LOS ANGELES (AP) — Will Smith of the Los Angeles Dodgers homered three times against the Milwaukee Brewers on Friday night. He’s just the fourth Dodgers catcher to hit three in one game, joining Yasmani Grandal (2016), Mike Piazza (1996) and Hall of Famer Roy Campanella (1950). It was Smith’s 12th, 13th and 14th homers
Continue ReadingAssociated Press An ancient tree from India is now thriving in groves where citrus trees once flourished in Florida, and could help provide the nation with renewable energy. As large parts of the Sunshine State’s once-famous citrus industry have all but dried up over the past two decades because of two fatal diseases, greening and
Continue ReadingAssociated Press An ancient tree from India is now thriving in groves where citrus trees once flourished in Florida, and could help provide the nation with renewable energy. As large parts of the Sunshine State’s once-famous citrus industry have all but dried up over the past two decades because of two fatal diseases, greening and
Continue ReadingAssociated Press YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio (AP) — When the Little Art Theatre set out to land a $100,000 grant to fund a stylish new marquee, with a nod to its century-long history, the cozy Ohio arthouse theater had some talented help. Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Steve Bognar is a resident of Yellow Springs, the bohemian
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LONDON (AP) — New British Prime Minister Keir Starmer doesn’t get to take a breather. After a draining six-week election campaign, the center-left politician must get straight to work assembling his government, tackling a mountain of domestic problems and putting his stamp on the U.K.’s relations with the rest of the world. It’s
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Forced labor, same-sex marriage and shoplifting are among the 10 statewide ballot measures that California voters are set to consider in November. The California secretary of state assigned proposition numbers to the measures on Wednesday after the Legislature added two more bond proposals to the ballot. Here’s a look
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Forced labor, same-sex marriage and shoplifting are among the 10 statewide ballot measures that California voters are set to consider in November. The California secretary of state assigned proposition numbers to the measures on Wednesday after the Legislature added two more bond proposals to the ballot. Here’s a look
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans are off to a quicker, more united start this year when it comes to funding the federal government, passing four of 12 annual appropriations bills before the end of June compared to zero at this time last year, when the new majority got off to a rocky start.
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A Native American tribe in North Dakota will soon grow lettuce in a giant greenhouse complex that when fully completed will be among the country’s largest, enabling the tribe to grow much of its own food decades after a federal dam flooded the land where they had cultivated corn,
Continue ReadingBy Zachary B. Wolf and Amy O’Kruk, CNN (CNN) — It is not unprecedented for an incumbent president to abandon his reelection campaign. But it is rare, and no president until President Joe Biden has been pressured out of a reelection campaign out of concerns about his mental fitness. One warning bell for Democrats who
Continue ReadingAssociated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The minister for the two islands in Grenada that Hurricane Beryl first slammed into with catastrophic winds had a simple message for U.N. and other humanitarian officials who asked what was needed: “Anything that would allow a human being to survive.” Tevin Andrews, who was in the devastated island
Continue ReadingBy Nadeen Ebrahim and Michael Rios, CNN (CNN) — Reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian has won Iran’s presidential election, the country’s electoral authority said Saturday, defeating his hardline rival in a pivotal vote amid heightened tensions both domestically and internationally. Out of 30.5 million votes counted in Friday’s runoff, Pezeshkian won 53.6%, edging out ultraconservative Saeed
Continue ReadingAP Sports Writer PITTSBURGH (AP) — Paul Skenes does seemingly everything fast, whether it’s throwing a baseball or sprinting through the minor leagues. Establishing himself as a legitimate major league ace has been no different. It’s taken all of 10 starts for the Pittsburgh Pirates rookie with the 100 mph fastball and trademark mustache to
Continue ReadingAssociated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The stances of Iran’s President-elect Masoud Pezeshkian reflect the dualities of being a reformist politician within Iran’s Shiite theocracy. They are always pushing for change but never radical reforms to the system overseen by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. After becoming Iran’s 69-year-old president-elect on Saturday, Pezeshkian
Continue ReadingAssociated Press KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — The highest camp on the world’s tallest mountain is littered with garbage that is going to take years to clean up, according to a Sherpa who led a team that worked to clear trash and dig up dead bodies frozen for years near Mount Everest’s peak. The Nepal government-funded
Continue ReadingAssociated Press CLEVELAND (AP) — Michael Conforto hit a two-run double as the San Francisco Giants won for the eighth time in their last 11 games, beating the AL Central-leading Cleveland Guardians 4-2 on Friday night. Patrick Bailey added a sacrifice fly and Nick Ahmed had an RBI single for the Giants, who built a
Continue ReadingCNN Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN Washington (CNN) — President Joe Biden’s struggle to prove he’s got the strength and cognitive capacity for a second term is becoming an excruciating personal and national ordeal. Watching a visibly aged Biden answer frank questions Friday about his health on primetime television – which would normally remain between
Continue ReadingCNN By Betsy Klein and Michael Williams, CNN Washington (CNN) — A defiant President Joe Biden on Friday downplayed his poor performance in last week’s debate in what had become a high-stakes interview on ABC, as questions swirled over the future of his candidacy. During his interview with anchor George Stephanopoulos, Biden shot down any
Continue ReadingCNN Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN Washington (CNN) — President Joe Biden’s struggle to prove he’s got the strength and cognitive capacity for a second term is becoming an excruciating personal and national ordeal. Watching a visibly aged Biden answer frank questions Friday about his health on primetime television – which would normally remain between
Continue ReadingAP National Political Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Joe Biden sat down with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos on Friday for one of the most important interviews of the Democratic president’s decades-long political career. The 22-minute session came a full eight days after Biden’s disastrous debate performance last week, when the 81-year-old president struggled to spar with
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