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English court to rule on final challenge to Trinidad's gay sex ban 07/08/2026 11:05pm • SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A nearly 10-year battle for gay rights in Trinidad and Tobago is in the hands of a final appeals court in England. Supreme Court judges in London held a hearing Wednesday on a landmark human rights case that could decriminalize gay sex in the eastern Caribbean nation, US launches new airstrikes on Iran, with Tehran firing back at 3 Gulf Arab states 07/08/2026 11:01pm • DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The United States launched new airstrikes against Iran early Thursday, and Tehran responded by hitting Bahrain, Kuwait and Qatar in crossfire that again threatened an interim deal intended to help end the war in the Persian Gulf. The strikes came hours after U.S. A look at the dayslong funeral for late Supreme Leader Khamenei in Iran and Iraq, in photos 07/08/2026 10:54pm • Iran's dayslong funeral for late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei began on Saturday, with authorities shutting down streets, airspace and daily life in Tehran as mourners commemorate the life of the man who led Iran for decades with an iron fist while confronting the West. Khamenei’s body wa Jared Young hit by a pitch with the bases loaded, ignites a 5-run eighth as Mets beat Royals 6-2 07/08/2026 10:52pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Jared Young was plunked with the bases loaded in the eighth inning, sparking a five-run rally that lifted the New York Mets to a 6-2 win over the Kansas City Royals on Wednesday night. Young took a 90 mph slider off his right elbow by Alex Lange (0-4), who allowed five straight bas Trout homers in his return for the Angels from a hamstring strain after a 17-game absence 07/08/2026 10:48pm • ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Los Angeles Angels slugger Mike Trout homered after being activated from the injured list earlier Wednesday. Trout, reinstated just in time for the All-Star Game next week in his beloved Philadelphia, missed 17 games with a strained right hamstring suffered while running th Bennett, Cheng lead the Red Sox past the White Sox, 5-0 07/08/2026 10:31pm • CHICAGO (AP) — Jake Bennett allowed four hits in seven innings, Tsung-Che Cheng had his first multi-RBI game and the Boston Red Sox beat the Chicago White Sox 5-0 on Wednesday night for their fifth straight victory. Boston has won 10 of 12 and and 13 of its last 18. Bennett (4-3) has allowed more Prosecutors play video in court of suspect in Charlie Kirk's shooting after he turned himself in 07/08/2026 10:30pm • PROVO, Utah (AP) — Prosecutors in Utah played a video clip Wednesday that provided a rare glimpse of Tyler Robinson after the defendant in the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk first turned himself in. The video showed Robinson standing in a room at the Washington County Sheriff’s Of Burleson, Fermín homers power Cardinals to a 5-1 win that snapped 8-game skid against Brewers 07/08/2026 10:28pm • ST. LOUIS (AP) — Alec Burleson and José Fermín homered, Michael McGreevy worked 6 1/3 strong innings and the St. Louis Cardinals snapped a seven-game losing streak against Milwaukee with a 5-1 win over the Brewers on Wednesday night. NL Central-leading Milwaukee had its four-game winning streak IMF expects world economy to grow a sluggish 3% this year, weighed down by Iran war but helped by AI 07/08/2026 10:19pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The International Monetary Fund on Wednesday modestly downgraded its outlook for the world economy this year, citing the energy shock caused by the Iran war. But the fallout from the conflict is being partially offset by booming investment in artificial intelligence and other tec Democrat Graham Platner says he plans to withdraw from Maine Senate race after sexual assault claim 07/08/2026 10:18pm • Graham Platner said Wednesday that he plans to withdraw from the U.S. Senate race in Maine after facing an allegation of sexual assault, shuttering an insurgent campaign that had withstood months of controversy only to implode and imperil Democrats’ attempt to regain power in Washington. Platnerâ Cheryl Reeve breaks WNBA record for coaching wins as Lynx beat Sun 86-80 07/08/2026 10:13pm • UNCASVILLE, Conn. (AP) — Kayla McBride scored 23 points, and Minnesota beat the Connecticut Sun 86-80 on Wednesday night to give Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve the WNBA record for career wins. Reeve has 380 regular-season wins, one more than Mike Thibault, whose son Eric Thibault is Minnesota's associat Crow-Armstrong hits 2 of Chicago's 5 homers and Cubs outslug Baltimore Orioles 9-7 07/08/2026 10:12pm • BALTIMORE (AP) — Pete Crow-Armstrong hit two of Chicago's five home runs and the Cubs outslugged the Baltimore Orioles 9-7 on Wednesday night. Michael Conforto and Carson Kelly also went deep on the first two pitches of the fifth inning for Chicago, tying the game immediately after Pete Alonso' NL East-leading Braves break up Pirates' combined perfect-game bid in the 7th on Albies' single 07/08/2026 09:56pm • PITTSBURGH (AP) — The NL East-leading Atlanta Braves broke up a combined perfect-game bid by Pittsburgh Pirates pitchers Jared Jones and Mason Montgomery in the seventh inning Wednesday night. Jones started and struck out eight on 77 pitches, including 53 strikes, before being replaced by Montgome CJ Abrams, Luis García Jr. both hit their 20th homers as the Nationals rout the Astros 8-2 07/08/2026 09:52pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — CJ Abrams and Luis García Jr. both hit their 20th homers of the season, and the Washington Nationals pounded the Houston Astros 8-2 on Wednesday night. Foster Griffin (10-2) allowed one run in seven innings for Washington, which took two of three from Houston to move two game Trump flies partway home from Turkey in an old Air Force One, not the new Qatari-gifted jet 07/08/2026 09:49pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump flew partway home from a NATO summit in Turkey on an old baby blue Air Force One plane instead of the new Qatari-gifted and retrofitted red, white and navy blue jet he arrived in, a surprise swap that came as the U.S. and Iran once again began trading strik