By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Los Angeles Angels two-way sensation Shohei Ohtani will not take the mound for Tuesday night’s game against the New York Yankees in order to give his right hand extra time to heal. Ohtani was hit in his pitching hand by a 93 mile per hour
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By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — The mayor of Honolulu says the city will soon require patrons of restaurants, bars, museums, theaters and other establishments to show proof of vaccination or a recent negative test for COVID-19. The rule takes effect on Sept. 13 and is aimed at helping the city beat back
Continue Reading By ROB MAADDI AP Pro Football Writer Fully vaccinated players will be required to get tested for COVID-19 weekly instead of every 14 days as part of the revised protocols for the regular season agreed upon by the NFL and NFLPA. The weekly testing applies also for fully vaccinated Tier 1 and 2 staff. There’s
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By Devan Cole, CNN Republican Congressman and US military veteran Adam Kinzinger on Monday reflected on the closing of America’s longest war, saying that while he’s relieved, Afghanistan now being under Taliban control has left him with mixed emotions. “At the one hand, it’s great relief that we got those thousands of military members out
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The remnants of once hurricane Nora will send moisture in our direction the next several days. It looks like the heavier rains will be just to the west of El Paso out in Arizona. Early models runs indicate that we could see up to .50″ of rain by Friday. Temps will continue to cool some
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By MANUEL RUEDA Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — A court in Colombia has refused to allow a trial for a retired general accused of offering incentives that led soldiers to murder 104 civilians and pass them off as guerrilla fighters killed in combat during Colombia’s long civil conflict. Bogota’s Superior Tribunal ruled Monday that
Continue Reading TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida state education officials have begun to make good on threats to withhold funding from local school districts that defied Gov. Ron DeSantis’ ban on mask mandates. The move comes despite a circuit judge who last week ruled the ban unconstitutional. Commissioner of Education Richard Corcoran announced Monday that the Florida
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BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Workers at three Starbucks coffee shops in the Buffalo area filed petitions Monday with the National Labor Relations Board asking for a vote on union representation, the latest development in a nationwide, pandemic-era reckoning on wages and working conditions. Employees at the stores told The New York Times they were seeking
Continue Reading BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Workers at three Starbucks coffee shops in the Buffalo area filed petitions Monday with the National Labor Relations Board asking for a vote on union representation, the latest development in a nationwide, pandemic-era reckoning on wages and working conditions. Employees at the stores told The New York Times they were seeking
Continue Reading By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol is asking social media and telecommunications companies to preserve phone or computer records for hundreds of people. The committee in a letter Monday cites records of those who were potentially involved with planning to
Continue Reading A federal grand jury has indicted a defrocked American priest on charges of having sex with minors while running a children’s shelter in a remote part of East Timor. Eighty-four-year-old Richard Daschbach faces seven counts of engaging in illicit sexual conduct at the Topu Honis shelter that he founded decades ago in the mountains of
Continue Reading By LOLITA C. BALDOR and MATTHEW LEE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As the final five U.S. military transport aircraft lifted off out of Afghanistan Monday, they left behind up to 200 Americans and thousands of desperate Afghans who couldn’t get out and now must rely on the Taliban to allow their departure. Secretary of
Continue Reading By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press BERKELEY TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey authorities say a young lifeguard was killed and seven other people injured when lightning struck a Jersey Shore beach Monday afternoon. Gov. Phil Murphy confirmed that a lifeguard in Berkeley Township was killed in the afternoon. It marked the second death of a
Continue Reading By Paul LeBlanc and Daniel Dale, CNN Republican Rep. Madison Cawthorn on Sunday suggested there could be “bloodshed” over future elections as he pushed false claims about election security and voter fraud. Speaking at a North Carolina county GOP event, Cawthorn repeated the lie about US election systems being “rigged” and “stolen,” something he said
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EL PASO, Texas — El Paso County Commissioners on Monday lowered the property tax rate with the goal of charging homeowners the same amount of taxes the county did last year, and no more. Commissioners voted unanimously to adopt what’s officially called the “no new revenue” rate, which means the county will levy enough taxes
Continue Reading By JOSH DUBOW AP Pro Football Writer SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — San Francisco 49ers rookie quarterback Trey Lance will miss one week of practice after injuring a finger on his throwing hand during an exhibition game. Lance was hit on his right hand by the helmet of Las Vegas Raiders linebacker Max Richardson. Lance
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WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. (AP) — The Navajo Nation on Monday reported 17 new COVID-19 cases, but no additional deaths for the second consecutive day. The latest numbers pushed the tribe’s total to 32,545 coronavirus cases since the pandemic began more than a year ago. The known death total remained at 1,403. Based on cases from
Continue Reading GARLAND, Texas (AP) — Investigators are looking into whether a Texas man was inspired by foreign terrorists when he fatally shot a Lyft driver in a Dallas suburb and opened fire in the police station of another suburb where officers shot him. Police say Imran Ali Rasheed ordered a Lyft in Garland on Sunday, then
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WASHINGTON, DC — Secretary of State Antony Blinken said “under 200, likely closer to 100” Americans wishing to leave still remain in Afghanistan after the U.S. withdrawal was completed Monday. Blinken also announced that America’s diplomatic operations have been transferred from Kabul to Doha, Qatar. “Given the uncertain security environment and political situation in Afghanistan,
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GARLAND, Texas (AP) — Investigators are looking into whether a Texas man was inspired by foreign terrorists when he fatally shot a Lyft driver in a Dallas suburb and opened fire in the police station of another suburb where officers shot him. Police say Imran Ali Rasheed ordered a Lyft in Garland on Sunday, then
Continue Reading Ismael Suárez (CNN Español) — La boxeadora mexicana Jeanette Zacarías Zapata se encuentra en cuidados intensivos después de perder el sábado frente a la canadiense Marie-Pier Houle por nocaut, confirmó la agencia de entretenimiento Groupe Yvon Michel (GYM), que organizó el evento en Montreal, Canadá. Yvon Michel, promotor de la pelea, informó el domingo que
Continue Reading There was another reported attack on Kabul’s airport Monday following US airstrikes over the weekend.
Continue Reading By Christina Maxouris, CNN Four young siblings who had been hiding alone in an apartment in Afghanistan’s capital reunited with their mother on Monday evening in Albany, New York, marking the end of a frantic, days-long rescue mission to get them to safety. “My children are now safe,” Suneeta told CNN Saturday morning, while her
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has signed another emergency declaration due to flooding. This time it’s for Rio Arriba County, where heavy rainfall recently overwhelmed drainage systems and caused damage to roads and infrastructure. The declaration clears the way for the local government to access funding to help with recovery
Continue Reading By Katelyn Polantz, CNN Reporter, Crime and Justice A prominent lawyer has not been appearing at recent court hearings on behalf of some of his nearly 20 US Capitol riot clients after reportedly becoming ill with Covid-19, the Department of Justice said in court filings in multiple cases on Monday. Prosecutors said they believe the
Continue Reading By DAVE CAMPBELL AP Sports Writer MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota quarterback Tanner Morgan lost his closest confident and biggest fan earlier this summer. His father, Ted, died after a 14-month fight with brain cancer. The fourth-year QB has found plenty of support from Gophers coaches and teammates. The grit, leadership and maturity that Morgan displayed
Continue Reading SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — A first group of 149 Afghan evacuees has landed in North Macedonia, where they will stay for a few months pending resettlement elsewhere. The passengers were on a private Afghan Kam Air flight that arrived late Monday at Skopje international airport. The group included employees of international organizations in Afghanistan
Continue Reading SAN DIEGO (AP) — Six families from a San Diego suburb have now made it safely out of Afghanistan after they went to the country earlier this summer to visit relatives and got stuck there amid the chaos following the Taliban’s takeover. But the suburb of El Cajon was still waiting on Monday for the
Continue Reading By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Attorneys general from 20 states have sued President Joe Biden’s administration seeking to halt directives that extend federal sex discrimination protections to LGBTQ people, ranging from transgender girls participating in school sports to the use of school and workplace bathrooms that align with a person’s gender
Continue Reading By Paula Reid and Paul LeBlanc, CNN Rudy Giuliani’s communications director has resigned from her position, ending a nearly two-year stint as the former New York City mayor faces mounting legal problems. Christianné Allen, who has worked at Giuliani Communication LLC since December 2019, said in a statement Monday that she is “proud of the
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