 The San Francisco Giants signed Brandon Crawford to a two-year, $32 million contract extension that will keep the All-Star shortstop with the club through the 2023 season.  Multiple people were injured in North Carolina around midday Friday after a lightning bolt struck a popular mountain.  Tropical Depression Fred, which is expected to strengthen back into a tropical storm over the weekend, is no longer likely to make direct landfall on the Florida Peninsula, forecasters said Friday.  A Tennessee jury has handed down a death sentence to a man convicted of murdering a Dickson County sheriff's deputy.  New York Mets ace Jacob deGrom was shut down from throwing for two more weeks as the team continues to monitor inflammation in his right elbow.  Veteran running back Dion Lewis, who played eight seasons over 10 years and won a Super Bowl championship as a member of the New England Patriots, is retiring from the NFL.  Veteran center Joe Thornton is set to return for his 24th NHL season after signing a one-year contract with the Florida Panthers on Friday.  The NFL suspended former Washington Football Team running back Derrius Guice six games for violating the league's personal conduct policy, it was announced.  The New York state Assembly plans to suspend its impeachment investigation of Gov. Andrew Cuomo citing his resignation amid sexual harassment allegations, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie said Friday.  A Florida man said doing some back-to-school shopping for his daughter led him to buying the scratch-off lottery ticket that earned him a $1 million jackpot.  A North Carolina thrift store at which a 146-year-old marriage certificate was found hidden inside a picture frame said the couple's great-granddaughter now has been found.  Two U.S. CH-47 Chinook helicopters have arrived in Turkey to help the country suppress major wildfires, according to a statement from U.S. Ambassador to Turkey David Satterfield.  Volunteer rescuers in South Carolina came to the rescue of a kitten that fell from a bridge into the marsh below.  FX released a trailer for "American Horror Story: Double Feature" on Friday. Part 1, "Red Tide', shows Finn Wittrock moving his family to a creepy beachside town to work on his writing.  Officials put a military base in Washington, D.C., on lockdown temporarily Friday after receiving reports of an armed man entering the location.  The Canadian government announced Friday that it will require all commercial plane, train and boat passengers to be vaccinated against COVID-19.  Police in South Korea said they are investigating after a man bought a used kimchi fridge online and found $130,000 cash taped to the bottom.  The USS Monterey visited Egypt's Berenice Naval Base on Thursday, the first time a U.S. warship has pulled into the Red Sea base.  Former Vice President Walter Mondale, Rapper DMX, Britain's Prince Philip, authors Beverly Cleary and Larry McMurtry, actors Jessica Walter, Christopher Plummer, Cicely Tyson and Cloris Leachman, conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh, broadcaster Larry King andbaseball legend Hank Aaron are among the famous people who have died in 2021.  An Indian man unofficially broke a Guinness World Record when he balanced a field hockey stick on one finger for 3 hours and 35 minutes.  Wildlife officials in Tennessee are reminding residents not to dump their unwanted pets after a 3-foot alligator was found in a mountain pond.  Small particulate matter in wildfire smoke in the western United States increases the risk for COVID-19 infection and death from the disease in people living in affected regions, a study published by Science Advances.  If this July has felt hotter than usual, it wasn't just your imagination.  The United States has levied sanctions on an international oil smuggling network it says supports the Quds Force, a military unit in Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard, the Treasury Department announced Friday.  A lightning offensive by the Taliban in Afghanistan seized control of three major cities on Friday -- including Kandahar, the nation's second-largest, authorities said. | 
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