By DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A person familiar with the deal says the Kansas City Royals have reached agreement with utility man Adam Frazier on a $4.5 million, one-year contract to provide the club with a left-handed bat and some lineup versatility. The person spoke to The Associated Press
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — Climate activist Greta Thunberg has joined a march in southern England to protest the use of private jets and the expansion of an airport. Hundreds of local residents and activists holding banners and placards that read “Ban Private Jets” marched to Farnborough Airport in Hampshire County on Saturday. The airport located about
Continue ReadingBEIJING (AP) — China’s coast guard says its officers ordered a Japanese fishing vessel and several patrol ships in waters surrounding tiny Japanese-controlled islands in the East China Sea to leave. It marked the latest incident pointing to lingering tensions between the sides. China says the islands belong to it and refuses to recognize Japan’s
Continue ReadingBy Emma Tucker, CNN (CNN) — Lisa Stanton could feel her heart racing, her body breaking out in sweat and her palms going numb as she sat this summer in the waiting room of a Colorado emergency urgent care clinic alongside her 12-year-old transgender daughter Maya, who was crying over pain in her ear. Stanton
Continue ReadingBy REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The U.S. government has condemned the decision of Venezuela’s highest court to block the presidential candidacy of opposition leader María Corina Machado. But the Biden administration on Saturday remained noncommittal on reimposing economic sanctions against Venezuela as it has threatened to do if the government
Continue ReadingSol Amaya (CNN Español) — El Departamento de Estado de EE.UU. está evaluando posibles sanciones contra Venezuela, tras el fallo que emitió el Tribunal Supremo de Justicia que inhabilitó la candidatura presidencial de la opositora María Corina Machado, según un comunicado difundido este sábado. El departamento dijo que la decisión del tribunal es “profundamente preocupante”
Continue ReadingBy EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer ASPEN, Colo. (AP) — Two years after exploding onto the world stage at the Beijing Winter Games, Eileen Gu is more than an Olympic champion. She’s a straight-A student at Stanford and a fashion model who’s as comfortable on a catwalk as a halfpipe. In 2026, the American-born skier
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By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — Aged 43, Rohan Bopanna became the oldest male player in the Open era to ever win a grand slam title on Saturday when he and his partner, Matthew Ebden, won the Australian Open men’s doubles tournament. India’s Bopanna and Australia’s Ebden completed a 7-6(0) 7-5 victory over Italians Simone
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — As humans, we like to “dare mighty things.” That’s the motto of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, that borrows from a Theodore Roosevelt quote. As a species born to live and walk on Earth, humankind has found ingenious ways to adapt to the absence of gravity as we
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — Germany’s train drivers’ union is ending its six-day strike early and is back in talks with the country’s railway operator. German news agency dpa reported Saturday that the strike by the GDL union on passengers trains would end Monday morning at 2 a.m. or 0100 GMT instead of 6 p.m. or 1700
Continue ReadingBALTIMORE (AP) — Crashes involving more than 40 vehicles closed all lanes on the heavily-traveled U.S. 50 Bay Bridge in Maryland on Saturday, injuring 13 people and snarling traffic for about six hours, authorities said. The Maryland Transportation Authority said on X, formerly Twitter, that the morning crashes on the westbound lanes closed the bridge
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By Samantha Delouya, CNN Los Angeles (CNN) — Gas prices in the United States have slid from their all-time peak in fall 2022, but there are drivers in at least one state who still pull up to the pump and cringe. The current average gas price in the US is $3.10. In California, it’s $4.49, according to
Continue ReadingOpinion by Sarah Archer (CNN) — It’s rare to meet someone who’s totally indifferent to Martha Stewart. She has her superfans, detractors, defenders, apologists and critics. For some of us, she’s a figure best known for a moment of downfall: five months spent at a minimum-security prison in 2004 and 2005 after being convicted of conspiracy,
Continue ReadingSofía Benavides (CNN Español) — “La sociedad de la nieve”, la cinta de Netflix nominada al Oscar como mejor película extranjera, llevó al cine de un modo hiperrealista los detalles de una de las historias de supervivencia más impactantes del último medio siglo. El clima hostil, la falta de comida, una serie de avalanchas y
Continue ReadingBy Rebekah Riess and Jay Croft, CNN (CNN) — The Utah Legislature Friday joined the growing list of lawmakers across the nation acting to ban diversity, equity and inclusion programs. Lawmakers passed a bill that would prohibit institutions of higher education, the public education system, and government employers from “taking certain actions and engaging in
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By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden is embracing tougher border measures, including shutting down the US-Mexico border, marking a stark shift from his early days in office as he tries to fend off former President Donald Trump’s attacks on immigration policy ahead of the election. Hours after House Speaker Mike Johnson warned
Continue ReadingBy MARK STEVENSON Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s government has acknowledged that at least two well-known Mayan ruin sites are unreachable by visitors because of a toxic mix of cartel violence and land disputes. But two tourist guides in the southern state of Chiapas, near the border with Guatemala, say two other sites
Continue ReadingBy KANIS LEUNG and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan pressed Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi during talks in Thailand to use China’s influence with Iran to ease tensions in the Middle East. The officials also agreed to work toward arranging a call between President Joe Biden and Chinese leader Xi
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Alaska Airlines has begun flying Boeing 737 Max 9 jetliners again for the first time since they were grounded after a panel blew out of the side of one of the airline’s planes. The airline says in a statement that it has completed its final inspection of their group of the aircraft. They
Continue ReadingBy SABINA NIKSIC Associated Press SREBRENICA, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Jews and Muslims from Bosnia and abroad gathered in Srebrenica on Saturday to jointly observe International Holocaust Remembrance Day and to promote compassion and dialogue amid the Israel-Hamas war. The gathering was organized by the center preserving memory of Europe’s only acknowledged genocide since the Holocaust
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