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INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) — It was a stadium like any other, packed with American sports fans wearing their favorite team’s jerseys and red-white-and-blue face paint, roaring as players took the field. The U.S. team’s home opener in the World Cup against Paraguay on Friday brought tens of thousands of passionate soccer enthusiasts to the massive …
The U.S. men’s national soccer team made easy work of Paraguay in its World Cup opener Friday, defeating the South American side 4-1 at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California. The U.S. was dominant from kickoff. Their first score came on an own goal in the 7th minute, when the ball ricocheted off Paraguayan midfielder Damián …
SYDNEY, June 13 (Reuters) – A woman swimmer was seriously injured in a shark attack at a Sydney beach on Saturday, authorities said, in the latest of a spate of shark attacks off Australia’s coast. Emergency services were called to Coogee Beach in the east of Sydney, Australia’s largest city, in the morning on reports …
CHICAGO (AP) — Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani is day to day with left knee inflammation. Ohtani was out of the starting lineup for Friday night’s series opener at the Chicago White Sox. But manager Dave Roberts said Ohtani could play this weekend and remains in line to make his next scheduled start on …
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Yordan Alvarez became the first player to hit a grand slam and multi-run homer in the first inning of a Major League Baseball game, pulling off the feat for the Houston Astros against the Kansas City Royals on Friday night. He became the eighth player to hit a grand slam …
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A coalition that includes Kalshi, Crypto.com and Polymarket filed a lawsuit Friday challenging Kentucky’s first-in-the-nation excise tax on prediction markets. The Kentucky General Assembly in April enacted a 14.25% tax on prediction market operators’ transaction fees, a levy the lawsuit says is discriminatory, unconstitutional and preempted by federal law. Prediction markets …
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Jacob Misiorowski struck out a career-high 15 and pitched a complete-game one-hitter to lead the Milwaukee Brewers to a 6-0 win over the Philadelphia Phillies on Friday night. Misiorowski (8-2) didn’t walk a batter in facing the minimum number of batters, throwing 95 pitches, 74 for strikes. With the capacity crowd at …
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Friday that a “swift and lethal kinetic” U.S. strike has killed Hector Rusthenford Guerrero Flores, whom he called “the infamous leader” of the Tren de Aragua gang. Tren de Aragua has been labeled by the United States as a terrorist organization. Guerrero Flores was charged in a New …
One person was killed and 22 more were injured Friday after a tent collapsed due to severe weather at a church in a small community in Virginia, local officials said. The incident occurred Friday night during an outdoor service at East Lake Community Church in Moneta, Virginia. Eleven people were transported to local hospitals, and 11 …
An immigration arrest outside a Baltimore elementary school drew sharp criticism from state and local officials Friday and renewed debate about the presence of enforcement operations at or near educational settings. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials arrested Jesus Acevedo-Sanchez and an unidentified woman Thursday morning outside Commodore John Rodgers Elementary/Middle School as preschoolers, kindergarteners …