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The New York Mets are re-signing free-agent outfielder/designated hitter Jesse Winker to a one-year contract, per multiple reports Thursday. The New York Post reported the contract is worth $7.5 million guaranteed, with an additional $1.5 million possible in incentives. The deal is pending a physical. Winker, 31, played 44 games with the Mets last season after being acquired at the trade deadline from the Washington Nationals for minor league right-hander […]

Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are eager to leave miserable tent camps and return to their homes if a long-awaited ceasefire agreement halts the Israel-Hamas war, but many will find there is nothing left and no way to rebuild. Israeli bombardment and ground operations have transformed entire neighborhoods in several cities into rubble-strewn wastelands, with blackened shells of buildings and mounds of debris stretching away in all directions. Major roads […]

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s government said Thursday that it will support a series of local inquiries into cases of organized child sexual abuse in the wake of a furor largely stoked by the world’s richest man Elon Musk. In a statement to lawmakers, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said the government has also authorized what she called a “rapid audit” of the “current scale and nature of gang-based exploitation across the […]

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Anger mixed with tears at the burial Thursday of one of the two journalists killed in an attack last month by armed gan gs while covering the government’s abortive attempt to reopen Haiti’s largest public hospital. Jimmy Jean wore an all-white suit as he lay in an open coffin that friends and family leaned over to pay their respects, some crying over his body. The 44-year-old […]

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The vast majority of Americans are about to get an extended taste of frigid Siberian weather. Another polar vortex disruption will stretch Arctic air across the top of the globe and make Donald Trump’s second inauguration the coldest in 40 years, meteorologists said. After starting in the Rockies Thursday night, the cold will blast eastward and as far south as the upper Florida peninsula over several […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Outgoing Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday defended Biden administration policies on Israel’s war with Hamas after a ceasefire agreement in Gaza was reached, facing protests that interrupted his final news conference at the State Department. He said he expected the deal — announced by President Joe Biden and Qatar on Wednesday — to be implemented over the weekend. He called it “a moment of historic […]

(Reuters) – An official with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) said on Thursday the militant group would agree to leave northeastern Syria if the U.S.-allied Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) maintains a significant joint leadership role there. “Any initiative resulting in the governance of northeastern Syria under the control of the SDF, or in which they have a significant role in joint leadership, will lead us to agree to leave […]

The LA Galaxy announced the signing of free agent goalkeeper JT Marcinkowski on Thursday. The 27-year-old American is under contract through 2026 with an option for 2027. He spent the past seven seasons with the San Jose Earthquakes, posting 18 clean sheets in 95 matches. Marcinkowski adds depth alongside netminders John McCarthy and Novak Micovic. The reigning MLS Cup champions open the regular season on Feb. 23 at home against […]

Racing Louisville signed former Duke forward Ella Hase to a two-year contract on Thursday. The deal includes a mutual option for 2027 for Hase, who finished second in Division I with 13 assists in 2024. She made the NCAA College Cup All-Tournament team and All-ACC second team in her lone season at Duke. “We’ve been following Ella for a while and have been so impressed with her demeanor,” Racing coach […]

Dallas Stars forward Roope Hintz will not play in Thursday’s game against the visiting Montreal Canadiens due to an upper-body injury. Hintz sustained his injury after being hit by Maple Leafs captain Auston Matthews in the first period of Dallas’ 4-1 win against Toronto on Tuesday. Hintz, 28, has a team-leading 19 goals to go along with eight assists in 42 games this season. He has totaled 337 points (166 […]