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WUHAN, China (AP) — Iga Swiatek was knocked out of the Wuhan Open on Friday in a straight-set defeat to Jasmine Paolini — a player the Wimbledon champion had never previously lost against.Paolini powered her way to a 6-1, 6-2 victory over the second-ranked Swiatek in a quarterfinal that was over in 65 minutes.It was the Italian’s first victory over Swiatek in their seventh meeting — with Paolini having previously won only one set — and secured her a semifinal spot against the third-ranked Coco Gauff.“Finally I won a match,” the seventh-seeded Paolini said. “I’m super happy about my level.…
CHICAGO (AP) — With one big swing, Ian Happ sent a charge through an electric crowd of 41,770 at Wrigley Field.After a rough start to the playoffs, it was a pretty sweet moment for the longest-tenured player with the Chicago Cubs.Happ connected for a three-run homer in the first inning on Thursday night, sending Chicago to a 6-0 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers that pushed their NL Division Series to a decisive Game 5.“I’m just so happy for Ian,” Cubs manager Craig Counsell said. “I think it was great for Ian to have the playoff moment that he deserved. It…
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Eyes red, Orion Kerkering received words of support from his Philadelphia Phillies teammates.“‘Just keep your head up. It’s an honest mistake. Just, it’s baseball,’” he remembered hearing. “`You’ll be good for a long time to come,’” they added. “It’s not my fault, then. We had opportunities to score,” was the message he kept getting.Kerkering made a wild throw past home plate Thursday instead of tossing to first after mishandling Andy Pages’ bases-loaded comebacker with two outs in the 11th inning. Pinch-runner Hyeseong Kim scored and the Phillies were eliminated with a 2-1 loss that gave the…
CHICAGO (AP) — Matthew Boyd pitched two-hit ball into the fifth inning, and the Chicago Cubs shut down the Milwaukee Brewers for a 6-0 victory Thursday night that pushed their NL Division Series all the way to a decisive Game 5.Ian Happ, Kyle Tucker and Michael Busch homered for Chicago, delighting a rollicking Wrigley Field crowd of 41,770. Busch went deep for the second straight game and third time in the series.“It’s cool that the brightest lights have brought the best out of a lot of our guys,” said Nico Hoerner, who had three of Chicago’s 10 hits.The Cubs were…
CHICAGO (AP) — Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, the chaplain for the men’s basketball team at Loyola Chicago who became a beloved international celebrity during the school’s fairy-tale run to the Final Four of the NCAA Tournament in 2018, has died, the university announced Thursday night. She was 106.Health issues caused Sister Jean to step down from her role with the university in August, though the school said she remained as an adviser in the final months of her life.“In many roles at Loyola over the course of more than 60 years, Sister Jean was an invaluable source of wisdom and…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on Thursday tweeted a video of his company’s first deployed massive AI system — or AI “factory” as Nvidia likes to call them. He promised this is the “first of many” such Nvidia AI factories that will be deployed across Microsoft Azure’s global data centers to run OpenAI workloads. Each system is a cluster of more than 4,600 Nvidia GB300s rack computers sporting the much-in-demand Blackwell Ultra GPU chip and connected via Nvidia’s super-fast networking tech called InfiniBand. (Besides AI chips, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang also had the foresight to corner the market on InfiniBand when…
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — Jalen Hurts overthrew DeVonta Smith when the receiver was wide open with the chance for an easy touchdown. That was one lowlight of the Philadelphia Eagles’ second consecutive loss, but Hurts also had another Thursday night.Hurts’ pass was picked off early in the fourth quarter by Cor’Dale Flott, who returned it 68 yards to set up the New York Giants’ fifth touchdown in a 34-17 rout. It was Hurts’ first interception of the season and just the second — counting the Super Bowl he won as MVP — in 15 games over the past 11…
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — Cam Skattebo and Jaxson Dart sat next to each other on the flight home from New Orleans and lamented the turnovers they committed that caused the New York Giants to lose a game they felt they should have won.The conversations continued this week, while Dart was listening to outsiders giving his team little chance to beat the Philadelphia Eagles. Then the rookies responded exactly like coach Brian Daboll expected to spark a prime-time upset of the reigning Super Bowl champions. Skattebo ran for three touchdowns, Dart had one rushing and another passing and the Giants…
By Sneha S K(Reuters) -The U.S. government announced quality ratings for 2026 Medicare health and prescription drug plans on Thursday, which help determine bonus payments from the government to health insurers.CVS Health’s Aetna unit has more than 81% of members in top-rated programs. UnitedHealth has 78%, Elevance 55% and Humana about 20%, figures from the regulator and companies showed.Overall, 64% of people currently enrolled in Medicare Advantage plans that cover prescription drugs are covered by plans rated four or five stars, according to a research note from Oppenheimer.The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, which is part of the…
Google’s bet on an AI startup to streamline employee benefits quickly turned into a privacy firestorm on Wednesday. The company told staff they’d have to hand over personal data to healthcare startup Nayya to use their health benefits — a move that Nayya’s CEO says is rare among its partners.Google’s initial data sharing requirements came from the Big Tech giant, not from the startup, Nayya’s CEO Sina Chehrazi shared with Business Insider. Nearly every other business Nayya works with allows its employees to opt in to sharing different pieces of their personal data as they see fit, he said.”We haven’t…