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PHOENIX (AP) — Zack Wheeler delivered another postseason gem with seven shutdown innings, Bryce Harper, Kyle Schwarber and J.T. Realmulto homered and the Philadelphia Phillies beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 6-1 on Saturday night to take a 3-2 NL Championship Series lead. Political Cartoons View All 1211 ImagesRealmuto added a two-run homer in the eighth against Luis Frías for 6-1 lead. Umpires ruled Harper couldn’t have avoided the collision because Marte’s throw drew Moreno down the third-base line. RARE THEFTHarper’s steal of home was the first in Phillies’ postseason history and just the 22nd in MLB postseason history.

Persons: — Zack Wheeler, Bryce Harper, Kyle Schwarber, Realmulto, ” Schwarber, ” Bryson Stott, Harper, Gabriel Moreno, Zac Gallen, Schwarber’s, roughed, Gallen, Luis Frías, Wheeler, “, Rob Thomson, Alek Thomas, Thomas, Schwarber, Moreno, Ketel Marte, Harper couldn’t, Houston's Jose Altuve, It’s, Randy Arozarena, Torey Lovullo, Pavin Smith, Tommy Pham, Smith, Chase, Michael Phelps, Aaron Nola, Merrill Kelly, ___ Organizations: PHOENIX, Philadelphia Phillies, Arizona Diamondbacks, Philadelphia, Chase, Phillies, ” Phillies, Diamondbacks, Umpires, MLB, Tampa, NEXT Locations: Philadelphia, Arizona, Phoenix

☆ Early runs hold up in D-backs' 3-0 win over White Sox
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-27 | by ( Field Level Media | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/28] Sep 27, 2023; Chicago, Illinois, USA; Chicago White Sox starting pitcher Luis Patino (77) delivers a pitch against the Arizona Diamondbacks during the first inning at Guaranteed Rate Field. The White Sox must win three of their four remaining games to avoid the franchise's first 100-loss season since 2018 -- currently the club's only such campaign since 1971. Arizona has won 10 straight games against Chicago dating to 2014, the longest streak against an American League opponent in franchise history. After retiring the first seven Arizona hitters, White Sox starter Luis Patino allowed five straight baserunners while uncorking a wild pitch, leading to three Diamondbacks runs. Eloy Jimenez, Andrew Vaughn and Lenyn Sosa doubled for the White Sox.

Persons: Luis Patino, Kamil Krzaczynski, Corbin Carroll, Brandon Pfaadt, Tommy Pham, Ketel Marte, Luis Frias, Andrew Saalfrank, Ryan Thompson, Paul Sewald, Sewald, Eloy Jimenez, Andrew Vaughn, Lenyn Sosa, Trayce Thompson, Jimenez, Sosa, Arizona's Lourdes Gurriel Jr Organizations: Chicago White Sox, Arizona Diamondbacks, League, Chicago, White Sox, Arizona, American League, Diamondbacks, Cubs, Thomson Locations: Chicago , Illinois, USA, . Arizona, Arizona, Chicago

☆ Ruth Bader Ginsburg died at 87 after serving as a Supreme Court Justice for 27 years. Here's a look at the trailblazer's life and career.
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-18 | by ( Rachel Premack | Lauren Frias | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died on September 18, 2020, due to complications from cancer. She was a left-leaning Associate Justice on the Supreme Court for nearly three decades and a pop culture icon. "Today we mourn, but with confidence that future generations will remember Ruth Bader Ginsburg as we knew her — a tireless and resolute champion of justice," Roberts continued. She spent decades as a trailblazer in gender equality law before she became an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court — and a pop culture icon. AdvertisementAdvertisementShe was on the nation's highest court for nearly 30 years, ever since she took her oath on August 10, 1993.

Persons: Ruth Bader Ginsburg, John Roberts, Ginsburg, Roberts, — Organizations: Service, Supreme Court Locations: Wall, Silicon

Lara and Roger Griffiths bought their dream home … and then life fell apart. The Daily MailBefore they won a $2.76 million lottery jackpot in 2005, Lara and Roger Griffiths, of England, reportedly never argued. Then they won and bought a million-dollar barn-converted house and a Porsche, not to mention luxurious trips to Dubai, Monaco, and New York City. Shortly after, there were claims that Roger drove away in the Porsche after Lara confronted him over emails suggesting that he was interested in another woman. That ended their 14-year marriage.

Persons: Lara, Roger Griffiths, Roger Organizations: Daily, Porsche, New York City . Media Locations: England, Dubai, Monaco, New York City

☆ Electrical accident at Chile's El Teniente copper mine leaves one dead
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-30 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

SANTIAGO, June 29 (Reuters) - An electrical accident at Codelco's El Teniente mine in central Chile, the company's largest copper mine, left one dead, the state-owned mining giant said in a statement on Thursday. Codelco said the accident happened at the mine's Andes Norte expansion project at about 3 p.m. (1900 GMT) when Osvaldo Bustamante Frias, a 29-year-old electrical technician, suffered an electric discharge during the installation of a generator. The company said work in the area was immediately halted and started an investigation to determine the cause of the accident. State-owned Codelco, the world's largest copper producer, said the technician was employed by German construction firm Zublin, which had been contracted to work on the Andes Norte project. Parts of El Teniente's mining operations had been halted recently due to recent torrential rainfall, but underground operations and work on the Andes Norte project continued.

Persons: SANTIAGO, Codelco, Osvaldo Bustamante Frias, Fabian Cambero, Carolina Pulice, Sarah Morland, Isabel Woodford, Sonali Paul Organizations: Thomson Locations: Teniente, Chile

☆ Facing a future without affirmative action, students of color say the pressure is on them to fight for diversity: 'To be going backwards in this sort of immense way is really scary'
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-29 | by ( Yoonji Han | Lauren Frias | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

Affirmative action has been used to pit Asian Americans against other communities of color, experts said. "By grouping together all Asian students, for instance, respondents are apparently uninterested in whether South Asian or East Asian students are adequately represented, so long as there is enough of one to compensate for a lack of the other," Roberts wrote. "Affirmative action provides a second chance for students of color," Stewart Kwoh, co-executive director of the Asian American Education Project, told Insider. In the face of the destabilizing effects of rolling back affirmative action, students of color are shoring up to ensure diversity at their schools. Ron DeSantis signed a bill mandating Asian American and Pacific Islander studies in schools, a move that critics condemned as using Asian American communities as a "wedge" against other communities of color.

Persons: —, John Roberts, Roberts, Sonia Sotomayor, Sotomayor, Stewart Kwoh, Sarah Zhang, we're, Zhang, Muskaan Arshad, Arshad, Chip Somodevilla, Ron DeSantis, Gregg Orton, There's, Reyna Patel, Hill, I've, Shruthi Kumar, Scott Applewhite, They're, Agustin Leon, Saenz Organizations: Service, Harvard, University of North, Asian American Education, Affirmative, Coalition, UNC, Fair, US, Florida Department of Education, AP, American, Florida Gov, Pacific, National Council of Asian Pacific, NBC, Studies, Asian Locations: University of North Carolina, America, Mexican, Harvard, Washington ,, Florida

☆ Friends of American journalist Evan Gershkovich describe his life before he was arrested and put in one of Russia's most notorious prisons
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-13 | by ( Lauren Frias | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

In March, Russia arrested Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and accused him of espionage. He's being held in Lefortovo, a prison where former inmates said they felt isolated and abandoned. His friends describe the journalist's life in college and living in New York before he was detained. Gershkovich is the first American journalist to be detained on espionage charges in Russia since the Cold War. Former prisoners and those who visited the notorious Russian prison recalled harrowing experiences of isolation — a stark contrast to the life the US journalist was living in New York and Russia before his arrest.

☆ Tucker Carlson was ousted from Fox News after a decade-plus career with the network. Here are 7 other high-profile departures in recent years.
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( Jake Lahut | Oma Seddiq | Lauren Frias | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Fox News has seen a cascade of departures in past years, many of which amid sexual-harassment allegations. High-profile host Tucker Carlson was abruptly ousted earlier this week after more than a decade with the network. Before Carlson was dropped from the network, several prominent hosts and executives have been terminated or left the network in recent years, with sexual misconduct a recurring theme. The 2019 movie "Bombshell" and Showtime series "The Loudest Voice" both focused on the reckoning over rampant sexual misconduct that hit the network in 2016 and 2017, leading to a slew of departures. Here are eight of the most notable departures from Fox in past years:

Buarque was awarded in 2019 the Camoes Prize, which every year recognises an author from a Portuguese-speaking nation. The prize, named after Portuguese poet Luis de Camoes, was created by Portugal and Brazil in 1988. When Buarque won, Bolsonaro refused to sign the award diploma, delaying the ceremony. Buarque was also an opponent of the two decade-long military dictatorship in Brazil that began in 1964. "It is for me a satisfaction to correct one of the biggest mistakes ... committed against Brazilian culture in recent times," Lula said.

☆ Courtroom sketches capture former President Donald Trump's arraignment after cameras, phones, and electronics were banned at the start of the proceedings
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-05 | by ( Lauren Frias | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Trump appeared in court for his arraignment on Tuesday. Three courtroom sketch artists captured scenes from inside the Manhattan courtroom where it happened. The illustrations documented what cameras couldn't after electronics were banned from the courtroom. Loading Something is loading. Trump is the first current or former US president to ever face criminal charges.

☆ Venezuela's Maduro to join Ibero-American summit in rare foreign trip
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-25 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

SANTO DOMINGO, March 24 (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro will attend an Ibero-American summit this weekend hosted by the Dominican Republic, a summit official said on Friday, marking one of the embattled leader's few trips abroad. "We welcome President Nicolas Maduro, who is on his way to the Dominican Republic," said Marian Cruz, the master of ceremonies for the event, which provides a forum for leaders from across Latin America as well as Spain and Portugal. Maduro's attendance at the Saturday and Sunday summit in Santo Domingo would be his first foreign trip this year. Maduro is shunned by many governments due in large part to his 2018 re-election derided as a sham by international observers. Cruz, the summit official, also confirmed the attendance of Spain's President Pedro Sanchez.

☆ Inflation, migration in focus at regional Ibero-American summit
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-25 | by ( Paul Mathiasen And Jesus Frias | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/4] Honduras President Xiomara Castro attends at the XXVIII Ibero-American Summit of Heads of State and Government, in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, March 25, 2023. Dominican Republic Ministry of Foreign Affairs/Handout via REUTERSSANTO DOMINGO, March 25 (Reuters) - Leaders attending the Ibero-American Summit meeting in the Dominican Republic on Saturday highlighted rising inflation and migration as risks to the stability of the region. "Today migration management constitutes one of the great regional challenges," said Chilean President Gabriel Boric. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, meanwhile, canceled his attendance at the Ibero-American summit after receiving a positive COVID-19 test result, though he has since tested negative twice, Vice President Delcy Rodriguez said. Reporting by Paul Mathiasen and Jesus Frias in Santo Domingo and Marco Aquino in Lima Writing by Cassandra Garrison Editing by Matthew Lewis and Deepa BabingtonOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Rupert Murdoch is getting married for the fifth time at 92 years old. Here's a complete timeline of his past marriages.
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-23 | by ( Lauren Frias | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Anna Murdoch MannRupert Murdoch with his wife, Anna and their baby daughter, Elizabeth, at London Airport in 1968 Evening Standard/Getty ImagesShortly after his divorce from his first wife, Murdoch met his soon-to-be second bride, Anna Murdoch Mann, whose maiden name was Torv. They first met when Murdoch Mann was 18 years old when she had the opportunity to interview Murdoch while she worked for the Sydney newspaper, The Daily Telegraph, which he owned. The media mogul and Scottish-Australian novelist were married for 32 years and had three children together, Elisabeth Murdoch, Lachlan Murdoch, and James Murdoch. Murdoch and Torv divorced in 1999. "I thought we had a wonderful, happy marriage," she said in an interview with Australian Women's Weekly in 2001.

☆ Photos show the horrors of Auschwitz, the largest and deadliest Nazi concentration camp, 78 years after its liberation
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-27 | by ( Natalie Colarossi | Lauren Frias | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

It has been 78 years since the Soviet Army liberated Auschwitz, the largest Nazi concentration complex. First established in 1940, Auschwitz had a concentration camp, large gas chambers, and crematoria. More than 1.1 million people were murdered at Auschwitz, including nearly one million Jews. In just five years, over one million people were murdered at Auschwitz, the largest and deadliest Nazi concentration camp. The terror of Auschwitz finally subsided on January 27, 1945, when the Soviet Army liberated the remaining 7,000 prisoners from the camps.

☆ Side-by-side photos of Bolsonaro supporters storming Brazil's Congress demonstrates a stunning parallel to Trump supporters descending upon the Capitol on January 6
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-10 | by ( Lauren Frias | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: 1 min

Though the riots at Brazil's capital buildings mirrored the events at the US Capitol two years prior, the January 6 riots perhaps served as the muse for one pro-Bolsonaro protester, Julio Monteiro, during a right-wing rally in Sao Paolo, Brazil, in September of last year. A man takes part in a demonstration in support of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on September 7, 2021, on Brazil's Independence Day. MIGUEL SCHINCARIOL/AFP via Getty Images

☆ Behind-the-scenes C-SPAN footage from the House chamber shows chaos and frustration after nearly a dozen failed attempts to elect a Speaker
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-06 | by ( Lauren Frias | Sonam Sheth | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: 1 min

Democratic Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was seen speaking with GOP Rep.-elect Paul Gosar, who once stirred controversy for sharing a violent edited anime video of him slaying her. The edited anime, "Attack of Titan," has been co-opted by alt-right factions when discussing white supremacist narratives. Source: Insider

☆ The ambitious career of Kevin McCarthy, GOP hopeful for Speaker of the House
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-03 | by ( Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert | Lauren Frias | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Kevin McCarthy, a California Republican, is the GOP nominee for Speaker of the House. But the GOP House leader's bid for Speaker hangs in the balance as he scrambled for support to lock down the role. Democratic nominee for Speaker Hakeem Jeffries didn't lose a single Democratic vote in the House, getting 203 votes, but also failing to meet the 218-vote threshold to become Speaker. The last time a speaker election has gone to multiple votes was in 1923 when a Speaker of the House was elected after nine ballots. Just hours before the vote, McCarthy delivered an impassioned speech to his party in a last-minute attempt to secure support to cement the role.

☆ Hope Hicks was once one of Trump's closest confidantes. Less than 2 years later, she testified that her former boss told her that no one would care about his legacy if he lost the 2020 election.
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-19 | by ( Rebecca Harrington | Ellen Cranley | Charles R. Davis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Hope Hicks, 34, was one of President Donald Trump's most trusted advisers. Hicks resigned from the White House on January 12, 2021, but told people it was a planned departure. She was one of the few White House aides who told Trump he lost the 2020 election. Before testifying in the investigation launched against her former boss' involvement in the Capitol riots, Hicks was the youngest White House communications director in history. She later rejoined the Trump White House as a counselor to the president, reporting to senior adviser and Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner.

☆ The 4 landmark Supreme Court rulings that changed marriage in the US
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-16 | by ( Lauren Frias | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Loving v. Virginia (1967)The Supreme Court ruled unanimously that a Virginia law banning marriage between African Americans and Caucasians was unconstitutional, thus nullifying similar statutes in 15 other states. They later returned to their home in Caroline County, Virginia, where interracial marriage is illegal due to the state's Racial Integrity Act of 1924. In October 1958, Loving and Jeter were charged with violating Virginia's law against interracial marriage. Loving wrote to then-US Attorney General Robert Kennedy for help, who referred them to the ACLU, which represented them in the landmark Supreme Court case, Loving v. Virginia, in 1967. In a unanimous decision, the nation's highest court ruled that state bans on interracial marriage were unconstitutional.

☆ A bombing suspect in the 1988 explosion aboard Pan Am Flight 103 has been taken into US custody. Here's what has happened in the decades since the deadly attack.
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-15 | by ( Lauren Frias | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: 1 min

The day after the bombing, then-British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher visited Lockerbie to meet with residents impacted by the tragedy. "The damage to this town is worse in daylight than we could possibly have seen at night," Thatcher said at the time. "The destruction of the houses near the road and the crater and the amount of metal and debris all around, and the many houses that must have been affected is far worse than I thought, and one had no idea until one came here." British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher talks to local residents in the town of Lockerbie, Scotland, shortly after the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, December 1988. Tom Stoddart Archive/Getty ImagesSource: ITN

☆ It's been a decade since the Sandy Hook shooting. Here are the names and pictures of the 27 victims, including 20 children, who were murdered that day.
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-14 | by ( Michal Kranz | Rebecca Harrington | Azmi Haroun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Twenty children and six staff members were killed in Newtown, Connecticut, on December 14, 2012. It was the deadliest mass shooting at an elementary school in US history. The 20-year-old gunman also killed his mother that day and shot himself after the massacre. "Sad for the searing loss, that hurts like hell every Dec 14th for those parents, my friends. Here are all 27 people killed in the deadliest elementary school shooting in US history.

☆ Liz Cheney resurfaced Paul Gosar's deleted tweet supporting Donald Trump's call to terminate the US Constitution: 'Time to condemn Trump yet?'
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-08 | by ( Lauren Frias | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

On Saturday, Trump suggested terminating rules in the Constitution that led to disputed voter fraud in the 2020 election. Rep. Liz Cheney resurfaced Gosar's tweet, calling on House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy to condemn the former president. Following backlash from GOP senators on his call to terminate the US Constitution, Trump attempted to walk back his remarks on Monday. This is simply more DISINFORMATION & LIES," Trump wrote on Truth Social. "This week Trump said we should terminate all rules, regulations etc 'even those in the Constitution' to overturn the election.

☆ Political experts don't think the Trump Org's felony status is enough to kill Donald Trump's chances in 2024: 'At some point, the Republican party has to decide how much they're willing to overlook'
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-07 | by ( Lauren Frias | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

But experts don't think the conviction is enough to tamp down his chances in the 2024 election. "But at some point, the Republican party has to decide how much they're willing to overlook before they just cut him loose," Crouse said. "That's not really a logical analysis, that's more a poetic analysis, but I think it does have symbolic significance in that sense." "Even though [Trump] wasn't a defendant, it's at his feet, and it can be portrayed that way by his enemies both inside the Republican party and outside the Republican party," O'Brien added. "And I think that's going to weaken his candidacy" in 2024, especially as his hold on the GOP is challenged by a potential presidential hopeful: Florida Gov.

☆ A House committee obtained 6 years worth of Donald Trump's federal income tax returns from the IRS
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-30 | by ( Lauren Frias | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

The House Ways and Committee obtained Donald Trump's federal tax returns after a yearslong legal battle. The Democrat-led panel initially requested his federal income tax returns in 2019 when Trump was still president. The move came just a week after the Supreme Court rejected Trump's request to block the panel from receiving the records. The move comes just over a week after the Supreme Court dismissed Trump's emergency request to block House Democrats from receiving the former president's closely guarded financial records. "Treasury has complied with last week's court decision," a spokesperson for the Treasury Department told NBC News.

☆ Mike Pence said Donald Trump was 'wrong' for hosting white supremacist Nick Fuentes at Mar-a-Lago, saying he 'should apologize without qualification'
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-29 | by ( Lauren Frias | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Mike Pence said Donald Trump was "wrong" for hosting Nick Fuentes at Mar-a-Lago and should apologize. Trump met with Kanye West last week, who "unexpectedly" arrived with Fuentes, a known white supremacist. Trump continued, claiming that he did not know Nick Fuentes at the time of the dinner. "President Trump was wrong to give a white nationalist, an anti-Semite, and a Holocaust denier a seat at the table," Pence said in an interview with NewsNation that aired Monday. "If it was any other party, breaking bread with Nick Fuentes would be instantly disqualifying for Trump," Democratic National Committee spokesperson Ammar Moussa said, per a report by Politico.

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