By DAVID SMALE Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Nick Loftin hit a go-ahead two-run homer in the seventh inning, then won it in the ninth with a one-out RBI single as the Kansas City Royals beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 4-3 on Tuesday night. Rookie Jac Caglianone homered for the Royals, a 421-foot drive
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Pittsburgh Pirates center fielder Oneil Cruz, known more for delivering hard-hit homers than producing them in quantity, was added Tuesday to next week’s Home Run Derby in Atlanta. He is the fifth player named as a participant in Monday’s event at Truist Park, which hosts the All-Star Game a night
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By AAMER MADHANI, SEUNG MIN KIM and TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s decision to send more defensive weapons to Ukraine came after he privately expressed frustration with Pentagon officials for announcing a pause in some deliveries last week — a move that he felt wasn’t properly coordinated with the White
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By DAVID SMALE Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Kansas City Royals placed outfielder Mark Canha on the 10-day injured list with a left elbow injury Tuesday. Canha is in his first season with the Royals after being acquired in a trade during spring training. He’s hitting .212 with a .537 OPS in
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By LEWIS JOLY Associated Press MARSEILLE, France (AP) — A wildfire spurred by hot summer winds reached France’s second-largest city Tuesday, grounding all flights to and from Marseille, injuring at least nine people and forcing many residents to evacuate or barricade themselves indoors as smoke choked the Mediterranean air. A big city hospital switched to
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By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Four high-ranking former New York City police officials are accusing Mayor Eric Adams and his top deputies of doling out promotions to unqualified allies as part of a scheme that also involved alleged cash bribes paid to the ex-police commissioner. In separate lawsuits filed Monday, the
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By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Turns out Donald Trump gauges his esteem for presidential predecessors by how well their portraits fit into his White House redecorating scheme. Or sometimes how well the frames around those portraits do. “I’m a frame person,” Trump said Tuesday during a meeting with his Cabinet. “Sometimes I
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By THOMAS ADAMSON AP Fashion Writer PARIS (AP) — Armani Privé opened Tuesday under an unmistakable shadow. For the first time in the 20-year history of his couture house, Giorgio Armani was not present in Paris to take his bow. Days from his 91st birthday and following doctors’ advice after a recent hospital stay, Armani
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By JAIMIE DING and CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hector Velasquez was playing cards with friends at MacArthur Park in Los Angeles early Monday when a young man with a megaphone walked through announcing federal agents were on their way. Another man drove past in a car, shouting out the window, “Immigration
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By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump leaped to the defense of Attorney General Pam Bondi on Tuesday in the face of mounting criticism from far-right influencers and conservative internet personalities over the Justice Department’s abrupt refusal to release additional documents from the Jeffrey Epstein sex-trafficking investigation. When a reporter attempted
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By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday cleared the way for President Donald Trump’s plans to downsize the federal workforce despite warnings that critical government services will be lost and hundreds of thousands of federal employees will be out of their jobs. The justices overrode lower court orders that
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By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The second of two defendants from Nevada who were charged in Minnesota with conspiracy to commit voter registration fraud pleaded guilty Tuesday, federal prosecutors announced. Ronnie Williams, 58, entered his plea before U.S. District Judge Laura Provinzino in St. Paul. Court records don’t say whether there was
Continue ReadingBy DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has avoided talking about his plan to scrap the federal disaster response agency after the catastrophic flash flood in Texas that killed more than 100 people, including children attending a girls-only camp. Asked shortly after the disaster whether he still intended to phase out
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By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A memoir by an Israeli man held in captivity for more than a year by Hamas is coming out this fall in the U.S. Eli Sharabi’s “Hostage,” written in Hebrew and already a bestseller in Israel, is the first published memoir by anyone kidnapped by
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By ITZEL LUNA Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — An 11-month strike by video game performers could formally end this week if members ratify a deal that delivers pay raises, control over their likenesses and artificial intelligence protections. The agreement feels “like diamond amounts of pressure suddenly lifted,” said Sarah Elmaleh, a voice actor and
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By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A former labor union boss who drew national headlines in his race last year as an independent candidate challenging Nebraska Republican U.S. Sen. Deb Fischer is again throwing his hat into the political ring — this time to challenge Nebraska’s junior senator, Republican Pete Ricketts,
Continue ReadingBy JIM MORRIS Associated Press VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Canadian police arrested and charged four people, including two active members of Canada’s military, who were allegedly involved in a plot to forcibly take possession of land in the Quebec City region, authorities said Tuesday. Royal Canadian Mounted Police said in a statement that three
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — United Airlines confirmed Tuesday that it will resume daily flights to Tel Aviv later this month after suspending service there intermittently due to recent escalations in the Middle East conflicts. The airline said flights from New York and Newark to Tel Aviv will restart on July 21, with
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By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he’s “not happy” with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, saying Moscow’s ongoing war in Ukraine is “killing a lot of people” on both sides. “I’m not happy with him, I can tell you that much right now. This is killing a
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By MICHAEL R. SISAK and LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Sean “Diddy” Combs will be sentenced in his federal criminal case on Oct. 3, a judge said Tuesday after probation officials rejected the defense and prosecution’s plan to move the date up by about two weeks. Combs, who remains jailed after a
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By AVET DEMOURIAN Associated Press YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — A brawl broke out Tuesday in Armenia’s National Assembly involving an opposition lawmaker who later was stripped of his parliamentary immunity and faces prosecution for calling for ousting President Nikol Pashinyan as political tensions flared in the South Caucasus country. Artur Sargsyan, who represents the opposition
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By EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The death toll from Kenya’s anti-government protests on Monday has surged to 31, marking the highest single-day toll since the demonstrations began earlier this year, the state-funded human rights commission said Tuesday. It said another 107 people were injured and more than 500 were arrested amid
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By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department is warning U.S. diplomats of attempts to impersonate Secretary of State Marco Rubio and possibly other officials using technology driven by artificial intelligence, according to two senior officials and a cable sent last week to all embassies and consulates. The warning came after
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By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday urged Britain to stick close to its neighbors despite its exit from the European Union, saying France and the U.K. will “save Europe” by standing for democracy, law and international order in a dangerous world. On a state visit that mixed
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By THOMAS ADAMSON AP Fashion Writer PARIS (AP) — Only Chanel would call its legendary Rue Cambon salon “too small” — then rebuild it, supersized, in a palace. On Tuesday, as the house marked 110 years of its haute couture — a century and more of Coco Chanel’s revolution in how women dress — it
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By CHRISTINA LARSON AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Filmmaker Peter Jackson owns one of the largest private collections of bones of an extinct New Zealand bird called the moa. His fascination with the flightless ostrich-like bird has led to an unusual partnership with a biotech company known for its grand and controversial plans to
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