Royals pitcher Edinson Volquez said Wednesday that he didn’t know whether he would be ready to play in the World Series once he returns to the U.S. following his father’s funeral in the Dominican Republic. Volquez said he learned about his father’s death when he stepped off the mound after allowing three runs over six innings. The Royals were hopeful that Volquez would rejoin them when they head to New
With heavy hearts and occupied minds, the Minnesota Timberwolves hung on to win one for Flip. Ricky Rubio had a career-high 28 points and 14 assists and the Timberwolves rallied from a 16-point deficit in the second half to beat the Los Angeles Lakers 112-111 Wednesday night in their first game since Flip Saunders’ death. When Lou Williams somehow missed a 4-foot runner at the buzzer, Minnesota hugged and celebrated
The seizures had returned for Jerry Kill. Perhaps hoping he could still mesh his demanding, pressure-filled job as Minnesota’s head football coach with his epilepsy, Kill guided the Gophers through one more practice on Tuesday. The toll epilepsy took on his body, his mind and his family had become too much to bear for someone trying to turn around an FBS program.
By Megha Rajagopalan and Koh Gui Qing BEIJING (Reuters) – China will ease family planning restrictions to allow all couples to have two children after decades of a strict one-child policy, the ruling Communist Party said on Thursday, a move aimed at alleviating demographic strains on the economy. The policy is a major liberalization of the country’s family planning restrictions, already eased in late 2013 when Beijing said it would
By Matt Spetalnick and Francois Murphy VIENNA (Reuters) – Success at multilateral talks on Syria, which bring regional rivals Iran and Saudia Arabia face-to-face, might be measured by just keeping participants at the conference table, diplomats said on Thursday, playing down expectations of any breakthrough. More than a dozen powers were heading to Vienna for a fresh effort on Thursday and Friday to end Syria’s four-year civil war in which
A U.S. Navy aircraft carrier scrambled four F-18 jets on Tuesday after two Russian anti-submarine aircraft flew within a nautical mile of the warship, a Navy official said on Thursday. A U.S. Navy official said two Russian TU-142 “Bear” aircraft flew within a nautical mile of the Reagan, prompting it to launch four F-18 fighter jets to escort the planes away from the ship. The Navy official, speaking on condition
Air strikes in northern Syria have hit at least 12 hospitals in recent weeks, killing at least 35 patients and medical staff in a new escalation of fighting, international medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres said on Thursday. The violence has also caused the displacement of thousands of civilians since the end of September, MSF said, reporting a significant increase strikes on medical facilities. The charity did not specify which country
By Ori Lewis JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli security forces shot dead two Palestinian assailants in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, police and the army said, as a month-long spate of stabbing attacks showed no signs of abating. The latest assaults, like other recent stabbings, took place in Hebron, a city in the West Bank, signaling that violence was shifting to that territory from Israel and Jerusalem, where police have
By Ahmed Rasheed BAGHDAD (Reuters) – More than 60 members of Iraq’s ruling coalition will seek to withdraw parliamentary support for Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi’s reforms if he does not respond within 72 hours to their demands for wider consultation, parliamentarians said. Growing political tensions could undermine efforts to tackle an economic crisis and form a united front in the war against Islamic State militants, who pose the biggest security
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are slightly lower in midday trading after the U.S. government said economic growth slowed more than expected in the summer.