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Open up: Rangers’ retractable roof will be open for Game 4 of ALCS against Astros

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 20:00:20 GMT

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — The roof will be open for Game 4 of the AL Championship Series on Thursday night, which will be the first home game for the Texas Rangers in nearly five months without it closed. That retractable roof at Globe Life Field was last opened for a game May 21. The Rangers started 11 games with the roof open during the regular season and were 7-4. That included opening day against the Philadelphia Phillies on March 30, the only time in the stadium’s four seasons that the roof was open before being closed during the middle of a game because of a threat of rain.Temperatures for Game 4 were forecast to be in the upper 70s with clear skies expected at first pitch. Games 1 and 2 of the ALCS were played with the roof closed at Minute Maid Park, the Houston Astros’ retractable-roof stadium. When neutral-site postseason games were played at Globe Life Field during the 2020 season impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, the roof was open for 13 of 16 of those games. ...

Gaza awaits aid from Egypt as Israel readies troops for ground assault

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 20:00:20 GMT

KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel pounded the Gaza Strip with airstrikes Thursday, including in the south where Palestinians were told to take refuge, and the country’s defense minister told ground troops to “be ready” to invade, though he didn’t say when.Gaza’s overwhelmed hospitals tried to stretch out ebbing medical supplies and fuel for generators, as authorities worked out logistics for a delivery of aid from Egypt. Doctors in darkened wards across Gaza stitched wounds by the light of mobile phones, and others used vinegar to treat infected wounds.Meanwhile an unclassified U.S. intelligence assessment delivered to Congress estimated casualties in an explosion at a Gaza City hospital on the “low end” of 100 to 300 deaths.The death toll “still reflects a staggering loss of life,” U.S. intelligence officials said in the findings, which were seen by The Associated Press.Officials in Hamas-ruled Gaza quickly said an Israeli airstrike had hit al-Ahli hospital hospital...

Gardner Minshew takes over as Colts QB while Browns face more uncertainty with Deshaun Watson

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 20:00:20 GMT

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Indianapolis Colts and Cleveland Browns used the same strategy this week.Both continued collecting information about throwing shoulder injuries to their starting quarterbacks. Both went to backups in practice. And both debated the long-term health consequences of bringing back the respective faces of their franchises.Then they went different directions.While Indy opted to let rookie Anthony Richardson undergo season-ending surgery and handed the reins to Gardner Minshew, the Browns are still contemplating whether to start Deshaun Watson or PJ Walker on Sunday after Watson’s return to practice this week.“We’ll continue to be careful and safe and make sure that when he (Watson) is ready to do his job and he has all of his ability in terms of being able to throw the football when he’s ready for that, we’ll have him back out there at practice,” Cleveland coach Kevin Stefanski said Wednesday.Watson returned Thursday, his first workout since Sept. 28. But jus...

Bills hope to sharpen their offense, add to recent success over floundering Patriots

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 20:00:20 GMT

FORXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — There was a time in the not too distant past when the Buffalo Bills traveled to New England looking to prove they could give the Patriots a fight at the top of the division.This season, New England is enduring its worst start in more than two decades and is just hoping to put up any kind of fight against the Bills.At 1-5 for the first time during his Patriots tenure, coach Bill Belichick said the message to his team remains straightforward even as calls for wholesale changes echo around New England.“Get ready to play Buffalo,” he said.While the Bills haven’t performed the way they’re accustomed to on offense over the past two games, they enter Sunday’s matchup at 4-2 and are just three weeks removed from handing AFC East-leading Miami a 28-point loss in Week 4.Including the playoffs, Buffalo has also won the last four meetings and six out of seven against the Patriots. It makes the Bills’ 15-game losing streak to New England from 2003 to 2010 feel lik...

Canada removes 41 diplomats from India after New Delhi threatens to revoke their immunity

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 20:00:20 GMT

TORONTO (AP) — Canada’s foreign minister said Thursday that the country has recalled 41 of its diplomats from India after the Indian government said it would revoke their diplomatic immunity, escalating a spat over the slaying of a Sikh separatist in Canada.The moves come after Canada’s allegations that India may have been involved in the June killing of Canadian citizen Hardeep Singh Nijjar in suburban Vancouver. India has accused Canada of harboring separatists and “terrorists,” but dismissed the allegation of its involvement in the killing as “absurd” and has taken diplomatic steps to express its anger over the accusation.Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly said Thursday that 41 of Canada’s 62 diplomats in India have been removed, along with their dependents. Joly said exceptions have been made for 21 Canadian diplomats who will remain in India.“Forty one Canadian diplomats and their 42 dependents were in danger of having their immunity stripped on an arbitrary ...

Newly appointed California Sen. Laphonza Butler says she will not seek election to a full term in 2024

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 20:00:20 GMT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Newly appointed California Sen. Laphonza Butler says she will not seek election to a full term in 2024.Source

No. 16 Duke and No. 4 Florida State meet with clearer path to ACC title game at stake

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 20:00:20 GMT

No. 4 Florida State hopes to start the second half of its season just like it did the first: by beating a ranked team.Seven weeks after upsetting then-fifth-ranked LSU in the opener, the Seminoles face their second Top 25 opponent of the season when 16th-ranked Duke visits Doak Campbell Stadium on Saturday night for an Atlantic Coast Conference showdown between two of the three remaining unbeatens in league play.“At the end of this, someone’s going to have a clearer path to (the ACC title game in) Charlotte than the other one,” Duke coach Mike Elko said. “That’s something that’s critical and that’s not lost on anybody in our locker room. It is an in-league, big stage, big opportunity for our guys to go kind of rise up to and take advantage of.”The Blue Devils (5-1, 2-0 ACC) upset Clemson in their opener and nearly knocked off Notre Dame three weeks ago. They’re coming off a 24-3 drubbing of North Carolina State and could get quarterback Riley Leonard back from a sprained right ankle...

Triumph Financial: Q3 Earnings Snapshot

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 20:00:20 GMT

DALLAS (AP) — DALLAS (AP) — Triumph Financial, Inc. (TFIN) on Thursday reported third-quarter net income of $12.8 million.On a per-share basis, the Dallas-based company said it had profit of 51 cents.The results beat Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of four analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of 37 cents per share.The financial holding company posted revenue of $120.9 million in the period. Its adjusted revenue was $104.7 million, falling short of Street forecasts. Three analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $107.6 million._____This story was generated by Automated Insights (http://automatedinsights.com/ap) using data from Zacks Investment Research. Access a Zacks stock report on TFIN at https://www.zacks.com/ap/TFINSource

I-25 reopens in both directions after train derailment near Pueblo

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 20:00:20 GMT

PUEBLO, Colo. (KDVR) -- Both directions of Interstate 25 near Pueblo were reopened on Thursday afternoon after a train derailment shut down a stretch of the highway for days. The southbound lanes of I-25 affected by the Sunday deadly train derailment north of Pueblo reopened Wednesday afternoon, hours after Gov. Jared Polis visited the site.The northbound lanes were expected to reopen Thursday afternoon, according to Polis. The area was being repaved in advance of reopening. According to the Colorado Department of Transportation, there may be a need to reopen only one lane northbound prior to reopening the whole roadway. Download the FOX31 App: Breaking news alerts & Pinpoint Weather Polis was in Pueblo on Wednesday to view the deadly train derailment site, which killed a 60-year-old Californian truck driver when his semi-trailer was crushed under the bridge.Federal investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board released preliminary findings on Tuesday, showing th...

Massport issues apology after disabled veteran kicked off shuttle bus with his wife

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 20:00:20 GMT

Massport issued an apology Thursday after a disabled elderly veteran said he and his wife were kicked off a shuttle bus to Logan Airport. Vietnam Veteran Ken Twombly and his wife had been on their way back to North Carolina Tuesday after traveling to Massachusetts for Twombly’s sister’s memorial service. When they boarded the Logan Express bus in Braintree shortly after 12 p.m. though, the couple said their driver didn’t check their tickets until they had traveled about one mile. When the driver did check tickets, the couple had technical issues accessing their pre-paid tickets on their phone and offered to pay for the $9 tickets again. Instead, they were kicked off the bus and stranded on the side of the road with their four bags.“He’s yelling at us as if we were criminals,” Twombly said. “‘You didn’t pay for your ticket. Get off my bus.’”“He pulled the bags out of the bottom of the bus and he threw them on the ground and took off,” Twombly continued.Twombly said he ...