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A baseball field in a racetrack? MLB’s Speedway Classic makes history
A 110-foot Ferris wheel. Race cars painted in MLB team colors. Food trucks. Live music. Pitching tunnels and batting cages. A ...
Appeals court keeps order blocking Trump administration from indiscriminate immigration sweeps
A federal appeals court ruled Friday night to uphold a lower court’s temporary order blocking the Trump administration from ...
SpaceX delivers four astronauts to the International Space Station just 15 hours after launch
SpaceX delivered a fresh crew to the International Space Station on Saturday, making the trip in a quick 15 hours. The four U ...
Ex-Olympic champ Rowdy Gaines calls for changes at USA Swimming as team struggles in Singapore
Rowdy Gaines, a three-time Olympic gold medalist, minces few words when he broadcasts swimming for the American network NBC. And he didn’t hold back in an interview with The ...
From dawn to dusk, a Gaza family focuses on one thing: finding food
Every morning, Abeer and Fadi Sobh wake up in their tent in the Gaza Strip to the same question: How will they find food for themselves and their six young ...
After a reference to Trump’s impeachments is removed from a history museum, complex questions echo
It would seem the most straightforward of notions: A thing takes place, and it goes into the history books or is added to ...
Indonesia’s Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki erupts again, spewing giant ash plumes miles away
Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki, one of Indonesia’s most active volcanoes, erupted for a second straight day, sending a column of ...
Rural US high schools are offering more college-level classes, but college can still be a tough sell
As a student in western New York’s rural Wyoming County, Briar Townes honed an artistic streak that he hopes to make a living ...
A Tunisian musician was detained in LA after living in US for a decade. His doctor wife speaks out
Dr. Wafaa Alrashid noticed fewer of her patients were showing up for their appointments at the Los Angeles area hospital ...
Not just Big Bird: Things to know about the Center for Public Broadcasting and its funding cuts
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which helps pay for PBS, NPR, 1,500 local radio and television stations as well as ...
Tennessee Wingstop worker accused of burning customers with cooking oil
A Tennessee Wingstop employee is accused of throwing hot oil at two customers during an argument and seriously burning one of them. Johnisa Herring, 25, was charged with aggravated assault following ...
Jeannie Seely, soulful country singer behind hits like ‘Don’t Touch Me,’ dies at 85
Jeannie Seely, the soulful country music singer behind such standards like “Don’t Touch Me,” has died. She was 85. Her publicist, Don Murry Grubbs, said she died Friday after ...