The Twins on Friday recalled right-hander Travis Adams from Class AAA St. Paul and added him to the 26-man active roster. He will be available to make his major league debut tonight against Toronto at Target Field.
To make room, left-hander Kody Funderburk was optioned back to St. Paul. In his second stint with the Twins this season, Funderburk appeared in seven games, allowing eight runs on 15 hits and four walks in eight innings. He struck out four.
Adams, 25, has appeared in 13 games (two starts) for the Saints this season, going 3-1 with a 3.43 earned-run average and three saves. He has allowed 38 hits and fanned 37 in 42 innings for St. Paul.
Hannah Husom thwarted a rally with a defensive gem, then all but iced a state title with her bat.
The senior’s two-run single capped a four-run fourth inning and Champlin Park was clutch in crunch time to beat Bloomington Jefferson 6-0 in the Class 4A softball championship game Friday morning at the University of Minnesota.
Five of six Rebel runs came were plated with two-out hits.
“These girls are built for the moment. Any time you have girls in scoring position, they thrive. They want the at-bat, want to go up there and pick their teammates up,” said Champlin Park coach Bryan Woodley.
Marissa Rothenberger allowed three hits and struck out six, Lauren Heltemes had three of the team’s 13 hits, and the Rebels (24-2) took top honors in the school’s first state appearance.
Up 1-0 in the fourth, Husom made sure the Champlin Park lead would hold.
Brook Borwege and Remi Rudquist had two-out singles for the Jaguars (25-3), but Husom raced to the gap in left-centerfield and, while looking toward the sun, reached out for a tremendous running catch to rob Grace Rolek of an extra-base hit.
“I know I’m fast, like I know I could get there, but I was shocked. It was a good hit, but it was a good catch,” Husom said.
Ever made a bigger catch?
“No, because that was a huge moment. I think that was the best catch I could have made,” she said.
In center field, Ava Parent — who had the game-winning hit for the Rebels in the semifinals Wednesday in Mankato — had the best look at what she termed an “insane” and “electric” snare.
“I wasn’t surprised that she caught. It was an amazing catch, so it was very exciting, but I knew she had it in her. … That catch just fired everyone up for the next inning,” she said.
The momentum carried to the bottom of the frame where Champlin Park scored four times.
Chloe Postma and Amanda Kotsmith had traditional singles, and Heltemes loaded the bases on a dribbler inside the first-base line. Two batters later, and with two outs, Parent had two-run single, and Husom did the same for a 5-0 lead.
“Losing in the section championship last year really gave us that drive, because we knew we could do it,” Husom said. “Coming into this year we were like, ‘We’re the best team in the state’. We had the confidence. We kept telling ourselves that.”
Seeded fourth, Jefferson upset top-seeded Forest Lake 3-2 in a semifinal but couldn’t get anything going in the title tilt.
“They outplayed us in every aspect of the game,” said coach Jim Hanson.
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia struck Ukraine with a thunderous aerial bombardment overnight, further dampening hopes that the warring sides could reach a peace deal anytime soon days after Kyiv embarrassed the Kremlin with a surprising drone attack on military airfields deep inside Russia.
The barrage was one of the fiercest of the three-year war, lasting several hours, striking six Ukrainian territories, and killing at least four people and injuring about 50 others, Ukrainian officials said Friday. Among the dead were three emergency responders in Kyiv and someone who was pulled from the rubble of an apartment building in a northwestern city.
The attack came after U.S. President Donald Trump said his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, told him Moscow would respond to Ukraine’s attack Sunday on Russian military airfields. It was also hours after Trump said it might be better to let Ukraine and Russia “fight for a while” before pulling them apart and pursuing peace. Trump’s comments were a remarkable detour from his often-stated appeals to stop the war and signaled he may be giving up on recent peace efforts.
Ukrainian cities have come under regular bombardment since Russia invaded its neighbor in February 2022. The attacks have killed more than 12,000 civilians, according to the United Nations.
“Russia doesn`t change its stripes,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.
A man carries his dog in front of a residential multi-storey building damaged after a Russian drone strike on Kyiv, Ukraine, on Friday, June 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
People rest in a metro station, being used as a bomb shelter, during a Russian drones attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, early Friday, June 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Dan Bashakov)
A man looks from a window of a residential multi-storey building damaged after a Russian drone strike on Kyiv, Ukraine, on Friday, June 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
People rest in a metro station, being used as a bomb shelter, during a Russian drones attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, early Friday, June 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Dan Bashakov)
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks to journalists during a press conference in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Wednesday, June 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
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A man carries his dog in front of a residential multi-storey building damaged after a Russian drone strike on Kyiv, Ukraine, on Friday, June 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
The war has continued unabated even as a U.S.-led diplomatic push for a settlement has brought two rounds of direct peace talks between delegations from Russia and Ukraine. The negotiations delivered no significant breakthroughs, however, and the sides remain far apart on their terms for an end to the fighting.
Ukraine has offered an unconditional 30-day ceasefire and a meeting between Zelenskyy and Russian leader Vladimir Putin to break the deadlock. But the Kremlin has effectively rejected a truce and hasn’t budged from its demands.
“The Kremlin continues efforts to falsely portray Russia as willing to engage in good-faith negotiations to end the war in Ukraine, despite Russia’s repeated refusal to offer any concessions,” the Institute for the Study of War, a Washington-based think tank, said late Thursday.
Further peace talks between Russian and Ukrainian are expected in coming weeks, as is another exchange of prisoners of war.
Homes are struck
The attack involved 407 Russian drones and 44 ballistic and cruise missiles, Ukrainian air force spokesperson Yurii Ihnat said. Ukrainian forces said they shot down about 30 of the cruise missiles and up to 200 of the drones.
The Kyiv emergency workers were killed while responding to the strikes. “They were working under fire to help people,” the Interior Ministry said in a statement.
Russia’s Defense Ministry said it aimed at Ukrainian military targets with “long-range precision weapons” and successfully struck arms depots, drone factories and repair facilities, among other targets.
But fitting a pattern for Russian attacks throughout the war, Friday’s bombardment also struck apartment buildings and other non-military targets, Associated Press reporters observed.
In Kyiv, explosions were heard for hours as falling drone debris sparked fires across several districts, said Tymur Tkachenko, head of the Kyiv City Administration. He urged people to seek shelter.
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Vitalina Vasylchenko, a 14-year-old Kyiv resident, sheltered in a parking garage with her 6-year-old sister and their mother after an explosion blew one of their windows off its hinges.
“I heard a buzzing sound, then my dad ran to me and covered me with his hand,” she said. “Then there was a very loud explosion. My whole life flashed before my eyes — I already thought that was it. I started having a panic attack. … I’m shocked that I’m alive.”
In Kyiv’s Solomyanskyi district, a fire broke out on the 11th floor of a 16-story apartment building. Emergency services evacuated three people from the burning unit. The attack caused a blackout in some areas, and more than 2,000 households on Kyiv’s eastern bank were without power, city officials said.
Elsewhere, 10 people were injured by an aerial attack on the western city of Ternopil, regional governor Viacheslav Nehoda said. The strike damaged industrial and infrastructure facilities, left parts of the city without electricity, and disrupted water supplies.
Russia also targeted the western Lviv and Khmelnytskyi regions, the northern Chernihiv region, and the central Poltava region, where at least three people were injured.
Russia also reports drone attacks
In Russia, air defenses shot down 10 Ukrainian drones heading toward the capital early Friday, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said. As a precaution, flights at Moscow airports were temporarily suspended overnight Thursday into Friday and then again late Friday afternoon.
Ukrainian drones also targeted three other regions of Russia, authorities said, damaging apartment buildings and industrial plants. Three people were injured, officials said.
Russia’s Defense Ministry said that air defenses downed 174 Ukrainian drones over 13 regions early Friday. It added that three Ukrainian Neptune missiles were also shot down over the Black Sea.
Ukraine struck airfields and other military targets in Russia, such as fuel storage tanks and transport hubs, the Ukrainian General Staff said.
Also, a locomotive derailed early Friday in the Belgorod region after the track was blown up, Belgorod Gov. Vyacheslav Gladkov said. Russia has recently accused Ukraine of sabotaging the rail network.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A Japanese company has halted construction on a $1.6 billion factory in South Carolina to help make batteries for electric BMWs, citing “policy and market uncertainty.”
While Automotive Energy Supply Corp. didn’t specify what those problems are, South Carolina’s Republican governor said the company is dealing with the potential loss of federal tax breaks for electric vehicle buyers and incentives for EV businesses as well as tariff uncertainties from President Donald Trump’s administration.
“What we’re doing is urging caution — let things play out because all of the these changes are taking place,” Gov. Henry McMaster said.
AESC announced the suspension in construction of its plant in Florence on Thursday.
“Due to policy and market uncertainty, we are pausing construction at our South Carolina facility at this time,” the company’s statement said.
AESC promised to restart construction, although it didn’t say when, and vowed to meet its commitment to hire 1,600 workers and invest $1.6 billion. The company said it has already invested $1 billion in the Florence plant.
The battery maker based in Japan also has facilities in China, the United Kingdom, France, Spain and Germany. In the U.S., AESC has a plant in Tennessee and is building one in Kentucky. The statement didn’t mention any changes with other plants.
The South Carolina plant is supposed to sell battery cells to BMW, which is building its own battery assembly site near its giant auto plant in Greer. BMW said the construction pause by AESC doesn’t change its plans to open its plant in 2026.
AESC has already rolled back its South Carolina plans. They announced a second factory on the Florence site, but then said earlier this year that their first plant should be able to handle BMW’s demand. That prompted South Carolina officials to withdraw $111 million in help they planned to provide.
The company is still getting $135 million in grants from the South Carolina Department of Commerce and $121 million in bonds and the agency said a construction pause won’t prompt them to claw back that offer.
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South Carolina is investing heavily in electric vehicles. Volkswagen-owned Scout Motors plans to invest $2 billion and hire 4,000 people for a plant to build its new electric SUVs scheduled to open in 2027.
The state has for decades made big bets on foreign manufacturers like BMW, Michelin and Samsung that have paid off with an economic boom this century, but there is uneasiness that Trump’s flirtation with high tariffs might stagger or even ruin those important partnerships.
McMaster told people to relax as state and business leaders are talking to Trump’s administration and things will work out.
“I think the goal of the president and the administration is to have robust economic growth and prosperity and there is no doubt there has to be changes made in our international trade posture and President Trump is addressing that,” McMaster told reporters Thursday.
