AP News in Brief at 12:04 a.m. EDT (2024)

Japan lodged a formal protest via China’s embassy against what it called an incursion by a Chinese survey ship into its territorial waters. The Japanese foreign ministry relayed “strong concern” Saturday after the ship was spotted near Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, early in the morning. The Chinese ship, confirmed in territorial waters at 6 a.m. local time, left shortly before 8 a.m., according to Japan’s Defense Ministry, adding it was monitored by a Japanese military vessel and plane. This follows Tokyo’s protest after a Chinese military aircraft briefly entered Japan’ssouthwestern airspace on Monday.

The Chicago Cubs seek to build upon a four-game win streak with a victory against the Washington Nationals.

The Boston Red Sox hit the road against the Detroit Tigers looking to extend a three-game road winning streak.

The New York Yankees face the St. Louis Cardinals, leading the series 1-0.

The Pittsburgh Pirates head into the matchup with the Cleveland Guardians after losing four straight games.

The Oakland Athletics play the Texas Rangers with a 1-0 series lead.

The Los Angeles Angels play the Seattle Mariners looking to end a three-game home skid.

The San Diego Padres lead 1-0 in a three-game series with the Tampa Bay Rays.

The Milwaukee Brewers aim to keep a four-game win streak intact when they take on the Cincinnati Reds.

The Los Angeles Dodgers will try to prolong a three-game win streak with a victory against the Arizona Diamondbacks.

The San Francisco Giants lead 1-0 in a three-game series with the Miami Marlins.

The Philadelphia Phillies host the Atlanta Braves on Saturday.

The Chicago White Sox look to end an eight-game skid when they play the New York Mets.

The Kansas City Royals look to end their three-game slide with a victory over the Houston Astros.

The Baltimore Orioles lead 1-0 in a three-game series with the Colorado Rockies.

The Minnesota Twins host the Toronto Blue Jays, leading the series 1-0.

LOS ANGELES — At a solemn reunion in Orange County, dozens of elderly Vietnamese Americans gathered recently to reconnect with others once held at Suối Máu, a camp where dissidents and American allies were imprisoned after the fall of Saigon.

LOS ANGELES — After one term as president in which his promise to remake the massive federal government mostly came up short, Donald Trump again is raining fury on the "deep state," pledging if elected in November to replace career civil servants with his like-minded allies.

Kimi Antonelli has been named as Lewis Hamilton’s replacement next year at Mercedes, a day after his Formula One debut ended in the 18-year-old driver hitting the wall. Antonelli took over for George Russell in the opening practice session for Sunday’s Italian Grand Prix at Monza. But his much-anticipated first appearance lasted fewer than six laps, and only 10 minutes, after he lost control of his Mercedes, sliding backwards through the gravel and into the tire barrier. Team principal Toto Wolff said Saturday the crash would have no impact on Antonelli’s F1 chances.

Rescuers are searching for a helicopter that went missing in Russia’s far east with 22 people on board. The Mi-8 helicopter took off on Saturday close to the Vachkazhets volcano in the Kamchatka region, but did not arrive at its destination as scheduled, Russia’s Federal Air Transport Agency said in a statement. It said it believed that 19 passengers and three crew members were on board. The Mi-8 is a two-engine helicopter designed in the 1960s. It is widely used in Russia, where crashes have been frequent, as well as in neighboring countries and many other nations.

Teenager Kimi Antonelli named as Lewis Hamilton’s replacement next year at Mercedes in Formula 1.

Police arrested a 32-year-old woman after six people were hurt in a knife attack on a bus headed to a festival in western Germany. Authorities said Saturday that there was no evidence of a political or religious motive. Three of those attacked are in life-threatening condition, police said Friday evening. The knife attack took place in Siegen, east of Cologne. The bus was on its way to a local festival in the town and at least another 40 people were on board when the attack took place. The attack happened a week after a knife attack in which a suspected Islamic extremist from Syria who had avoided being deported is accused of killing three people and wounding eight.

NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Jackson Arnold threw four touchdown passes — three to newcomer Deion Burks — and No. 16 Oklahoma routed Temple 51-3 on Friday night in the season opener for both teams. Oklahoma forced six turnovers and held Temple to 197 yards in its first game as a member of the Southe…

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Tawee Walker scored on a 6-yard touchdown run to put Wisconsin ahead for good with 10:35 remaining as the Badgers rallied from an early fourth-quarter deficit to beat Western Michigan 28-14. Chez Mellusi and Walker rushed for a combined 140 yards and two touchdowns on 34…

STANFORD, Calif. (AP) — Josh Hoover threw for 353 yards and the go-ahead touchdown with 3:13 to play to lead TCU to a 34-27 victory over Stanford in the season opener for both teams. Hoover also threw a TD pass on the opening drive of the game and scored on a 1-yard sneak in the third quarte…

STANFORD, Calif. (AP) — Josh Hoover threw for 353 yards and the go-ahead touchdown with 3:13 to play to lead TCU to a 34-27 victory over Stanford in the season opener for both teams. Hoover also threw a TD pass on the opening drive of the game and scored on a 1-yard sneak in the third quarte…

Josh Hoover threw for 353 yards and the go-ahead touchdown with 3:13 to play to lead TCU to a 34-27 victory over Stanford in the season opener for both teams. Hoover also threw a TD pass on the opening drive of the game and scored on a 1-yard sneak in the third quarter. That all led to a 10th straight home loss for the Cardinal. Stanford is still seeking its first win at home under second-year coach Troy Taylor following an 0-7 mark last season.

The LA Galaxy will attempt to continue a three-game win streak with a victory over Saint Louis City SC.

Patrick Anderson has been described as the Michael Jordan of wheelchair basketball. The Canadian star is on the brink of retirement, having publicly discussed his exit from the sport following the 2024 Paralympic Games in Paris. After winning its first pool-play match against France 83-68, Canada’s medal hopes — and Anderson’s ideal career finish — are starting to feel like a real possibility.

Arnoldus Yansen thought for certain he was going to become a Catholic priest, just like his older brother, cousin and uncle. Instead, Yansen took off his clerical robes for good and joined the hundreds of prospective priests who resign or fail to take up Catholic vocations every year in Indonesia. Fallout from the clergy sex abuse crisis and the pull of the fast-paced modern world is causing a shortage of priests globally. Still, Ritapiret Seminary is overwhelmed with applicants. Beyond the internal challenges, violent attacks are also a concern of the church in Indonesia, where Catholics are a religious minority in a mostly Muslim country.

ANAHEIM, Calif. — The game shouldn’t have been such an ordeal. The Mariners took advantage of a young pitcher making his Major League debut and a costly error to score five runs in the first inning.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Orlando Arcia hit a pair of solo homers, the first one as part of back-to-back shots with Sean Murphy in the third inning, to lead the Atlanta Braves to a 7-2 win over the Philadelphia Phillies on Friday night.

Tawee Walker scored on a 6-yard touchdown run to put Wisconsin ahead for good with 10:35 remaining as the Badgers rallied from an early fourth-quarter deficit to beat Western Michigan 28-14. Chez Mellusi and Walker rushed for a combined 140 yards and two touchdowns on 34 carries. Western Michigan’s Jalen Buckley rushed for 64 yards and had two 1-yard touchdown runs. Wisconsin trailed 14-13 early in the fourth quarter before responding with two touchdowns.

SAN FRANCISCO – It appears the dye has been cast in terms of the San Francisco Giants’ playoff hopes.

Will Smith hit a late three-run homer, Shohei Ohtani added his 43rd of the season and the Los Angeles Dodgers extended their NL West lead to five games with a 10-9 win over the Arizona Diamondbacks. Freddie Freeman did the early damage with a two-run homer in the first inning after missing three straight games to rest a fractured right middle finger. Smith gave the Dodgers a 9-5 lead in the seventh, just clearing the wall in left with his three-run shot. Ohtani hit a solo homer in the eighth inning, doubled and had stolen base No. 43 after going 0 for 5 against Baltimore. Jake McCarthy hit a two-run single and Eugenio Suarez added a two-run homer in the ninth for Arizona.

Breanna Stewart scored 32 points, Sabrina Ionescu added 25 and the New York Liberty pulled away for a 98-85 win over the Seattle Storm on Friday night. Leonie Fiebich added 12 points for the Liberty, who bounced back after losing to the last-place Los Angeles Sparks to end a three-game West Coast road trip. Jonquel Jones grabbed 11 rebounds as the Liberty dominated the boards 45-17. New York had 17 offensive rebounds. New York shot 50.7% and was 12 of 26 from 3-point range. Seattle dropped into a tie with Las Vegas for fourth place but still clinched a playoff spot.

A Vietnamese doctor who has helped seek justice for victims of the powerful defoliant dioxin “Agent Orange” used by U.S. forces during the Vietnam War is among this year’s winners of the Ramon Magsaysay Awards — regarded as Asia’s version of the Nobel Prize. The other winners announced on Saturday were a group of doctors who struggled to secure adequate healthcare for Thailand’s rural poor, an Indonesian environmental defender, a Japanese animator who tackles complex issues for children and a Bhutanese academician promoting his country’s cultural heritage to help current predicaments. First given in 1958, the annual awards are named after a Philippine president, who died in a 1957 plane crash.

Victor Robles had three hits and drove in two runs, Julio Rodríguez homered for the first time since coming off the injured list and the Seattle Mariners opened a 10-game road trip with a 9-5 victory over the Los Angeles Angels. The Mariners scored five times in the first to ruin the debut of Angels’ left-hander Samuel Aldegheri, who became the first player born and raised in Italy to pitch in a major league game. George Kirby allowed five runs in 5 2/3 innings for the Mariners for the win. Los Angeles' Taylor Ward, Mickey Moniak and Brandon Drury hit solo shots.

Matt Chapman hit a bases-clearing double in the eighth inning, Blake Snell pitched seven strong innings and the San Francisco Giants beat the Miami Marlins 3-1 on Friday night. With the Giants trailing 1-0, Chapman ripped a slider on a two-strike count from Marlins reliever George Soriano into the left-center field gap to score all three runners with two outs. The Giants are back at .500 at 68-68 but remain 6 1/2 games out of a playoff spot.

The latest-starting match in U.S. Open history began shortly after midnight Saturday morning, with No. 2 seed Aryna Sabalenka facing No. 29 Ekaterina Alexandrova. The previous latest start to a match was exactly at midnight on Sept. 2, 1987, with Gabriela Sabatini going on to beat Beverly Bowes 6-3, 6-3. The night session at Arthur Ashe Stadium began more than an hour after its usual 7 p.m. starting time following Frances Tiafoe’s victory over Ben Shelton in the afternoon that lasted 4 hours, 3 minutes. Sabalenka and Alexandrova then finally got on the court after defending champion Novak Djokovic was shocked by No. 28 seed Alexei Popyrin in four sets.