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USATSI The Texas Rangers are calling up right-handed pitcher Kumar Rocker for Thursday, the club announced Monday. He’ll start against the Mariners in his MLB debut. Rocker starred for Vanderbilt from 2019-21 as one of college baseball’s best pitchers. He was speculated as a possible No. 1 overall pick on a few occasions and he […]
pawel.gaul/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As the Israel-Hamas war continues, the latest round of cease-fire discussions appears to have reached an impasse. Meanwhile, after six hostages were found dead in Gaza, protests erupted in Israel. Protesters have lashed out at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and demanded the government bring the hostages home. Here’s how the […]
Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. J.D. Vance speaks to reporters in front of the border wall with Mexico in San Diego, Calif., Sep. 06, 2024. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — GOP vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance on Monday magnified a false claim that Haitian immigrants are abducting and eating pets in Springfield, Ohio. In […]
ABC News (NEW YORK) — Tropical Storm Francine is forecast to strengthen into a hurricane on Tuesday as it takes aim at the Gulf Coast. By Tuesday night, Francine is expected to become a Category 2 hurricane with winds of 100 mph. Landfall is expected on Wednesday in Louisiana, between Cameron and Morgan City, as […]
Massimiliano Finzi/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is set to publicly testify Tuesday before Congress on his administration’s nursing home policies during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. The hearing, before the Republican-led House Oversight and Accountability Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, will see Cuomo defend his decision to […]
Deadline reports Michael McKean, of This is Spinal Tap fame, is joining his Better Call Saul co-star Bob Odenkirk, Succession‘s Kieran Culkin and comedian Bill Burr in the upcoming Broadway revival of David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross. McKean will play George Aaronow, the timid real estate salesman portrayed by Mike Nussbaum on Broadway in 1984 […]
Getty Images The Los Angles Lakers announced that big man Christian Wood underwent a successful arthroscopic surgical procedure on his left knee on Monday, and that he will be reevaluated in approximately eight weeks. With the 2024-25 regular season set to open six weeks from now on Oct. 22, that means Wood is projected to […]
ABC News (NEW YORK) — The widow of Columbus Blue Jackets star Johnny Gaudreau, Meredith Gaudreau, announced her pregnancy with their third child at Monday’s memorial service for Johnny Gaudreau and his brother, Matthew Gaudreau. “John and I had the best six months as a family of four. These will forever be the best six […]
Associate Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and his wife Virginia Thomas arrive at the Heritage Foundation, Oct. 21, 2021, in Washington, D.C. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — An alleged private message from Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ wife Ginni to the leader of First Liberty Institute, which describes itself as the nation’s largest religious liberty […]
Joe Raedle/Getty Images (CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.) — After two weeks of delays, the ambitious Polaris Dawn space mission, led by billionaire Jared Isaacman and in collaboration with SpaceX, launched early Tuesday morning. The four-person civilian crew launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Tuesday at 5:23 a.m. ET in SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket, […]
