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The Boston Red Sox placed right-handed reliever Garrett Whitlock on the 15-day injured list on Thursday because of left knee inflammation. The move was retroactive to Monday. In a corresponding move, the Red Sox recalled rookie left-hander Tyler Samaniego from Triple-A Worcester. Whitlock, the team’s top setup man to closer Aroldis Chapman, hyperextended his left knee in his most-recent game, a 6-5 home loss on Sunday to the Minnesota Twins […]

New York Knicks center Mitchell Robinson has a broken right pinkie finger and there is no timetable for his return, according to a person familiar with the situation. The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity Thursday because the team had not announced the injury. The Knicks are set to play Game 1 of the NBA Finals next Wednesday on the road against either Oklahoma City or […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Matthew Stafford says he understands why the Los Angeles Rams drafted Ty Simpson last month, even though they happen to have got the NFL’s reigning MVP quarterback under contract for at least the next two years. “Listen, I’m not 25 years old, and I get that,” Stafford said Thursday after organized team activities at the Rams’ training complex. “So we’re doing everything we can to be […]

A pregnant woman from Ghana who entered the U.S. on a valid visa with her four-year-old son so he could receive medical care has been held for more than a week in a windowless detention room at a Washington airport, her lawyers said in court documents. Annabella Gyasi arrived last Tuesday at Washington Dulles International Airport ahead of an appointment she had arranged for her son, who was born with […]

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — An annual United Nations report documenting sexual violence in conflicts worldwide has included Israeli forces for the first time since the review began more than 15 years ago for their treatment of Palestinian detainees. Israel denies the accusations. The 35-page report — shared by the Israeli mission to the U.N. late Thursday ahead of its expected release Friday — blacklists 77 government and non-government parties in […]

SYDNEY, May 29 (Reuters) – Accounting firm KPMG Australia said on Friday its CEO and head of audit quit after an investigation into complaints raised by a whistleblower about sharing client data fell short of its standards, in a blow to the country’s professional services sector. CEO Andrew Yates, who joined the firm in 1990 and became CEO in 2021, resigned after its investigation into the whistleblower’s allegations “fell short […]

New York Knicks center Mitchell Robinson broke his right pinky finger earlier this week and there is no timetable for his return, according to multiple reports on Thursday. The Knicks are playing in the NBA Finals for the first time since 1999, beginning Wednesday against the winner of the Western Conference finals. Oklahoma City plays Thursday night against host San Antonio with a 3-2 lead on the Spurs in the […]

By Nate Raymond BOSTON, May 28 (Reuters) – A federal judge threw out a lawsuit that U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration filed challenging a Boston ordinance that restricts police cooperation with federal immigration enforcement. Boston-based U.S. District Judge Leo Sorokin ruled that the U.S. Department of Justice lacked legal grounds to pursue the lawsuit, one of around a dozen it has filed challenging laws adopted by so-called “sanctuary jurisdictions” run […]

By Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON, May 28 (Reuters) – The top federal prosecutor in Chicago denied on Thursday that his office has launched a criminal investigation into E. Jean Carroll, the writer who accused U.S. President Donald Trump of raping her in the mid-1990s. A person familiar with the matter told Reuters on Wednesday that the Justice Department had begun an investigation, led by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Chicago, into […]