Associated Press Nebraska Daybook for Saturday, Jun. 07. The daybook is for planning purposes only and is not intended for publication or broadcast. You should verify any event you plan to cover. Please keep the AP in mind when news develops. The Omaha bureau is reachable at 402-391-0031. Send daybook items to Nebraska@applanner.com. To see
Continue Reading Associated Press Iowa Daybook for Saturday, Jun. 07. The daybook is for planning purposes only and is not intended for publication or broadcast. You should verify any event you plan to cover. Please keep the AP in mind when news develops. The Des Moines bureau is reachable at 515-243-3281. Send daybook items to iowa@applanner.com. To
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By The Associated Press Kansas City Royals (33-31, fourth in the AL Central) vs. Chicago White Sox (21-43, fifth in the AL Central) Chicago; Saturday, 4:10 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Royals: Michael Wacha (3-4, 2.88 ERA, 1.17 WHIP, 50 strikeouts); White Sox: Adrian Houser (1-1, 1.47 ERA, 0.98 WHIP, 14 strikeouts) BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Royals
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By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — The world’s smallest country has a big budget problem. The Vatican doesn’t tax its residents or issue bonds. It primarily finances the Catholic Church’s central government through donations that have been plunging, ticket sales for the Vatican Museums, as well as income from investments and an
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By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — As a bishop in Peru, Robert Prevost was often on the lookout for used cars that he could buy cheap and fix up himself for use in parishes around his diocese. With cars that were really broken down, he’d watch YouTube videos to learn how to
Continue Reading NATIONAL LEAGUE BATTING_F.Freeman, Los Angeles, .354; W.Smith, Los Angeles, .319; Machado, San Diego, .316; Donovan, St. Louis, .315; T.Turner, Philadelphia, .301; Alonso, New York, .298; Friedl, Cincinnati, .297; Ramos, San Francisco, .295; Ohtani, Los Angeles, .294; Frelick, Milwaukee, .292. RUNS_Ohtani, Los Angeles, 66; Crow-Armstrong, Chicago, 50; Carroll, Arizona, 49; E.De La Cruz, Cincinnati, 49; Betts,
Continue Reading AMERICAN LEAGUE BATTING_Judge, New York, .397; Ja.Wilson, Athletics, .369; Ramírez, Cleveland, .333; Aranda, Tampa Bay, .324; Peña, Houston, .321; Goldschmidt, New York, .320; O’Hearn, Baltimore, .317; Kwan, Cleveland, .314; M.Garcia, Kansas City, .310; Kirk, Toronto, .304. RUNS_Judge, New York, 59; Raleigh, Seattle, 42; Devers, Boston, 41; Goldschmidt, New York, 40; Ramírez, Cleveland, 40; Rooker, Athletics,
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By AKRAM OUBACHIR and SAM METZ Associated Press CASABLANCA, Morocco (AP) — Flocks of sheep once quilted Morocco’s mountain pastures, stretched across Algeria’s vast plateaus and grazed along Tunisia’s green coastline. But the cascading effects of climate change have sparked a region-wide shortage that is being felt acutely as Muslims throughout North Africa celebrate Eid
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By DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press As President Donald Trump’s administration targets states and local governments for not cooperating with federal immigration authorities, lawmakers in some Democratic-led states are intensifying their resistance by strengthening state laws restricting such cooperation. In California alone, more than a dozen pro-immigrant bills passed either the Assembly or Senate this
Continue Reading By The Associated Press NBA Sunday FAVORITE LINE O/U UNDERDOG at OKLAHOMA CITY 11 (228½) Indiana MLB Sunday American League FAVORITE LINE UNDERDOG LINE at CLEVELAND -136 Houston +116 at MINNESOTA -174 Toronto +146 Kansas City -154 at CHICAGO WHITE SOX +130 Baltimore -146 at ATHLETICS +124 Seattle -146 at LA ANGELS +124 at N.Y
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CHICAGO (AP) — Luis Robert Jr. drove in three runs in his return to the lineup, and the Chicago White Sox beat the Kansas City Royals 7-2 on Friday night. Mike Tauchman homered to help the last-place White Sox to their third win in four games. Davis Martin struck out seven while pitching six innings
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By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Andrew Sean Greer, a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, remembers the first time he read Edmund White. It was the summer of 1989, he was beginning his second year at Brown University and he had just come out. Having learned that White would be teaching at Brown,
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By BYRON TAU, SEUNG MIN KIM and CHRIS MEGERIAN The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Call it the 911 presidency. Despite insisting that the United States is rebounding from calamity under his watch, President Donald Trump is harnessing emergency powers unlike any of his predecessors. Whether it’s leveling punishing tariffs, deploying troops to the border
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By OLIVIA DIAZ Associated Press/Report for America CULPEPER, Va. (AP) — Democratic politics in rural Virginia are not of a bygone era, according to Abigail Spanberger. The former congressional representative, now the Democratic nominee in the race to be Virginia’s next governor, posts videos online of herself sitting in a car on an interstate highway
Continue Reading By The Associated Press The winning numbers in Friday evening’s drawing of the “Iowa Pick 4 Evening” game were: 3, 3, 7, 9 (three, three, seven, nine) For more lottery results, go to Jackpot.com | Order Lottery Tickets
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Continue Reading By The Associated Press The winning numbers in Friday’s drawing of the “Nebraska Pick 3” game were: 3, 7, 8 (three, seven, eight) For more lottery results, go to Jackpot.com | Order Lottery Tickets
Continue Reading By The Associated Press The winning numbers in Friday’s drawing of the “Missouri Show Me Ca$h” game were: 1, 17, 23, 27, 39 (one, seventeen, twenty-three, twenty-seven, thirty-nine) For more lottery results, go to Jackpot.com | Order Lottery Tickets
Continue Reading By The Associated Press The winning numbers in Friday’s drawing of the “Nebraska Pick 5” game were: 1, 3, 10, 14, 25 (one, three, ten, fourteen, twenty-five) For more lottery results, go to Jackpot.com | Order Lottery Tickets
Continue Reading By The Associated Press The winning numbers in Friday evening’s drawing of the “Missouri Pick 4 Evening” game were: 0, 1, 6, 8 (zero, one, six, eight) For more lottery results, go to Jackpot.com | Order Lottery Tickets
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By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer Digging deep into free-speech precedents in recent American history, a federal appeals panel handed The Associated Press an incremental loss on Friday in its continuing battle with the Trump administration over access by its journalists to cover presidential events. By a 2-1 margin, judges on the three-judge U.S. Court
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By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer Digging deep into free-speech precedents in recent American history, a federal appeals panel handed The Associated Press an incremental loss on Friday in its continuing battle with the Trump administration over access by its journalists to cover presidential events. By a 2-1 margin, judges on the three-judge U.S. Court
Continue Reading By The Associated Press The winning numbers in Friday’s drawing of the “Missouri Cash Pop” game were: 15 (fifteen) For more lottery results, go to Jackpot.com | Order Lottery Tickets
Continue Reading By The Associated Press Friday At Bristol Dragway Bristol, Tenn. Qualifying after two rounds Top Fuel 1. Shawn Langdon, 3.800 seconds, 328.54 mph; 2. Josh Hart, 3.860, 324.67; 3. Justin Ashley, 3.886, 323.35; 4. Clay Millican, 3.889, 300.33; 5. Brittany Force, 3.899, 288.95; 6. Doug Kalitta, 3.909, 289.01; 7. Dan Mercier, 4.004, 305.08; 8. Shawn
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By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A retired police officer was sentenced on Friday to serve 18 months behind bars for lying to authorities about leaking confidential information to the Proud Boys extremist group’s former top leader, who was under investigation for burning a Black Lives Matter banner in the nation’s capital. Shane
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By SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senior U.S. administration officials will meet with a Chinese delegation on Monday in London for the next round of trade negotiations between Washington and Beijing, President Donald Trump said Friday. The meeting comes after a phone call between Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Thursday,
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By FERNANDA FIGUEROA Associated Press HBO’s new biographical series “Chespirito: Not Really on Purpose” (“Sin Querer Queriendo”) has been received with delight by the many fans in the U.S. and Latin America who grew up watching the late Mexican comedian Roberto Gómez Bolaños. The eight-episode miniseries, which debuted Thursday, dramatizes the professional and personal journey
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By JOSH FUNK and DIDI TANG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump wants to counter the threats drones pose to national security under new rules released Friday, while also aiming to make it possible for Americans to fly faster than the speed of sound and expedite the development of the flying cars of
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