Dakota Hudson pitched 6 2/3 no-hit innings, walking four batters and striking out seven, before he handed it over to the bullpen. Brewers catcher Yasmani Grandal eventually spoiled the Cardinals’ efforts with a two-out double in the eighth inning. But St. Louis still pulled off a 3-0 win and now has a slight advantage in the National League Central. The Cardinals are 1/2-game in front of the Cubs and three games ahead of the Brewers....

But, it was Khris Davis who stole the spotlight Wednesday. The Athletics outfielder had his 17th multi-home run game since 2016 against the Orioles. First, he tallied an RBI in the third to give Oakland a 3-0 lead and then followed with a two-run home run in the fifth. He homered again in the seventh as the A’s beat the Orioles 10-3 to move to .500 (8-8). MORE: Watch ‘ChangeUp,’ a new MLB live whiparound show on DAZN...

New York (71-39) swept the doubleheader to move eight games up on the second-place Rays and 13 1/2 ahead of third-place Boston. If the Red Sox entered this series still entertaining hopes of catching the Yankees … sorry, it’s time to refocus on a wild-card spot, and the defending World Series champions are now 59-54 and trail by 5 1/2 games in that race. The Yankees won the opener 9-2, behind a strong pitching performance from Domingo German — who allowed two runs in seven innings to run his record to 14-2 — and the bat of DJ LeMahieu....

Until recently, the only elite team sport leagues that managed to successfully return have been in soccer: among them the Bundesliga, Premier League and La Liga in Europe, NWSL here in the United States. Major League Soccer launched its attempt this week with the MLS is Back Tournament. MORE: Watch MLS action on fuboTV (free seven-day trial) The league determined the quickest route to get its players back into action and onto the field would be to create a “bubble” in one particular location with sufficient hotel space and practice fields to accommodate all its teams....

Braces from Miguel Almiron and Kevin Kratz saw Atlanta to a 4-1 win over the Montreal Impact. Montreal took a surprise lead in the 13th minute, Saphir Taider heading in the opener. The Impact held onto that advantage until the final 20 minutes, when Atlanta struck four times. Almiron netted a penalty after a handball in the area before Kratz curled in a wonderful 25-yard free kick. After Almiron completed his brace, Kratz produced from another free kick to seal Atlanta’s win and move the club two points clear atop the Eastern Conference....

“Major League Soccer has suspended match play for 30 days, effective immediately, as the league continues to assess the impact of COVID-19 with its medical task force and public health officials,” the league said in a statement. “At the appropriate time, the league and clubs will communicate plans for the continuation of the 2020 season and update the status of league events.” The statement included a comment from MLS Commissioner Don Garber....

Fedor Emelianenko, who for nearly a decade was considered the greatest mixed martial artist on the planet, announced on Tuesday the end of his three-year retirement according to Russian outlet Union MMA. MORE: July’s top MMA fights | Seven pro athletes we want to see in MMA “For every athlete it is very important to be able to engage in their favorite thing: give all the best in training, performing in competitions, defending the honor of the motherland,” the 38-year-old Emelianenko said in a prepared statement released in his native Russian....

The suspect, who was taken into custody, has been identified a Floyd Roy Roseberry, 49. He posted several videos to his social media accounts as he drove to the Library of Congress in the morning, police said. One clip contains the words “F***ing revolution starts today, Joe Biden”—implying opposition to the current administration. Brooks, a staunch supporter of former President Donald Trump, released a statement about the incident on Thursday afternoon....

NEWSWEEK: Your Marcha Migrante III will take you to more than 30 cities over 17 days from the Mexican border to the Canadian border. What do you hope to accomplish? Enrique Morones: This time we are stressing the importance of voting. Su voto, es su voz: your vote is your voice. We’ll be holding rallies, community forums, vigils, interacting with migrants, and just talking about the importance of participating in the democratic process....

“We are less than five months away from the start of the next federal election, and there is no time for partisan games,” the lawmakers wrote in a letter. The letter was sent Thursday by leaders of the House Blue Dog Coalition and its national security-focused wing, the Blue Dog Task Force on National Security. The coalition, which is comprised of 26 moderate Democrats who consider themselves fiscally-responsible pragmatists and who often represent swing districts, sent their letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD), Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY)....

Moderna is developing influenza and HIV vaccines using mRNA technology, the backbone of its effective COVID-19 shots. The biotech company is expected to launch phase 1 trials for its mRNA flu and HIV vaccines this year. If successful, mRNA may offer a silver lining to the decades-long fight against HIV, influenza, and other autoimmune diseases. What Makes mRNA-based Vaccines Special? Traditional vaccines often introduce a weakened or inactive virus to one’s body....

Modi is good at entrances. At a Mumbai rally this winter, he emerged from a giant pink hydraulic lotus created for him by a Bollywood set designer. His entry into the national political spotlight has been no less dramatic. In 2001, as a mid-ranking party functionary, he was dispatched from party headquarters in Delhi to steer Gujarat’s BJP. Then, a year ago this week, he became the poster boy for India’s vicious communal tensions....

VIDEO: Memphis scores from halfway line The Croatia international midfielder played the full 90 minutes as Madrid defeated Real Betis 2-1 to move two points clear of Barcelona at the top of the table in Spain. The 31-year-old reached the 200-match milestone in his fifth season at the Santiago Bernabeu, having joined from Tottenham for an estimated £30 million in August 2012. The midfielder has gone on to win two Champions League titles, while he has also tasted success in the Club World Cup, UEFA Super Cup, Spanish Super Cup and Copa del Rey....

“He still regrets accepting the nomination,” a close associate of Khatami’s tells NEWSWEEK. “He couldn’t turn people down. He was their only choice.” Ironically, Iran’s president may also be the best hope the rest of the Muslim world has, at least in the year ahead, for a leader who can reconcile modern democracy and Islamic culture. If Khatami gets his way, the country that begot the modern fundamentalist state–and first demonized America as the “Great Satan”–may even offer the most promising way out of the Islamic extremism that is America’s No....

Another big game for Mohamed Salah, and another goal for the forward who’s in red-hot form at the moment. This weekend, the Liverpool attacker scored against his old side Chelsea, netting his 10th in 13 Premier League appearances for the Merseyside club as he further cements himself as a Reds hero and one of Africa’s leading players in the world today. Amidst the various fascinating pre-game subplots, the question of whether Salah could show the Blues what they were missing was one of the more engrossing storylines....

“The monster that NXT has grown into is nothing short of unbelievable,” Rawley told Sporting News. “To having been there from very earlier stages from when FCW (Florida Championship Wrestling) progressed to NXT and starting out in essentially that little barn, the dingy gym if you want to call it, in Tampa to the Performance Center in Orlando and seeing the ride in-between, it’s been unreal but it’s well-deserved....

Posting to the Reddit forum r/mildlyinfuriating, u/TheCodexPlays shared two screenshots of a conversation with their mother. Titled “Been in the hospital a week with my SO and I’m finally getting out today and my mother posted a screenshot of my blood work lab from this morning on Facebook because she doesn’t think I should be discharged yet,” the post has received over 27,000 upvotes and 2,100 comments in seven hours....

The boy, aged nine, from Bristol, U.K., had initially tested positive for COVID on December 16, 2021 along with five other members of his family. He spent his self-isolation period at home, where he had cold-like symptoms. He then tested negative twice on December 22. However, he also began to develop a pain in his left eye. The boy’s mother Angela Morey, 37, initially passed off his symptoms as a result of him playing video games for long periods of time throughout his isolation period....

Kelsey Ridings, 26, an accountant from the Manchester borough of Tameside, was arrested in May after crashing her Mercedes C250 into a Peugeot 308 in a head-on collision, according to the Manchester Evening News. Ridings had her four young children in the car at the time and was reportedly returning home from a beauty salon. The driver of the Peugeot, Carl Kidd, was reportedly headed to his parents’ house with his pregnant partner at the time of the accident....

“Karen” emerged last year as a pejorative term for an angry, entitled or demanding woman. Davis, who lives in west Sacramento, reached breaking point when a neighbor complained about her children and others skateboarding in front of their home on February 27. The neighbor said he could hear the children from inside his property and asked if they could watch their language, the mother told CBS13. “I didn’t know it was not OK for kids to be outside skateboarding,” Davis told the news channel, adding that she had disciplined her children in front of her neighbor after his complaint....