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Luis Garca Jr. wanted to help but could only watch as the Washington Nationals suffered their fifth straight loss on Sunday. Garca was scratched about 30 minutes before a 4-2 loss to the Atlanta Braves. He watched the game from the dugout. A short time later, the New York Yankees announced they got Garca in a trade with the Nationals in exchange for ...

Most of us have heard the advice to strive for a better work-life balance. But one San Diego heart surgeon says that mindset may be asking the wrong question. Award-winning board-certified cardiothoracic surgeon Dr. Alexandra Kharazi, who specializes in high-risk heart and lung surgeries, has published her first article in Forbes after joining the ...

Two women who died in an explosion at an Aeon shopping centre following a powerful earthquake in Japans Kumamoto prefecture last week were instructed by their employer to return inside to put sales proceeds in a safe, according to the company. Two executives of Habita, which operates the variety store where the women died, said on Sunday they apologised to ...

A group of D.C. students has been hard at work on a podcast about mental health and the many pressures that young people face. This new podcast is called Behind the Smile: Teens and Mental Health in America. The students who worked on it told News4 its really been a labor of love to help their peers who may be struggling. Behind the Smile will have ...

An Indonesian ferry carrying 271 people has caught fire in waters off Madura island, killing at least five people and leaving 41 others unaccounted for, authorities said

To help prevent heat-related deaths, the French government has asked postal workers to check in on older people.

Moroccan migrants described their despair at their economic future, explaining what propelled them across the border with Spain.

A tree snapped and fell onto the street on Avalon Drive in Bethesda, Maryland during Sunday’s storms, taking down wires and causing neighbors to lose power. We lost power and looked outside the window and saw lots of smoke, and there were flames in the street, said Diana Blumenfeld, who lives on Avalon Drive. And then we could see fire outside our ...

In Chinas arid northwest, local state media in the Ningxia Hui autonomous region are celebrating a surge of rainfall in an area that usually averages 300mm (about 12 inches) per year. The rain belt moving northwards would bring climate dividends, the Ningxia Broadcasting News Centre said last month, promising that loess soil will turn green and farming area ...

The community Belesda Toledo spent years serving came together Sunday to support the family she leaves behind.

"I keep thinking about what it would be like to be bound and shot next to my 16-month-old kid...It didn't have to happen."

Washington's decision to join Japan in supporting the battered yen has prompted questions over what motivated the rare coordinated intervention.

Outage follows three nationwide blackouts in July and comes as a US-imposed oil blockade cripples island's already aging energy infrastructure

Ukraine launched at least 635 drones at targets, including a Wildberries warehouse, according to Russian officials

Evacuation orders were lifted for the Grade Fire near Warner Springs after officials reported 65% containment and halted the blaze's forward progress.

Two juveniles were arrested after leading law enforcement on a high-speed pursuit in a stolen vehicle from the Los Angeles area into East County.

Several songs into her headlining Lollapalooza set on Sunday night, Tate McRae pulled out a microphone stand to sing Anything But Love, as if to reiterate that she does, in fact, sing live in addition to performing high-energy choreography.By no means a vocal dynamo, McRae is a competent singer, though audiences shouldnt expect any vocal surprises. But the ...

This article is also available in English. Read it here. Un sindicato de trabajadores de la salud ha acusado a Kaiser Permanente de examinar a los pacientes y hacer recomendaciones de atencin a travs de “un algoritmo digital automatizado” sin la supervisin de un mdico, una prctica que, segn el sindicato, viola la ley estatal. […]

Residents in Cairo were woken by the tremor, which was also felt near Egypt's border with Gaza, though no injuries have been reported so far.

The order came after Republican Senators Thom Tillis and John Cornyn threatened to block Blanche's confirmation for Attorney General if the fund was not rescinded in writing.

Fires east of the Cascades saw major growth over the weekend, with no end in sight. There isn't a drop of rain in the forecast for the Spokane area.

A total of 1,000sq km (386sq miles) has burned across Washington state, and some of the fires have not been contained.

Two Chicago police officers, a child, and another person were injured in a South Side crash on Sunday evening, the Chicago Fire Department said.

Esta historia fue publicada originalmente por CalMatters. Suscrbase a sus boletines. El rpido avance delincendio Dovecerca de una ciudad de acceso al Parque Nacional Yosemite sacudi a California tras un verano relativamente tranquilo en materia de incendios forestales, obligando al cierre de carreteras y a la evacuacin de cientos de viviendas. El exbombero ...