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Former Toronto Blue Jays and current Boston Red Sox catcher Danny Jansen has become the first man to play for two teams in the same game - and he did it all in a single inning. In a statistical oddity made possible by two of the quirkiest entities on Earth - the baseball rule book and the New England weather - Jansen became the only player ever to appear on both sides of a baseball box score when he took the field for Boston on Monday in the resumption of a rain-delayed game he started for Toronto in June, before...

WASHINGTON) -- Climate change may not be a top concern for voters for the 2024 presidential election, but that hasn't stopped many Republicans from making misrepresentations about environmental and energy policy – a departure from the previous tactic of majority climate change denial, according to experts on environmental politics who spoke with ABC News. Debates around energy policy, specifically regarding renewable energy versus fossil fuels, are inherently connected to climate change, in large part because fossil fuels are the largest contributor to climate change, according to the United Nations, accounting for more than 75% of global greenhouse gas emissions and...

MANILA—The US military is open to the possibility of escorting Philippine ships in the disputed South China Sea, depending on consultations under the allies’ 1951 Mutual Defense Treaty, the head of US Indo-Pacific Command said Tuesday amid a spike in hostilities between Beijing and Manila in the disputed waters. Adm. Samuel Paparo’s remarks, which he made in response to a question during a news conference in Manila with Philippine Armed Forces chief Gen. Romeo Brawner Jr., provided a glimpse of the mindset of one of the highest American military commanders outside the US mainland on a prospective operation that would...

More than 200 former aides to the three GOP presidential nominees who preceded former President Trump in 2016 — former President George W. Bush, former Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) — endorsed Vice President Harris on Monday. The majority of the group also endorsed President Biden in 2020. The group wrote a letter announcing the endorsement, USA Today first reported. The letter said it was a reunion of sorts from 2020, though it added that additional Bush alumni in particular were added to the group this cycle that are opposing Trump and backing Harris. “Of course,...

West made the stunning accusation after the close of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, in an interview with independent journalist Jordan Chariton on the Status Coup News podcast. The two discussed offers to drop out in anticipation of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s anticipated decision to suspend his campaign (in battleground states) and to endorse former President Donald Trump.

CV NEWS FEED // Vandals spray-painted messages on the front of a Chicago pro-life pregnancy center and cemented the entrance shut on August 23, according to a report from Catholic News Agency. CNA reported that the vandalism occurred in the early morning of Aug. 23, against the pregnancy center nonprofit Aid for Women operates in the Edgewater neighborhood of Chicago. According to photos shared on X by longtime volunteer and advisor for the pregnancy center Mary FioRito, the messages spray-painted in red on a wall by the center’s entrance read “FAKE CLINIC” and “THE DEAD BABIES ARE IN GAZA.” On...

George Barna, director of research at Arizona Christian University’s Cultural Research Center, released new data earlier this month that “reveals the limitations of Christian evangelicalism in American society.” The events from recent years have caused “millions of Americans to realize just how depraved American society has become,” the report stated. “Corrupt politicians, dishonest journalists and media outlets, broken social institutions, immoral religious leaders, unconstitutional government programs and policies, and more, have generated non-stop headlines highlighting the decadence of American society and the demise of the United States.” It went on to contend that “The depth of the depravity is shocking”...

presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will stay on the Wisconsin ballot in November, the Wisconsin Elections Commission decided Tuesday, despite Kennedy’s last-minute request to be removed. Elections commission Chair Ann Jacobs, one of three Democratic appointees to the evenly divided commission, argued that state law prevents removing a candidate for office who has met the requirements. “If you file nomination [papers] and qualify, you may not decline the nomination, and the name of that person shall appear upon the ballot, except in the case of the death of the person,” Jacobs said, arguing against taking Kennedy off the ballot....

A federal judge has temporarily blocked a program launched by President Joe Biden's administration allowing undocumented immigrants a pathway to U.S. citizenship, NBC News reports. The 'Keeping Families Together' program, which allowed undocumented immigrants married to U.S. citizens to apply for green cards without leaving the country, was blocked by U.S. Eastern District of Texas Judge J. Campbell Barker on Monday (August 26). The program would provide a "parole in place" to undocumented spouses who could prove they've lived in the U.S. continuously for at least 10 years. Undocumented immigrants married to U.S. citizens typically need to leave the country...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said it's unlikely that he would receive Senate confirmation because committee members are 'just safeguarding that (CIA) directorship and I would be very, very dangerous for those committees.' (LifeSiteNews) — Former presidential candidate turned Donald Trump supporter Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Tucker Carlson this week that he would definitely serve as the director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). “If you were asked, would you run it?” Carlson asked. “Yes, I would,” Kennedy replied. “But I would never get Senate confirmation.” Kennedy made major news last week when just one day after the Democratic National...

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The US "strongly opposes" Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gvir’s public support for building a synagogue on the Temple Mount, State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller told Axios’ Barak Ravid on Tuesday. “It would demonstrate blatant disregard for the historic status quo with respect to the holy sites in Jerusalem,” Miller told Ravid. "Ben Gvir’s ongoing reckless statements and actions of this minister only sow chaos and exacerbate tensions at a moment when Israel must stand united against threats from Iran and its proxy terrorist groups, including Hamas and Hezbollah. They directly undermine Israel’s security," added the State Department spokesperson....

The presidential debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris is back on, and set for September 10 on ABC. .... update came from the former president who said he had 'reached an agreement' with the Harris campaign for a primetime showdown in Philadelphia using the 'same rules of the CNN debate' with President Joe Biden. Trump's statement included some rules but doesn't specifically mention what is being done about the microphone muting. But the ex-president hinted he got his way and that microphones will be muted.

In a sour commentary, NYT Deputy Opinion Editor Patrick Healy said he'd 'cringed' when former president Bill Clinton took the convention stage on Tuesday to claim that Harris would be 'the president of joy'..... Harris can't coast on "joy",' he concluded witheringly. How's that going to help the millions of Americans whose livelihoods are now at stake, Healey asked? On Monday, the newspaper published a guest essay titled 'Trump can win on character', by conservative commentator Rich Lowry......Pulling no punches, Lowry wrote that Harris is 'weak and a phony and doesn't truly care about the country or the middle class.'...

Is it "fatphobic" that horses spines can only hold a certain amount of weight? I think we all know the answer: Of course it is!

BREAKING: On Thursday, Kamala Harris and her running mate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz will sit with CNN for an exclusive first joint interview since launching presidential campaign

California Democrats passed a bill in the State Senate that would provide up to $150,000 in home loans for illegal aliens who are first-time home buyers in the state. The bill, AB 1840, passed the Assembly in a different form, and will head back there for approval before heading to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s (D) desk. As Breitbart News reported Monday: AB 1840, proposed by Assemblymember Joaquin Arambula (D-Fresno), expands an existing program for first-time home buyers such that applicants”shall not be disqualified solely based on the applicant’s immigration status.” The bill has already passed the California State Senate and is...

Wade Wilson, who shares a name with the Marvel superhero and has "Why so serious?" and swastikas tattooed across his face, was convicted of killing two women in 2019 -- one of whom he strangled, then ran over repeatedly. Wade Wilson, the tattooed, convicted murderer known as the "Deadpool Killer" has been sentenced to death for the murders of Kristine Melton, 35, and Diane Ruiz, 43, in 2019.

Special counsel Jack Smith has charged former President Donald Trump in a superseding indictment in his federal election interference case. "Today, a federal grand jury in the District of Columbia returned a superseding indictment, ECF No. 226, charging the defendant with the same c, riminal offenses that were charged in the original indictment," a Justice Department spokesperson said Tuesday.

The alleged charges remain the same - Smith removes allegations covered under Executive privilege, such as efforts to influence the Justice Department.