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Free agent pitcher Framber Valdez and the Detroit Tigers have agreed to a $115 million, three-year contract, a person familiar with the situation told The Associated Press on Wednesday night. The person spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because the deal had not been announced. Valdez became one of baseball’s most durable starters with the Houston Astros. Now, the left-hander is set to join a Tigers rotation anchored […]

Asian shares slipped Thursday after more drops for technology stocks weighed on Wall Street. U.S. futures edged higher and oil prices sank more than $1 a barrel. Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 shed 0.7% to 53,935.77, while the Kospi in South Korea skidded 3.2%, to 5,199.47. Chinese markets also retreated, with Hong Kong’s Hang Seng falling 1.2% to 26,516.38. The Shanghai Composite index gave up 0.8% to 4,069.27. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 fell […]

By Arsheeya Bajwa and Juby Babu Feb 4 (Reuters) – Memory shortages will constrain sales of cell phones for some time, hurting demand for chip industry companies like supplier Qualcomm and chip architecture designer Arm Holdings, executives and analysts said on Wednesday as both companies reported results that disappointed investors. Among the world’s largest smartphone chip designers, Qualcomm is dealing with relatively tepid orders as customers fail to secure memory […]

By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON, Feb 4 (Reuters) – The New York City Health Department on Wednesday said it has joined the World Health Organization’s global outbreak response network following President Donald Trump’s withdrawal of the U.S. from the U.N. health agency. WHY’S IMPORTANT Following the Republican president’s decision to pull the U.S. out of the WHO, some Democratic leaders have made their regions join the WHO’s Global Outbreak Alert and […]

Oluchi Okananwa scored 23 points to lead No. 22 Maryland to an emphatic 86-70 road win over No. 12 Michigan State on Wednesday in East Lansing, Michigan. The Terrapins (18-6, 6-6 Big Ten Conference) went on a 21-5 tear in the second quarter that included an 8-0 run, building a double-digit-point lead that buoyed the Terps for much of the second half. The Spartans (19-4, 8-4) cut a 10-point halftime […]

Well before Brooks Koepka captured back-to-back U.S. Open titles … and won back-to-back PGA Championships … and earned generational wealth by jumping to LIV Golf, he was a 24-year-old fighting to claim his first PGA Tour title. That’s when Koepka and the Phoenix Open became intertwined forever. Koepka collected his first PGA Tour victory in 2015 at TPC Scottsdale, which set the stage for his five major championships and his […]

The drive for an exceptional 2026 season is off to a rousing start for Scottie Scheffler, who began his year with a championship at the American Express a week ago Sunday in La Quinta, Calif. That title was the 20th of Scheffler’s career, which earned him lifetime status on the PGA Tour. Nonetheless, the 29-year-old is wasting no time chasing No. 21 as the Phoenix Open tees off Thursday. The […]

Feb 4 (Reuters) – Prominent Wall Street law firm Paul Weiss said on Wednesday that Brad Karp had resigned as chairman of the firm and it had appointed Scott Barshay to be his successor. Karp did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment. The firm did not give a reason for his resignation, but on Tuesday it had said Karp “regrets” his interactions with the late convicted sex […]

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — U.S. immigration agents in Oregon must stop arresting people without warrants unless there’s a likelihood of escape, a federal judge ruled Wednesday. U.S. District Judge Mustafa Kasubhai issued a preliminary injunction in a proposed class-action lawsuit targeting the Department of Homeland Security’s practice of arresting immigrants they happen to come across while conducting ramped-up enforcement operations — which critics have described as “arrest first, justify later.” […]