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Orioles reportedly set to promote Grayson Rodriguez, club’s top pitching prospect, to make major league debut Wednesday

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:25:40 GMT

Grayson Rodriguez is reportedly on his way home.Baltimore’s top pitching prospect is being promoted to the Orioles and is expected to make his major league debut Wednesday in his home state of Texas against the Rangers, according to multiple reports.Rodriguez, a consensus top 10 prospect in baseball, was expected to make the Orioles’ rotation to open the season, but he instead began the year in Triple-A Norfolk after struggling in spring training.The Orioles have not announced the promotion or a potential corresponding move.Rodriguez’s call-up follows Monday’s game in which starting pitcher Kyle Bradish suffered a right foot contusion after taking a 104 mph line drive off the foot during his start Monday. Bradish threw one warmup pitch before exiting the game in the second inning.While Tyler Wells’ five-inning relief outing led the Orioles to a 2-0 win and saved an already-fatigued bullpen, it didn’t change the calculus that the Orioles would need...

Trump, back home at Mar-a-Lago, condemns charges against him as ‘fake case’ aimed at interfering with 2024 election

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:25:40 GMT

Anthony Man and Angie DiMichele | South Florida Sun SentinelFormer President Donald Trump returned to South Florida on Tuesday evening after an early afternoon court appearance in New York where he pleaded not guilty to 34 felony charges.He landed at Palm Beach International Airport at about 6:40 p.m., almost 30 hours after he departed PBIA for the trip to New York for his first appearance in court after last week’s indictment by a Manhattan grand jury.About an hour and a half later he began a speech condemning the prosecution — and other investigations into his conduct — in a televised speech before hundreds of supporters gathered at Mar-a-Lago, his Palm Beach resort club and home.“God bless you all. God bless you all. And I never thought anything like this could happen in America,” he said. “The only crime I have committed is to fearlessly defend our nation from those who seek to destroy it.”“This fake case was brought only to interfere with the upcoming 2024 election, and it shou...

Defiant Trump slams Manhattan DA claiming ‘there’s no case’

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:25:40 GMT

Donald Trump came out blasting away at the Manhattan DA, Hunter Biden’s laptop and a “country going to hell” after a long day dealing with a 34-count criminal indictment.“The only crime that I have committed is to fearlessly defend our nation from those who seek to destroy it,” the former president said at his Mar-a-Lago resort in West Palm Beach, Florida.“I have a great family and they’ve done a great job and I appreciate that,” he said, adding the DA Alvin Bragg “wants to settle the case” — an offer Trump said he’s not buying.“There’s no case,” Trump said. “They threw this ridiculous indictment together … the criminal is the district attorney for leaking” the indictment.He added he now has a “Trump-hating judge” saying the case is “right out of the old Soviet Union, and that is bad.” He bundled with that inflation, China and Russia along with Iran for...

Tuberculosis exposure impacts multiple services at Father Joe’s Villages

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:25:40 GMT

SAN DIEGO -- San Diego County health officials on Tuesday warned of a potential tuberculosis exposure at various Father Joe's Villages Programs.The health alert is directed to staff, volunteers and clients who were at the Inclement Weather Shelter, San Diego Day Center, Food Services, Employment and Education Services and Village Health Center between Jan. 14 to March 3, according to the County of San Diego Communications Office.“Symptoms of active TB include persistent cough, fever, night sweats and unexplained weight loss,” said Wilma Wooten, M.D., County public health officer. “Most people who become infected after exposure to tuberculosis do not get sick right away. This is called latent TB infection. Some who become infected with tuberculosis will become ill in the future, sometimes even years later, if their latent TB infection is not treated. Blood tests and skin tests are effective to determine whether someone has been infected.” SDSU’s Fisher becomes first-ever with ALS t...

Denver’s ‘high stakes’ mayoral race field narrows

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:25:40 GMT

DENVER (AP) — Crowded in a small ballroom at Denver’s ritzy Maven Hotel, a mayoral election watch party for candidate Mike Johnston broke into applause and cheers when the first batch of votes were returned Tuesday night. Their candidate, a former state senator and one of an unusually large and divergent field of 16 contestants vying for an increasingly powerful position, held a slim lead. Candidate Kelly Brough, president and CEO of the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce, was close behind.The stakes are high for Denver voters, said Ty Robertson, an engineer in Denver and Johnston supporter. The city has rapidly burgeoned into a major metropolis, she said, and “we just weren’t prepared.” Denver faces a rising crime rate not seen for decades, growing homeless encampments and dizzying housing costs. The fear that undergirds the wide open race is clear. Denver — the fast-growing, relatively young, business and tech hub of the U.S. Mountain West — is tumbling toward a fa...

Donald Trump’s day in court as criminal defendant: What to know

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:25:40 GMT

For the first time in history, a former U.S. president has appeared in court as a criminal defendant.Donald Trump surrendered to authorities Tuesday after being indicted by a New York grand jury on charges related to hush-money payments at the height of the 2016 presidential election.Trump, a 2024 presidential candidate, pleaded not guilty to 34 felony charges in a Manhattan courtroom. He then flew home to Florida and spoke to a crowd of supporters at his home.Here’s what to know about Trump’s day in court.Hush-money payments related to 2016 U.S. electionProsecutors unsealed the indictment against the former president Tuesday, giving Trump, his lawyers and the world their first opportunity to see them. Trump was charged with 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree.Prosecutors said Trump conspired to undermine the 2016 presidential election by trying to suppress information that could harm his candidacy and then concealing the true nature of the hush-money paymen...

Dangerous severe storms again hitting Midwest, South

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:25:40 GMT

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — People still sorting through the wreckage of their homes after deadly weather hit over the weekend braced for another wave of strong storms, including tornadoes, that began rolling into parts of the Midwest and South beginning Tuesday evening. Officials warned residents to have shelter ready before going to sleep.“This could be a night to just set up down in the basement to be safe,” said Tom Philip, a meteorologist in Davenport, Iowa.The National Weather Service on Tuesday evening began issuing tornado warnings in Iowa and Illinois and said a confirmed twister was spotted southwest of Chicago near Bryant, Illinois. No damage was immediately reported.The storms were expected to hammer some areas hit by severe weather and possibly dozens of tornadoes just days ago that killed at least 32 people, meaning more misery for those whose homes were destroyed in Arkansas, Iowa and Illinois. Dangerous conditions Tuesday also could stretch into parts of Missouri, southw...

Tight Chicago mayor’s race between progressive, moderate Dem

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:25:40 GMT

CHICAGO (AP) — The candidates for Chicago mayor were in a tight race Tuesday as voters chose between sharply contrasting views on issues including crime, taxes, schools and investment in policing to lead the heavily Democratic city, the country’s third-largest. The race pitted former Chicago schools CEO Paul Vallas, a moderate Democrat endorsed by Chicago’s police union and major business groups, against progressive Brandon Johnson, a former teacher and union organizer backed by the Chicago Teachers Union. With much of the vote counted, the race was neck-and-neck. Vallas and Johnson advanced to the runoff after finishing ahead of current Mayor Lori Lightfoot in a February election, making her the first incumbent in 40 years to seek reelection in the city and lose. The contest has centered on the increase in violent crime during the COVID-19 pandemic and soaring property taxes. With polls closed in the evening, Tuesday’s results also could have implications for Demo...

Israeli police clash with worshipers at Jerusalem holy site

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:25:40 GMT

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police raided Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem’s Old City early Wednesday and attacked Palestinian worshippers, Palestinian media reported, raising fears of wider tension as Islamic and Jewish holidays overlap.The incidents sparked a wave of Palestinian protests, condemnations and violence. The Israeli military said sirens warning of incoming rockets sounded in Israeli communities around the Gaza Strip. Tension has already been high in east Jerusalem and the West Bank for months, and fears of further violence were fueled with the convergence of the Muslim holy fast month and the Passover.Such confrontations at the contested holy compound, the third holiest shrine in Islam that is also the most sacred site in Judaism and referred to as the Temple Mount, have sparked deadly cross-border wars between Israel and Gaza’s Hamas rulers in the past, the last was in 2021.Videos on social media purportedly showed Israeli police officers beating Palestinians with baton...

Bulls clinch a spot in the Eastern Conference play-in tournament

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:25:40 GMT

CHICAGO - The Bulls will be playing basketball after the conclusion of the regular season this April. How long they'll go is very much to be determined.Thanks to a loss by the Orlando Magic against the Cleveland Cavaliers on Tuesday evening, the Bulls have officially locked up a spot in the Eastern Conference play-in tournament. That will give them the chance to advance to the playoffs as either the seventh or eighth seed when it's played April 11-14.This is the first time the Bulls have been in the play-in tournament since it was introduced by the NBA during the 2020-2021 season. The Bulls are currently playing the Hawks at the United Center, sitting as the tenth seed in the Eastern Conference. They still have a chance to move up to as high as the eighth seed as of Tuesday evening.Here are the scenarios for the Bulls in the play-in tournament with three games to go in the season.Should Billy Donovan's team finish as the ninth or tenth seed, they would play their first game on Wedne...