By JANIE McCAULEY AP Baseball Writer OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — New York Yankees All-Star left-hander Nestor Cortes has gone on the 15-day injured list with a strained left groin. The move is retroactive to Monday. The Yankees also activated slugger Giancarlo Stanton from the injured list and put him in the lineup at Oakland. Cortes
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By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco’s former public works director was sentenced Thursday to seven years in prison for steering public contracts and taking pricey gifts in a corruption case that ensnared several City Hall officials and insiders. Mohammed Nuru in January pleaded guilty to what federal prosecutors described
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FORT BLISS, Texas — A 25-year-old Fort Bliss soldier has been indicted on federal firearms charges. Grant Lee Mosley is accused of making and dealing firearms without a firearms license. According to the El Paso FBI Field Office, Mosley was manufacturing 3-D printed auto sears that would convert a semi-automatic firearm system into a fully
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By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer ATLANTA (AP) — Masters champion Scottie Scheffler might have had a roller coaster of an opening round Thursday at the Tour Championship if only he had been paying attention to the scoreboards. Scheffler started with a two-shot lead as the No. 1 seed in the FedEx Cup. He led
Continue Reading By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer ATLANTA (AP) — Masters champion Scottie Scheffler might have had a roller coaster of an opening round Thursday at the Tour Championship if only he had been paying attention to the scoreboards. Scheffler started with a two-shot lead as the No. 1 seed in the FedEx Cup. He led
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By Caroll Alvarado and Alfonso Serrano, CNN After a two-month, 10-country trek — through the jungles of northern Colombia, the Darién Gap, and the US immigration system — Anabel and Crisman Urbaez of Venezuela, alongside their two children and dog, now sleep on warm beds at a Brooklyn family shelter. But their relative calm these
Continue Reading After a two-month, 10-country trek — through the jungles of northern Colombia, the Darién Gap, and the US immigration system — Anabel and Crisman Urbaez of Venezuela, alongside their two children and dog, now sleep on warm beds at a Brooklyn family shelter. CNN’s Polo Sandoval reports.
Continue Reading By KEVIN COONEY Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Zack Wheeler has been put on the 15-day injured list with right forearm tendinitis. The move came three hours after the team announced slugger Bryce Harper was set to return from a broken thumb. The 32-year-old Wheeler is 11-7 with a 3.07 ERA. The
Continue Reading EDINBURG, Texas (AP) — A former South Texas mayor was acquitted Thursday of organized election fraud and illegal voting after an eight-day trial. A Hidalgo County jury deliberated for about six hours Thursday before finding former Edinburg Mayor Richard Molina not guilty of the organized fraud count and 11 counts of illegal voting. Molina sobbed
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EL PASO, Texas — UTEP enters the season with the most expectation and anticipation a Miners team has had in years, but they also enter with something they haven’t had in over a decade: the same quarterback starting for a third consecutive year. Gavin Hardison has become a household name in the Sun City, playing
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CNN By Gabby Orr, Kristen Holmes, Evan Perez and Jeremy Herb, CNN Not long after the National Archives acknowledged in February that it had retrieved 15 boxes of presidential records from former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida, Trump began fielding calls from Tom Fitton, a prominent conservative activist. Fitton, the longtime head of
Continue Reading By ACACIA CORONADO and PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Even though Uvalde’s school police chief is now gone, Mario Jimenez doesn’t feel any safer about sending his 10-year-old son back to class for the first time since his teacher was shot at Robb Elementary School. “There were a lot more officers
Continue Reading By TIM BOOTH AP Sports Writer SEATTLE (AP) — Mitch Haniger hit a three-run home run in the first inning to account for all of Seattle’s offense, while Marco Gonzales tossed six strong innings in the Mariners’ 3-1 win over the Cleveland Guardians. Seattle took the opener of a key four-game series between playoff contenders
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Alejandra Ramos (CNN) — El gobernador de California, Gavin Newsom, enviará dinero hasta la otra costa del país para ayudar al representante Charlie Crist a derrotar al gobernador de Florida, Ron DeSantis, este noviembre. El demócrata de California tuiteó el jueves que se comprometía a donar US$ 100.000 para convertir a DeSantis en un “gobernador
Continue Reading By DENNIS WASZAK AP Pro Football Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Frustrated New York Jets wide receiver Denzel Mims has requested to be traded through a statement released by his agent. Ron Slavin wrote that “it’s just time” and that it’s clear Mims “does not have a future with the Jets.” Mims was a second-round
Continue Reading By RANDALL CHASE AP Business Writer DOVER, Del. (AP) — The Delaware judge presiding over Twitter Inc.’s lawsuit to prevent billionaire Elon Musk from backing out of a $44 billion deal to buy the social media company has ordered both sides to turn over more information to opposing lawyers. After hearing oral arguments Wednesday, the
Continue Reading CNN By MJ Lee, Kevin Liptak and Phil Mattingly, CNN It was early May and Rep. Pramila Jayapal was feeling optimistic. The chairwoman of the Congressional Progressive Caucus felt almost certain that a major announcement from the White House was imminent. “Something is coming, and something is coming soon,” the Washington Democrat mused to CNN
Continue Reading By MJ Lee, Kevin Liptak and Phil Mattingly, CNN It was early May and Rep. Pramila Jayapal was feeling optimistic. The chairwoman of the Congressional Progressive Caucus felt almost certain that a major announcement from the White House was imminent. “Something is coming, and something is coming soon,” the Washington Democrat mused to CNN at
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By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico’s top environmental regulator on Thursday warned state lawmakers that taxpayers could be on the hook for groundwater contamination since the U.S. Defense Department continues to challenge the state’s authority to force cleanup of “forever chemicals” at two air bases. The plumes of PFAS
Continue Reading SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. (AP) — John Velazquez, already the leading career rider at Saratoga, had his 1,000th winner Thursday at the historic track. The 50-year-old Hall of Fame jockey won the eighth race by a neck aboard Precursory, who paid $14 to win. The filly is trained by fellow Hall of Famer Bill Mott.
Continue Reading By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The stock of buy-now, pay-later company Affirm have fallen after the company gave a more cautious outlook for its current fiscal year. The outlook came with the company’s report of a quarterly loss that was wider than what Wall Street expected. Affirm grew rapidly in
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By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut authorities are working to confirm that convicted Ponzi schemer Steven Hoffenberg was the person found dead in an apartment earlier this week. Lt. Justin Stanko, of Derby police, said Thursday that evidence at the scene all pointed to the person being Hoffenberg. But the body
Continue Reading By Gregory Krieg, CNN New York’s messiest Democratic House primary could be on the verge of becoming its most divisive general election fight. State Assembly Member Yuh-Line Niou, a progressive from Lower Manhattan, currently trails former federal prosecutor Daniel Goldman by about 1,300 votes, with more mail ballots to count. Should the current results hold,
Continue Reading EL SEGUNDO, Calif. (AP) — The Los Angeles Lakers have traded for guard Patrick Beverley. The move sends guard Talen Horton-Tucker and forward Stanley Johnson to the Utah Jazz and returns Beverley to the city where he starred for the Clippers from 2017 until last year. Beverley averaged 9.2 points, 4.1 rebounds and 4.6 assists
Continue Reading By BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — A judge ruled Thursday that an Arizona initiative expanding voting access and rolling back a host of restrictions enacted by the Republican-controlled Arizona Legislature and GOP Gov. Doug Ducey will be on the November ballot, barring a successful appeal to the state Supreme Court, which ordered the
Continue Reading Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Cuando se trata de moda, el estilo en las calles tiene tanto caché como el de las pasarelas. De hecho, hay decenas de blogs y cuentas de Instagram dedicados a registrar los mejores estilos vistos en las calles. Y es que el estilo “urban chic” siempre surge desde allí, donde personas
Continue Reading FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. (AP) — The Jacksonville Jaguars and Atlanta Falcons are expected to highlight the competitions for the final roster spots in Saturday’s final preseason game for both teams. That means Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence, like most starters, is expected to be an observer. The Jaguars and Falcons had two joint practices at the
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By Marianne Garvey, CNN Joe E. Tata, who played Nat, the kindly owner of the Peach Pit on “Beverly Hills, 90210,” has died, according to his daughter. He was 85. Kelly Tata shared the news Thursday in a statement on a GoFundMe page she had started earlier this year in relation to her father’s care.
Continue Reading By Lauren del Valle, CNN Two people who sold Ashley Biden’s journal and other items to Project Veritas pleaded guilty in Manhattan federal court on Thursday. Aimee Harris and Robert Kurlander pleaded guilty to stealing Biden’s belongings and selling them to the conservative media group for $40,000, according to court documents. This is a breaking
Continue Reading Rocío Muñoz-Ledo (CNN Español) — Estudiar una carrera en Estados Unidos supone una cuantiosa inversión y muchos estudiantes optan por pedir préstamos estudiantiles para afrontar el pago de las matrículas que tanto en las universidades privadas como en las públicas, sigue siendo mucho más alto que en otros países de Europa y Latinoamérica. Esta adolescente
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