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MLB Trade Rumors 6:22pm CDT 7:22pm: Baez is promised a total of $12.5MM, per MLB.com’s Jesse Sanchez (Twitter links). That includes a $500K signing bonus, successive salaries of $4.5MM and $5.5MM, and with a $2MM buyout of a $7.5MM club option. The pact also contains some other financial provisions. Baez could add up to $1MM to his 2022 salary depending upon how many innings he throws. He could boost the buyout to $2.5MM and the option price to $8MM through innings-pitched-based escalators....

The Spurs take on a Rockets team that has found its way into NBA headlines this week in the first game of a home-and-home series.

Harden is trying to pressure Houston into making a deal sooner than later

The Houston Rockets guard was likely calling out James Harden who is reportedly trying to get a trade.

The Supreme Court declined to grant a stay for Lisa Montgomery, making her the first woman to die under the federal death penalty since 1953.

Scholars suggest a Reconstruction-era remedy, instead of impeachment, after Trump incited mob.

Trump administration asks Supreme Court to allow execution of Lisa Montgomery Ann E. Marimow and Robert Barnes, The Washington Post Jan. 12, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Tuesday night began to clear the way for the execution of Lisa Montgomery, who is scheduled to die by lethal injection - the first woman to face the federal death penalty in nearly seven decades. The court granted a request from the Justice Department to vacate a divided federal appeals court tha...

MLB Trade Rumors The Astros are signing free-agent reliever The 29th overall pick of the Rays in 2013, Stanek made his major league debut four years later and gave the club especially good production from 2018-19. He was one of the Rays’ go-to opener options then, starting 56 games in 100 appearances, and managed a 3.17 ERA with a 28.9 percent strikeout rate and a 9.6 percent walk rate in 122 innings. However, the Rays moved on from Stanek when they sent him to the Marlins in a 2019 trade de...

Catch up on the latest hot stove rumors, including a possible Kris Bryant trade and Houstons reported interest in signing multiple relievers.

Power Up: Possible twin Democratic wins in Georgia put Washington control in Bidens grasp Jacqueline Alemany with Brent D. Griffiths Good morning. Its Wednesday – electoral college challenge day. Trump will rally outside of the White House at 11a.m. in protest of the congressional certification of his election defeat. Tips, comments, recipes? You know the drill. Thanks for waking up with us.  The campaign PHOTO FINISH: Democrats came within striking distance of total cont...