Author: Liam Porter

Major League Baseball’s season is at the midway point and the 2025 amateur draft is just a matter of weeks away. If you ask us here at CBS Sports, that makes this the opportune time to rank some minor-league prospects.Below, you’ll find my updated rating of the top 25 prospects left in the minors. “In the minors” is a key phrase because, for the sake of this exercise, I’ve excluded any player with MLB experience (Chase Burns doesn’t take the mound for his major-league debut until tonight, so he still qualifies). I’m always willing to experiment with the format of these…

French police have detained twelve suspects after 145 people reported being pricked with syringes during the country’s annual street music festival, officials said. Millions of people took to the streets across France on Saturday evening for the Fete de la Musique, with authorities reporting “unprecedented crowds” in Paris. Before the party, posts on social media had called for women to be targeted during the festivities.

Much has been made of the power of habit. We’re encouraged to make healthy choices our default and to understand the way that the brain sets certain tasks, such as our morning commute, on autopilot to improve our efficiency.But what about our more intentional, conscious day-to-day choices? The decisions we ponder—over seconds or lengthy deliberation—rely in part on the value system, which weighs in on the subjective evaluations we make, tipping the scales toward one choice over another. “When we understand how the value system works, we can recognize many possible paths to our goals,” says Emily Falk, a neuroscientist…

A commitment to international law “goes absolutely to the heart” of Sir Keir Starmer’s government and its approach to foreign policy, the attorney general has told the BBC.In his first broadcast interview, Lord Richard Hermer, who is the Cabinet’s chief legal adviser, said that the government was determined to “lead on international law issues” globally.He argued that this has enabled the UK to strike economic deals with the US, India and the EU in recent months. The attorney general also defended Starmer’s decision to seek a “warm” relationship with President Trump even at the expense of “short-term political gain”.Lord Hermer’s…

U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell walks after attending a press conference following the issuance of the Federal Open Market Committee’s statement on interest rate policy in Washington, D.C., U.S., June 18, 2025.Kevin Mohatt | ReutersFederal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Tuesday emphasized the central bank’s commitment to keeping inflation in check, saying he expects policymakers to stay on hold until they have a better handle on the impact tariffs will have on prices.In remarks to be delivered to two congressional committees this week, Powell characterized economic growth as strong and the labor market to be around full employment.However, he…

When she heard that Jeff Bezos was getting married in Venice this June, Heather Jane Johnson felt worse than she had in her entire life. Twenty-five years ago, she ceased trading as a bookseller in Boston, Massachusetts. “I lost a lot because of Bezos and the complicity of Americans in the making of Amazon,” the 53-year-old says. “A big reason I moved to Italy is because I felt betrayed by my countrypeople.”So when posters went up calling a public meeting in the city she now calls home, she went, and she has been to every meeting of anti-Bezos activists since,…

It’s hard to imagine London without the mighty riverside citadels of Tate Modern and Battersea power station, or bereft of the ornate Victorian market halls of Smithfield and Billingsgate. It is equally difficult to picture Yorkshire without its majestic sandstone mills, Grimsby without its fishing docks, or parts of Liverpool without their streets of terrace houses. Yet all these things could have victims of the wrecking ball, if it weren’t for one small band of plucky activists. You may not have heard of Save Britain’s Heritage, or Save as it likes to style itself. But the tiny charity, which celebrates…

For Restless Sleepers Resort 2026

You’re going to want to sit down with a big glass of water for this one, because I’m afraid I have some bad news. Here we go: alcohol is not terribly good for you. Shocker, right? You’ve probably never heard anything like this before in your life. No doubt, you’ve been choking down a glass of pinot with dinner whenever you can stomach it because you thought it was good for your cholesterol. Instead, it is elevating your risk of cancer.If public health experts have their way, the fact that alcohol is carcinogenic is going to be very hard for…

Social media influencer and boxer Jake Paul returns to the ring Saturday as a massive favorite against Julio Cesar Chavez Jr.In his first fight since winning by unanimous decision over Mike Tyson in November, Paul is -800 for his matchup against the former WBC middleweight titleholder. Chavez had three title defenses between 2011 and 2012 and last fought just under a year ago, taking a unanimous decision over former UFC fighter Uriah Hall, a bout coincidentally on the Paul-Mike Perry undercard.This bout has all the feels of a Jake Paul domination, but the money-line price is too steep to play…