Seattle police withdrew to an compound early Sunday.just hours after declaring a riot during the large protests in the Capitol Hill neighborhood, near where weeks earlier people established a “busy protest zone” that spanned several blocks. Some protesters lingered after officers entered the department’s East Precinct around 1 a.m., but …

ANNAPOLIS (WJZ) – Maryland recorded more than 1,200 new cases of coronavirus on Saturday, bringing the state’s total to over 83,000, data from the Maryland Department of Health show. It is the largest number of cases recorded in a day since May 19, which had a night shift of 1,734. …

Mark J. Terrill / Associated Press The Los Angeles Lakers continued to prepare for the resumption of the 2019-20 NBA season with a 119-112 exhibition victory over the Orlando Magic on Saturday at HP Field House in Florida. Los Angeles, which will enter the restart as one of the league’s …

The Vikings had smallpox and may have spread it wherever they ventured, scientists report. That conclusion stems from an examination of 1,400-year-old Viking skeleton teeth that contained extinct strains of smallpox. The researchers found that the genetic makeup of those strains differed from that of the modern smallpox virus eradicated …

It’s not fair to choose a player based on two games, but in a 60-game season, two performances outside basically equals one bad week. And that brings us to Andrew Benintendi. The leader of the Red Sox has consistently exceeded expectations since the 2018 All-Star break. He hit the midpoint …