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Giancarlo Stanton and Byron Buxton homered back-to-back in the fourth inning to rally the American League over the National League 3-2 in the All-Star Game. It was the AL's ninth straight victory in the Midsummer Classic. Nine-time All-Star Clayton Kershaw got the first start of his career for the NL and pitched one inning. He gave up a leadoff single to Los Angeles two-way star Shohei Ohtani. The NL got a solo shot by Paul Goldschmidt and Dodgers star Mookie Betts had an RBI single in the first. Dodger Stadium hosted the All-Star Game for the first time since 1980.

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A Delta Air Lines flight from Atlanta blew two tires Tuesday while landing at Los Angeles International Airport. Nobody on board was hurt, although two runways at the busy airport were closed for several hours. Authorities say Delta Flight 515 landed safely shortly after 1 p.m. Photos on Twitter showed two shredded tires. Passengers were bused to the terminal. Two runways were closed for several hours until the plane was removed from a runway. There's no immediate word on what caused the tires to blow.

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A 15-year-old boy has been charged with murder in the death of a pastor and leader of the United Methodist Church who was fatally shot during a carjacking in Memphis, Tennessee. The Tennessee-Western Kentucky Conference of the United Methodist Church says the Rev. Autura Eason-Williams was shot Monday afternoon outside of her home. She was found in her driveway with multiple wounds. Memphis police said Eason-Williams was taken to a hospital, where she died. The killing shocked the United Methodist Church community in Memphis. Church members attended a vigil for Eason-Williams on Monday night.

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A man drove his vehicle into a family as they walked near Glacier National Park then began shooting at them with a shotgun, killing one man and mortally wounding a toddler. Authorities said Tuesday that after the assailant ran out of ammunition, he took out a knife and continued the attack before one of the victims managed to kill him. Killed in the Sunday night violence in the tourist town of East Glacier in northwestern Montana were David Siau, 39, of Syracuse, New York, and Siau’s 18-month-old daughter, McKenzie. The Glacier County Sheriff's Office says the assailant had been in a prior relationship with the woman who killed him and that he had mental health issues.

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A Sesame Street-themed amusement park has apologized after a viral video appearing to show a costumed character waving off two 6-year-old Black girls at a parade outside Philadelphia. The mother of one of the girls posted the video from Sesame Place to Instagram on Saturday. It showed the character Rosita high-fiving a white child and woman, then gesturing “no” and walking away from the two Black girls who had their arms outstretched. Sesame Place has issued two apologizes since, saying the performer did not intentionally ignore the girls and promising to take action to do better.

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An elections director in Washington state's most populous county says her office is asking the sheriff’s office to investigate people who posted signs near ballot boxes warning voters they were “under surveillance.” The Seattle Times reports King County Elections Director Julie Wise blasted Tuesday what she called an effort to scare voters. The signs were posted near ballot boxes in Seattle and suburban locations, and included a scannable QR code that linked to a King County Republican Party website and a form encouraging people to submit “incident reports." King County Republicans chair Mathew Patrick Thomas said he was disbanding the its so-called election integrity committee whose members were involved in planting the signs.

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A New York man working at a filming location for the TV series “Law & Order: Organized Crime" has been shot and killed. Police say Johnny Pizarro was found at about 5:15 a.m. Tuesday in front of a residence in the Greenpoint section of Brooklyn suffering from multiple gunshot wounds to the head and neck. The 31-year-old Queens resident was taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead. Police were investigating. A spokesperson for NBC confirmed that Pizarro was a crew member for the series and said that no filming was going on at the time of the shooting.