kslmadmin

After missing the last four games, Colorado Rockies catcher Hunter Goodman was placed on the 10-day injured list by the club on Tuesday with a left shoulder strain. The move is retroactive to August 15. Goodman did not play in the three-game weekend series at San Francisco and was scratched from the lineup against the Dodgers on Monday. “I thought I had a chance to just get some work done […]

By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON, Aug 18 (Reuters) – A former Department of Justice attorney has said the Trump administration’s probes of U.S. universities over accusations of antisemitism lacked evidence and had predetermined outcomes. Investigations by a Trump administration task force into alleged antisemitism were “marked by extraordinary procedural irregularities, predetermined outcomes without factual or legal support, and disregard” for specific legal requirements and free speech rights, lawyers for Haley Van […]

Aug 19 (Reuters) – Oil prices ticked higher in early trade on Wednesday, climbing for a fourth straight day on supply uncertainty as investors weighed conflicting messages from Tehran and Washington on whether the Strait of Hormuz is open to ships.  Brent crude futures climbed 26 cents, or 0.29%, to $91.28 by 0004 GMT, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude futures were up 37 cents to $85.31 a barrel.  Both […]

By Alasdair Pal SYDNEY, Aug 19 (Reuters) – An Australian court will on Wednesday begin hearing the appeal of a woman convicted of murdering three of her estranged husband’s relatives with a meal laced with deadly mushrooms. Erin Patterson, 51, was convicted last year of murdering the three elderly in-laws by feeding them Beef Wellington laced with toxic death cap mushrooms, in a case that gripped the country. Patterson was […]

As opening statements kicked off Tuesday in a trial for Meta Platforms, advocates and parents of social media victims gathered outside the federal courthouse in Oakland, California, with a banner that stretched several feet across. Written on it in black ink were the names of children and young adults who have died from social media related harms, including deaths by suicide after bouts of cyberbullying or sextortion. Giovanni, an 11-year-old, […]

Crews were working to restore power to thousands of Hawaii residents Tuesday after the outer bands of Lala battered the archipelago over the weekend, causing destructive flooding and killing one person, before weakening from a hurricane to a tropical storm. Crews on the Big Island were working to clear and restore roads. Most public schools across Hawaii reopened but Hawaii County’s non-emergency operations were still suspended, officials said. The storm […]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Tyrone Noling has spent 30 years on death row for the double murder of an elderly Ohio couple that he insists he didn’t commit. He had a rare chance Tuesday to make his case for a full pardon to the Ohio Parole Board. Noling, 54, of Alliance, assembled a growing body of evidence — with the support of the Ohio Innocence Project — to present at […]

Aug 18 (Reuters) – A U.S. bankruptcy court on Tuesday delayed to September 9 a hearing to approve the sale of internal business data from bankrupt Spirit Airlines to Alphabet’s Google for $10 million. The adjournment of the hearing, which was initially scheduled for Wednesday, comes as the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA (AFA), which represents Spirit cabin crew, filed an objection to the sale. • The data on the block […]

By Max A. Cherney SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 18 (Reuters) – Cerebras Systems announced on Tuesday a new version of its server hardware that includes its dinner-plate-sized chips that it says will speed AI chatbot queries. Cerebras makes AI hardware and chips that compete with Nvidia and targets the portion of AI called inference, the computing process of generating an answer in a chatbot such as Anthropic’s Claude. The new system, […]