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Macklin Celebrini selected No. 1 by San Jose at NHL draft where Las Vegas and hockey royalty mix 06/29/2024 12:06am • LAS VEGAS (AP) — Macklin Celebrini headlined the NHL draft by going first overall to the San Jose Sharks on a Friday night hockey and Las Vegas royalty mixed company under the visual spectacle of the Sphere. French-Canadian chanteuse Celine Dion and longtime boxing announcer Michael Buffer shared Doug Burgum vetoed anti-LGBTQ measures while governor. Then he started running for president 06/29/2024 12:02am • BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — For most of North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum's two terms in office, he approached the job like a CEO running a business. The wealthy former software executive, now on a shortlist to be Donald Trump’s running mate, was laser-focused on priorities like strengthening the state's In Georgia, conservatives seek to have voters removed from rolls without official challenges 06/29/2024 12:02am • WOODSTOCK, Ga. (AP) — Conservative activists in Georgia and some other states are quietly pushing a way to remove names from the voting rolls without filing a formal legal challenge. They’re asking election administrators to use their data to purge voter registrations, which means names could be Simone Biles moves closer to 3rd Olympic trip as injuries mount behind her at US trials 06/28/2024 11:56pm • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Maybe the most remarkable thing about Simone Biles' decade-plus run redefining what's possible in gymnastics is how she has managed to stay healthy while doing it. She is well-versed in the danger lurking at every turn, every twist, every landing. Blocking it all out and forg Soto, Torres hit HRs, Judge drives in 2 as the Yankees rout Blue Jays 16-5 to halt 4-game skid 06/28/2024 11:31pm • TORONTO (AP) — Juan Soto hit a three-run home run, Gleyber Torres added a two-run homer in his return to the lineup and the New York Yankees snapped a season-worst four-game losing streak with a 16-5 rout of the Toronto Blue Jays on Friday night. Aaron Judge had three hits and drove in a pair for Hurdler Lolo Jones returns to Olympic trials at 41, advances to semis on sore hamstring 06/28/2024 10:49pm • EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — It’s not often you see the hurdler finishing in the back signing autographs before she heads off the track. In this case, that hurdler was Lolo Jones. Jones, 41, was once one of the main faces of track and field — with endorsements galore and high expectations to win as she Marcell Ozuna drives in 3, Charlie Morton holds former team to 3 hits as Braves beat Pirates 6-1 06/28/2024 10:45pm • ATLANTA (AP) — Marcell Ozuna drove in three runs with a bases-loaded double in Atlanta's five-run third inning, Charlie Morton gave up only three hits to Pittsburgh, his former home, and the Braves beat the Pirates 6-1 on Friday night. Morton, 40, has wins against every major league team with his 4 Missouri prison guards charged with murder, and a fifth with manslaughter, in death of Black man 06/28/2024 10:22pm • COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Four Missouri prison guards were charged Friday with murder, and a fifth with accessory to involuntary manslaughter, in the December death of a Black man who was pepper sprayed, had his face covered with a mask and was left in a position that caused him to suffocate while in c Albert Suárez outduels Max Scherzer to help Orioles beat Rangers 2-1 06/28/2024 10:18pm • BALTIMORE (AP) — Albert Suárez outpitched three-time Cy Young winner Max Scherzer, and the Baltimore Orioles beat Texas 2-1 on Friday night to extend the Rangers' latest lengthy losing streak. Making his second start of the season following a long stay on the injured list, the 39-year-old Scherze Biden rallies for LGBTQ+ rights as he looks to shake off an uneven debate performance 06/28/2024 09:48pm • NEW YORK (AP) — President Joe Biden courted LGBTQ+ voters with two New York events on Friday and warned about Donald Trump returning to the White House, as he looked to shake off a widely panned debate performance. Biden inaugurated a visitor center at the Stonewall National Monument with pop lege Cristopher Sánchez pitches shutout to lead Phillies past Marlins 2-0 06/28/2024 09:13pm • PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Cristopher Sánchez pitched a shutout, Bryson Stott drove in both runs and the Philadelphia Phillies beat the Miami Marlins 2-0 on Friday night in the first contest without Bryce Harper and Kyle Schwarber in the lineup. Trea Turner and Brandon Marsh doubled for the Phillies, wh Olympic gymnastics hopefuls DiCello and Jones scratch from U.S. trials due to injuries 06/28/2024 08:43pm • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Olympic gymnastics hopefuls Kayla DiCello and Shilese Jones scratched from the first night of the U.S. Olympic trials on Friday due to injury. The 20-year-old DiCello, an alternate on the 2020 Olympic team, failed to complete her vault, instead opting to flip over once and land Driver convicted in deaths of 8 people struck by SUV outside migrant shelter sentenced to 60 years 06/28/2024 08:38pm • BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A Texas jury on Friday found a driver guilty of intoxication manslaughter over the deaths of eight people who were struck by an SUV that plowed into a crowded bus stop outside a migrant shelter on the U.S.-Mexico border. George Alvarez, 35, was found guilty of eight count Akshay Bhatia shares the lead in Detroit after his golf ball finds a fairway drain on the 17th 06/28/2024 07:59pm • DETROIT (AP) — Akshay Bhatia walked down a fairway at Detroit Golf Club, looking for his ball after a long, straight tee shot, and found it in an improbable spot — underground, after it fell into a drain. Bhatia said he and the PGA Tour rules official, who granted a free drop, had never seen any Missouri governor vetoes school safety initiative to fund gun-detection surveillance systems 06/28/2024 07:17pm • JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Gov. Mike Parson vetoed funding Friday for a school safety initiative that would have used video surveillance software to detect guns, becoming the second governor in as many months to balk at implementing the technology. The Republican governor's rejection of