Denny Hamlin gets a fifth try Sunday to at long last grab that elusive Cup Series title.
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MLB notebook: Red Sox to promote Fatse as new hitting coach after Hyers declines to return
Tim Hyers has been the team’s hitting coach since the 2018 season.
NHL roundup: NHL defends disciplinary decisions in Blackhawks scandal
Commissioner Gary Bettman calls Chicago’s $2 million fine significant and stood by decisions to let Joel Quenneville coach one more game and not discipline Winnipeg General Manager Kevin Cheveldayoff.
American Airlines cancels hundreds of weekend flights
The airline is struggling with staffing shortages.
People, homes vanish due to 2020 census’ new privacy method
Harvard University researchers found the method makes it more difficult to create political districts of equal population and could result in fewer majority-minority districts.
Decades later, a new look at Black Panthers and their legacy
The Panthers, some activists and historians say, were a harbinger of today’s identity politics, helped shape progressivism and have served as grandfathers and grandmothers to the Black Lives Matter movement.
White House press secretary Psaki says she has COVID-19
Jen Psaki said she was last in contact with President Joe Biden on Tuesday.
New framework bolsters Biden’s hand as climate summit begins
The $555 billion plan for climate spending is the centerpiece of a sweeping domestic policy package President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats presented Thursday.
Supreme Court to hear case on New York’s gun permit law
The case centers on New York’s restrictive gun permit law and whether challengers to the law have a right to carry a firearm in public for self-defense.
‘Last, best hope:’ Leaders launch crucial U.N. climate summit
G-20 leaders offer more vague pledges than commitments of firm action, saying they would seek carbon neutrality “by or around mid-century.”