Bill Belichick and the New England Patriots have been rumored to be heading for a split as the team has failed to maintain its championship winning ways since the departure of Tom Brady. While Belichick maintained Monday that he’s taking everything day by day, former Patriots great Rob Gronkowski weighed …
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Rachel Balkovec continues to break glass ceilings in Major League Baseball. Balkovec became the first woman to become a minor league manager in 2022 when she got the job with the New York Yankees’ Single-A affiliate Tampa Tarpons. Now, she will be headed south for a nice promotion with the …
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An alleged cartel drone attack in a remote community in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero killed 5 people, the Guerrero state prosecutor’s office said. In a translated press release, the Guerrero state prosecutor’s office said that the cartel attacked at least 30 people in the remote Mexican village that …
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Ryan Williams, a five-star wide receiver who was set to play for the Crimson Tide starting in 2024, decommitted from Alabama on Wednesday following Nick Saban’s retirement announcement. Williams told ESPN he did not know of the news until he heard it on social media. He had been committed to …
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ANKARA, Turkey – A Turkish government official says police have detained a 22-year-old French woman after she crossed into Turkey from Syria where she had joined the Islamic State militant group and married a fighter. The official said Friday that Sonia Belayati was detained earlier this week in Sanliurfa province …
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ANKARA, Turkey – Turkey’s Foreign Ministry says the ambassador to Brazil has been recalled after that country’s senate passed a resolution recognizing the massacres of Armenians a century ago as genocide. The ministry said late Monday that Ambassador Huseyin Dirioz was returning to Ankara for consultations over what it termed …
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LUCKNOW, India – Police are investigating the death of a journalist set on fire after he accused a state minister of being involved in illegal mining and land seizures in northern India. The freelance journalist, Joginder Singh, gave a statement to a magistrate before dying Monday from burns covering 60 …
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NEW DELHI – Nestle India says it will destroy instant noodles worth 3.2 billion rupees ($50 million) following a sales ban imposed by Indian food safety authorities for unsafe levels of lead. India’s food safety panel says tests conducted across the country found that Nestle’s Maggi noodles contained lead at …
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MEXICO CITY – Honduran soldiers are taking over public hospitals and medicine storage warehouses to guarantee the supply of drugs to patients after a recent fraud and graft scandal rocked the Social Security Institute. President Juan Orlando Hernandez says the army will perform an inventory to determine whether there are …
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Editor’s Note: See bottom for update to this story. As Ban Ki-moon begins his second term as United Nations Secretary General, he has come under withering criticism from within the world organization over the way he hires and replaces top managers. In a remarkably harsh report, a special U.N. investigative …
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