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Fletcher's 1st MLB homer, 4 RBIs lift D-backs over Giants 7-5 05/13/2023 02:13am • PHOENIX (AP) — Dominic Fletcher hit his first major league homer, doubled in the go-ahead run in the sixth inning and had four RBIs to help the Arizona Diamondbacks rally past the San Francisco Giants 7-5 Friday night, ending their three-game losing streak. Fletcher, a 25-year-old who made his deb Democrats in Minnesota Senate hold firm to pass contentious gun control measures 05/13/2023 01:08am • ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Democratic Minnesota senators held firm despite only a one-vote majority Friday to pass gun control legislation strongly supported by the governor that would align the battleground state with others nationally that have taken steps to keep guns out of the hands of people in For Buffalo shooting victims' kin, Mother's Day is a reminder of loss, a lesson in navigating grief 05/12/2023 06:37pm • BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Tirzah Patterson will dedicate this Mother’s Day to the hardest part of a mother’s job, trying to help her child make sense of tragedy. Patterson and her husband had divorced but remained close for the sake of their son. Then Heyward Patterson was gunned down along with ni Kansas governor vetoes measures to aid anti-abortion centers, limit health officials' power 05/12/2023 05:51pm • TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas' Democratic governor on Friday vetoed Republican legislation that would have provided a financial boost to anti-abortion pregnancy centers and prevented officials fighting outbreaks of contagious diseases from prohibiting public gatherings or ordering infected people to 10-man Lens dreaming of Champions League after beating Reims 05/12/2023 05:45pm • LENS, France (AP) — Lens captain Seko Fofana fired his team another step closer to Champions League qualification after coming from behind to top Reims 2-1 in the French league on Friday. And Lens did it with a player less, too. The home team’s hopes were dealt an early blow when Kevin Danso was Oak Hill a major course unlikely to look or feel the same for PGA 05/12/2023 04:42pm • Major golf championships are nothing new at Oak Hill. The Donald Ross gem in upstate New York already has hosted three U.S. Opens, three PGA Championships and the Ryder Cup. And yet the PGA Championship's return to Oak Hill feels like a debut. Part of that is because of the fabled East Course. Oak H Biden taps Philip Jefferson to be Fed's vice chair, Adriana Kugler as first Hispanic on Fed board 05/12/2023 12:10pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has nominated Philip Jefferson, a member of the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors, to serve as vice chair of the board, the White House announced Friday. Biden has also chosen Adriana Kugler, a Georgetown University economist, to join the Fed's board. If co Mountain lion that swatted 11-year-old girl's cheek killed in Colorado 05/12/2023 11:57am • BUENA VISTA, Colo. (AP) — In Colorado's mountains, an 11-year-old girl went to check on the family's chickens in their wooden hen house Wednesday only to find a mountain lion that swatted at her face, leaving a small puncture wound on her cheek, according to wildlife officials. The girl was treate Several local brewers, beers win World Beer Cup medals 05/12/2023 11:05am • Atlas Brew Works' Silent Neighbor beer is named as homage to the historic Mount Olivet Cemetery that is across from its Ivy City location. (Courtesy Atlas Brew Works) Six brewers based in D.C. and Virginia won a total of seven medals at this year's World Beer Cup, considered the "Olympics of cra Spain's Supreme Court upholds 135-year child pornography sentence of teacher who changed name 05/12/2023 09:42am • MADRID (AP) — Spain's Supreme Court on Friday upheld the 135-year prison sentence of a British teacher and nanny who created and distributed pornography of children in his care after changing his name and country following previous convictions. Ben David Rose legally changed his identity after his A look at the candidates in Turkey's presidential elections 05/12/2023 09:11am • ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey is heading toward presidential and parliamentary elections on Sunday. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has dominated Turkish politics over the past two decades, has never appeared more vulnerable to an opposition challenge. Erdogan has tightened his grip on power an US Postal Service taking new steps to prevent carrier robberies, stolen mail 05/12/2023 09:04am • PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The U.S. Postal Service is replacing tens of thousands of antiquated keys used by postal carriers and installing thousands of high-security collection boxes to stop a surge in robberies and mail thefts, officials said Friday. The Postal Service is replacing 49,000 so-call Toyota: Data on more than 2 million vehicles in Japan were at risk in decade-long breach 05/12/2023 06:26am • TOKYO (AP) — A decade-long data breach in Toyota’s much-touted online service put some information on more than 2 million vehicles at risk, the Japanese automaker said Friday. Spanning from January 2012 to April 2023, the problem with Toyota’s cloud-based Connected service pertains only to ve Maryland officials urge Medicaid recipients to renew coverage 05/12/2023 06:13am • ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland officials announced a public awareness campaign on Thursday to remind Medicaid recipients to renew their coverage since the federal government is reinstating a requirement that existed before the COVID-19 pandemic for states to verify eligibility. The announcement Nuggets blow past Suns 125-100, advance to Western Conference finals 05/12/2023 01:59am • PHOENIX (AP) — Two years ago, the Denver Nuggets were embarrassed by the Phoenix Suns in a postseason sweep. This time, it was the Nuggets who dished out the embarrassment. Nikola Jokic scored 32 points in another triple-double, Jamal Murray added 26 and the Nuggets advanced to the Western C