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Cavaliers star Donovan Mitchell relieved to be in Cleveland for long haul after signing extension 09/30/2024 04:16pm • CLEVELAND (AP) — Donovan Mitchell carried a heavy burden last season, the weight of expectations and speculation about his future combining to make every move on and off the court a challenge. It's been lifted. The All-Star guard is freed. “I can come in here now and breathe,” Mitchell said Mo 'There were a lot of tears': What DC-area crews have been seeing as they help with Helene devastation 09/30/2024 03:50pm • As rescue teams from Northern Virginia have traveled to other locations to help with the devastation from Hurricane Helene, they have seen and spoken with people who lost everything due to flooding. The last few days have been emotional and dramatic. "It was a very wide storm, so it hit areas The Carolina Hurricanes are chasing a 7th straight playoff bid with a different look 09/30/2024 03:43pm • Carolina Hurricanes Last season: 52-23-7, lost in second round of playoffs. COACH: Rod Brind'Amour (278-130-44 over six seasons with the Hurricanes). SEASON OPENER: Oct. 11 vs. Tampa Bay. DEPARTURES: F Jake Guentzel, D Brady Skjei, D Brett Pesce, F Teuvo Teravainen, F Stefan Noesen, F Evgeny Kuznets Trae Young embracing leadership role as the figurehead of the new-look Hawks with rookie Risacher 09/30/2024 03:15pm • ATLANTA (AP) — Now more than ever, the Atlanta Hawks are Trae Young's team as the high-scoring point guard enters his seventh season. One of Young's new teammates, veteran Larry Nance Jr., knows that lead role comes with responsibility. “I’m excited to try and help Trae take the next step in m Survive and advance is the mantra for NASCAR Cup Series playoff contenders after chaotic Kansas race 09/30/2024 02:21pm • KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — The dozen drivers who advanced to the second round of the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs saw Kansas Speedway as a relatively straightforward test, given the potential chaos looming at Talladega and the unpredictability of the road course at Charlotte. For most of them, it turn Metropolitan Division is in flux beyond the Rangers and Hurricanes still Stanley Cup contenders 09/30/2024 02:16pm • A second loss in the Eastern Conference Final in three years still stings for the New York Rangers, months after getting eliminated by eventual Stanley Cup champion Florida. “It hurts,” center Vincent Trocheck said, “so, the itch to get back is heightened a little bit more.” The Caroli Dodgers home run star Shohei Ohtani tops MLB jersey sales for 2nd straight season 09/30/2024 01:57pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Shohei Ohtani topped Major League Baseball jersey sales for the second straight season while becoming the first player to reach 50 homers and 50 stolen bases in the same year. The Los Angeles Dodgers star was followed by Philadelphia's Bryce Harper, the New York Yankees' Aaron Judg Bengals will try to build on their first win as matchup with Ravens looms 09/30/2024 01:51pm • CINCINNATI (AP) — Joe Burrow has the Cincinnati Bengals offense humming again. Good timing, too, with the AFC North rival Baltimore Ravens coming to town on Sunday. The Bengals defense, though, is still a work in progress. After a rare pregame speech to the team from Burrow, Cincinnati (1-3) scor Mental mistakes and Rodgers' cadence become hot topics for Jets' offense after awful performance 09/30/2024 01:20pm • New York Jets fans had a bad case of déja vu watching the offense struggle mightily. And it wasn't even Zach Wilson's fault. He was on the other sideline. One game after Aaron Rodgers was in total control of an offense that moved up and down the field at will against New England, the star quarterba Satellite service DirecTV buys rival Dish as it fights the onslaught of streaming services 09/30/2024 12:36pm • DirecTV is buying Dish and Sling, a deal it has sought to complete for years, as the company seeks to better compete against streaming services that have become dominant. DirecTV said Monday that it will acquire Dish TV and Sling TV from its owner EchoStar in a debt exchange transaction that include The world’s longest-serving death row inmate acquitted in Japan mulls suing the government 09/30/2024 11:21am • TOKYO (AP) — A lawyer for the world’s longest-serving death row inmate — who was acquitted in a Japan ese retrial last week of a 1966 quadruple murder — said Tuesday that the defense team is considering filing a damage suit against the government over the fabrication of evidence that ruined Lithuania refers Belarus to the ICC, alleging crimes against humanity over opposition crackdown 09/30/2024 10:59am • BRUSSELS (AP) — Lithuania on Monday referred the hard-line president of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, members of his government, security officials and military officers to the International Criminal Court, accusing them of committing crimes against humanity by forcing their own people to flee th Italian police arrest 19 people in massive probe targeting mafia links to Milan soccer 'ultra' fans 09/30/2024 10:52am • ROME (AP) — Italian police arrested 19 people, accused of criminal ties with the powerful ‘Ndrangheta mafia group, in a move that decimated the fan clubs backing Serie A teams Inter Milan and AC Milan. Prosecutors said at a press conference on Monday that possible charges include criminal associ Port workers from Maine to Texas are set to strike Tuesday. Expect shortages and higher prices 09/30/2024 10:33am • New York (CNN) — Longshore workers at ports from Maine to Texas are set to walk off the job early Tuesday, staging what could become the most disruptive strike to the US economy in decades. The strike could stop the flow of a wide variety of goods over the docks of almost all the cargo ports on Maya Rudolph as Harris and Dana Carvey as Biden open the 50th season of 'Saturday Night Live' 09/30/2024 10:27am • “Saturday Night Live” began its 50th season with a parade of former co-stars, including Maya Rudolph as Vice President Kamala Harris, Andy Samberg as her husband Doug Emhoff and Dana Carvey as President Joe Biden. “We've got to stay focused,” Rudolph-as-Harris said at a mock rally in the sho