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SAN DIEGO (AP) — Yankees slugger Juan Soto left a note on the right field grass for his former San Diego Padres teammate Fernando Tatis Jr. after the bottom of the eighth inning of New York’s 8-0 win Friday night. Tatis picked it up and appeared to laugh. Soto wouldn’t say what the note said,
Continue ReadingBy JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer The 77th Cannes Film Festival draws to a close Saturday with the presentation of its top award, the Palme d’Or, along with an honorary tribute for George Lucas. Any of the 22 films that premiered in competition at Cannes are eligible for the Palme d’Or and other prizes. Deciding
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — Sharlize Palacios had two home runs among her three hits, driving in four, and UCLA upped its win streak to 13 and finished off a sweep of 11th-seeded Georgia with a 6-1 victory on Friday night, capturing the Los Angeles Super Regional and earning the Bruins a spot in the Women’s
Continue ReadingSTANFORD, Calif. (AP) — Sydney Berzon gave up a run while striking out five over five innings, Kelley Lynch went 2 for 4 with five RBIs — including a grand slam — and LSU beat Stanford 11-1 in five innings Friday night to take Game 1 of the best-of-three Stanford Super Regional. LSU (44-15) can
Continue ReadingBy JANIE McCAULEY AP Baseball Writer OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Jake Meyers hit a three-run homer to highlight Houston’s six-run fourth inning that backed Justin Verlander’s winning start, and the Astros beat the Oakland Athletics 6-3 on Friday night. Verlander (3-2) struck out nine over six innings to increase hit total to 3,377, passing Hall
Continue ReadingBy GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — The focus for South Africa’s national election next week is on the fate of the African National Congress party and whether it is going to lose its parliamentary majority for the first time, as many expect. Several polls put the ANC’s support below 50%
Continue ReadingBy CLIFF BRUNT AP Sports Writer Just like that, Texas’ dream season is in jeopardy. Trinity Cannon knocked in five runs, and No. 16 seed Texas A&M stunned the top-seeded Longhorns 6-5 in Game 1 of the Austin Super Regional on Friday night. The teams will meet again Saturday for Game 2 of the best-of-three
Continue ReadingBy SUSIE RANTZ Associated Press Barbra Banda scored two goals and the Orlando Pride beat the Portland Thorns 2-1 on Friday night at Inter&Co Stadium to extend their winning streak to eight games. Banda now has eight goals in six National Women’s Soccer League starts, and the first-place Pride (8-0-3) became the first team in
Continue ReadingBy MIKE FITZPATRICK AP Baseball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — That’s three Giant comebacks in a row — all on the road. Matt Chapman, Patrick Bailey and their San Francisco teammates have put together a remarkable run of resiliency this week. Bailey hit a go-ahead grand slam in the eighth inning, Chapman saved the game
Continue ReadingBy BILL BARROW and RICHARD LARDNER Associated Press OPELIKA, Ala. (AP) — The Right Side Broadcasting Network has become a major player in Donald Trump’s MAGA universe — a reference to the ex-president’s “Make America Great Again” slogan — amassing more than 2 million subscribers on its YouTube channel and on Rumble, an alternative video-sharing
Continue ReadingBy JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Last in the majors in home runs last season, the Cleveland Guardians are showing their power resurgence. José Ramírez started a run of three straight homers in the fourth inning of Friday night’s 10-4 win against the Los Angeles Angels as the Guardians became the
Continue ReadingBy ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — An emergency convoy was delivering food, water and other provisions Saturday to stunned survivors of a landslide that devastated a remote village in the mountains of Papua New Guinea and was feared to have buried scores of people, officials said. An assessment team reported “suggestions” that
Continue ReadingBy JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — José Ramírez went deep twice and started a run of three straight homers in the fourth inning as the Cleveland Guardians extended their winning streak to seven with a 10-4 victory over the Los Angeles Angels on Friday night. Ramirez had a pair of two-run
Continue ReadingCHICAGO (AP) — Chicago Bulls guard Lonzo Ball says he got a new meniscus when he underwent a cartilage transplant in his left knee last year and expects to be ready for the season opener. Ball, who hasn’t played since January 2022, said he also underwent a bone allograft, where the replacement bone comes from
Continue ReadingBy BETH HARRIS AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Caitlin Clark had 11 points and 10 rebounds for her first WNBA double-double and the Indiana Fever beat Los Angeles 78-73 on Friday night to snap a season-opening five-game skid in front of a Sparks record crowd of 19,103 that included several Hollywood stars. “The
Continue ReadingBy JANIE McCAULEY AP Baseball Writer OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Jake Meyers hit a three-run homer to highlight Houston’s six-run fourth inning that backed Justin Verlander’s winning start, and the Astros beat the Oakland Athletics 6-3 on Friday night. Verlander (3-2) struck out nine over six innings to pass Hall of Famer Greg Maddux (3,371)
Continue ReadingBy BERNIE WILSON AP Sports Writer SAN DIEGO (AP) — Juan Soto hit a long two-run homer in his first game back in San Diego, and Aaron Judge and Giancarlo Stanton also hit no-doubters off Yu Darvish in the third inning of the New York Yankees’ 8-0 win over the Padres on Friday night. Gleyber
Continue ReadingBy DÁNICA COTO and JIM SALTER Associated Press A spokesperson for the families of a young missionary couple from the U.S. says their bodies are going to be transported to Missouri this week. The couple and a Haitian man who led a religious organization were fatally shot by criminal gang members in Haiti’s capital. Davy
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Marines from the Twentynine Palms base can now receive free transportation to airports in the region through the volunteer-based program 29 PSP. News Channel 3’s Allie Anthony has more on the program. For more on the program, visit: https://www.29-psp.org/
Continue ReadingBy WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump is addressing the Libertarian National Convention, courting a segment of the conservative electorate that’s often skeptical of the former president’s bombast while trying to ensure attendees aren’t drawn to independent White House hopeful Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Trump’s Saturday night speech comes as the former
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