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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 Joey Loperfido, Addison Barger hit back-to-back homers in 9th as Blue Jays rally to beat Angels 5-4 08/23/2024 10:50pm • TORONTO (AP) — Rookies Joey Loperfido and Addison Barger hit back-to-back home runs in the bottom of the ninth inning and the Toronto Blue Jays rallied to beat the Los Angeles Angels 5-4 on Friday night. Toronto trailed 4-3 heading into the ninth against Los Angeles right-hander Roansy Contreras ( Michael McDowell tops qualifying for Cup Series race at Daytona and earns 4th pole of the season 08/23/2024 08:33pm • DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — It's a Front Row front row at Daytona International Speedway. Michael McDowell won the pole for Saturday night's 400-mile race at Daytona, edging Front Row Motorsports teammate Todd Gilliland in qualifying Friday. McDowell reached a top speed of 183.165 mph around the 2 FACT FOCUS: A look back at some of the questionable claims made during the Democratic convention 08/23/2024 07:10pm • The Democrats' star-studded, four-day convention drew to a close as Vice President Kamala Harris accepted the party's nomination for president. The festivities were high on entertainment and praise for Harris and running mate Tim Walz. But while most speakers stuck to the script — and the facts � Union rep says West Virginia governor late on paying worker health insurance bills, despite denials 08/23/2024 05:49pm • CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice's family is millions of dollars behind on payments to employees' health insurance fund at their financially beleaguered hotel, putting workers' coverage at risk despite the U.S. Senate candidate's claims otherwise, a union official said Frida Little League World Series championship weekend features Texas-Florida rematch and Venezuela-Taiwan 08/23/2024 04:50pm • SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. (AP) — After Teraj Alexander guided his Florida team to a berth in the Little League World Series semifinals, he was asked about a rematch on Saturday with Texas, the only team to defeat the Southeast region representative. “Time for revenge,” Teraj said. Maybe — but Google agreed to pay millions for California news. Journalists call it a bad deal 08/23/2024 02:26pm • SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Google will soon give California millions of dollars to help pay for local journalism jobs in a first-in-the-nation deal, but journalists and other media industry experts are calling it a disappointing agreement that mostly benefits the tech giant. The agreement, which w Despite smaller crowds, activists at Democrats' convention call Chicago anti-war protests a success 08/23/2024 01:22pm • CHICAGO (AP) — As far as Chicago’s storied protests go, the numbers outside the Democratic National Convention were unremarkable. But organizers say they did something leaders inside didn’t: Make the war in Gaza part of the agenda. The stakes were high for Chicago. Despite hosting more politic A top Delta executive is leaving weeks after the airline's slow response to tech outage 08/23/2024 01:22pm • Delta Air Lines said Friday that its chief operating officer will leave the company next week after a little more than a year in the airline business to take another job. The departure of Michael Spanos comes a few weeks after Delta canceled thousands of flights during a botched recovery from a glob Son of Texas woman who died in June says apartment complex drops effort to collect for broken lease 08/23/2024 12:37pm • SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A San Antonio apartment complex has dropped its attempt to collect more than $15,000 from the family of a 91-year-old woman for breaking her lease after she died in June, the woman's son said Friday. David Naterman said The Lodge at Shavano Park sent the letter after WOAI-TV fir Snipers kill 4 hostage-takers at Russian prison who claimed allegiance to Islamic State group 08/23/2024 12:23pm • MOSCOW (AP) — Snipers from Russia's National Guard on Friday killed four inmates who had stabbed four prison guards to death and briefly held others as hostages while declaring allegiance to the Islamic State group. The Federal Prison Service said that four inmates took eight prison guards and fou Review: John Cena, Awkwafina team up for Prime action comedy 'Jackpot!' about fatal future lottery 08/23/2024 11:20am • It's currently the No. 1 movie on Prime Video after its straight to streaming release this past week. John Cena and Awkwafina team up in the new action comedy "Jackpot!" by Amazon MGM Studios. Originally titled "Grand Theft Lotto" (a better title actually), the film is set in the near futu How to prepare for the Fed's forthcoming interest rate cuts 08/23/2024 10:55am • NEW YORK (AP) — The Federal Reserve is poised to cut its benchmark interest rate next month from its 23-year high, with consequences for consumers when it comes to debt, savings, auto loans and mortgages. Right now, most experts envision three quarter-point Fed cuts — in September, November and The 'joyful' Democratic convention is over. The real test for Kamala Harris' campaign now begins 08/23/2024 01:05am • CHICAGO (AP) — Over and over, from the massive stage in the electric convention hall, the Democrats this week predicted Kamala Harris would defeat Donald Trump. They described her as a historic figure, the embodiment of hope, “the president of joy.” But amid the extraordinary optimism, former Harris' big moment, Dems' rising stars, Gaza protesters shut out. Takeaways from DNC's last night 08/23/2024 12:16am • CHICAGO (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris urged Americans to seize a “precious, fleeting opportunity” to move beyond political divisions and the threat of Republican Donald Trump on Thursday as she closed out the Democratic National Convention. Harris is the first Black woman and first perso