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This wasn’t exactly how the Giants wanted to warm up for their much-anticipated trip to Los Angeles. They brought gathering momentum into the weekend, with three consecutive victories, but then the Cardinals offered a vivid reminder why they own the best record in the majors. St. Louis smothered the Giants on Saturday and won again Sunday, swatting their way to a 7-5 victory in China Basin. So now the Giants head to Dodger Stadium, four games out of first place pending Sunday night’s Cubs-Dodgers game. Читать дальше...

Forty-eight hours before his roster has to be cut to 75 players and just six days before the cut to the final 53-man roster, Jim Tomsula’s voice betrayed some of the pressures he’s facing. In a conference call Sunday afternoon, the 49ers’ head coach said he had just left a meeting in which the makeup of the offensive line was discussed. That unit was a glaring concern in the 49ers’ third preseason game Saturday in Denver. “We’re in the middle of that now,” Tomsula said... Читать дальше...

Duke Johnson’s concussion has aggravated the Browns’ headache at running back. Johnson is following the NFL’s protocol on head injuries after the rookie sustained a concussion in the first half of Saturday night’s 31-7 win over Tampa Bay. Head coach Mike Pettine said Sunday that Johnson, whose exhibition debut ended after he was rocked on a hit by cornerback Mike Jenkins, could be sidelined for some time. Johnson’s injury — and those to Shaun Draughn and Glenn Winston — has left Cleveland thin at running back.

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Manchester United’s early-season problems at both ends of the pitch were exposed in a 2-1 loss at Swansea City on Sunday that ended its unbeaten start in the Premier League. On the day Manchester City spent more than $77 million on another attacking player, Belgian midfielder Kevin de Bruyne, its crosstown rival again showed a lack of cutting edge up front to turn good build-up play into goals. With Europe’s summer-transfer window closing in England on Tuesday, United... Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration will change the name of North America's tallest mountain peak from Mount McKinley to Denali, the White House said Sunday, a major symbolic gesture to Alaska Natives on the eve of President Barack Obama's historic visit to Alaska. By renaming the peak Denali, an Athabascan word meaning "the high one," Obama waded into a sensitive and decades-old conflict between residents of Alaska and Ohio. Alaskans have informally called the mountain Denali for years, but... Читать дальше...

Police in Sacramento are calling a video that depicts a man firing a gun from a moving car disturbing. The video, which was originally shown live on the social media app Periscope on Wednesday night, was brought to the attention of the Sacramento Police Department on Thursday.

SACRAMENTO — California lawmakers hope to tackle major issues in the state’s health care program for the poor over the next two weeks, starting with how to ensure the state doesn’t lose $1 billion in federal funding. Democratic proposals call for an expanded tax on health insurers and a new tobacco tax to help restore lost services and improve care. Republicans have made their position clear: “Republicans do not raise taxes,” said state Sen. Jean Fuller of Bakersfield in her first news conference... Читать дальше...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Former Maryland Gov. Marvin Mandel, whose career ended with a corruption conviction, has died .

A man pointing a rifle at an officer was shot and wounded by South San Francisco police Sunday morning. According to the incident report, the altercation started at 9:30 a.m. when a resident reported seeing a middle-aged man with a rifle standing near the intersection of Del Monte Avenue and Romney Avenue, not far from the police station. Officers administered first aid on the scene until paramedics arrived to transport the subject to a local hospital.

WASHINGTON — International rivals would be mistaken to assume he wouldn’t be prepared to use military force if that’s what circumstances required, Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders said in an interview that aired on Sunday. The U.S. should be prepared to act when it or its allies are threatened or in response to genocide. Sanders was asked why national security and foreign policy are missing from his campaign’s website. In all fairness, we’ve only been in this race for three-and-a-half months. Читать дальше...

President Obama travels to Alaska on Monday to call for urgent and aggressive action to tackle climate change, capitalizing on a poignant tableau of melting glaciers, crumbling permafrost and rising sea levels to illustrate the immediacy of an issue he hopes to make a central element of his legacy. [...] during a three-day trip choreographed to lend spectacular visuals and real-world examples to Obama’s message on global warming, he will pay little heed to the oil and gas drilling offshore that he allowed to go forward just this month... Читать дальше...

NEW YORK — Dr. Oliver Sacks, whose books like “The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat” probed distant ranges of human experience by compassionately portraying people with severe and sometimes bizarre neurological conditions, has died. In his best-selling 1985 book, he described a man who really did mistake his wife’s face for his hat while visiting Dr. Sacks’ office, because his brain had difficulty interpreting what he saw. Discover magazine ranked it among the 25 greatest science books of all time in 2006... Читать дальше...

CAIRO — Egypt’s Foreign Ministry summoned the British ambassador in Cairo on Sunday to protest comments he made after a judge sentenced three Al Jazeera English journalists to three years prison each for reporting “false news.” The ministry said in a statement that John Casson’s comments were “unacceptable interference” in the country’s judiciary, and “incompatible with diplomatic norms and practices.” Speaking to television cameras in Arabic after the verdict, Casson said he was “shocked and concerned... Читать дальше...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — A large fire broke out Sunday in the basement of a sprawling residential complex in Saudi Arabia’s oil-rich east, killing at least 11 people and injuring more than 200, officials in the kingdom said. The complex houses workers for state oil giant Saudi Aramco, which oversees petroleum production in the OPEC powerhouse. The company said an investigation has begun into the cause of the fire, which sent thick black smoke billowing from the pink-and-tan colored building. Читать дальше...

On Saturday, a court in the central Hungarian city of Kecskemet, where prosecutors say the truck departed, placed four other suspects under preliminary arrest pending possible indictment in the case. Police have set up a hotline for people who may have information on who was aboard the truck and also are hoping for clues from examining an unspecified number of cellphones found in the vehicle. “One can suspect that this was a Syrian group, or (that there were) a few Syrians,” Burgenland province... Читать дальше...

HOUSTON — The man charged with capital murder in the fatal shooting of a uniformed suburban Houston sheriff’s deputy had a lengthy criminal record going back a decade, but never spent more than short stints in jail. Shannon Miles, whose criminal record includes convictions for resisting arrest and disorderly conduct with a firearm, is to be arraigned Monday in the shooting of Darren Goforth, a 10-year veteran of the Harris County Sheriff’s Office. Miles’ criminal record begins in 2005, when he was convicted of criminal mischief... Читать дальше...

Erstwhile Broadway star Anna Patterson’s grand entrance in “The Country House” may be a flop, but she sure knows how to make an exit in the TheatreWorks Silicon Valley production that opened Saturday, Aug. 29, in Mountain View. A former Berkeley Rep leading lady and 35-year stage veteran, King invests Anna not only with a vanity commensurate with her commanding presence but also with a wry self-awareness that makes her “I am not one whose entrances go unnoticed” as empathetic as it is funny. Self-awareness... Читать дальше...

A large crowd of protesters camped overnight on the streets of Kuala Lumpur wearing yellow shirts of the Bersih movement — a coalition for clean and fair elections — even after authorities blocked the organizer’s website and banned yellow attire and the group’s logo. Former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, who has been spearheading calls for Najib’s resignation, appeared at the rally Sunday with his wife for a second day, telling protesters that people power was needed to remove Najib and return the rule of law. Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON (AP) — White House says tallest North American mountain, Mount McKinley, to be renamed Denali.