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Angels release former first-overall pick Mickey Moniak after arbitration

The Los Angeles Angels have elected to release outfielder Mickey Moniak from his contract. The 2016 first-overall draft pick won an arbitration hearing related to his salary, earlier this offseason. As a result, he was awarded a $2 million salary. Instead of keeping him on their payroll, the Angels opted to buy Moniak out of his contract. As a result, he will be awarded $484,000 in termination pay, representing one quarter of his annual salary. Moniak was drafted by the Philadelphia Phillies as a high-schooler in 2016. After several seasons in the minor leagues, he was named to the Phil

Trump invokes Alien Enemies Act as deportations escalate amid legal challenges

Is grass-fed beef the future of sustainable eating?

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New Cal Fire hazard maps expand area of L.A. County in ‘very high’ risk zone

A new map of hazard severity zones established by the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection greatly expands the areas labeled as being at “very high” risk of fire. Owners of homes within these zones will be required to establish fire mitigation measures on their property. The last map was issued in 2011. In the years since then, the danger posed by large fires in California has mounted rapidly. All four of the most destructive fires in California history — The Camp Fire in 2018, Tubbs Fire in 2017, and the Palisades and Eaton Fires this year — have occurred since

5 years after COVID: Understanding its long-term health effects

Precautions for travelers to Canada, Mexico amidst tariffs

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Secret recordings allegedly reveal LAPD officers making racist comments

A Los Angeles Police Department officer secretly recorded approximately 90 conversations over several months revealing colleagues in the department's recruitment division making racist, sexist, and homophobic comments about police applicants and fellow officers, according to a complaint filed with the LAPD's Professional Standards Bureau and the inspector general's office. The recordings – made between March and October 2024 – document officers and supervisors engaging in discriminatory conversations about potential recruits and colleagues based on race, sex, and sexual orientation. Th

Researchers find shorter, effective prostate cancer treatment

U.S. loses 2-1 game to Canada to place fourth at CONCACAF Nations League

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‘We’re not preparing’: As Trump officials vow to eliminate FEMA, the agency is already in turmoil

As Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem vows to “eliminate FEMA,” the agency is in turmoil, with disaster assistance, grant money, and hiring largely stalled, threatening its ability to respond to major disasters, multiple FEMA officials tell CNN.Top officials from FEMA and Department of Homeland Security met Tuesday, CNN has learned, to discuss the future of the disaster relief agency and their options for shutting it down.The group, which included Noem, FEMA Acting Administrator Cameron Hamilton, and long-time Trump ally Corey Lewandowski, debated the possibility of rescinding Preside

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Prosecutors accuse Luigi Mangione’s lawyers of fanning publicity around him and call out hidden heart-shaped notes in socks

Luigi Mangione’s fashion choices at his latest court appearance have caught the attention of Manhattan prosecutors who are accusing his lawyers of encouraging the publicity around him.Prosecutors told a judge Tuesday that Mangione’s defense team has “fanned the flames” of publicity in the murder case, which has already captivated the public’s attention and attracted supporters for the 26-year-old accused of gunning down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in midtown Manhattan.At the criminal courthouse last month, dozens of supporters – many wearing green tops and hats – waited i

Couple gets married at library after bookstore proposal "to bookend the courtship"

South Texas faces half a year’s worth of rain as rare severe storms threaten the Pacific Northwest

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Search underway for 4 US Army soldiers missing in Lithuania

The search for four US soldiers who went missing during a training mission near Lithuania’s border with Belarus is ongoing, the US Army said Wednesday, after their armored vehicle was found submerged in a body of water.The soldiers were reported missing in a training area near the city of Pabrade at approximately 4:45 p.m. (10:45 a.m. ET) on Tuesday, the Lithuanian Armed Forces said in a Wednesday statement.Later on Wednesday, the US Army Europe and Africa confirmed that the M88 armored vehicle operated by the soldiers was found in a training area.“The vehicle was discovered submerged in a

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The Atlantic releases the Signal chat showing Hegseth's detailed attack plans against the Houthis

The Atlantic on Wednesday released the entire Signal chat among senior national security officials, showing that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth provided the exact timings of warplane launches and when bombs would drop — before the men and women flying those attacks against Yemen’s Houthis this month on behalf of the United States were airborne. The disclosure follows two intense days during which leaders of President Donald Trump's intelligence and defense agencies have struggled to explain how details — that current and former U.S. officials have said would have been cla

The Trump administration has a new way to pressure companies to ditch DEI

JD Vance will visit Greenland, but a controversial US trip just got a lot more low-profile

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Search for US soldiers continues in Lithuania after vehicle found submerged

A search for four U.S. soldiers continued in Lithuania after their vehicle was found submerged in a training area, the U.S. Army said on Wednesday."The M88 Hercules armored recovery vehicle the four missing U.S. Soldiers were operating during a training exercise has been located in Lithuania," it said in a statement.The military search and rescue operation has been ongoing since Tuesday, after the soldiers and their vehicle went missing at Pabrade training ground, about 15 kilometers (nine miles) from Belarus.Battalions of U.S. soldiers have been based in the military camp since 2019, in rotat

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Former Brazilian President Bolsonaro to stand trial on coup charges, court rules

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro should stand trial on charges related to an alleged plot to overturn the 2022 election results, the country’s Supreme Court has determined.Bolsonaro was among 34 people charged last month with five crimes, including attempting a coup d’état. Part of the coup plot, prosecutors allege, involved a plan to potentially assassinate elected President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, his vice president and a minister of the Supreme Court. Bolsonaro has denied wrongdoing.The court on Wednesday decided unanimously to fully accept the charges against eight of the

Japan’s natural hot springs are running low. Overtourism is to blame

Costa Rican authorities say it could take months to determine Miller Gardner’s cause of death

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US to end funding for childhood vaccines in poorest countries, document shows

President Donald Trump's administration plans to end U.S. funding for Gavi, an organization that helps buy vaccines for children in poor countries, and will scale back efforts to fight malaria, according to a document prepared by the U.S. Agency for International Development.The document, reviewed by Reuters on Wednesday and shared with Congress earlier this week, lists international aid programs that will be dismantled as well as those that will be retained. The administration will go on funding some grants that pay for drugs to treat HIV and tuberculosis and provide food aid to nations exper

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Watch tense Oval Office argument between Zelensky, Trump and Vance

Over the past two months, the United States has been talking with both Ukraine and Russia – separately – to try to fulfill one of President Donald Trump’s main campaign promises: ending the war in Ukraine. Trump repeatedly touted that he would end the war within 24 hours of taking office if elected president on the campaign trail, but nearly two months on there is no sign of a real breakthrough.Trump has walked back from his pledge – first extending the self-imposed deadline to six months, then saying he was being “a little bit sarcastic” about the 24-hour timeframe.More recently t