The dramatic incident unfolded Thursday in Canton after the suspect and a woman were detained for allegedly stealing items from the store, according to reports.

The power failure left a large swath of the northern part of the city in the dark, beginning with the Richmond and Presidio neighborhoods and areas around Golden Gate Park in the early afternoon and growing in size.

• Third Test, D5: Australia, 371 & 349?, bt England, 286 & 352 by 82 runs

• England show grit in Adelaide but fall short as hosts wins series 3-0

The England supporters on the hill in front of the heritage-listed scoreboard never gave up and, to their credit, neither did their team. But in the end, despite losing Nathan Lyon to a hamstring injury, it was Australia who prevailed by 82 runs to win this Ashes series with two Tests to spare.

Needing just 11 days of play to claim an unassailable 3-0 lead, Pat Cummins and his men equalled Steve Waugh’s sides in 2001 and 2002/03 for the fastest Ashes wins. This one, sealed after England’s attempt to chase down a record 435 ended at 352 all out, comes with an extra dollop of relish.

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Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has defied the Jewish community and will not launch a Royal Commission of Inquiry into the senseless Bondi Beach terrorist attacks and will instead mount a more limited investigation.

An age-old belief among politicians is that Friday afternoon is the best time to release bad news.

As soon as the ball is tipped off, Knicks veteran Jordan Clarkson starts to buzz.

Kyiv continues campaign of attacks on Russia-linked maritime targets; latest US idea is three-way peace talks. What we know on day 1,397

Ukrainian drones hit an oil rig at Russia’s Filanovsky field in the Caspian Sea – more than 700km (435 miles) from Ukraine’s nearest border, as well as the military patrol ship Okhotnik and other facilities, Ukraine’s military general staff said in a statement on Saturday. It said the ship was patrolling near the platform. The extent of the damage was being assessed. The attack continues Kyiv’s recent campaign of strikes on Russia-linked maritime targets far from Ukrainian territory.

Ukrainian drones struck a radar system in the Krasnosilske area of Crimea, which Russia illegally annexed from Ukraine in 2014. Ukraine’s SBU security service claimed two Russian fighter jets were also destroyed at an airfield in occupied Crimea.

Since Thursday, Russian forces have at least five times hit a bridge on the Dniester River near the village of Mayaky, south-west of Pivdennyi in Ukraine’s Odesa region, according to the deputy prime minister Oleksiy Kuleba. The bridge, which connects parts of the region divided by the river and sea inlets, is the main transport route westward to border crossings with Moldova, and is not operational now. The route accounted for about 40% of fuel supplies to Ukraine, Kuleba said. Ukrainian authorities have set up a pontoon bridge and re-routed logistics through other regions, securing civilian and freight logistics.

The death toll rose to eight from a Russian strike on Pivdennyi port. Geneva-based vegetable oil producer Allseeds said three tanks storing sunflower oil at the site were set ablaze in Pivdennyi, and one of its workers was killed while two were injured.

The Ukrainian military said its forces on Saturday fought back more than 60 attacks on Pokrovsk, which is under heavy Russian siege. Across the combat zones in Ukraine, “the Russian invaders carried out 42 airstrikes, dropping 101 guided bombs. In addition, they used 1,684 kamikaze drones and carried out 2,467 attacks on our military positions and settlements.” In the Kharkiv region city of Izium, two people were killed by guided bomb strikes, said the state emergency service.

Russia reported Ukrainian drone attacks on its Belgorod region as well as an attack on facilities in the Kursk region that left about 5,000 people without electricity.

The White House offered to chair face-to-face talks between officials of the US, Russia and Ukraine, as the Trump administration continued to cast about for a peace deal. “America is now proposing a trilateral meeting with national security advisers – America, Ukraine, Russia,” said Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Ukraine would back the proposal, he said, if it facilitated more exchanges of prisoners and paved the way for meetings of national leaders.

Zelenskyy said Ukraine stood for proposals that would leave the frontline where it is without Ukraine having to give up territory it still controls in the industrial region of Donbas in eastern Ukraine. “For me, the fair version is we stand where we are now standing,” he said. US negotiators met Russian officials in Florida on Saturday, following on from US talks on Friday with Ukrainian and European officials. It was suggested the talks would continue on Sunday.

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The word inside CNN is that staffers are thrilled that their parent, Warner Bros. Discovery, agreed to merge with Netflix instead of Paramount Skydance. They fear the latter’s Trump-friendly owners, Larry and David Ellison, would kill the network once they get their grubby hands on “The Most Trusted Name In News.”

It would be a match made in New York Football heaven:

Professional snake removal experts captured a 30-pound, 6½-foot Burmese python from a Miami-Dade residential area, preventing potential danger to pets and children.

It's unclear why the files disappeared from the federal agency's website.

He was 105.

Cheer up, gang. Think of how useful that extra coal will be in January and February!

The Circuit Breaker roller coaster malfunction left two men dangling vertically for hours at Circuit of the Americas near Austin Wednesday.

Things turned ugly in Landover on Saturday.

FBI Director Kash Patel announces artificial intelligence expansion to combat evolving threats and keep America ahead of "bad actors" in the digital age.

Ole Miss rolled past Tulane in its College Football Playoff debut despite Lane Kiffin’s departure, advancing to the quarterfinals with a dominant first-round win.

Scores of NYPD officers helped collect, arrange and then distribute thousands of toys to city kids in need Saturday.

An immigration detainer was issued for a suspect in a gruesome cab driver killing, as the Trump administration continues with border security crackdown efforts.

The Eagles defeated the Commanders 29-18 to win back-to-back NFC East titles after Saquon Barkley's late score triggered a fourth-quarter fight that resulted in three player ejections.

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66th over: England 214-6 (Smith 9, Jacks 11) Smith pushes a single off Lyon. It’s the only run off the over. Oohs and ahhs from the Aussie fielders, I wouldn’t say Marnus is quiet exactly.

65th over: England 213-6 (Smith 8, Jacks 11) Smith drives Cameron Green for three more but it was uppish and not too far away from the bowler’s gargantuan wing span in his follow through. Jacks then nearly nicks off with a loosey goosey drive. Gah. To channel Ray Winstone in The Departed – I’m here to tell you there are ways to get out and ways to not get out, getting out caught and bowled to a loose drive is not a way to get out.

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The widespread outage forced businesses to close and the cancellation of a “Nutcracker” performance.

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The Eagles clinched a second consecutive NFC East title by beating the Washington Commanders 29-18 on Saturday night.

The Rangers have another injury worry on their hands.