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Trump team demands apology from DeSantis over ‘listless vessels’ comment

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:54:32 GMT

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis may have finally stepped over the very thin line he’s been trying to walk between beating Donald Trump in a primary and not chasing off his base.Some conservatives are outraged and the former president’s campaign is demanding that the governor apologize to Trump supporters, all over a comment that’s being likened to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s infamous “basket of deplorables” line.DeSantis made the offending remark while speaking with the Florida Standard, when the Sunshine State’s chief executive was attempting to explain his vision forward for the GOP. According to the governor, simply following the whims of the 45th President’s isn’t a sustainable path to power for conservatives.“If you’re not rooted in principle, if all we are is listless vessels that are just supposed to follow whatever happens to come down the pike on Truth Social every morning, that’s not going to be a durable movement,” he said.The...

Mets’ win streak ends as Cardinals star Paul Goldschmidt dominates

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:54:32 GMT

Pete Alonso tormented St. Louis throughout the first three days of the Mets’ four-game series there. On Sunday, it was the Cardinals’ superstar first baseman’s turn.Reigning NL MVP Paul Goldschmidt crushed a go-ahead home run and picked up three RBI in the Cardinals’ 7-3 victory, helping St. Louis avoid a sweep while snapping the Mets’ four-game win streak.Goldschmidt drove in St. Louis’ first three runs, delivering a third-inning RBI single before his two-run homer in the fifth inning that ended Mets starter Carlos Carrasco’s latest uneven outing. Goldschmidt, who went 3-for-5, also scored the Cardinals’ fourth run of the game during a four-run seventh inning.Alonso continued to crush the Cardinals, slugging his third home run of the series. His 423-foot solo shot landed in Busch Stadium’s third deck and gave the Mets a short-lived 2-1 lead that Goldschmidt erased with his blast.Alonso’s home run came against Cardinals sta...

Red Sox sweep Yankees with 6-5 win at the Stadium to extend Bombers’ losing streak to 8 games

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:54:32 GMT

Anthony Volpe gave the Yankees a glimmer of hope with a late home run on Sunday, but that didn’t stop the Red Sox from sweeping their division rival with a 6-5 win at Yankee Stadium.It looked like the Yankees had changed the game’s momentum when Volpe responded to Justin Turner’s three-run, seventh-inning homer with a three-run shot of his own in the bottom of the frame. But Turner came up clutch again in the ninth with an RBI double off Clay Holmes. That ultimately handed the Yankees their eighth straight loss after they failed to drive in a few ninth-inning baserunners.The Bombers are now 60-64.The Yankees scored their first two runs on solo homers from Kyle Higashioka and Gleyber Torres. Both came against Nick Pivetta, who threw five innings and struck out eight after following opener Josh Winckowski.Volpe’s homer came off John Schreiber.Meanwhile, Clarke Schmidt bounced back nicely after the right-hander surrendered eight earned runs against the Braves in...

Denmark, Netherlands pledge F-16s to Ukraine  

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:54:32 GMT

EINDHOVEN, Netherlands — The Netherlands and Denmark announced Sunday they will give F-16 warplanes to Ukraine, a long-awaited announcement that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called an important motivation for his country’s forces, embroiled in a difficult counteroffensive against Russia.The promise of new fighter jets came the day after an unusually brazen Russian missile strike on a Ukrainian theater that killed seven people and wounded almost 150 others in the northern city of Chernihiv. Zelenskyy vowed stern retaliation for the attack, whose victims included a slain 6-year-old girl dead and 15 wounded children.After months of entreaties from Zelenskyy for F-16s to bolster the Ukrainian air force, the U.S. recently gave approval for the Netherlands and Denmark to provide Ukraine the American-made jets. Zelenskyy travelled to both countries Sunday to finalize the delivery deals.”F-16s will certainly give new energy, confidence, and motivation to fighters and ...

Deluge from Tropical Storm Hilary hits California after making landfall along Mexico's Baja coast

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:54:32 GMT

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Deadly floodwaters inundated streets across Mexico’s arid Baja California on Sunday as Tropical Storm Hilary moved ashore carrying torrential rain into Southern California, and concerns mounted that flash floods could strike in places as far north as Idaho that rarely get such heavy rain.Forecasters said Hilary was the first tropical storm to hit Southern California in 84 years, bringing the potential for flash floods, mudslides, isolated tornadoes, high winds and power outages.Hilary made landfall along the Mexican coast in a sparsely populated area about 150 miles (250 kilometers) south of Ensenada, on a path to hit mudslide-prone Tijuana Sunday evening, threatening the improvised homes that cling to hillsides just south of the U.S. border. At least 9 million people were under flash-flood warnings as heavy rain fell across normally sunny Southern California ahead of the brunt of the storm. Desert areas were especially susceptible along with hillsides with wildfire...

Magnitude 5.0 earthquake rattles Los Angeles area

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:54:32 GMT

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.0 shook the Los Angeles area Sunday afternoon, just as Tropical Storm Hilary was drenching the region with torrential rain.The quake struck at 2:45 p.m. and was centered two miles east-southeast of Ojai in Ventura County at a depth of one kilometer, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The quake could be felt sharply across a wide swath of the L.A. area, including Hollywood and Long Beach, and was followed by several aftershocks.California Earthquake MapThere were no immediate reports of damage.This is a developing story. Stay with KTLA for updates.

Longtime Rogers executive Phil Lind has died at age 80

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:54:32 GMT

Phil Lind, a longtime executive of Rogers Communications and confidante to founder Ted Rogers, has died at the age of 80. “Phil worked for Rogers for 54 years, nearly 40 of them with my father and helped build Rogers into the telecom and media powerhouse it is today,” Edward Rogers, Chair of Rogers Communications, said in a statement on Sunday. “He has been involved in every key decision in the company’s history and we are forever grateful for his countless contributions.” In his 2018 book, Right Hand Man: How Phil Lind Steered the Genius of Ted Rogers, Canada’s Foremost Entrepreneur, Lind says he first met Rogers at a Tory convention and later joined the company in 1969 as Programming Chief when the company owned two radio stations and counted 15,000 cable subscribers. As employee number 160 at Rogers Communications, Lind claims he had a handshake deal with Rogers. “He said, ‘Friends don’t work for friends. That’s not a good thing. Wh...

3 dead, 6 wounded in shooting at a hookah lounge in south Seattle; no word on suspects

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:54:32 GMT

SEATTLE (AP) — Three people are dead and six others wounded after a shooting Sunday at a hookah lounge in south Seattle, authorities said.City police didn’t immediately release any information about a possible suspect or suspects in the Sunday’s early morning shooting in the Mount Baker neighborhood.Officers responded to the scene around 4:30 a.m. Sunday after receiving multiple 911 calls, police said.Upon arrival, officers reported finding two men and a woman with gunshot wounds. The two men died at the scene while the woman later died from her injuries at a hospital, police said.The names and ages of the victims weren’t immediately released.Of the six people wounded, one was in critical condition and the other five were in satisfactory condition, police said.Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell said in a statement that even as Seattle police “keeps up a rapid and record pace of recovering guns – 869 through July – there are still more illegal guns in the wrong hands that could be used to i...

Former respiratory therapist in Missouri sentenced in connection with patient deaths

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:54:32 GMT

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A former Missouri respiratory therapist who pleaded guilty in the deaths of two hospital patients has been sentenced to 18 years in prison.Jennifer Hall was initially charged with two counts of first-degree murder but pleaded guilty in April to reduced first-degree involuntary manslaughter counts in the deaths of 75-year-old Fern Franco and 37-year-old David Wesley Harper. She also pleaded guilty to one count of attempted second-degree assault. She was sentenced Friday, KCTV-TV reported.Franco and Harper were among nine patients who died at Hedrick Medical Center in Chillicothe over several months in 2002 in what charging documents describe as “medically suspicious” events. “A sentence 20 years in the making,” Livingston County Prosecuting Attorney Adam Warren said in a statement. He noted that Hall will eventually be eligible for parole. “But for now, we all sleep better knowing she is behind bars,” he said.From December 2001, when Hall started working at th...

Potential new rivalries in Big 12 with BYU becoming league’s 3rd private Christian school

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:54:32 GMT

There could be some new rivalries between Christian schools brewing in the evolving Big 12 Conference.With BYU coming in this season, the Big 12 has three private Christian schools from different denominations. The Cougars, the 1984 national champions who played the past 12 seasons as an independent, are now in the same league with Baylor and TCU — whose 118-game “Revivalry” in Texas dates to a scoreless tie in 1899.“I think that will be really intriguing to see … is there more of a long-term interest amongst TCU and Baylor fans in BYU as an opponent compared to some of the other Big 12 teams that are coming in,” said Northern Kentucky professor Joe Cobbs, an expert in sports rivalries.BYU was founded by and still supported by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, widely known as the Mormon church. Baylor is the world’s largest Baptist university, and TCU partners with the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). All three schools were founded in the 1800s.Ther...