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The strikeouts Cleveland recorded in its 2-0 ALDS Game 5 shutout of the White Sox — a record total. Starter Gavin Williams did the heavy lifting while pitching on just one day of rest.
Source: CBS Sports
Tomorrow: U.S. bond markets close as the country marks Columbus Day / Indigenous Peoples' Day, a federal holiday; stock exchanges operate on their regular schedule.
Oct. 31: Halloween lands on a Saturday this year — the payoff for a season of haunted-cemetery tours and costume planning.
- 1962Pope John XXIII opens the Second Vatican Council in Rome
- 1968Apollo 7, NASA's first crewed Apollo mission, launches into orbit
- 1975'Saturday Night Live' premieres on NBC with George Carlin as host
- 1984Kathryn Sullivan becomes the first American woman to walk in space
Trump envoy kept financial ties to firm behind $15 billion Hormuz-bypass oil pipeline plan
How a Trump envoy kept financial ties to the firm behind a $15 billion oil pipeline plan to bypass the Strait of Hormuz.
Reuters · Feras Dalatey
Nancy Pelosi Is Congress's Biggest Data Center Investor
Why Nancy Pelosi's household ranks as Congress's biggest data center investor.
Forbes · Kyle Khan-Mullins
As youth sports booms, churches compete for American families' Sundays
How booming youth sports leagues are competing with churches for American families' Sunday mornings.
Axios · Russell Contreras
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