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By Amy Tennery NEW YORK, Sept 11 (Reuters) – Brielle Saracini came full circle at her cherished Yankee Stadium on Friday, throwing out the first ceremonial pitch 25 years after her father’s death on September 11, a tragedy that sparked an unlikely friendship with her childhood idol. She was 10 when her father, United Airlines pilot Victor Saracini, died when his hijacked Flight 175 collided with the South Tower of the World […]

By Mohammed Ghobari , Eman Abouhassira and Yasmine Ghania ADEN/DUBAI, Sept 12 (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia has shut down its East-West pipeline after the vital oil conduit came under aerial attack in the widening Middle East war. The world’s largest crude oil exporter temporarily closed the pipeline after a drone attack that both Baghdad and Riyadh said had originated in Iraq, where Iranian-backed militias operate. Iraq dismissed a military commander on […]

WASHINGTON, Sept 11 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump said on Friday he would not oppose Chinese automakers buildings cars in the United States despite widespread opposition from U.S. lawmakers and car companies. “If China wanted to come in and open a plant to build their cars here, I’d be okay with that,” Trump said in an interview on the Fox News program “The Ingraham Angle.” “Japan does it, but they […]

By Field Level Media Sep 12 (Field Level Media) – The Pittsburgh Pirates brought back veteran first baseman and outfielder Ryan O’Hearn from the 10-day injured list Friday. The Pirates activated O’Hearn and optioned outfielder Ronny Simon to Triple-A Indianapolis before falling 12-2 to the host Chicago Cubs in the opener of a three-game series. O’Hearn did not start the game but entered as a pinch hitter in the top […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — San Francisco 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan signed a contract extension this offseason that will keep him with the team for the long term. A person familiar with the deal said Friday that it was reached a while ago but was never announced by the team. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because it hadn’t been made public. The person didn’t say how long of […]

EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Republicans are working aggressively to make Abdul El-Sayed the face of the opposition. The Democratic Senate nominee from Michigan was a frequent punching bag during this week’s GOP convention, where a steady stream of Republicans singled him out. They attacked his progressive views, his ties to a far-left commentator and his Muslim faith, elevating his profile as they look to paint all Democrats as radical […]

Brigid Lynch was working along a wooded creek in a mountainous part of the San Francisco Bay Area when something that didn’t look like the rocks she’d been studying caught her eye. It turned out to be the fossilized tooth of a Pacific mastodon. “I keep joking it wasn’t hard to find,” Lynch, a geomorphologist at Balance Hydrologics, said Friday. “It was just sitting there in the middle of the […]

By Janina Nuno Rios NEW YORK, Sept 11 (Reuters) – Alexander Zverev went from wondering whether his U.S. Open campaign was “pointless” to preparing for a second final at Flushing Meadows on Friday, as his dramatic turnaround had given him a chance to win a second Grand Slam title. The German had been pushed to dramatic five sets in each of his first two rounds but has since won four […]

By Dan Catchpole SEATTLE, Sept 11 (Reuters) – Boeing and its engineering union reached a tentative contract agreement on Friday, union officials said.  The four-year offer includes higher general wage increases than the first offer, which members of the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace (SPEEA) overwhelmingly rejected in an Aug. 21 vote. (Reporting by Dan Catchpole in Seattle; Editing by Tom Hogue and Kim Coghill) Brought to you […]