San Diego Padres pitcher Matt Waldron has been benched indefinitely after undergoing a surgical procedure to “drain” his hemorrhoids. “[Matt] had to have surgery to drain it and make it better,” Padres manager Craig Stammen told reporters on Wednesday, February 25. “So he’s been in the hospital the last couple days.” Stammen, 41, described Waldron’s recovery as a “week-to-week” situation, meaning that it’s possible that the pitcher could miss Major League Baseball’s opening day on March 25. Waldron was in contention for a starting pitcher spot with the Padres, though it now seems unlikely that he’ll heal fast enough. His…

TAMPA — The Yankees are adding a veteran right-handed bat to their bench competition this spring. The club is signing outfielder Randal Grichuk to a minor league deal that includes an invite to big league camp, a source confirmed Wednesday night. Grichuk, 34, will try to prove he can fill a need for the Yankees as a righty bat off the bench that can play left field against left-handers (when Cody Bellinger would move over to center). Before adding Grichuk, the Yankees’ options beyond their projected starting outfield included Jasson Domínguez (a switch-hitter who is stronger from the left side),…

President Donald Trump called out former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi during his State of the Union address Tuesday, urging lawmakers to pass a ban on congressional stock trading — an issue that has long been a source of criticism for the California lawmaker. “Let’s also ensure that members of congress cannot corruptly profit from using insider information,” Trump said, before adding, “Did Nancy Pelosi stand up? … Doubt it.” While Pelosi said she doesn’t trade or personally own stocks, her venture capitalist husband Paul Pelosi does, and has grown the power couple’s wealth exponentially during her congressional career.  When she…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Republican and Independent voters reacted favorably when President Donald Trump brought up how his administration has cracked down on drug cartels and fentanyl, but Democrats appeared less motivated by Trump’s aggressive foreign policy stance. “For years, large swaths of territory in our region, including large parts of Mexico, really large parts of Mexico, have been controlled by murderous drug cartels. That’s why I designated these cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, and I declared illicit fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction,” Trump said to applause as he turned to look at Republicans. Per a…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! More than two decades after a Florida mother mysteriously vanished without a trace, divers have recovered human remains and her submerged car from a waterway.The Flagler County Sheriff’s Office announced that divers recovered parts of a red 1996 Plymouth Neon, clothing, children’s toys, a Florida driver’s license and human remains believed to be those of Mary Lou Combs, a Palm Coast woman.Combs was last seen on Aug. 19, 2003, leaving a home she shared “periodically” with her mother and three children, the sheriff’s office said. The 41-year-old never returned.Her family became concerned…

Conservative political commentator Candace Owens is questioning the authenticity of her late friend Charlie Kirk’s widow, Erika Kirk’s (née Frantzve) birth date. “I will tell you my personal opinion and experience with her,” Owens, 36, said in the Wednesday, February 25, episode of her documentary series Bride Of Charlie. “What alarms me about Erika isn’t so much the fact that she lies, which we will prove to you over and over again, but it’s also the fact that I don’t know that she’s aware that she’s lying.” Owens suggested that “the version [Erika is] telling us today or yesterday was…

Cincinnati is taking a former quarterback to court in hopes of enforcing a $1 million exit fee he is refusing to pay after transferring to a different football program.  The school is suing ex-quarterback Brendan Sorsby in federal court, alleging he breached an NIL contract with Cincinnati when he left to play for Texas Tech, ESPN reported.  In a lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, the university is seeking $1 million in liquidated damages. “In his lucrative NIL agreement with Cincinnati Athletics, Brendan Sorsby committed to stay and play for two seasons as…

Rep. Ilhan Omar said that one of the guests she invited to the State of the Union on Tuesday was arrested and “forcibly removed” from the House gallery — as she slammed the “heavy-handed” Capitol police response. Omar (D-Minn.) claimed software engineer Aliya Rahman, who was dragged out of her vehicle while driving to a doctor’s appointment during a Minnesota anti-immigration protest last month, was hauled out of the House gallery after standing up “silently” during President Trump’s address. “My guest, Aliya Rahman, stood up silently in the gallery during the president’s speech for a short period of time, part…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! An official with the Department of Homeland Security told state election officials Wednesday that federal immigration agents will not be stationed at polling locations during the November midterm elections, as some Democrats have warned the Trump administration could attempt to interfere in the elections through intimidation or racial profiling.Heather Honey, DHS’ deputy assistant secretary for election integrity, told secretaries of state on a call that “any suggestion that ICE will be present at any polling location is simply not true,” according to Arizona’s Democrat Secretary of State Adrian Fontes.A spokeswoman for Oregon…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Former Harvard President Larry Summers announced Wednesday he will resign from his academic and faculty appointments at the Ivy League school at the end of the academic year, a Harvard spokesperson said, following the emergence of his communications with the late Jeffrey Epstein. “In connection with the ongoing review by the University of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein that were recently released by the government, Harvard Kennedy School Dean Jeremy Weinstein has accepted Professor Lawrence H. Summers’ resignation from his leadership position as co-director of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government,” a Harvard…