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The Texas Rangers have optioned second baseman Josh Smith to Triple-A Round Rock. The move Friday came just days after his return to the majors from missing 37 games because of injuries and a bout with viral meningitis.

Observers are calling Cuba's new free-market reforms the most sweeping economic overhaul on the island's communist economy since the Cuban revolution while the grandson of former President Raúl Castro says in an interview that Cuba must seek to move ...

Mexican authorities were working Friday to identify four bodies found on the outskirts of Mexico City as part of the search efforts to locate a married couple who disappeared in May while living in Chicago and Mexico, a local prosecutor told The ...

MLS Commissioner Don Garber said before the United States beat Australia at the World Cup on Friday that the Vancouver Whitecaps need to have a new stadium deal in order to keep the club in Vancouver.

This summer's supersized World Cup is about to reach the halfway point of its 48-team group stage schedule.

Kansas City Royals shortstop Bobby Witt Jr. was out of the lineup for Friday's game against the St. Louis Cardinals with a grade-1 MCL sprain.

Things calmed down a little bit for Dexter Lawrence during the final three weeks of the Cincinnati Bengals offseason program.

President Donald Trump has now endorsed both Republican candidates for governor in South Carolina. He had backed Lt. Gov.

Carson Kelly hit his second career grand slam in Chicago's seven-run first inning and finished with a career-high six RBIs as the Cubs routed the Toronto Blue Jays 16-2.

New York Yankees second baseman Jazz Chisholm Jr. said Friday that he doesn't plan to start wearing a protective cup, one day after getting hit in the groin by a foul ball.