The National Hurricane Center continue to track a system in the northeastern Atlantic Ocean with a small chance to become a subtropical depression or storm. In its 8 a.m.
WASHINGTON — A handshake deal to redirect IRS funding to offset tight spending caps for other domestic programs won’t mark the end of a partisan battle over expanding the tax collecting agency. About $21 billion of an $80 billion tranche of funding that Democrats enacted last year is set to be cut and repurposed as part of the agreement between President Joe Biden and Speaker Kevin McCarthy to suspend the debt limit and cap federal agency spending.
Mother of Virginia elementary school shooter charged in federal court with gun, marijuana charges NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — The mother of the 6-year-old student who shot his teacher at Richneck Elementary School has been charged in federal court with felony gun charges related to marijuana use.
PHILADELPHIA — Aaron Nola has always struggled with allowing the home run. It’s the price of a being pitcher who tries to throw strikes. Keeping his pitches in the zone allows him to pitch deeper into games, but it also makes him susceptible to the long ball. On Monday night, in the Phillies’ 8-3 win over the Tigers, that cost him a historic feat.
It’s not often that the best of the Triple Crown races is the last one but that’s how it is this year with 155th running of the Belmont Stakes on Saturday. It has arguably the best 3-year-old in Forte, the winner of the Preakness Stakes in National Treasure and eight other horses who should be fresh enough to handle the always tricky 1½-mile course.
MIAMI — As a series shifts, it feels as if the tectonic plates have as well. The Nuggets are finally losers of a home playoff game, vulnerable for the first time this postseason after three 2-0 series leads.
The Kansas City Royals attempted to mortgage a fourrun lead on the success of “bulk” pitcher Mike Mayers on Monday night. But the Miami Marlins denied another profitable transaction at LoanDepot Park.
ARLINGTON, Texas — Cardinals reliever Genesis Cabrera got the first batter of the ninth inning to ground out, but he did not record another out in the inning as the Texas Rangers rallied for their second walk-off win of the season.