The stadium was empty but Panda-monium broke out anyway at Friday night's Giants-Dodgers game in Los Angeles.In the bottom of the fifth inning, Dodgers utility player Chris Taylor had a not-quite-socially distanced run-in with Giants first baseman Pablo Sandoval (aka "Kung Fu Panda") that quickly went viral and turned into a meme for the moment we're…
San Francisco Giants pitcher Sam Coonrod was the only player to stand during a moment honoring the Black Lives Matter movement ahead of the season opener against the Los Angeles Dodgers, telling reporters after the game that as a Christian he “can’t kneel before anything besides God.”MLB provided teams with a long black ribbon that…
Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf has written to the heads of tech giants, including Facebook and Twitter, urging them to make sure their platforms are not used to promote or incite riots of the kind that tore through major cities earlier this month.“In the wake of George Floyd’s death, America faced an unprecedented threat from violent…
New York Giants’ DeAndre Baker turned himself over to police on Saturday after authorities in Florida issued arrest warrants for him and Seattle Seahawks’ Quinton Dunbar for their alleged involvement in an armed robbery earlier this week.Baker’s attorney Bradford Cohen issued a statement on social media confirming reports that the 22-year-old cornerback had turned himself…
New York Giants cornerback Deandre Baker and Quinton Dunbar of the Seattle Seahawks have warrants out for their arrests Thursday after police alleged they stole thousands of dollars in cash and valuables from a Florida party.Baker, a former first-round draft pick of the Giants in 2019, faced four counts of armed robbery with a firearm and…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…