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By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Sports Writer LANDOVER, Md. — Music blared from the Chicago Bears’ locker room after a victory for the first time in almost a year, and players danced and jumped around with joy. All thanks to Justin Fields and DJ Moore being perfectly in tune. Fields and Moore connected eight times for…
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EL SEGUNDO — Although he won’t play in Saturday’s preseason opener, Lakers star LeBron James seemingly looks like his pre-injury self during training camp. James told reporters after Thursday’s practice that he won’t suit up against the Golden State Warriors but hopes to play in about half of the Lakers’ six preseason games. “Hopefully I…
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By Kareem Chehayeb and Albert Aji | Associated Press BEIRUT — A drone attack hit a crowded military graduation ceremony Thursday in the Syrian city of Homs, killing 80 people and wounding 240, the health minister said, in one of the deadliest recent attacks on an army that’s been fighting a civil war for more…
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LOS ANGELES — Do not go to a food court with MarShawn Lloyd, lest you seek judgement. Since he was young, when he first discovered that putting unhealthy things in his body made him just feel weird, the USC running back has gone about his diet religiously. Tried to go about others’, too, with his…
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CHICAGO (AP) — Dick Butkus, a fearsome middle linebacker for the Chicago Bears, has died, the team announced Thursday. He was 80. According to a statement released by the team, Butkus’ family confirmed that he died in his sleep overnight at his home in Malibu, California. Butkus was a Hall of Famer whose bone-rattling tackles…
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Fred Mitchell | Chicago Tribune Dick Butkus, the player who perhaps best epitomized the tough and determined identity of the Chicago Bears, has died, the Tribune confirmed Thursday. He was 80. The Butkus family said Thursday he died “peacefully in his sleep overnight at home” in Malibu, California. A product of Chicago’s working-class South Side…
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By Giovanna Dell’Orto | Associated Press ISOLA DEL GRAN SASSO, Italy — Two children scribbled petitions to St. Gabriele dell’Addolorata in the vast sanctuary where the young saint is venerated in this central Italian mountain village. Andrea, 6, asked for blessings for his family and pets. Sofia, 9, gave thanks for winning a dance competition.…
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By MARK STEVENSON, MICHAEL BALSAMO and COLLEEN LONG MEXICO CITY — The Biden administration will resume deporting Venezuelan migrants, the largest single group encountered at the U.S.-Mexico border last month, back to their economically troubled country as their arrivals continue to grow. U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, speaking in Mexico City Thursday, cited the…
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By Kaanita Iyer | CNN Former President Donald Trump allegedly discussed potentially sensitive information about US nuclear submarines with a member of his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, following his presidency, ABC reported Thursday. Sources told ABC that the member is Anthony Pratt, an Australian billionaire who allegedly went on to share the information…
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By JANIE HAR SAN FRANCISCO — The late U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein was toasted Thursday at a memorial service as a leader with uncommon integrity and a defender of American values — as well as a talented artist and a grandmother who gave crooked haircuts in her kitchen. President Joe Biden, who sent recorded remarks,…
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