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PHOENIX — Police are asking for help identifying two teenagers that reportedly assaulted and robbed a 14-year-old in late May.
Phoenix police say it happened near 43rd Avenue and Beardsley Road on May 29.
In newly released video, you can see two of the teens approach the victim and get into an altercation with the 14-year-old boy.
The altercation escalates until you can see one of the teens pick up the 14-year-old and throw him into the concrete roadway.
NOTE: We have cut the video before the 14-year-old is thrown into the concrete, as it is hard to watch.
After throwing the victim into the ground, the suspect removes the victim's sandals and fled on a red dirt bike with 3 other suspects.
The suspects are described as two white males about 16 years old, and two black males also about 16 years old.
If you have any information about this robbery, you are asked to call Silent Witness at 480-WITNESS or 480-TESTIGO for Spanish-speaking.
You can also leave a tip at their website. You can remain anonymous and you could earn a cash reward for information that leads to an arrest and/or indictment. | https://www.abc15.com/news/crime/police-need-help-identifying-teens-that-robbed-assaulted-14-year-old-in-north-phoenix | 2023-07-29T19:09:34 | 1 | https://www.abc15.com/news/crime/police-need-help-identifying-teens-that-robbed-assaulted-14-year-old-in-north-phoenix |
Trader Joe’s has issued two more recalls this week, one for a prepared soup and another for its falafel.
The retailer said in a statement on Thursday that its Unexpected Broccoli Cheddar Soup – with use-by dates of 07/18/23 through 09/15/23 – may contain insects.
On Friday, Trader Joe’s announced that its Fully Cooked Falafel sold in 35 states and Washington, DC could contain rocks.
The company added that all potentially contaminated products have been removed from the chain’s shelves, and officials urged customers to throw away any affected item or return it to any store for a full refund.
This was the third recall announced by Trader Joe’s in the space of a week. Earlier this month, the company recalled some of their Dark Chocolate Chunk and Almond Cookies, as well as their Almond Windmill Cookies because rocks may have inadvertently been among the ingredients. | https://www.abc15.com/news/national/trader-joes-recalls-broccoli-cheddar-soup-and-falafel-amid-concerns-over-insects-and-rocks | 2023-07-29T19:09:40 | 0 | https://www.abc15.com/news/national/trader-joes-recalls-broccoli-cheddar-soup-and-falafel-amid-concerns-over-insects-and-rocks |
She never missed a beat and was lightning on her feet when the "Shake It Off" artist and her fans caused a "Swift Quake" in Seattle during her "Eras Tour" concerts.
According to seismologist Jackie Caplan-Auerbach, two of Taylor Swift's concerts generated seismic activity equivalent to a 2.3-magnitude earthquake, asCNN originally reported.
The data was gathered from Swift's sold-out "Eras Tour" performances at Lumen Field on July 22 and 23, after Swift's fans, and possibly the sound system, shook the ground so hard that it recorded a maximum ground acceleration of roughly 0.011 meters per second squared, causing what is now being called a "Swift Quake."
Caplan-Auerbach, who’s a geology professor at Western Washington University, told CNN that this data compares to a 2011 NFL game, when the Seattle Seahawk fans went crazy over Marshawn "Beast Mode" Lynch's touchdown during a game against the New Orleans Saints and caused a seismic activity that was then named a "Beast Quake."
"I grabbed the data from both nights of the concert and quickly noticed they were clearly the same pattern of signals," Caplan-Auerbach told CNN. "If I overlay them on top of each other, they’re nearly identical."
Caplan-Auerbach pointed out that even though there is only a 0.3 magnitude difference between the "Beast Quake" and the "Swift Quake," the Swifties are the MVPs for outperforming the Seahawks fans in terms of enthusiasm and excitement.
"The shaking was twice as strong as 'Beast Quake.' It absolutely doubled it," said Caplan-Auerbach, adding that the length of cheering played a big role in the data. "Cheering after a touchdown lasts for a couple seconds, but eventually it dies down. It’s much more random than a concert. For Taylor Swift, I collected about 10 hours of data where rhythm controlled the behavior. The music, the speakers, the beat. All that energy can drive into the ground and shake it."
After the concert, Swift tookto Instagram to thank her fans and said that "all the cheering, screaming, jumping, dancing, singing at the top of your lungs" made that one of her favorite weekends "ever."
Swift's Seattle concerts were played in front of a crowd of more than 144,000 fans over two nights, and they came towards the end of the U.S. leg of the "Eras Tour," according to the Seattle Times.
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Daytona Beach police chief: 'Operation One By One' sending message to violent drug dealers
An operation has been systematically taking drug dealers off the streets, in response to an increase in violent crimes in Daytona Beach, police Chief Jakari Young said Friday.
Speaking at a press conference in front of a board featuring mug shots, Young told reporters "Operation One By One" had netted at least 11 suspects at the time of the news conference, as well as hundreds of grams of crack cocaine, fentanyl and methamphetamine. Several other suspects were booked into the Volusia County Jail on charges related to drug dealing Friday night and Saturday morning.
"This operation is not just about making arrests," Young said. "It's about sending a strong message to those who believe they can profit off of the misery of addiction and inflict harm on innocent lives. It's about reclaiming our streets and ensuring a safer community for all of us."
Following a July 12 triple homicide in Daytona Beach, a total of 10 slayings had occurred in the city since January. In all of 2022, there was 15 gun-related murders.
Daytona Beach police arrested Jerome Anderson, 38, of Park Drive, on three charges of premeditated murder in the first degree and possession of a weapon by a convicted felon.
He was charged with the slayings of Antoine Melvin, John Burch and Patrick Lassiter in and near the Park Drive home, according to his arrest affidavit. Surveillance video from a nearby convenience store captured Anderson shooting Lassiter, the report shows.
Anderson has five prior felony convictions, including possession of heroin with intent to sell in 2021.
Young said police have found a "clear connection" between violent crimes and the sale of narcotics in Daytona Beach. The city's Special Investigations Unit targeted multiple dealers in the greater Daytona Beach area.
"'Operation One By One' was specifically named to send a strong message to the poison peddlers in the Daytona Beach area that, one by one, they will be apprehended," Young said.
Undercover officers carried out approximately 50 "buy-walk operations," Young said, leading to charges against approximately 25 individuals.
The Drug Enforcement Agency and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms have assisted with the operation.
"I urge community members to continue collaborating with law enforcement, as your support and cooperation are essential to our collective efforts in combatting crime," Young said.
Suspect Named:Police arrest man in the shooting deaths of 3 men in a Daytona Beach neighborhood
Police Update:Daytona Beach man charged with first-degree murder in drive-by shooting | https://www.news-journalonline.com/story/news/crime/2023/07/29/after-shootings-daytona-police-targeting-drug-dealers-one-by-one/70491867007/ | 2023-07-29T19:10:09 | 0 | https://www.news-journalonline.com/story/news/crime/2023/07/29/after-shootings-daytona-police-targeting-drug-dealers-one-by-one/70491867007/ |
Florida Democratic Chair Nikki Fried to start voter-registration tour in DeLand Wednesday
Florida Democrats are pinning their hopes for 2024 and beyond on a $1 million commitment to registering voters in an effort that kicks off in DeLand.
Party Chair Nikki Fried and Executive Director Phillip Jerez will speak to Volusia Democrats at the event, starting at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday.
"It was an intentional choice to kick off the tour in Volusia County," said Susanne Raines, Volusia Democrats' state committeewoman. "The chair is going to come here and meet with the local Democrats to get us confident that the state party is going to support us."
Statewide, Democrats have seen an advantage in voter registration as recently as 2021, but now trail Republicans by 541,798 voters, as of June 30. In Volusia County, there are 40,000 more Republicans than Democrats.
The Dems have not had control of the Legislature or the Governor's Office for a quarter-century. And a string of narrow margins of victory for Republican governors going back to 2006 was broken by incumbent Ron DeSantis last November, when he won by 19 percentage points over Charlie Crist.
Raines said Volusia County has applied for a grant from the state party for funds to register potential Democratic voters. She believes potential Democratic voters can be found in Volusia County.
"They need to have a reason to get out and vote," she said. "People will not go vote if they don't think it's going to make a difference."
The party, in a statement, said Republican control at the state level has resulted in "culture wars" voters don't want.
“Just this week, the governor doubled down on his racist attacks on African American History, all while Floridians are feeling the real bread-and-butter issues going unaddressed or worsening ― like the homeowner insurance crisis because the governor sold Floridians out,” the party said in a statement.
Raines believes many people are "very unhappy with a lot of the things going on in Tallahassee," leaving an opportunity for Democrats to make gains.
However, Christian Ziegler, chairman of the Republican Party of Florida, tweeted on Wednesday that he’s heard Democrats pledge to put money into voter registration before, in 2019, when they aimed to attract 200,000 more Democrats ahead of the 2020 election.
But Democrats’ advantage over Republicans dropped by more than 112,000 that year.
“Essentially, the Democrats paid $14.98 for every 1 lost registered voter,” Ziegler said.
Strategizing:Florida Democrats, in person for first time during pandemic, look for winning 2022 message
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The local medical examiner’s office has ruled the death of Ray Lewis III, a son of former Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis, accidental and due to a lethal combination of drugs in his system, an investigator said Saturday.
Lewis III, 28, was found unconscious in a central Florida home on June 14. Life-saving attempts were unsuccessful and he died at a local hospital. Police said at the time it was a suspected overdose.
An investigator with the Medical Examiner’s Office that serves Seminole County on Saturday provided a reporter with Lewis’ cause and manner of death while a request for the full autopsy report was pending. The office ruled the manner of death an accident and the cause as a mix of fentanyl, cocaine and methamphetamine.
Lewis III attended Lake Mary Prep in Florida, then played football at the University of Miami, Coastal Carolina and Virginia Union University. His coach at VUU told The Sun after his death that Lewis III was a “tremendous young man who played with the spirit of a lion.”
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In 2011, while playing for his high school team, Lewis III ran for 236 yards and four touchdowns at a game attended by his father, the Hall of Fame linebacker, who was able to make it thanks to a bye week for the Ravens.
“I would like to follow in his footsteps,” Lewis III told The Baltimore Sun about his father in 2010. “One day, I do have a dream of going into the NFL, but I also have a dream of making a difference in people’s lives outside the football field.”
Following Lewis III’s death, his brother, Rashaan Lewis, said on Instagram that he prayed his older brother was at peace and that he “won’t ever have the words” to describe the loss.
“Be our guardian,” he wrote. “I promise I’ll make you smile and be proud.”
“We will see you again,” Ray Lewis said at the eulogy for his late son last month at Calvary Orlando Church in Florida, according to the New York Post. “Twenty-eight years, watching my first-born child … the referees thought I was crazy running up and down the sideline.
“My son used to always say to me, ‘Pops, let’s make today a good day.’ And today, now that I finally see my son’s physical body, you will make today a good day.”
Ray Lewis is credited with changing the linebacker position in the NFL in his 17-year career with the Ravens, with whom he won two Super Bowl titles. He retired from football in 2013 and was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2018. | https://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/ravens/bs-md-ci-ray-lewis-son-death-autopsy-20230729-pajrzvdevvcopomijkdarccraa-story.html | 2023-07-29T19:10:26 | 0 | https://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/ravens/bs-md-ci-ray-lewis-son-death-autopsy-20230729-pajrzvdevvcopomijkdarccraa-story.html |
A judge in Georgia has now set a hearing date for a motion by former President Donald Trump's lawyers to disqualify Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from the potential case over criminal interference in the 2020 election.
According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Senior Superior Court Judge Stephen Schuster will hear the motion on August 10. He also directed both sides to submit their legal briefs by no later than August 8.
This comes as a possible indictment from the grand jury that could be handed down any day. Earlier this year, Willis said there would likely be a decision on an indictment in August.
SEE MORE: Georgia DA to announce possible charges in Trump probe this summer
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DES MOINES, Fla. — Donald Trump and his top rivals for the GOP presidential nomination took the stage one by one Friday night to address an influential gathering of Iowa Republicans, with none of the top-tier hopefuls mentioning that new federal charges had been filed against the former president just a day earlier.
Instead, Trump's competitors mostly reserved their sharpest criticism for President Joe Biden and a Democratic Party they argued had lost touch with mainstream America — failing to pounce on additional counts over Trump's retention of classified documents that might have otherwise been an opportunity to cut into his comfortable early lead in the polls.
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"The time for excuses is over. We must get the job done," Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said. "I will get the job done."
DeSantis also repeated his frequent promise to halt the "weaponization" of the Justice Department, an allusion to Trump's legal troubles. But he offered no specific thoughts on the cases against him — even though Trump is also bracing to be charged soon in Washington over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
The former president frequently avoids attending multicandidate events in person, questioning why he would share a stage with competitors who are badly trailing him in polls. Still, with Iowa's first-in-the-nation caucus less than six months away, Trump joined a dozen other GOP hopefuls in speaking to about 1,200 GOP members and activists at the Lincoln Day Dinner.
"If I weren't running, I would have nobody coming after me," Trump said in his only veiled reference to his legal issues. He also insisted the same would be true if he were trailing in the polls.
While DeSantis didn't mention the former president by name, meanwhile, Trump didn't return the favor. He told the crowd, "I wouldn't take a chance on that one," and repeatedly branded him "DeSanctus."
Trump was even blunter before the dinner as he opened a campaign office in Urbandale, outside Des Moines.
"I understand the other candidates are falling very flat ... it's like death," Trump said.
More than 100 people packed the small office, many wearing "Make America Great Again" hats and shirts. They had waited in 100-degree weather to enter, and the poorly ventilated office quickly became sweltering. Staff handed out water bottles, and people fanned themselves with campaign handouts. Some used paper towels to wipe away sweat.
Similar strong support for the former president was evident during the dinner, when many attendees wore "Trump Country"stickers, including 72-year-old Diane Weaver of Ankeny, Iowa.
"I think he makes America great," said Weaver, a retiree who plans to caucus for Trump. "I think he did it once and I think he can do it again."
West Des Moines resident Jane Schrader chose to wear her "rump Country" sticker on her pants instead of at eye level. "I’m not quite dyed-in-the-wool. I'm a supporter, but not that kind," said the retired physician, explaining her sticker placement.
DeSantis, who like most of Friday's speakers vowed to visit all of Iowa's 99 counties, is Trump's strongest primary competitor but has been trying to reset his stalled campaign for two weeks. He's increasingly focusing on Iowa in its efforts on trying to derail Trump, and spoke at the dinner in the midst of a two-day bus tour of the state.
The governor's stumbles have raised questions about whether another candidate might be able to emerge from the field and catch the former president. Some evangelicals, who can be determinative in Iowa's caucuses, have pointed to South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott’s upbeat message and pulpit-style delivery as strengths that could help him rise there.
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Critics call African American history standards 'insulting' and 'demeaning'
Scott, who also spoke Friday night and didn't mention Trump or the cases against him, took a swipe this week at DeSantis over the Florida governor's support for new standards that require the state's teachers to instruct middle school students that slaves developed skills that "could be applied for their personal benefit."
The only Black Republican in the U.S. Senate, Scott said all Americans should recognize how "devastating" slavery was. "here is no silver lining" to slavery, he added.
DeSantis has also faced criticism from teachers and civil rights leaders, as well as mounting pushback from some of his party's most prominent Black elected officials. Florida Rep. Byron Donalds said he hoped officials might "correct" parts of the curriculum addressing lessons on the developed skills of enslaved people. Texas Republican Rep. Wesley Hunt, Michigan Rep. John James and Will Hurd, a former Texas congressman now also running in the GOP presidential primary, have also criticized DeSantis.
Still, the governor continued to dig in on the issue, saying at a pre-dinner event in Oskaloosa on Friday: "D.C. Republicans all too often accept false narratives, accept lies that are perpetrated by the left."
John Niemeyer, 52, from Kalona, Iowa, attended DeSantis' event and was impressed. But, as a high school teacher, he’s not a fan of some of the governor's positions on education policy.
"I don't want to make our classrooms a political battlefield," he said, adding that it would be a "mistake" to make the issue the forefront of his campaign.
Vice President Kamala Harris made her own Iowa stop on Friday, seeking to draw a contrast with the Republicans as she looked to lift President Joe Biden's reelection campaign. Harris met in Des Moines with activists and discussed abortion rights, after Reynolds recently signed a ban on most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy.
"I do believe that we are witnessing a national agenda that is about a full-on attack on hard won freedoms and hard won rights," the vice president said.
Trump, meanwhile, did face criticism Friday night from some Republican opponents, but only those considered long shots. Former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchison declared, "As a party, we need a new direction for America and for the GOP," drawing only muted reaction from the crowd.
Loud and sustained boos came, however, for Hurd, who said, "The reason Donald Trump lost the election in 2020 is he failed to grow the GOP brand."
The former congressman pressed on, saying: "Donald Trump is not running for president to make America great again. ... Donald Trump is running to stay out of prison."
That was the only reference to locking Trump up on the night, except for a surprising — and potentially coincidental — snippet of walk-on music played as the former president took the stage. Like all the candidates, the event's organizers played parts of Brooks & Dunn’s "Only in America" as Trump approached.
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She never missed a beat and was lightning on her feet when the "Shake It Off" artist and her fans caused a "Swift Quake" in Seattle during her "Eras Tour" concerts.
According to seismologist Jackie Caplan-Auerbach, two of Taylor Swift's concerts generated seismic activity equivalent to a 2.3-magnitude earthquake, asCNN originally reported.
The data was gathered from Swift's sold-out "Eras Tour" performances at Lumen Field on July 22 and 23, after Swift's fans, and possibly the sound system, shook the ground so hard that it recorded a maximum ground acceleration of roughly 0.011 meters per second squared, causing what is now being called a "Swift Quake."
Caplan-Auerbach, who’s a geology professor at Western Washington University, told CNN that this data compares to a 2011 NFL game, when the Seattle Seahawk fans went crazy over Marshawn "Beast Mode" Lynch's touchdown during a game against the New Orleans Saints and caused a seismic activity that was then named a "Beast Quake."
"I grabbed the data from both nights of the concert and quickly noticed they were clearly the same pattern of signals," Caplan-Auerbach told CNN. "If I overlay them on top of each other, they’re nearly identical."
Caplan-Auerbach pointed out that even though there is only a 0.3 magnitude difference between the "Beast Quake" and the "Swift Quake," the Swifties are the MVPs for outperforming the Seahawks fans in terms of enthusiasm and excitement.
"The shaking was twice as strong as 'Beast Quake.' It absolutely doubled it," said Caplan-Auerbach, adding that the length of cheering played a big role in the data. "Cheering after a touchdown lasts for a couple seconds, but eventually it dies down. It’s much more random than a concert. For Taylor Swift, I collected about 10 hours of data where rhythm controlled the behavior. The music, the speakers, the beat. All that energy can drive into the ground and shake it."
After the concert, Swift tookto Instagram to thank her fans and said that "all the cheering, screaming, jumping, dancing, singing at the top of your lungs" made that one of her favorite weekends "ever."
Swift's Seattle concerts were played in front of a crowd of more than 144,000 fans over two nights, and they came towards the end of the U.S. leg of the "Eras Tour," according to the Seattle Times.
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MRA grad Josh Hubbard impresses in Mississippi State debut
JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - Former MRA guard and the current holder of the all-time Mississippi high school career scoring record Josh Hubbard seems to be transitioning to life smoothly on the court for the Mississippi State Bulldogs.
Hubbard and the men’s basketball squad, coached by Chris Jans, flew to Portugal to compete in an overseas tour on Thursday, with the squad scheduled to play three games.
“It’ll be a great bonding time for the team,” Hubbard said in a release from MSU. “It’s going to be a great experience.”
A great experience it has been so far for Hubbard, who led all MSU scorers with 12 points in a 76-50 victory against the Lisbon All-Stars in their first outing of the tour early Saturday morning. He also had three steals.
Game 1 in Portugal ✅
— Mississippi State Men's Basketball (@HailStateMBK) July 29, 2023
Hubbard - 12 PTS, 3 STL
Taylor - 9 PTS, 4 ASST
Bell Jr - 8 PTS#HailState🐶 pic.twitter.com/c28zmbyFYb
The freshman will look to fill a great need in the shot-making department for Coach Jans and the Bulldogs in the upcoming season, who were ranked 13th in the SEC in scoring, points per game and ranked last in the conference in three-point percentage last season.
Hubbard and MSU will play the Portugal All-Stars Sunday at 10:30 a.m. and the Basketball Association of Porto on August 2 at 1 p.m.
Mississippi State will open their 2023-24 account against Washington State on November 18 in Uncasville, Connecticut, in the Basketball Hall of Fame Classic tournament.
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‘Sounded like an explosion’: Tesla crashes through wall, lands in backyard pool
PHOENIX (KPHO/Gray News) - Police in Arizona are investigating after a Tesla crashed into a pool in the Phoenix area on Friday.
KPHO reports that the crash happened around 8:45 a.m. at a home about 25 minutes away from downtown Phoenix.
Video from the scene showed the blue sedan appearing to have gone through a brick wall before landing fully submerged in a backyard pool.
A car seat was pulled from the pool, but officers said the driver was alone at the time of the crash.
The homeowner said he was getting ready for the day when he heard a loud noise from his backyard.
“I heard a sound that sounded like an explosion,” the homeowner said. “It sounded like a bomb went off.”
Authorities didn’t report any injuries in the incident. It’s not yet known what led up to the crash.
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WASHINGTON, July 29, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Amid a coordinated effort to undermine No Labels' work to secure ballot access in states nationwide, we have named Jay Nixon – a lifelong Democrat who spent 30 years serving Missouri as a governor, attorney general and state senator – as director of our new Ballot Integrity Project.
Since early last year, No Labels has gathered over 700,000 signatures and qualified for the ballot in five states. We have a strategy to get on the ballot in all 50 states, plus Washington, D.C., with the aim of potentially offering our line to an independent Unity presidential ticket in 2024. No Labels is responding to the overwhelming desire of Americans for more choices and voices in our politics – with two-thirds of voters saying they don't want a rematch of the 2020 election – but we now face organized opposition from a group of political operatives and former elected officials intent on keeping us off the ballot.
"At a moment when so many Americans' are losing trust in our democracy, we need to hold even tighter to the pillars that have held our democracy up for almost 250 years. In our country, you win by persuading more people and getting more votes, not by limiting voters' choices and denying competitors a place on the ballot," said Nixon. "Americans have the constitutional right to put any person or party on the ballot and to vote for whomever they want. Anyone who is against that isn't standing up for democracy. They are standing in the way."
Former Gov. Larry Hogan will welcome Nixon to the No Labels community in his first scheduled public appearance at a town hall on Tuesday, August 1, at 5 p.m. ET. Register here to join the town hall.
In Nixon's decorated public service career, he established a stellar record as a champion for the civil and voting rights of Americans. In his new role with No Labels, Nixon will work closely with No Labels national co-chair and civil rights icon, Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr., to monitor legal developments, provide strategic counsel and serve as a public advocate for No Labels' ballot access efforts.
Since the start of its ballot access effort, No Labels has rigorously followed the letter and spirit of all applicable election laws. In recent months, however, it has become the target of an undemocratic campaign by organized and powerful partisan interests determined to keep No Labels off the ballot.
Local parties and partisan election officials have filed baseless lawsuits, invented spurious charges and delayed certification without justification in Arizona, Maine and North Carolina. Now, a new well-resourced group, organized under the name "Citizens to Save our Republic," has embarked on an effort to pressure No Labels and its members to abandon our ballot access effort.
"No Labels is a movement dedicated to democracy, and democracy can't stop because the powers that be think it's 'dangerous' to have competition," said Chavis. "The way to unite this country and to restore Americans faith in our future is to have more democracy, not less. I'm eager to begin working side by side with former Gov. Nixon to protect Americans' most fundamental constitutional rights."
On July 18, No Labels launched its Common Sense policy booklet at an overflow town hall event at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, N.H., featuring Dr. Chavis, his fellow No Labels co-chairs former Gov. Pat McCrory and Sen. Joe Lieberman and special guests Sen. Joe Manchin and Gov. Jon Huntsman. It was the first of many town halls No Labels will host in the months ahead – with different leaders in different states – to spur a long overdue discussion about where America needs to go in 2024 and beyond.
By early 2024, No Labels will gauge the mood of the American public and their openness to an independent Unity ticket and will offer our ballot line to a ticket if and only if, such a ticket has a viable path to victory in the 2024 presidential election.
Since its founding in 2009, No Labels has spent 13 years working to give voice to America's commonsense majority. We are now getting ballot access in states across the country to ensure Americans have the choice to vote for a 2024 presidential ticket that features strong, effective, and honest leaders who will commit to working closely with both parties to find commonsense solutions to America's biggest problems. www.nolabels.org.
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Melting ice near Matterhorn reveals remains of climber missing for 37 years
(CNN) - The remains of a climber who disappeared while hiking along a glacier near Switzerland’s Matterhorn 37 years ago have been found.
Police say the melting ice on the glacier helped lead to the discovery of the remains.
They were found on July 12 by climbers hiking along the Theodul Glacier.
Several pieces of equipment were also found.
Police say a DNA analysis helped identify the remains as belonging to a 38-year-old German mountain climber who was reported missing in September 1986.
Police also say they had searched for the climber at the time, but they were unsuccessful.
No further details about the climber’s identity or his cause of death have been revealed.
Police say the melting glaciers have led to the reemergence of bodies of those who were reported missing several decades ago.
Scientists announced earlier this week that July is on track to be Earth’s hottest month ever recorded.
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Nearly two years after 10 people were crushed to death during the deadly 2021 Astroworld festival, no charges have been filed — even though some people, including event workers, expressed safety concerns.
Pinpointing “who exactly caused those deaths is not an easy question to answer,” said Sandra Guerra Thompson, a criminal law professor at the University of Houston Law Center.
“It’s a very difficult thing to say, unless you have some kind of clear evidence that somebody in charge, whose job it was to ensure safety and who should have known better, failed to take action,” she said.
A nearly 1,300-page report on the investigation into the tragedy released by Houston police Friday said contract worker Reece Wheeler told authorities that he saw a crush of people and warned an event organizer that people could die, shortly before rapper Travis Scott went onstage.
In the report, investigators wrote that Scott said he did see one person near the stage getting medical attention, but said that overall, the crowd seemed to enjoy the show. He said he did not see any signs of serious problems, nor did he hear anyone tell him to stop the show.
Hip-hop artist Drake, who also performed, told police it was difficult to see from the stage what was going on in the crowd and that he didn’t hear anyone call for the show to stop.
Despite no charges being filed, more than 500 lawsuits have been filed over the deaths and injuries at the concert, including many against concert promoter Live Nation and Scott. Some of those suits have since been settled.
Those who were killed ranged in age from 9 to 27, and all 10 people died due to compression asphyxia, according to medical examiners.
NO CHARGES BROUGHT
In June, a Texas grand jury declined to indict six people in the case, including Scott. Prosecutors said, then, that the circumstances of the deaths limited what charges they were able to present, eliminating potential counts such as murder, manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide.
Thompson said the sheer number of people involved in putting on the event, the large scale of it, and the high bar for proving criminal negligence or recklessness are challenges for prosecutors in cases like this.
“It goes back to, who knows what’s going on, is that being communicated?” she said. “Were they being told that people have died, and they still wanted the concert to go on? Or, were they being told that ‘Hey, some people are getting hurt, which might not be that unusual at an event like that?”
Assistant Harris County District Attorney Alycia Harvey said after the grand jury declined to issue indictments that prosecutors were left with only possible counts of endangering a child in connection with the deaths of the two youngest concertgoers, ages 9 and 14.
Scott’s lawyer, Kent Schaffer, has said that the performer was not responsible for the tragedy.
“He never encouraged people to do anything that resulted in other people being hurt,” Schaffer said.
TRAVIS SCOTT’S RESPONSE
Scott has previously said he was unaware of the deaths until after the show. He has since created what he called Project HEAL, a $5 million initiative that includes funding for an effort to address safety challenges for festivals and large-scale events.
The police report said Scott told investigators that around the time Drake came onstage he was told to end the show after the performance, but that no one told him of an emergency.
NEW SAFETY PRACTICES
Following the tragedy, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott formed a task force to study concert safety, and to recommend crowd control and security measures during mass gathering.
The task force in April 2022 reported that people without tickets entered the outdoor festival area hours before the performances began, overwhelming staff and leading to a variety of injuries. It also concluded that the process for issuing permits for mass gatherings is inconsistent statewide.
The task force recommended creating a command center that is authorized to pause or cancel a show in response to safety concerns.
“Sometimes, sadly, industries learn safety practices following disasters,” said Thompson, the law professor. “The standards for live concerts like this, I would imagine, are going to change.”
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‘Sounded like an explosion’: Tesla crashes through wall, lands in backyard pool
PHOENIX (KPHO/Gray News) - Police in Arizona are investigating after a Tesla crashed into a pool in the Phoenix area on Friday.
KPHO reports that the crash happened around 8:45 a.m. at a home about 25 minutes away from downtown Phoenix.
Video from the scene showed the blue sedan appearing to have gone through a brick wall before landing fully submerged in a backyard pool.
A car seat was pulled from the pool, but officers said the driver was alone at the time of the crash.
The homeowner said he was getting ready for the day when he heard a loud noise from his backyard.
“I heard a sound that sounded like an explosion,” the homeowner said. “It sounded like a bomb went off.”
Authorities didn’t report any injuries in the incident. It’s not yet known what led up to the crash.
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Astros vs. Rays Predictions & Picks: Odds, Moneyline, Spread - July 29
Saturday's game that pits the Houston Astros (58-46) versus the Tampa Bay Rays (63-43) at Minute Maid Park is expected to be a tight matchup based on our computer prediction, which projects a final score of 5-3 in favor of the Astros. Game time is at 7:15 PM ET on July 29.
The Astros will give the nod to Hunter Brown (6-7) versus the Rays and Taj Bradley (5-6).
Astros vs. Rays Game Info & Odds
- When: Saturday, July 29, 2023 at 7:15 PM ET
- Where: Minute Maid Park in Houston, Texas
- How to Watch on TV: FOX
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Astros vs. Rays Score Prediction
Our prediction for this contest is Astros 5, Rays 4.
Total Prediction for Astros vs. Rays
- Total Prediction: Over 8.5 runs
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Astros Performance Insights
- In eight games over the last 10 matchups when favored by oddsmakers, the Astros have a record of 5-3.
- When it comes to hitting the over, Houston and its opponents are 3-7-0 in its last 10 games with a total.
- The Astros are winless against the spread in their last two chances.
- This season, the Astros have won 39 out of the 67 games, or 58.2%, in which they've been favored.
- Houston is 35-21 this season when entering a game favored by -130 or more on the moneyline.
- The Astros have a 56.5% chance to win this game based on the implied probability of the moneyline.
- Houston ranks 12th in the majors with 487 total runs scored this season.
- The Astros have the third-ranked team ERA among all MLB pitching staffs (3.81).
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Bronny James plays piano in a video posted by his father, LeBron James, on Saturday, five days after the teenager went into cardiac arrest during a basketball workout at the University of Southern California.
The 18-year-old plays a brief melody in front of his family, smiles and gets up without speaking in the video posted on his father’s Instagram account. The video doesn’t indicate where or when it was shot.
“A man of many talents,” the Los Angeles Lakers superstar can be heard saying in the background as Bronny finishes playing with his two younger siblings looking on.
TMZ posted photos of Bronny out to dinner with his family, which it says were taken Friday night. They show the teenager with his father outside celebrity hot spot Giorgio Baldi in Santa Monica.
Wearing black pants and a zip-up hoodie, Bronny carried his phone while standing outside the Italian restaurant.
Bronny was released from the hospital on Thursday. He will continue to undergo tests to determine the cause of his cardiac arrest, which occurred Monday morning during a workout at USC’s Galen Center.
Bronny, whose full name is LeBron James Jr., committed to USC in May after the 6-foot-3 guard became one of the nation’s top prospects out of Sierra Canyon School in nearby Chatsworth.
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Astros vs. Rays Predictions & Picks: Odds, Moneyline, Spread - July 29
Saturday's contest between the Houston Astros (58-46) and the Tampa Bay Rays (63-43) at Minute Maid Park is expected to be a tight matchup, as our computer prediction projects a final score of 5-3, with the Astros securing the victory. Game time is at 7:15 PM ET on July 29.
The Astros will give the ball to Hunter Brown (6-7, 4.27 ERA), who is eyeing win No. 7 on the season, and the Rays will turn to Taj Bradley (5-6, 5.17 ERA).
Astros vs. Rays Game Info & Odds
- When: Saturday, July 29, 2023 at 7:15 PM ET
- Where: Minute Maid Park in Houston, Texas
- How to Watch on TV: FOX
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Astros vs. Rays Score Prediction
Our prediction for this game is Astros 5, Rays 4.
Total Prediction for Astros vs. Rays
- Total Prediction: Over 8.5 runs
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Astros Performance Insights
- The Astros have played as the favorite in eight of their past 10 games and have won five of those contests.
- When it comes to hitting the over, Houston and its opponents are 3-7-0 in its last 10 games with a total.
- The Astros have not covered in any of their last two games with a spread.
- This season, the Astros have been favored 67 times and won 39, or 58.2%, of those games.
- Houston is 35-21 this season when entering a game favored by -130 or more on the moneyline.
- Bookmakers have implied with the moneyline set for this matchup that the Astros have a 56.5% chance to win.
- Houston ranks 12th in the majors with 487 total runs scored this season.
- The Astros' 3.81 team ERA ranks third among all league pitching staffs.
Rays Performance Insights
- Over their last 10 contests, the Rays were named underdogs twice and lost each contest.
- When it comes to the total, Tampa Bay and its foes are 2-8-0 in its last 10 contests.
- The Rays' previous 10 contests have not had a spread set by sportsbooks.
- The Rays have been chosen as underdogs in 15 games this year and have walked away with the win four times (26.7%) in those games.
- This season, Tampa Bay has been victorious one time in four chances when named as an underdog of at least +110 or worse on the moneyline.
- The Rays have an implied victory probability of 47.6% according to the moneyline set by oddsmakers for this matchup.
- The offense for Tampa Bay is No. 4 in the majors, scoring 5.2 runs per game (549 total runs).
- The Rays have a 3.69 ERA as a team, best in baseball.
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How to Watch the Astros vs. Rays Game: Streaming & TV Channel Info for July 29
Alex Bregman and the Houston Astros will square off against Wander Franco and the Tampa Bay Rays at Minute Maid Park in the second of a three-game series, Saturday at 7:15 PM ET.
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Astros vs. Rays Live Stream, TV Channel and Game Info:
- Date: Saturday, July 29, 2023
- Time: 7:15 PM ET
- TV Channel: FOX
- Location: Houston, Texas
- Venue: Minute Maid Park
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Astros Batting & Pitching Performance
- The Astros are 10th-best in MLB play with 130 total home runs.
- Houston is 14th in MLB with a .411 slugging percentage.
- The Astros' .248 batting average ranks 18th in MLB.
- Houston ranks 12th in runs scored with 487 (4.7 per game).
- The Astros' .317 on-base percentage ranks 16th in MLB.
- The Astros strike out 7.9 times per game to rank fifth in MLB.
- The 9.3 strikeouts per nine innings put together by Houston's pitching staff ranks sixth in the majors.
- Houston's 3.81 team ERA ranks third among all MLB pitching staffs.
- Pitchers for the Astros combine for the 14th-ranked WHIP in baseball (1.271).
Astros Probable Starting Pitcher
- Hunter Brown gets the start for the Astros, his 20th of the season. He is 6-7 with a 4.27 ERA and 122 strikeouts in 105 1/3 innings pitched.
- The right-hander last pitched on Sunday against the Oakland Athletics, when he threw six innings, allowing two earned runs while giving up six hits.
- Brown is looking to pick up his 10th quality start of the season.
- Brown will aim to pitch five or more innings for his third straight start. He's averaging 5.5 frames per outing.
- In four of his appearances this season he did not give up an earned run.
Astros Schedule
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WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is hunting for malicious computer code it believes China has hidden deep inside the networks controlling power grids, communications systems and water supplies that feed military bases in the United States and around the world, according to U.S. military, intelligence and national security officials.
The discovery of the malware has raised fears that Chinese hackers, probably working for the People’s Liberation Army, have inserted code designed to disrupt U.S. military operations in the event of a conflict, including if Beijing moves against Taiwan in coming years.
The malware, one congressional official said, was essentially “a ticking time bomb” that could give China the power to interrupt or slow U.S. military deployments or resupply operations by cutting off power, water and communications to military bases. But its impact could be far broader, because that same infrastructure often supplies the houses and businesses of ordinary Americans, according to U.S. officials.
The first public hints of the malware campaign began to emerge in late May, when Microsoft said it had detected mysterious computer code in telecommunications systems in Guam, the Pacific island with a vast American air base, and elsewhere in the United States.
More than a dozen U.S. officials and industry experts said in interviews over the past two months that the Chinese effort predated the May report by at least a year, and that the U.S. government’s effort to hunt down the code, and eradicate it, has been underway for some time. Most spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss confidential and in some cases classified assessments.
They say the Chinese effort appears more widespread — in the United States and at American facilities abroad — than they had initially realized. But officials acknowledge that they do not know the full extent of the code’s presence in networks around the world.
The discovery of the malware has touched off a series of Situation Room meetings in the White House in recent months, as senior officials from the National Security Council, the Pentagon, the Homeland Security Department and the nation’s spy agencies attempt to understand the scope of the problem and plot a response.
Biden administration officials have begun to brief members of Congress, some state governors and utility companies about the findings, and confirmed some conclusions about the operation in interviews with The New York Times.
There is a debate inside the administration over whether the goal of the operation is primarily aimed at disrupting the military, or at civilian life more broadly in the event of a conflict. But officials say that the initial searches for the code have focused first on areas with a high concentration of U.S. military bases.
In response to questions from the Times, the White House issued a statement Friday night that made no reference to China or the military bases.
“The Biden administration is working relentlessly to defend the United States from any disruptions to our critical infrastructure, including by coordinating interagency efforts to protect water systems, pipelines, rail and aviation systems, among others,” said Adam Hodge, acting spokesperson for the National Security Council.
The U.S. government and Microsoft have attributed the recent malware attack to Chinese state-sponsored actors, but the government has not disclosed why it reached that conclusion. There is debate among different arms of the U.S. government about the intent of the intrusions, but not about their source.
The public revelation of the malware operation comes at an especially fraught moment in relations between Washington and Beijing, with clashes that include Chinese threats against Taiwan as well as U.S. efforts to ban the sale of highly sophisticated semiconductors to the Chinese government.
The discovery of the code in American infrastructure, one of President Joe Biden’s most senior advisers said, “raises the question of what, exactly, they are preparing for — or whether this is signaling.”
If gaining advantage in a Taiwan confrontation is at the heart of China’s intent, tabletop exercises conducted by the government, think tanks and other outside experts suggest time is of the essence. Slowing down U.S. military deployments by a few days or weeks might give China a window in which it would have an easier time taking control of the island by force.
Chinese officials did not respond to requests for comment concerning the American discovery of the code. But they have repeatedly denied conducting surveillance or other cyberoperations against the United States.
They have never conceded that China was behind the theft of security clearance files of roughly 22 million Americans — including 6 million sets of fingerprints — from the Office of Personnel Management during the Obama administration. That exfiltration resulted in an agreement between President Barack Obama and President Xi Jinping that resulted in a brief decline in malicious Chinese cyberactivity. The agreement has since collapsed.
Now, Chinese cyberoperations seem to have taken a turn. The latest intrusions are different from those in the past because disruption, not surveillance, appears to be the objective, U.S. officials say. At the Aspen Security Forum last week, Rob Joyce, director of cybersecurity at the National Security Agency, said China’s recent hack targeting the U.S. ambassador to Beijing, Nicholas Burns, and Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo was traditional espionage. But he said the intrusions in Guam were “really disturbing” because of their disruptive potential.
The Chinese code, the officials say, appears directed at ordinary utilities that serve both civilian populations and nearby military bases. Only U.S. nuclear sites have self-contained communication systems, electricity and water pipelines. (The code has not been found in classified systems. Officials declined to describe the unclassified military networks in which the code has been found.)
While the most sensitive planning is carried out on classified networks, the military routinely uses unclassified, but secure, networks for basic communications, personnel matters, logistics and supply issues.
Officials say that if the malware is activated, it is not clear how effective it would be at slowing an American response — and that the Chinese government may not know, either. In interviews, officials said they believe that in many cases the communications, computer networks and power grids could be quickly restored in a matter of days.
But intelligence analysts have concluded that China may believe there is utility in any disruptive attack that could slow down the U.S. response.
The first hints of the new campaign by China came in May, when experts at Microsoft released some details of the malware found in Guam — home to major U.S. Air Force and Marine bases — and elsewhere in the United States. The company attributed the intrusion to a Chinese state-sponsored hacker the experts called Volt Typhoon.
A warning from the Homeland Security Department’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the NSA and others issued the same day said the state-sponsored hacker was able to avoid detection by blending its attack in with normal computer activity but did not outline other details of the threat.
Officials briefly considered whether to leave the malware in place, quietly monitor the code they had found and prepare plans to try to neutralize it if it was even activated. Monitoring the intrusions would allow them to learn more about it, and possibly lull the Chinese hackers into a false sense that their penetration had not been exposed.
But senior White House officials quickly rejected that option and said that given the potential threat, the prudent path was to excise the offending malware as quickly as it could be found.
Still, there are risks. U.S. cybersecurity experts are able to remove some of the malware, but some officials said there are concerns that the Chinese could use similar techniques to quickly regain access.
Removing the Volt Typhoon malware also runs the risk of tipping off China’s increasingly talented hacking forces about what intrusions the United States is able to find, and what it is missing. If that happens, China could improve its techniques and be able to reinfect military systems with even harder-to-find software. | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation-politics/u-s-hunts-chinese-malware-that-could-disrupt-military-operations/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world | 2023-07-29T19:12:23 | 0 | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation-politics/u-s-hunts-chinese-malware-that-could-disrupt-military-operations/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world |
How to Watch the Astros vs. Rays Game: Streaming & TV Channel Info for July 29
The Tampa Bay Rays and Brandon Lowe hit the field against Alex Bregman and the Houston Astros on Saturday at Minute Maid Park.
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Astros vs. Rays Live Stream, TV Channel and Game Info:
- Date: Saturday, July 29, 2023
- Time: 7:15 PM ET
- TV Channel: FOX
- Location: Houston, Texas
- Venue: Minute Maid Park
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Astros Batting & Pitching Performance
- The Astros rank 10th-best in MLB play with 130 total home runs.
- Houston's .411 slugging percentage ranks 14th in MLB.
- The Astros' .248 batting average ranks 18th in the majors.
- Houston has the No. 12 offense in baseball, scoring 4.7 runs per game (487 total runs).
- The Astros rank 16th in baseball with a .317 on-base percentage.
- Astros hitters strike out 7.9 times per game, the fifth-fewest strikeouts in MLB.
- The 9.3 strikeouts per nine innings compiled by Houston's pitching staff ranks sixth in MLB.
- Houston's 3.81 team ERA ranks third among all MLB pitching staffs.
- The Astros have the 14th-ranked WHIP in MLB (1.271).
Rays Batting & Pitching Performance
- The Rays rank fourth in Major League Baseball with 151 home runs.
- Tampa Bay ranks fifth in the majors with a .444 team slugging percentage.
- The Rays rank 10th in MLB with a .255 team batting average.
- Tampa Bay has scored 549 runs this season, which ranks fourth in MLB.
- The Rays have an OBP of .327 this season, which ranks 10th in MLB.
- The Rays rank 17th in MLB in strikeouts per game with an average of 8.6 whiffs per contest.
- Tampa Bay averages 9.2 strikeouts per nine innings as a pitching staff, eighth-most in the majors.
- Tampa Bay pitchers have the lowest combined ERA in the majors at 3.69.
- The Rays have a combined 1.178 WHIP as a pitching staff, second-lowest in MLB.
Astros Probable Starting Pitcher
- The Astros will send Hunter Brown (6-7) to the mound to make his 20th start of the season. He is 6-7 with a 4.27 ERA and 122 strikeouts in 105 1/3 innings pitched.
- The righty last appeared on Sunday against the Oakland Athletics, when he tossed six innings, allowing two earned runs while giving up six hits.
- Brown has registered nine quality starts this year.
- Brown is aiming for his third straight appearance lasting five or more innings. He averages 5.5 innings per appearance on the hill.
- In four of his appearances this season he did not give up an earned run.
Rays Probable Starting Pitcher
- The Rays' Taj Bradley (5-6) will make his 16th start of the season.
- The right-hander's last appearance was on Sunday, when he threw five innings against the Baltimore Orioles, giving up three earned runs while allowing five hits.
- In 15 starts this season, he's earned a quality start in one of them.
- Bradley has pitched five or more innings in three straight games and will look to extend that streak.
- In 15 appearances this season, he has finished two without allowing an earned run.
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Astros vs. Rays: Odds, spread, over/under - July 29
The Houston Astros (58-46) and the Tampa Bay Rays (63-43) will go head to head on Saturday, July 29 at Minute Maid Park, with Hunter Brown pitching for the Astros and Taj Bradley taking the hill for the Rays. The first pitch will be thrown at 7:15 PM ET.
The Rays are +110 moneyline underdogs for this matchup against the Astros (-130). The over/under is 8.5 runs for the game.
Astros vs. Rays Time and TV Channel
- Date: Saturday, July 29, 2023
- Time: 7:15 PM ET
- TV: FOX
- Location: Houston, Texas
- Venue: Minute Maid Park
- Probable Pitchers: Brown - HOU (6-7, 4.27 ERA) vs Bradley - TB (5-6, 5.17 ERA)
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Astros vs. Rays Betting Odds, Run Line and Total
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Astros vs. Rays Betting Trends and Insights
- The Astros have won 39, or 58.2%, of the 67 games they've played as favorites this season.
- The Astros have gone 35-21 when they have played as moneyline favorites with odds of -130 or shorter (62.5% winning percentage).
- The moneyline for this contest implies a 56.5% chance of a victory for Houston.
- The Astros played as the moneyline favorite for eight of their last 10 games, and they finished 5-3 in those matchups.
- In its last 10 outings (all 10 of them had set totals), Houston and its opponents combined to hit the over three times.
- The Rays have won in four, or 26.7%, of the 15 contests they have been named as odds-on underdogs this year.
- This season, the Rays have been victorious one time in four chances when named as an underdog of at least +110 or longer on the moneyline.
- The Rays have been underdogs twice in the last 10 games and lost both contests.
- When it comes to hitting the over, Tampa Bay and its opponents are 2-8-0 in the last 10 games with a total.
Astros vs. Rays Player Props
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HAMPTON BEACH, N.H. (AP) — A small plane towing a banner landed in the ocean off a crowded New Hampshire beach on Saturday, and lifeguards rescued the pilot, who was unhurt, authorities said.
The single-engine Piper PA-18 plane landed about noon off Hampton Beach, witnesses said. The Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement that the pilot was the only person on board.
Hampton Police Chief Alex Reno told WMUR-TV that the pilot was rescued by lifeguards, and wasn’t hurt.
The plane has since been pulled to shore and was sitting on the beach.
The FAA said it would investigate the cause of the incident, along with the National Transportation Safety Board.
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Braves vs. Brewers Predictions & Picks: Odds, Moneyline, Spread - July 29
Saturday's contest between the Atlanta Braves (65-36) and the Milwaukee Brewers (57-47) at Truist Park has a projected final score of 5-4 based on our computer prediction, with the Braves coming out on top. First pitch is at 7:20 PM on July 29.
The Braves will give the ball to Bryce Elder (7-2, 3.30 ERA), who is eyeing win No. 8 on the season, and the Brewers will counter with Julio Teheran (2-4, 3.75 ERA).
Braves vs. Brewers Game Info & Odds
- When: Saturday, July 29, 2023 at 7:20 PM ET
- Where: Truist Park in Atlanta, Georgia
- How to Watch on TV: BSSE
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Braves vs. Brewers Score Prediction
Our pick for this game is Braves 5, Brewers 4.
Total Prediction for Braves vs. Brewers
- Total Prediction: Under 10 runs
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Braves Performance Insights
- In 10 games as the favorite over the last 10 matchups, the Braves have a record of 4-6.
- In its last 10 games with a total, Atlanta and its opponents are 4-6-0 when it comes to hitting the over.
- The Braves have not played a game with a spread over their last 10 outings.
- The Braves have won 57, or 64.8%, of the 88 games they've played as favorites this season.
- Atlanta is 20-8 this season when entering a game favored by -210 or more on the moneyline.
- Bookmakers have implied with the moneyline set for this matchup that the Braves have a 67.7% chance to win.
- Atlanta is among the highest-scoring teams in the majors, ranking third with 564 total runs this season.
- The Braves' 3.85 team ERA ranks seventh across all league pitching staffs.
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The 2023 Amundi Evian Championship Odds & Preview: Brooke Mackenzie Henderson
As we enter the final round of the Amundi Evian Championship, Brooke Mackenzie Henderson is in third place at -7.
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Brooke Mackenzie Henderson Insights
- Over her last 17 rounds, Mackenzie Henderson has finished below par 10 times, while also carding 12 rounds with a better-than-average score.
- She has carded one of the five best scores in one of her last 17 rounds played.
- Over her last 17 rounds, Mackenzie Henderson has finished within three strokes of the best score of the round three times, and within five strokes of the top score of the day on six occasions.
- Mackenzie Henderson has finished in the top 20 in two of her past five events.
- The past five times she has played a tournament, she's made the cut four times.
- In her past five tournaments, Mackenzie Henderson has posted a score better than average in three of them.
Over the last year
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Amundi Evian Championship Insights and Stats
- The Tour has played courses with an average length of 7,017 yards in the past year, while Evian Resort Golf Club is set for a shorter 6,527 yards.
- In the past year, Tour stops have seen an average score of -5, while Evian Resort Golf Club has a recent scoring average of -6.
- Evian Resort Golf Club is 6,527 yards, 37 yards shorter than the average course Mackenzie Henderson has played in the past year (6,564).
- The tournaments she has played in the past year have seen an average score of -3. That's higher than this course's recent scoring average of -6.
Mackenzie Henderson's Last Time Out
- Mackenzie Henderson was in the 32nd percentile on par 3s at the Greater Toledo LPGA Classic, with an average of par on the eight par-3 holes.
- Her 4.09-stroke average on the 22 par-4 holes at the Greater Toledo LPGA Classic was below average, putting her in the 30th percentile of the field.
- Mackenzie Henderson shot better than just 29% of the field at the Greater Toledo LPGA Classic on par-5 holes, averaging 4.83 strokes per hole compared to the field average of 4.76.
- Mackenzie Henderson recorded a birdie or better on one of eight par-3s at the Greater Toledo LPGA Classic, worse than the field average of 1.9.
- On the eight par-3s at the Greater Toledo LPGA Classic, Mackenzie Henderson carded one bogey or worse (less than the tournament average of 1.6).
- Mackenzie Henderson's three birdies or better on par-4s at the Greater Toledo LPGA Classic were less than the field average of 5.4.
- At that last tournament, Mackenzie Henderson's par-4 showing (on 22 holes) included a bogey or worse five times (better than the field's average, 5.8).
- Mackenzie Henderson finished the Greater Toledo LPGA Classic carding a birdie or better on two par-5 holes, compared to the field average of 2.9 on the six par-5s.
- On the six par-5s at the Greater Toledo LPGA Classic, Mackenzie Henderson had one bogey or worse, more than the tournament average of 0.8.
Amundi Evian Championship Time and Date Info
- Date: July 27-30, 2023
- Course: Evian Resort Golf Club
- Location: Évian-les-Bains, France
- Par: 71 / 6,527 yards
- Mackenzie Henderson Odds to Win: +800 (Bet now with BetMGM!)
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How to Watch the Braves vs. Brewers Game: Streaming & TV Channel Info for July 29
William Contreras and Ronald Acuna Jr. will hit the field when the Milwaukee Brewers and Atlanta Braves meet on Saturday at Truist Park.
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Braves vs. Brewers Live Stream, TV Channel and Game Info:
- Date: Saturday, July 29, 2023
- Time: 7:20 PM ET
- TV Channel: BSSE
- Location: Atlanta, Georgia
- Venue: Truist Park
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Braves Batting & Pitching Performance
- The Atlanta Braves lead the league with 191 total home runs, averaging 1.9 per game.
- Atlanta has an MLB-high .491 slugging percentage.
- The Braves are second in MLB with a .268 batting average.
- Atlanta scores the third-most runs in baseball (564 total, 5.6 per game).
- The Braves are second in MLB with a .338 on-base percentage.
- Braves batters strike out 8.2 times per game, the sixth-fewest strikeouts in the majors.
- The 9.4 strikeouts per nine innings put together by Atlanta's pitching staff ranks fifth in MLB.
- Atlanta has the seventh-ranked team ERA among all MLB pitching staffs (3.85).
- The Braves average baseball's 16th-ranked WHIP (1.275).
Braves Probable Starting Pitcher
- Bryce Elder (7-2 with a 3.30 ERA and 86 strikeouts in 114 2/3 innings pitched) makes the start for the Braves, his 21st of the season.
- The right-hander's most recent appearance was on Sunday against the Milwaukee Brewers, when he tossed six innings, surrendering two earned runs while giving up four hits.
- Elder is looking to secure his 13th quality start of the year.
- Elder heads into this game with 18 outings of five or more innings pitched this campaign.
- He has had five appearances this season in which he kept his opponents to zero earned runs.
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BATH, Maine (AP) — Marine 1st Lt. Harvey “Barney” Barnum jumped to the ground when he came under fire during an ambush in Vietnam that killed his radio operator and commander.
Collecting himself, Barnum realized he was now the highest-ranking officer of a rifle company he’d just joined. He called in artillery and, amid gunfire, dragged the commander to safety, where he died in Barnum’s arms. Then he proceeded to mount a counterattack, oversee evacuation of the wounded and lead the unit’s eventual break out to rejoin the battalion.
The Medal of Honor recipient, now 83, watched Saturday as his wife smashed a bottle of sparkling wine against the bow to christen the future U.S. Navy destroyer that’ll bear the name Harvey C. Barnum Jr.
He said he was speechless when he learned that a warship would bear his name. “As anybody that knows Barney Barnum knows, I’ve never been speechless,” he joked before the event.
The ceremony on Saturday at Navy shipbuilder Bath Iron Works was a tribute to the Vietnam War hero who during his first firefight was foisted into leadership of Marines who didn’t yet know his name because he’d just joined them a couple of days earlier.
Dignitaries included Maine’s governor and senators, as well as Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro, who praised Barnum’s humility and generosity, in addition to being a war hero who inspired fellow Marines.
Gen. Eric Smith, the acting Marine Corps commandant whose nomination to lead the Marine Corps is being blocked by a Republican senator, called Barnum “an icon, a legend, a Marine.”
In an interview, Barnum said the combat was harrowing on that day, Dec. 18, 1965, during Operation Harvest Moon. His unit was outnumbered, caught off guard and separated from the larger battalion outside the village of Ky Phu in Quang Tin Province.
The ship’s namesake said he was scared like everybody else but he tried not to show it. The other Marines were looking to him, an artillery spotter, after their commander died, he said.
To launch a counterattack, he brandished a .45-caliber handgun and told the others to follow him. They did.
“It’s a tough business. But when it gets tough, the tough get going and that’s what Marines do,” he said. “We came together as a team. And, you know, there’s no fury unleashed that’s greater than that of a bunch of Marines that know that their buddies have been shot.”
Barnum later became the first Medal of Honor recipient in the Vietnam conflict to return for another tour. He retired from the Marine Corps as a colonel after nearly three decades of service and served the secretary of defense as principal director of drug enforcement policy, deputy assistant secretary of the Navy for reserve affairs, and acting assistant secretary of the Navy for manpower and reserve affairs.
Barnum, of Reston, Virginia, was born in Cheshire, Connecticut, and studied at Saint Anslem College, a Benedictine college in Goffstown, New Hampshire. The school’s abbot, Mark Cooper, delivered the invocation on Saturday.
The event was a family affair for Barnum, who now lives in Virginia.
His wife, Martha Hill, served as the ship’s sponsor. At the event Saturday, she was in a wheelchair; Barnum has been her care provider since she had a stroke more than five years ago. Her daughter; two granddaughters, one of whom sang “God Bless America;” and an 11-year-old great-granddaughter were also participants at the event Saturday. Other family and friends were present.
Displacing 9,500 tons, the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer is built to simultaneously wage war against submarines, aircraft and missiles, and other warships. The newest versions are being equipped for ballistic missile defense.
The 510-foot (155 meters) guided-missile destroyer was in dry dock for the ceremony as work continues to prepare the ship for delivery to the Navy.
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The 2023 Amundi Evian Championship Odds & Preview: Celine Boutier
The Amundi Evian Championship is nearing the end, and prior to the final round Celine Boutier is in first place with a score of -11.
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Celine Boutier Insights
- Over her last 16 rounds, Boutier has shot better than par on five occasions, while also carding one bogey-free round and 10 rounds with a better-than-average score.
- She has recorded a top-five score once in her last 16 rounds.
- Boutier has carded a score within three shots of the day's best in one of her last 16 rounds, while finishing within five strokes of the top score of the day seven times.
- In her past five appearances, Boutier's average finish has been 35th.
- She has made three cuts in her past five tournaments.
- Boutier has finished with a better-than-average score in one of her past five tournaments.
Over the last year
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Amundi Evian Championship Insights and Stats
- This course is set up to play at 6,527 yards, 490 yards shorter than the average course on the Tour in the past year.
- Players have posted 69.25 strokes per round and an average score of -5 in the past year on Tour. Events hosted on this course have a slightly lower scoring average of -6.
- The average course Boutier has played in the past year (6,582 yards) is 55 yards longer than the course she'll be playing this week (6,527).
- Events she has played in the past year have seen players average a score of -3. That is higher than this course, which has a scoring average of -6.
Boutier's Last Time Out
- Boutier was in the 65th percentile on par 3s at the U.S. Women’s Open, with an average of 3.06 strokes on the 16 par-3 holes.
- Her 4.20-stroke average on the 40 par-4 holes at the U.S. Women’s Open placed her in the 59th percentile.
- On the 16 par-5 holes at the U.S. Women’s Open, Boutier was better than 52% of the competitors (averaging 5.00 strokes).
- Boutier carded a birdie or better on one of 16 par-3s at the U.S. Women’s Open (the other golfers averaged 1.5).
- On the 16 par-3s at the U.S. Women’s Open, Boutier recorded fewer bogeys or worse (two) than the field average (3.0).
- Boutier's one birdie or better on the 40 par-4s at the U.S. Women’s Open were less than the tournament average (3.0).
- In that last tournament, Boutier's showing on the 40 par-4s included a bogey or worse eight times (the field's average was worse, at 8.4).
- Boutier finished the U.S. Women’s Open with a birdie or better on four of the 16 par-5s, bettering the field average of 2.8.
- On the 16 par-5s at the U.S. Women’s Open, Boutier had four bogeys or worse, more than the field average of 2.6.
Amundi Evian Championship Time and Date Info
- Date: July 27-30, 2023
- Course: Evian Resort Golf Club
- Location: Évian-les-Bains, France
- Par: 71 / 6,527 yards
- Boutier Odds to Win: -100 (Bet now with BetMGM!)
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The 2023 Amundi Evian Championship Odds & Preview: Brooke Mackenzie Henderson
As we enter the final round of the Amundi Evian Championship, Brooke Mackenzie Henderson is in third place at -7.
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Brooke Mackenzie Henderson Insights
- Over her last 17 rounds, Mackenzie Henderson has finished below par 10 times, while also carding 12 rounds with a better-than-average score.
- She has carded one of the five best scores in one of her last 17 rounds played.
- Over her last 17 rounds, Mackenzie Henderson has finished within three strokes of the best score of the round three times, and within five strokes of the top score of the day on six occasions.
- Mackenzie Henderson has finished in the top 20 in two of her past five events.
- The past five times she has played a tournament, she's made the cut four times.
- In her past five tournaments, Mackenzie Henderson has posted a score better than average in three of them.
Over the last year
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Amundi Evian Championship Insights and Stats
- The Tour has played courses with an average length of 7,017 yards in the past year, while Evian Resort Golf Club is set for a shorter 6,527 yards.
- In the past year, Tour stops have seen an average score of -5, while Evian Resort Golf Club has a recent scoring average of -6.
- Evian Resort Golf Club is 6,527 yards, 37 yards shorter than the average course Mackenzie Henderson has played in the past year (6,564).
- The tournaments she has played in the past year have seen an average score of -3. That's higher than this course's recent scoring average of -6.
Mackenzie Henderson's Last Time Out
- Mackenzie Henderson was in the 32nd percentile on par 3s at the Greater Toledo LPGA Classic, with an average of par on the eight par-3 holes.
- Her 4.09-stroke average on the 22 par-4 holes at the Greater Toledo LPGA Classic was below average, putting her in the 30th percentile of the field.
- Mackenzie Henderson shot better than just 29% of the field at the Greater Toledo LPGA Classic on par-5 holes, averaging 4.83 strokes per hole compared to the field average of 4.76.
- Mackenzie Henderson recorded a birdie or better on one of eight par-3s at the Greater Toledo LPGA Classic, worse than the field average of 1.9.
- On the eight par-3s at the Greater Toledo LPGA Classic, Mackenzie Henderson carded one bogey or worse (less than the tournament average of 1.6).
- Mackenzie Henderson's three birdies or better on par-4s at the Greater Toledo LPGA Classic were less than the field average of 5.4.
- At that last tournament, Mackenzie Henderson's par-4 showing (on 22 holes) included a bogey or worse five times (better than the field's average, 5.8).
- Mackenzie Henderson finished the Greater Toledo LPGA Classic carding a birdie or better on two par-5 holes, compared to the field average of 2.9 on the six par-5s.
- On the six par-5s at the Greater Toledo LPGA Classic, Mackenzie Henderson had one bogey or worse, more than the tournament average of 0.8.
Amundi Evian Championship Time and Date Info
- Date: July 27-30, 2023
- Course: Evian Resort Golf Club
- Location: Évian-les-Bains, France
- Par: 71 / 6,527 yards
- Mackenzie Henderson Odds to Win: +800 (Bet now with BetMGM!)
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DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Senegal’s opposition leader Ousmane Sonko has been charged with conspiracy against the state and calls for insurrections among other offenses, the public prosecutor said Saturday.
The announcement comes weeks after Sonko was convicted on separate charges of corrupting youth and sentenced to two years in prison, which ignited deadly protests across the nation.
Prosecutor Abdou Karim Diop made the announcement on state television, a day after Sonko’s lawyer said he was taken into custody for questioning at the police courthouse in the capital, Dakar.
In June, Sonko was acquitted on charges of raping a woman who worked at a massage parlor and making death threats against her. But he was convicted on a lighter sentence of corrupting young people, which includes using one’s position of power to have sex with people under age 21. Corrupting youth is a criminal offense in Senegal that is punishable by up to five years in prison and a fine of up to more than $6,000.
The conviction led to deadly clashes across the country between Sonko supporters and police, where at least 23 people were killed and dozens injured.
Sonko placed third in Senegal’s 2019 presidential election and is popular with the country’s youth. His supporters maintain the charges against him are part of a government effort to derail his candidacy in the 2024 presidential election.
Sonko’s ongoing legal battles may bar him from running. Once in prison, he can ask for a retrial for his June conviction.
Saturday’s charges are separate, said the public prosecutor. The accusations include calling an insurrection, criminal conspiracy to commit terrorism, compromising public security and theft.
It is unclear what led to the charges. Sonko has mostly stayed in his house since being sentenced to prison.
In a tweet posted shortly before his arrest on Friday afternoon, Sonko said a team of soldiers were breaking down the door following an altercation with secret service agents who were taking videoing him.
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The 2023 Amundi Evian Championship Odds & Preview: Minjee Lee
Heading into the final round of the Amundi Evian Championship, Minjee Lee is in third place at -7.
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Minjee Lee Insights
- Over her last 20 rounds, Lee has shot better than par on 10 occasions, while also posting two bogey-free rounds and 15 rounds with a better-than-average score.
- She has carded the best score of the day in two of her last 20 rounds, while scoring among the top 10 in five rounds.
- Over her last 20 rounds, Lee has finished within three strokes of the best score of the round five times, and within five strokes of the top score of the day on 12 occasions.
- Lee has posted one top-10 finish and five top-20 finishes in her past five appearances.
- Lee has finished with a score better than the tournament average in each of her past five appearances, including one finish within five strokes of the leader.
- Lee has a top-20 finish in each of her past six tournaments.
- Lee will attempt to prolong her streak of made cuts to 14 by qualifying for the weekend once again.
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Amundi Evian Championship Insights and Stats
- Measuring 6,527 yards, Evian Resort Golf Club is set up as a par 71 for this tournament. In the past year, tournaments on the Tour have averaged a longer distance of 7,017 yards .
- The average course on the Tour in the past year has played to 69.25 strokes per round and a score of -5. At Evian Resort Golf Club, the scoring average is slightly lower at -6 per tournament.
- The courses that Lee has played in the past year have had an average distance of 6,591 yards, while Evian Resort Golf Club will be at 6,527 yards this week.
- The tournaments she has played in the past year have seen an average score of -3. That's higher than this course's recent scoring average of -6.
Lee's Last Time Out
- Lee was rather mediocre over the 16 par-3 holes at the Greater Toledo LPGA Classic, averaging 2.88 strokes to finish in the 62nd percentile of competitors.
- She averaged 3.93 strokes on par-4 holes (of which there were 44) at the Greater Toledo LPGA Classic, which was strong enough to land her in the 83rd percentile among all competitors on par 4s (the tournament average was 4.01).
- On the 12 par-5 holes at the Greater Toledo LPGA Classic, Lee was better than 94% of the golfers (averaging 4.42 strokes).
- Lee recorded a birdie or better on four of 16 par-3s at the Greater Toledo LPGA Classic (the other participants averaged 1.9).
- On the 16 par-3s at the Greater Toledo LPGA Classic, Lee recorded two bogeys or worse (the other golfers averaged 1.6).
- Lee's nine birdies or better on par-4s at the Greater Toledo LPGA Classic were more than the field average of 5.4.
- At that most recent outing, Lee posted a bogey or worse on six of 44 par-4s (the field averaged 5.8).
- Lee ended the Greater Toledo LPGA Classic carding a birdie or better on seven par-5 holes, while the field averaged 2.9 on the 12 par-5s.
- The field at the Greater Toledo LPGA Classic averaged 0.8 bogeys or worse on the 12 par-5s, but Lee finished without one.
Amundi Evian Championship Time and Date Info
- Date: July 27-30, 2023
- Course: Evian Resort Golf Club
- Location: Évian-les-Bains, France
- Par: 71 / 6,527 yards
- Lee Odds to Win: +700 (Bet now with BetMGM!)
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The Reggae Girlz earned their first-ever Women’s World Cup win on Saturday thanks to a goal from West Hartford’s Allyson Swaby.
It was a tightly fought match between Jamaica and Panama at Perth Rectangular Stadium in Perth, Australia and it was Swaby's goal from a corner kick that made the difference.
Swaby, 26, - also the team’s captain – scored her second-ever goal for Jamaica after teammate Trudi Carter sent in an inviting delivery from the corner flag.
Born in West Hartford, Swaby is eligible to represent Jamaica, her father’s native country. This is her second Women’s World Cup alongside her sister Chantelle.
Allyson Swaby was named the MVP of Saturday’s game.
Jamaica, in its second appearance in the Women’s World Cup, is now tied with France at the top of Group F with four points, meaning they would only need a draw against Brazil to advance to the knockout stage – a historic achievement for the Caribbean island nation.
With a second loss, Panama is eliminated from the tournament.
The French will play Panama in Sydney, and Brazil will take on Jamaica in Melbourne on Wednesday.
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The 2023 Amundi Evian Championship Odds & Preview: Celine Boutier
The Amundi Evian Championship is nearing the end, and prior to the final round Celine Boutier is in first place with a score of -11.
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Celine Boutier Insights
- Over her last 16 rounds, Boutier has shot better than par on five occasions, while also carding one bogey-free round and 10 rounds with a better-than-average score.
- She has recorded a top-five score once in her last 16 rounds.
- Boutier has carded a score within three shots of the day's best in one of her last 16 rounds, while finishing within five strokes of the top score of the day seven times.
- In her past five appearances, Boutier's average finish has been 35th.
- She has made three cuts in her past five tournaments.
- Boutier has finished with a better-than-average score in one of her past five tournaments.
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Amundi Evian Championship Insights and Stats
- This course is set up to play at 6,527 yards, 490 yards shorter than the average course on the Tour in the past year.
- Players have posted 69.25 strokes per round and an average score of -5 in the past year on Tour. Events hosted on this course have a slightly lower scoring average of -6.
- The average course Boutier has played in the past year (6,582 yards) is 55 yards longer than the course she'll be playing this week (6,527).
- Events she has played in the past year have seen players average a score of -3. That is higher than this course, which has a scoring average of -6.
Boutier's Last Time Out
- Boutier was in the 65th percentile on par 3s at the U.S. Women’s Open, with an average of 3.06 strokes on the 16 par-3 holes.
- Her 4.20-stroke average on the 40 par-4 holes at the U.S. Women’s Open placed her in the 59th percentile.
- On the 16 par-5 holes at the U.S. Women’s Open, Boutier was better than 52% of the competitors (averaging 5.00 strokes).
- Boutier carded a birdie or better on one of 16 par-3s at the U.S. Women’s Open (the other golfers averaged 1.5).
- On the 16 par-3s at the U.S. Women’s Open, Boutier recorded fewer bogeys or worse (two) than the field average (3.0).
- Boutier's one birdie or better on the 40 par-4s at the U.S. Women’s Open were less than the tournament average (3.0).
- In that last tournament, Boutier's showing on the 40 par-4s included a bogey or worse eight times (the field's average was worse, at 8.4).
- Boutier finished the U.S. Women’s Open with a birdie or better on four of the 16 par-5s, bettering the field average of 2.8.
- On the 16 par-5s at the U.S. Women’s Open, Boutier had four bogeys or worse, more than the field average of 2.6.
Amundi Evian Championship Time and Date Info
- Date: July 27-30, 2023
- Course: Evian Resort Golf Club
- Location: Évian-les-Bains, France
- Par: 71 / 6,527 yards
- Boutier Odds to Win: -100 (Bet now with BetMGM!)
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday signed a law moving the official Christmas Day holiday to Dec. 25 from Jan. 7, the day when the Russian Orthodox Church observes it.
The explanatory note attached to the law said its goal is to “abandon the Russian heritage,” including that of “imposing the celebration of Christmas” on Jan. 7, and cited Ukrainians’ “relentless, successful struggle for their identity” and “the desire of all Ukrainians to live their lives with their own traditions, holidays,” fueled by Russia’s 17-month-old aggression against the country.
Last year, some Ukrainians already observed Christmas on Dec. 25, in a gesture that represented separation from Russia, its culture and religious traditions.
The law also moves the Day of Ukrainian Statehood to July 15 from July 28, and the Day of Defenders of Ukraine to Oct. 1 from Oct. 14.
The Russian Orthodox Church, which claims sovereignty over Orthodoxy in Ukraine, and some other Eastern Orthodox churches continue to use the ancient Julian calendar. Christmas falls 13 days later on that calendar, or Jan. 7, than it does on the Gregorian calendar used by most church and secular groups.
The Catholic Church first adopted the modern, more astronomically precise Gregorian calendar in the 16th century. Protestants and some Orthodox churches have since aligned their own calendars for the purpose of calculating Christmas and Easter.
Ukraine’s religious landscape has fractured for years. There are two branches of Orthodox Christianity in the country, one aligned with the Russian church, even as it enjoys broad autonomy, the other completely independent of it. The Orthodox Church of Ukraine, the branch that is separate from the Russian church, announced earlier this year that it was switching to the Revised Julian calendar, which marks Christmas on Dec. 25.
Its leadership last year allowed believers to celebrate the holiday on Dec. 25.
Russia’s state news agency RIA Novosti reported on Saturday that the rival Orthodox Church, which is aligned with the Russian Orthodox Church, vowed to continue observing Christmas on Jan. 7.
Zelenskyy on Saturday traveled to the war-torn Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine, which Russia has illegally annexed, but only partially occupies, and met with members of the country’s Special Operation Forces. Zelenskyy noted in an online statement that Saturday marks their official day of recognition and also the anniversary of the deadly attack on the Olenivka prison in the Russian-held part of the region in which dozens of prisoners of war were killed.
Russia and Ukraine accused each other of the attack, with both sides saying that the assault was premeditated in a bid to cover up atrocities. A United Nations fact-finding mission requested by Russia and Ukraine was sent to investigate the killings, but the team was disbanded in January 2023 due to security concerns.
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The 2023 Amundi Evian Championship Odds & Preview: Nasa Hataoka
The Amundi Evian Championship is entering the final round, and Nasa Hataoka is currently in second with a score of -8.
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Nasa Hataoka Insights
- Over her last 20 rounds, Hataoka has finished below par on 11 occasions, while also shooting two bogey-free rounds and 16 rounds with a better-than-average score.
- She has recorded the best score of the day in one of her last 20 rounds, while scoring among the top five in three rounds and the top 10 on six occasions.
- Over her last 20 rounds, Hataoka has finished within three strokes of the best score of the round four times, and within five strokes of the top score of the day on nine occasions.
- Hataoka has one top-five finish and two top-10 finishes in her past five events.
- In her past five appearances, Hataoka has posted a score better than average in three of them.
- Hataoka hopes to qualify for the weekend for the 23rd straight time.
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Amundi Evian Championship Insights and Stats
- This course is set up to play at 6,527 yards, 490 yards shorter than the average course on the Tour in the past year.
- Evian Resort Golf Club has seen an average tournament score of -6 recently, which is lower than the Tour scoring average of -5 on all courses in the past year.
- Evian Resort Golf Club is 6,527 yards, 40 yards shorter than the average course Hataoka has played in the past year (6,567).
- Events she has played in the past year have seen players average a score of -3. That is higher than this course, which has a scoring average of -6.
Hataoka's Last Time Out
- Hataoka was in the 74th percentile on par 3s at the U.S. Women’s Open, with an average of par on the 16 par-3 holes.
- She shot well to finish in the 93rd percentile on par 4s at the U.S. Women’s Open, averaging 4.05 strokes on those 40 holes.
- Hataoka shot better than 93% of the competitors at the U.S. Women’s Open on the tournament's 16 par-5 holes, averaging 4.69 strokes per hole compared to the field average, which was 5.02.
- Hataoka recorded a birdie or better on three of 16 par-3s at the U.S. Women’s Open (the other participants averaged 1.5).
- On the 16 par-3s at the U.S. Women’s Open, Hataoka carded three bogeys or worse, the same as the field average.
- Hataoka had more birdies or better (six) than the tournament average of 3.0 on the 40 par-4s at the U.S. Women’s Open.
- In that last tournament, Hataoka's par-4 performance (on 40 holes) included a bogey or worse eight times (better than the field's average, 8.4).
- Hataoka ended the U.S. Women’s Open with a birdie or better on six par-5 holes, while the field averaged 2.8 on the 16 par-5s.
- On the 16 par-5s at the U.S. Women’s Open, Hataoka outperformed the field's average of 2.6 bogeys or worse on those holes by carding one.
Amundi Evian Championship Time and Date Info
- Date: July 27-30, 2023
- Course: Evian Resort Golf Club
- Location: Évian-les-Bains, France
- Par: 71 / 6,527 yards
- Hataoka Odds to Win: +400 (Bet now with BetMGM!)
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The 2023 Amundi Evian Championship Odds & Preview: Minjee Lee
Heading into the final round of the Amundi Evian Championship, Minjee Lee is in third place at -7.
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Minjee Lee Insights
- Over her last 20 rounds, Lee has shot better than par on 10 occasions, while also posting two bogey-free rounds and 15 rounds with a better-than-average score.
- She has carded the best score of the day in two of her last 20 rounds, while scoring among the top 10 in five rounds.
- Over her last 20 rounds, Lee has finished within three strokes of the best score of the round five times, and within five strokes of the top score of the day on 12 occasions.
- Lee has posted one top-10 finish and five top-20 finishes in her past five appearances.
- Lee has finished with a score better than the tournament average in each of her past five appearances, including one finish within five strokes of the leader.
- Lee has a top-20 finish in each of her past six tournaments.
- Lee will attempt to prolong her streak of made cuts to 14 by qualifying for the weekend once again.
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Amundi Evian Championship Insights and Stats
- Measuring 6,527 yards, Evian Resort Golf Club is set up as a par 71 for this tournament. In the past year, tournaments on the Tour have averaged a longer distance of 7,017 yards .
- The average course on the Tour in the past year has played to 69.25 strokes per round and a score of -5. At Evian Resort Golf Club, the scoring average is slightly lower at -6 per tournament.
- The courses that Lee has played in the past year have had an average distance of 6,591 yards, while Evian Resort Golf Club will be at 6,527 yards this week.
- The tournaments she has played in the past year have seen an average score of -3. That's higher than this course's recent scoring average of -6.
Lee's Last Time Out
- Lee was rather mediocre over the 16 par-3 holes at the Greater Toledo LPGA Classic, averaging 2.88 strokes to finish in the 62nd percentile of competitors.
- She averaged 3.93 strokes on par-4 holes (of which there were 44) at the Greater Toledo LPGA Classic, which was strong enough to land her in the 83rd percentile among all competitors on par 4s (the tournament average was 4.01).
- On the 12 par-5 holes at the Greater Toledo LPGA Classic, Lee was better than 94% of the golfers (averaging 4.42 strokes).
- Lee recorded a birdie or better on four of 16 par-3s at the Greater Toledo LPGA Classic (the other participants averaged 1.9).
- On the 16 par-3s at the Greater Toledo LPGA Classic, Lee recorded two bogeys or worse (the other golfers averaged 1.6).
- Lee's nine birdies or better on par-4s at the Greater Toledo LPGA Classic were more than the field average of 5.4.
- At that most recent outing, Lee posted a bogey or worse on six of 44 par-4s (the field averaged 5.8).
- Lee ended the Greater Toledo LPGA Classic carding a birdie or better on seven par-5 holes, while the field averaged 2.9 on the 12 par-5s.
- The field at the Greater Toledo LPGA Classic averaged 0.8 bogeys or worse on the 12 par-5s, but Lee finished without one.
Amundi Evian Championship Time and Date Info
- Date: July 27-30, 2023
- Course: Evian Resort Golf Club
- Location: Évian-les-Bains, France
- Par: 71 / 6,527 yards
- Lee Odds to Win: +700 (Bet now with BetMGM!)
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How to Watch the Orioles vs. Yankees Game: Streaming & TV Channel Info for July 29
Clarke Schmidt takes the mound for the New York Yankees on Saturday at Oriole Park at Camden Yards against Adley Rutschman and the Baltimore Orioles. First pitch is at 7:15 PM ET.
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Orioles vs. Yankees Live Stream, TV Channel and Game Info:
- Date: Saturday, July 29, 2023
- Time: 7:15 PM ET
- TV Channel: FOX
- Location: Baltimore, Maryland
- Venue: Oriole Park at Camden Yards
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Orioles Batting & Pitching Performance
- The Orioles are 13th in MLB play with 121 home runs. They average 1.2 per game.
- Baltimore's .418 slugging percentage is 10th-best in MLB.
- The Orioles' .249 batting average ranks 16th in the majors.
- Baltimore scores the 10th-most runs in baseball (499 total, 4.8 per game).
- The Orioles rank 16th in MLB with an on-base percentage of .317.
- The Orioles strike out 8.4 times per game to rank 11th in the majors.
- The pitching staff for Baltimore has a collective 9.1 K/9, which ranks 11th in MLB.
- Baltimore has the 15th-ranked team ERA among all MLB pitching staffs (4.15).
- The Orioles have the 19th-ranked WHIP in MLB (1.296).
Yankees Batting & Pitching Performance
- The Yankees rank seventh in Major League Baseball with 141 home runs.
- New York is 18th in MLB with a slugging percentage of .402 this season.
- The Yankees have a team batting average of just .229 this season, which ranks 29th among MLB teams.
- New York ranks 21st in the majors with 446 total runs scored this season.
- The Yankees have an OBP of just .301 this season, which ranks 26th in MLB.
- The Yankees rank eighth in MLB in strikeouts per game with an average of 8.1 whiffs per contest.
- New York strikes out 8.9 batters per nine innings as a pitching staff, 12th in MLB.
- New York has the eighth-best ERA (3.87) in the majors this season.
- Yankees pitchers have a 1.245 WHIP this season, seventh-best in the majors.
Orioles Probable Starting Pitcher
- Tyler Wells (7-5 with a 3.65 ERA and 110 strikeouts in 111 2/3 innings pitched) makes the start for the Orioles, his 20th of the season.
- In his last outing on Sunday against the Tampa Bay Rays, the righty tossed 4 1/3 innings, allowing three earned runs while surrendering one hit.
- Wells has recorded eight quality starts this year.
- Wells is looking to pick up his 19th start of five or more innings this season in this matchup.
- In three of his 20 total appearances this season he has not surrendered an earned run.
Yankees Probable Starting Pitcher
- The Yankees will hand the ball to Schmidt (6-6) for his 21st start of the season.
- The right-hander's last start was on Friday, July 21, when he tossed 5 2/3 innings while giving up three earned runs on five hits in a matchup with the Kansas City Royals.
- He has started 20 games this season, earning a quality start (6 or more IP, 3 or fewer ER) in three of them.
- Schmidt has pitched five or more innings in two straight games and will look to extend that streak.
- He has finished five appearances without allowing an earned run in 21 chances this season.
Orioles Schedule
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The 2023 Amundi Evian Championship Odds & Preview: Nasa Hataoka
The Amundi Evian Championship is entering the final round, and Nasa Hataoka is currently in second with a score of -8.
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Nasa Hataoka Insights
- Over her last 20 rounds, Hataoka has finished below par on 11 occasions, while also shooting two bogey-free rounds and 16 rounds with a better-than-average score.
- She has recorded the best score of the day in one of her last 20 rounds, while scoring among the top five in three rounds and the top 10 on six occasions.
- Over her last 20 rounds, Hataoka has finished within three strokes of the best score of the round four times, and within five strokes of the top score of the day on nine occasions.
- Hataoka has one top-five finish and two top-10 finishes in her past five events.
- In her past five appearances, Hataoka has posted a score better than average in three of them.
- Hataoka hopes to qualify for the weekend for the 23rd straight time.
Over the last year
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Amundi Evian Championship Insights and Stats
- This course is set up to play at 6,527 yards, 490 yards shorter than the average course on the Tour in the past year.
- Evian Resort Golf Club has seen an average tournament score of -6 recently, which is lower than the Tour scoring average of -5 on all courses in the past year.
- Evian Resort Golf Club is 6,527 yards, 40 yards shorter than the average course Hataoka has played in the past year (6,567).
- Events she has played in the past year have seen players average a score of -3. That is higher than this course, which has a scoring average of -6.
Hataoka's Last Time Out
- Hataoka was in the 74th percentile on par 3s at the U.S. Women’s Open, with an average of par on the 16 par-3 holes.
- She shot well to finish in the 93rd percentile on par 4s at the U.S. Women’s Open, averaging 4.05 strokes on those 40 holes.
- Hataoka shot better than 93% of the competitors at the U.S. Women’s Open on the tournament's 16 par-5 holes, averaging 4.69 strokes per hole compared to the field average, which was 5.02.
- Hataoka recorded a birdie or better on three of 16 par-3s at the U.S. Women’s Open (the other participants averaged 1.5).
- On the 16 par-3s at the U.S. Women’s Open, Hataoka carded three bogeys or worse, the same as the field average.
- Hataoka had more birdies or better (six) than the tournament average of 3.0 on the 40 par-4s at the U.S. Women’s Open.
- In that last tournament, Hataoka's par-4 performance (on 40 holes) included a bogey or worse eight times (better than the field's average, 8.4).
- Hataoka ended the U.S. Women’s Open with a birdie or better on six par-5 holes, while the field averaged 2.8 on the 16 par-5s.
- On the 16 par-5s at the U.S. Women’s Open, Hataoka outperformed the field's average of 2.6 bogeys or worse on those holes by carding one.
Amundi Evian Championship Time and Date Info
- Date: July 27-30, 2023
- Course: Evian Resort Golf Club
- Location: Évian-les-Bains, France
- Par: 71 / 6,527 yards
- Hataoka Odds to Win: +400 (Bet now with BetMGM!)
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Orioles vs. Yankees Predictions & Picks: Odds, Moneyline, Spread - July 29
Saturday's contest between the Baltimore Orioles (63-40) and New York Yankees (54-49) going head to head at Oriole Park at Camden Yards has a projected final score of 5-4 (based on our computer prediction) in favor of the Orioles, so expect a tight matchup. The game will start at 7:15 PM ET on July 29.
The Orioles will give the ball to Tyler Wells (7-5, 3.65 ERA), who is eyeing win No. 8 on the season, and the Yankees will counter with Clarke Schmidt (6-6, 4.33 ERA).
Orioles vs. Yankees Game Info & Odds
- When: Saturday, July 29, 2023 at 7:15 PM ET
- Where: Oriole Park at Camden Yards in Baltimore, Maryland
- How to Watch on TV: FOX
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Orioles vs. Yankees Score Prediction
Our prediction for this matchup is Orioles 5, Yankees 4.
Total Prediction for Orioles vs. Yankees
- Total Prediction: Under 9.5 runs
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Orioles Performance Insights
- The Orioles have been the favorite once in the past 10 games and lost that contest.
- In its last 10 games with a total, Baltimore and its opponents have failed to hit the over six times.
- Oddsmakers have not set a spread for any of the Orioles' last 10 games.
- This season, the Orioles have been favored 46 times and won 33, or 71.7%, of those games.
- This season Baltimore has won 26 of its 36 games, or 72.2%, when favored by at least -125 on the moneyline.
- The implied probability of a win from the Orioles, based on the moneyline, is 55.6%.
- Baltimore has scored the 10th-most runs in the majors this season with 499.
- The Orioles have a 4.15 team ERA that ranks 15th among all MLB pitching staffs.
Yankees Performance Insights
- The Yankees have been an underdog just two times in their last 10 contests and lost both matchups.
- In its last 10 games with an over/under, New York and its opponents have combined to eclipse the total five times.
- The Yankees have had a spread set in one of their past 10 games, and they have not covered the spread each time.
- The Yankees have been victorious in 12, or 40%, of the 30 contests they have been chosen as underdogs in this season.
- New York has a mark of 10-12 in contests where bookmakers favor it by +105 or worse on the moneyline.
- The moneyline set for this matchup implies the Yankees have a 48.8% chance of walking away with the win.
- Averaging 4.3 runs per game (446 total), New York is the 21st-highest scoring team in baseball.
- The Yankees have the eighth-best ERA (3.87) in the majors this season.
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How to Watch the Orioles vs. Yankees Game: Streaming & TV Channel Info for July 29
Clarke Schmidt takes the mound for the New York Yankees on Saturday at Oriole Park at Camden Yards against Adley Rutschman and the Baltimore Orioles. First pitch is at 7:15 PM ET.
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Orioles vs. Yankees Live Stream, TV Channel and Game Info:
- Date: Saturday, July 29, 2023
- Time: 7:15 PM ET
- TV Channel: FOX
- Location: Baltimore, Maryland
- Venue: Oriole Park at Camden Yards
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Orioles Batting & Pitching Performance
- The Orioles are 13th in MLB play with 121 home runs. They average 1.2 per game.
- Baltimore's .418 slugging percentage is 10th-best in MLB.
- The Orioles' .249 batting average ranks 16th in the majors.
- Baltimore scores the 10th-most runs in baseball (499 total, 4.8 per game).
- The Orioles rank 16th in MLB with an on-base percentage of .317.
- The Orioles strike out 8.4 times per game to rank 11th in the majors.
- The pitching staff for Baltimore has a collective 9.1 K/9, which ranks 11th in MLB.
- Baltimore has the 15th-ranked team ERA among all MLB pitching staffs (4.15).
- The Orioles have the 19th-ranked WHIP in MLB (1.296).
Yankees Batting & Pitching Performance
- The Yankees rank seventh in Major League Baseball with 141 home runs.
- New York is 18th in MLB with a slugging percentage of .402 this season.
- The Yankees have a team batting average of just .229 this season, which ranks 29th among MLB teams.
- New York ranks 21st in the majors with 446 total runs scored this season.
- The Yankees have an OBP of just .301 this season, which ranks 26th in MLB.
- The Yankees rank eighth in MLB in strikeouts per game with an average of 8.1 whiffs per contest.
- New York strikes out 8.9 batters per nine innings as a pitching staff, 12th in MLB.
- New York has the eighth-best ERA (3.87) in the majors this season.
- Yankees pitchers have a 1.245 WHIP this season, seventh-best in the majors.
Orioles Probable Starting Pitcher
- Tyler Wells (7-5 with a 3.65 ERA and 110 strikeouts in 111 2/3 innings pitched) makes the start for the Orioles, his 20th of the season.
- In his last outing on Sunday against the Tampa Bay Rays, the righty tossed 4 1/3 innings, allowing three earned runs while surrendering one hit.
- Wells has recorded eight quality starts this year.
- Wells is looking to pick up his 19th start of five or more innings this season in this matchup.
- In three of his 20 total appearances this season he has not surrendered an earned run.
Yankees Probable Starting Pitcher
- The Yankees will hand the ball to Schmidt (6-6) for his 21st start of the season.
- The right-hander's last start was on Friday, July 21, when he tossed 5 2/3 innings while giving up three earned runs on five hits in a matchup with the Kansas City Royals.
- He has started 20 games this season, earning a quality start (6 or more IP, 3 or fewer ER) in three of them.
- Schmidt has pitched five or more innings in two straight games and will look to extend that streak.
- He has finished five appearances without allowing an earned run in 21 chances this season.
Orioles Schedule
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Red Sox vs. Giants Predictions & Picks: Odds, Moneyline, Spread - July 29
Saturday's game at Oracle Park has the San Francisco Giants (56-48) going head to head against the Boston Red Sox (56-47) at 7:15 PM ET (on July 29). Our computer prediction projects a close 5-4 win for the Giants, so expect a tight matchup.
This contest's pitching matchup is set, as the Red Sox will send James Paxton (6-2) to the mound, while Ryan Walker (3-0) will answer the bell for the Giants.
Red Sox vs. Giants Game Info & Odds
- When: Saturday, July 29, 2023 at 7:15 PM ET
- Where: Oracle Park in San Francisco, California
- How to Watch on TV: FOX
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Red Sox vs. Giants Score Prediction
Our pick for this matchup is Giants 5, Red Sox 4.
Total Prediction for Red Sox vs. Giants
- Total Prediction: Over 8.5 runs
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Red Sox Performance Insights
- In six games over the last 10 matchups when favored by sportsbooks, the Red Sox have a record of 3-3.
- When it comes to hitting the over, Boston and its opponents are 4-6-0 in its last 10 games with a total.
- Oddsmakers have not set a spread for any of the Red Sox's last 10 games.
- This season, the Red Sox have won 24 out of the 43 games, or 55.8%, in which they've been favored.
- Boston has a record of 15-11 in games when sportsbooks favor them by at least -130 on the moneyline.
- Sportsbooks have implied with the moneyline set for this matchup that the Red Sox have a 56.5% chance to win.
- Boston has scored 519 runs this season, which ranks sixth in MLB.
- The Red Sox's 4.26 team ERA ranks 17th across all league pitching staffs.
Giants Performance Insights
- The Giants have been an underdog just two times in their last 10 contests and lost both matchups.
- In its last 10 matchups with a total posted by sportsbooks, San Francisco and its opponents are 3-7-0 when it comes to hitting the over.
- Oddsmakers have yet to post a spread in any of the Giants' past 10 games.
- The Giants have come away with 23 wins in the 42 contests they have been listed as the underdogs in this season.
- This season, San Francisco has been victorious 11 times in 24 chances when named as an underdog of at least +110 or worse on the moneyline.
- The moneyline set for this matchup implies the Giants have a 47.6% chance of walking away with the win.
- Averaging 4.5 runs per game (469 total), San Francisco is the 15th-highest scoring team in the majors.
- Giants pitchers have a combined ERA of 4.01 ERA this year, which ranks 11th in MLB.
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Orioles vs. Yankees Predictions & Picks: Odds, Moneyline, Spread - July 29
Saturday's contest between the Baltimore Orioles (63-40) and New York Yankees (54-49) going head to head at Oriole Park at Camden Yards has a projected final score of 5-4 (based on our computer prediction) in favor of the Orioles, so expect a tight matchup. The game will start at 7:15 PM ET on July 29.
The Orioles will give the ball to Tyler Wells (7-5, 3.65 ERA), who is eyeing win No. 8 on the season, and the Yankees will counter with Clarke Schmidt (6-6, 4.33 ERA).
Orioles vs. Yankees Game Info & Odds
- When: Saturday, July 29, 2023 at 7:15 PM ET
- Where: Oriole Park at Camden Yards in Baltimore, Maryland
- How to Watch on TV: FOX
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Orioles vs. Yankees Score Prediction
Our prediction for this matchup is Orioles 5, Yankees 4.
Total Prediction for Orioles vs. Yankees
- Total Prediction: Under 9.5 runs
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Orioles Performance Insights
- The Orioles have been the favorite once in the past 10 games and lost that contest.
- In its last 10 games with a total, Baltimore and its opponents have failed to hit the over six times.
- Oddsmakers have not set a spread for any of the Orioles' last 10 games.
- This season, the Orioles have been favored 46 times and won 33, or 71.7%, of those games.
- This season Baltimore has won 26 of its 36 games, or 72.2%, when favored by at least -125 on the moneyline.
- The implied probability of a win from the Orioles, based on the moneyline, is 55.6%.
- Baltimore has scored the 10th-most runs in the majors this season with 499.
- The Orioles have a 4.15 team ERA that ranks 15th among all MLB pitching staffs.
Yankees Performance Insights
- The Yankees have been an underdog just two times in their last 10 contests and lost both matchups.
- In its last 10 games with an over/under, New York and its opponents have combined to eclipse the total five times.
- The Yankees have had a spread set in one of their past 10 games, and they have not covered the spread each time.
- The Yankees have been victorious in 12, or 40%, of the 30 contests they have been chosen as underdogs in this season.
- New York has a mark of 10-12 in contests where bookmakers favor it by +105 or worse on the moneyline.
- The moneyline set for this matchup implies the Yankees have a 48.8% chance of walking away with the win.
- Averaging 4.3 runs per game (446 total), New York is the 21st-highest scoring team in baseball.
- The Yankees have the eighth-best ERA (3.87) in the majors this season.
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How to Watch the Red Sox vs. Giants Game: Streaming & TV Channel Info for July 29
The San Francisco Giants and Wilmer Flores take the field in the second game of a three-game series against Rafael Devers and the Boston Red Sox, on Saturday at Oracle Park.
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Red Sox vs. Giants Live Stream, TV Channel and Game Info:
- Date: Saturday, July 29, 2023
- Time: 7:15 PM ET
- TV Channel: FOX
- Location: San Francisco, California
- Venue: Oracle Park
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Red Sox Batting & Pitching Performance
- The Red Sox are 20th in baseball with 116 total home runs.
- Boston's .437 slugging percentage is sixth-best in baseball.
- The Red Sox are third in the majors with a .265 batting average.
- Boston scores the sixth-most runs in baseball (519 total, five per game).
- The Red Sox rank fourth in MLB with an on-base percentage of .333.
- Red Sox hitters strike out 8.2 times per game, the 10th-fewest strikeouts in the majors.
- The pitching staff for Boston has a collective 8.8 K/9, which ranks 14th in the majors.
- Boston has a 4.26 team ERA that ranks 17th among all MLB pitching staffs.
- The Red Sox have the 18th-ranked WHIP in MLB (1.285).
Giants Batting & Pitching Performance
- The Giants' 120 home runs rank 14th in Major League Baseball.
- Fueled by 301 extra-base hits, San Francisco ranks 22nd in MLB with a .397 slugging percentage this season.
- The Giants' .241 batting average ranks 19th in the league this season.
- San Francisco ranks 15th in the majors with 469 total runs scored this season.
- The Giants have an on-base percentage of .317 this season, which ranks 16th in the league.
- The Giants are one of the least disciplined teams at the plate this season, ranking 28th with an average of 9.5 strikeouts per game.
- San Francisco strikes out 8.7 batters per nine innings as a pitching staff, 16th in MLB.
- San Francisco has pitched to a 4.01 ERA this season, which ranks 11th in baseball.
- Giants pitchers have a 1.253 WHIP this season, eighth-best in the majors.
Red Sox Probable Starting Pitcher
- James Paxton gets the start for the Red Sox, his 13th of the season. He is 6-2 with a 3.46 ERA and 75 strikeouts in 65 2/3 innings pitched.
- The left-hander last appeared on Saturday against the New York Mets, when he tossed six innings, allowing two earned runs while giving up three hits.
- Paxton is looking to collect his eighth quality start of the season.
- Paxton has pitched five or more innings in a game nine times this year entering this matchup.
- He has held his opponents without an earned run in two of his 12 appearances this season.
Giants Probable Starting Pitcher
- The Giants will send Ryan Walker (3-0) to the mound for his seventh start this season.
- The right-hander allowed one hit in 2 2/3 scoreless innings pitched against the Oakland Athletics on Thursday.
- In six starts this season, Walker has not yet earned a quality start.
- In six starts this season, Walker has yet to pitch five or more innings.
- He has 17 appearances this season with zero earned runs allowed out of his 24 chances this season.
Red Sox Schedule
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Red Sox vs. Giants Predictions & Picks: Odds, Moneyline, Spread - July 29
Saturday's game at Oracle Park has the San Francisco Giants (56-48) going head to head against the Boston Red Sox (56-47) at 7:15 PM ET (on July 29). Our computer prediction projects a close 5-4 win for the Giants, so expect a tight matchup.
This contest's pitching matchup is set, as the Red Sox will send James Paxton (6-2) to the mound, while Ryan Walker (3-0) will answer the bell for the Giants.
Red Sox vs. Giants Game Info & Odds
- When: Saturday, July 29, 2023 at 7:15 PM ET
- Where: Oracle Park in San Francisco, California
- How to Watch on TV: FOX
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Red Sox vs. Giants Score Prediction
Our pick for this matchup is Giants 5, Red Sox 4.
Total Prediction for Red Sox vs. Giants
- Total Prediction: Over 8.5 runs
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Red Sox Performance Insights
- In six games over the last 10 matchups when favored by sportsbooks, the Red Sox have a record of 3-3.
- When it comes to hitting the over, Boston and its opponents are 4-6-0 in its last 10 games with a total.
- Oddsmakers have not set a spread for any of the Red Sox's last 10 games.
- This season, the Red Sox have won 24 out of the 43 games, or 55.8%, in which they've been favored.
- Boston has a record of 15-11 in games when sportsbooks favor them by at least -130 on the moneyline.
- Sportsbooks have implied with the moneyline set for this matchup that the Red Sox have a 56.5% chance to win.
- Boston has scored 519 runs this season, which ranks sixth in MLB.
- The Red Sox's 4.26 team ERA ranks 17th across all league pitching staffs.
Giants Performance Insights
- The Giants have been an underdog just two times in their last 10 contests and lost both matchups.
- In its last 10 matchups with a total posted by sportsbooks, San Francisco and its opponents are 3-7-0 when it comes to hitting the over.
- Oddsmakers have yet to post a spread in any of the Giants' past 10 games.
- The Giants have come away with 23 wins in the 42 contests they have been listed as the underdogs in this season.
- This season, San Francisco has been victorious 11 times in 24 chances when named as an underdog of at least +110 or worse on the moneyline.
- The moneyline set for this matchup implies the Giants have a 47.6% chance of walking away with the win.
- Averaging 4.5 runs per game (469 total), San Francisco is the 15th-highest scoring team in the majors.
- Giants pitchers have a combined ERA of 4.01 ERA this year, which ranks 11th in MLB.
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How to Watch the Red Sox vs. Giants Game: Streaming & TV Channel Info for July 29
The San Francisco Giants and Wilmer Flores take the field in the second game of a three-game series against Rafael Devers and the Boston Red Sox, on Saturday at Oracle Park.
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Red Sox vs. Giants Live Stream, TV Channel and Game Info:
- Date: Saturday, July 29, 2023
- Time: 7:15 PM ET
- TV Channel: FOX
- Location: San Francisco, California
- Venue: Oracle Park
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Red Sox Batting & Pitching Performance
- The Red Sox are 20th in baseball with 116 total home runs.
- Boston's .437 slugging percentage is sixth-best in baseball.
- The Red Sox are third in the majors with a .265 batting average.
- Boston scores the sixth-most runs in baseball (519 total, five per game).
- The Red Sox rank fourth in MLB with an on-base percentage of .333.
- Red Sox hitters strike out 8.2 times per game, the 10th-fewest strikeouts in the majors.
- The pitching staff for Boston has a collective 8.8 K/9, which ranks 14th in the majors.
- Boston has a 4.26 team ERA that ranks 17th among all MLB pitching staffs.
- The Red Sox have the 18th-ranked WHIP in MLB (1.285).
Giants Batting & Pitching Performance
- The Giants' 120 home runs rank 14th in Major League Baseball.
- Fueled by 301 extra-base hits, San Francisco ranks 22nd in MLB with a .397 slugging percentage this season.
- The Giants' .241 batting average ranks 19th in the league this season.
- San Francisco ranks 15th in the majors with 469 total runs scored this season.
- The Giants have an on-base percentage of .317 this season, which ranks 16th in the league.
- The Giants are one of the least disciplined teams at the plate this season, ranking 28th with an average of 9.5 strikeouts per game.
- San Francisco strikes out 8.7 batters per nine innings as a pitching staff, 16th in MLB.
- San Francisco has pitched to a 4.01 ERA this season, which ranks 11th in baseball.
- Giants pitchers have a 1.253 WHIP this season, eighth-best in the majors.
Red Sox Probable Starting Pitcher
- James Paxton gets the start for the Red Sox, his 13th of the season. He is 6-2 with a 3.46 ERA and 75 strikeouts in 65 2/3 innings pitched.
- The left-hander last appeared on Saturday against the New York Mets, when he tossed six innings, allowing two earned runs while giving up three hits.
- Paxton is looking to collect his eighth quality start of the season.
- Paxton has pitched five or more innings in a game nine times this year entering this matchup.
- He has held his opponents without an earned run in two of his 12 appearances this season.
Giants Probable Starting Pitcher
- The Giants will send Ryan Walker (3-0) to the mound for his seventh start this season.
- The right-hander allowed one hit in 2 2/3 scoreless innings pitched against the Oakland Athletics on Thursday.
- In six starts this season, Walker has not yet earned a quality start.
- In six starts this season, Walker has yet to pitch five or more innings.
- He has 17 appearances this season with zero earned runs allowed out of his 24 chances this season.
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(iSeeCars) — Most consumers know there are various electric vehicle tax credits available if they buy a new electric vehicle.
The original credit, officially known as the “Qualified Plug-in Electric Drive Motor Vehicle Credit”, was instituted over a decade ago. It created a tax credit amount between $2,500 and $7,500 based on a specific qualifying vehicle’s battery capacity. There was also a 200,000-unit limit to how many zero-emissions electric cars a single manufacturer could sell before the credit would phase out and eventually be eliminated. Two automakers, General Motors and Tesla, had already hit this limit in recent years, with a few more getting very close in 2022
But the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 has altered the existing rules for the federal tax credit, removing the 200,000 limit, extending the up-to-$7,500 credit through 2032…but also adding a new set of eligibility requirements based on the final assembly location of the vehicle and its battery components. New vehicle pricing and adjusted gross income requirements have also been enacted. The new rules are a reaction to China’s dominance in the EV space, a dominance President Biden and the U.S. Department of Energy would like to reverse by encouraging the production of battery electric vehicles (BEVs) and battery components in North America.
The Inflation Reduction Act – Pros and Cons
Encouraging the American production of clean vehicles, including plug-in electric vehicles (EVs), plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs), and hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs), is commendable. However, the change in eligibility requirements could actually limit new vehicle tax credits more than the outgoing legislation. Let’s take a closer look at where this new legislation helps, and hurts, your chances at seeing a rebate.
Pros:
- No 200,000 Vehicle Limit per Manufacturer – which means brands like Cadillac, Chevrolet and Tesla will be back in the running for a $7,500 tax break, along with every other automaker selling EVs, PHEVs (with a battery of 7 kilowatt hours or larger), or FCEVs.
- Income and MSRP Restrictions – the previous legislation had no limit on household income or eligible vehicle pricing, which meant a lot of taxpayer money was spent helping millionaires get a $7,500 price break on their $100,000-plus Tesla. Starting on January 1st, 2023, the new legislation puts an MSRP limit of $80,000 on electric vans, SUVs, and pickup trucks, and a $55,000 MSRP limit on electric sedans, coupes, wagons, and convertibles. The IRS also puts a $150,000 annual income limit on single tax filers, a $225,000 limit on head-of-household filers, and a $300,000 limit on joint filers.
- Used EVs Count Too – For the first time ever, car buyers seeking a lower cost of entry into EV ownership don’t have to choose from pricier current or new model year vehicles. A tax credit on used vehicles, worth either $4,000 or 30% of the used EV’s sales price (whichever is lower) will be available on used models costing less than $25,000. This credit is only available to single filers below $75,000, head-of-household filers below $112,000, and joint filers of $150,000.
- Commercial Tax Credit – If you happen to be a business owner looking to go electric the new bill provides up to $7,500 for electric vehicles with a gross vehicle weight rating (GVWR) under 14,000 pounds and up to $40,000 for vehicles with a GVWR above 14,000 pounds. The rebate is based on either 30 percent of the total vehicle cost, or the incremental cost of a commercial EV over the cost of an equivalent non-EV vehicle. For instance, the Ford F-150 Lightning has a starting MSRP of $46,974, but you can buy an equivalent crew-cab F-150 with an internal combustion engine for around $50,000. There’s no incremental cost to buying the Lightning, so a commercial buyer could only benefit from 30 percent of the truck’s $46,974 price (around $15,680).
- Point of Sale Price Reduction: Starting on January 1st, 2024, buyers can transfer their credit to the selling dealer, essentially providing an immediate reduction in the price of an EV during purchase versus waiting to receive the benefit as part of their next tax filing.
Cons:
- Final Assembly Must be in North America – Starting on August 17th, 2022, only plug-in electric vehicles assembled in North America are eligible for tax credits. As of this writing, that includes 26 EVs from model year 2022, but only 8 EVs from model year 2023. A vehicle’s VIN (vehicle identification number) will be used to determine where a potential candidate was built. Popular EVs like the BMW 330e, Chevrolet Bolt, and Nissan Leaf have already been approved for model year 2023, and we’d expect other models assembled in Canada, Mexico, or the U.S. to be approved soon, including the Audi Q5, Ford Mustang Mach E, and every Rivian and Tesla model. However…
- Critical Mineral and Battery Component Requirements – Even if an electric vehicle is assembled in North America it will need to meet increasingly stringent battery requirements over the coming 5 years. Starting in 2023 an EV’s battery will need 40 percent of its critical minerals value to have been extracted or processed in the U.S. or a U.S. free-trade agreement partner to receive up to $3,750 in tax credits. This percentage will increase 10 percent a year, up to 80% of the battery’s critical mineral value in 2027 and beyond. Additionally, starting in 2023, 50 percent of the value of an EV battery’s components must be assembled in the U.S., increasing 10 percent a year until it reaches 100 percent in 2029.
The newest bill’s final assembly and critical mineral battery requirements are meant to shift the production of electric vehicles back toward the U.S. and its allies, and away from foreign entities of concern, including China. Given the supply chain issues we’ve experienced over the past 2 years this is a wise long-term goal. However, the time and resources needed to transplant the electric vehicle alternative fuels industry from the Asia Pacific region to the U.S are substantial.
Foreign automakers like Honda, Hyundai, Kia, Mercedes-Benz, and Toyota have already committed to high-volume North American vehicle production in recent decades. There’s every reason to believe they can relatively quickly do the same for their electric vehicle fleets to meet the final assembly requirement for successful new models not yet produced here, like the Hyundai Ioniq 5. Several automakers with smaller U.S. production capacity, including BMW, Volkswagen, and Volvo, also continue to expand their U.S. presence.
But battery production is an entirely different process compared to vehicle assembly. It involves significant investments in land assessment/exploration, permit applications, approval, mining, extraction, refining, etc. You can imagine the processes and time frame involved in, for instance, setting up a lithium mine in California. Investing in, and establishing, those capabilities will take several years at least, and could easily prove a limiting factor on how many new EVs can fully qualify for the latest tax credits under the current legislation.
More from iSeeCars:
- How Much Does it Cost to Charge an Electric Car?
- How Long Do Electric Car Batteries Last?
- Electric Cars with the Longest Range
If you’re in the market for a new or used electric vehicle you can search over 4 million used electric cars, SUVs, and trucks with iSeeCars’ award-winning car search engine that helps shoppers find the best car deals by providing key insights and valuable resources, like the iSeeCars free VIN check report and Best Cars rankings. Filter by vehicle type, front or all-wheel drive, and other parameters in order to narrow down your car search.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – In states across the country this year, Republicans have talked a lot about restricting drag performances in front of children.
But that talk, and even their efforts, haven't amounted to much.
Bills restricting drag have failed to pass, passed as watered-down laws, have been vetoed or, in the case of three states that did manage to pass meaningful restrictions, laws have been temporarily halted by federal judges.
Friday, in fact, a judge temporarily blocked a law in the last remaining state with enforceable restrictions – Montana – just days before the start of Pride festivities.
A few states' lawmakers are still in session, though, so more efforts could be afoot.
In Arkansas, where Republican state Sen. Gary Stubblefield championed and sponsored a bill earlier this year, he said drag shows harm kids and "take away their innocence."
"I can't think of any redeeming quality, anything good that can come from taking children and putting them in front of a bunch of grown men that are dressed like women," Stubblefield said back in January as he introduced his bill on the floor of the Arkansas Senate.
'Prurient interest' and the First Amendment
Stubblefield's bill contained key language that showed up in a lot of states' attempted drag restrictions – an appeal to the "prurient interest." (Texas, Tennessee, Montana, Arizona, South Dakota, for example.)
"That word – prurient interest – means excessive interest in sexual matters," Stubblefield explained to lawmakers in committee.
"Most drag shows do not appeal to the prurient interest," says JT Morris, an attorney for the free-speech group Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression.
"Even if they did, saying something appeals to the 'prurient interest' under the First Amendment is not enough to regulate it," he says, noting that this kind of language makes it harder for a bill to hold up to basic legal scrutiny.
"You can't pass a state law based on disagreement with somebody's viewpoint. It's a textbook First Amendment violation."
And that disagreement has been palpable across the country. In Arkansas, Stubblefield's bill was met with large public backlash from those who say drag is about showmanship, not sex.
"I do drag as an art form," says Jeremy Stuthard, an Arkansas drag performer.
"I take a decent-looking guy and turn him into a statue-esk Barbie doll, and have a great time and put smiles on people's faces and that's all I really try to do."
Stuthard says most of the children he meets at drag brunches and story hours aren't there to indulge a 'prurient interest', but to have fun listening to a story read by a costumed actor.
Drag restrictions put on hold and watered down
In Tennessee, the day before that state's drag restrictions were due to go into effect, a Trump-appointed U.S. District Judge temporarily struck down the law due to its constitutional vagueness.
In his ruling, U.S. District Judge Thomas Parker wrote, "Whether some of us may like it or not," the U.S. Supreme Court has interpreted the First Amendment "as protecting speech that is indecent but not obscene."
A similar law in Florida has been temporarily blocked. For a while, that left Montana as the only state in the country with an enforceable drag law, until the courts temporarily blocked that one, too.
In Arkansas, Sen. Stubblefield's drag ban bill was amended until it hardly resembled a drag ban. The final version of the law, which passed by large margins, now regulates stripping, not drag shows.
"[The]Amended House Bill is the only way to really protect minors. For another reason, it's the only draft that will stand up in court," Stubblefield said of the amendment, which he didn't write but ultimately agreed to.
"None of us like to pass a bill that's going to get struck down by a judge and not help any children at all."
Josie Lenora is the politics/government reporter at KUAR in Little Rock, Ark.
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(iSeeCars) — Most consumers know there are various electric vehicle tax credits available if they buy a new electric vehicle.
The original credit, officially known as the “Qualified Plug-in Electric Drive Motor Vehicle Credit”, was instituted over a decade ago. It created a tax credit amount between $2,500 and $7,500 based on a specific qualifying vehicle’s battery capacity. There was also a 200,000-unit limit to how many zero-emissions electric cars a single manufacturer could sell before the credit would phase out and eventually be eliminated. Two automakers, General Motors and Tesla, had already hit this limit in recent years, with a few more getting very close in 2022
But the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 has altered the existing rules for the federal tax credit, removing the 200,000 limit, extending the up-to-$7,500 credit through 2032…but also adding a new set of eligibility requirements based on the final assembly location of the vehicle and its battery components. New vehicle pricing and adjusted gross income requirements have also been enacted. The new rules are a reaction to China’s dominance in the EV space, a dominance President Biden and the U.S. Department of Energy would like to reverse by encouraging the production of battery electric vehicles (BEVs) and battery components in North America.
The Inflation Reduction Act – Pros and Cons
Encouraging the American production of clean vehicles, including plug-in electric vehicles (EVs), plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs), and hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs), is commendable. However, the change in eligibility requirements could actually limit new vehicle tax credits more than the outgoing legislation. Let’s take a closer look at where this new legislation helps, and hurts, your chances at seeing a rebate.
Pros:
- No 200,000 Vehicle Limit per Manufacturer – which means brands like Cadillac, Chevrolet and Tesla will be back in the running for a $7,500 tax break, along with every other automaker selling EVs, PHEVs (with a battery of 7 kilowatt hours or larger), or FCEVs.
- Income and MSRP Restrictions – the previous legislation had no limit on household income or eligible vehicle pricing, which meant a lot of taxpayer money was spent helping millionaires get a $7,500 price break on their $100,000-plus Tesla. Starting on January 1st, 2023, the new legislation puts an MSRP limit of $80,000 on electric vans, SUVs, and pickup trucks, and a $55,000 MSRP limit on electric sedans, coupes, wagons, and convertibles. The IRS also puts a $150,000 annual income limit on single tax filers, a $225,000 limit on head-of-household filers, and a $300,000 limit on joint filers.
- Used EVs Count Too – For the first time ever, car buyers seeking a lower cost of entry into EV ownership don’t have to choose from pricier current or new model year vehicles. A tax credit on used vehicles, worth either $4,000 or 30% of the used EV’s sales price (whichever is lower) will be available on used models costing less than $25,000. This credit is only available to single filers below $75,000, head-of-household filers below $112,000, and joint filers of $150,000.
- Commercial Tax Credit – If you happen to be a business owner looking to go electric the new bill provides up to $7,500 for electric vehicles with a gross vehicle weight rating (GVWR) under 14,000 pounds and up to $40,000 for vehicles with a GVWR above 14,000 pounds. The rebate is based on either 30 percent of the total vehicle cost, or the incremental cost of a commercial EV over the cost of an equivalent non-EV vehicle. For instance, the Ford F-150 Lightning has a starting MSRP of $46,974, but you can buy an equivalent crew-cab F-150 with an internal combustion engine for around $50,000. There’s no incremental cost to buying the Lightning, so a commercial buyer could only benefit from 30 percent of the truck’s $46,974 price (around $15,680).
- Point of Sale Price Reduction: Starting on January 1st, 2024, buyers can transfer their credit to the selling dealer, essentially providing an immediate reduction in the price of an EV during purchase versus waiting to receive the benefit as part of their next tax filing.
Cons:
- Final Assembly Must be in North America – Starting on August 17th, 2022, only plug-in electric vehicles assembled in North America are eligible for tax credits. As of this writing, that includes 26 EVs from model year 2022, but only 8 EVs from model year 2023. A vehicle’s VIN (vehicle identification number) will be used to determine where a potential candidate was built. Popular EVs like the BMW 330e, Chevrolet Bolt, and Nissan Leaf have already been approved for model year 2023, and we’d expect other models assembled in Canada, Mexico, or the U.S. to be approved soon, including the Audi Q5, Ford Mustang Mach E, and every Rivian and Tesla model. However…
- Critical Mineral and Battery Component Requirements – Even if an electric vehicle is assembled in North America it will need to meet increasingly stringent battery requirements over the coming 5 years. Starting in 2023 an EV’s battery will need 40 percent of its critical minerals value to have been extracted or processed in the U.S. or a U.S. free-trade agreement partner to receive up to $3,750 in tax credits. This percentage will increase 10 percent a year, up to 80% of the battery’s critical mineral value in 2027 and beyond. Additionally, starting in 2023, 50 percent of the value of an EV battery’s components must be assembled in the U.S., increasing 10 percent a year until it reaches 100 percent in 2029.
The newest bill’s final assembly and critical mineral battery requirements are meant to shift the production of electric vehicles back toward the U.S. and its allies, and away from foreign entities of concern, including China. Given the supply chain issues we’ve experienced over the past 2 years this is a wise long-term goal. However, the time and resources needed to transplant the electric vehicle alternative fuels industry from the Asia Pacific region to the U.S are substantial.
Foreign automakers like Honda, Hyundai, Kia, Mercedes-Benz, and Toyota have already committed to high-volume North American vehicle production in recent decades. There’s every reason to believe they can relatively quickly do the same for their electric vehicle fleets to meet the final assembly requirement for successful new models not yet produced here, like the Hyundai Ioniq 5. Several automakers with smaller U.S. production capacity, including BMW, Volkswagen, and Volvo, also continue to expand their U.S. presence.
But battery production is an entirely different process compared to vehicle assembly. It involves significant investments in land assessment/exploration, permit applications, approval, mining, extraction, refining, etc. You can imagine the processes and time frame involved in, for instance, setting up a lithium mine in California. Investing in, and establishing, those capabilities will take several years at least, and could easily prove a limiting factor on how many new EVs can fully qualify for the latest tax credits under the current legislation.
More from iSeeCars:
- How Much Does it Cost to Charge an Electric Car?
- How Long Do Electric Car Batteries Last?
- Electric Cars with the Longest Range
If you’re in the market for a new or used electric vehicle you can search over 4 million used electric cars, SUVs, and trucks with iSeeCars’ award-winning car search engine that helps shoppers find the best car deals by providing key insights and valuable resources, like the iSeeCars free VIN check report and Best Cars rankings. Filter by vehicle type, front or all-wheel drive, and other parameters in order to narrow down your car search.
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Former President Trump’s outsized influence is already being felt in GOP Senate primaries, underscoring his grip on the party even as he faces numerous primary challengers in the 2024 White House race.
Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose, who’s running to replace Sen. Sherrod Brown (D), endorsed Trump’s presidential bid earlier this week. West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice (R), who’s running to unseat Sen. Joe Manchin (D), did the same — prompting his GOP primary rival Alex Mooney to point out that he had come out in support of Trump last year.
And prior to officially jumping into Montana’s contested Senate race last month, former Navy SEAL and businessman Tim Sheehy said he supports Trump “100 percent.”
The public show of support for the former president is just the latest example of the political sway he continues to hold over Republicans, and could serve as a headache for party leaders who want the GOP to move on from him.
“Donald Trump continues to be the biggest elephant in the Republican tent,” said Mark Weaver, an Ohio-based Republican strategist. “Republican voters still want to see him as our party’s leader.”
One Republican strategist described the strategy of endorsing Trump as “the path of least resistance.”
“In order to take back the Senate, you’ve got to win a couple of these key seats, and the only way to win back these key seats is to make it through the primary unscathed,” the strategist said.
Some strategists see the endorsements as a sign of how the presidential primary is likely to shake out.
“This is a greater sign than ever before that Trump is most likely going to win the Republican nomination despite the noise in the media,” said Republican strategist Ford O’Connell.
“Endorsing Trump at this stage is one of the safest things a candidate could do,” he added. “This is more about the candidates trying to cozy up to him.”
The eagerness from some Senate Republican hopefuls to embrace the former president comes after many of Trump’s endorsed candidates performed poorly in their general elections last cycle.
“Former President Trump’s endorsement continues to be a boon in a primary and a bane in a general election,” Weaver said.
The National Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee (NRSC) is also taking a different approach in the 2024 cycle by playing a more hands-on role in some primaries. Like Trump, the committee’s Chairman Steve Daines (R-Mont.) has thrown his support behind Justice in West Virginia’s Republican Senate primary.
While there has been tension and disagreement between Trump and Senate leadership, particularly on Trump’s unfounded claims that he won the 2020 presidential election, Daines has said he is working with the former president ahead of 2024.
“We chat frequently. And he’s very thoughtful right now looking at these races. He understands it’s important we have candidates that can win,” Daines told CBS News in an interview earlier this month. “If you notice, there hasn’t been a wave of endorsements coming out so far, because I think we’re having these thoughtful conversations and getting on the same page.”
Trump has endorsed in less competitive GOP Senate primaries, like in Indiana, where he threw his support behind Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) a day after former Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels (R) announced that he would not run for the seat and after the NRSC endorsed Banks.
And earlier this month, CNN reported that Trump told Mooney in West Virginia and potential Senate candidate Rep. Matt Rosendale (R-Mont.) that he would not endorse them. Daines has endorsed Sheehy in Montana.
Democrats, meanwhile, are seeking to use Trump’s endorsement against him in the general election, harkening back to Republican losses in 2022.
“Trump is looming over Senate Republicans’ primaries and making the GOP’s nasty infighting even worse,” said Tommy Garcia, a spokesperson for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. “As Republican candidates fight for Trump’s favor, they’re showing the voters who will decide the general election in their states why they should be rejected in 2024.”
And not every Republican running for Senate is immediately tying themselves to the former president. In Nevada, Sam Brown, who has been endorsed by Daines, has yet to endorse Trump despite volunteering for his campaign in 2020. His primary opponent Jim Marchant, on the other hand, has endorsed Trump. Marchant has also said Brown is the GOP establishment’s choice, pointing to his endorsement from the NRSC.
“Mitch McConnell & the establishment needed a candidate & found him in Sam Brown,” Marchant said in a tweet earlier this month. “We see Reagan’s ‘bold-colored differences’ between DC & the real America.”
Weaver noted that while more anti-establishment candidates may try to use this attack line, there’s still much to be gained from an endorsement from the Senate GOP campaign arm.
“Being endorsed by the Washington establishment can bring valuable contributions from interest groups around the country, but it can also bring some criticism for being too close to the Beltway,” he said.
Others caution that endorsements should not be seen as integral to the success of a campaign.
“Ultimately these candidates have got to focus on their message and they’ve got to focus on having the resources to disseminate their message,” the GOP strategist said. “They need to be able to actually run a functional campaign and no endorsement is going to matter if those things aren’t done,” the strategist added. | https://who13.com/hill-politics/trumps-role-in-gop-senate-primaries-underscores-his-strength/ | 2023-07-29T19:14:58 | 1 | https://who13.com/hill-politics/trumps-role-in-gop-senate-primaries-underscores-his-strength/ |
APPANOOSE COUNTY, Iowa — An Arkansas man was killed after he allegedly jumped off a boat and then was hit by it at Lake Rathbun Friday afternoon.
At around 3:51 p.m., emergency personnel from several local agencies responded to a report of a man who had been hit by a boat and had not surfaced in the Bridgeview area of the lake.
According to the Appanoose County Sheriff’s Office, a 36-year-old man was a passenger on a 1997 24-foot Lowe Pontoon boat with six other people. The male, for unknown reasons, left the bow of the boat, entered the water, and then was struck by the boat, the sheriff’s office said.
Rescue divers and specialized search and rescue equipment were deployed. At around 8:52 p.m., the man’s body was recovered, the sheriff’s office said. The victim’s name has not been released.
An autopsy will be performed by the Iowa State Medical Examiner’s Office to determine the exact cause and manner of death. The investigation into the man’s death is ongoing. | https://who13.com/news/arkansas-man-hit-killed-by-boat-at-lake-rathbun/ | 2023-07-29T19:15:04 | 1 | https://who13.com/news/arkansas-man-hit-killed-by-boat-at-lake-rathbun/ |
Former President Trump’s outsized influence is already being felt in GOP Senate primaries, underscoring his grip on the party even as he faces numerous primary challengers in the 2024 White House race.
Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose, who’s running to replace Sen. Sherrod Brown (D), endorsed Trump’s presidential bid earlier this week. West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice (R), who’s running to unseat Sen. Joe Manchin (D), did the same — prompting his GOP primary rival Alex Mooney to point out that he had come out in support of Trump last year.
And prior to officially jumping into Montana’s contested Senate race last month, former Navy SEAL and businessman Tim Sheehy said he supports Trump “100 percent.”
The public show of support for the former president is just the latest example of the political sway he continues to hold over Republicans, and could serve as a headache for party leaders who want the GOP to move on from him.
“Donald Trump continues to be the biggest elephant in the Republican tent,” said Mark Weaver, an Ohio-based Republican strategist. “Republican voters still want to see him as our party’s leader.”
One Republican strategist described the strategy of endorsing Trump as “the path of least resistance.”
“In order to take back the Senate, you’ve got to win a couple of these key seats, and the only way to win back these key seats is to make it through the primary unscathed,” the strategist said.
Some strategists see the endorsements as a sign of how the presidential primary is likely to shake out.
“This is a greater sign than ever before that Trump is most likely going to win the Republican nomination despite the noise in the media,” said Republican strategist Ford O’Connell.
“Endorsing Trump at this stage is one of the safest things a candidate could do,” he added. “This is more about the candidates trying to cozy up to him.”
The eagerness from some Senate Republican hopefuls to embrace the former president comes after many of Trump’s endorsed candidates performed poorly in their general elections last cycle.
“Former President Trump’s endorsement continues to be a boon in a primary and a bane in a general election,” Weaver said.
The National Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee (NRSC) is also taking a different approach in the 2024 cycle by playing a more hands-on role in some primaries. Like Trump, the committee’s Chairman Steve Daines (R-Mont.) has thrown his support behind Justice in West Virginia’s Republican Senate primary.
While there has been tension and disagreement between Trump and Senate leadership, particularly on Trump’s unfounded claims that he won the 2020 presidential election, Daines has said he is working with the former president ahead of 2024.
“We chat frequently. And he’s very thoughtful right now looking at these races. He understands it’s important we have candidates that can win,” Daines told CBS News in an interview earlier this month. “If you notice, there hasn’t been a wave of endorsements coming out so far, because I think we’re having these thoughtful conversations and getting on the same page.”
Trump has endorsed in less competitive GOP Senate primaries, like in Indiana, where he threw his support behind Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) a day after former Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels (R) announced that he would not run for the seat and after the NRSC endorsed Banks.
And earlier this month, CNN reported that Trump told Mooney in West Virginia and potential Senate candidate Rep. Matt Rosendale (R-Mont.) that he would not endorse them. Daines has endorsed Sheehy in Montana.
Democrats, meanwhile, are seeking to use Trump’s endorsement against him in the general election, harkening back to Republican losses in 2022.
“Trump is looming over Senate Republicans’ primaries and making the GOP’s nasty infighting even worse,” said Tommy Garcia, a spokesperson for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. “As Republican candidates fight for Trump’s favor, they’re showing the voters who will decide the general election in their states why they should be rejected in 2024.”
And not every Republican running for Senate is immediately tying themselves to the former president. In Nevada, Sam Brown, who has been endorsed by Daines, has yet to endorse Trump despite volunteering for his campaign in 2020. His primary opponent Jim Marchant, on the other hand, has endorsed Trump. Marchant has also said Brown is the GOP establishment’s choice, pointing to his endorsement from the NRSC.
“Mitch McConnell & the establishment needed a candidate & found him in Sam Brown,” Marchant said in a tweet earlier this month. “We see Reagan’s ‘bold-colored differences’ between DC & the real America.”
Weaver noted that while more anti-establishment candidates may try to use this attack line, there’s still much to be gained from an endorsement from the Senate GOP campaign arm.
“Being endorsed by the Washington establishment can bring valuable contributions from interest groups around the country, but it can also bring some criticism for being too close to the Beltway,” he said.
Others caution that endorsements should not be seen as integral to the success of a campaign.
“Ultimately these candidates have got to focus on their message and they’ve got to focus on having the resources to disseminate their message,” the GOP strategist said. “They need to be able to actually run a functional campaign and no endorsement is going to matter if those things aren’t done,” the strategist added. | https://www.yourbasin.com/hill-politics/trumps-role-in-gop-senate-primaries-underscores-his-strength/ | 2023-07-29T19:15:03 | 0 | https://www.yourbasin.com/hill-politics/trumps-role-in-gop-senate-primaries-underscores-his-strength/ |
REMBRANDT, Iowa (KCAU) — Multiple fire departments fought a barn fire just north of Rembrandt Thursday night.
The Sioux Rapids Fire Department said in a release that crews were called around 6:18 p.m. to a structure fire at 4661 120th Ave, about three miles south of Sioux Rapids, Iowa. The location is home to Rembrandt Enterprises.
Crews arrived at the scene to find a barn fully engulfed. They also called for mutual aid from surrounding fire departments.
Around 9:45 p.m., crews were able to control the fire.
One assisting agency, Cherokee Fire, said they assisted with an aerial ladder, tanker, and eight members. They added that an estimated 60,000 gallons of water were used through their aerial.
The Sioux Rapids Fire Department said that they are still investigating the cause of the fire.
Albert City, Alta, Aurelia, Buena Vista EMA, Buena Vista Regional Medical Center, BV Sheriff’s office, Cherokee EMA, Cherokee FD, Laurens, Newell, Peterson Fire and Ambulance, Pocahontas, Rembrandt, Royal, Sioux Rapids Ambulance, Storm Lake, Spencer, and Webb Fire Departments all assisted at the scene. | https://who13.com/news/multiple-agencies-fight-large-barn-fire-near-rembrandt/ | 2023-07-29T19:15:10 | 1 | https://who13.com/news/multiple-agencies-fight-large-barn-fire-near-rembrandt/ |
(NerdWallet) – On July 14, 804,000 longtime student loan borrowers began receiving word that their $39 billion in remaining debt would be forgiven as the result of the Education Department’s income-driven repayment (IDR) account adjustment. This one-time program, first announced in April 2022 to repair past missteps in the IDR system, is counting more past repayment periods toward income-driven repayment (IDR) forgiveness. Many borrowers will be at least three years closer to IDR forgiveness — and some will automatically see their loans forgiven altogether.
“At the start of this Administration, millions of borrowers had earned loan forgiveness but never received it. That’s unacceptable,” Department of Education Under Secretary James Kvaal said in a July 14 press release announcing the news. “Today we are holding up the bargain we offered borrowers who have completed decades of repayment.”
This is just the tip of the iceberg. More than 4.4 million borrowers have been repaying their loans for at least 20 years, and 2.3 million of these borrowers have never defaulted or been delinquent on their loans, according to April 2021 Education Department data provided to Sen. Elizabeth Warren. However, there’s not yet a final count of total borrowers who will receive the IDR account adjustment forgiveness, says Mike Pierce, executive director of the Student Borrower Protection Center (SBPC).
While the Supreme Court recently struck down President Joe Biden’s up-to-$20,000 student debt cancellation plan, no one has challenged this account adjustment since it was introduced in April 2022, and future legal roadblocks are highly unlikely, Pierce says.
“If I were a borrower, I would feel pretty good about this happening, but you know, we never say never,” Pierce says. “This is something that has never been put in front of a federal judge, and we have not seen any signs that it’s going to.”
All this is occurring as borrowers gear up for student loan payments to resume in October. Here’s what you need to know about the next waves of loan forgiveness under the IDR account adjustment and what qualified borrowers can do to prepare for it.
When will IDR adjustments be made?
The Education Department said it will notify waves of loan forgiveness recipients about every two months. Since the first major batch was announced on July 14, borrowers can expect the next announcement by mid-September.
The department plans to apply the account adjustment by the end of 2023 to all borrowers who’ve reached enough payments for forgiveness; all other borrowers will receive at least three additional years of credit toward IDR loan forgiveness in 2024.
Will I get IDR account adjustment forgiveness?
To find out whether you’ll receive loan forgiveness under the one-time IDR account adjustment, you must count your past payments yourself.
Generally, borrowers with undergraduate loans will receive loan forgiveness if they’ve made at least 240 monthly student loan payments, and those with some graduate loans will reach forgiveness if they’ve made at least 300 payments, Pierce says.
From July 1994 onward, the adjustment counts the following periods toward the 240 or 300 payments needed to reach forgiveness:
- Any month a borrower was in repayment, even if the payments were late or partial. The type of repayment plan also doesn’t matter.
- Time spent in forbearance, either periods lasting 12 or more consecutive months or a cumulative 36 or more months.
- Any month spent in deferment other than in-school deferment before 2013.
- Any month spent in economic hardship or military deferments on or after Jan. 1, 2013.
- Any months in repayment, forbearance or a qualifying deferment before a loan consolidation.
Months spent in default will generally not be included in the recount, though borrowers who enroll in the temporary Fresh Start program to get out of default will get IDR credit from March 2020 through the date they leave default.
Log in to your Federal Student Aid (FSA) account at StudentAid.gov to see how long you’ve been in repayment. To see detailed information, including descriptions of the specific forbearance or deferment periods, request your account history from your servicer.
How to prepare for the IDR account adjustment
The loan forgiveness will be largely automatic for most eligible federal borrowers with older direct loans, federally held Federal Family Education Loan Program (FFELP) loans and parent PLUS loans. These borrowers don’t need to take any action to qualify or receive loan forgiveness.
“The good news is, for most people, you don’t actually need to be an expert on this program to benefit from it,” Pierce says. “If you have a loan that’s owned by the Department of Education, it’s just gonna work for you.”
But there are some small steps you can take to be proactive.
Update your contact information
Regardless of the type of federal student loans you have, check that your current contact information is listed in both your FSA and servicer accounts. While you’re at it, make sure you still have the password to these accounts, and reset your login credentials if needed.
Forty-four percent of federal borrowers were transferred to a new servicer during the pandemic payment pause, according to a June estimate from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, so now is also a good time to see if your servicer changed.
You’ll likely be notified by email if and when your loans are forgiven under the IDR account adjustment, but student loan communications may also arrive by mail.
Consolidate commercially managed federal loans
Some federal loans are not held by the government, but by a private entity. Borrowers with these commercially managed federal loans won’t benefit from the recount automatically — they’ll need to consolidate these loans to qualify. The account adjustment will count periods of repayment prior to consolidation toward IDR forgiveness.
Commercially held loans include certain FFELP loans, Perkins loans and Health Education Assistance Loan (HEAL) Program loans. You can see what type of loans you have on the dashboard of your FSA account or servicer portal.
You have until the end of 2023 to consolidate commercially held loans, but don’t delay. The full consolidation process can take from 30 to 60 days, Pierce says. Get started by submitting a direct loan consolidation application on the Federal Student Aid office website.
Consolidate newer parent PLUS loans
Parent PLUS loans are included in the IDR account adjustment. If you reach 300 payments — or 120 payments if you’re eligible for PSLF — your parent PLUS debt will be discharged automatically this year, regardless of whether or not your PLUS loans are consolidated.
But if you have fewer payments than that, you’ll need to act. Consolidate your parent PLUS loans before the end of 2023 to benefit from the adjustment, and enroll in an IDR plan called Income-Contingent Repayment to continue making progress toward forgiveness.
Apply for Public Service Loan Forgiveness
Borrowers eligible for PSLF are also eligible for the account adjustment; they can receive IDR loan forgiveness after just 10 years, or 120 eligible payments. PSLF-eligible borrowers with direct loans, including parent PLUS loans, will benefit automatically. Those with either federally or commercially managed FFELP loans must consolidate them into a direct consolidation loan by the end of 2023 to get PSLF credit under the account adjustment.
After the adjustment is applied to your account, you’ll see credit toward PSLF for any month after October 2007 during which you were in repayment and had qualifying employment.
“If you’ve applied or will apply for PSLF and certify your employment, you may see the benefits of this adjustment to your qualifying payment count,” writes the office of Federal Student Aid. Do so as soon as possible to ensure you benefit from the recount.
Check your state’s tax policy
The federal government won’t tax any debt forgiven as a result of the IDR account adjustment.
However, certain states, including Indiana and Mississippi, treat forgiven student loans as taxable earned income, and thus may tax the amount of forgiven debt you receive. The vast majority of states don’t do this, so check the rules in your state.
If you’re concerned about a state tax bill, you can opt out of loan forgiveness. You have 30 days to do so after you receive notice that your remaining debt will be forgiven under the IDR account adjustment. | https://www.yourbasin.com/news/national-news/more-student-loan-forgiveness-coming-for-longtime-borrowers/ | 2023-07-29T19:15:11 | 1 | https://www.yourbasin.com/news/national-news/more-student-loan-forgiveness-coming-for-longtime-borrowers/ |
(NerdWallet) – On July 14, 804,000 longtime student loan borrowers began receiving word that their $39 billion in remaining debt would be forgiven as the result of the Education Department’s income-driven repayment (IDR) account adjustment. This one-time program, first announced in April 2022 to repair past missteps in the IDR system, is counting more past repayment periods toward income-driven repayment (IDR) forgiveness. Many borrowers will be at least three years closer to IDR forgiveness — and some will automatically see their loans forgiven altogether.
“At the start of this Administration, millions of borrowers had earned loan forgiveness but never received it. That’s unacceptable,” Department of Education Under Secretary James Kvaal said in a July 14 press release announcing the news. “Today we are holding up the bargain we offered borrowers who have completed decades of repayment.”
This is just the tip of the iceberg. More than 4.4 million borrowers have been repaying their loans for at least 20 years, and 2.3 million of these borrowers have never defaulted or been delinquent on their loans, according to April 2021 Education Department data provided to Sen. Elizabeth Warren. However, there’s not yet a final count of total borrowers who will receive the IDR account adjustment forgiveness, says Mike Pierce, executive director of the Student Borrower Protection Center (SBPC).
While the Supreme Court recently struck down President Joe Biden’s up-to-$20,000 student debt cancellation plan, no one has challenged this account adjustment since it was introduced in April 2022, and future legal roadblocks are highly unlikely, Pierce says.
“If I were a borrower, I would feel pretty good about this happening, but you know, we never say never,” Pierce says. “This is something that has never been put in front of a federal judge, and we have not seen any signs that it’s going to.”
All this is occurring as borrowers gear up for student loan payments to resume in October. Here’s what you need to know about the next waves of loan forgiveness under the IDR account adjustment and what qualified borrowers can do to prepare for it.
When will IDR adjustments be made?
The Education Department said it will notify waves of loan forgiveness recipients about every two months. Since the first major batch was announced on July 14, borrowers can expect the next announcement by mid-September.
The department plans to apply the account adjustment by the end of 2023 to all borrowers who’ve reached enough payments for forgiveness; all other borrowers will receive at least three additional years of credit toward IDR loan forgiveness in 2024.
Will I get IDR account adjustment forgiveness?
To find out whether you’ll receive loan forgiveness under the one-time IDR account adjustment, you must count your past payments yourself.
Generally, borrowers with undergraduate loans will receive loan forgiveness if they’ve made at least 240 monthly student loan payments, and those with some graduate loans will reach forgiveness if they’ve made at least 300 payments, Pierce says.
From July 1994 onward, the adjustment counts the following periods toward the 240 or 300 payments needed to reach forgiveness:
- Any month a borrower was in repayment, even if the payments were late or partial. The type of repayment plan also doesn’t matter.
- Time spent in forbearance, either periods lasting 12 or more consecutive months or a cumulative 36 or more months.
- Any month spent in deferment other than in-school deferment before 2013.
- Any month spent in economic hardship or military deferments on or after Jan. 1, 2013.
- Any months in repayment, forbearance or a qualifying deferment before a loan consolidation.
Months spent in default will generally not be included in the recount, though borrowers who enroll in the temporary Fresh Start program to get out of default will get IDR credit from March 2020 through the date they leave default.
Log in to your Federal Student Aid (FSA) account at StudentAid.gov to see how long you’ve been in repayment. To see detailed information, including descriptions of the specific forbearance or deferment periods, request your account history from your servicer.
How to prepare for the IDR account adjustment
The loan forgiveness will be largely automatic for most eligible federal borrowers with older direct loans, federally held Federal Family Education Loan Program (FFELP) loans and parent PLUS loans. These borrowers don’t need to take any action to qualify or receive loan forgiveness.
“The good news is, for most people, you don’t actually need to be an expert on this program to benefit from it,” Pierce says. “If you have a loan that’s owned by the Department of Education, it’s just gonna work for you.”
But there are some small steps you can take to be proactive.
Update your contact information
Regardless of the type of federal student loans you have, check that your current contact information is listed in both your FSA and servicer accounts. While you’re at it, make sure you still have the password to these accounts, and reset your login credentials if needed.
Forty-four percent of federal borrowers were transferred to a new servicer during the pandemic payment pause, according to a June estimate from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, so now is also a good time to see if your servicer changed.
You’ll likely be notified by email if and when your loans are forgiven under the IDR account adjustment, but student loan communications may also arrive by mail.
Consolidate commercially managed federal loans
Some federal loans are not held by the government, but by a private entity. Borrowers with these commercially managed federal loans won’t benefit from the recount automatically — they’ll need to consolidate these loans to qualify. The account adjustment will count periods of repayment prior to consolidation toward IDR forgiveness.
Commercially held loans include certain FFELP loans, Perkins loans and Health Education Assistance Loan (HEAL) Program loans. You can see what type of loans you have on the dashboard of your FSA account or servicer portal.
You have until the end of 2023 to consolidate commercially held loans, but don’t delay. The full consolidation process can take from 30 to 60 days, Pierce says. Get started by submitting a direct loan consolidation application on the Federal Student Aid office website.
Consolidate newer parent PLUS loans
Parent PLUS loans are included in the IDR account adjustment. If you reach 300 payments — or 120 payments if you’re eligible for PSLF — your parent PLUS debt will be discharged automatically this year, regardless of whether or not your PLUS loans are consolidated.
But if you have fewer payments than that, you’ll need to act. Consolidate your parent PLUS loans before the end of 2023 to benefit from the adjustment, and enroll in an IDR plan called Income-Contingent Repayment to continue making progress toward forgiveness.
Apply for Public Service Loan Forgiveness
Borrowers eligible for PSLF are also eligible for the account adjustment; they can receive IDR loan forgiveness after just 10 years, or 120 eligible payments. PSLF-eligible borrowers with direct loans, including parent PLUS loans, will benefit automatically. Those with either federally or commercially managed FFELP loans must consolidate them into a direct consolidation loan by the end of 2023 to get PSLF credit under the account adjustment.
After the adjustment is applied to your account, you’ll see credit toward PSLF for any month after October 2007 during which you were in repayment and had qualifying employment.
“If you’ve applied or will apply for PSLF and certify your employment, you may see the benefits of this adjustment to your qualifying payment count,” writes the office of Federal Student Aid. Do so as soon as possible to ensure you benefit from the recount.
Check your state’s tax policy
The federal government won’t tax any debt forgiven as a result of the IDR account adjustment.
However, certain states, including Indiana and Mississippi, treat forgiven student loans as taxable earned income, and thus may tax the amount of forgiven debt you receive. The vast majority of states don’t do this, so check the rules in your state.
If you’re concerned about a state tax bill, you can opt out of loan forgiveness. You have 30 days to do so after you receive notice that your remaining debt will be forgiven under the IDR account adjustment. | https://who13.com/news/national-news/more-student-loan-forgiveness-coming-for-longtime-borrowers/ | 2023-07-29T19:15:17 | 1 | https://who13.com/news/national-news/more-student-loan-forgiveness-coming-for-longtime-borrowers/ |
UVALDE, Texas (KXAN) – Kimberly Mata-Rubio, whose daughter Lexi was killed last year in the Robb Elementary School shooting, is planning to turn her grief into action, after announcing Thursday she will run for mayor of Uvalde, Texas, in an upcoming special election.
“This past year, it’s been so frustrating navigating our country’s political system, and sometimes you have to be the change you seek. So, here I am running for mayor,” Rubio told Nexstar.
The 34-year-old mother is looking to fill the soon-vacant seat held by Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin in an upcoming special election on Nov. 7.
McLaughlin has served as the South Texas town’s mayor since 2014, and has reached his term limit. He is now running to succeed Rep. Tracy King, D-Uvalde, in the Texas House.
Mata-Rubio shared news of her run for mayor Thursday. On social media, she addressed her daughter directly, explaining why she chose to take action.
“I grieve for the woman you would have become and all the difference you would have made in this world,” Mata-Rubio wrote. “I grieve for the woman I was when you were still here. But, one part of me still exist, I am still your mom. I will honor your life with action. This is only the beginning.”
Lexi, 10, was one of the 21 people killed at Robb Elementary on May 24, 2022, in the nation’s second-deadliest school shooting. In the year since, Mata-Rubio has been a regular at the Texas Capitol and U.S. Capitol, advocating for tighter gun restrictions she believes will help prevent other parents from feeling her pain.
“Bridging the gap in our fractured community is my number one focus. And the reason being is because we cannot move on or forward without the entire community coming together,” she said. “And when I say moving on, I want to bring those two teachers and 19 students with me along on this journey. That’s the only way to do this. And the only way to move forward and they deserve that they’re part of this community as well.”
Mata-Rubio will face off against Cody Smith, a banker and former mayor of Uvalde, in the Nov. 7 special election. No other candidates have announced a bid for the seat. | https://www.yourbasin.com/news/national-news/mother-of-uvalde-shooting-victim-to-run-for-mayor-of-town/ | 2023-07-29T19:15:17 | 1 | https://www.yourbasin.com/news/national-news/mother-of-uvalde-shooting-victim-to-run-for-mayor-of-town/ |
UVALDE, Texas (KXAN) – Kimberly Mata-Rubio, whose daughter Lexi was killed last year in the Robb Elementary School shooting, is planning to turn her grief into action, after announcing Thursday she will run for mayor of Uvalde, Texas, in an upcoming special election.
“This past year, it’s been so frustrating navigating our country’s political system, and sometimes you have to be the change you seek. So, here I am running for mayor,” Rubio told Nexstar.
The 34-year-old mother is looking to fill the soon-vacant seat held by Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin in an upcoming special election on Nov. 7.
McLaughlin has served as the South Texas town’s mayor since 2014, and has reached his term limit. He is now running to succeed Rep. Tracy King, D-Uvalde, in the Texas House.
Mata-Rubio shared news of her run for mayor Thursday. On social media, she addressed her daughter directly, explaining why she chose to take action.
“I grieve for the woman you would have become and all the difference you would have made in this world,” Mata-Rubio wrote. “I grieve for the woman I was when you were still here. But, one part of me still exist, I am still your mom. I will honor your life with action. This is only the beginning.”
Lexi, 10, was one of the 21 people killed at Robb Elementary on May 24, 2022, in the nation’s second-deadliest school shooting. In the year since, Mata-Rubio has been a regular at the Texas Capitol and U.S. Capitol, advocating for tighter gun restrictions she believes will help prevent other parents from feeling her pain.
“Bridging the gap in our fractured community is my number one focus. And the reason being is because we cannot move on or forward without the entire community coming together,” she said. “And when I say moving on, I want to bring those two teachers and 19 students with me along on this journey. That’s the only way to do this. And the only way to move forward and they deserve that they’re part of this community as well.”
Mata-Rubio will face off against Cody Smith, a banker and former mayor of Uvalde, in the Nov. 7 special election. No other candidates have announced a bid for the seat. | https://who13.com/news/national-news/mother-of-uvalde-shooting-victim-to-run-for-mayor-of-town/ | 2023-07-29T19:15:23 | 0 | https://who13.com/news/national-news/mother-of-uvalde-shooting-victim-to-run-for-mayor-of-town/ |
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The city of San Francisco has opened a complaint and launched an investigation into a giant “X” sign that was installed Friday on top of the downtown building formerly known as Twitter headquarters.
The complaint comes as Twitter owner Elon Musk continues his rebrand of the social media platform.
City officials say replacing letters or symbols on buildings, or erecting a sign on top of one, requires a permit for design and safety reasons.
The X appeared after San Francisco police stopped workers on Monday from removing the brand’s iconic bird and logo from the side of the building, saying they hadn’t taped off the sidewalk to keep pedestrians safe if anything fell.
Any replacement letters or symbols would require a permit to ensure “consistency with the historic nature of the building” and to make sure additions are safely attached to the sign, Patrick Hannan, spokesperson for the Department of Building Inspection, said earlier this week.
Erecting a sign on top of a building also requires a permit, Hannan said Friday.
“Planning review and approval is also necessary for the installation of this sign. The city is opening a complaint and initiating an investigation,” he said in an email.
Musk unveiled a new “X” logo to replace Twitter’s famous blue bird as he remakes the social media platform he bought for $44 billion last year. The X started appearing at the top of the desktop version of Twitter on Monday.
Musk, who is also CEO of Tesla, has long been fascinated with the letter X and had already renamed Twitter’s corporate name to X Corp. after he bought it in October. One of his children is called “X,” though the child’s actual name is a collection of letters and symbols.
On Friday afternoon, a worker on a lift machine made adjustments to the sign and then left. | https://www.yourbasin.com/news/national-news/new-x-logo-atop-twitter-building-in-san-francisco-prompts-complaint-investigation-from-city/ | 2023-07-29T19:15:24 | 0 | https://www.yourbasin.com/news/national-news/new-x-logo-atop-twitter-building-in-san-francisco-prompts-complaint-investigation-from-city/ |
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The city of San Francisco has opened a complaint and launched an investigation into a giant “X” sign that was installed Friday on top of the downtown building formerly known as Twitter headquarters.
The complaint comes as Twitter owner Elon Musk continues his rebrand of the social media platform.
City officials say replacing letters or symbols on buildings, or erecting a sign on top of one, requires a permit for design and safety reasons.
The X appeared after San Francisco police stopped workers on Monday from removing the brand’s iconic bird and logo from the side of the building, saying they hadn’t taped off the sidewalk to keep pedestrians safe if anything fell.
Any replacement letters or symbols would require a permit to ensure “consistency with the historic nature of the building” and to make sure additions are safely attached to the sign, Patrick Hannan, spokesperson for the Department of Building Inspection, said earlier this week.
Erecting a sign on top of a building also requires a permit, Hannan said Friday.
“Planning review and approval is also necessary for the installation of this sign. The city is opening a complaint and initiating an investigation,” he said in an email.
Musk unveiled a new “X” logo to replace Twitter’s famous blue bird as he remakes the social media platform he bought for $44 billion last year. The X started appearing at the top of the desktop version of Twitter on Monday.
Musk, who is also CEO of Tesla, has long been fascinated with the letter X and had already renamed Twitter’s corporate name to X Corp. after he bought it in October. One of his children is called “X,” though the child’s actual name is a collection of letters and symbols.
On Friday afternoon, a worker on a lift machine made adjustments to the sign and then left. | https://who13.com/news/national-news/new-x-logo-atop-twitter-building-in-san-francisco-prompts-complaint-investigation-from-city/ | 2023-07-29T19:15:29 | 0 | https://who13.com/news/national-news/new-x-logo-atop-twitter-building-in-san-francisco-prompts-complaint-investigation-from-city/ |
(NEXSTAR) — Yet another new, unsafe trend is catching attention.
This time, some TikTok users are encouraging viewers to add borax to their water, claiming the common cleaning product can help reduce inflammation and joint pain, or even “detoxify” the body. As you may have guessed, health officials are warning of the consequences the trend could have on your health.
Borax, or sodium tetraborate decahydrate, is a chemical compound commonly available in the form of a white crystalline powder. It’s been utilized in a variety of ways since the Middle Ages, and today is often used a laundry detergent, kitchen/bathroom cleaner, and even a bug and weed killer.
Boric acid has also been found to have bacteriostatic properties, meaning it can prevent the growth of bacteria, Dr. S. Ruddy Rose, director of VCU Health’s Virginia Poison Center, told Nexstar.
Despite its endless safe uses, however, borax is not approved for ingestion by humans.
Ingesting borax can cause people to become quite sick, according to Dr. Rose, leading to convulsions, problems with the gastrointestinal tract, heat burns, and even kidney damage.
“This happens pretty quickly,” he adds.
Even the company behind 20 Mule Team Borax, a popular borax product, has warned against participating in the TikTok trend.
“20 Mule Team Borax has many uses but ingesting is not one of them,” the company warned on July 25.
“Do not bathe in, apply to skin, or ingest Borax, including drinking it diluted in water,” the company continued. “It is not intended for use as a personal care product or dietary supplement.”
Should your child fall victim to the trend, Dr. Rose said you can follow up with the child’s pediatrician, as long as they don’t have any symptoms. But if your child is vomiting, has abdominal pain, or experiences a seizure or other serious symptoms, it’s best to seek emergency medical attention.
Several videos recommending borax have been removed from TikTok, according to NBC News.
Social-media users, meanwhile, should always be cautious about taking medical advice from influencers or TikTok personalities.
“Just beware of these types of activities,” Dr. Rose said. “The people promoting it may not be doing it for the right reason.”
Borax uses
There are plenty of non-dangerous ways to use borax that you may not be aware of.
- It can unclog drains. As recommended by Southern Living, 1/2 cup of borax and two cups of boiling water down a clogged drain should clear it right out. Let the solution sit for 15 mins before flushing with warm water.
- It’s a pest deterrent/killer. Borax is a desiccant, which means it sucks up moisture. In this way, borax can be useful to sprinkle in places where bugs might ordinarily populate. The powder will keep the area dry and make it less optimal for insects to make home. Meanwhile, if bugs are already in your home, it’s not too late. The Spruce explains that insects, like cockroaches and ants, become “dried out” from the inside and die after eating the powder.
- It can help grow your fruit trees. Bob Vila recommends adding borax to the soil around your tree to help keep the plant’s pH levels desirable for growth.
- It’s in ingredient in “slime.” If your kids love making and playing with slime, Taste of Home has a recipe for using borax to make the stretchy, gooey stuff. | https://who13.com/news/national-news/why-are-people-drinking-borax-cleaning-powder-on-tiktok/ | 2023-07-29T19:15:35 | 0 | https://who13.com/news/national-news/why-are-people-drinking-borax-cleaning-powder-on-tiktok/ |
(NEXSTAR) – The astounding critical and commercial reception of the new “Barbie” movie has catapulted all-things-Barbie back to the forefront of pop culture.
Even Allan!
Mattel’s Allan dolls — first introduced in the earlier half of the ‘60s as a “buddy” for Ken dolls — are currently experiencing increased demand among collectors and Barbie fans, with early specimens selling for upwards of $200 on eBay over the last several days.
The value of Allan dolls has increased, no doubt, due to Allan’s inclusion in the film. But that’s about the only effect the movie has had on the price of vintage Barbies, according to Barbie expert Rebecca Chulew, who has been featured such shows as “Collector’s Call,” “Toy Hunter” and “My Crazy Obsession.”
“Many vintage Barbies were produced by the millions and are easy to find,” said Chulew, who has sold over 10,000 Barbies on eBay and Macari over the years. “Everybody thinks they have a valuable Barbie. The truth is, the majority aren’t.”
Certain vintage Barbie dolls, meanwhile, might still be worth a pretty penny, but their value really isn’t tied to the movie, according to Chulew.
“The doll now is kind of holding steady,” she said. “It has a good value, but I don’t see it going up or down a lot.”
The most valuable Barbies, she said, continue to be the very first series of dolls ever produced in 1959. Specifically, the No. 1 or No. 2 Ponytail Barbies, which can fetch anywhere from $4,000 to $8,000 per doll, depending on condition, the inclusion of the original box, and — perhaps more importantly — the hair color.
“They made three blondes for every brunette,” said Chulew, who noted that brunette Ponytail Barbies from 1959 can sell for up to $6,000, even out of the box.
Chulew further said that sealed or boxed dolls don’t matter as much to many Barbie collectors, seeing as the early opaque boxes were more akin to “shoeboxes” and didn’t showcase the dolls. (“There’s a lot of [online] box sales going on” for folks who want just the packaging, she said.)
Another coveted doll is the Side-Part American Girl Barbie produced in the mid-‘60s, which can go for “about $3,000” (and reportedly once sold for almost double), according to the expert.
Collectors also tend to prize “Twist ‘n Turn” Stacey dolls (not to be confused with Stacie dolls) from the late ‘60s, as well as “Steffie-face” Barbies (i.e., a type of doll using a certain face mold) introduced a few years later. Both can sell for hundreds to the right collectors.
Other valuable dolls include rarer Barbies that weren’t widely produced — like the brunette mentioned above — and, specifically, Black Barbies. According to Chulew, first- and second-issue Francie dolls from 1967-1969 are tough to find, while Alpha Kappa Alpha Barbies (which commemorated the historically African American sorority) can go for up to around $1,000.
And then, there’s Allan.
Allan dolls — including the original from 1964, the bendable-leg version from 1965 and the Wedding Day Allan doll from 1990 — have seen a “slight increase [in value] due to the movie,” said Chulew, adding that sellers might be able to get a few hundred for each one.
The rest of the Barbie line, and even vintage dolls that were mentioned in the movie, are likely worth no more than they were last year.
“I think what you’re going to see in the next 30 to 60 days are a lot of people selling their childhood dolls. And a lot of them aren’t going to be valuable,” Chulew said. “A few rarities might be unearthed, but it might cause stagnation in the market. It’s going to be tough for collectors to sort through all the barbies being advertised as ‘rare’ when they’re not.”
Barbie collectors, on the other hand, might be busy scooping up other “Barbie”-movie merchandise to complete their collections or prepare for any future scarcity. For example, the collectible “Barbie” popcorn buckets from AMC are very “hot” right now, Chulew said, and certain dolls from Mattel’s latest line of movie-inspired figures are becoming hard to find, even if they’re still selling at retail prices.
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Melting ice near Matterhorn reveals remains of climber missing for 37 years
(CNN) - The remains of a climber who disappeared while hiking along a glacier near Switzerland’s Matterhorn 37 years ago have been found.
Police say the melting ice on the glacier helped lead to the discovery of the remains.
They were found on July 12 by climbers hiking along the Theodul Glacier.
Several pieces of equipment were also found.
Police say a DNA analysis helped identify the remains as belonging to a 38-year-old German mountain climber who was reported missing in September 1986.
Police also say they had searched for the climber at the time, but they were unsuccessful.
No further details about the climber’s identity or his cause of death have been revealed.
Police say the melting glaciers have led to the reemergence of bodies of those who were reported missing several decades ago.
Scientists announced earlier this week that July is on track to be Earth’s hottest month ever recorded.
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Melting ice near Matterhorn reveals remains of climber missing for 37 years
(CNN) - The remains of a climber who disappeared while hiking along a glacier near Switzerland’s Matterhorn 37 years ago have been found.
Police say the melting ice on the glacier helped lead to the discovery of the remains.
They were found on July 12 by climbers hiking along the Theodul Glacier.
Several pieces of equipment were also found.
Police say a DNA analysis helped identify the remains as belonging to a 38-year-old German mountain climber who was reported missing in September 1986.
Police also say they had searched for the climber at the time, but they were unsuccessful.
No further details about the climber’s identity or his cause of death have been revealed.
Police say the melting glaciers have led to the reemergence of bodies of those who were reported missing several decades ago.
Scientists announced earlier this week that July is on track to be Earth’s hottest month ever recorded.
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‘Sounded like an explosion’: Tesla crashes through wall, lands in backyard pool
PHOENIX (KPHO/Gray News) - Police in Arizona are investigating after a Tesla crashed into a pool in the Phoenix area on Friday.
KPHO reports that the crash happened around 8:45 a.m. at a home about 25 minutes away from downtown Phoenix.
Video from the scene showed the blue sedan appearing to have gone through a brick wall before landing fully submerged in a backyard pool.
A car seat was pulled from the pool, but officers said the driver was alone at the time of the crash.
The homeowner said he was getting ready for the day when he heard a loud noise from his backyard.
“I heard a sound that sounded like an explosion,” the homeowner said. “It sounded like a bomb went off.”
Authorities didn’t report any injuries in the incident. It’s not yet known what led up to the crash.
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How to Watch the Astros vs. Rays Game: Streaming & TV Channel Info for July 29
The Tampa Bay Rays and Brandon Lowe hit the field against Alex Bregman and the Houston Astros on Saturday at Minute Maid Park.
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Astros vs. Rays Live Stream, TV Channel and Game Info:
- Date: Saturday, July 29, 2023
- Time: 7:15 PM ET
- TV Channel: FOX
- Location: Houston, Texas
- Venue: Minute Maid Park
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Astros Batting & Pitching Performance
- The Astros rank 10th-best in MLB play with 130 total home runs.
- Houston's .411 slugging percentage ranks 14th in MLB.
- The Astros' .248 batting average ranks 18th in the majors.
- Houston has the No. 12 offense in baseball, scoring 4.7 runs per game (487 total runs).
- The Astros rank 16th in baseball with a .317 on-base percentage.
- Astros hitters strike out 7.9 times per game, the fifth-fewest strikeouts in MLB.
- The 9.3 strikeouts per nine innings compiled by Houston's pitching staff ranks sixth in MLB.
- Houston's 3.81 team ERA ranks third among all MLB pitching staffs.
- The Astros have the 14th-ranked WHIP in MLB (1.271).
Rays Batting & Pitching Performance
- The Rays rank fourth in Major League Baseball with 151 home runs.
- Tampa Bay ranks fifth in the majors with a .444 team slugging percentage.
- The Rays rank 10th in MLB with a .255 team batting average.
- Tampa Bay has scored 549 runs this season, which ranks fourth in MLB.
- The Rays have an OBP of .327 this season, which ranks 10th in MLB.
- The Rays rank 17th in MLB in strikeouts per game with an average of 8.6 whiffs per contest.
- Tampa Bay averages 9.2 strikeouts per nine innings as a pitching staff, eighth-most in the majors.
- Tampa Bay pitchers have the lowest combined ERA in the majors at 3.69.
- The Rays have a combined 1.178 WHIP as a pitching staff, second-lowest in MLB.
Astros Probable Starting Pitcher
- The Astros will send Hunter Brown (6-7) to the mound to make his 20th start of the season. He is 6-7 with a 4.27 ERA and 122 strikeouts in 105 1/3 innings pitched.
- The righty last appeared on Sunday against the Oakland Athletics, when he tossed six innings, allowing two earned runs while giving up six hits.
- Brown has registered nine quality starts this year.
- Brown is aiming for his third straight appearance lasting five or more innings. He averages 5.5 innings per appearance on the hill.
- In four of his appearances this season he did not give up an earned run.
Rays Probable Starting Pitcher
- The Rays' Taj Bradley (5-6) will make his 16th start of the season.
- The right-hander's last appearance was on Sunday, when he threw five innings against the Baltimore Orioles, giving up three earned runs while allowing five hits.
- In 15 starts this season, he's earned a quality start in one of them.
- Bradley has pitched five or more innings in three straight games and will look to extend that streak.
- In 15 appearances this season, he has finished two without allowing an earned run.
Astros Schedule
Rays Schedule
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Astros vs. Rays Predictions & Picks: Odds, Moneyline, Spread - July 29
Saturday's contest features the Houston Astros (58-46) and the Tampa Bay Rays (63-43) facing off at Minute Maid Park in what is expected to be a close matchup, with a projected 5-3 win for the Astros according to our computer prediction. Game time is at 7:15 PM ET on July 29.
The Astros will give the nod to Hunter Brown (6-7) against the Rays and Taj Bradley (5-6).
Astros vs. Rays Game Info & Odds
- When: Saturday, July 29, 2023 at 7:15 PM ET
- Where: Minute Maid Park in Houston, Texas
- How to Watch on TV: FOX
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Astros vs. Rays Score Prediction
Our prediction for this matchup is Astros 5, Rays 4.
Total Prediction for Astros vs. Rays
- Total Prediction: Over 8.5 runs
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Astros Performance Insights
- The Astros have played as the favorite in eight of their past 10 games and won five of those contests.
- In its last 10 games with a total, Houston and its opponents have combined to hit the over three times.
- The Astros are winless against the spread in their last two chances.
- The Astros have won 39, or 58.2%, of the 67 games they've played as favorites this season.
- Houston has a record of 35-21 in games when oddsmakers favor them by at least -130 on the moneyline.
- The bookmakers' moneyline implies a 56.5% chance of a victory for the Astros.
- Houston ranks 12th in the majors with 487 total runs scored this season.
- The Astros' 3.81 team ERA ranks third among all league pitching staffs.
Rays Performance Insights
- Over their last 10 games, the Rays have been favored twice and lost each contest.
- In its previous 10 games with a total, Tampa Bay and its opponents have combined to exceed the over/under on two occasions.
- The Rays' previous 10 contests have not had a spread set by oddsmakers.
- The Rays have come away with four wins in the 15 contests they have been listed as the underdogs in this season.
- This year, Tampa Bay has won one of four games when listed as at least +110 or worse on the moneyline.
- The Rays have an implied victory probability of 47.6% according to the moneyline set for this matchup.
- The offense for Tampa Bay is No. 4 in baseball, scoring 5.2 runs per game (549 total runs).
- The Rays have a 3.69 ERA as a team, best in baseball.
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Astros Schedule
Rays Schedule
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How to Watch the Orioles vs. Yankees Game: Streaming & TV Channel Info for July 29
Clarke Schmidt takes the mound for the New York Yankees on Saturday at Oriole Park at Camden Yards against Adley Rutschman and the Baltimore Orioles. First pitch is at 7:15 PM ET.
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Orioles vs. Yankees Live Stream, TV Channel and Game Info:
- Date: Saturday, July 29, 2023
- Time: 7:15 PM ET
- TV Channel: FOX
- Location: Baltimore, Maryland
- Venue: Oriole Park at Camden Yards
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Orioles Batting & Pitching Performance
- The Orioles are 13th in MLB play with 121 home runs. They average 1.2 per game.
- Baltimore's .418 slugging percentage is 10th-best in MLB.
- The Orioles' .249 batting average ranks 16th in the majors.
- Baltimore scores the 10th-most runs in baseball (499 total, 4.8 per game).
- The Orioles rank 16th in MLB with an on-base percentage of .317.
- The Orioles strike out 8.4 times per game to rank 11th in the majors.
- The pitching staff for Baltimore has a collective 9.1 K/9, which ranks 11th in MLB.
- Baltimore has the 15th-ranked team ERA among all MLB pitching staffs (4.15).
- The Orioles have the 19th-ranked WHIP in MLB (1.296).
Yankees Batting & Pitching Performance
- The Yankees rank seventh in Major League Baseball with 141 home runs.
- New York is 18th in MLB with a slugging percentage of .402 this season.
- The Yankees have a team batting average of just .229 this season, which ranks 29th among MLB teams.
- New York ranks 21st in the majors with 446 total runs scored this season.
- The Yankees have an OBP of just .301 this season, which ranks 26th in MLB.
- The Yankees rank eighth in MLB in strikeouts per game with an average of 8.1 whiffs per contest.
- New York strikes out 8.9 batters per nine innings as a pitching staff, 12th in MLB.
- New York has the eighth-best ERA (3.87) in the majors this season.
- Yankees pitchers have a 1.245 WHIP this season, seventh-best in the majors.
Orioles Probable Starting Pitcher
- Tyler Wells (7-5 with a 3.65 ERA and 110 strikeouts in 111 2/3 innings pitched) makes the start for the Orioles, his 20th of the season.
- In his last outing on Sunday against the Tampa Bay Rays, the righty tossed 4 1/3 innings, allowing three earned runs while surrendering one hit.
- Wells has recorded eight quality starts this year.
- Wells is looking to pick up his 19th start of five or more innings this season in this matchup.
- In three of his 20 total appearances this season he has not surrendered an earned run.
Yankees Probable Starting Pitcher
- The Yankees will hand the ball to Schmidt (6-6) for his 21st start of the season.
- The right-hander's last start was on Friday, July 21, when he tossed 5 2/3 innings while giving up three earned runs on five hits in a matchup with the Kansas City Royals.
- He has started 20 games this season, earning a quality start (6 or more IP, 3 or fewer ER) in three of them.
- Schmidt has pitched five or more innings in two straight games and will look to extend that streak.
- He has finished five appearances without allowing an earned run in 21 chances this season.
Orioles Schedule
Yankees Schedule
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How to Watch the Astros vs. Rays Game: Streaming & TV Channel Info for July 29
The Tampa Bay Rays and Brandon Lowe hit the field against Alex Bregman and the Houston Astros on Saturday at Minute Maid Park.
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Astros vs. Rays Live Stream, TV Channel and Game Info:
- Date: Saturday, July 29, 2023
- Time: 7:15 PM ET
- TV Channel: FOX
- Location: Houston, Texas
- Venue: Minute Maid Park
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
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Astros Batting & Pitching Performance
- The Astros rank 10th-best in MLB play with 130 total home runs.
- Houston's .411 slugging percentage ranks 14th in MLB.
- The Astros' .248 batting average ranks 18th in the majors.
- Houston has the No. 12 offense in baseball, scoring 4.7 runs per game (487 total runs).
- The Astros rank 16th in baseball with a .317 on-base percentage.
- Astros hitters strike out 7.9 times per game, the fifth-fewest strikeouts in MLB.
- The 9.3 strikeouts per nine innings compiled by Houston's pitching staff ranks sixth in MLB.
- Houston's 3.81 team ERA ranks third among all MLB pitching staffs.
- The Astros have the 14th-ranked WHIP in MLB (1.271).
Rays Batting & Pitching Performance
- The Rays rank fourth in Major League Baseball with 151 home runs.
- Tampa Bay ranks fifth in the majors with a .444 team slugging percentage.
- The Rays rank 10th in MLB with a .255 team batting average.
- Tampa Bay has scored 549 runs this season, which ranks fourth in MLB.
- The Rays have an OBP of .327 this season, which ranks 10th in MLB.
- The Rays rank 17th in MLB in strikeouts per game with an average of 8.6 whiffs per contest.
- Tampa Bay averages 9.2 strikeouts per nine innings as a pitching staff, eighth-most in the majors.
- Tampa Bay pitchers have the lowest combined ERA in the majors at 3.69.
- The Rays have a combined 1.178 WHIP as a pitching staff, second-lowest in MLB.
Astros Probable Starting Pitcher
- The Astros will send Hunter Brown (6-7) to the mound to make his 20th start of the season. He is 6-7 with a 4.27 ERA and 122 strikeouts in 105 1/3 innings pitched.
- The righty last appeared on Sunday against the Oakland Athletics, when he tossed six innings, allowing two earned runs while giving up six hits.
- Brown has registered nine quality starts this year.
- Brown is aiming for his third straight appearance lasting five or more innings. He averages 5.5 innings per appearance on the hill.
- In four of his appearances this season he did not give up an earned run.
Rays Probable Starting Pitcher
- The Rays' Taj Bradley (5-6) will make his 16th start of the season.
- The right-hander's last appearance was on Sunday, when he threw five innings against the Baltimore Orioles, giving up three earned runs while allowing five hits.
- In 15 starts this season, he's earned a quality start in one of them.
- Bradley has pitched five or more innings in three straight games and will look to extend that streak.
- In 15 appearances this season, he has finished two without allowing an earned run.
Astros Schedule
Rays Schedule
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How to Watch the Red Sox vs. Giants Game: Streaming & TV Channel Info for July 29
The San Francisco Giants and Wilmer Flores take the field in the second game of a three-game series against Rafael Devers and the Boston Red Sox, on Saturday at Oracle Park.
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Red Sox vs. Giants Live Stream, TV Channel and Game Info:
- Date: Saturday, July 29, 2023
- Time: 7:15 PM ET
- TV Channel: FOX
- Location: San Francisco, California
- Venue: Oracle Park
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Red Sox Batting & Pitching Performance
- The Red Sox are 20th in baseball with 116 total home runs.
- Boston's .437 slugging percentage is sixth-best in baseball.
- The Red Sox are third in the majors with a .265 batting average.
- Boston scores the sixth-most runs in baseball (519 total, five per game).
- The Red Sox rank fourth in MLB with an on-base percentage of .333.
- Red Sox hitters strike out 8.2 times per game, the 10th-fewest strikeouts in the majors.
- The pitching staff for Boston has a collective 8.8 K/9, which ranks 14th in the majors.
- Boston has a 4.26 team ERA that ranks 17th among all MLB pitching staffs.
- The Red Sox have the 18th-ranked WHIP in MLB (1.285).
Giants Batting & Pitching Performance
- The Giants' 120 home runs rank 14th in Major League Baseball.
- Fueled by 301 extra-base hits, San Francisco ranks 22nd in MLB with a .397 slugging percentage this season.
- The Giants' .241 batting average ranks 19th in the league this season.
- San Francisco ranks 15th in the majors with 469 total runs scored this season.
- The Giants have an on-base percentage of .317 this season, which ranks 16th in the league.
- The Giants are one of the least disciplined teams at the plate this season, ranking 28th with an average of 9.5 strikeouts per game.
- San Francisco strikes out 8.7 batters per nine innings as a pitching staff, 16th in MLB.
- San Francisco has pitched to a 4.01 ERA this season, which ranks 11th in baseball.
- Giants pitchers have a 1.253 WHIP this season, eighth-best in the majors.
Red Sox Probable Starting Pitcher
- James Paxton gets the start for the Red Sox, his 13th of the season. He is 6-2 with a 3.46 ERA and 75 strikeouts in 65 2/3 innings pitched.
- The left-hander last appeared on Saturday against the New York Mets, when he tossed six innings, allowing two earned runs while giving up three hits.
- Paxton is looking to collect his eighth quality start of the season.
- Paxton has pitched five or more innings in a game nine times this year entering this matchup.
- He has held his opponents without an earned run in two of his 12 appearances this season.
Giants Probable Starting Pitcher
- The Giants will send Ryan Walker (3-0) to the mound for his seventh start this season.
- The right-hander allowed one hit in 2 2/3 scoreless innings pitched against the Oakland Athletics on Thursday.
- In six starts this season, Walker has not yet earned a quality start.
- In six starts this season, Walker has yet to pitch five or more innings.
- He has 17 appearances this season with zero earned runs allowed out of his 24 chances this season.
Red Sox Schedule
Giants Schedule
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How to Watch the Orioles vs. Yankees Game: Streaming & TV Channel Info for July 29
Clarke Schmidt takes the mound for the New York Yankees on Saturday at Oriole Park at Camden Yards against Adley Rutschman and the Baltimore Orioles. First pitch is at 7:15 PM ET.
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Orioles vs. Yankees Live Stream, TV Channel and Game Info:
- Date: Saturday, July 29, 2023
- Time: 7:15 PM ET
- TV Channel: FOX
- Location: Baltimore, Maryland
- Venue: Oriole Park at Camden Yards
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Orioles Batting & Pitching Performance
- The Orioles are 13th in MLB play with 121 home runs. They average 1.2 per game.
- Baltimore's .418 slugging percentage is 10th-best in MLB.
- The Orioles' .249 batting average ranks 16th in the majors.
- Baltimore scores the 10th-most runs in baseball (499 total, 4.8 per game).
- The Orioles rank 16th in MLB with an on-base percentage of .317.
- The Orioles strike out 8.4 times per game to rank 11th in the majors.
- The pitching staff for Baltimore has a collective 9.1 K/9, which ranks 11th in MLB.
- Baltimore has the 15th-ranked team ERA among all MLB pitching staffs (4.15).
- The Orioles have the 19th-ranked WHIP in MLB (1.296).
Yankees Batting & Pitching Performance
- The Yankees rank seventh in Major League Baseball with 141 home runs.
- New York is 18th in MLB with a slugging percentage of .402 this season.
- The Yankees have a team batting average of just .229 this season, which ranks 29th among MLB teams.
- New York ranks 21st in the majors with 446 total runs scored this season.
- The Yankees have an OBP of just .301 this season, which ranks 26th in MLB.
- The Yankees rank eighth in MLB in strikeouts per game with an average of 8.1 whiffs per contest.
- New York strikes out 8.9 batters per nine innings as a pitching staff, 12th in MLB.
- New York has the eighth-best ERA (3.87) in the majors this season.
- Yankees pitchers have a 1.245 WHIP this season, seventh-best in the majors.
Orioles Probable Starting Pitcher
- Tyler Wells (7-5 with a 3.65 ERA and 110 strikeouts in 111 2/3 innings pitched) makes the start for the Orioles, his 20th of the season.
- In his last outing on Sunday against the Tampa Bay Rays, the righty tossed 4 1/3 innings, allowing three earned runs while surrendering one hit.
- Wells has recorded eight quality starts this year.
- Wells is looking to pick up his 19th start of five or more innings this season in this matchup.
- In three of his 20 total appearances this season he has not surrendered an earned run.
Yankees Probable Starting Pitcher
- The Yankees will hand the ball to Schmidt (6-6) for his 21st start of the season.
- The right-hander's last start was on Friday, July 21, when he tossed 5 2/3 innings while giving up three earned runs on five hits in a matchup with the Kansas City Royals.
- He has started 20 games this season, earning a quality start (6 or more IP, 3 or fewer ER) in three of them.
- Schmidt has pitched five or more innings in two straight games and will look to extend that streak.
- He has finished five appearances without allowing an earned run in 21 chances this season.
Orioles Schedule
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Orioles vs. Yankees Predictions & Picks: Odds, Moneyline, Spread - July 29
Saturday's contest that pits the Baltimore Orioles (63-40) versus the New York Yankees (54-49) at Oriole Park at Camden Yards should be a close matchup based on our computer prediction, which projects a final score of 5-4 in favor of the Orioles. First pitch is at 7:15 PM ET on July 29.
The probable starters are Tyler Wells (7-5) for the Orioles and Clarke Schmidt (6-6) for the Yankees.
Orioles vs. Yankees Game Info & Odds
- When: Saturday, July 29, 2023 at 7:15 PM ET
- Where: Oriole Park at Camden Yards in Baltimore, Maryland
- How to Watch on TV: FOX
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Orioles vs. Yankees Score Prediction
Our prediction for this contest is Orioles 5, Yankees 4.
Total Prediction for Orioles vs. Yankees
- Total Prediction: Under 9.5 runs
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Orioles Performance Insights
- Over the past 10 games, the Orioles have been favored just once and lost that contest.
- When it comes to hitting the over, Baltimore and its opponents are 4-6-0 in its last 10 games with a total.
- Bookmakers have not set a spread for any of the Orioles' last 10 games.
- This season, the Orioles have won 33 out of the 46 games, or 71.7%, in which they've been favored.
- This season Baltimore has won 26 of its 36 games, or 72.2%, when favored by at least -125 on the moneyline.
- The Orioles have a 55.6% chance to win this game based on the implied probability of the moneyline.
- Baltimore has scored the 10th-most runs in the majors this season with 499.
- The Orioles have the 15th-ranked team ERA across all MLB pitching staffs (4.15).
Yankees Performance Insights
- Over their last 10 games, the Yankees have been favored twice and lost each contest.
- When it comes to the over/under, New York and its opponents are 5-5-0 in its previous 10 games.
- The Yankees have not covered the spread in any of their last 10 games (one of those games had a spread).
- The Yankees have come away with 12 wins in the 30 contests they have been listed as the underdogs in this season.
- New York has a win-loss record of 10-12 when favored by +105 or worse by oddsmakers this year.
- The moneyline set for this matchup implies the Yankees have a 48.8% chance of walking away with the win.
- The offense for New York is the No. 21 offense in MLB, scoring 4.3 runs per game (446 total runs).
- Yankees pitchers have a combined ERA of 3.87 ERA this year, eighth-best in baseball.
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Issue 1 poll: Most Ohio voters oppose plan to make it harder to amend constitution
Nearly 60% of Ohio voters oppose an August ballot measure that would make it harder to change the constitution, according to a new poll.
A USA TODAY Network/Suffolk University poll released Thursday found 57% of voters are against Issue 1, including some Republicans and opponents of abortion. Twenty-six percent back the issue, while 17% are undecided with just weeks to go before the Aug. 8 election.
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Issue 1, if passed, would require 60% of the vote to enact proposed constitutional amendments instead of a simple majority of 50% plus one. It also would require citizens to get signatures from all 88 counties to place something on the ballot, instead of 44, and remove a 10-day period that allows petitioners to replace bad signatures.
"There is an enormous coalition working to educate voters about Issue 1 − and the more voters learn, the more they hate it," said Dennis Willard, a spokesman for the One Person One Vote coalition, which opposes Issue 1. "But we also know that special interests and politicians put Issue 1 on an Aug. 8 ballot because they wanted to sneak it past voters, so we remain laser focused on raising awareness and turning out Ohioans to reject it."
The poll of 500 voters, 454 likely voters and 46 registered voters, conducted July 9 to 12, has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.4 percentage points.
Opposition to Issue 1 bucks partisan politics
Some of the key groups advocating for and against Issue 1 fall along party lines. The Ohio Republican Party is urging voters to support the measure, while the Ohio Democratic Party is working against it. Other supporters include conservative-leaning organizations such as the Ohio Chamber of Commerce and Ohio Right to Life.
One Person One Vote includes unions and environmental groups that tend to favor Democrats. But former GOP governors and nonpartisan voting rights advocates are also among the staunchest critics of Issue 1.
The poll suggests those nuances exist among Ohio voters. Democrats are more likely to oppose Issue 1, but 41% of Republicans, 60% of independents and 41% of Ohioans who voted for President Donald Trump in 2020 said they're also against it. Conversely, 13% of Democrats and 12% of President Joe Biden's supporters said they back the issue.
Eleven percent of Democrats, 21% of Republicans and 16% of independents remain undecided.
Opponents dominated other key demographics in the poll, including age, race and education level. The strongest opposition comes from voters in the Cleveland and Cincinnati areas, but over half of voters in all five regions of the state are against the ballot proposal.
Proponents of Issue 1 dismissed the poll's findings and expressed confidence that Ohio voters are on their side.
"Though the multiple millions spent by special interests on false ads against Issue 1 has impacted the media’s polling, our polling shows that the momentum our grassroots campaign is building across all 88 counties of the state will show up in force on Election Day," said Spencer Gross, a spokesman for Protect Our Constitution. "When Ohioans hear the facts about Issue 1, they strongly support it because they want to protect our constitution against the very type of big money, out-of-state influence we have been seeing from the 'no' side."
How is abortion influencing voters on Issue 1?
The results indicate voters also have complicated views about the relationship between Issue 1 and abortion. Ohio Republicans pushed for the August election to get ahead of a potential November ballot issue that would enshrine abortion and other reproductive rights in the constitution.
According to the poll:
- Nearly two-thirds of those who support the proposed abortion amendment are against Issue 1.
- Twenty-two percent of abortion-rights backers support Issue 1.
- Nearly half of voters who oppose the abortion amendment also oppose Issue 1.
- One-third of abortion opponents are in favor of Issue 1.
University of Cincinnati political scientist David Niven said the findings − particularly the division among anti-abortion Ohioans − show Issue 1 supporters are struggling to sell the measure to their base.
"The Republicans who are backing this issue are forced into selling an 'eat your peas' message," Niven said. "There’s nothing exciting about it. There’s nothing people want. They’re grasping at something and trying to tell you it's for your own good."
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- How Ohio Issue 1 could make it harder to put amendments on the ballot
- Term limits, minimum wage: How 60% rule would have changed Ohio Constitution
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Double shooting erupts in kitchen of North Philadelphia home; 1 man critical: police
PHILADELPHIA - Two men have been hospitalized, one with critical injuries, after shots were fired inside a home in North Philadelphia Saturday morning.
The double shooting unfolded in the kitchen of a home on the 800 block of Tioga street around 11 a.m.
One man, age 23, was found with a gunshot wound to the head and transported to a local hospital in critical condition.
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The second victim, a 31-year-old man, is said to be in stable condition after being shot in the arm.
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Red Sox vs. Giants Predictions & Picks: Odds, Moneyline, Spread - July 29
Saturday's contest between the San Francisco Giants (56-48) and the Boston Red Sox (56-47) at Oracle Park is expected to be a tight matchup, as our computer prediction projects a final score of 5-4, with the Giants securing the victory. First pitch is at 7:15 PM ET on July 29.
The probable pitchers are James Paxton (6-2) for the Red Sox and Ryan Walker (3-0) for the Giants.
Red Sox vs. Giants Game Info & Odds
- When: Saturday, July 29, 2023 at 7:15 PM ET
- Where: Oracle Park in San Francisco, California
- How to Watch on TV: FOX
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Red Sox vs. Giants Score Prediction
Our pick for this contest is Giants 5, Red Sox 4.
Total Prediction for Red Sox vs. Giants
- Total Prediction: Over 8.5 runs
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Red Sox Performance Insights
- In six games as the favorite over the last 10 matchups, the Red Sox have a record of 3-3.
- Boston and its opponents have combined to hit the over four times in its last 10 games with a total.
- There has not been a spread set for any of the Red Sox's last 10 games.
- This season, the Red Sox have won 24 out of the 43 games, or 55.8%, in which they've been favored.
- Boston has a record of 15-11 in games when bookmakers favor them by at least -130 on the moneyline.
- The implied probability of a win from the Red Sox, based on the moneyline, is 56.5%.
- Boston is among the highest-scoring teams in the majors, ranking sixth with 519 total runs this season.
- The Red Sox have a 4.26 team ERA that ranks 17th among all league pitching staffs.
Giants Performance Insights
- The Giants have been an underdog just two times in their last 10 contests and lost both matchups.
- In its previous 10 matchups with a total posted by sportsbooks, San Francisco and its opponents are 3-7-0 when it comes to hitting the over.
- The last 10 Giants contests have not had a spread posted by bookmakers.
- The Giants have won in 23, or 54.8%, of the 42 contests they have been named as odds-on underdogs this year.
- This season, San Francisco has been victorious 11 times in 24 chances when named as an underdog of at least +110 or worse on the moneyline.
- The Giants have an implied victory probability of 47.6% according to the moneyline set by oddsmakers for this matchup.
- San Francisco scores the 15th-most runs in baseball (469 total, 4.5 per game).
- The Giants have pitched to a 4.01 ERA this season, which ranks 11th in baseball.
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Police: Carjackers smash victim's stolen vehicle into Kensington store
PHILADELPHIA - An attempted carjacking came to an end when police say the suspects crashed the stolen vehicle into a nearby building.
Officers were called to the scene on the 3000 block of Kensington Avenue around 7 a.m. Saturday morning.
When they arrived, a man told police that carjackers crashed the vehicle into the corner of a store, which has an unoccupied apartment on the second floor.
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Police say the corner of the building was beginning to collapse due to the crash.
It is unclear if any arrests were made, or how many suspects were involved in the attempted carjacking.
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How to Watch the Red Sox vs. Giants Game: Streaming & TV Channel Info for July 29
The San Francisco Giants and Wilmer Flores take the field in the second game of a three-game series against Rafael Devers and the Boston Red Sox, on Saturday at Oracle Park.
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Red Sox vs. Giants Live Stream, TV Channel and Game Info:
- Date: Saturday, July 29, 2023
- Time: 7:15 PM ET
- TV Channel: FOX
- Location: San Francisco, California
- Venue: Oracle Park
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Red Sox Batting & Pitching Performance
- The Red Sox are 20th in baseball with 116 total home runs.
- Boston's .437 slugging percentage is sixth-best in baseball.
- The Red Sox are third in the majors with a .265 batting average.
- Boston scores the sixth-most runs in baseball (519 total, five per game).
- The Red Sox rank fourth in MLB with an on-base percentage of .333.
- Red Sox hitters strike out 8.2 times per game, the 10th-fewest strikeouts in the majors.
- The pitching staff for Boston has a collective 8.8 K/9, which ranks 14th in the majors.
- Boston has a 4.26 team ERA that ranks 17th among all MLB pitching staffs.
- The Red Sox have the 18th-ranked WHIP in MLB (1.285).
Giants Batting & Pitching Performance
- The Giants' 120 home runs rank 14th in Major League Baseball.
- Fueled by 301 extra-base hits, San Francisco ranks 22nd in MLB with a .397 slugging percentage this season.
- The Giants' .241 batting average ranks 19th in the league this season.
- San Francisco ranks 15th in the majors with 469 total runs scored this season.
- The Giants have an on-base percentage of .317 this season, which ranks 16th in the league.
- The Giants are one of the least disciplined teams at the plate this season, ranking 28th with an average of 9.5 strikeouts per game.
- San Francisco strikes out 8.7 batters per nine innings as a pitching staff, 16th in MLB.
- San Francisco has pitched to a 4.01 ERA this season, which ranks 11th in baseball.
- Giants pitchers have a 1.253 WHIP this season, eighth-best in the majors.
Red Sox Probable Starting Pitcher
- James Paxton gets the start for the Red Sox, his 13th of the season. He is 6-2 with a 3.46 ERA and 75 strikeouts in 65 2/3 innings pitched.
- The left-hander last appeared on Saturday against the New York Mets, when he tossed six innings, allowing two earned runs while giving up three hits.
- Paxton is looking to collect his eighth quality start of the season.
- Paxton has pitched five or more innings in a game nine times this year entering this matchup.
- He has held his opponents without an earned run in two of his 12 appearances this season.
Giants Probable Starting Pitcher
- The Giants will send Ryan Walker (3-0) to the mound for his seventh start this season.
- The right-hander allowed one hit in 2 2/3 scoreless innings pitched against the Oakland Athletics on Thursday.
- In six starts this season, Walker has not yet earned a quality start.
- In six starts this season, Walker has yet to pitch five or more innings.
- He has 17 appearances this season with zero earned runs allowed out of his 24 chances this season.
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UFO whistleblower testimony 'insulting' and not credible, Pentagon officials say
A top Pentagon official has attacked this week's widely watched congressional hearing on UFOs, calling the claims "insulting" to employees who are investigating sightings and accusing a key witness of not cooperating with the official U.S. government investigation.
Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick's letter, published on his personal LinkedIn page and circulated Friday across social media, criticizes much of the testimony from a retired Air Force intelligence officer that energized believers in extraterrestrial life and produced headlines around the world.
Retired Air Force Maj. David Grusch testified Wednesday that the U.S. has concealed what he called a "multi-decade" program to collect and reverse-engineer "UAPs," or unidentified aerial phenomena, the official government term for UFOs.
Part of what the U.S. has recovered, Grusch testified, were non-human "biologics," which he said he had not seen but had learned about from "people with direct knowledge of the program."
David Grusch, former National Reconnaissance Office representative on the Defense Departments Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force, testifies during the House Oversight and Accountability Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign
A career intelligence officer, Kirkpatrick was named a year ago to lead the Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, or AARO, which was intended to centralize investigations into UAPs. The Pentagon and U.S. intelligence agencies have been pushed by Congress in recent years to better investigate reports of devices flying at unusual speeds or trajectories as a national security concern.
Kirkpatrick wrote the letter Thursday and the Defense Department confirmed Friday that he posted it in a personal capacity. Kirkpatrick declined to comment on the letter Friday.
He writes in part, "I cannot let yesterday’s hearing pass without sharing how insulting it was to the officers of the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community who chose to join AARO, many with not unreasonable anxieties about the career risks this would entail."
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"They are truth-seekers, as am I," Kirkpatrick said. "But you certainly would not get that impression from yesterday’s hearing."
In a separate statement, Pentagon spokeswoman Sue Gough denied other allegations made by Grusch before a House Oversight subcommittee.
The Pentagon "has no information that any individual has been harmed or killed as a result of providing information" about UFO objects, Gough said. Nor has the Pentagon discovered "any verifiable information to substantiate claims that any programs regarding the possession or reverse-engineering of extraterrestrial materials have existed in the past or exist currently."
Kirkpatrick wrote, "AARO has yet to find any credible evidence to support the allegations of any reverse engineering program for non-human technology."
He had briefed reporters in December that the Pentagon was investigating "several hundreds" of new reports following a push to have pilots and others come forward with any sightings.
Kirkpatrick wrote in his letter that allegations of "retaliation, to include physical assault and hints of murder, are extraordinarily serious, which is why law enforcement is a critical member of the AARO team, specifically to address and take swift action should anyone come forward with such claims."
"Yet, contrary to assertions made in the hearing, the central source of those allegations has refused to speak with AARO," Kirkpatrick said. He did not explicitly name Grusch, who alleged he faced retaliation and declined to answer when a congressman asked him if anyone had been murdered to hide information about UFOs.
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Summer travel has surged after three pandemic years. That red-hot demand has shown up in job seekers’ preferences, as thousands search for work that allows them to take long-awaited trips without spending all their paid time off.
According to a new report from job search platform Flexa, the share of job seekers expressing a preference for companies that offer some kind of “work from anywhere” program rose to 88% in June from 80% in April — the highest since the company began tracking last year. At the same time, the share expressing a preference for fully remote jobs rose to 59% from 52% over the same period.
Top financial services firms such as American Express, Visa and Mastercard, along with tech giants like Alphabet, are some of the major employers who have adopted “work from anywhere” week policies. This generally means employees keep an in-office presence for most of the year with two to four weeks of fully remote work.
Flexa analyzed more than 350,000 searches and the preferences expressed by more than 8,000 job seekers between April and June. Preferences are gathered through a survey that’s completed when job seekers create an account and are updated periodically.
While remote work’s broad popularity has proved enduring, the data suggest that employee demand for flexibility may be, to some extent, seasonal.
“We saw fully remote roles fall out of favor with job seekers last autumn, with demand dropping to an all-time low in December,” Molly Johnson-Jones, co-founder and chief executive officer of Flexa, said in the report. “The reversal of this trend, which began in spring and has continued into the summer, highlights the seasonality behind demand for different working locations.”
As the labor market remains tight for many industries, businesses have offered remote and hybrid work and other benefits to draw and keep top talent. Even amid signs of a cooling economy, many workers are still prepared to quit for the promise of better pay and flexibility.
Companies that offer fully remote work and work-from-anywhere weeks draw a tremendous amount of interest from job seekers.
Johnson-Jones said it’s not hard to see why: “This kind of flexibility allows employees to travel for extended periods without having to use up annual leave or take a cut in pay — a particularly appealing prospect during the warmer months.”
That’s especially true in countries like the U.S., where after a year of service, private sector workers average just 11 days of paid vacation.
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People — non-country lovers specifically — like to joke that modern country music is a repetitive incantation of beer, trucks, girls and American flags, with the occasional sprinkling of Copenhagen or MultiCam thrown in. (And, for the women, there’s an extra dash of marital homicide.)
That’s all part of it, for certain. But a longer pause on the radio dial, or a deeper dive into the genre’s roots, reveals far more variation — different traditions and cultures calling to each other, answering and reinventing themselves as they go.
The struggle for the soul of country music is on full display now as two very different songs have been making headlines. Jason Aldean, one of country music’s biggest stars, has been embroiled in controversy over his single “Try That in a Small Town.” The song contains what critics say are racially charged lyrics, and scenes from the music video were shot in front of a courthouse that was the site of an infamous lynching in the 1920s. The backlash was so complete, CMT removed Aldean’s video from its rotation and the original YouTube version was edited to remove several seconds of protest footage.
Meanwhile, fellow country star Luke Combs has been going viral on social media with his platinum cover of “Fast Car” by famed singer-songwriter Tracy Chapman. Some of the attention has been positive, praising his rendition of the famous ballad and discussing the impact of his homage to Chapman who, as a Black woman and queer icon, is a triple whammy of underrepresentation in country music.
In an interview with Billboard, Combs called “Fast Car” the “perfect song” and Chapman a “supernatural songwriter.”
“The success of my cover is unreal and I think it’s so cool that Tracy is getting recognized and has reached new milestones. I love that she is out there feeling all the love and that she gave me a shout-out! Thank you, Tracy!”
Chapman herself, who is notoriously private with both her personal life and her music rights, also commented to Billboard about the song’s success.
“I never expected to find myself on the country charts, but I’m honored to be there. I’m happy for Luke and his success and grateful that new fans have found and embraced ‘Fast Car.’”
The crossover also made history, cementing Chapman as the first Black woman to have a sole writing credit on a No. 1 country radio song.
Dividing the divisions
Both “Try That in a Small Town” and “Fast Car” have topped country charts in recent weeks. While they represent something of a divide among the genre, they’ve also led to an exploration of finer fissures within. Aldean has millions of supporters who see his ode to small town solidarity as a continuation of what made country music so resonant in the first place: The telling of stories forgotten by the mainstream.
(Small town pride is also a favorite theme of Aldean’s, whose hits include 2010’s “Flyover States” and “Dirt Road Anthem,” and the early hit “Amarillo Sky,” which details the noble struggles of a proud farmer.)
Aside from the controversy of lyrics slamming gun control and threatening people who disrespect police, Aldean’s song set off interesting conversations as people discussed what being from a small town really means, and indeed, what a small town even is. (Aldean himself is from Macon, Georgia, which may seem like the sticks to some people but is, in fact, a mid-sized city that also helped form rock greats like Little Richard and Otis Redding.)
“Try That In A Small Town, for me, refers to the feeling of a community that I had growing up, where we took care of our neighbors, regardless of differences of background or belief. Because they were our neighbors, and that was above any differences,” Aldean wrote in a statement defending the song.
As for Combs, the same reasons that attracted praise for “Fast Car” have also attracted criticism. The song, like Chapman herself, has been a lighthouse for people on the margins since its release in 1988, dealing as it does with poverty and loneliness and the universal appeal of getting the heck out of town with your baby by your side. (And, in the process, became a lesbian anthem.) While it’s a very country message, some fans were uncomfortable that a straight, White male singer would add his voice to Chapman’s genius.
“On one hand, Luke Combs is an amazing artist, and it’s great to see that someone in country music is influenced by a Black queer woman — that’s really exciting,” Holly G, founder of the Black Opry, told The Washington Post. “But at the same time, it’s hard to really lean into that excitement knowing that Tracy Chapman would not be celebrated in the industry without that kind of middleman being a White man.”
Defining the soul of country
These two songs, so differently received yet recorded under the same big country umbrella, are an embodiment of the crossroads where country music currently stands. Like all musical traditions that fuse, evolve and splinter, country music and its legions of fans are engaged in a negotiation for the genre’s main identity.
Do they embrace the class-conscious, anti-capitalist forefathers and foremothers who played in prisons and supported laborers and held staunchly leftist views by today’s standards? (They still live today: Willie Nelson is a proud Texas Democrat and Dolly Parton an LGBTQ ally.) Do they turn up the party-happy “Bro Country” of the early 2000s, or champion the red-white-and-blue anthems that still represent, for so many, a platonic ideal of patriotism?
Do they welcome the fresh influx of non-White country artists, or ignore the inheritance secured by the voices of Black and Latin American artists who helped build the genre? Do they sing with these voices, or sing over them?
Moreover, what can be accepted? Queer country acts are on the rise, but will they ever join country’s highest ranks of outcasts, rebels and beaten-down lovers? Or will songs with even a hint of pro-LGBTQ themes, like Kacey Musgraves’ “Follow Your Arrow” or Little Big Town’s “Girl Crush” continue to be met with friction?
What can be forgiven? When the Dixie Chicks spoke out against the Iraq War in the early 2000s, their popularity in country music circles never fully recovered.. When current superstar Morgan Wallen was caught saying racist slurs, his supporters kept his album “Dangerous: The Double Album” at the top of the charts for weeks after the backlash. In the year that followed, he launched a new tour and an appearance at the Grand Ole Opry. Combs has sought forgiveness, too: In 2021, he apologized for past performances that featured the Confederate flag.
“I know that I’m a very highly visible member of the country-music community right now,” Combs said. “And I want to use that position for good, and to say that people can change and people do want to change, and I’m one of those people trying.”
These decisions beg a larger question: Can the myriad interpretations of country music exist side by side? If something must change, what of the genre’s essential character would disappear along with it?
As the reactions to Combs and Aldean’s songs prove, it’s not an easy negotiation. Small towns, fast cars and American values are as essential to country music as three chords and the truth. Who gets to define American values, and whose truths get told; that’s where the crossroads lie.
How fortunate, then, that crossroads are as country a symbol as you can get.
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Melting ice near Matterhorn reveals remains of climber missing for 37 years
(CNN) - The remains of a climber who disappeared while hiking along a glacier near Switzerland’s Matterhorn 37 years ago have been found.
Police say the melting ice on the glacier helped lead to the discovery of the remains.
They were found on July 12 by climbers hiking along the Theodul Glacier.
Several pieces of equipment were also found.
Police say a DNA analysis helped identify the remains as belonging to a 38-year-old German mountain climber who was reported missing in September 1986.
Police also say they had searched for the climber at the time, but they were unsuccessful.
No further details about the climber’s identity or his cause of death have been revealed.
Police say the melting glaciers have led to the reemergence of bodies of those who were reported missing several decades ago.
Scientists announced earlier this week that July is on track to be Earth’s hottest month ever recorded.
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Fort Myers Mighty Mussels hitting coach Rayden Sierra has spent the last four years in southwest Florida molding young baseball players pon and off the field. He was a volunteer coach at Florida Southwestern State College for one season before being hired on the professional level.
“I didn’t really have a lot of experience,” said Sierra. “And I was really lucky to be in a staff where they trusted me to just pretty much let me fail, if you will, and just go about and just do the stuff that you need to do to get better as a coach and to connect with players and all that. I think that experience definitely helped me out and I had some guidance there with the coaching staff that was there at the time.”
He didn’t have to go too far for his next endeavor, just travelling across town to Hammond Stadium to work for the Minnesota Twins organization.
“One thing that I really enjoyed was that I didn’t have to move to come to this job,” Sierra laughed.
“There’s been a lot of college coaches, whether it’s JUCO, Division Three, Division One, who have made the transition to the professional game,” said Brian Meyer, Mighty Mussels manager. “But him being able to do it in the same town, Ray’s a man of faith and he believes that everything happens for a reason.”
One of those reasons is obvious — helping the Mighty Mussels roster improve at-bat. But there’s more that the Dominican Republic native has been able to bring to the clubhouse.
“I think one of Ray’s biggest strengths is his ability to communicate with everyone and his his journey to where he’s at, coming to the states not knowing any English at this level has been invaluable,” said Meyer.
“I just tried to put myself in their shoes and just go back to how we felt when I first got to the states and just kind of help them out along the steps,” said Sierra. “I know that the language barrier is a real thing. The culture shock is a real thing.”
On top of his long list of coaching duties, Sierra helps translate for the Latin American players and he has taken them under his wing to mentor them as they adapt to American Culture.
“It has been great working with him,” said Mighty Mussels catcher Ricardo Olivar. “It has been a slow process but it’s getting there. [The coaches] help us all in the cages and outside. It’s not only about hitting, it’s about learning the culture and learning how to say a few words in English.”
“The first year, guys needed help with their taxes,” said Meyer. “And Ray was helping guys do their taxes to make sure that they got them in on time. You know, helping them understand the paperwork process that goes through it, and walking them through every single step to make sure that those guys were taken care of.”
The coaches and players say that his selfless attitude in his coaching methods are an inspiration to be like him.
“He’s never about himself,” said Meyer. “He’s always looking for what’s best for the player. What can help them succeed not just on the field but off the field. He’s a selfless leader and he’s just a jack of all trades.”
“[My everyday goal is to] help the guys get better however we can,” said Sierra. “It varies from player to player but ultimately, how can we go out there and just put up some runs and help these guys accomplish their goals and move up levels and give the people that come to the game a good show to watch and that’s that’s the goal, just help other players.” | https://nbc-2.com/news/sports/2023/07/29/from-fsw-to-the-mighty-mussels-rayden-sierra-uses-coaching-position-to-mentor-international-players/ | 2023-07-29T19:18:22 | 0 | https://nbc-2.com/news/sports/2023/07/29/from-fsw-to-the-mighty-mussels-rayden-sierra-uses-coaching-position-to-mentor-international-players/ |
Melting ice near Matterhorn reveals remains of climber missing for 37 years
(CNN) - The remains of a climber who disappeared while hiking along a glacier near Switzerland’s Matterhorn 37 years ago have been found.
Police say the melting ice on the glacier helped lead to the discovery of the remains.
They were found on July 12 by climbers hiking along the Theodul Glacier.
Several pieces of equipment were also found.
Police say a DNA analysis helped identify the remains as belonging to a 38-year-old German mountain climber who was reported missing in September 1986.
Police also say they had searched for the climber at the time, but they were unsuccessful.
No further details about the climber’s identity or his cause of death have been revealed.
Police say the melting glaciers have led to the reemergence of bodies of those who were reported missing several decades ago.
Scientists announced earlier this week that July is on track to be Earth’s hottest month ever recorded.
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UPDATE: Man who escaped from JRMU in Jamestown captured in Corson County, SD
CORSON COUNTY, S.D. (KFYR) – UPDATE (7/29/2023 at 12:45 p.m.): The North Dakota Highway Patrol says police have captured 39-year-old, runaway inmate Nathan Allen Lang.
Police say he was serving a sentence for theft of property and contributing to the delinquency of a minor before he escaped from the James River Minimum Unit at the correctional center in Jamestown, North Dakota, on July 18.
The Patrol reports the Corson County Sheriff’s Office in South Dakota received a citizen tip regarding Nathan Lang’s whereabouts Friday night around 9 p.m., which lead them to an abandoned farmyard on State Line Road five miles east of South Dakota Highway 63 where police discovered Lang.
Police say a pursuit ensued into a nearby hayfield. Lang eventually stopped his vehicle and was arrested without incident.
The report says police found his girlfriend, Yorishia Hoon, and a 2-year-old child also in the pickup Lang was driving.
Officers report Lang and Hoon were both charged with burglary, theft, possession of stolen property, trespassing, eluding, and child neglect.
The 2-year-old was placed in the care of Child Protective Services. The child’s name will not be released, according to the Patrol.
JAMESTOWN, N.D. (KFYR) – ORIGINAL STORY (7/19/2023): On Tuesday, July 18 at 9:45 p.m., 39-year-old Nathan Allen Lang escaped from the James River Minimum Unit in Jamestown.
Lang was serving a sentence for theft of property and contributing to the delinquency of a minor.
He was last seen wearing a grey long-sleeve shirt with a navy blue t-shirt over the top. He was wearing khaki pants and black shoes.
Lang was last seen on Tuesday at 11:53 p.m. driving westbound on the Frontage Road near Exit 256 in Jamestown.
He is possibly driving a stolen white 2021 Ram 3500 pickup with North Dakota license plate 320AAT. The pickup had an attached 32′ gooseneck trailer with North Dakota license plate T42454.
He has contacts in Bismarck and in Fargo. If you locate Lang or the vehicle, do not make contact and call 911.
- Height: 5 ft.,11in.
- Weight: 235 lbs.
- Hair: Brown
- Eyes: Brown
- Scars/Marks/Tattoos: Tattoo left bicep – Tribal, “OCC” lettering on the inside of the spade. The tattoo across the right bicep – barb wire
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Apache Junction officers round up runaway donkeys
Published: Jul. 29, 2023 at 10:59 AM MST|Updated: 1 hour ago
APACHE JUNCTION, AZ (3TV/CBS 5) - Apache Junction Police officers had an interesting morning on Saturday when they found donkeys trying to cross the street near 12th Avenue and Goldfield Road.
Fortunately, officers were able to successfully round them up and connect them with their owners. The donkeys weren’t hurt.
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811 Day at the ND State Fair
MINOT, N.D. (KMOT) - 811 Day brought in a crowd to the State Fair on Friday.
811 Day reiterates the importance of calling before you excavate.
811 stresses the importance of knowing what is underground to prevent injury.
Representatives from electric, water, sewer, telephone and commercial contracting were there.
“It’s a good way to show the public, look, if you see the flags or if you see digging or if you’re going to do any digging, we need to know so these companies can help keep their underground assets protected,” said Ryan Schmaltz, director of education and public relations with North Dakota One Call.
Several of the board members for the 811 One Call were there and shared their opinion on the importance of this day at the fair.
“You need to know before you dig, before you excavate anything, you need to know what’s under there. We don’t want anyone getting hurt,” said Carey Burke, board member for North Dakota One Call.
Schmaltz said the different colorings stand for different utilities.
Orange is for communication, red for electric, and yellow for pipelines.
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‘Sounded like an explosion’: Tesla crashes through wall, lands in backyard pool
PHOENIX (KPHO/Gray News) - Police in Arizona are investigating after a Tesla crashed into a pool in the Phoenix area on Friday.
KPHO reports that the crash happened around 8:45 a.m. at a home about 25 minutes away from downtown Phoenix.
Video from the scene showed the blue sedan appearing to have gone through a brick wall before landing fully submerged in a backyard pool.
A car seat was pulled from the pool, but officers said the driver was alone at the time of the crash.
The homeowner said he was getting ready for the day when he heard a loud noise from his backyard.
“I heard a sound that sounded like an explosion,” the homeowner said. “It sounded like a bomb went off.”
Authorities didn’t report any injuries in the incident. It’s not yet known what led up to the crash.
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Diamond Fire near Sunflower grows to 4,770 acres, 0% containment
SUNFLOWER, AZ (3TV/CBS 5) - The Diamond Fire is continuing to burn in Arizona, growing to around 4,770 acres with still 0% containment.
This comes after a week of evacuations, road closures across State Route 87, and high winds which pushed the fire toward Sunflower. So far, all lines have held around the area. On Saturday morning, operations chief Ken Watkins announced in a report that there was less activity along State Route 87 and that aircrews were still working with ground crews to maintain conditions.
Sunflower, Cross F Ranch, and Diamond Ranch are still under the GO evacuation notice. Click here for updates about the fire. The fire first began on Saturday, July 22, and the cause is still under investigation.
Parts of Tonto National Forest are also closed due to the fire. On Tuesday, Tonto National Forest officials said anyone caught traveling through closed parts of the forest could be punished with a class B misdemeanor, fined up to $10,000, or sent to prison. Click here for a map of the prohibited areas. In addition, the fire has damaged a Sonoran tortoise migration path in Scottsdale. Officials say so far, 300 acres burned are in the preserve at the conservancy. The McDowell Sonoran Conservancy said that more than 300 acres of precious Sonoran desert preserve are set aside for tortoise protection and conservation purposes. Conservancy officials said they are working on plans to reseed the area that was lost.
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Melting ice near Matterhorn reveals remains of climber missing for 37 years
(CNN) - The remains of a climber who disappeared while hiking along a glacier near Switzerland’s Matterhorn 37 years ago have been found.
Police say the melting ice on the glacier helped lead to the discovery of the remains.
They were found on July 12 by climbers hiking along the Theodul Glacier.
Several pieces of equipment were also found.
Police say a DNA analysis helped identify the remains as belonging to a 38-year-old German mountain climber who was reported missing in September 1986.
Police also say they had searched for the climber at the time, but they were unsuccessful.
No further details about the climber’s identity or his cause of death have been revealed.
Police say the melting glaciers have led to the reemergence of bodies of those who were reported missing several decades ago.
Scientists announced earlier this week that July is on track to be Earth’s hottest month ever recorded.
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WPD looking for missing disabled adult
Published: Jul. 29, 2023 at 2:07 PM CDT|Updated: 10 minutes ago
WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - The Wichita Police Department is asking for help in finding a missing disabled adult.
WPD said 20-year-old Devin Larson was last seen in the area of 1100 south Silverdale. Larson is approximately 5′9″ tall and weighs about 220 pounds.
If you see him or know where he is, you’re asked to call 911 immediately.
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WASHINGTON, July 29, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Amid a coordinated effort to undermine No Labels' work to secure ballot access in states nationwide, we have named Jay Nixon – a lifelong Democrat who spent 30 years serving Missouri as a governor, attorney general and state senator – as director of our new Ballot Integrity Project.
Since early last year, No Labels has gathered over 700,000 signatures and qualified for the ballot in five states. We have a strategy to get on the ballot in all 50 states, plus Washington, D.C., with the aim of potentially offering our line to an independent Unity presidential ticket in 2024. No Labels is responding to the overwhelming desire of Americans for more choices and voices in our politics – with two-thirds of voters saying they don't want a rematch of the 2020 election – but we now face organized opposition from a group of political operatives and former elected officials intent on keeping us off the ballot.
"At a moment when so many Americans' are losing trust in our democracy, we need to hold even tighter to the pillars that have held our democracy up for almost 250 years. In our country, you win by persuading more people and getting more votes, not by limiting voters' choices and denying competitors a place on the ballot," said Nixon. "Americans have the constitutional right to put any person or party on the ballot and to vote for whomever they want. Anyone who is against that isn't standing up for democracy. They are standing in the way."
Former Gov. Larry Hogan will welcome Nixon to the No Labels community in his first scheduled public appearance at a town hall on Tuesday, August 1, at 5 p.m. ET. Register here to join the town hall.
In Nixon's decorated public service career, he established a stellar record as a champion for the civil and voting rights of Americans. In his new role with No Labels, Nixon will work closely with No Labels national co-chair and civil rights icon, Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr., to monitor legal developments, provide strategic counsel and serve as a public advocate for No Labels' ballot access efforts.
Since the start of its ballot access effort, No Labels has rigorously followed the letter and spirit of all applicable election laws. In recent months, however, it has become the target of an undemocratic campaign by organized and powerful partisan interests determined to keep No Labels off the ballot.
Local parties and partisan election officials have filed baseless lawsuits, invented spurious charges and delayed certification without justification in Arizona, Maine and North Carolina. Now, a new well-resourced group, organized under the name "Citizens to Save our Republic," has embarked on an effort to pressure No Labels and its members to abandon our ballot access effort.
"No Labels is a movement dedicated to democracy, and democracy can't stop because the powers that be think it's 'dangerous' to have competition," said Chavis. "The way to unite this country and to restore Americans faith in our future is to have more democracy, not less. I'm eager to begin working side by side with former Gov. Nixon to protect Americans' most fundamental constitutional rights."
On July 18, No Labels launched its Common Sense policy booklet at an overflow town hall event at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, N.H., featuring Dr. Chavis, his fellow No Labels co-chairs former Gov. Pat McCrory and Sen. Joe Lieberman and special guests Sen. Joe Manchin and Gov. Jon Huntsman. It was the first of many town halls No Labels will host in the months ahead – with different leaders in different states – to spur a long overdue discussion about where America needs to go in 2024 and beyond.
By early 2024, No Labels will gauge the mood of the American public and their openness to an independent Unity ticket and will offer our ballot line to a ticket if and only if, such a ticket has a viable path to victory in the 2024 presidential election.
Since its founding in 2009, No Labels has spent 13 years working to give voice to America's commonsense majority. We are now getting ballot access in states across the country to ensure Americans have the choice to vote for a 2024 presidential ticket that features strong, effective, and honest leaders who will commit to working closely with both parties to find commonsense solutions to America's biggest problems. www.nolabels.org.
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Astros vs. Rays Predictions & Picks: Odds, Moneyline, Spread - July 29
Saturday's contest features the Houston Astros (58-46) and the Tampa Bay Rays (63-43) facing off at Minute Maid Park in what is expected to be a close matchup, with a projected 5-3 win for the Astros according to our computer prediction. Game time is at 7:15 PM ET on July 29.
The Astros will give the nod to Hunter Brown (6-7) against the Rays and Taj Bradley (5-6).
Astros vs. Rays Game Info & Odds
- When: Saturday, July 29, 2023 at 7:15 PM ET
- Where: Minute Maid Park in Houston, Texas
- How to Watch on TV: FOX
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
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Astros vs. Rays Score Prediction
Our prediction for this matchup is Astros 5, Rays 4.
Total Prediction for Astros vs. Rays
- Total Prediction: Over 8.5 runs
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Astros Performance Insights
- The Astros have played as the favorite in eight of their past 10 games and won five of those contests.
- In its last 10 games with a total, Houston and its opponents have combined to hit the over three times.
- The Astros are winless against the spread in their last two chances.
- The Astros have won 39, or 58.2%, of the 67 games they've played as favorites this season.
- Houston has a record of 35-21 in games when oddsmakers favor them by at least -130 on the moneyline.
- The bookmakers' moneyline implies a 56.5% chance of a victory for the Astros.
- Houston ranks 12th in the majors with 487 total runs scored this season.
- The Astros' 3.81 team ERA ranks third among all league pitching staffs.
Rays Performance Insights
- Over their last 10 games, the Rays have been favored twice and lost each contest.
- In its previous 10 games with a total, Tampa Bay and its opponents have combined to exceed the over/under on two occasions.
- The Rays' previous 10 contests have not had a spread set by oddsmakers.
- The Rays have come away with four wins in the 15 contests they have been listed as the underdogs in this season.
- This year, Tampa Bay has won one of four games when listed as at least +110 or worse on the moneyline.
- The Rays have an implied victory probability of 47.6% according to the moneyline set for this matchup.
- The offense for Tampa Bay is No. 4 in baseball, scoring 5.2 runs per game (549 total runs).
- The Rays have a 3.69 ERA as a team, best in baseball.
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Melting ice near Matterhorn reveals remains of climber missing for 37 years
(CNN) - The remains of a climber who disappeared while hiking along a glacier near Switzerland’s Matterhorn 37 years ago have been found.
Police say the melting ice on the glacier helped lead to the discovery of the remains.
They were found on July 12 by climbers hiking along the Theodul Glacier.
Several pieces of equipment were also found.
Police say a DNA analysis helped identify the remains as belonging to a 38-year-old German mountain climber who was reported missing in September 1986.
Police also say they had searched for the climber at the time, but they were unsuccessful.
No further details about the climber’s identity or his cause of death have been revealed.
Police say the melting glaciers have led to the reemergence of bodies of those who were reported missing several decades ago.
Scientists announced earlier this week that July is on track to be Earth’s hottest month ever recorded.
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Melting ice near Matterhorn reveals remains of climber missing for 37 years
(CNN) - The remains of a climber who disappeared while hiking along a glacier near Switzerland’s Matterhorn 37 years ago have been found.
Police say the melting ice on the glacier helped lead to the discovery of the remains.
They were found on July 12 by climbers hiking along the Theodul Glacier.
Several pieces of equipment were also found.
Police say a DNA analysis helped identify the remains as belonging to a 38-year-old German mountain climber who was reported missing in September 1986.
Police also say they had searched for the climber at the time, but they were unsuccessful.
No further details about the climber’s identity or his cause of death have been revealed.
Police say the melting glaciers have led to the reemergence of bodies of those who were reported missing several decades ago.
Scientists announced earlier this week that July is on track to be Earth’s hottest month ever recorded.
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WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of securities of Tingo Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: TIO) between December 1, 2022 and June 6, 2023, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"), of the important August 7, 2023 lead plaintiff deadline.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Tingo securities during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
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Updated July 29, 2023 at 2:07 PM ET
Trader Joe's has recalled its frozen falafel for potentially having rocks in it, after it recalled two of its cookie products for the same reason recently.
The company's supplier informed them of the concern, and Trader Joe's said in a statement Friday that "all potentially affected product has been removed from sale and destroyed."
Customers who purchased the product should discard it or return it to a Trader Joe's location for a full refund, the company said.
The falafel, which is fully cooked and frozen, has the SKU number 93935 and is sold in Washington, D.C., and 34 states.
Last Friday, Trader Joe's said rocks could also possibly be found in its Almond Windmill Cookies and Dark Chocolate Chunk and Almond Cookies.
In a separate recall, the grocery chain said its Trader Joe's Unexpected Broccoli Cheddar Soup (SKU# 68470) with use-by dates of July 18-Sept. 15, 2023 may contain insects. "No known adverse health effects have been reported to date, and all potentially affected product has been removed from sale and destroyed," the company said.
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How to Watch the Astros vs. Rays Game: Streaming & TV Channel Info for July 29
The Tampa Bay Rays and Brandon Lowe hit the field against Alex Bregman and the Houston Astros on Saturday at Minute Maid Park.
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Astros vs. Rays Live Stream, TV Channel and Game Info:
- Date: Saturday, July 29, 2023
- Time: 7:15 PM ET
- TV Channel: FOX
- Location: Houston, Texas
- Venue: Minute Maid Park
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Astros Batting & Pitching Performance
- The Astros rank 10th-best in MLB play with 130 total home runs.
- Houston's .411 slugging percentage ranks 14th in MLB.
- The Astros' .248 batting average ranks 18th in the majors.
- Houston has the No. 12 offense in baseball, scoring 4.7 runs per game (487 total runs).
- The Astros rank 16th in baseball with a .317 on-base percentage.
- Astros hitters strike out 7.9 times per game, the fifth-fewest strikeouts in MLB.
- The 9.3 strikeouts per nine innings compiled by Houston's pitching staff ranks sixth in MLB.
- Houston's 3.81 team ERA ranks third among all MLB pitching staffs.
- The Astros have the 14th-ranked WHIP in MLB (1.271).
Rays Batting & Pitching Performance
- The Rays rank fourth in Major League Baseball with 151 home runs.
- Tampa Bay ranks fifth in the majors with a .444 team slugging percentage.
- The Rays rank 10th in MLB with a .255 team batting average.
- Tampa Bay has scored 549 runs this season, which ranks fourth in MLB.
- The Rays have an OBP of .327 this season, which ranks 10th in MLB.
- The Rays rank 17th in MLB in strikeouts per game with an average of 8.6 whiffs per contest.
- Tampa Bay averages 9.2 strikeouts per nine innings as a pitching staff, eighth-most in the majors.
- Tampa Bay pitchers have the lowest combined ERA in the majors at 3.69.
- The Rays have a combined 1.178 WHIP as a pitching staff, second-lowest in MLB.
Astros Probable Starting Pitcher
- The Astros will send Hunter Brown (6-7) to the mound to make his 20th start of the season. He is 6-7 with a 4.27 ERA and 122 strikeouts in 105 1/3 innings pitched.
- The righty last appeared on Sunday against the Oakland Athletics, when he tossed six innings, allowing two earned runs while giving up six hits.
- Brown has registered nine quality starts this year.
- Brown is aiming for his third straight appearance lasting five or more innings. He averages 5.5 innings per appearance on the hill.
- In four of his appearances this season he did not give up an earned run.
Rays Probable Starting Pitcher
- The Rays' Taj Bradley (5-6) will make his 16th start of the season.
- The right-hander's last appearance was on Sunday, when he threw five innings against the Baltimore Orioles, giving up three earned runs while allowing five hits.
- In 15 starts this season, he's earned a quality start in one of them.
- Bradley has pitched five or more innings in three straight games and will look to extend that streak.
- In 15 appearances this season, he has finished two without allowing an earned run.
Astros Schedule
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Members of Congress break for August with no clear path to avoiding a shutdown this fall
WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmakers broke for their August recess this week with work on funding the government largely incomplete, fueling worries about whether Congress will be able to avoid a partial government shutdown this fall.
Congress has until Oct. 1, the start of the new fiscal year, to act on government funding. They could pass spending bills to fund government agencies into next year, or simply pass a stopgap measure that keeps agencies running until they strike a longer-term agreement. No matter which route they take, it won’t be easy.
“We’re going to scare the hell out of the American people before we get this done,” said Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del.
Coons’ assessment is widely shared in Congress, reflecting the gulf between the Republican-led House and the Democratic-led Senate, which are charting vastly different — and mostly incompatible — paths on spending.
The Senate is adhering mostly to the top-line spending levels that President Joe Biden negotiated with House Republicans in late May as part of the debt-ceiling deal that extended the government’s borrowing authority and avoided an economically devastating default.
That agreement holds discretionary spending generally flat for the coming year while allowing increases for military and veterans accounts. On top of that, the Senate is looking to add $13.7 billion in additional emergency appropriations, including $8 billion for defense and $5.7 billion for nondefense.
House Republicans, many of whom opposed the debt-ceiling deal and refused to vote for it, are going a different way.
GOP leaders have teed up bills with far less spending than the agreement allows in an effort to win over members who insist on rolling back spending to fiscal year 2022 levels. They are also adding scores of policy add-ons broadly opposed by Democrats. There are proposals to reduce access to abortion pills, bans on the funding of hormone therapy and certain surgeries for transgender veterans, and a prohibition on training programs promoting diversity in the federal workplace, among many others.
At a press conference at the Capitol this past week, some members of the House Freedom Caucus, a conservative faction within the House GOP, said that voters elected a Republican majority in that chamber to rein in government spending and it was time for House Republicans to use every tool available to get the spending cuts they want.
“We should not fear a government shutdown,” said Rep. Bob Good, R-Va. “Most of the American people won’t even miss if the government is shut down temporarily.”
Many House Republicans disagree with that assessment. Rep. Mike Simpson, R-Idaho, called it an oversimplification to say most Americans wouldn’t feel an impact. And he warned Republicans would take the blame for a shutdown.
“We always get blamed for it, no matter what,” Simpson said. “So it’s bad policy, it’s bad politics.”
But the slim five-seat majority Republicans hold amplifies the power that a small group can wield. Even though the debt ceiling agreement passed with a significant majority of both Republicans and Democrats, conservatives opponents were so unhappy in the aftermath that they shut down House votes for a few days, stalling the entire GOP agenda.
Shortly thereafter, McCarthy argued the numbers he negotiated with the White House amounted to a cap and “you can always do less.” GOP Rep. Kay Granger of Texas, who chairs the House Appropriations Committee, followed that she would seek to limit nondefense spending at 2022 budget levels, saying the debt agreement “set a top-line spending cap — a ceiling, not a floor.”
The decision to cut spending below levels in the debt ceiling deal helped get the House moving again, but put them on a collision course with the Senate, where the spending bills hew much closer to the agreement.
“What the House has done is they essentially tore up that agreement as soon as it was signed,” said Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md. “And so we are in for a bumpy ride.”
Even as House Republicans have been moving their spending bills out of committee on party-line votes, the key committee in the Senate has been operating in a bipartisan fashion, drafting spending bills with sometimes unanimous support.
“The way to make this work is do it in a bipartisan way like we are doing in the Senate. If you do it in a partisan way, you’re heading to a shutdown. And I am really worried that that’s where the House Republicans are headed,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., told reporters this week.
McCarthy countered that people had the same doubts about whether House Republicans and the White House could reach an agreement to pass a debt ceiling extension and avoid a default.
“We’ve got ‘til Sept. 30. I think we can get this all done,” McCarthy said.
In a subsequent press conference, McCarthy said he had just met with Schumer to talk about the road ahead on an array of bills, including the spending bills.
“I don’t want the government to shut down,” McCarthy said. “I want to find that we can find common ground.”
In all, there are 12 spending bills. The House has passed one so far, and moved others out of committee. The Senate has passed none, though it has advanced all 12 out of committee, something that hasn’t happened since 2018.
Still, the difficulty ahead was evident on the House side, where Republicans gave up until after the recess on trying to pass a spending measure to fund federal agriculture and rural programs and the Food and Drug Administration, amid disagreements over its contents. They began their August recess a day early instead of holding votes Friday.
Simpson said some of his Republican colleagues don’t want to take money approved already outside the appropriations process to cover some of this year’s spending and avoid deeper cuts. For example, the House bills would take almost all of the money approved last year for the Internal Revenue Service in Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act and use the savings to avoid deeper spending cuts elsewhere.
Simpson said that without such rescissions, as they are called in Washington, he couldn’t vote for the agriculture spending bill because the cuts “would have just been devastating.”
“That’s the challenge we’re going to have when we get back in September,” he said.
Further complicating things in the House, a few Republicans are opposed to some of the policy riders being included in the spending bills. For example, the agriculture spending bill would reverse the FDA’s decision to allow abortion pills to be dispensed in certified pharmacies, instead of only by prescribers in hospitals, clinics, and medical offices.
“I had a problem with abortion being put inside an ag bill,” said Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa. “I think that’s ridiculous.”
It’s a strong possibility that Congress will have to pass a stopgap spending bill before the new fiscal year begins Oct. 1. The Senate can vote first on the measure, which would put the onus on House Republicans to bring it up for a vote or allow for a shutdown.
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Members of Congress break for August with no clear path to avoiding a shutdown this fall
WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmakers broke for their August recess this week with work on funding the government largely incomplete, fueling worries about whether Congress will be able to avoid a partial government shutdown this fall.
Congress has until Oct. 1, the start of the new fiscal year, to act on government funding. They could pass spending bills to fund government agencies into next year, or simply pass a stopgap measure that keeps agencies running until they strike a longer-term agreement. No matter which route they take, it won’t be easy.
“We’re going to scare the hell out of the American people before we get this done,” said Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del.
Coons’ assessment is widely shared in Congress, reflecting the gulf between the Republican-led House and the Democratic-led Senate, which are charting vastly different — and mostly incompatible — paths on spending.
The Senate is adhering mostly to the top-line spending levels that President Joe Biden negotiated with House Republicans in late May as part of the debt-ceiling deal that extended the government’s borrowing authority and avoided an economically devastating default.
That agreement holds discretionary spending generally flat for the coming year while allowing increases for military and veterans accounts. On top of that, the Senate is looking to add $13.7 billion in additional emergency appropriations, including $8 billion for defense and $5.7 billion for nondefense.
House Republicans, many of whom opposed the debt-ceiling deal and refused to vote for it, are going a different way.
GOP leaders have teed up bills with far less spending than the agreement allows in an effort to win over members who insist on rolling back spending to fiscal year 2022 levels. They are also adding scores of policy add-ons broadly opposed by Democrats. There are proposals to reduce access to abortion pills, bans on the funding of hormone therapy and certain surgeries for transgender veterans, and a prohibition on training programs promoting diversity in the federal workplace, among many others.
At a press conference at the Capitol this past week, some members of the House Freedom Caucus, a conservative faction within the House GOP, said that voters elected a Republican majority in that chamber to rein in government spending and it was time for House Republicans to use every tool available to get the spending cuts they want.
“We should not fear a government shutdown,” said Rep. Bob Good, R-Va. “Most of the American people won’t even miss if the government is shut down temporarily.”
Many House Republicans disagree with that assessment. Rep. Mike Simpson, R-Idaho, called it an oversimplification to say most Americans wouldn’t feel an impact. And he warned Republicans would take the blame for a shutdown.
“We always get blamed for it, no matter what,” Simpson said. “So it’s bad policy, it’s bad politics.”
But the slim five-seat majority Republicans hold amplifies the power that a small group can wield. Even though the debt ceiling agreement passed with a significant majority of both Republicans and Democrats, conservatives opponents were so unhappy in the aftermath that they shut down House votes for a few days, stalling the entire GOP agenda.
Shortly thereafter, McCarthy argued the numbers he negotiated with the White House amounted to a cap and “you can always do less.” GOP Rep. Kay Granger of Texas, who chairs the House Appropriations Committee, followed that she would seek to limit nondefense spending at 2022 budget levels, saying the debt agreement “set a top-line spending cap — a ceiling, not a floor.”
The decision to cut spending below levels in the debt ceiling deal helped get the House moving again, but put them on a collision course with the Senate, where the spending bills hew much closer to the agreement.
“What the House has done is they essentially tore up that agreement as soon as it was signed,” said Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md. “And so we are in for a bumpy ride.”
Even as House Republicans have been moving their spending bills out of committee on party-line votes, the key committee in the Senate has been operating in a bipartisan fashion, drafting spending bills with sometimes unanimous support.
“The way to make this work is do it in a bipartisan way like we are doing in the Senate. If you do it in a partisan way, you’re heading to a shutdown. And I am really worried that that’s where the House Republicans are headed,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., told reporters this week.
McCarthy countered that people had the same doubts about whether House Republicans and the White House could reach an agreement to pass a debt ceiling extension and avoid a default.
“We’ve got ‘til Sept. 30. I think we can get this all done,” McCarthy said.
In a subsequent press conference, McCarthy said he had just met with Schumer to talk about the road ahead on an array of bills, including the spending bills.
“I don’t want the government to shut down,” McCarthy said. “I want to find that we can find common ground.”
In all, there are 12 spending bills. The House has passed one so far, and moved others out of committee. The Senate has passed none, though it has advanced all 12 out of committee, something that hasn’t happened since 2018.
Still, the difficulty ahead was evident on the House side, where Republicans gave up until after the recess on trying to pass a spending measure to fund federal agriculture and rural programs and the Food and Drug Administration, amid disagreements over its contents. They began their August recess a day early instead of holding votes Friday.
Simpson said some of his Republican colleagues don’t want to take money approved already outside the appropriations process to cover some of this year’s spending and avoid deeper cuts. For example, the House bills would take almost all of the money approved last year for the Internal Revenue Service in Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act and use the savings to avoid deeper spending cuts elsewhere.
Simpson said that without such rescissions, as they are called in Washington, he couldn’t vote for the agriculture spending bill because the cuts “would have just been devastating.”
“That’s the challenge we’re going to have when we get back in September,” he said.
Further complicating things in the House, a few Republicans are opposed to some of the policy riders being included in the spending bills. For example, the agriculture spending bill would reverse the FDA’s decision to allow abortion pills to be dispensed in certified pharmacies, instead of only by prescribers in hospitals, clinics, and medical offices.
“I had a problem with abortion being put inside an ag bill,” said Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa. “I think that’s ridiculous.”
It’s a strong possibility that Congress will have to pass a stopgap spending bill before the new fiscal year begins Oct. 1. The Senate can vote first on the measure, which would put the onus on House Republicans to bring it up for a vote or allow for a shutdown.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – In states across the country this year, Republicans have talked a lot about restricting drag performances in front of children.
But that talk, and even their efforts, haven't amounted to much.
Bills restricting drag have failed to pass, passed as watered-down laws, have been vetoed or, in the case of three states that did manage to pass meaningful restrictions, laws have been temporarily halted by federal judges.
Friday, in fact, a judge temporarily blocked a law in the last remaining state with enforceable restrictions – Montana – just days before the start of Pride festivities.
A few states' lawmakers are still in session, though, so more efforts could be afoot.
In Arkansas, where Republican state Sen. Gary Stubblefield championed and sponsored a bill earlier this year, he said drag shows harm kids and "take away their innocence."
"I can't think of any redeeming quality, anything good that can come from taking children and putting them in front of a bunch of grown men that are dressed like women," Stubblefield said back in January as he introduced his bill on the floor of the Arkansas Senate.
'Prurient interest' and the First Amendment
Stubblefield's bill contained key language that showed up in a lot of states' attempted drag restrictions – an appeal to the "prurient interest." (Texas, Tennessee, Montana, Arizona, South Dakota, for example.)
"That word – prurient interest – means excessive interest in sexual matters," Stubblefield explained to lawmakers in committee.
"Most drag shows do not appeal to the prurient interest," says JT Morris, an attorney for the free-speech group Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression.
"Even if they did, saying something appeals to the 'prurient interest' under the First Amendment is not enough to regulate it," he says, noting that this kind of language makes it harder for a bill to hold up to basic legal scrutiny.
"You can't pass a state law based on disagreement with somebody's viewpoint. It's a textbook First Amendment violation."
And that disagreement has been palpable across the country. In Arkansas, Stubblefield's bill was met with large public backlash from those who say drag is about showmanship, not sex.
"I do drag as an art form," says Jeremy Stuthard, an Arkansas drag performer.
"I take a decent-looking guy and turn him into a statue-esk Barbie doll, and have a great time and put smiles on people's faces and that's all I really try to do."
Stuthard says most of the children he meets at drag brunches and story hours aren't there to indulge a 'prurient interest', but to have fun listening to a story read by a costumed actor.
Drag restrictions put on hold and watered down
In Tennessee, the day before that state's drag restrictions were due to go into effect, a Trump-appointed U.S. District Judge temporarily struck down the law due to its constitutional vagueness.
In his ruling, U.S. District Judge Thomas Parker wrote, "Whether some of us may like it or not," the U.S. Supreme Court has interpreted the First Amendment "as protecting speech that is indecent but not obscene."
A similar law in Florida has been temporarily blocked. For a while, that left Montana as the only state in the country with an enforceable drag law, until the courts temporarily blocked that one, too.
In Arkansas, Sen. Stubblefield's drag ban bill was amended until it hardly resembled a drag ban. The final version of the law, which passed by large margins, now regulates stripping, not drag shows.
"[The]Amended House Bill is the only way to really protect minors. For another reason, it's the only draft that will stand up in court," Stubblefield said of the amendment, which he didn't write but ultimately agreed to.
"None of us like to pass a bill that's going to get struck down by a judge and not help any children at all."
Josie Lenora is the politics/government reporter at KUAR in Little Rock, Ark.
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