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Kyle Schwarber's 3 homers in All-Star Game's first tiebreaking swing-off lift NL over AL

ATLANTA (AP) - Kyle Schwarber went 3 for 3 in the first All-Star Game home run swing-off to put the National League ahead 4-3 following a 6-6 tie in which the American League rallied from a six-run de...

Jul 15, 2025

Adelita Grijalva wins the Democratic primary for Southern Arizona's special election

PHOENIX (AP) - Voters in southern Arizona selected Adelita Grijalva in the Democratic primary for the 7th Congressional District election Tuesday to succeed her father, the late U.S. Rep. Ral Grijalva...

Jul 15, 2025

World's oldest marathon runner, Fauja Singh, dies at 114 after being hit by a car

LONDON (AP) - Fauja Singh, an Indian-born runner nicknamed the Turbaned Torpedo who was believed to be the world's oldest marathon runner, has died after being hit by a car. He was 114. Local media in...

Jul 15, 2025

Despite scandal and a looming corruption trial, Trayon White wins vote to return to the DC Council

WASHINGTON (AP) - A former D.C. Council member is returning to his seat, five months after he was kicked out for his involvement in a federal bribery investigation. Trayon White defeated three challen...

Jul 15, 2025

Pentagon ends deployment of 2,000 National Guard troops in Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES (AP) - The Pentagon said Tuesday it is ending the deployment of 2,000 National Guard troops in Los Angeles, accounting for nearly half of the soldiers sent to the city to deal with protest...

Jul 15, 2025

Florida puts a man to death for killing 2 outside a bar, the 26th US execution this year

STARKE, Fla. (AP) - A man convicted of fatally shooting two people outside a Florida bar in 1993 as part of an attempted revenge killing was executed Tuesday evening, the 26th person put to death in t...

Jul 15, 2025

Federal grand jury indicts man accused of killing former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - A federal grand jury indicted a Minnesota man Tuesday on charges that he fatally shot a prominent Minnesota state representative and her husband and seriously wounded a state senato...

Jul 15, 2025

Vandals who cut down Sycamore Gap tree sentenced in England to more than 4 years in prison

LONDON (AP) - Two men who cut down England's beloved Sycamore Gap tree were sentenced Tuesday to more than four years in prison. The tree stood for nearly 150 years before Daniel Graham and Adam Carru...

Jul 15, 2025

The UK says thousands of Afghans have been brought to Britain under a secret resettlement program

LONDON (AP) - Thousands of Afghans, including many who worked with British forces, have been secretly resettled in the U.K. after a leak of data on their identities raised fears that they could be tar...

Jul 15, 2025

Mariners' Cal Raleigh becomes first catcher, switch-hitter to win Home Run Derby

ATLANTA (AP) - Seattle's Cal Raleigh won his first All-Star Home Run Derby after leading the big leagues in long balls going into the break, defeating Tampa Bay's Junior Caminero 18-15 in the final ro...

Jul 14, 2025