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Red Sox ship Verdugo to Yankees in rare trade

Jeff Passan, ESPNDec 5, 2023, 09:07 PM ET Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity...

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Roberts says Dodgers, Ohtani met for 2-3 hours

Alden Gonzalez, ESPN Staff WriterDec 5, 2023, 04:25 PM ET Close ESPN baseball reporter. Covered the L.A. Rams for ESPN from 2016 to 2018...

Politics

Sunak to find ‘middle ground’ in emergency Rwanda legislation as Tory splits emerge into public view

Rishi Sunak will aim for a middle ground in the emergency legislation to get the Rwanda scheme off the ground as he remains under...

Sports

DeSantis slams CFP, wants to sue over FSU snub

ESPN News Services Dec 5, 2023, 06:00 PM ET Open Extended Reactions TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis took the College Football Playoff...

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Olney: Ohtani’s secretive free agency is a shame for the sport

Buster Olney, ESPN Senior WriterDec 5, 2023, 06:26 PM ET Close Senior writer ESPN Magazine/ESPN.com Analyst/reporter ESPN television Author of “The Last Night of...

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Transfer portal roundtable: Best QB fits, exoduses at OU, Ohio State, under-the-radar prospects

Open Extended Reactions It was an incredibly busy first day of the college football transfer period. More than 1 Related David Hale: No, there...

Technology

Ex-OpenAI director Reid Hoffman says we still don’t ‘fully know’ why board forced out Altman

Reid Hoffman Anjali Sundaram | CNBC Three weeks after OpenAI’s board briefly pushed out CEO Sam Altman without providing a specific reason for its...

Prince William helps sell The Big Issue for second year running

For the second year running, Prince William joined a vendor of The Big Issue to help sell copies in the run-up to Christmas. Wearing...

Business

Ten Entertainment bowled over by £300m US takeover bid

One of Britain’s biggest tenpin bowling venue operators will this week disclose that it has become the latest London-listed companies to recommend a private...

Business

Thames Water pays £37.5m dividend amid debt pile and pollution fines, sparking Ofwat query

Thames Water has been asked to explain a £37.5m dividend payment made to a parent company. Ofwat, the water regulator, asked the firm to...

Technology

Apple’s market cap closes above $3 trillion

Apple CEO Tim Cook greets customers purchasing Apple’s new iPhone 15 during a launch event at the Fifth Avenue Apple Store in New York...

Apple's market cap closes above trillion

Technology

Elon Musk’s AI startup — X.AI — files to raise $1 billion in fresh capital

Elon Musk speaks onstage during The New York Times Dealbook Summit 2023 at Jazz at Lincoln Center on November 29, 2023 in New York...

Elon Musk's AI startup — X.AI — files to raise billion in fresh capital

Woman dead and two injured in Hackney shooting

A 42-year-old woman has died and two others have been injured after a shooting in Hackney, east London, on Tuesday, the Metropolitan Police said....

Technology

Waymo is full speed ahead as safety incidents and regulators stymie competitor Cruise

Passengers ride in an electric Waymo full self-driving technology in Santa Monica Allen J. Schaben | Los Angeles Times | Getty Images Waymo, Alphabet‘s...

Sports

College football transfer portal updates: Latest news on who’s in and out

Open Extended Reactions College football‘s 30-day winter transfer portal window is open, as players have until Jan. 2, 2024, to enter the portal for...

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Filip Forsberg on Predators, (not) meeting Messi, NHL All-Star draft, hot chicken, his famous mustache

Dec 5, 2023, 01:04 PM ET Open Extended Reactions This season will include 100 exclusive regular-season games across ESPN, ESPN+, Hulu and ABC. More...

Denny Laine: Paul McCartney pays tribute after Moody Blues singer and Wings guitarist dies aged 79

Denny Laine, the lead singer of English rock band the Moody Blues and guitarist with Wings, has died aged 79. The co-founder of both...

Aberfan: Man arrested over attempted murder of pregnant woman was ‘known to victim’

A pregnant woman stabbed in Aberfan, South Wales, was the victim of a “targeted attack” and a local man arrested on suspicion of attempted...

Politics

Rwanda did not receive any funding to sign new asylum treaty, says James Cleverly

Rwanda has not received any additional funding for the new treaty it has signed to revive the UK government’s asylum plan, the home secretary...

World

Mount Marapi volcano eruption in Indonesia leaves at least 23 dead, officials say

Rescuers racing to find hikers missing after a deadly volcano eruption in Indonesia have found more bodies, raising the number of confirmed and presumed...