BROOKLINE — Overnight co-leader Matt Fitzpatrick took a one-shot lead over Masters champion Scottie Scheffler and playing partner Will Zalatoris into the back nine of the U.S. Open on Sunday. Fitzpatrick, seeking more success at The Country Club where he won the 2013 U.S. Amateur that kickstarted his career, mixed three birdies with two bogeys […]

LIV Golf CEO Greg Norman said that the new breakaway tour, backed by Saudi Arabia investors, will apply Monday to have its competitors earn Official World Golf Rankings points, ESPN reported. On Saturday, in an interview on Fox News, Norman revealed his intentions to have the tour’s players earn points to keep them eligible to […]

MADRID — Spain’s opposition People’s Party won an absolute majority in Andalusia’s regional elections on Sunday for the first time in Spanish democracy, boosting the new Conservative leader’s odds for the national elections in late 2023. Andalusia, with 8.5 million inhabitants, is the most populated region in Spain. For 40 years it was a stronghold […]

PARIS — French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne on Sunday said that the result of the lower house elections, in which the camp of President Emmanuel Macron lost its absolute majority, was a “risk” for the country. “The result is a risk for our country in view of the challenges we have to face,” Borne said. […]

Jun 19 (Stats Perform) – Standings from the WNBA games on Sunday Eastern Conference W L PCT GB 1. Chicago Sky 10 4 .714 — 2. Connecticut Sun 12 5 .706 -0 1/2 3. Washington Mystics 11 7 .611 1 4. Atlanta Dream 7 8 .467 3 1/2 5. New York Liberty 6 10 .375 […]

BUDAPEST, Hungary — Canadian swimmer Kylie Masse will chase a third straight world title in the women’s 100-metre backstroke Monday. The 26-year-old from LaSalle, Ont., posted the second-fastest time in both the preliminaries and semifinals Sunday in Budapest. Regan Smith of the U.S. was the quickest qualifier in 57.65 seconds. Masse, a double backstroke silver […]

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Spain’s traditional conservatives scored a huge win in southern Andalusia on Sunday, claiming an absolute majority in the legislature that will save it from needing the support of the far-right to govern the nation’s most populous region. With 95% of the votes counted, the Popular Party headed by Juanma Moreno will […]

Jack Suwinski’s third home run of the game Sunday came walk-off style in the ninth inning as the Pittsburgh Pirates avoided a series sweep with a 4-3 win over the visiting San Francisco Giants. After the Giants tied the game in the top of the ninth, Suwinski led off the bottom of the ninth against […]

Jun 19 (Stats Perform) – Standings from the MLB games on Sunday American League East Division W L PCT GB 1. New York Yankees 49 16 .754 — 2. Toronto Blue Jays 37 28 .569 12 3. Tampa Bay Rays 36 30 .545 13 1/2 4. Boston Red Sox 35 31 .530 14 1/2 5. […]

PARIS — French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne on Sunday said that her government will get to work from Monday to reach out to potential partners in order to rally a majority behind it and ensure stability in the euro zone’s second-biggest economy. “I have trust in all of us and in our sense of responsibility,” […]

Top-seeded Ons Jabeur of Tunisia recorded six aces on Sunday and claimed her second title of the year when Belinda Bencic retired during the championship match of the bett1open at Berlin. Jabeur was leading 6-3, 2-1 when Bencic of Switzerland couldn’t continue due to an ankle injury. The No. 8 seed sustained the injury while […]

Russia said it seized a village near Ukraine’s industrial city of Sievierodonetsk, a prime target in Moscow’s campaign to control the country’s east, as the head of NATO predicted the war could last for years. FIGHTING * Luhansk’s Governor Serhiy Gaidai told Ukrainian television that “all Russian claims that they control the town are a […]

PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron and his allies on Sunday lost their absolute majority in the National Assembly and with it control of the reform agenda, a crushing outcome for the newly re-elected president. For sure, Macron’s centrist Ensemble! alliance were set to end up with the most seats in Sunday’s election, followed by […]

MONTREAL — Red Bull’s Max Verstappen celebrated his 150th Formula One race on Sunday with a victory in the Canadian Grand Prix that extended his world championship lead. The 24-year-old Dutch driver took his 26th career win just 0.9 of a second ahead of Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz, with seven times world champion Lewis Hamilton completing […]

DALLAS (AP) — After Opal Lee led hundreds in a walk through her Texas hometown to celebrate Juneteenth, the 95-year-old Black woman who helped successfully push for the holiday to get national recognition said it’s important that people learn the history behind it. “We need to know so people can heal from it and never […]

MONTREAL — Formula One season leader Max Verstappen of Red Bull has won the Montreal Grand Prix, holding off Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz. It was the first Formula One race in Montreal in three years, after COVID-19 forced its cancellation in 2020 and 2021. More coming.

Juan Soto and Maikel Franco hit home runs, Jackson Tetreault pitched seven strong innings for his first career win and the Washington Nationals beat the Philadelphia Phillies 9-3 on Sunday to salvage the finale of the rare five-game series. Tetreault (1-1), making his second major league start, allowed three unearned runs on six hits as […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Members of the House committee investigating the Capitol riot said Sunday they may subpoena former Vice President Mike Pence and are waiting to hear from Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, about her role in the illegal plot to overturn the 2020 election. Lawmakers indicated they will […]

NEW CASTLE, N.H. (AP) — A 70-foot yacht burned and sank in New Hampshire, sending three people to the hospital, authorities said. The vessel, the Elusive, was on the Piscataqua River heading toward a marina in New Castle around 4 p.m. Saturday when a passenger noticed black smoke below deck, the New Hampshire Department of […]

OTTAWA — Expectations are high as Defence Minister Anita Anand prepares to unveil the federal government’s plans to upgrade North America’s aging defensive systems. The announcement at an Ontario air force base on Monday morning comes amid warnings from U.S. and Canadian military officials and experts about the state of Norad, particularly in light of […]

KYIV — Ukraine’s parliament on Sunday voted through two laws which will place severe restrictions on Russian books and music as Kyiv seeks to break many remaining cultural ties between the two countries following Moscow’s invasion. One law will forbid the printing of books by Russian citizens, unless they renounce their Russian passport and take […]

PARIS — French far-right Rassemblement National party leader Marine Le Pen said she will seek to unite all “patriots on both the right and the left wing after her party fared more strongly than expected in Sunday’s general elections. “We will incarnate a strong opposition,” she added. President Emmanuel Macron is on course to lose […]

ROME — Canada’s Brandie Wilkerson and Sophie Bukovec claimed silver in the women’s world beach volleyball championship Sunday. The Toronto duo fell 21-17, 21-19 to Brazil’s Eduarda Santos Lisboa and Ana Patricia Silva Ramos in the final in Rome. Wilkerson, 29, and Bukovec, 26, are a new team having joined forces before this season. Wilkerson, […]

The Tampa Bay Lightning’s quest for a three-peat will not be completely finished if they lose Monday’s Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Final against the visiting Colorado Avalanche. However, the Lightning desperately need a win against an Avalanche squad that is running roughshod over them. Colorado boasts a 2-0 lead in the best-of-seven series […]

PARIS — President Emmanuel Macron is on course to lose his absolute majority in the National Assembly and control of his reform agenda after the first projections by four pollsters showed Sunday’s election delivering a hung parliament. Macron’s centrist Ensemble! alliance was set to end up with the most seats, the polls showed, followed by […]

The Los Angeles Angels recalled left-hander Kenny Rosenberg from Triple-A Salt Lake to make his first career start in Sunday’s series finale against the host Seattle Mariners. Rosenberg, 26, made his major league debut on April 18 and has appeared in two games out of the bullpen, posting a 7.50 ERA with no decisions. Rosenberg […]

PARIS — The French government will reach out to all moderate parties to find a majority in parliament after French President Emmanuel Macron lost his absolute majority after Sunday’s second round of parliamentary elections, said the government’s spokesperson. “We reach out to those who want to take the country forward,” said Olivia Gregoire. (Reporting by […]

HUATULCO, Mexico — Winnipeg’s Tyler Mislawchuk earned a silver medal in a World Cup sprint triathlon Sunday. The two-time Olympian finished just one second behind winner Genis Grau of Spain in a foot race to the podium. Triathlon’s sprint distance features a 750-metre swim, 20k bike and 5k run. Brazilian bronze medallist Miguel Hidalgo was […]

The Colorado Rockies reinstated infielder/outfielder Garrett Hampson from the COVID-19 injured list on Sunday. Hampson, 27, was in the lineup for Sunday’s series finale with the San Diego Padres, playing shortstop and batting ninth. It was his first game since June 12. He is batting .236 with two home runs and nine RBIs in 29 […]

PARIS — Richard Ferrand, the head of France’s national assembly and a close ally of President Emmanuel Macron, said he had been beaten in Sunday’s French parliament election, in which Macron is set to lose his absolute majority. Cristophe Castaner, a former interior minister and another senior figure who had shaped Macron’s first five-year term, […]

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — About 6,000 bees were recently removed from inside the walls of an Omaha couple’s 100-year-old home. Thomas and Marylu Gouttierre told the Omaha World-Herald they have been planting bee-friendly flowers outside their midtown home, but they never expected the bees to move in. The bees likely infiltrated through a hole in […]

BRUSSELS — French President Emmanuel Macron’s Ensemble alliance is seen falling short of winning an absolute majority in France’s parliamentary election, Belgian newspapers Le Soir and La Libre said on Sunday evening, quoting an exit poll. Le Soir and La Libre said Macron’s alliance was seen winning between 208 and 248 seats in the National […]

Heavyweight world champion Oleksandr Usyk will face Briton Anthony Joshua in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on Aug. 20 in a rematch of their London bout last year, boxing promoter Eddie Hearn’s Matchroom stable announced on Sunday. Ukraine’s Usyk beat Joshua in front of a sell-out crowd in September last year to claim the WBA, WBO, IBF […]

The Cincinnati Reds placed rookie right-hander Alexis Diaz on the 15-day injured list on Sunday due to right biceps tendinitis. The move is retroactive to Thursday. The Reds also recalled right-hander Dauri Moreta from Louisville and optioned outfielder TJ Friedl to the Triple-A club. Diaz, 25, is 2-0 with two saves and a 2.40 ERA […]

BUDAPEST — Swimming’s world governing body FINA on Sunday voted to restrict the participation of transgender athletes in elite women’s competitions and create a working group to establish an “open” category for them in some events as part of its new policy. Transgender rights has become a major talking point as sports seek to balance […]

Colorado Avalanche forward Andre Burakovsky will not travel with the team to Tampa on Sunday after sustaining an apparent hand injury in Game 2 of the Stanley Cup Final. Coach Jared Bednar told reporters Burakovsky is still being evaluated and would rejoin his teammates in Tampa on Monday. His availability for Game 3 against the […]

Apple store employees in a Baltimore suburb voted to unionize by a nearly 2-to-1 margin on Saturday. Here’s a look at other unionization drives of the past several months: STARBUCKS In December, a Starbucks store in Buffalo became the first to unionize at one of the coffee retailer’s company-owned U.S. stores. At least 150 of […]

Unified heavyweight world champion Oleksandr Usyk will face Briton Anthony Joshua in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on Aug. 20 in a rematch of their London bout last year, boxing promoter Eddie Hearn’s Matchroom stable announced on Sunday. Usyk beat Joshua in front of a sell-out crowd in September last year to claim the WBA, WBO, IBF […]

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Witnesses in Ethiopia said Sunday that more than 200 people, mostly ethnic Amhara, have been killed in an attack in the country’s Oromia region and are blaming a rebel group, which denies it. It is one of the deadliest such attacks in recent memory as ethnic tensions continue in Africa’s second […]

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Poland’s Hubert Hurkacz showed his Wimbledon credentials on Sunday, hammering world number one Daniil Medvedev 6-1 6-4 to win the ATP 500 grasscourt tournament in Halle, Germany. World number 12 Hurkacz defeated Medvedev and Roger Federer en route to the semi-finals at Wimbledon last year and showed he will once again be a force to […]

The San Francisco Giants will be going for a three-game series sweep Sunday against the host Pittsburgh Pirates. Despite two close games — 2-0 Friday and 7-5 Saturday — these are teams on opposite trajectories. The Giants have won seven of their past eight games to reach 10 games over .500 for the first time. […]

San Francisco Giants right-hander Alex Cobb was reinstated from the 15-day injured list to start Sunday afternoon’s game against the host Pittsburgh Pirates. Cobb (3-2, 5.73 ERA) had been sidelined with a neck strain. The 34-year-old did not have a rehab assignment but apparently had no problems Tuesday when he threw three simulated innings. San […]

LONDON — As China began making the final preparations for its inaugural June 20-21 Horn of Africa peace summit in Ethiopia this week, African Union chairman and president of Senegal Macky Sall was in Paris pressuring French counterpart Emanuel Macron to ease sanctions on Russia to avoid a food crisis on the continent. With Western […]

KABUL — At least two people were killed when a blast hit a car in the Afghan capital on Sunday, officials said, the third deadly attack in the country in as many days. Khalid Zadran, a spokesman for Kabul’s commander, said the explosion hit a civilian vehicle in a neighborhood in the north of the […]

Philadelphia Phillies slugger Bryce Harper remained out of the starting lineup against the host Washington Nationals on Sunday afternoon due to a blister on his left hand. The Phillies, who entered the contest having won 14 of their last 16 games, have a day off on Monday. They open a two-game interleague series versus the […]

WASHINGTON — The United States said it was “deeply concerned” by the June 17 sentencing of Vietnamese environmental advocate and activist Nguy Thi Khanh and called on Vietnam to release her, the U.S. State Department said on Sunday. “The United States calls on the government of Vietnam to release Khanh, who has been recognized internationally […]

MILAN (AP) — Reconciling unusually high temperatures with the looks for next summer on Milan Fashion Week runways is becoming an exercise in cognitive dissonance. While nodding to sustainability, designers are nonetheless proposing looks that don’t jibe well with the longer summer heat waves, and instead seem to be focused on customers who either live […]

BUDAPEST — Swimming’s world governing body FINA on Sunday voted to restrict the participation of transgender athletes in elite women’s competitions and create a working group to establish an “open” category for them in some events as part of its new policy. Transgender rights has become a major talking point as sports seek to balance […]

BLACK JACK, Mo. (AP) — Two men were charged with murder in a house explosion near St. Louis that authorities say killed four people who were assembling fireworks in a garage. St. Louis County prosecutors say 37-year-old Terrell Cooks and 43-year-old Seneca Mahan made fireworks and directed younger people on how to load the canisters […]