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Seahawks among several teams making cost-cutting moves ahead of free agency

The Associated Press Several NFL teams made a flurry of moves Tuesday as the deadline for franchise tags hit and with free agency on the horizon. In Seattle, the Seahawks’ remodel under new coach Mike Macdonald started Tuesday as the team released safeties Jamal Adams and Quandre Diggs, and tight end Will Dissly in moves that will give the team a boost of salary cap space ahead of the start of the new league year. The release of Diggs and Dissly will save Seattle $18 million against the cap. They will get about $6 million in cap relief with the release of Adams but also take on ...

Dartmouth men’s basketball team makes history by voting to unionize

The Associated Press HANOVER, N.H. — The Dartmouth men’s basketball team voted to unionize Tuesday in an unprecedented step toward forming the first labor union for college athletes and another blow to the NCAA’s deteriorating amateur business model. In an election supervised by the National Labor Relations Board in the school’s human resources offices, the players voted 13-2 to join Service Employees International Union Local 560, which already represents some Dartmouth workers. Every player on the roster voted. “Today is a big day for our team,” said Dartmouth juniors ...

Supreme Court restores Trump to ballot, rejecting state attempts to ban him over Capitol attack

The Associated Press WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court on Monday unanimously restored Donald Trump to 2024 presidential primary ballots, rejecting state attempts to ban the Republican former president over the Capitol riot. The justices ruled a day before the Super Tuesday primaries that states cannot invoke a post-Civil War constitutional provision to keep presidential candidates from appearing on ballots. That power resides with Congress, the court wrote in an unsigned opinion. Trump posted on his social media network shortly after the decision was released: “BIG WIN FOR ...

Vice President Harris hosts Israeli war Cabinet member Benny Gantz

The Associated Press WASHINGTON—Vice President Kamala Harris met on Monday with a member of Israel’s wartime Cabinet who came to Washington in defiance of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as the Biden administration intensifies its efforts to push more humanitarian aid into war-battered Gaza. White House officials said Benny Gantz, a centrist political rival of Netanyahu, requested the meeting and that the Democratic administration believed it was important that Harris sit down with the prominent Israeli official despite Netanyahu’s objections. President Joe Biden, ...

Hillary Clinton was ‘mostly’ right about the vast right-wing conspiracy

When then-first lady Hillary Clinton first mentioned a “vast right-wing conspiracy”—the enemy factions, i.e., Republicans that she said were out to get her husband—she was half right. They were out to get him. What she didn’t acknowledge was that Bill Clinton had it coming once he’d fouled the people’s house with behavior unbefitting a housebroke dog. Yet how nearly quaint his relatively boyish escapades seem today, compared with Donald Trump’s X-rated engagement with a porn star while wife Melania was recovering from childbirth. I suppose one could point out that ...

Broncos to release QB Wilson, take $89M hit in dead money

The Associated Press ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — Two years ago, Russell Wilson exuberantly declared he intended to play a dozen years in Denver and double the trio of Lombardi Trophies in the Broncos’ lobby. General manager George Paton was equally dizzy, thrilled to send four premium draft picks and three players to Seattle for a younger, healthier version of Peyton Manning and excited to sign the Super Bowl-winning quarterback to that $242 million extension six months later. Acquiring Wilson turned out to be the biggest miscalculation in franchise history. He won just 11 of his 30 ...