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Schneider and Gausman lead the Blue Jays past the sliding White Sox 7-2May 29, 2024 12:11 am - CHICAGO — Davis Schneider had three hits and three RBIs, and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the sliding Chicago White Sox 7-2 on a rainy Tuesday night. Justin Turner drove in...
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Seattle beats Sky to move above .500 for the first time since the 2022 seasonMay 28, 2024 9:50 pm - CHICAGO — Skylar Diggins-Smith scored 21 points, Jewell Loyd added 19 and the Seattle Storm pulled away in the third quarter for a 77-68 victory over the Chicago Sky on T...
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Josh Gibson becomes MLB career and season batting leader as Negro Leagues statistics incorporatedMay 28, 2024 7:59 pm - NEW YORK — Josh Gibson became Major League Baseball’s career leader with a .372 batting average, surpassing Ty Cobb’s .367, when Negro Leagues records for more than 2,300...
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Scorned umpire Ángel Hernández, who unsuccessfully sued MLB for racial discrimination, retiresMay 28, 2024 7:53 pm - NEW YORK — Longtime umpire Ángel Hernández, who unsuccessfully sued Major League Baseball for racial discrimination, is retiring immediately. During a career that lasted ...
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Albert Ruddy, Oscar-winning producer of ‘The Godfather’ and ‘Million Dollar Baby,’ dies at 94May 28, 2024 2:50 pm - Albert S. Ruddy, a colorful, Canadian-born producer and writer who won Oscars for “The Godfather” and “Million Dollar Baby,” developed the raucous prison-sports comedy “The Longest Yard” and helped create the hit sitcom “Hogan's Heroes,” has died at age 94.
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Pope apologizes after being quoted using vulgar term about gay men in talk about ban on gay priestsMay 28, 2024 12:11 pm - VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis apologized Tuesday after he was quoted using a vulgar and derogatory term about gay men to reaffirm the Catholic Church’s ban on gay priests. ...
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Trump prosecutor focuses on ‘cover-up’ in closing arguments while defense attacks key witnessMay 28, 2024 7:52 am - NEW YORK — Donald Trump engaged in “a conspiracy and a cover-up,” a prosecutor told jurors during closing arguments Tuesday in the former president's hush money trial, wh...
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Over 1 million customers without power in Texas as U.S. weathers powerful, destructive stormsMay 28, 2024 7:20 am - Strong storms with damaging winds and baseball-sized hail pummeled Texas on Tuesday, leaving more than 1 million businesses and homes without power as much of the U.S. re...
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Israeli strikes kill at least 37 Palestinians, most in tents, near Gaza's Rafah as offensive expandsMay 28, 2024 7:16 am - DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — Israeli shelling and airstrikes killed at least 37 people, most of them sheltering in tents, outside the southern Gaza city of Rafah overnight...
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Book Review: ‘Ascent to Power’ studies how Harry Truman overcame lack of preparation in transitionMay 28, 2024 6:22 am - Once a senator who complained that the 32nd president treated him like “an office boy,” Harry Truman left the White House in 1953 as one of the most accomplished presidents. Those events are the focus of David L. Roll's “Ascent to Power.”