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FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) — Kelsie Whitmore stood near third base at JetBlue Park and looked around at her new norm. Women baseball players from around the world tossed balls back and forth, sharing laughs and taking pointers from major league coaches. In less than five months, they will play in the first women’s professional …
March 19 (Reuters) – The Iranian national team are continuing to prepare for the World Cup finals and have no intention of pulling out of the tournament even if they will not travel to the United States, soccer chief Mehdi Taj said on Wednesday. Iran were one of the first nations to qualify for the …
Investors will not be able to move forward with the effort until appeals are resolved in the long-running case, in which U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska ordered Argentina to compensate investors for the seizure of a majority share in YPF Energy. In a ruling obtained by The Associated Press, the U.S. Court of Appeals for …
TOKYO, March 19 (Reuters) – Japan has not changed its position on how it determines an existential threat, its top government spokesperson said on Friday, rejecting an assessment by U.S. intelligence agencies of a “significant shift” in its stance on Taiwan. The agencies said in an annual threat report on Wednesday that Japanese Prime Minister …
WASHINGTON, March 18 (Reuters) – The United States hosted representatives from the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda in Washington on Tuesday and Wednesday, with talks centering on the stalled peace process in eastern Congo. It marked the first encounter between the parties since the U.S. Treasury Department sanctioned the Rwanda Defence Force and four …
WASHINGTON, March 18 (Reuters) – Joe Kent, the top U.S. security official who resigned over the war in Iran, is under an FBI investigation for allegedly leaking classified information, Semafor reported on Wednesday citing three sources. The investigation pre-dates his departure as the head of the National Counterterrorism Center on Tuesday, Semafor added. The FBI …
Jeffrey Epstein was the subject of a previously undisclosed U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration investigation — a five-year-plus probe targeting him and 14 other individuals for suspicious money transfers possibly linked to illegal narcotics, a newly uncovered document in the Department of Justice’s Epstein files reveals. “DEA reporting indicates the above individuals are involved in illegitimate wire …
A federal judge has denied the asylum claim for the family of Liam Rabbit Ramosa 5-year-old Minnesota boy whose arrest by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in January gained national attention. According to a statement from Columbia Heights Public School District, where Ramos attends school, an immigration judge “ended the asylum claims of the …
A Haitian-born man has been stripped of his U.S. citizenship after a federal judge in Florida found he defrauded COVID-19 relief programs out of millions of dollars and lied during the naturalization process, the Justice Department announced Tuesday. U.S. District Judge Rodney Smith ordered the revocation of citizenship for Joff Stenn Wroy Philossaint, 25, of …
Key moments from Gabbard and Ratcliffe’s Senate hearing on worldwide threats – CBS News Watch CBS News The Senate Intelligence Committee questioned Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and CIA Director John Ratcliffe about the worldwide intelligence information provided to President Trump amid the war in Iran.