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Milwaukee Brewers' Jacob Misiorowski pitches during the first inning of a baseball game against the Philadelphia Phillies, Friday, June 12, 2026, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Aaron Gash)

Brewers’ Misiorowski sets record with 104.5-mph fastball

Milwaukee Brewers right-hander Jacob Misiorowski set a major league record Friday night, hurling a 104.5-mph fastball against the Philadelphia Phillies -- the fastest pitch recorded by a starting pitcher since pitch tracking began in 2008.

June 13, 2026
Tattoo artist Song Jaemin, right, works to tattoo an image of Jesus Christ on the forearm of Lee Byong-joo at his studio in Goyang, South Korea, Thursday, Sept. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

Crypto site pays people to tattoo ads on themselves

A Florida man offered about $2,585 in cryptocurrency to a man in Chennai, India, to permanently tattoo a promotional message across his forehead, one of dozens of increasingly extreme tasks posted to a new bounty marketplace on Pump.fun, a platform known for facilitating the creation and trade of speculative digital tokens.

June 12, 2026
A Grizzly bear walk through Yellowstone National Park near Mammoth, Wyo., May 4, 2009. (AP Photo/Billings Gazette, David Grubbs, File)

Grizzly bear mauls San Diego hiker on Glacier National Park trail

A San Diego man is recovering from multiple surgeries and mounting medical bills after a grizzly bear attacked him on one of Glacier National Park's most popular trails last month, dragging him across a snow-covered mountainside before fellow hikers and an airlifted rescue team got him to a hospital.

June 12, 2026
Honoree Rachel Griffin Accurso (aka Ms. Rachel) attends the Glamour Women of the Year Awards at The Plaza Hotel on Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2025, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Children’s entertainer Ms. Rachel visits Delaney Hall families, urges Congress to end detention

Children's entertainer Ms. Rachel visited families connected to detainees at the Delaney Hall immigration detention center in Newark, New Jersey, on Monday, calling on the federal government to end what she described as the traumatization of children by immigration enforcement. "This is not a partisan issue," she said. "We will all look back on this time and remember if we stood with children being abused in detention centers or with corporations making millions and harming them with our tax dollars."

June 11, 2026