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Aug. 10—DENVER — Not one to peddle what he called a "narrative" of keeping a winning streak going, not when any baseball clubhouse knows the scoreboard resets to zero every morning, Cardinals manager Oliver Marmol acknowledged a seven-game winning streak does alter the senses. "You get better sleep," he said. "Food tastes better," he added. "But it means nothing to today's game," he concluded. ...
Aug. 10—KINGSTON, N.Y. — Dutchess County Executive Marc Molinaro and Ulster County Executive Pat Ryan will face off in a special election on Aug. 23 for the 19th Congressional seat vacated in May by former U.S. Rep. Antonio Delgado, who stepped down to become lieutenant governor. The victor in the election will serve out the remainder of Delgado's term, which ends on Dec. 31. In a bit of an ...
On a soggy night in Leesburg, Virginia, that was highlighted until the final moments by outstanding play from both goalkeepers, the Portland Thorns beat the Washington Spirit 2-1 Wednesday night on a pair of late goals from Christine Sinclair and Morgan Weaver. The Thorns (7-1-7, 28 points) extend their unbeaten streak to 11 games with the victory and are alone atop the NWSL standings. After ...
MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota Democratic U.S. Rep. Dean Phillips is calling on Democrats and independent voters in Wyoming to switch parties and support fellow congresswoman Liz Cheney in the state's Aug. 16 Republican primary election. "You might be a little surprised that I'd be supporting Liz Cheney in her bid to continue representing Wyoming in the U.S. House," Phillips, a two-term Democrat, ...
U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio has joined the chorus of conservatives condemning the FBI raid of Donald Trump’s residence in Palm Beach, saying federal agents used the “pretext” of a search warrant to collect classified information as a “ruse” to gather evidence about the former president’s alleged role in the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol. ”I actually don’t think they went in looking for ...
Aug. 10—RIPLEY COUNTY — Tracy McKittrick, the daughter of Ed and Lisa McKittrick, was one of two young women chosen to represent Indiana during the 75th annual session of American Legion Auxiliary Girls Nation in Washington, DC. Girls Nation was held July 23 to 30, 2022. McKittrick, a senior at Jac-Cen-Del Jr./Sr. High School, was selected from a group of approximately 250 other young women ...
Aug. 10—CEDAR RAPIDS — After the Cedar Rapids school board signed off on an agreement to reduce the number of police in schools from seven to five, members of the Cedar Rapids City Council — which unanimously backed a contract for seven officers — made their discontent with the move clear but will accept the change. But as the Cedar Rapids Police Department has proposed minor amendments to the ...
Is COVID losing its fangs and becoming more like the flu? SAN JOSE, Calif. — Today’s hyper-transmissible strain of the COVID-19 virus has sent cases soaring across the country. But rising deaths — the grim marker of earlier dangerous surges — haven’t kept pace, and the average risk of dying from an infection is dropping to levels almost as low as seasonal influenza, leading epidemiologists ...
MINNEAPOLIS — U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar spent months largely ignoring her Democratic challenger. "I have not given it a thought," Omar, D-Minn., said in June when asked about the state of the primary race, going on to declare, "We're going to do great, as always." But in Tuesday's primary, amid lower turnout and some voter frustration over her policies and style, the 5th Congressional District ...
It’s been a bad week for former President Donald Trump, who on Wednesday morning found himself in the hot seat pleading the Fifth as he finally sat down for questioning in the New York attorney general’s long-running probe into his pre-presidency business dealings. But the civil investigation that could soon result in a lawsuit is the least of Trump’s problems. He finds himself surrounded by a ...