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Month: October 2023

MLB playoffs 2023: Rangers take ALCS lead over Astros; Phillies, Diamondbacks prep for NLCS

After winning the AL Championship Series opener, Texas will send Nathan Eovaldi to the mound in Game 2 on Monday against Houston’s Framber Valdez. Zack Wheeler will be on the mound when Philadelphia opens the NL Championship Series against Arizona on Monday night. Jordan Montgomery outdueled Justin Verlander in Sunday night’s opener, combining with Josh

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Judge Chutkan to hear arguments over proposed gag order in Trump’s election interference case

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN, LINDSAY WHITEHURST and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal prosecutors and lawyers for Donald Trump will argue in court Monday over a proposed gag order aimed at reining in the former president’s diatribes against likely witnesses and others in his 2020 election interference case in Washington. In pressing U.S.

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Rite Aid files for bankruptcy

By David Goldman, CNN New York (CNN) — Rite Aid filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Sunday, a casualty of a miserable environment for drug stores, exacerbated by its runner-up status to bigger chains and expensive legal battles for allegedly filling unlawful opioid prescriptions. The bankruptcy was not a surprise. Its bigger rivals, CVS and

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Many frustrated Argentines pinning hopes on firebrand populist Javier Milei in presidential race

By ALMUDENA CALATRAVA and NATACHA PISARENKO Associated Press SALTA, Argentina (AP) — Javier Milei is a right-wing populist who admires former U.S. President Donald Trump and made a name for himself by shouting against Argentina’s “political caste” on television. He is the front-runner heading into the Oct. 22 election thanks in large part to support

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What to stream this week: The Rolling Stones, John le Carré, ‘Living for the Dead’ and Harry Bosch

By The Associated Press This week’s new entertainment releases include a Rolling Stones album, a revealing documentary about spy novelist John le Carré and “Living for the Dead,” a new Hulu series that’s like “Queer Eye” meets “Ghost Hunters.” Comedian Heather McMahan debuts her first network comedy special called “The Son I Never Had,” and

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Colorado train derails, spilling train cars and coal onto a highway and trapping a semi-truck driver

Associated Press PUEBLO, Colo. (AP) — The Colorado State Patrol says a train derailment and bridge collapse has spewed coal and mangled train cars across a highway near Pueblo, trapping a semi-truck driver beneath the wreckage. Police say efforts were underway to rescue the truck driver, although police did not immediately know the driver’s condition

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