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Mookie Betts to move from shortstop to right field when he returns to Dodgers next week 08/09/2024 11:26pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — Mookie Betts will move from shortstop back to right field when he returns to the Los Angeles Dodgers’ lineup next week. Manager Dave Roberts said Betts will make the move on Monday in Milwaukee, where the NL West leaders open a four-game series. “He is most confident right n C.J. Stroud throws TD pass in Texans' 20-12 exhibition victory over Steelers 08/09/2024 11:24pm • PITTSBURGH (AP) — C.J. Stroud threw a touchdown pass to Tank Dell in his preseason debut to help the Houston Texans beat the Pittsburgh Steelers 20-12 on Friday night. Held out of the Hall of Fame game last week against Chicago, Stroud completed 2 of 4 passes for 41 yards. Stroud, the No. 2 overal Altuve, Singleton and Peña fuel a 4-run 7th inning as the Astros beat the Red Sox 8-4 08/09/2024 11:23pm • BOSTON (AP) — Jose Altuve hit two-run homer and Jon Singleton and Jeremy Peña added RBI singles in a four-run seventh inning as the AL West-leading Houston Astros beat the Boston Red Sox 8-4 on Friday night. Yainer Diaz added a two-run homer for the Astros, who pounded Boston's bullpen on the way Kamala Harris makes an immigration pitch in Arizona as she fights to gain ground in the Sun Belt 08/09/2024 11:09pm • GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris drew on her prosecutorial background to make her first expansive pitch on immigration to border-state voters as she and her new running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, attracted thousands to a campaign rally in Arizona during their tour of battleg The Latest: Harris and Walz hold rally in Arizona, while Trump visits Montana 08/09/2024 11:06pm • Vice President Kamala Harris and her new running mate held a rally in Arizona as part of their tour of electoral battlegrounds, visiting a state where Harris passed over a prominent Democrat in favor of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz. Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly, a former astronaut and gun control advocate, ha Giants closer Camilo Doval sent to minor leagues 08/09/2024 10:48pm • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The San Francisco Giants optioned closer and former All-Star Camilo Doval to Triple-A Sacramento on Friday. The right-hander has struggled to find the form that made him an All-Star in 2023 in 46 appearances for San Francisco this season and has a career-worst 4.70 ERA. “Whe Zach Eflin goes 7 scoreless innings as Orioles beat Rays 4-1 and move into 1st place in AL East 08/09/2024 10:10pm • ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Zach Eflin worked seven scoreless innings against his former team and the Baltimore Orioles moved into sole possession of first place in the American League East on Friday night with a 4-1 win over the Tampa Bay Rays. “That's so good right there,” Baltimore manager Flooding from the remnants of Debby leads to high water rescues in New York, Pennsylvania 08/09/2024 09:25pm • First responders launched high-water and helicopter rescues of people trapped in cars and homes in rural New York and Pennsylvania as heavy rain from the remnants of Debby slammed the Northeast with intense floods. The worst of the flash flooding so far in New York was occurring in villages and haml The Latest: Debby's remnants hit New York and Pennsylvania with heavy rain and severe flooding 08/09/2024 09:01pm • Though no longer a tropical storm, Debby continues lashing the East Coast with heavy rain and flooding as rivers overflow their banks and authorities call on the National Guard to help with high water rescues. The storm moved north from the Carolinas toward the Northeast on Friday, drenching New Yor Coach Prime holds combative news conference as he prepares for his second season at Colorado 08/09/2024 08:09pm • BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — Deion “ Coach Prime ” Sanders kicked off his second season at Colorado with a combative news conference Friday when he also celebrated his 57th birthday and became a grandfather. Donning his signature shades and a Buffaloes baseball cap, Sanders started things off by tha Brazil beats Canada in tense three-set women's beach volleyball gold medal match. Swiss win bronze 08/09/2024 08:06pm • PARIS (AP) — Not even a tense tête-à-tête in the gold medal game could spoil the vibe at Paris’ biggest beach party. Canada’s Brandie Wilkerson and Brazil’s Ana Patrícia got into a finger-pointing shouting match across the net in the tiebreaking third set of the beach volleyball final of Debby departs DC region after dumping nonstop rain, flooding roads and downing trees 08/09/2024 07:50pm • Listen live to WTOP for traffic and weather updates on the 8s. Post Tropical Cyclone Debby moved out of the D.C. area Friday afternoon after drenching the region with heavy rains and high winds throughout the morning. However, a cold front approaching from the west brought the chance for a Harvard rebuffs protests and won't remove Sackler name from two buildings 08/09/2024 07:28pm • BOSTON (AP) — Harvard University has decided against removing from campus buildings the name of a family whose company makes the powerful painkiller OxyContin, despite protests from parents whose children fatally overdosed. The decision last month by the Harvard Corporation to retain Arthur M. Sa Near mid-air collision and safety violations led to fatal crash of Marine Corps Osprey in Australia 08/09/2024 07:03pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — An Osprey crash in Australia that killed three Marines last August was caused by multiple pilot errors during a near mid-air collision, a military investigation has found. It also found that squadron leadership had permitted “a culture that disregarded safety of flight.” Two University of Vermont president picked to lead the University of Arizona 08/09/2024 06:40pm • TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Suresh Garimella, president of the University of Vermont since 2019, has been selected to serve as the new leader of the University of Arizona. The Arizona Board of Regents voted Friday to hire Garimella to replace Robert Robbins, who has served as president of the Tucson-base