By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer Los Angeles Dodgers broadcaster Joe Davis was named Fox Sports’ lead baseball play-by-play announcer. He takes over for Joe Buck, who left Fox for ESPN’s “Monday Night Football.” Buck was Fox’s lead baseball announcer since the network started televising games in 1996, calling 24 World Series and 22 All-Star
Continue ReadingBy JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer Los Angeles Dodgers broadcaster Joe Davis was named Fox Sports’ lead baseball play-by-play announcer. He takes over for Joe Buck, who left Fox for ESPN’s “Monday Night Football.” Buck was Fox’s lead baseball announcer since the network started televising games in 1996, calling 24 World Series and 22 All-Star
Continue ReadingCNN By Olga Voitovych and Nathan Hodge, CNN At least 30 people, including two children, were killed after Russian forces carried out a missile strike on a railway station in Kramatorsk, eastern Ukraine, that was being used by civilians trying to flee the fighting, Ukrainian officials said Friday. Tetiana Ihnatchenko, a spokeswoman for the region
Continue ReadingBy THOMAS ADAMSON PARIS (AP) — With war singeing the European Union’s eastern edge, French voters will make a choice in a presidential election that will have an impact beyond the country’s borders. France is not only the bloc’s second economy but the only one with veto power at the UN. It’s also continental Europe’s
Continue ReadingBy Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN Yemen’s exiled President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi ceded power to a presidential council on Thursday in a shock move supported by Hadi’s main backer Saudi Arabia. Both the president, who had been in power for a decade, and his vice president, who was also removed, were fiercely opposed by the Iran-backed Houthi
Continue ReadingJuan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — El gobierno de Biden sancionó este miércoles a las hijas del presidente de Rusia, Vladimir Putin, además de imponer sanciones a dos de los mayores bancos rusos. La intensificación de las sanciones a Rusia da al mundo la ilusión de que se está actuando realmente en Ucrania, pero ¿tendrán algún
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — British rapper Dizzee Rascal has been sentenced to a curfew and a restraining order for assaulting his former fiancée. A judge at Croydon Magistrates’ Court in south London told the musician he must observe a 24-week curfew and wear an electronic tag. The judge also imposed a 12-month restraining order on the
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — Germany’s health minister says the country may need to bring back a requirement for wearing face masks in public this autumn after lawmakers rejected a proposed coronavirus vaccine mandate. Karl Lauterbach acknowledged that the Bundestag’s vote Thursday against requiring COVID-19 vaccination for people 60 and over was a personal setback for him.
Continue ReadingBy Daniel Dale, CNN Pennsylvania’s television viewers have been inundated with attack ads in the state’s Republican primary for the US Senate. And some of those attack ads have featured misleading claims. The fiercest ad battle has been between the primary’s two leading candidates and outside groups targeting them: Mehmet Oz, a surgeon and former
Continue ReadingCNN By Eric Bradner, CNN Nearly all the Republicans vying for the party’s Senate nomination in Ohio are embracing former President Donald Trump‘s message, touting their closeness to him and cozying up to the elements of the GOP that he propelled as they joust for a late endorsement. All that’s missing is Trump himself. The
Continue ReadingJacopo Prisco, CNN The very first FIFA World Cup final, contested by Uruguay and Argentina in 1930, started with a disagreement: Who would supply the ball? Both teams wanted to, because they were used to playing with their own equipment and didn’t trust one another. In the end, a compromise was reached: The first half
Continue ReadingBy MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan is expelling eight Russian diplomats and trade officials and will phase out imports of Russian coal and oil. Prime Minister Fumio Kishida says Moscow must be held accountable for “war crimes” in Ukraine. He says Japan will also ban imports of Russian lumber, vodka and other
Continue ReadingBy CNN Sports staff Shohei Ohtani had a bittersweet MLB Opening Day. The 27-year-old Ohtani made history on Thursday as he became the first player in the history of the American and National Leagues to throw his team’s first pitch of the season and face his team’s first pitch as a hitter. However the Japanese
Continue ReadingBy Katia Hetter, CNN More people can now get second Covid-19 booster shots after federal health officials announced they are allowing a broader group to get fourth doses of the two messenger RNA Covid-19 vaccines made by Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna. Adults 50 and older, who received three previous mRNA doses, can get a second booster
Continue ReadingBy Uliana Pavlova, Anna Chernova and Lianne Kolirin, CNN A Nobel Peace Prize-winning newspaper editor says he was attacked with red paint while traveling on a train in Russia. Dmitry Muratov, editor-in-chief of the independent Russian investigative newspaper Novaya Gazeta, said he was attacked on Thursday during a train ride from Moscow to the city
Continue ReadingBy Olga Voitovych and Nathan Hodge, CNN At least 50 people, including five children, were killed after Russian forces carried out a missile strike on a railway station in Kramatorsk, eastern Ukraine, that was being used by civilians trying to flee the fighting, Ukrainian officials said Friday. Pavlo Kyrylenko, the head of the regional military
Continue ReadingBy Chris Liakos and Anna Cooban, CNN Business Russian metals company Rusal has called for an investigation into the killing of civilians in Bucha, a suburb of the Ukrainian capital Kiev. Rusal Chairman Bernard Zonneveld said in a statement that recent reports of atrocities from the town, which was occupied by Russian troops for a
Continue ReadingCNN By Alexandra Meeks, CNN Spring break vacations are supposed to be fun, relaxing, and carefree. But unfortunately, many Americans during this peak travel season are encountering issues reaching their destinations due to severe weather. On the East Coast, thunderstorms pushed back thousands of flights yesterday and more delays are expected going into the weekend.
Continue ReadingCNN By Alexandra Meeks, CNN Spring break vacations are supposed to be fun, relaxing, and carefree. But unfortunately, many Americans during this peak travel season are encountering issues reaching their destinations due to severe weather. On the East Coast, thunderstorms pushed back thousands of flights yesterday and more delays are expected going into the weekend.
Continue ReadingCNN By Alexandra Meeks, CNN Spring break vacations are supposed to be fun, relaxing, and carefree. But unfortunately, many Americans during this peak travel season are encountering issues reaching their destinations due to severe weather. On the East Coast, thunderstorms pushed back thousands of flights yesterday and more delays are expected going into the weekend.
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