Julio Rodriguez jolted Game 2 of the American Champions League Series, crushing an 84 mph splitter from Toronto’s Trey Yesavage for a three-run homer in the first. It was Rodriguez’s second postseason blast and the first extra-base hit Yesavage has yielded on his splitter, per ESPN Research—also the first home...
Major outlets including The Atlantic, CNN, The New York Times, The Washington Post and NPR say they won’t sign a new Pentagon press policy that would require even unclassified information to be preapproved and could cost reporters their credentials. Journalism groups, including the Pentagon Press Association, call the revised rules...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed AB 1127, barring sales of new Glock handguns because their design can be easily modified with 3D-printed switches to fire automatically. Possession and used sales remain legal. Sponsor Jesse Gabriel said the bill aims to push Glock to redesign its pistols; the company did not...
Detroit Lions safety Brian Branch was suspended without pay for one game after striking Chiefs receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster in the facemask with an open hand following Patrick Mahomes' final kneel-down, sparking a scuffle. Head coach Dan Campbell apologized, and Branch called his behavior childish. NFL operations VP Jon Runyan issued...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law regulating AI chatbots used by minors, requiring platforms to disclose bot status and, for minors, repeat notices every three hours. Companies must curb self-harm content and direct users expressing suicidal ideation to crisis services. Newsom said the state must protect kids from unregulated...
With less than a day before new U.S. port fees take effect, the U.S. Trade Representative imposed an extra 150% tariff on Chinese-made cranes and other cargo-handling gear—stacking prior duties to as high as 270%—and shifted roll-on/roll-off vessel fees to a net-tonnage basis. Fees begin Oct. 14, with payments deferrable...
Broadview, Illinois, has been rattled by weeks of protests outside an ICE facility, sparked by DHS’s Operation Midway Blitz ordered by President Donald Trump. State and federal officers have clashed with demonstrators, with tear gas, barricades and helicopters turning quiet blocks into a staging ground. Residents describe stinging eyes, school...
Israelis and Palestinians wept and celebrated as Hamas freed the last 20 Israeli hostages under a ceasefire’s first phase, trading them for more than 1,900 prisoners and detainees. In Tel Aviv and near Reim base, crowds waved Israeli and American flags as helicopters ferried the released; in Ramallah, gaunt ex-prisoners...
An unusual, winter-like storm will hit Southern California late Monday through Wednesday, the National Weather Service warned, bringing rain, damaging winds and flash-flood risk. A flood watch runs Monday evening through Tuesday, with recent burn scars, including the Eaton and Palisades fires, most vulnerable. Coastal and valley areas could see...
New York City recorded at least one storm-related death after a 76-year-old woman was fatally struck by a solar panel torn from a parking-lot structure in Brooklyn during Sunday’s nor’easter. Exclusive videos show the panel flying about 20 feet before hitting her on a sidewalk near Ocean Parkway and West...
