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Schneider homers in first MLB at-bat to help Blue Jays beat Red Sox 7-3 08/04/2023 11:51pm • BOSTON (AP) — Davis Schneider homered in his first major league at-bat and the Toronto Blue Jays tied their season-high with five home runs in a 7-3 victory over the Boston Red Sox on Friday night. “I was smiling the whole way around the bases and into the dugout,” Schneider said. “The guys Friday's Transactions 08/04/2023 11:34pm • BASEBALL Major League Baseball American League BOSTON RED SOX — Recalled INF Luis Urias from Worcester (IL). Designated INF Christian Arroyo for assignment. CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Acquired minor league RHPs Aldrin Batista and Maximo Martinez from the Los Angeles Dodgers in exchange for internationa Seahawks running back group takes another hit as rookie Kenny McIntosh sprains knee 08/04/2023 11:10pm • SEATTLE (AP) — Seattle Seahawks rookie running back Kenny McIntosh suffered a sprained knee in the team’s mock game on Friday night, another hit to a position group thinned by injuries early in training camp. McIntosh was injured when he was pulled down awkwardly early in the second half of the Idaho bus filled with teen campers crashes on winding highway, injuring 11 08/04/2023 11:04pm • BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A school bus carrying teenage campers rolled over on a winding Idaho highway Friday afternoon, injuring 11 people, the Idaho State Police said. Seven of those hurt had critical injuries and four had non-critical injuries, according to an ISP news release. The Boise County Coro Compensation for New Mexico wildfire victims tops $14 million and is climbing 08/04/2023 10:51pm • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — More victims of a devastating wildfire sparked last year by the U.S. Forest Service in northern New Mexico are getting compensated, with payouts to landowners totaling more than $14 million as of early next week, federal emergency managers said. Congress set aside nearly $ West Africa defense chiefs finalize Niger intervention plan as junta negotiations deadlock 08/04/2023 10:11pm • NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — Defense chiefs from West African nations finalized an intervention plan Friday and urged militaries to ready resources after negotiations deadlocked with Niger’s military junta, which says it is severing military agreements with France, its former colonial ruler. With two da After helping prevent extinctions for 50 years, the Endangered Species Act itself may be in peril 08/04/2023 08:52pm • SHARON TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — Biologist Ashley Wilson carefully disentangled a bat from netting above a tree-lined river and examined the wriggling, furry mammal in her headlamp's glow. “Another big brown,” she said with a sigh. It was a common type, one of many Wilson and colleagues had snagg A cyberattack has disrupted hospitals and health care in several states 08/04/2023 08:35pm • MANCHESTER, Conn. (AP) — Hospitals and clinics in several states on Friday began the time-consuming process of recovering from a cyberattack that disrupted their computer systems, forcing some emergency rooms to shut down and ambulances to be diverted. Many primary care services at facilities run The first pill to treat postpartum depression has been approved by US health officials 08/04/2023 08:12pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal health officials have approved the first pill specifically intended to treat severe depression after childbirth, a condition that affects thousands of new mothers in the U.S. each year. The Food and Drug Administration on Friday granted approval of the drug, Zurzuvae, Biden's inaction on death penalty may be a top campaign issue as Trump and DeSantis laud executions 08/04/2023 06:35pm • CHICAGO (AP) — Capital punishment could emerge as a major campaign issue in the U.S. presidential race for the first time in 30 years, with top GOP rivals Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis already one-upping each other by touting tougher, more far-reaching death penalty laws. Meanwhile, death penalty As 'awareness' increases, Md. marijuana sales could go even higher 08/04/2023 04:54pm • The nearly $90 million spent on marijuana products during Maryland's first month of legal recreational sales was a big number — but it may go even higher as more people get used to the new law. It became legal in July for people at least 21 years old to buy marijuana at dispensaries across US judge blocks new Illinois law allowing state to penalize anti-abortion counseling centers 08/04/2023 04:53pm • ROCKFORD, Ill. (AP) — A federal judge has blocked a new Illinois law that allows the state to penalize anti-abortion counseling centers if they use deception to interfere with patients seeking the procedure. U.S. District Judge Iain Johnston said Thursday the new law "is painfully and blatantly a A feud between a patriarch and a militia leader adds to the woes of Iraqi Christians 08/04/2023 04:45pm • IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — Iraqi Christians have struggled since the Nineveh plains, their historic homeland of rolling hills dotted with wheat and barley fields, were wrested back from Islamic State extremists six years ago. Although the threat from IS has receded, some towns are still mostly rubble. The Supreme Court won't block a ruling favoring a Native American man cited for speeding in Tulsa 08/04/2023 04:06pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Friday left in place a lower court ruling that invalidated a speeding ticket against a Native American man in Tulsa, Oklahoma, because the city is located within the boundaries of an Indian reservation. The justices rejected an emergency appeal by Tulsa to bl Va. families file complaint with AG alleging disabled students' rights were violated 08/04/2023 03:38pm • Families of children with disabilities have filed a complaint with the Virginia attorney general's office, calling for an investigation into state education authorities and the Fairfax County School Board for allegedly violating the rights of students with disabilities. In the complaint filed las