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Shortstop Elly De La Cruz has only played in 37 Major League games thus far, but he's already produced several exciting moments in a Cincinnati Reds uniform.In less than a week, the rookie phenom managed to set and break his own pitch speed record with an infield assist. During Thursday's game against the San Francisco Giants, De Le Cruz launched a 99.8 mph throw home to end any hope Giants infielder Wilmer Flores had of scoring a run."I knew on that pitch I was going to be able to throw it as fast as possible," De La Cruz said through…

WASHINGTON – China-linked hackers accessed the email account of US Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns as part of a recent intelligence-gathering campaign, two US officials familiar with the matter confirmed to NBC News.The hackers also breached the email account of Daniel Kritenbrink, the undersecretary of state for East Asia, the officials said. Kritenbrink recently traveled with Secretary of State Antony Blinken to China.The breach, first reported by The Wall Street Journal on Thursday, was limited to the unclassified email accounts of diplomats, the officials said.Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Daniel J. Kritenbrink testifies at the…

Last month's mutiny in Russia damaged President Vladimir Putin's carefully crafted image as a strong ruler, and he is likely to seek revenge against the man who led the rebellion, CIA Director William Burns said Thursday.The uprising by paramilitaries from Yevgeny Prigozhin's Wagner Group "exposed significant weaknesses in the system that Putin has built," and the country's security services, military and decision-makers appear to have been "adrift" for 36 hours, Burns said at the Aspen Security Forum in Colorado. The June 23-24 riot threatened the image that Putin has tried to paint of himself as the "arbitrator of order" in…

A Florida babysitter has been charged with manslaughter after the 10-month-old baby in her care died after being left in a hot car Wednesday, the Baker County Sheriff's Office said.Rhonda Jewell, 48, picked up the baby from her mother's house at 8 a.m. to care for him, and when the mother returned at 1 p.m., they realized the baby had been left inside the vehicle, the sheriff's office said.Temperatures in the area were 97 degrees shortly before 1 p.m. Wednesday, according to the National Weather Service.A sheriff's incident report says the temperature inside the car registered at 133 degrees when…