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Ignoring pressure and having fun, Cuba gets off to a winning start at the Little League World Series 08/17/2024 12:54pm • SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. (AP) ��� Marloon Herrera was crying. Happy tears. With Cuba trailing in the fifth inning of its Little League World Series opener on Thursday, Marloon lined a two-run double to give his team the lead. When the Czech Republic, representing Europe-Africa, made a pitching change Sudan's paramilitary fighters killed 85 people in an attack on a central village, residents say 08/17/2024 12:48pm • CAIRO (AP) ��� Fighters from Sudan's paramilitary group rampaged through a central village, looting and burning and killing at least 85 people, including women and children, authorities and residents said Saturday, the latest atrocity in the country���s 18-month devastating conflict. The paramilitar Indonesia's new capital isn't ready yet. The president is celebrating Independence Day there anyway 08/17/2024 12:07pm • PENAJAM PASER UTARA, Indonesia (AP) ��� Indonesia marked 79 years of independence on Saturday with a ceremony in the unfinished future capital of Nusantara, which was planned to relieve pressure on Jakarta but whose construction has lagged behind schedule. Hundreds of officials and invited guests we Ghekiere dominates climb to win the 7th stage in women���s Tour de France 08/17/2024 10:31am • LE GRAND-BORNAND, France (AP) ��� Justine Ghekiere claimed victory in the seventh stage of the women���s Tour de France on Saturday, the first mountain challenge in the French Alps. The 166-kilometer (103-mile) stage, the tour���s longest, saw the Belgian rider leverage her climbing strength to bre Uzbek prime minister is in Afghanistan in highest-level visit since the Taliban took power 08/17/2024 10:29am • ISLAMABAD (AP) ��� Uzbek Prime Minister Abdulla Aripov arrived in Afghanistan on Saturday in the highest-level visit by a foreign official since the Taliban returned to power three years ago. Aripov, heading a delegation, was welcomed at the Kabul airport by Abdul Salam Hanafi, the Taliban���s deput Heart disease is rampant in parts of the rural South. Researchers are hitting the road to learn why 08/17/2024 10:18am • Darrell Dixon���s father was just 25 when he had a major heart attack in the rural Mississippi Delta. By his early 40s, a series of additional attacks had left his heart muscle too weak to pump enough blood to his body. He died in 2013 at the age of 49. ���It was a big jolt for our family,��� Dixon, Sports on TV for Sunday, Aug. 18 08/17/2024 10:10am • (All times Eastern) Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts Sunday, Aug. 18 AUTO RACING 7:30 a.m. TRUTV ��� FIM MotoGP: The Austrian Grand Prix, Spielberg, Austria 10 a.m. CBSSN ��� FIM Motocross: The MX2, Arnhem, Netherlands 11 a.m. CBSSN ��� FIM Motocross: The MXGP, Arnhem, Netherlands Noon US Russian missile sparks blaze in Ukraine as Kyiv's troops push into Russia's Kursk region 08/17/2024 09:41am • Russia kept up its assault on Ukraine Saturday even as Ukrainian forces pushed into Russia���s Kursk border region. A Russian missile sparked a blaze in the city of Sumy that injured two people and also damaged cars and nearby buildings, said Ukraine���s State Emergency Service. It said that the hit Betts and Kiermaier homer as Dodgers rally to beat skidding Cardinals 7-6 08/17/2024 12:38am • ST. LOUIS (AP) ��� Mookie Betts and Kevin Kiermaier homered in a five-run sixth inning, and the Los Angeles Dodgers came back to beat the skidding St. Louis Cardinals 7-6 on Friday night. The offensive outburst gave Justin Wrobleski his first major league win. The left-hander was called up from Trip Today in History: August 17, Clinton admits to Lewinsky affair 08/17/2024 12:01am • Today is Saturday, Aug. 17, the 230th day of 2024. There are 136 days left in the year. Today in history:���On August 17, 1998, President Bill Clinton gave grand jury testimony via closed-circuit television from the White House concerning his relationship with Monica Lewinsky; he then delivered a US official says Mideast mediators are preparing for implementation of cease-fire deal in advance 08/16/2024 08:39pm • JERUSALEM (AP) ��� In a sign that mediators believe a Gaza cease-fire deal is imminent, a U.S. official said Friday that Mideast negotiators are working out logistics for the potential release of hostages and distribution of aid as part of any agreement to end the Israel-Hamas war. The official, who Hurricane Ernesto lashes Bermuda as wealthy British territory closes down 08/16/2024 08:18pm • SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) ��� Hurricane Ernesto began to pound Bermuda late Friday with heavy winds and rain after officials in the tiny British territory in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean opened shelters and closed government offices. The Category 2 storm located 95 miles (150 kilometers) south- 9 injured after multicar crash during rush hour on I-270 in Clarksburg 08/16/2024 07:17pm • Nine people were hurt after a multicar crash on Interstate 270 in Clarksburg, Maryland, during rush hour Friday, according to the Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service. All traffic was stopped on the highway around 5:30 p.m. and I-270 reopened about an hour later, according to WTOP Traffic re Ukrainian forces left a path of destruction in the Kursk operation. AP visited a seized Russian town 08/16/2024 07:01pm • SUDZHA, Russia (AP) ��� A trail of destruction lies in the path that Ukrainian forces carved on their risky incursion into Russia, blasting through the border and eventually into the town of Sudzha, where Associated Press journalists traveled Friday on a Ukrainian government-organized trip. Artiller Michael Brown���s death transformed a nation and sparked a decade of American reckoning on race 08/16/2024 06:45pm • Kayla Reed was born in a predominantly African American section of St. Louis where, like her own kin, many Black families had been transplanted out of the Deep South. After the death of her grandmother, Reed moved with her father from the city to a St. Louis County town located within one mile of F