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Nelson, Fletcher and McCarthy power the Diamondbacks to a 3-1 win over the Angels

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:00:32 GMT

ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Ryne Nelson worked 7 1/3 strong innings and Dominic Fletcher and Jake McCarthy had RBIs as the Arizona Diamondbacks beat the Los Angeles Angels 3-1 on Saturday night.The Diamondback scored all their runs against the Angels’ bullpen and clinched first series win since taking two of three against Cleveland in mid-June. Nelson (5-4) was catalyst for Arizona, giving up one run, three hits and one walk while striking out six.On Sunday, the Diamondbacks will go for their first series sweep since taking three games from Detroit on June 9-11.Anthony Rendon hit his second home run of the season for Los Angeles, which has lost four in a row. Shohei Ohtani was hitless in four at-bats and Mike Trout went 0 for 3.Arizona took the lead in the sixth inning against Angels reliever Sam Bachman (1-2), who gave up a leadoff single and hit a batter after replacing Tyler Anderson. Dominic Fletcher hit a ground ball to short that his brother, David, couldn’t field despi...

Espinoza scores late to help Earthquakes tie Galaxy 2-2

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:00:32 GMT

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Cristian Espinoza scored late in the second half to help the San Jose Earthquakes earn a 2-2 draw with the Los Angeles Galaxy on Saturday night.Espinoza’s ninth goal of the season came when he took a pass from Jackson Yueill and scored in the 81st minute to earn the Earthquakes (7-7-7) a point.The Galaxy (3-9-7) grabbed a 1-0 lead when Raheem Edwards used an assist from Douglas Costa in the 31st minute to score his first goal of the season.Jack Skahan took a pass from Carlos Akapo and scored his first of the season to knot the score in the 42nd minute.LA retook the lead two minutes into the second half on a goal by Preston Judd. Costa and Riqui Puig had assists on Judd’s third netter of the campaign.Jonathan Bond finished with two saves for the Galaxy. Daniel de Sousa Brito saved four shots for the Earthquakes.The Galaxy have a victory and four straight draws in their last five matches. The club record is five straight ties set in May of 2009.Ther...

Bader, Volpe help Yanks beat Cards 6-2 for doubleheader split after losing opener 11-4

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:00:32 GMT

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Harrison Bader got a 30-second standing ovation in his return to St. Louis.“I put a lot of years in here. The love and appreciation for that, that’s why I do it,” Bader said after helping the New York Yankees beat the Cardinals 6-2 Saturday night. Bader played in St. Louis for the first time since the Yankees acquired him at last year’s trade deadline in a deal for left-hander Jordan Montgomery.A crowd favorite who made his big league debut with the Cardinals in 2017, Bader spent Friday visiting children at Cardinals Glennon Hospital. He went 0 for 3, hitting a first-inning sacrifice fly,“That was amazing,” he said. “I tried to keep my emotions in check, tried to reserve as much emotion as possible and just focus on going out there and just playing the game.”St. Louis won the rain-interrupted opener 11-4 behind Paul Goldschmidt’s go-ahead, three-run homer off Luis Severino in a five-run third. Jack Flaherty pitched six shutout innings, Goldschmidt had fo...

France faces 5th night of rioting over teen’s killing by police, signs of subsiding violence

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:00:32 GMT

PARIS (AP) — Young rioters clashed with police late Saturday and early Sunday and targeted a mayor’s home with a burning car as France faced a fifth night of unrest sparked by the police killing of a teenager, but overall violence appeared to lessen compared to previous nights.Police made 719 arrests nationwide by early Sunday after a mass security deployment aimed at quelling France’s worst social upheaval in years. The fast-spreading crisis is posing a new challenge to President Emmanuel Macron’s leadership and exposing deep-seated discontent in low-income neighborhoods over discrimination and lack of opportunity.The 17-year-old whose death Tuesday spawned the anger, identified by his first name Nahel, was laid to rest Saturday in a Muslim ceremony in his hometown of Nanterre, a Paris suburb where emotion over his loss remains raw.As night fell over the French capital, a small crowd gathered on the Champs-Elysees for a protest over Nahel’s death and police violence but met hundred...

Here are the new California laws taking effect July 1

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:00:32 GMT

It’s the middle of the year, but several new laws or their provisions take effect in California on July 1.Most new state laws go into effect on January 1, but the Legislature sometimes designates some laws or certain provisions of these to go into effect in the middle of the year, or even immediately upon the signature of the governor. Here’s a collection of the laws and provisions that take effect on Saturday, including laws regarding teacher retirement plans, online sellers and new requirements for bounty hunters. Stricter measures against sales of firearm-related productsAB 1594, authored by Assemblymember Phil Ting (D-San Francisco), requires firearm manufacturers and their distributors to closely monitor the sale of firearm-related products and prohibits unfair and unlawful marketing and advertising of these products. The measure also allows state and local governments and residents to file a civil lawsuit against firearm manufacturers who do not follow this new law. The l...

El número de personas de 40 años que nunca se han casado en EE.UU. alcanza una cifra récord, según estudio

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:00:32 GMT

(CNN) — Si ha llegado a los 40 años sin casarse, no está solo, según un informe reciente del Pew Research Center.Un análisis de los datos de la Oficina del Censo de EE.UU. de 2021 reveló que una cuarta parte de los estadounidenses de 40 años no se ha casado nunca, según anunció el centro de investigación el miércoles.Según el estudio, se trata de un “aumento significativo” respecto al 20% de personas de 40 años que no se habían casado en 2010.El informe Pew reveló que los hombres de 40 años tenían más probabilidades de no haberse casado que las mujeres, y que los negros de 40 años tenían “muchas más probabilidades” de no haberse casado nunca que sus compañeros de otras razas.También se observó que las personas de esa edad con al menos una licenciatura tenían menos probabilidades de no haber pasado nunca por el altar que los cuarentones que habían alcanzado menos hitos educativos.Según Pew, “un tercio de las personas con un título de enseñanza secu...

Diamond Miller’s 25 points, 5 steals help Lynx beat Mercury 86-76 for third consecutive win

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:00:32 GMT

PHOENIX (AP) — Diamond Miller battled foul trouble but finished with 25 points and five steals — both career highs — and Napheesa Collier added 16 points and nine rebounds to help Minnesota beat the Phoenix Mercury 86-76 Saturday night for the Lynx’s third win in a row. Rachel Banham scored a season-high 13 points in just 15 minutes for Minnesota. Six different Lynx players scored in a 13-2 run that gave the Lynx a 76-63 lead with five minutes to play and Phoenix trailed by at least eight points the rest of the way. Brittney Griner led Phoenix with 23 points, 15 in the first half, and Moriah Jefferson scored 14 with a season-high seven assists. Michaela Onyenwere, who fouled out early in the fourth quarter, and Sug Sutton added 10 points apiece and Brianna Turner grabbed a season-high 13 rebounds. Minnesota (7-9) — which started the season with six consecutive losses — was coming off back-to-back wins over the Seattle Storm, the latter of which came when Collier made a short f...

Zelensky asegura que 21.000 mercenarios de Wagner han muerto en Ucrania

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:00:32 GMT

(CNN) — Al menos 21.000 mercenarios de Wagner han muerto combatiendo en Ucrania, según el presidente Volodymyr Zelensky.El dirigente ucraniano afirmó que la empresa militar privada había sufrido “enormes pérdidas”, sobre todo en el este de Ucrania, donde combatía su “grupo más poderoso”.“Nuestras tropas mataron a 21.000 wagneritas sólo en el este de Ucrania”, declaró Zelensky a la prensa en Kyiv este sábado, añadiendo que otros 80.000 combatientes de Wagner habían resultado heridos.“Estas fueron enormes pérdidas para la PMC de Wagner”, dijo Zelensky, quien caracterizó a sus combatientes como un “personal motivado del ejército ruso” y en su mayoría convictos que “no tenían nada que perder.”CNN no pudo verificar de forma independiente la afirmación de Zelensky, realizada durante una rueda de prensa con medios españoles coincidiendo con una visita a Kyiv del presidente del Gobierno de España, Pedro Sánchez.El...

Baltimore police confirm officers are at mass shooting scene, report says there are multiple deaths

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:00:32 GMT

BALTIMORE (AP) — Emergency personnel and the acting police commissioner were at the scene of a mass shooting in Baltimore early Sunday morning, police said.The Baltimore Police Department confirmed there has been a mass shooting in the 800 block of Gretna Avenue. The number of victims was not immediately provided.Acting Commissioner Richard Worley was at the scene of the shooting, police said.There were multiple fatalities and dozens of people injured in the Brooklyn Homes area of South Baltimore and a large police and emergency medical response in the area, WBFF-TV reported.Witnesses told the station that hundreds of people were gathered for an event called “Brooklyn Day.”A press conference with additional details was planned for later in the morning at the intersection of 6th Street and Audrey Avenue, police said.The Associated Press

France is burning, yet Macron tries to set the Caucasus on fire for Russia’s sake?

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:00:32 GMT

France is rocked by a wave of protests and its President Emmanuel Macron blames “video games” for the violent outbreaks. Without even trying to deal with the riots, he is playing his own game, deliberately striving to set on fire not just his own capital but the region which is a source of energy resources for the entire European Union. The South Caucasus is a very tight arena, where the interests of several superpowers collide. A separatist enclave on occupied Azerbaijani territory of Karabakh, controlled by the Russian military and populated by Armenians, is in the centre of the regional confrontation, which is fizzling out. The EU and the US are very interested in that because Azerbaijan is a strategic alternative source of energy resources. Both the US and the EU are brokering a peace deal, because, as the Israeli Begin-Sadat Center underlines, the enclave is a “kill switch” for the gas and oil supplies to the West.However, Emmanuel Macron is obviously against a peaceful resolut...