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The deal includes a $7 million salary for the 2027 season and a $10 million club option for 2028 that includes a $3 million buyout. He will earn $10 million in 2026.

Also on Thursday, free-agent utility man Enrique Hernandez broke some news of his own by referencing his expected return to the Dodgers on Instagram.

"What else did you expect?!!! 3 in a row has a nice ring to it! #WeBack," Hernandez wrote along with posting a picture of himself wearing a Dodgers' World Series champions T-shirt.

The Dodgers confirmed Hernandez's signing later on Thursday, announcing it as a one-year, $4.5 million deal. He played last season on a one-year, $6.5 million deal.

Muncy, 35, is a two-time All-Star and three-time World Series champion entering his ninth season with L.A. in 2026.

He batted .243 with 19 homers and 67 RBIs in 100 games last season and added three homers in the playoffs.

Muncy's World Series Game 7 homer against the Toronto Blue Jays was his 16th in the postseason, a team record.

He is a career .229 hitter with 214 homers and 604 RBIs in 1,020 games for the Oakland A's (2015-16) and Dodgers.

Hernandez, 34, batted .203 with 10 home runs and 35 RBIs in 92 games last season. He spent nearly two months on the injured list with elbow discomfort and returned Aug. 26 after fears his season was done because of the injury.

He ended up having left elbow surgery last November and his status for the start of the 2026 season is uncertain.

In 12 major league seasons, nine of which have been with the Dodgers over two separate stints, Hernandez is a career .236 hitter with 130 home runs and 470 RBIs in 1,275 games.

The Dodgers continued a busy day of transactions by signing infielder Keston Hiura to a minor league deal with an MLB camp invitation, per multiple reports, and trading left-handed reliever Anthony Banda to the Minnesota Twins in exchange for international bonus pool money.

Hiura, 29, played the majority of his major league games with the Milwaukee Brewers from 2019-22, hitting .238 with 50 homers and 132 RBIs in 284 games. He's played just 18 major games over the last three seasons with the Los Angeles Angels (2024) and Colorado Rockies (2025).

Banda made a team-leading 71 appearances last season for the Dodgers, finishing with a 5-1 record and 3.18 ERA over 65 innings. He pitched 114 2/3 regular-season innings over two seasons with Los Angeles, winning a pair of World Series rings.

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Yankees manager Aaron Boone revealed the injury Thursday and made it seem minor, as did the right-hander, who turned 25 last week. Schlittler said his concern was "zero."

"I've been dealing with it for a little bit so I just want to make sure I'm on top of it and get ready for opening day," Schlittler said.

He made his major league debut on July 9 and went 4-3 with a 2.96 ERA in 14 starts. With a fastball that averaged 98 mph, Schlittler struck out 84 and walked 31 in 73 innings. He pitched eight shutout innings against Boston in the Wild Card Series, then allowed four runs — two earned — over 6 1/3 innings in the Division Series vs. Toronto.

"Obviously we're very excited about him and expect him to be a key part of our rotation and still expect," Boone said.

Schlittler underwent a test that Boone said "kind of came back good news."

"Probably keep him off the mound for the next few days at least," Boone said. "He's continuing with his throwing program."

New York already projects to start the season on March 25 without ace Gerrit Cole, who isrecovering from Tommy John surgery last March 11, and Carlos Rodón, regaining arm strength following an operation on Oct. 15 to remove loose bodies in his left elbow and shave a bone spur.

Rodón is not likely to return to the Yankees before May and Cole is expected back sometime during the first half of the season. In addition, Clarke Schmidt will miss much of the season followingUCL repair surgery on July 11.

Schlittler said he first felt the issue a few weeks ago and described it as minor inflammation and "maybe more lat, as well." He hopes to pitch off a mound next week.

Asked whether he had dealt with the issue in the past, Schlittler said "last year, some on-and-off stuff."

"For now, it's just good to take care of it and make sure it doesn't really turn into something that you start to worry about," he said.

New York's projected rotation for the season's start includes Max Fried, Schlittler, Luis Gil, Will Warren, and Ryan Weathers. Gil, the 2024 AL Rookie of the Year, injured a lat during spring training last year and didn't make his season debut until Aug. 3.

Schlittler pitched 164 innings last year, including the postseason, well above his previous professional high of 120 2/3 in 2024. He took four weeks off after the playoffs, then started his offseason throwing program.

"There's no really off time," he said. "When it comes to baseball, you're always working on all that."

Schlittler attended big league spring training last year, started the season at Double-A Somerset, then was promoted to Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre on June 3. He was called up after just five starts with the RailRiders.

"I came in here last spring training kind of as a no one, a prospect, whatever it was, but I was really trying to learn things, coming here and get my work in. It was more an experience last year," he said. "I feel like being over here now it's like, 'Hey, I've earned that role. I'm going to go out there. I know exactly what I need to do.'"

Yankees announce Goldschmidt return

Paul Goldschmidt's $4 million, one-year contract was finalized.

He can earn $2 million in performance bonuses for plate appearances: $500,000 each for 400, 450, 500 and 550.

A seven-time All-Star and the 2022 NL MVP, the 38-year-old hit .274 with 10 homers, 45 RBIs and a .731 OPS with the Yankees last year after signing a$12.5 million, one-year contract as a free agent. He had 534 plate appearances but just 155 after the All-Star break as he slumped and lost playing time to Ben Rice.

With his return, the Yankees have brought back 24 of the 26 players on their Division Series roster last October. Only relievers Devin Williams and Luke Weaver departed.

Schmidt was placed on the 60-day injured list to open a roster spot.

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Nina Dobrevhas fans doing a double-take with her latest style statement. The Vampire Diaries star stepped out in a stunning mini dress and shared the glam moment in a recent Instagram photo dump.

Dressed in sleek black, Dobrev posed confidently in a series of shots that showed off the outfit from every angle.

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Nina Dobrev looks polished and confident in this black off-shoulder mini dress. The dress has a structured fit, long sleeves, and a flared skirt, giving it a clean, modern shape. The off-shoulder neckline highlights her collarbones and adds a soft touch to the bold black look. The fitted waist and short hemline showcase her toned, balanced figure in a simple, flattering way.

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She pairs the outfit with sheer black tights and carries a sleek black clutch, keeping the accessories minimal and coordinated. Her hair is styled back in a neat, slicked bun, which keeps the focus on her face and neckline.

Nina Dobrev's makeup, done with YSL Beauty, looks soft and refined with glowing skin, defined eyes, and a nude lip.

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From left: Sinead Keenan, Caoilfhionn Dunne, and Roisin Gallagher in How to Get to Heaven From Belfast Credit - Christopher Barr—Netflix

When a storyteller has made their magnum opus—a work that brilliantly synthesizes their experience and voice and most profound insights, a tale only they could tell—what are they supposed to do next? Many of the past decade's smartest TV creators have, in response to this impossible problem, turned to a life of crime.Donald Gloverfollowed up the category-explodingAtlantawith serial-killer standom satireSwarmand a tragicomic take onMr. & Mrs. Smith, about married assassins. After rendering a contemporary Native American community in specific, surreal, often hilarious detail inReservation Dogs, Sterlin Harjo turned to noir withThe Lowdown.Phoebe Waller-Bridgeplumbed the darkly comic depths of sex-positive feminism in the first season ofFleabag, only returning to the project after creating the deliriously fun cat-and-mouse spy thrillerKilling Eve.

Like those auteurs, Lisa McGee broke through with a sui generis comedy that mined aspects of her own experience to find authentic humor in a harrowing situation.Derry Girls, which followed teens in McGee's native Derry in the years preceding 1998's Good Friday Agreement, was a raucous, joke-dense show that juxtaposed mundane adolescent rites of passage with the daily horrors of life in Northern Ireland during the Troubles. Now McGee, too, is back with a crime drama—one bound to earn comparisons to Sharon Horgan's post-Catastrophemurder romp,Bad Sisters. Combining the latter show's core of complicated relationships between women (and its fondness for outfitting those women in enviable knitwear) with the sidesplittingly verbose, extremely Irish sensibility ofDerry Girls, her new Netflix seriesHow to Get to Heaven From Belfastlands as both an example of the pivot to crime drama and a commentary on it. The plot gets a bit woolly towards the end, the mix of tones doesn't always work, and I sometimes wished I could watch its central girlfriends do anythingbesidesplay amateur detective. Still, even if you're over whodunits, McGee's cleverly meta spin on an overdone genre and her genius for comedy, dialogue, and character development make for an altogether good craic.

The premise is enough of a murder-show Mad Lib to suggest, correctly, that a creator of this caliber won't be taking it at face value. Three childhood friends are summoned to the wake of the estranged fourth member of their high school clique, with whom they shared an awful secret. In a series of flashbacks, we're gradually given context for the haunting image of four girls watching fire consume a cabin. Now pushing 40 and navigating various midlife crises, the women are ensnared in a tangle of new and old mysteries. Relevant clichés include:You can't go home again.Hurt people hurt people.The past is never dead. It's not even past.

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This otherwise unpromising setup is made not just bearable, but a genuine pleasure by the central trio. Self-dramatizing Robyn (Sinéad Keenan fromBeing Human) has grown up to be a harried mum of three rambunctious boys, wasting her spark in a meh marriage. Dara (IndustryandA Thousand Blowsstandout Caoilfhionn Dunne) is a semi-closeted lesbian whose life has been circumscribed by her Catholic faith and familial caretaking duties; she's a bit awkward, and you get the sense that loneliness has made her this way. To the extent thatBelfasthas a single protagonist, it's Saoirse (Roisin Gallagher, recently seen inLazarusandThe Dry), the writer of—meta conceit incoming—a TV crime drama calledMurder Code. Feuding with its star and squabbling through an engagement to a coworker, she's having doubts about the path she's chosen. "What even is it?" she demands, referring itMurder Code. "It's just, 'Look, someone's got themselves murdered again.' Is that what I do?" "You entertain a lot of people," her flack protests. Saoirse: "So do f-ckin' clowns."

If you hadn't already suspected that McGee had more in mind thansomeone's got themselves murdered again, here's your giant, flashing neon sign. Whether or not her profession makes Saoirse the creator's surrogate, she's certainly the character whose perspective gives the show its thematic framing. Funny, foulmouthed, Irish-slang-laden banter is McGee's signature; who else would make space in a tense scene for someone to opine that Belle from Disney'sBeauty and the Beast"is a dick. The way she slags off her town like she's the only person who's ever read a book"? When they're being serious, though, Robyn, Dara, and even Saoirse tend to have critical things to say about the habit writers like Saoirse have of manipulating not just the worlds they dream up, but also real people they treat as posable characters.Belfastis especially alert to how far from reality the supposedly true stories we tell ourselves and each other can be.

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Accordingly, a series of mostly unpredictable twists reveals, bit by bit, that everything these women think they know about that fiery night 20 years ago—that is, everything they think they know about the ordeal that still defines each one in her own mind—is wrong. In that sense, every choice they've made as adults has been premised on a lie. It's a fascinating head trip to send the characters on, at the same time as they're motoring around the emerald countryside and beyond, scrambling to figure out what actually happened to their friend and, of course, stop their potentially ruinous secret from getting out.

I would've been content to watch this quieter inquiry into what it means to base your identity on bad information develop amid the investigation and the unparalleled repartee ("DNA doesn't wash off. It's like Catholicism"). But as the season goes on, and especially in its second half, the mystery gets too big. The cast of characters expands in directions that verge on fantasy—which does, at least, enable a virtuosically unhinged performance fromDerry Girlsstar Saoirse-Monica Jackson, albeit in a role that could have been guest-written by Emerald Fennell. And the monolithic theme that istraumathreatens to overshadow McGee's unique and specific exploration of how we cobble ourselves together out of simplistic, often spurious, narratives.

Belfastis doing too many things, metamorphosing too many times, to succeed at everything it tries. But it works more often than it doesn't, because it's constructed around the same two pillars that madeDerry Girlsso solid: lovable, complicated characters and gallows humor that is both skillfully written and flawlessly delivered by an ideal cast. That doesn't necessarily mean I'm convinced that McGee is just as well suited to crime drama (or meta crime drama) as she was to comedy. It would be a shame if, as popular as it is, crime became the only genre in this austere, murder-mad era of streaming that could support original stories from accomplished creators.Belfastis an enjoyable enough place to visit, butDerrystill feels like home.

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James Van Der Beekpreviously opened up about how he got "almost nothing" fromDawson's Creekresiduals, which helps explain why his family is currently struggling financially in the wake of his death.

"There was no residual money," Van Der Beek toldTODAY.comin 2012. "I was 20. It was a bad contract. I saw almost nothing from that."

Van Der Beek starred as the titular teen onDawson's Creekfor all six seasons, from 1998 through 2003. He revealed in that same 2012 interview that he decided to star inDon't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23"when the [Dawson's Creek] money ran out," and he realized he needed to "buckle down" and sign on to projects to provide for his wife, Kimberly, and six children.

"It is very easy if you have all the money in the world to just sit back and coast," Van Der Beek said at the time. "But if you realized that you are going to have to start providing for yourself and for your family, it really forces you to buckle down."

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Kimberly announcedVan Der Beek died Wednesday at age 48after battling stage 3 colorectal cancer.

"Our beloved James David Van Der Beek passed peacefully this morning," said her statement, which she shared on his social media accounts. "He met his final days with courage, faith, and grace. There is much to share regarding his wishes, love for humanity and the sacredness of time. Those days will come. For now we ask for peaceful privacy as we grieve our loving husband, father, son, brother, and friend."

According to theCDC, colorectal cancer has the second-highest treatment cost of any cancer, amounting to 11.6 percent of all cancer treatment costs. In addition, individual patient costs are the highest for the last year of life ($110,100 on average).

Friends set up aGoFundMethat same day on behalf of the family detailing the "significant financial strain" of Van Der Beek's medical costs and the "uncertain future" for his wife and six children in the wake of his death.

In just one day, nearly $1.8 million had been raised to pay for the family's essential living expenses, bills, the children's education, and to "stay in their home."

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Before his death, Van Der Beek spent monthsauctioning off items from some of his most iconic roles,includingDawson's CreekandVarsity Blues,to help pay for his medical care.

"I've been storing these treasures for years, waiting for the right time to do something with them, and with all of the recent unexpected twists and turns life has presented recently, it's clear that the time is now," the actor toldPEOPLEin November 2025. "While I have some nostalgia tugging at me as I part with these items, it feels good to be able to offer them through Propstore's auction to share with those who have supported my work over the years."

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Zamora, the 69-year-old founder of El Periodico newspaper, had spent more than two years behind bars awaiting trial before a judge granted him house arrest in October 2024. Prosecutors immediately appealed and won rulings thatsent him back to jail in March 2025.

Zamora had been imprisoned since July 2022, when he was charged with money laundering, amounting to around $38,000, and in June 2023 he was sentenced to six years in prison. The sentence was overturned by an appeals court because of errors in the process.

The journalist and free press advocates maintain that the prosecution is revenge for the investigative work of his newspaper against the administration of ex-President Alejandro Giammattei.

Current President Bernardo Arévalo last year called the prosecution "absolutely spurious" and said it was another example of the Attorney General's office prosecuting people who reported corruption.