Umpires will have a little help behind home plate in some minor league games this season – from a “robot ump.” Major League Baseball announced Thursday that select games in the Low-A Southeast will use a robot to help call balls and strikes. The use of the technology, called the Automatic Ball-Strike System, will also “ensure a consistent […]

Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. said Friday that he will not seek reelection for a fourth term that would begin next January. He has been investigating former President Donald Trump’s finances, and the Supreme Court last month cleared the way for the prosecutor’s office to receive Trump’s tax returns and other financial records. “Representing […]

Jennifer Bates often finds peace by drinking tea on her patio. But these days, to use her words — the butterflies have filled up her stomach and won’t go away. “Butterflies normally come to calm me,” Bates says. “But this is … nerve-racking to think I don’t know how it’s gonna go.” What’s unsettling Bates […]

The United States will offer temporary protected status to people from Myanmar who fear returning home, the Biden administration said Friday, as it tries to ratchet up pressure on military coup leaders in the Southeast Asian country, and provide protection to some of those criticizing it. “Due to the military coup and security forces’ brutal […]