National News — Hilton Head Island Perspective

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The Milwaukee Brewers turned Tropicana Field into a road party Monday night, hammering the Tampa Bay Rays 10-1 in Game 3 to grab a 3-0 grip on the World Series and put the franchise one victory from its first championship. The game swung in the fifth inning. Leading 2-0, Milwaukee strung

PHILADELPHIA — The Dallas Cowboys finally found the running game they had been missing all season, and it carried them to a 38-21 win over the Philadelphia Eagles on Monday night. Javonte Williams did the heavy lifting. He carried 25 times for 155 yards and a score, a personal best, and Dallas finished with 204

SAN FRANCISCO — Defense has defined these WNBA Finals, and it pushed the Golden State Valkyries to the brink of their first championship Monday night. Golden State held the Atlanta Dream to 55 points at Chase Center and won Game 5, 64-55, for a 3-2 lead in the best-of-seven series. Center Kiah Stokes was the

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Memphis got good news and bad news Monday about Nemanja Popovic, the veteran Serbian big man expected to anchor its frontcourt this winter. The university said the NCAA has cleared the 24-year-old for two seasons of college eligibility, one more than many had expected after his years in European pro leagues. The

MIAMI — Cooper Flagg made the play that saved the night for Dallas, then finished it off himself. The second-year star blocked a late Miami 3-point try and scored the clinching layup as the Mavericks won 113-109 on Monday at Kaseya Center. With 31 seconds left and Dallas up by two, Andrew Wiggins rose from

WASHINGTON — No more trees can come down at East Potomac Golf Links while a court fight over the public course plays out, a federal judge in the capital ruled Monday in a setback for President Donald Trump's plan to rebuild it as a championship venue. U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes turned an earlier temporary

LONDON — Harry Kane ended a quarter-century wait for English soccer on Monday night, taking home the Ballon d'Or at the London Palladium after a season in which goals seemed to follow him everywhere. The 33-year-old England captain and Bayern Munich striker found the net 73 times in 65 matches for club and country, more

JERUSALEM — Israelis streamed to polling places Tuesday in the country's first national election since the Hamas-led attacks of Oct. 7, 2023, with early turnout running at its strongest level in more than four decades. The vote is widely viewed as a verdict on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, 77, who leads Likud and is trying

INGLEWOOD, Calif. — After seven years of helping shape the Super Bowl halftime show from behind the scenes, Jay-Z is taking the stage himself. League officials, together with Apple Music and Roc Nation, revealed Monday night that the rapper and entrepreneur will headline the Super Bowl LXI halftime show on Feb. 14, 2027, at SoFi

MILWAUKEE, Wis. — The Milwaukee Brewers had to win the opener of the World Series twice on Friday night, holding off the Tampa Bay Rays 3-2 at American Family Field after a replay review erased what everyone in the ballpark thought was the final out. The victory was the franchise’s first in a World Series

MILWAUKEE, Wis. — It took Jacob Misiorowski exactly one throw to put his name in the World Series record book. The Brewers right-hander began Friday night’s opener against Tampa Bay with a four-seam fastball clocked at 103.5 mph by Statcast, the hardest pitch thrown in a Fall Classic since pitch tracking started in 2008. The

LOS ANGELES — California has until noon Saturday to answer the federal government in a fast-moving fight over whether about 20,000 mail ballots should be pulled aside before the Nov. 3 midterm election, after the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued an order late Friday. The Justice Department went to the appeals court because