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Number of Black Major League Baseball players still historically low
By Alanis Thames |The Associated Press For much of Lee Allen Jr.’s childhood, baseball seemed quite far from him. Major League Baseball’s Royals played in his hometown Kansas City, Missouri, but Allen...
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Why does Major League Baseball have so few Black players?
By David Downey | Contributing Writer When Major League Baseball celebrates Jackie Robinson’s historic 1947 debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers on Monday, April 15, a small number of players wearing No. 42...
View ArticleScandal-plagued FCI Dublin women’s prison to close after years of concerns...
DUBLIN — Federal officials announced plans Monday to close the troubled FCI Dublin women's prison, signaling the end to a facility that saw numerous jail officers imprisoned for a reputed “rape club”...
View ArticleIt’s Tax Day. And your refund may be big this year
By FATIMA HUSSEIN | Associated Press WASHINGTON — On this Tax Day, refunds are looking a bit bigger for taxpayers. According to the latest IRS statistics, the average income tax refund so far this...
View ArticleHow Donald Trump will seek to turn his Manhattan hush-money trial into...
Dave Goldiner | New York Daily News Donald Trump has proven to be a master of turning legal lemons into political lemonade — and he’s on track to do the same thing when he finally goes on trial Monday...
View ArticleTrump’s trial is about more than sex and money. It’s about what presidents...
Jeffrey Fleishman | Los Angeles Times (TNS) The adult film star. The betraying bagman. The brash billionaire. The plot reads like a “Sopranos” episode, a shadowy narrative of a nation’s sins and...
View ArticleFBI agents board cargo ship that caused Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse
The FBI on Monday raided the container ship that struck the Francis Scott Key Bridge nearly three weeks ago, suggesting the federal agency is investigating the deadly bridge collapse. Agents boarded...
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O.J. Simpson feared he had CTE but his family has said a ‘hard no’ to brain...
The body of O.J. Simpson is expected to be cremated in Las Vegas Tuesday, with his family giving a “hard no” to requests from scientists who want to study his brain to see if the former football great...
View ArticleCongress likely to kick the can on COVID-era telehealth policies
Sarah Jane Tribble | (TNS) KFF Health News Nearly two hours into a Capitol Hill hearing focused on rural health, Rep. Brad Wenstrup emphatically told the committee’s five witnesses: “Hang with us.”...
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Trump will return to court after first day of hush money criminal trial ends...
By Michael R. Sisak, Jennifer Peltz, Jake Offenhartz and Alanna Durkin Richer, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump will return to a New York courtroom Tuesday as a judge works to find a panel...
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Only 1 in 3 US adults think Trump acted illegally in New York hush money...
By Thomas Beaumont and Amelia Thomson-Dexeaux, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The first criminal trial facing former President Donald Trump is also the one in which Americans are least convinced he...
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Trump trial: Why can’t Americans see or hear what is going on inside the...
By David Bauder, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — It's a moment in history — the first U.S. president facing criminal charges in an American courtroom. Yet only a handful of observers are able to see...
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USC cancels its Muslim valedictorian’s commencement speech, citing safety...
By Alisha Ebrahimji and Melissa Alonso | CNN What was supposed to be a time of celebration for Asna Tabassum – the University of Southern California’s 2024 valedictorian – has turned to disappointment...
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The US was getting too expensive. So this California artist relocated to...
By Silvia Marchetti | CNN Ditching the US and relocating close to the French Pyrenees wasn’t part of Taylor Barnes’ life plan. But as the cost of living in the US increased, and the Los Angeles artist,...
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Supreme Court questions obstruction charges brought against Jan. 6 rioters...
By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday questioned whether federal prosecutors went too far in bringing obstruction charges against hundreds of participants in...
View ArticleJustice Department preparing Ticketmaster antitrust lawsuit
Leah Nylen | Bloomberg News (TNS) The Justice Department may file an antitrust complaint as soon as next month aimed at forcing Live Nation Entertainment Inc. to spin off its Ticketmaster ticketing...
View ArticleWith GOP revolt brewing, Johnson pushes Israel, Ukraine aid
By Lisa Mascaro | Associated Press WASHINGTON — Defiant and determined, House Speaker Mike Johnson pushed back Tuesday against mounting Republican anger over his proposed U.S. aid package for Ukraine,...
View ArticleMore kids are dying of drug overdoses. Could pediatricians do more to help?
Martha Bebinger, WBUR | KFF Health News (TNS) A 17-year-old boy with shaggy blond hair stepped onto the scale at Tri-River Family Health Center in Uxbridge, Massachusetts. After he was weighed, he...
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She died after liposuction by a California pediatrician. Doctors warn of...
Emily Alpert Reyes | (TNS) Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES — Inside a clinic wedged next to a smoke shop in a South Los Angeles strip mall, Dr. Mohamad Yaghi operated on a 28-year-old woman who had...
View ArticleA California man allegedly posted threats to shoot up Indiana State...
DUBLIN — A Seaside man is being held in federal custody here, pending extradition to Indiana, where he faces charges of repeatedly threatening university officials on the social media platform X, court...
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