Joe Buck to return to MLB booth, set to call Cardinals, Cubs game with Chip Caray on May 24
Former longtime MLB play-by-play announcer Joe Buck will join St. Louis Cardinals broadcaster Chip Caray in calling the Cardinals game Friday, May 24 against the Chicago Cubs, industry sources tell The Athletic. The game will be broadcasted on the Cardinals regional sports network affiliate, Bally Sports Midwest.
Sage, a miniature poodle, pulls off best in show upset at Westminster
NEW YORK — Sage, an extravagantly coifed miniature poodle with a certain winsome mystery about her, won the 148th annual Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show on Tuesday night, prevailing over a tough field of competitors including a majestic German shepherd, a silken Afghan hound and a proud giant schnauzer.
Opening statements in bribery trial of Bob Menendez begin
NEW YORK — Opening statements began Wednesday afternoon in the federal corruption trial of Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., who is accused of selling out his public office and his country in pursuit of lucrative bribes.
Shut out 19 innings, Tigers are learning how ugly the realities of a young lineup can get
DETROIT — Detroit Tigers starter Casey Mize had a terrific performance Wednesday at Comerica Park. He incorporated a sinker to right-handed batters and dispatched hitters with his splitter and his curveball. He retired 18 of the final 19 hitters he faced. He did not allow a hit after the second batter of the game. That second batter, however, was Bryan De La Cruz, who destroyed a hanging slider for a two-run home run.
Biden and Trump agree to two debates in June and September
President Joe Biden and Donald Trump have agreed to two debates, one on June 27 on CNN and one on Sept. 10 on ABC News, the first onstage clashes between the former president and his successor in more than three years.
Cohen tells jurors of oval office deal to pay back the hush money
NEW YORK — Little more than two weeks into Donald Trump’s presidency, he and his personal lawyer sat in the Oval Office and sealed a deal that prosecutors say was a crime.
Summer 2023 was the hottest in 2,000 years, study says
The summer of 2023 was exceptionally hot. Scientists have already established that it was the warmest Northern Hemisphere summer since around 1850, when people started systematically measuring and recording temperatures.
Ex-interpreter Ippei Mizuhara pleads not guilty in procedural move, plea deal still expected
LOS ANGELES — Ippei Mizuhara pleaded not guilty to charges of bank and tax fraud Tuesday morning in federal court, a formality ahead of a plea deal negotiated with federal prosecutors, according to Mizuhara’s attorney, Michael Freedman. Mizuhara, an interpreter who took millions from baseball star Shohei Ohtani, is still expected to plead guilty at a later date.
Comcast-Diamond dispute ‘profoundly harmful,’ MLB argues
Major League Baseball on Tuesday again ripped Diamond Sports Group’s plan to emerge from bankruptcy, this time as the carriage dispute between Diamond and Comcast reached the two-week mark.
RFK Jr. is 2024’s X factor, new polls show, fueled by young voters and social media
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is polling stronger than any third-party candidate has in decades, pulling in roughly 10% of registered voters across the battleground states as he saps support from President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, a new series of polls has found.
Facing Russian advance, a top Ukrainian general paints a bleak picture
KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine’s military is confronting a “critical” situation in the country’s northeast, facing troop shortages as it tries to repel a Russian offensive that has been advancing for several days, a top Ukrainian general said Monday.
Trumpleads in 5 key states, as young and nonwhite voters express discontent with Biden
Donald Trump leads President Joe Biden in five crucial battleground states, a new set of polls shows, as a yearning for change and discontent over the economy and the Israel-Hamas war among young, Black and Hispanic voters threaten to unravel the president’s Democratic coalition.
High interest rates are hitting poorer Americans the hardest
High interest rates haven’t crashed the financial system, set off a wave of bankruptcies or caused the recession that many economists feared.
Michael Cohen, key to Trump case, tells jurors of seedy hush-money plot
NEW YORK — Michael Cohen, the do-anything fixer who once boasted of burying Donald Trump’s secrets and spreading his lies, took the stand at the former president’s criminal trial Monday and exposed those machinations to the jury and the world.
A chaotic night at UCLA raises questions about police response
LOS ANGELES — Nearly two weeks after a pro-Palestinian encampment at UCLA was attacked by counterprotesters, university officials still have not explained why security officers stood by for hours while the attack was underway, nor have authorities arrested any of those who swarmed in wielding metal rods, water bottles and firecrackers in one of the worst outbreaks of violence in the college protests that have rocked the country.
Can parrots converse? Polly says that’s the wrong question
Half a century ago, one of the hottest questions in science was whether humans could teach animals to talk.
Fixer of Trump’s problems has become one of them
Donald Trump has always surrounded himself with lawyers — all types of lawyers. There are the television-friendly talking heads. The polished criminal practitioners. The pit-bull litigators, the corporate suits and the legal advisers with their own legal troubles.
Give me laundry liberty or give me death!
MAGA Republicans say that America is in crisis: The economy is collapsing while the nation is being overrun by hordes of violent immigrants. Not true.
As Israel steps up attacks, 300,000 Palestinians are on the move
JERUSALEM (NYT) — Around 300,000 Palestinians in the southern and northern Gaza Strip are being forced to flee once again, the United Nations says, as Israel issued new and expanded evacuation orders Saturday. But many are unsure where to find secure shelter in a place devastated by war.
At college graduations, UC Berkeley’s protests stand out
At the University of California, Berkeley, hundreds of soon-to-be graduates rose from their seats in protest, chanting and disrupting their commencement. At Virginia Commonwealth University, about 60 graduates in caps and gowns walked out during Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s speech. At the University of Wisconsin, a handful of graduates stood with their backs to their chancellor as she spoke.
