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Month: October 2024

Union head Tony Clark: MLB teams are ‘blowing out’ pitchers, risking injuries and limiting innings

AP Baseball Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Players’ association head Tony Clark said teams are encouraging pitchers to throw as hard as possible, leading to more injuries and minimizing the importance of starting pitchers. Speaking before Friday’s World Series opener, Clark criticized how the game has evolved in the analytics age. There were a record-low

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Microsoft fires employees who organized vigil for Palestinians killed in Gaza

AP Technology Writer Microsoft has fired two employees who organized an unauthorized vigil at the company’s headquarters for Palestinians killed in Gaza during Israel’s yearlong war with Hamas. Microsoft said Friday it has “ended the employment of some individuals in accordance with internal policy” but declined to provide details. The event happened during lunchtime Thursday

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US intelligence assesses Russian operatives behind fake video showing Pennsylvania ballots being destroyed

By Evan Perez, Sean Lyngaas, Paul P. Murphy and Sara Murray, CNN (CNN) — US intelligence has assessed that Russian operatives were behind a fake video purporting to show someone destroying mail-in ballots in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, that circulated on social media Thursday. “The IC (Intelligence Community) assesses that Russian actors manufactured and amplified a

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Native Americans laud Biden for historic apology over boarding schools. They want action to follow

Associated Press LAVEEN VILLAGE, Ariz. (AP) — President Joe Biden did something Friday that no other sitting U.S. president has: He apologized for the systemic abuse of generations of Indigenous children endured in boarding schools at the hands of the federal government. For 150 years the U.S. removed Indigenous children from their homes and sent

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Rep. Anthony D'Esposito leaves a meeting of the House Republican Conference in the US Capitol in September 2023.

NY Republican in critical House race spent huge sums of campaign cash on steakhouses, booze, Ubers and a foreign hostel

By Gregory Krieg and Em Steck, CNN (CNN) — New York Rep. Anthony D’Esposito’s campaign spent tens of thousands of donor dollars at steakhouses and bars, a foreign hostel and on unaccountable payments to a close aide and friend, according to a review of federal filings. Campaign finance experts who spoke with CNN said that

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Israeli military launches strikes on military targets in Iran, officials say

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Israel launched airstrikes early Saturday targeting what it described as military targets in Iran in retaliation for a ballistic missile assault Oct. 1, officials said. There was no immediate information on damage in the Islamic Republic. Israel’s military described the attack as “precise strikes on military targets in Iran,” without immediately

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The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans.

Trump-appointed appeals court judges say Mississippi is violating federal law with mail ballot deadline but don’t block it

By Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — A panel of three Donald Trump-appointed judges said Friday that Mississippi was violating federal law by counting mail ballots that arrive after Election Day, but stopped short of blocking the policy before the election, in a ruling that could nevertheless impact voting-related lawsuits this fall. The ruling from the 5th US Circuit Court

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Hackers chinos tuvieron como objetivo los datos telefónicos de Trump y Vance

Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Hackers chinos vinculados al gobierno han apuntado a las comunicaciones telefónicas del expresidente Donald Trump y del candidato a la vicepresidencia J. D. Vance como parte de un esfuerzo mucho más amplio de ciberespionaje dirigido a objetivos estadounidenses de alto nivel, dijeron a CNN dos fuentes familiarizadas con el asunto. Los

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An 11-year-old girl played dead before escaping after 5 family members were killed at their Washington state home

By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN (CNN) — An 11-year-old in Washington state fled home in the early morning hours to escape a shooting that left her bloodied and wounded, and killed her entire family. For days this week, authorities have been investigating the gruesome, fatal shootings of five people in Fall City, Washington. Now, the girl’s

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