SAN DIEGO (AP) — San Diego Padres left-hander Blake Snell has ben cleared to pitch against the Washington Nationals after being involved in a minor traffic collision on Thursday. Manager Bob Melvin says Snell was not injured. Melvin says Snell was checked out by the team’s medical staff and he was ready to pitch. Melvin
Continue ReadingAlejandra Ramos (CNN) — Ha sido catalogado como la “Furia en el Mar Rojo”, pero ambos peleadores aparentemente parecen estar relativamente tranquilos sobre subir al ring y pelear uno contra el otro una vez más. Oleksandr Usyk y Anthony Joshua se enfrentarán por segunda vez en poco menos de un año el sábado por la
Continue ReadingBy Claudia Dominguez and Sharif Paget, CNN A massive boatyard in Mattapoisett, Massachusetts on Friday filled the skies above Buzzard’s Bay with black smoke and damaged dozens of boats and cars as well as several structures, CNN affiliate WCVB reported. “We had a tremendous amount of fire in the main building and surrounding buildings,” Mattapoisett
Continue ReadingBy Paul Vercammen, CNN Doreen Jansen looked at the brown hills from her Thousand Oaks home. “My plants are suffering,” Jansen said. “The animals, coyotes, rattlesnakes; they are all out in droves. It’s dry and unusually hot.” The signs of drought are everywhere here, from the shrinking lakes to the deathly drained color of trees
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By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A federal judge has dismissed a complaint from a group of workers who said they were unfairly discriminated against by Maine’s COVID-19 vaccine requirement for health care personnel. The plaintiffs sued Democratic Gov. Janet Mills and other Maine officials along with a group of health care
Continue Reading By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A lawsuit alleging a school district in a small Mississippi Delta town discriminated against a Black student and stripped her of an academic award has been dismissed by a panel of federal judges. Olecia James filed the federal lawsuit in 2019 against the Cleveland
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By Loureen Ayyoub for CNN After fleeing war in Somalia as a child, featherweight boxer Ramla Ali has had to fight for everything she has. The 32-year-old is now about to write another chapter in her remarkable life as she prepares for her next bout against Crystal Garcia Nova of the Dominican Republic in the
Continue ReadingÁngela Reyes Haczek (CNN) — Funcionarios de la Casa Blanca han expresado en privado su profunda preocupación por el material clasificado llevado a la casa del expresidente Donald Trump en Florida, que incluye algunos documentos que solo deben ser vistos en instalaciones seguras del Gobierno, según supo CNN. A medida que ha surgido más información
Continue Reading By WILL GRAVES AP Sports Writer TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Shilese Jones grabbed the lead at the U.S. gymnastics championships, riding a dynamic bars routine to post an all-around total of 57.200. The 20-year-old Jones began the competition with a staggering 14.850 during her bars set, the highest score of the night on any event.
Continue ReadingBy Gary Tuchman, Anne Clifford and Christina Maxouris, CNN Genesis Figueroa and her husband spent more than a month traveling from Venezuela to the US border, an exhausting journey interrupted only briefly when she was hospitalized with pneumonia in Guatemala. Less than a week since finding shelter in Eagle Pass, Texas, after crossing the Rio
Continue ReadingBy Chuck Johnston, CNN Eighty-five suspects were arrested and over $12.8 million in drugs were confiscated in a two-year undercover drug trafficking investigation, the Polk County Sheriff’s Office said on Friday. The investigation entitled, “Operation Flying Ice,” stemmed from a September 2020 search warrant in Winter Haven, Florida, that netted just one pound of methamphetamine.
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By Jacqueline Howard, CNN The US Food and Drug Administration authorized Novavax’s Covid-19 vaccine on Friday for emergency use in adolescents. It is the fourth coronavirus vaccine available in the United States and, unlike the others, it uses a protein-based technology. The vaccine was authorized for adults in July. With the latest emergency use authorization,
Continue ReadingBy Maria Cartaya and Christina Maxouris, CNN The South Carolina State Grand Jury issued new charges against disgraced former attorney Alex Murdaugh, roughly a month after he pleaded not guilty to murder charges in the killings of his wife and son. Murdaugh was indicted on four counts of obtaining signature or property by false pretenses
Continue ReadingBy Fidel Gutierrez, CNNE The former attorney general of Mexico was arrested on Friday in relation to the 2014 disappearance of 43 students, a tragedy that captured the world’s attention nearly eight years ago. The prosecutor’s office said in a statement that it considers former attorney general Jesús Murillo Karam a suspect in “the crimes
Continue ReadingLuis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN Español) — El Ministerio Público de Perú pidió 36 meses de prisión preventiva para Yenifer Paredes, cuñada del presidente Pedro Castillo, por la presunta comisión de delitos de lavado de activos y otros en agravio del Estado, de acuerdo con un mensaje publicado en la cuenta de Twitter de la
Continue Reading By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Jason Gore spent four years at the USGA keeping a better line of communication with players. Now the PGA Tour has hired him for a similar role. Gore has been hired as a senior vice president and player advisory to the commissioner. The tour describes
Continue Reading By BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona judge is considering whether to allow the state to enforce a near-total ban on abortions that has been blocked for nearly 50 years. The attorney general’s office wants prosecutors to be able to charge doctors who provide abortions unless the patient’s life is in danger.
Continue Reading By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The divided U.N. Security Council has failed to reach agreement on whether to extend travel exemptions for 13 Taliban officials now ruling Afghanistan. U.N. diplomats said the current exemptions will now expire at midnight Friday because Russia and China asked for a delay until Monday
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By THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Former Vice President Mike Pence said Friday that he didn’t take any classified information with him when he left office. The disclosure — which would typically be unremarkable for a former vice president — is notable given that FBI agents seized classified and top secret
Continue Reading By THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Former Vice President Mike Pence said Friday that he didn’t take any classified information with him when he left office. The disclosure — which would typically be unremarkable for a former vice president — is notable given that FBI agents seized classified and top secret
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