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Atlanta United transfers midfielder Thiago Almada to Botafogo for MLS-record fee 07/06/2024 04:05pm • ATLANTA (AP) ��� Atlanta United announced Saturday it transferred midfielder Thiago Almada to Botafogo of Eagle Football Holdings for what the team said is a MLS-record transfer fee. The team did not disclose the transfer fee. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported the fee is $21 million and coul Smith homers 3 times, Freeman singles in the go-ahead runs in 8th and Dodgers beat Brewers 8-5 07/06/2024 02:11am • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� Will Smith homered three times, Freddie Freeman singled in the go-ahead runs with two outs in the eighth inning, and the Los Angeles Dodgers rallied past the Milwaukee Brewers 8-5 on Friday night. Smith became the fourth catcher in Dodgers history to have a three-homer game, the Castillo dominates for 6 2/3 innings, Raley has 2-run double in Mariners' 2-1 win over Blue Jays 07/06/2024 01:41am • SEATTLE (AP) ��� Luis Castillo limited Toronto to two hits over a dominant 6 2/3 innings, Luke Raley had a two-run double in the third and the Seattle Mariners beat the Blue Jays 2-1 on Friday night. Castillo (7-9) was nearly untouchable in his 200th career start, retiring each of the first nine Bl Michael Conforto has a 2-run double, the Giants beat the Guardians 4-2 07/05/2024 11:43pm • CLEVELAND (AP) ��� Michael Conforto hit a two-run double as the San Francisco Giants won for the eighth time in their last 11 games, beating the AL Central-leading Cleveland Guardians 4-2 on Friday night. Patrick Bailey added a sacrifice fly and Nick Ahmed had an RBI single for the Giants, who built Multiple injuries reported after fireworks veer into the crowd at a Utah stadium 07/05/2024 05:53pm • PROVO, Utah (AP) ��� Malfunctioning fireworks veered into the stands at a crowded Utah football stadium and struck members of the audience during a Fourth of July celebration, sending up to six people to the hospital, according to authorities and the event organizer. The mishap occurred during the o Job done. Kroos leaves the stage after returning to restore Germany���s standing in world soccer 07/05/2024 05:33pm • This time, there���ll be no encore. As Germany great Toni Kroos was leaving the soccer stage after his final game, teammates and opponents alike sought him out. The warmest embraces came from the Spanish players after their 2-1 win at the European Championship on Friday, a defeat that knocked out th Stock market today: Wall Street's scorching rally sets more records as hopes rise for rate cuts 07/05/2024 04:25pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� U.S. stocks rose to more records Friday after a highly anticipated report on the job market bolstered Wall Street���s hopes that interest rates may soon get easier. The S&P 500 climbed 0.5% to set an all-time high for a third straight day following Thursday���s pause in trading German government averts crisis with budget agreement for Europe���s largest economy 07/05/2024 08:13am • BERLIN (AP) ��� The German government said Friday it has reached agreement on the budget for 2025 and a stimulus package for Europe���s largest economy, easing a monthslong squabble that threatened to upend Chancellor Olaf Scholz���s center-left coalition. Scholz, a Social Democrat, and leaders of t Director accused in French cinema's #MeToo wave charged with rape and assault of actors 07/04/2024 08:44pm • PARIS (AP) ��� A prominent French film director has been handed preliminary charges of rape, sexual assault and violence by a French judge investigating a case involving female actors, the Paris prosecutor's office said Thursday. Beno��t Jacquot, who has more than 50 director credits in film and te Vatican chief of staff testifies in UK finance trial, admits to false invoice and blames a deputy 07/04/2024 08:36pm • ROME (AP) ��� Pope Francis��� chief of staff became one of the highest-ranking Holy See officials to testify in a foreign court Thursday, telling a British tribunal about the negotiations at the heart of the Vatican���s so-called ���trial of the century,��� admitting he filed a false invoice and poi Mexico's incoming president announces top posts but her new cabinet includes familiar faces 07/04/2024 03:40pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) ��� Mexico���s incoming president announced her appointees for top posts Thursday, but hopes for a fresh approach were dashed by the re-appearance of old faces in the new cabinet. President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum announced that Rosa Icela Rodr��guez, who headed outgoing President Eric Gagn�� returns to Dodgers' mound on the 20th anniversary of his 84 consecutive saves streak 07/03/2024 11:31pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� With ���Welcome to the Jungle��� blaring like the old days, Eric Gagn�� took the mound and fired a strike Wednesday night on the 20th anniversary of recording his 84th consecutive save for the Los Angeles Dodgers. ���Every time I step on this field, it���s like a church to me,�� Erick Fedde pitches 6 strong innings, Martin Maldonado has 3 RBIs and White Sox rout Guardians 8-2 07/03/2024 10:32pm • CLEVELAND (AP) ��� Erick Fedde allowed one run in six innings, Martin Maldonado homered and had three RBIs, and the Chicago White Sox routed the AL Central-leading Cleveland Guardians 8-2 on Wednesday night. Fedde (6-3) retired the final 12 batters he faced, giving up three hits while striking out t Russian missiles and drones strike eastern Ukraine's Dnipro in a daylight attack that kills 5 07/03/2024 10:16pm • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) ��� A Russian missile and drone attack on the eastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro on Wednesday killed five civilians and injured 47 others, including a 14-year-old girl, authorities said. Blasts blew out some windows of a shopping mall, raining shards onto the street, photos publishe Japan issues new yen banknotes packed with 3D hologram technology to fight counterfeiting 07/03/2024 09:44pm • TOKYO (AP) ��� Japan issued its first new banknotes in two decades Wednesday, yen packed with 3D hologram technology to fight counterfeiting. Prime Minister Fumio Kishida praised as historic the state-of-the-art anti-counterfeit traits of the new 10,000 yen, 5,000 yen and 1,000 yen bills. ���I hope