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Pete Crow-Armstrong hits inside-the-park homer to lead Cubs past Marlins 6-3 08/23/2024 11:09pm • MIAMI (AP) — Pete Crow-Armstrong hit an inside-the-park home run and the Chicago Cubs beat the Miami Marlins 6-3 on Friday night. Ian Happ and Miguel Amaya also homered for the Cubs (64-65), who began a nine-game road trip. Crow-Armstrong’s 14.08 seconds home to home is the fastest in the major NWSL players say new CBA makes them feel like true professionals 08/23/2024 10:54pm • SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Imani Dorsey has seen the momentum building for players rights throughout her career but couldn’t stop smiling when speaking Friday about the National Women’s Soccer League's collective bargaining agreement that went into effect on July 30. “The change feels gradual in Suarez hits grand slam, Nelson pitches six strong innings as Diamondbacks beat Red Sox 12-2 08/23/2024 10:53pm • BOSTON (AP) — Eugenio Suárez hit a grand slam as part of a three-hit, five-RBI game, Ryne Nelson pitched six strong innings as the Arizona Diamondbacks beat the Boston Red Sox 12-2 on Friday night. Suárez’s 19th home run was also the ninth grand slam of the season by the Diamondbacks, who cont Anthony Santander slam rallies Orioles past Astros 7-5 08/23/2024 10:07pm • BALTIMORE (AP) — Anthony Santander hit a grand slam off Bryan Abreu in the eighth inning, carrying the Baltimore Orioles to a 7-5 comeback victory over the Houston Astros on Friday night. Less haters, more taters. pic.twitter.com/ZJigNGOYdC — Baltimore Orioles (@Orioles) August 24, 2024 Mexico's governing coalition gets 73% of seats in Congress after winning just 60% of votes 08/23/2024 09:49pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s electoral institute voted Friday to give the governing Morena party and its allies about 73% of seats in the lower house of Congress, though the coalition won less than 60% of the votes in the June 2 elections. The ruling, which can be challenged in court, would give Arbitration hearing between Canadian railroads and union ends with no decision on back-to-work order 08/23/2024 09:06pm • TORONTO (AP) — A workers union on Friday threatened a strike at one of Canada’s two major freight railroads, only hours after the company’s trains restarted following a potentially devastating stoppage. A government-ordered arbitration hearing wrapped up without a decision, and Canadian Nation Dan Wilson steps into the role of manager as the struggling Mariners try to save their season 08/23/2024 09:02pm • SEATTLE (AP) — Dan Wilson arrived in Seattle in the mid-1990s and became a beloved figured as a player for the Mariners, spending 12 seasons behind the plate as the catcher for some of the best teams in franchise history. Now he’s stepping into a role that isn’t always beloved by the fans, tak LGBTQ advocates say Mormon church's new transgender policies marginalize trans members 08/23/2024 08:47pm • The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has disheartened LGBTQ+ activists after issuing a slew of new policies this week that would significantly restrict the role of its transgender members. The guidelines were released Monday as part of updates to the General Handbook of the denomination k Tropical Storm Hone forecast to bring strong winds and heavy rain to Hawaii this weekend 08/23/2024 08:35pm • HONOLULU (AP) — Tropical Storm Hone was expected to deliver strong winds and heavy rain to Hawaii this weekend, particularly to the Big Island and Maui, as it passes south of the island chain. Forecasters believe it will strengthen to a Category 1 hurricane for part of the time it skirts past the The Latest: RFK Jr. suspends his campaign and backs Trump 08/23/2024 08:13pm • Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has announced he is suspending, not ending, his campaign for president and will seek to remove his name from the ballot in battleground states because he believes his presence in the race would help Democratic nominee Vice President Kamala Harris. Harris accepted her party’s 3 Detroit-area mall guards not guilty of involuntary manslaughter in man’s death in 2014 08/23/2024 08:06pm • PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — A jury swiftly acquitted three security guards of involuntary manslaughter Friday in the death of a man who was held to the floor at a Detroit-area mall in 2014, a case that was closed without charges years ago but reopened by state prosecutors. The jury of eight women and fo North Carolina's highest court won't fast-track appeals in governor's lawsuits 08/23/2024 07:43pm • RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina’s highest court has decided it won’t fast-track appeals of results in two lawsuits initiated by Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper that challenged new laws that eroded his power to choose members of several boards and commissions. The state Supreme Court, in orders A 2nd ex-Memphis officer pleads guilty in Tyre Nichols' death. He could serve 40 years in prison 08/23/2024 07:20pm • MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Federal prosecutors agreed to recommend a prison sentence of no more than 40 years for a former Memphis police officer who pleaded guilty Friday to federal civil rights violations in the 2023 fatal beating of Tyre Nichols. Emmitt Martin is the second former officer to plead g Adam Scott builds a 3-shot lead in hopes of getting to FedEx Cup finale 08/23/2024 07:19pm • CASTLE ROCK, Colo. (AP) — Adam Scott kept making birdies and changing his outlook on the season until he finished with his lowest score of the year, a 9-under 63 on Friday in the BMW Championship that gave him a three-shot lead going into the weekend. Ryder Cup captain Keegan Bradley did his best Texas, other GOP-led states sue over program to give immigrant spouses of US citizens legal status 08/23/2024 07:07pm • Sixteen Republican-led states are suing to end a federal program that could potentially give nearly half a million immigrants without legal status who are married to U.S. citizens a path to citizenship. The coalition filed suit Friday to halt the program launched by President Joe Biden in June, sayi