el que su predecesor fue arrestado por el presunto delito de rebelión
Continue ReadingBy Clare Duffy, CNN Business Thousands of previously banned Twitter users, including members of the far-right and users sharing blatant misinformation, have begun to have their accounts restored to the platform, according to an independent analysis. The mass restoration of accounts comes after new owner Elon Musk said late last month that he would offer
Continue Reading By Rebekah Riess, CNN A former US Border Patrol agent charged with fatally shooting four women in and around the border city of Laredo, Texas, in 2018 was found guilty of capital murder Wednesday for their killings, according to the Webb and Zapata County District Attorney’s Office. Juan David Ortiz was convicted by a Bexar
Continue ReadingBy Clare Foran, CNN The House voted on Thursday to pass sweeping legislation that would authorize $858 billion in national defense funding and rescind the US military’s Covid vaccine mandate. The measure passed with wide bipartisan support with a tally of 350 to 80. House lawmakers approved a final negotiated version of the National Defense
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By MIKE HOUSEHOLDER and KATHLEEN FOODY Associated Press The brother of an American detained in Russia since 2018 says that his family fears he will not be released for years. He said Paul Whelan’s family also supported the U.S. government’s agreement to a prisoner exchange that freed WNBA star Brittney Griner but left Whelan behind.
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