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Dodgers closer Edwin Díaz placed on IL with 'loose bodies' in right elbow, reportedly out for 3 months

The Los Angeles Dodgers are losing star closer Edwin Díaz for the next few months.

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The team announced Monday that it had placed the pitcher on the injured list, citing “loose bodies” in Díaz’s right elbow. (“Loose bodies” refers to pieces of bone or cartilage that have broken off and are floating freely in the joint.)

Díaz will undergo surgery to clean up the joint and is expected to return in the second half of the season,per the team. In turn, L.A. is calling up Jake Eder, an offseason acquisition from the Washington Nationals.

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Díazsigned a record-setting, three-year, $69 million contractto join the Dodgers in the offseason after spending six seasons with the New York Mets. So far in 2026, Díaz has made seven appearances for L.A., picking up four saves with one blown save.

His two most recent appearances were his worst: He blew a three-run lead in the ninth inning against the Texas Rangers on April 10 (the Dodgers wound up winning 8-7 on a walk-off home run) and then gave up three earned runs in a9-6 lossto the Colorado Rockies on Sunday, ballooning his ERA to 10.50.

It’s unclear if Díaz’s injury contributed to his recent struggles. The 32-year-old will be out for approximately the next three months, with the Dodgers hoping he will return after the All-Star break.

Dodgers closer Edwin Díaz placed on IL with 'loose bodies' in right elbow, reportedly out for 3 months

The Los Angeles Dodgers are losing star closer Edwin Díaz for the next few months. The team announced Monday that it had placed t...
Bryson DeChambeau withdraws from LIV Golf Mexico City with wrist injury before final round

Bryson DeChambeau announced that he withdrew from LIV Golf Mexico before Sunday’s final round because of a wrist injury.

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“I experienced some discomfort in my wrist during [Saturday’s] round and have decided to withdraw from the final round of LIV Golf Mexico City to prevent further injury,” DeChambeau saidin a statementposted on social media.

The two-time U.S. Open champion added that he would have his injury evaluated in the days to come and intends to play in LIV Golf Virginia, scheduled for May 7-10.

Prior to withdrawing, DeChambeau was tied for 41st at 2-over after three rounds, 16 strokes behind leader Jon Rahm.

That disappointment follows DeChambeaumissing the cutat last week’s Masters, unable to recover froma poor first roundin which he shot 4-over.

DeChambeau did not disclose which wrist was hurting him. He underwent surgery on his left wristfour years agoto repair a fractured hamate bone.

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The withdrawal finishes a difficult week for DeChambeau, during which he criticized the course conditions while playing the first round at Mexico City’s Club de Golf Chapultepec.

"You've got destroyed grass," DeChambeau was heard saying to his caddie as he stood by his ball amid several dead patches.

“Oh, this is rough? Definitely. Good to see,” he then remarked while waiting for a rules official to help him out. “Guys, this is what we’re playing on, apparently.”

DeChambeau did not catch a break from the official, despite his protests.

Last year, he also griped about the conditions at Club de Golf Chapultepec, criticizing what he called “the worst f***ing bunkers ever,” saying they could “break someone’s wrist.”

DeChambeau might not be thrilled with LIV announcing that the tour’s Mexico City event will again be played at Club de Golf Chapultepecin 2027, the third consecutive year in which the tournament will be played at that course.

Luis Carrera replaced DeChambeau in the Crushers GC lineup for team competition in the final round.

Bryson DeChambeau withdraws from LIV Golf Mexico City with wrist injury before final round

Bryson DeChambeau announced that he withdrew from LIV Golf Mexico before Sunday’s final round because of a wrist injury. “I exper...
Sarah Ferguson

Sarah Fergusonis reportedly “distraught” about the leak of her hiding place in Austria. The news about her whereabouts broke out last week. This marked her first sighting in almost seven months. A source has claimed that the leak has not motivated her to leave Austria yet.

Sarah Ferguson has no plans of leaving the Austrian ski resort despite location leak, per source

Following some of the controversies that thrust both Sarah Ferguson and her ex-husband, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, into the spotlight, the former chose to keep a low profile. She succeeded in doing so until last week, when she was spotted outside a ski resort in Austria. She has not publicly commented on the controversy or the location leak yet.

A source close to her told theDaily Expressthat she is “distraught.” Highlighting her determination, they said, “But this will not change anything, she’s stronger than she looks and will not be forced to face the music just yet.” Allegedly, she does not plan to leave Austria yet. Some reports have claimed that she is currently contemplating her next moves. There have been rumors that she might appear in a TV interview.

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The outlet also reported that some sources claimed she had already declined an interview with BBC Newsnight. Meanwhile, other reports suggest she may be open to an interview, provided the price is right. According to an April 19 report fromThe Mirror, the former Duchess of York is planning to do a TV documentary to tell her side of the story.

A source told The Mirror, “Sarah knows she needs the money and she’s open to the right television opportunity, but she’s also very aware of the tightrope she’s walking. Her daughters are part of the Royal Family, and anything she does reflects on them.” The insider further said that Ferguson knows that she needs to tell her story. At the same time, she understands that “it has to be handled carefully.”

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Man shot by ICE in California will remain in custody over concerns he's a flight risk, lawyer says

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A judge Monday ordered a manwho was shotmultiple times during an arrest by immigration officers in central California to remain in custody over concerns he could be a flight risk, a lawyer said.

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Carlos Ivan Mendoza Hernandez, who has dual citizenship from El Salvador and Mexico,is chargedwith assaulting a federal officer for allegedly striking an agent with his car before reversing back into a law enforcement vehicle after he was pulled over on April 7.

Patrick Kolasinski, one of his lawyers, has said Mendoza panicked and tried to flee when Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents blocked his car and did not intend to run over anyone. He also disputed claims by officials that his client was a suspected gang member wanted in El Salvador for questioning in relation to a murder.

Salvadoran court documents show he was acquitted of murder in El Salvador and Mendoza has denied ever being in a gang, his lawyer has said.

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Mendoza has undergone several surgeries for multiple gunshot wounds.

The Department of Homeland Security has said ICE officers fired defensive shots at Mendoza after he tried to drive into them. DHS said the officers were conducting an enforcement stop targeting Mendoza, 36, in Patterson, a city about 75 miles (120 kilometers) southeast of San Francisco.

It was among a series of shootings that have occurred during the Trump administration’s aggressive push to detain and deport immigrants in the country illegally. It is also among those where questions have been raised to federal officials aboutthe circumstances.In some shootings,video evidencecontradicted immigration officials' initial accounts.

Mendoza's next court appearance is scheduled for early May.

Man shot by ICE in California will remain in custody over concerns he's a flight risk, lawyer says

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A judge Monday ordered a manwho was shotmultiple times during an arrest by immigration officers in central Ca...
2026 NFL Draft host city Pittsburgh readies for record crowds: 'Gonna be nuts'

USA TODAY Sports has live coverage of the2026 NFL Draft.

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On Dec. 15, 1947, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported that the upcoming NFL draft for the 1948 season would be held in Pittsburgh, although the exact date was unclear. The publication could only determine that representatives from 10 teams would gather sometime that week at the Fort Pitt Hotel, the de facto headquarters of thePittsburgh Steelers.

The 2026 draft, the first time the event has returned to Pittsburgh since, will be much more noticeable this time.

“We had to really work with the NFL to kind of figure out ‘How do we build this draft into a very dense downtown?’ … which is not easy to do,” president and CEO of Visit Pittsburgh Jerad Bachar told USA TODAY Sports by phone last week.

For three days, not only will Pittsburgh be the confluence of three rivers, but a melting pot of NFL fandom. Indeed, the NFL’s takeover will dominate the north shore of the by the Steelers’ home, Acrisure Stadium. The main entrance to the primary draft grounds is located about 200 yards away from the Pittsburgh Pirates’ home stadium, PNC Park.

Steelers wide receiver Michael Pittman relocated this offseason to downtown Pittsburgh after being traded by the Indianapolis Colts. Every time he drives home, he said, another structure related to the draft has been built.

“It’s already getting crazy down here,” Pittman told USA TODAY Sports.

He added: “More and more people are coming. The city is already super sports-themed, so I can’t imagine what it’s going to be like on the weekend of the draft. It’s gonna be nuts.”

Pittsburgh’s busiest days ever? Could be 2026 NFL draft

The NFL held the draft in New York for decades before moving it to Chicago in 2015. Since 2017, it’s been in a different host city every season, often one that is considered prohibited – by weather, stadium or size – from hosting a Super Bowl. The 2025 draft in Green Bay, Wisconsin, drew more than 600,000 fans, according to the NFL. Only more fans visited Nashville in 2019 for a draft.

Using the reported attendance from past host sites Detroit, Kansas City and Green Bay, Bachar said Pittsburgh modeled its estimate to of 500,000-700,000 over three days, or essentially 250,000 visitors per day. The Steel City’s population is 300,000. A month ago, the city hosted St. Patrick’s Day parade, which usually draws a similar number to what they expect to see daily for the draft.

“We’re looking at this as the St. Patrick’s Day Parade three days in a row,” Bachar said. “So we know we’re going to be ready for it. We know that we have the infrastructure that’s ready for it.”

The Steelers have been working with Visit Pittsburgh hand-in-hand. Visit Pittsburgh visited Kansas City and Detroit to learn hosting best practices. The organization also consulted with Philadelphia and Cleveland.

“Obviously, the bar has been set very high lately … so we’re looking forward to following in that tradition,” Steelers owner and president Art Rooney II told reporters when Pittsburgh was announced as the draft site for this year in 2024.

Rooney added that it could be the largest visitor event in the city’s history.

Pittsburgh schools closing during NFL draft

The school system won’t test that theory, however, as public schools – servicing 19,000 children – are moving to online learning from Wednesday to Friday. (Green Bay also closed schools last year.) Visit Pittsburgh met with school officials earlier this year.

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“We wanted them to have as much information as early as possible so they could decide what their school schedule was going to be,” Bachar said.

The biggest takeaway from meeting with other host cities, Bachar said, is that the NFL wants the draft front and center – simple as that may sound. The City of Bridges will be the backdrop for roughly 55 million viewers over three days. The angle of the stage and the angles provided by drone footage will highlight the confluence of the three rivers and the city’s architecture.

“The way to celebrate Pittsburgh is really just to show up and look at all of the amazing investment going into the city because of this event,” Bachar said.

The downtown area’s civic benefits – roads completed, sidewalks repaired, beatification projects finished – will outlast draft weekend. The event is free, and fans can access downtown via free rides on the light rail system or the park and ride system.

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2026 NFL draft will be much different than last time event was in Pittsburgh

The roots of pro football in Western Pennsylvania are deep. The Steelers are one of the NFL’s oldest and proudest franchises, and the Rooney family is considered a steward of the sport.

“Football is very much intertwined with the legacy of this entire region,” Bachar said.

Another reason why organizers are confident in audience projections is because of the event's location within the hotbed of football in the United States. Eleven other NFL markets and 35 Division I schools are within driving distance. The Steelers’ “black and yellow” is a worldwide brand.

Dan Marino and Joe Montana, two of the greatest quarterbacks to throw the pigskin, are from the Pittsburgh area. Coaching royalty such as Mike Ditka, Marty Schottenheimer and Bill Cowher hail from the area. The team’s new head coach, Mike McCarthy, became emotional during his introductory news conference while talking about growing up there. Three of the best NFL players in this century – Aaron Donald, Darelle Revis and Larry Fitzgerald – played collegiately at Pittsburgh, furthering the ties between the area and the game.

As the draft-site infrastructure underwent a final stretch of finishing touches about a week before NFL commissioner Roger Goodel was due to approach the podium to open the draft, it brought a visual understanding to Bachar of everything he and his team had been working toward for the last two years.

In late 1947, however, the draft had a different feel.

“The whole aura and atmosphere of the draft was completely different. The Rooneys' two offices on the first floor of the hotel were the site and 40 men were stuffed in there. The draft started at 6 p.m. and by early morning, the draft was concluded,” Heinz History Center chief historian and director of the Western Pennsylvania Sports Museum Anne Madarasztold the Beaver County Times,part of the USA TODAY Network, last year. “Sports reporters tried to figure out picks, owners like Rooney didn’t tell anyone who he drafted.”

That won’t be the case at this draft, which certainly won’t be that efficient – or fit into two rooms.

Contributing: Tyler Dragon, USA TODAY; Ethan Morrison, Beaver County Times

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Marathon Runner Celebrates Too Soon and Loses Race Feet from Finish Line: 'Gotta Run Through the Tape'

A runner at the 2026 Delaware Running Festival lost first place after celebrating too early near the finish line

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  • Joshua Jackson surged ahead in the final seconds, winning the marathon by just two seconds over Carson Mello

  • The dramatic finish, captured on video, has gone viral with over 10 million views and sparked online reactions

What looked like a victory lap quickly turned into a last-second loss for one marathon runner.

During the 2026 Delaware Running Festival on Sunday, April 19, a runner who had been leading the race slowed down just feet from the finish line — only to be passed in the final seconds.

The dramatic moment, captured on a finish line camera by timing company Mettle Events, Inc, shows runner Joshua Jackson sprinting ahead of Carson Mello to claim first place.

Jackson ultimately completed the 26.2-mile race in 2 hours, 43 minutes and 12 seconds — beating Mello by just two seconds.

In the now-viral clip posted by@aktiv8edleem, which has amassed more than 10 million views, Mello appears to ease up as he nears the finish, raising his arms in celebration before realizing too late that Jackson is closing in behind him.

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Within seconds, Jackson surges forward, crossing the finish line first in a stunning reversal that has since sparked a wave of reactions online.

"Never celebrate til you cross the finish line!!!" one user commented.

"Where did that extra Battery come from? He was so far behind. WOW," another wrote.

"He was taking that victory stroll too soon! 😂" someone else chimed in.

A third responded, "Gotta run through the tape my boy 😂."

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Japan scraps a ban on lethal weapons exports in a change of its postwar pacifist policy

TOKYO (AP) — Japan on Tuesday scrapped a ban on lethal weapons exports, a major change in its postwar pacifist policy as the country seeks to build up its arms industry amid worries over Chinese and North Korean aggression.

Associated Press Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi speaks to reporters at her office in Tokyo Monday, April 13, 2026, after holding telephone talks with her Pakistani counterpart Shehbaz Sharif. (Keisuke Hosojima/Kyodo News via AP) Security guards the entrance of Japan's Defense Ministry in Tokyo, on Nov. 19, 2025. (Kyodo News via AP)

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The approval byPrime Minister Sanae Takaichi’sCabinet of the new guideline clears a final set of hurdles for many arms sales, including of Japanese-developed warships, combat drones and other weapons.

China criticized the change in policy, but it has been largely welcomed by Japanese defense partners like Australia and attracted interest from Southeast Asia and Europe.

Opponents say the change violates Japan’s pacifist constitution and will increase global tensions and threaten the safety of the Japanese people.

The new policy will “ensure safety for Japan and further contribute to the peace and stability in the region and the international society as the security environment around our country rapidly changes,” Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara told reporters. “The government will strategically promote defense equipment transfers to create a security environment that is desirable for Japan and to build up the industrial base that can support fighting resilience."

Japan could start selling weapons like missiles and destroyers

Japan has long prohibited most arms exports under its post-World War II pacifist constitution. It has made recent changes because of rising global and regional tensions, but exports were limited to five areas: rescue, transport, alerts, surveillance and minesweeping.

The new guidelines scrap those limits and allows the export of equipment such as fighter jets, missiles and destroyers. That's a major change from existing exports such as flak jackets, gas masks and civilian-use vehicles that Japan has sent to Ukraine and intelligence radars sold to the Philippines.

For now, such exports will be limited to17 countriesthat have signed defense equipment and technology transfer agreements with Japan. They also must be approved by the National Security Council, and the government will monitor how the weapons are managed afterward.

Japan remains committed to strict screening and export controls to third countries and will not offer lethal weapons to countries at war, officials said, but granted that exceptions could be made to that limit.

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Japan began to export some non-lethal military supplies in 2014, and in December 2023 it approved a change that would allow sales of dozens of lethal weapons and components that it manufactures under licenses from other countries back to the licensors, clearing the way for Japan to sell U.S.-designed Patriot missiles to America to make up for munitions that Washington sent to Ukraine.

The 2023 revision also paved the way for Japan to jointly develop a sixth-generation fighter jet with Britain and Italy, and for Japan's biggest arms deal ever, which was formalized last week with Australia. It calls for Japan to deliver the first three of a $6.5 billion fleet of Japanese-designed frigates for the Australian navy and jointly build eight others in that country.

Japan aims to build up its arms industry

Japan's domestic defense industry was long seen as a bad investment, limited to catering to only the Self-Defense Force and Defense Ministry. Dozens of former defense contractors have withdrawn from the market.

That is changing as Japan accelerates a buildupof its militaryand defense industry to play more offensive roles in the face of threats from China, North Korea and Russia.

The defense industry is one of 17 strategic areas targeted for growth under the Takaichi government. A growing number of major companies and startups are showing interest, especially in dual-use goods and drones.

The government also has increased funding for startups and academic research.

Officials say they believe Japan’s new arms transfer rules would contribute to deepening of military and defense equipment cooperation with Japanese partners and to the regional deterrence.

Outlook for potential customers

Australia on Saturday signed an agreement with Japan for delivery of three of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries' upgraded Mogami-class frigates and to jointly produce eight others. It welcomed Tokyo’s new policy as a move to deepen their defense partnership.

New Zealand has also showed interest in the Japanese frigates. Several other countries have also expressed interests in Japanese defense equipment, including the Philippines, which is seeking to buy used destroyers, officials said.

Last week, a group of 30 NATO representatives visited Japan to discuss further deepening ties as the U.S. commitment to its alliance has been shaken by U.S. President Donald Trump. They visited a subsidiary of Mitsubishi Electric Corp., which is part of the trilateral fighter jet project and also known for its satellite technology.

Japan scraps a ban on lethal weapons exports in a change of its postwar pacifist policy

TOKYO (AP) — Japan on Tuesday scrapped a ban on lethal weapons exports, a major change in its postwar pacifist policy as the country se...

 

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