By RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Gerrit Cole notices the changes at Yankee Stadium: no masks, breakfast spreads and couches back. Nathan Eovaldi told young teammates that having media back in clubhouses was the pre-pandemic norm. For the first time since 2005, the Yankees and Red Sox are meeting to start
Continue Reading By AARON BEARD AP Basketball Writer Duke has hired former Elon head coach and Blue Devils staffer Mike Schrage to work as special assistant to new coach Jon Scheyer. The school announced the move Thursday. Schrage had resigned at Elon on Monday after three seasons. His hiring brings more than two decades of college experience
Continue Reading By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Brian Kelly is settled in at LSU after 12 seasons at Notre Dame. Kelly tells The Associated Press he wanted to be at a place where he had all “the resources to win a national championship.” He says he was prepared to
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After the pandemic halted Kim Calichio’s business, she found a way to keep household kitchens in her community stocked with fresh groceries by delivering healthy food to those in need.
Continue Reading By Meg Dunn, CNN When the Covid-19 pandemic hit, Kim Calichio and her husband, like many people, saw their lives change overnight. A former restaurant chef, Calichio had built a cooking and gardening business that halted completely, leaving her with no income. Her husband, Omar, also a chef, continued his restaurant job, working in close
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OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government is banning foreign investors from buying homes in Canada for two years in a bid to cool off a hot housing market. Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland took a number of measures to tamp down speculation and demand amid record home prices in announcing the federal budget
Continue Reading CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Amanda Anisimova rallied from a set down to defeat top-seeded Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus and reach the quarterfinals at the Charleston Open. Sabalenka won her first match in almost six weeks on Wednesday and took the opening set against Anisimova. But the 15th-seeded American came back to win the final two
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By Deidre McPhillips, CNN Life expectancy in the United States took another hit in 2021, furthering a dramatic decline from 2020 that was the largest since World War II, according to a new report. The study — published Thursday on the preprint server medRxiv, which means it has not been peer-reviewed — found that after
Continue Reading By HOWARD FENDRICH AP National Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Max Scherzer says he is “good to go” for his New York Mets debut in Friday’s second game of the season against the Washington Nationals. This is Scherzer’s return to Nationals Park after he played 6 1/2 seasons with Washington and helped the club win the
Continue Reading By Gregory Wallace, CNN Thunderstorms and low clouds over the East Coast are complicating air travel as many Americans are heading to airports during the busy spring break season. Thousands of flights are delayed, with some delays stretching up to two hours, according to Federal Aviation Administration data. By 4:15 p.m. on Thursday, more than
Continue Reading By Eliza Mackintosh, Oleksandra Ochman, Gianluca Mezzofiore, Katie Polglase, Teele Rebane and Anastasia Graham-Yooll, CNN Lviv, Ukraine — When Russian forces and allied separatist soldiers arrived offering a path to safety, it felt like a sick twist of fate. It was mid-March and residents in Mariupol had spent weeks in freezing, damp basements, hiding from
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By Ben Morse, CNN Golf can be an extremely frustration sport, and this applies to professionals, too. And Matthew Wolff certainly didn’t endure the opening round at the Masters as he wanted to on Thursday. The 22-year-old golfer began his round with a double bogey on the opening hole, followed by two consecutive bogeys as
Continue Reading SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) — A DHL cargo jet has broken in half after sliding off the runway while landing at San Jose’s international airport. The crash Thursday shut down the airport, but the two crewmen aboard were reported uninjured. The fire department saiys the Boeing 757 had taken off from Juan Santamaría Airport
Continue Reading By AMY TAXIN Associated Press ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — The mother of a boy accidentally hit in the head with a baseball thrown by a Los Angeles Angels pitcher warming up before a game has filed a lawsuit against the team. Beatrice Galaz says in the lawsuit announced Thursday that the team’s negligence led to
Continue Reading By AMY TAXIN Associated Press ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — The mother of a boy accidentally hit in the head with a baseball thrown by a Los Angeles Angels pitcher warming up before a game has filed a lawsuit against the team. Beatrice Galaz says in the lawsuit announced Thursday that the team’s negligence led to
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By Anneken Tappe, CNN Business Americans got into a lot more debt in February as rampant inflation kept up the pressure, the Federal Reserve’s consumer credit report showed Thursday. Debt levels jumped by nearly $42 billion to a total of almost $4.5 trillion. That’s an annual increase of 11.3%, seasonally adjusted, far outperforming economists’ expectations
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By PAT GRAHAM AP Sports Writer Three-time Olympian Resi Stiegler will make a comeback to the ski racing scene this weekend at the World Pro Ski Tour championships in Taos, New Mexico. Stiegler retired a year ago and had a daughter eight weeks ago. She has big expectations. With lucrative prize money, the field is
Continue Reading By PAT GRAHAM AP Sports Writer Three-time Olympian Resi Stiegler will make a comeback to the ski racing scene this weekend at the World Pro Ski Tour championships in Taos, New Mexico. Stiegler retired a year ago and had a daughter eight weeks ago. She has big expectations. With lucrative prize money, the field is
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CNN By Clare Foran, Ted Barrett and Ali Zaslav, CNN The Senate confirmed President Joe Biden’s Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson on Thursday in a historic vote that paves the way for her to become the first Black woman to serve on the highest court in the nation. The tally was 53-47, with Republican
Continue Reading SEATTLE (AP) — A Ukrainian man who served as a high-level hacker in a ring that stole more than 20 million credit and debit card records, causing an estimated $1 billion in losses, has been sentenced to five years in prison. Denys Iarmak, 32, is the third member of the hacking group FIN7 to be
Continue Reading Alejandra Ramos (CNN) — Al menos 10 personas han muerto, otras 10 han resultado heridas y siete siguen desaparecidas tras un deslizamiento de tierra en una zona minera en el noroeste de Colombia, informaron este jueves las autoridades. El Departamento Administrativo de Gestión del Riesgo de Antioquia-GobAntioquia (Dagran) dijo que el evento en el municipio
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El Paso, Texas- Easter is just around the corner and it’s time to get excited about the 44th annual Northeaster Parade. This is the first time the event will be held in person since the COVID-19 pandemic. It will be a fun-filled event that will be great for the family. Executive Director Mando Martinez says
Continue Reading The Associated Press Stocks recovered from an early slide and closed higher on Wall Street Thursday as investors weigh the latest update from the Federal Reserve amid concerns about rising inflation. Health care and technology stocks helped lift the market. Retailers and other companies that rely on direct consumer spending also rose.
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By Faith Karimi, CNN Singer and actress Camila Cabello is opening up about the “crippling” anxiety she felt while making her new album, “Familia.” In an interview with People, Cabello described it as “the worst mental health state ever.” “I was cripplingly anxious … I took a break at the beginning of the pandemic. I
Continue Reading By Matt McFarland, CNN Business Tesla held a party Thursday night to mark the opening of its new manufacturing plant in Austin, Texas. Tesla’s new factory will initially produce the Model Y SUV and, next year, the Cybertruck, which has been delayed since being first revealed in 2019. The Texas factory, Tesla’s fourth assembly plant
Continue Reading NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Thursday: HP, Lamb Weston rise; JD.com, AvalonBay fall.
Continue Reading By Virginia Langmaid, CNN The chief of the embattled Aurora, Colorado, police department — who took over during the fallout over death of Elijah McClain — was fired Wednesday amid concerns that the city’s manager said were about management and leadership. “There are two main themes that continue to rise up as top of concerns:
Continue Reading By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer McDonald’s investors will consider a proposal for a civil rights audit of the company. Shareholder advocacy group SOC Investment Group __ which successfully submitted a similar measure at Apple last month __ wants McDonald’s board to oversee a third-party audit that would analyze the company’s civil rights record and
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By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Seven Texas lawmakers who traveled hundreds of miles to update death row inmate Melissa Lucio on their efforts to stop her execution were able to connect with her through embrace and prayer. State Rep. Joe Moody said that although they were initially told the visit would
Continue Reading Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Mientras la guerra de Rusia en Ucrania entra en una nueva fase crucial, los combates se intensifican en el este del país y los funcionarios han advertido de una batalla que “recordará a la Segunda Guerra Mundial”. El ministro de Relaciones Exteriores de Ucrania, Dmytro Kuleba, dijo este jueves que los
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