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Cubs-Brewers NLDS decider series is all about the first inning

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Working as a starting pitcher in the NL Division Series between the Chicago Cubs and Milwaukee Brewers has been one tough job. Twenty-one of the 35 runs in the series have been scored in the first inning. The series concludes on Saturday night with a winner-take-all Game 5 to determine which of these NL Central rivals will face the Los Angeles Dodgers in the NL Championship Series. “I think it’s way more common than you think, for pitchers to be vulnerable in the first inning,” Brewers manager Pat Murphy said Friday. “Everybody’s geeked up. The atmosphere ...

Steelers aren’t getting ahead of themselves for Browns visit

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Aaron Rodgers is no stranger to rivalries. The four-time MVP spent nearly two decades in Green Bay, where he led the Packers past the Chicago Bears so often he once famously — or notoriously, depending on your perspective — proclaimed part ownership of one of the league’s original franchises. So yeah, Rodgers kind of knows what he’s getting into when the longstanding feud between Pittsburgh and Cleveland renews on Sunday as the Steelers (3-1) host the Browns (1-4) with a chance to take firm control of the AFC North. As it was when the Packers and Bears ...

Trump’s quest for the Nobel Peace Prize falls short again

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump was passed over for the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday despite jockeying from his fellow Republicans, various world leaders and — most vocally — himself. Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado was awarded the prize, after she was nominated last year by a group that included then-Sen. Marco Rubio, who is now Trump’s secretary of state. The Norwegian Nobel Committee said it was honoring Machado “for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful ...

New York’s attorney general has battled Trump, big tech and the NRA

NEW YORK (AP) — It was January 2004 and Donald Trump and Letitia James, a fellow New Yorker who would become his nemesis, were embarking on new ventures that would launch their political careers. Trump’s show “The Apprentice,” which introduced him to a new generation of Americans, premiered on NBC. James was sworn in as a newly elected member of the New York City Council, representing Brooklyn. James became New York’s attorney general in 2019 and began a legal feud with Trump that has persisted. She’s battled big tech, opioid manufacturers and the National Rifle ...

President Donald Trump is in ‘exceptional health,’ his doctor says, after visit to Walter Reed

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is in “exceptional health,” his physician said Friday after he underwent a checkup that included lab tests and preventive health assessments at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. Trump spent roughly three hours at the Bethesda, Maryland, hospital earlier Friday for what his doctor, Navy Capt. Sean Barbabella, called a “scheduled follow-up evaluation” that was a “part of his ongoing health maintenance plan.” While there, Trump also got his yearly flu shot, as well as a COVID-19 booster vaccine. “President Donald J. ...

Firings of federal workers begin as White House seeks to pressure Democrats in government shutdown

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House budget office said Friday that mass firings of federal workers have started, an attempt by President Donald Trump’s administration to exert more pressure on Democratic lawmakers as the government shutdown dragged into a 10th day. Russ Vought, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, said on the social media site X that the “RIFs have begun,” referring to reduction-in-force plans aimed at reducing the size of the federal government. In a court filing, the budget office said well over 4,000 employees would be fired, though it noted ...