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Padres reliever Robert Suárez suspended for 10 games, 6th pitcher penalized for sticky stuff 08/25/2023 05:50pm • NEW YORK (AP) — San Diego Padres reliever Robert Suárez was suspended for 10 games by Major League Baseball on Friday, the sixth pitcher penalized for using banned sticky stuff. The penalty was announced by MLB senior vice president for on-field operations Michael Hill. Suárez appealed the disci Kremlin denies role in plane crash believed to have killed Russian mercenary leader Prigozhin 08/25/2023 05:49pm • The Kremlin on Friday rejected allegations it was behind a plane crash that is presumed to have killed mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin, who conducted a brief but shocking mutiny in Russia two months ago. Prigozhin, whose brutal fighters were feared in Ukraine, Africa and Syria, was eulogized Thur Activists furious Democratic leaders haven't denounced plan to check every ‘Stop Cop City’ signature 08/25/2023 05:47pm • ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia activists against a proposed police and firefighting training center have called on Democratic senators to denounce Atlanta’s plan to check every signature on a petition to put the issue to voters. A “line-by-line review” would ensure the signatures match what officia Pakistani doctor who sought to support Islamic State terror group sentenced in Minnesota to 18 years 08/25/2023 05:19pm • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Pakistani doctor and former Mayo Clinic research coordinator who sought to join the Islamic State terrorist group to fight in Syria and expressed interest in carrying out attacks on U.S. soil was sentenced Friday to 18 years in prison. Muhammad Masood, 31, pleaded guilty a yea Leipzig scores 5 goals in second half to rally for 5-1 win over Stuttgart in Bundesliga 08/25/2023 04:46pm • LEIPZIG, Germany (AP) — Leipzig scored five times in the second half to come from behind and beat Stuttgart 5-1 Friday for its first Bundesliga win of the season. Goals from Benjamin Henrichs, Dani Olmo, Loïs Openda, Kevin Kampl and Xavi Simons all came after the home team was aggrieved not to be Experts warn against wave of fake news ahead of Mexico’s 2024 presidential election 08/25/2023 01:32pm • MONTERREY, Mexico (AP) — With the 2024 Mexican presidential election less than a year away, political analysts and academics warn of a wave of fake news and disinformation making the rounds on the internet, a trend they deem especially worrisome as some of the falsehoods seem to come from the part China bans seafood from Japan after the Fukushima nuclear plant begins its wastewater release 08/25/2023 01:32pm • OKUMA, Japan (AP) — The tsunami-wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has begun releasing its first batch of treated radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean — a controversial step that prompted China to immediately ban seafood from Japan. People inside and outside the country protested Early Apple computer that helped launch $3T company sells at auction for $223,000 08/25/2023 01:04pm • BOSTON (AP) — One of the first personal computers built by Apple and signed by company co-founder Steve Wozniak has sold at auction for more than $223,000. The Apple-1 has been restored to a fully operational state and came with a custom case with a built-in keyboard, according to Boston-based RR 5 family members were found fatally shot in an Ohio home by police checking on their welfare 08/25/2023 12:55pm • LAKE TOWNSHIP, Ohio (AP) — Police performing a welfare check at an Ohio home found five family members inside who had died from gunshot wounds, including three children. The bodies were found around 7:30 p.m. Thursday in Lake Township, according to Uniontown police. They were identified as Jason D North American grassland birds in peril, spurring all-out effort to save birds and their habitat 08/25/2023 12:33pm • POTTER, Neb. (AP) — When Reed Cammack hears the first meadowlark of spring, he knows his family has made it through another cold, snowy winter on the western South Dakota prairie. Nothing’s better, he says, than getting up at sunrise as the birds light up the area with song. “It’s part of th NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week 08/25/2023 12:30pm • A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked them out. Here are the facts: ___ Conspiracy theorist spreads false information abo 60 years after the March on Washington, MLK's speech rings true for students 08/25/2023 05:17am • Nearly 60 years after the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, a Howard University professor said his students still find the address relevant — once they read the entire speech. Marcus Board Jr., associate professor of GOP support for gun restrictions slips a year after Congress passed firearms law 08/25/2023 12:30am • WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican support for gun restrictions is slipping a year after Congress passed the most comprehensive firearms control legislation in decades with bipartisan support, according to a poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. That's led to a gap bet California doctor lauded for COVID testing work pleads guilty to selling misbranded cosmetic drugs 08/24/2023 11:26pm • SAN DIEGO (AP) — A “rock star” doctor who tested tens of thousands of people for COVID-19 in the pandemic's early months in a badly-stricken California desert community has pleaded guilty to misbranding cosmetic drugs, authorities said Thursday. Dr. Tien Tan Vo acknowledged in a plea agreement Gun control already ruled out, Tennessee GOP lawmakers hit impasse in session after school shooting 08/24/2023 09:50pm • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee Republican lawmakers hit an impasse Thursday just a few days into a special session sparked by a deadly school shooting in March, leaving little certainty about what they might ultimately pass, yet all but guaranteeing it won't be any significant gun control chang