UK to hold days-long bash to celebrate queen’s 70-year reign
By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain is getting ready for a party featuring mounted troops, solemn prayers — and a pack of…
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Chapman helps Blue Jays rally past Angels with 6-5 win
By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Matt Chapman hit a go-ahead two-run double during Toronto’s three-run eighth inning and the…
Continue ReadingHayes’ 3-run HR in 9th lifts Pirates to 4-2 win over Padres
By BERNIE WILSON AP Sports Writer SAN DIEGO (AP) — Ke’Bryan Hayes hit a three-run homer off closer Taylor Rogers with one out in the ninth inning…
Continue ReadingRescuers close to plane that crashed in Nepal with 22 aboard
By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA Associated Press KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Authorities in Nepal say rescuers have narrowed a possible location of a passenger…
Continue ReadingSevere water shortages strain wheat harvest in Iraq
By SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Salah Chelab crushed a husk of wheat plucked from his sprawling farmland south of Baghdad and…
Continue ReadingNo. 1 Vols pull away late to drop Kentucky, make SEC final
HOOVER, Ala. (AP) — Cortland Lawson doubled in two runs in a four-run eighth inning, Blake Burke hit a three-run homer in a six-run ninth inning…
Continue ReadingLewis homers, Gilbert dominant as Mariners blank Astros 6-0
By SHANE LANTZ Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Kyle Lewis homered for the second straight game, Julio Rodríguez got three more hits and the…
Continue ReadingUS ‘troubled’ as UN rights chief urges China to review counter-terrorism policies
Story by Reuters UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet, whose rare visit to China was criticized by rights groups and Western countries, said she…
Continue ReadingGervonta Davis stops Romero in 6th, retains lightweight belt
By BRIAN MAHONEY AP Sports Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Gervonta Davis regained his knockout power and retained his lightweight title after stopping…
Continue ReadingShe graduated from college the day after her 82nd birthday
By Zoe Sottile, CNN If you’ve been considering a return to school, this is your sign it is not too late. Mae Beale, an 82-year-old retiree,…
Continue ReadingCallens, Johnson lead NYCFC to 1-0 win over Minnesota United
SAINT PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Alexander Callens scored in the 29th minute and Sean Johnson made it stand up to lead New York City FC to a 1-0 victory…
Continue Reading‘Now I am a beggar’: Fleeing the Russian advance in Ukraine
By ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press POKROVSK, Ukraine (AP) — As Russian forces press their offensive to take the eastern Ukrainian cities of…
Continue ReadingRed Bulls end home skid behind Luquinhas, beat DC 4-1
HARRISON, N.J. (AP) — The New York Red Bulls won a home game for the first time in seven tries this season as Luquinhas scored twice in a…
Continue ReadingTwo weeks after Buffalo shooting and days after Texas school massacre, New York leaders called on the federal government to take action against gun violence
By Kiely Westhoff and Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN Two weeks after a gunman walked into a Buffalo, New York, supermarket and killed 10 people — and…
Continue ReadingChinatowns more vibrant after pandemic, anti-Asian violence
By TERRY TANG Associated Press The last week of April was a whirlwind for San Francisco’s Chinatown. The storied neighborhood debuted the…
Continue ReadingChinatowns more vibrant after pandemic, anti-Asian violence
By TERRY TANG Associated Press The last week of April was a whirlwind for San Francisco’s Chinatown. The storied neighborhood debuted the…
Continue ReadingUvalde tells Biden to ‘do something’; he pledges ‘we will’
By ZEKE MILLER and ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press UVALDE, Texas (AP) — President Joe Biden grieved with the shattered community of Uvalde on…
Continue ReadingUkraine, Russia battle in the east as Zelenskyy visits front
By ELENA BECATOROS and RICARDO MAZALAN Associated Press POKROVSK, Ukraine (AP) — Russian and Ukrainian troops traded blows in fierce close-quarter…
Continue ReadingIowa tops Michigan 7-3 to advance to Big Ten championship
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Kyle Huckstorf had a two-run triple and an RBI single, Connor Shultz struck out the side in the eighth to end a Michigan threat…
Continue ReadingColombia presidential race to runoff; leftist vs businessman
By ASTRID SUAREZ and REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — In a blow to Colombia’s political class, a leftist former rebel…
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