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Rookie Tobias Myers wins back-to-back starts and Brewers beat Blue Jays 5-4 06/12/2024 06:02pm • MILWAUKEE (AP) ��� Rookie Tobias Myers won back-to-back starts for the first time, allowing one run and three hits over six innings to lead the Milwaukee Brewers over the Toronto Blue Jays 5-4 on Wednesday for their sixth straight home series win. Myers (3-2) struck out four and walked one, leaving A closer-than-expected Ohio congressional race surprises Republicans and encourages Democrats 06/12/2024 05:57pm • COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) ��� A political newcomer's closer-than-expected finish in Tuesday's special congressional election in Ohio surprised Republicans and jolted Democrats in a former bellwether state both parties had all but given over to a runaway Trump victory this fall. Democrat Michael Kripchak s Federal Reserve sees some progress on inflation but envisions just one rate cut this year 06/12/2024 05:40pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Federal Reserve officials said Wednesday that inflation has fallen further toward their target level in recent months but signaled that they expect to cut their benchmark interest rate just once this year. The policymakers' forecast for one rate cut was down from their previous p Red vs. Blue at Nats Park Congressional Baseball Game 06/12/2024 05:00pm • For all the latest developments in Congress, follow WTOP Capitol Hill correspondent Mitchell Miller at��Today on the Hill. Congress is as divided as ever, but Republican and Democratic lawmakers will take part in a good-natured spring ritual at D.C.'s Nationals Park on Wednesday during the an Quincy Jones, Richard Curtis, Juliet Taylor and Bond producers will get honorary Oscars 06/12/2024 04:51pm • Quincy Jones has been nominated for seven Oscars in the past 55 years, including best original score, best song, and even best picture. Although he's never collected a competitive statuette during the Academy Awards, this November he���ll receive an honorary Oscar from the Academy���s Board of Gover WeWork has emerged from bankruptcy. What's next for the co-working office space provider? 06/12/2024 04:46pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� WeWork has officially emerged from bankruptcy. And all eyes are on whether its new leadership can guide the long-embattled provider of co-working office space to success. Once a Wall Street darling promising to revolutionize the world of work, WeWork took a stunning ��� but anticip US inflation cooled in May in a sign that price pressures may be easing 06/12/2024 03:56pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Inflation in the United States eased in May for a second straight month, a hopeful sign that an acceleration of prices that occurred early this year may have passed. The trend, if it holds, could move the Federal Reserve closer to cutting its benchmark interest rate from its 23-y U.S. cricket team recovers from poor start but loses to India at Twenty20 World Cup 06/12/2024 03:00pm • It started with an ���lbw��� for a ���golden duck,��� got a little worse before it got a little better, and then finished as widely expected for the United States cricket team, losing to India at the Twenty20 World Cup. The Americans entered Wednesday���s match on a huge high after beating cricket p Russia, largely excluded from international sports, hosts athletes at BRICS Games 06/12/2024 02:18pm • TALLINN, Estonia (AP) ��� Thousands of athletes in both major and obscure sports will be vying for medals in the Russian city of Kazan at the sixth BRICS Games, an international competition shadowed by politics amid Russia's exclusion from major sports events. The games opened Wednesday, which Russi Underappreciated outside Germany, will the currywurst win new fans at Euro 2024? 06/12/2024 01:14pm • BERLIN (AP) ��� Bite-sized bliss. The currywurst is considered a fast-food delicacy in Germany, and a perfect treat before a game. UEFA has confirmed that soccer fans from across Europe will find this savory German invention on offer at stadiums throughout the country during the European Championshi The real stars of Cannes may be the dogs 06/12/2024 11:37am • CANNES, France (AP) ��� It���s been a dog���s life at this year���s Cannes Film Festival ��� or should that be the Canine Film Festival? Since the 77th edition's opening day, human actors have shared the limelight with their canine co-stars on and off the red carpet, kept secure by the perky sniffer Japanese architect Maki, credited with fusing East with West, has died at age 95 06/12/2024 06:07am • TOKYO (AP) ��� Japanese architect Fumihiko Maki, who won the prestigious Pritzker Prize for designs praised as smartly and artfully fusing the East with the West, has died. He was 95. Maki, who taught architecture and urban design at Harvard, died June 6, his office, Maki & Associates, said Wedn Will Japanese women be able to keep their maiden names after marriage? Major lobby demands change 06/12/2024 02:22am • TOKYO (AP) ��� A powerful Japanese business lobby is calling on the government to allow married couples to keep dual surnames, saying the lack of freedom to do so hinders women���s advancement and has even become a business risk. In Japan, each wedded pair has to legally adopt one family name. While Ronel Blanco strikes out 8 in 6 innings as Astros beat Giants 3-1 06/12/2024 01:02am • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ��� Ronel Blanco had eight strikeouts in six innings, Mauricio Dubon scored twice and the Houston Astros beat the San Francisco Giants 3-1 on Tuesday night. Blanco (6-2) allowed one run on three hits and became the first pitcher in Astros history to go undefeated in his first nin Kikuchi, four Blue Jays relievers combine to shut out Brewers 3-0 06/11/2024 11:57pm • MILWAUKEE (AP) ��� Yusei Kikuchi and four Toronto Blue Jays relievers combined to shut out the Milwaukee Brewers 3-0 on Tuesday night. Kikuchi (4-5) gave up three hits in five innings, walked four and struck out five to record consecutive wins for the first time since April. Kikuchi gave up one run