Day: December 23, 2024

The night before the final day of Rickey Henderson’s professional baseball career, he concocted a makeshift drink that his team called “Championship Juice.” The moment didn’t come with the Oakland Athletics or with any of the other eight clubs the first-ballot Hall of Famer played for over his 25-year big league career. This was the San Diego Surf Dawgs, an independent league team that Henderson played for in 2005, at 46 years old, in one final…

The House Ethics Committee found evidence that former Rep. Matt Gaetz paid tens of thousands of dollars to women for sex or drugs on at least 20 occasions, including paying a 17-year-old girl for sex in 2017, according to a final draft of the panel’s report on the Florida Republican, obtained by CNN.

President Joe Biden spared the lives of three people from SC when he converted 37 federal death row sentences to life in prison. He left Dylan Roof’s sentence.

President Biden commuted 37 of the 40 men on federal death row to life without parole this morning. Here are the factors that drove his decision. And, a push to better understand long COVID.