By Mark Anderson/AP Sports Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) – The Oakland Athletics have spent years trying to get a new stadium while watching Bay Area neighbors such as the Giants, Warriors, 49ers […]
Are Las Vegas A’s a good bet?
MLB playoffs: too big, too small?
By Ronald Blum/AP Baseball Writer NEW YORK (AP) – Major League Baseball views expanded playoffs as the more the merrier. Not for the Los Angeles Dodgers, Atlanta Braves, New York Mets and […]
Biden pardons “pot” convicts
Saying that “no one should be in jail just for using or possessing marijuana,” President Joe Biden on Wednesday announced he was pardoning thousands of people who have been convicted of possessing […]
Angels and Dodgers rolling on
Although it’s a bit too late to change much about how the season went, each of the Southern California big league baseball teams are finishing the 2022 regular season with a flourish. […]
Changes coming to baseball?
By Ronald Blum/AP Baseball Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) – The All-Star Game showcased what baseball has become – home runs, strikeouts and offense-killing shifts. The National League didn’t have a hit between […]
Trump “pressured” Pence to overturn the 2020 election
Then-president Donald Trump pressured then-vice president Mike Pence to delay or overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol was […]
Civilians leave besieged city
About 100 civilians were evacuated from the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol over the weekend, defenders of the city said on Monday. The evacuation took place during a brief cease-fire between the […]
Refugees flee as war rages
The war in Ukraine continued to grind on Thursday, with casualties piling up and refugees continuing to flee their homes in search of safety and sanctuary. Among the key developments in the […]
Russian invasion slows as the world rallies around Ukraine
Events in the Ukraine-Russian war are moving faster, it seems, than the invaders are in their attempt to conquer their western neighbor. Reports from the Associated Press, The New York Times, United […]
One win, one loss on mandates
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday handed the Biden administration one defeat and one victory on the issue of vaccine mandates. On a 6-3 vote, the high court overturned the administration’s requirement […]
