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Fried leaves injured list, will pitch for Yankees today

NEW YORK (AP) — Max Fried will come off the injured list to pitch for the New York Yankees in Saturday's day-night doubleheader against the Boston Red Sox. The team hadn't yet decided which game Fried will start, manager Aaron Boone said Friday afternoon. Fellow left-hander Carlos Rodón is scheduled to get the ball in the other game. "We'll figure out how we're going to roll it out here a little later," Boone said. "We'll talk, me and the pitching group, and see what just makes the most sense. It won't be rocket science. It'll be like, what do we think just puts the staff as a ...

For Dolly Parton, being real was more than ‘9 to 5’

There are many ways to measure the life someone lived. We can count the awards, money earned, companies built or the number of people who knew their name. But when Dolly Parton died at 80, she left behind a different kind of measurement. Her greatest legacy may be found in the people who were inspired to become kinder, more generous and more authentic because she showed them how. During her life, Dolly Parton became one of the most recognizable people in the world. She wrote some of the most enduring songs in American music, became a successful actress and businesswoman, built ...

Beware the moral panic over AI data centers

Don't look now, but we seem to have a moral panic on our hands. The term moral panic, at least as a social science concept, is relatively modern. It was coined by Stanley Cohen in the 1972 book "Folk Devils and Moral Panics." Moral panics emerge when large numbers of people start to freak ...

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The world is sleepwalking into a new nuclear arms race. As arms-control treaties hashed out over decades lapse, countries that formerly rejected possessing nuclear weapons are starting to reconsider. The Doomsday Clock is set at 85 seconds to midnight, the closest it’s ever been to the symbolic hour of the apocalypse. The United States and Russia, which control 86 percent of the world’s nuclear arsenal, are without an arms-limitation treaty for the first time since 1972. The New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, signed by President Barack Obama in 2010 and extended under President ...

Alcaraz begins US Open title defense

NEW YORK — Carlos Alcaraz will open the defense of his U.S. Open title against an opponent who made a strong run at Wimbledon while the Spaniard was sidelined with an injury. Along with some interesting opening-round matches, the draws for men's and women's singles Thursday delivered one what-could-have-been possibility: Had Serena Williams decided to play, there could have been a Williams sisters showdown in Round 1. When Venus Williams was given a wild card into the event at 46, the U.S. Tennis Association initially held one spot, which surely would have gone to Serena if the ...