Let Shohei Ohtani and Aaron Judge hog all the headlines and national TV slots. While they were going one-on-one in L.A., both were upstaged by a catcher in the Pacific Northwest. Oh, Cal Raleigh won’t match those greats sublime overall offensive numbers soon. Yet Raleigh has now taken the major league lead by homering for the third consecutive game, his ...
For the seventh consecutive season, the NBA will have a different champion than the previous season. A team hasn’t repeated since Golden State won in 2017 and 2018. For the sixth consecutive season, the NBA has does not even have a repeat finalist from the Eastern or Western conferences. It’s the Oklahoma City Thunder against the Indiana Pacers in the ...
Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen won his first NFL MVP award in February. A few months later, he is celebrating another major life milestone. Allen and his fiancée, actress Hailee Steinfeld, were married Saturday in California. Images from their wedding were shared by People.com and circulated on social media. Steinfeld – known for her starring roles in ‘True Grit,’ for ...
Progressive California Rep. Maxine Waters’ campaign has agreed to pay a $68,000 fine after an investigation found it violated multiple election rules. The Federal Election Commission (FEC) said the longtime House lawmaker’s 2020 campaign committee, Citizens for Waters, ran afoul of several campaign finance laws in a tranche of documents released Friday. The FEC accused Citizens for Waters of ‘failing ...
Battleground Pennsylvania senators – Democrat John Fetterman and Republican Dave McCormick – both spoke out against antisemitism during a bipartisan forum in response to a recent attack on a pro-Israel gathering in Colorado. ‘This is something that I’m terribly worried about, the growth of antisemitism here in our country is something I know Sen. Fetterman and I share,’ McCormick said ...
As Elon Musk steps away from his official role at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), he joins a history of presidential administrations that have attempted to streamline government – with mixed results. While former Presidents Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson and Grover Cleveland all tried to downsize the judiciary, treasury and civil service, respectively, it wasn’t until the 20th century ...
The Trump administration has rolled out a new rule with the aim of making it easier to terminate federal employees for serious misconduct by cutting through the red tape that currently impedes that process. ‘The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is proposing amendments to the Federal Government personnel vetting adjudicative processes for determining suitability and taking suitability actions,’ the rule, ...
PARIS — Second seed Coco Gauff brushed aside Russian Ekaterina Alexandrova 6-0 7-5 on Monday to move into the French Open quarterfinals and stay on course for her first title in Paris. The American world No. 2 must have thought she would have an easy morning session after powering through the first set in sensational fashion but the Russian bounced back in the second ...
By nearly every metric, the Yankees’ Aaron Judge’s offensive performance during the first two months of the 2025 season ranks among the best in baseball history. Whether he can maintain this torrid pace for the next four months could determine if he joins the ranks of the all-time greats. Consider just a few of his numbers: Batting average: Judge finished ...
The unranked UTSA Roadrunners are moving on in the NCAA baseball tournament after knocking off the No. 2-seeded Texas Longhorns 7-4 at UFCU Disch-Falk Field in the Austin Regional on June 1. UTSA will play in its first NCAA baseball super regional. The victory led to coach Pat Hallmark leaping into the arms of pitcher Conor Myles after the game ...