Day: May 16, 2024

Mets owner Steve Cohen deletes X post that seemed to reveal team’s trade deadline plans

7:56 pm May 16, 2024

Despite a sky-high payroll again, it is yet another struggle for the New York Mets. The Amazin’s won 101 games in 2022, but things came crashing down last year when they won 75 last season – right now, they are 19-23. Last year’s Mets had the highest payroll of all-time, making the Mets, arguably, the […]

Turkey sentences pro-Kurdish politicians to lengthy prison terms over deadly 2014 riots

7:56 pm May 16, 2024

A Turkish court on Thursday sentenced several pro-Kurdish politicians to between nine and 42 years in prison over deadly riots in 2014 by Kurds angered by what they perceived to be government inaction against Islamic State group militants who had besieged the Syrian border town of Kobani. The three days of clashes that broke out […]

Scottie Scheffler makes miraculous eagle at PGA Championship in 1st hole since becoming father

7:54 pm May 16, 2024

Fatherhood is suiting Scottie Scheffler quite well, as he’s already making memories as a new dad at the 2024 PGA Championship. Scheffler and his wife, Meredith, welcomed a son, Bennett, into the world eight days ago. And Scheffler already has a golf ball he can put in Bennett’s nursery after just his second swing since […]

Senate GOP probes Trump prosecutor Fani Willis’ office for alleged ‘misuse’ of funds

7:53 pm May 16, 2024

Two Republican lawmakers are opening a second congressional investigation into embattled Georgia prosecutor Fani Willis for alleged misuse of federal grant funding. Sens. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Ron Johnson, R-Wis., in a letter to Willis Wednesday alleged funds granted to the Fulton County District Attorney’s office by the Justice Department Office of Juvenile Justice and […]

Republican Senators blast ‘lawless’ Biden admin over COVID spending: ‘Time to stop’

7:50 pm May 16, 2024

An effort to save American taxpayers over $13 billion dollars by reigning in wasteful spending has failed after Senate Democrats voted down Senator Eric Schmitt’s, R-Mo., disapproval resolution. “Today, Senate Democrats chose to continue their effort to shelter unelected bureaucrats from any sort of accountability and embolden the Biden Administration’s disastrous efforts to waste more […]