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The one-year, $5 million deal for former White Sox shortstop Tim Anderson will give the Marlins a pair of batting champions in their middle infield.

A joint memorial service for the two Burnsville police officers and the paramedic shot to death Sunday during a standoff has been scheduled for Feb. 28, according to a source with direct knowledge of the arrangements. An announcement from the state Department of Public Safety with further details about the service will be made within a couple hours, the source said. Killed early Sunday were ...

The Arizona Diamondbacks and veteran slugger Randal Grichuk agreed Saturday on a $2 million, one-year contract with a mutual option for 2025, a person with direct knowledge of the deal told The Associated Press. Grichuk will be paid $1.5 million this season and would make $6 million in 2025, or the D-backs could pay a $500,000 buyout. The 32-year-old Grichuk has 191 career homers with the Cardinals, Blue Jays, Rockies and Angels.

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Joc Pederson and the National League champion Arizona Diamondbacks have agreed to a $9.5 million, one-year contract that includes a mutual option for 2025, according to a person with direct knowledge of the deal. The 31-year-old Pederson has been a consistent power threat for a decade, with 186 career home runs for the Dodgers, Cubs, Braves and Giants. The left-handed-hitting outfielder was an All-Star with Los Angeles in 2015 and San Francisco in 2022 but wasn't as productive last season...

The startup's valuation before the funding round comes to $18.4 billion, the source added. Anthropic, co-founded by siblings and former executives at Microsoft-backed rival OpenAI Dario and Daniela Amodei, has shown efforts to secure the resources and deep-pocketed backers needed to compete with OpenAI and be leaders in the technology sector. The Information first reported about the funding round earlier on Wednesday.

About six months before Credit Suisse was sold to rival UBS in a weekend rescue, the head of the Swiss central bank wanted to inject 50 billion Swiss francs ($57.6 billion) into the lender and nationalise it, according to three sources with direct knowledge of the matter. Hobbled by a series of scandals and failed restructuring plans under successive management teams, Credit Suisse had experienced massive deposit outflows in October 2022. Swiss National Bank Chairman Thomas Jordan and other of...

The Pentagon has launched a digital form for current or former government employees, contractors or service members to report U.S. government programs or activities related to UAPs.

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