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AP PHOTOS: MLB teams celebrate LGBTQ+ community with ballpark Pride Nights

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:57:10 GMT

All but one Major League Baseball team will celebrate Pride Night this season as a show of support for LGBTQ+ fans. MLB has been a leader among the four major pro U.S. sports in hosting Pride Nights, in part because its regular season overlaps with Pride Month in June. Twenty-nine teams are set to welcome LGBTQ+ fans for designated games this season. Many adopt rainbow-colored uniforms patches or logos, set up special signage around ballparks and invite guests including community leaders and drag performers. This year, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., threw out a ceremonial first pitch at the Washington Nationals’ Pride game.The Texas Rangers are the only franchise that does not host a Pride Night. The team said in a statement to The Associated Press that it is committed to making everyone feel welcome and included, and “that means in our ballpark, at every game, and in all we do — for both our fans and our employees.”Pride Nights have drawn some push back in...

Suspect in Club Q shooting expected to take plea deal

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:57:10 GMT

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — The suspect in a mass shooting at a Colorado Springs gay nightclub is expected to strike a plea deal to state murder and hate charges that would ensure at least a life sentence for the attack that killed five people and wounded 17, several survivors told The Associated Press.Word of a possible legal resolution of last year’s Club Q massacre follows a series of jailhouse phone calls from the suspect to the AP expressing remorse and the intention to face the consequences at the next scheduled court hearing this month.“I have to take responsibility for what happened,” 23-year-old Anderson Lee Aldrich said in their first public comments about the case.Federal and state authorities and defense attorneys declined to comment on a possible plea deal. But Colorado law requires victims to be notified of such deals, and several people who lost loved ones or were wounded in the attack told the AP that state prosecutors have given them advance word that Aldrich wil...

Denver weather: Cloudy start to Nuggets parade with afternoon storm chances

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:57:10 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Extra clouds will stick around the Front Range Thursday, with early afternoon showers and storms that will push out into the plains this evening in the Denver weather forecast.Weather today: More storm chancesPartly to mostly cloudy skies will be across the metro Thursday with storms popping up over the foothills in the early afternoon. How to get a good spot to watch the Nuggets victory parade Storms can move across the Front Range by mid-afternoon as highs hit the low 70s. Storms will push across the plains this evening.Pinpoint Weather: Daily forecast on June 15. Weather tonight: Clouds lingerShowers wrap up before midnight with extra clouds staying over the state. Temperatures will be close to seasonal in the low 50s.Pinpoint Weather: Overnight forecast on June 15. Looking ahead: A few storms, then drying outFriday has a good chance for some afternoon storms that could be strong. Highs are below average in the middle 60s with gusty winds. Denver Nuggets par...

Dangerous Heat Wave Continues this Thursday

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:57:10 GMT

The dangerously high combination of temperatures and humidity will continue this Thursday across South Florida, prompting the National Weather Service to issue a Heat Advisory for the area. In Miami-Dade and Broward Counties, the advisory is in effect through Friday 7PM with feels-like temperatures up to 105-110F during the afternoon and evening hours.The advisory in the Florida Keys is in place through 5PM this Thursday due to peak heat indices in the 108-112F range for at least two consecutive hours.The day overall should be drier with only a 30% chance for seeing late-day showers and storms. Otherwise the day will be dominated by a good deal of sunshine with a steamy, southerly breeze.Actual high temperatures will be in the low to mid 90s this afternoon, which would make it the hottest day so far this year in Miami and Fort Lauderdale.The heat will continue on Friday with temperatures actually forecast to be a degree or two higher. Some locations could experience feels-like tempe...

NMB commissioner calls for appeal hearing following reinstatement of Commissioner Michael Joseph

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:57:10 GMT

North Miami Beach Commissioner Jay Chernoff urged for an appeal hearing after Judge Peter Lopez reinstated Commissioner Michael Joseph following his removal earlier this year for boycotting meetings prior to the former mayor’s arrest and subsequent suspension from office. On Tuesday Judge Lopez ruled that the commissioner had not violated the city charter by participating in the boycott and stated that the city lacked the authority to remove its own members. Chernoff’s appeal hearing aims to challenge the ruling and assess the consequences of Joseph’s reinstatement. The appeal hearing, if granted, will provide an opportunity for Chernoff and his supporters to present their case before the appropriate judicial authorities.

New airline planes will be required to have secondary barriers to the cockpit to protect pilots

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:57:10 GMT

U.S. officials said Wednesday they will require new airline planes to have a second barrier to make it harder for passengers to break into the cockpit when the main door is open.The Federal Aviation Administration rule will apply to commercial planes made after mid-2025.The rule will affect airlines that operate scheduled flights, but not charter operators. There is no provision requiring airlines to retrofit current planes.Officials called the rule an important step to give pilots more protection.“No pilot should have to worry about an intrusion on the flight deck,” said David Boulter, the FAA’s acting associate administrator for safety.The cockpit is more vulnerable to attackers when the door is opened for pilots to take a bathroom break or get their meals.A secondary barrier is intended “to slow such an attack long enough so that an open flightdeck door can be closed and locked before an attacker could reach the flightdeck,” the FAA said in the rule, published in the Federa...

Restaurant review: Yoka Tomo 

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:57:10 GMT

 Av. Félix Marchal 26, 1030 SchaerbeekWhat’s hot: Go with the set menu at this informal Japanese bar. The chefs are incredibly organized and focused, so once a choice between the two- or four-course menu is made, you’ll have your first bite within minutes. The starters of homey potato salad and a selection of pickled or glazed vegetables, ranging from burdock root and carrot salad to lotus root and caramelized pumpkin, were a delight.Our menu continued with a beautiful savory steamed custard called chawanmushi, followed by a selection of deliciously fried fish and vegetables. The miso soup that accompanies the main dish was a highlight and the finale of fried chicken was the star of the menu. The chicken is doused in a soy-based dressing and topped with pickled vegetables and tartar sauce, creating the perfect bite. Rice for the main is all you can eat, and the four courses leave you pleasantly ful...

We should monitor all Russians living in the West, Czech leader says

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:57:10 GMT

Czech President Petr Pavel says Russian citizens living abroad should be put under “strict surveillance” by intelligence services in their host countries.“All Russians living in Western countries should be monitored much more than in the past because they are citizens of a nation that leads an aggressive war,” Pavel said in an interview with Radio Free Europe released Thursday.“I can be sorry for these people, but at the same time when we look back, when the Second World War started, all the Japanese population living in the United States were under a strict monitoring regime as well,” said the Czech president. “That’s simply a cost of war.”Asked what he implied by “monitoring,” Pavel said he meant “being under the scrutiny of the security services.”During World War II, about 120,000 people of Japanese descent — most of whom were American citizens, and half of them children — were forcibly put in internmen...

Key EU nature restoration vote put on hold

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:57:10 GMT

STRASBOURG — The European Parliament’s environment committee Thursday ran out of time to agree its position on contentious new EU rules aimed at boosting nature restoration across the bloc.MEPs will finish voting on the text at their next ENVI Committee meeting, currently scheduled to take place on June 26 or 27 in Brussels.The meeting started with a blow to the conservative European People’s Party, whose bid to reject the legislative proposal outright did not get a majority — the vote was tied with 44 in favor and 44 against — and was dismissed as a result. Lawmakers proceeded to vote on the compromise amendments drafted by lead MEP César Luena from the Socialists & Democrats, as well as on individuals amendments filed by other MEPs.Committee chair Pascal Canfin was forced to put the lengthy process on hold at 11:45 a.m., the official end-time of the committee meeting, and ask political groups to agree to delay a separate plenary vote schedule to start at ...

‘Big bat in the middle of the order’: Eloy Jiménez collects 2 hits in return for the Chicago White Sox

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:57:10 GMT

Eloy Jiménez fouled a pitch off his left leg during a fifth-inning at-bat in Game 1 of a doubleheader last week against the New York Yankees.Jiménez remained in the game, hitting the go-ahead two-run homer in his next at-bat.“It was hurting but I had to do what I had to do,” he said before Wednesday’s game at Dodger Stadium.Jiménez played Game 2 last week, but exited in the ninth inning with lower leg discomfort after running slowly to first while trying to beat out a double play. The throw to first was wild and Jiménez reached second, and he was checked on by the training staff before leaving the game.“I started feeling it when I was moving around,” Jiménez said. “It wasn’t really bad. But as soon as I got cold — I was hitting, sitting down, hitting, sitting down — I started getting tighter and tighter and then it was hurting.“It was something with my heel. I don’t know how to describe it. It...