By RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball says Ángel Hernández was on track to umpire in the 2018 World Series before getting overturned three times at first base on video reviews during Game 3 of that year’s AL Division Series. MLB made that assertion in response to the latest
Continue Reading By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer COSTA MESA, Calif. (AP) — One year ago, Trey Pipkins III was struggling to maintain his place on the Los Angeles Chargers’ roster. Today, he is their starting offensive right tackle. Pipkins’ progress over the past year and consistent training camp helped him win the starting spot over Storm
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea says it plans to challenge a World Bank tribunal’s order to pay $216.5 million plus interest to Texas-based Lone Star Funds following a decade-long dispute over the private equity firm’s sale of the Korea Exchange Bank. South Korean Justice Minister Han Dong-hoon said Wednesday that his government finds
Continue Reading OWINGS MILLS, Md. (AP) — The Baltimore Ravens have waived offensive lineman Tyre Phillips. The Ravens also signed defensive end Brent Urban and running back Kenyan Drake to their 53-man roster and put linebacker David Ojabo and tight end Charlie Kolar on injured reserve. Phillips played the past two seasons with the Ravens, and coach
Continue Reading By ANDREW SELIGMAN AP Sports Writer LAKE FOREST, Ill. (AP) — Chicago Bears star linebacker Roquan Smith insists his focus is on the upcoming season and not his long-term future after a contract standoff with the team ended with no new deal. Smith says there won’t be any more negotiations with new general manager Ryan
Continue Reading(CNN) — Democrat Mary Peltola won the special election to fill Alaska’s House seat for the remainder of 2022, according to unofficial results released by the Alaska Division of Elections, thwarting former Gov. Sarah Palin’s bid at a political comeback — at least for a few months. Peltola emerged as the victor Wednesday when Alaska’s Division of
Continue Reading By JOHN WAWROW AP Sports Writer ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — The Buffalo Bills filled their punter vacancy by signing Sam Martin on Wednesday, two days after the 10th-year player was cut by the Denver Broncos. Buffalo had no punter on the roster after cutting Matt Araiza on Saturday. Araiza was accused in a civil
Continue Reading By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Republican Gov. Greg Abbott on Wednesday pushed back on calls by Uvalde families for new gun control measures in Texas, saying that raising the minimum age to purchase weapons like the one used in the Robb Elementary School massacre would be “unconstitutional.” The 18-year-old gunman
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Alejandra Ramos (CNN Español) — En Lima, la Comisión de Fiscalización del Congreso aprobó en su sesión de este miércoles, investigar la existencia de una presunta “organización criminal familiar dirigida desde Palacio de Gobierno”. Esta decisión de la comisión deberá ser aprobada por el Pleno del Congreso, conformado por la totalidad de los 130 parlamentarios,
Continue Reading By STEVE MEGARGEE AP Sports Writer GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — The Green Bay Packers are serious about upgrading a special teams unit that has struggled for multiple years and had numerous breakdowns in a playoff loss last season. The Packers’ decisions as they put together their 53-man roster make the emphasis even more apparent.
Continue Reading CNN By Marshall Cohen Former President Donald Trump has formally responded in court to the Justice Department’s blockbuster filing from Tuesday night, which revealed new details about the Mar-a-Lago investigation. Trump’s new filing on Wednesday is his platform to formally respond to prosecutors’ assertions that members of his team engaged in “obstructive conduct” by concealing
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By Marshall Cohen Former President Donald Trump argued in a court filing Wednesday that the National Archives should have expected to find classified material among the 15 boxes Trump turned over in January from Mar-a-Lago because they were presidential records. The filing acknowledged that classified material was found at Mar-a-Lago, but argued that it should
Continue Reading Alejandra Ramos (CNN) — Richard Roat, un actor que acumuló una impresionante lista de créditos al aparecer en docenas de programas de televisión icónicos desde principios de los 60 hasta mediados de los 2000, murió a principios de este mes, según un obituario de su familia publicado en Los Angeles Times. Roat tenía 89. Roat
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By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A prosecutor says an international yoga business founder arrested on tax charges is a flight risk and a danger to prospective witnesses in the case against him, but a judge didn’t agree with a request that he be confined to his Washington home. U.S. Magistrate Judge
Continue Reading By DENNIS WASZAK Jr. AP Pro Football Writer FLORHAM PARK, N.J. (AP) — Robert Saleh looks at his New York Jets roster and is excited about what it might be able to accomplish. That sort of hope is something Jets fans have hung onto for decades. With frustration ultimately prevailing. But the coach believes changes
Continue Reading By Sandra Gonzalez, CNN Richard Roat, an actor who amassed an impressive list of credits appearing in dozens of iconic television shows from the early ’60s to the mid-2000s, died earlier this month, according to an obituary from his family published in the Los Angeles Times. He was 89. Roat was well known for his
Continue Reading By RONALD BLUM AP Sports Writer NEW YORK (AP) — With Christian Pulisic stuck on Chelsea’s bench this season, U.S. coach Gregg Berhalter predicts his biggest star will get back into the English club’s starting lineup. The 23-year-old midfielder, in his fourth season with Chelsea, has been used as a second-half substitute by manaer Thomas
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Happy Wednesday everyone! It’s been a cool and periodically rainy day…a day that I’ve quite enjoyed! These scattered storms will continue for the rest of the evening, and then it does appear like more showers will move across the area overnight. Fortunately, most of the storms are fast-moving, and they are only producing light to
Continue Reading Alexandra Ferguson Washington (CNN) — En la preparación de la actual contraofensiva ucraniana, Estados Unidos instó a Kyiv a mantener la operación limitada tanto en sus objetivos como en su geografía para evitar extenderse demasiado y enredarse en múltiples frentes, dicen a CNN múltiples funcionarios estadounidenses y occidentales, así como fuentes ucranianas. Esas discusiones incluyeron
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EL PASO, Texas – The Borderland Invitational is up next for the UTEP Volleyball team (2-1) as they play their home opener with matchups against New Mexico (2-0) at 6 p.m. MT Thursday (Sep.1), Portland State (1-2) at 7 p.m. MT Friday (Sep. 2) and South Dakota (2-1) at 10:30 a.m. MT Saturday (Sep. 3) in Memorial Gym. Thursday’s “915 Game” will be an
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By Sandra Gonzalez, CNN Actress Ana de Armas doesn’t agree with the film rating given to her upcoming film “Blonde,” a fictionalized look at the life of Marilyn Monroe. “Blonde” received an NC-17 rating from the Motion Picture Association earlier this year due to “some sexual content,” according to the organization’s website. This means that
Continue Reading HUNTERSVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Denny Hamlin says he’s still sore from last week’s late wreck at Daytona and thinks it’s best to skip his planned appearance in the Xfinity Series event at Darlington Raceway on Saturday. Hamlin expects to start the Southern 500 on Sunday, the NASCAR Cup Series’ opening playoff event. Joe Gibbs Racing
Continue Reading By MIKE FITZPATRICK AP Baseball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Brett Baty has a torn ligament in his right thumb that requires surgery and will likely sideline the New York Mets’ rookie third baseman for the rest of the regular season. Baty was placed on the 10-day injured list before New York’s game against the
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By Andy Rose, CNN The University of North Dakota is working to repatriate human remains and sacred artifacts taken from Indigenous communities, UND President Andrew Armacost said Wednesday at a news conference. More than 250 boxes of items were discovered in March, but university officials have not publicized the find until now at the request
Continue Reading Marysabel E. Huston-Crespo (CNN Español) — La variante ómicron del nuevo coronavirus sigue dejando más preguntas que respuestas a los científicos. No solo ha logrado burlar los anticuerpos contra el covid-19 por infecciones previas sino que también genera casos asintomáticos. En este episodio, el Dr. Elmer Huerta analiza un nuevo estudio publicado en la revista JAMA
Continue Reading By BEN ROSS Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Joe Musgrove had a season-high 11 strikeouts, Manny Machado drove in three runs and the San Diego Padres beat the San Francisco Giants 5-4 on Wednesday afternoon, completing a three-game sweep. Luis Campusano and Jake Cronenworth added RBIs for San Diego, which has won five of
Continue Reading By ROB MAADDI AP Pro Football Writer Aaron Donald downplayed swinging a helmet at Cincinnati Bengals players in a brawl at a joint practice between last season’s Super Bowl teams last Thursday. “It was just a practice. It was football,” Donald said Wednesday in an interview for an upcoming episode of the AP Pro Football
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Editor’s note: This story contains explicit language. Gov. Greg Abbott said Wednesday that it would be unconstitutional to increase the minimum age to buy assault-style rifles from 18 to 21 years old — a key proposal Uvalde parents have called for after an 18-year-old gunned down their children’s school in May. “It is clear that
Continue Reading By STEPHEN HAWKINS AP Baseball Writer ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Jose Altuve drove in two runs and scored two more for the AL-best Houston Astros in a 5-3 win over the Texas Rangers and their All-Star starter Martín Pérez on Wednesday. The reigning AL champion Astros will enter September at 84-47, matching their best record
Continue Reading By Jeremy Diamond, CNN As soon as this weekend, Americans will for the first time be able to get a coronavirus vaccine booster shot that targets the two most prevalent Omicron subvariants as well as the original strain of the virus. It almost didn’t happen. Absent new funding from Congress, securing tens of millions of
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