Derek Shelton’s coaching staff is complete.

A couple weeks after hiring Shelton to take over as manager, the Twins have officially filled out the rest of the coaching staff with a mix of returners and new but familiar faces like LaTroy Hawkins and Toby Gardenhire, each of whom has been given their first opportunity to coach at the major league level.

The Twins have tapped Mark Hallberg to serve as their bench coach, a role that Shelton himself once had in 2018 and 2019 before departing to manage the Pittsburgh Pirates. Hallberg spent the past six seasons on the San Francisco Giants’ coaching staff, including the last two as their first base coach.

Mike Rabelo, someone with whom Shelton is very familiar, will serve as their assistant bench coach. Rabelo worked under Shelton during his entire tenure in Pittsburgh, most recently serving as the Pirates’ major league field coordinator and third base coach.

Gardenhire, the son of longtime Twins manager Ron Gardenhire, will be the Twins’ major league field coordinator after managing and coaching for the past eight years in their minor league system. Most recently, he has been serving as the manager of the Triple-A Saints.

On the pitching side, the Twins are retaining Pete Maki and assistant pitching coach Luis Ramirez. Hawkins, a longtime major leaguer, will join them as the Twins’ bullpen coach, taking over a role that had been filled with Colby Suggs, who recently was named to the same position with the Texas Rangers. Hawkins has been working as a special assistant to the Twins’ baseball operations department as well as an analyst on television broadcasts. The 21-year major league veteran pitched in 1,042 games himself, 10th most among pitchers.

On the hitting side, the Twins will have turnover for the third straight year as Keith Beauregard, who spent the last three years with the Detroit Tigers, takes over for Matt Borgschulte. He will be joined by assistant hitting coaches Trevor Amicone and Rayden Sierra, both of whom joined the Twins’ coaching staff ahead of last season.

Ramon Borrego, who also joined the staff in 2025, will also return. He will continue to work with the infielders and will take over as the Twins’ new third base coach. Longtime coach Tommy Watkins, who held that job previously, has been hired to do the same in Atlanta.

Former major league outfielder Grady Sizemore will take over for Borrego as the Twins’ first base coach, while also handling baserunning and outfield coaching duties, something which Watkins had done previously. Sizemore spent much of his playing career in Cleveland, where he overlapped with Shelton, who was the hitting coach there for many seasons. In recent years, he has been on the Chicago White Sox coaching staff, holding a number of roles, including interim manager in 2024.

Besides Baldelli, Borgschulte, Suggs and Watkins,  others who are not returning are bench coach Jayce Tingler, who has been hired by the Giants already, assistant bench coach Hank Conger and quality control coach Nate Dammann.

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St. Paul police are investigating the death of a man Friday morning who was found after a 911 call reporting an assault.

Police gave the following details in a press release Friday afternoon:

About 11:40 a.m., police responded to a report of an assault at an apartment complex on the 1500 block of Westminster Street. When officers arrived they found a man with lacerations to his back and head. Officers began life-saving efforts until St. Paul Fire Department medics arrived and took over. The man was pronounced dead a short time later.

A woman who reported the assault was taken to Regions Hospital to be treated for non-life threatening injuries.

Investigators are working to determine what led to the man’s death. At this time, no arrests have been made but police say the incident poses no threat to public safety.

The Ramsey County Medical Examiner’s Office will release the man’s identify and cause of death after an autopsy.

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By RIO YAMAT and JOSH FUNK

The Federal Aviation Administration said Friday it plans to roll back some of the restrictions on commercial flights it implemented at 40 major U.S. airports during the shutdown.

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The agency says the current mandatory 6% flight cuts are being downgraded to 3% even though the record 43-day shutdown ended Nov. 12. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has repeatedly said restrictions would remain until staffing at air traffic control facilities stabilizes and safety metrics improve.

The unprecedented order, in place since Nov. 7, has affected thousands of flights. The head of the FAA said troubling data showed the measure was needed to ease pressure on the aviation system as the shutdown entered its second month and controller absences rose. Unpaid for more than a month, many controllers cited financial strain and the need to take on side jobs.

The flight cuts started at 4% and later grew to 6%. The FAA originally had a 10% target, but officials held off on further rate increases because they said more controllers were coming to work amid news that Congress was close to reaching a deal to end the shutdown.

Air traffic controllers missed two paychecks during the impasse.

Duffy hasn’t shared the specific safety data that prompted the cuts, but he cited reports during the shutdown of planes getting too close in the air, more runway incursions and pilot concerns about controllers’ responses.

How long it will take for the aviation system to stabilize is unclear. The flight restrictions upended airline operations in just a matter of days. Many planes were rerouted and aren’t where they’re supposed to be. Airlines for America, the trade group of U.S. airlines, warned there could be residual effects for days.

Some experts predicted the problems could linger longer but airline executives were optimistic that flying could quickly return to normal ahead of the busy Thanksgiving travel week.

The nationwide shortage of controllers isn’t new, but the shutdown put a spotlight on the problem and likely made it worse. Duffy said that by the end of the shutdown, 15-20 controllers were retiring daily and some younger controllers were leaving the profession.

By MICHAEL R. SISAK and JESSE BEDAYN

NEW YORK (AP) — Acceding to President Donald Trump’s demands, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said Friday that she has ordered a top federal prosecutor to investigate sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s ties to Trump political foes, including former President Bill Clinton.

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Bondi posted on X that she was assigning Manhattan U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton to lead the probe, capping an eventful week in which congressional Republicans released nearly 23,000 pages of documents from Epstein’s estate and House Democrats seized on emails mentioning Trump.

Trump, who was friends with Epstein for years, didn’t explain what supposed crimes he wanted the Justice Department to investigate. None of the men he mentioned in a social media post demanding the probe has been accused of sexual misconduct by any of Epstein’s victims.

Hours before Bondi’s announcement, Trump posted on his Truth Social platform that he would ask her, the Justice Department and the FBI to investigate Epstein’s “involvement and relationship” with Clinton and others, including former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers and LinkedIn founder and Democratic donor Reid Hoffman.

Trump, calling the matter “the Epstein Hoax, involving Democrats, not Republicans,” said the investigation should also include financial giant JPMorgan Chase, which provided banking services to Epstein, and “many other people and institutions.”

“This is another Russia, Russia, Russia Scam, with all arrows pointing to the Democrats,” the Republican president wrote, referring to special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of alleged Russian interference in Trump’s 2016 election victory over Bill Clinton’s wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Big names in Epstein’s emails

Trump, Bill Clinton, Summers and Hoffman were all mentioned in the documents released this week — a collection of emails Epstein exchanged with friends and business associates, news articles, book excerpts, legal papers and other material.

Protest art representing President Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein sits outside Busboys and Poets restaurant in the U Street neighborhood of Washington, Thursday, Nov., 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Epstein kept in touch with Summers and Hoffman via email, according to the documents, and wrote to other people about Trump and Clinton being in his company at various times over the years — though nothing in the messages suggested any wrongdoing on the men’s part.

Clinton has acknowledged traveling on Epstein’s private jet but has said through a spokesperson that he had no knowledge of the late financier’s crimes. Neither Clinton nor Trump have been accused of wrongdoing by any of the women who say Epstein abused them.

Summers, who served in Clinton’s cabinet and is a former Harvard University president, previously said in a statement that he has “great regrets in my life” and that “my association with Jeffrey Epstein was a major error of judgement.”

Message seeking comment were left for Hoffman through his investment firm, Greylock, and with a spokesperson for JPMorgan Chase.

After Epstein’s sex trafficking arrest in 2019, Hoffman said he’d only had a few interactions with Epstein, all related to his fundraising for MIT’s Media Lab. He nevertheless apologized, saying that “by agreeing to participate in any fundraising activity where Epstein was present, I helped to repair his reputation and perpetuate injustice.”

None of Epstein’s victims have accused Hoffman of misconduct.

Bondi, in her post, praised Clayton as “one of the most capable and trusted prosecutors in the country” and said the Justice Department “will pursue this with urgency and integrity to deliver answers to the American people.”

Clayton, the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission during Trump’s first term, took over in April as U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York — the same office that indicted Epstein and won a sex trafficking conviction against Epstein’s longtime confidante, Ghislaine Maxwell, in 2021.

Trump changes course on Epstein files

Trump has raised questions about Epstein’s death in jail a month after his arrest and suggested while campaigning last year that he’d seek to open up the government’s case files.

FILE – This photo provided by the New York State Sex Offender Registry shows Jeffrey Epstein, March 28, 2017. (New York State Sex Offender Registry via AP, File)

But Trump has changed course in recent months — blaming Democrats and painting the matter as a “hoax” — amid questions about his own friendship with Epstein and what knowledge he may have had about Epstein’s yearslong exploitation of underage girls.

On Wednesday, Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released three Epstein email exchanges that referenced Trump, including one from 2019 in which Epstein said the president “knew about the girls” and another from 2011 in which he said Trump had “spent hours” at his house with a sex trafficking victim.

The emails did not say what Trump knew and did not give any details of what Trump did while at Epstein’s house. White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt accused Democrats of having “selectively leaked emails” to “create a fake narrative to smear President Trump.”

Soon after, Republicans on the committee disclosed what they said was an additional 20,000 pages of documents from Epstein’s estate. Among them were emails Epstein wrote, including many where he commented — often unfavorably — on Trump’s rise in politics and corresponded with journalists.

Other emails show Epstein keeping up friendly relationships with academic and business leaders, including Summers and Hoffman, well after he pleaded guilty in 2008 and served 13 months in jail for procuring a person under 18 for prostitution.

Epstein and Summers discussed politics, arranged calls with each other and spoke on more intimate matters, according to the emails, including about a woman Summers had interactions with. Epstein’s advice to him: “You care very much for this person. you might want to demonstrate that.”

Epstein exchanged just a few emails with Hoffman, who later bankrolled writer E. Jean Carroll’s sexual abuse and defamation lawsuit against Trump. In one exchange, in 2015, Epstein told the billionaire: “heyy it looks like your diet program has worked.”

Hoffman replied: “slow progress. planning to see you in August. Hope your well.”

Bedayn reported from Denver.