Los Angeles will attempt to end its seven-game road slide when the Sparks visit Washington. Sunday's meeting will be the second of the season between the two teams. Washington is 9-4 at home, and Los Angeles is 2-10 on the road. The post Los Angeles faces Washington, looks to end road skid first appeared on myMotherLode.com (V) .

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DETROIT (AP) — Yandy Díaz homered and scored three runs as the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Detroit Tigers 10-6 on Sunday, taking two of three in the weekend series. Díaz and Wander Franco each had three hits and drove in two runs. Colin Poche (9-3) got the win with 1 2/3 scoreless innings of relief. Tigers starter Matt Manning (3-4) allowed eight runs in 5 2/3 innings, giving him 19 runs in his last three starts. The Rays scored three times in the first and twice in the second to take early control.

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MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippine military on Sunday condemned a Chinese coast guard ship's 'excessive and offensive' use of a water cannon to block a Filipino supply boat from delivering new troops, food, water and fuel to a Philippine-occupied shoal in the disputed South China Sea. The tense confrontation on Saturday at the Second Thomas Shoal was the latest flare-up in the long-seething territorial conflicts involving China, the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Taiwan and Brunei. The disputes in the South China Sea, one of the world's busiest sea lanes, have long been regarded as an Asian flashpoint and a delicate fault line in the rivalry between the United States and China in the region.

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TOKYO (AP) — Hiroshima officials criticized growing support for nuclear weapons as a detterent resulting from uneasiness over Russia's war in Ukraine and tensions in the Koreas, commenting Sunday as the city remembered the atomic bombing of 78 years ago. The observance came two months after Hiroshima hosted a summit of the Group of 7 major industrial nations, at which G7 leaders visited the city's peace park and a museum dedicated to those who died in the word's first atomic attack. The leaders issued a joint statement calling for the continued non-use of nuclear weapons, but they also justified having such arms to 'serve defensive purposes, deter aggression and prevent war and coercion.

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By AP News Published Aug 6, 2023 04:22 am MULTAN, Pakistan (AP) — At least 15 passengers were killed and 50 more injured when a train derailed near the Pakistani town of Nawabshah in southern Sindh province, officials said Sunday. The Hazara Express was on its way from Karachi to Rawalpindi when 10 cars derailed near the Sarhari railway station off Nawabshah, said senior railway officer Mahmoodur Rehman Lakho. Lakho is in charge of railways in the accident area. Lakho said rescue crews took injured passengers to the nearby Peoples Hospital in Nawabshah.

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By AP News Published Aug 6, 2023 09:00 am PITTSBURGH (AP) — The Pittsburgh Penguins have acquired Erik Karlsson in a blockbuster trade with the San Jose Sharks that also includes the Montreal Canadiens. Pittsburgh traded a 2024 first-round pick, forward Mikael Granlund and defenseman Jan Rutta to San Jose and goaltender Casey DeSmith, defenseman Jeff Petry, a 2025 second-round pick and prospect Nathan Legare to Montreal as part of the deal for the three-time Norris Trophy winner.

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The chief financial officer of Daimler Truck has died in a 'tragic incident,' the company said Sunday. Jochen Goetz, 52, died Saturday, according to a company statement that didn't specify what happened to him. Goetz spent more than three decades working at the Daimler Group, the Stuttgart, Germany-based automotive giant best known as the maker of Mercedes-Benz luxury cars. He played a decisive role in Daimler Truck's 2021 spinoff from Daimler AG, now renamed Mercedes-Benz Group AG. The post Daimler Truck finance chief dies in 'tragic incident,' company says first appeared on myMotherLode.

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Nneka Ogwumike had 20 points, 10 rebounds and five assists, Azurá Stevens made 7 of 11 from the field and finished with 17 points and four steals and the Los Angeles Sparks beat the Washington Mystics 91-83 to snap a four-game losing streak. Jordin Canada, who made 9 of 10 from the free-throw line, had 15 points, seven assists and for steals for Los Angeles. Sparks coach Curt Miller became the fifth-fastest in WNBA history to reach 150 career wins. Sykes made 1-of-2 free throws to make it 78-75 with 3 minutes remaining but Samuelson answered with two foul shots and Ogwumike followed with a short jumper that gave the Sparks the lead for good with 2:14 left.

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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia's Foreign Ministry on Monday chided efforts by international officials meeting in Saudi Arabia to find a peaceful settlement for the war in Ukraine, saying the talks don't have 'the slightest added value' because Moscow — unlike Kyiv — wasn't invited. Senior officials from around 40 countries gathered Sunday in Jeddah for a two-day meeting that aims to agree on key principles about how to end the conflict that has raged for more than 17 months. But without Russia's participation and without taking into account Moscow's interests, the meeting was pointless, a Russian Foreign Ministry statement said.

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There is a residential structure fire in the Cedar Ridge area this morning. The post House Fire In Cedar Ridge first appeared on myMotherLode.com (V) .

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By AP News Published Aug 7, 2023 07:20 am MALE, Maldives (AP) — Incumbent President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih and seven other candidates have registered to run in the Maldives' presidential elections next month, the island archipelago's fourth since becoming a multiparty democracy in 2008. Solih is expected to face stiff competition after democracy campaigner and ex-President Mohamed Nasheed split off from the ruling Maldivian Democratic Party. Nasheed's new party, The Democrats, nominated the lawmaker Ilyas Labeeb as its candidate ahead of Monday's deadline to register for the Sept.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Coco Gauff grew a bit weary of hearing fans' various theories about what was wrong with her forehand. 'I know a lot of people think I need to cut my nails to help me hit a forehand better,' she said with a laugh. 'I'm like, ‘Bruh, I did try the short nails, and it did not make my forehand better.'' Turns out all the 19-year-old from Florida needed to get back to winning — including a trophy at the hard-court DC Open on Sunday that signals her readiness to contend at the U.S.

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Rim Fire Burn Area View Photo Sonora, CA — The Tuolumne County Board of Supervisors has called for a special meeting on Tuesday. The board will hear a presentation from staff about the current challenges for local residents in getting fire insurance, and some potential strategies moving forward. Immediately after, the board will vote on a resolution to recognize the 10-year anniversary of the Rim Fire. The 257,314- acre fire ignited on August 17, 2013. The board will hear about reforestation and recovery efforts, and celebrate the sacrifices and dedication of the first responders and community leaders who helped during the fire.

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By AP News Published Aug 7, 2023 11:40 am JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Raging waters that ate away at riverbanks, destroyed at least two buildings and undermined others continued to recede Monday in Alaska's capital city after a glacial dam outburst over the weekend, authorities said. Levels along the Mendenhall River had begun falling by Sunday but the city said the banks of the river remained unstable. Onlookers gathered on a bridge over the river and along the banks of the swollen Mendenhall Lake to take photos and videos Sunday.

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A Moscow court sentenced Russian writer Dmitry Glukhovsky on Monday to eight years in prison, finding him guilty of deliberately spreading false information about Russia's armed forces. Glukhovsky, who is not in Russia and who was tried in absentia, is best known for writing a science fiction series and is the latest artist to be handed a prison term in a relentless crackdown on dissent in Russia. On Friday, imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was convicted on charges of extremism and sentenced to 19 years in prison.

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LAYTON, Fla. (AP) — Steps away from the warming waters of Florida Bay, marine biologist Emily Becker removed covers from the dozens of water-filled tanks under her watchful eye. Nestled in seawater carefully maintained at about 85 degrees Fahrenheit (29 degrees Celsius) lay hundreds of pieces of coral — some a sickly white from the bleaching that threatens to kill them, others recovered to a healthy bright iodine in color. As Becker looked over the coral, crews of reef rescue groups arrived in trucks carrying more — brought up by divers in a massive effort aimed at saving the coral from an ocean that is cooking it alive.

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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A Republican primary challenger spent months telling people that first-term Mississippi Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann is insufficiently conservative and labeling him 'Delbert the Democrat.' That tactic fell short in Tuesday's GOP primary as Hosemann defeated the challenger, state Sen. Chris McDaniel, in a contentious race that exposed rifts among conservative voters and Republicans in the Mississippi Senate. During this year's campaign, Hosemann called McDaniel a 'pathological liar.

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By AP News Published Aug 9, 2023 12:02 pm ST. LOUIS (AP) — Someone fired several shots into a house and wounded a 9-year-old child Wednesday, the third shooting involving a child this week in the St. Louis area, police said. The shooting happened around 9:40 a.m. Wednesday in north St. Louis County. County police said the child was hospitalized with what they described as non-life-threatening injuries. On Monday, 7-year-old Darnell Macon died while playing with a loaded gun in a pickup truck in the St.

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A Finnish man places 26.5 pounds of dynamite in a friend's vehicles and claims it was a joke COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A Finnish man reportedly stored 12 kilograms (26.5 pounds) of dynamite in two cars belonging to a friend, saying it 'was a joke', Finland broadcaster YLE said Wednesday. The owner of the two cars didn't see it as funny and informed the police who briefly detained the potential prankster. He was eventually freed but remains a suspect. He admitted to placing the explosives on Aug.

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NEW YORK (AP) — With thousands of migrants still arriving in New York City, Mayor Eric Adams on Wednesday renewed his appeal to the federal government to help the city avert a budgetary crisis as expenses mount — now projected at $12.2 billion by the end of next year — because of the influx of people coming from the southern U.S. border seeking temporary care and shelter. 'Our compassion may be limitless, but our resources are not. This is the budgetary reality we are facing if we don't get the additional support we need,' Adams said during an address that sought to put the onus on the Biden administration to help relieve his city from the growing financial burden.

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CAIRO (AP) — At least 27 suspected migrants from sub-Saharan Africa have died in recent days in the country's western desert near the border with Tunisia, Libyan authorities said. In a statement posted on Facebook, Libya's Interior Ministry said late Tuesday the bodies were discovered recently near the border and that a forensic team had been deployed to the area. In the same post, the ministry published pictures of African migrants receiving treatment from Libyan medical teams. Mohamed Hamouda, a spokesperson for the Libyan government, on Wednesday confirmed the discovery of the bodies to The Associated Press, but declined to provide any further details.

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A top Pakistani court says it wanted to hear from the government before deciding over former Prime Minister Imran Khan's appeal against his imprisonment on corruption charges and refused to release him. The Islamabad High Court on Wednesday said it would hear from the Election Commission of Pakistan's lawyers before deciding on Khan's appeal. It gave Khan no immediate relief as he remains behind bars. The commission last year disqualified Khan from holding public office for five years accusing him of unlawfully selling state gifts and concealing assets as premier.

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BEIRUT (AP) — Syria's President Bashar Assad slammed Turkey in comments published Wednesday, blaming Ankara for the uptick in violence in his war-torn country and insisting on the withdrawal of Turkish forces from Syria. Assad spoke in an interview with Sky News Arabia, his first interview with a foreign media outlet in months. The interview is to be fully aired later on Wednesday but Sky News Arabia released some excerpts ahead of the broadcast. Turkey is a main backer of armed opposition fighters who have been trying to remove Assad from power and has carried out three major incursions into northern Syria since 2016.

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Former New York Police Commissioner Bernie Kerik has met with investigators from special counsel Jack Smith's team, a signal after last week's indictment of former President Donald Trump that the probe into allegations he worked to overturn the results of the 2020 election is ongoing. Kerik attorney Timothy Parlatore told The Associated Press that his client sat down on Monday with officials from the government for about five hours for a discussion centered around the efforts of Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani to overturn Trump's loss.

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Here we go again: COVID-19 hospital admissions have inched upward in the United States since early July in a small-scale echo of the three previous summers. With an updated vaccine still months away, this summer bump in new hospitalizations might be concerning, but the number of patients is far lower than before. A look at what we know: HOW BAD IS THE SPIKE? For the week ending July 29, COVID-19 hospital admissions were at 9,056. That's an increase of about 12% from the previous week. But it's a far cry from past peaks, like the 44,000 weekly hospital admissions in early January, the nearly 45,000 in late July 2022, or the 150,000 admissions during the omicron surge of January 2022.

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Two-time LeMans winner Mike Rockenfeller has been chosen to replace suspended driver Noah Gragson in the next two NASCAR Cup Series races. Legacy Motor Club announced Tuesday that Rockenfeller will be in the No. 42 Chevrolet this week at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course and in the following race at Watkins Glen.  The team said Gragson has not been released. Gragson was suspended indefinitely by NASCAR on Saturday after liking an insensitive meme with a photo of George Floyd's face. Gragson posted on social media that he was disappointed in himself.

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China's Foreign Ministry has confirmed that President Xi Jinping will attend next week's summit of the BRICS nations in Johannesburg, to be followed by a state visit to South Africa. A Foreign Ministry spokesperson also said that during the visit, Xi will co-chair the China-Africa Leaders' Dialogue with his South African counterpart, Cyril Ramaphosa. China is a core member of the BRICS nations, which also include Brazil, Russia and India. The grouping was founded to link the interests of the world's leading emerging economies but has sought to expand into other civil and governmental fields.

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Prosecutors say Austria's former Chancellor Sebastian Kurz has been charged with making false statements to a parliamentary inquiry into a scandal that brought down his first government. An indictment against Kurz, his former chief of staff, Bernhard Bonelli, and another unidentified person was filed at the state court in Vienna, the prosecutors' office that investigates corruption cases said in a statement. The court said Kurz will go on trial on Oct. 18. The charges result from an investigation that was launched in 2021, when Kurz was still chancellor, and centers on his testimony to a parliamentary probe that focused on alleged corruption in his first government, a coalition with the far-right Freedom Party which collapsed in 2019.

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NEW YORK (AP) — The Federal Emergency Management Agency says it has approved $3.8 million in assistance to roughly 1.640 households in Maui so far as the federal government tries to help survivors of the devastating wildfires. The White House and FEMA approved a one-time payment of $700 per household for needs like clothing, food, or transportation. The agency will also pay to put survivors up in hotels and motels and says it has paid out $1.6 million in rental assistance as of Friday. The amounts are expected to grow significantly.

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By AP News Published Aug 18, 2023 06:22 pm DENVER (AP) — A United Airlines pilot has been charged with criminal mischief for allegedly using an ax to destroy a barrier gate at an employee parking lot at Denver's airport, telling authorities he was trying to help several drivers exit and 'he just hit his breaking point.' Kenneth Henderson Jones, 63, is accused of repeatedly striking the metal parking arm with a long-handled ax Aug. 2, knocking it off of its base and then fleeing on foot when a lot attendant confronted him.

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