ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Right-hander Nathan Eovaldi can earn $3 million annually in performance bonuses for innings as part of his $34 million, two-year contract with the Texas Rangers, a deal that contains a conditional player option for 2025 and could be worth $63 million over three seasons. Eovaldi gets a $2 million signing bonus
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By Kate Bennett, CNN First lady Dr. Jill Biden on Wednesday spent several hours at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, undergoing a scheduled outpatient procedure that revealed a second area of concern for skin cancer. According to a letter issued by White House physician Dr. Kevin O’Connor, Biden had a Mohs surgery to remove
Continue Reading FRISCO, Texas (AP) — Universal Parks & Resorts is bringing a theme park to Texas that will focus on entertaining young children, officials announced Wednesday. The “one-of-a-kind” park in the Dallas suburb of Frisco will include attractions, interactive shows and opportunities for meet-and-greets with characters, the company said in a news release. It is expected
Continue Reading By Phil Mattingly, Evan Perez, Maegan Vazquez, Kevin Liptak and Kaitlan Collins, CNN Another batch of classified government records were found by President Joe Biden’s legal team, following the initial discovery of classified documents at his former think tank office in Washington this past fall. According to people briefed on the matter, the additional classified
Continue Reading By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — U.S. border authorities announced changes to their policy for pursuing smugglers and other crime suspects on Wednesday, following an extensive review and criticism by immigrant advocates who pointed to cases in which passengers died when drivers fled law enforcement. Customs and Border Protection announced the
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The winds will continue to weaken for Wednesday night with colder air arriving. Thursday will be cooler with temps around 60 degrees. The winds will be more northerly with gusts around 20 mph. Expect gusty winds to return later Sunday and early next week. Gusts will likely hit around 40 mph. There will also be
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(CNN) — House Republicans are spotlighting the issue of abortion as they roll out their legislative agenda in the new Congress — a move that comes after the Supreme Court’s highly consequential decision last summer to overturn the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling. The GOP-led House voted on Wednesday to pass a bill that would require
Continue Reading By Clare Foran, CNN House Republicans are spotlighting the issue of abortion as they roll out their legislative agenda in the new Congress — a move that comes after the Supreme Court’s highly consequential decision last summer to overturn the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling. The GOP-led House voted on Wednesday to pass a
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The Chihuahuas and San Diego Padres announced Phillip Welman as the new manager for the El Paso Chihuahuas. Wellman is entering his eighth season with the Padres organization and will be the seventh manager in Chihuahuas history. “I’m extremely excited about the coming season. The Padres have blessed me with
Continue Reading By Katie Lobosco, CNN In its first vote on legislation, the new Republican-controlled House approved a bill Monday that would rescind nearly $80 billion for the Internal Revenue Service — with key GOP lawmakers making the exaggerated claim that the money would be used to hire 87,000 auditors who will target hardworking Americans. “House Republicans
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN The James Webb Space Telescope can add another cosmic accomplishment to its list: The space observatory has been used to confirm the existence of an exoplanet for the first time. The celestial body, known as LHS 475 b and located outside of our solar system, is almost exactly the same size
Continue Reading By Ray Sanchez, CNN As central California floodwater swept away their SUV Monday morning, 5-year-old Kyle Doan, now missing, encouraged his mother. “Don’t worry, Mommy,” the boy said, his father, Brian Doan, recalled Wednesday. “He wasn’t quite processing what was going on,” Doan told CNN. “But he was so calm talking to my wife while
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Continue Reading Missing 5-year-old Kyle Doan was swept out of his mother’s arms by powerful floodwaters coming from a storm that has turned streets into rivers and forced the closure of major roadways in California.
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EL PASO, Texas — Vitalant is asking the community to donate blood at it’s annual Barnett-Harley Davidson blood drive this weekend. It’s the 34th year the blood bank is hosting the blood drive. Vitalant typically sees blood donations drop during the holidays and is still recuperating from low blood supply caused by the pandemic. All
Continue Reading By Daniella Diaz, CNN Rep. Barbara Lee of California told her colleagues in the Congressional Black Caucus during a closed-door meeting Wednesday that she plans to run for the Senate, multiple sources told CNN. This comes a day after Rep. Katie Porter of California announced a 2024 Senate bid, launching her campaign for Sen. Dianne
Continue Reading By Jamie Gangel, Gregory Krieg and Elizabeth Stuart, CNN A Republican strategist alleges that Matt Schlapp, the influential chairman of the American Conservative Union, groped and fondled his groin as he drove Schlapp back to an Atlanta hotel several weeks before the November midterm election. The strategist, a male in his late thirties who was
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EL PASO, Texas — The El Paso Library is relaunching it’s “Food for Fines” food drive program which allows El Pasoans who have library fines to pay them off by bringing in canned goods. It’s all in an effort to help the El Pasoans Fighting Hunger Food Bank and the El Paso Animal Shelter. From now until
Continue Reading By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Booming oil and gas revenue has put Wyoming back among states with big budget surpluses but Republican Gov. Mark Gordon cautioned lawmakers Wednesday to save, not splurge, out of concern that tough times will eventually return. “As a Wyoming rancher, I know the value of a
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By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter Supreme Court Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas sent a strong signal Wednesday that they are very carefully watching to ensure federal courts do not thumb their noses at the high court’s landmark decision that expanded gun rights nationwide. Last June’s decision in New York State Rifle
Continue Reading David Williams, CNN Wildlife officials in Florida are investigating the death of a female killer whale that grounded itself on Wednesday on a beach in Palm Coast, about 30 miles north of Daytona Beach. “This is the first killer whale stranding in the Southeast US, so there’s a lot of interest, obviously, in trying to
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FRISCO, Texas — Universal Parks and Resorts has announced building a new theme park in Frisco, Texas. According to a Universal Studios Hollywood Tweet, the new park concept is set in a lush green landscape and features immersive themed lands. The company says the park will wow even the youngest them park goers. The park
Continue Reading By Shawna Mizelle, CNN Illinois’ Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Tuesday signed legislation that enacts an extensive ban on firearms as well as high-capacity magazines in the state. The new law caps the sale of high-capacity ammunition magazines, bans “switches” that allow handguns to fire rounds automatically and “extends the ability of courts to prevent
Continue Reading By Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN They were victims of a racist mob, their families torn apart and dispossessed. But as survivors of the Rosewood massacre, they were united in grief, silence, and resilience. In January 1923, a racist mob stormed the town of Rosewood, Florida, after a White woman claimed she was attacked by a
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — A new 153,300 square-foot facility in northeast El Paso will help U.S. Customs and Border Protection process individuals in U.S. Border Patrol Custody. The soft-sided facility has a capacity of 1,000, adding to the Border Patrol Processing Center’s 1,040 capacity at Hondo Pass. According to CBP, the new facility on
Continue Reading LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — New Nebraska coach Matt Rhule has completed his staff with the additions of Bob Wager as tight ends coach, Rob Dvoracek as linebackers coach and Garret McGuire as wide receivers coach. The hirings were announced Wednesday, just over six weeks after Rhule signed an eight-year, $74 million contract with the Cornhuskers.
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — El Paso police say a 52-year-old man harassing migrants in downtown El Paso Tuesday was later arrested for an outstanding criminal warrant for family violence. Police say officers found Raymundo Maese in the South Oregon area in the middle of the street around 3:12 p.m., harassing migrants. Officers stopped him
Continue Reading By ROB MAADDI AP Pro Football Writer Wild-card weekend is all about familiarity. All six games feature teams that already faced off this season, including three matchups between division rivals going head-to-head for the third time and two clubs playing each other in back-to-back weeks. Bust out the popcorn. It should be a wild weekend.
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The El Paso Water Public Service Board has deleted an agenda item from the new Water, Wastewater and Stormwater budget that would have seen a jump in rates for new homes. There would have been no effect on current customers. It was titled “The Sustainable Infrastructure Surcharge” or SIS, and
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CNN By Brian Fung and Christopher Hickey, CNN More than half of all US states have partially or fully banned TikTok from government devices, according to a CNN analysis, reflecting a wave of recent clampdowns by governors and state agencies targeting the short-form video app. The accelerating backlash by states against TikTok, which has at
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