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The baseball team located in San Pedro De Macoris in the Dominican Winter League is named the Estrellas Orientales, translated in English as "Eastern Stars.''

Child care advocates are pushing for $16 billion supplemental funding as members of Congress push for a variety of priorities to be included in an emergency package expected later this year.

ATLANTA — The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Wednesday issued corrections to its recent investigation into the University of Georgia football program’s handling of sexual abuse allegations against its players and recruits.

Kraken coach Dave Hakstol certainly enjoyed a swing in his team’s and his own fortunes this past season and on Wednesday was rewarded for it with a two-year contract extension.

DALLAS — Anyone who has even loosely followed Maxi Kleber’s six-year Mavericks career knows he’s a model teammate, as well a close friend of Dwight Powell, Josh Green and ex-Maverick Jalen Brunson.

The tension that remained following Draymond Green’s preseason punch of Jordan Poole last year was, at least, part of the reason for Poole’s trade to the Washington Wizards for Chris Paul. Green appeared to rekindle some of those tensions in a social media back-and-forth with Poole’s father on Wednesday morning.

The lab in Wuhan, China suspected by some to be the source of the COVID-19 pandemic will no longer receive U.S. government funding.

AUSTIN, Texas – Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador blasted the treatment of migrants following reporting earlier this week that officials received orders to push those crossing at the Texas border back into the Rio Grande and also were told not to give them water.

NEW YORK — A measured Saquon Barkley sounds prepared to play on the franchise tag for the Giants this season, although he is seriously mulling a regular-season holdout.