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Breaking down SF Giants curious decisions from ‘painful’ doubleheader vs. Phillies

The Phillies’ Cristopher Sánchez fired the first pitch of Thursday’s split doubleheader at 12:36 p.m. The Giants’ Matt Gage threw the last pitch of the night at 9:16 p.m. In the eight hours and 40 ...
The Press Democrat

Trump pulls Casey Means’ stalled surgeon general nomination. New pick is radiologist Nicole Saphier

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says he’s nominating Fox News Channel contributor Nicole Saphier for surgeon general after Casey Means’ path forward stalled in the Senate over questions about ...
The Press Democrat

Congress approves short-term extension of divisive US surveillance program hours before expiration

WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress has approved a short-term extension of a critical surveillance program used by U.S. spy agencies, staving off a Friday expiration as disputes over a longer reauthorization ...
The Press Democrat

Trump order aims to help more people get retirement savings plans in time for new federal match

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump will sign an executive order on Thursday calling for a new government website where people in the United States can find and compare private-sector retirement ...
The Press Democrat

Gianni Infantino affirms at the FIFA Congress that Iran will participate in the World Cup

FIFA President Gianni Infantino opened his address at Thursday’s FIFA Congress by affirming that Iran will participate in the World Cup and that the team will play in the United States despite the ...
The Press Democrat

Maine Gov. Mills drops Democratic US Senate bid against Platner, lamenting a lack of campaign funds

Maine Gov. Janet Mills on Thursday dropped her bid for the U.S. Senate just weeks before the Democratic primary i ...
The Press Democrat

The Onion’s bid to take over Alex Jones’ Infowars is in limbo as new court battles emerge

The Onion’s plan to take over the Infowars platforms that Alex Jones built into a bullhorn of conspiracy theories and turn them into parody sites was in limbo again Thursday, after a court paused a ...
The Press Democrat

Zelenskyy says he’s seeking details of Putin’s May 9 ceasefire proposal

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is seeking details of a short-term ceasefire Russia proposed to U.S. President Donald Trump, he said in a post on Telegram on Thursday. Russian President ...
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Germany faces a fresh Trump threat to cut US troop numbers. The Europeans are used to it

The U.S. has invested “substantial funds” in high-quality infrastructure in Germany which cannot be moved overnight and a different deployment would cost the U.S. a huge amount of money, which would ...
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Mexico to investigate US indictment of officials for alleged Sinaloa Cartel ties, Sheinbaum says

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Thursday that she wouldn’t let the U.S. meddle in the country’s affairs, and that her attorney general would investigate allegations from ...
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The first direct US-Venezuela commercial flight in 7 years lands in Caracas

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The first direct commercial flight between the United States and Venezuela arrived Thursday in the ...
The Press Democrat

Iran’s supreme leader vows to protect nuclear and missile capabilities

Iran’s supreme leader vowed Thursday in a defiant tone to protect the Islamic Republic’s nuclear and missile capabilities, which U.S. President Donald Trump has sought to curtail through airstrikes ...