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Tommy Edman delivered a game-ending RBI single in the 10th inning and the Los Angeles Dodgers returned home Friday to earn a 5-4 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates. Max Muncy hit a home run and Mookie Betts added a two-run single as the Dodgers increased their winning streak to four games after a 7-13 stretch that dated back to their last four-game win streak. Yoshinobu Yamamoto gave up two runs […]

SEOUL, Aug 22 (Reuters) – A South Korean container ship sets sail on Saturday for Europe via the Arctic in the nation’s first commercial voyage on the route to test its viability, with the hope of turning the southeastern port of Busan into a global maritime hub. The PanStar Acro will sail north, hugging eastern Russia’s Kamchatka peninsula, cross the Bering Sea, and take the Northern Sea Route, stopping in […]

BEIJING, Aug 22 (Reuters) – It’s been called the Robot Olympics. But unlike the human Olympics, Team China is collecting almost all the medals. Over the past decade, robotic competitions in China have provided a window into the advances of a now-surging sector – and the importance of its success as a strategic industry singled out by President Xi Jinping. Once a curiosity organized by academic teams and hobbyists, China’s […]

DENVER (AP) — Bo Nix ‘s 21-yard touchdown toss to R.J. Harvey two plays after hooking up with new speedster Jaylen Waddle for 35 yards highlighted the Denver quarterback’s return successful return from a broken ankle in the Broncos’ 33-13 loss to the Green Bay Packers on Friday night. Nix’s second and final series ended with a 53-yard field goal from Wil Lutz, but Pierre Strong Jr. returned the ensuing […]

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is still under orders to pay more than $1 billion over his false claims surrounding the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre despite a Texas court reducing some of the money awarded to families. For the bombastic Infowars founder, the ruling that saves him more than $40 million was still a legal victory amid multiple punishing financial judgments that forced him and […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — In between morning feedings, the gibbons begin to sing — loudly. Ranging from the sound of emergency sirens and birds screeching to low grunts and guttural hoots, their vocalizations reverberate from a sanctuary in the hot, dry hills of the Santa Clarita Valley, north of Los Angeles. Over the past 50 years, the Gibbon Conservation Center has transformed from housing a small assortment of animals to […]

NEW YORK (AP) — The bond market is one of the few forces in the world strong enough to get politicians to snap to attention. It also helps dictate how much ordinary people have to pay on their mortgages and car loans, as well as how much they earn from their savings accounts and 401(k) plans. This week rising bond yields forced the U.S. Treasury Department into an unusual intervention […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States imposed 50% tariffs on $20 billion worth of Canadian products early Saturday, and Canada immediately said it would retaliate, after last-ditch negotiations failed to resolve the latest strain in already tense relations between the historic allies. President Donald Trump’s import taxes will hit about 5% of what Canada ships to the United States every year, including products ranging from hockey sticks to tongue depressors. […]

By Humeyra Pamuk, Andrea Shalal and Steve Holland WASHINGTON, Aug 22 (Reuters) – With the Iran war now at a costly standoff and crises from Ukraine to Gaza still unresolved, President Donald Trump’s ambitious foreign policy agenda appears stuck as he heads into November’s midterm elections. The setbacks are striking for a president who returned to office last year promising to be a “peacemaker” and made resolving international conflicts a […]