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Giants place Patrick Bailey on injured list. Logan Porter sees first MLB action since 2023

DENVER (AP) — Logan Porter battled traffic and airport security to get to Denver, and the San Francisco Giants catcher played in his first big league game since 2023. San Francisco Giants pl...

Mets lefty David Peterson pitches his first 9-inning complete game since college in 2017

NEW YORK (AP) — David Peterson had just walked back to the dugout after eight innings and 97 pitches when New York Mets manager Carlos Mendoza approached him. “Kind of pulled me aside and sa...

Trump booed and cheered at the Kennedy Center while attending 'Les Misérables'

WASHINGTON (AP) — The drama in the audience rivaled the spectacle on stage on Wednesday at the Kennedy Center, where President Donald Trump went to the opening night of “Les Misérables” as h...

Austria falls silent for a minute as questions remain about the motive for a deadly school shooting

GRAZ, Austria (AP) — Austria fell silent for a minute on Wednesday and people laid candles in the city of Graz in memory of the 10 people killed in a school shooting that shocked the country...

Russian attacks kill 3 and wound 64 as drones hit Kharkiv and other parts of Ukraine

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces launched a new drone assault across Ukraine overnight on Wednesday, killing three people and wounding 64 others, Ukrainian officials said. One of the har...

Los Angeles-area mayors demand that Trump administration stop stepped-up immigration raids

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Dozens of mayors from across the Los Angeles region banded together Wednesday to demand that the Trump administration stop the stepped-up immigration raids that have sprea...

Google offers buyouts to more workers amid AI-driven tech upheaval and antitrust uncertainty

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) — Google has offered buyouts to another swath of its workforce across several key divisions in a fresh round of cost cutting coming ahead of a court decision that ...

Brian Wilson, Beach Boys visionary leader and summer's poet laureate, dies at 82

Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys’ visionary and fragile leader whose genius for melody, arrangements and wide-eyed self-expression inspired “Good Vibrations,” “California Girls” and other su...

At least 49 people have died in flooding in South Africa with toll expected to rise, officials say

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — At least 49 people were confirmed dead Wednesday as floods devastated one of South Africa’s poorest provinces, and officials said the toll was expected to rise as more bo...

US reduces the presence of staffers not deemed essential in the Middle East as tensions rise

WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States is drawing down the presence of staffers who are not deemed essential to operations in the Middle East and their loved ones due to the potential for regio...

Kicker Daniel Carlson and punter AJ Cole put best feet forward for Raiders

HENDERSON, Nev. (AP) — Neither took the easy path to get here. But because Daniel Carlson and AJ Cole persevered, the Las Vegas Raiders have perhaps the best kicker-punter duo in the NFL. L...

David Greenwood, former UCLA star and NBA champion, dies at 68 after cancer battle

LOS ANGELES (AP) — David Greenwood, who was one of coach John Wooden’s last recruits at UCLA and went on to win an NBA championship with Detroit during a 12-year pro career, has died. He was...