KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — All-Star outfielder Whit Merrifield and the Kansas City Royals agreed to a restructured contract late Wednesday in which the club exercised its option for next season and the two sides added a mutual option for 2024. Merrifield, who made his second All-Star team last season, will earn $7 million this
Continue Reading KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — All-Star outfielder Whit Merrifield and the Kansas City Royals agreed to a restructured contract late Wednesday in which the club exercised its option for next season and the two sides added a mutual option for 2024. Merrifield, who made his second All-Star team last season, will earn $7 million this
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — All-Star outfielder Whit Merrifield and the Kansas City Royals agreed to a restructured contract late Wednesday in which the club exercised its option for next season and the two sides added a mutual option for 2024. Merrifield, who made his second All-Star team last season, will earn $7 million this
Continue ReadingBy Brandon Goldner Click here for updates on this story BENSALEM, Pennsylvania (KYW) — A Bucks County businessman is donating thousands of dollars in medical equipment to children’s hospitals on the frontlines of the war in Ukraine. Alfred Hagen, owner of Hagen Construction in Bensalem, will be flying to Poland Wednesday night before making his
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By Holmes Lybrand, CNN A former officer of the Rocky Mount Police in Virginia who went inside the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, took the stand Wednesday to testify against his former sergeant, Thomas Robertson. Jacob Fracker told the jury how he, Robertson and Robertson’s neighbor had traveled to Washington together and how he
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By Stefano Pozzebon and Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN An ongoing wave of violent protests in Peru shows how the Russian invasion of Ukraine is affecting markets around the world, sparking unrest and deepening political divides. Rising fuel costs originally triggered the protests, which started last week, but quickly intensified into large anti-government demonstrations with marches
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Compiled by Jon Passantino, CNN Republican-led states around the country have enacted a flurry of new restrictions on abortion, LGBTQ and transgender youth rights, and discussion of critical race theory. Here’s a look at some of the legislation that has passed this session, what’s next for the bills and what else is under consideration. The
Continue Reading WASHINGTON (AP) — The scheduled starting time for the opening day matchup between the New York Mets and Washington Nationals has been pushed back three hours because of rain in the forecast. Washington announced Wednesday that the Nationals and Mets agreed to play each other on Thursday at 7:05 p.m. EDT instead of 4:05 p.m.
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An Audrain County prosecutor has charged a Fulton man with multiple crimes after police find him in a hotel with a naked 16-year-old runaway.
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By Devan Cole, CNN Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear on Wednesday vetoed a bill that would have prohibited transgender women and girls from competing on sports teams consistent with their gender at public and private schools in the state. In a veto letter signed Wednesday, Beshear said guidelines regarding transgender student-athletes are already being implemented by
Continue Reading TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — Alabama wide receiver Agiye Hall has been suspended and is no longer listed on the roster. Crimson Tide coach Nick Saban says Hall violated unspecified team rules. Hall was a four-star recruit coming out of high school and had four catches for 72 yards as a freshman. Alabama is replacing its
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — La invasión rusa de Ucrania ha sido más costosa y menos exitosa de lo que la mayorÃa de los analistas habÃan esperado en sus primeras seis semanas, y los expertos ahora consideran que Moscú está cambiando su enfoque militar. La estrategia de guerra revisada del presidente de Rusia Vladimir Putin ahora
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By Paradise Afshar and Claudia Dominguez, CNN A Nevada man was charged with murder Tuesday in the death of an 18-year-old woman whose body was found last week after she disappeared in mid-March, court documents show. Naomi Irion was last seen March 12 around 5 a.m. in a Walmart parking lot in the Lyon County
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By Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN An Oklahoma House committee voted Wednesday to advance a bill that would allow private citizens to take civil action against abortion providers to enforce the law. The bill would follow another anti-abortion bill the Oklahoma legislature sent to the governor’s desk on Tuesday that would make performing an abortion or attempting
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By Jon Sarlin, CNN Business Sky Mavis, makers of the crypto “play-to-earn” game “Axie Infinity,” announced on Wednesday it had raised a $150 million investment. The news comes on the heels of recent and widely-publicized hack of the company in which around $625 million in assets were stolen. The company says the additional money will
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DETROIT (AP) — Toyota customers soon won’t be able to get U.S. federal tax credits for buying electric or plug-in hybrid vehicles. Toyota’s sales chief for North American, Bob Carter, said Wednesday that the automaker expects to reach a 200,000-vehicle cap on the credits before the end of June. After that, the credits will be
Continue ReadingAlejandra Ramos (CNN Español) — Ya solo falta la decisión del Poder Ejecutivo, luego de que la Corte Suprema de Colombia avalara este miércoles la extradición de Dairo Antonio Úsuga, alias Otoniel, solicitada por las autoridades de Estados Unidos por cargos de narcotráfico. Las autoridades de ese paÃs y la PolicÃa de Colombia afirman que
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By Jacqueline Howard, CNN The future of Covid-19 vaccines — including when and how often booster doses might be needed — remains unclear and “complex,” according to advisers to the US Food and Drug Administration. The FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC) detailed in a meeting Wednesday how emerging coronavirus variants and
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By Shawna Mizelle, CNN Safi Rauf, an Afghan American naval reservist who was recently released from captivity under the Taliban, recounted his detainment on Wednesday and what it’s like to finally return home. “It’s an incredible feeling. It hasn’t settled in yet,” he told CNN’s Jake Tapper in an exclusive interview on “The Lead,” his
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By Manu Raju, Alex Rogers and Melanie Zanona, CNN Despite her 13 years out of office, Sarah Palin immediately won an endorsement from former President Donald Trump in her campaign to represent Alaska in the US House. GOP hard-liners already plan to invite her to join their congressional caucus. And House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy
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