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Clark prevails at BMW tourney ST. LOUIS (AP) — Wyndham Clark had reason to feel this was similar to the U.S. Open. He lost a big lead and the crowd was pulling for the other guy, in this case Rory McIlroy. Clark got the same result at the BMW Championship. He didn't make a birdie until finishing with three in a row for a 70 at Bellerive and a three-shot victory over Patrick Cantlay. Clark now has three wins this year including a major. It was a big day for Cantlay, too. His runner-up finish after three straight birdies to end allows him to advance to the Tour ...

Forest Park boys place second in CC opener

MUNISING -- Kingston Berube started his junior cross country season on a positive note in the Larissa Vartti Memorial Invitational here Wednesday. The Escanaba High School runner earned his first varsity victory by covering the hilly 3.1-mile course in 19 minutes, two seconds on the Valley Spur trails. He was followed by Menominee's Brad Klan at 19:18, Munising's Blake Lakosky (19:41) and Superior Central freshman Jaxon Klyk (19:54) on a sunny and mild morning. "I tried to be a little conservative and just wanted to run smart on the hills," Berube said. "This was a confidence ...

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Deportees sent to Liberia HARBEL, Liberia (AP) — The United States has carried out its first deportation under an agreement for Liberia to accept up to 1,200 people who are not from the African country. It is one of the Trump administration's largest efforts yet to deport people to countries other than their own. The 20 deportees arrived Thursday at Roberts International Airport outside Monrovia. Liberian authorities say deportees will include African nationals as well as nationals from North America, South America and the Caribbean. They can seek asylum in the West African ...

President Donald Trump has long been fixated on birthright citizenship, the longstanding constitutional guarantee that nearly all children born on American soil are automatically American citizens. In his first term, he floated the idea of ending birthright citizenship through executive fiat. And on the first day of his second term, he signed an executive order seeking to do just that, carving out new exceptions including children born to parents who are in the United States either temporarily or without legal status. The executive order was immediately challenged, and last month, the ...

Keeping the absorbency of clothes

Dear Heloise: Here’s a hint about maintaining clothes’ absorbency. Perhaps I had previously learned this from you, but it’s worth repeating as long as we’re on the subject. Softeners decrease clothes’ absorbency, so dry them without any softener. — John S., in Newbury Park, ...