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Brewers’ Yelich opts for season-ending surgery

Associated Press Aug 15, 2024, 07:31 PM ET Open Extended Reactions MILWAUKEE — The National League Central-leading Milwaukee Brewers will have to continue their...

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Cubs HOFer Sandberg says he is cancer-free

Associated Press Aug 15, 2024, 10:34 PM ET Open Extended Reactions CHICAGO — Hall of Fame second baseman Ryne Sandberg says he is cancer-free....

World

Vladimir Putin ally Alexander Lukashenko urges Russia and Ukraine to end war

A key ally of Vladimir Putin has urged Ukraine and Russia to negotiate an end to the conflict, as Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said...

Sports

Buckeyes to start K-State transfer Howard at QB

Adam Rittenberg, ESPN Senior WriterAug 15, 2024, 01:11 PM ET Close College football reporter. Joined ESPN.com in 2008. Graduate of Northwestern University. Open Extended...

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CFP won’t use conference titles as tiebreakers

Heather Dinich, ESPN Senior WriterAug 15, 2024, 03:31 PM ET Close College football reporter Joined ESPN.com in 2007 Graduate of Indiana University Open Extended...

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An almost all defensive top 5?! College football’s top 100 players for 2024

Aug 15, 2024, 07:00 AM ET Open Extended Reactions It’s an odd season for big names in college football. There are some known commodities,...

Taylor Swift returns to Wembley for first time since Vienna terror threat – with help from Ed Sheeran

Taylor Swift has returned to Wembley Stadium in style, bringing her Eras hits once again to a crowd of more than 90,000 – with...

Infected blood scandal victims to receive financial support for life

Victims of the infected blood scandal will receive financial support for life, the government has confirmed. Announcing the updated multi-billion-pound compensation scheme, the government...

World

Lebanon increasingly pessimistic about avoiding a regional war it can ill afford

Lebanon is preparing for all-out war; even as the Gaza ceasefire talks begin. We joined Firas Abyad, the Lebanese health minister, as he did...

Sports

Ex-NASCAR driver Kurt Busch arrested for DWI

Aug 15, 2024, 02:36 PM ET Former NASCAR driver Kurt Busch was arrested Wednesday in North Carolina after allegedly driving drunk. According to court...

Technology

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg receives letter from lawmakers concerned about illicit drug ads on Facebook and Instagram

Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Meta Platforms Inc., during an interview on “The Circuit with Emily Chang” at Meta headquarters in Menlo Park,...

Technology

Goldman Sachs jumps into bitcoin ETFs and one hedge fund gets bullish on miners

When the SEC opened the door in January for bitcoin exchange-traded funds to hit the mainstream, many traditional financial institutions across Wall Street and...

Technology

Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt sees Nvidia as big AI winner: ‘You know what to do in the stock market’

Eric Schmidt, who led Google for a decade, told Stanford students that, while he’s not one to give investment advice, he sees an obvious...

Huntington: America’s overdose capital where former addicts are helping people get sober

“That’s the ‘Roach’s Inn’,” Richie said, as we drove past a dilapidated motel. The Coaches’ Inn – it was the kind you see in...

Double Oscar nominee and The Notebook star Gena Rowlands dies at age of 94

American actress Gena Rowlands has died at the age of 94, her son has said. Nick Cassavetes revealed in June that his mother, who...

NASA says it has still not decided how to bring two stuck astronauts back to Earth

NASA has said it has still not decided how to bring home two astronauts from the International Space Station (ISS) after their spacecraft developed...

Sports

Dillon penalty boxes in NASCAR, Logano lucky his isn’t worse

Ryan McGee Close Ryan McGee ESPN Senior Writer Senior writer for ESPN The Magazine and ESPN.com 2-time Sports Emmy winner 2010, 2014 NMPA Writer...

Matthew Perry: Five charged – including two doctors – over ketamine death of Friends star

One of the doctors accused over the ketamine-related death of troubled Friends star Matthew Perry wrote in a text: “I wonder how much this...

Technology

Cisco shares have best day since 2020 on earnings beat, plans to cut 7% of workforce

Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins participates in a Bloomberg Television interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 18, 2023. Hollie Adams...

Donald Trump asks judge to delay hush money sentencing until after US election

Donald Trump is asking the judge in his New York hush money criminal case to delay his sentencing until after the November presidential election....