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Oakland A’s fall in Pittsburgh, tie team record with 15th straight road loss

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 01:15:41 GMT

By JOHN PERROTTOAssociated PressPITTSBURGH — Andrew McCutchen’s tiebreaking sacrifice fly in the eighth inning lifted Pittsburgh to a 5-4 victory over Oakland on Monday night, extending the Pirates’ win streak to six games and sending the Athletics to their record-tying 15th consecutive road loss.The 15 straight defeats away from home matches the Athletics’ record since they moved from Kansas City in 1968. Oakland set that mark in 1986.The major league-worst Athletics (12-50) have lost five games in a row overall. They are on pace to finish the season exactly 100 games under .500 at 31-131.“It’s tough,” Athletics manager Mark Kotsay said. “Tonight’s game, we didn’t play well enough to win the game. I don’t want to say we gave the game away but there were a lot of instances where we had a chance to capitalize on opportunities and didn’t do it.”McCutchen also singled and drew three walks to go with two RBIs. The 2013 NL MVP now has 1,998 career hits.With the score tied at 4, Ji Hwan B...

Second flight of migrants arrives in Sacramento

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 01:15:41 GMT

(KTXL) — A second plane carrying migrants arrived in Sacramento Monday morning, just three days after a first flight arrived unexpectedly, according to a spokesperson from the Office of the Attorney General. The second flight carried approximately 20 people and landed at Sacramento Executive Airport shortly before 10:30 a.m.•Video Above: First flight of migrants arrives in SacramentoThe group of people was gathered in a room at the airport and met with officials from the California Department of Justice. The spokesperson with the OAG said the second flight "appears to be the same arrangement" as the first flight from Friday. In that flight, 16 migrants were on a flight that took off from El Paso, Texas and landed in Deming, New Mexico before continuing on to Sacramento.A witness who was at the Executive Airport when the second flight arrived told FOX40 News that the migrants were men and women approximately between the ages of 18 and early 40s. The witness said, "I think they were j...

Rohnert Park launches safe space anti-hate campaign

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 01:15:41 GMT

ROHNERT PARK, Calif. (KRON) – This week, Rohnert Park has launched a safe space anti-hate campaign.Soon you'll start to see decals in windows of businesses and organizations. One was just put up at the Rohnert Park Senior Center.If you see the decal, which sports a rainbow police badge, in a window, it's a safe space for someone who is feeling threatened or experiencing hate. The person inside will know to call police immediately if necessary. Alexis Gabe’s family plans funeral services, ‘Our daughter is coming home’ Businesses, schools, churches and organizations are all encouraged to register for the Department of Public Safety’s new safe space anti-hate campaign."Part of that is… you're open and accepting of everyone,” said Rohnert Park Police Chief Tim Mattos. “It says a lot about the place that has it on the window. It's not only, ‘Hey we are a safe place and we will help you if you come in here. We won't ask questions, we won't judge, we are here to help you.’"Mattos says th...

El piloto del avión privado que se estrelló en Virginia fue visto desmayado, según una fuente

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 01:15:41 GMT

(CNN) — El piloto del avión privado que no reaccionó y que provocó una interceptación por aviones de combate militares supersónicos que protegían Washington, fue observado desplomado en su asiento, dijo a CNN una fuente familiarizada con el hecho.El piloto solitario y tres pasajeros iban a bordo del Cessna Citation que se estrelló en una zona muy boscosa cerca de Waynesboro, Virginia, dijo este lunes la Administración Federal de Aviación. No hubo supervivientes, según las autoridades.Otra fuente dijo a CNN que los investigadores del accidente están más interesados en la hipoxia –una escasez de oxígeno en la sangre– como una razón por la que el piloto y los pasajeros no respondieron a los intentos de los controladores de tráfico aéreo e incluso otros aviones civiles para ponerse en contacto con el avión malogrado.La hipoxia es un riesgo insidioso de volar a gran altitud y podría haberse producido por una descompresión de la cabina presurizada del avión, según los expertos en av...

Key Ukrainian dam blown up, Kyiv blames Russia

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 01:15:41 GMT

Explosions at a major hydroelectric plant in eastern Ukraine have unleashed flooding across the war-torn region, threatening the lives of civilians, officials in Kyiv said early Tuesday.In a statement posted Tuesday morning, Ukraine’s Southern Operational Command said “Russian occupation troops blew up the dam” at Nova Kakhovka, in the Kherson region. “The scale of destruction, speed and amount of water, and likely areas of flooding are being determined.”Blaming “Russian terrorists” for the blasts, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Twitter that “the destruction of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant dam only confirms for the whole world that they must be expelled from every corner of Ukrainian land.” He added that “all services are working,” and said he had convened his National Security and Defense Council.The operator of the plant, state-owned Ukrhydroenergo, confirmed in a statement that “as a resu...

Protests in France as unions make last-ditch bid to resist higher retirement age

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 01:15:41 GMT

PARIS (AP) — French unions are seeking to reignite resistance to President Emmanuel Macron’s higher retirement age with what may be a final surge of nationwide protests and scattered strikes Tuesday.A third of flights were canceled at Paris’ Orly Airport because of strikes, and about 10% of trains around France were disrupted. Some 250 marches, rallies and other actions are planned around the country on the 14th day of national protest since January over the pension reform.Macron’s move to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64 — and force the measure through parliament without a vote — inflamed public emotions and triggered some of France’s biggest demonstrations in years.But the intensity of anger over the pension reform has ebbed since the last big protests on May 1, and since the measure became law in April. Some see Tuesday’s actions as a last big show of opposition for the movement.Macron says the reform was needed to finance the pension system as the population ages. Un...

Stock market today: Asian stocks mixed after Wall St retreats on concern economy weakening

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 01:15:41 GMT

BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets were mixed Tuesday after Wall Street fell on concern the U.S. economy may be weakening following a report that showed growth in service industries slowing. Tokyo and Hong Kong rose while Shanghai and Sydney declined. Oil prices retreated.Wall Street’s benchmark S&P 500 index lost 0.2% on Monday after an industry group’s index of activity in construction, hospitality and other services fell to a three-year low in May. That conflicted with hopes raised by data last week that showed unexpectedly strong hiring in May, suggesting a potential U.S. recession brought on by interest rate hikes might be farther away.“Weakness is emerging and that should be more noticeable in the coming months,” Edward Moya of Oanda said in a report.Australia’s central bank lifted its benchmark interest rate Tuesday for a 12th consecutive time to 4.1% and warned further rises could follow. The Reserve Bank of Australia boosted the cash rate by a quarter of a p...

Brother of gay American attacked on Sydney cliff in 1988 says defendant deserves no leniency

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 01:15:41 GMT

SYDNEY (AP) — A man who admitted killing American mathematician Scott Johnson by punching him from a cliff top at a gay meeting place in Sydney in 1988 deserves no leniency and should face the longest time in jail, the victim’s brother said Tuesday.Scott Phillip White, 52, appeared in the New South Wales state Supreme Court for a sentencing hearing after pleading guilty to manslaughter. White had pleaded guilty to murder last year, but changed his mind and had that conviction overturned on appeal.Johnson’s older brother Steve Johnson said White had lost the family’s sympathy by withdrawing his confession to murder.He and his wife Rosemary “felt some compassion because of his generous plea. Today I have no sympathy,” Steve Johnson said in a victim impact statement read out to the court.Any gratitude the family felt was undone after White’s conviction and jail sentence were overturned on appeal, he told reporters after the hearing.“So I am hoping the judge will give him the stiffest s...

Hong Kong government seeks court injunction to ban ‘Glory to Hong Kong’ protest song

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 01:15:41 GMT

HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong’s government said Tuesday it is seeking a court order to prohibit people from broadcasting or distributing the protest song “Glory to Hong Kong” after it was mistakenly played as the city’s anthem at several international sporting events in the past year.In a statement, the Department of Justice said it had applied for an injunction Monday to prohibit unlawful acts relating to the song, which became an unofficial anthem for the 2019 pro-democracy protests. It is awaiting court direction and for a hearing date to be fixed.The government said the lyrics of the song contain slogans that have been ruled by the court as “constituting secession” and that it is highly likely that the song will continue to be widely used given that it had been mistakenly played as Hong Kong’s anthem instead of China’s national anthem, “March of the Volunteers.”In 2020, the government outlawed the protest slogan “Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our times” for being secessionist a...

Senior US, Chinese diplomats hold ‘candid’ talks to avoid escalation of tensions

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 01:15:41 GMT

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Senior U.S. and Chinese diplomats held “candid and productive” talks in Beijing and agreed to keep open lines of communication to avoid tensions from spiraling into conflict, officials said Tuesday. Daniel Kritenbrink, assistant U.S. secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, was the most senior U.S. official confirmed to have visited China on Monday since tensions between Washington and Beijing soared over the shooting down of a Chinese spy balloon over the U.S. in early February. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken at the time postponed a planned trip to China, and Beijing has since largely rebuffed attempts at official exchanges, though two top U.S. and Chinese defense officials briefly interacted at a forum in Singapore over the weekend.China’s Foreign Ministry said Kritenbrink and Vice Foreign Minister Ma Zhaoxu “had candid, constructive and fruitful communication on promoting the improvement of China-U.S. relations and properly managing dif...