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Colson Montgomery homers again as the White Sox beat the Twins 8-0Aug 24, 2025 5:06 pm - CHICAGO — Colson Montgomery homered for the third straight game, and the White Sox beat the Minnesota Twins 8-0 on Sunday. Edgar Quero drove in three runs for Chicago, an...
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‘KPop Demon Hunters’ gives Netflix its first box-office winAug 24, 2025 3:38 pm - Netflix appears to have its first No. 1 box-office title in the streaming company’s 18-year history thanks to the sensation of “KPop Demon Hunters.”
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Philadelphia Union scores four times to end Fire’s five-game unbeaten streakAug 23, 2025 10:09 pm - Kai Wagner and Milan Iloski each had a goal and an assists, Tai Baribo also scored a goal and the Philadelphia Union beat Chicago 4-0 on Saturday night to snap the Fire's five-game unbeaten streak.
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Montgomery’s slam off Twins pitching prospect Abel helps White Sox to 7-3 winAug 23, 2025 9:06 pm - Colson Montgomery hit his first career grand slam and Luis Robert Jr. homered late as the White Sox snapped a three-game skid with a 7-3 victory over the Minnesota Twins on Saturday night.
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Marsh ejected in Chicago Sky loss to lowly ConnecticutAug 23, 2025 5:39 pm - Tina Charles scored 23 points and had her 200th double-double, Bria Hartley also scored 23 and the Connecticut Sun held off the Chicago Sky 94-84 on Saturday for a season-best three-game winning streak.
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Bus carrying junior high football team crashes near Pittsburgh. 21 people are taken to hospitalsAug 23, 2025 5:09 pm - A bus carrying a junior high football team to a game crashed Saturday north of Pittsburgh, sending 21 of the 28 people on board to the hospital, officials said.Twenty-five Aliquippa Junior High students and three adults were headed to a game in nearby Gibsonia. The crash occurred in Economy Borough, about 20 miles north of Pittsburgh.
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Texas Gov. Abbott says he’ll swiftly sign new maps on his desk that will boost GOP in 2026Aug 23, 2025 4:23 pm - Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Saturday promised to quickly sign off on a new, Republican-leaning congressional voting map gerrymandered to help the GOP maintain its slim majority in Congress.
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Fed Chair Powell faces fresh challenges to Fed independence amid potential rate cutsAug 23, 2025 4:13 pm - Now that Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has signaled that the central bank could soon cut its key interest rate, he faces a new challenge: how to do it without seeming to cave to the White House's demands.For months, Powell has largely ignored President Donald Trump's constant hectoring that he reduce borrowing costs. Yet on Friday, in a highly-anticipated speech, Powell suggested that the Fed could take such a step as soon as its next meeting in September
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Israeli strikes and gunfire kill 33 as Gaza City becomes focus of famine and a military offensiveAug 23, 2025 2:59 pm - Israeli strikes and gunfire killed at least 33 Palestinians in Gaza on Saturday, including people sheltering in tents or seeking scarce food, local hospitals said as a famine in Gaza’s largest city puts new pressure on Israel over its 22-month offensive.
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Texas redistricting fight shakes up battle lines for both parties in key US Senate raceAug 23, 2025 2:50 pm - Just as Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Colin Allred was holding a town hall near the Mexican border as part of an “unrig Texas” campaign tour, the state’s Democratic fundraising powerhouse Beto O’Rourke rallied support in Austin for lawmakers who left the state to delay a redistricting plan led by President Donald Trump. The next morning, one of those wayward lawmakers, James Talarico, stood in the pulpit at former President Barack Obama’s old church in Chicago to say he and his fellow legislators had simply taken a leap of faith.