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Shohei Ohtani hits 40th homer after leaving mound early with cramps in Seattle’s 5-3 win over Angels

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:25:17 GMT

ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Shohei Ohtani left the mound after only four scoreless innings due to cramping in his pitching hand and fingers, but then hit his major league-leading 40th homer before his Los Angeles Angels blew a two-run lead in the ninth inning of a 5-3 loss to the Seattle Mariners on Thursday night.Ohtani said he wasn’t sure whether the cramping, which was largely in his right middle finger, would force him to miss a mound start. Ohtani also had problems with cramps during the Angels’ just-completed trip, leaving consecutive games early with lower-body cramping.“It’s not just my finger,” Ohtani said through his translator. “I’ve been kind of getting cramps all over the place. I felt like maybe I could have gone another inning or two, but I’m trying to feel out how my hand feels, and it’s a 0-0 game. I couldn’t give up any runs, and I felt like it was better for the team to stop pitching there.”Rookie Cade Marlowe hit his first career grand slam in the ninth for the ...

Cardi B no será acusada por el incidente del micrófono lanzado desde el escenario, dice la Policía

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:25:17 GMT

(CNN) — Cardi B no enfrentará cargos vinculados a haber lanzado su micrófono a la multitud en un concierto en Las Vegas el fin de semana pasado, según la policía.“Después de una revisión exhaustiva de este caso y en consulta con la Oficina del Fiscal del Distrito del Condado de Clark, este caso se ha cerrado por no tener pruebas suficientes. No se presentarán cargos en relación con este caso”, informó el jueves la Policía Metropolitana de Las Vegas en un comunicado enviado CNN.“En nombre de Cardi, apreciamos la diligente y rápida resolución de este asunto por parte del Departamento de Policía Metropolitana de Las Vegas”, dijeron Drew Findling, David Chesnoff y Richard Schonfeld, los abogados que representan a Cardi B, en un comunicado el jueves por la tarde.El lunes, un asistente al concierto presentó una denuncia ante la policía de Las Vegas tras haber sido “golpeado por un objeto lanzado desde el escenario”, según informó la policía a CNN ...

Freeman has 3 hits to lead Dodgers to 8-2 victory and 3-game sweep of Athletics

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:25:17 GMT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Freddie Freeman had three hits, Miguel Rojas and Amed Rosario both drove in two runs, and the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Oakland Athletics 8-2 Thursday night to complete a three-game sweep.Zack Gelof and Tyler Soderstrom homered for the Athletics, who have dropped four straight and seven of their last nine.Freeman, second in the majors with a .341 batting average, has gone 32 for 63 (.508) at the plate since July 17. He hit two doubles, extending his major league-lead to 40, before leading off the eighth with a solo shot to right field for his 22nd homer of the season.Julio Urías (8-6) bounced back with five scoreless innings after allowing 11 runs in 11 innings in his previous two starts. Emmet Sheehan went the last four innings for his first major-league save.Los Angeles outscored Oakland 25-6 and had 20 extra-base hits in the series, including six doubles in the finale.JP Sears (2-8) took the loss after allowing two runs in five innings.Rojas drove in the fir...

High tides causes coastal flooding issues

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:25:17 GMT

SAN DIEGO -- Warming temperatures are having unintended consequences.The surf is bigger and coastal erosion is speeding up with the new energy in the water.It’s a fact that is impossible to ignore the temperatures across the globe are rising and climate change is altering things everywhere, according to oceanographers from Scripps.The surf has been getting bigger since the 1970s and big wave events are now twice as more common then four decades ago.“More heat within the earth's system, more heat in the atmosphere, more heat in the ocean, that’s energy and that energy makes things stronger, faster, higher and that’s what we are experiencing,” said Dr. Pat Abbott from San Diego State University.Abbott says as carbon emissions continue creating hotter temperatures, a series of cycles are speeding up. Climber who died on El Cajon Mountain remembered as loving husband, teacher “As waves and water are coming farther onshore, they are going to do even more cutting of the sea cliffs and i...

3 years after Beirut port blast, intrigue foils an investigation and even the death toll is disputed

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:25:17 GMT

BEIRUT (AP) — Three years after Beirut’s massive port blast, attempts to prosecute those responsible are mired in political intrigue, the final death toll remains disputed and many Lebanese have less faith than ever in their disintegrating state institutions.As the country marks the anniversary Friday, relatives of some of those killed are still struggling to get their loved ones recognized as blast victims, reflecting the ongoing chaos since the Aug. 4, 2020 explosion. The blast killed at least 218 people, according to an Associated Press count, wounded more than 6,000, devastated large swaths of Beirut and caused billions of dollars in damages.Among those not recognized as a blast victim is a five-month-old boy, Qusai Ramadan, a child of Syrian refugees. His parents say he was killed when the explosion toppled the ceiling and a cupboard in his hospital room, crushing him. The parents have been unable to get the infant added to the official death list, a move that could have made t...

Mutinous soldiers in Niger sever military ties with France while president says he’s a hostage

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:25:17 GMT

NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — Niger’s military junta says it is severing military agreements with France, its former colonial ruler, firing some of the previous government’s key ambassadors and warning citizens of the West African nation to watch for foreign armies and spies.The announcement on state television late Thursday deepens the post-coup isolation for what had been the United States’ and allies’ last major security partner in the Sahel, the vast region south of the Sahara Desert that various Islamic extremist groups have turned into the global center of terrorism.With two days remaining before a deadline set by the West African regional bloc to release and reinstate President Mohamed Bazoum or face possible force, Bazoum in a plea published in a Washington Post opinion piece said, “I write this as a hostage.”Niger’s mutinous soldiers face a Sunday deadline set by the regional bloc known as ECOWAS, whose envoys arrived at the airport in the capital, Niamey, on Thursday for talk...

China reopens trade in Australian barley in a new sign of improved relations

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:25:17 GMT

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — China is lifting a stifling 3-year-old tariff on Australian barley starting Saturday — a sign of an improving bilateral trade relationship since Australia’s government changed.China effectively closed its door to Australian barley in May 2020 by imposing an 80.5% tariff after the previous Australian government angered Beijing by calling for an independent inquiry into the origins of, and responses to, the COVID-19 pandemic.On Friday, both governments confirmed the resumption of trade in the grain that was worth 916 million Australian dollars ($602 million) in the year before China blocked imports.Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese welcomed the breakthrough, which comes as he plans his first visit to Beijing as government leader before the end of the year.“This is a very positive decision,” Albanese told reporters.When Albanese’s government was elected in May 2022, he demanded Beijing drop a series of official and unofficial trade barriers against A...

Okinawa warned of high winds and rain this weekend as Typhoon Khanun makes its U-turn east

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:25:17 GMT

TOKYO (AP) — Residents of Japan’s southwestern islands were warned of high winds and rain Friday through the weekend as Typhoon Khanun made a U-turn and is now moving back east.The Meteorological Agency said that Khanun is heading to Okinawa and nearby islands that were already lashed by its winds and rain earlier this week.Khanun had sustained surface winds of 126 kph (78 mph) with higher gusts Friday afternoon, the JMA said. Up to 15 centimeters (5.9 inches) of rain was expected in the Okinawa region by Saturday and up to 30 centimeters (11.8 inches) in the Amami region, an island group belonging to the southern main island of Kyushu, by Sunday, JMA said.Khanun had been stronger, with sustained winds of 180 kph (111 mph), when it crossed the islands Tuesday, damaging homes and knocking out power. The Okinawa prefectural government said 44 people were injured, three of them seriously. Two deaths were being investigated as typhoon-caused but are not in the official death toll....

Thailand train collision with pickup truck kills 8 people and injures 4, railway agency says

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:25:17 GMT

BANGKOK (AP) — Eight people were killed when a freight train struck a pickup truck crossing the tracks in an eastern province of Thailand early Friday morning, authorities said.The accident at 2:20 a.m. (19:20 GMT) also injured four people in the Muang district of Chachoengsao province, according to the State Railway of Thailand.The 54-year-old driver, Wichai Yulek, told authorities he saw the approaching train and heard a warning horn. He slowed, but passengers in the vehicle urged him to keep going. When he realized the truck was headed for a collision, he could not stop in time, the railway agency said.The deceased include an 18 year old, two people in their 20s and five people over 55, while the injured victims included four men in their 20s, the railway said.The Associated Press

Police detain a suspect in South Korea’s 2nd stabbing attack in 2 days

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:25:17 GMT

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean police detained a man suspected of stabbing a high school teacher with a knife Friday in the city of Daejeon. The stabbing follows a separate, apparently random attack on Thursday in which 14 people were wounded near a busy subway station in Seongnam.Officials at the Daejeon Metropolitan Police Agency didn’t immediately release the personal details of the suspect in the Friday morning attack on the teacher at Songchon High School, describing him only as a man in his late 20s.According to police, the suspect waited for the teacher to step out of a classroom before stabbing him and fleeing the scene, which, according to officials, suggests they were acquaintances. Police and fire department authorities did not specify the teacher’s health condition.The attack in Daejeon, about 120 kilometers (75 miles) south of Seongnam, came hours after President Yoon Suk Yeol called for “ultra-strong” law enforcement measures to restore faith in public safety a...