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Chicago Cubs erase a 5-run deficit to beat the White Sox 10-7 and sweep the City Series

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:12:48 GMT

Reports swirled of possible trade destinations for Chicago White Sox starter Lance Lynn throughout Wednesday afternoon.The right-hander was still with the Sox on Wednesday night, starting against the Cubs.He didn’t make it out of the fifth inning in one of the wildest City Series games in recent years.The Sox had a five-run lead after four innings. It wasn’t enough.The Cubs scored in a variety of ways during a six-run fifth inning, including on a strikeout-wild pitch and two bases-loaded walks, to rally and beat the Sox 10-7 in front of a sellout crowd of 37,214.The Cubs swept the two-game series to move one under the .500 mark (50-51). The Sox are a season-high 21 games under .500 (41-62).“It was loud, fun, and it’s really hot, but it’s in kind of a fun way,” Cubs second baseman Nico Hoerner said. “You just embrace it, one of those games that just feels like a doubleheader and you just keep going and ended up on the right side of it with co...

Elderly man found dead near Rancho Bernardo trail

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:12:48 GMT

SAN DIEGO -- A search and rescue effort for an elderly man on a trail in Rancho Bernardo Wednesday ended as a recovery effort. San Diego Fire officials say the man in his 80s appears to have died from heat-related issues.“It’s sad for us to see anybody perish because of something that was preventable,” said Battalion Chief Michael Howell with the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department.Howell said the temperature was in the 90s and humidity was at about 35% during the search, which is hard for people to acclimate to. Police told FOX 5 the man went out on a routine hike around 10:30 a.m. When he didn’t return after three hours, his wife reported him missing. The man was found around 2:30 p.m. about one mile into his hike, off the trail in some nearby brush. New affordable housing opens in North County “Disoriented and stress would point to, especially someone who does that every day on the same trail, then we have a medical emergency and they’re not where they normally are,” Howell said.C...

Border brush fire contained to Mexico side

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:12:48 GMT

SAN DIEGO -- A brush fire broke out Wednesday near the border and was burning on both the U.S. and Mexico sides, authorities said.Around 4:39 p.m., the blaze, dubbed as the "Border 20 Fire," was on the international border on the south slope of Tecate Peak, according to Cal Fire San Diego County. The fire has since spread 458 acres and is completely within Mexico, per officials. Deadly crash closes freeway lanes near border "This fire is still considered a threat to the United States, but we have significant resources," Cal Fire tweeted.Helicopter aid is on the scene to help put out the fire.

Angry Russia refuses to speak at UN meeting on its attacks on Ukraine’s key port city of Odesa

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:12:48 GMT

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — In an escalation of Russia’s anger at Ukraine and its Western backers, Russia refused to speak at a U.N. Security Council meeting called to discuss Moscow’s recent devastating attacks on the key port of Odesa immediately following its refusal to extend the Black Sea grain deal.The confrontation began at the start of a council session called by Russia on the divided Orthodox Church in Ukraine. Russia’s deputy U.N. ambassador, Dmitry Polyansky ,protested that Britain, which holds the council presidency, was allowing only two briefers and Moscow wanted a third — Archbishop Gideon of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.The Ukrainian government has cracked down on the Ukrainian Orthodox Church over its historic ties to the Russian Orthodox Church, whose leader, Patriarch Kirill, supported Russian President Vladimir Putin over the invasion of Ukraine.Polyansky accused the UK of bias, censorship and obstruction for limiting the number of briefers. Deputy British ambassador ...

US Defense Secretary Austin meets with Papua New Guinea leaders about boosting security ties

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:12:48 GMT

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin met with Papua New Guinea leaders on Thursday to discuss developing the Pacific Island nation’s military strength and deepening security ties, as the United States competes with China for influence in the Indo-Pacific region.Austin is the first U.S. defense secretary to visit the nation of 10 million people that was fiercely fought over during World War II and is gaining strategic importance in the U.S. struggle against Beijing.The retired four-star general met with Papua New Guinean Prime Minister James Marape and discussed implementing the Defense Cooperation Agreement signed by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken in the capital, Port Moresby, in May.Blinken had stepped in for Joe Biden, who was to become the first U.S. president to visit Papua New Guinea but canceled to deal with the then-unresolved debt crisis in Washington, D.C.Austin said the United States was “not seeking permanent basing” on Papua New Guinea b...

Army fire kills a 14-year-old, Palestinians say, as an Israeli minister visits flashpoint mosque

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:12:48 GMT

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli military fire killed a 14-year-old Palestinian in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian health officials said Thursday, as an extremist Israeli Cabinet minister visited a sensitive Jerusalem mosque that has been a frequent flashpoint for violence between Israel and the Palestinians.Itamar Ben-Gvir’s visit to the disputed hilltop compound came as a year-and-a-half long bout of fighting between Israel and the Palestinians showed no signs of abating and was likely to draw condemnation from Palestinians who view such visits as provocative.Early Thursday, the Palestinian Health Ministry said 14-year-old Fares Sharhabil Abu Samra was killed by Israeli fire in the West Bank town of Qalqilya. The Israeli military had no immediate comment.Ben-Gvir was joining what will likely to be hundreds of Jews visiting the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound to mark the Jewish holiday of Tisha B’Av, a day of mourning and repentance when Jews reflect on the destruction of the First...

Sentencing is set for Arizona mother guilty of murder and child abuse in starvation of her son

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:12:48 GMT

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — An Arizona mother who pleaded guilty to murder and child abuse is scheduled to be sentenced Thursday in the death of her 6-year-old son who was kept in a closet and denied food at their Flagstaff apartment.Elizabeth Archibeque faces a maximum penalty of up to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the March 2020 death of Deshaun Martinez when she goes before Coconino County Superior Court Judge Ted Reed.Archibeque was charged along with the boy’s father, Anthony Martinez, and grandmother, Ann Martinez, who have pleaded not guilty and are being tried separately on murder and child abuse charges.An autopsy determined Deshaun Martinez, who weighed just 18 pounds (8.1 kilograms), died of severe starvation. Authorities found him unresponsive after Ann Martinez called 911 on March 2, 2020, and said she thought her grandson was dead. The manner of death later was listed as homicide.The boy’s parents initially attributed their son’s malnourished state t...

Bluffing or not, Putin’s declared deployment of nuclear weapons to Belarus ramps up saber-rattling

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:12:48 GMT

Sometime this summer, if President Vladimir Putin can be believed, Russia moved some of its short-range nuclear weapons into Belarus, closer to Ukraine and onto NATO’s doorstep.The declared deployment of the Russian weapons on the territory of its neighbor and loyal ally marks a new stage in the Kremlin’s nuclear saber-rattling over its invasion of Ukraine and another bid to discourage the West from increasing military support to Kyiv.Neither Putin nor his Belarusian counterpart, Alexander Lukashenko, said how many were moved — only that Soviet-era facilities in the country were readied to accommodate them, and that Belarusian pilots and missile crews were trained to use them.The U.S. and NATO haven’t confirmed the move. NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg denounced Moscow’s rhetoric as “dangerous and reckless,” but said earlier this month the alliance hasn’t seen any change in Russia’s nuclear posture.While some experts doubt the claims by Putin and Lukashenko, others not...

Elon Musk wants to turn tweets into ‘X’s’. But changing language is not quite so simple

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:12:48 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Elon Musk may want to send “tweet” back to the birds, but the ubiquitous term for posting on the site he now calls X is here to stay — at least for now. For one, the word is still plastered all over the site formerly known as Twitter. Write a post, you still need to press a blue button that says “tweet” to publish it. To repost it, you still tap “retweet.” But it’s more than that. With “tweets,” Twitter accomplished in just a few years something few companies have done in a lifetime: It became a verb and implanted itself into the lexicon of America and the world. Upending that takes more than a top-down declaration, even if it is from the owner of Twitter-turned-X, who also happens to be one of the world’s richest men. “Language has always come from the people that use it on a day-to-day basis. And it can’t be controlled, it can’t created, it can’t be morphed. You don’t get to decide it,” said Nick Bilton, the author of “Hatching Twitter: A True Stor...

Taiwan shuts down schools and offices as Typhoon Doksuri scrapes the island’s coast

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:12:48 GMT

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Two of Taiwan’s largest cities have shut down schools and offices Thursday as Typhoon Doksuri brought heavy rains and winds to the island’s eastern and southern coast. Doksuri weakened further on Thursday, with sustained winds of 155 kph (96 mph) and gusts of up to 190 kph (118 mph), according to Taiwan’s Central Weather Bureau. The typhoon’s center will not hit Taiwan’s mainland, but its outlying bands will still bring stronger winds and rains Thursday afternoon.In the south, port city Kaohsiung and the ancient capital Tainan announced that offices and schools will be closed Thursday. Hualien and Taitung counties in the east have also shuttered schools and offices. Kaohsuing also evacuated some 300 residents who lived in a mountainous part of the district, according to the semi-official Central News Agency.The storm temporarily left tens of thousands of households without power in Kaohsiung and Tainan, although most of them have had their pow...