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4 days ago | 
cbsnews.com | Faris Tanyos
The jockey who rode Sovereignty to victory at last weekend's Kentucky Derby has been issued a fine and suspension for striking the 3-year-old colt with his riding crop an excessive amount during the race. Jockey Junior Alvarado was given a $62,000 fine and suspended two upcoming racing days at Churchill Downs for violating the rules of the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority, a nationwide organization that regulates the sport.
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4 days ago | 
sports.yahoo.com | Faris Tanyos
The jockey who rode Sovereignty to victory at last weekend's Kentucky Derby has been issued a fine and suspension for striking the 3-year-old colt with his riding crop an excessive amount during the race. Jockey Junior Alvarado was given a $62,000 fine and suspended two upcoming racing days at Churchill Downs for violating the rules of the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority, a nationwide organization that regulates the sport.
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4 days ago | 
flipboard.com | Faris Tanyos
4 hours agoJunior Alvarado used his riding crop on Sovereignty "more than the permitted amount" during the race last week, according to the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority. The jockey who rode Sovereignty to victory at the Kentucky Derby last week has been fined over $60,000 for striking the horse …
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6 days ago | 
flipboard.com | Scott MacFarlane |Faris Tanyos
The first American pope grew up just outside ChicagoPope Leo XIV, born Robert Prevost, is the youngest of 3 boys. His father was an educator and his mother was a librarian. People in Chicago are …
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6 days ago | 
cbsnews.com | Scott MacFarlane |Faris Tanyos
President Trump has fired longtime Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden, a congressional source confirmed to CBS News. Hayden was fired in an email Thursday from Trent Morse, deputy director of presidential personnel. "On behalf of President Donald J. Trump, I am writing to inform you that your position as the Librarian of Congress is terminated effective immediately," read the email, which was obtained by CBS News.
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1 week ago | 
cbsnews.com | Alexander Tin |Faris Tanyos
Breaking down the lawsuit over HHS cuts The Department of Health and Human Services formally revoked some layoff notices on Tuesday, multiple federal health officials told CBS News, restoring some staff at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration.
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1 week ago | 
cbsnews.com | Faris Tanyos
Katie Ledecky reflects on Paris Olympic Games Swimming superstar Katie Ledecky added to her long-list of extraordinary accomplishments Saturday when she broke her own world record in the 800-meter freestyle at the TYR Pro Swim Series in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The 28-year-old Ledecky set a new mark of 8 minutes, and 4.12 seconds, besting the previous mark she set nearly nine years ago at the 2016 Rio Olympics by 0.67 seconds.
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1 week ago | 
cbsnews.com | Faris Tanyos
A 5.3-magnitude earthquake shook a rural area of West Texas and southeastern New Mexico Saturday night. The U.S. Geological Survey reports that the earthquake occurred at 7:47 p.m. local time, with an epicenter in West Texas, about 35 miles south of Whites City, New Mexico. Whites City is a small resort town located near Carlsbad Caverns National Park, just north of the Texas border and about 95 miles south of Roswell, New Mexico. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 3.9 miles.
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1 week ago | 
cbsnews.com | Alexander Tin |Faris Tanyos
Nearly all of the remaining staff at the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health were laid off Friday, multiple officials and laid-off employees told CBS News, gutting programs ranging from approvals of new safety equipment to firefighter health. Much of the work at NIOSH, an arm of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, had already stalled after an initial round of layoffs on April 1 at the agency ordered by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F.
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1 week ago | 
cbsnews.com | Alexander Tin |Faris Tanyos
Weekly measles cases have set a new record, according to figures published Friday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, topping the peak of an outbreak in 2019 that ranked as the worst since the 1990s. The number of cases that had their symptoms start during the week of March 30 has grown to 111, according to the agency's latest update. Authorities backdate newly reported measles cases based on when their rash began, to account for delays in reporting and diagnosis.
