ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- Jeremy Hellickson earned his fifth June win and the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Detroit Tigers 3-1 Sunday in a game that included an early warning by the umpires.
Hellickson (7-3) allowed one run over six-plus innings. He tied the team record for victories in one month held by Matt Moore, David Price and Scott Kazmir.
US intelligence services are spying on the European Union mission in New York and its embassy in Washington, according to the latest top secret US National Security Agency documents leaked by the whistleblower Edward Snowden.
A growing number of American workers are confronting a frustrating predicament on payday: to get their wages, they must first pay a fee.
Demi Lovato is still coming to terms with the death of her dad, Patrick Lovato, who died last weekend at the age of 54 after his battle with cancer.
Although Lovato had been estranged from her biological father since 2007, the "X Factor" mentor took to Twitter to open up about her devastating loss this week, telling her followers, "I feel so humbled to have had so much support from my fans, friends, family and complete strangers.. God bless you all, thank you so much."
Lovato posted another message following her father's funeral on Saturday.
Aaron Hernandez has at least one former teammate willing to speak fondly of him in public. Following a week in which the New England Patriots distanced themselves from the tight end, Deion Branch offered some rare supportive words, calling Hernandez "my guy" and "a great kid."
“Aaron is a great guy and a great friend of mine and a great teammate,” the former Patriots wide receiver told The Albany Herald on Saturday. “I love him to death, and it was shocking to hear his name involved in this situation. I truly hope and pray he doesn’t have any dealings with it.”
Branch's shock and hope seem at odds with actions from the Patriots since Hernandez was arrested in connection with the fatal shooting of 27-year-old Odin Lloyd. Less than two hours after Hernandez was arrested on Monday, the Patriots released Hernandez. The 23-year-old tight end who joined the Patriots in 2010 out of the University of Florida was subsequently charged with murder and weapons counts at his arraignment. Several days later, the team announced a jersey exchange in which fans could turn in certain Hernandez jerseys to the official team store and receive another player's jersey in return.
PORTOVIEJO, Ecuador -- Edward Snowden is "under the care of the Russian authorities" and can't leave Moscow's international airport without their consent, Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa told The Associated Press Sunday in an interview telegraphing the slim and diminishing possibility that the National Security Agency leaker will end up in Ecuador.
Correa portrayed Russia as entirely the master of Snowden's fate and said Ecuador is still awaiting an asylum request from Snowden before deciding its next moves.
RIO DE JANEIRO — More than 5,000 anti-government protesters marched Sunday near the Maracana football stadium before a major international match, venting their anger about the billions of dollars the Brazilian government is spending on major sporting events rather than public services.
Though smaller in size, the march was the latest in a wave of protests that has spread across this continent-sized country in recent weeks. Many are calling the protest movement the biggest seen here in decades, with more than 1 million people having taken to the streets nationwide on just the night of June 20.
