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The A’s announced Friday that they’ve claimed right-handed pitcher Josh Smith off waivers from the Reds.
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OAKLAND – The first nine minutes of action resembled the back-and-forth battle from just over five months ago, when the
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The case for a rise in US interest rates is bolstered by strong jobs data for October.
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Iraqi forces battle their way into another suburb of Mosul, amid more reports of IS atrocities.
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Political talks taking place in Venezuela are the “last best effort” for peace, a US official says.
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The pro-Kurdish HDP party in Turkey says the arrest of its leaders is a bid to eradicate democracy.
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A Conservative MP who backed Brexit quits over “irreconcilable differences” with the government.
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Hillary Clinton holds rallies in states once thought safe for the Democrats, but now under threat.
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Liberia has been briefly cut off from the internet by hackers targeting its only link to the global network.
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The 2016 A’s picked up one more win than last year’s version, but their 69-93 record was nonetheless another disappointment, continuing an uninspiring stretch of mediocre play that has fans begging for better […]

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For the past 25 years, the Arizona Fall League has been a place to see some of the best up-and-coming talent around baseball. For the past decade — edition No. 11 arrives on Saturday at 8 p.m. ET — that talent […]

The Bank of England makes a dramatic rise in its inflation forecast, with no rate cut expected in 2016.
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The Islamic State group releases audio purportedly from its leader, urging no retreat from Mosul.
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Venezuela’s military is put in control of distributing medicine to public hospitals amid shortages.
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Two Ukrainians tell the BBC how they hacked top Russian officials’ emails revealing Kremlin plans.
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The UK government must consult MPs before triggering Article 50 to leave the EU, a court rules.
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The Chicago Cubs win Major League Baseball’s World Series, ending a 108-year drought and breaking the ‘Curse of the Billy Goat’.
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About 240 migrants are believed drowned in two shipwrecks off the Libyan coast, officials say.
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