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4 takeaways from Chicago Cubs’ weekend series, including Nico Hoerner filling a void and the Rick Sutcliffe scale

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:23:51 GMT

Four takeaways from the Chicago Cubs’ weekend at Wrigley Field against the Los Angeles Dodgers, their first series loss since the opening three-game set against the Milwaukee Brewers.1. Pat’s backPat Hughes returned to the Cubs radio booth Sunday following a five-game absence that began last week in Oakland, Calif.“It was just a case of losing my voice,” Hughes said in a phone interview. “It started that Monday night in Oakland, and I just couldn’t do it.”Hughes, who will receive the Ford C. Frick award in July at the Baseball Hall of Fame, doesn’t believe it will be a recurring problem.“I sure hope not,” he said. “You get to a certain age and you have fear of anything out of the norm. I try to take good care of myself and try to exercise as much as I can and eat right and all those things. Age is kind of a cruel thing.”The 67-year-old Hughes, who wasn’t in pain, has been taking antibiotics. He just couldn...

Bucks’ Giannis Antetokounmpo set to return for Monday night’s Game 4 against Heat

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:23:51 GMT

Milwaukee Bucks All-Star forward Giannis Antetokounmpo is set to return for Monday night’s pivotal Game 4 against the Miami Heat at Kaseya Center.Antetokounmpo returned to the court Monday morning for the Bucks’ shootaround, a further indication the superstar will make it back from the lower-back contusion sustained in the Heat’s Game 1 victory in Milwaukee.The teams split the two games in his absence, with the Heat leading the best-of-seven Eastern Conference first-round series 2-1.Antetokounmpo had been slowly working his way back from the injury, doing individual work at Kaseya Center with Bucks coaches Sunday prior to his team’s video session.“He always wants to make himself available. He does everything to make himself available,” coach Mike Budenholzer said Sunday.” ()

CHP shooting prompts freeway closure on I-805

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:23:51 GMT

SAN DIEGO — All lanes of northbound Interstate 805 south of Imperial Avenue were closed Monday following a shooting involving a California Highway Patrol officer.The closure began around 8 a.m. and drivers are being detoured to the Imperial Avenue off-ramp, according to Caltrans.Lt. Adam Sharki with the San Diego Police Department confirmed to FOX 5 shortly before 9 a.m. that the police activity was prompted after a CHP officer was involved in a shooting.The CHP officer was not injured in the shooting, Sharki said. 2 hospitalized after City Heights shooting Traffic on northbound I-805 was backed up past State Route 54 due to the closure, causing heavy delays for Monday morning commuters.Police were not immediately able to confirm the circumstances that led to the shooting or the status of anyone else involved in the incident.The freeway closure is expected to last for several hours as CHP investigates the incident.Check back for updates to this developing story.

Marker sought for Black teen imprisoned after 1882 rape

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:23:51 GMT

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Civil rights activists are seeking to draw attention to an 1882 rape that ended with the Black teenage victim dying in prison, her white attacker dead and three men lynched. Margaret Vinegar was just 14 when two family friends came across her being sexually assaulted under a downtown Lawrence bridge in Kansas and intervened. The body of her attacker, David Bausman, a farmer in his 40s, later was found in the Kansas River, the Lawrence Journal-World reports.Arrests ensued and a mob broke into the jail — hanging the two friends, Isaac King and George Robertson, as well as Margaret’s father, Pete Vinegar, who was not even in town the day it all happened.Margaret was later convicted of murder — tried on a story that she had enticed her attacker under the bridge so her friends could rob him, said Lawrence NAACP member Kerry Altenbernd, who added that some also accused her of prostitution.“That’s what she was tried on, not the truth, but that story,” Altenbernd said....

Don Lemon says he’s been ‘terminated’ by CNN

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:23:51 GMT

U.S. broadcaster Don Lemon is out at CNN.In a statement posted to Twitter Monday, Lemon says he was “informed this morning by my agent that I have been terminated by CNN.”“I am stunned,” the long-time CNN anchor wrote. “After 17 years at CNN I would have thought that someone in management would have had the decency to tell me directly.”Lemon suggests the news came out of left field, saying “At no time was I ever given any indication that I would not be able to continue to do the work I have loved at the network.”“It is clear that there are some larger issues at play. With that said, I want to thank my colleagues and the many teams I have worked with for an incredible run. They are the most talented journalists in the business, and I wish them all the best,” Lemon’s statement concluded.His time at CNN was not without controversy. The broadcaster was briefly removed from the air in February after questioning Republican ...

Stocks slip ahead of deluge of earnings, economic data

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:23:51 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are slipping Monday ahead of reports that could offer clues on questions that have kept Wall Street at a standstill, including on where the economy and corporate profits are heading. The S&P 500 was 0.3% lower in midday trading after barely budging last week. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 54 points, or 0.2%, at 33,754, as of noon Eastern, while the Nasdaq composite was 0.9% lower. Coca-Cola was edging 0.1% higher after reporting stronger profit and revenue than expected for the first three months of the year. It was the only company in the S&P 500 to report Monday morning, but more than 170 others are scheduled to follow it this week. The question is whether they can top the low bar that Wall Street has set for them, and what CEOs say about their prospects for profits later this year. Analysts expect S&P 500 companies to report a roughly 6% drop in earnings per share from a year earlier, which would be their worst showing since the spri...

UN: By month’s end, India population to be world’s largest

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:23:51 GMT

NEW DELHI (AP) — India will be the world’s most populous country by the end of this month, eclipsing an aging China, the United Nations said Monday. The milestone raises questions about whether India can repeat the economic success that has made China central to the world’s economy and a leading global power.The news comes at a moment when India is promoting itself as a rising international player as the host of this year’s G20 Summit. It’s also becoming a more attractive destination for multinational companies seeking to reduce their reliance on China. By the end of April, India’s population is expected to reach 1.425 billion, which means it will match and then surpass mainland China’s, the U.N.’s Department of Economic and Social Affairs said in a press release. The forecast is based on their latest estimates of global population. It’s not clear exactly when India’s population will pass China’s. It may have already have done so. Demographers say the limits of pop...

Airlines ‘left government no choice’ but to beef up passenger rights: Minister

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:23:51 GMT

MONTREAL — Transport Minister Omar Alghabra says airlines’ use of loopholes around traveller compensation “left government no choice” but to strengthen passenger rights rules.Amid a massive complaints backlog, Alghabra said Monday the COVID-19 pandemic and travel chaos over the past year exposed gaps in the Liberals’ passenger rights charter. Carriers frequently cited safety as the reason for last-minute cancellations and delays, relieving them of their obligation to pay compensation to customers, he said.At a news conference in Ottawa, the federal minister laid out reforms that put the onus on airlines to show a flight disruption is caused by safety concerns or reasons outside their control.“This means there will be no more loopholes where airlines can claim a disruption is caused by something outside of their control for a security reason when it’s not. And it will no longer be the passenger who will have to prove that he or she is entitled to c...

How Canada is trying to rein in Big Tech as data becomes more powerful

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:23:51 GMT

TORONTO — Whether you’re catching a flight, opening a new bank account or picking up groceries, a small group of big names takes up most of the market share. Competition Ltd. is a Canadian Press series that explores what this means for products — and prices — in the country.———It’s been 20 years since Marc Poirier co-founded search management platform Acquisio, but he’s never forgotten how Google kick-started its decline.It was 2015. The tech giant had just reorganized its subsidiaries under the Alphabet banner and was evaluating whether recent forays into riskier ventures like self-driving cars, internet-beaming balloons and smart city infrastructure could replicate the success of its search engine business. As advertising revenues and growth slowed, the company felt pressure to boost profits, leaving Marc Poirier’s Brossard, Que., company caught up in a no-win scenario.“I experienced first-hand Google going from partner to fierce competitor,” said Poirier. “They ...

House suspends after bill that recognizes Canadian artists fails to get a sponsor

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:23:51 GMT

OTTAWA — The House of Commons took an unplanned break this morning after no member of Parliament came forward to sponsor the legislation it was set to debate.The House was scheduled to tackle a bill that would recognize the critical role artists and the arts play in every dimension of Canadian life.The bill was introduced in the Senate by Manitoba Sen. Patricia Bovey, and it was supposed to be sponsored in the House of Commons by Liberal MP Jim Carr.But Carr died in December and no MP had been found to take his place on the legislation before it came up on the House schedule this morning.Speaker Anthony Rota was forced to suspend the proceedings for an hour until MPs were ready to take up the next item on the agenda.A spokesperson for government House leader Mark Holland says it’s up to MPs themselves to come forward to sponsor a non-government bill, and the government has no role in determining who sponsors them.  This report by The Canadian Press was first published April 24...