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AP Sports Writer BOSTON (AP) — Former Blue Jays and current Red Sox catcher Danny Jansen didn’t just play for both teams in the same game — a first in Major League Baseball history. He batted for both teams in the same inning. In a statistical oddity made possible by two of the quirkiest entities

BLACK ROCK DESERT, Nev. (AP) — Authorities are investigating the death of a woman who was participating in the counterculture festival known as Burning Man in the northern Nevada desert. The Pershing County Sheriff’s Office says emergency personnel responded to a call about a woman found unresponsive around noon Sunday. The Burning Man Project’s emergency

Associated Press The campaigns of Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are arguing in advance of their high-stakes Sept. 10 debate over whether microphones should be muted except for the candidate whose turn it is to speak. While it’s common for campaigns to quibble beforehand over debate mechanics, both Harris and Trump

AP Health Writer Ultraprocessed foods make up the bulk of the U.S. food supply and most Americans don’t go a day without eating some. The foods include sugary cereals, frozen dinners, soda, potato chips and ice cream. They’ve been linked to a host of negative health effects from obesity and diabetes to heart disease, depression,

PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron said Monday that the arrest in France of the CEO of the popular messaging app Telegram, Pavel Durov, wasn’t a political move but part of an independent investigation. Durov was detained Saturday at Le Bourget airport in a judicial inquiry opened last month involving 12 alleged criminal violations,

HARVEY CEDARS, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey woman trying to board a boat from a raft over the weekend was killed when she was struck by the propeller. New Jersey State Police said in a statement Monday that 18-year-old Zeina Mahafzah of Wayne, New Jersey, was in a raft being pulled by a boat

Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — A Venezuelan electoral official has denounced what he calls a “grave lack of transparency and veracity” in last month’s presidential vote in which Nicolás Maduro was declared the winner despite claims he was trounced by the main opposition candidate. Juan Carlos Delpino is one of five members of the National

LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) — Police say nine men have died after a large pile of gravel collapsed on them while they were working in a quarry in Zambia. A police spokesperson says the men were operating illegally in the quarry and were loading gravel onto a truck. The driver of the truck survived with injuries

BALTIMORE (AP) — A man charged with killing Baltimore tech entrepreneur Pava LaPere last September has pleaded guilty to attempted murder counts in a separate arson and home invasion case just days earlier that left two people seriously injured. Thirty-three-year-old Jason Billingsley entered the guilty plea instead of going to trial Monday morning. Officials say

The sports world is reacting to the death of Swedish soccer coach Sven-Göran Eriksson. England’s first ever foreign-born manager died Monday at home surrounded by his family, his agent Bo Gustavsson told The Associated Press. He was 76. His death followed eight months after he revealed he had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.

Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — At least 100 villagers and soldiers have been killed in central Burkina Faso during a weekend attack on a village by al-Qaida-linked jihadis, in what a regional specialist calls one of the deadliest this year in the conflict-battered West African nation. Wassim Nasr, a Sahel specialist and senior research

Associated Press GRAFTON, Ohio (AP) — A state prison in northeast Ohio says that for the first time in the state’s history, a five-course meal has been served to members of the public with food prepared by incarcerated men from fruits and vegetables grown in the prison garden. Almost 60 people dined at Grafton Correctional

AP Sports Writer 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 Monday. He was 76. Eriksson died at home surrounded by his family, his agent Bo Gustavsson told The Associated Press. His

Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine says it has a new homegrown long-range weapon that will allow it to strike deep into Russia without asking permission from allies. With the characteristics of a missile and a drone, the “Palianytsia” was created due to urgent necessity, Ukrainian officials said, as Russia has dominated the skies

AP Business Writer Airports, highways, beaches and theme parks are expected to be packed across the U.S. this Labor Day weekend as a lot Americans mark the unofficial end of summer the same way they celebrated the season’s unofficial start: by traveling. After what’s already been a record-breaking summer for air travel, the Transportation Security

ROME (AP) — Italian media report that prosecutors have placed under investigation the captain of a superyacht that sank during a storm off Sicily last week, killing seven people. The reports say the 51-year old New Zealand national is being investigated for possible manslaughter and culpable shipwreck. Under Italian laws, being under investigation doesn’t imply being guilty and

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan has cancelled a planned Taipei concert by a Chinese rapper over his use of the insulting term “Taipei, China” in promotional materials. Wang Yitai’s scheduled Sept. 14 concert has been scrapped and the performer from the southwestern city of Chengdu banned from the island, the Taiwanese government’s Mainland Affairs Council

CAIRO (AP) — Sudan’s health ministry says a dam has collapsed due to heavy rainfall in the eastern Red Sea state, sending water flooding over nearby homes. Local media said dozens of people are missing. In a statement late Sunday, the ministry said that the Arbaat dam had collapsed and that resources had been deployed

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A body camera captured every word and bark uttered as police Sgt. Matt Gilmore and his K-9 dog, Gunner, searched for a group of suspects for nearly an hour. Normally, the Oklahoma City police sergeant would grab his laptop and spend another 30 to 45 minutes writing up a report about