All three had been planning to run in the Nov.... Also convicted were business leader José Adán Aguerri, Violeta Granera and opposition leader Tamara Dávila.... Prosecutors claimed the seven had attempted to “ conspire ” against Ortega's government by participating in a WhatsApp chat with a U.S.-based political analyst, Manuel Orozco. Most of those convicted so far by Nicaraguan judges have later been sentenced to 13 years in prison....

Nicaraguan police placed under house arrest a seventh presidential contender on Saturday, meaning that almost all of those who could have challenged President Daniel Ortega in the Nov.... The conservative alliance announced it had chosen as its candidate Oscar Sovalbarro, a leader of the U.S.-supported “ Contra ” insurgency that fought the Sandinistas in the 1980s.... It was not clear if Sovalbarro had accepted the nomination. Half a dozen other potential candidates have been arrested in a cra

Los Angeles Angels' Shohei Ohtani reacts to a pitch in the fourth inning of the team's baseball game against the Colorado Rockies on July 28, 2021, in Anaheim, Calif.... The Rockies rallied with three runs in the seventh and another in the eighth to tie the game at 7-all, but Gosselin's RBI single in the bottom of the eighth scored David Fletcher to set the final margin.... He still earned the victory by recording five outs....