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Verlander's Tigers return delayed again after a hamstring pull, Hinch says 06/19/2026 06:57pm • DETROIT (AP) ��� Justin Verlander's return to the Detroit Tigers has been delayed again. Manager A.J. Hinch announced Friday that the 43-year-old right-hander pulled a hamstring during a bullpen session and will be sidelined indefinitely. ���This is not a matter of days,��� Hinch said. ���It is a ma Cuba pushes through sweeping free-market reforms in biggest economic shift since the revolution 06/19/2026 06:56pm • HAVANA (AP) ��� Observers on Friday called Cuba���s new free-market reforms the most sweeping economic overhaul of the island���s communist economy since the Cuban revolution, as the grandson of former President Ra��l Castro said in an interview that Cuba must seek to move its economy forward. The 1 Authorities find 4 bodies outside Mexico City while searching for a missing American 06/19/2026 06:49pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) ��� Mexican authorities were working Friday to identify four bodies found on the outskirts of Mexico City as part of the search efforts to locate a married couple who disappeared in May while living in Chicago and Mexico. An official from the State of Mexico prosecutor���s office, w 'There's a lot yet to do' on domestic violence in DC, US attorney says 06/19/2026 06:44pm • While violent crime in D.C. has dropped, incidences of domestic violence have not, according to U.S. Attorney for the District Jeanine Pirro. She said she's working to change that. "There's a lot yet to do in the District," she told reporters at a news conference Wednesday. Pirro was asked New stadium needed to keep Whitecaps in Vancouver, MLS Commissioner Don Garber says 06/19/2026 06:42pm • SEATTLE (AP) ��� MLS Commissioner Don Garber said before the United States beat Australia at the World Cup on Friday that the Vancouver Whitecaps need to have a new stadium deal in order to keep the club in Vancouver. ���We���re committed to keeping the team here if we have a viable stadium project, North Carolina going for 1st national title in baseball in CWS finals against surging Sooners 06/19/2026 06:38pm • OMAHA, Neb. (AP) ��� Scott Forbes had just wrapped up a College World Series news conference Friday when Skip Johnson walked into the room to pose with him for an annual picture of the head coaches next to the national championship trophy, a longtime tradition the day before the start of the finals. President Donald Trump unveils the new Air Force One, a converted Qatari jet 06/19/2026 06:32pm • JOINT BASE ANDREWS, Md. (AP) ��� President Donald Trump on Friday showed off the new Air Force One, a formerly Qatari-owned jumbo jet that has been converted into the official U.S. presidential aircraft. The new aircraft eschews the Kennedy-era robin���s egg blue exterior of the old plane for a bol Kim Gamel, a former veteran AP correspondent in Europe and the Middle East, dies 06/19/2026 06:23pm • Kim Gamel, a former veteran Associated Press correspondent who covered conflicts and uprisings around the Middle East, including the height of the Iraq war and the Arab Spring, has died, according to her brother-in-law. She was 57. Gamel died Wednesday in Idaho after a battle with lymphoma, Lee Ruff Bobby Witt Jr. avoids IL stint for now with mild MCL sprain 06/19/2026 06:17pm • KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) ��� Kansas City Royals shortstop Bobby Witt Jr. was out of the lineup for Friday's game against the St. Louis Cardinals with a grade-1 MCL sprain. He left Thursday's game at the end of the fourth inning after earlier fielding a ground ball. Kansas City manager Matt Quatraro sai Trump now says either Republican candidate would be a good pick in South Carolina's governor runoff 06/19/2026 06:16pm • COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) ��� President Donald Trump changed his tune Friday heading into South Carolina's runoff next week, saying either Republican contender for governor ��� not just Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette, whom he endorsed before the primary earlier this month ��� would be a good pick. On his Truth So Dads of Washington Nationals players soak in first-ever fathers trip 06/19/2026 06:05pm • They stood together at Nationals Park on Wednesday afternoon sharing laughs, a few adult beverages and a unique bond. Dave Irvin, Joey Lord and Tom Parker were in their element. ���We speak the same language,��� Lord said. It���s a dialect that will be shared throughout the weekend as Irvin Juneteenth event highlights discovery of hundreds of unmarked graves at Bowie church 06/19/2026 06:03pm • A Juneteenth gathering at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Bowie brought descendants, parishioners and community members together Friday to honor the hundreds of people enslaved on the former White Marsh plantation, and to confront the history still emerging from the ground beneath their feet. Brazilian soccer fans at the World Cup heed warning not to dress Rocky statue in team gear 06/19/2026 06:01pm • PHILADELPHIA (AP) ��� Brazil fans who went the distance up the Philadelphia Museum of Art steps to pose with the Rocky statue left the fictional fighter just as they found him. Every Brazilian fan ��� in Philadelphia to watch their team play Haiti on Friday at the World Cup ��� who stopped for a sna Fire officials warn fireworks laws vary widely across the DC region 06/19/2026 05:47pm • While some fireworks are legal in D.C., fire officials across the region are reminding residents that fireworks purchased legally in one jurisdiction may be illegal to possess or use in another. At a recent news conference, D.C. Deputy Fire Chief Edward Kauffman outlined what is permitted in Judge denies Biden's bid to block release of transcripts linked to special counsel inquiry 06/19/2026 05:43pm • A federal judge on Friday rejected former President Joe Biden's attempt to block the Trump administration from releasing to a conservative group the recordings that Biden made with a ghostwriter. U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich found that the public interest in the material outweighed whatever