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BALTIMORE (AP) — Fans lined up well before the gates opened at Camden Yards on Friday night in anticipation of a Tupac Shakur bobblehead giveaway at the ballpark. “I grabbed three of them,” Baltimore Orioles manager Craig Albernaz said. Shakur was raised in New York and Baltimore before moving to the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 1980s. He lived in Oakland, California in the early 1990s, which made […]

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Officials in Argentina’s Tierra del Fuego province are challenging the idea that the ongoing deadly hantavirus outbreak may have emerged there, pushing instead for investigations into the other Argentine provinces that passengers visited before boarding the ill-fated Atlantic cruise ship. Current and former officials in the archipelago at the southernmost point of South America insist that the virus did not originate from the trash heap […]

A South Dakota mining company has canceled a drilling project in the Black Hills after opposition from Native American tribes and local groups. In a letter provided Friday by Indigenous advocacy group NDN Collective, Rapid City-based Pete Lien & Sons told the United States Forest Service on Thursday it is withdrawing its plan of operations for a graphite drilling project. It doesn’t intend to file another plan for this project, […]

By Christian Martinez LOS ANGELES, May 8 (Reuters) – The U.S. military on Friday said it struck a vessel in the Eastern Pacific, killing two people and leaving one survivor in the latest attack on boats suspected of transporting narcotics. • U.S. Southern Command said two males were killed in the strike while one person survived. • The U.S. Coast Guard was notified for search and rescue operations, Southern Command […]

PHOENIX (AP) — A federal judge on Friday threw out a defamation lawsuit against Fox News, ruling for a second time against a former Donald Trump supporter who said he received death threats when the network aired false conspiracy theories about his involvement in the Capitol insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021. Raymond Epps, a former Marine, was falsely accused by Fox of being a government agent causing trouble near the […]

SAN DIEGO (AP) — U.S. immigration authorities have canceled the visas of more than two dozen people, including some who worked on a Disney Cruise Line ship, amid allegations that they possessed or had viewed child sexual abuse images. U.S. Customs and Border Protection said in a statement Friday that authorities boarded eight cruise ships in late April and determined that 27 people, mostly from the Philippines, were involved in […]

World No. 2 Jeeno Thitikul of Thailand built a three-stroke lead through two rounds Friday as she attempts to go back-to-back at the Mizuho Americas Open in West Caldwell, N.J. Thitikul won the event last year at Liberty National Golf Club before it was moved to Mountain Ridge Country Club in West Caldwell, N.J. Her 3-under-par 69 in the second round lifted her to 8-under 136, with Jennifer Kupcho the […]

May 8 (Reuters) – FIFA announced on Friday that it will hold separate opening ceremonies prior to the first game in each of the three host countries for this year’s World Cup, which is being held in Mexico, Canada and the United States. The biggest World Cup in history kicks off on June 11 in Mexico City, where Grammy Award-winning Mexican pop band Mana will be performing as part of […]

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — OG Anunoby was ruled out for Game 3 on Friday night with a strained right hamstring, but the New York Knicks forward appears to have avoided a serious injury and remained day to day in the second-round series against the Philadelphia 76ers. Anunoby was injured late in Game 2 of the Eastern Conference semifinals, in which he scored 24 points. The Knicks hold a 2-0 lead in […]