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Double Duty: For Danny Jansen, playing for both teams in same game is chance at baseball history
BOSTON (AP) - Boston Red Sox catcher Danny Jansen is enjoying his odd slice of baseball history as he prepares to become the first major league player to appear in the same game for both teams. Jansen...
Aug 26, 2024
Israel and Hezbollah trade their most intense fire in months and then pull back
JERUSALEM (AP) - A round of high-level talks in Cairo meant to bring about a ceasefire and hostage deal to at least temporarily end the ten-month Israel-Hamas war in Gaza ended Sunday without a final ...
Aug 26, 2024
Gunmen kill 23 passengers taken from vehicles in an attack in southwest Pakistan
QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) - Gunmen fatally shot 23 passengers after identifying them and taking them from buses, vehicles and trucks in one of the deadliest attacks in restive southwestern Pakistan, polic...
Aug 26, 2024
Russia unleashes massive drone and missile attack on Ukraine
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) - Russian forces unleashed a massive drone and missile barrage on Ukraine early Monday, targeting multiple regions across the country, the Ukrainian air force said. The attack, whic...
Aug 26, 2024
Alaska landslide kills 1 person and injures 3 in Ketchikan, authorities say
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - One person was killed and three were injured by a landslide that prompted a mandatory evacuation in the Alaska city of Ketchikan, authorities said. Three people were transport...
Aug 26, 2024
Hone weakens to tropical storm while sweepng past Hawaii, dumping enough rain to ease wildfire fears
HONOLULU (AP) - Hone passed south of Hawaii and weakened from a hurricane to a tropical storm on Sunday, dumping so much rain that the National Weather Service called off its red flag warnings that st...
Aug 26, 2024
Sven-Goran Eriksson, Swedish soccer coach who was first foreigner to lead England team, dies at 76
Sven-Goran Eriksson, the Swedish soccer manager who spent five years as England's first ever foreign-born coach after making his name winning trophies at club level in Italy, Portugal and Sweden, died...
Aug 26, 2024
A dam collapses in eastern Sudan after heavy rainfall and local media report dozens missing
CAIRO (AP) - A dam collapsed in Sudan's eastern Red Sea state, sending water flooding over nearby homes, the country's health ministry said. Local media said dozens of people are missing. In a stateme...
Aug 26, 2024
Russia's deadly overnight barrage of missiles and drones hits over half of Ukraine, officials say
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) - Russia battered much of Ukraine on Monday, firing scores of missiles and drones that killed four people, injured more than a dozen and damaged energy facilities in attacks that Pr...
Aug 26, 2024
Gunmen kill dozens in multiple attacks in one of the deadliest days in a Pakistani province
QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) - Gunmen in southwestern Pakistan killed at least 38 people in three separate attacks on Monday, officials said, while the military said security forces killed 21 insurgents, mar...
Aug 26, 2024
