By LARRY LAGE AP Sports Writer DETROIT (AP) — Shohei Ohtani is staying with the Los Angeles Angels, at least for the rest of the season. The Angels said they have decided not to deal the two-way superstar, a morning after making a significant move that signaled they’re in win-now mode. It was welcome news
Continue ReadingBy Kristen Consillio Click here for updates on this story HONOLULU (KITV) — What started as a way to feed needy people during the pandemic has become a passion for an Oahu lifeguard and former UH football player. Joey Cadiz — known as Joey Aloha — is expanding his mission of restoring the health of
Continue ReadingBy Clare Foran, Haley Talbot and Lauren Fox, CNN (CNN) — The House will leave on Thursday for August recess without resolving a key spending fight that has exposed divisions among Republicans with the threat of a government shutdown looming in the fall. In a sign of how difficult the road ahead will be, House
Continue ReadingBy ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The persistent heat wave that has suffocated Phoenix for most of July was slightly easing Thursday after the first major monsoon storm of the season kicked up dust and high winds and brought the first measurable rainfall in some areas since March. The Wednesday night storm, featuring
Continue ReadingBy LARRY LAGE AP Sports Writer DETROIT (AP) — Shohei Ohtani gave up one hit and struck out eight in his first career complete game in Major League Baseball, Taylor Ward hit two homers and the Los Angeles Angels beat the Detroit Tigers 6-0 in the first game of a doubleader Thursday. Ohtani (9-5) did
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Luis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN) — Ken McCullick murió en una sala de emergencias el 12 de agosto de 2021. “Tuve suerte, estaba esta joven enfermera… Fui uno de sus primeros pacientes con RCP, y ella no se rindió y me salvó la vida. Estoy agradecido por eso”, dijo McCullick, con la voz ahogada por
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A former Republican candidate for Michigan governor pleaded guilty on Thursday to a misdemeanor charge for his participation in the U.S. Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021. Ryan Kelley pleaded guilty more than a year after the ardent supporter of former President Donald Trump was arrested in
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By Dalal Mawad, Sarah Dean and Sana Noor Haq, CNN (CNN) — Niger’s military has backed coup leaders who have claim to have seized power in the West African country, prompting warnings from the international community. The Nigerien army command said Thursday that it supported the apparent takeover of President Mohamed Bazoum’s government in hopes
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Astronomers have detected water vapor swirling close to a nearby star — indicating that the planets forming around it might someday be able to support life. The young planetary system, known as PDS 70, is 370 light-years away. The star at its center is about 5.4 million years old and
Continue ReadingBy PETROS GIANNAKOURIS and DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press RHODES, Greece (AP) — A wildfire has triggered a series of massive explosions at an air force ammunition depot in central Greece. The Greek air force said on Thursday that some of its F-16 fighter jets were being moved from a nearby air base in the Vojos
Continue ReadingBy DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A team of some of the world’s leading social media researchers has published four studies looking at the relationship between the algorithms used by Facebook and Instagram and America’s widening political divide. The analysis examined user data from the 2020 election and found that changing the algorithms
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president says he has offered to buy an American company’s Caribbean coast property for $385 million to end a bitter, years-long dispute. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Thursday that a format offer would be presented to Alabama-based Vulcan Materials. The company operated gravel extraction pits at the site before
Continue ReadingBy Donald Judd (CNN) — White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Thursday offered a decisive “no” when pressed if President Joe Biden might consider pardoning his son, Hunter, over felony gun and tax misdemeanor charges. Earlier in the briefing, Jean-Pierre declined to say if the president had spoken to his son after a plea
Continue ReadingBy Jenny Carpenter Click here for updates on this story CLEARFIELD, Utah (KSL) — Brightly colored backpacks, crayons, glue sticks, binders, notebooks, pencils and paper awaited hundreds of children during Operation Homefront’s Back-to-School Brigade event on Wednesday, where children of military families could go to Hill Field Elementary School to pick any school supplies they
Continue ReadingBy OMAR AKOUR Associated Press AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — The lower house of Jordan’sia parliament has passed legislation to punish online speech that the government deems harmful to national unity. The measure has drawn criticism from human rights groups. They say it is another crackdown on free expression in a country where censorship and repression
Continue ReadingBy SCOTT SONNER and FELICIA FONSECA Associated Press FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — An Arizona woman who pleaded guilty to murder in the starvation death of her 6-year-old son was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole on Thursday after witnesses described the horrors of the tiny closet that reeked of urine where
Continue ReadingAUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Democratic Gov. Janet Mills has signed into law a bill to procure 3,000 megawatts of electricity from offshore wind turbines by 2040, enough to power about half of the state’s electricity load. Mills said Thursday that responsible offshore wind promises “abundant clean energy, stable energy prices, good-paying jobs and a healthier
Continue ReadingBy Emily Ashcraft Click here for updates on this story MANTI, Utah (KSL) — A Moroni woman has admitted to abusing and killing her 2-year-old daughter. Anyi Nicol Canales Cruz, 22, pleaded guilty to the charges filed against her — child abuse homicide, a first-degree felony, and child abuse, a third-degree felony. Cruz’s daughter, Litzy,
Continue Reading By Ray Sanchez and Melissa Gray, CNN (CNN) — The Justice Department said Thursday it has opened a civil rights investigation into the city of Memphis and its police department, which came under fire following the death of Tyre Nichols after a traffic stop in January. The federal investigation will seek to determine whether there
Continue ReadingBy Oscar Holland and Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — Organizers of Miss Italy have defended their ban on transgender contestants after the entrepreneur behind the competition appeared to criticize other beauty pageants’ efforts to welcome trans women. “Lately, beauty contests have been trying to make the news by … using strategies that in my opinion
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