VOIRON, France (AP) — Jasper Philipsen capped a fine team performance Wednesday to win stage 17 of the Tour de France, where defending champion Tadej Pogačar protected his overall lead. Mathieu van der Poel led his Alpecin-Premier Tech teammate Philipsen to his first stage victory of this ...
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The Carolina Panthers will open the regular season without both starting offensive tackles. But that hasn't dampened general manager Dan Morgan's enthusiasm or confidence. He thinks the team has the depth to stay competitive until they return. Carolina is looking to build off last season's momentum when the franchise snapped a seven-year playoff drought and won the NFC South — albeit with a losing record (8-9). Morgan said things are headed in the right direction after years of struggles. "If you look at our roster, I think our depth has gotten a lot ...
MIAMI — Rintaro Sasaki was ready to turn his long-awaited dream into a reality. The Japanese slugger had a choice to make. He could return to Stanford, where he played college baseball for two seasons. He could pursue a pro career in his home country, where was selected last October by the ...
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump feted Shohei Ohtani, Freddie Freeman and the World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers at the White House on Thursday, calling the team "one of the great brands anywhere in the world" during a Rose Garden event celebrating its second title in as many ...
On Feb. 22, 2022, two days before Vladimir Putin sent his tanks rumbling toward Ukraine's capital, Donald Trump said of the Russian leader: "This is genius. ... Here's a guy who's very savvy." Eight days later, Lindsey Graham offered a starkly different sentiment: "The only way this ends is for somebody in Russia to take this guy out." The Republican senator from South Carolina had a history of dismissing Trump's worldview. When Trump first ran in 2015, Graham let loose, calling him a "race-baiting, xenophobic, religious bigot." After Trump won, Graham shocked observers by heaping ...
An early period of World War II was known as "the phony war." What we may be witnessing now in the U.S.-Iran war is the end of a "phony peace." The nearly five-month-long conflict has featured a couple of sham ceasefires, each marked by supposed Iranian pledges to reopen the Strait of Hormuz that came to nothing. With the Iranians firing on shipping in the Strait again, Trump has declared the so-called memorandum of understanding signed about a month ago to be a dead letter. After lifting sanctions on Iranian oil and ending the U.S. blockade of Iranian ports, Trump has ...
