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Live updates, stats from tonight’s Royals-Twins game

Follow along on your desktop or mobile device during Tuesday night’s Royals game against the Minnesota Twins for live stats and updates from Rustin Dodd, The Star's Royals beat writer, and other sportswriters, editors and photographers. Ian Kennedy takes the mound for Kansas City; Jose Berrios gets the start for Minnesota. First pitch is at 6:15 p.m. Fox Sports Kansas City will telecast the game.

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Civil rights group to ask feds to look at police shooting of Ryan Stokes

The Southern Christian Leadership Conference of Greater Kansas City will ask the United States attorney general’s office and the FBI to investigate the shooting death of Ryan Stokes. Stokes was shot and killed by a Kansas City police officer on July 28, 2013.

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Obama nominates the first ambassador to Cuba in more than 50 years

The White House Tuesday nominated Jeffrey DeLaurentis, who has been the chief of the U.S. Embassy in Havana since it reopened in July 2015, as the “first U.S. ambassador to Cuba in more than 50 years.”