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Rookie manager Carlos Mendoza's magic touch has helped resurgent Mets reach NLCS 10/11/2024 11:31pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Like a lot of New York Mets this season, Carlos Mendoza got off to a terrible start. During his first eight days as a major league manager, the team was rained out three times and opened 0-5. All at home. Immediately, his decisions were scrutinized and questions arose. “Nothin All aboard! Mets and Yankees only 2 stops away from first Subway Series in 24 years 10/11/2024 11:29pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Two stops away from a Subway Series. When the New York Yankees advanced to the American League Championship Series on Thursday night, that put both Big Apple teams in baseball's final four for the first time in 24 years. Francisco Lindor and the New York Mets had already punched th Middle East latest: UN mission in Lebanon is hit again by explosions 10/11/2024 10:43pm • The United Nations peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon said new explosions hit its headquarters Friday, injuring two peacekeepers a day after Israeli forces targeted the same position and struck central Beirut. Earlier Friday, cross-border fire from Lebanon killed a man from Thailand who was wor Drought is parching the world's largest man-made lake, stripping Zambia of its electricity 10/11/2024 10:11pm • LAKE KARIBA, Zambia (AP) — Tindor Sikunyongana is trying to run a welding business which these days means buying a diesel generator with costly fuel he can't always afford. Like everyone in Zambia, Sikunyongana is facing a daily struggle to find and afford electricity during a climate-induced ener The Latest: Hurricanes have jumbled campaign schedules for Harris and Trump 10/11/2024 09:50pm • Back-to-back hurricanes have jumbled the presidential campaign schedules of Democrat Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump. Trump and Harris have separately gone to Georgia to assess hurricane damage and pledge support. Harris also has visited North Carolina, requiring the candidates to cancel c Stephan Jaeger chips in twice and shoots 63 to lead Black Desert Championship 10/11/2024 09:43pm • IVINS, Utah (AP) — Stephan Jaeger made up for a three-putt from 10 feet by chipping in for birdie on consecutive holes Friday for an 8-under 63 that gave him a one-shot lead before the second round was suspended by darkness at the inaugural Black Desert Championship. The PGA Tour's return to Utah TikTok was aware of risks kids and teens face on its platform, legal document alleges 10/11/2024 09:06pm • TikTok was aware that its design features are detrimental to its young users and that publicly touted tools aimed at limiting kids’ time on the site were largely ineffective, according to internal documents and communications exposed in lawsuit filed by the state of Kentucky. The details are among A man charged in the killing of a Georgia nursing student faces hearing as trial looms 10/11/2024 08:44pm • ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — The man accused of killing a nursing student whose body was found on the University of Georgia campus appeared in court Friday ahead of his scheduled trial next month, as lawyers sparred over whether police acted properly during their investigation. Jose Ibarra is charged with Undav scores twice for Germany in Nations League and Hungary holds Dutch to draw 10/11/2024 08:01pm • Germany's rebuilding appears to be on the right track. Denis Undav scored twice and the four-time World Cup winners extended their unbeaten record in the Nations League to three matches after a convincing 2-1 win at Bosnia-Herzegovina on Friday. Reduced to 10 men, the Netherlands managed a 1-1 draw Pets from states ravaged by hurricanes find shelter in DC region 10/11/2024 08:00pm • As many as 100 dogs and cats that were in shelters in the path of Hurricanes Helene and Milton are now looking forward to finding safe, permanent homes in the D.C. area. Mark Goodhart, operations director for Homeward Trails Animal Rescue, said his organization, based in Fairfax Station, Virginia If you let your flood insurance lapse and then got hit by Helene, you may be able to renew it 10/11/2024 07:31pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Residents in the states hit by Hurricane Helene who had coverage through the federal flood insurance program but let it lapse before the storm hit may be able to renew it and still be covered from the impact. The Federal Emergency Management Agency said late Thursday that certain The Latest: Residents begin repairing damage from Hurricane Milton, which killed at least 10 10/11/2024 06:42pm • Florida residents began repairing damage from Hurricane Milton, which smashed through coastal communities and tore homes to pieces, flooded streets and spawned a deadly tornadoes. At least 10 people are dead, but many expressed relief that Milton wasn’t worse. Follow AP’s coverage of tropical we Tigers ace Skubal gets start as Detroit faces Cleveland in Game 5 winner-gets-Yankees ALDS matchup 10/11/2024 06:39pm • CLEVELAND (AP) — Tarik Skubal's itching to have another emotional October outburst that makes Tigers fans roar — even if it embarrasses his mom. Baseball's premier pitcher all season, the heat-throwing Skubal — a lock to win the AL Cy Young Award — will start Game 5 for Detroit on Saturday i NY prosecutors want to combine Harvey Weinstein’s criminal cases into a single trial 10/11/2024 06:24pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors are asking a Manhattan judge to consolidate the two sex crime cases that Harvey Weinstein faces in New York into a single trial this year — a move that the disgraced movie mogul’s lawyers oppose. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office argued in court Trial on hold for New Jersey man charged in knife attack that injured Salman Rushdie 10/11/2024 06:23pm • MAYVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — The attempted murder trial of the man charged with severely injuring author Salman Rushdie in a 2022 knife attack was put on hold Friday while judges consider a request to move it to another county. Jury selection had been scheduled to start on Tuesday. Late Friday, an appell