NEW YORK (AP) — Robot umpires have been given a promotion and will be just one step from the major leagues this season. Major League Baseball is expanding its automated strike zone experiment to Triple-A, the highest level of the minor leagues. MLB’s website posted a hiring notice seeking seasonal employees to operate the Automated
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NEW YORK (AP) — Robot umpires have been given a promotion and will be just one step from the major leagues this season. Major League Baseball is expanding its automated strike zone experiment to Triple-A, the highest level of the minor leagues. MLB’s website posted a hiring notice seeking seasonal employees to operate the Automated
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NEW YORK (AP) — Robot umpires have been given a promotion and will be just one step from the major leagues this season. Major League Baseball is expanding its automated strike zone experiment to Triple-A, the highest level of the minor leagues. MLB’s website posted a hiring notice seeking seasonal employees to operate the Automated
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By Chris Isidore, CNN Business Airline executives breathed a sigh of relief to their investors Thursday, saying they believe the threat to their operations from the rollout of 5G technology is now behind them. Although AT&T and Verizon have agreed only to temporarily delay 5G deployment at major airports, the CEOs of American and United
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CNN, CNNBUSINESS By Chris Isidore, CNN Business Airline executives breathed a sigh of relief to their investors Thursday, saying they believe the threat to their operations from the rollout of 5G technology is now behind them. Although AT&T and Verizon have agreed only to temporarily delay 5G deployment at major airports, the CEOs of American
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CNN By Daniel Dale President Joe Biden held a news conference on Wednesday to mark the end of the first year of his presidency. Biden made at least three inaccurate claims during the extended proceedings, which he allowed to run for nearly two hours. He also made a claim about surprise medical billing in which
Continue Reading By Daniel Dale President Joe Biden held a news conference on Wednesday to mark the end of the first year of his presidency. Biden made at least three inaccurate claims during the extended proceedings, which he allowed to run for nearly two hours. He also made a claim about surprise medical billing in which he,
Continue Reading ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A dog was killed and another ran off after a pickup collided with a sled team that was crossing a busy highway in Alaska. Anchorage television station KTUU says the musher was identified as Jaye Foucher of New Hampshire. Her team was struck Wednesday on the Parks Highway near Willow, about
Continue Reading By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A Native American tribe has agreed to lease more of its water to help address dwindling supplies in the Colorado River Basin. The agreement announced Thursday involves the Jicarilla Apache Nation, the New Mexico Interstate Stream Commission and The Nature Conservancy. Tribal water administrator Daryl
Continue Reading By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — NCAA member schools have ratified a new, pared-down constitution. It clears the way for a decentralized approach to governing college sports that will hand more power to schools and conferences.The NCAA’s three divisions will now be empowered to govern themselves. College sports leaders hope
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WOODBINE, Ga. (AP) — A judge has denied a request to stop a county from buying land for a planned spaceport near the Georgia coast, dealing the latest blow to the project’s opponents. In an order Thursday, Superior Court Judge Stephen Scarlett denied a request to restrain Camden County from closing on the land deal
Continue Reading By LORI HINNANT Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French energy conglomerate TotalEnergies has asked the American and French governments to support targeted sanctions against Myanmar’s oil and gas funds. The funds are the largest single source of income for the country’s military leaders. In a letter to Human Rights Watch released Thursday, the CEO of
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Continue Reading By PAT EATON-ROBB AP Sports Writer STORRS, Conn. (AP) — An arbitrator has ruled that UConn improperly fired former men’s basketball coach Kevin Ollie and must pay him more than $11 million, Ollie’s lawyer said. Attorney Jacques Parenteau called the decision from arbitrator Mark Irvings a “total vindication” for Ollie, who was fired in March
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN For the first time ever, a flight delay has occurred on another planet due to bad weather. The Ingenuity helicopter, which was slated to take to Martian skies on January 5, had to push its 19th flight back because of an unusually strong regional dust storm on Mars, according to NASA.
Continue Reading By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Business You may think that store and restaurant workers in America who catch Covid-19 are staying home to recover and keep the public safe. But millions of frontline employees aren’t able to do that without missing a paycheck. So, many Americans, working precarious, low-wage jobs in the service industry, can’t stay
Continue Reading Opinion by Mark Wolfe for CNN Business Perspectives Energy is an essential component of our day-to-day lives. We use it to cook our food, stay warm in the winter and cool our homes in the summer. But home energy prices have risen during the pandemic while more people are struggling to just get by. For
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By Chloe Melas and Paul Vercammen, CNN Although Britney Spears’ 13-year conservatorship has ended, the legal battle over her finances is still going on. The singer’s attorney, Mathew Rosengart, faced off in court on Wednesday against attorney Alex Weingarten, who now represents the pop star’s father, Jamie Spears. Judge Brenda Penny ruled against a request
Continue Reading CHICAGO (AP) — The Chicago Bulls say guard Lonzo Ball will have arthroscopic surgery on his left knee and is expected to be out six to eight weeks. Ball has missed three games since a 42-point loss to Golden State last week. Coach Billy Donovan said Wednesday the team had switched up his treatment, hoping
Continue Reading By DUSAN STOJANOVIC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Trying to defuse large protests by environmentalists, Serbia’s populist government said Thursday that it was canceling all licenses for mining giant Rio Tinto to open a lithium mine in the Balkan country. “We have fulfilled all the requests of the environmental protests and put an end
Continue Reading By ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — A $490 million deal to settle claims of sexual assault against a University of Michigan doctor will be handled in a similar way to the $500 million agreement worked out in 2018 by Michigan State University and the victims of Larry Nassar. The University of Michigan won’t
Continue Reading TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Caleb Mills scored 21 points, freshman Matthew Cleveland added a season-high 21 points with 10 rebounds and Florida State beat North Florida 86-73 for its fifth straight victory. Mills scored eight of his 15 first-half points in the final five minutes to help Florida State go ahead by double figures. Cleveland
Continue Reading Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — ¿Recuerdas a Cheech y Chong? Los clásicos que pasan sus días en una habitación (o auto) cubierta de marihuana, capaces de poco más que encontrar su próximo churro. Si no los recuerdas, no es de extrañar. A medida que más y más estados legalizan la marihuana, los efectos estereotipados de adormecimiento
Continue Reading Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Año nuevo, perspectivas nuevas, planes de viaje nuevos. Ahora es el momento en el que mucha gente suele planear las escapadas del año en torno a los calendarios escolares y los eventos familiares y el buen tiempo y los grandes festivales y exposiciones y conciertos. Y, una vez más, el covid-19
Continue Reading By Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business Peloton CEO John Foley acknowledged Thursday that the company is “considering all options” — including layoffs and production curbs — after a report that the fitness firm has stopped manufacturing its bikes and treadmills sent shares crashing. His statement did not reference any specific report, but said “rumors that we
Continue Reading By DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Doug Pederson lasted five seasons in Philadelphia and Matt Nagy just four in Chicago before they ultimately were fired. That hasn’t diminished the interest teams have in Andy Reid’s offensive coordinators. Passed over several times for head coaching jobs over the past few seasons,
Continue Reading TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — The United States has taken the lead in the pairs and ice dance on the first day of the Four Continents figure skating championships. U.S. skaters Audrey Lu and Misha Mitrofanov placed first in the pairs short program with 68.35 points. Caroline Green and Michael Parsons lead the ice dance competition
Continue Reading By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve released a highly anticipated report on central bank digital currencies that suggested it is leaning toward having banks and other financial firms, rather than the Fed itself, manage digital accounts for customers. A central bank digital currency would differ in some key ways
Continue Reading By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Hockey Writer Connor McDavid, Auston Matthews and Nathan MacKinnon will not get to play at the Olympics for the first time since the NHL is not sending players to Beijing. The men’s hockey tournament instead could be a showcase of the next generation of hockey talent. Most recent top NHL draft
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico– The Animal Control Section of the Las Cruces Police Department will have cat traps available for pick up beginning Thursday, Jan. 20, to assist with the community cats and community cat caregivers section of the revised animal ordinance. This section states the city shall adopt a trap-neuter-return policy, with best practices
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