WASHINGTON — WASHINGTON (AP) — Joel Ward, Alex Ovechkin and Troy Brouwer scored goals in less than four minutes of the second period, and the Washington Capitals snapped a three-game losing streak with a 4-2 win over the Edmonton Oilers on Monday night.
With the score tied at 1, Ward took advantage of a power play and scored his first goal of the season at 10:06 of the second.
NEW YORK — NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball umpire Wally Bell died of an apparent heart attack Monday, a week after working the NL playoff series between the Pittsburgh Pirates and St. Louis Cardinals. He was 48.
The commissioner’s office said Bell died in his home state of Ohio.
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WASHINGTON — WASHINGTON (AP) — For President Barack Obama, the outcome of this week’s fiscal fights with Republicans could have broad consequences for his stalled second-term agenda.
A favorable deal for the White House might give Obama an opening to marginalize the tea party Republicans who have tried to win concessions from him in order to reopen the government and raise the nation’s debt ceiling. But if no agreement is reached by Thursday’s debt limit deadline, Obama will become the first modern president to preside over a government default, a dubious distinction with potentially calamitous economic consequences that could consume the White House for the foreseeable future.
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Former President Bill Clinton weighed in on the government shutdown Monday, suggesting that clashes between Republicans and Democrats have created a congressional stalemate because “nobody’s right all the time.”
Clinton — who faced two shutdowns during his own presidency — made a simple point during a speech at a convention of the National Community Pharmacists Association: the only way to get anything done in Washington is to work together. American politicians, by his mark, have lost sight of this principle.
“I worry that our politics has gotten impractical,” Clinton said. “That’s about the nicest word I can think of.”
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Wally Bell Dead: MLB Umpire Dies At Age 48 Just One Week After Working 2013 Postseason
Posted in: Today's ChiliNEW YORK — NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball umpire Wally Bell, who worked the NL playoff series between the Pittsburgh Pirates and St. Louis Cardinals that ended last week, has died. He was 48.
The commissioner’s office confirmed Bell’s death Monday. He died of an apparent heart attack in his home state of Ohio.