By GEORGE HENRY AP Sports Writer ATLANTA (AP) — Joc Pederson hit a tiebreaking single with two out in the 10th inning, lifting the Atlanta Braves to a 7-6 victory over the Washington Nationals. Ozzie Albies opened the 10th on second and advanced to third on a flyout. He scampered home on Pederson’s bases-loaded single
Continue ReadingBy ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — The leader of Canada’s Conservative party says he is personally “pro choice” and voters can trust his leadership after being asked during an election debate about some of his candidates who have more conservative views than him on issues like abortion and climate change. Prime Minister Justin
Continue ReadingBy Allie Torgan, CNN On a medical trip to West Africa nine years ago, Dr. Patricia Gordon had a wake-up call. She had traveled with a group of medical oncologists to bring a new radiation device to a hospital in Dakar, Senegal. While there, she saw how many women were needlessly being killed by a
Continue ReadingCNN By Allie Torgan, CNN On a medical trip to West Africa nine years ago, Dr. Patricia Gordon had a wake-up call. She had traveled with a group of medical oncologists to bring a new radiation device to a hospital in Dakar, Senegal. While there, she saw how many women were needlessly being killed by
Continue ReadingBy DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California lawmakers are unanimously moving to allow the return of prime beachfront property to descendants of a Black couple who were stripped of their resort for African Americans amid racist harassment a century ago. Willa and Charles Bruce built the first West Coast resort for Black
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — The drugmaker Endo International is the latest company to settle a New York case over opioids. The Dublin-based company will pay $50 million in the deal. The state government and the Long Island counties of Suffolk and Nassau are to share in the settlement. Another drugmaker and three distribution companies have
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — The drugmaker Endo International is the latest company to settle a New York case over opioids. The Dublin-based company will pay $50 million in the deal. The state government and the Long Island counties of Suffolk and Nassau are to share in the settlement. Another drugmaker and three distribution companies have
Continue ReadingWRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio (AP) — Ohio’s Wright-Patterson Air Force Base went into lockdown for several hours while security officials investigated reports of a shooter on the campus. Officials from the 88th Airbase Wing eventually gave the all-clear around 1:40 a.m. Friday morning and say there is no threat and no one injured. A
Continue ReadingBy Paul LeBlanc, CNN US Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer called the high court’s recent refusal to block a controversial Texas law that bars abortions at six weeks “very, very, very wrong.” “I’ll add one more ‘very,’ ” the liberal Justice told NPR in an interview published Thursday. “And I wrote a dissent. And that’s
Continue ReadingCNN By Paul LeBlanc, CNN US Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer called the high court’s recent refusal to block a controversial Texas law that bars abortions at six weeks “very, very, very wrong.” “I’ll add one more ‘very,’ ” the liberal Justice told NPR in an interview published Thursday. “And I wrote a dissent. And
Continue ReadingBy Dakin Andone, Stella Chan and Cheri Mossburg, CNN All eligible students attending Los Angeles Unified public schools — the nation’s second largest school district — will be required to be vaccinated against Covid-19 by the end of the calendar year, the school board of education has voted. In a special meeting held Thursday, the
Continue ReadingCNN, CDC By Dakin Andone, Stella Chan and Cheri Mossburg, CNN All eligible students attending Los Angeles Unified public schools — the nation’s second largest school district — will be required to be vaccinated against Covid-19 by the end of the calendar year, the school board of education has voted. In a special meeting held
Continue ReadingBy JAKE SEINER AP Baseball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Bo Bichette thumped a leadoff homer in the first inning and singled in the tiebreaking run in the seventh, Vladimir Guerrero Jr. hit his 42nd homer, and the Toronto Blue Jays held off the skidding New York Yankees 6-4 for their eighth straight win. The
Continue ReadingBy Gregory Lemos and Amir Vera, CNN The ex-Marine accused of killing four people, including an infant, outside Lakeland, Florida, was looking for a little girl he believed was suicidal and being sex trafficked, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd told reporters Thursday. Bryan Riley, 33, admitted to deputies that he shot several people Sunday morning
Continue ReadingHONG KONG (AP) — The group that organized annual Tiananmen candlelight vigils and three of its leaders have been charged with subversion under Hong Kong’s national security law. The group organized the only large-scale public commemoration of the 1989 crackdown allowed on Chinese soil. Tens of thousands of people massed on the anniversary for the
Continue ReadingEUGENE, Ore. (AP) — A Colorado trucker who nearly killed a Black man by slashing his neck in an unprovoked attack at an eastern Oregon truck stop has been sentenced to 16 years in federal prison. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports Nolan Strauss, who is white, pleaded guilty to a federal hate crime involving an attempt to
Continue ReadingEUGENE, Ore. (AP) — A Colorado trucker who nearly killed a Black man by slashing his neck in an unprovoked attack at an eastern Oregon truck stop has been sentenced to 16 years in federal prison. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports Nolan Strauss, who is white, pleaded guilty to a federal hate crime involving an attempt to
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There are 21 new COVID-19 related deaths in Oregon, raising the state’s death toll to 3,394, the Oregon Health Authority reported Thursday as St. Charles Bend reported a record 92 COVID-19 patients.
Continue ReadingBy AARON BRACY Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Pinch-hitter Ryan McMahon and Sam Hilliard hit back-to-back home runs with two outs in the ninth inning, rallying the Colorado Rockies over the Philadelphia Phillies 4-3. Bryce Harper hit his 30th home run of the season to bolster his MVP candidacy, and the Phillies looked as if
Continue ReadingBy MAURICIO SAVARESE AP Sports Writer SAO PAULO (AP) — A hat trick by Lionel Messi led Argentina to a 3-0 win over Bolivia at home in a South American World Cup qualifier to leave the side second on the table. Leader Brazil won its eighth in eight matches against Peru with goals by Everton
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