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AP Sports Writer ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Jonah Heim and Leody Taveras homered back-to-back from the bottom of the order to erase a three-run deficit in the fourth inning, and the Texas Rangers beat the Boston Red Sox 7-4 on Saturday night. Rob Refsnyder, who tied his career highs with four hits and three RBIs,

HOUSTON (AP) — Josh Lowe homered twice to help the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Houston Astros 6-1 on Saturday night. Lowe hit his sixth and seventh homers of the season for his second career multi-homer game. His first came off Ronel Blanco, who was a pitch away from escaping the fifth inning with a

AP Sports Writer ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Jacob deGrom is set to face hitters for the first time since an elbow operation last year, and Tyler Mahle is on the verge of his first start for the Texas Rangers as he returns from Tommy John surgery in 2023. The languishing Rangers need the reinforcements for

AP National Writer NANTERRE, France (AP) — Every year on Aug. 3, Katie Ledecky is reminded of her first Olympic gold medal. She was just 15 years old, a reserved high schooler who had surprisingly made the U.S. swim team for the London Games. Then she went out and shocked the world, beating everyone in

AP Pro Football Writer Steve McMichael couldn’t make it to the Pro Football Hall of Fame, so the ceremony came to him. Battling ALS and bedridden in the advanced stages of the neurological disease, the 66-year-old two-time All-Pro defensive tackle was the second player enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame among seven members

DALLAS (AP) — The Dallas Mavericks are bringing back Spencer Dinwiddie in a reunion with the guard who played a key role in the club’s run to the 2022 Western Conference finals. The Mavericks announced the signing of Dinwiddie on Saturday along with undrafted rookie free agent Jamarion Sharp, who played on their summer league

CHATEAUROUX, France (AP) — Vincent Hancock of the United States beat his student Conner Prince to capture his fourth Olympic gold medal in men’s skeet, winning Saturday at the Paris Games. Hancock coaches Prince, a first-time Olympian, and turned round to share a hug with his silver medal-winning student after making his last two shots

AP National Writer PARIS (AP) — Simone Biles is getting kind of old for this. Just maybe not too old to keep going. Maybe. Minutes after the American gymnastics star won the seventh Olympic gold of her career on Saturday in a vault final that left little doubt that even at 27 she remains in

AP Sports Writers NANTERRE, France (AP) — In another disappointment for the American swim team, Simone Manuel was eliminated in the preliminaries of the 50-meter freestyle at the Paris Olympics on Saturday. Manuel posted the 18th-fastest time in the hectic sprint covering one length of the pool, not good enough to make it to the

Associated Press About half the U.S. state attorneys general traveled to France in a trip cosponsored by a group mostly funded by companies, including some under scrutiny of the top state lawyers. Attorneys general are among the most visible officials in state governments and the job can be a launching pad to the world stage.

HOUSTON (AP) — Yusei Kikuchi shook off a rocky start to finish with 11 strikeouts in his Houston debut, and the Astros beat the Tampa Bay Rays 3-2 on Friday night. Kikuchi — acquired from Toronto on Monday — allowed a double to Yandy Diaz on his second pitch and a two-run homer to Dylan

AP Baseball Writer ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Wilyer Abreu put Boston ahead to stay with an RBI single after his earlier two-run homer, Nick Sogard had a two-run single for his first big league hit and the Red Sox beat the Texas Rangers 11-6 on Friday night. Ceddanne Rafaela and Rafael Devers also went deep

HOUSTON (AP) — Tampa Bay Rays outfielder Richie Palacios was placed on the 10-day injured list Friday with a right knee sprain. Palacios left Wednesday’s game against Miami with knee discomfort after after banging his right knee on the ground on a head-first slide into second base in the second inning. Rays manager Kevin Cash

AP Baseball Writer ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Max Scherzer was placed on the 15-day injured list Friday because of right shoulder fatigue, though Texas manager Bruce Bochy doesn’t expect the three-time Cy Young Award winner and active career strikeout leader to be out any longer than that. “We don’t think it’ll be more than 15

Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Family members of a 12-year-old Houston girl who police say was killed by two Venezuelan men who entered the U.S. illegally said Friday that they are supporting legislation that would severely limit the ability of federal immigration authorities to release immigrants they detain. The proposed legislation runs counter to what

Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Biden administration has temporarily suspended permits for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans to enter the United States and stay up to two years amid concerns about fraud by their financial sponsors, officials said Friday. Nearly 500,000 people from the four countries arrived through June under presidential authority after

Associated Press OXNARD, Calif. (AP) — The Dallas Cowboys remain in contact with wide receiver CeeDee Lamb, who is holding out of training camp while seeking a new contract, owner Jerry Jones said Friday. “I don’t think that’s anything I would comment on as far as proximity on meeting of minds, but we’re all talking,”

Associated Press A Florida attorney pleaded guilty on Friday to using a rifle to try to detonate explosives outside the Chinese embassy last year in Washington, D.C. Christopher Rodriguez also bombed a sculpture of communist leaders Vladimir Lenin and Mao Zedong in a courtyard outside the Texas Public Radio building in San Antonio, Texas, in

AP National Writer NANTERRE, France (AP) — The party for Léon Marchand spread beyond the pool, quickly sweeping all across Paris. At Stade de France, hosting the first night of track and field, an enormous ovation broke out when Marchand won his fourth gold medal of the Olympics. The roar was so loud that the

HOUSTON (AP) — The Houston Astros have claimed right-handed pitcher Janson Junk off waivers from the Milwaukee Brewers. Junk, 28, had gone 0-0 with a 6.75 ERA in five relief appearances for the Brewers. He also was 3-3 with a 2.55 ERA at Triple-A Nashville in 18 appearances, including three starts. Junk is 1-3 with

AP Business Writer WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Attorneys for Elon Musk and Tesla’s corporate directors are asking a Delaware judge to vacate her ruling requiring the company to rescind a massive and unprecedented pay package for Musk. Friday’s hearing follows a January ruling in which Chancellor Kathaleen St. Jude McCormick concluded that Musk engineered the

AP Business Writer Exxon Mobil recorded one of its largest second-quarter profits in a decade on surging quarterly production from oil and gas fields in Guyana and the Permian basin in the U.S., as well its $60 billion acquisition of Pioneer Natural Resources. The Texas oil and gas giant earned $9.24 billion, or $2.14 per

SPRING, Texas (AP) — Exxon Mobil’s $60 billion acquisition of Pioneer fuels production and profit surge in second quarter.

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States and Russia completed their biggest prisoner swap in post-Soviet history on Thursday, with Moscow releasing journalist Evan Gershkovich and fellow American Paul Whelan, along with dissidents including Vladimir Kara-Murza, in a multinational deal that set two dozen people free. Gershkovich, Whelan and Alsu Kurmasheva, a journalist with

Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Mexican farm worker Avelino Vazquez Navarro didn’t have air conditioning in the motor home where he died last month in Washington state as temperatures surged into the triple digits. For the last dozen years, the 61-year-old spent much of the year working near Pasco, Washington, sending money to his wife

CANTON, Ohio (AP) — The NFL’s Hall of Fame exhibition opener between the Houston Texans and Chicago Bears was suspended with 3:31 left in the third quarter because of lightning and heavy rain. The Bears led the Texans 21-17.

CANTON, Ohio (AP) — The Hall of Fame game between Chicago and Houston is being delayed in the third quarter by heavy rain and lightning.

First-round picks Trey Yesavage and Vance Honeycutt agreed to contracts as all but four of the top 315 players selected in Major League Baseball’s amateur draft last month struck deals before Thursday’s deadline. East Carolina right-hander Yesavage, taken 20th by Toronto, agreed to a $4,175,000 bonus. North Carolina outfielder Honeycutt, selected 22nd by Baltimore, agreed

Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Distinct minority groups cannot join together in coalitions to claim their votes are diluted in redistricting cases under the Voting Rights Act, a divided federal appeals court ruled Thursday, acknowledging that it was reversing years of its own precedent. At issue was a redistricting case in Galveston County, Texas,

Associated Press OXNARD, Calif. (AP) — Dallas Cowboys defensive coordinator Mike Zimmer has never had a player like Micah Parsons who can be used in so many different ways. Parsons has never been coached the way Zimmer is working with him. Put them together, the Zimmer-Parsons relationship seems poised to unlock the best from him.