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Sharp divisions persist over Walz's response to the riots that followed the murder of George Floyd 09/07/2024 08:38am • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Gov. Tim Walz faced the biggest crisis of his political career when Minnesota’s two largest cities erupted in protests and riots after a white Minneapolis police officer killed George Floyd. The Black man's murder in 2020 sparked a nationwide reckoning over racial discriminati Vigil held for DC man fatally shot by police in Southeast 09/07/2024 08:02am • A candlelit vigil was held Friday evening by Black Lives Matter and Harriet's Wildest Dreams, to remember 26-year-old Justin Robinson, who was fatally shot by D.C. police last Sunday. Chants of “Justice for Justin!” were shouted out as hundreds of mourners returned to the scene where the Seth Brown hits walk-off RBI single in 13th inning and Athletics beat Tigers 7-6 09/07/2024 02:26am • OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Seth Brown hit a walk-off RBI single in the 13th inning to give the Oakland Athletics a 7-6 win over the Detroit Tigers on Friday night after tying the game in the 11th with a two-run homer. The teams went back-and-forth in extras. Both scored their automatic runner in the 1 Guardians edge Dodgers 3-1 on Giménez's 2-run shot and Boyd's strong outing 09/07/2024 01:26am • LOS ANGELES (AP) — Matthew Boyd outdueled Landon Knack over five scoreless innings, Andrés Giménez hit a two-run homer in the sixth and the Cleveland Guardians beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 3-1 on Friday night in a matchup of division leaders. The NL West-leading Dodgers managed just two baserunn Barkley scores 3 TDs as Eagles beat Packers 34-29 in Brazil. Packers' Love injured in final minute 09/07/2024 12:53am • SAO PAULO (AP) — Saquon Barkley has been practicing the art of positive thinking since switching teams for the first time in his career. Yet he probably couldn’t have imagined making such a spectacular debut for the Philadelphia Eagles. Barkley scored three touchdowns Friday night in the first N Two NASA astronauts stuck in space have flown long missions before 09/07/2024 12:29am • CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The two NASA astronauts left behind at the International Space Station following the return of Boeing's troubled capsule are Navy test pilots who have ridden out long missions before. Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are now full-time station crew members alon Maui's toxic debris could fill 5 football fields 5 stories deep. Where will it end up? 09/07/2024 12:17am • LAHAINA, Hawaii (AP) — Hinano Rodrigues remembers being 4 or 5 years old, carrying a bucket across a highway to the ocean in the Maui community where he still lives. At dawn, he would accompany his grandmother to a reef at low tide, where she plucked black snails, spiny lobsters and spiky sea urch BYU beats SMU 18-15 to end high-scoring ACC newcomer Mustangs' 9-game win streak at home 09/07/2024 12:13am • DALLAS (AP) — Will Ferrin kicked a 26-yard field goal with 1:58 left after BYU had two big fourth-down runs as the Cougars beat SMU 18-15 on Friday night, ending the Mustangs' nine-game home winning streak. The game-winning kick came on the same drive when Miles Davis took a quick pitch on a four Ragans throws 6 scoreless innings, Massey homers as Royals top Twins 5-0 09/06/2024 11:30pm • KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Cole Ragans scattered four hits in six scoreless innings as the Kansas City Royals defeated the Minnesota Twins 5-0 on Friday night and traded places with the Twins in the AL Central and wild card standings. The Royals now hold a half-game lead for second place in the divi Utah sheriff's deputy stalked and killed by her father, prosecutors say 09/06/2024 10:58pm • TOOELE, Utah (AP) — Prosecutors charged a Utah man with murder Friday, alleging he killed his adult daughter, a Salt Lake City sheriff's deputy. Hector Ramon Martinez-Ayala, 54, of Tooele, confessed in a text message to his brother of making “a big mistake” before fleeing the country and usin Dean Kremer holds Rays hitless for 6 innings as first-place Orioles beat Rays 2-0 09/06/2024 10:18pm • BALTIMORE (AP) — Dean Kremer took a no-hitter into the seventh inning, Gunnar Henderson hit his 36th home run and the Baltimore Orioles beat the Tampa Bay Rays 2-0 Friday night to remain atop the AL East. Baltimore holds a half-game lead over the New York Yankees, who blanked the Chicago Cubs earl Woman recounts praying after falling while trying to escape Colorado supermarket shooting 09/06/2024 09:27pm • BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — Elan Shakti was tired and had trouble walking but decided to go to the supermarket anyway to buy plants for a family mourning. But as she was buying them, Shakti, now 79, heard gunfire ring out and then someone yell for people to run. Shakti, who had recently been diagnosed w Yankees GM Cashman says going with Verdugo over Domínguez gives the team the best chance to win 09/06/2024 08:24pm • CHICAGO (AP) — The New York Yankees have some work to do, general manager Brian Cashman said. At least for now, Jasson Domínguez is going to do his work in the minors. New York is competing with the Baltimore Orioles for the AL East lead, and the 21-year-old Domínguez is one of the team's top pr Brock Purdy could be the next man up for a mega payday from the 49ers 09/06/2024 07:11pm • SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — The 49ers' arduous summer of contract negotiations ended with San Francisco handing out megadeals to stars Trent Williams and Brandon Aiyuk in time for them to be ready to be on the field for the start of the season. Next up could be Brock Purdy, who will be in line to g News organizations seek unsealing of plea deal with 9/11 defendants 09/06/2024 07:11pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Seven news organizations filed a legal motion Friday asking the U.S. military commission at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to make public the plea agreement that prosecutors struck with alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two fellow defendants. The plea agreements, filed ea