8-time All-Star catcher and 2020 Baseball Hall of Fame inductee Ted Simmons explains what former MLBPA executive director Marvin Miller meant to him
Hundreds of young Georgians crowded outside the Caucasus country's parliament on Monday after a night-long demonstration against a controversial "foreign influence" law that critics say was inspired by repressive Russian legislation.AFP journalists saw hundreds of riot police lining a street behind parliament, where law enforcement scuffled with protestors and carried out detentions.
Keith Gill, known as "Roaring Kitty" on YouTube and "DeepF***ingValue" on Reddit, was a key figure in the so-called meme stock rally, which saw shares of GameStop surge 400% in the final week of January 2021 before crashing back to pre-surge levels in the subsequent week. Gill on Sunday posted a sketch of a man leaning forward in a chair, a popular meme among gamers that indicates things are getting serious.
Attention is on this week's CPI report, seen as a potential starting gun for Fed rate cuts.
Booking Holdings, the U.S. company that owns Booking.com and a number of other travel websites, has been added to the European Union's list of companies now under heightened digital scrutiny. The European Commission, the EU’s executive branch, said Monday that it’s classing Booking Holdings as an online gatekeeper and that the company’s Booking.com hotel reservation site meets the threshold to be classed as a “core platform service” under the 27-nation bloc's Digital Markets Act. European Commission Executive Vice President Margrethe Vestager said the decision means that vacationers "will start benefiting from more choice and hotels will have more business opportunities.”
Fifty countries are meeting in France on Tuesday to discuss the lack of access to clean cooking methods worldwide which causes millions of deaths every year and fuels global warming.Switching to clean cooking methods, such as LPG or electric cooking, would save 1.5 billion tonnes of CO2 a year by 2030 -- roughly the amount emitted by ships and planes last year, according to the IEA. Subsidised LPG and free stoves in China, India and Indonesia led to a decline in people without access to clean co
Doctors are more likely to push long-term contraceptives when treating Black, Latina, young, and low-income women
Catalan separatist leader Carles Puigdemont said Monday he would seek to form a pro-independence minority government in the Spanish region despite a weekend electoral setback.But Puigdemont insisted he was still in a position to rally pro-independence groups and form a regional government.
The European Union on Monday added Dutch online travel giant Booking.com to its list of digital companies that are big enough to fall under tougher competition rules.In the same statement on Monday, the commission also said it opted not to include advertising services provided by X and TikTok on its list. raz/ec/rlp
While some hail DJ NewJeansNim’s sets as an innovative way to connect the religion with youth, others say he’s making a mockery of Buddhism.
Russia is conducting a sabotage campaign across Europe in an increasingly aggressive effort by President Vladimir Putin to undermine Western support for Ukraine
Jury selection begins in the criminal trial of Sen. Bob Menendez, who's charged with accepting "hundreds of thousands of dollars" in bribes, including gold bars, for official acts.
European equities wavered Monday as dealers paused with key US inflation data on the horizon, having smashed records last week on increasing hopes of interest rate reductions and after Britain emerged from recession."European markets are treading water... as we cautiously enter a new week that will likely be dominated by Wednesday's US inflation gauge," said Scope Markets analyst Joshua Mahony.
A fuel industry group is launching a new $6.6 million ad buy criticizing President Joe Biden and Democratic Senate candidates in key swing states over the administration’s new emissions standards that are expected to lead to dramatic cuts in the production of gas-powered cars.
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis hit out Monday at North Macedonia's new nationalist president for refusing to use her country's new name when she took her oath of office.- Bulgaria tensions - But Siljanovska-Davkova's party, the nationalist VMRO-DPMNE, opposes the accord and has refused to acknowledge the country's new name.
Russia pounded over 30 villages and towns in Ukraine's northeastern Kharkiv region after launching a ground offensive in the border region, forcing almost 6,000 to evacuate, the governor said on Monday.On Friday, Russia began an offensive across its border into the Kharkiv region and later claimed to have taken several villages in the region near the border.
The town's mayor, Rafael Vargas, called the attack "a terrible violent act."
An intense wildfire could hit a town in western Canada on Monday, based on forecasts of strong winds that have been fueling the out-of-control blaze which has already forced the evacuation of thousands, fire experts and officials warned. The British Columbia Wildfire Service said the blaze is currently burning just 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) northwest of Fort Nelson, which has already seen about 3,500 people evacuated from there after an order to leave was issued on Friday. In a video posted on social media late Sunday, fire behavior specialist Ben Boghean with the the British Columbia Wildfire Service said the extreme fire behavior — made worse by years of drought and a below-normal snowpack this past winter — could end up threatening the crews that have been fighting the nearby Parker Lake wildfire.
Amazon’s self-driving robotaxi unit is being investigated by the U.S. government's highway safety agency after two of its vehicles braked suddenly and were rear-ended by motorcyclists. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said in documents posted on its website Monday it will evaluate the automated driving system developed by Zoox. Both crashes happened during the daytime hours, and the motorcyclists suffered minor injuries.
Forty-nine employees of the Vatican Museums have filed a class-action complaint with the Vatican administration demanding better seniority, leave and overtime benefits in an unusual, public challenge to Pope Francis’ governance. The complaint, dated April 23 and made public this weekend in Italian newspapers, also alleged that staff faced health and security risks due to cost-saving and apparent profit-generating initiatives at the museum, including overcrowding and reduced security guards to keep tourists at bay. Neither the Vatican spokesman nor Cardinal Fernando Vérgez Alzaga, the president of the Vatican City State administration which controls the museums, responded to an email seeking comment.
Ultraprocessed foods make up more than half of the typical American’s diet, and they’ve been linked to myriad health conditions. Here are five things to know.
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