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Angels Broadcaster, Former Pitcher Still Going Strong After Life-Threatening Event

Approaching the four-year anniversary of a cardiac event that under most any other circumstances would have taken his life, Angels radio broadcaster and former major-league pitcher Mark Langston can joke about it. That is, after all, how baseball players, and former baseball players, usually deal with adversity and frightening situations. Mr. Langston was on the

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Coroner Identifies the 3 Men Killed in a Greyhound Bus Crash Near St. Louis

ST. LOUIS—Passengers from New Jersey, Arizona and Illinois were killed when a Greyhound bus slammed into three tractor-trailers parked along an exit ramp near St. Louis, a coroner said Thursday. Fourteen others were injured in the accident just before 2 a.m. Wednesday on Interstate 70 near Highland, Illinois, about 25 miles (40 kilometers) short of

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Google Rolls out AI Chatbot Bard to Europe and Brazil and Adds More Features

LONDON—Google said Thursday that it’s rolling out its AI-powered chatbot Bard across Europe and in Brazil, expanding its availability to hundreds of millions more users. The company also said it’s adding more features to Bard as it scrambles to keep up with rival Microsoft—which uses OpenAI’s popular ChatGPT service in its Bing search engine—in the

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Putin: Foreign-Made Tanks Are ‘Priority Target’ for Russian Forces in Ukraine

MOSCOW—Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Western supplies of weapons to Ukraine would change nothing on the battlefield but only further escalate the conflict, adding that foreign-made tanks were a “priority target” for Moscow’s forces. Mr. Putin, in comments to state television made after a NATO summit in which Ukraine won a promise

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Delta Air Lines Is Soaring to a Record $1.8 Billion Profit as Summer Vacationers Pack Planes

Delta Air Lines soared to a record quarterly profit of more than $1.8 billion as summer vacationers packed planes, especially to international destinations, and the airline enjoyed a tailwind from falling fuel prices. The results released Thursday beat Wall Street expectations, and Delta raised its forecast of full-year earnings. Delta officials said strong demand for

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Judge Rules Man Accused of Trying to Open Jet’s Door, Attacking Crew, Not Competent for Trial

BOSTON—A man charged with attacking a flight attendant with a broken metal spoon and attempting to open an airliner’s emergency door on a cross-country flight in March is not currently competent to stand trial, a federal judge ruled. Magistrate Judge Judith Dein, basing her decision on a mental health evaluation of Francisco Severo Torres and

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Man Who Shot 2 Firefighters in Alabama Motivated by Personal Conflict With One of Them, Police Say

BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—Investigators believe the man who shot two on-duty firefighters at an Alabama firehouse had a personal conflict with one of them, a police spokesman said Thursday. Detectives are still trying to determine the basis for that conflict. They have not yet been able to talk to the firefighters, but believe only one of them

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Michigan Woman Seriously Injured in Roller Coaster Accident Sues Ohio Amusement Park

SANDUSKY, Ohio—A Michigan woman struck in the head by a metal bracket that fell off a roller coaster at an Ohio amusement park has sued the park and its parent company, alleging their negligence caused the accident that left her with traumatic brain injuries. The August 2021 accident occurred as the then-44-year-old woman was waiting

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A Deadly Bomb Ambush of Police in Mexico Has Endangered Mothers Who Search for the Missing

MEXICO CITY—A drug cartel bomb attack that allegedly used a fake report of a mass grave to lure police into a deadly trap has had devastating collateral damage: It has led some authorities to abandon the volunteers who search for Mexico’s 110,000 missing people. Most of the searchers are distraught mothers looking for the bodies

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