FRANCIS DALTON never forgot the rustle of the foliage on the other side of that jungle wall — or what happened next. His senses were thrumming like a live electrical wire. He was as jittery as a cat, and as laser-focused as only a grizzled veteran who was already wounded twice in war, ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Jazz Chisholm Jr. hit a tiebreaking home run in his return from a month on the injured list, Carlos Rodon won his seventh straight decision and the New York Yankees beat the Cleveland Guardians 3-2 on Tuesday night for their 11th win in 14 games. Back from a strained right oblique that caused him to miss 28 games, Chisholm pulled a fastball into the first row of the right-center seats against Tanner Bibee (4-6) for a 2-1 lead in the seventh inning. Six pitches later, Anthony Volpe drove a sweeper into the left-field stands, giving the Yankees back-to-back homers for ...
(The Center Square) — Top U.S. Senate Republicans are eyeing a controversial accounting method to theoretically slash the multi trillion-dollar price tag of President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill.” However, tax policy experts remain strongly divided over whether the tactic would constitute legitimate policy or a recipe for fiscal disaster. The current version of the budget reconciliation package, entitled the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, passed the U.S. House on a razor-thin margin. The bill would give a 10-year extension to key portions of the expiring 2017 Tax Cuts ...
(The Center Square) — When the U.S. lost its last AAA credit rating earlier this month, a nonprofit group that tracks government spending wasn’t surprised. Truth in Accounting, which pushes for financial transparency across all levels of government, had already given the federal ...
(The Center Square) — In just a few months, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have arrested more than 1,000 “illegal alien workers without employment authorization.” It’s “the highest rate of arrest in HSI’s history,” HSI acting Executive Associate Director Robert ...
HICKORY, N.C. (AP) — One person is dead and at least 11 others have been injured in a mass shooting that broke out during a party in western North Carolina, authorities said Sunday. The shooting took place at about 12:45 a.m. in Hickory, the Catawba County Sheriff’s Office said. One victim was in critical condition and 10 others were hospitalized in serious condition, the sheriff’s office said. The North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation and the Hickory Police Department are investigating the shooting. The Federal Bureau of Investigation is also assisting in the case. No ...
