A Conversation With Koko The Gorilla

On Wednesday, The Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA) and Major League Baseball (MLB) announced an expansion of financial assistance opportunities to support players of the Negro Leagues. The initiative will create an annual benefit to financially aid Negro League players who played for less than four seasons. While there were other Black-only leagues players participated in, the Negro National League was a professional baseball league established in 1920 as racism and Jim Crow laws barred Black players from joining professional teams with white players.

COLUMBIA, S. C. — Nikki Haley said Wednesday that she will be voting for Donald Trump in the general election, encouraging the presumptive GOP nominee to work hard to win support from those who backed her in the primary. “I will be voting for Trump,” Haley, Trump’s former U. N. ambassador, said during an event at the Hudson Institute in Washington. But Haley also made it clear that she feels Trump has work to do to win over voters who supported her during the course of the primary campaign, and continue to cast votes for her in ongoing primary contests. “Having said that, I stand by what I said in my suspension speech,” Haley added.

The Try Guys, a group of former Buzzfeed employees turned YouTubers, is going from three guys to two, they announced Wednesday, adding that they’ll launch a new subscription-based streaming service. In a recent interview with Rolling Stone, Keith Habersberger and Zach Kornfeld announced that Eugene Lee Yang is stepping away from the Try Guys to focus on creative endeavors. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Kornfeld said while Yang’s departure is “bittersweet,” he and Habersberger are excited for what’s to come from him in the future.

New York — A Michigan dairy worker has been diagnosed with bird flu — the second human case associated with an outbreak in U. S. dairy cows. The patient had mild eye symptoms and has recovered, U. S. and Michigan health officials said in announcing the case Wednesday. The worker had been in contact with cows presumed to be infected, and the risk to the public remains low, officials said. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] A nasal swab from the person tested negative for the virus, but an eye swab tested positive, “indicating an eye infection,” the U.

Washington — The Republican National Committee’s Washington headquarters was briefly evacuated on Wednesday as police investigated two vials of blood that had been addressed to former President Donald Trump following the presumptive presidential nominee’s takeover of the national party apparatus. Hazardous-materials teams were called in after the vials were discovered, according to the U.

Video of baggage handlers unloading a Delta Air Lines flight and carelessly tossing luggage and golfing equipment belonging to a Tennessee university men’s golf team went viral Wednesday, prompting the airline to issue an apology and ask the team for a second chance. The East Tennessee State University men’s golf team posted the video on X late Tuesday night.