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Dodgers' Kik�� Hern��ndez makes error in midst of live television interview during 2-1 win over Yanks 06/07/2024 11:25pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Los Angeles Dodgers third baseman Kik�� Hern��ndez made an error while in the midst of a live television interview Friday night during a 2-1, 11-inning win over the New York Yankees. Hern��ndez had a microphone and earpiece in his left ear as he spoke with Wayne Randazzo and former Betts, Freeman, Hernandez all homer as Dodgers avoid sweep by handling the Pirates 11-7 06/06/2024 10:53pm • PITTSBURGH (AP) ��� Mookie Betts, Freddie Freeman and Teoscar Hernandez homered and the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 11-7 on Thursday night to avoid a three-game sweep. Freeman hit a three-run shot in the first for his eighth home run of the season. Betts added a three-run shot of Jaap van Zweden ending tenure as New York Philharmonic music director after 6 seasons 06/06/2024 01:24pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Jaap van Zweden decided during the pandemic that he wanted to jettison the jet-setting life of a transatlantic conductor, so the less-flying Dutchman cut short his New York Philharmonic tenure, the orchestra���s shortest for a music director since Pierre Boulez from 1971-77. ���I s All-access NHL show is coming from the makers of 'Formula 1: Drive to Survive' 06/06/2024 09:37am • The NHL is getting the ���Drive to Survive��� treatment, with a hockey series from the makers of the popular Formula 1 show coming to Prime Video in the fall. After getting players to buy in to the project with Box to Box Films, the league is hoping for the same kind of popularity boost F1 got by br Slightly more Americans apply for jobless benefits, but layoffs remain at healthy levels 06/06/2024 08:50am • The number of Americans applying for jobless claims rose last week, but layoffs remain at healthy levels despite lingering inflation and high interest rates. Unemployment benefit applications for the week ending June 1 rose by 8,000 to 229,000, up from 221,000 the week before, the Labor Department r Stock market today: Asian stocks rise after Wall Street barrels to records 06/06/2024 12:21am • HONG KONG (AP) ��� Asian markets rose Thursday after Wall Street barreled to records Wednesday as the frenzy around artificial-intelligence technology kept sending stocks higher. U.S. futures and oil prices gained. In Tokyo, the Nikkei 225 index climbed 0.9% to 38,841.75. The Hang Seng in Hong Kong Music Review: Charli XCX's 'Brat' swings between hedonism and anxiety, cult classic and pop party 06/05/2024 01:31pm • English pop singer-songwriter Charli XCX 's sixth album, ���Brat,��� oscillates between hedonism and anxiety ��� the euphoria of a late night on the dancefloor and the creeping disquietude of the morning after ��� as much as it does her in-between status as pop queen of the underground and sometimes DC region gains another Fortune 500 company 06/05/2024 01:20pm • The D.C. region counts 20 companies on this year's Fortune 500 list, up from 19 last year, thanks to the relocation of water technology company Xylem Inc. Xylem, whose water system products are used by utilities and industries in 150 companies, moved its headquarters to Cheverly, Maryland, in 202 Tech news site Gizmodo sold for third time in 8 years as European publisher Keleops looks to expand 06/05/2024 12:13pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Longtime technology news and review site Gizmodo has been sold for the third time in the past eight years, this time to a European publisher looking to expand its coverage of the digital scene. Switzerland-based Keleops didn't disclose how much it paid for Gizmodo in its Tuesday an Online marketplace eBay to drop American Express, citing fees, and says customers have other options 06/05/2024 11:44am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Online marketplace behemoth eBay said it plans to no longer accept American Express, citing what the company says are ���unacceptably high fees��� and that customers have other payment options to shop online. 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