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3rd-string goalie Michael Hutchinson helps Avalanche force Game 7 vs. StarsVideo
EDMONTON, Alberta — Rookie defenseman Cale Makar scored the go-ahead goal in the second period, third-string goaltender Michael Hutchinson stopped 27 shots and the Colorado Avalanche beat the Dallas Stars, 4-1, on Wednesday night to force a decisive Game 7 in their second-round playoff series. Nikita Zadorov and Mikko Rantanen...
The Rock, his family tested positive for the coronavirus
LOS ANGELES — Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson shared some unfortunate news on his home front: He and his family tested positive for the coronavirus. Johnson announced their diagnosis in an 11-plus minute video on Instagram on Wednesday. He said he was shocked after hearing their positive tests, calling the ordeal...
Tom Seaver, heart and mighty arm of Miracle Mets, dies at 75Video
NEW YORK — Tom Seaver, the galvanizing leader of the Miracle Mets 1969 championship team and a pitcher who personified the rise of expansion teams during an era of radical change for baseball, has died. He was 75. The Hall of Fame said Wednesday night that Seaver died Monday from...
Top-seeded Karolina Pliskova in no mood to talk after U.S. Open lossVideo
NEW YORK — Under normal circumstances, Karolina Pliskova would not have been seeded No. 1 at the U.S. Open and so, while a second-round loss certainly would have been disappointing to her, and noticed by others, it wouldn’t have been as newsworthy. But what’s normal in 2020? With the women...
House OKs changes to mail-in voting law; Wolf threatens veto
HARRISBURG — In the shadow of an increasingly strident presidential campaign, Pennsylvania’s House of Representatives approved changes to the state’s fledgling mail-in voting law Wednesday, but in highly partisan fashion. The Republican-penned bill passed, 112-90, on a near party-line vote in the battleground state where President Trump’s campaign and the...
Budget deficit to hit record $3.3 trillion because of coronavirus, recession
WASHINGTON — The federal budget deficit is projected to hit a record $3.3 trillion as huge government expenditures to fight the coronavirus and to prop up the economy have added more than $2 trillion to the federal ledger, the Congressional Budget Office said Wednesday. The spike in the deficit means...
Georgia QB Jamie Newman opting out of season to prepare for draftVideo
ATHENS, Ga. — Jamie Newman, the Wake Forest transfer who was projected to start at quarterback for No. 4 Georgia, is opting out of the season to prepare for the 2021 NFL Draft. Newman announced his decision on his Twitter account Wednesday. He said he decided to skip the season...
This college football season will be unlike any otherVideo
A most overused coaching cliche has never been so relevant as college football embarks on a season of covid-19: Take it one day at a time. With so much uncertainty, trying to figure how this will go is impossible. But there will be games, including a few this weekend, though...
PGA Tour embarks on plan toward diversity as wild season nears endVideo
ATLANTA — What started as the “Return to Golf” has yielded to “Crossing the Finish Line.” Twelve weeks after the PGA Tour ended its longest stoppage since World War II because of the COVID-19 pandemic, it marked progress with two slogans that brought equal measures of satisfaction and a sigh...
Video: New York police put hood on Black man killed by asphyxiation
A Black man who had run naked through the streets of a western New York city died of asphyxiation after a group of police officers put a hood over his head, then pressed his face into the pavement for two minutes, according to video and records released Wednesday by the...
Dwayne Haskins named Washington’s Week 1 starting quarterbackVideo
Ron Rivera told his players Dwayne Haskins will be Washington’s starting quarterback for Week 1 against the Philadelphia Eagles, then he reflected on a similar declaration he made almost a decade ago. Rivera was entering his first season as an NFL head coach with the Carolina Panthers, who months after...
Alvin Kamara returns to Saints practice amid contract negotiationsVideo
NEW ORLEANS — Saints running back Alvin Kamara returned to practice Wednesday after declining to take the field in recent days because of his apparent dissatisfaction with progress on a contract extension. “It was good having him back out there,” Saints coach Sean Payton said. “I thought he had a...
Wall Street has biggest gain since July, sets more recordsVideo
The Dow Jones Industrial Average surged more than 450 points Wednesday as the stock market notched its best day in nearly two months. The S&P 500 rose 1.5%, it’s best day since July 6. The benchmark index and the Nasdaq composite each hit new highs, extending Wall Street’s milestone-setting run...
Germany says Soviet-era nerve agent used on Putin opponent NavalnyVideo
BERLIN — Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned with the same type of Soviet-era nerve agent used in a 2018 attack on a former Russian spy, the German government said Wednesday, provoking outrage from Western leaders who demanded Moscow provide an explanation. The findings — which experts say point...
‘Skeptical’: Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst suggests covid numbers are inflated
WASHINGTON — Echoing a discredited conspiracy theory, vulnerable Republican Sen. Joni Ernst is suggesting government statistics on coronavirus infections and deaths have been inflated. Ernst, who is facing an unexpectedly tough reelection fight, made the comment after a man at a campaign stop in Waterloo, Iowa, said he believes the...
From Derby DQ to doping, a chaotic year in horse racingVideo
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Maximum Security crossed the finish line first in the 2019 Kentucky Derby. What happened next set horse racing off on a yearlong odyssey of chaos: from a historic DQ to doping, from lawsuits to a pandemic, and now a Triple Crown turned upside down. Amidst the uncertainty,...
Covid-19 death tied to Sturgis Rally reported in Minnesota
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — A Minnesota man who attended the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in South Dakota last month has died from covid-19, Minnesota health officials reported Wednesday. The death is the first reported from the biker rally that drew hundreds of thousands of people. Infections linked to the event have...
New casino could be built near Penn State’s flagship campus
HARRISBURG — A casino could be built near Penn State University’s flagship campus after Pennsylvania found another taker Wednesday for a mini-casino license, auctioning it for $10 million to a Philadelphia-area private equity investor. Ira Lubert, a Penn State board member and alumnus, beat one other bidder, the Pennsylvania Gaming...
Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes engaged to longtime girlfriend
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — On the night Patrick Mahomes received his Super Bowl ring, the Kansas City Chiefs quarterback gave a ring away. Mahomes and his longtime girlfriend, Brittany Matthews, became engaged Tuesday night. The 24-year-old Mahomes, who won the MVP award by leading the Chiefs past the 49ers at...
Prince Harry and Meghan sign production deal with Netflix
NEW YORK — The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have a new home: Netflix. Six months after detangling their work lives from the British royal family, Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, have signed a multiyear deal to produce nature series, documentaries and children’s programming for the streamer, according to...
Blues trade goalie Allen to Montreal, clear salary cap space
The St. Louis Blues traded goaltender Jake Allen to the Montreal Canadiens on Wednesday in a move that clears valuable salary cap space to try to keep their Stanley Cup-winning captain. St. Louis received a third- and a seventh-round pick in this year’s draft in exchange for Allen and a...
With pros in the stands, Andy Murray saves match point at U.S. Open
NEW YORK — It was the sort of match Andy Murray came back for, the sort of competition and comeback he always lived for, the reason he went through two hip operations and all the hard work that followed. And it was the type of vintage Murray performance — undaunted...
Kim Clijsters loses in 1st Grand Slam in 8 years at U.S. Open
Mounting a comeback at the U.S. Open, Kim Clijsters fell victim to one. The three-time champion powered her way to an early lead but couldn’t hold it, and Russian Ekaterina Alexandrova rallied Tuesday night for a first-round victory, 3-6, 7-5, 6-1. It was Clijsters’ first match at a Grand Slam...
Roger Goodell: ‘The NFL stands with the Black community’
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell reiterated the league’s support for players fighting for racial justice and protesting police violence. Citing a police officer shooting Jacob Blake in the back on Aug. 23 in Kenosha, Wis., Goodell said the incident has “brought forth more feelings of anger, frustration, anguish, fear for many...
Cosmic Legos: Black holes merge into never before seen size
Black holes are getting stranger — even to astronomers. They’ve now detected the signal from a long ago violent collision of two black holes that created a new one of a size that had never been seen before. “It’s the biggest bang since the Big Bang observed by humanity,” said...
