NEW YORK (AP) — Nestor Cortes appears likely to rejoin the New York Yankees pitching staff for the World Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers. The 29-year-old left-hander hasn’t pitched in a game since Sept. 18 because of a flexor strain in his pitching elbow. “There’s a good chance of it,” Yankees manager Aaron Boone
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The Israeli military has carried out a wave of airstrikes targeting branches of a financial institution affiliated with Lebanon’s Hezbollah, saying the quasi-banking system is being used to fund the militant group’s military wing. The strikes destroyed more than a dozen branches of al-Qard al-Hasan across Lebanon Sunday night, and
Continue ReadingAssociated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Russia says it is investigating the claimed shoot-down of a cargo jet by Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces in Darfur. The message Monday from Russia’s Embassy in Khartoum comes after videos circulated online suggesting a cargo jet had been downed in Sudan’s Malha region near the border
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican officials say schools have six months to implement a government-sponsored ban on junk food or face heavy fines. Authorities are confronting what they call the worst childhood obesity problem in the world. The rules were published on Sept. 30 and target products including sugary fruit drinks, chips and artificial pork
Continue ReadingAssociated Press HELSINKI (AP) — The family of the prolific Finnish conductor and composer Leif Segerstam says he will be remembered in a tribute event at the Finnish National Opera following his funeral next month. Segarstam was one of the most colorful personalities in the Nordic country’s classical music scene. He died in Helsinki on
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — A series of protests are expected to intensify across Argentina this week over a veto by President Javier Milei of a law that passed last month increasing funding for public universities. After convincing centrist lawmakers to abandon their support for the teacher salary boost meant to compensate for
Continue ReadingKGMB, KHNL, CNN By Alaa Elassar, CNN (CNN) — It was a typical Wednesday evening for Noland Keaulana, who was fixing his truck at his grandparents’ house when he received an alert on his phone about a 17-year-old missing off the Honolulu coast. Keaulana, who has been a lifeguard with the Honolulu Ocean Safety Department
Continue ReadingBy John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court agreed to hear three cases Monday from industry groups seeking to choose how to fight federal environmental regulations, highlighting a long-running battle over efforts to pick conservative or liberal courts parties believe will be more friendly to their cause. The Supreme Court’s decisions next year could
Continue ReadingBy Devan Cole, CNN Washington (CNN) — An attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union is set to be the first openly transgender person to argue before the Supreme Court this December when the justices hear a challenge to Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors. Chase Strangio, the co-director of the ACLU’s LGBTQ and HIV Project,
Continue ReadingAssociated Press The family of Jayland Walker, a Black man killed when eight police officers fired 94 bullets at him after he shot at least one round out his car window, will receive a $4.8 million settlement from the city of Akron, the mayor’s office said Monday. A grand jury declined to indict the officers
Continue ReadingBy Jessie Yeung, CNN (CNN) — When scientists heard reports that a large, mysterious fish had been caught in Cambodia in 2020, excitement stirred. Could this be the “Mekong Ghost,” they asked – an elusive fish that hadn’t been seen since 2005 and was feared extinct? Photos of the fish and its telltale identifiers –
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Social media can be a space for inclusivity and connectivity, but it can also have it drawbacks. One local parent is raising concerns on what can be done to help schools better tackle social media misuse among students. PSUSD releasing a statement to families Friday: Dear PSUSD Families: We all share a commitment to helping
Continue ReadingBy Polo Sandoval and Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — The family of Jayland Walker, a 25-year-old Black man fatally shot by police in Akron, Ohio, in June 2022, has reached a $4.85 million settlement with the city of Akron in a federal lawsuit over Walker’s death. The city of Akron announced the settlement in a
Continue ReadingAssociated Press The men formerly known as the Central Park Five before they were exonerated are suing Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. With Election Day two weeks away, the group filed a lawsuit in federal court Monday accusing the former president of making “false and defamatory statements” about them during last month’s presidential debate. Trump
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is “deeply concerned” about the unauthorized release of classified documents on Israel’s preparation for a potential retaliatory attack on Iran, a White House spokesman said Monday. The Biden administration is still not certain if the classified information was leaked or hacked, White House national security spokesman John
Continue ReadingPRAGUE (AP) — Slovakia’s Interior Ministry has agreed in a lawsuit settlement that former former Czech populist Prime Minister Andrej Babis did not knowingly collaborate with communist-era secret police in what was then Czechoslovakia. The ministry said it acknowledged that any interpretations of documents in the archives of the StB secret police agency that Babis
Continue ReadingCNN By Marshall Cohen, CNN Washington (CNN) — While stumping for former President Donald Trump on Saturday, tech billionaire Elon Musk announced that he will give away $1 million each day to registered voters in battleground states, immediately drawing scrutiny from election law experts who said the sweepstakes could violate laws against paying people to register. “We want
Continue ReadingCARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela’s top prosecutor has announced the arrest of a former oil minister and accused him of working with the U.S. government to undermine the industry that drives the country’s economy. Pedro Tellechea became Venezuela’s oil czar in January 2023 but was reassigned in August. The attorney general says people in Tellechea’s
Continue ReadingAP Basketball Writer Alabama’s Mark Sears and North Carolina’s RJ Davis looked into the possibility of leaving for the NBA before deciding to return for another college season. Their decisions helped their teams earn top-10 rankings in the AP Top 25 and earned both players some preseason honors, too. Sears was a near-unanimous selection for
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal government plans to provide up to $325 million to Hemlock Semiconductor to produce a key material for computer chips, an announcement Tuesday with possible political significance as the new factory would be in the swing state of Michigan. The funding would support 180 manufacturing jobs in Saginaw County,
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