Major League Baseball announced on Saturday that Rickey Henderson, one of the game's most lasting stars and the best base stealer in its history, has passed away. Henderson was sixty-five. In a statement expressing the league's sympathies on Saturday, MLB commissioner Rob Manfred referred to Henderson as the "gold standard of base stealing and leadoff hitting." At the top of the lineup, Rickey established the standard for speed, power, and entertaining. Henderson was without a doubt the most illustrious player in Oakland history, according to the Athletics, who will play in Sacramento the next season after leaving Oakland. Henderson, a standout high school athlete from Oakland, California, was selected by the Oakland Athletics in the 1976 MLB Draft and made his Major League debut three ye...

Despite the news that a white Christmas is not anticipated later this week, people in the Northeast woke up to the sight of snow on Saturday, the first day of winter. The amount of snowfall varied from a dusting to six inches, with Milton, Massachusetts receiving the most, 9.4 inches. A powerful cold front looming over the area Saturday afternoon, with daytime highs around 10 to 20 degrees below normal, helped push snow showers offshore. There could be more snow. Dispersed Winter Alerts were in effect until the afternoon on Saturday night in areas of the Great Lakes and mid-Appalachians. An extra dusting of snow, up to two inches, might fall in some regions. On Saturday, breezy gusts of up to 35 mph are also anticipated. On Saturday night, freeze alerts are in effect for southeast Georgia ...

Tank Dell, the premier receiver for the Houston Texans, appeared to have a horrific knee injury during the third quarter of Saturday's game against the Kansas City Chiefs. Several of Dell's colleagues were crying on the sidelines due to the sad nature of the injury that forced him to be taken off the field. Dell's 30-yard touchdown reception from quarterback CJ Stroud, which brought the Texans (9-5) within 17-16 on the scoreboard, was the play on which the injury happened and which Houston originally celebrated. However, teammate Jared Wayne, who had also been running a deep route toward the end zone, struck Dell close to the knee as he grabbed the pass in the back of the end zone. Before being placed on a stretcher, Dell received prompt medical attention. During the play's aftermath, Stro...

Taleb al-Abdulmohsen, a self-described member of the liberal opposition to Saudi Arabia who has expressed strong anti-Islamic and anti-immigration beliefs, has been named as the suspect in the German car-ramming assault that killed five people and injured over 200 others on Friday. Al-Abdulmohsen was named as the suspect by two high-ranking authorities with knowledge of the case. Shoppers congregated in a tiny alley in Magdeburg, a city of roughly 240,000 people west of Berlin, on Friday night when the automobile purportedly driven by al-Abdulmohsen crashed 1,200 feet into the crowd. A 9-year-old youngster and four adults are among the victims. Al-Abdulmohsen, a Saudi Arabian physician who resided in Germany, applied for asylum in Germany in 2016 after receiving threats from Saudi Arabia. ...

In a lawsuit, Blake Lively accused her co-star Justin Baldoni of sexual harassment, fostering a hostile work environment on the It Ends With Us set, and attempting to damage her reputation after she voiced her concerns. An all-hands meeting was held on January 4th to discuss concerns that had almost caused the film's production to fail, according to the undated complaint submitted to the California Civil Rights Department. The meeting was attended by Lively, Baldoni, Wayfarer Studios and Sony Pictures Entertainment executives, as well as Lively's husband, Ryan Reynolds. Numerous concerns were brought up during the meeting, ranging from improper conversations to claimed retaliatory or abusive actions, according to the complaint, which NBC News was able to receive on Saturday. TMZ was the f...