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Jeff Passan, ESPNDecember 10, 2024, 5:50 PM ETCloseESPN MLB InsiderAuthor of The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollr Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in SportsTwo-time All-Star Max Fried and the New York Yankees have agreed to an eight-year, $218 million contract, sources told ESPN on Tuesday. This is the largest guaranteed amount for a left-handed pitcher.The deal, pending physical examination, is the 12th contract the Yankees have paid at least $100 million in franchise history, breaking the franchise’s tie with the Los Angeles Dodgers for the most.The 30-year-old Fried, who has developed into one of the National League’s best pitchers in…

In the latest U.S. News & World Report report on routine obstetric care, six of the nine maternity facilities in San Diego County are rated as “high performing,” but three of the area’s largest facilities are rated low. could not be obtained.Three were removed from the high-performing group: Sharp Mary Birch Hospital for Women and Newborns, Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center and Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla.All three hospitals have generally good reputations in their respective regions, but they say they have lower birth rates than the state average for women who give birth vaginally after a previous C-section. The…

Getty Images/BBCBenjamin Cohen (left) and husband Anthony James accused of sexual misconduct by Pink News staffThe couple, who run PinkNews, the world’s largest LGBT news site, have been accused of multiple sexual misconduct by staff members.Several former staff members told the BBC they witnessed Anthony James, a director at the UK-based company and the husband of its founder, kissing and touching junior colleagues.More than 30 current and former employees also said there were instances where founder Benjamin Cohen and his husband behaved inappropriately toward younger male employees due to a culture of heavy drinking. Ta.Representatives for Mr Cohen and Dr…

A horrific car crash in Texas on Monday ripped a nearly $200,000 McLaren in two and killed two people. Fox 4 News reports that around 3 p.m. near the intersection of Abrams Road and Royal Lane in Dallas, a black luxury sports car collided with a Toyota Corolla and then a tree, splitting it into two. Alarming photos have been reported showing the body being torn apart. The passengers in the McLaren, Cristóbal Flores Espino, 29, and Robert Leroy Rocha, 31, died. The luxury car collided with a Toyota and then a tree, breaking it in two. FOX 4 Dallas-Fort…

WASHINGTON (AP) – President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday nominated Andrew Ferguson to be the next chairman of the Federal Trade Commission. He replaces Lina Khan, who became a lightning rod for Wall Street and Silicon Valley by blocking multibillion-dollar acquisitions and suing Amazon and Meta alleging anticompetitive practices. Mr. Ferguson is already one of five commissioners on the FTC, which currently consists of three Democrats and two Republicans. Read more: FTC adopts ‘Click to Cancel’ rule to make it easier to remove unwanted subscriptions “Andrew has a proven track record of standing up to Big Tech censorship and defending free…

President-elect Donald Trump announced Tuesday that his eldest son’s longtime fiancée, Kimberly Guilfoyle, will serve as U.S. ambassador to Greece in the next administration — information leaked to The Post that Don Jr. and Guilfoyle recently broke up. After what happened. “For many years, Kimberly has been a dear friend and ally,” Trump, 78, wrote on Truth Social. “Her extensive experience and leadership in law, media, and politics, as well as her keen intellect, make her uniquely qualified to represent the United States and protect our interests abroad,” the president-elect added. President-elect Donald Trump announced Tuesday that his eldest son’s…

Editor’s note: This story is part of a series of profiles of distinguished Fall 2024 alumni.Oluwadu Rotimi “Rotimi” Ogunjobi knew from childhood that his future would be in politics. Growing up in Nigeria, he was interested in how the law affected people’s lives. However, as I grew older, I realized that I wanted to be more involved in my other passion, sports. That led him to the Sports Law and Business Master’s program at Arizona State University’s Sandra Day O’Connor School of Law.Ogunjobi came to ASU Law as an international student. For him, it was a leap with many challenges,…

CNN — President Joe Biden and leading Democratic lawmakers opposed a once broadly bipartisan bill that would create 63 new permanent judges, 22 of whom would be filled by President-elect Donald Trump. It became. The White House said Tuesday that Biden has vetoed a bill that would have added judgeships to the nation’s most overburdened federal courts, which passed unanimously in the Senate this summer and is expected to be voted on in the House this week. announced that it would exercise the right. Judges across the ideological spectrum have warned that a staffing shortage is severely holding up cases.…

TOWSON, Md. – Luigi Mangione’s family is “beloved” Baltimore royalty, fueled by a real estate empire and a history of donating millions of dollars to health care. Luigi’s late grandfather, family patriarch Nick Mangion Sr., liked to talk about being the product of a classic immigrant success story. “When my father died when I was 11 years old, I didn’t have to rub two nickels and I still became a millionaire,” Nick once said with his Italian immigrant father. He spoke to the Baltimore Sun of his own intense and difficult upbringing. Suspect Slay, Luigi Mangione (framed in back left),…

Biden warns Project 2025 would be ‘an economic disaster’, if implementedAs he closed his speech at the Brookings Institution, Joe Biden singled out Project 2025 as being particularly harmful, and said he hoped Donald Trump does not follow the rightwing blueprint’s proposals to remake the US government.“I pray to God the president-elect throws away Project 2025. I think it’d be an economic disaster for us and the region,” Biden said.Trump has publicly repudiated Project 2025, but since winning re-election has appointed conservatives involved in drawing up the document to positions in his incoming administration. Here’s more on what they might…