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Chris Sale was one of the ace left-handers Tarik Skubal idolized as a teenager. Now the two will be linked forever after winning their first Cy Young Awards on Wednesday.

SEATTLE (AP) -- Boeing said in a notice filed with Washington's Employment Security Department on Monday that it has so far laid off 2,199 workers in the state, among job cuts that will eventually total about 17,000 across the company.

LAWSON, Mo. (AP) -- A man and a child were found dead inside a Missouri home and a sheriff's deputy was injured after the man and police exchanged gunfire, the Missouri State Highway Patrol said.

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) -- After watching quarterback Josh Allen bounce off two Kansas City Chiefs defenders before crossing the goal line on a 26-yard run, Bills receiver Khalil Shakir joined the rest of the packed Buffalo stadium by screaming at the top of his lungs.

ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Two Missouri police officers were indicted separately this week and accused of similar crimes -- pulling over women and searching their phones to find nude photos.

Diamond Sports Group, the largest owner of regional sports networks, can emerge out of bankruptcy after having its reorganization plan approved Thursday.

A Florida man was arrested Wednesday and charged with a plot to "reboot" the U.S. government by planting a bomb at the New York Stock Exchange this week and detonating it with a remote-controlled device, according to the FBI.

U.S. regulators want a federal judge to break up Google to prevent the company from continuing to squash competition through its dominant search engine after a court found it had maintained an abusive monopoly over the past decade.

VIENTIANE, Laos (AP) -- An Australian teenager has died after drinking tainted alcohol in Vang Vieng, Laos, in what Australia's prime minister on Thursday called every parent's nightmare, and the U.S. State Department confirmed an American also died in the same party town, bringing the death toll to four.

BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) -- In the sprawling pavilion section of the United Nations climate talks, where countries, nonprofits and tech companies use big, flashy signs to get the attention of the thousands of people walking through, small aqua and purple beverage cans sit conspicuously on a counter at the Singapore display.

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- North Korea and Russia reached a new agreement for expanding economic cooperation following high-level talks in Pyongyang this week, the North's state media said Thursday, as they continue to align in the face of their confrontations with Washington.

BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) -- A new draft text released early Thursday which will form the basis of any deal reached at United Nations climate talks on money for developing countries to transition to clean energy and adapt to climate change left out a crucial sticking point: how much wealthy nations will pay.

VIENTIANE, Laos (AP) -- Southeast Asian defense chiefs met Thursday with China, the United States and other partner nations in Laos for security talks, which come as Beijing's increasingly assertive stance in its claim to most of the South China Sea is leading to more confrontations.

More than six years after he was exonerated based on insufficient evidence, a man who was charged as an 11-year-old with shooting his father's pregnant fiancee to death wants a federal jury to make the Pennsylvania State Police pay for the years he spent in juvenile detention.

GRINDAVIK, Iceland (AP) -- A volcano erupted with lava spewing from a fissure on the Reykjanes Peninsula in southwestern Iceland late Wednesday evening. It was its seventh eruption since December.

BOSTON (AP) -- A Boston auction house is going to take bidders out to the ballpark with an online auction of a team executive's Red Sox memorabilia -- including four World Series trophies.

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) -- The deadly collapse of a concrete roof at a rail station in Serbia has raised tensions across the Balkan county, fueling widespread anger toward the government and protests after the failure claimed 15 lives in the northern city of Novi Sad.

JAYAPURA, Indonesia (AP) -- On the southeastern coast of the city of Jayapura, Petronela Merauje walked from house to house in her floating village inviting women to join her the next morning in the surrounding mangrove forests.

An Alabama prisoner convicted of the 1994 murder of a female hitchhiker is slated Thursday to become the third person executed by nitrogen gas.

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) -- Rice borders on the sacred in Sierra Leone. Unless a meal includes rice, people say, you haven't eaten at all.

NEW YORK (AP) -- The brooding waltz was carefully composed on a sheet of music roughly the size of an index card. The brief, moody number also bore an intriguing name, written at the top in cursive: "Chopin."

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) -- Two lawsuits about transgender girl athletes -- one challenging a state ban at schools and the other on the right to protest their participation on girls teams -- face federal court hearings in New Hampshire on Thursday.

NEW YORK (AP) -- An Indian businessman who is one of the world's richest people has been indicted in the U.S. on charges he duped investors by concealing that his company's huge solar energy project on the subcontinent was being facilitated by an alleged bribery scheme.

NEW YORK (AP) -- An inevitable fact of interviewing Ridley Scott is that, whatever movie he's about to release, you'll find him already knee-deep in his next project.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- As incoming White House chief of staff, one of Susie Wiles ' vexing challenges will be policing the buffet line of powerful interests who want something from Donald Trump.

Chris Stapleton took home four Country Music Association Awards and hardly left the stage on Wednesday night, while an absent Morgan Wallen was shut out all evening until taking the night's biggest prize, entertainer of the year.