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Mets apologize to 2 members of 1969 team for ceremony error

NEW YORK — In the latest embarrassment for the New York Mets, the team has publicly apologized to two living members of its 1969 World Series championship team who were included in a video montage of dead players during the 50th anniversary celebration. With a message that filled up one...
Lawsuit challenges U.S. approvals of Keystone XL pipeline

BILLINGS, Mont. — Environmentalists are asking a federal judge to cancel permits and other approvals issued by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for the Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada. Attorneys for the Northern Plains Resource Council, Sierra Club and other groups filed the latest lawsuit against the long-delayed...
15-year-old Coco Gauff stuns Venus Williams at Wimbledon

WIMBLEDON, England — Coco Gauff grew up admiring the Williams sisters. Picked up a tennis racket as a little girl because of them. And Monday at Wimbledon, the 15-year-old Gauff beat one of them. Gauff, already the youngest competitor to qualify at the All England Club in the professional era,...
Breakup of Blue Jackets highlights Day 1 of free agency

Artemi Panarin is heading to the Big Apple, Matt Duchene to the Music City and goalie Sergei Bobrovsky to South Beach as the expected breakup of the Columbus Blue Jackets’ star core of players became a reality Monday. Add in veterans Corey Perry and Joe Pavelski signing with Dallas, and...
Lawyers say fetal death charges in Alabama ‘unjust,’ motion to dismiss

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Lawyers defending a woman indicted for manslaughter after a gunshot wound to the stomach killed her fetus say the charges are “completely unreasonable and unjust” and should be dismissed. Marshae Jones was arrested last week after a grand jury issued an indictment saying she intentionally caused the...
Body found in London garden fell from Heathrow-bound plane

LONDON — A stowaway fell from the undercarriage of a jet as it approached Heathrow Airport after a 9-hour flight from Nairobi, landing in a south London garden, police and airline officials said Monday. The Metropolitan Police force said the body of an unidentified man was found in a residential...
ESPN takes a gulp of competitive eater Kobayashi in new film

NEW YORK — Twinkies, pizza, hot dogs, even cow brains. If it can be eaten, chances are Takeru Kobayashi holds the world record for eating it. The 41-year-old competitive eater has no problem consuming 62 slices of pizza in 12 minutes, or 337 chicken wings in a half hour. But...
Funeral scheduled for detective who fought for Sept. 11 fund

NEW YORK — A funeral will be held Wednesday for a former New York City police detective who was a leader in the fight for the Sept. 11 Victim Compensation Fund. Detective Luis Alvarez appeared with former “Daily Show” host Jon Stewart last month to plead with Congress to extend...
Delay in 2020 census could gum up finely calibrated planning

ORLANDO, Fla. — President Donald Trump says he has asked about delaying the 2020 census over a citizenship question, but experts say any delay could gum up the U.S. Census Bureau’s finely calibrated timetable. The printing deadline was Monday. For months, the Trump administration argued that the courts needed to...
Why wealth gap has grown despite record-long economic growth

WASHINGTON — As it enters its 11th year, America’s economic expansion is now the longest on record — a streak that has shrunk unemployment, swelled household wealth, revived the housing market and helped fuel an explosive rise in the stock market. Yet even after a full decade of uninterrupted economic...
Former Super Bowl MVP Mark Rypien facing assault charge

SPOKANE, Wash. — Former Super Bowl hero Mark Rypien has been arrested in Washington state on suspicion of domestic violence. The Spokesman-Review cites Spokane police saying Rypien was facing a charge of fourth-degree assault. Rypien, 56, was processed at the Spokane County Jail at around 6:30 p.m. Sunday and was...
Iran says it has broken stockpile limit set by nuclear deal

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran acknowledged Monday it had broken the limit set on its stockpile of low-enriched uranium by the 2015 nuclear deal, marking its first major departure from the unraveling agreement a year after the U.S. unilaterally withdrew from the accord. Iran had been expected for days to acknowledge...
Protesters in Hong Kong break into legislature, paint logos

HONG KONG (AP) — Hundreds of protesters in Hong Kong swarmed into the legislature’s main building Monday night, tearing down portraits of legislative leaders and spray-painting pro-democracy slogans on the walls of the main chamber. The sharp escalation in tactics came on the anniversary of the former British colony’s return...
Rules that control drive time for truckers set to be relaxedVideo

OPAL, Va. — Truck driver Lucson Francois was forced to hit the brakes just five minutes from his home in Pennsylvania. He’d reached the maximum number of hours in a day he’s allowed to be on duty. Francois couldn’t leave the truck unattended. So he parked and climbed into the...
Democrat Pete Buttigieg says he raised $24M in 2nd quarter

WASHINGTON — Democrat Pete Buttigieg said Monday that he took in $24.8 million during the second fundraising quarter, more than triple what the South Bend, Indiana, mayor raised during the first three months of the year for his surprise hit presidential campaign. Buttigieg was the first White House contender to...
Illegal or just immoral? Film explores texting suicide caseVideo

A new documentary asks whether a young woman who sent her suicidal boyfriend countless text messages encouraging him to take his own life should be behind bars as a convicted criminal. HBO’s “I Love You, Now Die: The Commonwealth V. Michelle Carter” digs into the unique case against the now-22-year-old...

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