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Dockworkers at ports from Maine to Texas go on strike, a standoff risking new shortages

Longshoremen from Maine to Texas began walking picket lines early Tuesday in a strike over wages and automation. If the strike continues for more than a few weeks, inflation could reignite and shortages could arise. The contract between the port and some 45,000 members of the International Longshoremen's Association expired at midnight, and workers went […]

Alleged Trump gunman Ryan Wesley Routh busted with bomb during 2002 police standoff

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Authorities say the gunman who allegedly tried to kill former President Donald Trump was arrested in 2002 for possessing a bomb (a “weapon of mass destruction”) after a tense standoff with police. It's just one example in a long history of dangerous and disturbing behavior described by police and neighbors in his […]

US, China standoff over Olympic athlete drug testing prompts new House GOP probe

First appeared on FOX: A group of House Republicans is weighing in on the U.S.-China fight over an international body that would regulate athletes’ use of performance-enhancing drugs. “We, the undersigned Parliamentarians, are writing to express our serious concerns regarding recent developments surrounding the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and its handling of doping allegations,” the […]

SWAT Team Involved In Tense Standoff With Puddle Of Mudd’s Wes Scantlin: REPORT

Puddle of Mudd’s Wes Scantlin was reportedly arrested on Wednesday in Burbank, California, after a dramatic confrontation with police officers. Burbank Police Department officers pulled over Scantlin’s black Hummer H2 after witnessing a traffic violation, asked for identification, and then discovered the famous rock star had an outstanding warrant for his arrest for a previous […]

Yankees and Reds have 4th of July national anthem standoff

Players from the New York Yankees and Cincinnati Reds engaged in a lengthy, patriotic standoff after the national anthem was played before a Fourth of July game in the Bronx. The stalemate, which began with at least five players involved, was eventually whittled down to four after Yankees starting pitcher Marcus Stroman finished warming up. […]

Michael Kay calls Yankees July 4th national anthem standoff ‘childish’

Michael Kay is done with the shenanigans. The longtime Yankees play-by-play announcer for the YES Network expressed his disgust for the team’s Fourth of July standoff with the Reds on his eponymous radio show on Friday. Yankees pitchers Cody Poteet and Ian Hamilton got into a standoff with Reds pitchers Graham Ashcraft and Carson Spiers […]