ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The Orlando Magic found their winning formula. Desperation works. Facing elimination and clearly wanting no part of it, the Magic might have put together one of their best performances of the season Friday night. They rolled past the Charlotte Hornets 121-90 in an Eastern Conference play-in game, moving into the playoffs …
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has said that the U.S., under his leadership, is limiting the spread of measles better than any other country in the world. His most recent comments came Friday as he testified in his first congressional hearings in months, in which he sought to defend a more than 12% proposed …
WASHINGTON (AP) — An American delegation recently met with Cuban government officials in the island nation, marking a renewed diplomatic push even as U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened to intervene and Cuba’s leader said this week that his country is prepared to fight if that should happen. A senior State Department official met with …
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The city of Los Angeles must pay $11.8 million to a man who was blinded by a projectile fired into a crowd by police officers while he was celebrating the Dodgers 2020 World Series win. A federal jury ordered the payment Thursday after a trial brought by 27-year-old Isaac Castellanos, who …
DENVER (AP) — Play ball! And watch out for snowballs. The Los Angeles Dodgers and Colorado Rockies were greeted by 3 inches of snow that surprisingly blanketed Coors Field as their four-game series got off to a frigid start Friday. Dodgers pitcher Emmett Sheehan took advantage of the frosty mid-April day when he came out …
April 17 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday there had been some “pretty good news” regarding Iran but he declined to elaborate. “We had some pretty good news 20 minutes ago, but it seems to be going very well in the Middle East with Iran,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One. …
Lanez, 33, whose legal name is Daystar Peterson, filed the federal lawsuit seeking $100 million in damages on Tuesday against the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and the warden and guards at the prison in Tehachapi where he was being held. The suit says he was stabbed 16 times in the back, torso, head …
NEW YORK, April 17 (Reuters) – A U.S. judge has rejected Bayer’s request for an injunction to block Johnson & Johnson’s alleged false advertising that its multibillion-dollar drug cuts the risk of death from prostate cancer in half. In a decision on Friday night, U.S. District Judge Dale Ho in Manhattan said Bayer did not …
April 17 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday that Chinese President Xi Jinping was “very happy” about the status of the Strait of Hormuz, and that he looked forward to their meeting in China. “President Xi is very happy that the Strait of Hormuz is open and/or rapidly opening,” Trump said on …
Four days of jury selection wrapped up Friday in the case against the former Hollywood powerbroker turned #MeToo pariah. A jury of seven men and five women will be tasked with deciding whether he raped a woman in a Manhattan hotel in 2013. Weinstein has pleaded not guilty. The trial is expected to take up …