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Los Angeles Dodgers third baseman Max Muncy is expected to miss a few games after being hit on the right wrist with a pitch in the eighth inning of Friday night’s 5-1 loss against the host Milwaukee Brewers. Muncy, 35, who was hitless in his first three at-bats, was hit with a 95.5 mph slider from reliever Aaron Ashby. “The initial X-ray was negative, which was great,” Dodgers manager Dave […]

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Boon-dee-BOO-joh. Before it became the somewhat easy-to-mispronounce name of a rare type of Ebola virus, Bundibugyo is a mountainous district in western Uganda that even some locals would struggle to pinpoint on a map. It’s home to roughly 200,000 people. Many are cocoa farmers who search for whatever cultivable land they can find in the impossibly steep landscape of hills and valleys marking Uganda’s border with […]

NEW DELHI (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio arrived in India on Saturday ahead of a meeting next week with his counterparts from India, Australia, and Japan, members of the Indo-Pacific strategic alliance known as the Quad. The visit comes as Washington seeks to stabilize relations with India after ties soured over President Donald Trump’s tariff policies, which raised duties on several Indian exports. Much of Rubio’s four-day […]

May 23 (Reuters) – U.S. arms sales to Taiwan take years to process and are unrelated to the war with Iran, a source familiar with the matter said, after a senior U.S. official suggested there was a pause due to the need to have enough arms for the conflict. Taiwan, which China views as its own territory, has been waiting for the U.S. to approve an arms sale that Reuters […]

TOKYO (AP) — The first woman to conquer the world’s second-highest peak, K2, three times has also summited all 14 of the world’s tallest mountains. But Naoko Watanabe, 44, says climbing is less about piling up records than enjoying an adventure, being happy and experiencing new people, food and culture. She’s planning to return in June to her favorite climb, Pakistan’s Nanga Parbat, known as the “killer mountain,” with a […]

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A four-week United Nations conference reviewing the treaty to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons ended Friday without agreement as the United States and Iran sparred over Iran’s nuclear program. Vietnam’s U.N. Ambassador Do Hung Viet, who chaired the conference, announced that there was no consensus among the 191 parties to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty on even a watered-down final document. He did not say which […]

Richard Childress Racing parked the No. 8 Chevrolet indefinitely on Friday, the day after driver Kyle Busch died at age 41 following a severe illness. The car number could return to the NASCAR in the future, though, driven by Brexton Busch, Kyle Busch’s son who is currently 11 years old. RCR wrote in a statement, “Kyle Busch was instrumental in the design of RCR’s stylized No. 8 and it has […]

By Michael Martina, David Brunnstrom, Simon Lewis and Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON, May 22 (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio lands in India on Saturday on a mission to shore up a partnership battered by President Donald Trump’s tariffs and Washington’s renewed engagement with New Delhi’s rivals Pakistan and China. The four-day trip, Rubio’s first visit to India, will include stops in Kolkata, Agra, Jaipur and New Delhi for […]

BOSTON (AP) — Roger Clemens let loose a fastball from the mound at Fenway Park again. Only this time with his son kneeling behind home plate. The Red Sox’s career leader with 2,590 strikeouts fired his latest offering just slightly off the right side of the plate to 30-year-old Twins utility player Kody Clemens in a ceremonial first pitch before Minnesota’s matchup with the Boston Red Sox on Friday night. […]