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Mets put reliever Drew Smith on 15-day IL and outfielder Starling Marte on bereavement list
NEW YORK (AP) — The banged-up New York Mets are minus two more important players after putting reliever Drew Smith on the 15-day injured list and right fielder Starling Marte on the bereavement list Saturday. The team recalled infielder Mark Vientos and right-hander Dedniel Núñez...
Animal chaplains offer spiritual care for every species
(RNS) — Sarah Bowen says she’s been doing the work of an animal chaplain since she was 6 years old. Raised in the Midwest as a Presbyterian preacher’s kid, she was often hauled to hospice facilities and funeral homes but noticed that the chipmunks and other animals crumpled by...
A Gaza family uprooted by war and grieving their losses shares a somber Ramadan meal in a tent
MUWASI, Gaza Strip (AP) — It was a somber scene as Randa Baker and her family sat on the ground in their tent in southern Gaza at sunset Monday for their meal breaking their first day of fasting in the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Three of her children were largely silent as Baker...
Alabama IVF patients describe heartbreak, anger after ruling
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Tory Beasley had dreamed of having three kids, and she and her husband turned to IVF after struggling with infertility. She was scheduled for an embryo transfer next week at an Alabama fertility clinic in the hopes of having a dreamed-of second child. The...
