Favre tries to expand his defamation lawsuit against Mississippi auditor over welfare spending
Retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre is trying to expand his defamation lawsuit against Mississippi Auditor Shad White to include a book White wrote about the misspending of ...
Mets reach playoffs, beat Braves to cap comeback from 22-33 start
Four months after dropping 11 games under .500, the New York Mets earned a playoff berth a day after the regular season was supposed to end. With an 8-7 win at Atlanta in the opener ...
Here’s how Helene and other storms dumped a whopping 40 trillion gallons of rain on the South
More than 40 trillion gallons of rain drenched the Southeast United States in the last week from Hurricane Helene and a run-of-the-mill rainstorm that sloshed in ahead of it — an unheard of amount ...
Media Day in the NBA: Optimism abounds, and new faces settle into new homes
Klay Thompson walked through the Dallas Mavericks’ facility in his new uniform for the first time. Chris Paul posed side-by-side with Victor Wembanyama in San Antonio, one standing about a ...
CVS laying off nearly 3K employees
WOONSOCKET, R.I. (WPRI) — CVS Health is laying off nearly 3,000 employees nationwide, a company spokesperson confirmed Monday ...
Steward Health Care files a lawsuit against a US Senate panel over contempt resolution
Steward Health Care CEO Ralph de la Torre filed a lawsuit Monday against a U.S. Senate committee that pursued contempt ...
Major League Baseball scraps criticized All-Star Game uniforms and goes back to team jerseys
Major League Baseball is going back to using primary team uniforms for the All-Star Game, scrapping criticized special jerseys used for the past four years. Club uniforms were used ...
Aid group says Congo had 25,000 victims of sexual violence last year
Doctors Without Borders treated more than 25,000 victims of sexual violence in the Congo last year, by far the highest level it has seen there and most of it in the east ...
US opts out of running for reelection on UN Human Rights Council
The Biden administration has decided not to seek a second consecutive term on the much-maligned U.N. Human Rights Council, the State Department said Monday. The administration ...
Knicks tiptoe into training camp while waiting for acquisition of Towns to become official
Karl-Anthony Towns was in the Knicks’ building, though not yet on their team. The trade bringing the All-Star center to New York and sending out Julius Randle and ...
Unidentified skeletal remains discovered in 1974 exhumed for DNA testing
Number 18’s marker includes no name or epitaph like the others interred at the Wrentham cemetery. That’s because the marker ...
On a day when isolated nations get their say at the UN, North Korea reups condemnation of US
North Korea condemned the United States and its allies Monday for “stirring up military confrontations still further” by engaging in war games in the Asia-Pacific ...