SAN DIEGO (AP) — San Diego manager Mike Shildt and the Padres agreed to a two-year contract extension through the 2027 season, the team announced Wednesday. Shildt was hired in November 2023 and given a two-year deal. San Diego went 93-69 this season, finishing second in the NL West, five games behind the Los Angeles
Continue ReadingBy Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — The ripple effect of Donald Trump’s election victory on Tuesday is already being felt in Washington, DC, where some defendants charged in the Capitol riot of January 6, 2021, could soon be pardoned by the incoming president who has promised as much. One rioter wasted no time in citing
Continue ReadingDemocrat Sara Jacobs won election to a U.S. House seat representing California on Wednesday. Jacobs defeated Republican Bill Wells in the heavily Democratic 51st District in San Diego County. She serves on the House Armed Services Committee and the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Jacobs came to Congress in 2021. She calls climate change one of
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — Democrat Sara Jacobs wins reelection to U.S. House in California’s 51st Congressional District.
Continue ReadingBy CNN Staff (CNN) — When the United States votes for a new president, the outcome reverberates far beyond its borders. Now, with a second presidential term for Donald Trump in prospect, CNN correspondents analyze what’s at stake on the global stage, looking at Russia, the Middle East, Europe, China, Taiwan, the Korean Peninsula and
Continue ReadingCHICAGO (AP) — Authorities say a man who was recently fired from his job at Navy Pier returned to the Chicago tourist attraction and killed two workers before fleeing. Police Chief of Patrol Jon Hein says the attack happened Tuesday afternoon after the fired worker gained access to an office space near a loading dock
Continue ReadingDonald Trump’s election victory was history-making in several respects even as his defeat of Vice President Kamala Harris prevented other firsts. She would have been the nation’s first Black and South Asian woman to be president. At 78, he is the oldest person elected to the presidency. When sworn in on Jan. 20, 2025, he will
Continue ReadingBy Sarah Ferris and Manu Raju, CNN (CNN) — Speaker Mike Johnson and the GOP are feeling increasingly bullish about holding onto the House of Representatives, believing they have defied political gravity in key suburban seats as President-elect Donald Trump powered his party toward what may become a full sweep of Washington. Dozens of key
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — Corning is facing European Union antitrust scrutiny after the bloc’s watchdog said it’s investigating the speciality glass maker’s exclusive deals for its Gorilla Glass used in cellphones. The European Commission said Wednessday it opened a formal investigation to determine whether Corning Inc. abused its dominant worldwide position for the toughened glass used
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee’s Republican legislative supermajority will remain unchanged after Democrats failed to flip seats in a handful of competitive races. But the minority party didn’t give up ground, either. Unofficial election results from Tuesday show that Republicans will continue to hold 75 out of the 99 seats inside the House
Continue ReadingBy Jillian Sykes and Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN (CNN) — At least three people drowned in Missouri, including two poll workers, from flooding caused by heavy rains that hit southern and eastern parts of the state and forced numerous road closures Monday and Tuesday, authorities said. The flooding resulted from a powerful cold front that brought
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Faced with a sweeping rejection by American voters, Kamala Harris conceded the presidential election to Donald Trump on Wednesday and encouraged supporters to continue fighting for their vision of the country. The Democratic vice president said the battle would continue “in the voting booth, in the courts and in the
Continue ReadingRepublican Rep. Derrick Van Orden won reelection to a U.S. House seat representing Wisconsin on Wednesday. Van Orden was on the Capitol grounds during the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection and is one of Donald Trump’s most vocal supporters. He defeated Democratic challenger Rebecca Cooke, a former Democratic fundraiser. Van Orden flipped the seat in 2022
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Atlantic City’s mayor faces a new accusation that he asked his daughter to lie about how she sustained a head injury. Marty Small Sr. was charged Monday with witness tampering involving the girl. He and his wife, La’Quetta, were previously charged with assault and abuse. Prosecutors say Marty
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Tim Sheehy shaved Democratic Sen. Jon Tester’s margins in Montana’s populous counties and ran up his lead in the state’s more rural regions. That built a cushion the incumbent couldn’t catch when The Associated Press called the race. Sheehy cut into Tester’s margins from six years ago in the
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ROME (AP) — When director Paolo Sorrentino’s hit series “The Young Pope” debuted in 2016, it took the Vatican a year to grudgingly bless his imagined and occasionally blasphemous portrayal of the pope. Not so for Sorrentino’s latest film “Parthenope,” which has gotten an early thumbs down from Italy’s Catholic Church. That has
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump’s presidential win is going to be certified in Congress in January by the candidate he beat, Vice President Kamala Harris. Under the Constitution, the vice president is the head of the Senate, and it’s the role of the Senate president to declare the result of a White House
Continue ReadingBy Betsy Klein, CNN Washington (CNN) — With the presidential election called for President-elect Donald Trump, the Biden administration is now preparing for a peaceful transfer of power to its predecessor 76 days from now – even though Trump’s team has actively skipped a series of key deadlines during the initial planning process. Representatives from
Continue ReadingCNN By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN (CNN) — It was supposed to be everything short of a free ad – a panel of women not containing their excitement to welcome Kamala Harris, ready to introduce her to their committed daytime audience of exactly the type of women the vice president’s campaign always hoped were going to
Continue ReadingDemocratic Rep. Nikki Budzinski won reelection to a U.S. House seat representing Illinois on Wednesday. The freshman congresswoman was once a former senior advisor to Gov. JB Pritzker and worked as a labor union activist. She defeated Republican Joshua Loyd. The narrow Democrat-leaning district cuts through central Illinois from the St. Louis area to Champaign.
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