“I was actually happy to see the Hit King get defensive,” Suzuki told ESPN the Magazine in an interview . “I kind of felt I was accepted. I heard that about five years ago Pete Rose did an interview, and he said that he wished that I could break that record. Obviously, this time around it was a different vibe.” MORE: 3,000-hit club in photos Suzuki was referring to comments made by Rose in mid-June, when Rose said the quality of personnel and the caliber of competition are vastly different from that of Major League Baseball....

The veteran signed a one-year contract with the club back in January. Before he found his home for the 2015 MLB season, Suzuki spent nearly three months in free agency limbo waiting for a team to express interest. He explained what those months felt like to the Wall Street Journal. MORE: Verlander leaves start | A-Rod to start at first | SN’s manager rankings “That must be what it feels like to be a puppy at a pet shop,” Ichiro said....

The state reported 1,907 positive patients in ICU on Tuesday, nearly double the 1,053 positive patients reported to be in ICU a month earlier on June 14, according to the department. Four facilities in California—in the counties of San Mateo, Imperial, Orange and Tulare—were reported to be ready to accept patients, according to the state health department. ICU beds were reported to be running out in several regions, including San Joaquin County, where ICUs were said to be operating at 121 percent capacity, with over half of patients being COVID-19 patients, according to data from the San Joaquin County Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Agency....

Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, Madison Mogen, 21, and Ethan Chapin, 20, were stabbed to death by an unknown assailant earlier this month at a student house in Moscow, Idaho. On Thursday Moscow Police Department Chief James Frye, who is investigating the Idaho killings, said he received a tip relating to the Oregon attacks on August 13 2021. He said: “We’re looking at every avenue and we have other agencies reaching out to us with other cases, stuff that we are going to follow up on....

The two measures, known as House Bill 500 and House Bill 509, were quietly pushed through by state lawmakers as the U.S. continued their battle with the COVID-19 pandemic. With Idaho’s stay-at-home order, protesters were unable to show up to oppose the laws. The first measure, House Bill 509, only permits birth certificate amendments to be made within one year of its filing. The legislation ignores a federal court ruling that Lambda Legal, an American LGBT rights organization, won in 2018, which declared such a policy unconstitutional....

In a six-minute video update published on Monday, Moscow police captain Roger Lanier addressed the issue of current risks to public safety as the case remains unsolved, offering general safety tips. “We should always be vigilant. Certainly we should be vigilant now, but we should make that a way of life for us. We should always be walking with our head up, sticking to lighted paths and walking in groups if we can,” Lanier said....

Police did not provide many details during a press conference Friday, citing the investigation, but said more will be released soon. Authorities arrested 28-year-old Bryan Christopher Kohberger in Pennsylvania Friday, nearly seven weeks after the brutal attack. Moscow Police Chief James Fry would not disclose what led officials to Kohberger or his whereabouts in Pennsylvania. Police continue piecing together why Kohberger would have murdered the four students and continue asking for tips to paint a more complete picture....

Frysinger had an incredible one-handed catch against Colorado State in Thursday night’s Famous Idaho Potato Bowl in Boise. BOWLS: Rankings | Pick ’em The 5-10 senior reached around Rams cornerback Shun Johnson with his left arm and grabbed a deep pass from Vandals quarterback Matt Linehan, who is the son of the offensive coordinator of the Dallas Cowboys. After making the grab, Frysinger spun away from Johnson and ran into the end zone for a 54-yard touchdown that gave Idaho a 55-21 lead with 9:27 remaining in the game....

Representative Jack Nelsen, who was elected to his first term in the state’s lower house in November 2022, told a meeting that he has “some definite opinions” about “the women’s health thing.” However, two days later, he said his comments were “inappropriate.” Women’s reproductive health has become an issue of contention in Idaho, after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in June 2022 gave individual states the powers to regulate abortion—effectively overturning its decision in Roe v....

Brothers Alan and Geoff Bates died only three hours apart and had a joint funeral and matching coffins. Shelley Bates, Alan’s daughter, knew her father only had “months” to live after he was diagnosed with throat cancer and his health deteriorated. But she said it was “surreal” to find out her uncle had passed away from multiple organ failure as she was on her way say her final goodbyes to her dad last month....

All Biden has indicated on the record so far is a desire to appoint the first Black woman to the high court. But if Democrats make good on a threat to add justices to the high court in the event that they capture the Senate and White House in November, Biden could have an unusual opportunity to break other Supreme Court barriers on race, ethnicity and identity, too. Who would he choose?...

Speaking from Brandywine High School in Wilmington, Delaware, where she taught English from 1991 to 1993, Jill Biden opened her speech on Tuesday referring to the absence of pupils that the coronavirus had wrought. “This quiet is heavy. You can hear the anxiety that echoes down empty hallways,” Jill Biden said. She is no stranger to the sound of students as a lifelong educator who has a bachelor’s and doctoral degrees from the University of Delaware....

Talking Weston McKennie here. Did you think I meant Gio Reyna? I’m first going back to the start of the qualification process for the 2022 FIFA World Cup, a 14-match marathon in which the USMNT had no other option but to finish in the top three. Anything less would have been disastrous for U.S. Soccer. Having already missed the tournament four years earlier, the punishment for missing two in a row would have been exorbitant for the person in charge of the team: Gregg Berhalter....

Obama, in an interview with The Associated Press, said team names such as the Redskins offend "a sizable group of people." He said that while fans get attached to the names, nostalgia may not be a good enough reason to keep them in place. "I don't know whether our attachment to a particular name should override the real legitimate concerns that people have about these things," he said in the interview, which was conducted Friday at the White House....

Certainly, many of us in the community are lucky to have unconditional love and acceptance from our family. For those who do not, however, the immense societal pressure to visit family and assumption of close ties can cause significant anxiety and, frankly, be unsafe. For some, it is simply that fear of rejection or judgment that leads to contemplating the worst. More than 39 percent of LGBTQ youth in the United States seriously considered suicide in the past year, according to a survey by the Trevor Project....

To look into these differences between the sexes, researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital decided to study the placentas, maternal blood, and cord blood of pregnancies affected by a COVID-19 case. They found that the placentas of pregnant people with male fetuses had higher levels of interferon-stimulated genes (ISGs) than female fetuses. These genes and proteins are associated with increased immune activation. The results were published in a new study published in Science Translational Medicine last month...

In the weeks leading up to Halloween, the same debates always occur: Is candy corn the worst? Which neighborhood should you take the kids to trick-or-treat in so that they can get the full-size candy bars, not the cheap drugstore-bought bag of off-brand garbage no one wants? Is this costume appropriate, or will it get you or your kid canceled? I implore you to declare it appropriate and acceptable to buy the costume you or your child wants to wear....

The Galapagos land iguana had been completely wiped out on Santiago Island. The Galapagos archipelago is located east of South America and is a province of Ecuador. Listed as vulnerable on the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species, thousands of iguanas were reintroduced to the island. Now, images show the lizard is breeding on the island again. Galapagos National Park said in a statement: “Two centuries later, land iguanas are born again on Santiago Island....

Finland earned a 4-3 overtime win in the gold medal game to win the country its fourth gold medal at the event. Salari Manninen potted the game-winning goal on the power play in the OT frame to lift the Finns to victory in their home country. Canada came close to completing yet another epic comeback at the tournament. Down 3-1 with less than two minutes to go, Canada pulled its goalie and goals from Zach Whitecloud and Maxime Comtois tied the game, forcing the extra period....

“As usual, the far right is ginning up hate against Rep. Omar for a technical question about an ongoing investigation. This has already led to an increase in death threats against her and our staff,” Jeremy Slevin, a spokesperson for Omar’s office, said in a Thursday statement. “And now some of her own Democratic colleagues are ginning up the same Islamophobic hate against her, accusing her of giving ‘cover to terrorist groups’ simply for exercising oversight over a criminal investigation,” he added....