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Toronto Blue Jays first baseman Vladimir Guerrero Jr. left the game during Friday’s 3-1 victory over the visiting New York Yankees after taking a knee to the head from shortstop George Lombard Jr. in an accidental collision at third base. After the game, Blue Jays manager John Schneider said Guerrero was going through testing under concussion protocol. The unusual play occurred in the bottom of the sixth inning when the […]

WASHINGTON, Aug 14 (Reuters) – A South Florida site backed out of hosting a rally with Democratic U.S. Representative Rashida Tlaib, a vocal critic of Israel’s government, after complaints by a Democratic state lawmaker in the party’s latest flashpoint over its stance on Israel. Tlaib, the first Palestinian American member of Congress, was scheduled to appear on Friday at a rally for three candidates in Florida’s upcoming Democratic Party primary. […]

Dr. Anthony Fauci on Friday declined a request to appear voluntarily before a second Senate panel after majority Republicans on the Homeland Security Committee voted along partisan lines last week to hold the longtime infectious disease expert in contempt. In a pointed letter to Sen. Ron Johnson, a Wisconsin Republican, a lawyer for the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases said any effort to compel […]

SEOUL, Aug 15 (Reuters) – South Korean President Lee Jae Myung said on Saturday that mechanisms must be instituted to manage tensions with North Korea. In a speech marking the anniversary of Korea’s liberation from Japanese colonial rule, Lee called for talks with North Korea and other concerned parties to end the 1950-1953 Korean War, which was stopped by a ceasefire, not a peace treaty. Lee said the Korean Peninsula’s unstable […]

Buffalo Bills defensive tackle Phidarian Mathis received a three-game suspension on Friday from the NFL, which cited a violation of its substances of abuse policy. According to ESPN, the punishment was in response to “an alcohol-related incident” from the spring of 2025 when Mathis was on the New York Jets’ roster. The Jets released him in the summer of 2025, and he signed with the Bills last fall. Mathis, 28, […]

By Nelson Bocanegra, Luis Jaime Acosta and Julia Symmes Cobb PEREIRA/BOGOTA, Colombia, Aug 14 (Reuters) – Rescuers in Colombia raced to free survivors still trapped under the rubble on Friday, four days after one of the strongest earthquakes to hit the Andean nation in decades left hundreds of people dead or missing. In Cali, Colombia’s third-largest city, rescue workers shifted shattered concrete after detecting sounds from a collapsed residential block […]

TAIPEI, Aug 15 (Reuters) – Taiwan’s opposition-controlled parliament approved this year’s government budget late on Friday after a record delay, including spending on a key drone programme to bolster the island’s defences, as the president called for a return to reason. While President Lai Ching-te won the election in 2024, his Democratic Progressive Party lost control of parliament, and the two main opposition parties have used their majority to push […]

NEW YORK (AP) — All-Star shortstop CJ Abrams is moving to second base for the Washington Nationals, vacating the only position he’s played during his five seasons with the club. Manager Blake Butera said Friday that Abrams has begun working out at second. He said the transition will be more “multiday than multiweek” and that Abrams will swap spots with second baseman Nasim Nuñez. “Just thought this was the best […]

MISSAUKEE COUNTY, MICH. (AP) — Five people were killed and a suspect is dead Friday after a series of killings that took place at two homes and a wooded area in Michigan, according to law enforcement. Michigan State Police were responding to reports of a shooting at a home in Missaukee County, about 169 miles (272 kilometers) northwest of Detroit, when they found three people dead and another wounded, police […]