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Los soldados de Wagner avanzan hacia la frontera polaca y podrían intentar cruzar a escondidas, dice el primer ministro

Published Mon, 10 Mar 2025 03:04:39 GMT

(CNN) — Más de 100 soldados del grupo mercenario ruso Wagner avanzan hacia una estrecha franja de tierra entre Polonia y Lituania, dice el primer ministro de Polonia, quien advirtió que podrían hacerse pasar por inmigrantes para cruzar la frontera.El primer ministro polaco Mateusz Morawiecki dijo el sábado que su gobierno recibió información de que los mercenarios de Wagner no estaban lejos de Grodno, una ciudad en el oeste de Belarús cercana a la tierra, también conocida como la brecha o corredor de Suwalki.Según los informes, miles de tropas de Wagner se encuentran en Belarús luego de un levantamiento militar fallido en Rusia.Morawiecki reiteró las acusaciones de que Belarús, un aliado clave de Rusia, ha estado enviando inmigrantes hacia el oeste en un intento de abrumar a las fuerzas fronterizas polacas.Lo que Ucrania debe hacer para ganar en su avance hacia el sur, y lo que Rusia tiene en reservaLos movimientos de soldados, dijo Morawiecki, parecían ser otro elemento en es...

Reddick wins pole at Richmond; points leader Truex to start 10th

Published Mon, 10 Mar 2025 03:04:39 GMT

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Tyler Reddick won the pole for Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series race at Richmond Raceway.Reddick turned a fast lap and 113.689 mph on the 0.75-mile oval Saturday to win his first pole position of the season and the fifth of his career. The midday session was held in sunshine that pushed the temperature to nearly 100 degrees.Kyle Busch, the leader among active drivers with six career victories at Richmond, will also start on the front row after qualifying second, with Denny Hamlin, Chase Elliott and Bubba Wallace completing the top five.“We’ve been really strong when we’ve had the opportunities to qualify this year, and it is nice to get that first pole as a team,” Reddick said.Points leader Martin Truex Jr. will start 10th. William Byron who trails Truex by 30 points, will start sixth.The race is the first of five remaining in the regular season before the 10-race playoffs.___AP auto racing: https://apnews.com/hub/auto-racing and https://twitter.com/AP_Spo...

Carlos Santana added to Brewers’ active roster, expected to make debut vs. Braves

Published Mon, 10 Mar 2025 03:04:39 GMT

ATLANTA (AP) — Veteran slugger Carlos Santana joined the Brewers’ active roster on Saturday and was expected to make his debut with Milwaukee in a game against the Atlanta Braves later in the day.The Brewers acquired the first baseman in a Thursday trade that sent minor league infielder Jhonny Severino to the Pittsburgh Pirates.Santana, 37, is hitting .235 with 12 home runs and 53 RBIs in 94 games.To make room for Santana, the Brewers sent reserve infielder Jahmai Jones to Triple-A Nashville. Jones appeared in seven games for the Brewers this season and was 2 for 10 at the plate.The Brewers also placed pitcher Justin Wilson on the 15-day injured list. Wilson was set to make his first appearance of the season on Friday night after recovering from Tommy John surgery, but he injured his left lat or triceps warming up in the bullpen in the seventh inning.Right-hander Trevor Megill, who was sent down on Thursday to Triple-A Nashville to make room for Wilson, was recalled.___AP MLB:...

James Rodriguez happy to play in Brazil with Sao Paulo

Published Mon, 10 Mar 2025 03:04:39 GMT

SAO PAULO (AP) — Attacking midfielder James Rodríguez signed for Sao Paulo on a free transfer in a move announced by the Brazilian club on Saturday. The former Real Madrid and Bayern Munich player agreed a two-year contract. He has been out of action since he left Greek club Olympiakos in April. The 32-year-old Colombian said in a video posted online that he was happy to return to Brazil, where he impressed at the 2014 World Cup.“It was here that I was shown to the world,” he said. “I could not miss the feeling of wearing the ‘heaviest’ shirt of this magical place. The shirt of the Brazilian club with most international titles. Amazing things happen here in Brazil. Amazing things happen here at Sao Paulo.”He also played for Colombia at the 2018 World Cup. He has made a total of 90 appearances for Colombia, scoring 26 goals.Rodríguez joined Portuguese club Porto in 2010. He left for Monaco three years later before moving to Madrid in 2014 as one of the most promising players in world...

Unapologetic Hamlin says NASCAR’s point system encourages in-race urgency and aggression

Published Mon, 10 Mar 2025 03:04:39 GMT

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Denny Hamlin is not offering any apologies for the move he made last weekend at Pocono that caused Kyle Larson to hit the wall and let Hamlin sail on to victory.Truth be told, it’s what NASCAR was hoping to see more of when it established the system that divides races into three stages, rewards drivers with points for doing well in those stages and allows them to accrue playoff points, Hamlin said.“That is what it was geared to do — give us the sense of urgency to ramp up and that regular season performance matters to get to the final four with a shot,” he said at Richmond Raceway. “The system is doing what it was designed to do.”Hamlin also has changed, he said, after getting spun several times while leading.“If you have one person willing to be aggressive and one person not, aggressive will win every time,” he said.Larson, who said things are “fine” between he and Hamlin after they exchanged text messages Friday night, agreed that the point s...

Blue Jays put closer Jordan Romano on IL with sore lower back, recall Pearson

Published Mon, 10 Mar 2025 03:04:39 GMT

TORONTO (AP) — The Toronto Blue Jays put closer Jordan Romano on the 15-day injured list Saturday because of a sore lower back, one day after the right-hander left with two outs in the ninth inning of a 4-1 win over the Los Angeles Angels.Romano left the July 11 All-Star Game because of a sore back and did not pitch again until July 20.Romano pitched three more times before Friday, when he appeared uncomfortable on the mound. Manager John Schneider came out for a visit and left Romano in the game, but later replaced him with Yimi García.A two-time All-Star, Romano is 4-5 with a 2.79 ERA and 28 saves in 31 chances. Entering play Saturday, Romano was tied with Baltimore’s Felix Bautista and Cleveland’s Emmanuel Clase for the AL lead. The Blue Jays recalled right-hander Nate Pearson from Triple-A Buffalo. Pearson is 5-2 with a 4.75 ERA in 29 games.___AP MLB: https://apnews.com/hub/mlb and https://twitter.com/AP_SportsSource

Missing 13-year-old out of Aurora

Published Mon, 10 Mar 2025 03:04:39 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- The Aurora Police Department is seeking help to find a 13-year-old who has been missing since Friday. Hizhonestie Hastie was reported missing from his home in the 13700 block of E. 13th Circle. Hizhonestie Hastie, 13, missing from home in Aurora (Photo credit: Aurora Police Department) The teen is described as 5 feet, 2 inches tall and about 125 pounds. He was last seen wearing a blue hat, black t-shirt, blue stained skinny jeans and white shoes. APD said Hizhonestie is known to regularly be in the area near the Decatur-Federal RTD station in Denver and a friend's house in Thornton. Anyone with any information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 720-913-STOP (7867).

UFO congressional hearing was ‘insulting’ to US employees, a top Pentagon official says

Published Mon, 10 Mar 2025 03:04:39 GMT

WASHINGTON — A top Pentagon official has attacked this week’s widely watched congressional hearing on UFOs, calling the claims “insulting” to employees who are investigating sightings and accusing a key witness of not cooperating with the official U.S. government investigation.Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick’s letter, published on his personal LinkedIn page and circulated Friday across social media, criticizes much of the testimony from a retired Air Force intelligence officer that energized believers in extraterrestrial life and produced headlines around the world.Retired Air Force Maj. David Grusch testified Wednesday that the U.S. has concealed what he called a “multi-decade” program to collect and reverse-engineer “UAPs,” or unidentified aerial phenomena, the official government term for UFOs.Part of what the U.S. has recovered, Grusch testified, were non-human “biologics,” which he said he had not seen but had learned about from “people with direct knowledge of the progr...

Massachusetts Cannabis Commission ‘in crisis,’ chair says

Published Mon, 10 Mar 2025 03:04:39 GMT

The chairwoman of the Cannabis Control Commission took commissioners by surprise Friday when she announced in the middle of a regulatory discussion that Executive Director Shawn Collins is planning to leave the agency he has run since its inception and described the CCC as being “in crisis.”Chairwoman Shannon O’Brien said she wants to meet next week or the week after with her fellow commissioners to discuss Collins’ departure — which has not been acknowledged by Collins, who was not made available to the News Service on Friday afternoon — and how the CCC should proceed as it gets into the meat of its latest round of marijuana industry regulation revisions.O’Brien, the former state treasurer who came under scrutiny for her ties to a cannabis company soon after Treasurer Deborah Goldberg tapped her to chair the CCC last September, announced during Friday’s virtual meeting that Collins informed her in May that he planned announce that he ...

PHOTOS: Revere Beach International Sand Sculpting Festival roars into its 19th year with King Kong theme

Published Mon, 10 Mar 2025 03:04:39 GMT

The rain may have rescheduled the fireworks spectacular, but it didn’t dampen the spirit of those thousands who attended the Revere Beach International Sand Sculpting Festival for its second day Saturday.The Revere Beach event, in its 19th year, boasts its status as “the largest free event in Massachusetts,” and who better to represent largeness than King Kong, this year’s theme and a figure who loses none of his stature by being cast in sand. It began Friday and will run through Sunday.People came from all over to display their work on the beach, like Poland’s Slavian Borecki, who was working on intricate details of his sculpture as a Herald photographer caught up to him.Others came to just take in the sights, sounds and amenities of the ever-expanding event, which this year accessorized with a beer garden and a local crafts market.The fireworks display set for Saturday night was postponed for 9 p.m. Sunday due to the rain.Amanda Sabga/Boston HeraldSlavian Borecki, of Poland, works...