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Germán ejected, Judge booed as allegations of cheating swirl around Yankees

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:28:53 GMT

TORONTO (AP) — New York Yankees right-hander Domingo Germán was ejected from Tuesday night’s game against the Toronto Blue Jays after umpires checked his hands for banned sticky stuff.Germán’s ejection, likely to trigger a 10-game suspension, was the fourth since Major League Baseball started its crackdown on prohibited grip aids two years ago and the second this season. It occurred during the second game of an increasingly acrimonious series between AL East rivals.Aaron Judge was booed during his first two at-bats following allegations of sign stealing Monday. After Judge struck out in the third inning Tuesday, there was a brief shouting match between Blue Jays pitching coach Pete Walker and Yankees third base coach Luis Rojas. Walker went to the outfield end of the dugout,, yelling and gesturing at Rojas, a former Mets manager.Germán retired his first nine batters when his hands were examined by first base umpire D.J. Reyburn as the pitched headed to the mound for the ...

Yemi Mobolade defeats Wayne Williams in Colorado Springs mayoral race

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:28:53 GMT

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KDVR) — Yemi Mobolade won a solid victory in Tuesday's runoff election for Colorado Springs mayor, defeating former Secretary of State Wayne Williams.Williams conceded the race around 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, FOX21 reported. Early returns Tuesday night showed Mobolade leading with nearly 58% of votes cast — or 65,791 votes to Williams' 48,570."We are thrilled to announce Yemi Mobolade as the 42nd Mayor of Colorado Springs!This is a new era of leadership and progress for COS. Let's unite and forge ahead towards a prosperous future for the city we love," a pop-up message read on Mobolade's website Tuesday night. Rep. Lauren Boebert files for divorce from husband Gov. Jared Polis issued a congratulatory statement to the mayor-elect."Thank you to every Colorado Springs resident who voted," Polis said in a statement released by his office. "Congratulations to Mayor-elect Yemi Mobolade on his victory and I look forward to working with the mayor-elect to help save peop...

3 arrested after cellphone video captures fight inside gym at South Dade Senior High school

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:28:53 GMT

Cellphone video captured a violent fight inside the gym at South Dade Senior High School right before the afternoon bell was set to go off.The fight occurred on May 8, and a 29-second video showed one kid slamming another student against the gym floor.District officials said the interaction between the two students started earlier in the day after one student recorded another student in a bathroom at the school. The victim pleaded for him to delete that picture or video.According to district officials, things escalated in the gym after the victim asked once again for the students to delete it. Authorities said that’s when the video showed the fight that broke out between five students against three. The two groups involved had not interacted before the day of the attack. District officials said the victims getting attacked in the video haven’t been in the U.S. very long. The video was blurred because the victims expressed fear of repercussions. In a statement, they told ...

Patients reunite with doctors who saved their lives during Trauma Survivor Day at Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:28:53 GMT

There was a special reunion at a South Florida hospital. Doctors and their patients shared survival stories.Pushing past the pain to celebrate life, dozens of trauma survivors reunited with hospital staff and rescue workers at Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood who helped them overcome some of the most harrowing experiences of their lives.“Every day is Trauma Survivor Day,” said Medical Director Dr.Andrew Rosenthal. “In some ways, it’s a big group hug and in some other ways, it’s a cry fest.”From the scene of the accident to the operating room, doctors are faced with tough decisions.“We never know who’s going to make it, and the big man upstairs has a plan, but the rest of us can only do what the book says and try to help patients get through the worst times of their lives,” Dr. Rosenthal said. Anthony Estrada said he got the worst phone call he’d ever received in his life.“When I got here, I got hit with a bomb ...

Soler’s 2-run HR with 2 out in 9th rallies Marlins to 5-4 win over Nationals

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:28:53 GMT

MIAMI (AP) — Jorge Soler hit a two-run homer with two out in the bottom of the ninth inning and the Miami Marlins rallied to beat the Washington Nationals 5-4 on Tuesday night.The Marlins were down to their last out when Garrett Cooper doubled off Nationals reliever Hunter Harvey (2-1). Luis Arraez singled to score Cooper and pull Miami within 4-3. Pinch-runner Jon Berti stole second before Soler drove a 3-2 pitch by Harvey over the wall in left-center for his 10th homer and the come-from-behind win.Arraez and Cooper each had two hits, Andrew Nardi (3-1) pitched a scoreless ninth and earned the victory for the Marlins.Trailing 2-1, the Nationals scored three runs in the eighth inning against relievers Huascar Brazoban and Steven Okert. Jeimer Candelario hit a game-tying single off Brazoban, and Dominic Smith tagged Okert for a two-run single and a 4-2 lead.Washington starter Josiah Gray gave up seven hits, struck out five and walked three. The right-hander escaped a two-out basesloa...

US lawmakers visit Britain to press for tougher stance on China

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:28:53 GMT

LONDON — A delegation of U.S. lawmakers will visit London on Thursday to lobby British politicians, officials and U.K. based-tech firms to take a harder line on China.A 10-strong bipartisan group from the U.S. Congress will spend three days in Britain meeting U.K. government ministers, officials and backbench MPs to discuss a common approach to hostile activities by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).The delegation will be led by Mike Gallagher, the Republican chairman of the U.S. Congress select committee on the Chinese Communist Party. He has previously described the CCP as “the greatest geopolitical threat of our lifetime.”The group’s agenda includes a Friday morning discussion on China hosted by the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC), a group of China-skeptic British MPs. The U.S. lawmakers also expect to hold meetings with representatives from London-based technology firms including Google DeepMind and Arm. A security event co-hosted by the right-wing think tanks ...

Europe should be careful what it wishes for with Turkey

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:28:53 GMT

Mujtaba Rahman is the head of Eurasia Group’s Europe practice and a columnist for POLITICO Europe. He tweets at @Mij_Europe.Turkey’s parliamentary election and first-round presidential vote were a huge win for incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.Contrary to expectations, Erdoğan’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and his People’s Alliance — including the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) — secured a majority in parliament. Moreover, the long-sitting leader scored much higher than pollsters predicted in the first-round presidential vote, coming in at 49.42 percent compared to his main-opposition rival, the Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, who received 44.95 percent of votes. Barring a major surprise, Erdoğan now looks set to secure a victory in the runoff in two weeks’ time, on May 28. And, bizarrely, some in the European Union will be breathing a sigh of relief.In both Brussels and other EU capitals, concern had been growing that a Kılıçdaroğl...

Brussels tries to give broken EU customs some love

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:28:53 GMT

Everyone agrees that EU customs — the gatekeepers of international trade — desperately need an upgrade. But now that the Commission’s about to reveal its vision for a revamp, the question is whether the reform will be ambitious enough, while at the same time not stepping (too much) on EU countries’ toes.With the recent boom in online shopping, millions of packages are checked daily by customs officers across the bloc’s 27 member countries. In addition to collecting duties, they now have to police products based on an ever-expanding set of rules — more than 350 laws to be exact — be they import bans following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine or fresh sustainability standards.“The problem is that today, there is not one single EU customs or border: there are 27 customs borders,” said Arancha González, a former Spanish foreign affairs minister and the chair of the Wise Persons Group — a 12-member expert panel tasked by the Commission with designing solutions t...

The next Tory leadership contest has already begun

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:28:53 GMT

LONDON — Rishi Sunak is the ruling U.K. Conservatives’ third leader inside a year. But already, Tory MPs are thinking about who comes next.A drubbing for the Tories in local elections across England earlier this month, and a stubbornly high poll lead for the opposition Labour Party, has left Tory MPs mulling the prospect of a general election defeat next year — and the likelihood of yet another bloody leadership contest in the aftermath.Sunak, who recently marked his 200th day in office, has little time to turn things around. Under U.K. law, the next general election must be held no later than January 2025.“It’s suddenly become real to people that they’re f*cked,” one former Cabinet minister said, reflecting on private conversations in Tory WhatsApp groups over the past few weeks.In Westminster, high-profile speeches and public appearances by senior Tories are starting to be seen through the lens of future leadership bids. Different factions of backbench MPs are starting to cl...

Kraft family announces $1 million in grants to foster care organizations

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:28:53 GMT

The family of Patriots owner Robert Kraft recently made a major commitment to children in foster care, giving $1 million through the Patriots Foundation and the Revolution Foundation. The $1 million is being distributed in the form of grants to six foster care organizations across New England.“It’s a way of us supporting the work you all are doing here and letting you know that you’re not forgotten,” Kraft said. The grant program will help nonprofits fund essentials, such as staffing and activities, as well as foster parent recruitment and training.“There are an increasing number of youths in foster care and a decreasing number of families and foster parents,” Kraft said. “We knew that we needed to act and act now.”Kraft announced the funding at an event Tuesday held in honor of Foster Care Awareness Month. He was joined by members of nonprofit groups as well as foster parents and former foster care children. Others, including Patri...