Five Phoenix police officers were shot Friday morning after being called to a home, the police chief said. In a statement shortly after 6 a.m., Chief Jeri Williams said the five were in the hospital. She said they had been shot outside a southwest Phoenix home where a domestic violence incident had been reported. A…
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There was grim news out of Washington for high-income earners in California, as talks over increasing the deductibility of state and local taxes, known as the SALT deduction, have reportedly failed to produce an agreement. What this means is that Californians who itemize deductions on their tax returns will continue to feel the full…
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New Miami Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel’s defensive staff under coordinator Josh Boyer continued to take shape on Friday morning with the retention of defensive line coach Austin Clark, a league source confirmed to the South Florida Sun Sentinel. The Dolphins, who have been interested in keeping members of last year’s defensive staff, also lost former…
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By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV MOSCOW (AP) — Britain’s defense secretary visited Moscow on Friday in another effort to ease tensions over a possible invasion of Ukraine by Russia, which held massive war games near its neighbor and insisted that the highly strained relations were “not at our fault.” Ben Wallace’s trip came a day after British…
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Luke Getsy can’t pinpoint the moment from his interview last month when he won over his new boss. But he does know there was a profound connection established in the initial conversations he had with Chicago Bears coach Matt Eberflus. Eberflus, a defensive-minded coach who spent the last four seasons in a coordinator role with…
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Baltimore Sun staff writers pick every game of the NFL season. Here’s who they have winning Super Bowl 56 between the Cincinnati Bengals and Los Angeles Rams on Sunday at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California: Ryan McFadden, reporter Rams 30, Bengals 26: It’s hard not to root for the Bengals and their Kid Cudi loving…
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In what can be viewed as Mike McDaniel’s first controversial decision as the Miami Dolphins’ newly hired head coach, Josh Boyer will return as the team’s defensive coordinator. Miami had interest in landing former Denver Broncos defensive coordinator Vic Fangio, a respected defensive mind, to lead the defense, but a deal couldn’t get done. As…
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By The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. markets Friday are drifting toward a lower open Friday, following the previous day’s sell-off on new data showing that inflation in the U.S. jumped to levels not seen since the early 1980s. Future contracts for the Dow Jones Industrials and S&P 500 both slid 0.2% in…
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By AAMER MADHANI WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is expected to issue an executive order on Friday to split the $7 billion in Afghan assets frozen in the U.S. to fund humanitarian relief in Afghanistan and compensate victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, according to a U.S. official familiar with the decision. The…
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By HOGIR AL ABDO HASSAKEH, Syria (AP) — The Islamic State group is a growing threat in northeastern Syria despite the killing of its leader in a U.S. commando operation last week, says the chief commander of the U.S.-allied Syrian Kurdish-led force. Mazloum Abdi, who heads the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, warned that IS fighters…
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