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Pirates reinstate OF Andrew McCutchen from injured list. 5-time All-Star hurt knee running bases 08/30/2024 03:28pm • CLEVELAND (AP) — The Pittsburgh Pirates reinstated outfielder Andrew McCutchen from the 10-day injured list on Friday after he had been out with left knee inflammation. The club made several moves before opening a three-game series against AL Central-leading Cleveland. Pittsburgh also placed relie Federal agency cracks down on a predatory lending practice that often hurts Somali Muslims 08/30/2024 02:24pm • For years, Fartun Weli has been frustrated with the way low-income Somali Muslims in Minnesota have been targeted by shady home sellers edging their way into the community -- by exploiting a principle of Islam meant to protect the poor. Weli says many are refugee immigrants who know little about the England on track to win series against Sri Lanka by dominating second test after Atkinson century 08/30/2024 02:10pm • LONDON (AP) — England moved into a powerful position to win the series against Sri Lanka by taking a stranglehold on the second test at Lord's after an unlikely century by fast bowler Gus Atkinson and another batting collapse by the tourists on Friday. After Atkinson's entertaining 118 off 115 bal Carlos Alcaraz's surprising US Open loss to Botic van de Zandschulp raises questions 08/30/2024 12:10pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Everyone kept waiting for Carlos Alcaraz to turn things around at the U.S. Open. Alcaraz figured it would happen at some point. So did his opponent. And surely the Arthur Ashe Stadium crowd and folks tuning in on TV did, too. This is, after all, Carlos Alcaraz we're talking about � You use Spotify to listen to music. Here’s how money from ads and subscription fees flows to artists 08/30/2024 11:20am • LOS ANGELES (AP) — Every day, millions of people use Spotify to stream music. A few years ago, it would've felt like an impossibility: Click, and bam — a seemingly endless catalog of recorded music opens up, right at your fingertips. Streaming now accounts for most of the money generated by the Patients will suffer with bankrupt health care firm's closure of Massachusetts hospitals, staff say 08/30/2024 11:06am • AYER, Mass. (AP) — When Christina Hernon was 5, her throat swelled shut from an infection and her mother rushed her to a local Massachusetts hospital in the dead of night. She couldn't breathe, suffered a seizure and was near death when a doctor saved her by inserting a tube down her throat. Herno A centuries-old cemetery for people who were enslaved is reclaimed in New York 08/30/2024 11:02am • KINGSTON, N.Y. (AP) — On a residential block in upstate New York, college students dig and sift backyard dirt as part of an archaeological project that could provide insights into the lives of African Americans buried there centuries ago. This spot of tightly-packed houses in the city of Kingston Germany deports 28 Afghan nationals to their homeland, the first since the Taliban takeover in 2021 08/30/2024 10:58am • BERLIN (AP) — Germany deported Afghan nationals to their homeland on Friday for the first time since August 2021 when the Taliban returned to power. Government spokesperson Steffen Hebestreit described the 28 Afghan nationals as convicted criminals but did not clarify their offenses. “The secur Slow tropical storm dumps heavy rain around Tokyo after causing floods in southern Japan 08/30/2024 10:27am • TOKYO (AP) — A slow-moving tropical storm had a far-reaching impact in much of Japan on Friday, dumping heavy rain around Tokyo and flooding roads and riverside areas in the south. Flooding was reported in a number of areas in Kanagawa prefecture, west of Tokyo, where floodwater blocked roads, sta Merino's Arsenal debut on hold after he breaks bone in his shoulder in first training session 08/30/2024 10:26am • LONDON (AP) — Mikel Merino's debut for Arsenal has been put on hold after the Spain midfielder sustained a broken bone in his shoulder in his first training session following his move for $42 million. Merino was in contention to play a part in Arsenal's Premier League game at home to Brighton on S When the US left Kabul, these Americans tried to help Afghans left behind. It still haunts them 08/30/2024 09:49am • The United States' longest war is over. But not for everyone. Outside of San Francisco, surgeon Doug Chin has helped provide medical assistance to people in Afghanistan via video calls. He has helped Afghan families with their day-to-day living expenses. Yet he remains haunted by the people he could How Trump and Georgia's Republican governor made peace, helped by allies anxious about the election 08/30/2024 09:49am • ATLANTA (AP) — The effort to make the peace between Donald Trump and Georgia's powerful Republican governor began in a sprawling neo-Victorian mansion in the exclusive Atlanta enclave of Buckhead. It was at an Aug. 7 fundraiser hosted by former Georgia Sen. Kelly Loeffler that fellow Republican Li Italian prosecutors widen probe into superyacht that sank off Sicily to 2 more crew members 08/30/2024 09:46am • ROME (AP) — Italian prosecutors have put under investigation two more crew members of the Bayesian, the superyacht that sank off Sicily last week, killing seven people, their lawyer said on Friday. The move widens the probe into the tragic shipwreck, for which the ship’s captain, New Zealander J Runners are used to toughing it out. A warming climate can make that deadly 08/30/2024 09:44am • Carolyn Baker, clad in a neon pink top and matching sunglasses, smiled as she ran the Falmouth Road Race on the shore of Cape Cod, looking around for friends as she neared the end of a race she’d completed more than a dozen times before. Suddenly, Baker collapsed, as her exertion on a sunny Aug One day, their children didn't make it back home. Faith helps these Mexican mothers' search for them 08/30/2024 09:10am • MEXICO CITY (AP) — Each time the kidnapper hung up the phone, Veronica Rosas and her relatives did the only thing they could think of: kneel, grab each other’s hands and pray. “I told God: Please help me,” said Rosas, who has spent the past nine years searching for her son, Diego Maximiliano