NPR's Leila Fadel asks Mitch Zeller, former director of the FDA's Center for Tobacco Products, about the agency's approval of fruit-flavored electronic cigarettes.

U.S. health regulators have announced their first authorization of fruit-flavored electronic cigarettes intended for adult ...

From the first-ever ABS challenge to the first ejection involving an ABS challenge, here are all of MLB's firsts involving the new balls-and-strikes arbiter. There’s a first time for everything, but ...

Albert Suárez celebrates with Samuel Basallo, whose quick thinking on an ABS challenge secured the Orioles' victory. Greg Fiume / Getty Images In a major-league first, a game ended Wednesday on a walk ...

A new way for MLB managers be ejected was just unlocked. Minnesota Twins skipper Derek Shelton was tossed from Sunday’s game against the Orioles in the ninth inning after arguing that Baltimore closer ...

New York Yankees shortstop José Caballero made MLB history Wednesday: He became the first player to use the Automated Ball-Strike System (ABS). During the fourth inning of the Yankees’ 7-0 opening day ...

The Cincinnati Reds' first-ever ABS (Automated Ball-Strike) challenge came on a pitch to catcher Tyler Stephenson in the bottom of the seventh inning of the Reds' Opening Day loss March 26 against the ...

José Caballero, pictured hitting a single in the second inning, made the first challenge of the ABS era in the fourth inning, but the strike call was upheld. Thearon W. Henderson / Getty Images SAN ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Baseball’s new reality has arrived. Blink, and you’d miss it. The Giants came out on the winning side of the first Automated Balls and Strikes (ABS) challenged pitch in MLB history.

The ABS challenge system has officially come to Major League Baseball. On Wednesday night, during the season’s opening game between the Giants and the Yankees, New York shortstop José Caballero became ...

After tinkering with the Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) challenge system for a few years, MLB brought the technology to the regular season in 2026. It didn’t take long before the new technology was put ...

SAN FRANCISCO — There it was, for the first time in Major League Baseball history, the outcome of a ball-strike call deciding by a machine. It happened in the fourth inning Wednesday night in the New ...