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Dodgers edge defending champion Astros 3-2 as LA fans rain down boos on Altuve and Bregman

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:08:59 GMT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Michael Busch doubled in the go-ahead in the fourth inning, Mookie Betts homered and the Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the Houston Astros 3-2 in an acrimonious game on Friday night.The first interleague meeting since 2021 between the defending World Series champion Astros and the Dodgers, who led baseball with 111 wins last season, was filled with acrimony.Most of the players from Houston’s 2017 World Series championship team are gone, but that didn’t stop Dodgers fans from expressing their lingering resentment from the Astros’ sign-stealing scandal that season.The Astros’ lineup was introduced to boos, with the loudest derision saved for Jose Altuve and Alex Bregman. The crowd of 49,795 chanted “Cheater! Cheater!” in between heavy booing during their at-bats. Altuve and Bregman were a combined 0 for 6. Bregman walked twice.Astros manager Dusty Baker said before the game that he hoped the atmosphere “is more subdued.”“They say time heals all wounds and somebody has...

Los audaces movimientos de William como nuevo príncipe de Gales

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:08:59 GMT

(CNN) — Es el heredero al trono británico, está casado con Catalina, princesa de Gales, y es padre de un trío que complace a las multitudes. Pero, ¿cuánto sabes realmente sobre el hombre que ahora ostenta el título de príncipe de Gales?Nueve meses después de su nombramiento, el príncipe de Gales, que el miércoles celebró su 41 cumpleaños, concedió una entrevista al Sunday Times británico en la que habló de sus motivaciones y de la evolución de sus funciones reales. Era la primera vez desde que se convirtió en heredero al trono que William hablaba con la prensa, su primera entrevista con un periódico, y no rehuyó algunas de las preguntas más difíciles que se le plantearon.El quid de la entrevista fueron sus esfuerzos por combatir el problema de las personas sin hogar en el Reino Unido, un tema al que se dedica desde hace mucho tiempo, y que tal vez arraigó en su infancia de la mano de su difunta madre.William opina que hay muchos malentendidos y muchos juicios con respecto a có...

Ohtani hits MLB-best 25th homer, goes back-to-back with Trout, but Díaz rallies Rockies past Angels

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:08:59 GMT

DENVER (AP) — Shohei Ohtani and Mike Trout hit back-to-back homers at Coors Field, but Elias Díaz’s go-ahead grand slam in the eighth inning rallied the Colorado Rockies past the Los Angeles Angels 7-4 on Friday night.Jurickson Profar launched a leadoff homer for the Rockies, who snapped their longest losing streak of the season at eight games. Díaz doubled and finished with three hits. His 426-foot drive to center field marked the first grand slam by a Rockies player since Díaz went deep in Philadelphia on Sept. 10, 2021. Ohtani smashed his major league-leading 25th home run and was a triple shy of the cycle. He has at least one extra-base hit in 10 consecutive road games, a franchise record and the longest such streak in the majors since 2009.Ohtani’s tiebreaking solo shot in the fifth was followed by Trout’s 16th of the season, giving Los Angeles a 4-2 lead. Both drives traveled a projected 434 feet.It was the ninth time the two superstars have hit back-to-back home r...

Bogaerts, Soto and Kim homer to back Musgrove in the Padres’ 13-3 win over the Nationals

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:08:59 GMT

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Xander Bogaerts, Juan Soto and Ha-Seong Kim hit home runs and Joe Musgrove threw seven strong innings to lead the San Diego Padres to a 13-3 victory against the Washington Nationals on Friday night.The superstar-laden Padres, who have struggled at the plate most of the season to tumble into fourth place in the NL West, scored in double digits in consecutive games for the first time this year. They won 10-0 at San Francisco on Thursday to avoid a four-game sweep.Bogaerts hit a three-run shot, Soto connected to drive in two runs and Kim hit his first career leadoff homer. Soto and Kim each had three RBIs.Bogaerts, the $280 million shortstop who has been bothered by a sore left wrist, capped the six-run fifth inning with a two-out shot into the left-field seats off Patrick Corbin, his eighth. His last homer came exactly a month earlier, at Washington. Kim hit a two-run single and Manny Machado had an RBI groundout that inning.Kim drove Corbin’s third pitch over t...

Highlands Ranch neighborhood keeps on truckin'

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:08:59 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- After a tornado ripped through Highlands Ranch Thursday afternoon, one neighborhood didn't let the storm slow it down. The Timberline Ridge subdivision decided it was not going to let the damage and trauma of the tornado keep it from canceling “Food Truck Friday.”The subdivision's home owners association vice president, Jolanta Deutsch, was glad the community came together to help each other with cleanup and keeping each other's spirits up. Tree removal services busy with tornado cleanup in Highlands Ranch “The show must go on! The weather is gorgeous!” Deutsch said.Food Truck Friday includes a truck with New York City cuisine named Big Apple Bodega which was a welcomed sight for residents in the area. “Any opportunity we have, to bring the neighborhood together, and have that community spirit, is, uh, what we’re all about,” Deutsch said.And as everyone knows, food is good for the soul.

EU gains new sanctions weapon but will probably be too nice to use it

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:08:59 GMT

The European Union agreed to strengthen its sanctions arsenal this week, making it possible to punish countries that are helping Russia evade sanctions. But it’s likely to shy away from doing so, say experts.To starve Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war machine of funding, the EU has banned trade in a host of goods that are either seen as generating significant revenue for the Kremlin or are used on the battlefield following the invasion of Ukraine. But some countries, like Central Asian Kazakhstan and Armenia, have been accused of helping Russia dodge sanctions by accepting flows of sanctioned goods through their territory. As the sanctioned goods aren’t sent directly to Russia from an EU country, these trade movements are much harder to track. That’s what the EU now wants to tackle.After adopting 10 sanction packages following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February of last year, EU ambassadors this week agreed to a new mechanism: If third coun...

Man walks into The Cheesecake Factory at Fashion Valley Mall with gunshot wound

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:08:59 GMT

SAN DIEGO -- Authorities on Friday night are investigating after a man walked into The Cheesecake Factory at Fashion Valley Mall with a gunshot wound to his leg, police said.Police received a call around 10 p.m. about the incident at 7067 Friars Road, San Diego police confirmed with FOX 5. Woman dies after back-to-back hit-and-runs A witness told FOX 5 they were sheltering in place at the restaurant after saying a shooting happened in the parking lot.There are no reports of any other injuries at this time.A large police presence is currently at the scene.Check back for updates on this developing story.

Kansas’ attorney general is moving to block trans people from changing their birth certificates

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:08:59 GMT

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Transgender people born in Kansas could be prevented from changing their birth certificates to reflect their gender identities if the state’s conservative Republican attorney is successful with a legal move he launched late Friday.Attorney General Kris Kobach filed a request in federal court asking a judge to end a requirement for Kansas to allow transgender people to change their birth certificates. U.S. District Judge Daniel Crabtree imposed the requirement in 2019 to settle a lawsuit filed by four transgender Kansas residents against three state health department officials over a policy that critics said prevented transgender people from making changes even after transitioning, legally changing their names and obtaining new driver’s licenses and Social Security cards.It wasn’t clear whether Kobach’s effort would succeed, given a U.S. Supreme Court decision in 2020 declaring a federal law barring sex discrimination in employment also prevents discri...

Russian mercenary chief who called for rebellion confirms he and his troops reached city in Russia

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:08:59 GMT

The owner of the Wagner private military contractor who called for an armed rebellion aimed at ousting Russia’s defense minister, confirmed Saturday morning that he and his troops have reached a key Russian city after crossing the border from Ukraine.Yeveny Prigozhin posted a video of himself in Rostov-on-Don at the Russian military headquarters that oversees the fighting in Ukraine. He claimed that his forces had military facilities in the city under their control, including the air field. Other videos posted on social media showed military vehicles, including tanks, on the streets outside. Russia’s security services had responded to Prigozhin’s declaration of an armed rebellion by calling for his arrest. In a sign of how seriously the Kremlin took the threat, security was heightened in Moscow and in Rostov-on-Don. It was not immediately clear how he was able to enter the southern Russian city or how many troops he had with him.While the outcome of the confrontation was...

Judge agrees to narrow but not lift gag order in University of Idaho student slayings case

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:08:59 GMT

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — An Idaho judge has denied a request from roughly two dozen news organizations to lift a gag order in the criminal case of a man accused of stabbing four University of Idaho students to death. The judge did, however, significantly narrow the gag order in response to the news organizations’ concerns. The ruling was handed down late Friday afternoon. In it, 2nd District Judge John Judge said it was legally prudent to restrict attorneys from making some statements about the case in order to preserve Bryan Kohberger’s right to a fair trial. Still, Judge also said the original gag order — which also barred law enforcement officers and other people tangentially related to the case from speaking to the press — was “arguably overbroad and vague in some areas.” Kohberger, 28, is charged with four counts of first-degree murder and burglary in connection with the stabbing deaths in Moscow, Idaho. Prosecutors have yet to reveal if they intend to seek the death penalty.T...