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Michael Mizrachi pulled off an improbable run on Wednesday, taking down the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event for $10 million in the same year he won the $50,000 WSOP Poker Players Championship. “The Grinder,” now an eight-time bracelet winner, dusted off the competition on the final table’s second day in just over his one-hour prediction. He first eliminated …

Jul 16, 2025, 11:46 AM ET Norwegian rider Jonas Abrahamsen attacked from the start and won the 11th stage of the Tour de France while race favorite Tadej Pogačar crashed near the finish Wednesday. Pogačar, the three-time champion, crashed with about 2.5 miles remaining. His rivals for the general classification slowed down so he could get back on his bike …

ATLANTA (AP) — Cal Raleigh was just as successful with the first robot umpire All-Star challenge as he was in the Home Run Derby. Seattle’s catcher signaled for an appeal to the Automated Ball-Strike System in the first inning Tuesday, getting a strikeout for Detroit’s Tarik Subal on San Diego’s Manny Machado. “You take ‘em any way you can get …

CNN  —  Adelita Grijalva will win Tuesday’s special Democratic primary in Arizona’s 7th congressional district, CNN projects. Grijalva, a former county supervisor, is the daughter of the late Democratic Rep. Raul Grijalva, who represented the district for two decades before his death in March. She’ll be favored to win the Sept. 23 general election in this heavily Democratic district against …

ATLANTA – It was a night for Hammerin’ – the kind we’ve replayed often and the kind we’ve never seen before. Temporarily reimagined as Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium for a stirring, technological tribute to the late, great Henry Aaron, the Braves’ home at Truist Park also served its present-day purpose in housing an epic All-Star Game that required a first-of-its-kind tiebreaking …

On Tuesday, D.C. residents cast their vote for the next Ward 8 council member. The special election comes after former Ward 8 council member Trayon White was expelled. At the Anacostia Library on Tuesday, voters filed in and out of the building as they made their choice for who should become D.C.’s next Ward 8 council member. Around 9:30 p.m., …

Hello, and welcome to TechScape. This week, Elon Musk’s X, formerly Twitter, saw its artificial intelligence chatbot Grok go Nazi. Then its CEO resigned. In the past three years of Musk’s ownership of the social network, it feels like X has weathered at least one public crisis per week, more often multiple. Musk’s chatbot melts down, then wins a military …

ATLANTA (AP) — Cal Raleigh approached the All-Star Home Run Derby like a day on the lawn. Dad was on the mound and baby brother was behind the plate. Only this time, there were tens of thousands looking on at Truist Park and a $1 million prize. “It goes all the way back to him coming home and me forcing …

No catcher had ever won the MLB Home Run Derby. After reaching the semifinal round by less than an inch, Cal Raleigh put on a clinic at the 2025 MLB Home Run Derby in Truist Park, Atlanta, hitting 18 home runs in a final-round thriller to narrowly defeat Rays’ third baseman Junior Caminero. The Seattle Mariners’ catcher, who entered the …

ATLANTA — To know what Monday night meant, you have to go back to the video. Cal Raleigh was 8 years old when he hoisted a bat in his backyard and declared himself a Home Run Derby champ. The old footage, courtesy of his father, made the rounds when Raleigh was announced as a contestant. It hits different a few …