By MIKE FITZPATRICK AP Baseball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Francisco Lindor homered from both sides of the plate to back another stingy start from newcomer Chris Bassitt, and the New York Mets routed the sloppy Arizona Diamondbacks 10-3 in their home opener. Starling Marte launched a three-run shot in his first home game with
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By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has repealed his traffic-clogging immigration order that backed up commercial trucks at the U.S.-Mexico border this week. The Republican on Friday ended a new policy that required all commercial trucks from Mexico to undergo extra inspections to stop the flow of
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By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has repealed his traffic-clogging immigration order that backed up commercial trucks at the U.S.-Mexico border this week. The Republican on Friday ended a new policy that required all commercial trucks from Mexico to undergo extra inspections to stop the flow of
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By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has repealed his traffic-clogging immigration order that backed up commercial trucks at the U.S.-Mexico border this week. The Republican on Friday ended a new policy that required all commercial trucks from Mexico to undergo extra inspections to stop the flow of
Continue Reading AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas governor repeals truck inspection order that jammed the US-Mexico border and caused fears of deep economic losses.
Continue Reading By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer Twitter is trying to thwart billionaire Elon Musk’s takeover attempt with a “poison pill” — a financial device that companies have been wielding against unwelcome suitors for decades. Ingredients of each poison pill vary, but they are all designed to give corporate boards an option to flood the market
Continue Reading By MIKE FITZPATRICK AP Baseball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A long-awaited statue of pitcher Tom Seaver has been unveiled by the New York Mets in a 40-minute ceremony that began about 2 1/2 hours before their home opener against Arizona. With thousands of fans gathered around, cell phones held high and craning their necks
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Review by Brian Lowry, CNN An old-fashioned courtroom miniseries with a somewhat more modern backdrop of sexual politics, “Anatomy of a Scandal” is a crisply told, nicely binge-able mystery that doesn’t overstay its welcome. Adapted from a novel, the material certainly doesn’t break any ground but proves watchable enough for its various twists, some admittedly
Continue Reading By Scottie Andrew, CNN Liz Sheridan, a veteran stage and screen actress who played Jerry Seinfeld’s mother, Helen, on “Seinfeld,” died Friday morning, her manager and friend Amanda Hendon confirmed to CNN. Sheridan had celebrated her 93rd birthday earlier this week, Hendon said. She is survived by her daughter and son-in-law. Though she had dozens
Continue Reading LONDON (AP) — U.S. Open champion Emma Raducanu has won on her Billie Jean King Cup debut to leave Britain level with the Czech Republic in Prague. Raducanu’s swift rise was evident before she beat Tereza Martincova 7-5, 7-5 in what was her first match for Britain and her first professional match on clay. The
Continue Reading By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, earned $610,702 during their first year in the White House and paid $150,439 in federal income taxes. That’s a tax rate of 24.6% for 2021, well over the average federal rate of around 14%. Those totals, released on Friday, tax
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By MJ Lee and Kaitlan Collins, CNN The White House released President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’ tax returns on Friday, showing that the first couple earned just more than $600,000 in 2021 and paid $150,439 in federal income taxes at an effective federal income tax rate of 24.6%. The President and first
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Alejandra Ramos (CNN) — Anne Milgram, administradora de la Administración de Control de Drogas de Estados Unidos (DEA, por sus siglas en inglés), advirtió sobre los eventos de sobredosis masivas provocadas por el fentanilo en el programa “At This Hour” de CNN el viernes. “Esta es una tendencia que no hemos visto antes”, dijo Milgram.
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EL PASO, Texas – Five men were arrested Tuesday in what police are calling a city-wide operation spanning multiple days. Investigators say 30-year-old Gary Lawrence, a security officer at Jaguars nightclub, was assaulted by five men as he was escorting people out of the club on March 19. Police say the offenders stole his wallet
Continue Reading Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — El presidente de Ucrania, Volodymyr Zelensky, dijo a CNN este viernes que “todos los países del mundo” deben estar preparados para la posibilidad de que el presidente de Rusia, Vladimir Putin, utilice armas nucleares tácticas en su guerra contra Ucrania. Zelensky dijo a Jake Tapper de CNN, en una entrevista exclusiva
Continue Reading By The Associated Press Longtime college basketball broadcaster Dick Vitale is celebrating after finishing chemotherapy at Sarasota Memorial Hospital in Florida. He tweeted Thursday that he was cancer-free, and posted a video of himself ringing the bell in excitement. Vitale, 82, said in the fall he had been diagnosed with lymphoma, months after multiple surgeries
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By Cheri Mossburg, CNN A shoe store owner aiming at would-be shoplifters opened fire in a California mall but struck a 9-year-old girl waiting in line to see the Easter Bunny, police said. The child was flown to Loma Linda Medical Center after the April 12 shooting in the Mall of Victor Valley and had
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Authorities arrested the owner of a shoe store for opening fire on shoplifters at a Victorville mall hitting an innocent 9-year-old girl.
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By Brenda Goodman, Deidre McPhillips and Tasnim Ahmed, CNN New York State health officials are alerting the public to two new viral subvariants — offshoots of Omicron’s BA.2 virus — that are spreading more quickly through the central part of that state. The new branches of BA.2’s family tree are BA.2.12 and BA.2.12.1. They are
Continue Reading By DANIELLA MATAR AP Sports Writer MILAN (AP) — AC Milan has maintained its lead in Serie A after beating relegation-threatened Genoa 2-0. Rafael Leão and Junior Messias helped Milan move back two points ahead of Inter after the defending champion won at Spezia 3-1 hours earlie. Inter has played a match less than Milan
Continue Reading By BARBARA SURK Associated Press MONACO (AP) — Alexander Zverev has prevailed against Jannik Sinner 5-7, 6-3, 7-6 in a Monte Carlo Masters classic to reach the semifinals of the clay-court season opener. Sinner overcame an early break to win the first set, and Zverev repaid the favor in the second. Zverev fought back twice
Continue Reading CHICAGO (AP) — The Chicago Bulls will be without two assistant coaches for at least their playoff opener against the Milwaukee Bucks after Chris Fleming and Damian Cotter tested positive for COVID-19. Coach Billy Donovan says Fleming and Cotter are experiencing mild symptoms and will not travel to Milwaukee for Game 1 of their first-round
Continue Reading Alexandra Ferguson Nueva York (CNN Business) — El consejo de administración de Twitter adoptó un plan temporal de derechos de los accionistas conocido como “píldora venenosa” que podría dificultar la adquisición de la empresa por parte de Elon Musk. La cláusula “píldora venenosa”, anunciada en un comunicado de prensa este viernes, preserva el derecho de
Continue Reading MONTREAL (AP) — Goaltender Carey Price will make his season debut for the Montreal Canadiens against the New York Islanders on Friday night. It will be his first game since Game 5 of the 2021 Stanley Cup Final in July. Price spent months recovering from off-season knee surgery, but paused his rehabilitation after voluntarily entering
Continue Reading By Theresa Waldrop and Melissa Alonso, CNN After a harrowing 36 hours or so for staff at the Memphis Zoo, Honeybunch, a wallaby that went missing in a severe storm, is back with his fellow marsupials. Two-year-old Honeybunch was one of 23 marsupials — including 19 kangaroos — that were being evacuated from their enclosure
Continue Reading macamilarincon (CNN Español) –– Varias organizaciones de la prensa brasileña pidieron este viernes esclarecer los motivos del ataque con arma blanca que sufrió un reportero de TV Globo. La estatal Agencia Brasil informó que a Gabriel Luiz, de 28 años, lo apuñalaron la noche de este jueves dos hombres cerca de su domicilio en Brasilia,
Continue Reading By ELLIOT SPAGAT and PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Gov. Greg Abbott’s decision to impose additional inspections of trucks entering Texas from Mexico was his latest move in an unprecedented foray into border security, which has long been the federal government’s domain. The two-term governor, like many Republican Party leaders, calls
Continue Reading By ELLIOT SPAGAT and PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Gov. Greg Abbott’s decision to impose additional inspections of trucks entering Texas from Mexico was his latest move in an unprecedented foray into border security, which has long been the federal government’s domain. The two-term governor, like many Republican Party leaders, calls
Continue Reading ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — An appeals court on Friday uphold a lower court’s rejection of two ranching groups’ challenge to a federal agency’s designation of certain riparian areas in Arizona, New Mexico and Colorado as critical habitat of a mouse species. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in 2016 designated nearly 22 square miles in
Continue Reading INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Former Louisville interim coach Mike Pegues has accepted an assistant coaching job on Thad Matta’s new staff at Butler. Matta also has hired Kevin Kuwik and will keep David Ragland as assistants. Kuwik worked for two seasons under Matta at Ohio State and one season under Brad Stevens at Butler. Ragland was
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