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HOUSTON — Aaron Judge doubled and Pete Crow-Armstrong and Brice Turang each had two hits as the United States beat Canada 5-3 on Friday night to reach the World Baseball Classic semifinals.The U.S. squad rebounded after an 8-6 loss to Italy in pool play left them needing help to advance to this round.The Americans move on to face the Dominican Republic in a semifinal on Sunday in Miami. It will be the team’s third straight appearance in the semifinals and the fourth overall.It’s another big win for the U.S. over its neighbors to the north, coming after the U.S. hockey team beat…

Part the First: Nutrition and Medicine.  The current Secretary of Health and Human Services is not wrong in his emphasis on nutrition (a stopped analog clock is right twice a day).  I don’t know where Lauren Rice is attending medical school in New York City, but her editorial take seems about half right in I’m a medical student. RFK Jr. is right about medical school and preventive care: The first patient I met as a medical student was a middle-aged delivery man and a former track athlete. He was recovering from his second amputation due to uncontrolled type 2 diabetes.…

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Voters in the Republic of Congo will choose their next president on Sunday, although longtime leader Dennis Sassou Nguesso is likely to be elected unchallenged, analysts say.The central African nation, which has been led almost continuously by Nguesso for more than 40 years, is one of the most politically repressive in the world, with Freedom House giving it a 17 out of 100 rating for freedom.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listThe country is Africa’s third-largest oil exporter. It sells between 236,000 and 252,000 barrels per day, alongside copper and diamonds.Congo is also highly biodiverse. Sprawling expanses of tropical…

Authorities have caught a convicted murderer who was on probation but cut off his GPS ankle monitor and disappeared while attending classes at an Orange County community college.Jose Angel Aguilar, 22, was found around 11 p.m. Thursday and taken into custody without incident after Anaheim SWAT officers executed a search warrant at a motel room where the youth had been observed, according to the Orange County Probation Department. Aguilar fled Tuesday from Santiago Canyon College while on a court-approved academic furlough from a juvenile probation facility, according to the Orange County Probation Department.A juvenile court granted a furlough for Aguilar…

It’s Oscar weekend, and Netflix has some worthy contenders like Train Dreams and Frankenstein that are worth checking out. If you’ve already streamed those wonderful films, though, Watch With Us has some more high-quality pictures worth enjoying. The topical action drama Hotel Mumbai, the strange Jack Black–led kids movie The House with a Clock in Its Walls and the Oscar-winning biopic Ray were just added to Netflix in March and all deserve a spot on your weekend binge-watch list. ‘Hotel Mumbai’ (2013) On November 26, 2008, a terrorist organization known as the Lashkar-e-Taiba attacked 12 different locations in Mumbai, India.…

Mar 12, 2026; Kansas City, MO, USA; Houston Cougars guard Emanuel Sharp (21) rebounds during the second half against the BYU Cougars at T-Mobile Center. Mandatory Credit: William Purnell-Imagn Images Championship Week rolls on Friday with several semifinal games on the schedule featuring some of the best teams in the country. It’s definitely more fun to make picks for semifinal games with the stakes elevated even higher.Today’s NCAA Basketball Best Bets will feature three conference semifinal contests.Let’s get started by talking about the Big Easy Tournament Semifinal featuring the Georgetown Hoyas and No. 6 Connecticut Huskies before moving on to…

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Ethiopia on Tuesday declared three days of mourning as the death toll from this week’s landslides in the country’s south climbed to 80.Speaker of the House of Peoples’ Representatives Tagesse Chafo said the three days of mourning would begin Saturday.At least 80 bodies have been recovered from the Gamo Zone area in southern Ethiopia where landslides triggered by heavy rains killed dozens of residents.Many other people remained missing since the tragedy struck the Gamo Zone area on Tuesday, officials said. Search and recovery efforts have taken place for days and have been hampered by heavy rain…

Back in 2019, it looked like Oregon lawmakers might finally commit to ending the state’s outlier status on campaign finance. I had just authored an investigative series for The Oregonian/OregonLive, my previous newsroom, revealing how Oregon’s lack of limits on campaign donations had allowed corporate America to give more to lawmakers, per capita, than anywhere else in the country and led to some of the weakest environmental protections on the West Coast. The state Supreme Court had allowed it to happen by saying campaign donations were protected free speech under the Oregon Constitution. Lawmakers in Oregon, one of five states…