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TORONTO — Six hours before Monday’s series opener at the Rogers Centre, Brendon Little arrived for his first day as a major-leaguer.

CHICAGO — Ryan Poles has danced around the word “rebuilding,” calling it a “super sensitive” term. But roster moves are more instructive than words, and the first-year Chicago Bears general manager reinforced one of the organization’s plans with his cuts to form the initial 53-man roster.

Serena Williams won her first-round match in the U.S. Open over Danka Kovinić Monday night and was sent off to a blissful retirement.

CHICAGO — Federal prosecutors have rested their case-in-chief against R. Kelly, after calling some two dozen witnesses against the disgraced R&B singer and his two co-defendants.

Say you’re a therapist. And say your patient tells you, “I have a compulsion to kill people.” And say that information is conveyed after you’ve been kidnapped to some unknown basement location and chained to a bed. “The Patient” looks at what happens when the power dynamic between therapist and…

My dream World Series matchup for 2022 would be the Toronto Blue Jays vs. the St. Louis Cardinals.

CHICAGO -- The playground at St. Nicholas Cathedral School was a cacophony of voices speaking a mix of English and Ukrainian on a recent weekday, as kids swung from monkey bars and splashed in several little plastic swimming pools, a reprieve from the August heat.

For everyday Russians, the lens into the war in Ukraine is through a camera operated by Vladimir Putin.

CHICAGO — The two women who took the stand against R. Kelly in his federal trial in Chicago on Monday couldn’t have been more different in demeanor.