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Braves hit four homers to power past Phillies 6-0 07/07/2024 05:35pm • ATLANTA (AP) — Reynaldo López threw six strong innings and the Atlanta Braves hit four homers in a 6-0 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies on Sunday. López (7-2) lowered his league-leading ERA to 1.71, allowing just two hits and walking three with six strikeouts. “He was really good against A US appeals court will review its prior order keeping banned books on shelves in a Texas county 07/07/2024 03:22pm • NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal appeals court in New Orleans is taking another look at its own order requiring a Texas county to keep eight books on public library shelves that deal with subjects including sex, gender identity and racism. Llano County officials had removed 17 books from its shelves Hamilton finally stops counting the days since his last F1 win after brilliant British GP victory 07/07/2024 02:12pm • Lewis Hamilton had been counting the days since his last Formula 1 win and the number was creeping toward 1,000. After a brilliant victory in front of his home fans at the British Grand Prix on Sunday — his 104th win in F1 — a relieved Hamilton can finally stop counting. “That’s the longest Frenchman Anthony Turgis wins tough Tour de France stage on gravel roads, Pogacar keeps the lead 07/07/2024 12:56pm • TROYES, France (AP) — Frenchman Anthony Turgis emerged victorious from a long breakaway through the dust of gravel roads to claim the ninth stage of the Tour de France after a hectic day of racing, marked by relentless attacks on Sunday. Behind the breakaway, race leader Tadej Pogacar tried to set To a defiant Biden, the 2024 race is up to the voters, not to Democrats on Capitol Hill 07/07/2024 12:51pm • WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — To a defiant President Joe Biden, the 2024 election is up to the public — not the Democrats on Capitol Hill. But the chorus of Democratic voices calling for him to step aside is growing, from donors, strategists, lawmakers and their constituents who say he should bow out. Sports on TV for Monday, July 8 07/07/2024 10:00am • (All times Eastern) Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts Monday, July 8 MLB BASEBALL 12:30 p.m. MLBN — N.Y. Mets at Pittsburgh 6:30 p.m. FS1 — Cleveland at Detroit 9:30 p.m. MLBN — Regional Coverage: Atlanta at Arizona OR Texas at L.A. Angels NBA BASKETBALL 7 p.m. ESPN — Summer League Alex Palou embraces IndyCar hybrid engine, edges Pato O'Ward to win second straight Mid-Ohio pole 07/07/2024 09:48am • LEXINGTON, Ohio (AP) — Alex Palou demonstrated his quick command of IndyCar’s new hybrid engine on Saturday to nudge Pato O’Ward by 0.0024 seconds for his second consecutive pole at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course. Palou now seeks his third victory this season on Sunday in the 200-mile race and sec Amtrak service between New York City and Boston restored after lightning causes malfunction 07/07/2024 09:39am • NEW YORK (AP) — Amtrak rail service between New York and Boston was restored after a lightning strike was believed to have caused a circuit breaker to malfunction, the rail service announced Saturday night. The malfunction caused a power outage on all tracks between Penn Station in New York and U At Essence, Black Democrats rally behind Biden and talk up Kamala Harris 07/07/2024 08:43am • NEW ORLEANS (AP) — As President Joe Biden tries to revive his embattled reelection bid, Vice President Kamala Harris led a parade of Black Democrats who warned Saturday that the threat of another Donald Trump presidency remains the most important calculation ahead of November. Yet in more than 20 Ben Rice becomes 1st Yankees rookie to hit 3 homers in game in 14-4 rout of Red Sox 07/07/2024 08:25am • NEW YORK (AP) — Ben Rice became the first Yankees rookie to homer three times in a game and drove in seven runs as New York snapped a four-game slide with a 14-4 victory over the Boston Red Sox on Saturday. Alex Verdugo hit a two-run homer and drew the ire of the Red Sox with a 32-second trot arou An Alaska tourist spot will vote whether to ban cruise ships on Saturdays to give locals a break 07/07/2024 07:53am • JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Each year, a crush of tourists arrives in Alaska’s capital city on cruise ships to see wonders like the fast-diminishing Mendenhall Glacier. Now, long-simmering tensions over Juneau’s tourism boom are coming to a head over a new voter initiative aimed at giving residents Kenya's dramatic flooding sweeps away a central part of the economy: Its farms 07/07/2024 02:21am • MACHAKOS, Kenya (AP) — With dismay, Martha Waema and her husband surveyed their farm that was submerged by weeks of relentless rainfall across Kenya. Water levels would rise to shoulder height after only a night of heavy downpour. The couple had expected a return of 200,000 shillings ($1,500) from Reformist Pezeshkian beats hard-liner to win Iran presidential election, promising outreach to West 07/07/2024 02:08am • DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian won Iran’s runoff presidential election Saturday, besting hard-liner Saeed Jalili by promising to reach out to the West and ease enforcement on the country’s mandatory headscarf law after years of sanctions and protests s At 28, Bardella could become youngest French prime minister at helm of far-right National Rally 07/07/2024 01:15am • NICE, France (AP) — At just 28 years old, Jordan Bardella has helped make the far-right National Rally the strongest political force in France. And now he could become the country's youngest prime minister. After voters propelled Marine Le Pen’s National Rally to a strong lead in the first round Church bells speak again in Spain thanks to effort to recover the lost 'language' of ringing by hand 07/07/2024 12:56am • JOANETES, Spain (AP) — Xavier Pallàs plants his feet on the belfry floor, grips the rope, and with one tug fills the lush Spanish valley below with the reverberating peal of a church bell. Clang-clong! Clang-clong! Clang-CLONG! The swinging bronze bell resonates with each strike of the clapper, f