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Tampa Bay Rays' Adeiny Hechavarria, left, high-fives teammate Lucas Duda after scoring on Duda's three-run home run in the third inning of a baseball game against the Baltimore Orioles in Baltimore, Saturday, Sept. 23, 2017.

Duda's 3-run HR helps Rays eliminate Orioles with 9-6 win

Lucas Duda hit a go-ahead, three-run homer to back Jake Odorizzi, and the Tampa Bay Rays beat Baltimore 9-6 to eliminate the Orioles from postseason contention.

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NASA honors ‘Hidden Figure’ Katherine Johnson with a new facility in her name

NASA honored Katherine Johnson, the former NASA employee who inspired the movie “Hidden Figures,” by unveiling a new research facility on Friday named after her.

Minnesota Twins left fielder Zack Granite

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Granite's 1st HR caps 8-run 8th as Twins top Tigers 10-4

Zack Granite hit his first major league home run, a three-run drive that capped an eight-run eighth inning for the Minnesota Twins in a 10-4 win over the Detroit Tigers.

Cleveland Indians' Francisco Lindor smiles as he rounds the bases on his solo home run against the Seattle Mariners in the first inning of a baseball game Saturday, Sept. 23, 2017, in Seattle.

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Lindor's 33rd homer leads Indians over Mariners 11-4

Francisco Lindor led off the game with his 33rd home run, the most by a Cleveland middle infielder, and the Indians routed the Seattle Mariners 11-4 for their 28th victory in 30 games.

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A retired colonel found a naked burglar dangling from his ceiling, police say

Randy Forsyth, 24, was charged in a burglary that occurred September 22, 2017, at a home in the 7600 block of Eagle Drive in Columbus, Georgia.

A screenshot of retweets on the N.C. Department of Transportation Twitter account Saturday, Sept. 23, 2017.

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This DOT ‘accidentally retweeted’ anti-Trump comments on white supremacists, NFL

N.C. Department of Transportation ‘accidentally retweeted’ tweets regarding Trump statements on white supremacists, NFL players taking knee during National Anthem.

New York Yankees' Greg Bird, right, celebrates at home plate with teammate Chase Headley after hitting a three-run home run against the Toronto Blue Jays in the fifth inning of a baseball game in Toronto on Saturday, Sept. 23, 2017.

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Yankees clinch postseason berth by beating Blue Jays 5-1

The New York Yankees returned to the playoffs after a one-year absence, clinching no worse than a wild card as Greg Bird's three-run homer led them over the Toronto Blue Jays 5-1.

DELETES NUMBER OF PEOPLE - North Koreans gather at Kim Il Sung Square to attend a mass rally against America on Saturday, Sept. 23, 2017, in Pyongyang, North Korea, a day after the country's leader issued a rare statement attacking Donald Trump. The sign on the left reads

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North Korea stages anti-US rally in battle with Trump

North Korea has held a large anti-U.S. rally in its capital city, backing its leader Kim Jong Un as he exchanges insult-laden threats with President Donald Trump.

Oakland Athletics catcher Bruce Maxwell kneels during the National Anthem before the start of a baseball game against the Texas Rangers Saturday, Sept. 23, 2017, in Oakland, Calif. Bruce Maxwell of the Oakland Athletics has become the first major league baseball player to kneel during the national anthem.

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Oakland's Maxwell first MLB player to kneel during anthem

Bruce Maxwell of the Oakland Athletics has become the first major league baseball player to kneel during the national anthem.

Prince Harry greets a waiting crowd as he visits The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto on Saturday, Sept. 23, 2017.

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Meghan Markle appears at Prince Harry's Invictus Games

Prince Harry's girlfriend is sitting in the stands for the opening ceremony of his Invictus Games for wounded veterans in her first appearance at a public event with him.

In this Sept. 12, 2017 photo, Roberto Shimizu leafs through pages of an El Santo comic book at the Old Toy Museum in Mexico City. The comic books fed from the stories sent from fans that wanted El Santo to fight characters like mummies, lady vampires or nazis.

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Mexico honors its greatest wrestler, El Santo, at centennial

You may have never heard the name Rodolfo Guzman, but his silver-masked alter ego, El Santo, was a larger-than-life presence in professional wrestling rings, in comics and on the silver screen.

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AP News in Brief at 11:04 p.m. EDT

AP News in Brief at 11:04 p.m. EDT.

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Video shows man punching California officer before shooting

A new video has surfaced appearing to show a man throwing punches and scuffling with a California police officer before the man is fatally shot outside of a convenience store.

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The Latest: US showing North Korea its military might

North Korea is getting a taste of American military might. The United States says it flew the planes to the farthest point north of the border between North and South Korea by any such American aircraft this century.

In this Sept. 21, 2017, photo, a sign on a door of the Environmental Protection Agency in Washington. The EPA says it has recovered 517 containers of “unidentified, potentially hazardous material” from highly contaminated toxic waste sites in Texas that flooded last month during Hurricane Harvey. But the agency has not provided details about which Superfund sites the material came from, why the contaminants at issue have not been identified and whether there’s a threat to human health.

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EPA removes waste at Texas toxic sites, won't say from where

EPA says it has recovered 517 containers of "unidentified, potentially hazardous material" from highly contaminated toxic waste sites in Texas that flooded last month during Hurricane Harvey.

In this image provided by the U.S. Air Force, a U.S. Air Force B-1B Lancer, assigned to the 37th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron, deployed from Ellsworth Air Force Base, S.D., prepares to take off from Andersen AFB, Guam, on Saturday, Sept. 23, 2017. The Pentagon says B-1B bombers from Guam and F-15 fighter escorts from Okinawa, Japan, have flown a mission in international airspace over the waters east of North Korea. The U.S. says it's the farthest north of the Demilitarized Zone that divides the Korean Peninsula that any American fighter or bomber has flown this century.

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US flies mission north of DMZ, sends message to North Korea

North Korea is getting a taste of American military might. The United States says it flew bombers and fighter escorts to the farthest point north of the border between North and South Korea by any such American aircraft this century.

FILE - In this Aug. 27, 2017 file photo, Demi Lovato arrives at the MTV Video Music Awards at The Forum in Inglewood, Calif. Lovato was named a Global Citizen mental health ambassador Saturday at the organization's music festival in New York City's Central Park.

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Demi Lovato to help war-scarred children in Iraq

Demi Lovato signs on as Global Citizen mental health ambassador for displaced kids in Iraq.

CORRECTS TO OMIT ANN COULTER- -In this Sept. 21, 2017 photo, a group has put up flyers and a booth on Sproul Plaza calling for protesters to

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Right-wing firebrand plans to hold rally at UC Berkeley

Right-wing commentator Milo Yiannopoulos says he plans to hold a rally at the University of California, Berkeley after a student group that planned a week of events with him pulled out.

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Police use stun gun on naked, bloody man who later dies

Nassau County police say officers used stun guns to try to subdue a naked man covered in blood, but the man stopped breathing and later died.

Residents manage provisions after the passing of Hurricane Maria, in Toa Baja, Puerto Rico, Friday, September 22, 2017. Because of the heavy rains brought by Maria, thousands of people were evacuated from Toa Baja after the municipal government opened the gates of the Rio La Plata Dam.

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Aid begins to flow to hurricane-hit Puerto Rico

Large amounts of federal aid began moving into Puerto Rico on Saturday, welcomed by local officials who praised the Trump administration's response but called for the emergency loosening of rules blamed for condemning Puerto Rico to second-class status.

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Talking about the Freedom to Marry - Out Here in Mississippi

Jul 22, 2017

Out Here in America host Justin Mitchell talks about the importance of marriage equality and the need for open conversation in the south with gay rights activist Evan Wolfson and filmmaker Eddie Rosenstein.

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