By AARON BRACY Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Rhys Hoskins homered and drove in four runs, Aaron Nola pitched six shutout innings and the Philadelphia Phillies beat the Atlanta Braves 9-1 for their third straight victory. Alec Bohm had three hits for the Phillies, who moved into second in the NL wild-card standings, a half-game
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By Andy Rose, CNN A dugout canoe used by indigenous people 3,000 years ago recently recovered from Wisconsin’s Lake Mendota is the oldest canoe ever found in the Great Lakes region, the Wisconsin Historical Society said Thursday. The canoe, which was found in pieces in the lake bed, was removed in collaboration with Wisconsin’s Native
Continue Reading CINCINNATI (AP) — Andrew McCutchen drove in three runs, passing 1,000 RBIs for his career, and the Milwaukee Brewers beat the Cincinnati Reds 5-3. McCutchen put the Brewers ahead to stay when he drove in Rowdy Tellez with a fielder’s choice in the fifth inning. The five-time All-Star made it 5-2 with a two-run double
Continue Reading By MIKE FITZPATRICK AP Baseball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Aaron Judge was held without a homer for the third straight game, keeping him at 60 for the season and one shy of Roger Maris’ American League record, and the New York Yankees beat the Boston Red Sox 5-4. Jose Trevino singled home the tiebreaking
Continue Reading By WES CROSBY Associated Press PITTSBURGH (AP) — Esteban Quiroz hit a go-ahead single in the eighth, his second in three innings, and the Chicago Cubs beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 6-5 for their fourth straight win. Quiroz lined a two-out hit off Yohan Ramirez (1-1) to left in the eighth, driving in Jared Young. Two
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By DAVID GINSBURG Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — One good start deserves another — and then another. The Baltimore Orioles have received a string of exceptional performances from their starting rotation, and these razor-sharp hurlers are equally efficient against last-place teams and the best club in the American League. Dean Kremer pitched a four-hitter, Adley
Continue Reading By DAVID GINSBURG Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — One good start deserves another — and then another. The Baltimore Orioles have received a string of exceptional performances from their starting rotation, and these razor-sharp hurlers are equally efficient against last-place teams and the best club in the American League. Dean Kremer pitched a four-hitter, Adley
Continue Reading MIAMI (AP) — Braxton Garrett pitched six effective innings in his first major league start in a month, and the Miami Marlins beat the Washington Nationals 5-2. Garrett allowed one run — Lane Thomas’ leadoff homer in the first — and five hits. Garrett Cooper and Jon Berti each doubled and singled for the Marlins.
Continue Reading CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The Americans have an 8-2 lead after two sessions at the Presidents Cup. Max Homa was the star by making birdies on the last two holes to win the final match. Homa is among five Americans who have won two matches in two sessions. He’s done it with two partners. There
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Luis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN Español) — Un grupo de manifestantes protagonizó disturbios este viernes frente a las instalaciones del Campo Militar 1-A de la Secretaría de la Defensa Nacional (Sedena) en la Ciudad de México, según presenció un equipo de CNN que estaba en el lugar. Los incidentes se iniciaron luego de una manifestación
Continue Reading By MARC BOWMAN Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Seattle Mariners outfielder Julio Rodriguez, a leading candidate for the AL Rookie of the Year award, has been put on the 10-day injured list because of a lower back strain. The move came with Seattle holding the third and final wild-card spot, a half-game behind
Continue Reading By BETH HARRIS AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Craig Kimbrel won’t be closing any more games for the Los Angeles Dodgers. Manager Dave Roberts says Kimbrel will be used in different innings and different situations over the final two weeks of the regular season. Roberts isn’t naming a replacement for Kimbrel in the
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Oscar Holland, CNN There are few buildings that have more drastically shaped a city’s image than Marina Bay Sands. Just as the Eiffel Tower and Burj Khalifa define the skylines of Paris and Dubai, the soaring three-tower resort, joined across the top by a horizontal “skypark” and the world’s most famous infinity pool, is an
Continue Reading By Hannah Ritchie, CNN Near a dry, red rock peninsula on Australia’s far western coast, a dusty highway separates two communities with contrasting fortunes tied to an ancient land. One is home to the small but booming city of Karratha, a regional hub scattered with four-wheel drives that was purpose-built in the 1960s to accommodate
Continue Reading By STEVE REED AP Sports Writer CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Billy Horschel raced over to Max Homa on the 18th green and chest-bumped his playing partner after Homa’s birdie putt gave the United States a 1-up victory over the International team at the Presidents Cup and a commanding 8-2 lead after the second day of
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By BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Public school advocates who oppose a massive expansion of Arizona’s private school voucher system enacted by the Republican-controlled Legislature and signed into law by Republican Gov. Doug Ducey in July filed enough signatures Friday to block it from taking effect. The law, which extends the program to
Continue Reading By Maegan Vazquez, CNN The White House is establishing a talent search project to prepare for potential vacancies across Cabinet and senior administration roles following the midterm elections this fall, a White House official tells CNN. White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain brought forward the talent search idea, which will be overseen by two
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Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan said the state Legislature will not pass meaningful gun safety legislation during its next session but signaled an openness to creating limited exceptions to the state’s abortion ban. Families of the Uvalde school shooting victims, along with House and Senate Democrats, have repeatedly called for a special session to raise
Continue Reading By BRIAN HALL Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota Twins outfielder Byron Buxton is out for the season and is set to have surgery on his troublesome right knee. After Minnesota went 1-7 on its road trip and fell out of contention in the AL Central, the team made the decision to shut down Buxton
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By Maeve Reston, CNN An Arizona Superior Court judge ruled Friday that a 1901 ban on nearly all abortions in that state can be enforced, a decision that is likely to see an appeal and could energize female voters to turn out in greater numbers in the state’s hotly contested US Senate and governor’s races.
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A nice Saturday for this first weekend of fall. A cold front arrives Sunday and cools us down for the first part of next week. The winds kick up a bit out of the NE with slight chances for isolated storms. Cooler temps for next week.
Continue Reading Luis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN Español) — Un sismo de magnitud 6,1 sacudió la región de Los Lagos en Chile este viernes, según reportes del Servicio Geológico de Estados Unidos (USGS, por sus siglas en inglés). El foco sísmico estuvo localizado a 10 kilómetros de profundidad y el epicentro estuvo ubicado a 156,5 kilómetros al
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EL PASO, Texas – The iconic star on the mountain, a community treasure operated by The El Paso Chamber will be dark between September 23rd and September 30th. “The star will be undergoing maintenance as part of our efforts to make sure it shines bright, always celebrating El Paso,” explained Andrea Hutchins, President and CEO
Continue Reading By Andrew Millman and Holmes Lybrand, CNN Douglas Jensen, a January 6, 2021, rioter at the forefront of a group that chased US Capitol Police Officer Eugene Goodman near the Senate chamber, was found guilty by a Washington, DC, jury Friday evening on charges related to the attack. Jensen was found guilty on each of
Continue Reading By Jacob Lev, CNN A Laver Cup tennis match between Stefanos Tsitsipas and Diego Schwartzman in London was interrupted by a protester who lit his arm on fire on Friday. The protester, who was wearing a white shirt that said “End UK Private Jets” ran onto the court at the O2 Arena and briefly lit
Continue Reading By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer COSTA MESA, Calif. (AP) — The Los Angeles Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert was listed as questionable on the injury report after not participating in practice Friday. Herbert sustained a fractured rib cartilage after taking a hard hit from Kansas City defensive lineman Michael Danna during the fourth quarter of
Continue Reading By Steve Almasy, CNN The autopsy report for Elijah McClain, an unarmed Black man who died while in police custody in Colorado three years ago, has been changed to update the cause of death from “undetermined” to “complications of ketamine administration following forcible restraint,” Adams County Chief Coroner Monica Broncucia-Jordan said Friday. In August 2019,
Continue Reading Recently released amended autopsy report for Elijah McClain cites ‘complications of ketamine’ as cause of death
Continue Reading CNN, CNN BUSINESS By Daniel Dale During a campaign-style Friday speech at a Democratic National Committee event in Washington, President Joe Biden boasted about the three-month decline in gas prices and about the unemployment rate. But he used inaccurate figures on both subjects. Gas prices Biden said: “Gas prices — I know I got criticized
Continue Reading By Daniel Dale During a campaign-style Friday speech at a Democratic National Committee event in Washington, President Joe Biden boasted about the three-month decline in gas prices and about the unemployment rate. But he used inaccurate figures on both subjects. Gas prices Biden said: “Gas prices — I know I got criticized for going into
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