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Justice Department blasts GOP effort to hold Attorney General Garland in contempt over Biden audio

The Associated Press WASHINGTON—The Justice Department on Monday blasted Republicans’ effort to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt over his refusal to turn over unredacted materials related to the special counsel probe into President Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents. In a letter obtained by The Associated Press, the Justice Department rejected the demand from House Republicans that the agency turn over the full audio of Special Counsel Robert Hur’s hourslong interviews with Biden and his ghostwriter. Republicans had given the Justice Department ...

Shohei Ohtani’s ex-interpreter charged with stealing $16M

Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Federal authorities charged the former longtime interpreter for Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani on Thursday with federal bank fraud, alleging that he stole more than $16 million from the Japanese sensation to cover gambling bets and debts. Interpreter Ippei Mizuhara, a constant presence beside Ohtani in baseball stadiums across the country since 2018, abused the two-way player’s trust in him and exploited the language barrier to plunder a bank account that only he could access, prosecutors said. U.S. Attorney Martin Estrada said Mizuhara ...

Woods off to rousing start in pursuit of more Masters history

AP National Writer AUGUSTA, Ga. — Tiger Woods can still draw a crowd. And the way he started the Masters on Thursday, there seems a good chance the patrons will get to cheer him on through the weekend. With a massive gallery hanging on his every swing at windy Augusta National, Woods recorded a pair of birdies on the front side and was 1-under when darkness cut short the opening round. Woods’ performance was especially impressive in swirling gusts that were forecasted to climb to 45 mph, the towering Georgia pines swaying like those inflated stick figures advertising a ...

DeChambeau leads at Masters

AP Golf Writer AUGUSTA, Ga. — Bryson DeChambeau was the mad scientist who calculated barometric pressure and the decay of spin rate in altitude when trying to figure out how to best play the game. Then he became the incredible bulk, adding 40 pounds of muscle and mass with a diet of some 3,500 calories a day in an effort to swing the club faster and hit the ball farther than anyone. The third iteration he showed at the Masters on Thursday might be the most daunting. “The golf phase,” DeChambeau said Thursday after opening with a 7-under 65, his best start in a major and ...

Before murder charges, Simpson was one of NFL’s greatest

AP Pro Football Writer Long before the Bronco chase gripped a national television audience and the “Trial of the Century” captivated the country, O.J. Simpson was making his mark on the football field. The Juice was the best running back of his era during an 11-year NFL career mostly played with the Buffalo Bills. He won a national championship and a Heisman Trophy in college and set records in the NFL. But Simpson’s accomplishments on the field were overshadowed and his image was forever ruined by charges that he killed his former wife and her male friend in 1994. Though he ...

The Anti-Abortion Right Is Not Into Compromise

Getting rid of Roe v. Wade was sold as a sensible and mollifying approach to the abortion controversy. It would let each state ban or codify a right to abortion in accordance with local culture. This assumed that the end of a constitutional right to abortion was the victory after which “pro-life” conservatives could go home. Not so. Anti-abortion activists clearly see Roe’s fall as but one stop in a longer journey to outlaw abortion outright. And why wouldn’t they? If you believe that the cell cluster created at conception has the same rights as a 1-year-old, how could you ...