Bills sign Marcell Dareus to 6-year contract extension (Yahoo Sports)
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Marcell Dareus has become the Buffalo Bills’ top-paid player after signing a six-year contract extension worth just over $100 million.
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At 34, even Federer wowed by quality of his play at US Open (Yahoo Sports)
Even Roger Federer is wowed by how well he’s playing at 34 – and the ease with which he’s winning at this U.S. Open. To get back to his first final in New York since 2009, he’ll have to beat someone he knows quite well: Swiss Olympic and Davis Cup teammate Stan Wawrinka. The No. 2-seeded Federer and No. 5 Wawrinka won quarterfinals about as handily as can be Wednesday
Cespedes, Mets rally past Nationals again for 3-game sweep (Yahoo Sports)
Yoenis Cespedes and the surprising New York Mets are in firm control of the NL East. Cespedes hit a go-ahead homer in the eighth inning moments after pinch-hitter Kelly Johnson connected for a tying shot, and the Mets rallied past the Nationals yet again for a 5-3 victory Wednesday night. The three-game sweep extended New York’s division lead to seven games over Washington with 23 to play.
Bills running back McCoy says he's ready to play in opener (Yahoo Sports)
Though saying the injury to his left hamstring injury has not entirely healed, running back LeSean McCoy is ready to make his much-anticipated Bills debut in Buffalo’s opener against Indianapolis on Sunday. ”I’m ready to go,” McCoy declared at his locker following practice Wednesday. McCoy caused a major scare when he grabbed his hamstring and limped off the field during a joint practice with the Cleveland Browns three weeks ago.
Russia raises stakes on Syria ahead of U.N. meeting in New York
By Gabriela Baczynska and Lidia Kelly MOSCOW (Reuters) – By refusing to clarify the scale of its military presence in Syria, Russia keeps the West fearing a considerable build-up to win a stronger bargaining position when world powers sit down to talks on the conflict, Western diplomats in Moscow said. Russia’s central demand now is that its long-time ally, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, should be included in international efforts to
Saudi-led air raids hit bases, Houthi leaders' houses in Yemeni capital
War planes from a Saudi-led military alliance bombed Yemen’s capital Sanaa on Thursday, in what witnesses described as the fiercest attacks on the city in over five months of war. The air strikes hit houses of political leaders in the Iran-allied Houthi movement and military bases, as explosions and wailing ambulance sirens forced a sleepless night on the city’s nearly 2 million shell-shocked residents. “They were afraid the building would
Islamic State attacks Syrian air base in east, dozens reported killed
Dozens of Syrian government troops and Islamic State fighters have been killed in fighting around a government-held air base in eastern Syria in a region that is a stronghold for the jihadists, a monitoring group said on Thursday, Islamic State used at least two car bombs in its latest assault on the air base near the city of Deir al-Zor, where government troops are holed up, the Syrian Observatory for
Western states train Kurdish force in Syria, force's leader says
By Tom Perry and Naline Malla BEIRUT (Reuters) – Western states have provided counter-terrorism training in Syria to Kurdish security forces that are battling Islamic State, the head of the force said, in a significant expansion of support to the Kurdish administration in northern Syria. The internal security force, known as the Asayish, is part of the Kurdish administration that has emerged in areas of northern Syria where the Damascus-based
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Key Iran vote set in Senate, Democrats on track to prevail
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Senate pushed toward a critical vote Thursday on the international nuclear deal with Iran, with Democrats intent on handing a major victory to President Barack Obama.