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An officer with the Louisville Metro Police Department (LMPD) in Kentucky received “corrective action” after an internal investigation into the arrest of two-time PGA major winner Scottie Scheffler revealed the officer did not follow proper protocols and turn on his body camera. It’s apparently not the first time Det. Bryan Gillis has gotten into trouble. According to WLKY in Louisville, …

The Detroit Tigers sent their closer from last season, Alex Lange, to Triple-A after a series of events that did not make manager AJ Hinch happy. According to the Tigers’ broadcast on Bally (which didn’t show the incident), Lange had given up two runs, and then he threw a baseball “about 90 miles per hour over the Tigers dugout” into …

Alex Rodriguez could probably have any job he wants in baseball, but he’s OK without one. His knowledge of the game is unmatched, and that’s been the case since he was the first overall pick in 1993. Had he not taken performance-enhancing drugs, he’d be a first-ballot Hall of Famer. Rodriguez has said he doesn’t want to manage, which is …

Aaron Jones entered the 2023 season with the Green Bay Packers with high expectations. The star running back was coming off a 2022 campaign when he rushed for career-high yardage. He dealt with injuries last season and played 11 games. Jones put together an impressive five-game stretch in which he rushed for at least 100 yards per game. The Packers …

The cross at the apse of Notre-Dame de Paris, which survived the devastating 2019 fire, was reinstalled atop the cathedral’s framework Friday after a meticulous restoration by artistic ironworkers from Normandy. The imposing cross, spanning 12 meters and weighing 1.5 tons, is the only element of the choir roof that resisted the flames. Workers celebrate after reinstalling the Notre Dame …

The distributor of a popular protest song in Hong Kong has decided to remove the music from all platforms because of a court ban in the city, the group that created the song said Friday, a week after YouTube blocked access to its videos. Dgxmusic said on Instagram that it expressed its opposition to the decision by EmuBands, the distributor, …

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz waded into the European election campaign on Friday by warning that the next president of the European Commission should not seek support from far-right parties hoping to make big gains in next month’s vote. Left-leaning parties across Europe have been heaping pressure on their mainstream conservative and liberal counterparts to rule out cooperation with far-right parties …

The United Nations’ top court has issued an order Friday demanding Israel “immediately halt its military offensive” against Hamas in Rafah, the Palestinian terrorist group’s final stronghold in the Gaza Strip. The message from the International Court of Justice comes hours after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Fox News host Sean Hannity that there are four Hamas battalions remaining …

German authorities said Friday that they have arrested two men suspected of plotting a knife attack on worshipers at a synagogue in the southwestern city of Heidelberg. The suspects, who are 24 and 18 years old, were detained during separate police operations in the state of Baden-Wuerttember earlier this month, German news agency dpa reported, citing state prosecutors and police. …

European Tour pro Louis de Jager was baring it all during the second round of the Soudal Open in Belgium on Friday. After narrowly missing a pond with his tee shot on the 13th hole, de Jager had to do more than just roll up his sleeves in order to save the par 4 after his ball landed in a …