By IRENE YAGÜE and JOSEPH WILSON | Associated Press PAMPLONA, Spain — The first bull run in three years took place Thursday at the San Fermín festival in the Spanish city of Pamplona. No one was gored, but several runners took knocks and hard falls as tens of thousands people reveled in the return of…
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Even before P.J. Tucker left the Miami Heat, teammate Haywood Highsmith wanted to be the next Tucker. Now, in very real terms, Highsmith potentially will have the opportunity to follow in Tucker’s footsteps. With Tucker having departed to the Philadelphia 76ers in NBA free agency, Highsmith finds himself playing for the Heat’s summer-league team in…
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LOS ANGELES — An 8-year-old girl from Riverside who was hit in the face by a cell phone while riding a roller coaster at Magic Mountain needed 10 stitches to close the wound, and her family is looking for answers into how it happened, according to media reports. Josh Evans told Fox 11 his daughter…
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If there’s any lesson to take from the Miami Marlins’ recent run of wins — besides it being more fun to play bad teams — it’s how desperately this roster needs help if they’re thinking playoffs. And if there’s any lesson you can take from the past quarter-century of the Marlins’ ownership — four owners…
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(CNN) — Elon Musk, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO and world’s richest man, welcomed twins last year with an executive at one of his other companies, Neuralink, Business Insider reported on Wednesday. Musk fathered the children with Shivon Zilis, according to court documents obtained by Business Insider that pertained to changing the children’s legal names…
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Freshly released minutes of Federal Reserve meetings show officials solidified their resolve in June to keep raising interest rates for longer to prevent higher inflation from becoming entrenched, even if that slowed the US economy. Policy makers increased interest rates by 75 basis points last month and backed hiking them at their next meeting in…
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By MATT OTT | Associated Press WASHINGTON — More Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week — and while layoffs remain low, it was the fifth consecutive week that claims topped the 230,000 mark and the most in almost six months. Applications for jobless aid for the week ending July 2 rose to 235,000, up…
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The Food and Drug Administration wants to prevent smoking-related deaths by making cigarettes less appealing. Toward that end, the FDA plans to ban menthol cigarettes and limit nicotine content to “reduce the addictiveness of cigarettes.” Meanwhile, the FDA seems determined to make vaping products, the most promising harm-reducing alternative to cigarettes, less appealing to smokers.…
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Game nights at the Nevin household often became a test of will between father and son, with matchups in Monopoly and Connect Four inducing trash talk as each competitor strived to stay one step ahead of his opponent. “A lot of cat’s games,” Tyler Nevin said. “I’ll put it that way.” A tied result won’t…
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Q: Does this mean that Caleb Martin is our starting power forward? – Eddie. A: I guess on July 7 it does. But we’re still almost three months from the start of training camp, with players such as Kevin Durant, John Collins and Myles Turner, among others, seemingly being dangled. Plus, there still is time…
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