Never say never, right? While New York Jets star Aaron Rodgers can’t return from a torn Achilles this season with his team eliminated from postseason contention, there’s still an outside chance for another elite quarterback. Minnesota Vikings star Kirk Cousins tore his Achilles on Oct. 29 in Week 8 when his team beat the Green…
It’s been a rough go for the Los Angeles Chargers in 2023. Star quarterback Justin Herbert is out for the year due to injury, head coach Brandon Staley and general manager Tom Telesco were both fired midseason and the team is set to miss the playoffs for a fourth time in five years. But there…
The United States freed a close ally of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in exchange for the release of 10 Americans imprisoned in the South American country and the return of a fugitive defense contractor known as “Fat Leonard” who is at the center of a massive Pentagon bribery scandal, the Biden administration announced Wednesday. The…
Planning a vacation? Here are the countries that pose the maximum risk for travelers in 2024 — and also the ones that are the safest — according to International SOS. The risk assessment firm, in its 2024 Risk Map, has ranked these countries based on several metrics, including security, medical dangers as well as the…
A federal judge on Wednesday temporarily blocked a California law that would have banned carrying firearms in most public places, ruling that it violates the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and deprives people of their ability to defend themselves and their loved ones. The law signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom in September was set…
A southwestern Wisconsin man was sentenced Wednesday to a year and a day in prison for causing the creation and distribution of a video of a monkey being tortured. U.S. District Judge William M. Conley also fined Kenneth Herrera, 40, of Soldiers Grove $5,000 and ordered him to serve three years of supervised release following…
The U.S. Soccer Federation refused Major League Soccer’s attempt to pull its top rosters from next year’s U.S. Open Cup, the sport’s oldest competition in the nation. While MLS announced in a statement at 6 p.m. EST Friday that its board of governors decided to send teams to the tournament from its third tier MLS…
U.S. Sen. Kevin Cramer’s 42-year-old son is facing additional charges in connection with the pursuit and crash that killed a North Dakota sheriff’s deputy this month. Ian Cramer, who is in jail, is now also accused of theft, criminal mischief and reckless endangerment for allegedly taking a family vehicle and driving through a closed garage…
The Dallas Mavericks sale to new owners was set to be reviewed for final approval by other teams in the National Basketball Association Wednesday, according to NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth media partner The Dallas Morning News. Mark Cuban, the wealthy man who’s been the ownership face of the Mavs for 23 years, stood to get…
What to Know Brittany Watts, 33, miscarried in her restroom at home on Sept. 22, days after a doctor told her that her fetus had a heartbeat but was nonviable. A nurse called police when Watts returned to the hospital later that week bleeding, no longer pregnant and saying the fetus was in a bucket…