Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Clayton Kershaw allowed two runs over four innings in his return from shoulder surgery, Nick Ahmed and Shohei Ohtani homered on consecutive pitches in the eighth inning and the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the San Francisco Giants 6-4 Thursday. Kershaw made his first big league appearance since last October’s
Continue ReadingBy Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — The judge who found Donald Trump liable for fraud and ordered the former president to pay $454 million said he will not recuse himself from the case. Trump asked Judge Arthur Engoron to step aside from the case, which is on appeal, alleging he engaged in “prohibited communications” with
Continue ReadingSAN DIEGO (AP) — The MLS expansion San Diego FC signed Northern Ireland international Patrick “Paddy” McNair to a three-year contract with a club option for a fourth year. The defender joins San Diego FC as a free agent after the completion of his contract with Middlesbrough in June. SDFC reached an agreement with West
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Luis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN) — En vísperas de los Juegos Olímpicos de París, los atletas han intensificado sus preparativos para mantener su ventaja sobre sus competidores. Pero para el australiano Matt Dawson, esos preparativos fueron un poco diferentes este año, ya que el jugador de hockey sobre césped optó por que le amputaran parte
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — An exceptionally restless female Mexican gray wolf nicknamed Asha will be held in captivity with a potential mate through another breeding season in hopes of aiding the recovery of the species, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Thursday. Asha captivated the public imagination after she was found
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NORWICH, Conn. (AP) — Veteran diplomat Martin S. Indyk, an author and leader at prominent U.S. think tanks who devoted years to finding a path toward peace in the Middle East, died Thursday. He was 73. His wife, Gahl Hodges Burt, confirmed in a phone call that he died from complications of esophageal
Continue ReadingBy Clare Duffy, CNN New York (CNN) — Vivian Jenna Wilson, Elon Musk’s estranged daughter, publicly refuted several recent anti-trans statements her Tesla CEO and X owner father has made about her. Wilson, who is transgender, on Thursday called a story Musk told about her on X “entirely fake.” Musk posted on Monday that Wilson was “born
Continue ReadingBy Devan Cole, CNN Sacramento, California (CNN) — Justice Elena Kagan on Thursday defended the code of conduct the Supreme Court created last year, but conceded there needs to be a way to enforce the rules for it to be more effective. “I think that the rules that we put out are good ones,” Kagan said at a judicial
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Judith Monarrez crumpled onto her kitchen floor and wept when the news arrived in an email: Gizmo, her pet dog missing for nine years, had been found alive. Monarrez was 28 and living with her parents in 2015 when Gizmo, then 2 years old, slipped past a faulty gate
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Coachella Valley native and tennis player Desirae Krawczyk learned her first-round opponents today in women’s doubles at the upcoming Olympic Games in Paris. A Palm Desert resident and the current world No. 12 in doubles, Krawczyk is representing Team USA along with doubles partner Danielle Collins. The fourth-seeded duo will face Greece’s Maria Sakkari and
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A court filing shows that the signatures collected by volunteers for an Arkansas abortion-rights measure would fall short of the number needed to qualify for the ballot if they’re the only ones counted. The Arkansas secretary of state’s office on Thursday said it determined 87,675 of the signatures
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It was another hot day in the Coachella Valley, with Palm Springs setting a record-high temperature for the date! 120° was reached at 3:56 PM, breaking the previous record of 119° set in 1943. The Excessive Heat Warning remains in effect for all of Riverside County’s deserts through 8 p.m. Friday. The Heat Advisory for
Continue ReadingReuters (Reuters) — California’s top state court on Thursday upheld a measure approved by voters allowing app-based services such as Uber and Lyft to consider drivers in the most populous U.S. state as independent contractors rather than as employees entitled to greater benefits. The ruling by the California Supreme Court is a major victory for the ride-hailing
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A Manhattan diamond dealer with a history of gemstone fraud has been indicted in what officials described as a scheme to swindle his fellow merchants out of nearly half a million dollars. Prosecutors say Manashe Sezanayev invited fellow diamond merchants to his shop in Manhattan’s diamond district, then covertly
Continue ReadingVILLENEUVE-D’ASCQ, France (AP) — Belgium will be without point guard Julie Allemand as the Cats try to get past the quarterfinals in the 2024 Paris Games. The Cats announced Thursday night on social media that Allemand will miss her second Olympics with what they called an “unlucky injury for our point god. ” Nastja Claessens
Continue ReadingBy Jamiel Lynch, CNN (CNN) — Former Kansas City Chiefs defensive lineman Isaiah Buggs has been found guilty in an Alabama court of animal cruelty charges, Tuscaloosa County court records show. Buggs was arrested in May and charged with two counts of misdemeanor animal cruelty. He was sentenced on July 19 to “365 days of
Continue ReadingBy Brenda Goodman, CNN (CNN) — More Americans own guns for personal protection than ever before, a new survey shows. Gun sales surged during the Covid-19 pandemic, as did gun-related deaths. In 2021, 48,830 people died from gun-related injuries in the US, the highest number on record. Roughly 7.5 million American adults became new gun owners during
Continue Reading Valeria Ordóñez Ghio (CNN Español) — El gobierno del departamento de Santa Cruz, Bolivia, declaró emergencia este jueves debido a la sequía y los incendios forestales que afectan a una decena de municipios del departamento, informaron las autoridades en un comunicado. La declaratoria tiene el objetivo de agilizar el flujo de recursos para atender los daños
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — A man who was on the verge of walking out of prison this week after a judge found evidence of his “actual innocence” and overturned his murder conviction now faces a fresh legal hurdle. The person blocking Christopher Dunn’s freedom is Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey. He is fresh
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah’s Supreme Court has overturned the death sentence for a man convicted in the murder of a woman to stop her from testifying against him in a rape case. Justices said Douglas Lovell had ineffective attorneys at his 2015 sentencing hearing. They upheld his conviction and sent the
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