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SAN FRANCISCO — New Giants manager Bob Melvin couldn’t wait for his team’s home opener Friday. First pitch might have been at 1:35 p.m., but he was at the ballpark at 6:30 a.m. “There are very few days that get you kind of nervy like this,” Melvin said before the game. “There’s basically one in 162.” After back-to-back seasons of boring play and mediocre results, the Giants organization hopes to keep that buzz going for the next 80 home games. Then, hopefully, for a few more games in the postseason. Friday’s walk-off winner, with new third baseman Matt Chapman going first-to-home on a Thairo Estrada double in the bottom of the ninth to win 3-2, is an excellent home start. But it’s important to remember that scope. Baseball is six months of play, day in, day out. The Giants might have entered Friday’s game coming off a sweep at the hands of baseball’s superteam — the rival Dodgers — and with only two wins on the season, but this team has the makings of a club that can make noise in the National League. The

By Seung Min Kim and Collin Binkley | Associated Press WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden will announce his latest effort to broaden student loan relief next week for new categories of borrowers, according to three people familiar with the plans, nearly a year after the Supreme Court foiled his administration’s first attempt to cancel debt for millions who attended college. Biden will detail the plan Monday in Madison, Wisconsin, where the flagship campus of the University of Wisconsin is located. The actual federal regulations — outlining who would qualify to get their student loan debt reduced or eliminated — are not expected to be released then, said the people, who were granted anonymity to detail a proposal not yet made public. Much of the specifics that Biden will discuss Monday have long been telegraphed through a negotiated rulemaking process at the Department of Education, which has worked for months to hash out the new categories of borrowers. The president announced immediately after the Supreme Court decision that Education Secretary Miguel Cardona would undertake the process because he would have the power under the Higher Education

SAN FRANCISCO — A sellout crowd of 40,645 was treated to a dramatic finish to the first game of the year on the shores of McCovey Cove, beneath blue skies with a brisk breeze blowing out to right field on an otherwise pleasant spring afternoon. Thairo Estrada raised both arms above his head in celebration as he chugged into second base, turning to watch Matt Chapman beat the relay throw from Padres shortstop Ha-Seong Kim. Chapman slid headfirst into home, sneaking past the tag of catcher Luis Campusano and sending the capacity crowd home happy. The Giants walked off the Padres, 3-2, to snap a four-game losing streak and pick up their first one-run win of the season. Estrada delivered the decisive hit, sending a double into left-center field after San Diego reliever Enyel De Los Santos hit Chapman to put the first batter he faced on base. Making his second start, Jordan Hicks pitched deeper into the game than he had in any previous career start, receiving a rousing ovation as he walked off the mound after the top of the seventh inning. Reaching

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SAN FRANCISCO – Four bases dotted the Oracle Park infield and nine players lined up for the Giants and Padres.  The stands teemed with excitement on a perfect San Francisco afternoon as the home fans got their first in-person regular-season look at high-profile free-agent signings.  But something was still missing on Friday before a sold-out crowd of 40,645.  For the first time since 1999, the Renel Brooks-Moon did not announce Opening Day lineups for the San Francisco Giants. Rather, longtime broadcaster Jon Miller filled in.  Ever since Oracle (then known as Pacific Bell) Park opened in 2000, Brooks-Moon’s booming voice was a steady presence for a franchise with four World Series appearances and three championships.  But after the team announced that Brooks-Moon would not return to the booth following unsuccessful contract negotiations, CJ Silas was tabbed to announce the team’s first home series as part of a revolving cast throughout the season.  Even though several weeks have passed since Brooks-Moon was let go, some Giants fans still aren’t happy about the move. “I’m not happy about it at all, and it’s not a good look

Excitement is mounting for one of nature’s most unique spectacles, the total solar eclipse, set to cast a historic shadow across a path through the United States on April 8, 2024. The track of the moon’s shadow across Earth’s surface is called the path of totality, and to witness the April 8 total solar eclipse in totality, viewers must be within the 115-mile-wide path. A total solar eclipse will dash across the U.S. from Texas to Maine before exiting over eastern Canada into the Atlantic. But for anyone outside the path, eclipse day will still offer a celestial spectacle worth getting eclipse glasses for. “The entire contiguous United States, Hawaii and Alaska will see at least a partial eclipse,” Michael Zeiler, expert solar eclipse cartographer and founder of Greatamericaneclipse.com, told ABC News. “The closer you are to the path of totality, of course, the deeper the eclipse will be.” To discover when to see the total solar eclipse or the partial eclipse in locations across the U.S. outside of the path, check out NASA’s Eclipse Explorer tool. What is the difference between a total and

Friday, April 5, 2024 9:30PM To celebrate a rare total solar eclipse that won’t happen again until 2044, ABC News and Nat Geo will air a two-hour live special on April 8. ABC News and National Geographic are partnering to provide extensive, live coverage of the 2024 rare total solar eclipse. Check back to watch live on Monday at 11 a.m. PT/2 p.m. ET. On April 8, at least 32 million people across America will find themselves in the path of a total solar eclipse, where the moon will completely block the sun in what will be the last of its kind in the U.S. until 2044. MORE: Are you in the path of totality? What to know about the rare total solar eclipse To celebrate this rare moment, ABC News and National Geographic will air “Eclipse Across America” live on April 8 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. EDT on ABC, ABC News Live, National Geographic Channel, Nat Geo WILD, Disney+, Hulu, and this station. The coverage will span 10 cities across North America — from Mazatlán, Mexico, to Houlton, Maine — with each

BALTIMORE — President Joe Biden on Friday visited the site of the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse in Baltimore. “I’m here to say, your nation has your back, and I mean it. Your nation has your back,” Biden told local officials and recovery workers. “My vow is that we will not rest … until the cement has dried on the entirety of a new bridge.” He spoke after. getting an operational briefing on salvage efforts and an aerial tour of the wreckage from aboard Marine One flying above the Patapsco River. Biden thanked first responders for their efforts and later was scheduled to meet with family members of the six workers killed in the bridge disaster. The container ship Dali struck the Francis Scott Key Bridge at about 1:30 a.m. on March 26, partially collapsing the bridge, officials in Maryland said. Six construction workers are believed to have fallen from the collapsing bridge into the frigid waters of the Patapsco River. The bodies of two of the missing workers have since been recovered, while four remain unaccounted for and are presumed dead, officials said. “They

By Tom Kretschmer Friday, April 5, 2024 8:27PM When is the last time you used a No.2 pencil? If it’s been a while, you may be surprised to find that one area artist uses pencils almost every day. She’s keeping the pencil alive, one stroke at a time. Meet Anastasia Alexandrin. She uses charcoal pencils to create amazing works of art. PHILADELPHIA — When is the last time you used a No.2 pencil? If it’s been a while, you may be surprised to find that one area artist uses pencils almost every day. And it’s her passion to show the world that the pencil can produce beautiful art, one line at a time. Anastasia Alexandrin is a fine artist using charcoal pencils and large canvas paper to create life-like works of art, one line at a time. Operating out of her Philadelphia studio and home, she says her favorite subjects come to her in dreams and thought. “My two favorite topics to draw are owls and other wildlife due to their fierceness and determination. And the other topic is what I call my girl power

The outer packaging designed to prevent access to the pods can split open near the zipper track, posing a risk of serious injury. By Parija Kavilanz , CNNWire Friday, April 5, 2024 8:00PM ABC30 Central CA | Action News Stream Central California’s News and Original Shows 24/7 NEW YORK — Millions of packets of popular laundry detergent pods made by Procter & Gamble have been recalled due to faulty packaging, which poses a serious risk of accidental ingestion by young children and may cause facial injuries, the US Consumer Product Safety Commission said Friday. The recall involves Tide, Gain Flings, Ace and Ariel liquid laundry detergent pod packets, which were made between September 2023 and February 2024 and sold in flexible film bags in the United States. The outer packaging designed to prevent access to the pods can split open near the zipper track, posing a risk of serious injury to children and other vulnerable populations if the contents of the laundry detergent packets are ingested, as well as posing a risk of skin or eye injuries, the agency said. The CPSC warned that eating