Santa Cruz Sentinel

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... SEATTLE — The baseball wasn’t exactly flying out to center field in the early innings on Friday night at T-Mobile Park. In the bottom of the second, the Mariners’ Luke Raley sent a 400-foot drive to straightaway center field that Drew Gilbert caught with his back to the wall. In the next half inning, Casey Schmitt hit a 386-foot fly ball that faded at the center-field warning track and nestled innocently into the glove of the Mariners’ Victor Robles.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By SARAH RAZA SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota cannot enforce its abortion advertising ban against a reproductive health nonprofit, a federal judge ruled Friday. U.S. District Judge Camela C. Theeler issued a preliminary injunction blocking South Dakota from enforcing the recently adopted state law against New York-based Mayday Health and plaintiff Nancy Turbak Berry. The judge said the nonprofit was likely to win the case.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By JOSH KELETY A federal appeals court ruled Friday that New Jersey’s bans on assault firearms and magazines that can hold more than 10 rounds are unconstitutional. This is the first time a federal appeals court has struck down a state ban on such weapons, and it comes as the U.S. Supreme Court is set to consider whether bans on semiautomatic rifles violate the Second Amendment.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By BERNARD CONDON NEW YORK (AP) — America’s first billionaire president may soon be profiting from a new line of business tied to his office: charging access for a first peek at certain posts on his Truth Social platform. Donald Trump’s struggling media company plans to sell Wall Street traders the chance to see posts from “highest-ranking” accounts — including possibly his own — milliseconds before others. That could mean big money for them, and Trump.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By MATTHEW BROWN BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The U.S. Interior Department on Friday canceled a rule meant to protect plants and animals that are determined to be threatened with extinction, the latest step by President Donald Trump’s administration to dismantle key provisions of the landmark Endangered Species Act at the behest of industry.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... WASHINGTON (AP) — A 28-year prison sentence is too lenient for a Libyan militant who was convicted of terrorism-related charges in the 2012 attacks on U.S. compounds in Benghazi, Libya, that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans, a federal appeals court ruled Friday.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By JAIMIE DING LOS ANGELES (AP) — Paul Pelosi, husband of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, was charged Friday with a misdemeanor hit-and-run over a collision with a parked car. Pelosi, 86, was driving his brown convertible July 3 in Yountville, California, a town in the heart of wine country, when he struck a legally parked car on the side of the road, the Napa County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement at the time.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By MICHAEL CASEY BOSTON (AP) — A federal judge in Boston on Friday ruled the Trump administration can’t use an obscure clause relating to agency priorities to make billions of dollars in funding cuts. Twenty-three states had a filed a lawsuit last year accusing the administration of using the clause to make cuts to everything from crime prevention to food security to scientific research.

Work continues on the Murray Street Bridge as it remains closed to traffic in both directions. Over the summer, crews are conducting pile driving and installing new bridge supports to strengthen the bridge’s foundations and improve its seismic resilience. This summer marks the last long-term bridge closure in the three-year project timeline.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... SANTA CRUZ — In 2020, Michael Hansen was struggling with depression when he adopted a 12-week-old German Rottweiler named Einstein. For over six years, the dog has brought socialization and sunshine into the U.S. Air Force veteran’s life. Now, Einstein is suffering from what his veterinarian believes to be osteosarcoma, an aggressive bone cancer common in Rottweilers.