Новости за 07.04.2024

The pitch clock threatens the health of big league aces, according to the MLB Players Association. Union officials say the recently implemented rule leads to more injuries while league executives blame increased pitch velocity and spin rates.

The federal government is appealing a judge's ruling that found the Constitution allows some immigrants without documentation to possess guns, plowing new ground in the quickly evolving debate over Second Amendment rights.

A man was arrested and slapped with a federal arson charge on Sunday for allegedly setting Sen. Bernie Sanders' Vermont office building ablaze.

Eclipse spectators staked out their spots across three countries Sunday, fervently hoping for clear skies despite forecasts calling for clouds along most of the sun-vanishing route.

Everyone who was in soldout Nationals Park the day Stephen Strasburg made his MLB debut likely remembers. The hype, for once, was real. Strasburg, Washington's No. 1 draft pick in 2009, struck out 14 Pittsburgh Pirates in seven innings on his way to a 5-2 win.

The latest Fox News poll shows 64% of Americans think their taxes are too high. But don't they know that "taxes are the price we pay for civilized society," in the words of Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes?

Boston prosecutors said a man was charged Friday with severely biting a police officer's hand and punching two other officers during a violent outburst at city hall.

University of South Carolina coach Dawn Staley isn't afraid of controversy.

"Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire" easily swatted away a pair of challengers to hold on to the top spot at the box office for the second week in a row, according to studio estimates Sunday.

Police in Arkansas said they arrested and charged a woman last week after she forced her 7-year-old son to walk 8 miles to school after he missed his bus.

House Speaker Mike Johnson lambasted Sunday the Democrats' escalating opposition to providing military aid to Israel in the wake of the Israel Defense Force's lethal attack on humanitarian aid workers.

Police in Michigan said they arrested and charged a man Friday after the suspect shot a Chipotle employee during an argument over guacamole.

A man was charged Sunday with setting a fire outside the Vermont office of U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, federal prosecutors said.

A security guard was killed and a police officer shot before other officers killed a gunman in a shootout at a Miami-area shopping center Saturday that left several bystanders injured, authorities said.

Voters across Poland cast ballots in local elections Sunday in the first electoral test for the coalition government of Prime Minister Donald Tusk nearly four months since it took power.

A Texas woman who went into premature labor, developed sepsis and nearly died and a Louisiana woman who said restrictive abortion laws prevented her from getting medical help for a miscarriage are now campaigning for President Joe Biden as the Democrat highlights how women's health is being affected by the overturning of federal abortion protections.

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump raked in $50.5 million Saturday night in campaign cash, according to the Republican National Committee.

A top Iranian military adviser on Sunday warned Israel that none of its embassies were safe following a strike in Damascus last week blamed on Israel that killed 12 people, including two elite Iranian generals. Regional tensions have threatened to draw the Middle East into a wider conflict as Israel's war against Hamas marks six months.

National security officials have mounted a full-court press in recent weeks to try to head off major changes to the government's most important snooping authority, warning Capitol Hill that terrorists will benefit if lawmakers require the FBI to get a warrant before querying Americans' names in its massive trove of data.

Iran stepped up its threats to avenge a suspected Israeli airstrike last week that killed a number of senior commanders.

Russia's government declared the situation in flood-hit areas in the Orenburg region a federal emergency on Sunday, with preparations for possible flooding underway in three other regions, state media reported.

Rwandan President Paul Kagame blamed the inaction of the international community for allowing the 1994 genocide to happen as Rwandans on Sunday commemorated 30 years since an estimated 800,000 people were killed by government-backed extremists.

International leaders have condemned Ecuador after police in the country's capital broke into the Mexican Embassy to arrest a former vice president who had been granted political asylum.

The CMT Music Awards, celebrating the best in country music videos, are set to return on Sunday night live from Austin, Texas.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen sent a message of mutual cooperation at a meeting Sunday with Chinese Premier Li Qiang, highlighting the improvement in relations since her visit to China last year while recognizing that major differences remain.