It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed — after the Civil War’s end and two years after President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. The ...

Their run-scoring has slowed against an onslaught of top pitchers, but the Cubs are still winning and still having fun.

Week 12 in the MLB has come and gone, and we’ve seen some impressive baseball throughout the week and some risers in the rankings.