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Marlins’ Alcantara pitches 1:57 CG, majors’ 1st this season

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:16:02 GMT

MIAMI (AP) — Sandy Alcantara pitched the major leagues’ first complete game this season, a three-hitter that led the Miami Marlins to a 1-0 win over the Minnesota Twins on Tuesday night.The 2022 NL Cy Young Award winner, who pitched six of the big leagues’ 36 complete games last season, struck out five and walked one in a 1-hour, 57-minute game that was the shortest of the season.Avisaíl Garcia homered in the second inning for the game’s only run.Twins starter Kenta Maeda, who missed last season after having Tommy John surgery, struck out nine before leaving in the sixth with an apparent arm issue. The 34-year-old Maeda (0-1), who had not pitched since Aug. 21, 2021, allowed three hits and threw 79 pitches.Alcantara (1-0) threw 68 of his 100 pitches for strikes. He bounced back from a 5 2/3-inning outing on opening day against the New York Mets in which he allowed three runs and walked four.Alcantara retired the first 11 batters before Trevor Larnach beat out a soft grounder t...

Denver mayor election has Johnston, Brough leading as potential runoff candidates

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:16:02 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- With early results in, two candidates for Denver mayor are holding close leads, with the potential to meet again in a runoff.Mike Johnston and Kelly Brough are the only two candidates to to have over 20,000 votes as of 8:30 p.m. Tuesday. Both have less than 25% of the vote. Full results: Denver mayor election If no candidate gets at least 50% of the vote, the top two candidates will face each other in a runoff on June 6.A total of 29 people filed paperwork to run and 17 candidates obtained enough signatures to get their names on the ballot. Tattered Cover CEO Kwame Spearman, who is one of the 17, dropped out of the race in March after ballots had already been printed and mailed.The mayor sets the budget for the city and oversees operations of Denver International Airport, the police department, the sheriff’s office, the Department of Public Safety, and more than 11,000 city employees.In addition to mayor, Denver voters decided on city council members, auditor and...

Trump arraignment: News, analysis from day's events

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:16:02 GMT

(NewsNation) — Former President Donald Trump pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts in New York Tuesday. It's a historic booking and arraignment on charges related to alleged hush money payments made to adult film star Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election. Trump, who has denied any wrongdoing, is now the first former president in U.S. history to face criminal charges.Ahead of the arraignment, New York City officials bolstered security and warned potential protesters it is “not a playground for your misplaced anger.” Energy Department moves forward with light bulb ban “While there may be some rabble-rousers thinking about coming to our city tomorrow, our message is clear and simple: Control yourselves,” said New York Mayor Eric Adams. “New York City is our home. … We are the safest large city in America because we respect the rule of law.”The former president arrived in New York on Monday after flying in from Florida. After the arraignment, he returned to Florida, where he addre...

Fort Lauderdale residents say efforts to control flooding harming their environment

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:16:02 GMT

It is a project meant to help reduce storm flooding, but it’s stirring up a flood of outrage among residents.The Night Team’s Kevin Ozebek investigates their environmental concerns.Ted Inserra is no stranger in this Fort Lauderdale neighborhood…Ted Inserra, resident: ”I’ve lived in this neighborhood for 67 years.”He walks his dog, Lily, everyday alongside the canal on Coconut Drive.He says it’s in bad shape.Ted Inserra: “I mean, I just was stunned.”Work to improve storm drainage began in the River Oaks neighborhood in 2021. It eventually made its way over to the canal.Ted Inserra: “I just saw what they were doing to the canal, cutting down all the trees.”He also recorded a crew dumping gravel into the canal in February.Ted Inserra: “The color, the color of the water was just, it was milky white.”Ted’s neighbors also noticed what was happening.Mallorie Cove, resident: “I was concerned. I’d walk up and down here early hours of the morning and I woul...

Tkachuk scores as Panthers beat Sabres for 4th straight win

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:16:02 GMT

SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — Matthew Tkachuk snapped a tie in the opening minute of the third period, and the Florida Panthers topped the Buffalo Sabres 2-1 on Tuesday night for their fourth consecutive victory.Aaron Ekblad also scored for Florida, and Alex Lyon made 40 saves for his fourth straight win.It’s the longest win streak of the season for the Panthers (40-31-7), who moved into a tie with the New York Islanders for the top spot in the Eastern Conference wild-card standings. Florida owns the first tiebreaker because of its regulations wins.Pittsburgh is one point behind Florida and New York with four games left for each team.Dylan Cozens scored for Buffalo, which had won four of five. Devon Levi, a seventh-round pick by Florida in the 2020 draft, made 34 saves in his first loss in two NHL starts.The Sabres (37-32-7) are six points behind the Panthers and Islanders. The Sabres have six games left.Cozens scored on a Buffalo power play 8:58 into the first period. It was his 29th ...

The new revelations — and key questions — in the Trump indictment

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:16:02 GMT

The 16-page indictment against Donald Trump accuses him of 34 felonies for allegedly falsifying business records in a bid to violate campaign finance laws — a bevy of charges setting in motion the first criminal prosecution of a former president in American history.Manhattan prosecutors allege that Trump concealed hush money payments by falsely labeling related transactions as legal expenses and by arranging for a tabloid publisher to bottle up the story of a woman who said she had a sexual relationship with Trump.In doing so, the prosecutors say, Trump repeatedly violated a New York corporate record-keeping law and agreed to break campaign finance laws.All 34 felony charges against Trump are identical, with each carrying the possibility of up to four years in prison, although judges rarely sentence defendants to jail for such offenses.The indictment is a bare-bones document that simply recites the alleged offenses in boiler-plate language. However, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin...

Trump decries charges against him as an ‘insult to our country’

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:16:02 GMT

Former President Donald Trump struck a defiant note Tuesday evening, declaring that felony charges made against him were erroneous, politically motivated and “an insult to our country.”“The only crime that I have committed is to fearlessly defend our nation from those who seek to destroy it,” he said while addressing his supporters at his Mar-a-Lago estate just hours after being arraigned in New York.The remarks were Trump’s first since the details of the indictment were unveiled Tuesday afternoon in Manhattan. The former president pleaded not guilty to 34 felony charges of filing false business records related to an alleged scheme to bury allegations about extramarital affairs ahead of the 2016 presidential election.Trump went after Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, describing him as a “criminal,” a “radical left” prosecutor and a “failed district attorney,” while calling for him to be prosecuted.“The criminal is the district attorney, because he illegally leaked massive amo...

Foreign business community in China beware

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:16:02 GMT

Peter Humphrey is a former Reuters correspondent and spent over a decade as a fraud investigator in China for Western firms. He is currently an external research affiliate of Harvard University’s Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and a mentor to families of foreigners wrongfully detained in China.The recent raid against American due diligence firm Mintz in Beijing, and the arrest of all five of its Chinese employees there, carries echoes of the past.Reminiscent of the raid against my own due diligence firm ChinaWhys almost 10 years ago, which led to my wrongful imprisonment for two years on cooked-up charges of illegal information gathering, the latest raid has sent a chilling warning to all foreign businesses operating in China — gather information at your own peril; you can become a target at any time.Mintz is a respected United States-based global due diligence firm, and as an American firm, it is, of course, an obvious target for proxy reprisals over Washington’s growing pushb...

Do French trade unions still hold sway over the street?

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:16:02 GMT

French trades unions have fought President Emmanuel Macron to a near standstill on pension reform. They have disrupted the country for more than two months. After a long standoff, trade union leaders are meeting Macron’s chief lieutenant Elisabeth Borne today to discuss the pensions affair.The union leaders enjoy popularity ratings that politicians — both government and opposition — can only dream about. The French unions appear strong, popular and united — for now. They brought out protesting crowds of over 1 million nationwide on three occasions since mid-January. And yet the ferocity of their opposition to a relatively modest reform can be explained partly by their fundamental weakness.Unions are a French paradox — one of many. In Germany or the Netherlands, or even in Britain, the unions have more members and fewer internal divisions. They are more willing to consider arguments about long-term prosperity and the stability of the welfare system. In France, the unions are s...

A wartime NATO struggles to replace its chief

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:16:02 GMT

It’s the rumor inflating the Brussels bubble: The EU’s top executive, Ursula von der Leyen, could be crossing town to run NATO. The rationale makes sense. She has a good working relationship with Washington. She is a former defense minister. And as European Commission president, she has experience working with most NATO heads of government. Plus, if chosen, she would become the alliance’s first-ever female leader. The conversation has crested in recent weeks, as people eye current NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg’s pending exit at the end of September.Yet according to those inside NATO and at the Commission, the murmurings are more wish-casting than hints of a pending job switch. There is no evidence von der Leyen is interested in the role, and those in Brussels don’t expect her to quit before her first presidential term ends in 2024.The chatter is similar to the rumblings around Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, a long-serving leader who checks every box but in...