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After three straight 100-loss seasons — including a record 121 defeats in 2024 — the Chicago White Sox needed a little excitement. Munetaka Murakami has certainly provided that. The 26-year-old infielder from Japan is tied with Aaron Judge for the major league lead with 13 home runs. That accounts for nearly half of Murakami’s hits so far this season. He has 14 singles and no doubles or triples. This type […]

NEW YORK (AP) — John Sterling, the theatrical New York Yankees radio broadcaster known for extravagant, individualized home run calls, has died, the team and radio station WFAN announced Monday. He was 87. Sterling had undergone heart bypass surgery this winter and after the procedure was attended to by health care aides at his home in Edgewater, New Jersey. The team said he died at a New Jersey hospital. He […]

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — For roughly 380 right whales left in the North Atlantic, which can die after getting tangled in fishing ropes or hit by ships, the Trump administration said this month it wants to delay new protections by almost a decade in favor of commercial fishing interests. The sleek black whales, which weigh as much as a midsized bulldozer, are critically endangered and their numbers have declined sharply […]

BERLIN (AP) — A driver plowed into people in the center of the German city of Leipzig on Monday and several were injured, police said. Few details were immediately available. Police didn’t immediately give a precise number of injured, but said there were no deaths, German news agency dpa reported. A statement posted on the Leipzig city website said the car and its driver had been stopped and no longer […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani is breathing on his own after being hospitalized with pneumonia and placed on a ventilator, his spokesperson said Monday. Giuliani, 81, remains in critical but stable condition at a Florida hospital and is being monitored as a precautionary measure, spokesperson Ted Goodman said. Goodman said Giuliani’s condition was exacerbated by restrictive airway disease attributed to his exposure to dust […]

The Chicago Sky waived 2025 first-round draft pick Hailey Van Lith on Monday. The 24-year-old point guard averaged 3.5 points and 1.6 assists in 29 games (no starts) as a rookie in 2025. WNBA teams have until Thursday at 5 p.m. ET to make their final roster cuts before the regular season begins Friday. Van Lith averaged 12.5 points and 4.5 assists in two preseason games for Chicago, which opens […]

May 4 (Reuters) – Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani was recovering from pneumonia on Monday and remained in a critical but stable condition after being hospitalized, according to his spokesperson. Giuliani, 81, came to global prominence in 2001 as he led New York’s recovery from the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center towers, which his spokesperson said led to him developing restrictive airway disease. “This condition […]

The Dallas Mavericks are hiring former Toronto Raptors executive Masai Ujiri as their new team president and alternate governor, multiple outlets reported Monday. Ujiri, 55, spent 12 seasons in the Raptors’ front office (2013-25) and was the architect of the franchise’s first NBA championship in 2018-19. Before joining Toronto, Ujiri was the general manager of the Denver Nuggets from 2010-13 and was named the NBA’s Executive of the Year for […]

By Sumit Saha May 4 (Reuters) – Nitrogen-focused fertilizer producers are set to report stronger quarterly earnings as a surge in prices, driven by Middle East gas disruptions, lifts margins, though the benefit may only start to fully show in coming quarters. Analysts expect nitrogen-focused producers such as CF Industries and Nutrien, which make fertilizers derived from natural gas such as urea and urea-ammonium nitrate, to outperform fertilizer peers with […]