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The Astros tie the World Series against the Phillies, taking a 5-2 win in Game 2
Sunday, October 30, 2022
Just like in Game 1, the Astros rushed to a 5-0 lead. Unlike ace Justin Verlander in the opener, Framber Valdez and Houston held on to beat the Philadelphia Phillies.
The Thorns overcome off-field challenges to win National Women's Soccer League title
Sunday, October 30, 2022
Sophia Smith, the season's Most Valuable Player, scored early, and the Thorns won took their third NWSL title with a 2-0 victory over the Kansas City Current.
Powerball jackpot rises to $1 billion next week, as no one wins again
Sunday, October 30, 2022
On Saturday no one matched all six numbers and won the estimated $825 million grand prize. That means the next drawing Monday night will be for a massive $1 billion.
Cuba says at least 5 dead after boat heading to US crashes
Sunday, October 30, 2022
A boat off northern Cuba traveling toward the United States sank Saturday after a collision with a Cuban coast guard ship, and at least five people died, Cuban officials said Saturday.
Gerald Stern, prize-winning and lyrical poet, dies at 97
Sunday, October 30, 2022
Stern was one of the country's most loved and respected poets who wrote with spirited melancholy and earthly humor about his childhood, Judaism, mortality and the wonders of the contemplative life.
Brazilian voters go to polls to choose between Bolsonaro and Lula in run off
Sunday, October 30, 2022
Brazilians began voting on Sunday in a polarizing presidential runoff election that pits conservative President Jair Bolsonaro against former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
Over 150 dead after Halloween crowd surge in Seoul
Saturday, October 29, 2022
Dozens more were injured, officials said, after a stampede took place in a narrow alley near a major party spot on Saturday night in the South Korean capital.
Russia is suspending a Ukraine grain export deal that has helped keep food prices down
Saturday, October 29, 2022
Russian says it has moved to suspend its implementation of a U.N.-brokered deal which under which the United Nations says more than 9 million tons of grain and other food products have been exported.
2 car bombs leave scores of casualties at an intersection in Somalia's capital
Saturday, October 29, 2022
Somalia's president says at least 100 people were killed in Saturday's two car bombings at a busy junction in the capital, and the toll could rise.
Anne Frank's friend Hannah Pick-Goslar dies at age 93
Saturday, October 29, 2022
The Anne Frank Foundation paid tribute to Pick-Goslar, who is mentioned in Anne's world-famous diary, for helping to keep Anne's memory alive with stories about their youth.
Group can monitor Arizona ballot drop boxes, a U.S. judge has ruled
Saturday, October 29, 2022
Law enforcement has been alarmed by reports of people, including some who were masked and armed, watching 24-hour ballot boxes in Maricopa County and rural Yavapai County as midterm elections near.
DNA evidence has freed a California man imprisoned for more than 38 years
Saturday, October 29, 2022
Maurice Hastings spent nearly four decades behind bars for a 1983 murder and two attempted murders. He was released after long-untested DNA evidence pointed to another person, the L.A. County DA said.
At least 50 are dead and dozens feared missing as storm hits the Philippines
Saturday, October 29, 2022
Flash floods and landslides set off by torrential rains left at least 50 people dead. As many as 60 villagers in a southern province are feared missing and buried in a huge mudslide, officials said.
Quarterback Tom Brady and model Gisele Bundchen announce their divorce after 13 years
Friday, October 28, 2022
Brady and Bundchen posted statements on Instagram Friday, with each saying they had "amicably" reached the decision, months after Brady's decision to unretire. They have two children together.
A Miami building is evacuated near the site of the deadly Surfside condo collapse
Friday, October 28, 2022
Residents of the 14-story building were forced to evacuate Thursday evening after officials determined the structure was unsafe and gave orders to leave.
A non-stop flight from Alaska to Tasmania may be for the birds — and a possible record
Friday, October 28, 2022
A young bar-tailed godwit appears to have set a non-stop distance record for migratory birds by flying at least 8,435 miles from Alaska to the Australian state of Tasmania, a bird expert said Friday.
An unearthed John Steinbeck column probes the strength of U.S. democracy
Friday, October 28, 2022
Decades ago, as communists and suspected communists were being blacklisted and debates spread over the future of American democracy, John Steinbeck wrote about his homeland in Le Figaro.
8 are found dead in a Tulsa suburb house fire and homicide is feared
Friday, October 28, 2022
Eight people were found dead Thursday in a burning Tulsa-area house in what was being investigated as multiple homicides, police said.
Elon Musk takes control of Twitter and immediately ousts top executives
Thursday, October 27, 2022
Elon Musk has taken control of Twitter and ousted the CEO, chief financial officer and the company's general counsel, two people familiar with the deal said.
Facebook's parent is fined nearly $25M for violating a campaign finance disclosure law
Thursday, October 27, 2022
The penalty issued by a Washington state judge was the maximum allowed for more than 800 violations of the state's Fair Campaign Practices Act.