By Nicki Brown, CNN An entrance to Central Park will be named the “Gate of the Exonerated” to honor the group of Black and Hispanic teens known as the “Central Park Five” who were wrongfully convicted of beating and raping a White female jogger in the park more than 30 years ago. Individuals from the
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By STEVE MEGARGEE AP Sports Writer MILWAUKEE (AP) — The Atlanta Braves have acquired catcher Sean Murphy from the Oakland Athletics as part of a three-team deal that also sent All-Star catcher William Contreras to the Milwaukee Brewers. Oakland got catcher Manny Piña and pitching prospects Kyle Muller, Freddy Tarnok and Royber Salinas from Atlanta
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Gov. Greg Abbott said he will seek a mandatory minimum sentence of at least five years in prison for human smuggling. “I’m getting damn tired of Texas residents smuggling people into our country illegally,” Abbott wrote in a tweet Sunday night. “I will be seeking a mandatory minimum of at least five years in prison
Continue Reading By JOSH DUBOW AP Pro Football Writer SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — Star receiver Deebo Samuel is expected to return to the San Francisco 49ers before the end of the regular season after the team got a favorable report on his injury. The Niners announced that Samuel has a sprained left ankle and MCL in
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Forward Gyasi Zardes and Major League Soccer’s Austin team agreed Monday to a three-year contract. Zardes, 31, has 97 goals in 267 regular-season games for the LA Galaxy, Columbus and Colorado, including nine in 26 games after the Rapids acquired him from the Crew in April. Zardes has 14 goals in
Continue Reading Ella Nilsen and René Marsh, CNN Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s National Ignition Facility have made history by successfully producing a nuclear fusion reaction resulting in a net energy gain, a breakthrough hailed by US officials as a “landmark achievement” and a “milestone for the future of clean energy.” Here’s what you need to
Continue Reading The Washington Post reports that the US Department of Energy is expected to announce that for the first time scientists have successfully produced a nuclear fusion reaction resulting in a net energy gain. CNN’s Bill Weir joins “CNN This Morning” with more.
Continue Reading COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — North Carolina athletic director Bubba Cunningham will be among the new members of the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic board of directors beginning in 2023. Cunningham will start on the board as Duke’s former athletic director Kevin White leaves — keeping a major-college presence on a governing board that is trying
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EL PASO, Texas — An El Paso man is charged with aggravated assault against a public servant following a domestic disturbance call Friday in northeast El Paso. Karl Dean Lyons, 31, was arrested after an hours-long incident in which he barricaded himself inside his home. It happened Friday afternoon at the 5700 block of Sean
Continue Reading By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Sports Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Trevor Williams says the Washington Nationals plan to use him in their rotation next season. Williams agreed to a $13 million, two-year contract with the Nationals last week. The right-hander was a free agent after being used in a swing role with the New York Mets
Continue Reading By The Associated Press American Daryl Dike scored his first goal for West Bromwich Albion, breaking a tie in the 82nd minute during a 2-1 win at Sunderland in the second tier English League Championship. As West Brom resumed play following a break for the World Cup group stage, Dike entered in the 64th minute
Continue Reading METAIRIE, La. (AP) — New Orleans Saints defensive end Cameron Jordan is continuing to assail the NFL for fining him and his team after concluding that he faked an injury during a game at Tampa Bay. Jordan was fined $50,000 for a delay that resulted from him signaling he was hurt. He said Monday that
Continue Reading By JOHN FLESHER AP Environmental Writer TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Four Native American tribes in Michigan have agreed with the state and federal governments on a revised fishing policy for parts of the Great Lakes. The tentative deal covers sections of Lake Michigan, Lake Huron and Lake Superior included in an 1836 treaty that
Continue Reading By JAY COHEN AP Baseball Writer The Toronto Blue Jays strengthened their rotation by agreeing to a $63 million, three-year deal with Chris Bassitt. A person familiar with the negotiations confirmed the move to the AP on condition of anonymity because it was pending a physical. The 33-year-old Bassitt became a free agent when he
Continue Reading NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Major port terminal operators based in New Jersey and Switzerland have committed $800 million toward a planned $1.8 billion container facility on the Lower Mississippi River, Gov. John Bel Edwards said Monday. New Jersey-based Ports America and Switzerland-based Mediterranean Shipping Company, through its investment and development subsidiary Terminal Investment Limited, will
Continue Reading NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee State’s director of football operations and on-campus recruiting has been charged with aggravated assault and vandalism in an encounter involving a football player. Court documents show 22-year-old Ariel Escobar was arrested Dec. 3 after a TSU football player called police to complain about a former “fling” waiting for him in
Continue Reading By MEGAN JANETSKY Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — Onlookers scratched their heads at a peculiar scene just off the coast of Havana on Monday — Cuba’s coast guard intercepted nearly a dozen passengers from a scrappy blue handmade raft with an American flag painted along the bow. Handmade rafts are hardly out of the ordinary
Continue Reading By JOSH DUBOW AP Sports Writer STANFORD, Calif. (AP) — The last time Stanford’s football program was searching for a coach to get it out of a rut, tapping the FCS ranks proved to be the right path. Sixteen years after Jim Harbaugh arrived and helped build the Cardinal from a one-win team into a
Continue Reading By DAN GELSTON AP Sports Writer PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The Philadelphia Eagles have joined the 2004 team that went to the Super Bowl as the only ones in franchise history with 12-1 starts. The Eagles have the best record in the NFL. They potentially could lock up the No. 1 seed in the NFC by
Continue Reading By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer The International Olympic Committee says it will allow American gold-medal sprinter Vince Matthews back at the games more than 50 years after banning him for his low-key racial injustice protest at the Munich Olympics. The U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee was copied in on a letter from the IOC,
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CNN’s Chloe Melas interviews Alicia Keys about her holiday album, why she started her own record label and her latest collaboration with Athleta.
Continue Reading FRISCO, Texas (AP) — The Dallas Cowboys signed free agent receiver T.Y. Hilton on Monday, adding the former longtime Indianapolis Colts player after their much-publicized courting of Odell Beckham Jr. Hilton had gone unsigned all season after his 10-year run with the Colts ended following the 2021 season. The 33-year-old played 10 games for the
Continue Reading FRISCO, Texas (AP) — The Dallas Cowboys signed free agent receiver T.Y. Hilton on Monday, adding the former longtime Indianapolis Colts player after their much-publicized courting of Odell Beckham Jr. Hilton had gone unsigned all season after his 10-year run with the Colts ended following the 2021 season. The 33-year-old played 10 games for the
Continue Reading By GENE CHAMBERLAIN Associated Press LAKE FOREST, Ill. (AP) — The Chicago Bears will have defensive backs Kyler Gordon and Jaquan Brisker back in the starting lineup for the first time since Nov. 20 following concussions as they try to break a six-game losing streak when they face the Philadelphia Eagles. The Bears will need
Continue Reading By MARK ANDERSON AP Sports Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Vegas Golden Knights say leading scorer Jack Eichel was placed on injured reserve because of a lower-body injury. The designation means Eichel must miss at least seven days dating back to when he couldn’t physically play. Eichel has missed three of the past four
Continue Reading By Bill Weir, CNN Chief Climate Correspondent Their busy, buzzing business partners pollinate everything from almonds in California to blueberries in Maine, so few people understand the state of American agriculture quite like Florida beekeepers. But colliding climate crises have left few as sad and worried. The storms and droughts of ’22 had already taken
Continue Reading Hurricane Ian decimated countless bee colonies used to pollinate the nation’s agriculture. CNN chief climate correspondent Bill Weir speaks with Florida beekeepers still reeling from the loss.
Continue Reading CONWAY, S.C. (AP) — Three-time Sun Belt Conference player of the year Grayson McCall will leave Coastal Carolina and enter the NCAA transfer portal. The record-setter McCall announced his decision on social media Monday. He said he’ll play in the Birmingham Bowl on Dec. 27 when the Chanticleers face East Carolina “to finish what I
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CNN By Clare Duffy, CNN Twitter on Monday relaunched an option for users who pay for its subscription service to receive a coveted “blue check,” one month after the company was forced to pull the feature amid a wave of “verified” accounts pretending to be brands and high-profile users. The updated verification system, which expands
Continue Reading By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A massive winter storm blew toward the center of the U.S. on Monday, threatening millions of people with heavy snow, freezing rain and flooding. The National Weather Service warned that there would be “numerous, widespread, and impactful weather hazards in the heart of the country
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