ATLANTA (AP) — Taylor Fritz won his sixth career title Sunday, beating Aleksandar Vukic of Australia 7-5, 6-7 (5), 6-4 at the Atlanta Open. The top seed and highest-ranked American at No. 9 tuned up for the U.S. Open with his second victory of the season on hard courts, having won the Delray Beach title
Continue ReadingBRIGHTON, Iowa (AP) — You-pick farms are struggling through heat, drought and haze. Specialty crops that require lots of water — like blueberries and strawberries — are refusing to grow. And customers are canceling their appointments to pick berries in the heat. A strawberry farmer in central Iowa said these are the worst conditions he
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By Cheri Mossburg and Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — Police in Burbank, California, were called over an unexpected visitor having a bear-y good time taking a dip in a neighbor’s pool. Police responded to reports of a bear sighting around 3:30 p.m. PT Friday at the 1300 block of Paseo Redondo, the Burbank Police Department
Continue Reading CNN By Cheri Mossburg and Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — Police in Burbank, California, were called over an unexpected visitor having a bear-y good time taking a dip in a neighbor’s pool. Police responded to reports of a bear sighting around 3:30 p.m. PT Friday at the 1300 block of Paseo Redondo, the Burbank Police
Continue ReadingBy BETH HARRIS AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sparked by the young guy and the old man, the Cincinnati Reds took over sole possession of first place in the NL Central. Elly De La Cruz, the 21-year-old sensation, and Joey Votto, who turns 40 in September, helped the Reds rout the Los Angeles
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urielblanco (CNN Español) — Un grupo de miembros de las Fuerzas Armadas del Ecuador ingresó a territorio colombiano este sábado en el curso de una operación antidrogas, según denunció en un comunicado la Cancillería colombiana. El incidente se registró cerca del municipio de San Miguel, en el departamento de Putumayo, se indica en el comunicado.
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL KELLY Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Ty Blach tossed five strong innings, Ryan McMahon had two hits and drove in both runs, and the Colorado Rockies beat the Oakland Athletics 2-0 on Sunday to salvage the final game of the three-game series. Matt Koch, Brent Suter and Daniel Bard each pitched an inning
Continue Reading Rocío Muñoz-Ledo (CNN) — A punto de finalizar el mes más caluroso jamás registrado en el planeta, 70 millones de personas están bajo alerta por calor en EE.UU., donde las zonas de las llanuras del sur y el sureste podrían alcanzar temperaturas récord de 46 grados Celsius (115 grados Fahrenheit) o más. Aunque el noreste
Continue ReadingBy JOSH DUBOW AP Pro Football Writer SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — After ending last season with no healthy quarterbacks, the San Francisco 49ers are starting this season trying to juggle practice time for four of them. Starter Brock Purdy is only participating in two out of every three practices to start camp as he
Continue ReadingBy ASHRAF SWEILAM Associated Press EL-ARISH, Egypt (AP) — Security and health officials say a shooting at a heavily fortified security facility in the restive part of Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula has killed at least four police officers, including a senior officer. At least 21 other officers were wounded in the shooting Sunday at the National
Continue ReadingMOJAVE NATIONAL PRESERVE, Calif. (AP) — A massive wildfire burning out of control in California’s Mojave National Preserve was spreading rapidly amid erratic winds, while firefighters reported progress against another major blaze to the southwest that prompted evacuations. The York Fire that erupted Friday near the remote Caruthers Canyon area of the vast wildland preserve
Continue ReadingMOJAVE NATIONAL PRESERVE, Calif. (AP) — A massive wildfire burning out of control in California’s Mojave National Preserve was spreading rapidly amid erratic winds, while firefighters reported progress against another major blaze to the southwest that prompted evacuations. The York Fire that erupted Friday near the remote Caruthers Canyon area of the vast wildland preserve
Continue Reading Rocío Muñoz-Ledo Nueva York (CNN) — Un chico de 14 años que limpiaba máquinas de cortar carne “se quedaba dormido en clase y faltaba a clase como consecuencia y sufría lesiones por quemaduras químicas” en Nebraska entre 2021 y 2022, según el Departamento de Trabajo de Estados Unidos. Otro menor de 13 años sufrió quemaduras
Continue Reading By Matt Phillips, CNN (CNN) — Multiple dogs being driven to a police K-9 training facility died in Indiana on Thursday after the air conditioning in the truck transporting them failed in a “freak event,” police say. According to a Facebook post from the Lake Station Police Department, the dogs were traveling from Chicago O’Hare
Continue ReadingBy ANWARULLAH KHAN and RIAZ KHAN Associated Press KHAR, Pakistan (AP) — A suicide bomber blew himself up at a political rally in a former stronghold of militants in northwest Pakistan bordering Afghanistan on Sunday, killing at least 44 people and wounding nearly 200 in an attack that a senior leader said was meant to
Continue Reading By Chris Boyette, Lauren Mascarenhas and Andy Rose, CNN (CNN) — Four people are dead and two are injured after two aircraft collided in midair and another crashed into a lake Saturday shortly before an air show at a major aviation convention in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, authorities said. Two people died when a North American T-6,
Continue ReadingBy JARI TANNER Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — Denmark’s foreign minister said Sunday the government will seek to make it illegal to desecrate the Quran or other religious holy books in front of foreign embassies in the Nordic country. Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen said in an interview with the Danish public broadcaster DR that
Continue ReadingBy JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Officials under Kansas’s Democratic governor are seeking to have the state resume changing gender identification on driver’s licenses of transgender people. Democratic officials are arguing in state court that the state’s Republican attorney general had no standing to sue over the practice. Attorney General Kris
Continue ReadingBy ALEXANDRA OLSON AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Six straight days of 12-hour driving. Single digit paychecks. The complaints come from workers in vastly different industries: UPS delivery drivers and Hollywood actors and writers. But they point to an underlying factor driving a surge of labor unrest: The cost to workers whose jobs
Continue ReadingBy ALEXANDRA OLSON AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Six straight days of 12-hour driving. Single digit paychecks. The complaints come from workers in vastly different industries: UPS delivery drivers and Hollywood actors and writers. But they point to an underlying factor driving a surge of labor unrest: The cost to workers whose jobs
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