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In the UK's top baseball league, crowds are small, babysitters are key and the Mets are a dynasty 06/06/2024 10:24am • LONDON (AP) ��� This might be the year, mate. The London Mets are the defending champs, but they're looking beatable. The London Capitals have been close, and they've got ace pitcher Masa Hashiguchi. Talk about a subway series. These two National Baseball League teams meet for the first time this se Today in Sports - Week Ahead, June 7 - June 13 06/06/2024 10:05am • June 7 1930 ��� Gallant Fox, ridden by Earle Sande, wins the Belmont Stakes by three lengths over Whichone, becoming the second horse to capture the Triple Crown. 1941 ��� Whirlaway, ridden by Eddie Arcaro, becomes the fifth horse to win the Triple Crown by capturing the Belmont Stakes by 2�� length Climate solution: Massachusetts town experiments with community heating and cooling 06/06/2024 09:39am • Jennifer and Eric Mauchan live in a Cape Cod-style house in Framingham, Massachusetts that they've been cooling with five air conditioners. In the summer, the electric bill for the 2,600-square-foot home can be $200. In the winter, heating with natural gas is often more than $300 a month, even with 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 AI 'gold rush' for chatbot training data could run out of human-written text 06/06/2024 09:31am • Artificial intelligence systems like ChatGPT could soon run out of what keeps making them smarter ��� the tens of trillions of words people have written and shared online. A new study released Thursday by research group Epoch AI projects that tech companies will exhaust the supply of publicly availa 'We can't turn our back on rising sea levels': New Md. sensors measure flooding in real time 06/06/2024 09:29am • Hanging on a pilon along Ego Alley in Annapolis, Maryland, is what looks like a piece of PVC pipe with a small solar panel attached to it. There are more of them hanging around the city, and soon they'll be up and down Anne Arundel County, as well as in Charles County, Baltimore City and throughout An overdue Olympic pledge to restore Rio de Janeiro���s lagoons is finally taking shape 06/06/2024 09:15am • RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) ��� When Rio de Janeiro hosted the Olympics in 2016, videos of the extensive lagoon complex surrounding the Olympic Park were everywhere. Long polluted by sewage and garbage, many hoped the surge of investments tied to the international sports event would restore its waterways. T The numbers game: Netherlands coach Koeman looks to ditch fan favorite 4-3-3 setup at Euro 2024 06/06/2024 07:01am • AMSTERDAM (AP) ��� Few aficionados in European soccer obsess about numbers the way the Dutch do. Like 4-3-3. Or 5-3-2. There���s also the traditional 4-4-2, and even 4-2-3-1. But mostly, in their part of the world, it���s all about 4-3-3. As baffling and bewildering as those digits may look to some, EV sales boom in Nepal, helping to save on oil imports, alleviate smog 06/06/2024 07:00am • KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) ��� Nepal���s abundant hydroelectric power is helping the Himalayan nation cut its oil imports and clean up its air, thanks to a boom in sales of electric vehicles. Nearly all of the electricity produced in Nepal is clean energy, most of it generated by river-fed hydro-electri Edmonton's Corey Perry gets another chance at second Stanley Cup 17 years after winning his first 06/06/2024 06:10am • EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) ��� Corey Perry won his first Stanley Cup championship in his second NHL season with the Anaheim Ducks. Seventeen years later, he is still looking for ring No. 2. It is not for lack of trying. The veteran Edmonton forward is about to play in his fourth Cup final in the last f German chancellor vows to deport criminals following brutal attack by Afghan migrant 06/06/2024 05:43am • BERLIN (AP) ��� Chancellor Olaf Scholz vowed Thursday that Germany will start deporting criminals from Afghanistan and Syria again after a knife attack by an Afghan immigrant last week left one police officer dead and four more people injured. The brutal attack in Mannheim, which was captured on vi The UN says a quarter of the world's children under 5 have severe food poverty. Many are in Africa 06/06/2024 05:37am • KALTUNGO, Nigeria (AP) ��� The 9-month-old twins cried nonstop and tugged at their mother, seeking attention but also food. They had received little in the past 24 hours, and there were signs of deeper hunger in the heads too big for their tiny bodies. ���Not much milk comes out,��� said their 38-ye Review: Netflix's 'Sweet Tooth' gets touching send off in Season 3 after helping us cope with real pandemic 06/06/2024 04:26am • In June of 2021 ��� two months before the Food and Drug Administration approved the first COVID-19 vaccine ��� Netflix dropped the popular fantasy drama series "Sweet Tooth" about a mysterious global virus called The Sick. The second season arrived in April of 2023 ��� just a month before the Pakistan complaint forces ICC to change its New York hotel at the Twenty20 World Cup 06/06/2024 04:22am • ISLAMABAD (AP) ��� The ICC has moved the Pakistan team to another hotel in New York after the Pakistan Cricket Board complained about a 90-minute drive to the ground for its forthcoming Twenty20 World Cup games. A source at the Pakistan Cricket Board told The Associated Press on Thursday that after Putin warns that Russia could provide long-range weapons to others to strike Western targets 06/06/2024 03:49am • ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) ��� President Vladimir Putin warned Wednesday that Russia could provide long-range weapons to others to strike Western targets in response to NATO allies allowing Ukraine to use their arms to attack Russian territory. Putin also reaffirmed Moscow���s readiness to use nucl